Basic Trope: The animation suddenly becomes better.
- Straight: The first few episodes of Alice and Bob has less fluent animation.
- Exaggerated: The animation quality fluctuates between that of a 70s TV Cartoon and Movie Quality.
- Downplayed: The first few episodes of Alice and Bob look a bit rough, but get better by episode 6.
- Justified:
- The creators of Alice and Bob had a limited budget or time.
- Earlier episodes were animated by Alice and Bob themselves, before they hired professionals.
- This was the studio's first production, the animators were learning the trade along the way.
- Inverted: The animation actually gets worse.
- Subverted: The animation gets better for a bit, but reverts to normal.
- Double Subverted: But then it permanently improves.
- Parodied: When the first few episodes of Alice and Bob are compared to the rest of the series, they looks unfinished.
- Zig Zagged: The animation improves, gets worse, improves again, gets worse, improves yet again etc...
- Averted: The animation didn't get better or worse.
- Enforced: "We're not good at animating, so we need better animators."
- Lampshaded:
- "Wow, the animation has gotten better!"
- "Huh, when did this show's animation get so good."
- "Oh, so that's where they spent all of the show's budget. No wonder it looks so much better!"
- Defied: Alice and Bob decide there is nothing wrong with the show and the animation style doesn't change. Or they deliberately make it worse to spite their superiors and their critics.
- Deconstructed: To keep the animation as good as it does, sacrifices are made. Animators are overworked and underpaid and by the end, the animation budget is virtually non-existent.
- Played For Drama: Alice and Bob, sick of all the ridicule for the show's shoddy animation decide to step up their game. They learn how to improve their craft and put in the hours, pitted against the grim specter of time constraints and their own neglected health and fractured sleep schedules.
