Basic Trope: The characters take part in a race with eccentric opponents, outrageous locations, and rules that ensure chaos.
- Straight: The Adventures of Alice and Bob has the title characters take part in the Fridge Rally. Their opponents include a manly bodybuilder in a modified military vehicle, a wealthy but obnoxious woman in a stretch limo, a perpetual loser in a car that's barely holding together, and a group of government agents in a black van. The race heads through thick forests, snowy mountains, arid desert, and a raging river, none of which have roads.
- Exaggerated: In addition to the above, the opponents include a vampire in a spooky-looking car, green aliens in a Flying Saucer, and a self-driving and self-aware car. The race course also leads through an active volcano, across the surface of Venus, and somehow goes to Feudal Japan. To make things even crazier, the absolute lack of rules past "cross the Finish line first to win" means contestants go on full-blown Mad Max-style vehicular murder.
- Downplayed: The Fridge Rally is run on normal roads, but in varied environments like deserts and snow. The opponents are still a bit eccentric, but are in relatively normal vehicles.
- Justified:
- The Fridge Rally is a tribute to the time a pair of adventurers crossed dangerous environments to deliver a much-needed document to the town and has been set up to resemble their journey as closely as possible.
- The Fridge Rally is a charity race with a lot of Kayfabe.
- The Fridge Rally is run by unscrupulous characters in a setting where corruption and greed are rampant, so there isn't much in the way of regulation. Both the racers and the organizers consider the danger to be part of the track's appeal.
- Inverted: The Adventures of Alice and Bob is normally about the title pair competing in a race which actually has normal people in normal cars as opponents. In one episode, they take a break from racing to stay in a small town which has eccentric residents, outrageous shops, and bizarre laws.
- Subverted: The discussion of the Fridge Rally seems like it will cater to oddballs and run across unusual terrain, but the rules encourage normal participants and vehicles and the race is run through relatively safe areas.
- Double Subverted: However, their opponents didn't get the memo and each decided to show off some kind of gimmick. Then a detour sends the race through places you wouldn't normally drive a car.
- Parodied: The organizers of the Fridge Rally set up a computer to analyze the racers for their wackiness, giving out scores for various factors. When a completely normal racer is analyzed, the computer crashes.
- Zig-Zagged: Some legs of the Fridge Rally take place in places you can normally drive while others take place in more dangerous locales. Also, some of the racers are relatively straight-laced while others are a bit less normal.
- Averted:
- The Fridge Rally has participants who are actually normal people in normal cars that still fit their personality. The race itself sticks to normal roads in calm territory. The rules discourage outrageous behavior.
- Alice and Bob never go racing.
- Enforced:
- Charlie, the showrunner of The Adventures of Alice and Bob is a racing enthusiast who commissions a racing episode. David, the head writer, points out that the show's universe doesn't allow for a serious race, so Charlie lets him make it as crazy as he wants to.
- The writers are fans of The Cannonball Run and wish to write a Homage episode, with some additional weirdness to prevent any potential lawsuits.
- Lampshaded: "Crazy racers. Crazy course. Next thing you know, Dick Dastardly will show up."
- Invoked: While the race organizers are planning the Fridge Rally, they try to come up with ideas that would make the race more interesting. Some of those ideas involve inviting the most colorful racers they can find, plotting the race course through areas where racing wouldn't be a good idea, and relaxing the rules a bit.
- Exploited: Alice and Bob run a vehicle customization garage and advertise a service where they will trick out the competitors' cars for the race and make them as wild as they can. By the time the race starts, they've made a fortune.
- Defied: The mayor asks to see the plans for the Fridge Rally. When he sees the plans to invite colorful racers and plot the course through dangerous areas, he threatens to cancel the race unless they tone it down a lot.
- Discussed: "Hmm, the regulations for this race seem a little loose. And the race is going where? It's almost like one of those races not played seriously."
- Conversed: "So, what do you think would be the ultimate race?" "Anything goes, insane competitors, going where racers normally wouldn't. You know, kind of like Wacky Races."
- Deconstructed: After a series of incidents during the last Fridge Rally, an investigation takes place and the issues of eccentric participants in outlandish vehicles, unusual racing locales, and lax rules come under fire. The Rally is banned under threat of license suspension and hefty fines.
- Reconstructed: The race organizers decide to form a sanctioning body for the Fridge Rally to allow the race to be run with all of its oddity but with less chaos. There are more restrictive rules in place, but the vehicles are inspected for safety and the route is prepared for racing ahead of time.
- Played for Drama: Alice and Bob are desperate for money and enter the Fridge Rally to win the prize. Then they see their competition, the race course, and the rules and discover they're in way over their heads.
- Played for Horror:
- Alice and Bob discover all too late that one of the rules of the Fridge Rally is that teams can only advance to the next stage by eliminating another racer. Now they're constantly looking over their shoulders for threats or someone they can eliminate.
- The Fridge Rally is run by powerful and unscrupulous characters who intentionally designed the Fridge Rally track to be super dangerous knowing it would probably get some of its participants killed because they consider that part of the fun. They even like to place bets on which racers are going to get killed by which obstacles.
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