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Sometimes a character will try to create something, and then leave the idea as fini note (...when it's actually not, and yet they will, out of hubris, out of spite, or out of frustration, force it out of development, often for it to fail anyways. At times, the character may be up against a deadline and in-turn forced to do this. Often, the character will try to hide the flaws, or make excuses for it, even when there should logically not be any. They may also attempt to force the "completed" idea on someone or on the public if they are so inclined, as if to say, "What you see is what you get, now LIKE IT!". On a similar tangent, the the reasons for forcing something out may be a protracted development, meaning that it was released far further in the future than was originally intended.) Sometimes crosses over with Cordon Bleugh Chef, Obvious Beta, Bait-and-Switch note if the character hides the flaws in their idea, or if the media uses the trope to make the idea seem perfect to the viewer upon completion., Schedule Slip, and Vapor Ware. Sometimes the product is pushed out because it was Christmas Rushed. This also may happen because the product or media was in Development Hell or had a Troubled Production, and a company just wanted to push it out just to get it off their backs. If the item or game-in-question is still fun to use, it may result in Good Bad Bugs. Compare with Unfinished, Untested, Used Anyway. |
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The Simpsons: Happens when Homer attempts to build a barbecue pit. He accidentally drops the parts into wet cement, and then spills them again with the bricks he was going to use to build the base. He's forced to use the French side of the instruction paper, until he realizes he can't read French, at which point he starts mashing and forcing parts together in the vain hope he can complete it before the cement dries. | |
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Rocko's Modern Life: Rocko, Heffer, and Filburt's pilot pitch for Ralph's new cartoon "Wacky Delly" is nowhere near done when Ralph decides to show it to the executives. This trope is invoked in that Ralph wanted the pilot to be bad so he could finally be freed from his contract. Unfortunately, the executives love it and pick it up for a full series. | |
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The Japanese Aircraft Carrier Shinano had a rather troubled development, to say the least. While originally intended to be the third Yamato class battleship when she was laid down, following the loss of four of Japan's fleet aircraft carriers during the Battle of Midway, she was immediately converted into an aircraft carrier herself. The ship ended up launching in late 1944...when her watertight compartments were still in the process of being tested, and naval workers and engineers were still onboard the ship looking for any problems and structural weaknesses. What's more, she was still scheduled to receive a fitting out upon arrival at her destination, the Kure Naval Base. Unfortunately for the Shinano, she had the terrible luck of running into an American submarine, the USS Archerfish, which promptly fired six torpedoes, of which four hit the carrier. While at first thought to be able to take the damage, thanks to the aforementioned lack of watertight testing and the crew's inexperience with Damage Control, the flooding grew From Bad to Worse, and the carrier ultimately sank a few hours later, taking thousands of crew and civilian contractors down with her. | |
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Westworld: Subverted with "the reveries," a system update for the Hosts that gives them more lifelike affectations, but apparently causes them to malfunction. Bernard becomes concerned that Ford did the update before it could be debugged while rushing to complete his new narrative experience, before the Delos board forces Ford out of the park. It's all actually Ford's plan. The Hosts aren't malfunctioning, they're becoming sentient. And also now see humans as their enemy. | |
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DuckTales (1987): Fenton creates a marketing campaign for a product called Pep, only he doesn't actually have a product to sell. He goes to Gyro Gearloose for suggestions and finds him working on a bubble gum that makes people levitate. With hundreds of impatient customers demanding Pep, Fenton takes the gum, despite Gyro's protests that he hasn't finished testing it for side effects. Soon, everyone is chewing Pep gum; unfortunately, just as Gyro predicted, people are unable to get back down after chewing too much. | |
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Happens from time to time on TV Tropes itself, when a person has gotten the proper amount of votes on a trope page, and launches/rogue-launches it prematurely without the blessing of the community. | |
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Happened with Duke Nukem Forever: previously Vapor Ware for 15 years, this game was decided as done by Gearbox Software in 2011. It resulted in a mish-mash of conflicting software, artistic design, story ideas, gameplay mechanics, and humor that was no longer considered acceptable in the 2010s. | |
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Infamously happened with Action 52: One individual, Vince Perri, got the bright idea to create a video game with 52 games on one cartridge. Unfortunately, he had no real experience, so he farmed the programming out to a bunch of college students with Atari STs. One day, out of the blue, Perri decided the half-baked idea was finished and time to ship, and the rest is history... | |
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One episode of Sabrina the Teenage Witch sees Aunt Zelda trying to develop a panacea for all of humanity's illnesses. Instead, she inadvertently creates a potion that can leave any surface spotless. Hilda and Salem, seeing dollar signs, tell her to market the potion as a household cleaning product; Zelda is reluctant as she hasn't fully tested it, but eventually gets greedy herself and agrees. True to form, it turns out that the potion causes people to develop green mold on their bodies, and everyone who bought some demands a refund. Another episode centers on this trope: Sabrina gets lazy with her spellcasting and starts relying on "do-over" charms that can hit a Reset Button on whatever incantation she just did. Her Quizmaster takes those charms away to make her face the consequences of such sloppy spellcasting, but Sabrina can't break the habit and keeps performing thoughtless magic that repeatedly blows up in her face. |
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Spongebob Squarepants: Zigzagged in two episodes featuring Squidward: "Band Geeks": Squidward claims that he has lead a marching band after Squilliam makes the same claim. Squilliam challenges him to cover the halftime show at the Bubble Bowl, which is in one week. Each day has its own pitfalls and problems (including two fish being explicitly KILLED when they spin their flags too fast like propellers, and then fly upwards and crash into a blimp, which explodes on contact.) Upon seeing that the band hasn't improved in 6 days, Squidward breaks down on the penultimate night, claiming that he's giving up. After Spongebob gives a Rousing Speech, continuing on, the band practices on into the night. The next day, Squidward tries to forfeit, only for the band to indeed show up in full regalia. When Squidward begins to conduct the orchestra, the failure portion of the trope is defied when it plays perfectly-in-tune and even goes above-and-beyond expectations for either Squidward or Squlliam, the latter of which has a heart attack from the shock! "Squilliam Returns": Squidward tries to claim that he owns a fancy restaurant. Squilliam, however, calls his bluff and plans to make his way to the Krusty Krab that night. Squidward has only a few hours to train Spongebob and redecorate the Krusty Krab. When Squilliam arrives, Squidward tries to stall him, but he enters anyways and finds that everything is in impeccable order. The plan falls apart, however, when Squilliam asks Spongebob his name. Having cleared out his mind of all unimportant information earlier, he goes into overload, spilling drinks on, and literally cheese-grating the bottoms of, the patrons. |
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The Smoggies: In "Goodbye Engine Number Nine", Uncle Boom, fed up with Engine number nine constantly breaking down, is really pushing for Speed's Zoom Train to be brought out to replace it, despite Speed's assertions that it's not finished. At a town meeting, he goads everyone into bringing it out despite this by implying they can either stay stuck in the past (with number nine), or advance into the future (with the Zoom Train). The Suntots agree to bringing the Zoom Train into service as a result. On the Zoom Train's maiden voyage, however, Speed is proven right when Choo Choo loses control of the Zoom Train, and it crashes. | |
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