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My New Gift Is Lame

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My New Gift Is Lame	comment	Whenever someone is handing out gifts to a group of people, one of them is going to be massively disappointed. Typically, almost everyone gets a really spectacular gift that is exactly what they wanted. Except for this one sap who gets, say, a nickel. The jilted character will feign delight, but as they watch the others enjoy their gifts, their annoyance will grow until they finally explode at the gift-giver. This character might also have to write a note saying 'thanks' despite not feeling thankful at all. Typically, it will turn out that the gift has some great hidden value, and that their gift has really been the best gift of all, just not in any obvious way. Like the nickel is a rare coin worth millions. Sometimes, the lame gift is just something of great sentimental value to the giver, in which case it reflects deep affection and is a very touching gift, though it's still a bit lame- see Crappy Homemade Gift. Sometimes, the universe just hates them. For the superhero version of this, see Blessed with Suck. Kids Prefer Boxes is a juvenile variation of this trope. I Got a Rock is the trick-or-treating version. When Elemental Powers are in play, you'll have What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway? May result from Convenience Store Gift Shopping or a Homemade Sweater from Hell. If in a contest or a game show setting, then it may result in outright Rejecting the Consolation Prize. The subtrope that drives the engine of an Unwanted Gift Plot. For the polar opposite of this trope (where the character finds an item most people would consider cool to be lame), see Worthless Yellow Rocks. Can overlap (and frequently does) with Clothes for Christmas Cringe if the gift is clothes. Of course it's possible that It May Help You on Your Quest.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_147de10b	comment	In Space Wolf, one of the Mac Guffins is the Spear of Russ. Russ hated his spear, but since it was a gift from the Emperor, he couldn't just get rid of it. He alternately ignored it and tried to "accidentally" lose it. One of the 13th Companymen who knew Russ personally stated that if it wasn't being trotted out for a ceremony, it was promptly tossed into the nearest corner or being thrown at increasingly hilarious targets in an effort to get rid of it. Consequently, RagnarÂ nailing Magnus the Red in the eye with the damn thingÂ would've put a grin on Russ' face, even as he grudgingly ordered him to get it back.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_17fa5f0a	comment	In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Dumbledore leaves items to the trio in his will. Hermione gets a book, Ron gets a magical item that can manipulate light, and Harry gets... in Ron's words: "An old snitch". Harry knows there's a secret involved and eventually figures it out months later. Turned out there was a legendarily powerful magic stone inside it. Dumbledore actually did will a second, obviously-not-lame, item to Harry as well (the sword of Gryffindor) but Scrimgeour refuses to hand it over, saying that it wasn't Dumbledore's to give. Though the Trio ends up getting a hold of this item for a time anyway and it's being left in the will clues them in to the fact that it's important to their quest.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_224696b7	comment	The Whiteboard: This is turning out to be the case in the Tessaract Black arc, where Robin's new Tessaract Black marker is taking forever to set up, while everyone else is having fun.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_22e860f4	comment	One of Psych's early Christmas episodes showed this with Lassie. However, it was intentional as Shawn had been listening in on their psychiatric evaluations and told everyone to get Lassie snowglobes, just to torture him.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_2350acad	comment	In a variation in the Cheers episode "Feeble Attraction", Rebecca's wealthy boyfriend promises her a wonderful gift and references a "ring". She gets a desk. Convinced that there's an engagement ring hidden inside, she literally tears the desk apart to find it. Then Sam finds the packing slip, explaining that it's a very valuable and historic desk that once belonged to George Bernard Shaw, and its nickname "the Ring desk" comes from a dark ring on the surface from where Shaw set down a teacup after completing Man And Superman.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_24003723	comment	In one Achewood strip, TÃ©odor brings a present home to Philippe, who imagines that it must be something fantastic (a grappling hook! a homemade Coke machine!) However, it's revealed to be... a 99-cent wallet pen. Which was marked down by about 85%. Philippe, understandably, is not happy.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_25124728	comment	Kenai from Disney's Brother Bear wasn't too happy about receiving The Bear of Love.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: In the episode "Dog of Death," Kent Brockman is reporting on the large lottery price money, and mentions that the schools would get a cut of the earnings made from the ticket sales, and Principal Skinner is making grand plans as to how to update the curriculum and remodel the school. Once Brockman wins the lottery and brags about not quitting a good-paying job, he reports on the ceremony where a lottery official gives principal Skinner his school's cut of the lottery ticket earnings: a brand new chalkboard eraser. Before Skinner goes into a rant about how the government screwed him over, the transmission cuts back to Brockman in the studio. Subverted in one episode where Uncle Herb gives Lisa a set of great literature, Bart a membership in the NRA, Marge a new washer and dryer, and Homer... his forgiveness. When Homer's disappointment is obvious, he reveals that, yeah, he also got him the lounge chair he'd been eyeing. Parodied at the end of "You Only Move Twice"—at one point, Homer tells his new boss, Hank Scorpio, that his dream is to one day own the Dallas Cowboys. When he leaves, Scorpio sends a note with a gift to help him get started on the dream. To his dismay, it's the Denver Broncos. In the episode "White Christmas Blues," Lisa decides that she's going to get people cheap but meaningful gifts. She gets Homer some seeds, which he just eats, and Bart a book, which he burns. She yells at him for this, but Bart calls her out for getting things that make her feel like a good person but which she knew that the recipients wouldn't actually enjoy. She's forced to concede the point. In "Mona Leaves-A," Homer's mother Mona dies and bequeaths gifts to the Simpson clan. Marge gets a hemp purse, Bart receives a Swiss army knife...and Lisa gets "Mona's rebellious spirit," which she complains about. Later, the family members use the gifts to help free Homer from captivity: Bart's knife helps cut Homer free from ropes, while Marge sets the purse on fire to get a group of guards stoned. It's revealed that Lisa started the fire by using a pair of Mona's diamond earrings, which she stole in protest of her original inheritance. In "Midnight Rx", Homer and Grampa Simpson head to Canada, where Grampa's Canadian friend helps them purchase affordable medications. In gratitude, Grampa gives him a DVD player, but he looks at the box and asks "Where do you put the syrup?"
