When the writers decide to play with a trope by raising the results to the extreme.
Since Tropes Are Flexible, they can be taken to various degrees. This is about taking them to degrees much higher than typical, often to ridiculous extremes.
In short, this is why The Same But More warns that higher degrees of tropes alone are not new tropes. Those are simply Playing with a Trope.
This is usually [...] [tvtropes.org]