Basic Trope: A scene at the beginning of the episode is revealed to be a dream.
- Straight: A short scene plays at the start of an episode, after which Bob wakes up, revealing that he was just dreaming it.
- Exaggerated:
- Every beginning scene in every episode of the series is a dream.
- The beginning scene is actually a Dream Within a Dream.
- Downplayed: A fraction of the beginning scene is shown to be a dream.
- Justified: It's at night or early morning, so of course Bob would be asleep.
- Inverted: Only the beginning scene is not a dream, while the rest of the episode is.
- Subverted: Bob's dream doesn't exactly play at the very beginning, but rather within the first few minutes of the episode.
- Double Subverted: In the following episode(s), the beginning scene is a dream.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: The beginning scene is not a dream.
- Enforced: Bob is shown going to sleep at the end of the preceding episode.
- Lampshaded:Bob: "I had this dream when the episode just started!"
- Invoked: Bob sleeps in the preceding episode.
- Exploited: Alice sends Bob a message in the dream and makes sure he remembers it.
- Defied: In the preceding episode, Bob refuses to go to sleep.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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