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* From Fujian and Chaoshan in China, there is the ''gōngfū chá'' tradition - literally meaning to make tea with skill, but with the same concept of "kung fu this" that lead to FooFu centuries later. Like the Japanese equivalent; the ritual requires careful selection of the water for its mineral content, precise temperature control, and up to a dozen different utensils. [[SeriousBusiness All to make little cups of tea]].
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* From Fujian and Chaoshan in China, there is the ''gōngfū chá'' tradition - literally meaning to make tea with skill, but with the same concept of "kung fu this" that lead led to FooFu centuries later. Like the Japanese equivalent; the ritual requires careful selection of the water for its mineral content, precise temperature control, and up to a dozen different utensils. [[SeriousBusiness All to make little cups of tea]].
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* From Fujian and Chaoshan in China, there is the ''gōngfū chá'' tradition - literally meaning to make tea with skill, but with the same concept of "kung fu this" that lead to FooFu centuries later. Like the Japanese equivalent; the ritual requires careful selection of the water for its mineral content, precise temperature control, and an up to a dozen different utensils. [[SeriousBusiness All to make little cups of tea]].
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* From Fujian and Chaoshan in China, there is the ''gōngfū chá'' tradition - literally meaning to make tea with skill, but with the same concept of "kung fu this" that lead to FooFu centuries later. Like the Japanese equivalent; the ritual requires careful selection of the water for its mineral content, precise temperature control, and an up to a dozen different utensils. [[SeriousBusiness All to make little cups of tea]].
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* From Fujian and Chaoshan in China, there is the ''gōngfū chá'' tradition - literally meaning to make tea with skill, but with the same concept of "kung fu this" that lead to FooFu centuries later. Like the Japanese equivalent; the ritual requires careful selection of the water for its mineral content, precise temperature control, and an up to a dozen different utensils. [[SeriousBusiness All to make little cups of tea]].
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* Michelangelo illustrated [[http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/michelangelos-hand-drawn-grocery-list_b81242 his grocery lists]].
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* Michelangelo illustrated [[http://www.[[https://web.archive.org/web/20131230170233/http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/michelangelos-hand-drawn-grocery-list_b81242 his grocery lists]].
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** [[Literature/{{Discworld}} You can't hurry a good cuppa]].
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* Does [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5FzCeV0ZFc Howard Dean]] count?
** [[MemeticMutation BWAAAAGH!]]
** Only in the way it was covered, not anything he did. As Diane Sawyer pointed out, you couldn't even hear him over the enthusiastic cheers of his supporters. It was only when the "news" people stripped out the crowd's voices that his yell seemed weird and out of place. Anybody who was there could attest to the truth of this.
** [[MemeticMutation BWAAAAGH!]]
** Only in the way it was covered, not anything he did. As Diane Sawyer pointed out, you couldn't even hear him over the enthusiastic cheers of his supporters. It was only when the "news" people stripped out the crowd's voices that his yell seemed weird and out of place. Anybody who was there could attest to the truth of this.
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* Every single word spoken by Don [=LaFontaine=], aka the original [[InAWorld Trailer Voice Guy]], ever. The man could make ordering a burger at [=McDonalds=] sound like the ultimate battle for the fate of the world. (''"InAWorld where burgers are grilled, one man will rise to fight...for the fate of a cheeseburger.''") [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQRtuxdfQHw Witness for yourself]] what happens when you put Don and four other famous Voiceover Guys in a limousine and tell them to drive to an awards show. R.I.P, Don, the world is a less Awesome place without you.
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* Every single word spoken by Don [=LaFontaine=], Creator/DonLaFontaine, aka the original [[InAWorld Trailer Voice Guy]], ever. The man could make ordering a burger at [=McDonalds=] sound like the ultimate battle for the fate of the world. (''"InAWorld where burgers are grilled, one man will rise to fight...for the fate of a cheeseburger.''") [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQRtuxdfQHw Witness for yourself]] what happens when you put Don and four other famous Voiceover Guys in a limousine and tell them to drive to an awards show. R.I.P, Don, the world is a less Awesome place without you.
