History Main / Theyjustdidntcare

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'': Michael Haigney of Creator/FourKidsEntertainment [[http://dogasu.bulbagarden.net/comparisons/kanto/ep011.html admitted to]] half-assing some of his Pokémon voices on the basis that, with over a hundred and fifty to get through, it was likely that some Pokémon would never be seen again. This rapidly backfired when he applied it to Charmander which is 1. a starter mon, i.e. one of the first Pokémon kids receive, 2. featured and spotlighted in a fairly early episode, and 3. captured by the protagonist, all of which should have been clear signs that it would become a recurring character, which it did.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'': Michael Haigney of Creator/FourKidsEntertainment [[http://dogasu.bulbagarden.net/comparisons/kanto/ep011.html admitted to]] half-assing some of his Pokémon voices on the basis that, with over a hundred fifty to get through, it was likely that some Pokémon would never be seen again. This rapidly backfired when he applied it to Charmander which is 1. a starter mon, i.e. one of the first Pokémon kids receive, 2. featured and spotlighted in a fairly early episode, and 3. captured by the protagonist, all of which should have been clear signs that it would become a recurring character, which it did.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'': Michael Haigney of Creator/FourKidsEntertainment [[http://dogasu.bulbagarden.net/comparisons/kanto/ep011.html admitted to]] half-assing some of his Pokémon voices on the basis that, with hundreds to get through, it was likely that some Pokémon would never be seen again. This rapidly backfired when he applied it to Charmander which is 1. a starter mon, i.e. one of the first Pokémon kids receive, 2. featured and spotlighted in a fairly early episode, and 3. captured by the protagonist, all of which should have been clear signs that it would become a recurring character, which it did.

** The TropeNamer is a repeated phrase during the segment of Episode 418 -- ''[[Film/AttackOfTheEyeCreatures Attack of the The Eye Creatures]]'' [sic], where Joel and the Bots give [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfnMyJYEGCg&feature=youtu.be&t=1h28m10s a point-by-point presentation]] to prove that the makers of the movie had little concern for the quality of the film. This includes forgetting to adjust the camera to shoot day for night properly, giant zippers running up the back of the costumes for the PeopleInRubberSuits, and after running out of monster suits and monster boots, using the excess actors stomping around in their monster masks, black wool sweaters, and sneakers. And the fact that it's [[TyopOnTheCover called Attack of the The Eye Creatures]].

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* ''{{Anime/Pokemon}}'': Michael Haigney of Creator/FourKidsEntertainment [[http://dogasu.bulbagarden.net/comparisons/kanto/ep011.html admitted to]] half-assing some of his Pokémon voices on the basis that, with hundreds to get through, it was likely that some Pokémon would never be seen again. This rapidly backfired when he applied it to Charmander which is 1. a starter mon, i.e. one of the first Pokémon kids receive, 2. featured and spotlighted in a fairly early episode, and 3. captured by the protagonist, all of which should have been clear signs that it would become a recurring character, which it did.

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** The TropeNamer is a repeated phrase during the segment of ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' Episode 418 - ''AttackOfTheTheEyeCreatures'' (sic) (as seen in the Trope Image), where Joel and the Bots give [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfnMyJYEGCg&feature=youtu.be&t=1h28m10s a point-by-point presentation]] to prove that the makers of the movie had little concern for the quality of the film. This includes forgetting to adjust the camera to shoot day for night properly, giant zippers running up the back of the costumes for the PeopleInRubberSuits, and after running out of monster suits and monster boots, using the excess actors stomping around in their monster masks, black wool sweaters, and sneakers. And the fact that it's [[TyopOnTheCover called Attack of The The Eye Creatures]].

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* DiscussedTrope: ''WebVideo/SailorMoonAbridged'' had the titular protagonist fight a tennis-themed monster, who threw a ball at her and caused her to be trapped in a tennis ball. Her response?
--> ''Sailor Moon:'' Holy s***, they turned me into a tennis ball! I mean really, are they even trying anymore?"
* DiscussedTrope: An episode of ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'' had Yugi guess that [[Anime/YuGiOh the animators]] didn't even care about the size of Kaiba's nose.

'''All examples that are not InUniverse require WordOfGod confirming that the creators didn't care.'''

* This trope is played up intentionally for humor and parody in the ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpy'' episode "Stimpy's Cartoon". The plot is that Stimpy wants to make a cartoon for his hero, the godfather of animation, Wilbur Cobb. Ren is bitter about this, so Stimpy crowns him producer. However, it turns out out that Ren just doesn't care about the cartoon and his only role is to work Stimpy to the bone while presenting impossible challenges, taking month-long vacations, ripping up storyboards and tossing them in the trash, price gouging on art supplies, and forcing Stimpy to shave logs for animation cels, among other things. In the end, Stimpy's cartoon is a poorly drawn, poorly animated, inept, and non-sensical romp called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tmAE6e6yVc "Explodey the Pup"]] (or "I Like Pink"), which demonstrates the very definition of this trope.

* This trope is played up intentionally for humor and parody in the ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpy'' episode "Stimpy's Cartoon". The plot is that Stimpy wants to make a cartoon for his hero, the godfather of animation, Wilbur Cobb. Ren is bitter about this, so Stimpy crowns him producer. However, it turns out out that Ren just doesn't care about the cartoon and his only role is to work Stimpy to the bone while presenting impossible challenges, taking month-long vacations, ripping up storyboards and tossing them in the trash, price gouging on art supplies, and forcing Stimpy to shave logs for animation, among other things. In the end, Stimpy's cartoon is a poorly drawn, poorly animated, inept, and non-sensical romp called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tmAE6e6yVc "Explodey the Pup"]] (or "I Like Pink"), which demonstrates the very definition of this trope.

* Film/TheRoom: As production dragged on, professionalism just fell apart. Most of the crew were convinced the film would never be seen by anyone. [[WordOfGod Greg Sestero]], who played Mark, admitted to phoning in his performance. Entire scenes were out of focus because they did not bother to check the lens.

->Lisa, if you don't like your job, you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way!

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->''"I see the movie has finally thrown up its hands and said, 'I just don't know!'"''
-->-- '''Tom Servo''', ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S06E19RedZoneCuba "Red Zone Cuba"]]

!!Notable {{Sub Trope}}s include:

[[folder:Western Animation]]
* During the early episodes in ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', often a character would learn nothing after going through a life changing experience. The writers admit that this was their way of ending an episode without really adding much detail to it, simply because they didn't care how it ended.
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The TropeNamer is a repeated phrase during the segment of ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' Episode 418 - ''AttackOfTheTheEyeCreatures'' (sic) (as seen in the Trope Image), where Joel and the Bots give [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfnMyJYEGCg&feature=youtu.be&t=1h28m10s a point-by-point presentation]] to prove that the makers of the movie had little concern for the quality of the film. This includes forgetting to adjust the camera to shoot day for night properly, giant zippers running up the back of the costumes for the PeopleInRubberSuits, and after running out of monster suits and monster boots, using the excess actors stomping around in their monster masks, black wool sweaters, and sneakers. And the fact that it's [[TyopOnTheCover called Attack of The The Eye Creatures]].

* The English dub of ''Anime/DigimonSavers'' (as ''Digimon Data Squad'') on Creator/ToonDisney was filled with [[https://sites.google.com/site/digimondatasquadaz/changes-in-the-english-dub-of-dds massive amounts of edits, dialogue changes and scene cuts]] to the point where fans compared it to the [[Creator/FourKidsEntertainment 4Kids]] dub of ''Anime/OnePiece'' in terms of anime {{Macekre}}. Of course, this was actually because Disney was never interested in the franchise in the first place[[note]]The license was acquired by Disney as part of acquiring Fox Family Worldwide, Inc., which included Creator/SabanEntertainment, then-owners of the Digimon license. Disney only wanted to purchase the company for its [[Creator/ABCFamily Fox Family]] channel, but they had to acquire all of Fox Family Worldwide, Inc. in order to get the channel[[/note]], and all they wanted to do was to fulfill the license and wait for the opportunity to drop it. Thankfully, Saban has since bought back the license from Disney since ''Data Squad'' ended.
* Despite being one of the better-received dubbing studios in North America, Creator/{{FUNimation}} couldn't actually be bothered with getting the already available dub cast for ''VisualNovel/DanganRonpa'' and instead did an in-house dub with only Creator/BrycePapenbrook returning. According to Creator/KaijiTang and Creator/ErinFitzgerald, the dub cast for the game wasn't even contacted, and many didn't even know a dub for the anime ''was'' happening.
* ''{{Anime/Pokemon}}'':
** Michael Haigney of Creator/FourKidsEntertainment [[http://dogasu.bulbagarden.net/comparisons/kanto/ep011.html admitted to]] half-assing some of his Pokémon voices on the basis that, with hundreds to get through, it was likely that some Pokémon would never be seen again. This rapidly backfired when he applied it to Charmander which is 1. a starter mon, i.e. one of the first Pokémon kids receive, 2. featured and spotlighted in a fairly early episode, and 3. captured by the protagonist, all of which should have been clear signs that it would become a recurring character, which it did.
** While Pokémon was greatly successful in Latin America during the late nineties and the early 21st century, by the time the dub of the Pokémon anime reached the tenth and eleventh seasons it was deeply notorious how the dubbing company didn't treat it with any respect. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csssf6qnU6w Just listen to the opening song for the eleventh season]], you can just tell it was done on the fly, recorded probably with some cheap recorder (one even ventures to say it was a cellphone) and translated it quickly (while past openings used to show a little more effort). The dub itself in the Diamond and Pearl series had huge continuity errors: attack names were translated however the translator felt at the time, city names varied between the original English name, the Spanish dub (or official European translation) name, or again, whatever the translator felt. Therefore, ''in the same season'' Pikachu had at least three different names for Thundershock. And as far as Team Rocket went, while they offered comic relief sometimes while doing original work, in these seasons they just spoke whatever jokes the dubbers had in mind even if it meant that the story-line would not make any sense. By the next series, the dub got better (it went to a new dubbing house) but the damage had been done, including the replacing of the original voice actor of Ash.
* While not the creators of the show, when ''Anime/SonicX'' was acquired and dubbed by 4Kids Entertainment, many of the key elements that are present in the Sonic franchise were often either misinterpreted or mislabeled in the 1st season (prime example was "Chaos Control" being mistaken for the name of Eggman's base, when in actuality it is when Sonic or Shadow use the Chaos Emeralds to teleport through time and space). This is mainly due to the dubbing cast and/or crew members not bothering to do their research.
--> '''Michael Haigney (''the producer of the English dub'')''': [[http://www.homemademech.com/anime-articles/80/ I've never played the game, seen the series or read the comics]].
* An episode of ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'' had Yugi guess that [[Anime/YuGiOh the animators]] didn't even care about the size of Kaiba's nose. Another episode noted that they apparently turned Tristan's skin black in one shot where the whole gang is in profile. HilarityEnsues.
--> '''Tristan:''' Don't be hating on my blackface, playa!

* The author of ''Fanfic/MyLittleUnicorn'' pretty much states that he doesn't care about the originality of the fic and doesn't bother with characterization. In addition, like the example above, there are sections where the author merely copy-pasted blocks of exposition while changing next to nothing in an attempt to pass it off as dialogue.

[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
* The sale of Creator/DreamWorksAnimation:
** CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg had been trying to sell the studio off since ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians'' failed to turn a profit for the studio and ended its nearly decade-long financial winning streak. Around that time, Katzenberg sought to expand the studio's success by making risky acquisitions, most notably the purchase of Classic Media, the ''Trolls'' toys and the YouTube service [=AwesomenessTV=]. Meanwhile, their next films, such as ''WesternAnimation/{{Turbo}}'', ''WesternAnimation/MrPeabodyAndSherman'' and ''WesternAnimation/PenguinsOfMadagascar'' ended up being financial failures despite recouping their budgets, leading to major write-downs. Coupled with failed takeover attempts by Creator/{{Hasbro}} and Japanese conglomerate [=SoftBank=], a massive reorganization at [=DreamWorks=] saw the closure of Pacific Data Images (who comprised of ''half'' the studio) and 500 jobs lost, ensuring that its glory days of being head-on competitors to Creator/{{Disney}} and Creator/{{Pixar}} had long passed. Nevertheless, Katzenberg continued his ventures in an attempt to have the company stay in the black, to mixed results, and oversaw two more films, ''WesternAnimation/{{Home}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda3'', that somehow ''did'' turn a profit yet not enough to please shareholders. At that point he was about to say "screw it" and take the company private with the help of Chinese investment firm PAG Asia Capital, then Comcast's [[Creator/{{NBC}} NBC]][[Creator/{{Universal}} Universal]] unit came knocking on their door with $3.8 billion in their hands. Given the timing of the acquisition talks (a deal was reached after just ''thirteen days'' of negotiations), one has to wonder whether or not Katzenberg simply wanted to run the studio to the ground just so he could sell it to someone and silence the shareholders.
** If analysts of the sale are to be believed, it seemed [=NBCUniversal=] wasn't even interested at all in [=DreamWorks=]' film library. The main motive for buying the studio? To gain access to [=DreamWorks=]' intellectual property to add to [=NBCUniversal=]'s content portfolio, meaning all [=NBCUniversal=] cared about was [[FranchiseZombie to milk their property]] [[MoneyDearBoy in order to expand their revenue]].
* After ''WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler'', Creator/RichardWilliams' labor of love, was taken from his hands due to lack of funding, it was passed on to Majestic Films International, who hopefully would finish it cheaply enough to turn a profit. The results included LullDestruction, [[ClicheStorm uninspired animated film clichés]], [[NarratingTheObvious narration that describes exactly what we are seeing]], bland {{Award Bait Song}}s and very OffModel animation. Then it was released with minimal marketing and a low number of prints in an attempt to avoid spending any more money on it. Animation fans consider this a tragedy. Poor Richard Williams was so unhappy with the tragic fate of his ''magnum opus'' that he refuses to speak of the movie or acknowledge its existence. Another version of the film (called the "Recobbled Cut") was later released featuring much of the unfinished and unpolished content Williams originally intended for the film, which despite not being completed still makes the film vastly superior to what we got on the original rushed release.

