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One order of magnitude greater than Franchise Killer and Trend Killer, this is when a work somehow manages to take an entire genre down. A rare and unpredictable phenomenon that can, in extreme cases, cause a genre to become Condemned by History. This can happen in a variety of ways. A Deconstruction that successfully brings every single flaw and an illogical element of a genre to the fore, discrediting any subsequent attempts to play them straight. A parody (even accidental) that makes it difficult or impossible for anyone to take the genre seriously again. Something so incredibly bad that it leaves a bad taste in audiences' mouths for the entire genre. A particularly ghastly sequel runs the entire concept into the ground by the virtue of being thoroughly derivative. A work so good that nothing else can live up to it. This is rare since these usually just attract imitators, but there's only so many derivative works the audience may take before switching to something else. Alternatively, a Trope Codifier or Trope Maker is so dominating that it kills off any competing or experimental subgenres that don't adhere to the rules it sets down. For example, Street Fighter II and Double Dragon so completely solidified the rules of the Fighting Game and Beat 'em Up (respectively) that they all but eliminated major gameplay deviations in their genres. A Magnum Opus that might not be necessarily good but is guaranteed to become classic due to utterly exhausting the genre and beating every single trope in it to death, making it nearly impossible to create further works within the genre's constraints without being accused of Plagiarism or Creative Sterility. Any shallow attempts at the genre's Reconstruction that end up Jumping the Shark due to introducing new elements without rhyme or reason, making the renewed franchise seem like a mockery of its former self. A work from outside the genre that exposes some of a genre's Acceptable Breaks from Reality as not so acceptable. A work outside the genre that somehow drives the audience away from the previous genre. For an example, by launching a new genre. Death of a representative icon of the genre, such as a visionary writer/director/musician/etc dying, or a major company with a focus on the genre shutting down. A work responsible for changing sociopolitical trends that renders common and defining themes in a genre uncomfortable, bigoted, or even offensive, such as Minstrel Shows, which would have white actors in blackface. Marketing a product for the mainstream as opposed to hardcore exponents will eliminate some of the more esoteric genres or sub-genres that originally had appealed to a small but devoted niche audience. The reality of satisfying corporate profit requirements often involves appealing to the absolute Lowest Common Denominator and "Dumbing it down". Harder, more cerebral Science Fiction like both Blade Runner films tend to either fail at the box office or go unnoticed due to the unfavorable comparisons to softer, more fast-paced, action/character-oriented science fiction. Some works, however, end up being the last straw for the genre by circumstances unrelated to their actual content but rather by their Troubled Production and Executive Meddling. A work that is very good but turns out to be a commercial failure, making everyone afraid to invest in this genre. Inversely, a work is very popular but hated by critics, thus giving the genre a reputation for appealing only to the lowest common denominator. It's rare for this to actually kill a genre even temporarily, since there's lots of money to be made in appealing to the lowest common denominator. A genre gets so expensive to produce or film convincingly that people aren't willing to lay down the money for it. Sometimes advances in CGI or computer programming can revive the genre — for example, the Epic Movie was briefly dead until advances in computer technology and animatronics were able to tamp down on the costs. Of course, disaster movies are becoming rarer again for the same reason. Alternatively, it turns out that the technology needed to convincingly move the genre forward wasn't as viable as people thought. Gaze upon the many, many aborted attempts to have fully-3D characters replacing "real" actors in a movie or 3D gaming. Media producers come to regard another genre as more profitable and focus on that one, regardless of artistic merit (or lack thereof). Assorted freak events or coincidences make a genre unviable or unpopular, and a particular work gets perceived as either being a tasteless exploitation plot, Ripped from the Headlines in the worst possible sense, or worse, being directly held responsible for the unfortunate events in question. Actual top-down directives and limitations, whether from a government organization or a group of similar power and influence, making the genre impossible to produce anymore without getting into legal trouble. A Broken Base between fans of different subgenres forms within the audience, with the factions being unwilling to engage with "rival" subgenres. If any of the subgenres' fandoms are large enough to sustain the genre on their own, they kill off the competing subgenres; if not, the genre as a whole dies. These often aren't permanent: A good Reconstruction, revival, or cleverly marketed reboot can bring a genre Back from the Dead if you pull it off right. Something of a Cyclic Trope, as genres tend to go through periods of death, rebirth, and change. Also note that not every death of a genre is as the result of a Genre Killer — sometimes, it's instead a long period of stagnation where no innovative works are produced (or those that are go unnoticed), resulting in the audience losing interest. Compare Creator Killer, Star-Derailing Role, Trend Killer, Genre Turning Point. Also compare Trope Breaker, where it's a culture change or technological advance in Real Life that takes a genre down by discrediting one of its chief tenets. Contrast Genre Relaunch, a work that brings a genre Back from the Dead. When adding examples, be wary of Overly Narrow Superlative. If you have to add multiple qualifiers to describe the "genre", it probably isn't an example. "Die Hard" on an X" is a genre, "French Die Hard on a Billionaire's Yacht between Greek Islands", isn't. Also, as TV Tropes does not know time, please wait 10 years after the work's release. |
