Basic Trope: Elections are always Serious Business, regardless of what they're about.
- Straight: A school is deciding on a new student body president. The voting is treated very similarly to a presidential election.
- Exaggerated: Any process that would involve voting, including Alice and her friends trying to choose which kind of pizza they'd like to order, is very Serious Business to the point in which those who don't vote can be executed.
- Downplayed: The election is for the new mayor, but some individuals are getting too competitive and serious about it.
- Justified:
- The voters are already very competitive to begin with.
- School's main purpose is to prepare one for the adult world, that includes preparing one for the rigors of voting.
- The candidates are two really spiteful rivals.
- Inverted: Actual presidential elections are treated similarly to casual experiences with voting, such as choosing what kind of food to order.
- Subverted: Laurie, a foreign exchange student to the Troperian high school where the new student council is elected, is dazzled to see candidate banners and posters hanging everywhere and students bickering about the right candidates up to outright brawls in the corridors. Alice assures her that the students of her school are just taking everything a little bit too important.
- Double Subverted: But in Troperia, you need to have been student body president at school to have any kind of chance in any leading position in adult life, and the student body election shall prepare students for that. Alice just doesn't like that fact.
- Parodied: The school election is a 1:1 analogue for a topical real-world election.
- Zig-Zagged: Some casual votes are treated as serious business, others not.
- Averted: There is no election.
- Enforced: Mocking Donald Trump and his more outrageous political promises is seen as too legally risky by the writers, but writing an episode of Alice and Bob: The Series in which a Trumplica tries to win a Class Representative election by giving a G-rated version of said promises (without knowing that representatives don't have the power for that) is okay.
- Lampshaded: "Aren't you taking this election too seriously?"
- Invoked: The election is set up in a way so similar to voting to introduce students to the concept.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "Why are they getting so serious over choosing a student president?!"
- Implied: A school is mentioned to have suspended their student council due to safety concerns.
- Deconstructed: Due to broken friendships and death threats, the school shuts down the election and suspends the student council.
- Played for Laughs: The President candidates promise things too outrageous like abolishing homework forever.
- Played for Drama:
- A smear campaign is launched against a candidate.
- The losing candidate falls into a depression.
- A candidate is murdered.
- Played for Horror: A Serial Killer starts targeting a candidate's supporters. For further horror points, the candidate and their supporters are children.
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