Basic Trope: Someone sings a song about a place, real or imaginary, where they desire to be.
- Straight: Mary lives in Neon City. She sings a song about the simple land of Agri World, and how she wants to live a more peaceful life there.
- Exaggerated: Mary submits the song to be Agri World's new national anthem.
- Downplayed:
- Mary sings about how she'd rather be somewhere else, but doesn't say any specific place.
- Mary doesn't specifically want to live there, she just thinks it's cool.
- Justified: Mary is someone who copes with her emotions by creating.
- Inverted:
- Mary sings a song about how she loves where she lives now.
- Mary sings about how glad she is that she doesn't live in Neon City.
- Subverted: As the song goes on, she reflects on her life and realizes that she's okay living where she is.
- Double Subverted: And then she learns about Industrial World and decides that she wants to move there instead.
- Zig-Zagged: The song sings about a bunch of places. Some of them are where Mary wants to be, and some of them she doesn't like.
- Averted: Mary doesn't sing about a place she wants to go.
- Enforced: It's an Award-Bait Song to succinctly describe the plot of the work.
- Lampshaded: "This Is a Song / about a place / I want to be..."
- Invoked:
- Spencer is upset about where he lives, and that he can't move away. Mary suggests that he vent his emotions through songwriting.
- Agri World's Department of Tourism commissioned the song.
- Exploited: The song is used by tourism agencies in Agri World to get more people to visit.
- Defied: Mary doesn't want to stall any longer and starts planning a way to get to Agri World, rather than dwelling on it.
- Discussed: "Do you think Mary wants to move away?" "Pretty sure she does. That song was really powerful."
- Conversed: "Mary's singing about how she wants to go somewhere else. Knowing this show, I bet it's really a Crapsack World."
- Implied:
- In a list of the songs Mary has written, one of them is called "Somewhere Like Agri World".
- Mary has been contracted by Bob Goodfarmer, Director of AWDOT's Media Division. note
- Played for Laughs: The place Mary wants to go is a Cloudcuckooland full of crazy traditions and rules.
You don't have to sing a "Somewhere" Song; if you want to get back to the main page, the link is right there!
