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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

* At least for some readers, [[Dungeons & Dragons|Gary Gygax]]'s prose style is reminiscent of the Mencken quote atop this page.

* The [[Dungeons & Dragons]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20140729100623/https://www.wizards.com/dnd/Tool.aspx?x=dnd%2F4new%2Ftool%2Fcng Character Name Generator] has a tendency to produce unintentionally hilarious names.

* The ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20140729100623/https://www.wizards.com/dnd/Tool.aspx?x=dnd%2F4new%2Ftool%2Fcng 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.

* 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]] ===

== [[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!"

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* From the [[Dream Team]] of [[U2|Bono, The Edge]] and [[The Lion King|Julie Taymor]] comes the legendarily [[Troubled Production]] of ''[[Spider Man Turn Off the Dark]]''!

=== [[Toys]] ===

== [[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.

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* 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|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]''.

* And speaking of ''My Little Pony'', we have [[Off-Model|PINK]] [[Everything's Better with Princesses|Princess Celestia]].

* Many a [[Shoddy Knockoff Product|Shoddy Knockoff Toy]], particularly those collections of many figures that include, say, Superman, Goku, The Hulk, Batman and Captain America in the same blister.

== Webcomics ==

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== [[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.

* ''[[The Twilight Chronicles]]'' - Imagine ''[[Twilight (novel)|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: