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.
- Bone of the episodes are.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: "Hey, why is everyone singing?"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Alice is about to break out into song, but Bob demands her to stop singing.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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