[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* The LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek about Music/{{Aaliyah}} has been universally panned by both viewers and critics for being horribly cast and acted, as well as not using any of the music that made Aaliyah a star and for a horrible ending. Fans believe Creator/{{Lifetime}} didn't even try to make a decent movie about the late superstar.
** Some of their other movies fare just as badly. Their ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' movie, which was based off [[OldShame the book that he now has disowned]], has Dustin Diamond/Screech in full MartyStu mode while basically [[{{Demonization}} demonizing]] almost every other member of the cast, the TV movie about Creator/BrittanyMurphy was one-dimensional and had actors that looked nothing like her, her family members or people whom she acted with (''especially'' in the case of Alicia Silverstone) and possibly worst of all, their Music/WhitneyHouston movie, while ostensibly about her and even [[WolverinePublicity promoted ad nauseam by the network]] [[BlatantLies as being the "real story" behind the late singer]], devoted a great deal of its time to Bobby Brown and all of his infamous behavior to the point where [[OutOfFocus Whitney herself and her story became little more than afterthoughts]] and plenty of people viewed the movie as inaccurate and exploitative of her memory.
* ''Film/{{Alone in the Dark|2005}}'' (2005). The plot has [[InNameOnly nothing to do with]] [[Franchise/AloneInTheDark the games]]. The writing is bad. The cinematography is bad. Most notoriously, there's a scene in which a character is killed by a bullet (a ''[[SpecialEffectFailure glowing computer-generated bullet]]'') that clearly misses her by about a meter.
** Then there's the director's earlier work, 2003's ''Film/HouseOfTheDead''. [[InNameOnly All it has to do with]] [[VideoGame/HouseOfTheDead the arcade games]] is that humans shoot zombies. A woman wields a shotgun that becomes ''a pistol'' for a BulletTime shot, as if to make sure you can notice. Most infamously, a long action scene is intercut with clips from the first two games, which look nothing like the live-action footage and were visibly dated even when the film came out. The clincher is the "Funny Version", an official {{Recut}} which is essentially a feature-length [[HilariousOuttakes outtake reel]] of the film crew messing around.
* How is Freddy resurrected after seemingly being KilledOffForReal (obligatory SequelHook notwithstanding) at the end of ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet3DreamWarriors''? Well, in ''[[Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet4TheDreamMaster The Dream Master]]'', a dog pisses fire onto his grave. End of explanation. If that doesn't ''scream'' "they're not even trying anymore," nothing ever has.
* ''[[Film/AttackOfTheEyeCreatures Attack of]] [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment (the)]] [[Film/AttackOfTheEyeCreatures the Eye Creatures]]'' is responsible for the TropeNamer, but honestly, you can apply it to any of Larry Buchanan's films, ''especially'' any of the made-for-TV remakes of old Creator/AmericanInternationalPictures films like ''Invasion of the Saucer Men'', or ''Zontar, Thing From Venus'' (''It Conquered the World'').
-->'''Crow:''' Get ready to give chase to an injured eye creature; as you can see, he's wearing his Jack Purcell athletic shoes! Folks, [[TropeNamer they just did not care]]!
** In another ''[=MST3K=]'' experiment, ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S06E19RedZoneCuba Red Zone Cuba]]'', Servo groans, "I see the movie has finally thrown up its hands and said, 'I just don't know'."
* The Creator/ABCFamily promo for ''Film/BatmanBegins'', particularly for the voice-over phrase "[[ComicallyMissingThePoint He fights for family, and lives for love.]]" Where to begin? The first part of the phrase makes no sense since his family is dead, and the latter part is emphasized by focusing more on the scenes with Bruce Wayne and Rachel Dawes, making the film look more like a romantic comedy than a superhero film. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSe6tvfedb0 See it for yourself]].
* The 2007 film adaptation of ''Film/{{Beowulf}}''. But it's not the production values that get it: It's the fact that Robert Zemeckis ''openly expressed his hatred'' for the poem on which it was based, so all the nuance and meaning of the poem is completely ignored.
* According to a writer from [[http://www.agonybooth.com/ The Agony Booth]], this is the main reason ''Film/{{Eragon}}'' utterly failed from the beginning: "they just didn't give a shit". For example, dwarves were cut out of the film entirely, and characters who supposed to be dwarves were turned into humans with no explanation. A baby dragon magically turns into an adult in matter of seconds, and it's ''not'' a time lapse. Creator/JohnMalkovich can clearly be seen to be mailing in his performance. All the cuts of the book's personality were watered or dumbed down enough that the parallels to ''Franchise/StarWars'' were made all the more obvious. Even if it had succeeded at the box office, the film would have too many plot holes to plug for a sequel.
* The infamous "Glock 7" scene from ''Film/DieHard2'', involving a mythical porcelain handgun that isn't detected by airport scanners. The writers were informed by their firearms consultant that the entire concept was nonsense, but they didn't care and insisted on keeping the scene.
** In addition, air traffic and airports do not work the way they're depicted in the film. Anyone with even the most cursory knowledge would know that every plane could have just gone to another airport.
*** Especially considering the airport they chose is one where there are at least two other airports you could ''drive' to in the movie's running time.
* Maybe some of the cast and crew who made ''Film/TheFantasticFour (1994)'' cared about their product. Creator/RogerCorman, as usual, got the film done on time and under budget, and though it's rife with corner-cutting leading to multiple {{Special Effects Failure}}s, the Thing costume was actually rather convincing and the film did have a story. In this case, it was their bosses, the executives of The Constantin Film Company, who just didn't care: they weren't planning on releasing the film anyway since it was just an AshCanCopy to help them keep the movie rights until they could sell them to Fox for a hefty sum, so what did it matter what went into it?
* The 2015 ''[[Film/FantasticFour2015 Fantastic Four]]'' reboot, meanwhile, tanked because of a combination of uncaring factors.
** 20th Century Fox was more interested in [[AshCanCopy keeping the rights to potentially lucrative Marvel heroes rather than telling a good story with them]].
** The director, Josh Trank, was more interested in telling a SpiritualSuccessor to his previous film ''{{Film/Chronicle}}'', whose dark deconstruction tone is ill-suited for the upbeat cosmic adventure tone of the franchise.
** Much of the cast were unfamiliar with and indifferent towards the ''Fantastic Four'' comics with Michael B Jordan calling the classic comics as cheesy and Miles Teller blatantly telling the fans that this movie is not for them.
** Trank, with only one indie film on his belt, turned out to be ill-suited for helming a blockbuster, [[TroubledProduction frequently displaying erratic behavior on set that cost the studios thousands of dollars of repair work]].
** When the studio realized the disaster he was causing, Trank was basically fired from the set while the studio rushed to complete the film on time. Their measures included cutting the film to barely over 100 minutes, cutting the conversion to 3D, and filming reshoots that had some ''very'' obvious FX, [[https://twitter.com/FB_BMB/status/629579590172844033 including Kate Mara's wig]].
** The result? A box office bomb that lost its opening weekend to Marvel Studios' ''Film/AntMan'', eventually causing Fox to pull the sequel from release schedule, and had many fans clamoring for Fox to give the ''Fantastic Four'' rights back to Marvel wholesale (or at least [[Film/TheAmazingSpiderManSeries pull a Sony]] and split the rights).
* Though ''Film/JemAndTheHolograms'' had a budget of $5 million (which is [[NoBudget practically nothing by Hollywood's standards]]), watching it you'd swear the movie was made on less than a ''twentieth'' of that. Fans praising Jem and "celebrity cameos" are all stock footage [[ManipulativeEditing that's been taken out of context]] (meaning that if they were talking about Jem at all, then they weren't talking about the one in the movie) and often of lesser quality than the rest of the movie, scene transitions are done with Google Earth (they even left the logo in!), and the film is very much InNameOnly, with very little of [[WesternAnimation/{{Jem}} the original cartoon's]] premise being carried over.
* Similarly to the already mentioned Music/{{Aaliyah}} LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek, in 2005, VH-1 gave us ''Man In The Mirror-The Music/MichaelJackson Story'', which was an alleged follow up to the vastly superior ''The Jacksons: An American Dream'' mini-series. Like with Aaliyah's film, it featured none of The King of Pop's music, bad acting, a weak script and [[WhatTheHellCastingAgency Flex Alexander as Michael]], whose portrayal of him was inaccurate and whose appearance as Michael is ranked anywhere between downright laughable and straight-up UncannyValley.
* ''Film/MonsterAGoGo'': [[HalfwayPlotSwitch Why does the movie suddenly switch over to a different set of characters midway?]] [[FauxlosophicNarration What's with the unnecessary pretentious narration?]] Why does the story screech to a halt at the end and lay down a [[GainaxEnding completely nonsensical resolution]]? Several reasons:
** ''Monster A-Go Go'' originally started as a monster movie called ''Terror at Half-Day'', directed by Bill Rebane. However, Rebane was forced to stop production when the film's budget ran out. ''Terror at Half-Day'' then remained unfinished for a few years until infamous splatter film director Herschell Gordon Lewis came along and bought the footage from Rebane.
** H.G. Lewis needed a film that could be sold as part of a double feature with one of his own films, [[MoneyDearBoy which was the more profitable move at the time.]] And so, he decided to "complete" Rebane's movie by directing several scenes that would later make up the second half of ''Monster A-Go Go'', adding the pretentious narration, and then hastily piecing it all together.
** The resulting film, despite being a terrible mess, was still released to the public. It has since then gained a legacy as being one of the worst movies ever made.
* ''Film/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'', TheFilmOfTheBook of ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians''. Despite the effort that went into everything else, the director admitted to not even reading the first book. As a result, the only similarity between the film and the book is the main plot line (just barely).
* Every DVD release of ''[[Film/PromNight1980 Prom Night]]'' before 2014. Echo Bridge used PAL-NTSC video tape masters that were slightly sped up and extremely dark and with very muffled audio. It made the film a struggle to watch. It was also presented open-matte, with boom mics in clear view in several shots. There's also a release that crams the film on a disc with three other films (one-sided, single-layered), and the film looked so horrible, it was barely comprehensible. It wasn't until Synapse Films got the license to the film that it finally got a decent home video treatment. The original film elements were given a new 2K scan, and the film looked gorgeous on Blu-ray. It was night-and-day and like watching the film for the first time.
** Almost every Echo Bridge release for that matter. When they had the license to Miramax's catalog titles, they treated them with no care whatsoever. They crapped most of them out on Blu-rays that were barely upgrades from [=DVDs=], and the discs contained no extras, regardless if they were on prior releases. For ''Film/HalloweenH20TwentyYearsLater'', they presented the film in an open matte presentation, and the print had heavy DNR. Also the back cover advertised a "Dolby Digital Stere" (sic) audio track, despite the original DVD having a 5.1 track. It looked and sounded so bad, Blu-ray.com gave the release a 1.5/5. ''Film/HalloweenTheCurseOfMichaelMyers'' and ''Film/HalloweenResurrection'' had it a little bit better, though not much. Fortunately, the films got an upgrade when Scream Factory rescued them and included them in their complete series boxset.
* The ''Film/ResidentEvil'' movies are this, considering that they completely disregard everything about the games they're based on except for a few names, introduce a GodModeSue main character out of nowhere, take a scene directly from Resident Evil 5 and ''it actually has worse special effects'', and turn the [[ImplacableMan Nemesis]] into a complete laughingstock. The fact that the original script (which would have been by George frigging Romero) was ''much'' more faithful and well done only adds salt to the wound.
** In a weird way the creators do seem to care about the new trilogy, correcting Alice's GodModeSue status immediately, rolling in forgotten older characters and setting up an apocalyptic finale. They ''don't'' care about being faithful to the games, but after the third movie there's no way in hell they could be, so why bother?
** For a specific example, look no further than the opening of the third movie ''Extinction'', where we are explicitly told and shown that the T-virus somehow caused all the world's water to disappear and turn the entire planet Earth into an arid wasteland. Then the denouement of the film shows Umbrella execs holding a meeting in Tokyo, where there's a heavy rainstorm going on outside, after the movie made it clear that the whole world dried up. Retconning a stupid plot point out of a sequel is one thing, but forgetting a stupid plot point ''within the same movie that introduced it'' is a whole other beast.
* Creator/AdamSandler has put out so many awful movies that reviewers have speculated that he simply makes the movies as cheaply as possible, then pockets the remaining budget. This view is not helped by his having admitted that he's made movies specifically because he wanted to vacation in the filming location and be able to write it off as a business expense.
* This trope seems to apply to the works of Creator/SeltzerAndFriedberg in general, as they are so concerned with pumping out the next year's installment to lampoon ''the current crop'' of movies that their film trailers will feature scenes [[ShallowParody parodying the movie you are waiting to watch]].
* ''Film/TheSeeker'', TheFilmOfTheBook of ''Literature/TheDarkIsRising''. When the screenwriter freely admits he didn't even read the book, you know right off nobody cared. The director also admitted he hated fantasy, and the movie reflects their attitudes. Possibly the only person who ''did'' care was the kid cast as Will, who unfortunately TookTheBadFilmSeriously. The result was a film that still holds the record for the fastest theater drop (that being the number of theaters that dropped it from their lineup after the obligatory three weeks), and also holds the distinction of having the second-weakest debut of any movie ''ever''.
* ''Music/SouljaBoy: TheMovie'' is a documentary about the titular rapper with little effort put into it. How little effort? During his interviews, Soulja Boy is ''surfing the Internet on his laptop'' at the same time! He also delivers such gems like "I don't like to do interviews" in the middle of an interview, or "I'm not into computers" while using his laptop. The whole thing also appears to have been filmed with an iPhone. Its laziness makes a whole lot more sense, unfortunately, when its subject outright boasts, on numerous occasions, that his main objective as a rapper is [[MoneyDearBoy to make lots of money]].
* ''Film/SpaceMutiny''. The space battles are StockFootage from [[Series/BattlestarGalactica1978 another sci-fi production]], and you can tell right away without knowing beforehand because of the picture quality. Multiple scenes supposedly set deep inside a ship in outer space are filmed in a disused factory with open windows letting in sunlight. Most infamously, a supporting character who has just had a dramatic death scene reappears in ''the very next scene'' as a background extra without any comment. Oh, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking the film poster doesn't get the title right]], advertising the new sci-fi film ''Mutiny in Space''.
* Paramount apparently went over Rick Berman's head and installed a director for ''Film/StarTrekNemesis'', Stuart Baird, who had never worked on ''Star Trek'' before and also was completely unfamiliar with it. Baird would reportedly refer to the human character Geordi La Forge as an "alien", as well as ignore pointers from the cast and crew regarding series and character history, openly telling them "I don't care. I'm doing this as if it's the first ''Star Trek'' movie." The end result is often credited with [[FranchiseKiller halting all plans for future Trek films]]. The next film in the series? A [[Film/StarTrek reboot]].
* ''Film/TankGirl'': The bizarre animation? That's because they forgot to film those scenes! Seriously, that's a whole new level of not caring. They had to rope in the [[ComicBook/TankGirl comic]]'s creators Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett to rush-animate those scenes, much to their displeasure.
* This is parodied in ''Film/{{UHF}}'' with the fake trailer for ''Film/{{Gandhi}} II'', in which the classic {{Biopic}} is given a [[SoBadItsGood cheesy]] ActionizedSequel that directly opposes everything about the original film (''à la'' ''Film/RamboFirstBloodPartII''), and [[UsefulNotes/MahatmaGandhi Gandhi]]'s way of life in particular. Instead of a Hindu and ascetic icon of passive resistance, he's a steak-chomping, high-rolling, gun-toting street vigilante with martial arts skills just like Film/{{Shaft}}. He's also alive and well even though the real film [[ForegoneConclusion begins with his death]] and the real Gandhi was dead for decades even at the time. In one scene, he jumps out of a convertible, is accosted by a thug, and the convertible becomes a hardtop between cuts so he can bang the thug's head on the roof.

