- "Yeah, you're a pretty cool family. I think I'll keep you."
Somewhere, in sunny Florida, there lives a family of four: Mom, Jaz, Taz, and Zilo. Living life, and finding their ways, the family sticks together no matter what. And the "what" comes in a variety of flavors, from stalker boyfriends to possessed cars, to The Great Cat Movement of 2003. Zilo, the protagonist, an avid fan of reading, writing, and drawing, is the main cause of the family's hair-raising adventures (though you really can't blame the possessed car on her). She spends most of her time plunked in front of a computer, traveling through a bizarre and dangerous land known as the Internet.
One day she finds a link leading to place called TV Tropes and the rest was history. Her life turns into a land of tropes and her family is unwillingly dragged along for the ride. As they try to weather the new set of problems they have to deal with, Zilo tries to find a way to save her family from this strange new menace.
Heralded as the best story of all time in every single genre ever.
This life features examples of:
- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: "There are some things you should always remember! Your name, your social security number, where your car is, that your daughter doesn't know how to make nachos, things like that!"
- Awesome McOverly Long Nayme: Zilo's full online alias is "Zilo Biscuit Kirbi Edward Blue Sugarpill The Notoriously Strange".
- Badass Bookworm: Taz.
- Badass Family: Take a guess.
- Big Eater: The whole family
- Blond, Brunette, Redhead: Jaz, Zilo, and Mom respectively.
- Recently, Zilo and Mom have swapped places, with Zilo having red hair, and Mom going back to dark brown.
- Browser Narcotic / Just One More Level! : Any time Mom or Zilo get on a computer.
- Buffy Speak: Most items are described with the word "thing" in there somewhere, such as "computer thing" (modem) "water dispense-y thing" (refrigerator dispenser) "music playing thing" (MP 3) or just "that...thing"
- Catchphrase: "Here I am!"
- "There's a trope about that...",
- Mom's "I'll sock you in your eye!'
- Jaz's "Howdy howdy!"
- Cloudcuckoolander: Zilo. 'Nuff said.
- Jaz and Taz also, though Zilo is definitely the worst of the bunch.
- Crowning Moment Of Funny: See Cute Clumsy Girl.
- Crowning Moment Of Heartwarming: "No matter how old you get, you'll always be my baby." Awww, Mom!
- Cute Clumsy Girl: Zilo. In spades.
- Zilo: HOW DO YOU TRIP OVER A DISHWASHER?!"
- Dark Skinned Blond: Jaz
- Dark Skinned Redhead: Mom
- Deadpan Snarker: Whenever she's not being crazy, Zilo is one of these.
- Everyone in the family, the biggest offenders being Mom and Taz.
- Downer Ending: Eventually, everyone dies.
- Fan Fic: Zilo writes the Fullmetal Alchemist variety. Like this.
- Four-Girl Ensemble: With Zilo as The Ditz, Taz as the snarker Jaz as the sexy, and Mom as the wise one.
- Goshdang It To Heck: The whole family. Zilo makes up her own swear words.
- High Octane Nightmare Fuel: Jaz's potatoes, after being in the back of the fridge for too long...
- Hot Librarian: Taz.
- I Know Mortal Kombat: Or in this case, "I know Dead Or Alive".
- Mama Bear: One word of advice: do not touch Mom's girls. She's not afraid of going to prison.
- Memetic Mutation: "WAH!"
- Obfuscating Insanity: Zilo, who else?
- Obfuscating Stupidity: See above.
- Older Than They Look: "You're 20? I thought you were twelve!"
- Only Sane Man: Mom.
- Put on a Bus: Taz's moving to Oklahoma.
- Seinfeldian Conversation: "How many ways can you fall in a hole?"
- Shaped Like Itself: "I was going to put sausage in the rice and make, uh...sausage rice."
- Take a Third Option:
- Zilo: You've got a choice. Either have the fan on high and be a little cold, or turn the fan down and let your daughter burst into flames.Mom: I'd prefer having a daughter who isn't so dramatic.
- The Nicknamer: Jaz.
- TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life: But Zilo likes it. Mom, on the other hand...
- Younger Than They Look: Mom.
