Basic Trope: The theme song is written and/or performed by someone involved in the work's production in a role otherwise unrelated to music, typically the lead actor.
- Straight: Alice not only plays the titular protagonist of Charlene but also performs the theme song.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice, a musician as well as an actress, created the theme to Charlene all by herself - writing, producing, arranging, playing all the instruments and singing both lead and backing vocals.
- The theme tune is performed by the entire lead cast.
- Every single actor who has ever appeared on Charlene (including those who played one-off characters and extras with zero lines otherwise) performs the theme song.
- Everyone involved with Charlene - actors, writers, directors, producers, costume designers, set designers, makeup artists, literally everyone - takes part in the theme song.
- Downplayed: Alice's sole contribution to the theme song is saying/singing a single line at the end.
- Justified: Charlene is a musician, and the theme song is one of her songs in-universe.
- Inverted: Alice, Charlene's composer, has an acting role on the show.
- Subverted: The theme song is replaced with a different one by an artist with no other connections to Charlene. Or the song is the same, but Alice no longer performs it.
- Double Subverted: It gets changed back.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- Nobody with any other connections to Charlene took part in the theme song's creation.
- Charlene doesn't have a theme song.
- Enforced:
- Alice was specifically approached to perform the theme song.
- What was their budget again?
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Alice refuses to perform the theme song.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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