Basic Trope: A brief switch in genres.
- Straight: "The Trope Show" is a regular Slice of Life sitcom, but there's one episode that takes place in the Wild West for some reason.
- Exaggerated:
- Multiple genre shifts happen in the same episode.
- The episode is nothing like any episode of "The Trope Show" at all, and nothing about it is ever brought up again.
- Downplayed: "The Trope Show" is usually a lighthearted comedy, but has an episode focusing on Black Comedy and/or is a Dramedy.
- Justified:
- The characters were interested in a different genre.
- They won a trip to Wild West Park
- Inverted: "The Trope Show" tends to change genres in every episode, but there's an arc with a more consistent genre.
- Subverted: It seems like this is a Cowboy Episode, but it's revealed it was an Imagine Spot featuring the kids Chris and Dana playing pretend.
- Double Subverted: Still, an episode focusing on an Imagine Spot is unusual for "The Trope Show".
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: There is no switch in genre.
- Enforced: The writers felt that some interesting stories could be told about "The Trope Show" if the genre changed in some way.
- Lampshaded: "Okay, did we just walk into a Western movie?"
- Invoked: One of the protagonists is a big Western fan and intentionally invokes a Cliché Storm from the genre for fun.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
Back to Out-of-Genre Experience. Hey, why are we in a Medical Drama now?
