Seasonal Rot/Playing With
Basic Trope: A show declines in quality as it goes on.
- Played Straight: The third season of "Alice and Bob" is not as good as the first two.
- Exaggerated: "Alice and Bob" goes from being an Emmy award-winning series to being So Bad It's Horrible within the scope of two seasons.
- Justified: Most of the original writers left, leaving the show in the hands of people who don't know what to do with it.
- Inverted: "Alice and Bob" starts out as a terrible show, but gets better as it goes on.
- Subverted: "Alice And Bob" was always a terrible show.
- Double Subverted: See "Inverted"
- Parodied: ...
- Zig Zagged: The show alternates between good and bad.
- Averted See "Subverted"
- Enforced: ...
- Lampshaded: "Remember when this show was good?"
- Invoked: ...
- Defied: The show keeps the original crew throughout the entire series to prevent this from happening.
- Discussed: ...
- Conversed: ...