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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 (Darth Wiki)|So Bad, It's Horrible]], which is when something actually "succeeds" in being ''too'' bad for this trope.
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=== [[Art]] ===▼
==Examples broken down by medium==
* [[So Bad It's Good/Advertising|Advertising]]
* [[So Bad It's Good/Anime|Anime and Manga]]
* [[So Bad It's Good/Comic Books|Comic Books]]
* [[So Bad It's Good/Fanfic|Fanfic]]
* [[So Bad It's Good/Film|Film]]
* [[So Bad It's Good/Literature|Literature]]
* [[So Bad It's Good/Live Action TV|Live Action TV]]
* [[So Bad It's Good/Music|Music]]
* [[So Bad It's Good/New Media|New Media]]
* [[So Bad It's Good/Video Games|Video Games]]
* [[So Bad It's Good/Webcomics|Webcomics]]
* [[So Bad It's Good/Western Animation|Western Animation]]
 
== 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.
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* The art community even has its own term for So Bad, It's Good; they call it [[wikipedia: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.
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* 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]] ===
* [[wikipedia:Eddie chr(22)"The Eaglechr(22)Eagle" 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.
** 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 [[wikipedia: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.
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* 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.
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* And speaking of ''My Little Pony'', we have [[Off-Model|PINK]] [[Everything's 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.
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* 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]]''.
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