Incredibly Lame Fun: Difference between revisions

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This is when a character is easily amused by a game that would normally be considered boring and lame. Usually used to show that these characters are idiots or immature, or just because it's [[Rule of Funny|funny]].

 

Not to be confused with [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]. Compare [[A Good Old-Fashioned Paint-Watching]].

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** Also with umbrellas and anything [[Mundane Object Amazement|ordinary that amazes her]].

 

== Film ==

{{quote|'''Dave''': I'd buy that for a dollar!}}

* The movie ''Ass'' in ''[[Idiocracy]]'' won multiple awards. It is just a close-up of some guy's ass.

 

== Literature ==

{{quote|Troll gambling is even easier than [[Take That|Australian gambling]].}}

 

* On ''[[Stella]]'', when the boys couldn't go to the amusement park, they decided to improvise fun rides with what they had at their home; naturally, their alternatives don't quite match up to the real thing, but they make do.

* ''[[The State]]'' had a sketch where two characters play strip poker. Since they're both male and straight, they don't find it all that interesting.

* JD and Turk of [[Scrubs]] have some odd hobbies, like playing "Finger or Toe" in which one of them closes their eyes, the other sticks a finger or toe under their nose, and the first must guess which it is. They also considered switching chairs at their apartment at set intervals to be a major event.

* ''[[Sesame Street]]'' has Bert, who loves all sorts of boring pastimes such as watching pigeons and collecting paperclips. He even likes to read books like ''Boring Stories''.

 

== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==

{{quote|'''Jon:''' I've got an idea, Garfield! I stuff my face full of bananas... then you tickle me!

'''Garfield:''' We are the bored. }}

 

== Video Games ==

* Quasar in ''[[Mass Effect]]'' is an incredibly dull adding game with two buttons, yet it has entire casinos dedicated to it. It owes a lot to its parent Pazaak from ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]''. [[Damned By Faint Praise|Which is exactly as much fun as Quasar]].

* A troll in ''[[Ultima Underworld]] II'' plays "White Rock Black Rock," in which the object is to correctly pick the white rock. From a pair of rocks ''in plain sight of both players''.

 

== Web Comics ==

* Hannelore in ''[[Questionable Content]]'' [http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1489 thinks] that she'd probably find watching paint dry fascinating. Hanners is a certified mega-genius, so big surprise about that whole rant she runs through there.

* Scarlet in ''[[Sequential Art (webcomic)|Sequential Art]]'' enthusiastically played noughts-and-crosses with herself and watched for hours how a washing machine works, before "setting sockies free", not that she wasn't established as a [[Cloudcuckoolander]] already.

 

== Western Animation ==

* ''[[Invader Zim]]'': GIR enjoys a lot of activities others wouldn't. Like hiding inside a cooked turkey for hours.

* [[Phineas and Ferb|Phineas and Ferb's]] activities are usually the exact inverse of this trope, but in "Phineas and Ferb Interrupted" they get hit with Doofenshmirtz's "Dull-and-Boring-inator" and spend most of the rest of the day playing with lint rollers and watching grass grow.

 

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[[Category:Comedy Tropes]]

[[Category:Just for Pun]]