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Faux-To Guide
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Satirical "How To" guides. The instructions are faulty, or the person following them does it horribly, or the instructions are loaded with irony about how not to do it. One sure thing, the point is to laugh, not to teach. The word "faux" in the trope name, is a French word that means "wrong" or "false." Compare Mockumentary, Little Known Facts, Parodies for Dummies, Fauxtivational Poster, Faux Documentary, Sabotutor, Anti-Advice. Contrast: Documentary. |
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Tyler Durden's versions of the airline safety instructions card in Fight Club. | |
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Terrible Writing Advice is... terrible writing advice. If you want your story to turn into a burning train wreck by incorrectly using symbolism, radical plot twists and unlikable characters, then you've come to the right place. There is legitimate advice sprinkled through the videos, but only as an example of the "wrong" way of doing it. | |
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How to Be a Superhero was part this, part satire of Super Hero tropes. Similarly, inversely, there is also How To Be A Villain. | |
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A good deal of the humor on Look Around You involves startlingly unsound or dangerous procedures for science experiments. | |
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In Ranma ½, Ranma Sotome is revealed to be deadly afraid of cats, because his father, Genma Saotome, had read in a martial arts instruction book that to toughen up a student, the teacher had to tie food that would be appealing to cats to the student and then throw them into a pit full of cats. After several failed attempts, Genma turns the page and reads that this training technique should not be attempted because it doesn't work. | |
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Troy McClure from The Simpsons has apparently done a few of these. In "Bart's Inner Child", he introduces himself on Adjusting Your Self-O-Stat with "You might remember me from such self-help videos as Smoke Yourself Thin and Get Confident, Stupid." | |
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r/restofthefuckingowl. | |
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If you even get instructions for using something in Paranoia (more often than not, they're above your clearance), they're likely to be this due to a combination of garbled information, computer malfunction, conspiracy manipulations, overzealous redaction by the censors and just plain incompetence on the part of basically everyone involved. Occasionally, the GM is even encouraged to provide technically true but somewhat misleading descriptions of the results of trial and error, just to make stuff slightly harder to use. And, of course, complaining about any of this is treason. | |
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Classic Goofy cartoons used to do this with a number of subjects (mostly sports). It was given a Shout-Out in a Goof Troop episode, and there are several examples in House of Mouse (such as "How to Haunt a House," which begins with Goofy getting hit by a car and dying), and "How to Hook Up Your Home Theater" showed before National Treasure 2. According to the story, the narrator for the original "How to" cartoons wasn't told he was doing voicework for Goofy cartoons, but instead voicing serious how-to films (out of a fear that he'd reject doing voicework for comedy). He supposedly got quite angry when he found out what he'd done the work for. Goofy is not the only Disney character who has done this. Donald Duck appeared on "How to Have an Accident in the Home" and "How to Have an Accident at Work". What makes these ones different from Goofy's is that instead of a faceless narrator, we have J.J. Fate, a fantastical duck dwarf. |
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The musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (based on a satirical book of the same name) is built around one of these. | |
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Miss Piggy's Guide to Life, "as told to" Henry Beard. Chock-full of hilarious "advice" such as the suggestion that people with crow's feet should wear scarecrow earrings. | |
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The old sketch comedy show Out of Control had a reoccurring segment called "How Not to Do Things". | |
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Goofy is not the only Disney character who has done this. Donald Duck appeared on "How to Have an Accident in the Home" and "How to Have an Accident at Work". What makes these ones different from Goofy's is that instead of a faceless narrator, we have J.J. Fate, a fantastical duck dwarf. | |
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The Action Hero's Handbook — The information is fairly accurate, but it advises you for situations you'll probably never run into yourself, and it's not a good idea to try any of it yourself. | |
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Pre-Python, John Cleese starred as the host of a special called How to Irritate People, also featuring Michael Palin and Graham Chapman. | |
