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{{quote|''"Look at him! He's cuter than a puppy and a kitten trying to climb into the same slipper!"''
|'''Stan Smith'''
This is an audience reaction to works that are strongly [[Lighter and Softer|attempting to be kid-friendly]] — using almost all the tropes of cuteness and [[Idealism Tropes|idealism]], [[Tropes Are Not Legos|like there's some kind of checklist]]. '[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/saccharine Saccharine]' is the watchword. Viewers react to this with anything ranging from cutesy cuddling to violent revulsion.
Keep in mind that [[Tropes Are Not Bad|extremely over-the-top lightness is not necessarily a bad thing]]. With proper usage, it may result in an enjoyable series wherein the cuteness is there as, essentially, an afterthought. It's when it consumes the entire series, when it puts being adorable ahead of things like actual plots or likeable characters, that it becomes a problem.
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== [[Advertising]] ==
* Any commercial by the Foundation for a Better Life.
* The aggressively adorable kids in the Welch's Grape Juice commercials.
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* Parodied in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNtNYwHq8FM&feature=related this commercial] with "Sun Fizz"
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbdRe_jtcqY&feature=relmfu Mel the Milkbar], a new granola-milk bar from Kraft. Adorable, huggable, and [[The Woobie|a MASSIVE woobie.]]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QINu5v9rATo Any commercial] for Lelli Kelly, an Italian brand of girls' footwear.
**Averted with [https://www.bullboys.it/en/ Bull Boys], a brand of boys' footwear also owned by Lelli Kelly.
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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** Which doesn't even make sense because not only is said male protagonist drawn to look just as cute as the girls, cutting out the romances he shares with the girls actually makes the show LESS cute. But the anime director likely did this for the sake of a [[Fundamentally Female Cast]]. Blargh indeed.
* ''[[Hamtaro]]''.
* The titular heroine of ''[[Hayate
* ''[[Hello Kitty]]''. Pretty much anything from Sanrio or San-X, really.
* ''[[Hidamari Sketch]]''. The character designs and [[Slice of Life]] situations will have you fearing for your [[Memetic Mutation|nutbladder]].
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* Episode 8 of ''[[Carnival Phantasm]]'' has the scene with Saber giving Shirou a birthday present, the sweetness of the scene is enough to rot your teeth.
* Hina from ''[[Papa no Iukoto o Kikinasai!]]'', is strong enough to put you in a diabetic coma.
== Art ==
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* Jeff Koons embodies this trope from his [https://web.archive.org/web/20140412013550/http://arthistory.about.com/od/from_exhibitions/ig/lacma_bmca_08/broad_inaugural_12.htm golden statue of Michael Jackson and pet monkey Bubbles] to a [[wikipedia:Jeff Koons#Puppy 1992|40-foot puppy statue made of flowers]].
== [[Comic Books]] ==▼
▲== Comic Books ==
* [[Deadpool]] [[Lampshade Hanging|Hangs A Lampshade]] on this when reminiscing about {{spoiler|his ex-wife}}: "...all this 'I love you snookie pie' and 'you too honey lips face head mush mush'...go into diabetic shock just walking by the place."
* Miss Martian of the DC Universe, which is especially interesting considering she's a [[Exclusively Evil|White Martian]].
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* [[Carl Barks]] found Christmas stories with [[An Aesop]] like this. Unfortunately, he was so good at it, that he got assignment after assignment.
== [[Fan Works]] ==▼
▲== Fan Works ==
* Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Lilac Rosetta Cretan Veron from ''[[The Vampoife Dood Who Lifed]]''.
{{quote|"Lilac, you're the most sickeningly sweet person ever to grace the planet, aren't you?" Lilac didn't seem to catch the insult, and just smiled broadly, apparently under the impression that her 'influence' had reached B as well.}}
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* [[Captain Obvious|Parodied]] in [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3750836/24/Parody_of_Symphonia ''Parody of Symphonia''], where the particular character achieves the title "''So saccharine, she gives you diabetes!''"
* Lavender Brown (over)plays being the sweet and twee child during her first year at Harworts (sic) in the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' [[Alternate Universe Fic]] ''[[Hermione Granger and the Boy Who Lived]]''. She grows out of it, though.
== [[Film]] ==
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* ''[[Happy Feet]]'' to a certain extent. An entire segment of it focuses on baby penguins learning to sing (and dance in Mumble's case), so you're bound to get at least some of this. However, the sequel takes it [[Up to Eleven]] in the form of even more of a focus on baby penguins. Then there's Mumble's son Erik, who takes the cuteness factor to absolutely ridiculous heights.
