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4	''Carole & Tuesday'' is a Japanese anime series produced by Creator/StudioBONES. It was created and directed by Creator/ShinichiroWatanabe of ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' fame. The show began airing for 24 episodes on Creator/FujiTV's +Ultra programming block and Creator/{{Netflix}} Japan on April 10th, 2019. The first 12 episodes were released on Netflix worldwide on August 30, 2019, while the second half was released the following December.
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6	Set 50 years after humans have colonized the planet Mars, our story starts with the very sheltered and innocent Tuesday running away from home and heading to the largest city on the planet, Alba City. Once there she quickly learns that its not an easy place for a girl with no plans.
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8	Carole is a young woman barely making her way in the city, and has just lost her job, ''again''. With nothing left to do she begins playing her keyboard and singing on a bridge, where a disheartened Tuesday happens to also be and the two girls instantly connect over Carole's song.
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11	!!Tropes present in the work are:
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13	* ActorAllusion: [[Creator/AkioOtsuka Gus]] claims that Desmond hates having their shadow stepped on and would die if exposed to sunlight, much like [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency Wamuu]].
14	* AerithAndBob: It's right there in the show's title. Most of the cast have perfectly ordinary names, and then there's ''Tuesday''.
15	* TheAlcoholic: Gus is introduced barely conscious at a bar.
16	** Amongst Joshua's many issues, being so drunk off his ass that he can't perform seems to be common occurrence.
17	* AIIsACrapshoot: There are clearly AIs who use conman tactics and have their own agency; as opposed to acting on behalf of a behind-the-curtain human puppet master.
18	* AlliterativeName: Gus Goldman, Spencer Simmons and Katie Kimura.
19	* AmbiguouslyBrown: Carole seems to be of African descent while Angela could either be African as well or Latino, maybe both. This trope is quite prominent, as Alba City is very cosmopolitan and the colonization of Mars might have blurred a few "racial" lines.
20	* AmicableExes: Gus and his ex-wife Marie, while have grown distant, are still friendly with one another. Marie believes in Gus' assessment that Carole and Tuesday are something special, willing to work for Gus on the promise he'll pay her back and referring the two to her current girlfriend for costumes. When Marie tells Gus she plans to remarry, he tells her to find happiness this time, baring no ill will.
21	* AnimationBump: Whenever a character breaks out into song, the animation becomes noticeably smoother via {{rotoscoping}}.
22	* ArtisticLicenseSpace: While the size of [[https://www.zupimages.net/up/19/26/oub4.png Mars' moons Deimos and Phobos]] is realistic enough, [[https://www.zupimages.net/up/19/31/hcrv.png the Earth]] on the other hand looks way bigger than it actually would in the Martian sky. People standing on Mars would see the Earth as a bright star much like Venus appears from Earth, not as a small moon. Depicting it this way helps to enhance the dreamy mood of the scene, however.
23	* AsYouKnow: Invoked, and then subverted.
24	--> '''Tao''': 99% of all modern hits were created by A.I.s. I suspect you knew that already, though.
25	--> '''Angela''': Hadn't the foggiest.
26	* AwardBaitSong: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1M62SH-nuc "Mother"]].
27	* 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 a soda commercial, not the [[spoiler:sabotage]].
28	* BewareTheNiceOnes: Tuesday may be the sweetest girl there is, but when Ertegun insults their music without even bothering to listen to it, she calmly burns the letter and sets off the sprinklers in his house. Even she is surprised by the way she reacted.
29	* BirdsOfAFeather: Carole and Tuesday couldn't be more different in appearance and background, but their love of music makes them bond almost immediately.
30	* BitchInSheepsClothing: Tuesday's mother Valerie, a powerful politician, advocates a campaign based on kindness and understanding while being cold and controlling at home. The sheep's clothing part vanishes once Jerry takes control of her campaign and her policies grow more xenophobic.
31	* BlandNameProduct:
32	** [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Creamy Cream]], a coffee and donut shop similar to the real life Krispy Kreme.
33	** There's also the bare-faced eBay knock-off "[[https://imgur.com/a/ScelLno obay]]".
34	** There's also the Coca Cola knock-off "[[https://imgur.com/a/yO2QeWQ Mars Cola]]".
