Anti Role Model: Difference between revisions
Rescuing 1 sources and tagging 0 as dead. #IABot (v2.0beta9)
m (Fix broken image) |
(Rescuing 1 sources and tagging 0 as dead. #IABot (v2.0beta9)) |
||
| (2 intermediate revisions by 2 users not shown) | |||
Line 2:
[[File:bender-on-the-batter.jpg|link=Futurama|frame| This is Bender. He is from the show Futurama. [[Forbidden Fruit|He is never to be looked up by anyone, under any circumstances.]] [[Department of Redundancy Department|To reiterate]], [[Schmuck Bait|do not search for "Futurama Bender".]]]]
{{quote|''I'm Mr. Bad Example, intruder in the dirt''
''I like to have a good time, and I don't care who gets hurt''
''I'm Mr. Bad Example, take a look at me''
''I'll live to be a hundred, and go down in infamy!''|'''Warren Zevon'''}}
Line 19:
When [[Moral Guardians]] can't wrap their minds around even this [[Anvilicious]] method of delivery, you get [[But Not Too Evil]].
Making the
Compare with [[Hitler Ate Sugar]].
Line 39:
== Comic Books ==
* Pretty much any non-Christian in [[Jack Chick]]'s [[Author Tract]] comics. They tend to be ''at best'' stunningly ignorant ("Who's this 'Jesus' guy?"), and more often hate-crazed and hideous.
** Chick has even carved out a niche-within-a-niche here: the "repulsive Catholic" (analyzed [https://web.archive.org/web/20110913040349/http://www.catholic.com/library/sr_chick_tracts_p5.asp here], toward the end of the page).
** This is exemplified by his piece "Somebody Goofed!", which depicts a "debate" between an elderly Christian fundamentalist, and a non-Christian, both fighting for the attention of one of Jack's typical ignorant and gullible non-Christians. Various strawmen are thrown, to the point that the non-Christian SHOVES THE OLD MAN DOWN FOR NO REASON. In the end, it turns out that the non-Christian was actually a {{spoiler|demon in disguise.}}
Line 51:
== Live Action TV ==
* Cookie Monster from ''[[Sesame Street]]'' used to be a mild case of
** There's a chapter from ''[[Family Guy]]'', though, where this trope is mixed with [[I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin!]]: One scene shows the Cookie Monster hiding in a bathroom stall, heating cookie dough in a spoon as if it were heroin.
*** This, in fact, is acknowledged in his recent cameo on, of all shows, ''[[The Colbert Report]]'', where he notes, "Me have crazy times in seventies and eighties! Me am like, the Robert Downey Jr. of cookies!"
Line 78:
* Roger on [[Nickelodeon]]'s ''[[Doug]]'' was often used for this purpose, though less so in the Disney version.
* Parodied in the ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "Bender Should Not Be Allowed on TV", where Bender ''acts like himself'' on a TV show. Bender is an anti-role model (since he has no redeeming qualities) whom young viewers treat as a role model. At one point on the show, he says, "Try this at home, kids!" (while a brief disclaimer flashes across the bottom of the screen saying not to try it at home), and then he ''sets himself on fire''. Later in the episode, he protests his own presence on TV and the blame placed upon him. Note that the proverbial last straw for Bender here is that the children who emulated his behavior stole ''his'' stuff.
{{quote|
** Leela becomes an in-universe example in the episode "A Leela of Her Own", where she becames the first female ever to play major league Blernsball. She plays horribly (due to having one eye, and thus bad depth perception) but the New New York Mets signs her up, because she's so bad that people find it entertaining. At the end, Jackie Anderson, the first ''good'' female player, tells her that she was an inspiration, because she was "so awful that women everywhere set out to prove they don't stink as bad as you."
* ''[[Beavis and Butthead]]''. Unusual, as they're the leads.
| |||