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Watchmen and Batman: The Dark Knight Returns caused a period of Darker and Edgier comic books by starting a trend of comic-book deconstruction and killing off the idealistic Silver Age-type hero (until Kingdom Come made it viable again). Alan Moore, the writer of Watchmen, is incredibly aware of this, having spent the majority of his career after the novel trying to undo its influence on comics. | |
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The one-two punch of both failing 1990's cartoons Hammerman (MC Hammer) and Little Rosey (Roseanne Barr) effectively brought the curtain down on the Celebrity Toons genre, which had been popular on Saturday mornings dating back to the mid 1970s. This lasted long until the success of both Jackie Chan Adventures and Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi at the Turn of the Millennium, and even then the genre is far less commonplace than it used to be. | |
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While publishers had been de-emphasizing the youth market beginning in the 1970s, the rise of the "dark superhero" era in the early 90s and changing tastes regarding humor meant the end for family-friendly comics in the mainstream, with Archie Comics being the only "major" publisher focusing on children by 1995 (as well as the only one still associated with the Comics Code), and even they saw the writing on the wall. Attempts from other publishers to revive the genre have failed. And while superheroes have remained popular through movies and TV, superhero comics eventually became seen as having a very insular, gated community, while most general adult readers were more likely to flock to non-superhero comics such as The Walking Dead and Saga. | |
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Lord of the Flies was intended to be a Deconstructor Fleet of the then-popular Kids' Wilderness Epic Robinsonade genre of books such as The Coral Island and Two Years Vacation. This launched the Teenage Wasteland genre while leaving the other genre decried as overtly-idealistic by audiences, assuming they actually know those books even existed. The kids' wilderness epic did find a revival in The '90s as television programs and film, but the Robinsonade aspect was scrapped during that period. | |
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Deathmate, the Intercontinuity Crossover between Image Comics and Valiant Comics. In addition to the continued existence of Valiant, it killed the '90s Anti-Hero pioneered by the above and many of the creative elements that led to the archetype. It also helped contribute to the death of the entire industry as it existed at that point in time, due to comic shops preordering massive numbers of the comics, then having to deal with the fallout when Image's half of the crossover came out long after interest in it had dried up. | |
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Paige put an end to the concept of a token non-girly Diva. When she entered NXT, her 'Anti-Diva' character was actually quite popular and she enjoyed great reactions. However, not long afterward on the main roster A.J. Lee (who started off with a similar "hey guys, cheer for me because I'm not girly" image) enjoyed a massive push - becoming a Diva with a very interesting character. NXT also added Divas with fun characters like Emma, Bayley, Summer Rae and Sasha Banks. The success of Total Divas also helped flesh out the personalities of many main roster Divas. So that by the time Paige debuted on the main roster, her character was met with lukewarm popularity, and crowd reactions gradually died down. Paige wasn't well-received until her character was given more depth beyond "I'm not a girl, I'm just like you" - meaning there won't likely be any Divas trying to grab fans by claiming to be The Lad-ette any time soon. Former Tag Team partner Ivelisse got a huge pop when she stomped into Family Wrestling Entertainment and announced her hatred of divas (and that wasn't the intent), but in the long term, she was the only one outside of Puerto Rico's independent circuit getting any mileage out of "anti-diva" after Sienna Duvall and Epiphany retired. | |
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Pretty Cure Bukatsudo Energetic, a Curefic masterpiece, has become such a Tough Act to Follow that nowadays, it's impossible to write a Japanese School Club-themed Curefic without being accused of ripping this one-off. | |
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After Pretty Cure Perfume Preppy, don't expect reference-driven Curefics to be taken seriously again for the foreseeable future. | |
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Bizet's Carmen killed the opera comique by blurring the traditional line that set it apart from regular opera until the former no longer existed as a distinct genre. | |
