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** The series is a Weekly Yonkoma, and all chapters ocurr in only one month.

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** The series is a Weekly Yonkoma, and all chapters ocurr occur in only one month.month.
** [[Series/TwentyFour The episodes run at strict real time]], and all seasons take place in the same year.
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* '''Straight''': Bob is 12 when the show starts, and years later he is still only 12.

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* '''Straight''': Bob is 12 when the show starts, and 10 years later he is still only 12.
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** Or he's just [[ManChild acting like a kid]], or lying about his age.

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** Or he's Bob is just [[ManChild acting like a kid]], or lying about his age.
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* '''Inverted''': Bob ages at a [[SoapOperaRapidAgingSyndrome very ridiculous speed]], so that a year later he is now 22.

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* '''Inverted''': '''Inverted''':
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Bob ages at a [[SoapOperaRapidAgingSyndrome very ridiculous speed]], so that a year later he is now 22.



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** Bob has access to the [[FountainOfYouth]].
** The series is stuck in a time loop.

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** Bob has access to the [[FountainOfYouth]].
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** The series is stuck in [[GroundhogDayLoop a time loop.loop]].



%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???

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** The shows lasts for a ridiculously long time, but he ''still'' hasn't aged ''at all''.

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** The shows lasts for a ridiculously long time, but he ''still'' hasn't aged ''at all''.a day.



** Bob has access to the [[FountainofYouth Fountain of Youth]].

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** Bob has access to the [[FountainofYouth Fountain of Youth]].[[FountainOfYouth]].
** The series is stuck in a time loop.



--> '''Bob''': "I hope this isn't one of those shows where the kid doesn't age."\\

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--> '''Bob''': "I hope this isn't one of those shows where the kid doesn't kids don't age."\\

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** Bob ages normally in scenes set in the present, but in flashback scenes he's the same age he was at the start, even though he should be visibly younger.



* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

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* '''Zig Zagged''': ???Bob ages at whatever rate the show's writers want him to for their stories. He stays the same age for a few seasons, then suddenly gets bumped up a few years.
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'''Not Allowed to Grow Up'''

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'''Not Allowed to Grow Up''''''Basic Trope''': A character never ages in a series.



* '''Exaggerated''': The shows lasts for a ridiculously long time, but he ''still'' hasn't aged ''at all''.
** Bob actually ''[[Main/MerlinSickness gets younger]]'' over the course of the series.

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* '''Exaggerated''': '''Exaggerated''':
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The shows lasts for a ridiculously long time, but he ''still'' hasn't aged ''at all''.
** Bob actually ''[[Main/MerlinSickness ''[[MerlinSickness gets younger]]'' over the course of the series.



* '''Justified''': Bob has access to the [[Main/FountainofYouth Fountain of Youth]].

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* '''Justified''': Bob '''Justified''':
**Bob
has access to the [[Main/FountainofYouth [[FountainofYouth Fountain of Youth]].



* '''Inverted''': Bob ages at a [[Main/SoapOperaRapidAgingSyndrome very ridiculous speed]], so that a year later he is now 22.
* '''Subverted''': As it turns out, Bob is just short.
** Or he's just [[Main/ManChild acting like a kid]], or lying about his age.
* '''Double Subverted''': Bob is short, but years later he only aged one year.

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* '''Inverted''': Bob ages at a [[Main/SoapOperaRapidAgingSyndrome [[SoapOperaRapidAgingSyndrome very ridiculous speed]], so that a year later he is now 22.
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As it turns out, Bob is just short.
** Or he's just [[Main/ManChild [[ManChild acting like a kid]], or lying about his age.
* '''Double Subverted''': Subverted''':
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Bob is short, but years later he only aged one year.



* '''Zig Zagged''': ???



--> '''Bob''': "I hope this isn't one of those shows where the kid doesn't age."
--> Bob's birthday happens one week later.

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--> '''Bob''': "I hope this isn't one of those shows where the kid doesn't age."
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Bob's birthday happens one week later.



* '''Deconstructed''': Bob complains about the [[Main/WhoWantstoLiveForever pain and agony of]] [[Main/NotGrowingUpSucks being a pre-teen forever]].
* '''Reconstructed''': Bob decides that he is perfectly okay with it and that [[Main/GrowingUpSucks he can enjoy the benefits of being a kid]].
* '''Played for Laughs''': ???
* '''Played for Drama''': ???

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* '''Deconstructed''': Bob complains about the [[Main/WhoWantstoLiveForever [[WhoWantstoLiveForever pain and agony of]] [[Main/NotGrowingUpSucks [[NotGrowingUpSucks being a pre-teen forever]].
* '''Reconstructed''': Bob decides that he is perfectly okay with it and that [[Main/GrowingUpSucks [[GrowingUpSucks he can enjoy the benefits of being a kid]].
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%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
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'''Played for For Laughs''': ???
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* '''Downplayed''': Bob does age, but very slowly. After a six years, he's only 15.

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* '''Downplayed''': Bob does age, but very slowly. After a six years, he's only 15.
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* '''Straight''': Bob stays is 12 when the show starts, and years later he is still only 12.

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* '''Straight''': Bob stays is 12 when the show starts, and years later he is still only 12.
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'''Not Allowed to Grow Up'''
*'''Straight''': Bob stays is 12 when the show starts, and years later he is still only 12.
*'''Exaggerated''': The shows lasts for a ridiculously long time, but he ''still'' hasn't aged ''at all''.
** Bob actually ''[[Main/MerlinSickness gets younger]]'' over the course of the series.
*'''Downplayed''': Bob does age, but very slowly. After a six years, he's only 15.
*'''Justified''': Bob has access to the [[Main/FountainofYouth Fountain of Youth]].
** He has some other sort of anti-aging device.
** He is part of a species that ages rather slowly.
* '''Inverted''': Bob ages at a [[Main/SoapOperaRapidAgingSyndrome very ridiculous speed]], so that a year later he is now 22.
* '''Subverted''': As it turns out, Bob is just short.
** Or he's just [[Main/ManChild acting like a kid]], or lying about his age.
* '''Double Subverted''': Bob is short, but years later he only aged one year.
** He's lying about his age, but he still hasn't aged much.
* '''Parodied''': Hundreds or even thousands of years later, Bob hasn't aged a bit, or hardly aged at all.
* '''Averted''': Bob ages normally, and one year later he is 13.
* '''Enforced''': The company doesn't want the show to be canceled or for viewers to lose interest once Bob moves out of the house and gets a job, so they make sure he doesn't reach that age.
* '''Lampshaded''': Bob remarks that he's been in 7th grade for much longer than he should be.
* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Discussed''':
--> '''Bob''': "I hope this isn't one of those shows where the kid doesn't age."
--> Bob's birthday happens one week later.
* '''Conversed''': ???
* '''Deconstructed''': Bob complains about the [[Main/WhoWantstoLiveForever pain and agony of]] [[Main/NotGrowingUpSucks being a pre-teen forever]].
* '''Reconstructed''': Bob decides that he is perfectly okay with it and that [[Main/GrowingUpSucks he can enjoy the benefits of being a kid]].
* '''Played for Laughs''': ???
* '''Played for Drama''': ???

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