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* ''[[Animaniacs]]'' actually lampooned this sort of thing with the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNJ6dFwh8a4 Please Please Please Get a Life Foundation], an [[Tropaholics Anonymous| in-universe support group]] for people who take cartoons too seriously.

 

* Improv comedy troupe/public pranksters Improv Everywhere parodied this trope by setting up a New York subway station as an art gallery, where preexisting objects like trash cans, advertisements and passing trains were the "art". See a video of it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6NU5K3k8Xo&feature=player_embedded here].

* Aversion: Freud would say that unconscious conflicts resolve themselves by being expressed through symbolic stories. So, the fact that an author denies the presence of any deeper meaning to their work (as in the aforementioned ''[[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]]'', where the idea of a Kansan taking trip to the capital to appeal for help from the ruler seems to be a fitting metaphor for ruritans, mired in a farm crisis, traveling to D.C. to ask the President for aid), does not in and of itself [[Jossed|prove that no such meaning exists]]. [[Epileptic Trees|As long as the explanation makes sense, it's worth considering]]; and this is at the root of what makes something art or not. As long as the explanation makes sense....

 

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