'''Basic Trope''': A character must care for an egg.
* '''Straight''': Alice finds an abandoned nest. She takes the egg home and keeps it warm until it hatches.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** The egg hatches out something unusual, such as a fairy, a dragon, a demon, a monster, etc.
** The egg is a CosmicEgg, with the beginnings of a whole new ''universe'' (or deity) inside.
* '''Downplayed''': Alice enjoys taking care of baby pets for others, and one of her jobs is to hatch an egg and take care of it for somebody.
* '''Justified''': Eggs can often contain something cool, and may be found or otherwise obtained by a character.
* '''Inverted''':
** Alice is curled up inside the egg.
** Alice participates in an Easter egg hunt, but cannot find any eggs.
* '''Subverted''': Alice finds an egg and decides to take care of it, but she drops it and it splatters.
* '''Double Subverted''': She finds a second egg from the same nest.
* '''Parodied''': The egg hatches out... [[EasterEgg Candy]].
* '''Zig Zagged''': Some eggs are significant to the plot, others are not.
* '''Averted''': There is no egg.
* '''Enforced''': You must care for my egg and hatch it, or else: Among [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brood_parasite some Brood Parasite birds]], if the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brood_parasite#Mafia_hypothesis "Mafia Hypothesis"]] holds.
* '''Lampshaded''': "I can't come to dinner tonight, Bob. I have to sit on my egg." "You laid an egg?" "No, I found one."
* '''Invoked''': Alice [[CuteClumsyGirl trips]] and lands just in front of an abandoned nest.
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': Alice decides to leave the nest alone, just in case the mother bird/[[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragon]]/[[ArtisticLicensePaleontology dinosaur]]/whatever comes back.
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???
* '''Deconstructed''': Alice may not know how to care for the critter in question.
* '''Reconstructed''': Alice does her homework and learns how to go about it.
* '''Played For Laughs''':
** Alice is chased away when she tries to pick up the egg.
** The egg hatches out [[BlandNameProduct Marshmallow Cheeps]].
** Alice participates in a {{Calvinball}}-like variation of an Easter egg hunt.
** At the episode's climax the egg finally hatches, only to reveal... [[MatryoshkaObject another egg]].
* '''Played For Drama''': Alice has to teach the hatchling to be whatever its species is, but (obviously) can't do that.
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