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== Live Action TV ==
* [[Bob Hope]] constantly attempted this in the 70's and on. As [[Frasier]] told Niles, "Don't use slang. You sound like Bob Hope when he acts like The Fonz."
** Reportedly, Hope's persistent attempts (and [[Totally Radical|subsequent failures]]) were one of the inspirations that led [[Lorne Michaels]] to create ''[[Saturday Night Live]]''.
* ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise|Enterprise]]'''s attempts to prove that the franchise was still relevant at the turn of the millennium by allegorizing on the subject of [[The War on Terror]] could be painful at times.
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' sums this trope up with the character of Ace; a clear attempt to be relevant and "with it" for the youth of the day, her "wicked" fashion style and "ace" dialogue was frequently considered either laughable or cringeworthy at the time, never mind later on. The writer reportedly ''tried'' for accuracy, hanging out with real kids to get a sense of who they were and how they acted, but [[Executive Meddling]] resulted in actual teenage slang and speaking patterns being tossed out. However, she is redeemed by being one of the wildest [[Action Girl]] companions the Doctor ever had, including her [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] when she smashed up a Dalek with a baseball bat, a feat of kick-assery by which all subsequent Doc companions are measured.
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** "Kelly's Kids," the episode in question, was a [[Poorly-Disguised Pilot]] which didn't sell - not at the time, anyway; [[Sherwood Schwartz]] eventually succeeded in selling the concept as ''Together We Stand''. [http://www.tvobscurities.com/articles/togetherwestand/ See this article for more details.]
* In an episode of ''[[Power Rangers Dino Thunder]]'' Ethan and Devin are playing a painfully bad [[Expy]] of [[Yu-Gi-Oh!]], it screams of this trope.
== Music ==
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