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* '''Justified''': ???
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* '''Justified''': ???Fans have complained about ''Tropetown'''s dark themes and lack of comedy, so themes became lighter in later seasons.
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** ''Tropetown'' starts off as a {{Dramedy}}, but turns more purely comedic as time goes on.
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* '''Straight Trope''': ''Tropetown'' starts off a serious look at the lives of a family in disarray, but develops into DenserAndWackier DomCom as it goes on.
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* '''Straight Trope''': '''Straight''': ''Tropetown'' starts off a serious look at the lives of a family in disarray, but develops into DenserAndWackier DomCom as it goes on.
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* '''Zigzagged''': CerebusRollercoaster.
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* '''Zigzagged''': CerebusRollercoaster.'''Zig-Zagged''': CerebusRollercoaster
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* '''Downplayed''': ''Tropetown'' starts as a light SliceOfLife drama, then adds more comedy while still never shying from drama.
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* '''Downplayed''': '''Downplayed''':
** ''Tropetown'' starts as a light SliceOfLife drama, then adds more comedy while still never shying fromdrama.drama.
** ''Tropetown'' goes from utterly hopeless to EarnYourHappyEnding.
** ''Tropetown'' starts as a light SliceOfLife drama, then adds more comedy while still never shying from
** ''Tropetown'' goes from utterly hopeless to EarnYourHappyEnding.
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* - ''Sgt. Charles'': Um, pillow, sir?
* - ''Col. Bob'': Yes, the pillow! We will pillow fight them into submission.
* - ''Lt. Albert'': Sir, I believe if we try to fight them with pillows, they will shoot us, and then we'll all die.
* - ''Col. Bob'': Nonsense! Pillows for everyone!
* - ''Col. Bob'': Yes, the pillow! We will pillow fight them into submission.
* - ''Lt. Albert'': Sir, I believe if we try to fight them with pillows, they will shoot us, and then we'll all die.
* - ''Col. Bob'': Nonsense! Pillows for everyone!
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Justified has to be In Universe.
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* '''Justified''': The original drama didn't test very well with audiences, so the producers added more comedic elements and lightened the tone.
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* '''Justified''': The original drama didn't test very well with audiences, so the producers added more comedic elements and lightened the tone.???
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* '''Enforced''': The network is trying to reach a younger age demographic that wouldn't be that interested in the deep musings of the original show, so they are stripped away.
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* '''Enforced''': '''Enforced''':
** The network is trying to reach a younger age demographic that wouldn't be that interested in the deep musings of the original show, so they are strippedaway.away.
** The original drama didn't test very well with audiences, so the producers added more comedic elements and lightened the tone.
** The network is trying to reach a younger age demographic that wouldn't be that interested in the deep musings of the original show, so they are stripped
** The original drama didn't test very well with audiences, so the producers added more comedic elements and lightened the tone.
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* '''Subverted''': ''Tropetown'' looks like it's heading for a LighterAndSofter tone with its fourth season opener where {{Badass}} Bob adopts a baby lamb, but it turns out that was just a BottleEpisode, said lamb is PutOnABus, and it returns to its normal drama with the next episode.
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* '''Subverted''': ''Tropetown'' looks like it's heading for a LighterAndSofter tone with its fourth season opener where {{Badass}} Badass Bob adopts a baby lamb, but it turns out that was just a BottleEpisode, said lamb is PutOnABus, and it returns to its normal drama with the next episode.
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* '''Exploited''': ?
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* '''Exploited''': ??
* '''Defied''': The show is always light and fluffy from day one, meaning there's no LighterAndSofter from here.
* '''Discussed''': ''Col. Bob'': Remember that comic strip Cerebus, and how it got DarkerAndEdgier as it went on? Well, we're doing the opposite. [[RunningGag Now take your pillow and fight with it!]]
* '''Conversed''': ?
* '''Deconstructed''': The LighterAndSofter move proves unpopular, viewership plummets, and ''Tropetown'' is cancelled after its fourth season.
* '''Reconstructed''': It gains enough of a fanbase for the LighterAndSofter version that they pressure the network into making ''Tropetown'' {{Uncanceled}}.
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* '''Defied''': The show is always light and fluffy from day one, meaning there's no LighterAndSofter from here.
* '''Discussed''': ''Col. Bob'': Remember that comic strip Cerebus, and how it got DarkerAndEdgier as it went on? Well, we're doing the opposite. [[RunningGag Now take your pillow and fight with it!]]
* '''Conversed''': ?
* '''Deconstructed''': The LighterAndSofter move proves unpopular, viewership plummets, and ''Tropetown'' is cancelled after its fourth season.
* '''Reconstructed''': It gains enough of a fanbase for the LighterAndSofter version that they pressure the network into making ''Tropetown'' {{Uncanceled}}.
