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|'''Russian proverb'''}}
 
AnyA '''Dancing Bear''' is any work of media that attract viewers not because theyit'res particularly entertaining—many of them, in point of fact, are dull or otherwise pointless—but because of some gimmick involved in the production: Any work for which the method by which it is created is more interesting than result.
 
[[Non-Actor Vehicle|Featuring noteworthy non-actors in major roles]] can qualify something for this trope: we don't go to [[The Hottie and The Nottie|movies with Paris Hilton in them]] to see how well she acts, after all. Particularly [[Loads and Loads of Characters|large casts]], shockingly difficult productions, unique production methods... anything that's used to sell a work more than its actual content can qualify it for Bear status. [[The Oner]] is usually a Bear as well, and [[Live Episode]]s too.
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* ''[[Cupcakes]]'' - Pinkie Pie tortures and murders Rainbow Dash. As with ''[[The Human Centipede]]'' mentioned below, the premise is more horrifying than the execution, and the fic is better remembered for leaving an impact on the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'' fandom than for the actual quality of the writing.
** Also, ''[[Rainbow Factory]]'', partially because it's sometimes described as "Cupcakes, except it's Rainbow Dash torturing/killing Scootaloo" and partially because of WoodenToaster's [[Creepy Awesome]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRx_iXgLAyw song] of the same title (Fun fact: The fanfic was inspired by the song!).
* Many well-known fanfictions, like ''[[My Immortal]]'', are notable for being ''[[So Bad It's Good|''so unbelievably horrible]]'' that they circle around and approach masterpiecehood from the other side]]. That is to say, the draw is not so much the content, so much as the legendary badness of the work itself.
 
== [[Film]] ==
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* ''[[Fitzcarraldo]]'' is best-known simply because of its [[Troubled Production]], and the fact that you're really watching people moving a ship through the jungle, even using techniques more difficult than the ones of the real event it's based on.
* ''[[Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow]]'' and ''[[Sin City]]'' were novel when they came out in the mid-2000s because they were among the first major films to use a "digital backlot" which blended live action characters with entirely digital backgrounds.
* A lot of the coverage for ''[[The Creator (2023 film)|The Creator]]'' highlighted how its budget was a cheap-for-its-league $80 million, filmed with the prosumer Sony FX3 and mainly on-location using guerilla filmmaking techniques.
 
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== [[Puppet Shows]] ==
* ''[[The Muppet Movie]]'' had an extremely well-received scene of Kermit riding a bicycle when he first sets out on his journey to become a Hollywood star. This scene was popular because it was assumed that it must have been difficult to film, but it was actually pretty easy to film and, to the annoyance of the producers, it took focus away from the extremely difficult scene in which Gonzo is carried away by a bunch of balloons.
 
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[The Spawn of Fashan]]'' would have vanished into the mists of gaming history if hadn't been for the combined effect of an infamous review in an [[April Fools' Day|April]] issue of [[Dragon (magazine)|''Dragon'' magazine]] in the early 1980s, and its subsequent frequent appearance in the classic [https://web.archive.org/web/20120510055816/http://pw1.netcom.com/~shagbert/pages/munchkins.html "Real Men, Real Roleplayers, Loonies, and Munchkins"] as the preferred game system of [[The Loonie]]. The only reason anyone seeks out this game is because of how legendarily ''bad'' it is.
 
== [[Video Games]] ==