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** [[ItMakesSenseInContext Some background is perhaps necessary.]] The tree was in such a place that it isolated a border observation post from being seen by the next closest one. This lack of visibility meant that something could happen to the soldiers at that post if it were taken by surprise without their neighbors able to see they needed help. At first a handful of Korean workers and American troops went to trim the tree but were confronted by North Korean soldiers who claimed that the tree had been planted by Kim Il-Sung and thus shouldn't be cut. Things escalated into a confrontation in which two American soldiers died. Operation Paul Bunyan was partially to deal with the original problem of the tree, and mostly to make a [[GunboatDiplomacy very clear threat to the North Koreans]] about what would happen if they tried any more shenanigans.
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** [[ItMakesSenseInContext Some background is perhaps necessary.]] The tree was in such a place that it isolated a border observation post from being seen by the next closest one. This lack of visibility meant that something could happen to the soldiers at that post if it were taken by surprise without their neighbors able to see they needed help. At first a handful of Korean workers and American troops went to trim the tree but were confronted by North Korean soldiers who claimed that the tree had been planted by Kim Il-Sung and thus shouldn't be cut. Things escalated into a confrontation in which two American soldiers died. Operation Paul Bunyan was partially to deal with the original problem of the tree, and mostly to make a [[GunboatDiplomacy very clear threat to the North Koreans]] about what would happen if they tried any more shenanigans. It worked; not only did they cut down the tree, but North Korea also suddenly laid off the NeverMyFault rhetoric and quit dragging their feet on apologizing.
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** [[ItMakesSenseInContext Some background is perhaps necessary.]] The tree was in such a place that it isolated a border observation post from being seen by the next closest one. This lack of visibility meant that something could happen to the soldiers at that post if it were taken by surprise without their neighbors able to see they needed help. At first a handful of Korean workers and American troops went to trim the tree, but were attacked by North Korean soldiers, with two American officers being hacked to death by axes. Operation Paul Bunyan was partially to deal with the original problem of the tree, and mostly to make it abundantly clear to the North Koreans that [[GunboatDiplomacy interfering in the operation again would be unacceptable.]]
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** [[ItMakesSenseInContext Some background is perhaps necessary.]] The tree was in such a place that it isolated a border observation post from being seen by the next closest one. This lack of visibility meant that something could happen to the soldiers at that post if it were taken by surprise without their neighbors able to see they needed help. At first a handful of Korean workers and American troops went to trim the tree, tree but were attacked confronted by North Korean soldiers, with soldiers who claimed that the tree had been planted by Kim Il-Sung and thus shouldn't be cut. Things escalated into a confrontation in which two American officers being hacked to death by axes. soldiers died. Operation Paul Bunyan was partially to deal with the original problem of the tree, and mostly to make it abundantly clear to the North Koreans that a [[GunboatDiplomacy interfering in very clear threat to the operation again North Koreans]] about what would be unacceptable.]]happen if they tried any more shenanigans.
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* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reply_of_the_Zaporozhian_Cossacks Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks]] is a painting of a real-life epic StronglyWordedLetter writing (although the latter was a self-conscious parody of the diplomatic etiquette which was [[JustForFunz most likely never sent]]).
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* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reply_of_the_Zaporozhian_Cossacks Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks]] is a painting of a real-life epic StronglyWordedLetter writing (although the latter was a self-conscious parody of the diplomatic etiquette which was [[JustForFunz [[JustForFun most likely never sent]]).
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** Brian Blessed is ''exactly'' that awesome. A short read about [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_blessed his life]] is like the cliff-notes version of a Norse saga or something.
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** Brian Blessed is ''exactly'' that awesome. A short read about [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_blessed his life]] is like the cliff-notes CliffsNotes version of a Norse saga or something.
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** The tea ceremony has ''degrees'' just as like martial arts.