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* ''AtlantaNights''. Despite being written by several authors and editors the book manages to have an incoherent KudzuPlot, bad editing, prose which alternates between the [[PurpleProse purple]] and [[BeigeProse beige]] varieties, duplicated chapters and horrific dialogue. Not exactly an example of this so much as a deliberate simulation of its effects; the authors did it to prove that [[VanityPublishing Vanity Press]] [=PublishAmerica=] will publish ''anything'', and actually put quite a bit of effort into crafting the worst, most incoherent novel conceivable. See the article for details.
* The ''Series/DoctorWho'' Target Novelisations occasionally fall into this, because they were written by a variety of different writers on extremely tight deadlines trying to achieve different things. Sometimes, you can get a brilliant AdaptationExpansion of a feeble storyline with an entertaining prose style, or a gripping page-turner of one of your favourites, or a writer executing what he wished he'd been able to execute on television, or at least something so weird and dark that you can wonder how on Earth this got published. Or, if you're unlucky, you get borderline unreadable prose bashed out by someone who's figured out that taking a script and adding "the Doctor said" nets them a ton of easy money.
* Chapter 22 of ''[[Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey Fifty Shades Freed]]'' features Anastasia Grey (neé Steele) demanding and getting five million dollars in ransom money from a bank despite being unknown to the bank employees, no photo ID, lack of advance notice (most American banks would require seven to fourteen days' notice to collect so much money, because most bank assets are not in cash), Christian ordering the bank manager to sell stocks for him (not the manager's job--banks often own brokerage firms, but they aren't the same thing), four of the five stocks being worthless (two for defunct companies, one swallowed by a merger and one struggling firm whose stock, at the time E.L. James wrote this, was literally worth pennies), etc. The entire chapter is an illustration of [[ArtisticLicenseEconomics not doing the proper research]]. However, poor research is not unusual for James; what ''is'' unusual is the Author's Note she included at the end of the Writer's Coffee Shop edition, where she freely admits being told that the entire premise of the chapter is factually incorrect.
-->I am aware that today you cannot walk into an American bank and withdraw five million dollars.
* ''[[Film/IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer I Still Know What You Did Last Summer]]'' had a {{novelization}}; "novelization" meaning the writers just ran off a bunch of ''exact'' copies of the script, slapped a price tag on them, and sold them as novelizations. It's worse when you consider the first film was [[TheFilmOfTheBook based off]] [[Literature/IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer a book]].
* ''Literature/InheritanceCycle''. No, the author himself put his all into his series. In this case, it was the ''editor'' who was lazy. Aside from making sure that nothing was misspelled, there are tons of minor and major continuity mistakes, PurpleProse abound, and the editor somehow didn't notice that a sentence containing the words "descended upwards" doesn't make any sense.
** The publishing company that picked up the series. Basically the CEO gave his kid a copy of the book, the kid said it was "the best book he’d ever read, [[OverlyNarrowSuperlative that was written by a young adult]]" and instantly published the book as-is (and made sure it was released before the latest ''Literature/HarryPotter'' [[FollowTheLeader book]]).
* Creator/StephenieMeyer's novel in the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' universe, ''Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined''. It's a RuleSixtyThree version of the first ''Twilight'' novel, with the majority of the text basically copy-pasted from the original book, but with names and gender pronouns changed. ''Some'' story alterations are present, but to such little effect that they ultimately make no difference at all.
* ''Literature/MassEffectDeception'' is the fourth ''Franchise/MassEffect'' novel, written by William C. Dietz instead of former series writer Creator/DrewKarpyshyn. Despite not being part of the Creator/{{Bioware}} team, Dietz was contracted to write ''Deception''. What resulted was a book filled to the brim with poor characterization, numerous plot holes, terribly childish writing, and dozens upon dozens of contradictions to a well-established and consistent lore, all of which the previous novels avoided entirely. ''Mass Effect'' fans compiled [[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XBpMF3ONlI308D9IGG8KICBHfWKU0sXh0ntukv-_cmo/edit?pli=1 a list of the vast amount of mistakes]] (''99'' at last count), and [=BioWare=] has since essentially declared ''Deception'' [[CanonDiscontinuity non-canon]].
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* The DVD release of ''Series/{{ALF}}'' contains the syndicated episodes, which cut many scenes. In some episodes, such as the Season 1 episode "Wild Thing", the closing credits include a scene that was cut from the DVD. Even worse, the episode makes absolutely no sense with that scene removed.
* Near the end of the third season of ''Series/{{Alias}}'', the official recaps posted by Creator/{{ABC}}.com began including scenes that were cut prior to airing, such as [[spoiler: the reveal that Vaughn had been brainwashed by Lauren]] and [[spoiler: shots of some CIA papers that the truth about Syd's life]]. The show had a ridiculous amounts of dropped plots and other weird stuff at various points, but the sloppiness over the course of these few episodes really made it look like they just didn't care.
** Oh, and then about half a season later, there was a two part episode where Sark went from knowing [[spoiler:that Vaughn killed Lauren]] in the first half to "learning" it in the second half and being shocked by the information.
* The contributors to ''AncientAliens'' not only employ huge doses of InsaneTrollLogic, they apply said logic to ''demonstrably'' false evidence and assumptions. The show doesn't bother to fact-check any of it. [[NetworkDecay This show airs on The History Channel, by the way.]]
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** The BBC throwing out large quantities of tapes of the black-and-white ''Series/DoctorWho'' episodes, causing most of Creator/PatrickTroughton's and a big chunk of Creator/WilliamHartnell's era to be [[MissingEpisode lost forever]].
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E2TheDaleks The Daleks]] were intended as one-shot villains but were intensely popular with children, and were brought back in ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E2TheDalekInvasionOfEarth The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'' as a result. While almost no one complains about the RetCon, it takes a special lack of respect for continuity when you're blatantly contradicting your own backstory for the monsters in their ''second'' appearance--how could a spacefaring species still be at a deadlock in a war against low-tech arable farming pacifists, and be unable to leave their city due to requiring power from the floor and yet happily trundle around London? These differences are {{Hand Wave}}d with AnachronicOrder. Their motivation for invading the Earth is similarly flimsy (they want to hollow it out and fit it with a motor so they can drive it around space, as you do). On the bright side, Creator/TerryNation was well aware that everyone was [[JustHereForGodzilla Just Here for Daleks]] and totally ignoring all continuity gave the Daleks the flexibility they needed to become recurring villains.
** ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E1TheDominators The Dominators]]'' was an unpopular script, the last thing in a production block before the producer changed, and was heavily edited down to a five-parter, as well as to have some of its more disagreeable didactic messages softened up. On top of that, the monsters had to be played by [[NeverWorkWithChildrenOrAnimals children in suits]] due to the costumes being really small. Everyone wanted to get it over with as soon as possible and it shows. Troughton is clowning around slightly desperately in the HamAndCheese end of his range; the corners of MatteShot rooms are clearly visible; bouncing StyrofoamRocks are omnipresent; some [[WTHCastingAgency WTH Casting]] happens when a character who is written as a young upstart is played by a balding man in his 40s; the costumes are basically dresses made out of curtains; Troughton's [[ObviousStuntDouble double's face can be seen on screen in close-up]]; and it kicks off with an amazingly bad shot in the first episode where you can see all the way to the back inside the [[BiggerOnTheInside TARDIS]] prop and it is exactly the size you would expect it to be.
** The Fourth Doctor in Season 18, due to CreatorBreakdown, is mostly a sickly, barely in-character Creator/TomBaker reading his lines with a flat expression, looking at his co-stars with naked contempt and obviously wishing he could go home. [[HeReallyCanAct Except]] for ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E2Meglos Meglos]]'', [[TookTheBadFilmSeriously oddly enough]].
** Words to chill the blood of any Whovian: "Release the Myrka!" Blame Season 21's ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E1WarriorsOfTheDeep Warriors of the Deep]]'' for that. Reportedly, this was the story which convinced the BBC's Michael Grade to slash the show's budget (once he saw where it was being spent). The lighting is turned way, way up in every scene to conform to archaic BBC practices; the Myrka costume is an unfinished pantomime horse, glistening with still-wet paint; [[Creator/PeterDavison the star]] is tossed into a freezing cold water tank after being [[FalseReassurance assured that the pool was warm]]; the plot sort of meanders, until the clock runs out and Eric Saward [[RocksFallEveryoneDies kills everybody]] to spare himself the trouble of writing them out of it (as was his habit); the actors plainly lack faith in this production, waddling to their marks and "dying" with all the flair of a dead halibut. It really is like watching a fourth grade play.[[note]] Many of the problems can be traced to [[TroubledProduction catastrophic slashes to the production time]] caused by the snap General Election of 1983, coverage of which took over the BBC for several weeks. The producers decided to make the story anyway in spite of the lack of time to rehearse or sort out the special effects.[[/note]]
** Season 23 had an UnreliableNarrator gimmick with the Sixth Doctor's trial evidence containing fabrications by the Time Lords. When Creator/ColinBaker asked which of the scenes were supposed to be fabrications (obviously, the Doctor would know), he was told they didn't know either, and didn't care.
** By the end of the Seventh Doctor's tenure, the mood that management had about the series was "Just ''[[FranchiseZombie die]]'' already!". This had both positive and negative effects:
*** Positive: Due to a decision to make the show LighterAndSofter to an extreme degree and as part of the attempts to kill it, veteran character actors who auditioned got turned down for being "too dark" and a poorly-known children's entertainer was cast as the Doctor with the assumption he'd be awful at it. Fortunately, while Creator/SylvesterMcCoy's lack of a conventional acting background is apparent, [[SpringtimeForHitler his portrayal was much better than anyone expected]] once the writers were giving him the real material he wanted. The executives may have not cared, but [=McCoy=] definitely did.
*** Negative: Due to the show being aggressively starved of money to some of the worst NoBudget extremes the show has ever had to contend with, the production values on ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E2TheHappinessPatrol The Happiness Patrol]]'' are particularly atrocious, with a forced-happiness police state CrapsaccharineWorld that really needed some creative sets represented by a sound stage with some balloons attached. The actor inside the gumdrop robot costume was [[SpecialEffectsFailure clearly visible through its face mask]]. It was so bad [=McCoy=] even asked for it to be made into a NoirEpisode and shot in black and white, but the executives said no.
*** Positive: Creator/JohnNathanTurner no longer cared what anyone did with the show because he knew it was a lost cause and simply wanted to get out by that point. After the dreadful first season with [=McCoy=], he stopped trying to enforce the tone as "frothy" and gave the maverick script editor ''carte blanche'' to do whatever he wanted. While it wasn't enough to save the show, fans praise the sudden injection of political satire, CharacterDevelopment, and darkly witty and adult writing into what ExecutiveMeddling had previously been trying to turn into a shallow show aimed at very young children.
** The horrible UsefulNotes/RegionCoding mix-up on [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie the TV movie]] that led to everyone, British and American, getting it with a 4% speedup, messing up the timing and causing VocalDissonance as it makes Creator/PaulMcGann's voice noticeably higher-pitched than the [[BadassBaritone lovely deep voice]] he uses for the Eighth Doctor in the audio dramas.
** We're starting to border on ArsonMurderAndJaywalking here, but TheMerch in the early days was rather [[MisaimedMarketing weird and inaccurate]]: "Dr. Who's Anti Dalek [[DoesNotLikeGuns Guns]]", the "TARDIS Tuner" (a little FM radio), OffModel Dalek action figures (used as MiniatureEffects and OffTheShelfFX in the show itself), Fourth Doctor and Leela action figures that bear no resemblance to the actors whatsoever, and so on. However, in some cases, this is SoCoolItsAwesome via NarmCharm: a sticker set showing Hartnell-era monsters which never met on screen battling each other (like [[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E5TheWebPlanet Menoptera]] fighting Daleks or [[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E5TheWebPlanet Zarbi]] versus [[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E8TheChase Mechanoids]]) comes to mind; as does the 1978 jigsaw sets of the Fourth Doctor's monsters which depicted several instances of the one-of-a-kind and Earthbound K-1 HumongousMecha (from ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E1Robot Robot]]'') firing laser guns on an alien world, which inspired the Big Finish audio ''The Relics of Jegg-Sau'' ("jigsaw").
* In ''Series/EarlyEdition'', it is established early on that Lucious Snow died sometime in the fall of 1996. However, there were two episodes ("Deadline" from Season 3, and "Time" from Season 4) where Lucious Snow's grave was shown (clearly two different graves), both showing that he died in 1995. When the producers were asked about it, they openly admitted that they didn't think anybody would notice.
* The production values of the ''Series/HoratioHornblower'' telefilms took a nosedive in the third series. The first series was filmed on actual ships, which looked awesome, but of course it was rather expensive. So the second series did away with that, but it still looked pretty good. Not so in the third--to denote snow at sea, they just painted the ship sets white (and left paint drips clearly visible in open gunports) and used some highly ConspicuousCGI for weather and the [[StuffBlowingUp huge explosions]].
* Though simplifying or misunderstanding computer technology is common in fiction, ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' may be the first show to misrepresent how ''keyboards'' work, [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19160_8-scenes-that-prove-hollywood-doesnt-get-technology.html having two characters use a computer simultaneously]] by each hammering away at half of one. Considering at least one keyboard was probably used to create the script, apathy becomes much likelier than the writers genuinely not understanding the very devices they were using to write. Then again, in the same show, a character looks at a computer monitor to make a guess at the number of cores in the processor, and in the ''same scene'', a character is described as having "the high score in virtually every massively multiplayer online role-playing game", a feat that would be unachievable in a human lifetime if most [=MMORPGs=] even ''had'' high score tables.
* One example that straddles the line between They Just Didn't Care and ScrewedByTheNetwork is ''Series/PowerRangersWildForce''. The series was being produced when the franchise was bought by Creator/{{Disney}}, so the former people in charge were gone, the new people in charge had no clue what they were doing, and the left hand didn't know what the right was doing. This caused ''Wild Force'' to be considered by the majority of fans the worst season ever. What parts that weren't directly lifted from the ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' [[Series/HyakujuuSentaiGaoranger source material]] were flimsy, there was no direction, the acting was bad even by ''Power Rangers'' standards, and the writers gave the ''Zords'' more characterization than the Rangers.
** The head writer for the series was a PromotedFanboy, so you'd expect him to care a bit more. Turns out he cared most about [[ArmedWithCanon putting his own fan work into continuity with the whole series]]...
** On the other hand, ''Wild Force'' started to look a lot better once Ranger fans saw what Disney was doing to the series. They didn't outright hate the series, but ''Series/PowerRangersRPM'''s producer said they did seem ashamed of it. (It should be noted that Disney never wanted the series, they wanted to buy the Fox Family Channel, and ''Power Rangers'' just kind of came with the deal somehow.) The violence of the show didn't work well with Disney's ultra-wholesome image, so they weren't really sure what to do with it, gave it very little promotion, and essentially left it to wither away.
** When it was expected that ''Series/PowerRangersRPM'' was to be the final series, the creators put out all the stops to make sure the franchise would end with a bang. It probably ''would've'' had the same effect ''[[Series/PowerRangersInSpace In Space]]'' had in saving the franchise... had the TV networks not put it on five o'clock on Saturday mornings. Who is ''up'' at that time? Oh well, at least now Saban bought back the franchise...
** Of course, ''RPM'' is a positive case of They Just Didn't Care. Disney point-blank told the producer, "The show is ending, do what you want," which led to the creators to just swing for the fences. It didn't work to save the show (at least in Disney's eyes), but it did become one of the best ''Rangers'' seasons so far.
** ''[[Series/PowerRangersMegaforce Super Megaforce]]'' has taken "not caring" to a whole new level, by including Super Sentai suits not adapted into Power Rangers, and giving next-to-no explanation of who and what they are. Particularly odd in that there ''are'' several unadapted Sentai suits that they DO go through the trouble of editing out (One episode leaves Yellow Mask and Pink Flash in, but edits out several other suits), making you wonder why they even left the other ones in.
* In the second season finale of ''Series/RobinHood'', [[spoiler:Maid Marian was brutally murdered by Guy of Gisborne]] in a move that writer/creator Dominic Mingella described as an attempt to "rock the show" and "open up new storytelling possibilities." Translation: [[ShockingSwerve shock value]]. Interestingly enough, Mingella didn't stick around for the third season, being credited as a "creator" but contributing nothing to the script-writing or directing. The BBC obviously realised that the show had [[JumpedTheShark self-destructed]], which led to a general attitude of "We Don't Care Anymore" for the broadcasting of the third season. There was very little publicity regarding the show (far less than previous seasons), the official website wasn't updated until a few days before the premiere, a "closed-mouth" policy seemed to be in place on the reasons behind [[spoiler:Marian's death]], it was given a [[FridayNightDeathSlot terrible time-slot]], detailed plot synopses were released to the press which contained massive {{spoiler}}s, and the premature release of the DVD box set ensured that the final episode was leaked on Website/YouTube a good three days before it aired on television (not that many people saw it on television anyway: Creator/TheBBC [[UsefulNotes/SportsPreemption pulled it in favour of tennis]] and plonked it on a different channel only a few hours before it was scheduled to air). The icing on the cake is the poor build quality of the DVD boxset, which along with the [[VanillaEdition minimal amount of extras]] further emphasises that series 3 was only shown at all just to [[GetItOverWith get it over and done with]]; it's quite possible yours has fallen apart on the shelf.
** Furthermore, the new batch of writers brought in for the third season clearly didn't bother to watch the previous seasons. Fan speculation is that they were simply handed a note that said [[spoiler:"Marian got killed"]], since this is the only major plot-line that is [[AbortedArc carried over]] from the past two seasons (and even that is more of an afterthought than any kind of sustained story-line).
* Creator/{{ABC}}'s short-lived game show ''Series/SetForLife'' omitted the ''qualifying rounds'' that determined how much each contestant would be playing for in the rest of the game — resulting in a lame ''Series/DealOrNoDeal'' knockoff with arbitrary cash values.
* The network that currently shows ''Series/TopGear'' in Australia has an editing policy that is best described as 'schizophrenic'. For the past few seasons, after the airing of the Australian version of the show (which may just be a coincidence), the British version has received numerous cuts to their airings. The thing is, there doesn't seem to be any definite logic or pattern to their cuts. They cut out the news most consistently, but have left it in on occasion, and have also at various times cut the Stig's power laps, the Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car, and the Cool Wall (the last is particularly noticeable in the season 13 finale - when suddenly Hammond was stuck on top of a scissor lift at the end of the show for no apparent reason). Strangely, it doesn't seem they even have time constraints or advertisements to blame - entire ''episodes'' have been cut.
** Ditto the American broadcast, cut for time and commercials. Many of the cuts described above have happened, sometimes they only have half of the SIARPC (a particularly baffling example was cutting an anti-drunk driving PSA shown during one), and BBC America refuses to acknowledge that the first Stig ever existed. Most cuts, however, are to to cultural/political jokes or references that would be lost on American viewers.
* Documentary series ''Series/WildWestTech'' includes some lackluster reenactments. The worst are the scenes where the actors are exchanging money. They are clearly using modern notes despite the fact that the scenes are set in the Old West. What puts this example over the top is that the same episode included a CG rendering of money appropriate to the era. They obviously had an example of period money, but just didn't care enough to click "Print."
* An infamous case: when ''Series/TheWire'' was picked up for syndicated airings by Creator/{{BET}}, many episodes were cut or streamlined to fit into an hour-long-with-commercials block. However, that wasn't the only issue - due to the perceived notion that the only thing that was interesting about the show were the scenes with the African-American characters, major chunks of episodes (mostly focusing on [=McNulty=] and Caucasian characters) were cut completely, thereby destroying most of the plot and overarching storyline. Nearly the entire "Docks" storyline was cut out of the second season, leaving some episodes with just the B-plots.
* When {{Fox}} doesn't care, they ''really'' don't care: not only did they [[ScrewedByTheNetwork cancel]] the much-loved ''Series/{{Wonderfalls}}'' and ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' ahead of their time(s), but they aired their respective episodes out of order, leading to confusion and a lack of continuity.
** Networks will usually air a series out of order if they plan to cancel it. Confusing the viewers into frustration is a near fool-proof plan to bring down ratings. For the record, the same thing was done with the original run of ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim''.
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[[folder:Music]]
* Cassette tapes. While better quality tapes can be near as good as [=CDs=] with proper noise reduction technologies, publishers usually sold the cheapest possible tapes, the later publications even had mechanical problems (either rams the tape or triggers the player's auto-stop mechanism) and lacked any noise reduction methods. Other factor was the non-caring and lazy customer, who never ever pushed the Dolby NR switch on his/her player if it had any. Another one was the price of a proper player instead of a boombox or a Walkman. Many cheap tapes didn't even have proper liner notes, so buyers had no idea who wrote the songs, played on them, or produced them.
** This was especially prevalent if you ordered from BMG or Columbia House (or any music warehouse that advertised in the 80s and 90s with those "12 for a penny!" scams, er, "deals"). Liner notes and lyrics would be left off, and the tapes themselves seemed to be of inferior quality. Strangely, the [=CDs=] were generally indistinguishable from the regular commercial releases.
* Nearly all [=CD=]s and [[UsefulNotes/DigitalDistribution Digital Downloads]] from the late 1990s onward are [[LoudnessWar mastered to be as loud as possible]] with relatively little regard for sound quality. The fact that so much of the signal is being limited by the digital full scale causes side effects such as distortion and reduction of detail, clarity and dynamic impact. Given how nonexistent discs that anywhere near resemble what you could find in the '80s and '90s are, it's clear that the entire music industry Just Doesn't Care.
** To an extent this was the case with early [=CDs=], which often failed to accurately reflect the warmth of the original vinyl recordings. Record players would amplify bass frequencies that CD players couldn't. A lot of early [=CDs=] were also missing artwork from the original [=LPs=]. Certain audiophiles like the earliest [=CDs=] possible, but even they have to admit that they didn't always get it right (copy tapes equalised for cassette were often used, for example). [=CDs=] soon reached their pinnacle by the mid 80s to early 90s, before the loudness war set in.
* The vinyl format is popular with audiophiles and always has been, but there were times when the record industry Just Didn't Care about vinyl either. A lot of [=LPs=] in TheSeventies and TheEighties issued by major labels were made from recycled vinyl, thin vinyl or mastered from overly-compressed lower quality tapes at least a generation or two from the master. This wasn't the case in Germany or Japan where Virgin vinyl was almost always used, hence releases from those territories usually have better sound quality than those released in the US.
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[[folder:Newspaper Comics]]
* Many newspaper comics pages print strips extremely small, thus rendering certain details almost completely illegible. Some don't even resize the strips properly, so they're stretched and distorted. This manhandling of strips is often joked about in others, such as this quote from ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'':
-->'''Andy''': This says a cartoonist in Mississippi got a group of school kids together to help him make the world's largest comic strip. It was 135×47 feet. (''beat'') 6×2 inches probably would've been big enough.
-->'''Roger''': I can't tell… is this {{ComicStrip/Ziggy}} or a comma?
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[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
* Wrestling/{{WCW}} at the twilight of the Wrestling/MondayNightWars. The management of the owning company Time Warner, as described in many books, [[ScrewedByTheNetwork despised professional wrestling and actively wanted it to do so badly that it had to be taken off the air]]. Ted Turner, who had been [=WCW's=] protector, had gotten older and lost his position of power after the AOL/Time Warner merger, and thus was no longer able to exert influence over it. Internally, WCW had no effective management, no bosses who were able to actually control the egos of the wrestlers and hand out effective punishments. Instead it was run by VinceRusso, who chronically misunderstands everything about how pro wrestling works, and a bunch of smaller names who argued with each other and deliberately sabotaged the shows to keep anything besides their pet ideas from getting over.
* [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} At Wrestlemania XX]], a truly Godawful match between Wrestling/{{Goldberg}} and Wrestling/BrockLesnar occurred. Goldberg and Lesnar were, at the time, two of the biggest names in the WWE. However, both were also leaving the company, and thought they could phone in their last match, so instead of a great battle, the fans got a slow-paced, boring match.
** There's been a lot of discussion on why that match was so bad. The fans had started booing both men vociferously before the match even started, so neither likely felt inspired to perform. It's also been claimed that the WWE match planners deliberately designed the match to be as boring and shitty as possible in an attempt to sabotage their careers. Also, [[Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin Steve Austin]], who was more popular than either of them, was involved in the match as a referee because he wasn't in physical condition to work a match, but this irritated Austin fans who wanted to see him do stuff.
** A large part of the problem (tied in with the Austin thing above) was that Goldberg hadn't been on TV for a month prior to the PPV (RealLife contract dispute, {{kayfabe}} suspension), which shot the build up to the match (which, up until this point, had been some of the best build up of any feud going that year) in the foot. This left Austin and Lesnar carrying the feud, making it more about Austin and Lesnar than Goldberg and Lesnar. Hell, it was more about Austin vs Goldberg (a long-wished dream match) than Goldberg vs Lesnar, leaving the whole thing dead in the water.
* Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} season 3. While the first two NXT season WWE produced were not stellar television, they had established a formula. Seven "rookies" of varying experience who have spent some time in developmental and [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson one]] [[Wrestling/LowKi veteran]] who has been wrestling since WCW was still in business and had become a standout in promotions across the globe. Season three had four rookies of varying experience and two legit rookies with hardly any experience at all, reducing both quantity and quality at once. Instead of just one commentator burying the wrestler best known outside of WWE, everyone who sat at the commentary table buried the entire show. It proved once and for all "Smart Sexy Powerful" was nothing but a marketing slogan not to be taken anymore seriously than WWE took NXT's only women's season.
* NXT Season five. It felt like they were just going through the motions with the show, and had pros like Hornswoggle, and never bothered giving [[Wrestling/PrimeTimePlayers Darren Young]] a new pro after Wrestling/ChavoGuerreroJr was released. Once they gave up all pretense of it being a competition and morphed it into a C show, then they revamped the entire thing and made it into the show for their developmental system.
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* The former Atlanta Thrashers:
** The Atlanta Spirit Group wanted to sell the Thrashers (now known as the second generation [[ReplacementGoldfish Winnipeg Jets]]) since ''day one'' of owning the [[UsefulNotes/NationalHockeyLeague NHL]] franchise. The group were only interested in the NBA's Hawks; they didn't even want the Thrashers ''as a tenant'' in Philips Arena. Legal in-fighting as well as the group spending the bare minimum to operate the team often yielded [[ButtMonkey an abysmal on-ice product]], causing the Thrashers to fall to the bottom of the league in attendance and team valuation. Atlanta Spirit even considered the Thrashers an OldShame, [[{{Unperson}} erasing any and all reminders of the team]]. Four years after allowing NHL history to repeat itself, Atlanta Spirit ended up selling the Hawks and operating rights to Philips Arena, making both Thrashers and Hawks fans wonder why they just didn't sell both teams and the arena operations all at the same time.
** The NHL also didn't seem to care about keeping the Thrashers in Atlanta, as they would have not collected a [[MoneyDearBoy $60 million relocation fee]] if they found a suitor willing to keep the team in Atlanta. This is particularly {{egregious}} considering the league made significant efforts to keep other struggling clubs such as the Pittsburgh Penguins, Nashville Predators, and ''especially'' the Phoenix (now Arizona) Coyotes (the ''original'' Winnipeg Jets) in their respective markets.
* Regardless of whoever owns the [=Florida/Miami=] Marlins, high quality players are almost guaranteed to get traded away in fire sales. Current owner Jeffrey Loria (also the ex-owner of the former Montreal Expos) is particularly hated in this regard; he'll spend the bare minimum on a roster simply to save money and has fired two well-regarded managers because they couldn't win on a shoestring budget. The team were so desperate to fill seats for the 2013 home opener, they resorted to [[http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/miami-marlins-latest-ploy-sell-tickets-groupon-223644707--mlb.html Groupon]] of all places.
* After the 1994 season, the fire sale of several star players along with several other front office factors spelled the end of the former Montreal Expos. In the last decade in Montreal, fan support dwindled after the team could not secure English language TV and radio broadcast rights and negotiations to build a new baseball-specific stadium fell through. After Jeffrey Loria's mismanagement of the team (who would later go on to mismanage the above-mentioned Marlins), the Expos were sold to the other clubs of Major League Baseball, with the intention of disbanding the team along with the Minnesota Twins after the 2001 season; however, legal action by the Minnesota state government forced the Twins to play out their lease at the Metrodome. Also, the 2002-06 collective bargaining agreement with the MLB Players' Union forbade the contraction of any teams during the CBA's length. The Expos remained in Montreal until the end of the 2004 season, after of which the club was relocated to Washington, DC and rebranded as the Nationals.
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* ''TabletopGame/BattleSpirits'' failed in its short US run because Bandai not only failed to even [[InvisibleAdvertising advertise it]], they didn't even bother to stock the cards in stores that requested it.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' has a number of examples. While which splats would qualify are the result of huge internet knife fights, two that virtually everyone agrees on are the second edition Sidereal Charmset's pre-errata state and the Mountain Folk mechanics. The Sidereals had the significant issue that their writer actively hated the mechanics that made them good in first edition, resulting in powers that literally did nothing and stuff that didn't interface all that well with the Exalted system. The Mountain Folk... well... they had one keyword (Leadership) detailed but no Charms using that keyword actually written, and a Charm that provided Overwhelming equal to the user's Essence... in a system where everyone gets Overwhelming equal to their Essence score automatically, and in which Overwhelming values do not stack. This last problem was indirectly (and perhaps unintentionally) fixed by the "2.5" errata, which struck the "automatic Overwhelming equal to Essence" rule from the books.
* ''TabletopGame/WitchGirlsAdventures'' has allowed its production values to bottom out to the point where they no longer hire copyeditors, instead plastering raw copy over the art and selling it straight out. Furthermore, in the absence of an actual Witch Girls 2.0 that they were contractually obligated to release via Kickstarter, they released "Re-Spelled," a 1.5 edition that required the main corebook and essentially just changed character generation around a bit, and have since been pushing out mini-supplements in PDF with the same lack of care to dig themselves out of the financial hole they're in. Fan reaction has not been positive.
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* ''{{Action 52}}'' for the {{NES}}. $199.99 buys you 52 games that are cheaply done, buggy, or plain ''don't work''. It's obvious that the amount of effort that went into ''Action 52'' was almost nil. Some of the games on the cartridge that ''do'' work are nigh-identical. One of them (Fire Breather) can only be played with two players.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLpEn0wmMrk As this video shows]], this may be subverted. The games were all programmed over a span of 3 months by 4 developers with little to no experience, in sweatshop like conditions, headed by a ambitious man, as an one man [[ExecutiveMeddling Executive Meddler]] who kept switching ideas, like the concept of the Action Gamemaster to the Cheetahmen being made to harp off the [[FollowTheLeader TMNT Bandwagon]].
* ''VideoGame/AliensColonialMarines'' was first announced in 2006. Allegedly, Gearbox used funding from Sega to finance its own IP, ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'', and then ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever'', rather than work on ''Colonial Marines''. Four years later, they subcontracted out to Timegate studios, who allegedly threw out all of the work Gearbox had done (Timegate's side of the argument is that Gearbox's work was irreparably broken), who worked on the story and single player. After the launch of ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'', Gearbox returned to the project; Timegate's work had also been severely underwhelming. By this time, Gearbox was in danger of breaching its contract to ship the game, and quickly fixed the worst flaws and shipped it in 2013, knowing nobody would like it. ''Colonial Marines'' has been savaged by critics and gamers for poor gameplay, an overreliance on fanservice nods to the film, dozens of glitches, deceptive trailers and marketing, and poor AI.
* ''Franchise/AloneInTheDark: Illumination'' was a game so bad that it wasn't even a FranchiseKiller- the 2008 reboot was the FranchiseKiller and ''Illumination'' was simply the suits at Atari trying to [[FranchiseZombie squeeze a few more drops of marketable pus from its bloated, rotting corpse]]. Not even the ''slightest'' trace of effort was put into the game at any stage, nor was any respect shown to the history of the once-famous franchise whatsoever- you're not alone since it's a multiplayer co-op shooter and you're not in the dark since the gameplay is entirely about [[WeaksauceWeakness shining lights on your opponents to kill them]]. At least the 2008 reboot was merely a ''bad game,'' while ''Illumination'' was nothing less or more than a shameless cash grab, and widely considered by far one of the worst games of 2015.
* The American release of ''VideoGame/{{Astal}}'', an underrated platformer[=/=]beat-em-up for the UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn. When dubbing the cutscenes, they didn't even bother to re-record voice clips during gameplay with Astal's English VA, thus he constantly switches between two voices: A high-pitched voice during gameplay that sounds similar to [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Young Link]], and a deeper voice during cutscenes. Also, they apparently forgot to print the game's logo on the side of the case, because all you see on the side of the case is the ''console's'' logo (this has led Sega enthusiasts to believe that the game sold poorly all because of this).
* ''VideoGame/{{Battletoads}} in Battlemaniacs'' for the SNES initially appears to be a decent sequel to the original Battletoads, but proves to be merely a half-assed semi-port of the NES game with improved graphics and sound. To start with, the game only has six stages which are all borrowed from the original which featured twice as many, plus two “bonus” stages which are nearly as long as the levels themselves (and identical to each other save for swapping bowling pins for dominoes and changing colors). Out of the six stages, only the first and the last have a boss at the end, and the final boss is practically a recolored cut-out of a statue in the first stage with music from the first bonus stage playing in the background. As far as the plot is concerned, a major villain introduced in the opening cut scene never actually appears in the game, and is only mentioned in a tacked on mini-game at the end.
* Where do we begin with ''VideoGame/BigRigsOverTheRoadRacing''? First, there is no way to lose to the other truck you're racing against, as pre-patch it goes nowhere, and post-patch it stops before the finish line; there's no collision detection, so you go right through most things, like bridges and buildings; and if you hold down the reverse key for long enough, your truck will exceed the speed of light and instantly stop the second you stop pressing the key. It can't even be called an ObviousBeta, because that would imply that it had reached the point of beta testing.
** One of the programmers behind Big Rigs also produced a game called ''The War Z'' (later renamed ''Infestation: Survival Stories'' for copyright reasons, and possibly to shake its own past reputation), which boasted huge open-ended levels (which actually only measure out to a few square kilometers), hundreds of players being online at once (many servers were capped at 50 simultaneous players), and other features [[BaitAndSwitch that never actually made it into the released version]]. The complaints got so bad that Valve had to make an exception to their "All Sales Final" policy -this game's probably a contributing factor in their ditching that policy- and the game was pulled off Steam (albeit temporarily). It also did not help that the developer behind the game openly mocked and banned people from the forums if they criticized him or his game. Its current metascore and user score on Metacritic are 20/100 and 1.7/10 respectively.
* ''VideoGame/ChaosWars''' obscenely bad English dub. The CEO of O3 Entertainment decided to cut production costs by using his own family members to do all of the voice acting, but none of them have any voice acting experience [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAtC1SzWSXg or talent]].
* The US arcade version of ''VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolution X'' came with a truly awful new arcade cabinet that eventually ended up being recalled. The construction of the pressure panels and sensors within the dance stage was so bad that sensors would start sticking within hours, the HDTV display had a considerable amount of lag despite being dedicated to a [[RhythmGame genre]] where it must be minimized at all costs, the cabinet was covered with very gaudy strips of [=LEDs=], and the computing hardware for this entire setup was a Dell Optiplex PC. Japanese arcade operators were provided with much better quality new-style cabinets, and they also had the option of purchasing upgrade kits for existing arcade cabinets instead, [[BadExportForYou neither of which, of course, ever made it Stateside]].
** The official English-language ''DDR'' Facebook page is notorious for this:
*** As one example, the official page shared a player's Perfect Full Combo run on "Xepher'"s Expert Single chart, but [[CowboyBebopAtHisComputer erroneously]] [[http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbrvfjudaQ1qcj9w7o1_r1_1280.png called the song "Xepher Tatsh"]]; you would think that whoever runs an official ''DDR'' page would be acquainted enough with the songlist to not make such mistakes, and the fact the "Xepher" is on versions of ''DDR'' that were released in North America and Europe and is rather popular amongst players in those regions means that there's just no excuse.
*** The same page also [[https://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/8019B6/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_ma74gbO07L1qb67g7o1_500.jpg mistook]] ''VideoGame/PumpItUp'' for ''DDR''. How the hell do you confuse a ''[[DuelingGames rival product]]'' for your own? Especially one that your company took grief over in the past?
*** Konami's American social presences in general seem to suffer from this trope when it comes to ''DDR''. On Twitter, someone posted a video of themselves playing what they thought was ''DDR'' but was actually ''Pump It Up''. Konami's official Twitter account [[https://twitter.com/KcLKcL/status/378009732927062016 quoted it]][[note]]the original tweet seems to have been deleted[[/note]], asking "what score did you get?", oblivious to the actual content of the video.
* The ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar: Soulstorm'' expansion was outsourced to another company that closed down partway into development, and then released anyway. The result was "[[MemeticMutation SPESS MEHREENS]]!", "[[{{Narm}} We should take away their METAL BAWKSES!]]", and a few {{Game Breaking Bug}}s, including one that could result in infinite resources... ''in multiplayer''. All this is understandable, if [[SoBadItsGood hilariously awful]], but then there were things like having the ''only'' recurring character's voice actor still on staff and giving the role to someone else, then only having him grunt a few lines and leave. Or a backwater factory shipping out the oft-cited "[[CoolTank tank so big its guns have smaller guns attached to them and is only produced on the most technologically advanced planets in the galaxy]]" by the hundred (it isn't just game mechanics either. At the start of the said mission it is mentioned that there is a company of the said tanks deployed on the planet. Actually, getting three would be considered extremely lucky). Or, y'know, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO3MttgvHUY any of the script writing.]]
** Some have speculated that because Iron Lore Entertainment -- the company responsible -- was closing down after all, they literally didn't care (others hold that Iron Lore wanted to go out with a bang, but were hampered by ExecutiveMeddling; only the ex-staff know for sure).
* Vergil mode in ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry 3: Special Edition''. While some may have been satisfied just to use him as a playable character, others were hoping for a complete deal - cutscenes showing Vergil's interactions with the bosses, fights against Dante, Vergil's own take on wielding the weapons Dante gains etc. Regrettably, the only cutscene on Vergil's side made sense only as part of Dante's story, with no pre- or post-bossfight cutscenes or gaining the bosses' weapons. The "Dante" fights were with a mere PaletteSwap of Vergil, sometimes {{Fan Nickname}}d "Vante". It's playable, yes, and there is a certain amount of {{Squee}} to using Vergil... but it isn't exactly an expected complete package.
** Unfortunately for all those who were eagerly expecting it, ''Devil May Cry 4 Special Edition'' is the exact same thing. There are two additional campaigns... which are exactly the same as the one in vanilla Devil May Cry 4, except they're using the new characters. It's pretty obvious that the new characters recycle most of their moveset from the original duo, which means there's almost no new content.
** Similarly, ''VideoGame/MortalKombatShaolinMonks'' has the unlockable characters of Scorpion and Sub-Zero, as well as the versus mode. While the two as well as the other playable characters in that mode do have their own movesets and fatalities, in cutscenes and in-game contexts they wind up playing the exact same roles as Liu Kang and Kung Lao, which means not only talking in their voices but such oddities as a cutscene where Sub-Zero conjures a hat out of nowhere to cut a clone of himself's eye. As for the versus mode, it has access to a good few of the characters in the game, but despite having full movesets programmed in for them (playable via hacking) certain characters like Kano, Goro, and Shang Tsung are not usable for no apparent reason. Also none of the characters playable in that mode besides Scorpion and Sub-Zero are usable in the story mode, again for no clear reason.
** Also true for the ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' games from ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight Symphony of the Night]]'' onward, some of which have an extra mode allowing you to play with another character. True, the other characters have different sprites and movesets and require different playing strategies, but in those modes there aren't even cutscenes or dialogue, some gameplay elements are removed and some parts are unreachable. You could argue it presents a more traditional, [[NintendoHard NES/SNES era]] gameplay, but after playing with the new style, the old one is not as welcome. Also, for a 2D game which uses its "engine" for the cutscenes, adding a few cutscenes/lines of dialogue is very little work.
* ''[[VideoGame/DragonballZBudokaiTenkaichi Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Tenkaichi]]'' reuses a lot of voice clips from ''Franchise/DragonBall: Raging Blast'', which is fine and dandy in the Japanese version considering that each DBZ game tends to tell the same story over and over anyway, but in English half the characters had been recast for ''Anime/DragonBallKai'' since then, leading to characters like Freeza and Gohan having their voice actors change constantly mid-game.
** Same for ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam: [[VideoGame/GundamVsSeries Gundam vs. Zeta Gundam]]'' which had a WhatIf story mode that was basically the events of the original ''Gundam'' playing out with characters and technology from ''[[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Zeta]]''. The Japanese version went to the effort to re-record all the necessary lines using the original voice actors, while the English version recycled whatever lines they could from the previous two games - thing is, the dubs of the two shows used entirely different groups, so characters who appeared in both would switch voices often.
* ''VideoGame/DragonsDogma: Dark Arisen'' adds some new voices but they don't work in scenes even though they're just old voices in new pitches. To make matters worse, the scenes will use the default voice for your character's gender instead of the voice that was altered to make the voice you chose. The game doesn't tell you any of this and you have to go to great lengths to change your character's voice after you've started the game. Similarly, in both versions of Dragon's Dogma, if you're playing in offline mode when you [[spoiler: fight the Seneschal]] in NewGamePlus, [[spoiler: the character you were using when you last beat the Seneschal will be the new Seneschal but they only did the Seneschal's dialogue in one voice per gender.]] This is all especially bad if you're playing with English voice acting on and using a child character because none of the childlike voices work in scenes and the default voices are deep.
* Interplay tried to cash in on its ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' franchise by creating ''VideoGame/FalloutBrotherhoodOfSteel'', a knock-off of its successful ''VideoGame/BaldursGateDarkAlliance'' series. The gameplay bore no resemblance to the original ''Fallout'' roleplaying games and made only passing references to the ''Fallout'' world. At the same time, Interplay canceled the highly anticipated ''[[VideoGame/FalloutVanBuren Fallout 3]]'' game and jettisoned its entire Black Isle Studios division, which had masterminded the real ''Fallout'' series. Fans reacted in outrage before the game even released, prompting the developers to insert a snarky TakeThat into the credits. The fans had the last laugh, however, when the game performed poorly and the company folded soon afterward. Interplay did recover from that... by selling the ''Fallout'' franchise to Creator/{{Bethesda}}, who went on to release an actual ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' game to enormous critical and commercial acclaim.
** The amount of negativity from the fans reached such heights that Interplay ''locked their own discussion board for the game'', possibly the only time ever that has happened with any game and developer.
* The voice acting in Dynasty Warriors 3, AKA some of the worst in video game history. [[SoBadItsGood It's so laughably bad that people have actually ironically enjoyed it]].
* The mobile port of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'' used the same graphics as ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyDimensions Dimensions]]''. Background tiling is flagrant on large screens, but more than that, they didn't adapt it very much to FFV's specifics. In the scenes where characters are sitting, they now appear to be standing ''on'' chairs. Faris, who is supposed to be {{Bifauxnen}} (indeed, the trailer features her job artwork, where she clearly has the same body type as the guys) now has the MostCommonSuperpower except in the few jobs where a shawl or tabard covers her chest.
* The PC version of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' had numerous issues due to the game not working for players whose computers didn't specifically meet the requirements (their computers could be powerful enough to run the game but the game may not work on certain hardware). Despite the PC version being sold in circulation for years (including way past the year 2010), Square made no attempt to release patches or at least an updated version of the game. The game also uses MIDI for its music, which sound terrible compared to the original Playstation tracks. While there are many fan patches to fix most of the issues, Square did not make any attempt to make official fixes themselves.
** Square released a digital re-release of the game in 2012 and while the game runs a lot more smoothly on most computers compared to the original PC port, the music, while slightly improved, are still MIDI quality. Square could have easily put the original music into the game since practically any computer today can run a game released in 1997, but they didn't. Luckily, there are fan patches that help fix the music.
*** Happened again for the Steam release version in 2013, which is the exact same version as the 2012 version and forces players to create a Square-Enix account to log into before they can start playing the game. What makes it worse is uninstalling the game also deletes the local save files!
* ''VideoGame/GoatSimulator'' is this ''[[StylisticSuck intentionally]]''. The game's advertising proudly boasts that there are "MILLIONS OF BUGS!", and there's even an achievement for ''crashing the game''. Indeed, the whole reason the game is so fun to play is because it's so full of left-in glitches and impossible physics. For a tame example: you can climb a ladder as a goat. Doing so causes the goat's model to merely float up the ladder as through it were walking normally, while its head flops about from contact with the ladder. And just wait till [[ArtMajorPhysics you get to smashing cars]].
** The ladder goat "bug" was almost definitely intentional, considering its memetically successful [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggB33d0BLcY original occurrence]] in ''Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood''. The head-spasming part, probably not so much.
** [[http://steamcommunity.com/id/Aztecspacefr0g/recommended/265930/ "10/10 would develop again"]]
* Infogrames Europe showed a ton of signs of not caring in their later years when it came to dubbing games, but special mention goes to their versions of the [=PS1=] port of ''[[VideoGame/BackyardSports Backyard Soccer]]'', known as ''Junior Sports Football''. None of the character names were changed at all, which led to ridiculous instances of German and French characters failing to say their own American names. It also seems they couldn't make up their minds on what the league was supposed to be called, as the German version calls it the "Junior Soccer League" instead of the Junior ''Fussball'' League. The laziest of all had to be the UK localization; they still changed the title, but ''didn't dub the game at all''. It's the one Creator/HumongousEntertainment game that would have actually made sense to give a SameLanguageDub in British English for, and they didn't. This means we still have Earl Grey as being referred to as "across the pond" (he's British) and accidentally calling the sport Football, then "correcting" himself to Soccer.