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Don Quixote's deconstruction of the Chivalric Romance, in which the main character (and the archetype he represented) is portrayed as insane and idiotic, is widely credited with helping to kill the genre. The genre was already in its death throes about a decade before Cervantes' novel, but it certainly dealt the final blow. Two hundred years later, Lord Byron complained about this in Don Juan: | |
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One narrow exception that does still often work: the arrogant heel from a Commonwealth or Western European country that brags about their homeland's socialist ways while putting down America for its crime, poverty, and other issues. It helps that race doesn't really come into play. Bret Hart drew huge heel heat with this towards the end of his WWF run in 1997note In the United States anyway, in Canada and Europe he was (and still is) a huge babyface, and when done right it usually draws the good kind of boos rather than the "We don't want to see this" kind of boos. | |
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Wrestlicious killed off the stream of GLOW imitators. While POWW and WOW did decently enough, Wrestlicious's obviously Troubled Production caused it to not reach TV until two years after it had first been taped (and additional tapings had to be done as many of the original girls had signed to major companies since). A second season was announced but has been in Development Hell. With the success of promotions like SHIMMER, SHINE Wrestling and others offering healthy alternatives to WWE programming - and a renewed focus on the Divas in WWE themselves - not many people are interested in Camp wrestling anymore. One could argue that WOW started the kill - as Wrestlicious had a predecessor called CRUSH. A pilot was taped and shipped around but never picked up. Wrestlicious was only funded by the lottery winnings of JV Rich. (Then again, WOW did surprise many naysayers with a comeback about a decade later, with two then regulars of SHINE winning its tag team title belts no less. It was nowhere near getting a national TV deal like GLOW before it or the international attention of contemporary SHINE, much less SHIMMER, but GLOW's brand of the camp is not dying quietly). | |
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Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert deconstructed romantic fiction archetypes, helping to end the era of romanticism in fiction and making way for realism. | |
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Both De Kiekeboes as well as the works of Raoul Cauvin destroyed the trend of ethnic stereotyping in Belgian Comics and Franco-Belgian Comics respectively. The former proved that a realistic portrayal of foreigners and foreign countries is much more profitable (the comic book has a respectable number of readers that read it because the realistic portrayal of foreign countries allows them to feel like if they are going on a vacation). The latter stereotyped jobs and popularized the trend of job stereotyping, making ethnic stereotyping feel rather unnecessary since the trend of stereotyping is already being done, without any Unfortunate Implications included. Some comic books still use ethnic stereotypes (such as Urbanus), but it is more out of tradition (it predated both) than because of anything else. Speaking of which... | |
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The foundation of the very first mixed martial arts company, Shooto, in 1985 was the beginning of the end for 'shoot style' wrestling promotions like the Universal Wrestling Federation in particular, as mixed martial arts was essentially "shoot style but better" to the general public. What few shoot-style promotions survived either became hybrids that showcase MMA too like the Inoki Genome Federation or openly adopted the tropes of other pro wrestling styles like LLPW. | |
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Secret Mountain Fort Awesome, despite receiving several accolades during its short run (it was the first Cartoon Network series to win an Annecy award), was met with a largely negative response, and is considered partially responsible for kid's animation turning away from the Grossout Show genre at the beginning of The New '10s. | |
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ECW made an effort not to do another barbed wire match after Sabu vs Terry Funk in 1997. To quote Paul Heyman, "Because no-one could top that! And in good conscience, we didn't want anyone to try." | |
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Although it had been petering out even before then (the last match of its type occurring in 2006), the adoption of the TV-PG rating by WWE in 2008 probably permanently killed off the "strip" matches (Evening Gown, Bra and Panties) that had been more or less standard fare for fans of the Divas for nearly a decade. The only similar match since then has been the 2012 Tuxedo Match between Santino Marella and Ricardo Rodriguez, and that was obviously played for humor, not sexual titillation. While a Diva might still have her underpants exposed from time to time for a quick laugh, there will not be any more overly hyped, blatant attempts at Fanservice, at least not in the foreseeable future. WWE does occasionally do costume-themed matches (usually for the sake of a Christmas Episode) but the focus is usually primarily on wrestling - with Fanservice restricted to photoshoots on WWE.com. | |
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Rhyme and Reason, the first Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers fanfic ever written that was meant to be one in the first place, almost killed off CDRR fanfiction entirely in 1996. The two reasons were its sheer length and its high reputation. Most Rangerphiles thought, "If that's what CDRR fanfic is supposed to be, sorry, but I can't write anything even close to this." It took the launch of the fanfic series The Adventures of Gadget Hackwrench the next year to get other Rangerphiles into writing (although not for that series) and kick off the CDRR fanfic tradition. | |
