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Playing With: Show Within a Show
Basic Trope: A fictional TV show within an actual TV show.
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- Straight: The characters in Alice and Bob love to watch a show called Troperz.
- Exaggerated:
- Every episode in Alice and Bob covers Troperz full-time, with the characters discussing its plot.
- Troperz has its own Show Within A Show, which in turn has another Show Within A Show.
- Downplayed: One time, Alice said she had to go so she wouldn't miss Troperz.
- Justified: Showing Alice and Bob being on all the time nicks Willing Suspension of Disbelief so in their down time they watch Troperz.
- Inverted: Alice and Bob is occasionally shown to be a TV show watched by people in the "real" world.
- Subverted:
- People on Alice and Bob mention "watching tropers". We find out it's not a TV show; they like to stare through the window while people edit TV Tropes.
- Troperz is a very popular show within the Alice and Bob universe, but only for one season.
- Double Subverted: ...However, in later seasons it gets good, so they watch it again.
- Parodied: The show within a show is a Stylistic Suck that is actually called "Show within a Show."
- Zig Zagged: The characters in Alice and Bob love to watch a show called Troperz. However, they end up addicted, so the show is canceled. That is, until it gets defictionalized.
- Averted: Troperz is not shown/mentioned within the Alice and Bob universe, not even in a minor situation.
- Enforced: Alice and Bob is a Slice of Life show.
- Lampshaded: "How does this show air?"
- Invoked: See Enforced.
- Exploited: Troperz is used to pass secret messages without The Empire finding out.
- Defied: Alice and Bob try to avoid watching Troperz at all costs.
- Discussed:
Alice: Troperz is on in 5 minutes! I love that show!
- Conversed: "Hey, at least they're trying to be realistic for once..."
- Deconstructed: Troperz ends up popular enough to be defictionalized.
- Reconstructed: The characters in Alice and Bob try to keep Troperz on the air.
- Untwisted: Show Within a Show Within A Recursive Reality.
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