Basic Trope: Somewhere along the line, an otherwise ordinary adventure story starts delving into deep philosophical and/or theological concepts that were not originally all that important to the story.
- Straight: The Adventures of Bob features episodes where Bob meets up with Alice, who seems vaguely supernatural. They spends lots of time discussing life, the universe and everything.
- Exaggerated: Bob's new companion is an obvious Expy of the Virgin Mary... Heck! Her name is even Mary or some variation thereof.
- Downplayed:
- An abstract concept of some kind is mentioned every so often, but is largely a background topic.
- The Adventures of Bob always had a heavy focus on the supernatural, or the political, or what have you, and the last couple of episodes bring that center stage.
- Justified: The series has an important moral or message it wants to convey.
- Inverted: The Adventures of Bob used to focus on life, the universe and everything, but eventually it became just an ordinary adventure series.
- Subverted: Alice starts saying deep-sounding things, but in fact it's all gibberish and she just likes to hear herself talk.
- Double Subverted: Bob learns An Aesop about distinguishing wisdom from gibberish.
- Parodied:
- Bob meets his Long-Lost Uncle Aesop.
- The characters have a Seinfeldian Conversation or a Cavemen Versus Astronauts Debate...in the middle of a battlefield!
- The Adventures of Bob is Left Hanging halfway through, and becomes thirty minutes of Talking Heads.
- Zig Zagged: Sometimes the characters Contemplate Our Navels, sometimes they don't.
- Averted:
- The Adventures of Bob is just an ordinary adventure story, written for its own sake, and stays that way.
- The Adventures of Bob never goes cosmic because it starts cosmic and stays that way.
- Enforced:
- Executive Meddling
- "Hey, we're running out of ideas...let's expound on the meaning of life!"
- Viewers Are Morons
- Lampshaded: "All this adventuring is tiresome...I think I'll gaze at the stars in wonder."
- Invoked: Alice starts asking tough questions of Bob.
- Exploited: Alice, a Fallen Angel, is sent to tempt Bob.
- Defied: Bob tells Alice he's not sure, and he's kind of in a hurry.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Played For Horror: Cosmic Horror Reveal.
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