This is how you can play with the trope Viewers Are Goldfish.
Basic Trope: The work repeats things more frequently than it should, believing that the audience isn't paying attention or has forgotten.
- Straight: The movie Troper Tales features a flashback to an event that happened a few minutes ago.
- Exaggerated: Every scene in Troper Tales gets a recap of some sort a few minutes later.
- Downplayed: Alice experiences something and tells Bob about the experience a few minutes later, and details it more heavily than she probably should.
- Justified:
- It was being repeated for a character that wasn't there to witness the event.
- The original version had weekly five minute episodes as the B of a Three Shorts Series and they didn't bother to remove the recaps for the compiled version.
- Inverted: The work assumes that viewers have an impressive memory. For instance, the very beginning features foreshadowing for something that doesn't happen until the very end.
- Subverted: ???
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied:
- Charles can have flashbacks, and is shown having a flashback to something that just happened. Diane tells him that the event just happened a few minutes ago. Then Charles has a flashback of Diane saying that.
- Troper Tales has Minecraft parkour footage or Clustertruck footage constantly playing next to it to make sure viewers pay attention.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: The work doesn't assume that its viewers have a short memory.
- Enforced: The creators of the work were unsure if the audience would understand a scene, so they decided to have a scene repeating it.
- Lampshaded: "Why did you tell us this? It was just five minutes ago and we're all were here with you!"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: "That just happened, we're not going to repeat that."
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "Does this movie think we're going to forget something that just happened?"
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