Basic Trope: An episode entirely in rhyme, as if speaking normally were a crime.
- Straight: In one episode of Alice and Bob, everyone speaks in rhyme, sometimes rhyming each other's sentences.
- Exaggerated:
- Even the animals can suddenly talk now in rhyme, and a baby says their first words, which are in rhymes.
- All episodes are rhyming.
- Downplayed:
- The narration is all in rhymes, but the characters aren't speaking in rhyme or vice versa.
- Only one character speaks in rhyme for the episode, or only a few of them do.
- A character who speaks in rhyme gets A Day in the Limelight.
- Justified:
- The characters are parodying a poem.
- The characters want to rhyme.
- The characters are trying to see if they can rhyme all day.
- Inverted:
- Everyone is trying their best not to rhyme for the episode.
- A character who normally dishes out Rhymes on a Dime stops rhyming.
- A show that normally is in rhyme has one episode which is not.
- Subverted: The episode starts out with Alice saying something and Bob replying with a rhyme for it, but when Carol says something, nobody rhymes it.
- Double Subverted: They paused to think of a rhyme.
- Parodied: The characters get a Gypsy Curse put on them which means they can't stop rhyming. However, they act as though it's the worst curse in the world.
- Averted: There are no rhyming episodes.
- Zig-Zagged:
- Some characters rhyme, others don't.
- The characters sometimes rhyme, other times they don't.
- Enforced: The episode is a parody of a poem.
- Lampshaded: "That's good timing, but why are we rhyming?"
- Invoked: Alice dares Bob to rhyme all day.
- Exploited: The characters pick out the outsider who doesn't rhyme as a potential threat to their society.
- Defied: The characters refuse to speak in rhyme.
- Discussed:Alice: Hello, Bob, it's a lovely day.Bob: Yes, it's very nice, eh?Alice: Why are we rhyming anyway?Bob: I don't know, but it's fun to say.
- Conversed: "Why are they rhyming in this episode?"
- Deconstructed: Alice has a hard time doing a speech with the Least Rhymable Word in it.
- Reconstructed: Alice can say the word mid-sentence.
- Played for Laughs: The rhyming feels comical and is part of something funny.
- Played for Drama: The characters must rhyme for a day, or they will die, due to a curse.
- Played for Horror:
- The rhyming is based on macabre subject matter.
- Continuing from Played for Drama, when Bob fails to rhyme he dies a Cruel and Unusual Death.
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