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_26c74483	comment	Bloody Reunion: Eun-Young was the class vice president whose family was said to be poor. For a present for Teacchers Day, she made Ms. Park a card that said "I love you Ms. Park". Ms. Park then ridiculed her in front of the entire class.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_28508de	comment	Winx Club: In "An Unexpected Event", Bloom's mother tells her that she and her father have decided Bloom's grown up enough to own her own vehicle. Excited, Bloom rushes to the front yard expecting to see a car or a motorcycle â€” she gets a bicycle. She resignedly accepts it and has to endure her school's rich Alpha Bitch rubbing it in her face.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_2dab4fef	comment	Snopes' Glurge Gallery includes this story which mixes this trope with Values Dissonance: A rich father promises his son that if he graduates from college, he would give him an excellent gift, which his son assumes is a brand new sports car. When the son does graduate, however, his father gives him a Bible, which makes the son feel really upset, because that wasn't the "excellent gift" that he was expecting, and thus never read it. Years later, when the father died, the son went through the Bible his father gave him that he never opened...and inside was a key to a brand new sports car that he never got the chance to ride around in. (Alternately, inside the Bible was a check made out in full to a dealership so the son could pick up the brand new sports car. Or the ownership papers to said sports car.) In a society where expecting your children to adopt your religious beliefs is no longer considered good parenting, not many readers are going to sympathize with the father.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_2e1df124	comment	Wreck-It Ralph: Subverted. Vanellope seems to be staring in disappointed shock at the car Ralph helped her bake, enough so that Ralph starts to apologize for screwing it up. Then she interrupts him by screaming "I love it, IloveitIloveitIloveit!" She was just overwhelmed to have a real car at all â€” all she had before was a pedal-powered box car made of wafers.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_3558eaa2	comment	In the Community episode "Contemporary American Poultry", Annie is given notebooks by Abed. She throws them away in front of him because they were not college ruled.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_39682616	comment	Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse: In one episode, Ken gets Barbie a charm bracelet for her birthday, but Nikki and Teresa tell him that she won't appreciate such a small present, given her status as The Ace. Everyone goes out of their way to get Barbie extravagant gifts, but she unfortunately already has them all (although unlike most instances of this trope, Barbie is sincerely grateful to her friends for every present, even if it's a duplicate). Ken then gives her the charm bracelet—and she's genuinely thrilled, as she's never had one before. It's Played for Laughs in the same episode when Raquelle tells Barbie that she "spared no expense" with her own gift...then hands her a cheap compact mirror. Nikki then recognizes the mirror as a freebie given to people who buy a $600 make-up kit, which Raquelle apparently kept for herself ("I told you I spared no expense!").
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_3b34143f	comment	Used often in the Harry Potter series. Christmas gift-giving happens once a book. The Dursleys always give Harry some present, but intentionally something extremely lame, like old socks, a single toothpick, or a coin. (Ron thinks that the 50p is totally interesting, though, having never seen money with that shape). In the third book, Harry endures a visit from Uncle Vernon's sister Marge, who comes to visit while he's home for the summer. She gives Dudley expensive gifts like toy robots and video games but gives Harry... a box of dog biscuits. Just to really rub in how much she hates Harry, she then glares at Harry, daring him to ask why he had gotten dog biscuits instead of an actual present. He's too smart to take the bait. In the sixth book, Harry gets a Christmas present from his house-elf, Kreacher who (at this point) loathes him. It's a package containing a large number of maggots. In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Dumbledore leaves items to the trio in his will. Hermione gets a book, Ron gets a magical item that can manipulate light, and Harry gets... in Ron's words: "An old snitch". Harry knows there's a secret involved and eventually figures it out months later. Turned out there was a legendarily powerful magic stone inside it. Dumbledore actually did will a second, obviously-not-lame, item to Harry as well (the sword of Gryffindor) but Scrimgeour refuses to hand it over, saying that it wasn't Dumbledore's to give. Though the Trio ends up getting a hold of this item for a time anyway and it's being left in the will clues them in to the fact that it's important to their quest. Inverted by Dumbledore in the first book; socks are usually a stock lame gift, but Dumbledore says everyone always gives him books and he'd like to get a pair of new socks sometime. Also inverted by Dobby in Goblet of Fire, who loves getting socks from Harry, claiming those are his favorite type of clothing, but doesn't understand that socks are supposed to match. (Ron quickly avoids having to explain this by giving him a pair of socks he got and telling him to simply swap pairs.) Every Christmas, Mrs Weasley gives Harry and all of the Weasleys hand-knitted jumpers. Harry and most of the Weasleys like theirs (especially because when Harry gets one, he remarks that no one has ever given him a handmade present before—plus it symbolizes the fact that Molly views him as one of her own children), but Ron hates his because it's always maroon (though he manages to palm it off once on Dobby, who loves it). Percy also shows some resistance to wearing his jumper in the first book, likely because it clashes with his idea of what a respectable prefect should wear. In Order of the Phoenix, Molly has a breakdown when Percy returns the annual sweater, which she recognizes as him turning his back on the family in favor of his fanatical devotion to the Ministry of Magic. Another Molly Weasley example occurs in The Goblet of Fire. Molly sends Harry, Ron, and Hermione fake eggs filled with chocolate and sweets—but while the boys get dragon-sized eggs, Hermione's is about the size of a robin's. She immediately realizes that Molly has been reading Rita Skeeter's gossip-laden columns in The Daily Prophet, which paint Hermione as a cruel jerk who broke Harry's heart.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_3ce03501	comment	Time Squad: On his eighth birthday, Otto's first gift to open up is from Larry - a whisk. Which, in deadpan fashion, he accepts.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_3ddddb25	comment	Xiaolin Showdown: Happens in an episode where the monks and their dragon companion Dojo are opening presents on Chinese New Year.