Basic Trope: A character says their own catchphrase incorrectly.
- Straight: Alice has a Signing Off Catchphrase of "This is Alice, and I'll see you all next week!" One episode, she accidentally says it as "This is Alice week, and I'll see you all next!"
- Exaggerated: "I'm Alice, and you might see me if you watch the show a week from now!"
- Downplayed: "I'm Alice, and I'll see you all next week!"
- Justified:
- Alice hasn't said her catchphrase in a while and doesn't exactly remember how it goes.
- <HIC> Alish had whan shoo mahny drihnkzzzzzzzz.
- It's April Fools after all.
- Inverted: Alice tends to mess up her own words, and the one thing she can say correctly 100% of the time is her catchphrase.
- Subverted: Her full name is actually Alice Week, and she's talking to some friends who are about to visit.
- Double Subverted: But at the end of the episode, she says "This is Alice, and you'll see all next week!"
- Parodied: "That isn't Alice, and you won't see me at all the week before!"
- Zig-Zagged: Alice has a variety of catchphrases that she says in succession. She gets some of them wrong.
- Averted:
- Nobody says their catchphrases incorrectly.
- Alice doesn't have a catchphrase.
- Enforced:
- Fans complained about Alice abandoning her catchphrase. The writers bring it back, but mess it up slightly to make them mad.
- It's one of the few decent pranks the writers could think up that fit Alice for the April Fools Episode.
- Lampshaded: "Wait, that wasn't right!"
- Invoked: In a work adapting the life of Alice, Alice spends time trying to come up with her well-known catchphrase, but fumbles over it in her first few attempts.
- Exploited: Alice is held under some kind of duress, and messes up her catchphrase on purpose to subtly communicate that she isn't okay.
- Defied: Alice practices saying her catchphrase when she's not on the air.
- Discussed: "Alice, that's not how your catchphrase goes!"
- Conversed: Alice and Bob talk about characters messing up their own catchphrases.
- Deconstructed: Alice was genuinely excited to put on the show, but feels bad about messing it up at the last moment. Out of fear of this happening again, she stops saying it altogether.
- Reconstructed: Bob tells her it's funny, which inspires her to make it a Running Gag on the show, while also making the first instance seem intentional.
- Played for Laughs: We see the catchphrase mess-up as part of an in-universe collection of bloopers.
- Played for Drama:
- This sells just how nervous and unwilling Alice is to be on the show.
- First sign of Alice having a stroke.
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