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Dancing Bear
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A Dancing Bear is any work of media that attracts viewers not because it's particularly entertaining — many of them, in fact, are dull or otherwise pointless — but because of some gimmick involved in the production. Any work for which the method by which it is created is more interesting than the result. Featuring noteworthy non-actors in major roles (or celebrity guest stars for television episodes) can qualify something for this trope: we don't go to movies with Paris Hilton in them to see how well she acts, after all. Particularly large casts, shockingly difficult productions, unique production methods... anything that's used to sell a work more than its actual content can qualify it for Bear status. The Oner is usually a Bear as well, and Live Episodes too. A Tech-Demo Game runs a high risk of being a bear, if the developers cannot balance its gimmick with good gameplay. Another type of Bear is The Item Number, especially if it ranks high on the Fanservice scale and/or features a very well-known "item girl" (or guy). Note that this doesn't include works in which outside events make us more interested in it — The Dark Knight certainly got a considerable amount of attention as a result of Heath Ledger's death, but it wasn't a Dancing Bear. For that, see Reality Subtext. See also Come for the X, Stay for the Y, when the work has a lot more going on than just a bear that dances, and Just Here for Godzilla, for cases where that happens, but the audience doesn't care. See also Overshadowed by Controversy, where a Dancing Bear is especially well-known for controversial moments regardless of other factors. |
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The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is best remembered for its exposure of the unsanitary practices of the meat-packing industry. It is often used as an example of the muckraking genre and helped lead to the creation of the FDA. However, Sinclair intended the book to be an indictment of capitalism and a paean to socialism. He famously said that he "aimed for the nation's heart but accidentally hit it in the stomach." | |
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Sita Sings the Blues, like Sealed With a Kiss, is notable among animation fans for being animated entirely by one woman - and even more impressively, uses different animation styles. | |
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It really didn't matter how good Go Set a Watchman actually was; it was guaranteed to be a smash success purely out of the fact that it was only Harper Lee's second published book a full fifty-five years after she wowed the literary world with To Kill a Mockingbird. You're rather more likely to find someone who knows that part, but not that Watchman was actually written first, and then Lee's agent suggested she do a book with the characters as kids instead. Controversy also played a part: some have claimed that the quite-elderly Lee, who had chosen not to publish the book for decades, was not of sound mind and was being taken advantage of. The book also Ret Cons the much-beloved Atticus Finch into a racist, which left a bad taste in many fans' mouths. | |
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School Days is notable and popular for two things; the fact that it's a rare example of a fully-animated VN (unlike most Visual Novels, which use mostly static images accompanied by text), and the infamously dark and violent bad endings where the characters go insane and/or get brutally murdered. That's all it's known for, however, as without those two qualities it's just your fairly average harem H-game (the non-bad endings, which make up the majority of them, are pretty normal fare). The creators of the anime adaptation were definitely aware of this, as it follows the darkest route of the game and makes it even darker. | |
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BoJack Horseman's "Free Churro" is considered the most memorable episode of the fifth season, if not the entire show. The episode's entire 25-minute runtime is just a Will Arnett monologue, only consisting of one uninterrupted eulogy told by BoJack (plus the Cold Open flashback, which features Arnett as Bojack's father Butterscotch). The actual content of said monologue is deeply moving in its own right, but the format is what shot it to iconic status for most critics and fans. Similarly the third season's "Fish out of Water", which is Free Churro's polar opposite - apart from the first scene it's a completely dialogue-free episode, dependent solely on visual storytelling. Again it's extremely well-done in its own right, but it's the format that makes it so memorable. |
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Handbook for Mortals is well-known for topping the New York Times Bestseller List...for twenty-three hours. It premiered at #1 out of nowhere, from an unknown author, and some investigating quickly determined that said author had gotten people to buy it en masse just to get on the list. People who then read it out of curiosity often compare its quality to My Immortal, to the point where a rumor began that they were written by the same person. | |
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Dracula the Un-Dead (2009) was promoted exclusively based on the fact that it was the first story based on Dracula to be written (if only in part) by a member of Bram Stoker's family. Much of the discussion surrounding the book focused on its claim of being "the authorized sequel" when it was based on a Public Domain novel and written by a man whose father had not yet been born when Stoker died. | |
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Killer Bean Forever, an All-CGI Cartoon action movie starring talking coffee beans, animated solely by one person. Said person also happens to be a professional visual effects artist, and despite the laughable premise, the film has some genuinely good fight choreography. | |