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Berserk has made it rather difficult for other Japanese Dark Fantasy works full of copious sex and violence to gain traction, as it utilized all of the tropes of the genre to such a degree that many will be accused of attempting to ride Kentaro Miura and Kouji Mori's coattails. Case in point: Redo of Healer became immensely controversial for its glorification of sexual violence, Cheat Slayer only lasted one chapter due to its graphic content and mean-spirited treatment of other works, and even the more successful imitators such as Goblin Slayer tend to be a bit more Lighter and Softer. | |
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The authority figure trope had been played well for several decades, but when The Authority was created and began abusing power and the roster simply for fun, as well as constantly winning over and over again, the trope began losing steam and, two years after the end of the angle, authority figures in wrestling vanished or were made into feuds that were not part of the main event. | |
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Thanks to Cupcakes (Sergeant Sprinkles) and its equally reviled imitators, pretty much no one will ever write slasher fics with My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic characters again. | |
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Star Wars killed New Wave Science Fiction in both film and literature. The movement was tottering anyway by the time Star Wars was released, and its massive success convinced publishers and producers that there was more money to be made with simple action-adventure sci-fi than more cerebral stories that were often difficult to understand. | |
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Sailor Moon codified the Magical Girl Warrior subgenre, and in the process killed off the Cute Witch and Magic Idol Singer subgenres, with only a handful of shows in those subgenres being made since. | |
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After Batman: The Animated Series was surprisingly successful with older audiences, Fox gave the show a prime-time slot. It ended up flopping against 60 Minutes (then the number-one show on the air), killing off any ideas for adult-oriented action cartoons for over two decades. The genre has seen limited success on the Direct-to-DVD market, and it wasn't until the Darker and Edgier revival of Samurai Jack, Netflix's Castlevania series, and adult animation, in general, increasing in mainstream attention that it got more interest. | |
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While territorial wrestling promotions were already on life support for more than a decade by this time, the final death blow was arguably the collapse of the Memphis-based USWA (United States Wrestling Association). USWA was one of the few territorial promotions to make a name for itself during the Pro Wrestling Boom of the 1980s, as a sort of development league for the WWE, due in no small part to the legendary Jerry "The King" Lawler's partial ownership of them. Unfortunately, the rise of the Monday Night Wars combined with some horrible company mismanagement doomed the league to the point where, by late 1996, they were reduced to doing shows at a poorly maintained flea market-owned "stadium" in Memphis. Combined with the relatively poor quality of their matches and wrestling talent by this time (just watch this video of one of their final shows), the USWA finally folded in November of 1997note with one of its owners, Larry Burton, convicted for fraud and racketeering. And the final nail was hit on the coffin of territorial wrestling (unless you consider WWC the last of the territories, which itself saw a much slower decline for many different reasons). | |
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The Good Omens fic The Sacred and the Profane ended up all but killing the "what if Aziraphale was the one to fall instead of Crowley" genre for a while, thanks to a combination of it being a Tough Act to Follow and it being a dark deconstruction of the concept. It wasn't until the TV adaptation aired that more writers started to take a stab at it. | |
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Spider-Man: The series is often labeled as killing off the standard "adult hero with Kid Sidekick" formula, as a consequence of being the Trope Codifier in comics for the Kid Hero. Other than new versions of Robin, mostly getting a pass via the Grandfather Clause, very few sidekick heroes have debuted since then, since the Kid Hero allowed for the same reader-identification youth appeal, without the headache of justifying a sidekick, a trope that was never very popular among creators to begin with, or the patronizing nature of the Escapist Character being a secondary one. Most of the younger sidekicks who existed before Spider-Man (including quite a few Robins) are now treated as essentially solo heroes who happen to operate with the approval of their old mentor. | |
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The publication of both Jeff the Killer and Sonic.exe in 2011 both codified and eventually killed the "teenage Serial Killer" and "evil video game" genre of Creepypastas respectively, as both genres were soon flooded by a sea of imitators that copied them wholesale until they eventually drowned in their own excess and readers, tired of the repetitive nature of said genres, began looking towards more original material. Both Jeff the Killer and Sonic.exe's critical reappraisals for the worse, compounded by the latter's author being exposed as a sexual predator, have ensured that neither genre will be able to recover any time soon. | |
