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* '''Straight''': Alice is sad because [[TropeyComeHome her cat ran away.]] She turns on the radio and gets a song about a runaway cat.
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* '''Straight''': '''Straight''':
** Alice is sad because [[TropeyComeHome her cat ran away.]] She turns on the radio and gets a song about a runawaycat.cat.
** Bob loses his license. “Driver’s License” comes on the radio.
** Alice is sad because [[TropeyComeHome her cat ran away.]] She turns on the radio and gets a song about a runaway
** Bob loses his license. “Driver’s License” comes on the radio.
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** Bob loses his driver’s license. “Driver’s License” comes on the radio, Carol calls him to tell him that she passed her driving test, and on TV, is a show about driving tests.
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* '''Justified''': Alice was just unlucky.
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* '''Justified''': Alice was and Bob were just unlucky.
** Bob gets his license back. “Driver’s License” comes on the radio.
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* '''Subverted''': The song seems to be about a runaway cat but the cat comes back by the end of the song.
* '''Double Subverted''': ???
* '''Double Subverted''': ???
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* '''Subverted''': '''Subverted''':
** The song seems to be about a runaway cat but the cat comes back by the end of the song.
** The chords appear to be those for “Driver’s License”, but they’re not.
* '''Double Subverted''':???It was a cover of “Driver’s License”.
** The song seems to be about a runaway cat but the cat comes back by the end of the song.
** The chords appear to be those for “Driver’s License”, but they’re not.
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* '''Zigzagged''': The song is about a cat that keeps going away and coming back.
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* '''Zigzagged''': '''Zig Zagged''': The song is about a cat that keeps going away and coming back.
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* '''Parodied''': The song comes with a warning: "If ''you'' have a missing pet, don't listen."
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* '''Parodied''': '''Parodied''':
** The song comes with a warning: "If ''you'' have a missing pet, don't listen.""
** Alice fails to notice the irony, and the song actually brightens her mood.
** The song comes with a warning: "If ''you'' have a missing pet, don't listen.
** Alice fails to notice the irony, and the song actually brightens her mood.
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'''Basic Trope''': A character is in a bad mood. They turn on the radio and get a song about the thing that put them in the initial bad mood.
* '''Straight''': Alice is sad because [[TropeyComeHome her cat ran away.]] She turns on the radio and gets a song about a runaway cat.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** Whenever anyone is sad, everything on the radio will be about why they're sad.
** The song about the runaway cat pops up on the radio, on TV, Bob sings it, Charlie whistles it, Diane plays it on the piano, etc, etc.
** ''Everything'' on the radio consists of three songs about cats running away, an ad for lost pets and a news story about someone with a lost cat.
* '''Downplayed''': The song is not solely about a cat running away but it does have one lyric "My cat ran away".
* '''Justified''': Alice was just unlucky.
* '''Inverted''':
** The song is about cats ''coming back''.
** Alice finds the sad songs when she's ''happy''.
** When the cat comes back, Alice turns on the radio and the song "The Cat Came Back" plays.
* '''Subverted''': The song seems to be about a runaway cat but the cat comes back by the end of the song.
* '''Double Subverted''': ???
* '''Parodied''': The song comes with a warning: "If ''you'' have a missing pet, don't listen."
* '''Zigzagged''': The song is about a cat that keeps going away and coming back.
* '''Averted''':
** There are no songs.
** None of the songs are about what's making people sad.
* '''Enforced''':
** The writers set this up to [[TheWoobie invoke sympathy]] in Alice.
** The writers wanted to lighten up the sad moment with a joke.
* '''Lampshaded''': "Is this song mocking me?"
* '''Invoked''': [[TheBully Bob]] plays the song to tease Alice.
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': Alice refuses to listen to music until she finds her cat.
* '''Discussed''': "I'm so glad Fluffy's back. I cried so hard when she ran away, and the fact that a song about a runaway cat was on the radio didn't help."
* '''Conversed''': "Man, that character's sure having bad luck with music."
* '''Implied''': Alice's cat runs away. Alice mentions not liking a song that was played on the radio, but it is unknown if the song was about cats running away or if she didn't like it for some unrelated reason."
* '''Deconstructed''': ???
* '''Reconstructed''': ???
* '''Played for Laughs''': The whole episode is about Alice trying to find her cat and has a RunningGag where the song plays and she gets annoyed.
* '''Played for Drama''': Alice cries when the song plays.
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* '''Straight''': Alice is sad because [[TropeyComeHome her cat ran away.]] She turns on the radio and gets a song about a runaway cat.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** Whenever anyone is sad, everything on the radio will be about why they're sad.
** The song about the runaway cat pops up on the radio, on TV, Bob sings it, Charlie whistles it, Diane plays it on the piano, etc, etc.
** ''Everything'' on the radio consists of three songs about cats running away, an ad for lost pets and a news story about someone with a lost cat.
* '''Downplayed''': The song is not solely about a cat running away but it does have one lyric "My cat ran away".
* '''Justified''': Alice was just unlucky.
* '''Inverted''':
** The song is about cats ''coming back''.
** Alice finds the sad songs when she's ''happy''.
** When the cat comes back, Alice turns on the radio and the song "The Cat Came Back" plays.
* '''Subverted''': The song seems to be about a runaway cat but the cat comes back by the end of the song.
* '''Double Subverted''': ???
* '''Parodied''': The song comes with a warning: "If ''you'' have a missing pet, don't listen."
* '''Zigzagged''': The song is about a cat that keeps going away and coming back.
* '''Averted''':
** There are no songs.
** None of the songs are about what's making people sad.
* '''Enforced''':
** The writers set this up to [[TheWoobie invoke sympathy]] in Alice.
** The writers wanted to lighten up the sad moment with a joke.
* '''Lampshaded''': "Is this song mocking me?"
* '''Invoked''': [[TheBully Bob]] plays the song to tease Alice.
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': Alice refuses to listen to music until she finds her cat.
* '''Discussed''': "I'm so glad Fluffy's back. I cried so hard when she ran away, and the fact that a song about a runaway cat was on the radio didn't help."
* '''Conversed''': "Man, that character's sure having bad luck with music."
* '''Implied''': Alice's cat runs away. Alice mentions not liking a song that was played on the radio, but it is unknown if the song was about cats running away or if she didn't like it for some unrelated reason."
* '''Deconstructed''': ???
* '''Reconstructed''': ???
* '''Played for Laughs''': The whole episode is about Alice trying to find her cat and has a RunningGag where the song plays and she gets annoyed.
* '''Played for Drama''': Alice cries when the song plays.
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