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"It is so bad that a kind of grandeur creeps into it."

—H. L. Mencken, on Warren G. Harding's English composition

Once in a while, a work turns out to be so bad, it creates a disruption in the badness continuum, and wraps right around to good. Rather than it unintentionally Breaking the Fourth Wall like usual, something about the the specifics of the work in question instead cause an enjoyable, though equally unintended, emotional response in the viewing public. Maybe the hubcap-on-a-wire flying saucers are cute, or the spontaneous brothel scene goes on for so long it's hilarious, or the technically oriented find humor in the way the hacker can suborn the traffic lights of New York with no perceptible effort.

Whatever the reason, a truly horrid piece of work can become an unintentional riot and even get its own fandom for its very lack of quality. This can well be an ongoing process as attitudes change, budgets grow and cynicism increases.

Keep in mind that even when something is So Bad It's Good, it's still bad. For many things on this list, there will be an almost unanimous opinion that they fail entirely at having the sort of appeal they intended. Far less unanimous will be the opinion that they have a sort of appeal that is unintentional; here Your Mileage May Vary comes into play. Likewise, Your Mileage May Vary on where the line lies between simply bad, this effect, and So Bad, It's Horrible. In general, among the very large reserve of things that can be classified as "bad," works that get labeled so bad it's good tend to be loaded with unintended Narm and ludicrously Crazy Awesome factors, while So Bad, It's Horrible, is the place for works whose badness only makes them boring or offensive. Nonetheless, don't be surprised when you come across some items that wound up on both lists, such as Big Rigs Over the Road Racing or Soulja Boy's song, "Anime." On occasion, the writers may intentionally try to pull off this trope. Of course, this almost never actually results in something that fits because it's hard not to "wink at the camera", so to speak—though it's often still funny.

Something which is So Bad It's Good has a high probability of becoming a Cult Classic. Many are heavy on Camp, therefore falling far onto the silly side of the Sliding Scale of Silliness Versus Seriousness, and are often considered Guilty Pleasures, although neither is necessary. See Narm Charm. This is also often seen in Memetic Mutation, when people combine two or more horrible things (or pieces thereof) into something good. Leeroy Jenkins, for example.

If someone just keeps on churning out work that's So Bad, It's Good, they're probably Giftedly Bad. Of course, it could also be a result of Springtime for Hitler.

Compare Stylistic Suck and So Unfunny It's Funny, which play this trope for laughs. Contrast with So Bad It's Horrible, which is when something actually "succeeds" in being too bad for this trope.

No real life examples, please; this is an Audience Reaction trope, and as far as we know, Real Life does not have an audience.

Examples of So Bad It's Good are listed on these subpages:

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-{{quote|''"It is so bad that a kind of grandeur creeps into it."''|'''[[HL Mencken]]''', on [[Warren G Harding|Warren G. Harding's]] English composition}}
+{{quote|''"It is so bad that a kind of grandeur creeps into it."''
+|'''[[H. L. Mencken]]''', on [[Warren Harding|Warren G. Harding's]] English composition}}
 Once in a while, a work turns out to be so bad, it creates a disruption in the badness continuum, and wraps right around to good. Rather than it unintentionally [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]] like usual, something about the the specifics of the work in question instead cause an enjoyable, though equally unintended, emotional response in the viewing public. Maybe the [[Special Effect Failure|hubcap-on-a-wire flying saucers]] are cute, or the spontaneous brothel scene goes on for [[Overly Long Gag|so long it's hilarious]], or the technically oriented [[Narm|find humor]] in the way the [[Playful Hacker|hacker]] can [[Everything Is Online|suborn the traffic lights of New York]] with no perceptible effort.
 Whatever the reason, a truly horrid piece of work can become an [[Narm|unintentional riot]] and even get [http://www.rinkworks.com/badmovie/ its own fandom] for its very lack of quality. This can well be an ongoing process as attitudes change, budgets grow and cynicism increases.
