Tastes Like Diabetes: Difference between revisions

** Subverted (Tastes Like Insulin?) with Misaki Matsuya's encounter with one. She is momentarily entranced by a Puchuu, only to suddenly axe it in half, while saying "I don't like cute."

** The same with Excel, except substitute the axe with a karate chop.

* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'': The interactions between [[Doting Parent|Maes]] [[Overprotective Dad|Hughes]] and [[Cheerful Child|Elysia]] (or just Hughes showing off the family pictures) is this in spades, and they even have an [[Image Song]] duet together. {{spoiler|[[Tear Jerker|Tragically,]] this would not last for long with [[Disconnected by Death|Hughes' murder in a phone booth]] and the [[Break the Cutie|resulting]] [[Meaningful Funeral|funeral.]]}}

** [[Battle Couple|Sig and Izumi]] occasionally have [[Sickeningly Sweethearts|moments]] like these in which those nearby are literally pelted with hearts and flowers.

** Most of the anime and movie endings are this as well. The most recent is the first ''Best Wishes'' ending, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DatuMyJR4Yk Kokoro no Fanfare]. It involves a ''Pokémon marching band.''

* While there is some debate over whether the film as a whole qualifies (it is one of the few films from Hiyao Miyazaki that is very definitely for young children), pretty much everyone agrees that the song that assaults you during the end credits of the American dub of ''[[Ponyo On a Cliff By The Sea]]'' is... yikes. Just yikes.

* ''[[Potemayo]]'', on the surface. Then you get to the ''[[Brokeback Mountain]]'' references, crossdressing and toilet humour (and [[Ho Yay]]) and you begin to wonder [[Widget Series|just what the hell you're watching]].

* Intentionally evoked for parody reasons throughout the ''[[Pretty Sammy]]'' series. Sammy's "Pretty Space" turns the area around her into a diabetic coma inducing place saturated by the color [[The Nostalgia Chick|piiiink]] and with hearts floating everywhere. This gets commented on by the other characters a few times.

== Fan Fiction ==

* Ladies and gentlemen, I give you [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5690584/1/The_Vampoife_Dood_Who_Lifed Lilac Rosetta Cretan Veron].

* This trope is invoked in the fanfic ''"[[Harry Potter|Dumbledore's Army]] and the Year of Darkness,"'' when Hannah tells Neville that her Aunt has some sickeningly cute collectible china witch figurines. Apparently, "It's like trying to eat half of Honeydukes in one sitting. You can feel your teeth start to rot the second you cross the front door."

* [[The Quincy Punk|Heathcliffe]] and [[The Ingenue|Aki]]'s relationship in ''[[One Piece: Parallel Works|One Piece Parallel Works]]''. One reviewer of the fic describes their relationship as "Diabeetus".

* ''[[High School Musical]]'' Note that it is still ''so popular'' -- right up there with ''[[Hannah Montana]]''-- it's spawned [[Sequelitis|two sequels]] and a spinoff movie, and the franchise still doesn't look dead.

* ''[[Honey, I Shrunk the Kids]]'''s sequel, ''Honey, I Blew Up the Kid''. Specifically, any scene with Wayne Szalinski and his two-year-old son Adam, the titular kid. An example, where Wayne makes his voice squeaky to portray Big Bunny at Adam's bedtime:

'''Wayne''': Yeah. }}

* Parodied in the [[Marx Brothers]] film ''Horse Feathers''. Thelma Todd's character is going out with Groucho, in an attempt to steal some football signals for a rival college. She adopts an extremely cutesy and high pitched voice and says "If Big-Strong-Man don't let Icky-Baby see the football signals, Icky-Baby gonna cry!". To which Groucho somehow manages an ''even more'' cloying voice and responds "If Icky-Girl don't stop talking like that, Big-Strong-Man gonna [[Crowning Moment of Funny|kick all her teeth right down her throat]]!"

* Being an adorable puppy voiced by five-year-old ''[[American Idol]]'' contestant Kaitlyn Maher made Tiny from ''Santa Buddies'' [[Ridiculously Cute Critter|ridiculously cute]]. To some, irritatingly so.

* In the [[MS Ting]] of the movie ''"[[Santa Claus (film)|Santa Claus]],"'' [[Mystery Science Theater 3000|Tom Servo]] (accurately) refers to Lupita, the main child character, as "aggressively cute."

* Parodied in the opening scenes of the film ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'' about "[[Fake-Out Opening|The Littlest Elf]]".

* ''[[Toys (film)|Toys]]'': The Christmas musical at the beginning.

* 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 ''[[Discworld/Hogfather|Hogfather]]'' ''tries'' to act to endear people to her, but Susan will have none of it.

* [[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.

* [[Phantom Brave|Marona]]. Especially any scene with both her and Castille in it.