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- ''Sgt. Charles'': Um, pillow, sir?
- ''Col. Bob'': Yes, the pillow! We will pillow fight them into submission.
- ''Lt. Albert'': Sir, I believe if we try to fight them with pillows, they will shoot us, and then we'll all die.
- ''Col. Bob'': Nonsense! Pillows for everyone!
- ''Col. Bob'': Yes, the pillow! We will pillow fight them into submission.
- ''Lt. Albert'': Sir, I believe if we try to fight them with pillows, they will shoot us, and then we'll all die.
- ''Col. Bob'': Nonsense! Pillows for everyone!
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* '''Averted''': No change in tone occurs - ''Tropetown'' starts a drama and ends a drama.
* '''Enforced''': The network is trying to reach a younger age demographic that wouldn't be that interested in the deep musings of the original show, so they are stripped away.
* '''Lampshaded''': ''Sgt. Charles'': We used to fight with guns. Now, we only fight with pillows.
* '''Invoked''': ?
* '''Exploited''': ?
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* '''Zigzagged''': CerebusRollercoaster.
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* '''Zigzagged''': CerebusRollercoaster.CerebusRollercoaster.
* '''Parodied''': ''Col. Bob'': Men, the enemy is approaching with a thousand men armed to the teeth with guns and bombs. But we have the greatest weapon of all - the pillow!
- ''Sgt. Charles'': Um, pillow, sir?
- ''Col. Bob'': Yes, the pillow! We will pillow fight them into submission.
- ''Lt. Albert'': Sir, I believe if we try to fight them with pillows, they will shoot us, and then we'll all die.
- ''Col. Bob'': Nonsense! Pillows for everyone!
* '''Parodied''': ''Col. Bob'': Men, the enemy is approaching with a thousand men armed to the teeth with guns and bombs. But we have the greatest weapon of all - the pillow!
- ''Sgt. Charles'': Um, pillow, sir?
- ''Col. Bob'': Yes, the pillow! We will pillow fight them into submission.
- ''Lt. Albert'': Sir, I believe if we try to fight them with pillows, they will shoot us, and then we'll all die.
- ''Col. Bob'': Nonsense! Pillows for everyone!
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'''Basic Trope''': A serious work grows lighter as it goes on.
* '''Straight Trope''': ''Tropetown'' starts off a serious look at the lives of a family in disarray, but develops into DenserAndWackier DomCom as it goes on.
* '''Exaggerated''': ''Tropetown'' starts off as a depressing war drama where AnyoneCanDie and several main characters do. The horrors of war are shown in explicit, bloody detail. Then the war ends and the survivors go home to a pink and frilly unicorn land where all the fighting is done through pillow fights. Even the characters who died come back and join the pillow fight.
* '''Downplayed''': ''Tropetown'' starts as a light SliceOfLife drama, then adds more comedy while still never shying from drama.
* '''Justified''': The original drama didn't test very well with audiences, so the producers added more comedic elements and lightened the tone.
* '''Subverted''': ''Tropetown'' looks like it's heading for a LighterAndSofter tone with its fourth season opener where {{Badass}} Bob adopts a baby lamb, but it turns out that was just a BottleEpisode, said lamb is PutOnABus, and it returns to its normal drama with the next episode.
* '''Double Subverted''': ''That'' was the BottleEpisode. The lamb's [[TheBusCameBack bus comes back]] and becomes a running feature, signifying a LighterAndSofter turn.
* '''Inverted''': CerebusSyndrome
* '''Zigzagged''': CerebusRollercoaster.
* '''Straight Trope''': ''Tropetown'' starts off a serious look at the lives of a family in disarray, but develops into DenserAndWackier DomCom as it goes on.
* '''Exaggerated''': ''Tropetown'' starts off as a depressing war drama where AnyoneCanDie and several main characters do. The horrors of war are shown in explicit, bloody detail. Then the war ends and the survivors go home to a pink and frilly unicorn land where all the fighting is done through pillow fights. Even the characters who died come back and join the pillow fight.
* '''Downplayed''': ''Tropetown'' starts as a light SliceOfLife drama, then adds more comedy while still never shying from drama.
* '''Justified''': The original drama didn't test very well with audiences, so the producers added more comedic elements and lightened the tone.
* '''Subverted''': ''Tropetown'' looks like it's heading for a LighterAndSofter tone with its fourth season opener where {{Badass}} Bob adopts a baby lamb, but it turns out that was just a BottleEpisode, said lamb is PutOnABus, and it returns to its normal drama with the next episode.
* '''Double Subverted''': ''That'' was the BottleEpisode. The lamb's [[TheBusCameBack bus comes back]] and becomes a running feature, signifying a LighterAndSofter turn.
* '''Inverted''': CerebusSyndrome
* '''Zigzagged''': CerebusRollercoaster.