* ''Last Battle'', the English version of Creator/{{Sega}}'s ''[[FistOfTheNorthStar Hokuto no Ken II]]'' beat-'em-up game for the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis, is notable for its hack job of a localization, making very little effort to hide its ''Hokuto no Ken'' origins. Instead of redrawing the game's graphics like they did with ''Black Belt'' (the English version of their earlier ''Hokuto no Ken'' game for the UsefulNotes/SegaMasterSystem), all Sega did was simply alter the palette of all the character sprites. The game's script is [[BlindIdiotTranslation and almost word-by-word translation of the Japanese original]], [[DubNameChange changing only the names of the characters and fighting styles (i.e: Kenshiro became Aarzak)]]. The problem with this is that the game's plot and dialogue [[ContinuityLockout makes no sense if you're unfamiliar with the source material]] (which is practically every American Genesis owner prior to the anime boom in the early 1990s). Moreover, the game's prologue practically spoils the ending, which again, made sense in the Japanese ([[LateArrivalSpoiler since Japanese players would've already known the story anyway]]), but not everywhere else.
* ''VideoGame/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream''[='=]s French and German versions are UnwinnableByMistake because Nimdok and his entire scenario were [[{{Bowdlerise}} removed to avoid any references to Nazis]], but the requirements to complete the game were not altered to reflect this. The result is a defective product for players in those countries.
* An unusual medium for an example is the ''VideoGame/MaddenNFL'' franchise. It has had a bug for years on end that stops players in simulated games from getting tired, so the backups never play. This means that about five running backs break the all-time rushing record each season, and there are all sorts of other silly consequences. The makers cannot possibly be unaware of the bug, and they just don't care.
** That error is prevalent in a lot of sports games - backup goaltenders in hockey games and bench players in basketball and football don't play nearly as much in simmed games as in real life, because there's no such thing as a "day off" in the simmed version.
** The ''Madden'' games include injured reserve, a real NFL device which allows teams to open a roster spot by disqualifying an injured player for the rest of the season. In the game, unfortunately, placing a player on IR does not open a roster spot. It still prevents the player from seeing the field the rest of the year, making IR a worse-than-worthless feature. This has been pointed out to EA countless times and would seem a remarkably easy fix. The bug continues, however, and the only possible explanation is laziness.
** EA's NHL series has been around since 1991, and for almost every entry in the series, the puck behaves like a ball. While that's certainly excusable with early entries in the series, it gets less forgivable that this was the case until ''NHL 15'', and even then only on the Xbox One and [=PS4=] versions. But that's okay, it's only been four console generations and at least that many overhauls to the game engine, it's not like the puck bouncing weird is part of what makes hockey interesting of anything.
* For the UsefulNotes/{{Wii}} port of ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'', the [[http://www.mobygames.com/game/wii/kami/cover-art/gameCoverId,110252/ North American cover art]] was put together from concept art. It's a cheap but viable method if the buyer doesn't know it--except [[http://www.destructoid.com/oopsies-ign-watermark-on-the-cover-of-okami-82361.phtml there was a visible IGN watermark on the cover]]. It would seem its production values did not include access to art from ''Creator/{{Capcom}}'s own archives'', and the cover artist instead swiped the game assets from the IGN website. Fortunately, when this was pointed out, Capcom [[http://www.joystiq.com/2008/04/24/capcom-offers-box-art-redemption-for-okami-wii/ offered]] not [[http://www.mobygames.com/game/wii/kami/cover-art/gameCoverId,120118/ one]] but ''three'' [[http://www.mobygames.com/game/wii/kami/cover-art/gameCoverId,120120/ replacement]] [[http://www.mobygames.com/game/wii/kami/cover-art/gameCoverId,120122/ covers]], all without a watermark in sight.
* ''VideoGame/PowerGigRiseOfTheSixString'' tried to take ''VideoGame/RockBand'' and ''VideoGame/GuitarHero'' head on with its "real guitar", but it failed spectacularly, in both hardware and software design. Said real guitar was awkward to use as a game controller and worked with mediocrity as a standalone instrument. ''Power Gig'' did not use its real guitar to its potential since the gameplay was largely identical to ''Rock Band'' and ''Guitar Hero''. In contrast to its real guitar, the [=AirStrike=] "air drum" peripheral, which uses motion sensing instead of drum pads for input, simply doesn't work, since real drumming relies on ''actually hitting something''. One can use ''Rock Band'' or ''Guitar Hero'' peripherals with ''Power Gig'', which makes the game more playable but not enjoyable by any means. The game itself was criticized for its dated graphics, questionable UI design, [[NobodyLovesTheBassist lack of bass guitar gameplay]], [[LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading long load times]], a nonsensical story mode with non-straightforward progression, nonfunctional DLC, and [[EarnYourFun having two-thirds of the on-disc soundtrack locked from the start]]. Also, the game's marketing left a bitter taste in rhythm gamers' mouths, arrogantly attacking the more established ''Rock Band'' and ''Guitar Hero'' franchises. The game sold so poorly, developer Seven45 Studios [[CanonDiscontinuity erased all mention]] [[OldShame of the game]] from its website.
* In ''Pro Cycling Manager 2011'', a lot of stage races, even Pro Tour ones, uses the Tour de France scheme for jerseys (Yellow for leader, green for points classification, white with red dots for mountains and white for youth competitions). Most of this could have been found by using an extra 10 minutes on TheOtherWiki.
* The UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} versions of the first two ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}'' games contain no music. Though originally provided in the retail versions via Redbook CD audio, {{id|Software}} still had a variety of options for them to be digitally distributed, of which not even the laziest option — burnable disc images of the retail [=CD=]s themselves — was provided, which means a lot of users tend to [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes obtain pirated copies of the original]] to get a full version of them. A situation made even worse by the fact that the vast majority of copies found on file-sharing services don't include the Redbook audio tracks either.
* Sega usually treats its mascot character, Sonic the Hedgehog, with great care. But when they screw up, they've screwed up ''big time'':
** In ''VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles'', Knuckles' paths through Sonic 3 levels tend to be this trope with offscreen hazards ready to kill you all over the place. Marble Garden 1 and Ice Cap 1 stand out because, for the most part, Knuckles gets the same path as Sonic in these levels and, as a result, navigating them is like playing a ROM hack at times.
** ''VideoGame/{{Sonic the Hedgehog|1}} Genesis'' was Sega's attempt to port over a Sega game to the UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance to [[ChristmasRushed celebrate the hedgehog's]] [[MilestoneCelebration 15th anniversary]]. The port retains all the levels exactly as they were... and that's it. [[PortingDisaster The sound and music are completely butchered, the physics were altered to the point where controlling Sonic off ramps or springs can be a nightmare, and the game suffers constantly from massive slowdown for no reason (in fact, it can get so bad that short music clips like the drowning theme can actually finish ''before'' the action on the screen is finished, making it out of sync)]] on a system that is technically more powerful than the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis. It's as if Sega wanted to cash in on the milestone and bug testing be damned. The saddest part? A romhacker fan later ported the game accurately and released it as a ROM on the internet.
*** The main reason for the slowdown, pop-in, and general visual wonkiness is that instead of simply porting over the Genesis engine, Sega put the Genesis art and sprites onto the ''VideoGame/SonicAdvance'' engine, which was ''not'' meant to handle such things. The slowdown and pop-in is caused by the ''Advance'' engine struggling to put all of the Genesis sprites and effects onto the screen.
** While Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog is on the mind, ''VideoGame/SonicChronicles''. Creator/BioWare wasn't exactly trying to make an ''epic'' game, and while what we got was certainly playable ([[DisappointingLastLevel Disappointing mid-game aside]]), Bioware evidently had fulfilled their contract to Sega and had wanted to work on [[VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic future]] [[VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins projects]] so much they just released the game as-is, with a soundtrack made with stock music downloaded straight from the internet, and gameplay akin to a shockwave-flash school project. This came back with a vengeance when the game became part of the reason former comic writer Ken Penders came down on SEGA and Archie in The New 10's.
** ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'' was rushed out to stores before Sega and SonicTeam could even fix the glitches (glitches including broken physics, clipping issues, stock animations, etc), because they wanted the game to be out before the year was over (it was the series' 15th anniversary, after all). What's even stranger is the fact that the [=PS3=] port came out in early 2007, months after the 360 version, and yet it '''still''' ended up being a glitchy, unplayable mess!
*** Adding insult to injury, some of the achievement descriptions are written in {{Engrish}}. One example is the achievement of having Sonic buying all skills at the item shop which says "Super Sonic, obtain the all moves." Not only that, there's a voiced NPC at one part where you can clearly hear the voice actor fudge up his line, gets told by someone in the background on what the correct line was, and then the voice actor repeats the correct line (yes, the game has a retake that wasn't edited out!). With all the issues in the game combined, Sega clearly didn't give a shit about the quality of the game or the ''Sonic 1'' GBA port as they just wanted to cash in on Sonic's 15th birthday.
** Similarly to the above, ''VideoGame/SonicBoom: Rise of Lyric'' got extremely negative reviews upon release. A combination of tedious combat, awful controls, [[MostAnnoyingSound irritating dialogue during gameplay]] that either make unfunny jokes or CaptainObvious statements[[note]]An actual example of dialogue: "Look, ramps!" "We can use these as ramps!"[[/note]], and [[ObviousBeta tons of bugs]] (some [[GameBreakingBug critical]], such as a situation where the player is trapped in a force field and made to fight enemies to progress; dying can respawn you ''outside'' with no way to kill the enemies inside) made the whole thing feel like it was ChristmasRushed, earning the nickname "Sonic '14". The cutscenes fared no better, with numerous [[http://youtu.be/O3Jb3A0HLe4 outright amateur animation errors]] (such as a dropped hammer reappearing in Amy's the next shot). Not helping was Sega making the previews look much better than the final product, then [[NotScreenedForCritics refusing to send review copies in advance]] and taking down early LetsPlay videos, as well as the fact that Big Red Button (the studio responsible for developing it) laid off quite a few people during its development. It also did not help that Sega had signed a contract with Nintendo to create 3 exclusive Sonic games for the company and with ''Sonic Boom'' (on the Wii U and 3DS) being the last 2 games in the agreement, it felt like Sega rushed the games out so that they could fulfill their contract and get to work on other games.
* The PC port of ''Franchise/StarWars: VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed''. First, LucasArts claimed they would never bother doing it as "no PC is powerful enough to run it". Then they changed their minds. Did they fix the horrible bugs? No. Did they optimize the gameplay so an average PC could run it? No. Did they cut it down to optimize it for a PC release? No. They tacked on a little bit of content, and called it the Ultimate Sith Edition. How big was it? 23 gigabytes. That's Blu-ray big. Problem is, few [=PCs=] have a BD-ROM drive. A UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} release fixed part of that issue, but also made the ''23 gigabyte size'' all the more apparent, especially for those with slower connections or limited bandwidth.
* Before ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Smash-Up'' was released, TMNT fans were speculating about which characters would be in the game, which was created to mark the 25th Anniversary of the franchise. What they got was ten characters from the 2007 movie, three characters from the 2003 animated series, and three characters that had ''absolutely nothing to do with the TMNT franchise''.[[note]] Smash-Up was developed by Ubisoft. Three characters in the game's roster are variations of a Raving Rabbid, from Ubisoft's own Rayman games. Adding insult to injury, one of the Rabbid characters is dressed like the protagonist of Splinter Cell- another Ubisoft property.[[/note]] That's it. Outside of the bonus content (concept art from Turtles Forever and comic book covers) all other incarnations of TMNT are ignored entirely by the game.
** It gets worse than that. While 16 characters is a pitiful roster by modern standards, that's only for the Wii version of the game. The [=PS2=] version only has 12 characters; the Rabbids and Fugitoid are missing.
** To be fair, the Technodrome from the 1980's series appears in one of the game's levels... the level that is physically impossible to unlock without using a cheat code that you have to look up online.
* On the topic of Valve, the German version of the [=TF2=] short ''Meet the Sniper'' was left entirely uncensored, as opposed to the other shorts, which were censored and edited quite ridiculously over there (due to Germany not allowing blood or gore in video games). Also, you'd think that since the [=TF2=] characters are basically robots over in Germany because of the way the game and its shorts are censored, Sniper's pee jars would be jars of oil instead, but surprisingly, no.
* ''Syd of VideoGame/{{Valis}}'' renamed Yuko to Syd for no good reason (the translated manual still refers to Yuko), but left the Japanese credits completely unaltered. Apparently, the marketing department was not familiar with the term "SuperDeformed" and just assumed that the initials were the character's name.
* ''VideoGame/TonyHawksProSkater 5'' was thought to have been an attempt to WinBackTheCrowd for an [[FranchiseZombie over-milked and stagnant video game franchise]] by Creator/{{Activision}}. It turned out, however, that Activision was only interested in fulfilling their licensing contract with Tony Hawk. The game was rushed by Activision for the September 2015 schedule, and fans were met with skepticism after initial previews showed [[TaintedByThePreview a rough and unpleasant game environment]]. Activision provided no [[NotScreenedForCritics advance copies to game reviewing websites]], meaning that they had to wait until its release. Once the game was released, critics and players everywhere tore the game apart for its ObviousBeta, making their worst fears realized. Activision's level of not caring has clearly [[FranchiseKiller brought the franchise to its knees]].
* The sixth ''Virus Invasion'' game, ''Virus Invasion Ledgend'', has a [[TyopOnTheCover spelling mistake in the title]].
* ''Valkyrie Crusade'' awards a special kind of currency for using the game's "share to Website/{{Twitter}}" feature, available to use after obtaining achievements or when requesting help in defeating an Archwitch. This would be par for the course for a mobile AllegedlyFreeGame...except that share tweets, by default, include the phrase "#Valkyrie Crusade"--someone at Nubee must have not gotten the hint that hashtags on social media cannot include spaces. Three years later and this oversight still exists.
* The [[Creator/MediaVision developers]] of ''[[VideoGame/WildArms1 Wild Arms: Alter Code F]]'' cared. Agetec, the company that localized it in America, did not. Agetec picked up the rights to localize the English version a few months after the game was released in Japan (November 2003), a move that was welcomed by fans considering their work publishing the ''VideoGame/ArmoredCore'' series, which included [[RegionalBonus adding extras that weren't in the Japanese release]]. A year later, no one had heard a word about any work that had been done with the localization and absolutely no word of a release date. Small details trickled out through one insider, but even he expressed frustration when the game was finally released in America, in November 2005...without voices (the Japanese release had [[VoiceGrunting grunts and shouts]] in battle, and vocals in a few songs, all of which were cut out entirely without any replacement dub), without fixing the {{Game Breaking Bug}}s, without any extras (except a DVD of the first episode of the questionable-quality WA anime, ''Twilight Venom'')...and worst of all, a BlindIdiotTranslation that was barely any better than the original game, and certainly wasn't up to the standard of 2005 [=PS2=] games. Agetec went mysteriously silent and didn't respond to any inquiries, even from the insider, as to how they managed to release a gutted version of the game after sitting on it for two years. Subsequent games in the series were localized by XSEEDGames, who are widely agreed to have handled the process better.
* The PC port of the first ''VideoGame/{{Wipeout}}'' featured flat lighting and a track surface that blinked invisible at a rapid rate. The port of the sequel required a 3D accelerator card (even though the demo didn't), sped up on fast [=PCs=], multiplayer required a separate patch that could only be used if the game was installed in a specific directory and several billboards were transparent, featuring only the text on them floating in the air. They stopped porting them after that point.
* ''WWF Warzone'' by Creator/{{Acclaim}} for the {{Nintendo 64}} had better looking visuals than the Playstation version, due to its higher resolution, but the music is atrocious. The Playstation version contained pre-recorded music for the wrestlers' entrances. Due to the limited memory, the N64 naturally used [=MIDIs=], but they only bear little resemblance to the real music. Later games by {{THQ}} had surprisingly high quality MIDI-style songs, and their previous Wrestling/{{WCW}} games had versions of the Nitro theme that were very faithful to the real recording.
* ''VideoGame/XMenDestiny'', was such a tremendous victim of this trope on the part of developer Creator/SiliconKnights and company head Denis Dyack that the company itself is [[CreatorKiller pretty much dead]]. Staff was constantly taken away from the project and shuffled off to try and make a proof of concept for ''VideoGame/EternalDarkness 2'' to shop around to publishers, as Dyack had no interest in the ''X-Men'' franchise. Creator/{{Activision}} finally got tired of SK's delays and gave them a shipping date ultimatum to meet, resulting in a mediocre beat-'em-up which sold horribly, as well as several top SK employees jumping ship.
** As a final nail in the coffin, Creator/SiliconKnights was ordered to delete the ''X-Men Destiny'' source code and recall and destroy all unsold copies at their own expense, due to their FrivolousLawsuit against Creator/EpicGames backfiring spectacularly.
** Dyack has since [[http://nichegamer.com/2015/05/denis-dyack-interview-part-1-yellow-journalism-and-what-really-happened-with-x-men-destiny/ attempt to refute the claims]], saying that a large part of what happened was the Disney/Marvel deal and resultant legal issues with Activision resulted in a decrease of funds and Silicon Knights had to pay for it out of their own pockets.
* Pretty much every instruction manual put out by Creator/{{Konami}} USA during the NES and SNES eras reeked of this. Apparently, the copy editors vastly overestimated their collective sense of humor, and that manifested in their tossing out the actual plots and character names from Konami's games so they could fill the manuals with all sorts of idiotic "jokes" and {{Incredibly Lame Pun}}s.
** In the manual for ''[[{{VideoGame/Contra}} Super C]]'', the following statement is made: "Red Falcon has also shuttled in [[Series/ILoveLucy The Babalu Bestructoid Mechanism]], a giant alien attack tank, which was the primary weapon used to disintegrate [[Film/TheWizardOfOz the innocent solar system of Tralala]]." It must be noted that the European port ''Probotector II'' has no such inane gibberish. [[http://www.falselogic.net/dimortuisunt/2010/07/24/super-c-vs-probotector-ii-return-of-the-evil-forces/ A retrospective]] also noted:
-->What happened to Bill and Lance? The two guys who fought and destroyed Red Falcon in the original Contra? Who the hell are Mad Dog and Scorpion? Also note the typo that made it into the manual: "Mad Dod and Extrodinare," hah!
** The manual for the Super Nintendo game Cybernator had gems like calling the enemy capital city "Suburbionsky, Uzbekistanksi".
** ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' gave us such round, firm pellets of comedy as the Leg of Werewolf, the Murky Marsh of Morbid Morons, the claim that the Vampire Killer was soaked in garlic juice, and dancing spectres named "[[ParodyNames Paula Abghoul and Fred Askaire]]," among other ''[[SarcasmMode hee]]''[[SarcasmMode -larious]] fluff. Amazingly, people on this very wiki have mistakenly assumed these materials to be canon, even though it should be painfully obvious that they're all just part of some copywriter's sad attempt to be cute.
** The first SNES Goemon game, released in the US as ''Legend of the Mystical Ninja'' was borderline offensive in how carelessly its localizers treated the game's cultural themes. Intended as a satire of Edo-era Japan, much of the official translations simply treat the game as a depiction of some crazy Oriental nonsense place. In addition to the infamous renaming of the lead characters "Kid Ying" and "Doctor Yang" — a reference to a decidedly ''Chinese'' symbol, the manual refers to the trivia mini-game as "Uncle Chan's Question Palace," names a monkey enemy "Fur Man Chu," and calls the martial arts the characters practice as "Jutsu," which is not a thing.
* The vast majority of NES games released in Europe fall into this, as in most cases no effort was made to optimise them for PAL televisions. As a result, the music is lower-pitched and the game plays a lot slower than usual. This is done to a much lesser extent with 16-bit releases.
** Speaking of the NES in Europe, virtually every game was delayed by ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Bros_3 at least a year]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_Man_2 sometimes more than two years]]'' in said region. This is one of the reasons as to why the UsefulNotes/SegaMasterSystem was far more successful in Europe than the NES.
** Subverted with a few [[UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis Mega Drive]] games like ''Shadow of the Beast'' and ''Gods'', where the North American releases are [[FakeDifficulty noticeably harder than the European versions as they run faster than intended]].
* The infamous ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDiGames'' came about due to several factors that were caused by Phillips. The company didn't believe that its own console worked as a gaming system, nor did they ever market it as one. Phillips also gave the developers a meager $600,000 for their budget and only a year to finish the games. The developers tried as best as they could by cutting corners to save money, such as hiring freshly graduated animators from Russia and hiring unionized voice actors. Phillips pushed the games out as they were and while they had mixed to lukewarm receptions at the time of their release, people looking back on this game now make fun of the games for their terrible quality. Phillips simply didn't care and seemed to only want to fulfill its contract with Nintendo.
* Valkyrie Anatomia, a cash-grabbing entry of the ValkyrieProfile series, may look like a ValkyrieProfile on the surface, including the perspective and diamond formation the game series has been famous for. Right until the point where you'll notice that enemies are able to attack the back row with non-magical attacks. The back-row being save from non-magical attacks has been one of the defining series features, battle strategy wise. Even better, the whole rest of the party fades out when the enemy attacks this way, as if they weren't there, instead of the party functioning as a shield like before.
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* ''VisualNovel/PlumbersDontWearTies'' is advertised as [[CoversAlwaysLie self-proclaimed full motion video]] but the only part that has full motion video is the beginning, while the rest is a bunch of slide show that sometimes include filter effects.
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* ''Webcomic/LivingWithInsanity'''s artist, PaulSalvi, takes this attitude. He cuts a lot of corners on the art by rewriting dialogue, cutting down the number of panels and even ignoring whole strips. This causes a lot of plot holes or makes jokes fall flat.
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* ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'' normally prides itself on ShownTheirWork, but their [[Franchise/{{Halo}} Master Chief]] vs [[VideoGame/{{Doom}} Doomguy]] battle received a lot of flak for this. Doomguy moved extremely slow and took a lot of hits, even though they established he can run at 57 miles per hour. Master Chief was able to throw a grenade through his own Bubble Shield, which is not possible in any ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' game.
* The email button of ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'''s [[http://www.homestarrunner.com/main15.html Main 15/Powered by the Cheat]] contents page gives three different random remarks from Strong Bad, and in one of them he says The Cheat's visual style "looks like you just don't care".
* WebVideo/{{IGSRJ}} made a review of DukeNukemMobile while going over his {{emo}} phase. At the end, he admitted that it was made so Website/YouTube didn't cancel his show.
* ''WebVideo/SailorMoonAbridged'' had the titular protagonist fight a tennis-themed monster, who threw a ball at her and caused her to be trapped in a tennis ball. Her response?
--> ''Sailor Moon:'' Holy s***, they turned me into a tennis ball! I mean really, are they even trying anymore?"
* PlayedForLaughs by the WebVideo/ThirdRateGamer, a {{Stylistic Suck}} satire of CausticCritic {{Video Review Show}}s:
--> "There's also another predecessor called ''Castlemania 3: Dracula's Curse''. All I'm going to do is barely mention it here, so that I can say I reviewed it."
** Also, he'll sometimes steal footage from WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd and leave the original sound running in the background.
* The pilot of WebVideo/PopQuizHotshot got this reaction, and even the people making it agreed, Mr Walker saying that Michaud had ordered Jim to build a game show set with no other specification. It got {{retool}}ed with Doug as the host and got a much better reception.
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* Creator/DisneyXD airs episodes 20 onward of ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'' with an opening that promotes the movie ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' in a manner containing several inconsistencies compared to the show. First of all, ComicBook/NickFury narrates, even though ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} and ComicBook/TheAvengers start out as two completely separate groups of crimefighters. Secondly, his speech mentions ComicBook/IronMan, ComicBook/TheMightyThor, The ComicBook/IncredibleHulk, and ComicBook/CaptainAmerica (who's referred to as "[[Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger The First Avenger]]" even though in [=EMH=] he's not even one of the founding members), but omits the other members. This is a particularly egregious piece of false advertising when you consider ''the show's initial members mirrors how the Avengers got together in the comics in the first place.'' Depending on the time in the series' course, the number of Avengers ignored ranges from two to six. Finally, the editors managed to keep three lines of the original theme song, but they don't rhyme at all.
** Making the inconsistencies even more blatant, a subplot running through some of these episodes involves SHIELD trying to pressure the Avengers into registration, in Fury's absence. Also, each of these heroes makes a prolonged disappearance in the second season, but this intro always speaks of all four as full-time members.
** The DVD cases reflect this theme, with Cap, Thor, Iron Man, and Hulk appearing on every singles DVD cover (though one did feature Hawkeye in there, too, but it carries on the theme of using only Avengers who got to have the Avengers treatment.)
* ''WesternAnimation/BabyBlues'', an AnimatedAdaptation of [[ComicStrip/BabyBlues the comic strip]] which bore little resemblance to its source material. The strip's main family, the [=MacPhersons=], is basically shoved into the background with a new dysfunctional family called the Bittermans who steal most of the plots--even though the strip had other families that regularly acted as the [=MacPhersons'=] foils. The tone of the strip was changed from mostly charming and sympathetic tales of raising a family to a darker, "edgy" clone of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', perhaps to pursue the teen/young-adult demographic… even though that exact demographic is a major PeripheryDemographic of the strip. (They even briefly changed the title of the show to ''Bluesville'' out of fear that the demographic wouldn't want something with "baby" in the title.) Finally, the TV series set the chronology back, as it had Zoe as an infant and did not feature her younger brother Hammie, even though at that point in the strip, Zoe was old enough to attend school and Hammie was about two or three.
* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainNTheGameMaster'', oh so very much. None of the characters come even close to resembling the game characters they were based on in appearance, behavior, or (in [[VideoGame/KidIcarus Pit's]] case) ''name'', the animation is OffModel and in many cases [[ObviousBeta unfinished]], and it falls prey to some of the absolute most [[ClicheStorm cliched plots]] in cartoon history. The saddest part is a cartoon starring everyone's favorite [[UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem Nintendo]] characters could have been the greatest thing ever if it had serious effort put into it.
** This is true for about all of DiC's video game adaptations, but especially for their Captain N and ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' cartoons. ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow'' and ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' suffered from poor animation, inconsistent character designs, and often cliched plots; their only saving grace is that they (as well as DiC's other Mario cartoons) both spawned a FountainOfMemes. ''WesternAnimation/SonicUnderground'' had similar problems, on top of unappealing overdesigned characters (the supporting cast was hit hardest by this, but even some main characters such as Sleet looked more like Tex Avery's AcidRefluxNightmare than anything from an actual ''Sonic'' game) and, notoriously, [[InNameOnly changing so many details about the established backstory of the franchise that it might as well be a new IP]]. About their only game cartoon that received/receives a mostly positive reception is ''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehog''.
* During the mid-1980's to early 1990's, studios such as Turner Entertainment and Creator/WarnerBrothers sought to syndicate their cartoon libraries to stations willing to broadcast them. Their solution? Colorize the majority of their black-and-white cartoons to try to make them attractive to modern children. Most of the cartoons were colorized in an [[DigitalDestruction incredibly destructive manner]], tampering with the original cels and giving the color an extremely saturated look that made the picture look unpleasant. Since the cartoons were colorized in a timed manner, the studios didn't give any consideration to fix the large number of mistakes or errors the colorizations made. Perhaps one of the worst offenders was Turner's colorization of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}}'' cartoons. Not only was the frame rate significantly toned down, but certain cels or backgrounds in some cartoons were ''completely cut or butchered''. The cartoon "A Clean Shaven Man," for instance, misspells the name of "Wimpy's Barber Shop" to "Wimby's Bber Shop" in the colorized version, and the colorized version of "Blow Me Down!" has several cels missing from the original black-and-white version, showing just how little Turner cared about preserving the integrity of the original cartoons.
* This is how Russians treated their Cartoon Network channel translation. While the promos were dubbed, the text on screen wasn't translated (excusable during shows that air on CN) or even given the time that would have had the cartoon aired. Even the translations for two competing channels, Creator/DisneyChannel and Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}, were treated far better.
** The reason Cartoon Network's Russian version doesn't feature any localized text in promos or times is that Russia (still) receives the Pan-Euro version of channel. CN didn't put any local text or times in order to not make viewers from other countries (like Bulgaria) confused. Same happens with Nickelodeon's CEE feed (and Nick Jr. CEE feed which for some reasons also covers f.e. Germany, Scandinavia and New Zealand) which mostly doesn't feature any text or times (excluding the logos if they are needed) as a failed attempt to make the channel's viewers believe that they watch a regional version of it.
* ''WesternAnimation/ClerksTheAnimatedSeries'' was [[ScrewedByTheNetwork shafted by ABC]] who could only be bothered to air two of the six initial episodes and made matters worse by inexplicably airing them out of order starting with the fourth episode followed by the second, the latter of which contained jokes that only made sense if you had seen the ''first''.
** A side-effect of the weird airing is that Alec Baldwin's Leonardo Leonardo character, intended to be the main antagonist, ''never appears''.
* The Region 2 DVD release of ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'''s second season suffers horribly from this. The cases the [=DVDs=] were packaged in must have been obtained on the cheap, as the cases on display were either broken or had one or more discs loose in the case, and the [=DVDs=] themselves were very clearly ripped from the American release. The audio pitch wasn't raised to the PAL standard, and rather than having the UK's FACT warning screens, it retains the FBI warnings from the American version.
* This is how Creator/CartoonNetwork basically treated their ''WesternAnimation/DCNation'' block. They not only [[InvisibleAdvertising just barely advertised]] it, but when they do, they made flimsy promises of "new episodes"... even though the shows they've promised new episodes for (''WesternAnimation/GreenLanternTheAnimatedSeries'' and ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'', specifically) had already ended. There's also that incident where the block was removed from the air without any warning or reason whatsoever in Fall 2012, [[InternetBackdraft angering the fans greatly]], and it wasn't reinstated until the following ''January''. You'd be forgiven for thinking that Creator/CartoonNetwork was secretly trying to ruin the block's ratings just so they can have an excuse for canceling it permanently.
** This same treatment extended to the shows themselves that air on DC Nation. As already stated, ''Green Lantern: The Animated Series'' and ''Young Justice'' were treated lazily at best before getting screwed over, and eventually replaced by ''WesternAnimation/BewareTheBatman'' and ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo''. ''Beware the Batman'' itself also got screwed over royally, being limited to only one slot on DC Nation, barely advertised, being unceremoniously put on hiatus, and then having its remaining unaired episodes aired on Toonami. On the other hand, ''Teen Titans Go!'', the only DC Nation show to have ever gotten preferential treatment (possibly due to the fact that it's a comedy instead of an action show like the others), is given constant advertising and aired on two timeslots: one for new episodes on prime time Thursdays, and one on DC Nation for reruns. Seriously, if you're either unwilling or unable to milk a frigging ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' show for all its worth, you're insane or an idiot.
** Many fans feel this way about ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo''. The titular characters are mean-spirited and one-dimensional caricatures of their original selves, the humor is crude and relies on BlackComedy and {{Squick}}, the show is full of [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop Family Unfriendly Aesops]], [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs episode plots are random and bizarre with nonsensical and often abrupt endings]] [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot and the few good plots it has are wasted for the sake of comedy]], and some episodes seem written with the express intention of [[TakeThatCritics mocking the show's critics.]] It doesn't help that the writers themselves admitted that they wanted to make a "stupid show" and didn't put much effort into it nor does it help that they never watched the original show (though this was later clarified to be a joke. But to many that only makes the show worse).
* The official site for ''WesternAnimation/DinoTime'' still uses the earlier models for the main characters.
* The DVD releases for WesternAnimation/TheDisneyAfternoon suffer from this. Many of them are the VanillaEdition. They often use the EditedForSyndication versions of episodes, and they released the volumes out of production order. The five part pilot for WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers isn't on the first volume. It's on the second. The ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' [=DVDs=] have characters appear in episodes before they are introduced to the audience. To make matters even worse, many of the shows only have partial releases and are unlikely to ever be completely released, which forces fans to KeepCirculatingTheTapes.
* This trope was used many times during the early episodes in ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy.'' A character learned nothing after going through a life changing experience. The writers admit that this was their way of ending an episode without really adding much detail to it, simply because they didn't care how it ended.
** Until they {{lampshade|Hanging}}d it by having the characters [[BreakingTheFourthWall break the 4th wall]].
* Managing to go even further in the "bearing no resemblance to the comic" department than the above-mentioned ''Baby Blues'' was ''WesternAnimation/FishPolice''. The source material, an [[ComicBook/FishPolice indie comic book]] with a somewhat gritty tone, was diluted to a generic "adult" cartoon laden with as many fish puns as ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' had rock puns. The animation was a lot more bright and colorful, characterization unrecognizable (Inspector Gill goes from a womanizing {{Jerkass}} alcoholic in the comics to a ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'' clone, in addition to somehow dropping an L from his surname; Angel goes from a brainy piece of eye candy who pulls a FaceHeelTurn to a brainless [[Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit Jessica Rabbit]] clone; etc.), none of the plot points from the comic are used, and in short, almost nothing resembles the source material except for "underwater crime with anthropomorphic fish".
* Disney's ownership of virtually all Creator/FoxKids and Creator/SabanEntertainment programs[[note]]''WesternAnimation/EekTheCat'', ''WesternAnimation/NASCARRacers'', the entire pre-2000 Creator/MarvelComics animated output, ''WesternAnimation/MadJackThePirate'' and ''WesternAnimation/MonsterFarm'' to name a few[[/note]] is by complete accident. When Fox put the parent company of Fox Kids, Fox Family Worldwide Inc., up for sale in 2001, Disney only wanted the Fox Family channel and nothing else. However, Fox wrote in a condition to the sale contract that Disney had to take ''everything'' in the company if they wanted to have the Fox Family network. Disney reluctantly agreed to the deal, and Disney proceeded to basically sit on the output for years, giving only the Marvel cartoons and the ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' franchise frequent rotation than all the other shows due to their CashCowFranchise-like statuses. Incidentally, Disney's ownership of the Marvel cartoons culminated in their takeover of Marvel in 2009, while Power Rangers and a few other Fox Kids properties (mostly foreign ones) were sold back to Saban a year later. As for the Fox Kids cartoons still under Disney's wing, they were only treated as fill-ins for Creator/ToonDisney[='=]s Jetix block as well as its foreign networks, up until they all became Creator/DisneyXD. The library remained in limbo after that, with the only shows (aside from the aforementioned ''Power Rangers'' and Marvel cartoons) ever getting a home video release following that being ''WesternAnimation/BobbysWorld'' (which Disney sold back to creator Howie Mandel in 2004 and was given a Complete Series DVD release on Amazon in 2012) and ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'', due to the their CultClassic status (and even then, the latter had two episodes missing and never made it past the first two seasons on DVD).
* The ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' episode "Door To Door" was another example of a double whammy of TJDC and ScrewedByTheNetwork: a fantasy sequence depicting an enflamed city under attack had to be cut after 9/11. The creators complied and re-submitted the episode (on schedule, no less) with a less intense scene in its place..... and the network ''still'' aired the original cut!!
* Some ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' products.
** The toys, which are naturally listed under "Toys" above.
** [[https://derpibooru.org/tags/german+my+little+pony+comic The European comics]] also catch a lot of flack, accused of being written ''and'' drawn by people who have never seen the original show. The storylines are trite, {{OOC}} behavior abounds, and the artwork relies on a handful of duckfaced vectors almost always showing ponies in full profile with no sense of depth. When [[http://bronycurious.deviantart.com/art/Sisterhooves-Slighted-A-FiM-Picture-Book-293719504 amateur fan artwork]] looks better than the licensed product, you know there's a problem.
** The game ''Adventures in Ponyville'' has similar problems. Being a bit limited of gameplay is only expected of a browser-based game made on the side of the real product, but there's still the graphics and writing. A lot of the graphics are directly based on the show and thus adequate by definition (though even some of those manage to be out of scale to each other), but as for the rest, well, you can easily find better on Website/DeviantART by the truckload. As for the writing, there's {{OOC}}[[note]]So for example, Rarity -- who works as a fashion designer and almost always makes her own clothes -- has been working at "her salon" to make money to buy a new fancy saddle, causing two of her friends to become jealous: Fluttershy, the most empathetic and least confrontational character, and Applejack, a farmer who hates frilly impractical clothing[[/note]] and no particular sign of understanding of the source material, and blatant inconsistencies in what character is supposed to be talking about whom. Also, the player character is constantly looking behind herself.
* Played up intentionally for humor and parody in ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' episode "Stimpy's Cartoon Show". The premise of the episode being that Stimpy wants to be an animator and make an animated film short to impress his idol, the old and nearly decrepit "godfather of all animation" Wilber Cobb. Ren is jealous and bitter towards this, so Stimpy crowns him as the "producer". It soon becomes apparent however, that Ren Just Doesn't Care about the production and his only real effort is to work Stimpy to the bone while presenting impossible challenges to him. (i.e: Taking month-long vacations, ripping up storyboards and tossing them in the trash, price gouging him on the cost of art supplies, forcing him to rely on shaving logs for animation cels, etc.) In the end, Stimpy's cartoon becomes an ineptly produced, incoherent, nonsensical, badly drawn, horribly animated, ridiculous and baffling load of gibberish called "Explodey The Pup" which demonstrates the very definition of this trope. For those curious, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tmAE6e6yVc here]] is the ensuing result.
** On the bright side, Cobb ultimately gives a warm and praise-filled assessment of the cartoon - though somewhat undercut by the clarified context of his assessment.
* On networks where classic episodes of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' run in syndication, they are almost always cut to the bone to make room for more commercials. While this rarely compromises the storyline, many SugarWiki/FunnyMoments that give the classic episodes their charm are lost in the shuffle, exiled to the DVD box sets.
** Aside from that, the Simpsons series writers are well known for making numerous past episode contradictions and continuity errors. The most famous one of these is the episode, "That '90s Show."
** A minor point, but the gender of the Simpsons' cat tends to change from episode to episode. One would think that it would be a relatively simple thing to make a decision and keep a note somewhere, but apparently no one bothered.
*** Similarly, the names of the Flanders children will flip every now and then (for the record, Todd was originally the older and Rod was the younger). In the DVD commentaries the writers and showrunners say they can't remember which is which.
** Whenever Sky 1 airs the episode 'He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs', the EPG information for the episode ALWAYS claims the episode airing is 'The Burns and the Bees'. This wouldn't be bad by itself, if it wasn't for the fact that a few voiceovers in the past have treated this episode as if it's the one advertised by the EPG and not the actual episode.
* German station Super-RTL broadcasts ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' in groups of four episodes. The order of the episodes is adjusted so multi-part stories air on the same evening; season five should not have been affected by this since it was composed of four-part stories and nothing else. Unfortunately, it was. For the original US broadcast, episode thirteen – "Revival", the first episode of four about Darth Maul and Savage Oppress – [[OutOfOrder was moved to the beginning of the season (where the creators wanted something epic)]], but the ending was enough of a closure that the three other parts were left at their original place later in the season. Whoever was in charge of Super-RTL's broadcast (which did not happen until the season was already available on DVD, for which the proper order had been restored, but this was ignored) then interpreted "Revival" as a standalone episode. And in accordance with their usual policy, the "three-parter" was considered more prominent and put in front of the "filler" "Revival", even though the former ended with [[spoiler:Maul and Savage's rampage being put to an end]]. SRTL then claimed that Lucasfilm had dictated this order, but the fact remains that whoever was responsible caused needless irritation by ignoring something blatantly obvious.
* In the DVD releases for the original series of ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'' the episodes were transferred and remastered from their original video format. Unfortunately, a lot of the footage had degraded from the heavy rerunning of the tapes. Rhino decided the DVD remasters should thus be pulled from pre-broadcast cuts. Though these tapes were in better condition, they were rough cuts requiring Rhino to draft help so it could completely reconstruct some scenes, or add new effects. Unfortunately, this resulted in ''new'' OffModel animations being added to old episodes, and a lot of unnecessary stock sound effects. [[Wiki/TFWikiDotNet The Transformers Wiki]] quotes a very apathetic response from the Rhino representatives, who "rather disingenuously attempted to claim that these sound effects were there all along and that fans had simply been unable to hear them before, despite evidence to the contrary."
* ''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen'' was supposed to be an all new, all different, all edgy show unlike any X-Men cartoon before it, yet for the most part it seemed content to rehash stories that were already done in previous X-Men shows (Days of Future Past - the 90s show did it first) or just rip off elements of the movies (Wolverine being the CanonSue center of the X-Men universe) when it wasn't wasting time on incredibly insipid stories (Wolverine having a G-rated fight with TheIncredibleHulk, the X-Men being kidnapped by a bunch of rinky dink ninjas) to seriously derailing one of the franchise's most prominent characters (Cyclops got butchered so badly that he was practically the living embodiment of {{Narm}}).
* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'': The tie-in comics had one panel Bios for many of the characters on the show. The Bios used events and teams from comics, to broaden the readers perceptions. Some are pretty inaccurate, like Bane's. It says that he's associated with the Comicbook/SuicideSquad, but the picture shows the line-up from The ComicBook/{{New 52}}, which he isn't part of. Even worse is that the other team it shows him associated with is the Comicbook/SecretSix, but the picture is of The Legion of Doom from ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueDoom''.
* ''You're in the Super Bowl, Charlie Brown'', the next-to-last ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' animated special in which series creator Charles M. Schulz had a hand. They don't have quite enough plot for 25 minutes, so they do cutaways with Woodstock's football team curb-stomping teams of various animals. The animation is exactly the same all three times (except with new species slipped in over top the existing ones — cats, dogs, then bison), meaning that the third team consists of bison ''who are no bigger than cats''. Even for a franchise known for its cheap animation, that's really bad.
* The writers of WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine from Season 10 through to 16. {{OOC}} abound, nonsensical plots, annoying rhymes every episode and no respect to the source material. And that's just season 15. Thankfully this was resolved from Season 17 onwards under new writers.
* Italian cartoon channel K2 has idents before commercial breaks that show a brief scene from the cartoon that comes after the commercials (right after the proper "coming next" ad)... or at least that's what it should do. The channel made them in 2014 and since then they never made new ones for cartoons that were introduced in later years, meaning that nowadays the commercial can say that the cartoon coming next is ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'', ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' or ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' followed by an ident showing off ''WesternAnimation/RocketMonkeys'', ''WesternAnimation/ScaredySquirrel'' or ''WesternAnimation/{{Grojband}}''; which are no longer broadcast on the channel.
* This is the general consensus for ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls2016 2016 revival]]. Considered a continuation of the original series, the cartoon is instead seemingly afraid to return to its action/adventure roots designed for boys and girls and tries to make itself for girls only [[note]]while at times trying to appeal to the older fanbase, most of which are token at best[[/note]], which leads to Ms. Sara Bellum, the Mayor's hot assistant, getting [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome Chuck'd]] from the series and has a heavy, nearly cringeworthy, over-reliance on memes. And, then, there's [[OffModel the animation errors]]... What makes the animation errors so bad is that there's actually one episode where they recreated the original animation style the cartoon used and the general consensus was "Why didn't you go back to THAT?!" Oh yeah, and despite the fact that one of the biggest points of praise is the voice acting for the girls, despite the fact that Creator/TaraStrong, Creator/ElizabethDaily, and Catherine Cavadini all were capable of returing, despite the fact nearly ''every one else'' returns, despite the fact that '''they returned last time''', all of the girls (plus [[SpoiledBrat Princess Morebucks]], who didn't even have any excuse, Creator/JenniferHale reprises every other she did in the original) [[TheOtherDarrin have different voices.]] Say what you will about Go!, the fact that they got almost every one repring their roles is impressive.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ALVINNNAndTheChipmunks'', the Chipmunks and Chipettes are the size of regular chipmunks and there are various moments where things such as puppies and soccer balls suddenly become tiny once a chipmunk is interacting with them.
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* A ''Website/{{Cracked}}.com'' article, [[http://www.cracked.com/article/242_6-tv-shows-that-completely-lost-their-shit/ 6 TV Shows That Completely Lost Their Shit]], [[DiscussedTrope talks about this process]]:
-->''These shows didn't "[[JumpingTheShark jump the shark]]." That doesn't do them justice. No, these are shows where the creators simply said "fuck it", flew out of the water, broke the bounds of the earth's atmosphere and set a course for the center of the Sun.''
* Wizards of the Coast stopped caring about ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' third edition when fourth started coming out. The Tome of Battle errata changes ''mid-freaking-word'' into Complete Mage errata. In a couple of early interviews about the new game system, it sounded suspiciously like the designers actively disliked 3rd edition, the system they'd been selling us for the prior eight years, and wanted to make sure we stopped liking it too. Some of their folks practically went on record as saying "Yeah, our last product totally sucked. We can't believe anybody thought it would be fun. This ''new'' one, on the other hand..."
* Eddie Lampert, owner of Sears, seems to have little interest in maintaining the chain's legacy, particularly after its 2006 merger with UsefulNotes/{{Kmart}}. Since well before the merger, both chains have seen nothing but closing after closing, with some clearly being closed for the real estate and not due to underperformance. Lampert's management of the company as a whole has been called into question, as seen in [[http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-07-11/at-sears-eddie-lamperts-warring-divisions-model-adds-to-the-troubles this]] article.
* The documentary ''Film/ThisFilmIsNotYetRated'' depicted the MPAA's ratings board as going out of their way to be apathetic towards films produced without involvement from (read: [[MoneyDearBoy don't make any money for]]) a major studio. Several interviews with indie film makers relate real-life incidents in which they personally reached out to the MPAA for input to change the ratings of their films, usually from an NC-17 to an R, to either be shot down with double talk or, in the case of New Line Cinema, outright ignored.
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* The Videogame/WWEVideoGames are so notorious for this, [[TheyJustDidntCare/WWEVideoGames a separate page]] had to be made to hold the examples.

