Status Quo Is God/Playing With

Basic Trope: A series' status quo never changes.

• Straight: Bob frequently loses his job, but always gets it back by the end of the episode.
• Exaggerated: Bob frequently destroys the entire world, but it's always replenished by the end of the episode.
  • Negative Continuity
• Justified: The writers want the audience to be instantly familiar with the show's premise, and not have to worry about changes in the show's continuity.
• Inverted: Every episode of the series changes the status quo, and the show follows one big arc.
• Subverted: Nothing Is the Same Anymore
• Double Subverted: The writers claim that the events leading to the change in status quo were All Just a Dream,and everything is back to normal once again.
  • This time, Bob doesn't get his job back at the end of the episode, but the next episode shows him working his old job.
• Parodied: Bob shoots his mother, and when Alice looks upon him in shock, he tells her not to worry because she'll be back by the end of the episode anyway.
• Deconstructed: The show begins to grow stale and predictable because no changes ever stick, and thus fans stop watching the show.
• Reconstructed: However, people realise that, whilst the show's continuity might remain static, it still had genuine merits, and they continue watching it.
• Zig Zagged: Sometimes changes to the status quo stick, and sometimes they don't.
• Averted: There is an ongoing continuity in the series.
• Enforced: The show's executive keep everything the same because the fans would get angry at them.
• Lampshaded:
• Invoked: "
• Defied: Bob finally asks himself why the hell he keeps going back to the job if he's so inept at it that he can't go a day without losing it. The next time he loses the job, he resolves to leave it behind and find a job that he's actually good at.
• Discussed:
• Conversed: Alice: "This show is so boring Bob, nothing ever changes here...!"

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