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->''"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!"''
-->--'''Homer Simpson''', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E21ThePTADisbands "The PTA Disbands"]]
The lighting is so bad you can see the shadow of the boom-mike on the wall. The zippers and seams are visible on the PeopleInRubberSuits. The editing looks like someone playing with the wipe feature on Windows Movie Maker. There are times when you really start to wonder what is going wrong with a movie; in theory, they should be trying to make the best product they can.
But that's not what happens. A strange combination of the lack of money, time, expertise, enthusiasm and/or optimism, and simple ''talent'' sabotages the production. The creators were completely apathetic, and they [[WordOfGod admit it]].
Examples for this trope are all about the production values. It is possible to be apathetic to other aspects of making a story, but we have another set of tropes for that.
Also worth remembering is that while the quality of any work given as an example has likely suffered horribly from its makers' apathy, this apathy itself is not necessarily all bad. As many an artist and writer can testify, any work for which the publisher's editors and executives have a complete lack of concern can be an opportunity for the creator to put whatever he or she wants in it, as their superiors' apathy provides a kind of ''de facto'' ProtectionFromEditors. From a business perspective, [[AudienceAlienatingPremise some works simply have no target audience]], or sometimes the concept underlying them [[SoBadItsHorrible is just so bad]] that no one should ever have approved any budget or other resources for its creation in the first place. When such an abomination makes its way down to the production crew, sympathetic souls in middle management [[ExecutiveMeddling will often warn everyone involved]] not to waste too much talent or money making it. On the critics' end, works for which even the creators showed no concern can have some NarmCharm, be SoBadItsGood, or at least inspire some BileFascination.
Compare StylisticSuck, ArtisticLicense, and WhoWritesThisCrap. Contrast DevelopersForesight and DoingItForTheArt.
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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 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.
* 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. [[WordOfGod Michael Haigney]], who also produced the dub of Pokemon, in addition to ''Sonic X'', stated, "I've never played the game, seen the series or read the comics." being the reason for the lack of research.
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* In an in-universe example, the LemonyNarrator of ''FanFic/EquestriaAHistoryRevealed'', 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).
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* ''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. Greg's own book about the production of the film, ''Literature/TheDisasterArtist'' chronicles this.
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* InUniverse example in the ''Website/CollegeHumor'' video "[[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/7040006/the-new-iphone-is-just-worse The New iPhone is Just Worse]]", where the narrator praises the "innovation" of removing features for allowing them to leave work early.
-->''I wanted to make it an impenetrable glass brick, but Tim said no.''
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* 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, forcing Stimpy to shave logs for animation cels, etc.. 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.
* Donald F. Glut has stated in many interviews over the years that he had little regards for his work as a writer for 80's cartoons (the little-seen syndicated ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' series excepted), saying he often submitted first drafts as final scripts and that he did them [[MoneyDearBoy purely for the $$$]].
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->''"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!"''
-->--'''Homer Simpson''', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E21ThePTADisbands "The PTA Disbands"]]
The lighting is so bad you can see the shadow of the boom-mike on the wall. The zippers and seams are visible on the PeopleInRubberSuits. The editing looks like someone playing with the wipe feature on Windows Movie Maker. There are times when you really start to wonder what is going wrong with a movie; in theory, they should be trying to make the best product they can.
But that's not what happens. A strange combination of the lack of money, time, expertise, enthusiasm and/or optimism, and simple ''talent'' sabotages the production. The creators were completely apathetic, and they [[WordOfGod admit it]].
Examples for this trope are all about the production values. It is possible to be apathetic to other aspects of making a story, but we have another set of tropes for that.
