History Main / StylisticSuck

*** Not to mention ''Pyramus And Thisbe'' is essentially a parody of ''RomeoAndJuliet'' - in fact, the original story of Pyramus and Thisbe was actually Shakespeare's interpretation for R&J.
*** This troper was taught about how shakespearian stage directions worked with the stylistic suck of Pyramus and Thisbe. Since stage directions were woven into the dialogue in those days, the scene setting in Pyramus and Thisbe all occurs long after its meant to have happened, meaning the actors have to run around and generally look stupid to make up for it.

* If you fail badly enough on a mission in ''SonicUnleashed'', the usual world theme will be played very, ''very'' badly. And it is [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrRFOmXaS04 hilarious.]]

** BlackadderTheThird featured a play "The Bloody Murder of the Foul Prince Romero and His Enormous-Bosomed Wife" of which its writers, Mossop and Keen were inordinately proud. The extracts we here make it sound like the most ponderous examples of restoration drama possible.

* If you fail badly enough on a mission in ''SonicUnleashed'', the usual world theme will be played very, ''very'' badly. And it is [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrRFOmXaS04 hilarious.]][[/folder]]

* Whenever the Fish And Bicycle Theatre group pop up in ''YTheLastMan'', their productions are like this: a play about a man suviving the {{Gendercide}} (and later dying because the world doesn't need him any more), an action movie, a comic book called ''X: The Last Woman''. All {{Anvilicious}} and pretentious.

* ''Comicbook/{{X-Men}} Noir'' features a series of backups prose stories parodying old pulp sf stories. ("The Sentinels" by Bolivar Trask) Thomas Halloway reads them, and even uses them to interrogate Professor Xavier. Considering the style and subject this is almost certainly a reference to the ''Iron Dream'' mentioned above. (Although, ironically, Trask comes across as [[FairForItsDay rather liberal by 1930s standards]]; in his story the "perfect race" is formed by ''combining'' racial characteristics, and the mutant underclass turns out to be misunderstood. This is ''also'' ironic when you consider that in the main Marvel universe, Bolivar Trask was the bigoted scientist behind the mutant-hunting Sentinel robots.)

* Used in {{Troll Fic}}s by authours such as PeterChimaera and SquirrelKing

* ''DespicableMe'' has Gru being forced to read a bedtime story called "Sleepy Kittens" to put his adoptive daughters to sleep. It's as saccarine as kid's books get, complete with finger puppets for the three little kittens, with Gru getting increasingly annoyed at the story as he reads on. Also,[[http://www.amazon.com/Sleepy-Kittens-Despicable-Cinco-Paul/dp/031608381X/ref=pd_bxgy_m_img_b it's now available for purchase on Amazon.]]

* Daniel Keyes' short story ''Literature/FlowersForAlgernon'' is written in the form of Charlie Gordon's journal. The early (before his intelligence was enhanced) and late (after the effect wears off) entries are written in a barely-literate style indicative of Charlie's mental deficiency.

* Mario Vargas Llosa's semi-autobiographical novel ''La tia Julia y el escribidor'' (''Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter'') has a structure where intercalates a chapter telling the protagonist story with another being the argument of one of the radial SoapOperas written by the titular ''scriptwriter'' Pedro Camacho. While the protagonist story is told in a very consistent style, the "Soap" chapters are written in a more grandiloquent style, although not actually ''truly bad'' written. These alternate chapters detail the events going on in the various radio soap operas written by the scriptwriter, who are already very convoluted and filled with a lot of AuthorAppeal and AuthorAvatar meddlings, but become increasingly bizarre as the plots of the separate soap operas start to merge, all thanks to the increasingly instable mental state of Camacho due to burnout.

* The last two chapters of the novel "Aliss", a macabre retelling of Alice in Wonderland, degenerate into a succession of laconic sentences always ending with an elipsis. Since the book is written in first person, it's understandable that the style of writing would change after Aliss has ben beaten. And shot. And raped.

** The whole show probably ''would'' qualify as this, except the intentionally-awful ShowWithinAShow is the main focus of the series while the "reality" surounding it is just background. Plus, they don't make the fake show any more terrible than the supporting material (the outlandish "cast" interviews, the excerpts from Garth's dreadful books, the nonsensical political tirades etc). Does it count as Stylistic Suck when the fiction and the meta-fiction suck equally, and on purpose?

* ''{{iCarly}}'': Subverted. The episodes present the webshow segments in Freddie's perspective being the one behind the video camera (with a battery charge indicator, frames, etc.) The "uploaded" videos on the actual iCarly website looks quite similar to what is seen on YouTube (with a small rectangle video frame, with comments and the rest of the site around it). Of course, going "full screen" doesn't seem to ruin the quality though.

* The show-within-a-show in ''{{Extras}}'', "When The Whistle Blows". Subverted in that Andy Millman, the main actor and creator of the show, actually wanted to make a television show [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything that sounded very similar to ''Extras'' creator Ricky Gervais' previous series]], ''TheOffice'', but it was the BBC that turned it into a catchphrase-spewing, wig-and-glasses-wearing, badly-written, lowest-common-denominator sitcom that turns off critics everywhere, but makes Millman a minor star with the aforementioned lowest-common-denominator.

* ''Flight of the Concords'' has some of this when we see the band actually play a gig. They also appear to only know 2 songs (Robots and Rock the Party). The music videos in the show that presumably take place in the characters minds are very good in comparison.

* In BlackAdderGoesFourth, Baldrick recites several poems:

* From {{RenandStimpy}} Stimpy's cartoon "I Like Pink" a bizarre, nonsensical, poorly drawn and animated cartoon with very little plot.

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** So does Aldous Snow's song "We Gotta Do Something" and its music video, in which Russell Brand does things like [[YouBastard glower accusingly at the camera]] while holding up signs that say, "HOW CAN YOU READ/WHEN YOU ARE BLIND," then simulate sex with a passing nun.

--> [[TheGmodIdiotBox Das Bo Schitt]], description for ''TEH GMOD IDIOT BALL (April Fools)

** The lyric "You're breakin' my heart/You're tearing it apart/ So [[PrecisionFStrike █████ you]]" from "You're Breakin' My Heart" has to fit in there somewhere.

**** Actually, he only wrote the lyrics. The music was composed by Bauhaus.

* The Waligie Bros series, made as a parody of bad game maker games. Graphics that consist almost entirely of pictures taken from google, midi files and unfitting and overly loud sound effects everywhere, awkward physics, and enough bad spelling to kill a grammar nazi. And yet we wouldn't have it any other way.[[/folder]]

* The last two chapters of the novel "Aliss", a macabre retelling of Alice in Wonderland, degenerate into a succession of laconic sentences always ending with an elipsis. Since the book is written in first person, it's understandable that the style of writing would change after Aliss has ben beaten. And shot. And raped. [[SoYeah Yeah]]

* During the last two chapters of the novel "Aliss", a macabre retelling of Alice in Wonderland, degenerate into a bunch of laconic sentences always ended with an elipsis. Since the book is written in first person, it's understandable that the style of writing would change after Aliss has ben beaten. And shot. And raped. [[SoYeah Yeah]]