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[[Finding Nemo (Film)|Hoo hah hah!]]
While a good movie or show is fun, there's just nothing like the visceral pleasure of [[MST3K|taking apart a bad one]]. And sometimes [[
Of course, in order to hate it to its fullest potential, you need to watch it and find out ''why'' it's so terrible.
Snark Bait refers to any popular work that evokes a desire to watch [[Bile Fascination|specifically to mock and join other people mocking]]. It's often a generic Hollywood blockbuster, or best-selling book. It's usually [[
Either way, [[Bandwagon Technique|everyone is going to be complaining]] about it, and you wouldn't want to be left out of slagging off all those [[Viewers
As a [[Troper]], good Snark Bait can lead to seeing how far off you can see the [[Treacherous Advisor]], which characters are [[Luke, I Am Your Father|secretly related]], or playing Trope Bingo or a trope [[Drinking Game]] with them. On the plus side, seeing a trope done ''badly'' can help you see what it is, and appreciate when it's done ''well''.
It often displays some of the following tropes:
* [[Anachronism Stew]]
* [[
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]
* [[Discredited Trope]]
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Does not relate to the [[Half Life|monster]] that can be utlized to bite your opponents or self. Compare [[Periphery Hatedom]].
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== Advertising ==
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== Comic Books ==
* ''[[All Star Batman and Robin]].'' Comic book fans may argue over anything from Wolverine's degree of badassery to Supergirl's skirt, but the only argument about ASBAR (aka "ASSBATS") is whether or not its suck was ''[[So Bad
* [[Chick Tracts|Comics by Jack Chick]]. Here, [http://imgur.com/LBt4E.png look] (possibly [[NSFW]]). Those, sadly, become much less funny when a ten-year-old girl, with fervent earnestness, gives you one.
** In the interests of full disclosure, we should note the excerpt in that link ''is'' a [[Gag Dub]].
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== Fan Fic ==
* Fanfiction in general falls into this. Many people refer to it as "the proof of [[
* Many online communities are devoted to the sporking and mocking of bad [[Fanfic|fanfics]] (especially [[Mary Sue]] fics).
* ''[[Celebrian (Fanfic)|Celebrian]]'', a ''[[Lord of the Rings]]'' fanfic consisting of lots of [[Gorn|torture porn]] and little else, continues to get circulated in spite of being both [[Squick|squicky]] and dull because of the hilarity many people find in both it and the reactions it generates. It's sort of similar to ''[[The Eye of Argon]]'' in that regard.
* ''[[My Immortal (Fanfic)|My Immortal]]'' is probably the single most widely circulated fanfic ever created specifically ''because'' of this trope. It's probably more [[Bile Fascination]] and [[So Bad
* Completely and utterly averted by ''[[Agony in Pink (Fanfic)|Agony in Pink]]'', which is so unpleasant that it is nearly unreadable.
* ''[[My Inner Life (Fanfic)|My Inner Life]]''.
* ''[[Starkits Prophecy (Fanfic)|Starkits Prophecy]]''. [[So Bad
* Pornographic fanfiction gets this ''a lot.''
* ''[[Naruto Veangance Revelaitons (Fanfic)|Naruto Veangance Revelaitons]]''; for the same reasons as the previously mentioned ''My Immortal'', ''My Inner Life'', and ''Starkits Prophecy''.
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* Once people realize how much cash Uwe Boll makes off of snarkers coming to his movie to make fun of them, the films'll probably start seeming a lot less funny.
** This is probably what Boll would like to believe, but his [[Hatedom]] really isn't big enough to put his profits into the positive. Not that he's motivated by the revenue at the box office end, so his works have become an [[Acceptable Target]] for piracy -- people less often pay to trash them, they (allegedly) simply steal them to trash them.
* ''[[The Wizard (Film)|The Wizard]]'' has a cult following in the video game culture dedicated to tearing it apart for its [[Pac
* ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118261/usercomments Asteroid]'' movie. Probably worth watching - if you have bile deficiency and readily available can of [[Brain Bleach]]... or properly perverted sense of humor.
* ''[[Battlefield Earth (Film)|Battlefield Earth]]'' starts off as [[Bile Fascination]], but becomes [[Snark Bait]] on repeated viewings.
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* '''Anything''' by [[Seltzer and Friedberg]].
* Also, anything by [[M Night Shyamalan]] (except ''[[The Sixth Sense]]'' and possibly ''[[Unbreakable]]'').
* ''[[Night Watch]]''. Sergey Lukyanenko suffers this in general, in part for the same reasons as [[Dan Browned|Dan Brown]], in part for his [[Small Name, Big Ego|behaviour when he doesn't like something]]. But [[The Movie]] took a cake. In the face. It was hooted at [[
* ''[[The Garbage Pail Kids Movie (Film)|The Garbage Pail Kids Movie]]''.
