Basic Trope: A work predominantly featuring animals that is aimed at more mature audiences.
- Straight: Bob the Dog is a cartoon that takes place in a World of Funny Animals, but contains a rather heavy amount of adult content and is marketed at teens/adults.
- Exaggerated: Bob the Dog is an Animated Shock Comedy. It contains heavy amounts of violence/gore, swearing, sex/nudity, and bad role models.
- Downplayed:
- Bob the Dog is aimed at teens/adults, but contains very little content that is outright inappropriate for children. However, it isn't a show that children would necessarily understand or be interested in, due to the adult themes it has.
- Bob the Dog is fairly tame compared to some other adult-oriented works, but still contains content inappropriate for younger children. It may be given a high PG rating, a TV-14, or a lighter TV-MA.
- The show takes place in a Lions and Tigers and Humans... Oh, My! world - the humans take center stage, but the animals are important characters regardless and it is still an adult show.
- Justified: Animals are being used as a metaphor, i.e cats vs mice to represent the Germans vs the Jews or 'commons' vs 'mythicals' to represent classism. Fantastic Racism is especially common.
- Inverted:
- Bob the Human is a cartoon about humans and is targeted at children.
- Bob the Dog is so juvenile and aggressively sappy that no one above the age of 6 would want to be caught dead watching it.
- Subverted: Even though it's rated TV-MA, Bob the Dog doesn't contain very much inappropriate content.
- Double Subverted: That is, in the first few episodes. Afterwards, Bob the Dog gets Darker and Edgier in some way.
- Parodied: The first line of Bob the Dog is "If you thought this'd be a harmless cartoon about animals, then get the hell out of here, bitch!"
- Zig Zagged:
- The target audience of Bob the Dog seems to change depending on the episode.
- Bob the Dog actually was a kids' show originally, but it was made in a country or time period with different standards for what is appropriate in kids' shows, meaning that it got away with a lot of content that was inappropriate for children. As such, some countries or rereleases give it a higher age rating.
- Bob the Dog is a franchise that constantly gets adapted into different types of media. Sometimes media in the Bob the Dog franchise is appropriate for all ages, sometimes it isn't.
- Averted: Bob the Dog is appropriate for all ages. The only mature content it ever has is the occasional Parental Bonus / Demographically Inappropriate Humor.
- Enforced:
- The creator of the show is trying to defy the Animation Age Ghetto, proving that animal cartoons don't have to be just for kids.
- Bob the Dog was inspired by another adult-oriented work featuring animals, or is a Dark Parody of regular World of Funny Animals stories.
- Furries Are Easier to Draw
- To appeal to the furry fandom.
- Lampshaded:
- "It may feature cartoon animals, but this isn't a children's show."
- "Wow, we'd be in a lot of trouble from Moral Guardians if this were actually a kids' show."
- Invoked: Bob gets on the TV set of his own show and begins releasing a Cluster F-Bomb.
- Exploited: The characters of Bob the Dog sometimes realize what they can get away with on a show like this.
- Defied: Bob the Dog avoids inappropriate content.
- Discussed:
- "Wait, this is an animal cartoon where I can swear for real!"
- "In our town, there's Bob the Dog playing fetch in his yard, Gary the Giraffe enjoying his salad, and Alice the Cat horribly dismembering Charles the Cockatoo. Wait, what?"
- Conversed:
- "Is every story with animals trying to be the next Bojack Horseman?"
- "I wonder why it's common for more mature works featuring animals to exist."
- Played for Laughs: Bob the Dog is a comedy that uses animal-themed double entendres and adult jokes as its primary source of humor, including jokes about rabbits multiplying quickly.
- Played for Drama: Bob the Dog is a drama that heavily focuses on Fantastic Racism as a concept.
- Played for Horror: Bob the Dog is a horror story about half-feral anthropomorphic animals trying to control their instincts so that they don't harm each other.