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_3eacc2fd	comment	In the Corner Gas episode "No Time Like the Presents", Emma declares that she's done with all of her Christmas shopping. Oscar protests that it's only July, and asks why she bothered to do it so early when "last year, all you got people were crappy socks". Emma claims it's because she left it too late (a.k.a. she waited until September) and thus ran out of time to find good gifts. Then the episode plot starts where Oscar tells people what they're getting for Christmas in exchange for gifts and favours. When Emma finally catches onto him, she brings all the gifts back and purposely gets everyone more crappy socks out of spite.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_44127c7c	comment	Power Rangers: In Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie, the Rangers gains new ninja powers. Where the others' animal totems were things like the falcon, the bear, or the wolf, Adam got the frog. He was disappointed until the alien Jungle Princess guiding them explained it by relating it to The Frog Prince. (Don't ask how an alien even knew about The Frog Prince...) In Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie, Adam's actor Johnny Yong Bosch wanted to have him complain again, this time about why he got a minivan for a Zord when the new kid got a monster truck, but that idea was shot down.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_44e0b783	comment	Garfield: Garfield gets a cat sweater from Jon's mother every Christmas that he usually doesn't like (a notable exception being the one from the December 28, 1991 strip - the shoulder pads won him over); some of them are lamer than others. Beautifully subverted in another Christmas strip.◊ Jon gets Garfield fancy presents (like a mink scratching post), which he appreciates. Odie rushes up to the fat cat with a single bone in his mouth, dropping it on the floor as his own gift. Garfield remarks that the bone is literally the only thing Odie owns in the entire world...then gives him a huge hug, recognizing the significance of the present: "It's the expensive gifts that impress me."
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_46037ffe	comment	Scrooged: The Ghost of Christmas Past takes Frank to a Christmas when the latter was four years old. He got a lump of veal from his father instead of a toy train.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_49a88442	comment	In Final Fantasy XIV, the 2022 Starlight Celebration event involves numerous characters acting as the Saint's little helpers and distributing gifts to the good children of Gridania. Beatin, an Eccentric Artist and the guildmaster of the Carpenters' Guild, offers a child samples of some of the finest lumber in the Twelveswood. Given that it's not a toy or sweets, the child is disappointed until Fufucha instead describes them as building blocks.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_4f067404	comment	Just Shoot Me! had a very similar episode, only while Finch pretended to like his gift outwardly, he secretly ruined all the other presents before finding out how much his was actually worth.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_536261f2	comment	At the outset of Shadowbinders, Grandma comes to visit and brings an exciting new video game for little brother Michael, while protagonist Mia gets some items belonging to her late grandfather - a weird box and a journal she can't read (it's in French). Subverted in that, while Michael clearly thinks that Mia's gift is lame and his is awesome, Mia is delighted by what she receives; she loves antiques and unusual objects. The box turns out to contain a magic ring that launches her into her adventure.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_558f9954	comment	It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: When the other kids get very good Halloween candies, Charlie Brown gets a rock.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_5d88e44e	comment	In the Christmas episode "A Creature was Stirring," from The Haunting Hour, Timmy's two older siblings, Mark and Becky, spend Christmas morning complaining about their gifts. Mark gets an iPod, when he really wanted an iPad, and complains that it doesn't have enough gigs on it. Becky gets a dress that her mother thought she could wear to school, but Becky says she can't wear it because "it looks like my mother bought it." She then asks if she can exchange it for something she likes.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_5dfc7572	comment	The Angry Beavers: In the episode "Gift Hoarse", Norbert gets a huge train set for Arbor Day (which, on the show, is like Christmas for beavers), while Dagget just gets a cardboard pine-tree air freshener. Dag proceeds to wreck Norb's train set in a fit of jealousy, but then feels guilty and lets Norb have his gift instead. As if on cue, the delivery man shows up with Dagget's "real" gift, a monster truck (with which the air freshener was supposed to go), which is now Norbert's.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_641203c1	comment	Schitt's Creek: Johnny is a bad gift giver. The whole premise of the show is based on the fact that he bought the town of Schitt's Creek as a joke gift for his son, which ends up saving the family from total destitution. Season 3 also has an episode where Johnny gives the perpetually casual Stevie a "briefcase of makeup" and urges her to wear it every day. Stevie takes it as a veiled insult, but Alexis assures her that he's just terrible at giving gifts. She recalls the time he gave Camp Gay David a basketball court for his 13th birthday.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_6500e1de	comment	It's established in the Jedi Apprentice series that Padawans turning thirteen are always given gifts from their Masters, gifts with some symbolic meaning that take a lot of work to get, like healing crystals or specially made cloaks. Little Obi-Wan Kenobi is shocked, therefore, when Qui-Gon gives him a river rock. He conquers his own disappointment enough to look closely at it and see that it's a beautiful rock and hangs on to it. Later it turns out to react to his own Force abilities, which helps keep a mind wipe from affecting him; but when he tells Qui-Gon about this, Qui-Gon blandly says he thought it was a normal stone. Obi-Wan's not sure if he's being trolled or not. In the last book of Galaxy of Fear, the Arranda kids meet Yoda on Dagobah, and he says he has something for both of them. Yoda invites Tash to walk with him. She's delighted, since she knows he's a Jedi and she desperately longs to know more and develop her fledgling Force skills. Yoda then tells Zak to pocket a flower, roots and all, and take it back to the camp. Zak takes it as another sign that he's the Un Favorite. He's later able to throw it into an attacker's face. Yoda didn't actually tell Tash much; the real 'gift' was letting Zak sort things out himself, so he could shed this feeling of being useless.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_66af1779	comment	Subverted in Infinity. Tsukuyomi was a notoriously bad gift giver (physics textbooks for kids, toys for adults, etc...), but people treasured her gifts all the same because "Auntie Tsuku might not understand people very well, but she always tried her best."