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The massive success and sweet-hearted tone of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic led to cartoons turning away from the Sadist Show genre at the beginning of The New '10s. In addition, The Fairly OddParents! — one of the most iconic and popular cartoons of the Sadist Show genre — suffered Seasonal Rot in the 2010s (and got a universally despised sequel later on) that caused its popularity to plummet. | |
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The poor sales and cancellation of Waai! and Otonyan and the failure of the Himegoto anime killed off virtually all mainstream attempts in the Otokonoko Genre. Not helped by the Genre Deconstruction Bokura no Hentai coming along and pointing out the genre's numerous problems, namely the large amounts of transphobia and homophobia. | |
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Father of the Pride killed off the potential for computer-animated shows for adults, which is now seen as a format for family entertainment (with very few adult CGI shows like Lucy, the Daughter of the Devil and The Drinky Crow Show being made afterwards, with varying success), while the more "adult" fare is almost always 2D animation. It would be a while before Sausage Party would revive any ideas of CGI adult animation. | |
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There are good Curefics, and there are bad Curefics, and then there are these: After Pretty Cure Perfume Preppy, don't expect reference-driven Curefics to be taken seriously again for the foreseeable future. Pretty Cure Bukatsudo Energetic, a Curefic masterpiece, has become such a Tough Act to Follow that nowadays, it's impossible to write a Japanese School Club-themed Curefic without being accused of ripping this one-off. |
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Urbanus killed off most of the family-friendly comic book series in its native Flanders. Before there was a humongous amount of comic books that involved family-friendly comedy (such as Boule Et Bille, Olivier Blunder etc.) that were very popular for being both in color at a time when most comic books were in black and white (or rather: blue/black and red) and being accepted by religious groups. When Urbanus showed Flanders that Refuge in Audacity, Vulgar Humor, and Black Comedy could be popular among Flemish families and sell in masses (becoming the 3rd best-selling comic book in the De Standaard's best-sellers list) without backlash from Moral Guardians, the lack of them in the older comic books, which always used alternative ways for humor, quickly showed how outdated they could become. Nowadays, most comedy comic books in Flanders feature one of the above in one way or another, separating the Belgian comic from the Dutch comic. | |
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The absolutely vicious reception to Dwayne Johnson's "Rocky Maivia" gimmick probably wasn't what killed the "white meat babyface" character (think Ricky Steamboat) as a viable draw in pro wrestling, but it was definitely the sign that it was no longer going to work. In this case it was more a general culture shift that was represented across all media that saw heroic characters adopt a more gritty and realistic persona, with the Anti-Hero trope really taking off in films, video games, comic books (see '90s Anti-Hero) and wrestling. The Deconstruction of the "white meat babyface" by Kurt Angle (who played it ridiculously over the top to intentionally get heel heat, which worked in spades) officially lowered the coffin into the ground. Sting is the one exception, as he was still using the character up until his (second) retirement in AEW, though even he had to go Darker and Edgier, ditching the bleach blonde hair and colorful facepaint to blatantly rip off The Crow (1994). | |
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Big Windup! was this for sports anime and manga in the American market due to poor sales reported by Funimation. Most anime licensors in North America refused to license sports anime from that point on until a relatively popular swimming anime about handsome boys and six-packs (Free!) and a sports anime about volleyball (Haikyuu!!) came into play in 2013/2014, which also led the sports anime genre to a Genre Relaunch. | |
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The universally negative reception of Abunai Sisters killed off the potential for 3D anime for the early part of The New '10s, as the series is infamous for poor-rendered CGI models and the weak, simplistic plots. It would be a while before Harlock: Space Pirate and Stand by Me Doraemon received positive reviews. Until now, most CGI anime series are more likely to use 2D Visuals, 3D Effects or Cel Shading to give traditional anime impression rather than the "pure" CGI animation like the western counterpart. | |
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The television series Harry Enfield and Chums is credited with killing off an entire genre of radio presenting with its "Smashie and Nicey" sketches about two aging Boomer music radio DJs with dated musical tastes constantly reeling off the same tired, clichéd patter. In 1993-4, a new regime at The BBC's Radio 1 promptly sacked older DJs who were considered to have been potential targets of the parody. Enfield and Paul Whitehouse themselves later said that they hadn't intended the parody so aggressively and were sad to think that it might have contributed to people losing their jobs. | |
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