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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"In the anime industry's quest for ratings, the creators of shows with strong [[Multiple Demographic Appeal|cross-demographic appeal]] must pander to two separate, yet equally important groups: the [[Shonen]] fandom, who enjoy [[Humongous Mecha|Giant Robots]], [[Ms. Fanservice|short-skirted schoolgirls]] and [[
|'''Episode 9''', ''[[Vision of Escaflowne Abridged]]''}}
Occurs when a form of media seems unaware of its target demographic, appealing to a wide range of different people. It can be a candy-coated [[Squee]] with a [[Squick]] center for some people (Like a Tootsie Roll lollipop for those who don't like chocolate, or prefer real chocolate) or vice versa (Like salted peanuts that you can't eat until you bust em open.) For chocolate-munching, peanut-swallowing people on the other hand, this genre blend can be the perfect flavor for you. On the other hand, if you have diabetes or high blood pressure, your best bet is to stay away from this.
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Compare [[Multiple Demographic Appeal]].
{{examples|Examples:}}▼
== [[Anime]]
* ''[[Code Geass]]'' seems to have about five different genres it wants to be in, ranging from robots to politics and back around to high school comedy, with elements of supernatural thriller thrown in.
* Similar to ''[[Code Geass]]'', ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]'' manages to find a way to take a giant robot military thriller and include high school comedy.
* You are never quite sure if ''[[Tower of God]]'' is a Shounen, Seinen, Shoujo, for otaku or for hipsters or for the general public.
* ''[[Higurashi]]'' might be the king of this. Cute lolis run around the show having fun like sunshine and puppies until [[Nightmare Fuel|stuff gets bad]].
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' started out looking like a [[Writer Revolt|Harem Comedy]], then took a hard turn into a fighting series in volume three.
* As a [[Space Western]], ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'' falls here.
** To elaborate, ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'' runs the gamut in terms of genre and tone from comedy, like in "Mushroom Samba", to gruesome horror as in "Pierrot le Fou". This sometimes leads to extreme [[Mood Whiplash]], [[Your Mileage May Vary|though it is also what makes the series so popular in many people's eyes]]. In fact, in the preview for "Black Dog Serenade" [[Lampshade Hanging|Jet even warns the children and women in the audience that they won't care for the plot of the next episode]] because it is aimed at the middle-aged men.
* ''[[.hack//Legend of the Twilight]]'': On one side, it was considerably more light-hearted and childish than ''[[
== [[Film]] ==
* Perhaps the main flaw of ''[[Titan
▲* Perhaps the main flaw of ''[[Titan AE]]'' was it did not seem to have a target demographic: The harder Science Fiction elements turned off children from it, and the goofier moments (already hit by the [[Animation Age Ghetto]]) turned off Science Fiction fans.
* ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' plays up both the romance angle and the pirate angle, as well as the kiddie comedy angle and the zombie curse angle. Taken individually, each would seem to mesh poorly with the others, but (the first, at least) is notable for its success in [[Multiple Demographic Appeal]].
* Also the bad sci fi ''[[Pod People]]'', now mainly known through [[
* Speaking of ''[[
* ''[[Mary and Max]]'', a stop motion animated film based on a story of two lifelong pen pals. The story is framed as a kooky children's movie, with poop jokes and a plucky little girl hero. However, the majority of the movie focuses on the emotional bonds between Mary and Max, and Max's various psychoses. Plus some pretty dark themes such as {{spoiler|attempted suicide, Max's inability to cope with his Asperger's syndrome, and Mary's husband leaving her for another ''man''}}. It's an interesting blend of Oscar-style character study, children's movie, animated movie, and a combination of all three. The target audience, however? Hard to say.
* ''[[Hudson Hawk]]''. A parody of musical comedy (a singing cat burglar) and action/adventure/espionage.
* ''[[Last Action Hero]]''. A mass [[Lampshade Hanging]] of action/adventure movie tropes mixed with a comparison between [[Real Life]] and cinematic reality.
* ''[[The Adventures of Baron
* There's also movies like ''[[Dick]]'' and ''[[Across the Universe (
* ''[[Battlefield Baseball]]'', which is sort of a spoof of baseball movies... but also has [[Bloody Hilarious|gratuitous violence]], an inexplicable plot, and a few musical numbers, all wrapped up in a martial-arts package. Its weird.
* ''[[Spice World]]''. [[
* The live action film adaptation of ''[[Yatterman]]'' made by [[Takashi Miike]] seems pretty childish, with lots of slapstick humor, colorful special effects, cheesy action scenes and a clumsy villain trio... but it also had many sex- related jokes, including one scene where one robots starts acting as it was having an orgasm.
* The 2009 film of ''[[Land of the Lost (
* ''[[Monkeybone]]''
* ''[[Sucker Punch]]'': While the trailers make it look like it was a pop-corn flick (
* Despite being rated "PG", and having lots of childish humor, the movie version of ''[[Howard the Duck (
* ''[[The Rocky Horror Picture Show]]''. In a commentary on the DVD, Richard O'
* ''[[The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys]]''
* Several
* It is not quite clear if Barry Levinson's ''[[Toys (film)|Toys]]'' was intended as a kid´s comedy or a satire for adults, having elements from both genres.
* ''[[Ink]]'' has many light-hearted and whimsical elements from [[Fairy Tales]] and Juvenile Fantasy, but it also has lots of swearing, frightening scenes, deals with several adult themes as drug use and suicide. It also has several elements from [[Le Film Artistique|arthouse films
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* Many [[Space Western]] films and series fit this trope:
** ''[[Firefly]]'' was a ratings flop in part due to the difficulty of marketing such a mixed-genre product properly. (Getting [[Screwed by the Network]] didn't help it find its audience; it wasn't until the DVD release after it was cancelled that it became a phenomenon.)
** Ditto ''[[
* ''[[Glee]]'' especially in its first season. It meshes things like oral sex jokes with the teeny angst of ''[[Degrassi]]'' and the kind of
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