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 ==

* From ''[[Igor]]'':

'''Scamper''': ''Our'' work? You spent the entire time playing with a piece of ribbon. }}

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

 

== Literature ==

* Trolls in the ''[[Discworld]]'' books gamble by tossing something up and then betting on whether or not it will come down. To be fair, there's definitely some parts on the Disc where it's a legitimate [[Incredibly Lame Pun|toss-up]].

 

* 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.

** Rimmer was apparently ''always'' that boring, enjoying such hobbies as Hammond Organ music, morris dancing, studying 20th century telegraph poles, and recounting the events of his Risk game move-by-move.

** The others have engaged in such pastimes as watching laundry spin (it was Kochanski's, so this is the closest any of them has to a sex life).

* 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]] ==

** Garfield and Jon are not immune to this, since their lives are pretty boring too. In one strip, he is watching television when the announcer says, "And now we present, ''Watching Paint Dry''!" Garfield responds with, "Rats! They cancelled ''Watching Grass Grow''!"

** In a later strip:

'''Garfield:''' Don't tell me how it turns out! }}

** In another strip:

'''Garfield:''' I hope he doesn't think that my life is so totally devoid of excitement that I am reduced to that. [[Hypocritical Humor|I'm waiting for it to peel]]. }}

** Jon makes toast... for fun. *pop* "Yee Haaww!"

** Also:

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

 

== Video Games ==

* 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.

 

== Western Animation ==

** At the start of "Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost", Spongebob and Patrick play a game that consists of doing, well, [[Calvin Ball|whatever non-sequitur goes through their minds.]]

** In "Mid-Life Crustacean", Mr. Krabs hangs out with Spongebob and Patrick because he feels old. They end up going to the laundromat, reading at the library, sitting in a kiddie pool, et cetera. Of course this is subverted at the end when they suggest a panty raid. This is subverted when it turns out to be Mr. Krabs' mother's undergarments...

** In "The Idiot Box", Spongebob and Patrick buy a large TV so they can [[Kids Prefer Boxes|play inside the box]]. They use their imagination to enjoy it so much, Squidward wants in.

** Subverted on another occasion; Spongebob gets a "useless" piece of paper from Squidward and then uses it to play all sort of games, plus swimming/flying around.

** Homer Simpson does this a lot, like playing with the adjustable hospital bed in "Homer's Triple Bypass": "Bed goes up, bed goes down! Bed goes up, bed goes down!"

** Milhouse with the cup and ball. A joke Family Guy then did years later.

* ''[[Fanboy and Chum Chum]]'': In the "Night Morning" episode, Fanboy invites his whole class to watch Chum Chum do his morning routine... <small>AT NIGHT!</small>

* ''[[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]]