35	* BolivianArmyEnding: Downplayed. [[spoiler: The anime ends as the cops are preparing to break up the illegal concert.]]
36	* BookEnds:
37	** The series begins with [[Music/JourneyBand 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'".
38	** The "Miraculous 7 Minutes" concert mentioned in the intro, and which occurs in the final episode, takes place in the same concert hall in which Carole and Tuesday perform their first impromptu concert in Episode 2. The pair even lampshade this. For bonus points, [[spoiler:both concerts are less than legal, but while the first is broken up by security, the second is allowed to play to completion despite the police showing up]].
39	* BrokenPedestal:
40	** Downplayed in the case of Ertegun, as there wasn't much of a pedestal to break in the first place. When the girls visit him to request a collaboration, he immediately looks down on their music without even listening to it. In retaliation, the two set up a fiery prank before quickly making their escape.
41	** Subverted when Carole meets Flora, the singer who originally inspired her to become a musician. Flora is a jaded, burnt-out wreck who is implied to have been driven to alcohol and drug abuse by how the music industry treated her, and has lost her desire to sing. Carole still admires her anyway, and covers Flora's song "Give You The World" in concert in a successful attempt to lift her spirits.
42	* ButtMonkey: Episode 4 is hard on poor Roddy, who's not only forced to dance for the music video (which he has no talent for), the luxury car he borrowed from Ertegun gets utterly wrecked and his beloved limited edition robots get destroyed by IDEA. He's also the one who recommends IDEA to Carole and Tuesday in the first place, and by the time he realizes it's a scam, it's ''far'' too late.
43	* TheCameo: While IDEA is looking how to "animate" which is really just it looking up a video of girls in swimsuits at a pool, [[Anime/SpaceDandy QT and what appears to be Honey]] appear in there.
44	* CentralTheme: Parental relationships, though it centers more on the maternal side:
45	** Carole was left at an orphanage since she was a baby and later ended up at a refugee camp before ending up in Mars. She actually doesn't have a single shred of sadness for never knowing her parents. [[spoiler:That is, until her father Dann shows up and tells her that she had to be left at the orphanage due to her mother's DeathByChildbirth, which wasn't helped when Dann was arrested for a CrimeInSelfDefense that he was wrongly accused to and had to be in prison for 18 years. Though initially dismissive of her parental connection, Carole comes to appreciate the fact her father will come back one day.]]
46	** 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.]]
47	** 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 Angela snaps out later and 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.]]
48	* ClusterFBomb: The Mermaid Sisters' song ''Galactic Mermaid'' is nothing but profanity sung to the tune of a barbershop quartet number. It gets them quickly eliminated from Mars' Brightest.
49	* CommonalityConnection: In spite of how Carole and Tuesday seem to be total opposites in looks, fashion style and upbringing, they become best pals almost instantly based on their shared love for music and surprisingly compatible personalities.
50	* 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.
51	* CuteMachines: Carole has her alarm clock, Ziggy. He looks and acts like a northern white-faced owl (including making himself thinner when startled) so he's treated more like a pet than an appliance. Subverted with IDEA, who looks and sounds very cute but whose personality is closer to an evil spawn of [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Bender.]]
52	* CharacterBlog: In addition to having an Instagram account in-universe, [[https://www.instagram.com/carole_and_tuesday/ Carole and Tuesday have one for real as well]].
53	* ContrivedCoincidence: In Episode 16, Carole and Tuesday are taking a walk while discussing their latest song. Carole remarks that she wants to add a rhythm section to it, but they'd need a backup band willing to play for free. They then ''immediately'' run into a group of musicians jamming on the street corner with ''exactly'' the instruments Carole needs for her rhythm section.
54	* DisproportionateRetribution: [[StalkerWithACrush Cybelle]] asks Tuesday to form a duo with her after the ''Mars Brightest'' contest, and Tuesday is too nervous to immediately refuse. When she does say no, Cybelle takes this as a cruel betrayal on Tuesday's part. In vengeance, she [[spoiler:leaves a birthday present full of dry ice that ''burns Tuesday's hand'']], which is going too far even if the transgression ''wasn't'' imaginary.
55	* DoItYourselfThemeTune: Both opening themes are performed by Carole and Tuesday in their singing voices.
