Basic Trope: A holiday that doesn't exist in Real Life.
- Straight: Troperville is a Quirky Town whose people observe "Trope Day" every July 20th.
- Exaggerated: Troperville has many fictional holidays, including some pairs of holidays that sometimes or always fall on the same day.
- Downplayed:
- Alice and Bob Troper observe Trope Day, a holiday of their own invention, with a few friends.
- Troperville observes an obscure foreign holiday.
- Justified:
- Trope Day is a local celebration in a fictional town.
- Alice and Bob invented Trope Day as an excuse to throw a party.
- Inverted: Troperville is explicitly stated to be in the U.S., but doesn't observe Thanksgiving.
- Subverted: Bob tells a neighbor that Trope Day is a real holiday under a different name.
- Double Subverted: And that "real holiday" is Silly Billy Day, which also only exists In-Universe.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig Zagged: Troperville observes a few fictional holidays, but also ignores Valentine's Day and Thanksgiving.
- Averted: The characters only observe real holidays.
- Enforced: "We need an In-Universe reason for the gathering. Let's invent a fictional holiday for our fictional town!"
- Lampshaded: "You do know that Trope Day isn't a real holiday, right, Alice?"
- Invoked: The mayor of Troperville decides to invent a local celebration.
- Exploited: Alice travels from town to town, in order to observe as many local holidays as possible.
- Defied: The townsfolk refuse to observe Trope Day.
- Discussed: "Does your town have any holidays that are only observed locally?" "No, but I've heard of cities and towns that do."
- Conversed: "I've never heard of Trope Day before. Does it exist outside this show?"
- Implied: On Alice's calendar, there is an illegible caption below a day that doesn't correspond to any real holiday.
- Deconstructed: As a result of the various fictional holidays, no work ever gets done in Troperville.
- Reconstructed: Luckily for Troperville, not everyone observes every holiday.
- Played For Laughs:
- Troperville's fictional holidays all coincide with real ones, and no one seems to be aware of this.
- Fictional holidays, some city-wide and some invented by the characters, are a Running Gag.
- Played For Drama: One of Troperville's holidays is "Human Sacrifice Day".
Back to Fictional Holiday, and have a happy Trope Day!
