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Once in a while, a work turns out to be so bad, it creates a disruption in the badness continuum and wraps right around to good. Rather than it unintentionally Breaking the Fourth Wall like usual, something about the specifics of the work in question instead cause an enjoyable, though equally unintended, emotional response in the viewing public. Maybe the hubcap-on-a-wire flying saucers are cute, the spontaneous brothel scene goes on for so long it's hilarious, or the technically oriented find humor in the way the hacker can suborn the traffic lights of New York with no perceptible effort. Whatever the reason, a truly horrid piece of work can become an unintentional riot and even get its own fandom for its very lack of quality. This can well be an ongoing process as attitudes change, budgets grow, and cynicism increases. Keep in mind that even when something is So Bad, It's Good, it's still bad. For most (if not all) entries on this list, there will be an almost unanimous opinion that they fail entirely at having the sort of appeal they intended. Far less unanimous will be the opinion that they have a sort of appeal that is unintentional. Even fans of these works will admit that they only enjoy them "ironically." Where the line lies between simply bad, this effect, and So Bad, It's Horrible, is also controversial. In general, among the very large reserve of things that can be classified as "bad," works that get labeled So Bad It's Good tend to be loaded with unintended Narm and ludicrously crazy factors, while So Bad, It's Horrible is the place for works whose badness only makes them boring or offensive; or even their unintentional suckiness or Stylistic Suck fails to charm and falls flat as comedy. The difference between the three is essentially a bad movie is painful to watch but at least you can try to get into the story because there's something that's keeping you watching; a So Bad It's Good movie is one that is so bad that you can't suspend your disbelief enough to not laugh at it so you watch it just to riff on it and laugh at it; So Bad, It's Horrible is where not only is suspending your disbelief impossible, but it's not even fun to laugh at and merely watching it, even just to riff on it, is painful. Nonetheless, don't be surprised when you come across some items that wind up on both lists, such as Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing or Soulja Boy's song, "Anime". On occasion, the writers may intentionally try to pull off this trope. Of course, this almost never actually results in something that fits because it's hard not to "wink at the camera", so to speak — though it's often still funny. Among the Japanese Fighting Game Community, works of this nature are referred to as "kusoge" (shitty game), where the foundation is fundamentally broken, but it's still fun to experience regardless. Sometimes, a work may fall on the line between bad and so bad it's good; most of these are box-office bombs with a strong cult following. Something which is So Bad It's Good has a high probability of becoming a Cult Classic and, in this day and age, a Fountain of Memes. Many are heavy on Camp, therefore falling far onto the silly side of the Sliding Scale of Silliness vs. Seriousness, and are often considered Guilty Pleasures, although neither is necessary. See Narm Charm. This is also often seen in Memetic Mutation when people combine two or more horrible things (or pieces thereof) into something good. Leeroy Jenkins, for example. If someone just keeps on churning out work that's considered So Bad It's Good, said person or people are probably Giftedly Bad. Of course, this could also be a result of Springtime for Hitler. Compare Stylistic Suck (when this trope is applied intentionally and Played for Laughs), So Unfunny, It's Funny (same) and So Bad, It Was Better (when the work improves but fans prefer it this way). Contrast So Bad, It's Horrible. Not to be confused with Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad. Note: This page is not meant to showcase individual Tropers' opinions on works, despite the title. Only add a work to a subpage if there's a fairly unanimous consensus outside TV Tropes that the work is of poor quality, or at least that elements of it are. (For example, the early Mega Man games have box art widely considered to be hilariously ugly, while the games themselves are thought of as some of the best platformers ever made.) Also, it does not mean Guilty Pleasure. If people find merit in a widely derided work instead of relishing its flaws, then it's Narm Charm or Critical Backlash. Additional note: The French cinephile community has come up with the word "nanar" to represent this concept, which is considered as a legitimate movie genre in this country where cinema was born. Although this term has been in use since the middle of the 20th century, it technically is a derivation of the 19th-century word "nanard," which would then refer to what you'd call nowadays an "old geezer."◊ Unlike popular belief in France, this word, therefore, doesn't come from "navet" (literally 'turnip'), which is used to designate a movie so bad that it's just plain bad. The English-speaking film criticism world has also coined its own term for this: paracinema. |
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Overlapping with Trolling Creator, this chess problem. If you never heard of chess problems but are dying to understand the joke: Generically speaking, a chess problem should have a surprising key and thus it is bad to use game-like keys that give check, take a flight, capture an enemy or promote to queen. Of course, an experienced solver knows ...and is the more surprised, since both sides are in zugzwang and the new mate on king to f8 is easily overlooked. The trick also works in solving competitions. | |
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Lampshade Hanging | |
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His backstory actually lampshades the ludicrousness involved — an actor for a show that didn't materialize who snapped (falling too deep into method acting) and became the Boogeyman, but was sicced onto WWE's WWE SmackDown! brand anyway to see what would happen and because he was still under contract. Seriously. | |