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_673390d8	comment	Inverted in A Little Hint of Blue. Viney learns that it's Skara's 15th birthday and leaves a new pen at her locker the following day with an attached note apologizing for how lame the gift is. Despite the two of them being little more than acquaintances at this point, Skara is touched by the gift, and another comic set several years later (by which point the two of them are dating) shows that she still has the pen in her possession.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons has mephits, little elemental imps that make for obnoxious and unreliable servitors. Since nobody would give a mephit to someone they like, Planescape explains there's an entire "mephit vendetta code" based around the type and number of mephit "gifts" sent to someone. A gift of a morbid ash mephit is a warning that the sender is aware the receiver is plotting against them, a mischievous fire mephit is sent to show general displeasure, a cruel ice mephit indicates that the receiver is forbidden from entering the sender's home (with the number of ice mephits sent indicating the severity of the penalty for trespassing), a shiftless smoke mephit is an expression of contempt, a bitingly sarcastic salt mephit is analogous to an open declaration of war, while a flaky radiant mephit can be sent as a peace offering.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_6c1d09b3	comment	In the ten-year-old birthday phase of the Player Character in Fallout 3, the vault's resident Cloud Cuckoolander gives the present of a poem. And it's a creepy, depressing poem that can be summed up as "You're going to live like a cog in a machine, and then you're going to die." This is rather blatant Foreshadowing about what sort of place The Vault really is.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_6eb4ca5c	comment	Jackie Chan Adventures: In "The Dog And Piggy Show", Jade gives Uncle a picture of herself with Captain Black and Section 13 (albeit while she was possessed by Shendu in the earlier episode "Project A, For Astral"), which Uncle happily thanks her for. Jackie, having nearly forgotten his birthday, hastily got some chocolates and cheese at a gift shop while waiting for his flight in Germany, which Uncle isn't thrilled to get, saying "Chocolate stains my teeth, and cheese makes my... none of your business". The fact that Jackie successfully got the Dog talisman in the beginning of the episode makes Uncle slightly more satisfied. Subverted when they find that the chocolates resemble the Pig talisman, hinting at where they'll find it.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_6f8df1a1	comment	In Dead Poets Society, Todd Anderson receives a monogrammed desk set, which he had received last year. After lamenting that his brother Jeff's birthday is a big celebration, he tosses the desk set off the roof.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_7041cf12	comment	Kaguya-sama: Love Is War: Inverted over Christmas break. Shirogane gets Kaguya a kendama due to being short on time and running on even less sleep than usual, but is so embarrassed by it that she has to literally rip it out of his hands just to open the box. Kaguya herself (while fully admitting that it is a lame gift that doesn't fit the mood at all) is actually happy because what she wants more than anything is for her and Shirogane to be able to show and accept each other's flaws. Played straight during Fujiwara's birthday. Already upset about having to share a party with Ishigami, she proceeds to complain about every gift she gets. This becomes especially hypocritical when she and Ishigami exchange their gifts for each other, as while he got her the well thought out gift of a foreign board game (something that she's regularly shown to be a big fan of), she just got him a piggy bank.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_7078bf86	comment	In the children's series The Queen's Nose, when the wise old uncle comes to visit, he gives the annoying and snobby older sister Melody some fancy clothes and a bundle of money. To the younger sister Harmony (who is his favourite niece) he gives... an old 50 pence piece, of the same year as her birth. She soon discovers that this particular 50p is magical and grants her ten wishes.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_72262aee	comment	Avatar: The Last Airbender: Both Aang and Katara get cool gifts from Master Pakku upon leaving the North Pole. Sokka doesn't get anything. Of course, Aang and Katara had studied waterbending under him for the duration of their stay; Sokka didn't really have anything to do with him. Also, in the flashbacks, Iroh sends gifts to Zuko and Azula after he breaks through the wall of Ba Sing Se. Zuko gets a cool knife, and Azula gets a doll. Which she lights on fire. Of course, this arguably says more about how messed up Azula is than Iroh...
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_72c25f3f	comment	In Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, Buddy "Stump" Jamison is given an Erector set. Problem is, as his nickname implies, he has only one arm, which means using the set is next to impossible He does NOT take it well.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_746814ae	comment	Arthur: In "Prunella Gets it Twice," sees Prunella receiving a "Polly Lockett" doll from Francine for her birthday—but she already got one from her mother, so she thoughtlessly tosses it away. The rest of the episode is a version of A Christmas Carol, where the Ghosts of Presents Past (as in birthday presents) and Lunch Tomorrow take Prunella on a trip through time to show her that Francine was determined to get Prunella the doll as thanks for the older girl tutoring her for a difficult history test. Francine worked tirelessly to earn the cash and even made a deal with her mean older sister Catherine to get enough money to personalize the doll's sweater. Prunella then realizes how cruel she was to Francine and makes things right by personalizing the original doll and giving it to Francine.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_74fb542e	comment	In an episode of That Mitchell and Webb Look, Robert Webb plays a heroin addict that gets his favorite thing in the whole world for Christmas from everyone except his grandmother, who got him cocaine. His mother quietly offers to take it back and exchange it for more heroin.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_76b4b06d	comment	Fluppy Dogs: In the pilot, a human boy is disappointed getting a small shaggy dog for a present instead of a more impressive breed. Of course, he instantly changes his mind when the dog reveals himself to be a sapient, talking humanoid alien who gets him involved in a wild adventure with his brethren.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_7899c84f	comment	Adrian Mole is frequently disappointed with his presents ("the usual Japanese rubbish"). He also receives A Boy's Book of Carpentry, and Bible Stories for Boys.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_7d1c83da	comment	Better Call Saul: One episode has Jimmy's plan to rob an office complicated by the fact that the business owner is spending the night there after his wife kicked him out for giving her a vacuum cleaner as a gift. He protests over the phone that it's "top of the line" and "never loses suction!"
