< Actor Allusion
Actor Allusion/Playing With
Basic Trope: A reference to a character's previous role.
- Straight: In "Alice And Bob" Bob's character finds a nickel, a reference to the actor's previous role as Daniel, a man who lost a nickel.
- Exaggerated: Bob spends an entire episode playing out a plot from his previous work.
- Downplayed: Bob coughs exactly the way the actor's previous character, Daniel, would cough.
- Justified: Bob's actor is playing in "Alice And Bob" As Himself, and is referring in-universe to one of his roles.
- Inverted: Every character is based on one of Bob's actor's previous roles, except for Bob.
- Subverted: ???
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied: ???
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: Bob makes no reference to the actor's previous roles
- Enforced: The producers hope they can turn fans of the actor's previous roles into fans of their own show.
- Lampshaded: "I Want You to Meet An Old Friend of Mine"
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- Exploited: ???
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