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Twitch Plays Pokémon had the simple gimmick of a Twitch chat controlling a game of Pokémon Red by typing in various inputs. Anywhere from 50 thousand to 100 thousand people watched and participated in the original Pokémon Red stream, managing to complete the game in a little over 16 days. While the original Twitch channel would drop heavily in popularity after a year or so, streamers still make use of the gimmick. Some (such as DougDoug) have even built their brand on allowing their audience direct control over whatever game is being played that day — be it Pokémon, Mario Party, or Grand Theft Auto — with the added bonus of the host's reactions to whatever failures and successes occur. Fish Plays Pokémon had over 21,000 people watching a fish move about a bowl to play Pokémon Red. RNG Plays Pokémon, which was effectively just the Fish version, but much faster, and without the fish. |
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The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You is a pretty good manga in its own right, but it's quite likely that the writer made such a huge harem just to show off his ability to make 100 distinct and well-rounded characters in the first place. In fact, many readers admit to doing so just to see if the story pulls off having 100 unique girlfriends. | |
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House of Leaves is probably primarily known as "that book with the weird page formatting and nested stories", and secondarily as a horror novel. | |
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Love at First Sight is a generic Kinetic Visual Novel set in a Japanese school which would pass unnoticed, were it not for the fact that Sachi Usui, the heroine to be romanced, is a Cute Monster Girl, specifically a Cyclops. There's no real explanation for this and it doesn't even factor in the plot, for example the resident bully torments her... for being weak and submissive. note It's one of the author's fetishes, who explains in the notes that he made a game because in the US they're easier to make and distribute than paper doujinshi. | |
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Moll Flanders is best known for the extremely long title, with the full title being: The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, Etc. Who Was Born In Newgate, and During a Life of Continu'd Variety For Threescore Years, Besides Her Childhood, Was Twelve Year a Whore, Five Times a Wife [Whereof Once To Her Own Brother], Twelve Year a Thief, Eight Year a Transported Felon In Virginia, At Last Grew Rich, Liv'd Honest, and Died a Penitent. Written from her own Memorandums. | |
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The SCP Foundation has a decent number of entries that focus less on the actual creature or object, and more on the way the information itself ends up conveyed. SCP-2521 is a pretty basic "spooky mysterious monster that abducts people"... but due to the SCP stealing all written information about itself, the entire article is told through pictures and diagrams, with no text used at any point. It was inspired by a contest to create an SCP in under 237 words, to which the writer decided to create an SCP in zero. SCP-4975 isn't much more complicated than a hostile creature that kills people, with its only notable trait being the fact that it makes an eerie ticking sound that only its victims can hear to drive them to paranoid madness, a sign that it has begun hunting them down. That's not the gimmick—the gimmick is that the page has a hidden audio file that starts to play after a few minutes if you're wearing headphones, consisting of an eerie ticking sound. |
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The main point of The Red Ape Family is less the show itself, and more that each episode has NFTs minted for it, so you can (presumably) earn money by buying one NFT and reselling it. Also doubles as Overshadowed by Controversy for people who are anti-NFT. | |
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While critics are mixed on the quality of Guns N' Roses's forever-delayed Chinese Democracy, fans are amazed it was released at all. Its actual musical qualities are submerged beneath the fact it notoriously took fifteen years (and a record-breaking alleged $13m) to make. | |
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Rainbow Factory, partially because it's sometimes described as "Cupcakes, except it's Rainbow Dash torturing/killing Scootaloo" and partially because of WoodenToaster's Creepy Awesome song of the same title (the fanfic was inspired by the song). | |
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Though Finnegans Wake is made by the same author as the better known, better studied Ulysses, most people know the book for its odd, stream-of-consciousness writing style. | |
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Homestuck has a gimmick which it grew into — its use of Medium Awareness combined with the Infinite Canvas of a webcomic, as well as Medium Blending in the later chapters (often being full-blown animations or short playable games). As the comic progressed, however, it became less known for the gimmick of its presentation and more known for its absurdly in-depth Kudzu Plot. | |
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Most kids get Mouse Trap for the funny, toy-like Rube Goldberg Machine trap. The actual gameplay is a bog-standard Roll-and-Move affair. | |