** Japan tends to make ''anything'' into ritualized awesome art: gardening, eating,...
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** Japan tends to make ''anything'' into ritualized awesome art: gardening,
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* The Pastry War -- whose name itself is a demonstration of this trope -- was a conflict between the Kingdom of France and the United Mexican States which engulfed both the Republic of Texas and the United States. The entire Mexican navy was captured by French forces and the war lead to former dictator Antonio López de Santa Anna resuming his position as President of Mexico. Santa Anna's autocratic regime caused Mexico to disintegrate and contributed to Texas becoming annexed by the USA. How did this war arise? Because the Mexican Government [[SeriousBusiness refused to pay compensation to a French baker whose shop had been looted by Mexican officers]] ''[[SeriousBusiness ten years earlier]]''.[[note]]Although the files in both France and Mexico never mention the existance of said French Baker.[[/note]]
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* The Pastry War -- whose name itself is a demonstration of this trope -- was a conflict between the Kingdom of France and the United Mexican States which engulfed both the Republic of Texas and the United States. The entire Mexican navy was captured by French forces and the war lead to former dictator Antonio López de Santa Anna resuming his position as President of Mexico. Santa Anna's autocratic regime caused Mexico to disintegrate and contributed to Texas becoming annexed by the USA. How did this war arise? Because the Mexican Government [[SeriousBusiness refused to pay compensation to a French baker whose shop had been looted by Mexican officers]] ''[[SeriousBusiness ten years earlier]]''.[[note]]Although the files in both France and Mexico never mention the existance existence of said French Baker.[[/note]]
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* The Brazilian carnival is decided with a vote count two days after the parades. While in sports such as gymnastics they just show the grades after the performance, in carnival's case a deep-voiced announcer reads aloud every grade the 12 "samba schools" had - 10 categories, each with 4 judges (and like with sports, the lowest one is dropped from the count). And by the last categories, you can hear the glee of the schools' supporters with each "TEN!". In the case of the biggest ones in Creator/RioDeJaneiro and UsefulNotes/SaoPaulo, said count is ''broadcast nationally'' - that's right, Brazil's biggest network dedicates two hours of programming (each!) to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLOq1_nuaiI a guy reading grades aloud]].
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* The Brazilian carnival is decided with a vote count two days after the parades. While in sports such as gymnastics they just show the grades after the performance, in carnival's case a deep-voiced announcer reads aloud every grade the 12 "samba schools" had - 10 categories, each with 4 judges (and like with sports, the lowest one is dropped from the count). And by the last categories, you can hear the glee of the schools' supporters with each "TEN!". In the case of the biggest ones in Creator/RioDeJaneiro Usefulnotes/RioDeJaneiro and UsefulNotes/SaoPaulo, said count is ''broadcast nationally'' - that's right, Brazil's biggest network dedicates two hours of programming (each!) to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLOq1_nuaiI a guy reading grades aloud]].
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* The Brazilian carnival is decided with a vote count two days after the parades. While in sports such as gymnastics they just show the grades after the performance, in carnival's case a deep-voiced announcer reads aloud every grade the 12 "samba schools" had - 10 categories, each with 4 judges (and like with sports, the lowest one is dropped from the count). And by the last categories, you can hear the glee of the schools' supporters with each "TEN!". In the case of the biggest ones in Rio and UsefulNotes/SaoPaulo, said count is ''broadcast nationally'' - that's right, Brazil's biggest network dedicates two hours of programming (each!) to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLOq1_nuaiI a guy reading grades aloud]].
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* The Brazilian carnival is decided with a vote count two days after the parades. While in sports such as gymnastics they just show the grades after the performance, in carnival's case a deep-voiced announcer reads aloud every grade the 12 "samba schools" had - 10 categories, each with 4 judges (and like with sports, the lowest one is dropped from the count). And by the last categories, you can hear the glee of the schools' supporters with each "TEN!". In the case of the biggest ones in Rio Creator/RioDeJaneiro and UsefulNotes/SaoPaulo, said count is ''broadcast nationally'' - that's right, Brazil's biggest network dedicates two hours of programming (each!) to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLOq1_nuaiI a guy reading grades aloud]].
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* Fans of the Creator/TakarazukaRevue has specific rules for their equivalent of Western theatre "stage-dooring" [[note]]meeting theatre actors before and/or after a show[[/note]]. In the West, it's mostly a relaxed affair with performers and fans milling alongside each other, giving autographs, chatting, and taking photos. On Broadway, there's sometimes a barrier between fans and actors. As for Takarazuka? Well. It's called ''irimachi'' and ''demachi'' (seeing actors walk in and walk out of the theatre, respectively). It can be shocking to people who do not know Takarazuka well. Fans are not allowed to talk to the actresses, and must wait quietly in a neat line. Members of actresses' fanclubs are given priority at the very front of the line, and there's rules regarding the order to line up for fan club members as well, based on the seniority of the actresses. About a week to ten days before a particular Takarasienne leaves Takarazuka, many fans dress in all white. Sometimes, the actresses give a speech to the assembled fans.
