User:Damian Yerrick/crosswick worksheet
These changes were made by Damian Yerrick to the article Website/Cracked on TV Tropes between June 2012 and November 2013. The changes have been extracted from the article's history on TV Tropes and integrated into the Cracked.com work page but still need to be crosswicked in the respective trope pages.
- How time works with this in play is Cracked.com's #17 Science Lesson As Taught by Famous Video Games.
- Cracked.com's Photoplasty Famous Images, As Seen From a Different Angle shows what the figure in Edvard Munch's painting was screaming at: Superman.
- In Cracked.com
- 6 Spectacularly Failed Attempts to Be Politically Correct tells how Microsoft banned an Xbox 360 user from Xbox Live for being from Fort Gay, West Virginia.
- Seen on Cracked itself in the comments section, where things like "documentary" and "Japan" get censored because of "cum" and "Jap".
- Losing the ability to be surprised by entertainment is one of Cracked.com's 5 Warning Signs That You're Finally Getting Older. Entertainment will ruin your life with or without tropes.
- Rad, a film where the entire culture of a town is built around BMX, is cited in Cracked.com's "The 4 Weirdest Lessons '80s Movies Really Wanted to Teach Us" as the most ridiculous example of a hobby that saves the world.
- One of Cracked.com's 31 Life Lessons You Can Only Learn From Video Games is to avert this by putting a basket on the shopkeeper's head. "Robbery is easier than you think."
- #4 of Cracked.com's 5 Unrealistic Movie Cliches That Are Scientifically Accurate points out a study finding that intelligence and education are somehow correlated with nearsightedness in real life.
- In Cracked.com:
- Most of the videos on the site have a single female.
- The 6 Most Bizarre Ways to Lose Popular Video Games describes a pub in the game Dishonored as containing "Havelock the leader, Piero the geeky inventor, and Callista the woman."
- Cracked.com's 5 Classic Movies Made by People Who Wanted Them to Fail mentions the 1955 romantic dramedy Marty, starring Creator/ErnestBorgnine, which was expected to fail (and save the studio a bundle on income tax) but when its ugly actors ended up resonating as more authentic to viewers, it ended up winning four Academy Awards and a Palme d'Or. The article describes its production as having "literally started out as the plot of The Producers."
- In Cracked.com:
- Cracked has done some of their own. For example, Robert Brockway's "5 Things You Learn From a Lifetime of Screwing Up" is probably a parody of David Wong and John Cheese articles.
- Cracked.com accuses Beauty and the Beast of this in 23 Romantic Movies Revised for Honesty and 5 Romantic Movie Gestures That Were Actually Dick Moves.
- One of Cracked.com's 31 Life Lessons You Can Only Learn From Video Games is that "it may take a few tries, but life gets easier once you figure out the patterns." The example is from Punch-Out!!.
- Cracked.com's 6 Technologies Conspicuously Absent From Sci-Fi Movies explores technologies widely available when several well-known science fiction films were first published that would have completely broken their plots: bicycles, night vision goggles, unmanned combat vehicles, Wi-Fi, GPS, and cell phones.
- Cracked.com's 6 Iconic Movie Scenes That Happened by Accident cites Viggo Mortensen's broken toe in the film of The Lord of the Rings, among others.
- Cracked.com's The toothlike serrations inside a penguin's mouth, used to grip fish, are #3 of the 7 Most Terrifying Mouths in Nature.
- Cracked.com's "5 Works of Art So Good, They Ruined Their Whole Genre" calls 2001: A Space Odyssey, David Bowie's The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust, the film of Fight Club, two Bob Marley albums, and Animal House tough acts to follow in their respective genres.
- The Korowai tribe of Papua New Guinea live in tree houses 100 feet up to escape floods and predators, according to Cracked.com's 9 Houses You Won't Believe People Actually Live In and 6 Isolated Groups Who Had No Idea That Civilization Existed.
- Cracked.com calls The Truman Show one of 6 Movies That Accidentally Recreate Real Mental Illnesses because its plot resembles the real-life delusion that one's life is a reality show, a mental illness investigated by doctors Joel and Ian Gold.
- Cracked.com's 5 Unrealistic Movie Cliches That Are Scientifically Accurate explores the real-life counterparts of five tropes that are more realistic than they may sound.
- One of Cracked.com's 31 Life Lessons You Can Only Learn From Video Games is that "real men sleep in their armor."
- One of Cracked.com's reasons no one laughed at your joke is "It Was About Something They Won't Laugh About, Ever".
- Cracked.com's 6 Spectacularly Failed Attempts to Be Politically Correct gives a bunch of examples of how attempts to avert Monochrome Casting by including Black people in promotion campaigns ended up tripping over stereotypes about fried chicken, watermelon, and wanting to be white.
- Mario's numerous roles are evidence of a multiverse in Cracked.com's #15 Science Lesson As Taught by Famous Video Games.
- Parodied as Cracked.com's #25 Science Lesson As Taught by Famous Video Games which teaches that the third spatial dimension was discovered in 1996.
- One of Cracked.com's reasons no one laughed at your joke is "They Didn't Have Enough Information to Get It". It states that the best practice for an Inside Joke that relies on knowledge of something obscure like Rocky IV or Battlestar Galactica Classic is to find a discreet way to explain the reference in the setup.
- #4 of Cracked.com's 4 Realizations That Will Ruin Science Fiction for You is that science fiction needs a "straight man" to whom the setting's rules are explained.
- "Psychology: People tend to say the same thing over and over" is Cracked.com's #9 Science Lesson As Taught by Famous Video Games.
- Pokémon coming from eggs is Cracked.com's #27 Science Lesson As Taught by Famous Video Games.
What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?
- Invoked in Cracked.com's The 5 Most Aggressively Crazy Websites on the Internet, where Mark Hill compares Boohbah to "the findings of a scientist adding LSD to baby food."
- Invoked in Cracked.com's Photoplasty 21 Real Deleted Scenes That Completely Change Famous Movies.
- A favorite subject on Cracked.com.
- Deconstructed in David Dietle's 7 Scientific Reasons a Zombie Outbreak Would Fail (Quickly). For one thing, maggots and gut flora would devour the undead.
The last one
- Box and Stick Trap: #13 of Cracked.com's Photoplasty 18 Things You Never Noticed in Famous Pictures (Part 2) takes Kevin Carter's Pulitzer-winning photo of a vulture stalking a crouching Sudanese child and adds a ray of hope by having the child bait a vulture into such a trap. A kid's gotta eat somehow.
- Dumpster Dive: It's a way of life in Manshiyat Naser, whose residents live off Cairo's garbage, making it one of Cracked.com's The 6 Weirdest Cities People Actually Live In.