Also worth remembering is that while the quality of any work given as an example has likely suffered horribly from its makers' apathy, this apathy itself is not necessarily all bad. As many an artist and writer can testify, any work for which the publisher's editors and executives have a complete lack of concern can be an opportunity for the creator to put whatever he or she wants in it, as their superiors' apathy provides a kind of ''de facto'' ProtectionFromEditors. From a business perspective, [[AudienceAlienatingPremise some works simply have no target audience]], or sometimes the concept underlying them [[SoBadItsHorrible is just so bad]] that no one should ever have approved any budget or other resources for its creation in the first place. When such an abomination makes its way down to the production crew, sympathetic souls in middle management [[ExecutiveMeddling will often warn everyone involved]] not to waste too much talent or money making it. On the critics' end, works for which even the creators showed no concern can have some NarmCharm, be SoBadItsGood, or at least inspire some BileFascination.
Compare StylisticSuck, ArtisticLicense, and WhoWritesThisCrap. Contrast DevelopersForesight and DoingItForTheArt.
'''Due to a revised definition, all examples that are not InUniverse require WordOfGod ''confirming'' that the creators didn't care.'''
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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 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.
* 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. [[WordOfGod Michael Haigney]], who also produced the dub of Pokemon, in addition to ''Sonic X'', stated, "I've never played the game, seen the series or read the comics." being the reason for the lack of research.
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* In an in-universe example, the LemonyNarrator of ''FanFic/EquestriaAHistoryRevealed'', 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).
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* ''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. Greg's own book about the production of the film, ''Literature/TheDisasterArtist'' chronicles this.
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* InUniverse example in the ''Website/CollegeHumor'' video "[[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/7040006/the-new-iphone-is-just-worse The New iPhone is Just Worse]]", where the narrator praises the "innovation" of removing features for allowing them to leave work early.
-->''I wanted to make it an impenetrable glass brick, but Tim said no.''
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* 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, forcing Stimpy to shave logs for animation cels, etc.. 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.
* Donald F. Glut has stated in many interviews over the years that he had little regards for his work as a writer for 80's cartoons (the little-seen syndicated ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' series excepted), saying he often submitted first drafts as final scripts and that he did them [[MoneyDearBoy purely for the $$$]].
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->''"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!"''
-->--'''Homer Simpson''', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E21ThePTADisbands "The PTA Disbands"]]
The lighting is so bad you can see the shadow of the boom-mike on the wall. The zippers and seams are visible on the PeopleInRubberSuits. The editing looks like someone playing with the wipe feature on Windows Movie Maker. There are times when you really start to wonder what is going wrong with a movie; in theory, they should be trying to make the best product they can.
But that's not what happens. A strange combination of the lack of money, time, expertise, enthusiasm and/or optimism, and simple ''talent'' sabotages the production. The creators were completely apathetic, and they [[WordOfGod admit it]].
Examples for this trope are all about the production values. It is possible to be apathetic to other aspects of making a story, but we have another set of tropes for that.
Also worth remembering is that while the quality of any work given as an example has likely suffered horribly from its makers' apathy, this apathy itself is not necessarily all bad. As many an artist and writer can testify, any work for which the publisher's editors and executives have a complete lack of concern can be an opportunity for the creator to put whatever he or she wants in it, as their superiors' apathy provides a kind of ''de facto'' ProtectionFromEditors. From a business perspective, [[AudienceAlienatingPremise some works simply have no target audience]], or sometimes the concept underlying them [[SoBadItsHorrible is just so bad]] that no one should ever have approved any budget or other resources for its creation in the first place. When such an abomination makes its way down to the production crew, sympathetic souls in middle management [[ExecutiveMeddling will often warn everyone involved]] not to waste too much talent or money making it. On the critics' end, works for which even the creators showed no concern can have some NarmCharm, be SoBadItsGood, or at least inspire some BileFascination.
Compare StylisticSuck, ArtisticLicense, and WhoWritesThisCrap. Contrast DevelopersForesight and DoingItForTheArt.
'''Due to a revised definition, all examples that are not InUniverse require WordOfGod ''confirming'' that the creators didn't care.'''
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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 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.
