Basic Trope: An episode that changes the status quo, and a Wham moment for the audience.
- Straight: The Cliffhanger at the end of season three of Alice and Bob reveals that Emperor Evulz is Bob's father.
- Exaggerated: Not only that, Alice dies, their home and base are destroyed, and Charles slightly overcooks his food.
- Downplayed:
- Although the episode confirms it, Emperor Evulz being Bob's father had been foreshadowed beforehand.
- Wham Shot and/or Wham Line but only this episode.
- The Reveal
- Game Changer
- Justified: ???
- Inverted: The Unreveal
- Subverted:
- We find out that Emperor Evulz is Bob's father... a season after Evulz's death and it's never mentioned again.
- The episode reveals things that make zero sense due to Executive Meddling, or poorly Retcon past events, undermining the reveal in the progress.
- Double Subverted: Except that in the last episode before his death, after Bob asks who they are, he says "You know who I am!".
- Parodied: The end of the episode reveals that Emperor Evulz is Bob’s father, Bob has a murderous split personality, Alice was a traitor the entire time, and Charles is secretly an alien from the planet Neptune. None of this is ever acknowledged again.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: The season finale didn't change the status quo of the series at all.
- Enforced: "Audiences are getting bored with all these low-stakes episodes. Let’s make a season finale that will really shock them."
- Lampshaded: "After that big reveal, I don’t think things will ever be the same again. Our fun weekly adventures will forever be a bit more serious than before."
- Invoked: A Walking Spoiler character is introduced here and changes everything.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: After one Wham Episode too many, Bob makes it his duty to actively make every episode going forward straightforward and normal. No twists, no turns, nothing.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "Oh, a big end-of-season twist! I was hoping they’d shake things up a bit!"