** The NES version of ''MetalGear'' warns players of the evil machinations of their arch-nemesis and dictator "Vermon [=CaTaffy=]." A TheyJustDidntCare double whammy, since not only is the name a wincingly bad play on Muammar Gaddafi, but your final boss in the game is an ''unmanned super computer'', not a despot (triple whammy if you factor in that the final boss is supposed to be, y'know, '''Metal Gear''').

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* Creator/BrianMichaelBendis actually ''invoked'' this trope during a 2014 [[http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=55901 interview]] he did promoting his "Last Will and Testament of Charles Xavier" story arc for the controversial third volume of ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen''. Specifically, Bendis was addressing questions regarding the surprise appearance of X-Men villain Exodus as a S.H.I.E.L.D. ally and his subsequent [[TheWorfEffect worfing]] at the hands of new villain Matthew Malloy. A dismissive Bendis remarked that he looked at the scene and said "There are ten people that care about why." As it turned out, more than ten people cared, and the quote [[InternetBackdraft made the rounds]] on various comic book fan forums. Whether or not the controversy played any part in it, the offending scene and Exodus's worfing were both quietly retconned when Malloy was dispatched via in-story RetGone. Amusingly, Bendis couldn't help himself from [[http://brianmichaelbendis.tumblr.com/post/117643938672/iceman-should-hook-up-with-exodus taking a cheap potshot]] at the Exodus character a year later, indicating that he might still be sore about thhe poor reception of his GenericDoomsdayVillain.
* For a positive example: early in his career, Creator/SteveDitko spent a lot of time writing and drawing comics for Charlton and other low-budget DC imitators. While this meant the comics rarely had much of an audience and were only intermittently readable, it also meant his editors and publishers didn't much care whether he was doing comics the "right" way, so he was pretty much free from ExecutiveMeddling and could be as inventive as he liked. This would later make him the artist and writer who made Comicbook/{{Spider-Man}} and Comicbook/DoctorStrange the entertainingly offbeat characters that they were.
** One of these smaller firms was Atlas, later known as Marvel, for which Ditko started to work in 1955 (two years after his first work for Charlton), soon in partnership with writer and editor Creator/StanLee.
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* S'more Entertainment's short-lived attempt at anime releases. They only licensed two titles (both from Toei): ''Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo'' and ''GalaxyExpress999'' and treated both with as little care as possible. For ''Bobobo'', they released the show bilingually, but with no subtitles for the Japanese audio, despite the packaging claiming otherwise. Arny Schorr, the one in charge of S'more, tried justifying their absence by pointing to the dying DVD market, even though they lied on the packaging. However, they ''did'' release both volumes. ''Galaxy Express'' had it even worse. S'more basically used rips directly from the official subtitled streams... which means the material was hardsubbed (the series has no dub). They tried saying the market for the release didn't justify actual subtitles, despite them only costing a few hundred dollars, and DiscotekMedia (an even smaller company) releasing similar niche shows with proper subtitles. They also crammed 10 episodes on every disc, and sold the set for $50. The first set sold so poorly, S'moe canceled the other two sets, and haven't touched an anime since. Schorr has another example on this page for "Transformers" when he worked at Rhino.