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* Fans of the Creator/TakarazukaRevue has specific rules for their equivalent of Western theatre "stage-dooring" [[note]]meeting theatre actors before and/or after a show[[/note]]. In the West, it's mostly a relaxed affair with performers and fans milling alongside each other, giving autographs, chatting, and taking photos. On Broadway, there's sometimes a barrier between fans and actors. As for Takarazuka? Well. It's called ''irimachi'' and ''demachi'' (seeing actors walk in and walk out of the theatre, respectively). It can be shocking to people who do not know Takarazuka well. Fans are not allowed to talk to the actresses, and must wait quietly in a neat line. Members of actresses' fanclubs are given priority at the very front of the line, and there's rules regarding the order to line up for fan club members as well, based on the seniority of the actresses. About a week to ten days before a particular Takarasienne leaves Takarazuka, many fans dress in all white. Sometimes, the actresses give a speech to the assembled fans.
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* The interface to Apple's [[http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/timemachine.html Time Machine]] backup software. A backup program is one thing, but a backup program that features a series of windows receding into the background to indicate which backup you're restoring from, all over a painstakingly rendered animated star-field backdrop, that's Epic right there. At the time of this edit, Apple had neither confirmed nor denied that the next version would play Strauss's ''Also sprach Zarathustra'' while in operation.
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* The Pastry War -- whose name itself is a demonstration of this trope -- was a conflict between the Kingdom of France and the United Mexican States which engulfed both the Republic of Texas and the United States. The entire Mexican navy was captured by French forces and the war lead to former dictator Antonio López de Santa Anna resuming his position as President of Mexico. Santa Anna's autocratic regime caused Mexico to disintegrate and contributed to Texas becoming annexed by the USA. How did this war arise? Because the Mexican Government [[SeriousBusiness refused to pay compensation to a French baker whose shop had been looted by Mexican officers]] ''[[SeriousBusiness ten years earlier]]''.[[note]]Although the files in both France and Mexico never mention the existance of said French Baker.[[/note]]
** On a similar level: the Football (soccer) War between Honduras and El Salvador[[note]]To be fair, there were already some bad relationship over the status of Salvadorans migrant workers and settled in Honduras being dispossessed to protect the rights of wealthy landowners. The violences at the qualifying rounds for the 1970 World Cup were just what pissed the Salvadorans (who had actually ''won'' the play-off match) enough to attack[[/note]].
** There was also a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_War Toyota War]] between Chad and Libya. The Chadian army used ordinary Toyota pick-up trucks to great effect.
** On the opposite side: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gino_Bartali#1948:_Second_Tour Gino Bartali]] winning the 1948 UsefulNotes/TourDeFrance ''prevented a civil war''.[[note]]Political tensions in Italy in the aftermath of World War II were very high, especially after American pressures caused the government to adopt a heavy-handed anti-Communist stance. Then, on July 14 1948, the Communist leader Palmiro Togliatti was shot by a madman, causing an acute crisis, a general strike and riots... And then Bartali won three stages in a row and conquered a lead in the Tour, and sportive fervor calmed the tensions long enough for Togliatti to come out of the coma and calm the situation, with Bartali then proceeding to win the whole competition.[[/note]]
* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_tea_ceremony Japanese tea ceremony]] would appear to be a simple matter: one person brews some tea and serves it to one or more guests, who accept it with gratitude. In fact the ceremony, ''chadō'', is a staggeringly complex ritual with over a thousand variations which may require a lifetime to master.
** [[Literature/{{Discworld}} You can't hurry a good cuppa]].
** The tea ceremony has ''degrees'' just as like martial arts.
** Japan tends to make ''anything'' into ritualized awesome art: gardening, eating,...
* Fans of the Creator/TakarazukaRevue has specific rules for their equivalent of Western theatre "stage-dooring" [[note]]meeting theatre actors before and/or after a show[[/note]]. In the West, it's mostly a relaxed affair with performers and fans milling alongside each other, giving autographs, chatting, and taking photos. On Broadway, there's sometimes a barrier between fans and actors. As for Takarazuka? Well. It's called ''irimachi'' and ''demachi'' (seeing actors walk in and walk out of the theatre, respectively). It can be shocking to people who do not know Takarazuka well. Fans are not allowed to talk to the actresses, and must wait quietly in a neat line. Members of actresses' fanclubs are given priority at the very front of the line, and there's rules regarding the order to line up for fan club members as well, based on the seniority of the actresses. About a week to ten days before a particular Takarasienne leaves Takarazuka, many fans dress in all white. Sometimes, the actresses give a speech to the assembled fans.