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_8124a34e	comment	In one episode, Ken gets Barbie a charm bracelet for her birthday, but Nikki and Teresa tell him that she won't appreciate such a small present, given her status as The Ace. Everyone goes out of their way to get Barbie extravagant gifts, but she unfortunately already has them all (although unlike most instances of this trope, Barbie is sincerely grateful to her friends for every present, even if it's a duplicate). Ken then gives her the charm bracelet—and she's genuinely thrilled, as she's never had one before.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_82439e64	comment	In a Christmas episode of The Office (US), Michael was very disappointed to receive a hand-knitted oven mitt from his Secret Santa (Phyllis) when he himself had gotten his person (Ryan) an iPod. Of course, this was stupid because he himself had imposed a $20 limit to the gifts to make the iPod look even better in comparison to everyone else's gifts.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_84823809	comment	Kaeloo: Played for Laughs in the season 2 finale, which is a Christmas episode. The main four open the presents under their Christmas tree. Quack-Quack gets some yogurt, his Trademark Favorite Food. Mr. Cat, the local bully, gets a mallet, which he then uses to hit Quack-Quack. As for Stumpy, he got a sheep, and he complains to the audience that it isn't what he asked for.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_84f3f987	comment	In Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V, when the little boy Sam revealed himself to be Jack Atlas' biggest fan, Jack decided to give him the card Tuning Magician as a gift. The card is Level 1, has 0 ATK and DEF, and has a seemingly negative effect (when you summon it, your opponent gains 400 LP and you take 400 damage). As a result, Sam got really insulted and started hating Jack's guts. It is later revealed that Tuning Magician was the first card that Jack owned, and it inspired him to escape the ghetto and become the duelist he is today. He was likely trying to inspire Sam to follow a similar path. Too bad Jack didn't bother trying to explain the card's significance. Later, Yuya Sakaki borrows the card from Sam and manages to use it in a winning strategy.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_8a345009	comment	In How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), the Grinch is subjected to sampling holiday foods, a Christmas sweater that's loud, kitschy, and has about as many lights as a Christmas tree. The worst of all takes place when Mayor Augustus May-Who gives the Grinch a hair razor so the Grinch can shave his hair. This brings back painful childhood memories, and the Grinch shaves May-Who's hair off instead.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_8a40eb2b	comment	In The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, each member in the Fellowship receives cool personal gifts from Galadriel, including a magical lantern for Frodo, some daggers for Pippin and Merry, and a coveted lock of golden hair for Gimli. Sam, however, gets some rope. Whoopee. Visibly underwhelmed, he even has the balls to ask if he might have a "shiny dagger" as well, but Galadriel just smirks at his impudence and doesn't bother to reply. Of course, the rope magically unties itself when necessary, and comes in very useful. In the book, Sam is given a rare seed and fertile soil from LothlÃ³rien due to his trade as a gardener. The rope is just part of the general equipment. Also, in the book, Sam has been complaining about not having any rope for several chapters and is actually quite pleased to finally have some (though he's a bit skeptical of its strength since it's so thin).
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_8b8da0b2	comment	Visionaries: Leoric's reaction to learning the ability of his magical staff (make incredibly cryptic comments that eventually turn out to be significant to their situation) in comparison with the abilities the bad guys get, such as summoning a giant monster to do his bidding. After seeing a particularly impressive display one of his companions, Ectar, even comments that the wizard gave him a bad staff.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_8d00deda	comment	In Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie, Adam's actor Johnny Yong Bosch wanted to have him complain again, this time about why he got a minivan for a Zord when the new kid got a monster truck, but that idea was shot down.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_8d7f2bdc	comment	In Glue, farm boy James is given a set of keys for his 18th birthday, which he happily assumes are for a car. Cue disappointment when it turns out they're for a tractor. (No hidden meaning here - a tractor is simply of more use at a farm).