* Kanji Tatsumi, the [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]] in ''[[Persona 4]]'', when accused by police of bullying (and he was innocent, as he was just making plushies for a boy and his mother), has this to say to the police:

** Not to mention ''Nanako...''

* ''Eternal Sonata'', pretty much every time Polka is on screen. Several other characters qualify as well.

* Used for laughs in ''[[Happy Tree Friends]]''. Their misadventures often begin with them playing, doing something innocuous or disgustingly cute typical of animated animals. Of course, [[Crosses the Line Twice|it]] [[Grotesque Cute|ends]] [[Bloody Hilarious|badly.]]

* The titular giant [[Killer Rabbit]] in ''Big Bunny'' gives his thoughts on the matter:

* The ''[[Clannad]]'' ending is pretty cute on its own but multiply its cuteness by [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCgJvKme5_U putting Moemon in it.]

* Parodied in the 'Lost Notebook' episode of ''[http://www.atom.com/channel/channel_stickman_exodus/ Stickman Exodus]'', as the notebook is 'borrowed' by its owner's younger sister to doodle in. Thus surrounding the PTSD-suffering stick figures with fluffy, cutesy-talking friendly flowers, bees, teddy bears, and unicorns who join everyone's hands for the ''We're All Friends!'' song. Naturally, once her brother takes it back, [[Grotesque Cute|things go very, very wrong]]...

* The [[Touhou]] flashes made by takenoko exemplify this spectacularly, especially [http://dagobah.biz/flash/IOSYS_toho5_OyomeNiShinasai.swf this one]. '''Warning: you may die from''' '''[[Cuteness Overload]].'''

* The [http://danbooru.donmai.us/pool/show/903 Disgustingly Adorable] pool on Danbooru is dedicated to this sort of stuff.

** There's also a [[Tsukihime|"so moe i'm gonna die!"]] tag, used for images of characters taking physical damage (often in the form of [[Nosebleed|nosebleeds]]) from cuteness overexposure.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWZxcAeSoVI The Snuggle Bunny.] So painfully cute it's almost an insult to actual rabbits.

* Just about any scene from ''[[The Flintstones]]'' featuring Pebbles. Not only does sappy "nursery" music play whenever she comes crawling in but Fred, normally an amusing [[The Honeymooners|Ralph Kramden]] type, [[Cuteness Proximity|starts going all "Oh my little Pebbly-poo" whenever she's around]].

** In ''[[The Man Called Flintstone]]'', she and Bam-Bam get [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfkgPieX4zY one of the most saccharine musical numbers in history].

* Lila, the "ever so" sickeningly sweet farm-girl from ''[[Hey Arnold]]!'', and Olga at times.

** Therefore, the episode where Lila becomes Olga's "little sister" as part of a program is absolutely rife with this stuff.

** Somewhat ironically, Giggle Pies actually taste of manure when eaten themselves.

* The '[[Disney]] Universe' in ''[[Family Guy]]''. That is, until Mort Goldman the Jew shows up, prompting a reaction to the annoyingly persistant rumor of Walt Disney's anti-semitism.

** In the episode "The Former Life of Brian", Brian gushes about his {{spoiler|son}} to extremes. When he finally leaves, Joe remarks to his owner, "Peter, your dog is giving me diabetes."

** Brian as a puppy in "The Man with Two Brians". D'awww~

** Invoked by Tom Tucker when Diane Simmons pretends to act excited and interested by their interns, Meg and Niel.

'''Diane''': Bite me, Tom! }}

* Foofy Wuggums, the [[The Woobie|little lost and frightened imaginary friend]] from the ''[[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends]]'' TV movie ''Good Wilt Hunting,'' who is literally a ''pink teddy bear'' who speaks in ''[[Baby Talk]]''. Hell, just look at his ''name...''

* Parodied in ''[[Time Squad]]'', where they portrayed ''[[Edgar Allan Poe]]'' of all people as this. It's only until the characters start criticizing his pink cake that he's [[Maddened Into Misanthropy]] and becomes the poet that history knows him for.

* In ''[[The Secret Saturdays]]'', [[Evil Twin|Drew Monday]] is very much like this to Zak, when pretending to be his mother. She does later say:

* ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'' has Rainbow Monkeys, a line of stuffed animals (and also cartoons, cereal, and even an actual species) which in the show represents everything that Tastes Like Diabetes.

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ohps2nDs4C0 ARE YOU DYING YET?]

* In ''[[Ka Blam!|Ka Blam]]'', when Henry or June turn the page to ''Life with Loopy'', this is what we expect.....and then we go five seconds into it.

* We have this line from ''[[Despicable Me]]'':

* Lady Rainicorn from ''[[Adventure Time]]'' Looks like a [http://i35.tinypic.com/3518pkx.jpg toy] but is really a [[Badass Adorable]].

* 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):

*** 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]].''