Basic Trope: A serial work that isn't normally a musical becomes one for a single installment.
- Straight: Alice and Bob doesn't normally feature musical numbers, but one episode does.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice and Bob has an entire Musical Season.
- Every single line of dialogue in one episode is sung, despite Alice and Bob normally featuring little to no singing at all.
- Alice and Bob normally doesn't have any music in it at all!
- Downplayed: Alice and Bob is normally a musical, but whereas most episodes only feature a single number, one episode has multiple.
- Justified:
- The characters enter a singing competition.
- Alice and Bob's school is performing a musical.
- Inverted: Alice and Bob is normally a musical, but one episode features no numbers at all.
- Subverted: One episode opens with a musical number... which is soon interrupted. None of the rest of the episode is like this.
- Double Subverted: ...until later on, when the singing suddenly resumes.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- All episodes of Alice and Bob are musicals.
- None of the episodes are.
- Enforced:
- Alice and Bob is getting a Tony Award winning performer as a guest star (ex. Neil Patrick Harris) and the executives demand maximum usage of the guest star's talents.
- The guest star of Alice and Bob is a singer (ex. Madonna) and they demand at least one scene where their character sings.
- The writers want to see if they can get an Emmy for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics.
- One or more of the series cast members are talented singers and the production team decides to let them show it off.
- Lampshaded: "Hey, why is everyone singing?"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied:
- Alice is about to break out into song, but Bob demands her to stop singing.
- In the first split second of the standard "wait, why is there music playing?" reaction before the musical segment truly kicks in, Alice deafens herself, hunts The Music Meister and shows him the definition of "mosh pit" in a very personal and destructive way.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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