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_8f36f969	comment	The Loud House fanfic Lincoln's Memories: In "Lincoln's Seventh Birthday", his gift from Lana is a jar of dirt. He also gets some blueberry compote from Aunt Ruth and worries that it may be expired.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_90a3a7f4	comment	Kim Possible: Kim's nana gives the Tweebs some old discs that they were happy about, Kim got an ugly sweater.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_976efc02	comment	Mystery Science Theater 3000: In "The Killer Shrews", Joel gives Gypsy an expensive doll, Tom a racecar, and Crow... pants. Turns out that this was a Very Special acknowledgment of his greater maturity, qualifying him for an "adult" gift. (In a Continuity Nod, whenever Crow has cause to pack up his possessions, one crate is clearly marked "pants".) In the first Christmas episode, "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians", the Mads invent "The Wish Squisher," a machine designed to turn cool gifts into disappointing ones. A box of NES games becomes a pair of ill-fitting Underoos, money becomes your sister's raisin collection, and slot cars become an ugly pair of socks. The socks are run through the machine a second time and become a gift certificate for a stationery store.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_9888f901	comment	Daria: Subverted. Helen recalls her first anniversary with Jake to Daria, and how as a gift, he made a poorly constructed candle made to look like a Hobbit. He then accidentally drops it in the hot tub they were sitting in, causing it to melt into a shapeless lump. While initially disappointed, she realized "a lot of time and love went into that silly lump of wax." She even saved it after all those years to remind herself why she married him.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_9d47a2a2	comment	In A Song of Ice and Fire Stannis Baratheon considers being named Lord of Dragonstone this. While being granted the ancestral seat of the Targaryens would normally be a great honor, with Robert taking the Iron Throne, Stannis would have been Lord of Storm's End, which is bigger, richer, his ancestral home, and not located on a godforsaken rock in the middle of the ocean. It's not exactly that Dragonstone itself is lame, just in comparison to what he would have had had he not been so "honored". Making it even worse is that during the rebellion, Stannis defended Storm's End through a terrible siege, eating rats rather than surrender, only to have it taken away and given to his little brother afterward.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_9ec61fa1	comment	NewsRadio: Jimmy James gives everyone but Matthew a brand new Miata for Christmas. Instead, Matthew gets a set of Fibber McGee and Molly tapes. When he finally confronts Mr. James, he finds that the gift wasn't the tapes; Mr. James was actually giving him all rights to the entire Fibber McGee and Molly series.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_a0dea0e7	comment	The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol : Subverted. Grouchy's gift of a Smurf hat (which is what every other Smurf gets) is considered lame to him because he was expecting a hang glider. Even worse is that it's the same gift that he gets every year, up until the time Jokey fooled him with one of his surprises, leading to his rant about the gift. As it turns out, the hat he was given as a Christmas gift at the present time of the story does allow him to glide.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_a15e269a	comment	A Christmas Story: Ralphie receives pink bunny pajamas from his aunt for Christmas. (He claims that his aunt believes that he is "perpetually four years old and a girl." Fortunately, his mom tells him he only has to wear it when she visits.) Ralphie and Randy also don't care for socks.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_a8729c90	comment	The Fairly OddParents!: In "Wishmas", Timmy gets dozens of good gifts but doesn't get a sled. His Dad wanted 2000 gallons of eggnog, but he got some golf clubs, an SUV, the hope diamond, a talking horse, and Timmy's sled (which he threw in the fire) and he considers them lame.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_ab59a0ce	comment	Trollhunters: On Jim's sixteenth birthday, his mother Barbara begins raving about his gift, making it sound like it's the Vespa that he has been eyeing. It turns out to actually be a food processor since Jim does most of their cooking. To his credit, he chooses to be tactful; to her credit, she quickly realizes what Jim thought she meant and becomes very apologetic.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_abc09ce0	comment	What's New, Scooby-Doo?: Subverted in a flashback in the episode "A Terrifying Round With a Menacing Metallic Clown". When Velma gets an encyclopedia set for her birthday. Velma, being who she is, is the type of person who would love something like that as a gift, however, the clown hired for her birthday party didn't realize that, and ran them through a wood chipper. note Velma's mother booked the only party clown to use a wood chipper as a prop. This resulted in Velma having a lifelong phobia of clowns.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_aca7b22d	comment	The Amazing World of Gumball: In "The Watch", Richard gives Gumball an old watch. Gumball hates it and pawns it off on Darwin, who gives it to Marvin Finkleheimer. As much as they hated the gift, they tried to get it back because they thought Richard would be devastated if he found out they lost it, though it turns out Richard didn't give a shit about the watch either and gave it to them because he simply wanted to get rid of it. That is, until they find out on TV how much money it's worth; too bad Marvin, who was eventually willing to give it back, was watching the same show.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_b0c48482	comment	Apparently, Jason in Mystery Team would much rather have a bike than a NEW CAR.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_b0fc9724	comment	Saturday Night Live can go on and on about this. The mother in this sketch tactfully accepts her new robe that was bought on sale, while staring at the presents everyone else got. Even the dog got more than her. Pandora Jewelry charms are shiny and expensive, but only show how little thought or care the gifter put into the present. The receivers are obviously disappointed, but give fake smiles and pretend to love them, knowing that those little charms are the only presents they're going to get from then on. Played with in this sketch. The husband bought the family a new car, expecting his wife and son to love it. Instead, the wife angrily rips into the husband for buying an expensive car without asking her, and demands that he return the car before they go into serious debt.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_b3933a70	comment	In one episode of Home Improvement, Jill's mom is distributing presents to her daughters; Jill wants an old antique clock that was always special to her, but that goes to her sister while she gets an old tea set. It turns out that her mother actually thought this would be meaningful to her, though - apparently, she and Jill used to play tea party with the old set when Jill was a child, though as an adult Jill sheepishly admits she can't remember that at all.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_b4fe32c9	comment	Invader Zim: Professor Membrane takes this reaction to the next level by devoting a portion of the rest of his life to destroying Santa Claus and building a bunker full of anti-Santa artillery. The comic series explains that Membrane Still Believes in Santa despite his Agent Scully status elsewhere because he's simply unable to cope with the idea that his own parents bought him socks for Christmas.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_b5a087d7	comment	Hilariously re-done on Robot Chicken:
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_b61bbe0a	comment	In Modern Family, Alex is disappointed to discover that her grandmother only left her a lighter and a card reading "this is a lighter". She spends most of the episode confused before realizing that the card got stuck closed, and written on the inside is the explanation of the gift. By the end of the episode, she understands what the lighter means and sincerely appreciates it.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_b70a2d3b	comment	Averted and then subverted in Safe Havens. When Samantha's grandma died, she got seemingly the worst inheritance: a ring. Relatives expected her to be disappointed, but she wasn't. That was before she found out it was actually the most awesome inheritance, magically allowing her to see and talk with her heaven-bound grandma in reflective surfaces.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_bc848d30	comment	SpongeBob SquarePants: In the Valentine's Day episode, Spongebob plans to give Patrick a very special gift of a giant heart-shaped chocolate bubble, but Sandy takes forever getting it there for him. Patrick, growing impatient waiting for his gift, becomes annoyed when he sees that Spongebob has gotten great gifts for everyone else—even total strangers. Spongebob finally decides to just give him a "friendly handshake" instead, which makes Patrick mad—until Sandy shows up with the real thing. (And at which point, Patrick says to Spongebob, "You didn't have to give me anything.") And there's also that episode in which Spongebob picks up what he thinks is a piece of chewed gum off the ground. (Yes, this is a good thing.) Then it gets wet and reveals its true identity, to Spongebob's dismay: "This isn't gum at all! It's a lousy hundred-dollar bill." In "Dying for Pie", Spongebob gives Squidward a sweater made of eyelashes. Then again, Squidward gave him a deadly pie, so he isn't really better. Subverted in the first Christmas Episode: Squidward, posing as Santa Claus to keep Spongebob from being sad, winds up having to give random items from his house as presents to everyone in town. In each case, the receiver interprets it as something that they actually want. In "Squeaky Boots", Pearl is heartbroken over Mr. Krabs buying her a pair of $2.00 fishing boots for her birthday instead of the Flipper Slippers she wanted that all of her friends are wearing. She bawls and outright rejects the boots, leaving Mr. Krabs to wonder what to do with them. In "Nature Pants", SpongeBob gives away his possessions to his friends before he leaves to be a jellyfish. The only thing he leaves Squidward is a (non-electric) can opener which he sarcastically remarks "And I thought this friendship would never pay off." Patrick initially didn't do much better getting a jar of mayonnaise and a stack of old phone books (although he genuinely appreciated the presents) until SpongeBob also decided to give him "Ol' Reliable": his prized jellyfish net.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_bd52c531	comment	Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach: Gregory finds a "free prize" in the PizzaPlex early on, only to discover that it's a Mr. Hippo magnet, which he and Freddy both consider "lame."