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Home Movie: The Princess Bride's primary draw is watching an All-Star Cast fool around at home reenacting a classic film like the rest of us with cheap costumes and props and filming on smartphones, without professional stylists or makeup artists, without CGI or Photoshop, away from red carpets and film sets and perfect lighting, all while still bringing their A-game and treating it as seriously as a "real" project. It's drawn comparisons to celebrities discovering Vines several years late, or old-school YouTube content from the mid/late 2000s. | |
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The anime of The Flowers of Evil attracted viewers mainly because it was rotoscoped, and the quality and/or terribleness of this animation style was discussed far more than the show's actual content. | |
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Trolls World Tour got a pretty mixed reception, but many people showed interest in it just because of its release strategy: to adapt to the coronavirus pandemic, it was one of the first animated features to be released for streaming services on the same day as its theatrical release, setting a precedent for other movies struggling to find an audience with theaters closed around the world. | |
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Fifty Shades of Grey is remembered for two things: being published Twilight fanfiction and featuring BDSM. | |
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Vorkosigan Saga directly invokes the trope more than once, appropriate considering Barrayar is Space Russia. In Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen, Cordelia discusses Aral's artistic talent with her grandson. | |
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Charm City Devils' cover version of "Man of Constant Sorrow," the bluegrass song popularized by O Brother, Where Art Thou?, is known primarily because it's done as a metal song. | |
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Many xkcd-comic-inspired Defictionalizations are only recognized because of their inspirational source. The "Tetris in hell" game, for example, is interesting entirely because someone actually bothered to make it even though it doesn't really add anything to the original joke. | |
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Sir Billi is notable for two things: first, it is the first CGI animated film to be made entirely in Scotland (it claimed to be the first animated film overall, but was beaten to the punch by The Illusionist (2010)), and second, Sean Connery came out of retirement to voice the main character (reportedly, both because it was Scottish film and So My Kids Can Watch), which ended up being his final acting role. Other than that, it's considered pretty bad. | |
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The third-party D&D adventure The World's Largest Dungeon puts its Dancing Bear right in the title. Not only is it the largest published dungeon, it also features almost every monster in the Open Game License, and is one of the most expensive RPG sourcebooks ever sold. The actual contents of the dungeon are mostly considered to be horribly edited, unbalanced, and severely padded. | |
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Voices of a Distant Star is an amazing short film as it is. What largely drew people's attention to it initially, on the other hand, was the fact that it was entirely animated by one man on his home computer. | |
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The reason Clutch Cargo penetrated into pop culture as far as it did is solely because of its Trope Codifier status in using Synchro-Vox, which cut down on animation costs by having footage of the voice actor's lips speaking the dialogue atop static character drawings. The studio would actually go on to make two other cartoons with the technique, but Clutch Cargo is the only one that's remembered. To quote the show The Higgins Boys and Gruber, "If it weren't for the lips, it'd be a filmstrip!" | |
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Wonder Park would be an entirely forgettable children's film, if not for a major Role-Ending Misdemeanor that was exposed in its later development, which led to the director, Dylan Brown, being taken off the project two months before its release and going uncredited as a result. Because no one else in the production was willing to take the chair (presumably not wanting to be known to the public as "the director of that movie directed by a sex pest"), this leaves Wonder Park in the odd position of being one of the few, if not only, wide-release films to have no credited director. Quite a few analysts, such as Folding Ideas, pursued and analyzed the film specifically out of curiosity as to whether Brown's loss had left the film visibly affected. | |
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My Inner Life is renowned for its terrible writing and the rather... unusual behavior of its writer (among other things, she claims to completely believe the fanfiction is a record of a second life she lives in an alternate dimension while she sleeps and claimed to copyright the fic to sue any detractors). | |
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The "unholy trinity," Watership Down, The Plague Dogs, and Felidae. Three animated films known almost solely for masquerading as kid's filmsnote Watership Down actually is supposedly a kid's film before surprising you with copious amounts of death, blood and gore, disturbing imagery, and in the latter, a graphic sex scene with cats. | |
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Naked Lunch is known for three things: being the most definitive example of Beat literature, being the last book to ever be banned in Boston and for its disgusting content that continues to shock readers even into the present day. | |
