History Main / StylisticSuck

* In 1997, artist duo Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid once took a massive poll of Americans' taste in music, down to very specific criteria (what type of instruments were liked and disliked, what type of tempo, what type of lyrics, etc.). Using this data, they then decided to create the most statistically "wanted" and "unwanted" songs in America. The "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McIfIx29tSg Most Wanted Song]]" is a {{Glurge}}y R&B ballad that acutely reflects the spirit of [[TheNineties the times]]. The "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gPuH1yeZ08 Most Unwanted Song]]", however, born from average Americans' distaste for musical elements as diverse as opera, cowboy songs, rap music (!!), accordions, tubas, commercial jingles, bagpipes, children's voices, abrupt changes in tempo, extreme length, and "intellectual stimulation", [[SoBadItsGood must be heard to be believed]]. Did we mention that it's [[OverlyLongGag over twenty minutes long?]] To put into perspective: this song features an opera singer rapping about cowboys and Creator/LudwigWittgenstein to the accompaniment of a drum machine, tuba and bagpipes. [[CrossesTheLineTwice Yes]].

* Music/TheKLF's single under the pseudonym "The [[Series/DoctorWho Timelords]]", a deliberately lazy [[UrExample proto]]-Mash Up of a Gary Glitter song with the ''Doctor Who'' theme and the song "Blockbuster", featuring some ''Series/HarryEnfieldAndChums'' [[VoiceClipSong sound clips]] processed to sound like Dalek voices. The video was even worse, featuring a CoolCar [[CriticalResearchFailure as the TARDIS]] and a couple of [[TinCanRobot cardboard boxes covered in tinfoil]] as a Dalek.

* Depending on who you ask, the music video for {{Music/Journey}}'s "Separate Ways" may have been this. Steve Perry notoriously ''hated'' the medium of music videos, dismissing the bands popularized by them as "fashion music." So, when their label told them "make one or else," they aimed to make one so terrible that the record company would ''never'' ask again. [[SpringtimeForHitler The song ended up a hit instead.]]

* Creator/AchievementHunter made the Garbo mug. Creator/MichaelJones claims its the most hands on they've ever been with creating a piece of merch. The result is a coffee mug that is nearly impossible to drink from without spilling, has a handle too small for use, and holds only about a shot glass's worth of coffee. They wanted it to be even worse, with an uneven bottom so it would break itself easily and a hole in the bottom so it would so slowly leak, ''but they literally couldn't economically produce a coffee mug that was that bad.''

* The Stephen Glass scandal, dramatized in ''Film/ShatteredGlass'', got subject to this. In trying to cover the tracks to hide evidence of fabrication in his "Hack Heaven" piece, Glass created an amateur AOL webpage and tried to pass it off as the official site of the fictitious "Jukt Micronics". The movie ended up using [[http://i.forbesimg.com/images/1998/05/11/capture.gif the actual page Glass created in real life,]] as no Hollywood exaggeration of its ineptitude was needed. Even though the scandal broke in the relatively early days of businesses adopting the Internet as a tool, even by those standards it was still bad; Adam Penenberg, one of the ''Forbes Digital'' reporters who was responsible for first exposing Glass's fabrication -- and someone who would know a little something about the Internet back then -- was incredulous that this could the website of a supposedly bigtime software company.