* Ranjan in ''[[The Jungle Book (Disney film)|The Jungle Book 2]]''. To be fair, this is somewhat made up for by Shere Khan, who is even more of a menacing and dangerous character this time around (he was a serious threat in the first one, but he was also more funny and charming when he wanted to be), but it still doesn't prevent the scenes with Ranjan from being overly kid-friendly. Not only is he a [[Deliberately Cute Child]], but he's got quite an exaggerated kiddy voice, and even more childish mannerisms such as continuously pretending to be a tiger and trying to roar like one.
== [[Literature]] ==
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* Many people react in this way to the over-the-top, frequent love scenes, love phrases and love acts in the ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' series.
* The late Dorothy Parker considered the [[Winnie the Pooh]] book ''The House At Pooh Corner'' to fall into this trope: "And it is that word 'hummy', my darlings, that marks the first place in ''The House at Pooh Corner'' at which Tonstant Weader Fwowed up."
* How Susan's charge Twylla in ''[[
{{quote|'''Susan''': Real children don't go hoppity-skip unless they are on drugs.}}
* [[Love Freak|Madeline Bassett]] in [[P. G. Wodehouse|PG Wodehouse]]'s [[Jeeves and Wooster (novel)|Jeeves and Wooster]] stories. Even Bertie Wooster, who's hardly the poster child for cynicism, finds her more than a bit much.
* The new dog book epidemic ([[The Dog Only A Family Could Love]], [[The Pup After Mertle]], [[Marley and Me]]), adorable stories of man's best friend are this.
** In the words of one reviewer from [[Entertainment Weekly]] - "Not to be callous, but I've had it! I'm sure Oogy and Pukka are great pooches, but their cloyingly cute books are enough to give you a case of canine diabetes."
* [[Lewis Carroll]]'s lesser known duology, the ''Sylvie & Bruno'' books. The overly-cutesy perfection of the title children is probably the main reason these books are not given the same love as ''Alice''.
== [[Live
* Lampshaded in ''[[Psych]]'' when Lassiter tries to win back his estranged wife with sugary-cutesy figurines and an equally nauseating card. When she rejects him, he takes the sugary-cutesy figurines down to the shooting range and happily blows each one away.
* ''[[Barney and Friends]]'', to anyone over the age of seven. Some of these folks become parents and the "purple freak" is forgiven as being a instant thirty minute babysitter.
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* The end of the TV film of [[The Stand]]. King ended the book with a mix of light and dark,but the miniseries really turned up the sentimentality and happier stuff.
== [[Music]] ==▼
▲== Music ==
* Presumably [[One-Eyed Doll]] was going for this with the song Ponies (probably more so with the "Fluffy version").
* In general, music falling under this trope (songs that make your teeth decay) is called "schmaltz."
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-ejCD6ZR0U "Dear Mr. Jesus"] by Power Source, is a hideously overwrought Christian pop/rock song about the evils of child abuse, sung by a six-year-old girl, and it somehow made it to #61 on the Billboard charts.
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* ''[[Love Is...]]''. Concentrated and undiluted example.
* ''[[Family Circus]]''. almost no one but 6-year-olds and grandmothers actually finds it anything but sickeningly sweet.
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* ''[[Monty]]'' played with the trope, adding the alarmingly cute Giggles the Bear to the cast. The strip claims readership reached an all-time high, citing letters like "After reading today's 'Giggles' strip, I cut it out and cuddled it - signed, My Inner Child", and "When I saw your new character/product line 'Giggles,' I felt a peculiar stirring in my loins - signed, Comic Syndicate Executive.".
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==▼
▲== Tabletop Games ==
* Subverted again in [[Munchkin]] Fu with the monster card "Big Eyes, Small Mouse". Its description? 'Too cute to live. Your duty is clear'.
* Candyland.
== [[Theatre]] ==
* "She's in Love" from [[The Musical]] version of [[The Little Mermaid]]. Just...uughh.
== Toys ==
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* [[My Little Pony]], [[Ear Worm|My Little Pony...]]
** The original series wasn't so sugary. In fact the pilot cartoon was a down-right [[Sugar Apocalypse]]. Around G3 is when it really started becoming this.
** And ''[[My Little Pony:
* Littlest Pet Shop. Those eyes are ''horrifying.''
* That darn [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx6mxDIKnYs Squinkies commercial]. I cringe everytime I hear it.
* [[P.J. Sparkles]]{{context}}
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Parodied in ''[[Diablo III]]'' with [http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JeQzJC-vS40 Whimsyshire] as a [[Take That]] towards complaints about early screenshots being "too colorful".
