History Anime / CaroleAndTuesday

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* VanillaProtagonist: In terms of both personality and musical style, the titular duo are by far the plainest of the many musicians seen in the show. It even gets lampshaded, with one of the Mars' Brightest judges remarking that their lack of a gimmick (save for being acoustic do-it-yourself musicians in an era of AI composers) is a gimmick in its own right.

* BaitAndSwitch: When Angela confronts her mother after assuming she was the one who [[spoiler:injured Tuesday's hand]], Dahlia tells her that she only did it for her sake. However, it turns out that she was talking about ''getting Angela into the soda commercial'', not the [[spoiler:sabotage]].

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Tuesday's mother Valerie, a powerful politician, advocates a campaign based on kindness and understanding while being cold and controlling at home.

* CoolShades: Afraid her family would recognize her on TV (even though her performance isn't televised), Tuesday wears a pair of shades Gus "borrowed" from another contestant during their audition for Mars' Brightest. She ditches the shades later though when she actually ''does'' appear on TV.

* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: [[spoiler:Spencer manages to track Tuesday down in Episode 5, but after seeing how happy she is performing, he can't bring himself to tell their mother where she is.]]
* ShaggyDogStory: Carole and Tuesday go through a lot of trouble to participate in the ''Mars Brightest'' contest, only to [[spoiler:still lose over some silly technicality to Angela. Sure, they win a chance to debut, but that doesn't appear to come with funding for actual ''producing'' their debut, leaving them high and dry]].

* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: For the Japanese original dub, all of the songs are performed in English by native speakers. The English dub left it alone since it was that good.

* BareYourMidriff: Angela's casual clothes show her navel. Crystal's performing outfit shows her midsection too.

* ActorAllusion: [[Creator/AkioOhtsuka Gus]] claims that Desmond hates having their shadow stepped on and would die if exposed to sunlight, much like [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency Wamuu]].

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: At a concert, standing in for a musician who for whatever last-minute reason is unavailable to play will ''not'' be received well by the audience, who paid to see them. Carole and Tuesday learn this the hard way when they try to stand in for Joshua, as they get ruthlessly booed off the stage by angry audience members.

* DarkSkinnedBlonde: Joshua has blonde hair and dark skin, which fits with his eccentric artist image. Crystal also seems to have tanned skin and blonde-green hair.

* ShesGotLegs: Carole, while being more of [[TomboyAndGirlyGirl the tomboy compared to Tuesday]], often shows off her long legs by wearing hot pants, usually combined with high stockings.

** The series begins with [[Music/{{Journey}} a small-town girl, living in a lonely world, taking the midnight train going anywhere]]. The penultimate episode is actually called "Don't Stop Believin'".

* AnimationBump: Whenever a character breaks out into a song, the animation becomes noticeably smoother via {{rotoscoping}}.

* ClusterFBomb: The Mermaid Sisters' song ''Galactic Mermaid'' is one of these to the tune of a barbershop quartet number. It gets them quickly eliminated from Mars' Brightest.

* LyricalDissonance: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFjqEexH0Tg Galactic Mermaid]]", the infamous song that the Mermaid Sisters sing for Mars Brightest, is a catchy a capella number with lyrics that are ''exclusively'' swear words. The amount of foul language used in the 40-second song was enough to bump the show's rating up to a TV-MA.

* DarkSkinnedBlonde: Joshua has blonde hair and dark skin, which fits with his eccentric artist image. Crystal also seems to have tanned skin and [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair blonde-green]] hair

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Dahlia has purple hair, which is her least outstanding feature. Marie has violet hair, although it seems to be dyed and Crystal's is a combination of green and blonde. Pyotr has mint-green hair while Catherine also has lilac hair.

* MoodDissonance: PlayedForLaughs in-universe. Episode 4 has the team shooting a ZombieApocalypse-themed video (amongs other things)... for "Hold Me Now", a light, peppy pop number. To the surprise of no-one but themselves, the result is... lackluster, to put it gently.

** Angela's mother Dahlia abuses her daughter for profitable gain against her daughter's wishes to have some sort of freedom with her musical career. At times, Dahlia comes through for Angela, but ultimately, she will do whatever it takes for her dreams (not Angela's) to come true. [[spoiler:Then she later learns harshly that she's not even Dahlia's blood daughter due to her mother's inability to conceive one. To make matter worse, Dahlia suffers a fatal stroke right after and later succumbs, leaving Angela completely heartbroken and confused.]]

* Tuesday very early on shows that her relationship with her mother is nothing short of abusive due to her mother looking down on her dream to become a musician, which led Tuesday to fleeing from home. Due to her mother being a politician in line to being a candidate for the presidency, she sees her runaway daughter as a liability to her image and tries to get her back forcibly. [[spoiler:Though it takes some facts from Spencer about her campaign manager Jerry's actions to cause an explosive accident for her to realize that her desire to become a president isn't exactly what she wants and thus drops her bid while accepting responsibility for Jerry's actions. This also makes her accept Tuesday.]]