* 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. [[WordOfGod Michael Haigney]], who also produced the dub of Pokemon, in addition to ''Sonic X'', stated, "I've never played the game, seen the series or read the comics." being the reason for the lack of research.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Fan Works]]
* In an in-universe example, the LemonyNarrator of ''FanFic/EquestriaAHistoryRevealed'', 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).
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* ''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. Greg's own book about the production of the film, ''Literature/TheDisasterArtist'' chronicles this.
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* InUniverse example in the ''Website/CollegeHumor'' video "[[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/7040006/the-new-iphone-is-just-worse The New iPhone is Just Worse]]", where the narrator praises the "innovation" of removing features for allowing them to leave work early.
-->''I wanted to make it an impenetrable glass brick, but Tim said no.''
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* 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, forcing Stimpy to shave logs for animation cels, etc.. 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.
* Donald F. Glut has stated in many interviews over the years that he had little regards for his work as a writer for 80's cartoons (the little-seen syndicated ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' series excepted), saying he often submitted first drafts as final scripts and that he did them [[MoneyDearBoy purely for the $$$]].
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* Parodied in the ''Website/CollegeHumor'' video "[[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/7040006/the-new-iphone-is-just-worse The New iPhone is Just Worse]]", where the narrator praises the "innovation" of removing features for allowing them to leave work early.
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* DiscussedTrope: ''WebVideo/SailorMoonAbridged'' has the title protagonist fight a tennis-themed monster, who throws a ball at her and causes 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.
-->'''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.
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* A DiscussedTrope in ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'':
** The former TropeNamer is a repeated phrase during the segment of Episode 418 -- ''Film/AttackOfTheTheEyeCreatures'' [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''.
** 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'."
* A DiscussedTrope in ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'':
** The former TropeNamer is a repeated phrase during the segment of Episode 418 -- ''Film/AttackOfTheTheEyeCreatures'' [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''.
** 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'."
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** 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'."
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* ''VideoGame/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'' is a famous example of They Just Didn't Care attitude being responsible for bringing down an entire company, Creator/{{Atari}}. After Atari's parent company Warner had paid 21 million dollars for licensing [[Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial the movie]], Atari executives wanted the game to be available for Christmas market of that year, 1982. This gave its programmer Howard Scott Warshaw [[ChristmasRushed an incredibly tight deadline]]. He had to write the game in just six weeks, which even then was a ridiculously short time; Warshaw's previous two games had taken six and seven months to finish. In the documentary movie ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3715406/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1a Atari: Game Over]]'', he openly admits that the tight schedule resulted in a subpar product. The game was a huge flop that caused Atari to lose millions of dollars, and [[UsefulNotes/TheGreatVideoGameCrashOf1983 the rest is history]].
* ''VideoGame/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'' is a famous example of They Just Didn't Care attitude being responsible for bringing down an entire company, Creator/{{Atari}}. After Atari's parent company Warner had paid 21 million dollars for licensing [[Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial the movie]], Atari executives wanted the game to be available for Christmas market of that year, 1982. This gave its programmer Howard Scott Warshaw [[ChristmasRushed an incredibly tight deadline]]. He had to write the game in just six weeks, which even then was a ridiculously short time; Warshaw's previous two games had taken six and seven months to finish. In the documentary movie ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3715406/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1a Atari: Game Over]]'', he openly admits that the tight schedule resulted in a subpar product. The game was a huge flop that caused Atari to lose millions of dollars, and [[UsefulNotes/TheGreatVideoGameCrashOf1983 the rest is history]].
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* DiscussedTrope: 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".
* Parodied in the ''Website/CollegeHumor'' video "[[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/7040006/the-new-iphone-is-just-worse The New iPhone is Just Worse]]", where the narrator praises the "innovation" of removing features for allowing them to leave work early.
-->''I wanted to make it an impenetrable glass brick, but Tim said no.''
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* 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, forcing Stimpy to shave logs for animation cels, etc.. 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.