* The interface to Apple's [[http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/timemachine.html Time Machine]] backup software. A backup program is one thing, but a backup program that features a series of windows receding into the background to indicate which backup you're restoring from, all over a painstakingly rendered animated star-field backdrop, that's Epic right there. At the time of this edit, Apple had neither confirmed nor denied that the next version would play Strauss's ''Also sprach Zarathustra'' while in operation.
* A [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Air_Force_Special_Operations_Weather_Technician United States Air Force Special Operations Weather Technician]] What's more mundane than doing the weather report? How about from behind enemy lines!
** They also have [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Air_Force_Combat_Control_Team special forces air traffic controllers.]]
* Does [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5FzCeV0ZFc Howard Dean]] count?
** [[MemeticMutation BWAAAAGH!]]
** Only in the way it was covered, not anything he did. As Diane Sawyer pointed out, you couldn't even hear him over the enthusiastic cheers of his supporters. It was only when the "news" people stripped out the crowd's voices that his yell seemed weird and out of place. Anybody who was there could attest to the truth of this.
* A piece of music called (depending on the variant) either "Entry of the Gladiators" or "Thunder and Blazes" ''must'' be pretty awesome, right? [[spoiler: Well, actually, it's the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B0CyOAO8y0 circus clown music]]]].
** Performed by a full military-style band, the music itself ''is'' pretty awesome. That still makes it an example of the trope, though, because the having a big, brassy march as background music for [[spoiler:some guy in whiteface falling on his prat]] is perhaps a ''bit'' over the top.
* Ohhhhhhhhh, the Alcatel [=OmniPCX=] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_exchange phone exchange]] promotional video. What do you do when your engineers fail? You call James Bond to save the day!
* Every single word spoken by Don [=LaFontaine=], aka the original [[InAWorld Trailer Voice Guy]], ever. The man could make ordering a burger at [=McDonalds=] sound like the ultimate battle for the fate of the world. (''"InAWorld where burgers are grilled, one man will rise to fight...for the fate of a cheeseburger.''") [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQRtuxdfQHw Witness for yourself]] what happens when you put Don and four other famous Voiceover Guys in a limousine and tell them to drive to an awards show. R.I.P, Don, the world is a less Awesome place without you.
** "It's never too early... for a ''salad.''" [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4hth2 About 3:01 in this video.]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJMGS7l0wT8 Paula Sala is a real GEICO customer, not an actor. So to help tell her story, we hired that announcer guy from the movies]].
* The Backside of Water at the Jungle Cruise in the Ride/DisneyThemeParks. Some skippers have been known to go off into a massive speech upon approaching it, declaring how incredibly amazing it is. Even the normal spiel generally involves referring to it as "The Eighth Wonder of the Natural World" and announcing [[PunctuatedForEmphasis "The back! Side! Of! WATER!!!"]]
** The skipper will, inevitably, be disappointed to discover that it looks a lot like the front side.
* In an essay in ''Me Talk Pretty One Day'', David Sedaris details his aversion and hatred of computers, and among his complaints is their presence in movie scenes that fall under this trope. "Each tiresome new {{Thriller}} includes some scene in which the hero, trapped by some version of the enemy, runs for his desk in a desperate race against time. Music swells and droplets of sweat rain down onto the keyboard as he sits at his laptop, frantically pawing for answers. It might be different if he were flagging down a passing car or trying to phone for help, but typing, in and of itself, is not an inherently dramatic activity"
* FlairBartending.
* Creator/BillyMays, from the various {{Ridiculously Loud Commercial}}s for cleaning products he's done (RIP Beardman).
** Also the [[Creator/VinceOffer ShamWow guy]]. [[{{Narm}} His headset puts it over the top.]]
--->"Stop having a boring tuna! [[SeriousBusiness Stop having a boring life!]]"
*** On top of that -- introducing the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWRyj5cHIQA Rap Chop]] (remixed, not original, sadly).
* Zinedine Zidane is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lkOegLzmR8 even more awesome]] with OminousLatinChanting.
* The Physics Department of the University Of Wales has a "Centre for Explosion Studies". That can't really be as cool as it sounds.
** If such a department needs to be made cooler, just see if Creator/MichaelBay is willing to lend a hand.
** Syracuse University has (or had) the Center for Really Neat Research (which most of it really was).
* Several manufacturers of obscure industrial equipment are prone to this. Some people, nightly, have to deal with the terror of working with a machine called the Predator SS... which shrink wraps boxes placed on a pallet. And sometimes must wear a garment called the Revolution XR55, a simple safety harness.
