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Periphery Demographic taken to its logical conclusion. For this particular medium, what's surprising is not that it has fans outside its target audience, it's that it has fans at all; it wasn't meant to entertain anyone, just inform them, or fulfill some other strictly functional role. But perhaps there's something hypnotic about watching the weather forecast on a perpetual loop, or maybe that educational short film has aged badly and picked up some unintentional hilarity along the way. Either way, you can bet most of the people watching aren't doing it out of a first-hand interest in the subject. Not to mention that just about anything — anything — can be made to appear sexy or even erotic. Sometimes the makers will discover the extra audience, resulting in an Audience Shift. May overlap with Just Here for Godzilla if the Godzilla part makes all the boring parts worth it. Mundane Made Awesome is this trope when the subject isn't interesting to begin with, but becomes that way with a little imagination. Compare Incredibly Lame Fun, where something that bores other people in-universe has at least one character who thinks it’s interesting or fun. Compare and contrast Only One Finds It Fun. |
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In one of the Torchwood: The Lost Files dramas, the Shipping Forecast is taken over by an Eldritch Abomination. | |
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Public Service Broadcasting have built a whole career on remixing old filmstrips and news broadcasts into songs. | |
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Parodied in an episode of The Simpsons, where the family is reimagined as 17th-century Puritans: Bart and Lisa have their eyes glued to the fireplace, with Marge feeling concerned that the fire might be too violent for them to watch. | |
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ITV Nightscreen was very similar to Ceefax, also being shown during the overnight hours, however it had a broader range of music, including dance, and whereas Ceefax featured news and weather, Nightscreen promoted upcoming programmes on ITV. | |
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Penny Arcade plays with this, when Tycho convinces Gabe that the Forecast Channel on the Wii is actually a game. | |
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In Red Dwarf's third series episode "Timeslides", one of Rimmer's classmates from boarding school made a fortune by painting it red, cutting it into squares and marketing it as a tension sheet. | |
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In the radio version of Dead Ringers, BBC Radio 4 mob boss Brian Perkins gets bored reading it out, and tries doing it as a rap, with no change in the words. | |
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In Stargate SG-1 Jonas Quinn is from an alien planet with technology roughly on par with the early/mid twentieth century. (They are working on their analogue to the atomic bomb.) When he comes to Earth he finds the Weather Channel fascinating and watches it for hours; when questioned he explains that the ability to predict weather with a relative degree of accuracy is like watching the future. | |
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Likewise, many Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes include particularly ridiculous examples of these in the show. | |
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The Amazing World of Gumball episode "The List" parodies this. To complete an item on their mother's dream list, Gumball and Darwin take her on a world tour... on Elmore Maps, the show's Bland-Name Product equivalent to Google Maps. During the "tour", among other things, they see Richard driving onto a ramp and flying into the air, and land themselves on a patch of thin ice which breaks and lands them underwater, where they get eaten by a big fish. | |
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While we're on the subject, this Wiki. How many other people do you know out there in your everyday life who enjoy cataloging tropes and their examples? | |
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The Webdriver Torso videos were made by Google to test YouTube's compression algorithm, and thus aren't intended as entertainment. However, before they revealed this, some people got enjoyment out of watching the videos, finding patterns, and speculating on the history of the channel. | |
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There's an episode of Black Books where Fran is turned on by an ex-boyfriend's dramatic voice. She discovers he reads the Shipping Forecast and ends up... listening to it in bed... | |
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Mrs. Bale in As Time Goes By listens to the Shipping Forecast. As she's a no-nonsense, stoic housekeeper, her love of the Shipping Forecast is just another way of demonstrating that what's utterly boring for other people is important to her. | |
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Believe it or not, censorship (in certain scenarios). Those familiar with the original content can have fun with watching and/or comparing the odd, clumsy, unintentionally hilarious, or otherwise unfitting efforts at censorship (case in point, the made-for-TV version of Showgirls featuring heavily edited scenes and dialogue, mismatched voices and most infamously, digitally-added clothing). Some others who find a particular scene or character to be unnecessary Fanservice or Fetish Retardant may like the censored version better. | |
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Wikipedia. Proof that ours is not the only wiki that will ruin your life. The prose style is usually boring, and the tiny text is hard on the eyes, and yet.... The boring, humorless prose can be quite amusing when the article you're reading is about a humorous topic such as a famous joke, or something everyone should already know about, such as humans. Wikipedia has spawned Wikirace, a game where the object is to get from one designated article to another using as few links as possible. While we're on the subject, this Wiki. How many other people do you know out there in your everyday life who enjoy cataloging tropes and their examples? |
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