* Generally, one of the ideas behind the concept of a {{jobber}} is that they are sub-par wrestlers in their respective league. When promoters want to show off the in-ring prowess of a certain wrestler that they want to turn in to a star, they put them in to easily-won matches with jobbers, who are designed to look mundane and easily beaten in comparison to the hopefully soon-to-be star. This makes the wrestler that the promoters are trying to, well, ''promote'' look like a competent and powerful character by having him handily dispose of the sucky wrestler. Some jobbers aren't portrayed as actually being "sucky wrestlers" as much as they are "wrestlers hopelessly out of their league". Some explicitly are shown to be terrible however. Also, when an onscreen non-wrestler personality (like a dastardly manager or an evil executive authority figure) is thrust in to the ring with an actual wrestler, the non-wrestler will play up being clumsy and just plain bad. Behind the scenes though, they usually have a bit of wrestling training or even be former wrestlers; Wrestling/CaptainLouAlbano (former {{tag team}} champion), Wrestling/MrFuji (who was a champion in several promotions) and the legendary Wrestling/BobbyHeenan are good examples.
* WWE's revival of Wrestling/{{ECW}} began with 2005 and 2006 ''ECW One Night Stand'' pay per views, both serving as ECW reunions. True to the original ECW, they were extremely lacking in the special effects and gigantic elaborate stages that WWE was known for. To add to this, it was held at one of ECW's old stomping grounds: the Hammerstein Ballroom, which is a tiny venue capable of seating capacity a mere 2,500, whereas most WWE [=PPVs=] are held in arenas that accommodate roughly 10,000). In 2007, One Night Stand would entirely drop the ECW theme for good to become a standard WWE pay-per-view with extravagant production values and conventional matches in a much larger arena; Wrestling/JoeyStyles remarked on camera that it seemed inappropriate.
* Wrestling/MickFoley as Dude Love. To drive home how different this persona was from Mankind and Cactus Jack, Foley would make his performances as Dude Love as boring as he could. One way included repeatedly putting his opponent into [[RunningGag headlock after headlock after headlock.]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji57845nSL4 Dude Love's TitanTron]] was a perfect example of so bad it's good, and it was entirely intentional.
** Likewise, when he became an anti-hardcore heel in ECW, he quickly realized that he wasn't getting the desired response by preaching against hardcore-style wrestling while still wrestling in said style. So, he dropped everything exciting from his moveset and started doing nothing, but boring headlocks. Soon, ECW fans were booing him out of the building.

* Two words: '''Orange Cassidy'''. His entire schtick is that he's the laziest wrestler on the planet, regularly doing moves with his sunglasses on and hands in his pockets, while delivering the slowest chops and kicks which the wrestlers taking them almost always NoSell (and when they don't, it's usually also because of this trope). Meanwhile, [[RunningGag the audience and announcers hype up as if it were Daniel Bryan or Kenta Kobashi delivering them or that the career of the one taking it was in jeopardy]]. Which makes it all the more shocking when Cassidy [[LetsGetDangerous suddenly starts breaking out actual wrestling moves.]]

* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0gAxuvo5rc music video]] for Music/StoneTemplePilots' "Big Bang Baby" has intentionally NoBudget, with a WhiteVoidRoom performance, video-grade greenscreen effects, and other cheese. Supposedly, the director's reasoning was that the band was already famous...

* MusicCaptainBeefheart's ''Music/TroutMaskReplica'', a cacophony of jumbled instrumentation, odd lyrics, and terrible singing that sounds like it was recorded in a basement by a group of high schoolers who don't even know how to play their instruments. Turns out that Captain Beefheart wanted it to sound that way on purpose, as he had his band maticulously reherse the album to a disturbing degree to sound terrible.

* Timothy West's short play ''This Gun That I Have in My Right Hand is Loaded'' is a case study in how ''not'' to write a radio drama, with deliberate overuse of AsYouKnow-saturated conversations, dialogue slowing down unnaturally to allow for fading between scenes, a child's voice very obviously provided by an adult actor, and overdone and/or badly executed sound effects (such as a character's piano performance suddenly cutting off into silence in a way that makes it obvious someone has pressed Stop on a recording).

* A frequent sight gag in the anime of ''Manga/MobPsycho100'' is characters expressing dumbfounded shock by reverting to half-assed sketches of themselves. Similarly, the second season's eye catches are [[https://t.co/yrraYeDIxj animated to resemble ametuerish black-and white pencil drawings pulled out of a sketchbook.]]

%%* ChopSockey ("bad" martial arts sequences)

* An episode of ''Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa'' features this hilariously ShowWithinAShow where Dedede tries to make an anime, recruiting more or less the entire cast to do the work. Between ExecutiveMeddling[[note]]Which, in America, ended up [[{{Macekre}} hitting close to home]].[[/note]], a ridiculously tight schedule and low budget, and most of the staff having no idea what they're doing (especially Kirby), it starts out as a parody of the show itself and gets very steadily worse. [[HilarityEnsues And funnier]].[[note]]Even in the original Japanese version.[[/note]]