-Keep in mind that even when something is [[So Bad Its Good|So Bad, It's Good]], it's still ''bad''. For many things on this list, there will be an almost unanimous opinion that they fail entirely at having the sort of appeal they intended. Far ''less'' unanimous will be the opinion that they have a sort of appeal that is unintentional; here [[Your Mileage May Vary]] comes into play. Likewise, [[Your Mileage May Vary]] on where the line lies between simply bad, this effect, and [[So Bad Its Horrible (Darth Wiki)|So Bad, It's Horrible]]. In general, among the very large reserve of things that can be classified as "bad," works that get labeled so bad it's good tend to be loaded with unintended [[Narm]] and ludicrously [[Crazy Awesome]] factors, while [[So Bad Its Horrible (Darth Wiki)|So Bad, It's Horrible]], is the place for works whose badness only makes them boring or offensive. Nonetheless, don't be surprised when you come across some items that wound up on both lists, such as ''Big Rigs Over the Road Racing'' or [[Soulja Boy]]'s song, "Anime." On occasion, the writers may ''intentionally'' [[They Plotted a Perfectly Good Waste|try to pull off this trope]]. Of course, this almost ''never'' actually results in something that fits because it's hard not to [[Lampshade Hanging|"wink at the camera"]], [[Better Than a Bare Bulb|so to speak]]--though it's often still funny.
+Keep in mind that even when something is '''So Bad It's Good''', it's still ''bad''. For many things on this list, there will be an almost unanimous opinion that they fail entirely at having the sort of appeal they intended. Far ''less'' unanimous will be the opinion that they have a sort of appeal that is unintentional; here [[Your Mileage May Vary]] comes into play. Likewise, [[Your Mileage May Vary]] on where the line lies between simply bad, this effect, and [[So Bad It's Horrible (Darth Wiki)|So Bad, It's Horrible]]. In general, among the very large reserve of things that can be classified as "bad," works that get labeled so bad it's good tend to be loaded with unintended [[Narm]] and ludicrously [[Crazy Awesome]] factors, while [[So Bad It's Horrible (Darth Wiki)|So Bad, It's Horrible]], is the place for works whose badness only makes them boring or offensive. Nonetheless, don't be surprised when you come across some items that wound up on both lists, such as ''Big Rigs Over the Road Racing'' or [[Soulja Boy]]'s song, "Anime." On occasion, the writers may ''intentionally'' [[They Plotted a Perfectly Good Waste|try to pull off this trope]]. Of course, this almost ''never'' actually results in something that fits because it's hard not to [[Lampshade Hanging|"wink at the camera"]], [[Better Than a Bare Bulb|so to speak]]—though it's often still funny.
 Something which is So Bad It's Good has a high probability of becoming a [[Cult Classic]]. Many are heavy on [[Camp]], therefore falling far onto the silly side of the [[Sliding Scale of Silliness Versus Seriousness]], and are often considered [[Guilty Pleasures]], although neither is necessary. See [[Narm Charm]]. This is also often seen in [[Memetic Mutation]], when people combine two or more horrible things (or pieces thereof) into something good. [[Leeroy Jenkins]], for example.
-If someone just keeps on churning out work that's [[So Bad Its Good|So Bad, It's Good]], they're probably [[Giftedly Bad]]. Of course, it could also be a result of [[Springtime for Hitler]].
+If someone just keeps on churning out work that's '''So Bad, It's Good''', they're probably [[Giftedly Bad]]. Of course, it could also be a result of [[Springtime for Hitler]].
-Compare [[Stylistic Suck]] and [[So Unfunny Its Funny]], which [[Played for Laughs|play this trope for laughs]]. Contrast with [[So Bad Its Horrible (Darth Wiki)|So Bad, It's Horrible]], which is when something actually "succeeds" in being ''too'' bad for this trope.
+Compare [[Stylistic Suck]] and [[So Unfunny It's Funny]], which [[Played for Laughs|play this trope for laughs]]. Contrast with [[So Bad It's Horrible]], which is when something actually "succeeds" in being ''too'' bad for this trope.