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_bd534719	comment	In Step Brothers, when they open Christmas gifts, Dale gets Hulk Hands. Brennan on the other hand, gets a wallet. He is not happy.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_c337026c	comment	Roys Bedoys: In â€œBe Grateful, Roys Bedoys!â€�, Roys receives as presents for his birthday, a toy dinosaur he already has, a toy truck he dislikes, and a shirt he finds boring.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_c4076b9e	comment	Gunslinger Girl. Triela's handler Victor Hilshire keeps giving her teddy bears as gifts, being Maternally Challenged and figuring that all Girls Love Stuffed Animals. Eventually their relationship develops enough for him to ask what she wants, but she just asks for another bear so she'll have seven. To her annoyance, she gets another bear from someone else, leaving her with eight bears. "I knew I should have asked for something else."
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_c4282b71	comment	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In several episodes, Twilight Sparkle gives books as presents (especially to Spike) and doesn't seem to get the hint that just because she loves books so much doesn't mean others do too.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_cba3559b	comment	In Survival of the Fittest, unlucky participants are given lame weapons such as a frisbee, plastic scissors... and a rock.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_d24e067a	comment	In one episode of Eureeka's Castle, it's Batly's birthday, and everyone proceeds to bring him gifts. As he opens them one by one, they all end up being the same thing: underpants. After the last gift is opened and everyone laughs, Eureeka tells Batly that the underpants were just a joke, and they actually got him the things he really wanted.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_d26874b6	comment	Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Poor Greg has several of these moments every once in a while, ranging from a picture of his uncle, to Wonder Woman underoos.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_d4caf593	comment	Bully: Jimmy gets a lame sweater from his parents for Christmas and everyone laughs at him.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_d4efb984	comment	The Golden Girls: Two different Christmas episodes deal with this trope. In the first, "Twas the Nightmare Before Christmas," Dorothy protests the commercialization of the holiday after a terrible shopping experience, and insists that the girls exchange homemade presents instead. She's not thrilled with the results, especially after hearing that Rose returned a necklace she wanted in exchange for a maple syrup spigot. In the second, "Have Yourself A Very Little Christmas," the girls decide to do a Secret Santa for one another rather than risk the packed shopping malls. Blanche finds out that Rose is going to buy her present and is nervous, given her terrible record of gift-giving...but it's subverted when Rose gets her a tasteful, beautiful blouse, having asked Dorothy for advice. This trope was also a mild Running Gag with Dorothy's ex-husband Stan, who often got Dorothy bad presents on holidays: she once remarked that a mink stole was the only gift he gave her that "didn't need an extension cord," and in another episode, he gives her, of all things, a basketball clock ("Merry Christmas Sports Illustrated subscriber"). It's then inverted when one of Stan's novelty inventions, a baked potato opener, becomes a huge success and makes him a millionaire. He showers the girls, and especially Dorothy, with expensive presents, but Dorothy refuses to accept any of them and continues to mock him. Stan then shows a surprising amount of backbone and tells Dorothy off for her condescending attitude and belief that he'll never change, then storms out of the house with a promise to not bother her with gifts—or ever showing up—any more. There's also one episode in which Kirsten, a daughter of Rose's, arrives to the girls' residence with her own daughter in tow for a visit to Rose and gives a Maple Syrup/Honey/Brown Sugar/Molasses/Rice Krispie Log to Blanche and Dorothy each (Dorothy takes only a single bite out of one such dessert that's made by Rose earlier in the episode before asking Rose if any of her children still have their own teeth). Blanche and Dorothy do their best to pretend to like the present, until Kirsten and her own daughter are out of sight...
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_d9c602eb	comment	South Park: In "Spookyfish", Stan's Aunt Flo comes to visit, and gives him and his sister, Shelly, gifts. Shelly receives an elaborate entertainment system, while Stan receives a goldfish. Things get worse when the goldfish starts killing random people, including Aunt Flo herself.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_dd0a4790	comment	In The Facts of Life episode "Graduation," Mrs. Garrett gives Blair a nice sweater and Jo... a rock. She proceeds to show Jo that it's a geode and spins an elaborate metaphor in which the ordinary-looking stone with potential treasure hidden inside represents Jo. Blair then becomes annoyed that her gift doesn't come with a metaphor!
