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| - Good News, Bad News is the first episode of Rugrats Pre-School Daze, not counting the Rugrats episode that piloted the series.
- "Good News, Bad News" is the first episode of Rugrats Pre-School Daze.
- Good News, Bad News is episode five in season four of Full House. It originally aired on October 19, 1990.
- A Comedy Trope wherein a character relays two pieces of news to another, often using the Stock Phrases "I have some good news and some bad news", "The good news is...", and "The bad news is..." The humour typically comes from the sharp contrast between the good news and the bad news, or from each characters' perceptions of 'good' and 'bad'. Several permutations of this joke exist. For instance:
* Not So Good News After All The simplest permutation. The teller relays some Good News, but then relays some Bad News that completely invalidates anything good about the Good News.
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| - Good News, Bad News is the first episode of Rugrats Pre-School Daze, not counting the Rugrats episode that piloted the series.
- "Good News, Bad News" is the first episode of Rugrats Pre-School Daze.
- Good News, Bad News is episode five in season four of Full House. It originally aired on October 19, 1990.
- A Comedy Trope wherein a character relays two pieces of news to another, often using the Stock Phrases "I have some good news and some bad news", "The good news is...", and "The bad news is..." The humour typically comes from the sharp contrast between the good news and the bad news, or from each characters' perceptions of 'good' and 'bad'. Several permutations of this joke exist. For instance:
* Not So Good News After All The simplest permutation. The teller relays some Good News, but then relays some Bad News that completely invalidates anything good about the Good News.
* "That was the good news." The teller relays some terrible, shocking, catastrophic news, which the receiver can only assume is the Bad News. So, still reeling from this horrible revelation, they weakly ask what the Good News is. But, as it turns out, that was the Good News, because the real Bad News is unimaginably worse.
* Bad News, Irrelevant News The teller relays some terrible, shocking, catastrophic Bad News first, and then it is revealed that the Good News is little more than a Breathless Non-Sequitur of complete insignificance in comparison. See the individual page for examples.
* There Is No Good News The teller was flat-out lying, and has no good news of any context whatsoever to relate.
* Reading Between The Good News The teller relays the Good News, which, given the context and identity of the teller, gives away what the Bad News is going to be.
* Both News Are The Same A variation of the above, where the bad news is the same as the good news, word for word (but the emphasis may change). It's up to the recipient (and audience) to tell the pros and cons of said news.
* "So what's the bad news?" The inverse of the above "That was the good news" version. After the teller relays what s/he believes is the "bad" news, the person being told the news interprets it as the "good" news, either for comical purposes, or because the "bad" news is what they wanted all along. If the situation gets worse, it quickly becomes, "Bad News Worse News." If it's all bad news, but presented as though it were good news, then it's Bad News in a Good Way. A Sub-Trope of Bearer of Bad News, Breaking Bad News Gently. Examples of Good News, Bad News include:
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