* Creator/BrianBlessed.
** Brian Blessed is ''exactly'' that awesome. A short read about [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_blessed his life]] is like the cliff-notes version of a Norse saga or something.
* Tim Pawlenty kicked off his presidential campaign with two ads that were just made of this trope. Creator/StephenColbert was quick to [[http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/377119/march-10-2011/colbert-pac-ad parody it]].
* Google has recently made a tool called [[https://www.youtube.com/searchstories Search Stories]] which lets you upload videos of Google searches with ''epic camera pans'' and ''epic music'' if you like.
* EXTREME [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf8cM7f6P2I RICE]].
* Extreme [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_ironing IRONING]]. Your whites will ''never'' be starched this way again.
* Apparently a GPS manufacturer created [[http://starwars.tomtom.com/voices/index-starwars.php?Lid=4 an application]] that turns the voice into [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader's]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ljFfL-mL70 A "making of"]] shows how it's a full-fledged example of this trope.
** You can also get Creator/NorioWakamoto to narrate your GPS for you.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JpKuYbJQK4 The Brian Blessed SatNav]]
* UsefulNotes/BorisJohnson explaining the origin of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsFRgIb8mAQ Ping Pong]]
* A new sport from Germany: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsVcMqgQdJo Sporthocking]]...'''EXTREME SITTING!'''
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAJmp_QAdLk Parodied here]].
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L54a6Lao50k Indoor Cycling Gymnastic Championship]]
* As a rule, [[GameMusic music from your favorite video games]] can greatly enhance your life experience. Try playing some of the synth classics or rehashes by The Advantage or The Black Mages while writing a paper or simply ''walking around''. The fact is this genre was intended to make everything you do in games ([[MundaneMadeAwesome shopping, hiking, fighting, talking,]] [[DieChairDie breaking vases]]) infinitely more exciting. This effect naturally translates itself into RealLife.
* CPR... with a ''[[http://wisconsinnewsarticles.com/wisconsin_articles/2005/03/cpr-with-a-toilet-plunger-4620.htm toilet plunger]]''!
* The [[http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi4233010457/ Breaking Dawn Part I]] trailer. Wedding invitations, a ceremony, scenes from a honeymoon, and Bella's DullSurprise scored with OminousLatinChanting.
* T.E. Lawrence wrote about how he once parodied Auda abu Tayi's way of telling stories like this.
--> '' 'This was a close parody of Auda's epic style; and I mimicked also his wave of the hand, his round voice, and the rising and dropping tone which emphasized the points, or what he thought were points, of his pointless stories.' ''\\
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'' 'I told how we left the tents, with a list of the tents, and how we walked down towards the village, describing every camel and horse we saw, and all the passers-by, and the ridges, 'all bare of grazing, for by God that country was barren.' ''\\
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'' 'And we marched: and beyond the what-do-you-call-it there was a what-there-is as far as hereby from thence, and thereafter a ridge: and we came to that ridge, and went up that ridge: it was barren, all that land was barren: and as we came up that ridge, and were by the head of that ridge, and came to the end of the head of that ridge, by God, by my God, by very God, the sun rose upon us!' ''
* [[Creator/TomokazuSugita ORRE]] [[Creator/YuuichiNakamura NO]] [[Creator/TakahiroSakurai CHYUU]] [[Creator/NorioWakamoto DORRE]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNkATKq0bUw DA!?]] Courtesy from them playing a Manga/YuYuHakusho game.
* And now, Creator/AlanRickman [[http://io9.com/5935919/alan-rickman-is-awesome-even-when-hes-making-tea-in-extreme-slow+motion making tea in slow motion]] to the soundtrack to Film/{{Inception}}.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axe_Murder_Incident#Operation_Paul_Bunyan Operation Paul Bunyan]] consisted in chopping down a tree whose position could have sparked a border conflict between the two Koreas without having North Korean soldiers hack to death the choppers as in the first attempt. The Americans sent sixteen combat engineers equipped with [[ChainsawGood chainsaws]], with a direct escort of sixty men armed with pistols and axe handles, an indirect escort including 64 South Korea special forces soldiers armed to the teeth daring the North Koreans to cross the nearby Freedom Bridge, an American [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M728_Combat_Engineer_Vehicle M728 Combat Engineering Vehicle]] ready to blow it up and an American infantry company with twenty utility helicopters and 7 attack helicopters, and support from U.S. B-52 bombers and F-4 fighters and South Koreans F-5 fighters. Then, [[NoKillLikeOverkill just to make sure]], the aircraft carrier ''Midway'' and her task force had been moved in the area, and the whole South Korean military and the American troops in Korea (plus troops from Okinawa) were ready to intervene. The tree was cut without incident.