* Donald F. Glut has stated in many interviews over the years that he had little regards for his work as a writer for 80's cartoons (the little-seen syndicated ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' series excepted), saying he often submitted first drafts as final scripts and that he did them [[MoneyDearBoy purely for the $$$]].
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* A DiscussedTrope in ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', the TropeNamer:
** The TropeNamer is a repeated phrase during the segment of Episode 418 -- ''Film/AttackOfTheTheEyeCreatures'' [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''.
** The TropeNamer is a repeated phrase during the segment of Episode 418 -- ''Film/AttackOfTheTheEyeCreatures'' [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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* A DiscussedTrope in ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', the TropeNamer:
''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'':
** The former TropeNamer is a repeated phrase during the segment of Episode 418 -- ''Film/AttackOfTheTheEyeCreatures'' [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''.
** The former TropeNamer is a repeated phrase during the segment of Episode 418 -- ''Film/AttackOfTheTheEyeCreatures'' [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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But that's not what happens. A strange combination of the lack of money, time, expertise, enthusiasm and/or optimism, and simple ''talent'' sabotages the production. This is when the production values of a work are just so far below what should be expected that you can't help but figure that the creators didn't even care. They were completely apathetic.
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But that's not what happens. A strange combination of the lack of money, time, expertise, enthusiasm and/or optimism, and simple ''talent'' sabotages the production. This is when the production values of a work are just so far below what should be expected that you can't help but figure that the The creators didn't even care. They were completely apathetic.
apathetic, and they [[WordOfGod admit it]].
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But that's not what happens. A strange combination of the lack of money, time, expertise, enthusiasm and/or optimism, and simple ''talent'' sabotages the production. This is when the production values of a work are just so far below what should be expected that you can't help but figure that "They Just Didn't Care."
The trope name can be used as a {{stock phrase|s}}, something that can be applied to a wide variety of issues. Examples for this trope are all about the production values. It is possible to "Just Not Care" in regards to other aspects of making a story, but we have another set of tropes for that.
The trope name can be used as a {{stock phrase|s}}, something that can be applied to a wide variety of issues. Examples for this trope are all about the production values. It is possible to "Just Not Care" in regards to other aspects of making a story, but we have another set of tropes for that.
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But that's not what happens. A strange combination of the lack of money, time, expertise, enthusiasm and/or optimism, and simple ''talent'' sabotages the production. This is when the production values of a work are just so far below what should be expected that you can't help but figure that "They Just Didn't Care."
The trope name can be used as a {{stock phrase|s}}, something that can be applied to a wide variety of issues.the creators didn't even care. They were completely apathetic.
Examples for this trope are all about the production values. It is possible to"Just Not Care" in regards be apathetic to other aspects of making a story, but we have another set of tropes for that.
The trope name can be used as a {{stock phrase|s}}, something that can be applied to a wide variety of issues.
Examples for this trope are all about the production values. It is possible to
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Compare StylisticSuck. Contrast DevelopersForesight and DoingItForTheArt.
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Compare StylisticSuck.StylisticSuck and ArtisticLicense. Contrast DevelopersForesight and DoingItForTheArt.
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!!Related tropes include:
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* ChristmasRushed
* ClumsyCopyrightCensorship
* CutAndPasteTranslation
* DigitalDestruction
* NoDubForYou (particularly, when one season of an anime is already dubbed, but the rest of the series is not)
* ObviousBeta
* OffModel
* PortingDisaster
* SpecialEffectFailure
* TyopOnTheCover
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[[index]]
* ChristmasRushed
* ClumsyCopyrightCensorship
* CutAndPasteTranslation
* DigitalDestruction
* NoDubForYou (particularly, when one season of an anime is already dubbed, but the rest of the series is not)
* ObviousBeta
* OffModel
* PortingDisaster
* SpecialEffectFailure
* TyopOnTheCover
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-->''I wanted to make it an impenetrable glass brick, but Tim said no.''