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Mythic Fantasy Roleplaying Game, or MYFAROG, is known exclusively for being a game created by Varg Vikernes, a notorious black metal musician, white supremacist, arsonist, and convicted murderer. Unlike most of its contemporaries in the field of tabletop games with racist subject matter, such as Racial Holy War or F.A.T.A.L., it's generally considered fairly middling mechanically rather than entertainingly godawful, meaning the main reason to look into it is to see the kind of game Vikernes would make (unsurprisingly, it features a lot of white supremacy). | |
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The Well of Loneliness is the first high-profile novel with an explicitly lesbian theme, so it is clearly an important novel. Opinions vary on whether or not it is also a good novel. | |
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Cupcakes (Sergeant Sprinkles) - Pinkie Pie tortures and murders Rainbow Dash. The premise is more horrifying than the execution, and the fic is better remembered for leaving an impact on the Friendship Is Magic fandom than for the actual quality of the writing. | |
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The Black Mirror special Bandersnatch was the first successful adult Gamebook film, and it's more well known for its gimmick than anything in its story. | |
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Paperman is a really cute short but the main draw is the animation style and potential. It's an All-CGI Cartoon that looks like traditional animation. Disney has since used the same style in other shorts and there is much discussion when a full-length film using this animation technique will come out. | |
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Axe Cop is popular in large part because of the sheer novelty of a comic written by a 5-6 year old boy, albeit with art and interpretation by his 30 year old brother, a talented professional cartoonist. | |
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Starlight Express is one of the least-remembered Andrew Lloyd Webber productions, especially outside of the West End. Most theater fans who know about it just know that it's a show about trains performed entirely on roller skates. | |
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Romeo & Juliet: Sealed with a Kiss is generally regarded as, at best, an average and unimaginative film. But if nothing else, many folks who've seen it or at least know of it appreciate the fact that it was animated entirely by one man. | |
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Some Jerk with a Camera has all his videos filmed on-location at the theme parks he covers, which made him stand out of the reviewer crowd when he debuted. It's telling that when Doug Walker note Who reportedly rarely, if ever, watched the content the producers on his site made. made a plug video for this show during its time on Channel Awesome, it was the only thing Doug talked about. During his review of Escape from Tomorrow, Tony takes a moment to point out that he's uniquely qualified to talk about it because of his close familiarity with the film's gimmick in both theory and practice. | |
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Clarissa is remembered for being the longest novel in the English language. | |
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Wings of Fire is considered a pretty good middle-grade fantasy series on it’s own, but the central draw comes from the fact that the dragons are the POV characters and the dominant sophont species of the world, rather than beasts to be slain or mounts to be ridden. | |
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ReBoot, while a quality show in its own right, is best known for being the first ever All-CGI Cartoon to be a full-length animated series. | |
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The nonviolent fan video Double Rainboom is known mainly for the ambitiousness of its premise: a full-length fan-made episode of professional quality. Needless to say, whether or not the video itself is any good in and of itself is up for debate. | |
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Fritz the Cat has three Dancing Bears to call its own: it was the first animated film to receive an X-rating, the highest-grossing independent animated film of all time and, debatably, the first film to be considered "Furry." | |
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When the One Piece movie The Desert Princess and the Pirates: Adventures in Alabasta was released in the west, its main appeal wasn't the content of the largely-panned recap movie itself, but rather the fact that it was the USA's first uncut One Piece dub, and featured the new English cast. For a couple of years it also served as a good preview for how Funimation would handle the full-length Alabasta arc from the TV series. | |
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Futurama: In-Universe, Pamela Anderson appears As Herself and mentions starring in Baywatch: The Movie, the first film to be shot entirely in slow-motion. Another In-Universe example occurs when Leela becomes the first female professional Blernsball player. Her lack of depth perception means she's utterly hopeless, and the team owner makes no bones about the fact that her inclusion in the team is a publicity stunt. Also deconstructed, as Jackie Anderson - a female Blernsball player who is actually good - points out that Leela's laughable performances are making it harder for other female players to be taken seriously. Though "The Prisoner of Benda" is a well-regarded episode in its own right, it is best-known for featuring an actual, functioning mathematical proof created by the episode's writer for the sole purpose of solving its Body Swap plot. |
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Fantasy Kaleidoscope is largely known for looking like a professional big-budget adaptation of the Touhou Project series, despite being entirely fanmade. The animation in its own right is rather good, but it's the fact that it's not an official installment of the series that tends to draw people to it. | |
