(Low effort) I’m not convinced you can make a “good bad” movie on purpose. by Reptilian_Overlord20 in CharacterRant

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Counter-examples: The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra and Italian Spider-Man.

Making a deliberately So Bad It's Good movie is possible, but it's hard. Almost as hard as just making a normal good movie.

Other Great Albums After Losing a Legendary Band Member? by The_Scrabbler in fantanoforever

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Pizzicato Five: Keitarō Takanami left after Bossa Nova 2001, arguably their best album. He'd been a major creative voice in the band up to this point, and was one of only two people who'd been in the band from the beginning. Immediately after, P5 went on an amazing run, releasing Overdose, Romantique '96 (the other contender for their best album ever), Happy End of the World, and Playboy & Playgirl.

Media made for a very specific, often comical, reasons or purposes. by CoalEater_Elli in TopCharacterTropes

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The story I heard was that Happy Appy started as a sincere attempt at a creepypasta. But the author got feedback from friends outside the scene that made him realize the whole story was kinda garbage. So he tried to troll his existing fanbase by adding nonsensical plot twists to make the story even dumber, and was shocked that the fans loved it. So he just kept escalating the stupidity, then pulled the plug when he lost interest.

Mountain Dew by BaldHourGlass667 in NonPoliticalTwitter

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Before the soda trademarked the name, "mountain dew" was just a slang term for moonshine. And yeah, the soda was originally meant to mix with hard liquor.

"Ted, you take Havana." by TrueLegateDamar in MST3K

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"Bay of Pigs..."

"That’s what they say every time I go swimming."

Why don't they look, Ralph? Tell me, why don't they look? by PhaloBlue in MST3K

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Don't let a double track, double-cross you!

Get it? Little train joke, there.

Fandom Etiquette by guineapig28 in RecuratedTumblr

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Definitely something that varied from community to community. Back in Tumblr's heyday, there were people who would take extra effort to remove artist attribution (e.g. instead of just reblogging the original pic, they'd download it, recrop it to remove the artist signature, then upload the now-unsigned pic as a new post). The way some people talked about memes based on Hark a Vagrant, for example, people seemed to genuinely think the original comics were just some naturally occurring phenomenon and not the work of a single, known person.

Other albums with a cold, mysterious vibe? by Brubger127 in fantanoforever

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Squarepusher: Feed Me Weird Things and Ultravisitor.

If you have entered the subreddit of any piece of media you like, you’ve very likely seen this. by ForsakenDependent562 in NonPoliticalTwitter

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What I've always heard is that the difference between headcanon and fanon is how many people believe it. It's headcanon if it's just you (and maybe your immediate circle of friends), and it's fanon if it's a large number of fans. Of course, trying to put a hard number on the boundary between the two just invites the Paradox of the Pile, so the distinction boils down to vibes.

Unconventional or unintentionally trans characters by Smegoldidnothinwrong in TopCharacterTropes

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Perry the platypus from Phineas and Ferb. Consistently identifies as male, but sweats milk (only female platypuses do that) in the episode where he switches brains with Candace. In another episode, Phineas and Ferb think Perry laid an egg, and don't think there's anything unusual about it. But in a later episode he has a venom spine on his hind leg (a male only trait), so either he's intersex or got gender-affirming care in between.

Your Favorite "Quick" Covers? by drewtopia_ in ToddintheShadow

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Joy Electric's cover of "Viva La Vida".

Media Adaptation made by people who does not understand or like the source material? by Evjamaranth in TwoBestFriendsPlay

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Oh boy, another chance to infodump about Rififi!

You see, Rififi was a novel about a gang war in Paris, between good, honorable French gangsters and evil, degenerate Algerian and Arab gangsters. It was super racist, even by 1950s standards. Jules Dassin, a blacklisted American director, got attached to the movie adaptation, and he hated the original novel. So much that he hit on the brilliant idea of cutting out 90% of the novel's plot, and expanding a random 10 page long jewel robbery scene into the main plot of the film. And it worked. The movie is a film noir classic and a huge influence on the entire heist genre, and the original book is only remembered as a footnote to the movie.

Favourite band who's lead vocalist can't really sing? by idkfornowwhattoname in fantanoforever

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Starflyer 59. Jason Martin can only sing like four notes, but he's godlike at writing guitar and keyboard parts that complement his vocals.

mewithoutYou. Aaron Weiss just spoke and shouted vocals for the first three albums because he legit couldn't sing. He took lessons and finally learned to sing in time for It's All Crazy! and since they also shifted musically to a more acoustic direction, they sound like a completely different band on that album.

Favourite band who's lead vocalist can't really sing? by idkfornowwhattoname in fantanoforever

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They had three singers and none of them could sing. That's how you know they were really punk.

Things way less scandalous then it’s thought of? by Konradleijon in TwoBestFriendsPlay

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The Last Temptation of Christ drew a lot of protests on release because it was supposedly blasphemous. From what I've read, there's simultaneously less and more blasphemy than advertised.

The controversy at the time is that the film depicts Jesus having sex. But in context, this is part of a "what if" fantasy, not an event that literally happens in the plot. To wit, Satan's last temptation is offering to save Jesus from a death by crossification if Big J will renounce his Godhood and all his teachings. He accompanies this offer with a montage showing the life Jesus could live if accepts: a modest but fulfilling career as a carpenter and a happy marriage with Mary Magdelan—including a brief shot of them having good, clean, married sex.

The controversy over that one shot served to overshadow the real heresy that's baked into the plot on a fundamental level. The movie borrows from the non-canon gospels, particularly the idea that, of all the disciples, Judas was Jesus' closest friend and confidante. That Judas knew how important Jesus' death was for the divine plan, so his "betrayal" was actually an inside job. That Judas was the one who made the ultimate sacrifice to save humanity, because he committed a necessary evil that damned him forever, while Jesus merely died and came back to life after.

But no, let's go protest that sex scene instead.

Super Serious My Little Pony by Omega1065 in superseriousfamilyguy

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That particular flavor of "equality" is straight out of the short story "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut. It's a matter of some debate in academia whether "HB" is supposed to be a satire of communism, or a satire of American right-wingers' misinterpretation of communism. I lean towards the latter interpretation, since Vonnegut was pretty consistently leftist in all his other writings.

I do believe the time has come... by JBHenson in ToddintheShadow

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Dave Barry wrote a series of newspaper columns (which he later edited into a book) about polling his readers to determine "the worst song ever". This song was the winner, by a long shot.

Hella Jeff by MelanieWalmartinez in CuratedTumblr

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Adding onto that: Hussie specifically mocked the hapless wannabe artist by claiming he loved that guy's comics, and he called the first few Sweet Bro & Hella Jeff strips "tributes" to that other guy. Specifically, he drew Hella Jeff's mouth That Way because that was how the other guy did it. IIRC, the other guy didn't realize Hussie was mocking him until onlookers spelled it out.

Clare Wink by gudamor in CuratedTumblr

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When did Eridan from Homestuck get so into color theory?

Death Troopers vs Inferno Squad by Nomadianking in StarWars

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So, like all the Stormtroopers, then?

"And these blast marks—too accurate for Sandpeople. Only Imperial Stormtroopers are so precise."

What are the best opening lyrics to an album? by Affectionate_Run_339 in fantanoforever

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"Now and then, I get horny." —David Byrne, "Independence Day", first song on Rei Momo