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A work that the creators say they did mainly to fulfill a contractual obligation. Similar to Money, Dear Boy except for the creator's goal in many instances is to avoid losing money as a result of getting sued for breach of contract, incurring legal expenses, and (in the worst case scenario) having to pay damages. For a creator involved in a contractual obligation project, the obligation aspect looms over everything. A typical example is when there's a final project left in a long-term agreement between parties whose relationship has soured. The enthusiasm for this last project may be low since at least one party just wants to get it over with and end the deal. Other times, the Contractual Obligation Project may be one a creator will do just so they can get to do another more enticing project that's also part of the deal. This does not mean a Contractual Obligation Project is all but guaranteed to be a dud. There are times when, in spite of everything, the final product will end up being financially successful, award-winning, and highly-regarded. Note that this is mostly an English-speaking trope used in the Anglosphere, due to the way in which Common Law works in those countries. Many other countries forbid forcing a person to work against their will unless the person who signed the contract also compromised in some way or another to work on that project. There are a few exceptions to this, especially when divorced people are involved. Compare this with Ashcan Copy, which is a project that is greenlit to avoid a penalty because the terms of a contract aren't being met, and Merchandise-Driven, where the writers of a show are contractually obligated to add elements inspired by real-life merchandise in order to advertise it. A fictional version usually involves Forced Creativity. |
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For Polka Party!, the label forced him to include a Christmas song. Al gave them "Christmas at Ground Zero", a Black Comedy song about nuclear annihilation. | |
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Part of the reason why Skull & Bones went through a 7-year Troubled Production instead of being cancelled outright was because Ubisoft had signed a deal with the Singaporean government pledging to develop original IP games in the country in return for tax breaks. If the game had been cancelled, the money would have to be refunded in full. | |
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While Bad Hair Day was in production, Al was similarly approached for The TV Album to complete the compilation album clause on his contract. Al was more open to it, reporting that the record company was more civil than in other cases. Its cover depicts Al giving a Slasher Smile while blowing up a TV set with dynamite. Al explained that the artwork for TV and Food was so that he'd at least have a good laugh at the album covers despite hating the albums themselves. | |
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Axis: Bold As Love was a contractual obligation album because the Experience was required to release two albums in 1967. Despite this, it is regarded as a classic and was listed at #83 in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. | |
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When Patrick Duffy returned to Dallas in 1986, he stipulated in his contract that once the series ended, series producer Lorimar would be obligated to cast him in another show. Dallas ended in 1991, and Lorimar fulfilled the contract by casting Duffy as the patriarch on Step by Step. | |
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The three The Fox and the Crow cartoons produced by UPA were a contractual obligation for their distribution contract with Columbia Pictures. UPA wanted to do cartoons that steered away from the cliches of the day, such as the use of Funny Animals and Slapstick, both of which the Fox and Crow cartoons exemplified in spades. The cartoons were actually well-received (two were nominated for Academy Awards), which gave UPA free rein to make their own films with their own characters. | |
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Monty Hall hosted the 1979-80 revival of Beat the Clock because CBS had him under contract at the time. Up until that point, they hadn't found any work for him, so they forced him to host. He greatly disliked the show, stating many years later "I hated it with all my heart". | |
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The Cat in the Hat is an example due to Mike Myers and Bo Welch being forced under threat of a lawsuitnote Myers was supposed to do a movie based on the Saturday Night Live sketch Sprockets for Universal, but he was unsatisfied with all of the proposed scripts and refused. to work on the movie. | |
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Ozzy Osbourne never made any secret of disliking the 1982 Speak of the Devil double live album that consists mostly of his versions of Black Sabbath songs, to the point that after it went out of print in 2000 he stopped listing it on his website, since it was not a good time in his life and he did it purely for contractual reasons.note However, even at the time, it was praised since his versions were notably better than those offered up by his former bandmates on Live Evil. | |
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Lampshaded in a Doonesbury strip with Jimmy Thudpucker. When told he needs a "dues" song on his new album (as in "I've paid my dues") Jimmy replies that he paid no dues. He was an overnight success. His agent counters that his contract requires one "dues" song per album. | |
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After the death of Van Morrison's producer Bert Berns, Morrison was still contracted for an album to his Bang Records company, owned by Berns' widow Ilena, with whom Morrison didn't get along. To get out of his contract, Morrison recorded an album worth of desultory, sometimes intentionally offensive "songs" such as "Ring Worm", "Here Comes Dumb George", and "Blowin' Your Nose". They sometimes get released as "rarities" to hoodwink completists. | |
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An in-universe example occurs in the Rocko's Modern Life episode "Wacky Delly" when Ralph Bighead*as the character was known during the original series; she's Rachel in Static Cling ends production on his show The Fatheads to create a new artistic masterpiece. However, his network contract states that he has to make one more show so, to get it over with, Ralph hires Rocko, Heffer, and Filburt to make a pilot for the new show, hoping it will be bad enough to get the executives to cancel his contract. Unfortunately, they love Wacky Delly and the show becomes a massive hit. Ironically when he decides to put some effort into it, the network instantly cancels the show. | |