-{{examples|Examples broken down by medium:}}
+{{noreallife|this is an [[Audience Reaction]] trope, and as far as we know, Real Life does not have an audience.}}
-* [[So Bad Its Good/Advertising|Advertising]]
-* [[So Bad Its Good/Anime|Anime and Manga]]
-* [[So Bad Its Good/Comic Books|Comic Books]]
-* [[So Bad Its Good/Fanfic|Fanfic]]
-* [[So Bad Its Good/Film|Film]]
-* [[So Bad Its Good/Literature|Literature]]
-* [[So Bad Its Good/Live Action TV|Live Action TV]]
-* [[So Bad Its Good/Music|Music]]
-* [[So Bad Its Good/New Media|New Media]]
-* [[So Bad Its Good/Video Games|Video Games]]
-* [[So Bad Its Good/Webcomics|Webcomics]]
-* [[So Bad Its Good/Western Animation|Western Animation]]
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-=== Other Examples ===
-== [[Art]] ==
-* The entire Dada "anti-art" movement was specifically made to be so stupid and terrible that it was art.
-** A famous example is when Marcel Duchamp submitted an upside-down urinal called "The Fountain" as an "interactive" art installation. He was trying to [[Troll|get a rise out of]] some exhibition organizers who claimed they would accept anything.
-*** Supposedly the first "found object", the urinal was actually made from paper-mache.
-* Similar to the Dada movement, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_Of_Bad_Art "Museum of bad art"] is dedicated to collecting the worst paintings they can find.
-* Many who dislike British conceptual artist Damien Hirst see him as this; there's just something disgustingly delightful about factory-made 'artworks' that were paid for in thousands of pounds just for the sake of making a splash. Really, one of his most famous 'works' is a skull studded entirely with diamonds. What's not to love?
-* The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnside_Fountain Burnside Fountain] of Worcester, Massachusetts. Affectionately known as the "Turtle Boy Love Statue", it apparently depicts a nude young man having improper relations with a sea turtle.
-* The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Lenin Lenin Statue of Freemont Washington] is subject to this.
-* The art community even has its own term for [[So Bad Its Good|So Bad, It's Good]]; they call it [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitsch Kitsch].
-== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
-* Professional Wrestling itself to many.
-* The book The Death Of WCW points out that a lot of people only watched [[WCW]] in its final two years because of this trope.
-* [[WWE]] wrestler The Boogeyman is an almost-bald [[Scary Black Man]] with his entire head painted red with black spots, who walks like he's having a seizure, smashes giant antique clocks over his head, speaks almost entirely in singsongy nursery rhymes, eats worms by the handful, and his catchphrase is, "I'm... THE BOOGEYMAN! And I'm comin'... TO GETCHA!" The whole thing is as hilariously awful as it sounds.
-** His backstory actually [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] the ludicrousness involved -- an actor for a show that didn't materialize who snapped (falling too deep into method acting) and became the Boogeyman, but was [[Executive Meddling|sicced]] onto WWE's [[Smack Down]]! brand anyway to see what would happen and because he was still under contract. Seriously.
-** Even more hilariously awful is the time in one skit with [[D Generation X]], he appeared from underneath the ring, and told [[Triple H]] and [[Shawn Michaels]]: "I'm...THE BOOGEYMAN! And I'm comin' to - (briefly sans Boogeyman gimmick) - see if I can join DX."
-*** The fact that he lisped his lines made all the better.
-* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3CL28vgE4U The Shockmaster]. And [[Ascended Glitch|they capitalized on it]] with the Super-Shockmaster.
-* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGUJYLDgR8k Amidst cameras being interrupted by static, Robocop and Sting busting into WCW to face The Four Horsemen].
-* Any all-woman promotion David McLane was involved in, whether it be GLOW, WOW, or POWW. Stupid, cheesy fun with stupid, cheesy gimmicks, stupid, cheesy action, and stupid, cheesy [[Fan Service|cheesecake]].
-* Wrestleicious which is exactly what it sounds - pink ring ropes, outlandish characters, camp factor [[Up to Eleven]], a commentator that sounds like [[Stan Lee]] and a [[Hurricane of Puns]] during every match. Yet also features the top women wrestlers in the country as characters. It's safe to call it the ''[[Batman and Robin (Film)|Batman and Robin]]'' of indie wrestling.
