Writers Suck: Difference between revisions

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Watching her sun set... Well, I'm a writer!''|'''[[Sunset Boulevard]],''' from [[The Musical]] of the same name}}

 

* In ''[[Barton Fink]]'', the main character is an arrogant, self-righteous writer, who is very far removed from the "common man" he supposedly admires.

** Also, the movie's not subtle about the lack of respect writers get in the business.

'''Geisler:''' This is Hollywood! Throw a rock and you'll hit one. And do me a favor, Fink. ''Throw it hard.'' }}

* ''[[Twice Upon a Time]]'' features a sympathetic version. Synonamess Botch treats his head nightmare writer, Scuzzbopper, like garbage, constantly belittling him. At one point, he introduces him with "That's Scuzzbopper. He's nobody, he's a writer." On top of all that, Botch [[Driven to Suicide|drives poor Scuzzy to attempted suicide]] (and later a [[Heel Face Turn]]) by throwing out the manuscript for the "great A-Murk-ian novel" he was writing.

== Music ==

* Opening line of Indie-band Divorcee's song "Writer"

 

== [[Theater]] ==

* [[Cyrano De Bergerac]]: This play, written in 1897, has various examples:

** At Act I Scene IV, Viscount de Valvert shows his despise toward poets calling Cyrano one of them.

** At Act I Scene V, Cyrano acuses [[Man Behind the Man|Cardenal]] [[Magnificent Bastard|Richelieu]] of being a [[Small Name, Big Ego]] playwright who will find pleasant that Cyrano interrumpted the play of a colleague.

** At Act II Scene IV, [[Starving Artist|various poets eat all of Raguenau’s cakes]] while [[False Friend|they pretend to like his poetry]].

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* ''[[Narbonic]]'':

'''Mike:''' 'Sokay. I get it all the time. }}

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* ''[[Futurama]]'', at an awards show:

* There were a few stabs at the writing team in ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode where Bart and Lisa wrote episodes for Itchy and Scratchy with Grandpa's name on them.

'''RMJ:''' SHUT UP! }}

** In another episode, a writer suggests that [[Viewers are Morons|the viewers aren't morons]] and gets fired.

** From the Poochie episode:

Writer: So, Poochie okay with everyone? }}

*** The commentaries mention that the looks of the writers in that scene are all based on the show's actual writing staff.

* In an episode of ''[[Pinky and The Brain]]'' taking place in the mid-forties, Brain takes Pinky to the radio station, and teaches Pinky of the several [[Chekhov's Gun|Chekhov's Guns]] they will be using in the episode. When Pinky asks "And who are those guys chained to a wall nobody cares about?", Brain answers "Nobody important, just the writers".

** In another episode, the Brain hires some Hollywood writers and tells them to write a movie in which he takes over the world, but this is because he's running out of ideas for [[Evil Plan|Evil Plans]] and needs some inspiration. It turns out that the only ideas the writers can come up with are either completely moronic or things he's already tried before, [[Rimshot|not that these are mutually exclusive.]] The moral of the episode?

* In ''[[Sheep in The Big City]]'', a recurring character is the show's writer, who happens to be an obese bald man in his underwear, who is most commonly shown in an asylum on a tire swing.

* The ''[[South Park]]'' spoof of ''[[Family Guy]]'', where the jokes are written by manatees moving balls labeled with random words around in their tanks to create the cut-aways.