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However, since of 18th March 2016 (its latest episode's upload) the series hasn't seen any new episodes due to the author announcing his retirement after uploading Don Spaghetti Episode 2, but the channel remains up for posterity. | |
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Sadly, that would turn out to be Blatant Lies. However, Cole, Josh, and Matt Striker still brought the awesome every week until NXT was relaunched as WWE's developmental show. | |
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NXT Season 3. The show is so ridiculously bad on purpose, that it seems like its target audience is those who read WrestleCrap every week. It's almost as if WWE took everything that was narmy about the WWE Divas, highlighted it, and placed a few other comedy acts on the show to act as foils, such as heel Michael Cole, Goldust, and Large Ham Scrappy Vickie Guerrero. By Week 3, the show was so bad that you had Michael Cole banging a gong at ringside following the rookie challenges. The show's entire appeal is the ensuing Narm Charm, as well as Cole and Josh Mathews sarcastic remarks on everyone else involved. Episode 4 would up the ante even further by introducing CM Punk on commentary, reprising a role he once played in early Ring of Honor shows. Punk would play the role of Deadpan Snarker to perfection, even delivering a Crowning Moment of Funny when he pointed out that he wasn't wearing any pants (he had his ring gear on covered by a sports coat), and then pointed out that he watched NXT every week without pants. When Punk closed the show by announcing that he would be returning the next week, the five people that still watched the show rejoiced. Sadly, that would turn out to be Blatant Lies. However, Cole, Josh, and Matt Striker still brought the awesome every week until NXT was relaunched as WWE's developmental show. |
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Ross's... odd humor is also a massive source of comedy for the show. To illustrate, after triumphantly demanding to start one of their sessions of No Time to Explain because he has "something awesome" for the opening, ends up telling a ketchup pun (The character has a burger for a head). Simply how awkward and corny it ended up being more entertaining than any genuinely funny opening could have been: | |
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Munchkin | |
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That said, only a complete fool or a masochist would play this game with strangers. Imagine a game that is literally made for Munchkins. It's in the rules that players can override a GM, look over their game notes and demand in-game rewards if they deviate from the notes or their rules. | |
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Jukebox Musical | |
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Every Easter since at least 2008, the Manitoba-based Church of the Rock has performed a pageant. These always end up being Jukebox Musicals that attempt to combine the story of Jesus' death and resurrection with something from popular culture (examples including The Avengers (2012), The Princess Bride, and a play that's named after Tombstone but comes off as a generic Western). Between the amateur performances, the shoehorned and often bowdlerised songs, the often hilariously inappropriate picks regarding which character gets the Christ role in each one (Captain Jack Sparrow getting crucified, anyone?), and the surprisingly good set designs, and you have some of the best worse cases of a church trying to be relevant to today's youth in recent history. Jenny Nicholson covers them here. | |
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Unintentional Uncanny Valley | |
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In Scotland there exists a children's park called The Den and the Glen (formerly and more commonly known as Storybook Glen) which became infamous through a Vice article for its uncanny and downright terrifying interpretations of famous children's media icons. The statues quickly gained a reputation as cursed images with internet users gawking and poking fun at the poor quality of these statues. The most widespread meme involving one of these statues is an image of a Barney the Dinosaur statue with a caption taken from the Cha Cha Slide. | |
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When the iPhone just started, there was an app called "I am Rich" that cost $999 (the Cap for app pricing) and showed a ruby that would flash when you clicked on it. That's it. Humor was derived from a) having enough money to burn on the app and b) schadenfreude in people failing to Read the Freaking Manual and blindly buying it without checking the price. | |
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Hipster | |
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This trope is usually cited for Pabst Blue Ribbon's adoption by the hipster subculture. Hipsters, in general, are particularly known for adopting this as their aesthetic, with a fetish for "irony." | |
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Via The New Legends is a Russian game made by a man who clearly has no idea how to create or play a tabletop game, is a game that's literally unfinished because the author has split the base rulebook into multiple releases. Yes, the base rulebook. There's also this bizarre and obstinate refusal to recognize the concept of roleplaying. In fact, roleplaying is literally illegal according to the rulebook. Even the GM is forced to strictly follow the outline in the book. It's against the rules to rob stores, even when playing a thief. It's against the rules to create random encounters outside of designated squares. It's against the rules to roll dice without having purchased the dice field from the game's website. It's even against the rules to share dice with your friends. The way the game expects the players to just play the game like a quiet obedient machine, and be so enamored by this experience that they'll buy all the merchandise, is just so silly. | |
