Basic Trope: A Sick Episode where the disease is chicken pox.
- Straight: Bob gets chicken pox in an episode of "Bob and Friends".
- Exaggerated: Everyone gets chicken pox in the episode.
- Downplayed: Bob has chicken pox in one scene, or it's a subplot.
- Justified:
- "Bob and Friends" takes place in the 90s or before, when getting chicken pox was more common.
- Bob is not vaccinated against chicken pox.
- Inverted: Bob usually has chicken pox, but for some reason is cured of it for an episode.
- Subverted: Bob is thought to have chicken pox, but his mom says he doesn't.
- Double Subverted: His mom takes him to the doctor, however, and finds that it is chicken pox after all.
- Parodied: Bob literally turns into a chicken in the episode.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Nobody has chicken pox.
- Enforced:
- Small Reference Pools
- The work was made in or takes place prior to the 90s, so it's understandable that a Sick Episode would involve chicken pox.
- Lampshaded: "Am I gonna turn into a chicken?"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied:
- Bob gets vaccinated against chicken pox.
- Bob avoids getting chicken pox.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "Why do kids always get chicken pox in cartoons?"
- Implied: The disease is never named, but it is a Polka-Dot Disease that makes Bob itchy.
- Deconstructed: Because Bob had chicken pox as a kid, he's susceptible to getting shingles as an adult.
- Played for Laughs: Bob takes the name of the disease literally and assumes that he's turning into a chicken, or that it has something to do with chickens.
- Played for Drama:
- Bob had something that he wanted to attend that day, such as a special event at school or a live play, but he can't because he's sick.
- Bob caught chicken pox as an adult and had to be admitted into the hospital where the doctors are trying to make sure he survives.
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