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Bartok the Magnificent. Ignoring the fact that the film does in fact have a dancing bear, in this one's case named Zozi, the film was originally marketed on the fact that it starred a minor comic-relief character from Anastasia, being the main character. It's now highly and mostly remembered for being the only sequel to a Don Bluth film that actually WAS directed by him. | |
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The only reason why anyone would want to read Atlanta Nights is to see what a deliberately awful book would be like. | |
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Hatoful Boyfriend looks like a standard dating sim, other than the fact that the potential love interests are pigeons, that are represented by photos of pigeons instead of drawings (and the main character is a human girl). There's far more to it than just "pigeon dating sim", much of it arguably more surreal than the basic permise, but it is the premise alone that is the main reason most people know about this game. | |
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Lucas the Spider is popular less for the actual content (which mainly involves the titular character in various silly antics), and more because the creator succeeded in averting What Measure Is a Non-Cute? by making a realistic spider cute and appealing; which is probably how it ended up becoming a preschool show a few years later. | |
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A Muppet Family Christmas could have been just any old Christmas special starring the cast of The Muppet Show, but the real novelty of it is seeing a three-way crossover with them, the cast of Sesame Street, and the cast of Fraggle Rock, with the principal cast still alive at the time it was made (1987), no less. | |
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What do The Subspace Emissary's Worlds Conquest, Ambience: A Fleet Symphony, and The Loud House: Revamped all have in common? None of them would be well-known outside of their respective fandoms if it weren't for their sheer lengths — all three have been considered the longest piece of literature in the English language at one point in time, only being outdone by each other.note As of February 2024, Revamped is the longest of the three (and the only one that never became a Dead Fic, finishing at 2,328 chapters and over 31.5 million words), followed by Ambience and World Conquest. | |
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The Cormoran Strike Novels jumped from relative obscurity to bestsellers after it turned out that their author was actually none other than J. K. Rowling. | |
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Kaleidoscope (2023) is a Netflix miniseries known for its unique structure: the episodes can be viewed in any order and it'll affect how you view the story. | |
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Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark is more famous for its troubled production than anything else. This aside, the technical aspects - including a spectacular aerial battle above the audience - are the main reasons to see the show. | |
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While Winnie the Pooh (2011) is considered a good movie in its own right, it is mainly known for being Disney's last hand-drawn film before the company gutted its 2D department in favor of CGI films. | |
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Harry Potter and the Portrait of What Looked Like a Large Pile of Ash is an entertainingly nonsensical fanfiction of Harry Potter, written entirely by AI. Language model technology would later improve to the point of being able to write much more comprehensible and logically connected stories— which were also much less entertaining than the early versions. | |
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Loving Vincent is mostly known for the fact that its every frame is an oil painting, painted by a total of 125 painters. | |
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Foo Fighters released Sonic Highways in 2014. Though it was fairly well-reviewed overall, the main grab was that it featured eight songs about major cities recorded in said cities. The accompanying documentary miniseries emphasized this point further. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants has several In-Universe examples: In "Patty Hype", Mr. Krabs begins losing customers to a restaurant called "the Shell Shack" that has a talking dog. (Bear in mind that Bikini Bottom is a city full of talking animals, underwater, and some of those customers don't even know what a dog is.) Mr. Krabs tries to think of a dancing bear of his own, and after he cruelly rejects and mocks SpongeBob's suggestion of "Pretty Patties", SpongeBob starts his own restaurant selling them and becomes a massive success, as people love his technicolour patties. Krabs buys the restaurant out, only to be hit with a mass of complaints when it turns out the Pretty Patties have undesirable side effects. In "Chum Caverns", Plankton relocates his restaurant to a beautiful underground cave and becomes a massive success, with long lines of people waiting to get in the door. The gorgeous scenery proves to be the main attraction, as the enthralled customers freely admit that the food is still terrible even as they're marveling at the sights. "The Masterpiece" has a similar premise to "Patty Hype": a new restaurant is attracting customers away from the Krusty Krab, and when SpongeBob realises it's because of a large statue of the restaurant's mascot rather than the food, Mr. Krabs decides to make his own statue to fight back. |