* Echo Bridge's release of {{Franchise/Pokemon}} films 4-7 (under license from Miramax; see above for more) were inconsistent on their aspect ratios, the menus looked like they were made on a home PC, contained none of the extras on Miramax's original release and the films were presented in an incorrect order in the set. They also crammed all four films on one Blu-ray. Miramax's contract with Echo Bridge later expired and the rights were been licensed to Creator/{{Lionsgate}}, but their solicitation of their release also has the films in the wrong order. More Echo Bridge releases later on this page.
* The original 2004 [=DreamWorks=] DVD release of ''Anime/GhostInTheShell II: Innocence'' not only had no dub track, it only had closed-caption subtitles (which included transcription of sound effects). After enough fans complained, they re-pressed it and set up a mail-in disc-exchange program.
** It wasn't until Manga Video licensed the title in 2006 that it received a dub by the same voice cast as the original [=GitS=] movie. However, since the dub was done by Manga's UK division, the US DVD and Blu-ray release's dub was pitch-shifted downward and sound effects were slowed when the 4% faster PAL audio track was slowed to fit the NTSC movie.
* When Creator/SentaiFilmworks licensed the other 3 seasons of ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'', despite Creator/CristinaVee expressing interest on Twitter that she would like to reprise Louise, Sentai released the seasons sub-only, with no English dub whatsoever, despite the first season already having a dub. And apparently, they never thought of doing an in-house dub either.
** This was also repeated when Sentai released the other 2 seasons of ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry''. Even though it wasn't financially successful, it had its fans. Despite having a decent sized fanbase and having one season already dubbed, Sentai released Rei (Season 2) and Kai (Season 3) without an English dub.

