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* The [[Academy Award|Academy Awards]] ceremony had to do this after the 1989 show opened with a notoriously campy production number "highlighted" by Rob Lowe singing a rewritten duet of "Proud Mary" with Snow White. Things didn't much improve from there, aside from several witty presenters, and the show was pilloried both within and without Hollywood as a disgrace. The following year, one of those witty presenters -- Billy Crystal -- was tapped to host the whole show, and largely thanks to him the result was a much-acclaimed ceremony. Crystal has hosted eight more times since then, most recently in 2012 to win back the crowd after the poorly-received 2011 ceremony that James Franco and Anne Hathaway hosted.
* While ''[[Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home|Star Trek IV the Voyage Home]]'' was winning the box office, ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Star Trek the Next Generation]]'' almost permanently won back the Trekkie crowd, for good. Its success triggered an almost continuous 20-year run of ''Trek'' series being produced.
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* Quite a few fans were redrawn to ''[[Kamen Rider]]'' by ''[[Kamen Rider Double]]'' following the debacle of ''[[Kamen Rider Decade]]'', though this likely applies more to the non-Japanese [[Periphery Demographic]].
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