* The Surfsiders were a group of studio musicians hired in 1965 to rush out an album of Music/BeachBoys covers to cash in on the Beach Boys' growing fame: said album was regarded as SoBadItsGood among record collectors and Beach Boys fans due to the off-key barbershop harmonies and chintzy production. In 2012, a group calling themselves The New Surfsiders formed to release ''intentionally'' bad Beach Boys covers in a similar style. The New Surfsiders tended to exaggerate the flaws of the original Surfsiders' performances and arrangements for comic effect: The Surfsiders' album reused the same saxophone riff (in a different key) twice, so The New Surfsiders incorporate this same riff somewhere in ''every'' song as a RunningGag. The Surfsiders did a [[LyricalDissonance inappropriately cheery-sounding]] version of melancholy ballad "The Warmth Of The Sun", so The New Surf Siders did an uptempo, twist-style version of the even more melancholy ballad "Till I Die".

* In ''Theatre/Godspell'', the parable of the Good Samaritan is told as a play-within-a-play, often intentionally overacted as a terrible community theater production or a grade school play.

* It's no accident that "Music to Delight" by Kevin MacLeod sounds so off and terrible.

* In ''Anime/YouAndMe'', the boys try to make an amateur manga for a club activity. They each draw a page and the quality keeps on changing throughout the story. One of the twins draws a very good adventurous page, while his brother made the knight wear a t-shirt and jeans because his costume too complicated and killed off the other two characters. Shun's page is very shoujo-esque with huge eyes which the others mock, and he inexplicably introduces a love interest. Chizuru just right out [[GenreShift changes the genre]] from a fantasy to a school drama, [[HerCodeNameWasMarySue blatantly self inserts]] himself and his crush as the main characters, and has them randomly get married. Kaname's art skills are [[TerribleArtist just so bad]] that the others can't even focus on the sappy ending where they [[BabiesEverAfter have a kid]].

* In ''Anime/KimiToBoku'', the boys try to make an amateur manga for a club activity. They each draw a page and the quality keeps on changing throughout the story. One of the twins draws a very good adventurous page, while his brother made the knight wear a t-shirt and jeans because his costume too complicated and killed off the other two characters. Shun's page is very shoujo-esque with huge eyes which the others mock, and he inexplicably introduces a love interest. Chizuru just right out [[GenreShift changes the genre]] from a fantasy to a school drama, [[HerCodeNameWasMarySue blatantly self inserts]] himself and his crush as the main characters, and has them randomly get married. Kaname's art skills are [[TerribleArtist just so bad]] that the others can't even focus on the sappy ending where they [[BabiesEverAfter have a kid]].

* Chapter 59 of ''FanFic/YouGotHaruhiRolled'' imagines what the ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' series would be like had it been dubbed by Creator/FourKidsEntertainment. [[TastesLikeDiabetes It's the most saccharine thing ever.]]
* Possibly many more fan fictions. [[PoesLaw We may never know how many.]]

* Two words: '''Orange Cassidy'''. His entire schtick is that he's the laziest wrestler on the planet, regularly doing moves with his sunglasses on and hands in his pockets, while delivering the slowest chops and kicks which the wrestlers taking them almost always NoSell (and when they don't, it's usually also because of this trope). Meanwhile, [[RunningGag the audience and announcers hype up as if it were Daniel Bryan or Kenta Kobashi delivering them or that the career of the one taking it was in jeopardy]].

* Subverted in an issue of ''ComicBook/AnimalMan'' where Cliff Baker watches his dad's movie on his phone. The art is actually better and smoother in the movie.

* The "animation" from Episode 8 of ''WebVideo/SgtFrogAbridged''.

* Any time a superhero comic appears ''in'' a superhero comic, it's done like this.

* ''LightNovel/BofuriIDontWantToGetHurtSoIllMaxOutMyDefense'' does this relative to a lot of other anime focusing on a FictionalVideoGame. Much of the comedy focuses on the fact that ''New World Online'', while undoubtedly high-tech, is kind of a mess, with terrible balance, massive design flaws, and laughably easy-to-activate exploits. In fact, the inciting incident of the series is the main character managing to stumble across a GameBreaker build [[AchievementsInIgnorance largely by accident]], and then doing so repeatedly, as every time the devs try futilely to patch it out, she just stumbles across another ridiculous exploit.