Movie-Making Mess: Difference between revisions

Compare: [[Troubled Production]], the larger-scale professional version of this. Contrast: [[School Play]].

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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* The first (airing order) episode of ''[[The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' shows the results of this, while an arc in season two shows the process, as does the second [[Light Novel]].

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

 

== [[Film]] ==

* More or less the plot of ''[[Be Kind Rewind]]''

* ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark]]: The Adaptation'' was one of these. A bunch of teenagers took about a decade of summers to hack together a nearly shot-by-shot remake of ''Raiders of the Lost Ark''. They had to make five or six giant boulders and nearly burned down the house where they filmed. On the other hand, the final film is a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] for everyone involved.

 

== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==

* In ''[[FoxTrot]]'', Jason's attempt to make a stop motion version of [[Jurassic Park]] called ''Mesozoic Park'' (which he claimed was a more accurate title as the Mesozoic Era included all of the dinosaurs featured in the film) was a disaster and left him with about thirty seconds of film. His later attempt to film his own version of [[King Kong]] met with similar failure.

 

* An episode of ''[[Green Acres]]'' had the entire city of Hooterville believing that a famous movie director was coming to their town, so they made their own movie to show to him. However, the movie that they made was so bad that the director was forced to burn up the film, under the orders of his boss.

* ''[[Community]]'' has a variant in which the characters attempt to film a commercial, with several characters treating it as an actual [[Serious Business|film shooting]] and things go horribly wrong.

** In another episode, Abed's movie about Jesus, which is actually a movie about himself making a movie about himself making a movie about Jesus... ends not well.

* The entire plot of ''[[Action]]'' is Peter Dragon's attempt to make the film "Beverly Hills Gun Club". Said film is plagued by such problems as a drug-addicted star who demands a bigger codpiece, a director who drowns, a lead actress who suddenly puts on weight just before shooting (leading to an emergency liposuction), and so on.

* ''[[My Name Is Earl]]'': One of the people on Earl's list is a young man who is dying and wants to make a movie wherein he's the star. Earl becomes the producer.

 

== [[Web Animation]] ==

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* An episode of ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' had SpongeBob and Patrick make their own ''Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy'' movie, mainly due to the fact that they thought the new one that was coming out was a fake {{spoiler|because of the actors who were replacing the real Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy in the title roles}}.

* ''[[The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius|The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron]]'': A big-time director is coming to Retroville and holds a contest to find a script to make a movie out of. Jimmy scientifically constructs a script by analyzing and replicating from all of the greatest films in history. His script is chosen and he and his friends are put into the movie. Unfortunately it was a trap designed by one of Jimmy's enemies trying to kill him.

* There was an episode ''[[The Ren and Stimpy Show]]'' where Stimpy was making a cartoon.

* On one episode of ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'', the writers quit and Buster, Babs and the others end up having to do the show themselves.

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