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Why would an author of a media work hire a guy who hated their previous stuff? Maybe the artist agrees with the critic and wants their help to avoid more story problems. Maybe they want an Honest Advisor who won't be afraid to tell them what's wrong. Maybe it's part of their campaign to show that We Don't Suck Anymore. Maybe it's to back up their Let's See YOU Do Better! challenge. Or maybe it's to nullify the critic because they'll be less likely to criticize something if they worked on it themselves, right? Compare Cast the Expert, which a critic may technically be, an expert on story. Contrast Take That, Critics! and Promoted Fanboy. |
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lonelygirl15: Gregory Austin McConnell was known for his outspoken remarks on the series before winning a contest through "The Show Is Yours" to make the Spin-Off LG15: Outbreak. He did enjoy the series and wanted to do right by it. | |
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The Simpsons is no stranger to this: In the episode "Beyond Blunderdome", Mel Gibson ends up hiring Homer Simpson after the latter gives a scathing review of his remake of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington because he believes Homer is the only man brave enough to tell him the truth. In "Homer's Odyssey", Homer loses his job at the power plant, starting a chain of events that results in him leading a protest against the danger to the community posed by the plant. In order to silence the protest, Mr. Burns hires Homer as the safety inspector. But inverted in "Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner", where Homer gets hired as the critic to the local paper because he is not very scathing nor critical of the food (unlike the original, who was retiring, hence how Homer got hired so easily.) In "Itchy & Scratchy & Marge", after Marge successfully gets The Itchy & Scratchy Show to tone down its violence, Roger Meyers Jr. calls her for advice on how to sanitize their latest cartoon. In "Bart Star", Flanders becomes a children's football coach. When he is fed up with Homer heckling him constantly (despite his undefeated record), he resigns and surrenders the position to Homer in anger. |
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Fargo: Season Five: After listening to Indira criticize her ability to understand people's inner toughness and determination in key situations, Lorraine abruptly offers her a job at her debt collection agency. | |
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In the first season of American Crime Story, OJ Simpson's defense team specifically hire Alan Dershowitz because they were sick of him trashing them on the news, and it was the only way to shut him up. Apparently, this does reflect real life. | |
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DuckTales (2017): The episode "The Duck Knight Returns" revolves around a big-budget movie adaptation of the in-universe TV series Darkwing Duck. It's helmed by a No Celebrities Were Harmed version of Christopher Nolan, and the Darker and Edgier tone quickly turns off Dewey Duck. Since children Dewey's age would be the movie's primary demographic, the director reluctantly lets Dewey consult on the film. | |
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Schlock Mercenary: Petey says that those who criticize how he runs things in the Plenipotent Dominion usually end up helping him manage things. | |
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The Nostalgia Critic is frequently pestered by the troll Douchey McNitpick, who is constantly pointing out all of the Critic's mistakes. At one point, the Critic decides to just hire Douchey as a fact-checker, but Douchey turns down the job "because then I wouldn't get to complain about [your mistakes]!" However, when the series gets Un-Cancelled, he does rope Douchey into replacing him as guardian of the Plot Hole, and pointing out all the mistakes in the universe makes the little troll miserable. | |
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Something*Positive: Davan is hired by the producer of Ollie's play after the producer cuts their funding, leading Davan to give a scathing "The Reason You Suck" Speech. The next panel is Davan telling Pejee he doesn't understand why he got hired. | |
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At one point in Seinfeld, George decides that his choices have been taking him in the wrong direction, and resolves to always do the opposite of what his instincts tell him. When he's interviewing for a job with the New York Yankees, he meets George Steinbrenner, the manager, for the first time. Keeping with his resolution, George greets him with a frank and brutal "The Reason You Suck" Speech about how his poor management decisions have run the team into the ground. Mr. Steinbrenner responds with an emphatic "Hire this man!" | |
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In Ex Machina, during his career as "The Great Machine", Mitchell Hundred tries to establish a working relationship with the NYPD police commissioner. She ends up nearly beating him to death with a nightstick because his "heroics" had caused two of her officers to be critically injured. When Mitchell becomes Mayor, he still keeps the commissioner on since she was the first person to make him realize the effects of his actions. | |
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President Bartlet did this several times on The West Wing. The most notable would be Ainsley Hayes, the Trope Namer for Blonde Republican Sex Kitten who Bartlet hired in spite of the fact that she was registered to the opposing party. | |
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In season 5 of The Guild, Codex harshly criticizes a pending update to 'The Game' unknowingly in front of the game's creator. At the end of the season, he offers her a job. | |
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A frequent topic in Aaron McGruder's comic strip The Boondocks was Jar Jar Binks and the racial stereotyping he portrayed. For the production of Red Tails, a George Lucas-produced film about the Tuskegee Airmen, guess who got hired as its screenwriter? That's right, Aaron McGruder.note And he claimed he was so excited to work with George Lucas that the topic of Jar Jar never came up once! | |
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In PvP, Max Powers concludes that the company is going bankrupt, information he obtained by breaking into Cole's office to examine the finances. When he confronts Cole with his suspicions, Cole angrily fires him. Later, Cole comes to his senses. He rehires Max under the title of Chief Financial Officer and follows his plan to save the company. | |
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According to Keith Giffen, while working on 52, there were plans to feature Lobo for an arc set in space. Grant Morrison, who was the main writer working on that arc, admitted that "I don't know... I've never really liked Lobo." Keith Giffen, Lobo's main creator, became adamant upon hearing this that Morrison be the one to handle Lobo. Giffen had long developed a disdain for the character and felt his gag of over-the-top violence and Black Comedy had grown stale, and therefore asked Morrison to reinvent the character as much as possible. | |
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In the pilot episode of Spin City, the mayor commits a political gaffe that offends the homosexual community, earning particular reproach from Carter Heywood, a gay rights activist. Mike Flaherty, realizing that the mayor would be better served to have a gay colleague on the staff, decides to hire Carter as the head of minority affairs. Carter, despite initially promising to make things a nightmare, ends up settling in well with the rest of the cast and ends up serving the Mayor loyally for the entirety of the series. | |
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When the revamped version of Battlestar Galactica (2003) went into production, one of the project's biggest critics was Richard Hatch, who was the star of the original series. And so he got hired to appear on the new show playing a rabble-rousing troublemaker. | |
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Pixar hired cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz to work on their then-upcoming movie Coco, even though he had been critical of Disney in the past over their treatment of Latinos and Latino cultures. Unfortunately, this actually caused many people to be angry at Lalo, thinking he's been bought out. | |
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In Kingdom of Loathing, HotStuff was a user who had, among other things, discovered a bug that allowed him to generate infinite meat (the game's currency). The response involved him getting hired to the dev team, where he now looks for bugs in the code before it gets released. | |
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For The Ultimate Matrix Collection, the filmmakers included two Alternate DVD Commentaries: one by philosophers who liked all three movies, and one by critics who gave the original Matrix a good review and then gave poor reviews to Reloaded and Revolutions. The Wachowskis say they did this to let viewers "triangulate their own position" between the two. | |
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In Friends, Monica writes a scathing review of a particular restaurant for a local newspaper. The restaurant owner angrily shows up at her apartment to confront her over it. Monica defends her review by telling him exactly what's wrong with the cooking at his restaurant and showing him how those particular dishes should be made. He promptly hires her as his head chef. | |
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Babylon 5: Upon becoming the new CEO of Edgars Industries, Michael Garibaldi rounds up the most vocal critics of the company to serve as the new board of directors because they certainly won't have any shortage of ideas on how to reform the company. If their idea works, they get a bonus; if it doesn't, he'll "eat them for lunch." | |
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