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* '''Deconstructed''': The writers of ''[[ShowWithinAShow Bob]]'' made Bob (and the other members of the cast [[WorldOfJerkass with the same mentality as Bob]]) ''[[TooBleakStoppedCaring too]]'' unsympathetic.

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The writers of ''[[ShowWithinAShow Bob]]'' made Bob (and the other members of the cast [[WorldOfJerkass with the same mentality as Bob]]) ''[[TooBleakStoppedCaring too]]'' unsympathetic.unsympathetic.
** StatusQuoIsGod is ''not'' in play in this comedy, which [[CerebusSyndrome becomes more of a drama]] as Bob's jerkassery repeatedly [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome blows up in his face]].
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* '''Implied''': [[ChildrenAreInnocent Jim]] and [[MamaBear Alice]] watch an episode of ''[[ShowWithinAShow Bob]]'' in one scene and, while everybody else in the room is laughing uproariously, [[HarmfulToMinors Jim]] looks disturbed and Alice [[MoralGuardians is visibly one second away from beginning a screaming tirade about how dare they watch this crap in front of the kid]]. Five scenes later, Alice also has to go to the principal's office to deal with something Jim did imitating Bob… and that it's gonna get him expelled.


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* '''Deconstructed''': The writers of ''[[ShowWithinAShow Bob]]'' made Bob (and the other members of the cast [[WorldOfJerkass with the same mentality as Bob]]) ''[[TooBleakStoppedCaring too]]'' unsympathetic.

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* '''Inverted''': Bob is the AllLovingHero and his friends always want to hang out with him, and the [[TheScrappy audience hates him]].

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Bob is the AllLovingHero and his friends always want to hang out with him, and the [[TheScrappy audience hates him]].him]].
** Sympathetic Drama Antagonist



* '''Exploited''': Bob intentionally peppers his unsavory moments with bits of stupidity and comeuppance so his friends grow conditioned to his attitude and actually [[WeWantOurJerkBack miss it if it goes away.]]

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* '''Exploited''': '''Invoked and Exploited''': Bob intentionally peppers his unsavory moments with bits of stupidity and comeuppance so his friends grow conditioned to his attitude and actually [[WeWantOurJerkBack miss it if it goes away.]]
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* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob is not a jerk to the point it defines his character.

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* '''Zig Zagged''': DependingOnTheWriter, Bob is not can either be an AllLovingHero NiceGuy, or a jerk to the point it defines his character.HeroicComedicSociopath protagonist.

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* '''Inverted''':
** Bob is the AllLovingHero and his friends always want to hang out with him, and the [[TheScrappy audience hates him]].
** Alice, Bob’s {{sitcom arch nemesis}}/Main antagonist of the show, is rather a [[NiceGuy genuinely kind person,]] but ends up becoming {{the scrappy}} due to being a {{sympathetic sue}} with a [[{{Narm}} laughably terrible backstory that’s meant to be a]] “{{tearjerker}}.” In other words, Sympathetic Drama Antagonist.

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'''Inverted''': Bob is the AllLovingHero and his friends always want to hang out with him, and the [[TheScrappy audience hates him]].
** Alice, Bob’s {{sitcom arch nemesis}}/Main antagonist of the show, is rather a [[NiceGuy genuinely kind person,]] but ends up becoming {{the scrappy}} due to being a {{sympathetic sue}} with a [[{{Narm}} laughably terrible backstory that’s meant to be a]] “{{tearjerker}}.” In other words, Sympathetic Drama Antagonist.
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