Basic Trope: An episode about the first day of school.
- Straight: "The Adventures of Charlie and Diane" has an episode where the titular characters have their first day of school.
- Exaggerated:
- The whole show is about Charlie and Diane getting ready for their first day of school.
- All of the kids in the story are getting ready for their first day of school.
- Downplayed:
- The episode is only about getting ready for the first day of school.
- The episode is about Charlie and Diane signing up for a class.
- Charlie and Diane are homeschooled and are starting their first day of school from home.
- Justified:
- It's late August/early September in the work, when school is usually starting (in America and the Northern Hemisphere, anyway).
- Charlie and Diane moved to another town and are getting ready to go to school there.
- Charlie and Diane just reached compulsory school age.
- Inverted: "Last Day of School" Plot
- Subverted: Charlie and Dane are actually teachers.
- Double Subverted: Student teachers, that is, and they're getting ready for their first day at a new college.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: There is no first day of school.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Played for Drama: Charlie and/or Diane are worried about going to school for a variety of reasons, including being upset that it's no longer summer or fearing that they'll have mean classmates/teachers.
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