Basic Tropes: When something happens so that you'd expect X, but you end up with the opposite of X.
- Straight: A fire station catches fire.
- Exaggerated: A massive disaster happens, during which a fire station catches fire, several police get arrested, a doctor gets severely injured, and the day is ultimately saved by a Deaf Composer.
- Downplayed: An abandoned fire station catches fire.
- Justified: During a Fire Fighting Episode, the fire department was somehow put out of commission and hired a bunch of incompetents instead, who made a blunder and set the place on fire.
- Inverted:
- Subverted: There is smoke coming from the fire station, so it appears to be on fire, but it turns out that the firefighters are just burning something on purpose.
- Double Subverted: ...But then the fire spreads uncontrollably.
- Parodied:
- Zigzagged:
- Averted: The fire station does not catch fire.
- Enforced: "This is a Dramedy — how about adding a serious, but ironic, emergency?"
- Lampshaded: "Of all the places to catch fire, it had to be the fire station?"
- Invoked: Alice the arsonist sets the fire station on fire as a sick joke.
- Exploited: Alice decides to set several buildings on fire, starting with the fire station so that the firefighters won't be able to deal with it.
- Defied: The firefighters set it up so that their building can't catch fire.
- Discussed: "What if there was a fire in the fire station? That'd be ironic!"
- Conversed: "Irony doesn't just mean bad luck. Irony is situations like in that episode of Disaster of the Week when the fire station burned down."
- Implied: We see a seriously run-down fire station that appears to have burned, but it's ultimately left unclear why it's in such bad shape.
- Deconstructed:
- Reconstructed:
- Played for Laughs: The fire station catching fire is played for Black Comedy.
- Played for Drama: Death by Irony.
- Played for Horror: A zombie fighter gets turned into a zombie.
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