* Parodied in ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'':
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* In contrast to the somber [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moy2gSOgFvU Tragic Marionette] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdtJj5hwDGc Sinful Rose's Fragrance] that play of the [[Game Over]]s of the first two [[Disgaea]] games, [[Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice]] has the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eywOADyH7JM Maritsu Evil Academy Entrance Applicant Recruiting CM Song]: a tune so peppy and cheerful that most fans suspect that the game is making fun of them for dying.
* In ''[[Rod Land]]'', absolutely everything is cute, from the characters, to the bosses, to the surrounding environment.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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* In ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'', Susan began physically choking after Elliot and Sarah started flirting in the same room as her.
** And then there's [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2003-01-28 this.] Justin's response two pages later sums up everything that can be said about that...
* [[The Perry Bible Fellowship]] plays with this very often: lots of strips start too sweet, but end in some horrible bloody mess.
* Narbonic passed into this territory for a while. It was lampshaded by the characters wondering if they were disturbing the readers by being all cutesy and flirting all the time. They then remembered that they were evil, so the readers could suck it.
* ''[[Life of Maid]]'' portrays most of the ''[[Touhou]]'' cast as children using a [[Super-Deformed]] art style, so excessive adorableness has to be expected. Some strips [[Up to Eleven|ramp up the cuteness even further]] [[Played for Laughs|for the sake of comedy]]. See the most [[A Worldwide Punomenon|shining]] example [https://safebooru.donmai.us/posts/479087 here] at your own risk.
== [[Web Original]] ==▼
▲== Web Original ==
* At one point, the cast of ''[[The Funday Pawpet Show]]'' got annoyed with a handfull of channel dwellers who kept complaining that the show was getting too raunchy. In response they split one episode into two parts - First half was ''The Squeaky Clean Pawpet & Friends Show'' which fit this trope, followed immediatly by ''The Poink Show'' which allowed the naughty weasel to crank the raunch [[Up to Eleven]].
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0wEYtmmuFQ/ Cute Explosion.]
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* The ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' tumblr [http://askfluttershyandpinkiepie.tumblr.com/ "Ask Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie"] is more or less pure saccharine, and even given that, Fluttershy's picture of Pinkie was [[Take Our Word for It|apparently]] cute enough to induce [[Cuteness Overload]] in the party pony.
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
▲== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Duckman]]''. Duckman's two teddy bear assistants' Fluffy and Uranus sweeter-than-sweet behavior often results in Duckman ''literally'' pulling the stuffing out of them in the most violent way possible.
* Awww... wook at [http://www.worldsfinestonline.com/WF/batman/btas/bios/babydoll/09.jpg Baby] [http://www.worldsfinestonline.com/WF/batman/btas/bios/babydoll/08.jpg Doll] (''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]''). Of course, she's [[Older Than They Look|really a thirty-year-old]] [[Yandere|insane]] woman who merely [[The Fake Cutie|acts like a little girl]] thanks to her massive issues stemming from being a [[Former Child Star]] whose body never matured past childhood.
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* In the ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "Lethal Inspection," we get [http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6196q7D251qa619oo1_400.jpg baby Bender.]
** Lampooned mercilessly in the episode "Love and Rocket", and summed up nicely by Lrrr (Ruler of Omicron Perseii 8):
{{quote|"This
*** And from the same episode, the Lovey Bears.
* Many of [[Chuck Jones]]'s pre-''Dove Boys'' shorts such as the Sniffles series. He revisited his earlier penchant for the cutesy in ''[[Feed the Kitty]].''
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* The [[Disney Junior]] cartoon ''[[T.O.T.S.]]'' is guilty of this. In every episode, the protagonists, Pip and Freddy, deliver super-cute, [[Amazing Technicolor Wildlife|neon-colored]] baby animals. And they ''always'' sing cheerful songs while they're at it. Ugh.
== Other Media ==
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcIl23eXv20 "A Google's Wish"] by StickFreeks.
* What do you get when you mix a cat with a duck? You get [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq9ytQ83Bu8 Maneki Neko-Ducku, who makes everybody happy.]
* Daria McGrain's artwork mostly shows this trope, but that doesn't excuse the fact that nearly all of her artwork is definitely NSFW.
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
▲== Real Life ==
* The streetcar system in Würzburg, Germany has a chorus of little kids announcing the next stop. Downright creepy, not to mention rather difficult for non-native speakers to understand.
* One symptom of uncontrolled diabetes is excretion of glucose in the urine. Back before the development of analytical chemistry, the only way to diagnose the condition was... [[Squick|You guessed it - tasting.]]
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