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Though the earliest issues of MAD sold poorly, by 1954 it had attracted a slew of imitators (one of them, Panic, published by EC Comics, MAD's own publisher). MAD took notice and showed its readers how to make a "typical-type lampoon" of Julius Caesar, with captions pointing out all the clichés routinely used (and in this case exaggerated) in such parodies. In summary, the routines are: Background details! Anachronisms! Victims always act like gaping holes in their bodies are no big deal! You must have a Small Reference Pools of detectives, like Trick Dacy, Martin Walkingkane, Shermlock Shomes, or Marlon Branflakes! Bop talk! Lampoon women can be incredibly beautiful or incredibly ugly, but never in between! Tear-induced floods! The Domm-Da Dom-Domm routine! No explanation necessary! An over-the-top array of weapons! Marilyn Monroe... wherever possible! Lampoon violence should have exaggerated sound effects, people Hammered into the Ground, people impaled all over the body, Instant Bandages (no lampoon is complete without one), and of course, atomic explosions! Have characters read and enjoy your magazine to show how marvelous it is! Everyone throws off rubber masks at the end to reveal they're not as they seem! |
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American Dad! has a Running Gag where Stan reads how-to books about subjects shortly before trying it out himself. For example, "How to Look Pensive" or "How to Take Off Glasses Angrily". He only succeeds some of the time. | |
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In HowToBasic, Mr. Basic shows his audience how to solve different problems. Common steps include: Punching baby dolls, smashing eggs, rubbing food all over your naked body and making a mess of your house. | |
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It's possible to make one of these in Fallout 3. When working with Moira, you can give her "evil" answers when she asks how your exploits went. Popular answers include heavy radiation poisoning actually feels quite good, and is healthy for you, and that disarming a mine is surprisingly easy if you just step on it. Needless to say, the resulting survival guide ends up being a how-to guide for killing yourself. | |
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In the run-up to Archer's 5th season, they've released a number of these (styled as "Isis Orientation" videos) on YouTube. | |
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Also some of the "Pete Smith Specialties" shorts were How Tos. (How to prepare a meal for guests at the last minute.) | |
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Steven Universe: In "Sworn to the Sword", Steven reads a book titled, "How to Talk to People" with only two steps. Step 1: Think of what you want to say. Step 2: Say it. (But which step involves approaching a person?) "Log Date 7 15 2" sees Peridot reading a book entitled "JOKES! How to Make People Laugh Around You Instead of Feel Bad". |
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The Zombie Survival Guide offers practical advice, albeit for a completely fictional situation. | |
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"Stephen's Sound Advice" on The Colbert Report includes such advice as, "Wash your computer thoroughly to avoid viruses." The advice frequently focuses on BEES!, whether they're relevant to the situation or not. All-purpose advice for any situation: FUCK 'EM! |
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DM of the Rings has author comments that occasionally do this, generally in a deadpan or sarcastic way. | |
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The Private Snafu cartoons prepared by Warner Bros. for the Army-Navy Screen Magazine. A series of training films that show how to behave during wartime by showing how the worst soldier in the army gets it wrong. | |
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Dick Loudon in Newhart wrote how-to guides. They were straight how to guides, but one episode had the town ready to burn them because they thought it helped a man escape from prison. Then they read the books, and wanted to burn them because they were boring. Fortunately, they realized that that was setting a bad precedent. | |
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The Domm-Da Dom-Domm routine! No explanation necessary! | |
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Parodied in M*A*S*H, with a guide on how to disarm a bomb. | |
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Red vs. Blue did a few PSA's like this, the most notable being the Fire Safety PSA. Don't take their advice if you want to live. | |
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One of the tie-in books with the Last Laugh storyline has a two-page strip featuring The Joker demonstrating how to manufacture his Joker venom, and repeatedly killing his assistant Multi-Man in the process. | |
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Similarly, from Mystery Science Theater 3000: Other instructions included "Most very kindly, find the Lookie Switch which is nice and sitting there with green label which leaves you singing" and "Carefully disregard and do not do the very wrong thing or much confusion will result... with sparks, flowers and loud report on some models." |
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How to Survive a Horror Movie, which also helps you determine if you're in one, and if so, what kind. Very very trope-savvy. | |
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The 100th episode of Unskippable was how to make cut scenes just as bad as the ones they riff. | |
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As does Darths & Droids. | |
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How to Hero is this for people who want to be superheroes. | |
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The manual for the video game based on the series Home Improvement appeared to be a normal manual at first, only for the player to open it up and see the instructions were covered up by a large sticker reading "Real Men Don't Need Instructions!" | |
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Everything2 has quite a few, including (but not limited to): Detailed instructions on how to gather pixie dust. How to become a mighty pirate. How to write bad poetry. |
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The Robert Benchley "How To" shorts from the 1930s and 1940s (How to Eat, How to Sleep, etc.). | |
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The SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Krusty Krab Training Video". The episode "Boat Smarts". "Squilliam Returns" has this in book form: |
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Warhammer 40,000: The Imperial Infantryman's Uplifting Primer. A tactical manual so chock-full of propaganda, misinformation, misunderstandings and outright lies, no-one in-'verse thinks of it as anything other than a glorified roll of toilet paper. | |
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An entire episode of Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law ("Sebben and Sebben Employee Orientation") features the cast in a sendup of cheesy workplace orientation videos. | |
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Basic Instructions runs on this. The advice text is usually genuine, while the pictures usually show it applied badly. | |
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Rose of Versailles Abridged: "Hello, Maria Theresa here, with your new rule for writing a Period Anime." | |
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Encyclopedia Dramatica's "tips" on playing Team Fortress 2 follow a similar route, explaining exactly what not to do. | |
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The Complete World Knowledge series includes hobbies for asthmatic children, how to tell the different types of werewolf apart, information on hermit crab racing, advice on cons, advice on de-lousing your children, advice on de-axolotling your plumbing (do not look for too long at an axolotl or you will become one), how to buy a computer, how to cook an owl, how to remember any name (especially the name John Hodgman), the secret of your identity and how you got that terrible scar, etc. | |
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Uncyclopedia has its own series of these. Including how to saw your own head off with a chainsaw. | |
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The Monty Python's Flying Circus sketch 'How to Do It', which consisted of extremely vague instructions on how to do particular things, such as cure the world of all disease ('Well, first of all become a doctor and discover a marvelous cure for something, and then, when the medical profession really starts to take notice of you, you can jolly well tell them what to do and make sure they get everything right so there'll never be any diseases ever again.') Also, there's "How Not To Be Seen", among others. Also also, the flexi-disc "Teach Yourself Heath" was a guide to imitating the speech mannerisms of Edward Heath. Pre-Python, John Cleese starred as the host of a special called How to Irritate People, also featuring Michael Palin and Graham Chapman. "How to Recognise Different Trees From Quite a Long Way Away" consists of a picture of a larch, and the voiceover repeating "Number one. The larch. The. Larch." Eventually they move on to number 3, which is also the larch, and then the horse chestnut. |
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Allie Brosh's How To Put Yourself Inside Of A Coat, although the humor is more about making something no one should need an instruction video for seem complicated. | |
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How NOT to Write a Novel is a self-help book that is written like one of these. | |
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Homestar Runner: The Strong Bad Email "the process" pokes fun at the occasionally-formulaic nature of SBEmails as Strong Bad shows the viewers how to "answer emails like a true Strong Bad". | |
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Halloween Unspectacular: The first story in Terror Australis Incognita is a sarcastic how-to guide on writing Danny Phantom fanfic. Among other things, it "advises" ignoring everyone outside of a select few characters, exaggerating Sam's gothic traits into suicidal tendencies, writing Vlad as being a better parental figure for Danny than his actual parents "by dint of looking more bishie", and to only write romance plots wherein Danny rescues a heavily chickified girl, all without having to care about proper spelling, punctuation, formatting, etc. | |
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The eponymous book-within-a-book in How to Train Your Dragon. The book is two pages long, one of the pages reading simply "YELL AT IT" and the other being an "about the author". | |
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