Basic Trope: The plot involves someone getting a vaccine.
- Straight: An episode of "Alice and Bob and Friends" is about the titular characters getting their flu shots.
- Exaggerated:
- Everyone gets their flu shots.
- Alice and Bob also get various other vaccines while they're there.
- Downplayed: The vaccination is only a sub-plot.
- Justified: Flu season is coming up, and Alice and Bob wanted to prepare.
- Inverted: Sick Episode
- Subverted:
- It's initially believed that they're getting a vaccine, but they just go to the doctor's office instead.
- Bob talks about getting vaccines, but Alice reminds him they already did that.
- Double Subverted:
- But while they're there, they might as well get their flu shot anyway.
- Bob was talking about vaccines for their pets.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Nobody gets a vaccine.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: Alice and Bob ask their parents to get them scheduled for a flu shot appointment.
- Exploited: Because Alice and Bob have been vaccinated, they're no longer prone to disease. They decide to test this out by attempting to do things that normally would lead to them contracting said disease.
- Defied: Alice and Bob decide not to get a vaccine.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Played for Laughs: Bob is Afraid of Needles
- Played for Drama:
- see above.
- Alice and Bob's older brother was lost to the plague and now their parents aren't taking any chances.
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