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_e25322af	comment	Homestar Runner In the holiday cartoon "The Best Decemberween Ever", Homestar gets Strong Bad a DVD copy of Deep Impact for the third year in a row because Strong Bad liked getting it so much the first time. Subverted in "Homestar Presents: Presents". Homestar's VERY last-minute Decemberween present for Marzipan is a pair of wire cutters, and she seems disappointed at first... then announces that wire cutters are just what she needs to help free baby seals from crab traps.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_eb59224d	comment	LazyTown: In "LazyTown's Surprise Santa", Robbie is displeased to learn his Christmas gift is a pair of holiday socks.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_eff0512b	comment	In The World of Narue Narue reminds Kazuto that it's not what's given but who gives it that's important. They then exchange ... rocks.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_f32e8fa3	comment	In Level Up, when Dennis was a kid, he tried hinting to his dad that he wanted a Nintendo Entertainment System for Christmas. He ended up getting a chemistry set.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_f367511c	comment	The goblin in the Yu-Gi-Oh! card Gift Exchange card doesn't seem to like the t-shirt he got. (Likely because it has a picture of Scrap Kong on it, a card that is regarded as nearly useless by most fans.)
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_f6c05e8e	comment	Happens just about any time anyone gives gifts, ever, in Friends. Usually followed by someone exchanging the sucky gifts. Or, more often than not, exchanging a decent gift they didn't like. In the first season finale Chandler gets Rachel a Travel Scrabble game for her birthday. Rachel says "thank you" through gritted teeth and hands the game back to him before she finishes speaking. Slightly subverted in one episode where Chandler unexpectedly arrives home at Christmas and gives everyone crap gifts - donations to the Royal Ballet Society.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_f929518c	comment	Succession: The fantastically wealthy Roy family finds it impossible to give their patriarch Logan gifts for his birthday because he already has everything he wants, and even when something new comes along, he'll get a dozen of them from various admirers. The first episode of the series has Tom give him a watch, which Logan immediately gives away, and Connor gives him some starter dough to make old-fashioned sourdough, which causes Logan to thank him with transparently fake enthusiasm for the "old bread."
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_fcc8968	comment	Star Wars: Ewok Adventures: In the first film, Cindel's brother Mace is visibly unimpressed with the very plain rock he gets, while everyone else gets cool toys. After an unsuccessful attempt to trade it for something else, he throws it away. Unfortunately they kinda need it much later on... Fortunately Wicket had more sense and took the rock with him when Mace ditched it. It breaks open to release an arrowhead that shows them the way into the Gorax's cave.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_fcf2f95a	comment	Played with in The Duckling Gets a Cookie? When the Duckling gets a nuts-and-chocolate cookie from the reader, the Pigeon becomes jealously enraged, only to be genuinely surprised when the Duckling gives it to him. After the Pigeon leaves, the Duckling asks for a cookie without nuts.
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My New Gift Is Lame / int_febf1ff3	comment	Pepper Ann: Played With. The title character hears that her cousin, Ned, is getting "a new set of wheels" for his sixteenth birthday. Thinking that this means a car, Pepper Ann quickly begins to butter him up, and also offers rides to various other characters. Come Ned's birthday, he gets a new set of wheels for his bicycle, which is exactly what he wanted, but Pepper Ann is left with a lot of angry acquaintances.
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My New Gift Is Lame	processingCategory2	Comedy Tropes
Texhnolyze / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
The Cat Returns / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
Texts from Superheroes (Blog) / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
Level Up (Comic Book) / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
Safe Havens (Comic Strip) / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
Wreck-It Ralph / Disney / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
A Gift Of Love / Fan Fic	seeAlso	My New Gift Is Lame
Lincoln's Memories (Fanfic) / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
The Simpsons: Team L.A.S.H. (Fanfic) / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
The Sponge House (Fanfic) / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
Thy Good Neighbor (Fanfic) / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
A Christmas Story / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
Bernard and the Genie / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
Bumblebee / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
Cosy Dens / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
Dead Poets Society / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
8 Mile / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
It's a Wonderful Knife (2023) / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
Star Wars: Ewok Adventures / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
The Elementary School / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
The Holdovers / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
Nnemonic (Lets Play) / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
Adrian Mole / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
American Girls: Addy / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
Fudge / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
Henry Huggins / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
Pigeon Series / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
Puss in Boots / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
Roys Bedoys / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
Space Wolf / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
Spirit Animals / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
What Are You So Grumpy About? / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
Crion87	seeAlso	My New Gift Is Lame
ModernWarGearSolid	seeAlso	My New Gift Is Lame
Gunslinger Girl (Manga) / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
The Secret Devil-chan (Manga) / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
The Dollop (Podcast) / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
The No Sleep Podcast (Podcast) / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
Goodness Gracious Me (Radio) / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
The Ricky Gervais Show (Radio) / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
HHStudios	seeAlso	My New Gift Is Lame
Dead Ringers / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
Edward the Seventh / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
En daarmee basta! / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
Eureeka's Castle / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
Gavin & Stacey / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
Girl Meets World / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
Narcos / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
Schitt's Creek / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
Succession / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
W817 / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
Noises Off (Theatre) / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
Bully (Video Game) / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach (Video Game) / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
PokÃ©mon Ranger (Video Game) / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
Surviving High School (Video Game) / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
Bad Days (Web Animation) / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
TheLifeConqueror (Web Animation) / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
A Little Hint of Blue (Webcomic) / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
MoringMark - TOH Comics (Webcomic) / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (Webcomic) / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
Selkie (Webcomic) / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
xkcd (Webcomic) / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
NFL Quarterbacks On Facebook (Website) / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
Brother Bear / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls â€“ Holidays Unwrapped / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
Oink (2022) / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
Phineas and Ferb Christmas Vacation! / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
The Alvin Show / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
Wreck-It Ralph / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
The Nation of Domination (Wrestling) / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame
Girls und Panzer / int_630e5e56	type	My New Gift Is Lame

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