-* [[Mick Foley]] deliberately went for this while wrestling as Dude Love in order to separate the gimmick from his other personae (the sadistic Cactus Jack and the psychotic Mankind).
-** It wasn't the first time he had done this. During his "anti-extreme" gimmick in [[ECW]] (a promotion that prided itself on high-quality, high-risk wrestling), Mick (as Cactus Jack) reduced his entire moveset to one move: a headlock. Thus, his matches would consist of nothing but ten straight minutes of assorted headlocks, gaining ''[[Cheap Heat|incredible]]'' [[Cheap Heat|heat]] from the quality-hungry ECW fans.
-* WCW's San Francisco 49ers Match between [[Jeff Jarrett]] and [[Booker T]] is one of the most hilariously stupid matches of all time. It's a glorified pole match (something [[Vince Russo]] was fond of) with 4 wooden boxes at the end of each pole; 1 contains the WCW Championship and the other 3 contain "weapons:" a blow up doll, a framed picture of Scott Hall, and a coal miner's glove. It began with an old lady trying to smack Jarrett with a shirt [[Booker T]] gave her and ended with Beetlejuice (not ''that'' [[Beetlejuice (Film)|Beetlejuice]], the Wack Packer from [[Howard Stern]]) giving Jarrett 5 [[Groin Attack|"high blows"]]. The title fell out of the box, and [[Booker T]] became the WCW Champion. When the belt fell out, David Penzer had to hand it to Booker. Thankfully, Russo wasn't sharp enough to change the finish and award the title to Penzer instead.
-** The Coal Miner's Glove (a leather glove, covered in metal studs) was a supposed to be a [[Shout Out]] to an even worse match from before the Monday Night Wars era. Back in the early 90s [[Good Is Dumb|Sting]] was feuding with [[Smug Snake|Jake Roberts]], who devised that they "Spin the Wheel, Make the Deal" a match where various gimmick matches were on a giant wheel, and whatever it landed on would be the match they would face off in. However, the wheel itself wasn't gimmicked, and it landed on the worst possible option -- a "Coal Miner's Glove" match. Whoever retrieved the glove from the pole first, would be allowed to "use" it on his opponent.
-* Arguably, [[The Undertaker]]. One of the best big men in the wrestling business, and a solid [[WWE]] worker for over twenty years doesn't change the fact that he's a Satan-worshipping, gravedigging zombie cult leader Death Incarnate who was a biker for a while back at the turn of the century. It's even more [[Narm Charm]] in modern times, when most wrestlers are less cartoonish, yet [[The Undertaker]] still is portrayed as a supernatural force.
-* NXT Season 3. The show is [[Stylistic Suck|so ridiculously bad on purpose]], that it seems like its target audience are those who read [[Wrestlecrap]] every week. It's almost as if WWE took everything that was [[Narm|narmy]] about the WWE Divas, [[Accentuate the Negative|highlighted it]], and placed a few other comedy acts on the show to act as foils, such as [[Heel]] [[Michael Cole]], [[Cross Dresser|Goldust]], and [[The Scrappy|Vickie]] [[Large Ham|Guerrero]]. By Week 3, the show was so bad that you had [[Michael Cole]] banging a [[The Gong Show|gong]] at ringside following the rookie challenges. The show's entire appeal is the ensuing [[Narm Charm]], as well as Cole and Josh Mathews sarcastic remarks on everyone else involved.
-** Episode 4 would up the ante even further by introducing [[CM Punk]] on commentary, reprising a role he once played in early [[Ring of Honor]] shows. Punk would play the role of [[Deadpan Snarker]] to perfection, even delivering a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] when he pointed out that he wasn't wearing any pants (he had his ring gear on covered by a sports coat), and then pointed out that [[A Date With Rosie Palms|he watched NXT every week without pants]]. When Punk closed the show by announcing that he would be returning the next week, [[And the Fandom Rejoiced|the five people that still watched the show rejoiced]].
-*** Sadly, that would turn out to be [[Blatant Lies]]. However, Cole, Josh, and Matt Striker still bring the awesome every week.
-* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUwkZv66Qp0 This DDP promo, where a motivational speaker wants to speak of how his friend Tony had a cat that was killed and it actually saved his marriage.] [[Lampshade Hanging|Even the announcer was like "The Hell you say?"]]
-* During [[The Misfits]] stint in WCW, there was a backstage segment where they try to hit on Daffney, which leads to her attacking Jerry Only. After [[Hypocritical Humor|they call her a freak]], she runs away screaming and laughing, almost like a [[Daffy Duck]] cartoon.
-== [[Sport]] ==
-* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_<!-- 22The_Eagle22_Edwards Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards]], a British ski jumper who [[LoopholeAbuse qualified for the 1988 Winter Olympics]] because every country was (at the time) allowed to be represented in any given discipline, and he was the only British applicant. Edwards had the disadvantages of weighing 9 kg more than the next man in his category and being extremely far-sighted, and his general skills were [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7MmJIy0bjo less than stellar]] to say the least. Nevertheless, his sheer determination and love of the sport endeared him to audiences everywhere. [[StopHavingFunGuys The Olympic Committee]] was less enthusiastic about someone "making a mockery of the sport", however, and the rules for qualification were [[ObviousRulePatch changed next time around]], largely to prevent another such case from happening. -->
-** There's even a mini-meme atached to him. Every single youtube video featuring him has, as on of the top rated comments "Legend".
-** Featured at the same Olympics were the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaican_bobsled_team Jamaican bobsled team] who inspired the movie [[Cool Runnings]] five years later. Though they haven't competed in the Olympics recently, the Jamaican bobsled team did place as high as 14th (ahead of the USA, Russia, France, and one Italian sled) in the 1994 Winter Olympics.
-* Similarly, Eric "The Eel" Moussambani, a swimmer from Equatorial Guinea, qualified for the 2000 Summer Olympics through a wildcard draw designed to encourage developing countries lacking expensive training facilities to compete. He had never even seen a 50 metre pool before competing, having only taken up swimming eight months beforehand and having previously having trained in a 20 metre pool. In his qualifying heat, his two opponents were disqualified for jumping the gun, leaving Moussambani to compete on his own. He [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2teSx5xiRk&feature=related qualified for the final], setting the national record for Equatorial Guinea.
-* Stanford University's "mascot", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kGvdaANIzU the Stanford Tree]. Despite Stanford not officially recognizing the Tree as its mascot, the Tree is allowed to dance around during games, and there is a special student committee that determines who gets to be the Tree each season. Whoever is the Tree has to design the costume, hence the varying quality of the Tree each year.
-** Stanford's band occasionally has the same reputation, but not for their music, which is quite good. Their conduct is what gets them recognized. For starters, they (since they're not a traditional marching band) don't wear uniforms in the same way that other bands do. What gets them the most attention, though, is their shows, which have earned the ire of some universities, since they have contained performances that others might find somewhat classless. [[The Other Wiki]] has [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_Band#Controversial_actions_by_the_band a listing].
-* The 1962 New York Mets, whose 120 losses remain the post-1900 Major League Baseball record, remain one of the more beloved teams in history.
-* A beloved complete failure in the sport of horse racing is the jockey known as "the Duc of Albuquerque", famous for entering the Grand National steeplechase seven times and ''never being able to complete the course''. Each and every time he'd fall off the horse at one of the fences, and the bookmakers eventually caught on to this fact -- resulting in the Duc making history in 1963, when the bookies began offering odds of 66-1 against his managing to stay on the horse for the entire race. He never gave up, though; in 1974 he fell off the horse during training and entered the race itself with a broken collar bone and a leg in plaster. Amazingly enough, this turned out to be the only time in his career when he actually finished the race without falling off.
-== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
-* At least for some readers, [[Dungeons and Dragons|Gary Gygax]]'s prose style is reminiscent of the Mencken quote atop this page.
-* The [[Dungeons and Dragons]] [http://www.wizards.com/dnd/Tool.aspx?x=dnd/4new/tool/cng Character Name Generator] has a tendency to produce unintentionally hilarious names.
-* To many, ''World of Synnibarr'' qualifies. While the mechanics are terrible and the setting incoherent, it's still a game with a "midnight sunstone bazooka", mechanics that affect the ''next'' character you roll up, and an actual [[Deus Ex Machina]] roll to see if your patron deity turns up to save your life.
