[dporter]

Community seasons 1-3 were effectively “trope driven development.”

[babyshake]

Rick and Morty, also from Dan Harmon, frequently comments on the tropes it is utilizing.

[jhbadger]

That's a clever way of having your cake and eating it too -- use tired old tropes but have the characters comment that they know they're tired old tropes.

[groovy2shoes]

Itself an instance of hanging the lampshade.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LampshadeHanging

[wasimanitoba]

every concept will eventually have been expressed or referenced somewhere, so we have a system where every single possible scenario becomes a "trope" with a tidy label.

what - aside from gibberish or nonsense - isn't a trope at that point?