So Bad It's Good: Difference between revisions

Keep in mind that even when something is [[So Bad It's 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 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—though it's often still funny.

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

==Examples broken down by medium:==

* The art community even has its own term for [[So Bad It's Good|So Bad, It's Good]]; they call it [[wikipedia:Kitsch|Kitsch]].

** His backstory actually [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] the ludicrousness involved -- aninvolved—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.

** 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 -- aoption—a "Coal Miner's Glove" match. Whoever retrieved the glove from the pole first, would be allowed to "use" it on his opponent.

* 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|narmynarm]]y 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.

* [[wikipedia:Eddie chr(22)The Eaglechr(22) Edwards|Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards]], a British ski jumper who [[Loophole Abuse|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. [["Stop Having Fun!" Guys|The Olympic Committee]] was less enthusiastic about someone "making a mockery of the sport", however, and the rules for qualification were [[Obvious Rule Patch|changed next time around]], largely to prevent another such case from happening.

* 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 -- resultingfact—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.

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