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Look upon this lipogrammatic work Gadsby, in which a story is told without using a particular glyph (past 'd', prior to 'f') commonly found in this script, as is this particular saying. A similar motif occurs within A Void. | |
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Sausage Party was promoted for being the first ever R-rated CGI feature film. Its quality is debatable, some thinking that it's a funny and thought-provoking parody of Pixar films, others arguing that it's trying too hard to be edgy. | |
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Much of the early press surrounding Little Big Town made note of the fact that all four members alternate as lead singers, then a really novel concept for a country group. Fortunately, they've also been able to prove themselves as more than just a novelty by having put out a string of well-received albums. | |
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Springhole: In Why Stories About Dragons SUCK, Syera complains most stories with dragons use them as gimmicks to distract from the bad writing. | |
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There are several My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfics that are famous almost solely due to the novelty of using copious amounts of Gorn rather than for actually being good stories. Cupcakes (Sergeant Sprinkles) - Pinkie Pie tortures and murders Rainbow Dash. The premise is more horrifying than the execution, and the fic is better remembered for leaving an impact on the Friendship Is Magic fandom than for the actual quality of the writing. Rainbow Factory, partially because it's sometimes described as "Cupcakes, except it's Rainbow Dash torturing/killing Scootaloo" and partially because of WoodenToaster's Creepy Awesome song of the same title (the fanfic was inspired by the song). The nonviolent fan video Double Rainboom is known mainly for the ambitiousness of its premise: a full-length fan-made episode of professional quality. Needless to say, whether or not the video itself is any good in and of itself is up for debate. |
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Kizuna AI would be a relatively typical Let's Player and YouTuber, if not for the fact that she's an unknown person, or group of people, who only appears in the form of a MikuMikuDance CGI model that claims to be a "super AI" rather than a human using motion-capture tools. Not only did Kizuna herself become popular enough to star in a tourism campaign and get an anime voice acting role, but she (and her imitators) came to create the entire Virtual Youtuber genre. | |
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The first Nancy Drew novel, The Secret of the Old Clock, has been read more than any other book in the series—more than most mystery novels in general, actually. That's mainly because it was the start of the famous Nancy Drew franchise. Judged on its own merit, it's not exactly trash, but it's still pretty corny by today's standards, and quality-wise it's not much better or worse than the other books in the series. | |
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Unus Annus was a YouTube channel that uploaded weird videos each day, with the gimmick that after one year, the channel and all its content would be deleted. Didn't watch it while it was active? Sorry, but you'll never get to see those videos (unless you disobey the creators' wishes and find some archive copies). | |
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Let's face it: without the eponymous ALF, the show would have been just another vanilla sitcom about a family. And it wouldn't have worked if ALF were a Rubber-Forehead Alien, either. The sheer novelty of ALF being an incredibly expressive Muppet is what made people tune in. | |
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The Thief and the Cobbler is mostly remembered for its extremely long and Troubled Production. | |
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Doki Doki Literature Club! initially appears as just another cute dating sim, but went viral because of its Disguised Horror Story nature and how the game interacts with its own files and your computer information from Act 2 onwards. It is also for this reason that fans suggest that newcomers play the game on PC, rather than the later console releases. | |
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The intended gimmick for Billy the Heretic was to be the comic of choice for white supremacists. What it got instead was the coveted title of being the worst web comic ever. And that is going against some serious competition. | |
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The South Park episode "Deep Learning" is notable chiefly because its ending was written by ChatGPT, a text-predicting computer program, rather than a human writer. | |
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Next Gen has a decidedly mixed critical reception, but it's still praised, at least among independent animators that have seen it, as a glowing example of the quality of animation that Blender is capable of. It's a free and open source all-in-one 3D animation program that can handle essentially every aspect of animated film production, from sculpting, modeling, painting, animation, physics, and even video editing, and it's only gotten more feature-rich over the years. | |
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In-universe, Astro City has a restaurant and nightclub owned by cartoon-character-come-to-life Loony Leo. It's noted that it doesn't particularly matter how good the food, drink, or entertainment is; the novelty of going to a restaurant owned by a cartoon character is plenty. | |
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The most widely publicized fact about Eragon was that the author finished the first draft when he was fifteen — he was nineteen by the time it was published (after extensive revision) and also received a lot of critical slack for that reason. Whether or not it has outgrown its beardom is a matter of debate. | |