56	* DramaticWind: Parodied in Episode 4. While shooting the duo's first music video, IDEA takes them to the top of a crater, hoping to get footage of them standing at the cliff edge, complete with dramatic wind. Instead, it's so windy that the pair can barely stand up straight, let alone play their instruments, and IDEA himself gets blown away.
57	* ElegantGothicLolita: Tuesday's long dresses are clearly inspired by the "casual lolita" style. She might only wear this style though because that's what she is ''used'' to wearing for most of her life, and not to make an actual fashion statement.
58	* EveryoneHasStandards: In the final episode, as [[spoiler:the police barge into the concert hall, guns drawn, to shut down the "Miraculous 7 Minutes" concert, Gus asks them to just stop and listen to the song for a minute]]. They oblige.
59	* FailedASpotCheck: When Roddy looks online for an AI to compose their new music video, he somehow misses that it has thousands of reviews and a 1-star average score.
60	* {{Foil}}: Gus and Tao, while both musicians' managers, are opposites in just about every way. Gus is a heavy-set, enthusiastic older man, Tao is a slim, emotionless young man. Gus is a jaded alcoholic who's been out of work for years, Tao is a modern acoustics technician in popular demand. Gus prefers old-fashioned songs and wants to promote Carole and Tuesday for their authentic music, Tao prefers his A.I.-manufactured songs, and forces Angela to conform to them.
61	* {{Foreshadowing}}:
62	** At the start of Episode 4, when Roddy suggests having the IDEA AI create a music video for the duo, you can see on its store page that it only has a 1-star rating over 2000 reviews. [[IdiotBall None of the protagonists notice this]], though Carole ''is'' suspicious of the cheap price. IDEA turns out to be a scam artist.
63	** The story of Flora's breakdown and burnout is eerily similar to what happens to [[spoiler:Angela]] just a few episodes later. The difference is that, while [[spoiler:Angela]] has friends around her who help her recover in a matter of days, Flora had nobody and didn't even ''begin'' to recover until Carole and Tuesday came along.
64	** In Episode 19, one of [[spoiler:Angela's security guards]] at the Cydonia Festival ''very obviously'' resembles Black_Knight. Since the protagonists don't know what Black_Knight looks like, they don't realise (and it's not revealed properly) until the episode's climax.
65	* FormerChildStar: Angela Carpenter is a former child star and model who intends to break through as a singer. According to herself, Dahlia used to be one too.
66	* FormerlyFit: Marie shows Carole and Tuesday a picture of a younger Gus, who was quite thin and good-looking back then.
67	* TheFunInFuneral: One of Carole's part-time jobs involves fake-crying at a dead guy's funeral to give the impression there are plenty of people missing him. This being Carole, she sees a butterfly land on the priest's head and bursts out laughing like a madwoman.
68	* GenericCuteness: Carole and Tuesday are supposedly rather plain-looking girls, but you wouldn't be able to tell this by their character designs.
69	* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: Desmond's AI attendant. As each other's sole companion for twenty years, the AI developed an understanding of human emotions and shows genuine care for Desmond.
70	* HairContrastDuo: Carole is a dark-skinned girl with black hair while Tuesday is a white-as-snow blonde with freckles.
71	* ICallItVera: Tuesday's precious guitar is named "Hummingbird". That's because it ''is'' a [[https://www.gibson.com/Guitar/ACCQBA896/Hummingbird Gibson Hummingbird]].
72	* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Each episode is named after a Western rock or pop song. A full list of song references can be found [[https://twitter.com/AniPlaylist/status/1126540302154633216 here]].
73	* InkSuitActor: Cybelle bears a [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c4/f7/9c/c4f79c2d27a6f24a8566a8b5a68f8c9c.jpg pretty uncanny resemblance]] to [[https://static.wixstatic.com/media/37becf_3aad2d902b574cf89ecd8692821e4d84~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_560,h_728,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01/RMB_BIO_PHOTO%20big.webp Maika Loubté]], who provided her singing voice. [[https://i.imgur.com/UUWtEptr.jpg Same with Carole and her vocalist Nai Br.XX;]],
74	* InterclassFriendship: Carole is an orphan working various odd jobs to get by, while Tuesday is a child from a wealthy family. They connect with each over a love of music and form a band.