-* ''[http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product_info.php?products_id=93237 Strike Legion]'' is what ''[[Limbo of the Lost]]'' wants to be: Something that ripped off so many sources it digs right out of the barrel-bottom of absolute shit and becomes hilarious awesome. [http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?t=196770 Have a MST] and mind the picture load.
-* In [[Magic the Gathering]], some cards that are bad in terms of gameplay and power level may become loved and appreciated for their goofiness and quirkiness. Examples are [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=45985 Chimney Imp] and [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=83282 Storm Crow], which have both become memes in the Magic world.
-** Storm Crow is only a [[Common Knowledge]] example. The card itself is not and has never been bad. It isn't a great card and most blue decks don't need it, but that isn't the same thing as it being bad.
-== [[Theater]] ==
-* [[The Musical]] adaptation of [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[Carrie]]'' has acquired this reputation. Its commercial failure on Broadway became so notorious that it was the inspiration for the book ''Not Since Carrie'', a chronicle of Broadway musical flops of the latter half of the twentieth century. (King himself reportedly liked it, though.)
-** Within the show itself, the pinnacle of accidental hilarity has to be "Don't Waste the Moon", a retread of the old "girls want relationships, boys want sex" chestnut with awesomely lame lyrics like "We would go bowling if you really cared / But you don't! ("I do!") You don't!"
-* [[Show Within a Show]] example: "Pyramus and Thisbe" in ''[[A Midsummer Nights Dream]]''. It's so badly written and wretchedly performed that it's hilarious. The Duke and his guests order it performed just for the [[Snark Bait]].
-* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Coates_<!-- 28actor29 Robert Coates]] was such an infamously bad actor people would flock to see him just to see how bad he was. -->
-* From the [[Dream Team]] of [[U 2|Bono, The Edge]] and [[The Lion King|Julie Taymor]] comes the legendarily [[Troubled Production]] of ''[[Spider Man Turn Off the Dark (Theater)|Spider Man Turn Off the Dark]]''!
-== [[Toys]] ==
-* ''[[Challenge of the Go Bots|GoBots]]'' Rocklords. Think ''[[Transformers]]'', but instead becoming something cool like a car, a dinosaur, a plane, or a tank, they became rocks! You could choose between granite, quartz or shale amongst others!
-** The really stupid bit is in ''[[Go Bots]]'' movie - they [[Transformers|transform and roll out]] and slowly clump away down the road like bricks turning under their own power.
-** Parodied in the [[Tom Hanks]] movie ''Big'', where Hanks - playing a kid who has been transformed into a grown-up - is shown a new toy that his employers are working on. It's an immobile skyscraper that turns into a giant robot. "So what's so fun about playing with a building? That's not any fun!" He then goes on to propose "a big prehistoric insect with maybe like giant claws that could pick up a car and crush it like that!"
-* The [[For the Evulz|Piraka]] [[Gangsta Rap|rap]] from ''[[Bionicle]]''. Listen to it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1CTPC02n0c here] in all of its hilarious glory.
-* Doggie Doo, in which you push on an air pump to make a plastic dog poop yellow play-doh, see it in it's glory [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDyOD1C67J0 here], it's notable for becoming an [[Memetic Mutation|internet sensation]] in Germany, and instantly became a meme when it arrived in America, with it's toy commercials airing during the [[Fountain of Memes|meme fountain]] ''[[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]''.
-* And speaking of ''My Little Pony'', we have [[Off Model|PINK]] [[Everythings Better With Princesses|Princess Celestia]].
-== Webcomics ==
-* In-universe for [[Sinfest]]: [http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=1806 God's justification for the world.]
-== [[Web Original]] ==
-* ''[[The Twilight Chronicles]]'' - Imagine Twilight as a [[Dead Baby Comedy]], with a [[Cast Full of Gay]] and a confusing Love Dodecehedron plot. Throw in writer's-strike writing and porn-worthy acting, and you've got this.
-* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYv8OEuF8xU Short Legs One] - A live action ''[[Pokémon]]'' [[Crack Fic]]. 'Nuff said, surely.
