Growing the Beard/Playing With
- Basic Trope: A series improves because of some change.
- Played Straight: Series X improves greatly because Bob is given more screen time.
- Exaggerated: The show turns from a So Bad it's Horrible show to the greatest show ever made when Bob is given more screen time.
- Inverted: Jumping the Shark, They Changed It, Now It Sucks
- Justified: A change in the execution of a series can be just what it needs to be refreshed.
- Subverted: Bob's being given more screen time seems to be a mistake.
- Double Subverted: When fans complain, Bob is given more screen time than originally, but not to Marty Stu levels like currently.
- Deconstructed:
- Reconstructed:
- Zig Zagged: Some changes to the series are good, others...not so much.
- Parodied:
- Lampshaded:
- Averted:
- No changes are made to the story or characters.
- The series jumps the shark or enters a Dork Age as a result of They Changed It, Now It Sucks.
- The show is great from the beginning, so no changes are necessary.
- Enforced: Executive Meddling
- Invoked: Bob rises to meet a challenge he didn't (or wouldn't have) before, and everyone thinks this is his Crowning Moment of Awesome and looks forward to seeing more of that.
- Defied: No lasting changes are made to Series X.
- Discussed:
- Conversed:
- Played For Laughs: And There Was Much Rejoicing as The Scrappy was Killed Off for Real
- Played For Drama:
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