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The statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest near I-65, which is widely seen as the best representation of the ugliness of white supremacy. The face is so Off-Model that The Other Wiki neutrally, purely factually describes it as "[bearing] little resemblance to Forrest himself, and more [resembling] a screaming deformed man", the expression looks somewhere between stoned and unhinged, the original coloring looked tacky and cartoonish, and the head is disproportionate to the body. Why "original coloring"? Because vandals painted it pink in 2017, and the owner is hoping to invoke No Such Thing as Bad Publicity. The sculptor was Jack Kershaw, the lawyer who defended Martin Luther King Jr.'s murderer, and the co-founder of the League of the South; even the owner admits that Kershaw was not a good artist, and he only keeps it for political reasons. (It would eventually be removed in 2021, prompting a tidal wave of lampooning on Twitter.) | |
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For the Evulz | |
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The Piraka rap from BIONICLE. Listen to it here in all of its hilarious glory. Before that, there was BIONICLE Brain, an intentionally horrible parody rap recorded on a promotional tour by the drivers of the "East Coast BIONICLE Unleashed Van", a certain Swift and Danny. The various "Good Guy" and "Bad Guy" promo sets (basically random pieces thrown together to sorta make a figure or a bizarre weapon-thing) they would package with battery packs and the like. One of them eventually got canonized as the official toy representation of a certain character, which is more divisive than a clear-cut example of "so bad it's good". |
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There is also the iOS 6 maps made by Apple to replace Google Maps for its iDevices... and failing miserably. While Google Maps was really helpful, this map system is utterly useless. It consists of terrible 3D modeling, utterly loathsome photography, and a habit of giving out directions and even getting several famous landmarks wrong. If you want to see for yourself, go to the tumblr showcasing screenshots of the mapping system here. | |
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Show Within a Show example: Pyramus and Thisbe in A Midsummer Night's Dream. The Duke and his guests order it performed just because it's so badly written and wretchedly performed that it's hilarious. What's even better is that the Pyramus and Thisbe A Midsummer Night's Dream refers to is an actual play that was notorious for the fact there is no possible way to perform it without it being ridiculous, even by skilled hands. |
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While there are lots of shoddy knock-off toys you find in dollar stores that are just boring and poorly made, more than a few are completely bonkers in their presentation. Hideously Off-Model, packages that display clear copyright violations and Gratuitous English or just plain "Blind Idiot" Translation or Translation Trainwreck instructions and eye-catching details or are just such utterly bizarre concepts that they can't help but make you laugh. Superman riding a dinosaur?◊ Thomas the Tank Engine Transformers? Oh, why the hell not. And then they make "Super Hero Teams" consisting of random figures. What? You never heard of the time Naruto teamed up with Batman, Spider-Man, and Iron Man to fight crime?◊ Or how about when a blue Power Ranger teamed up Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, a blue Lightning McQueen and Shrek joined forces as the Sense of Right Alliance? |
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The Coal Miner's Glove (a leather glove, covered in metal studs) was a supposed to be a Shout-Out to an even worse match from before the Monday Night Wars era. Going into the WCW Halloween Havoc 92 PPV, held on October 25, Sting was feuding with Jake "The Snake" Roberts, who devised that they "Spin the Wheel, Make the Deal" a match where various gimmick matches were on a giant wheel, and whatever it landed on would be the match they would face off in. However, the wheel itself wasn't gimmicked, and it landed on the worst possible option — a "Coal Miner's Glove" match. Whoever retrieved the glove from the pole first, would be allowed to "use" it on his opponent. The match wasn't much and Jake, due more to personal issues than bad booking decisions, was gone right after. | |
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James Brownyard was the owner and the only disk jockey for WHYP, a small Country Music AM radio station in the Erie, Pennsylvania area, who is still legendary in radio circles for the amazing level of incompetence he brought to the airwaves in the 1970s and 1980s. Not just for his gruff, monotonous voice, but also his tendency to go off on long, nonsensical rants in-between songs, letting records skip and repeat on the air, long stretches of dead air, and constantly interrupting songs to report on low-flying helicopters or thunderstorms in the vicinity of the studio. Some examples. | |
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Broken Record | |
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The Alphabet Songs by YouTube channel Have Fun Teaching are quite cheap looking even for being simple educational songs. Every song uses the same template along with extremely repetitive lines like "Write an uppercase G in the air" being said several times in a row and the segments showing words that utilize the letters in each video use drawings done in an unappealing art style. | |
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The Alleged Car | |
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The Trabant, the epitome of The Alleged Car and everything that was wrong with East Germany (and the Iron Curtain in general), still manages to have a cult following. Seriously. Likewise, the Reliant Robin, an ugly three-wheeled "car" which did a barrel roll if you so much as looked at a sharp turn is a cherished (if often parodied) part of British culture, complete with enthusiast conventions and racing circuits. |
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Cliché Storm | |
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The 1955 musical Ankles Aweigh was the kind of vaudeville sister-act vehicle that was such a throwback at the time of its production that its publicity campaign didn't try to hide it. The score is a total Cliché Storm, from the Opening Chorus to The Eleven O'Clock Number titled "An Eleven O'Clock Song." When the show was revived in 1989 by the Goodspeed Opera House, it was rewritten as a parody of musicals. | |
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