* Everything about ''ComicBook/AllStarBatmanAndRobinTheBoyWonder'' shows that FrankMiller just stopped caring about anything that made Franchise/{{Batman}} good. All of the heroes are turned into complete {{sociopath|icHero}}s and nothing about the plot or writing makes sense. It doesn't help that [[ScheduleSlip new issues were published so erratically]] that only ''one'' came out in the comic's second year. As a "bonus," it also shows Creator/FrankMiller stopped caring about his own continuity. According to him, all of his Batman stories coexist in the same universe/continuity. While the events of the comic would definitely explain why [[spoiler: Robin hates Batman so much he turns into a villain in ''ComicBook/TheDarkKnightStrikesAgain'']], there's no way, as [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] pointed out, that Gordon would allow such a despicable person as this Batman to roam around carefree.
* Robin's series for One Year Later, in its portrayal of [[ComicBook/Batgirl2000 Cassandra Cain]]. Writer Adam Beechen portrayed the [[TheCape kind,]] [[TheQuietOne barely verbal]], illiterate former Batgirl as a monologuing DragonLady who had no compunctions against killing innocent people, despite her previous hatred of lethal force, and who could write in Navaho Code. She also underwent serious BadassDecay, going from someone who could defeat the strongest fighters in the world to being beaten by [[TheSmartGuy Tim Drake.]] Fans were not pleased with her portrayal, and it was eventually retconned as her being BrainwashedAndCrazy.
* Creator/BrianMichaelBendis:
** As a prominent writer for ''ComicBook/UltimateMarvel'', Bendis has an infamous tendency to blatantly contradict previous stories, including those ''that he himself wrote''.
** Bendis actually ''invoked'' this trope during a 2014 [[http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=55901 interview]] he did promoting his "Last Will and Testament of Charles Xavier" story arc for the controversial third volume of ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen''. Specifically, Bendis was addressing questions regarding the surprise appearance of X-Men villain Exodus as a S.H.I.E.L.D. ally and his subsequent [[TheWorfEffect worfing]] at the hands of new villain Matthew Malloy. A dismissive Bendis remarked that he looked at the scene and said "There are ten people that care about why." As it turned out, more than ten people cared, and the quote [[InternetBackdraft made the rounds]] on various comic book fan forums. Whether or not the controversy played any part in it, the offending scene and Exodus's worfing were both quietly retconned when Malloy was dispatched via in-story RetGone. Amusingly, Bendis couldn't help himself from [[http://brianmichaelbendis.tumblr.com/post/117643938672/iceman-should-hook-up-with-exodus taking a cheap potshot]] at the Exodus character a year later, indicating that he might still be sore about thhe poor reception of his GenericDoomsdayVillain.
** In Bendis' ''ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' run, this is very present. Rocket Raccoon now doesn't know what a raccoon is and hates being called that... despite using that name himself for decades. Richard Rider, the original Nova who pulled a {{heroic sacrifice}}? His last name is now Ryder, because... reasons?

