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Obsessive Hobby Episode
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Taking up a new hobby is fun and can be educational, but in TV Land, it's a risky business: it might just lead you to end up wanting to do it to the exclusion of other good/important things and have to either learn about moderation or give it up completely (if the latter applies, it may lead to Do Not Do This Cool Thing), and that's what this is. The problem might lie in the fact that the character is isolating themselves from their friends or maybe they're getting unfit due to lack of exercise if it involves sitting down. Maybe they're forgetting basic things like food or sleep or are neglecting things like their job or their family, or the hobby gets in someone else's way. Or maybe they're spending so much money on expensive hobby gear that they're squandering their entire life savings. Sometimes there's not even a problem at all, and it might not even be technically an obsession, but the narrative treats it like an unhealthy obsession. If the obsessed character starts doing it in their sleep, that's always a bad sign. While this kind of thing can happen in real life, it's more common among people whose personalities lend them to obsess over things and with things like smoking which are actually addictive. In some darker works (and darker episodes of usually-light works), the trope may be justified by having the thing turn out to be literally addictive and/or a Mind-Control Device, usually with negative side-effects too (like it tampers with your ability to reason). Sometimes they have a reason for obsessing over it beyond "I want to do it a lot" or "the thing is literally addictive"— maybe they want to become really good at it or win a prize or something. If the thing the character is obsessing over is a video game, they'll often have everything remind them of it, and when they're trying to give something up, whatever it is, they are often reminded of it by things that would remind anyone of it, such as ads for it. If they have to give it up completely and it's the "not really an obsession but the narrative treats it as one" variation, then it's also an example of Compressed Abstinence. If it involves a song, expect other characters to find it annoying, in an In-Universe version of Ear Worm. If it involves modern technology, expect New Media Are Evil and/or New Technology Is Evil to be in play (not always, but most of the time), and if it leads to them losing sleep, it may overlap with Sleep Aesop, especially in kids' shows. See also Anti Poop-Socking when a video game attempts to defy real-life examples of this trope. It's closely related to Fleeting Passionate Hobbies, but there is a difference: someone with a fleeting passionate hobby need not obsess over the hobby, and sometimes an obsession can stop being an obsession while the passion remains. Can overlap with Does This Remind You of Anything? and I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin! if it's parodying actual addiction, which can overlap with G-Rated Drug if they parody actual addiction on a kids' work. Also compare Radish Cure which involves convincing someone not to do something by making them do it lots of times so that they'll be bored of it. Examples |
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