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Pet Sematary: While it was marketed as "the book so scary Stephen King didn't want to publish it," the real truth is that King wanted out of his Doubleday contract due to the publisher holding onto a huge backlog of his royalties. Doubleday refused to give the money back unless King delivered two more books. Having previously shelved the story for being too nihilistic for his liking, King threw the manuscript at them to settle half of the contract. | |
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The series Helstrom was commissioned by Marvel Television for Hulu as part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) in a supernatural horror subfranchise titled Adventure Into Fear with a standalone Ghost Rider series (with Gabriel Luna reprising his role) also being developed with many other horror characters also having planned adaptations. However, following a corporate restructuring that had MCU Producer Kevin Feige gaining complete oversight over the Television side of the MCU, the subfranchise was aborted with all the shows canceled except Helstrom due to being too far in development, and was allowed to finish production but also declared non-canonical to the MCU in order to fulfill their contractual obligations to the parties involved. | |
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Frank Ocean was signed on to Def Jam records after his mixtape Nostalgia, Ultra. He released Channel Orange, and then went quiet for several years, occasionally teasing an upcoming project. Finally, in August of 2016, he released Endless, an odd collection of song fragments sprinkled into a long video of him building a staircase. His contractual obligation with Def Jam for two albums was fulfilled and Frank having bought back all his masters going back to 2009, then left Def Jam and independently released Blonde which went on to eclipse Endless entirely. | |
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This trope is invoked in-universe in the final episode of 30 Rock when, after the show-within-the-show "TGS" is canceled, another episode has to be produced in order to avoid having to give Tracy a $30 million payout. | |
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Dollhouse was created in order to finish Eliza Dushku's contract with Fox. | |
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As Alapalooza neared completion, Scotti Bros. attempted to release a compilation album called Al Unplugged. When Al heard that this meant swapping out the electric instruments in the songs in favor of synthesized acoustic-sounding parts, he put an end to it. The label then pitched The Food Album which Al accepted because he "hated it slightly less." Al commissioned Mr. Lawrence to design the album cover (a monster getting his last licks at the remains of Al's skeleton with an apple in its jaws) to illustrate how the label had "[bled] his catalog dry". | |
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The existence of Cutthroat Island had a lot to do with it being a Contractual Obligation Project for many of the people involved. The producers, for example, were obligated to make the film because the money had already been raised and star Geena Davis and director Renny Harlin were contractually tied to do it. | |
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Hotel Mario and The Legend of Zelda CD-i Games exist as part of a contract Nintendo and Philips made after the cancellation of the SNES CD-ROM. Consequently, Nintendo had little interest or oversight other than ensuring that the characters were on model in the packaging and manual artwork. | |
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VeggieTales: Invoked in a song that was so pointless, Larry's voice actor supposedly refused to finish it (though this was probably written in meta-humor). "The Song Under the Credits" was its name, and in the middle of a chorus of "Hey hey ho-ho-ho-ho" the actor left, while the other actors chewed him out for leaving, telling him "We have contractual obligations to finish this song!" | |
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Eric Bress and J Mackeye Gruber wrote the script for Final Destination 2 in order to be allowed to direct The Butterfly Effect. | |
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Basically how the Glitter Force dub came to be. Despite Crunchyroll trying to get the streaming rights to the rest of the Pretty Cure series note and eventually succeeding in doing so after Glitter Force flopped , Toei decided to include Pretty Cure in the same licensing deal that also gave Saban Brands the rights to Digimon. However, it should be noted that Saban wanted nothing to do with the Pretty Cure series to begin with. This resulted in Smile (and eventually Doki Doki Pretty Cure) getting an Ashcan Copy dubwork from upper management. | |
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Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album expressly invokes this trope: it contained a minimum of brand new material, and that was often deliberately thrown together and made to look slapdash and amateurish whilst still remaining funny. Most of the rest consists of off-cuts from film scripts, and reworkings of old sketches and songs that go back to the middle 1960s, and which were originally intended for radio and TV shows that preceded Python by some years. Some sketches had indeed already been performed on British radio and TV by other people. | |
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Short-lived reality/competition show Unchained Reaction — hosted by Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman of Mythbusters fame — was the result of the two being approached by Discovery to create a show based on making chain reaction machines. Neither Savage nor Hyneman were fans of Rube Goldberg machines just for the sake of it, as well as competition shows, but they ended up doing a short 6-episode season to test the waters before it was dropped shortly afterward. | |