* The [[So Bad
* On a similar note, ''[[Death Bed the Bed That Eats]]''. Watch some of it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk-BsuKVsio here].
* ''[[The Room (Film)|The Room]]''.
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== Literature ==
* [[Christopher Paolini (Creator)|Christopher Paolini]]'s ''[[Inheritance Cycle]]'' is one of the biggest examples, primarily due to accusations of being unoriginal.
** With all the crap Paolini gets, you have to feel a little sorry for the guy when you learn he started writing the series when he was only sixteen years old. It probably started out as some sort of [[Buffy
* The ''[[Sword of Truth]]'' series is a particularly big magnet.
* It seems that a [[Vocal Minority]] of Stephenie Meyer's "fanbase" only read ''[[Twilight (Literature)|Twilight]]'' for this reason. Or for the [[So Bad
* [[John Ringo]]'s ''[[Paladin of Shadows (Literature)|Paladin of Shadows]]'' series, although it seems to be something of a [[Stealth Parody]]. Proven by the fact that he links to most of these reviews and will usually write letters not only supporting many of their accusations, but pointing out inconsistencies and logical failures they missed. Such as the main character would have died about 6 pages into the first book. He called it his Dark Fic. People liked it so he published it and made a shit load of money. Here is a [http://hradzka.livejournal.com/194753.html review], which gave us the "Oh [[John Ringo]] No" meme.
* ''[[The Eye of Argon]]'' is possibly the worst fantasy short story ever written ''ever''. Terrible in the extreme, only readable with the help of the [[MST3K]] crew heckling it... yet somehow, impossible not to read (at least once). In places, it has become tradition to stage competitions of how much people could read with a straight face and expressive voice. Three quarters of a page is considered doing extremely well.
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* Tyra Banks is writing a fantasy novel about models. No, [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/100637-Tyra-Banks-Fancies-Herself-the-Next-J-R-R-Tolkien really].
** The book trilogy in question is titled ''Modelland'', and ends up practically snarking itself. For example SM-ize is an actual word. Really.
* As far as [[Mark Twain]] was concerned, the entire body of Fenimore Cooper's work, and especially ''Deerslayer''. This resulted in "[[Fenimore Coopers Literary Offences]]," a hilarious [[Take That]] and early example of what [[
* According to many ''[[War Craft]]'' fans, ''[[The Cycle of Hatred]]''.
* Though not remotely popular, the ''[[Maradonia Saga (Literature)|Maradonia Saga]]'' has become famous for being made of 100% pure [[Epic Fail|fail]]. It's not just derivative, it literally plagiarizes ''from [[The Bible]]'', has Random words Capitalized for no Reason, ''random italics'', and 'quotes' where none should 'be'. [http://impishidea.com/tag/Maradonia-Spork/ Impishidea.com] has sporkings and a drinking game, though it would be better to avoid the game if you don't want to die of alcohol poisoning and/or acute liver failure. The enormous [[Small Name, Big Ego|ego]] of the author is the subject of as much, if not more, snark than the books themselves. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H00bPr3ExU SwankiVY] sums the whole thing up nicely.
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''For the story''<br />
''For the gory satisfaction of telling you how absolutely awful you really are?'' }}
* ''[[British Newspapers|The Guardian]]'' did a hilarious [http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2006/aug/11/popandrock.shopping8 review] of Paris Hilton's [[Self
{{quote| Lest one carp, Hilton has been quick to point out that singing is a vocation for which she is eminently skilled. "I know music," she reassured the Sunday Times children's section. "I hear it every single day." [...] While this obviously gives Hilton a massive advantage over those who have never heard any music and thus believe it to be a variety of cheese, there remains the nagging suspicion that this might not represent sufficient qualification for a career as a singer, in much the same way as knowing what a child is does not fully equip you for a career as a consultant paediatrician.}}
* In general, pretty much any [[Dead Horse Genre]] is going to be [[Snark Bait]], period.
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* ''[[Resident Evil 1]]'', the script moreso than the actual gameplay. "You were almost a Jill Sandwich" anyone? What about a gun that's "good against living things"? or "master of unlocking". Don't forget "Wow! What a mansion!", especially with the [[Fridge Brilliance]] of {{spoiler|Wesker's}} role later in the game.
* ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog 2006 (Video Game)|Sonic the Hedgehog 2006]]''. [[Let's Play|Video commentaries]] of this game are for this reason and this reason only.
* ''[[Big Rigs Over the Road Racing]]'', which gained infamy when gamers discovered just how [[So Bad
* [[Runescape]] gets this from a lot of people who view it as a poor man's [[World of Warcraft]] or [[Ever Quest]].
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[My Life Me]]'': A [[Flash Animation]] cartoon done in [[Animesque]] style starring a [[Occidental Otaku|weeaboo]] manga-fan-artist in a [[Slice of Life]] style series. Reeks of [[Shallow Parody]], [[They Just Didn't Care]] and [[Self
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