* The work of Craig Moss, a director who trades in spoof films similar to Creator/SeltzerAndFriedberg. His film titles consist mainly of complete WordSaladHumor (e.g. ''The 41-Year Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It'' and ''30 Nights of Paranormal Activity with the Devil Inside the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo''). As far as his films go, he seems to rely mainly on juvenile and/or offensive attempts at humor, shallow pop culture references, and little to no actual parody of the subject matter beyond "it exists" or "here are these characters doing stupid things". For instance, the entirety of his ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' spoof, ''Breaking Wind'', revolves around the werewolves gaining farting powers. In other words, he may be even ''worse'' than Seltzer and Friedberg at the spoof genre.

* The 1960s-era ''Series/{{Doctor Who|Expanded Universe}}'' ExpandedUniverse media fell into this, due to being squarely aimed at children and churned out by people who basically did not care about the series. For instance, the Doctor's name is usually given as [[IAmNotShazam Dr. Who]], the stories are usually poorly-written, out-of-character and LighterAndSofter to an extent that they cease to have anything to do with the show, and CaptainErsatz is used a lot. On the bright side, this is occasionally magnificent in its oddness (the first Dalek annual gives Susan a Dalek love interest, for starters) and there's enough nostalgia for it that the 2006 new-series annual contained a [[StylisticSuck pastiche]] of the dreadful short stories, and there was an Eighth Doctor DeconstructiveParody comic dealing with the boring comics grandchildren and the hilarious knockoff Daleks used in the stories.
** One upsettingly lazy habit that carried on until the mid-to-late 70s was the practice of reprinting old ''Doctor Who'' comics, with the belief they would be new to [[FleetingDemographicRule the children viewing them]], with the image of the Doctor redrawn to look like whoever was the Doctor at the time. Since the first four Doctors had very diverse personalities, this led to things like characters commenting on an [[NervesOfSteel unusually severe]] [[{{Adorkable}} Fourth]] [[BewareTheSillyOnes Doctor]]'s dandyish fashion sense, or a [[AbsentMindedProfessor peculiarly carefree]] [[AgentPeacock Third]] [[ActionHero Doctor]] tootling distractedly on his recorder. And they often only edited the faces, leaving the Doctor dressed inappropriately. And the edits were bad--sometimes little more than just recolouring the Third Doctor's hair black. You can see a comparison [[http://i.imgur.com/zjM65cu.jpg here]] of how a Second Doctor comic was butchered into a Fourth Doctor one.
** The characterisation in the comics is questionable at best, because the writers lacked the subtlety to distinguish between the Doctor's trademark irascible sarcasm and outright unlikeable {{Jerkass}} behaviour. One Fourth Doctor strip starts with the TARDIS being suddenly transported away. Sarah Jane--one would think reasonably--asks where they are. The Doctor responds "Any more of your infernal journalistic questions and I will personally brain you myself." Not only is this a bit strong even for a joke, the nastiest thing the Fourth Doctor ever jokingly threatened Sarah with on television was affectionately biting her on the nose.
** At least one annual strip clearly used reference photos of Tom Baker out of costume and makeup for its depiction of the Doctor--no scarf, a neat modern suit, long hair brushed and combed back instead of worn in a huge round curly frizz...
** Later Fourth Doctor annuals would print stories about Sarah Jane and Harry years and years after the characters left the show. Sometimes they would even run stories with a good representation of Leela's actress, but dressed in Sarah's style and the Doctor would call her Sarah. Leela was also forced to dress in modern-day jeans and jumper in the TV Comics strips because her usual leather micro-mini was considered a bit too racy.
** The poor quality of these strips was part of the reason why ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' started.

* Creator/JuddWinick:
** Winick's runs on ''[[ComicBook/GreenArrow Green Arrow]]'' and ''Green Arrow/Black Canary'' offered several examples of CharacterDerailment. Chief among these was Winick's decision to write Oliver Queen as "a horndog who chases skirts and can't stay faithful" rather than the loving, responsible father and boyfriend he'd evolved into during Creator/KevinSmith's time on the book. He turned ''[[ComicBook/BlackCanary Black Canary]]'' into a FauxActionGirl. He turned consummate professional ''[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/Deathstroke Deathstroke]]'' into a mustache-twirling CardCarryingVillain who led the super-villain attack on Green Arrow and Black Canary's wedding purely ForTheEvulz. And, in the final story arc on ''Green Arrow/Black Canary'', he gave the second Green Arrow, Connor Hawke LaserGuidedAmnesia that caused Connor to forget his Buddhist faith, his vegetarian diet and how to use a bow - i.e. everything that made Connor an interesting and unique character - and even had Connor mock the idea of a Buddhist superhero.
*** Winick's treatment of ''[[ComicBook/BlackLightning Black Lightning]]'' deserves special mention. Winick turned a hero of such strong ethical fiber that he retired from superheroics when he thought he couldn't use his powers safely into a man who could easily strike down the corporate raider indirectly responsible for the death of his niece. The fact that Black Lightning had a niece was also a problem given that the character was specifically stated to be an only child in previous stories. Then Winick gave him a daughter who was fathered out of wedlock... again, despite the character's background as a social conservative who would never have become a superhero if there was a chance he'd leave behind an orphan. What made this particularly vexing is that Black Lightning's creator Tony Isabella offered to talk to Winick about the character after Winick said in an interview that he'd be using the character in his ''[[ComicBook/GreenArrow Green Arrow]]'' run. Winick apparently declined the offer.
** Winick was responsible for the now infamous ''Trials of [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/Shazam Shazam]]'' mini-series, based around the idea that Captain Marvel should only be dealing with magical threats. Winick was quoted as saying "Why is someone with the powers of the gods stopping robbers?". Given that the whole point of the character was for a good and decent boy to be given the power to fight all the evils that plague mankind...
** Winick was also the genius behind Superboy Prime's punching reality causing Jason Todd to come back from the dead.
** Linkara of AtopTheFourthWall [[http://atopthefourthwall.com/titansyoung-justice-graduation-day-1/ recently took Winick to task]] for his atrocious [[ComicBook/TeenTitans Titans]]/[[ComicBook/YoungJustice Young Justice]] mini-series ''Graduation Day''. The continuity errors and disrespect for the characters Winick doesn't like are only a small part of why he doesn't like it.

* In an in-universe example, the LemonyNarrator of ''[[FanFic/EquestriaAHistoryRevealed Equestria: A History Revealed]]'', who is supposedly writing the whole thing, has a very lax approach to essay writing, getting drunk towards the beginning of Chapter 3, not wanting to write any more praise for Princess Celestia, and instead, [[spoiler: inserting her self-authored haikus in their place]], and literally admitting to lying to her professor and cursing him in-text (while simultaneously submitting it in to him later for marking).

* When ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' was released on VHS in the UK, volumes 1-5 contained the first 15 episodes of the original series, but volume 6 skipped straight to ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02''.
* And for that matter, the English dub of ''Anime/DigimonSavers'' (as ''Digimon Data Squad'') on Creator/ToonDisney was filled with [[https://sites.google.com/site/digimondatasquadaz/changes-in-the-english-dub-of-dds massive amounts of edits, dialogue changes and scene cuts]] to the point where fans compared it to the [[Creator/FourKidsEntertainment 4Kids]] dub of ''Anime/OnePiece'' in terms of anime {{Macekre}}. Of course, this was actually because Disney was never interested in the franchise in the first place[[note]]The license was acquired by Disney as part of acquiring Fox Family Worldwide, Inc., which included Creator/SabanEntertainment, then-owners of the Digimon license. Disney only wanted to purchase the company for its [[Creator/ABCFamily Fox Family]] channel, but they had to acquire all of Fox Family Worldwide, Inc. in order to get the channel[[/note]], and all they wanted to do was to fulfill the license and wait for the opportunity to drop it. Thankfully, Saban has since bought back the license from Disney since ''Data Squad'' ended.
* Despite being one of the better-received dubbing studios in North America, Creator/{{FUNimation}} has had a few occasions of not caring about certain things.
** The Creator/{{Funimation}} English dub of the first ''Manga/DragonBall'' movie used an almost completely different voice cast from the TV series, with only two actors returning to reprise their roles. This had nothing to do with budget or actor availability. It had to do with whoever was on-hand at the exact time of production. The original actors from the TV series weren't even contacted for the project, and most of the actors used in the movie didn't even do a good job sounding like the TV series actors. This can also be an example of TheOtherDarrin, but it's an easy example of this trope. It should be noted, though, that by the time Funimation finally dubbed the first movie (they'd previously been unable to because of rights issues, since the previous studio that released the edited dub retained them for the longest time), most of the voice cast for the TV series dub had long since left, and the replacement voice actors had already been doing the roles in other dubs as well as the recent video games. And that doesn't even count the original characters created for the first movie since they weren't even in the TV series anyway.
** Some of the dubs Creator/{{Funimation}} has been doing around 2014-2015 have been accused of this, being full of inaccurate dialogue, poor voice direction, forced humor where there was none in the original script and random pop-culture references that do little but date the scripts, all in an effort to get the dubs out as fast as possible. Probably one of the biggest examples of Funi not caring though is, in the ''VisualNovel/DanganRonpa'' anime dub, Komaru (who's actually Makoto's younger sister) refers to Naegi as "little bro". Apparently, not only did no one check the original script, but they also didn't reference the original game, which has been out in America ''for over a year''.
** Relating to the above, Funi couldn't actually be bothered with getting the already available dub cast for ''VisualNovel/DanganRonpa'' and instead did an in-house dub with only Creator/BrycePapenbrook returning. According to Creator/KaijiTang and Creator/ErinFitzgerald, the dub cast for the game wasn't even contacted, and many didn't even know a dub for the anime ''was'' happening.
* The ''Anime/GhostStories'' anime's plot was supposedly so dumb, the dubbers were allowed to just go wild. What followed is considered one of the best {{gag dub}}s ever made.
* There's ''[[VideoGame/TheIdolmaster The Idolmaster Live For You]]'' OVA, which has problems consisting of a short length, three of its seventeen minutes devoted to an intro song, focusing mostly on Haruka, Miki, and Chihaya, leaving everyone else greatly OutOfFocus, [[OffModel problems with the animation]] and shortcuts taken with it (such as characters talking with their backs turned), and fails to show an actual concert. A good way to put it, as an online comparison between the two indicated, while ''Anime/IdolmasterXenoglossia'' strayed from the source material, it can be considered far ''better'' than the ''Live For You'' OVA. The only thing that it really has over ''Xenoglossia'' is being faithful to the games.