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* Parodied in the ''Website/CollegeHumor'' video "[[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/7040006/the-new-iphone-is-just-worse The New iPhone is Just Worse]]", where the narrator praises the "innovation" of removing features for allowing them to leave work early.
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Contrast DevelopersForesight and DoingItForTheArt.
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Shoehorning.
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* ''Film/{{Beowulf}}'' (2007 film): Director Creator/RobertZemeckis openly expressed his hatred for the poem on which it was based, so all the nuance and meaning of the poem is completely ignored, radically changing the story and essentially making it an InNameOnly adaptation.
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* ''Film/{{Beowulf}}'' (2007 film): Director Creator/RobertZemeckis openly expressed his hatred for the poem on which it was based, so all the nuance and meaning of the poem is completely ignored, radically changing the story and essentially making it an InNameOnly adaptation.
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Require creator admitting they didn't care.
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* ''[[http://www.newgrounds.com/collection/collegeuniversity College University]]'' features a green alien named Gorp. Though he was recolored gray on the DVD version, characters still say he's green.
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* NoDubForYou (particularly, when one season is already dubbed, but the rest of the series is not)
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* ''College University'' features a green alien named Gorp. Though he was recolored gray on the DVD version, characters still say he's green.
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* ''College University'' ''[[http://www.newgrounds.com/collection/collegeuniversity College University]]'' features a green alien named Gorp. Though he was recolored gray on the DVD version, characters still say he's green.
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* ''College University'' features a green alien named Gorp. Though he was recolored gray on the DVD version, characters still say he's green.
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1. Stories aren't Word Of God. 2. What was turned around?
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* Stories from ''VideoGame/Action52'' developers confirmed that the president of Active Entertainment, Vince Perri, turned around the monstrosity in a mere three months with a team of four developers, at least three of whom were just college students. The fact that the game was marketed at $200 was merely the cherry on top, the expectation alone was unrealistic to an extreme degree. To put ''one'' buggy, incomplete, and broken game on sale in that timeframe is already a tall order (as seen with the Atari 2600 [[PortingDisaster rendition]] of ''VideoGame/PacMan'') but this was a compilation of ''fifty-two'' games.
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* Stories from ''VideoGame/Action52'' developers confirmed that the president of Active Entertainment, Vince Perri, turned around the monstrosity in a mere three months with a team of four developers, at least three of whom were just college students. The fact that the game was marketed at $200 was merely the cherry on top, the expectation alone was unrealistic to an extreme degree. To put ''one'' buggy, incomplete, and broken game on sale in that timeframe is already a tall order (as seen with the Atari 2600 [[PortingDisaster rendition]] of ''VideoGame/PacMan'') but this was a compilation of ''fifty-two'' games.
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*Donald F. Glut has stated in many interviews over the years that he had little regards for his work as a writer for 80's cartoons (the little-seen syndicated ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' series excepted), saying he often submitted first drafts as final scripts and that he did them [[MoneyDearBoy purely for the $$$]].
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* ''VideoGame/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'' is a famous example of They Just Didn't Care attitude being partially responsible for bringing down an entire company, Creator/{{Atari}}. After Atari's parent company Warner had paid 21 million dollars for licensing [[Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial the movie]], Atari executives wanted the game to be available for Christmas market of that year, 1982. This gave its programmer Howard Scott Warshaw [[ChristmasRushed an incredibly tight deadline]]. He had to write the game in just six weeks, which even then was a ridiculously short time; Warshaw's previous two games had taken six and seven months to finish. In the documentary movie ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3715406/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1a Atari: Game Over]]'', he openly admits that the tight schedule resulted in a subpar product. The game was a huge flop that caused Atari to lose millions of dollars, and [[UsefulNotes/TheGreatVideoGameCrashOf1983 the rest is history]].