75	* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: When Marie tells Gus that she's remarrying, he's surprised but neither jealous nor upset, and simply wishes her to find happiness with her wife.
76	* JealousPet: Ziggy the robotic owl alarm clock has an AI advanced enough to be annoyed about how IDEA monopolizes the time of her owner.
77	* LaserGuidedKarma: Ertegun rejected and dismissed Carole and Tuesday’s music without listening to it, dashing their first option of making it big. It’s only appropriate that they accidentally wreck one of his cars for their failed first music video, which was supposed to be their second option.
78	* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: Though we get a few tiny glimpses of him towards the end of the series, Lonesome Clarence doesn't make a proper appearance until the finale.
79	* LeftHanging: The show ends with [[spoiler:Carole and Tuesday holding a protest concert on New Year's Day with a large group of other musicians, with the police breaking into the building while everybody is on stage]]. The show even plays around with it, declaring "Carole & Tuesday will continue..." before adding "...in your mind."
80	* LittleMissBadass: As a little girl living in an orphanage, Carole head-butts and flying kicks a bigger boy who was being mean to her.
81	* LivingProp: The backup music trio that Carole and Tuesday found when Carole was conveniently talking about looking for musicians to add rhythmic sections to her music. After their rather small introduction, they don't get any lines, but they happily assist the girls with what they need and appear at every major song performance.
82	* LyricalDissonance: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFjqEexH0Tg Galactic Mermaid]]", the 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.
83	* MoodDissonance: PlayedForLaughs in-universe. Episode 4 has the team shooting a ZombieApocalypse-themed video (amongst 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.
84	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: One of the auditioning singers in Episode 7 bears a resemblance to, and sings a lot like Music/{{Vitas}}.
85	** Similarly, GGK is a shameless (if loving) interpretation of FKA Twigs, and fans have taken to calling Crystal "Space Beyoncé" for good reason.
86	** Valerie Simmons is basically Hillary Clinton… with the political platform of Donald Trump.
87	** Several of the other musical artists have similarities to famous musicians in looks, music style, and even backstories. For instance, Desmond’s glam rock-inspired singing and look resembles Music/DavidBowie, and Flora’s music and downward spiral in her life is eerily similar to Music/WhitneyHouston.
88	** During the Mars Grammies show in Episode 22, the presenter calls out to a man named Steve. The camera then cuts to a man who looks like Music/SteveAoki.
89	* ParentalAbandonment: Carole was abandoned in a church as a baby and has no memories of her parents. [[spoiler:It turns out her father, Dann, was in prison for a CrimeOfSelfDefense, and her mother passed away shortly after giving her up. Carole meets Dann in episode 13, but he does not tell her who he is until the following episode.]]
90	* PassiveAggressiveKombat: Gus and Dahlia indulge in this, complete with extremely fake smiles, after [[spoiler:''Mars Brightest'' gives Angela ''and'' Carole and Tuesday record deals]], forcing them to be around each other more.
91	* PinballProtagonist: Carole and Tuesday, and even Angela to an extent, are mostly dragged around from one gig to another without making much of their own decisions − outside of consenting and performing as best as they can. The only notable exceptions are Carole and Tuesday's impromptu performance in a concert hall in episode 2, which drew the attention of Gus and Roddy in the first place, and [[spoiler:the "Miraculous 7 Minutes" concert in the finale, which was their idea]].
92	** Deconstructed in the case of Angela. Being dragged about by Dahlia and Tao takes its toll on her, until finally she snaps and tells Dahlia she's had enough of being treated like a doll. [[spoiler:Dahlia then suffers a fatal heart attack, and with Tao having been arrested and no-one left to pinball her around]], Angela is left at a loss for what to do [[spoiler:and enters an almost-fatal downward spiral]] until she forces herself to take the initiative for once and joins Carole and Tuesday's concert.
93	* ProductPlacement: The show is sponsored by Gibson and Nord, so naturally Tuesday's acoustic guitar is a Gibson (a Hummingbird, to be precise), and Carole plays on a Nord keyboard. Instagram is also visibly used, rather than a BlandNameProduct version, and appears to be identical in look and function to the present day, in spite of the sci-fi setting.