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The Bloody Board was a Buffy the Vampire Slayer forum infamous for one thing: its 39,000 posts were posted by a single person, who happened to be the forum's owner themself. It stayed under the radar for 6 years before its very existence was unearthed by Crackednote And yes, we admit that the forum's kinda creepy.. This prompted /b/, eBaum's' World and Encyclopedia Dramatica to wreak havoc on the site until it was inevitably shut down. | |
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A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud, better known to those who've read it as "Brian May's doctoral thesis". | |
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"Hvem Stjal Spenolen?" is a single by obscure Norwegian rapper Mr. Pimp-Lotion, featuring singer Didrik Solli-Tangen and World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen as guest artists. If you read the YouTube comments — most of which aren't even in Norwegian — it's clear that most of the listeners are only there to hear Carlsen rap. | |
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Thunderbolt Fantasy got the attention of the anime fandom due to its association with Gen Urobuchi. Puppet shows are not typical content for anime streaming sites, to say the least, so the medium made up most of the message; any discussion of it centers on the strangeness of watching Taiwanese puppet theatre scripted by a famous anime writer. | |
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Sexy Times with Wangxian was well known not so much for its over 1 million words of written smut, but for its sheer amount of tags before it was removed from Archive of Our Own (it reportedly had over 1,700 tags). The tags took up so much space on people's screens that they made the work an accessibility hazard, and eventually led to Ao3 implementing a 75-tag limit (not including tags for archive warnings and ratings) for newer works. | |
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Blood Meridian features an actual dancing bear at the climax, who meets an unfortunately violent end at the hands of some drunk gunslingers. However, the bear also stands a metaphor used by Judge Holden, who sees it as exemplifying the way that average people go through the motions of life as opposed to truly "liberated" individuals such as himself, who have set aside ordinary morality to exult in bloodshed and sadism. The Kid/Man calls Holden on this, however, pointing out that Holden is is in his own way also a Dancing Bear. | |
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To many people, War and Peace is remembered because it's one of the longest classic narratives ever written. | |
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The main gimmick of Dinosaur Comics is that almost all strips are identical, with only the occasional minor alteration. | |
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The Charmed episode "Cat House" was marketed around the fact that it was a unique spin on the Clip Show - Phoebe and Paige would be sent back in time, and be superimposed over clips of previous episodes. There was a lot of buzz over how they would get around showing clips of Prue - as Shannen Doherty had forbidden the producers from ever using archive footage of her. The result was one shot of Prue from behind (which was done by a stunt double) and a clip from when she was turned into a dog. The show did a couple more episodes like this, but the first one is what's remembered. | |
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The The Moomins book A Book About Moomin, Mymble, and Little My has holes in each of its pages, making parts of the next and previous pages' illustrations part of the current page's. | |
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The Muppets (2011) focused on and was marketed almost entirely on the basis of "Holy shit, the Muppets are back!" | |
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An actual dancing bear is used in this format in-universe on The Critic. Jay's show is falling in the ratings and the set is converted to a rustic cabin appearance, complete with stuffed bear. Except the hippies wouldn't accept a stuffed bear, so they just drugged him up. After it attacks Jay, it offers an apology by way of dancing a polka and moonwalk as he plays the concertina. | |
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Ghost Stories became this when it was localized in the west. Due to the localizers having no set limitations for what they could or couldn't do, they let the voice actors improvise almost the entire performance while still following the basic story, leading to an officially licensed Gag Dub. The dub is the only reason anybody outside of Japan watches the series; the few people who bother to watch the original version tend to say that it's just a mediocre horror anime. | |
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Fred Perry's Gold Digger: Time Raft OVA. Its poor acting, rudimentary animation, and extreme Schedule Slip are forgiven because Mr. Perry did everything (besides the voice acting). He wrote the script, created the music, and drew every single frame of this hour-long animated movie by himself. | |
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The only reason anyone outside Brazil remembers Cassiopeia today is that it was the first CGI film to be entirely digital. All of the film's models were created in software — for Toy Story, Pixar created physical clay models that were digitally scanned, which is still their standard practice. Because Cassiopeia entered production before Toy Story but released afterwards due to delays, there is also debate on whether it can be considered the first CGI feature-length film in general. | |
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