Basic Trope: A flashback/story about how a character's parents met, often from the perspective of one of the parents.
- Straight: An episode of "The Adventures of Alice, Bob, and Chris" is a Whole Episode Flashback about how Chris's parents Alice and Bob met.
- Exaggerated:
- The whole show details how Alice and Bob met.
- Part of the show is about how Chris's grandparents met and then is about the entire lives of Alice and Bob until they meet.
- Downplayed: The story of how Alice and Bob met is briefly mentioned.
- Justified: The story of how Alice and Bob met is important to them, for whatever reason.
- Inverted:
- One of Chris's parents tells the story of how they divorced.
- A Flash Forward or Distant Finale is about the lives of one or more of Chris's children.
- Subverted: After Bob tells the story, Alice claims that's not how they met.
- Double Subverted: However, Chris recognizes the story; it's how his friend Francine's parents, Ethan and Diane, met.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: There is no story about how parents met.
- Enforced: To show how Chris's parents met each other.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Bob is about to tell the story of how he and Alice met, but Chris stops him.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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