94	** After Carole & Tuesday and Angela release their debut singles, Roddy tracks their chart positions on the real-world Billboard chart.
95	* ProtestSong: "Mother", written expressly InUniverse to protest the ongoing censorship of music as well as the xenophobic immigration policies being pursued by Tuesday's mother as a presidential candidate. Since Spencer succeeds in revealing the truth to Valerie about [[spoiler:her campaign manager engineering the bombing of Alba City's weather control machine to aid her divisive rhetoric]], and she both fires her manager and drops out of the campaign, the song instead morphs into a heartfelt plea for humanity to come together. The concert is still considered illegal, however [[spoiler:resulting in an appearance by the police to break it up; [[BolivianArmyEnding it's not revealed how this turns out]], but Gus's ending monologue at least suggests things get better from here on out]], so it remains a literal protest. Some of the imagery, and the coming together of countless musicians with varying styles to support a single cause, is also reminiscent of Music/WeAreTheWorld, but no actual money is raised by the event.
96	* RedHerringTwist: [[spoiler: Tao tells Angela they’re both DesignerBabies, and she’s version 2.0. ...aaaannnnd that’s where the arc ends. This happens at the very start of the final episode.]]
97	* TheReveal: The second half of the season drops two big ones regarding [[spoiler:Angela's parentage]]. As it turns out, [[spoiler:Dahlia is '''not''' Angela's birth parent, she adopted her from a man named Professor Zeeman]]. Even still, [[spoiler:Zeeman isn't even Angela's father by birth. Rather, she was one of two DesignerBabies that he had fully developed, with the other child being none other than Tao]].
98	* RidiculouslyHumanRobots:
99	** IDEA the robot director not only drinks beer like a human, it also likes to take baths and watch television. It also happens to be a scam artist.
100	** Ertegun's AI butler not only robs his owner blind, he spends all the money on [[HookersAndBlow parties and women]].
101	* RockIsAuthenticPopIsShallow: The show presents a variation. The musicians in the show all run the gamut of genres, but the one of the central themes is the conflict between music that is composed by artificial intelligence (all but omnipresent in the show's setting) and Carole and Tuesday's homegrown, authentic, self-composed, raw sound. Musicians are also torn between signing with high-powered producers (a faster route to fame and success, but at the loss of their creative freedom), and making it on their own or with lesser-known teams.
102	* {{Rotoscoping}}: Every musical performance is rotoscoped, making it easier to accurately animate characters singing, dancing or playing instruments in time with the music.
103	* TheRunaway: Tuesday leaves her affluent life because while she has everything she could want, her family will ''not'' allow her to be a musician.
104	* RunningGag:
105	** An early running gag was Carole and Tuesday having to run away from locations after getting in trouble. Carole even lampshades it after they escape from Ertegun's mansion in Episode 3.
106	** Carole and Tuesday not knowing who various "legendary" industry figures are. It gets to the point where in Episode 15, after receiving an invite from the legendary reclusive musician Desmond, Roddy bets Gus twenty woolongs that the pair won't have heard of them. He's absolutely right.
107	* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight:
108	** [[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.]]
109	** Downplayed at the ''Mars Brightest'' finale. [[spoiler:After arriving late due to Valerie's interference, Carole and Tuesday are officially disqualified, leaving Angela as the victor, but are allowed to perform their song anyway. Their performance of "Loneliest Girl" moves the judges to tears, but they remain firm about the disqualification and declare Angela the victor. However, the judges refuse to let such a talented duo leave empty-handed, disqualification or not, and offer them a record deal on the spot.]]
110	* 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 actually ''producing'' their debut, leaving them high and dry]].
111	* SharedUniverse: ''Carole and Tuesday'' possibly takes place in the same universe as ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' and ''Anime/SpaceDandy'' as the currency is also woolongs. The former moreso, due to ''Carole and Tuesday'''s setting of a colonized Mars in the future, in [[Anime/CowboyBebopKnockinOnHeavensDoor Alba City]] no less. As Mars is a young colony rather than the economic center of the solar system and interstellar travel doesn't exist yet, it obviously takes place far earlier than either of the other two.
112	* ShownTheirWork: Aside from the upper tier, serious contestants actually being pretty good by real world standards, there’s also a scene during the talent show where DJ Ertegun is interacting with a tablet. Those familiar with DJ software interfaces would recognize that he’s organizing sound sample layers on a time table.