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Both Naughty Boys and Service by Yellow Magic Orchestra were put out solely to fulfill the band's contract with Alfa Records as fast as possible; the group originally planned to dissolve after the release of Technodelic thanks to Creative Differences, but Alfa still required two more albums. Tellingly, Naughty Boys and Service both released the same year, and the latter features a number of Japanese-language comedy skits to pad out the runtime. | |
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Part of the reason for Band of Gypsys being produced was to settle a contract dispute with Ed Chalpin, who managed Hendrix when the guitarist was a member of R&B band Curtis Knight & The Squires and who had been reissuing Knight/Squires albums on Capitol Records with misleading covers publicizing Jimi's involvement with them to compete with/capitalize on Hendrix' success years later. | |
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Logic had announced his retirement from rap before realizing that his contract with Def Jam still required him to put out an album and mixtape; he put together his last album under Def Jam, Vinyl Days, in 12 days in order to fulfill his obligations and get independent as fast as possible. The album received broadly positive reviews, features an impressive guest list, and is considered by his fans to be one of his best projects. Logic stated in an interview that he was proud that, even though he cranked it out quickly, Vinyl Days was "the dopest shit I could give them — it's not like I just wiped my ass". | |
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When *NSYNC went on a hiatus in 2002, they didn't plan for the break to turn into a formal disbandment. Since they still owed Jive Records future albums, compilation albums were released in subsequent years to fulfill their contract (Jive has since been absorbed into Sony Music). These compilation albums include Greatest Hits (2005), The Collection (2010), and The Essential *NSYNC (2014). The band members themselves were not even aware of an impending release of The Essential *NSYNC. In 2004, as Lance, Joey, JC, and Chris waited on Justin’s presumed return to the band, Justin was asked by GQ Magazine about the possibility of returning to the group. The article stated, “Lance Bass says 'NSync is planning to record another album, ideally in November, and he has every reason to expect Justin will be there. Justin's less certain, even when it's suggested he has a contractual obligation.� |
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Power Rangers RPM exists because of contractual obligations between Disney, Bandai, and Jetix Europe. By that point in time, Disney had long contemplated canceling Power Rangers (especially when Bruce Kalish, lead producer of previous Disney seasons, parted ways following Power Rangers Jungle Fury), but they were on the hook for one last season, so RPM was produced with fresh new production. The preconception that RPM was going to be the final season of the franchise is what enabled the new team more creative freedom to explore an uncharacteristically darker and more self-aware direction appealing to older audiences, but it also led to Disney's complete indifference to the show when it was ready, giving it little advertising and subjecting it highly inconsistent broadcasting and timeslots, including at 5 AM. | |
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Mike Oldfield's Amarok and Heaven's Open were made primarily to fulfill the remainder of his contract with Virgin Records, as Oldfield's relationship with CEO Richard Branson had grown increasingly strained over the years. To ensure that he would have the last laugh, both albums were loaded with jabs at Branson and Virgin, with the former album being made as uncommercial as possible (following Earth Moving, in which Oldfield adhered to Branson's demands to the letter by making a pop album with no instrumentals). | |
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In the Family Guy parody of Return of the Jedi, the Opening Crawl veers off into a rant about how they're tired of parodying Star Wars, says that Fox made them produce it, lapses into a non sequitur about raccoons, and finally asks the audience to lower their expectations for the episode. And no, that rant wasn't a joke on their part, they really meant it. | |
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An in-universe example in Transmetropolitan. Spider Jerusalem left the City but is forced to return due to a two-book contract. He eventually declares that one of the books will be an Omnibus re-release of the columns he's written so far, angrily pointing out (on live TV, no less), that his contract permits this, while the second book will be on the impending presidential election. He gets out of the second due to info-pollen induced dementia. | |
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Aliens: Colonial Marines was a game that 20th Century Fox and later Sega always wanted to do, an Action-Horror First-Person Shooter set after the events of Aliens and Alien³. However, they would be unable to do it due to bad luck and incompetence. Eventually, Sega would hire Gearbox Software to make their own version, but suspicions of Gearbox taking money away to work on their own projects led to Sega canceling the game, only to give it back to Gearbox after the success of Borderlands with the caveat of a 2012 release. However, Gearbox was in the middle of developing Borderlands 2 and finishing Duke Nukem Forever when they accepted to develop Colonial Marines, and felt that Borderlands 2 was a more important game (since it was their IP), decided to outsource the development of A:CM to TimeGate Studios, who were unable to make a passable build by the time BL2 was released in 2012 due to Executive Meddling from both Gearbox and Sega. Gearbox's leadership went into panic mode as Sega would sue them for failing to release the game on time as promised, and decided to rebuild the game almost from scratch to get the game into stores just before the end of Sega's fiscal year in March 2013. The game would be released to dismal reviews but passable sales and Sega would cut ties with Gearbox for all the Troubled Production the game suffered through. | |
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Al was faced with two stipulations for Dare to Be Stupid. The first was that one of the songs had to be a Cyndi Lauper parody, and the second was that he had to include a cover. He met them with "Girls Just Want to Have Lunch" and the George of the Jungle theme song, respectively. Al put as little effort as he could for "Girls Just Want to Have Lunch", singing with a rock-bottom demeanor. | |
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