Basic Trope: A work that entertains and educates — almost always intended for younger children.
- Straight: "Alice, Bob, and Charlie" is a show that has the main characters going on adventures while also learning many facts.
- Exaggerated: "Alice, Bob, and Charlie" has a new plot every episode, and subjects that are taught include mathematics, history, English, different languages, and An Aesop.
- Downplayed:
- "Alice, Bob, and Charlie" is mostly intended to entertain, but does have some interesting facts and An Aesop in every episode.
- "Alice, Bob, and Charlie" is mostly an educational show, but some plot elements are thrown in to be entertaining.
- Justified:
- The titular characters have powers relating to educational abilities, and so it's understandable that they'd demonstrate their powers as such.
- The series takes place at a school or other learning facility.
- Inverted: "Alice, Bob, and Charlie" is a comedy-based show that has the characters teach the viewers "facts" that are cartoonishly and blatantly untrue.
- Subverted: In the first episode of "Alice, Bob, and Charlie," the three friends learn all about how to hide a body.
- Double Subverted: This was actually a Getting Crap Past the Radar joke setting up an otherwise family-friendly episode devoted to learning about how animals use camouflage to hide from predators.
- Parodied: "Alice, Bob, and Charlie" mostly just teaches a Space Whale Aesop or Spoof Aesop in every episode.
- Zig-Zagged: Some episodes of "Alice, Bob, and Charlie" are dedicated to scientific facts, while others are just zany slapstick comedy.
- Averted: "Alice, Bob, and Charlie" is just an entertainment show.
- Enforced:
- Lampshaded: "Alice, Bob, and Charlie" has Parental Bonus jokes stating the three friends are Animated Actors who don't really like "this third-rate educational show gig."
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- Deconstructed: "Alice Bob, and Charlie" argues that educational shows don't really work to teach kids and that they're better off with traditional education.
- Reconstructed: But then the show concedes that they're better off with shows that try to teach something as opposed to pure entertainment TV.
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