113	* SingingVoiceDissonance: In episode 6, the deep, booming voice of Hiroki Yasumoto is replaced by the high-pitched, honey timber of bassist [[Music/{{Thundercat}} Thundercat]] when Skip's song starts.
114	* SleeperHit: Carole & Tuesday's debut single, "Army of Two", is an InUniverse example. It doesn't get anywhere near as much promotion as Angela's debut single and doesn't even crack the top 50 at first, but one episode later it's climbed to #18, seemingly through word-of-mouth alone.
115	* SpoiledSweet: Tuesday is one of the sweetest, most polite girls ever, but she's painfully naïve and knows next to nothing about cleaning or cooking. She admits to Carole that, before coming to Alba City, she assumed everyone on Mars lived as well as she did.
116	* StylisticSuck: The music video IDEA makes for "Hold Me Now" in Episode 4. Carole, Tuesday, Gus, and Roddy pitch about a dozen different concepts, without even knowing what song the video would be for; IDEA just mashes them all together without even ''trying'' to make something coherent out of them; and then it proceeds to execute ''every one'' of those concepts with laughable ineptitude. Unsurprisingly, IDEA turns out to be a scam artist, and the resulting video is scrapped - but not before we get to see it in all its hysterically-bad glory.
117	* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: At the beginning of their career, Carole and Tuesday are invited to be concert stand-ins for the singer Joshua, who has had a streak of calling out of appearances at the last minute. They go on, the crowd is angry, and Gus waits for them all to change their minds once they hear the performance, but they don't. 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 get ruthlessly booed off the stage by the angry audience members.
118	* TechnicianVersusPerformer: An underlining plot of the series, with FormerChildStar Angela as the Technician who uses A.I. technology and current trends for music, and Carole and Tuesday as the Performers who really just want to make music together.
119	* {{Terraform}}: The planet Mars was terraformed into having a breathable athmosphere and a really cozy climate somewhere in the past (likely not too long ago, but far enough in the past so that an actual Martian sense of national identity emerged including the nasty side of it, namely nativist sentiment and enmity against (Earth) refugees) and is maintained by weather control (e.g. when a weather control facility was blown up in episode 18, the temperature in Alba City started to drop).
120	* TerribleIntervieweesMontage: The regional qualifiers for the Mars' Brightest competition have a bunch of enthusiastic and straight-up bad singers, one after another.
121	* TranslationConvention: As all written language is in English, and Alba City is patterned as a futuristic New York City, it can be assumed that everyone is actually speaking English, not Japanese. This is further proven in that every song including the OP and ED is sung in perfect English.
122	* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Carole is the Tomboy and Tuesday is the Girly Girl.
123	* TwoLinesNoWaiting: Angela's story is largely unrelated to Carole and Tuesday's at first, it's not until episode 8 that Angela even meets the two.
124	* WeatherControlMachine: Mars' artificial atmosphere is regulated by "Weather Plants", which keeps the planet in warm, summer-y temperatures. Alba City's plant is bombed in episode 18 [[spoiler:by Valerie Simmons' political party]], which causes snow and winter weather to appear for the first time in Carole and Tuesday's lifetimes.
125	* WeNeedADistraction: In order to let Tuesday escape from her house, Roddy makes a ruckus at the gate. It works when the gates open and Tuesday gets out while the robots electrocute Roddy and the security guards tackle Gus, allowing Carole and Tuesday to get away.
126	* WriteWhatYouKnow: InUniverse, many of the songs' lyrics are about the characters' own feelings about their situations. When Carole and Tuesday visit Desmond, they discuss how music is the only way they can get their feelings out.
127	* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Subverted, but Angela fears this when she learns Tao is developing an AI replica of her, especially when he hesitates before reassuring her otherwise. When the replica is completed, it turns out Tao merely intends for it to ''train'' Angela until she's at the same "perfect" level. This is still the final straw for Angela, however, and her rejection of the AI (and by proxy, Tao and Dahlia) is what kickstarts her downward spiral.
128	* YouthfulFreckles: Tuesday, the less worldly of the duo, has faint freckles on the bridge of her nose.

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