Basic Trope: Neighbors are introduced to the cast and are often treated like they've been there the entire time.
- Straight: "The Adventures of Alice and Bob" introduces the titular characters' various new neighbors regularly.
- Exaggerated: Every episode introduces multiple new neighbors, and they all act as if the neighbors were there all along.
- Downplayed: There is an episode introducing Alice and Bob's new neighbors Claire and Danny, but they're introduced because they moved in.
- Justified:
- The show mostly takes place in/around Alice and Bob's house, so it's understandable that they have neighbors the audience wouldn't know about.
- The neighbors only moved in recently.
- Alice and Bob live on the third floor of a twenty-floor high apartment-block, most of their neighbors aren't seen regularly by the audience due to not living on that floor.
- Inverted: Alice and Bob have lots of neighbors, but many episodes involve them leaving the cast.
- Subverted: It turns out several of the "neighbors" don't actually live nearby.
- Double Subverted: ...yet. They're just about to move in.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: No new neighbors are introduced.
- Enforced:
- "This show usually focuses just on Alice and Bob, but we should have some neighbors for those times the show focuses on more than them."
- "We need to show how negligent Landlord Layceebhum is compared to Alice and Bob's without being too graphical." "Let Alice and Bob meet new neighbors living at Rickety Lane 7 every few weeks, our viewers should be cognizant enough to work out the implications as to why the old neighbors keep vanishing."
- Lampshaded: "Do we even know Claire and Danny?"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: "Nope, not meeting any more neighbors. Get out!"
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "Why is this show introducing so many new neighbors regularly?"
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