-* In ''Assignment2'', we read excerpts from main character Stanley Brown's novels, which are titled ''Lance MHS and His Adventures in Bigface's Castle Boat (With His Awesome Bass)'' and ''The Gift Horse Who Saved''. Both are ridiculously stupid, almost on [[My Immortal]] levels. But without the eye-gouging spelling atrocities. A sample:
-{{quote| “You!” shouted Yeevil. “You killed my father!”<br />
-“Kind of, but I didn’t mean to,” answered Hemmingway.<br />
-“How dare you,” shouted Yeevil quietly.<br />
-“I DO WHATEVER I WANTED TO BE DOING!” muttered Hemmingway silently. }}
-** This is followed by a bizarre "fight" scene with "duck calling reeds" during which the background is described in turn as being a barren plain, having trees, a roiling sea, streets, walls and finally a volcano that erupts, blasting the main character into space where he is caught by a nearby gorilla and taken to play in a band called "Galactic Fury".
-* ''[[Kickassia]]'': A group of over-acting non-actors in a silly plot about internet reviewers from [[That Guy With the Glasses]] taking over a tiny [[micronation]] in Nevada. The ridiculous nature of the film is largely entirely deliberate. The same is true for the following film, ''[[Suburban Knights]]''.
-* ''[[The Light of Courage]]'': [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6WP5GQ6iFo&feature=related These]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGYhRYwYhlM&feature=related Three]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_CtKEjoMfI&feature=related Videos]. Be warned, they're all awful but hilarious to look at.
-* There are those that watch the ''[[Irate Gamer]]'' for this reason.
-== Other ==
-* ''[http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/image/essay/1 Planes, Trains, and Plantains]'', the self-proclaimed "worst term paper ever written." (The author explains the [[Backstory]] behind it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCzxTzof_Pk here.])
-** The amazing part was that it still managed to get a 61%, one point above failing, possibly because it still technically contained a correct overview of the story of ''[[Oedipus the King (Theatre)|Oedipus the King]]''.
-{{quote| "In the version which must have been the favorite of Sophocles's Athenian audience, Oedipus found sanctuary at Colonus, outside of Athens. The kindness he was shown at the end made the city itself blessed. [[Sophisticated As Hell|Which was the gayest ending ever]]."}}
-** The author actually lost the majority of points because of the huge amount of [[Cluster F Bomb]] used in the text. [[Crazy Awesome|With no swearing, he might have actually passed]]. Oh, and he ''[[Crowning Moment of Funny|cites]] [[Shock Site|the "Tubgirl" video]]''.
-* This trope is usually cited for Pabst Blue Ribbon's adoption by the [[Hipster]] subculture.
-* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/mar/21/top-dross-worst-world-dakota-elle-fanning This article] discusses the So Bad It's Good phenomenon, only just stopping short of referencing the trope by name.
-* In Japan, there's a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tondemo yearly award] for books which are "amusing from a perspective that differs from what the author intends".
-* Those who watched the [[Disney Theme Parks]] parade [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woie1UgPeWk Celebrate! A Street Party] were "treated" to the sight of such Disney icons as [[Mickey Mouse]], [[Peter Pan (Disney)|Peter Pan]], and [[Mary Poppins]] doing the Macarena and dancing to "I Love Rock and Roll", among other things.
-* Some genius made a [[What Do You Mean Its Not Awesome|mashup of a JustinBieber song with a Slipknot one]]. Neither artist is exactly the best in its genre in the opinion of many. When you put the two songs together, it sounds weirdly catchy. Just... [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kspPE9E1yGM watch it.]
-** Corey Tailor himself thinks it's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDJEQ-7Q_cw&feature=related hilarious.]
-** Best (or worst) thing about it is that there are FAR too many people in the comments going "Anyone who likes this song isn't a true Slipknot fan!" "This is terrible, Bieber sucks!" etc. It's pretty funny to watch.
-* Scientists and science enthusiasts often find crank theories like [[Time Cube]] hilarious.
-* In Indonesian language, a 'jayus' is a joke that's so bad it's good.
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