Basic Trope: One or more of the characters go to space, even though the work is normally set on Earth and space travel is not the norm.
- Straight: In an episode of the sitcom The Day-to-Day Lives of Alice and Bob, Alice and Bob go on a trip to the moon.
- Exaggerated: Alice and Bob go to another galaxy.
- Downplayed:
- Alice and Bob are only in space for part of the episode.
- Alice goes to space but we don't see her up there.
- Alice and Bob are taken to the borderline where outer space begins.
- Inverted:
- The show is usually set in space but in one episode, Alice and Bob go to Earth.
- Alice and Bob go underground for an episode.
- Subverted: Alice and Bob appear to be in space, but that was All Just a Dream.
- Double Subverted: But when Bob wakes up, he and Alice go to space for real.
- Parodied: ???
- Averted: Alice and Bob do not go to space.
- Zigzagged: Alice and Bob appear to be in space...but that was just All Just a Dream...but when Bob wakes up, he and Alice go to space for real...but that was just in a story Alice made up...but then they decide to join NASA...
- Enforced: The writers want to educate the viewers about space travel and the moon and they decided to have Alice and Bob actually go to the moon, rather than just sit down and be taught, because they thought that would be more exciting.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked:
- Charlie tries to send Alice and Bob to space.
- Alice and Bob try to go to space.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Alice and Bob refuse to go to space.
- Discussed: "Can we go to the moon?"
- Conversed: "Why does this sitcom have an episode where they go to the moon?"
- Implied: ???
- Deconstructed: ???
- Reconstructed: ???
- Played for Laughs: ???
- Played for Drama: Bob accidentally loses his spacesuit and almost dies.
Back to Space Episode.
