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Basic Trope: An otherwise non-western series has an OutOfGenreExperience episode about TheWildWest in some form.
* '''Played Straight''': ''Alice and Bob'' is a live action sitcom, but one episode has them go to Texas.

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Basic Trope: '''Basic Trope''': An otherwise non-western series has an OutOfGenreExperience episode about TheWildWest in some form.
* '''Played Straight''': '''Straight''': ''Alice and Bob'' is a live action sitcom, but one episode has them go to Texas.Texas.
* '''Exaggerated''': Not just Alice and Bob, but the entire cast are randomly acting like cowboys for no reason.



* '''Inverted''': ''Alice and Bob'' is normally a Western series, but in one episode they head to the city.

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* '''Justified''': Alice and Bob are interested in cowboys and want to see how they live.
* '''Inverted''': ''Alice and Bob'' is normally a Western series, but in one episode they head to the city.city.
* '''Subverted''': We see a long pan of the desert, followed by Alice appearing in a cowboy hat. Bob tells her to take that silly thing off, because today they'll be [[SpaceEpisode acting like they're in space]].
* '''Double Subverted''': Alice is upset because they'll be acting as cowboys ''next'' week and Bob is getting ahead of schedule.
* '''Parodied''': Only Alice and Bob are acting like cowboys. Everyone else is just confused.
* '''Zig-Zagged''': The episode is formatted as a SketchComedy show. Some of the segments are Western-themed and the other ones aren't.
* '''Averted''': Nobody acts like a cowboy.
* '''Enforced''': The creators fill a story with Western cliches that practically write themself.
* '''Lampshaded''': "The Wild West is so cool!"
* '''Invoked''': "Let's act like cowboys!"
%%* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': Alice and Bob don't like cowboys and don't want anything to do with them.
* '''Discussed''': "Do you think this is really like what the Wild West was like?"
%%* '''Conversed''': ???
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%% * '''Implied''': ???
%% * '''Deconstructed''': ???
%% * '''Reconstructed''': ???
%% * '''Played for Laughs''': ???
%% * '''Played for Drama''': ???
%% * '''Played for Horror''': ???
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* '''Downplayed''': ''Alice and Bob'' has an episode where they won a trip to [[ThemeparkVersion Wild West Park]].
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Basic Trope: An otherwise non-western series has an OutOfGenreExperience episode about TheWildWest in some form.
* '''Played Straight''': ''Alice and Bob'' is a live action sitcom, but one episode has them go to Texas.
* '''Inverted''': ''Alice and Bob'' is normally a Western series, but in one episode they head to the city.

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