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* ''VideoGame/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'' is a famous example of They Just Didn't Care attitude being partially responsible for bringing down an entire company, Creator/{{Atari}}. After Atari's parent company Warner had paid 21 million dollars for licensing [[Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial the movie]], Atari executives wanted the game to be available for Christmas market of that year, 1982. This gave its programmer Howard Scott Warshaw [[ChristmasRushed an incredibly tight deadline]]. He had to write the game in just six weeks, which even then was a ridiculously short time; Warshaw's previous two games had taken six and seven months to finish. In the documentary movie ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3715406/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1a Atari: Game Over]]'', he openly admits that the tight schedule resulted in a subpar product. The game was a huge flop that caused Atari to lose millions of dollars, and [[UsefulNotes/TheGreatVideoGameCrashOf1983 the rest is history]].
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* ''VideoGame/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'' is a famous example of They Just Didn't Care attitude being partially responsible for bringing down an entire company, Creator/{{Atari}}. After Atari's parent company Warner had paid 21 million dollars for licensing [[Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial the movie]], Atari executives wanted the game to be available for Christmas market of that year, 1982. This gave its programmer Howard Scott Warshaw [[ChristmasRushed an incredibly tight deadline]]. He had to write the game in just six weeks, which even then was a ridiculously short time; Warshaw's previous two games had taken six and seven months to finish. In the documentary movie ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3715406/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1a Atari: Game Over]]'', he openly admits that the tight schedule resulted in a subpar product. The game was a huge flop that caused Atari to lose million of dollars, and [[UsefulNotes/TheGreatVideoGameCrashOf1983 the rest is history]].
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* ''VideoGame/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'' is a famous example of They Just Didn't Care attitude being partially responsible for bringing down an entire company, Creator/{{Atari}}. After Atari's parent company Warner had paid 21 million dollars for licensing [[Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial the movie]], Atari executives wanted the game to be available for Christmas market of that year, 1982. This gave its programmer Howard Scott Warshaw [[ChristmasRushed an incredibly tight deadline]]. He had to write the game in just six weeks, which even then was a ridiculously short time; Warshaw's previous two games had taken six and seven months to finish. In the documentary movie ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3715406/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1a Atari: Game Over]]'', he openly admits that the tight schedule resulted in a subpar product. The game was a huge flop that caused Atari to lose million millions of dollars, and [[UsefulNotes/TheGreatVideoGameCrashOf1983 the rest is history]].
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* ''VideoGame/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'' is a famous example of They Just Didn't Care attitude being partially responsible for bringing down an entire company, Creator/{{Atari}}. After Atari's parent company Warner had paid 21 million dollars for licensing [[Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial the movie]], Atari executives wanted the game to be available for Christmas market of that year, 1982. This gave its programmer, Howard Scott Warshaw, [[ChristmasRushed an incredibly tight deadline]]. He had to write the game in just six weeks, which even then was a ridiculously short time; Warshaw's previous two games had taken six and seven months to finish. In the documentary movie ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3715406/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1a Atari: Game Over]]'', he openly admits that the tight schedule resulted in a subpar product. The game was a huge flop that caused Atari to lose million of dollars, and [[UsefulNotes/TheGreatVideoGameCrashOf1983 the rest is history]].
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* ''VideoGame/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'' is a famous example of They Just Didn't Care attitude being partially responsible for bringing down an entire company, Creator/{{Atari}}. After Atari's parent company Warner had paid 21 million dollars for licensing [[Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial the movie]], Atari executives wanted the game to be available for Christmas market of that year, 1982. This gave its programmer, programmer Howard Scott Warshaw, Warshaw [[ChristmasRushed an incredibly tight deadline]]. He had to write the game in just six weeks, which even then was a ridiculously short time; Warshaw's previous two games had taken six and seven months to finish. In the documentary movie ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3715406/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1a Atari: Game Over]]'', he openly admits that the tight schedule resulted in a subpar product. The game was a huge flop that caused Atari to lose million of dollars, and [[UsefulNotes/TheGreatVideoGameCrashOf1983 the rest is history]].