** [[ItMakesSenseInContext Some background is perhaps necessary.]] The tree was in such a place that it isolated a border observation post from being seen by the next closest one. This lack of visibility meant that something could happen to the soldiers at that post if it were taken by surprise without their neighbors able to see they needed help. At first a handful of Korean workers and American troops went to trim the tree, but were attacked by North Korean soldiers, with two American officers being hacked to death by axes. Operation Paul Bunyan was partially to deal with the original problem of the tree, and mostly to make it abundantly clear to the North Koreans that [[GunboatDiplomacy interfering in the operation again would be unacceptable.]]
* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reply_of_the_Zaporozhian_Cossacks Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks]] is a painting of a real-life epic StronglyWordedLetter writing (although the latter was a self-conscious parody of the diplomatic etiquette which was [[JustForFunz most likely never sent]]).
* Board games. We've come a long way from the days of ''Monopoly'' and ''Snakes and Ladders''. Titles like ''[[http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/87890/pret-a-porter Prêt-à-Porter]]'' or the upcoming ''[[http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/126163/tzolkin-the-mayan-calendar Tzokol'kin]]'' take mundane activities like running a fashion magazine or assigning workers and make them compelling enough for you to want in on the action.
* General relativity made just about everything awesome. For instance, that apple you ate for lunch? E = mc^2 reveals that you just ate something containing ten times more energy than the world's most powerful nuclear bomb.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2_5lkW54Lk Walking Made Awesome]]
** Oh yeah, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA6Tcdw3M98 life will never be the same]]
* You can even play the HomeGame!
** Get your favorite music conveyance such an iPod or CD loaded with "Enterprise Leaves Moorings" from ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'', "Leaving Drydock" from ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'' or "Stealing The Enterprise" from ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock''.
** If necessary, cue it up to the ''right part'' of the music where ''Enterprise'' would be leaving in the film.
** Play it as you start up your car. Backing out of your driveway will ''never'' feel the same again. Cut your grass with it, paint the house, whatever. You'll be ''dying'' to do the chores.
** Parallel park your car while the "[[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey Blue Danube Waltz]]" plays.
** Just about anything by Music/TwoStepsFromHell works. As does a fair amount of Music/ESPosthumus.
*** Along the same vein, Music/{{Sabaton}} makes even doing the dishes awesome.
** Play "[[Music/TheProclaimers I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)]]" next time you take a stroll anywhere.
** Isn't this basically the function of driving music?
* Michelangelo illustrated [[http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/michelangelos-hand-drawn-grocery-list_b81242 his grocery lists]].
* 24 hour sports news channels. Sky Sports News is a particularly JustForFun/{{egregious}} offender. Its overly dramatic theme music and presenters who constantly act excited, even in the off-seasons when ''nothing is happening''.
* The Brazilian carnival is decided with a vote count two days after the parades. While in sports such as gymnastics they just show the grades after the performance, in carnival's case a deep-voiced announcer reads aloud every grade the 12 "samba schools" had - 10 categories, each with 4 judges (and like with sports, the lowest one is dropped from the count). And by the last categories, you can hear the glee of the schools' supporters with each "TEN!". In the case of the biggest ones in Rio and UsefulNotes/SaoPaulo, said count is ''broadcast nationally'' - that's right, Brazil's biggest network dedicates two hours of programming (each!) to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLOq1_nuaiI a guy reading grades aloud]].
* Any kind of macro photography. For example, [[https://polymathically.wordpress.com/2015/04/13/ladybug-droplets/ a ladybug on a wet flower]]. [[https://polymathically.wordpress.com/2015/05/11/weekly-photo-challenge-rusty-nail/ Or a rusty nail]].
* Starting lineups in sports can be just a bland reading of names. Or, you can combine with ThemeMusicPowerUp and a highlight reel for your home team, like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIny_09AIHQ this]]:
--> '''''[[BigEntrance THIS]]''''' [[BigEntrance Is the starting five!]] [[NoIndoorVoice For your Virrggiinniiaaa Cavalieeerrsss!]]
** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] when introducing the line ups for the visiting team. The boredom in the announcer can result in extreme MoodWhiplash.
* The enthusiastic [[http://www.mobygames.com/game/computer-maniacs-1989-diary/cover-art/gameCoverId,390985/ back cover blurb]] for the ''Computer Maniacs 1989 Diary'' software tries its best to make a calendar application sound awesome.
* The Kosciuszko Bridge connecting Brooklyn and Queens in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity was given a new bridge to replace the old one, which was built in the 1930s. The first half of the project was completed on April 27th 2017 and rather than celebrate with just a typical ribbon cutting ceremony, the city went the extra mile by [[http://abc7ny.com/news/new-span-at-kosciuszko-bridge-set-to-open-with-light-show/1921278/ blasting music and showing off the colorful LED lights on the new bridge.]]
* While you're at it, a full Moon night is more appreciated when you think no other Solar System ''planet'' except UsefulNotes/{{Jupiter}} (and for a very narrow margin) has a satellite that appears on its sky so large as ours, and especially not as luminous, as for example the already mentioned Jupiter receives just 1/30th of the sunlight received by Earth.
* Air New Zealand created a ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings''-themed [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOw44VFNk8Y airline safety video]] to celebrate the release of ''Film/TheHobbitTheBattleOfTheFiveArmies''. And you thought those [[Advertising/AirNewZealandSafetyVideos pre-flight videos]] would never ''not'' be boring.
** On a similar level: the Football (soccer) War between Honduras and El Salvador[[note]]To be fair, there were already some bad relationship over the status of Salvadorans migrant workers and settled in Honduras being dispossessed to protect the rights of wealthy landowners. The violences at the qualifying rounds for the 1970 World Cup were just what pissed the Salvadorans (who had actually ''won'' the play-off match) enough to attack[[/note]].
** There was also a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_War Toyota War]] between Chad and Libya. The Chadian army used ordinary Toyota pick-up trucks to great effect.
** On the opposite side: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gino_Bartali#1948:_Second_Tour Gino Bartali]] winning the 1948 UsefulNotes/TourDeFrance ''prevented a civil war''.[[note]]Political tensions in Italy in the aftermath of World War II were very high, especially after American pressures caused the government to adopt a heavy-handed anti-Communist stance. Then, on July 14 1948, the Communist leader Palmiro Togliatti was shot by a madman, causing an acute crisis, a general strike and riots... And then Bartali won three stages in a row and conquered a lead in the Tour, and sportive fervor calmed the tensions long enough for Togliatti to come out of the coma and calm the situation, with Bartali then proceeding to win the whole competition.[[/note]]
* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_tea_ceremony Japanese tea ceremony]] would appear to be a simple matter: one person brews some tea and serves it to one or more guests, who accept it with gratitude. In fact the ceremony, ''chadō'', is a staggeringly complex ritual with over a thousand variations which may require a lifetime to master.
** [[Literature/{{Discworld}} You can't hurry a good cuppa]].
** The tea ceremony has ''degrees'' just as like martial arts.
** Japan tends to make ''anything'' into ritualized awesome art: gardening, eating,...
* Fans of the Creator/TakarazukaRevue has specific rules for their equivalent of Western theatre "stage-dooring" [[note]]meeting theatre actors before and/or after a show[[/note]]. In the West, it's mostly a relaxed affair with performers and fans milling alongside each other, giving autographs, chatting, and taking photos. On Broadway, there's sometimes a barrier between fans and actors. As for Takarazuka? Well. It's called ''irimachi'' and ''demachi'' (seeing actors walk in and walk out of the theatre, respectively). It can be shocking to people who do not know Takarazuka well. Fans are not allowed to talk to the actresses, and must wait quietly in a neat line. Members of actresses' fanclubs are given priority at the very front of the line, and there's rules regarding the order to line up for fan club members as well, based on the seniority of the actresses. About a week to ten days before a particular Takarasienne leaves Takarazuka, many fans dress in all white. Sometimes, the actresses give a speech to the assembled fans.
* The interface to Apple's [[http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/timemachine.html Time Machine]] backup software. A backup program is one thing, but a backup program that features a series of windows receding into the background to indicate which backup you're restoring from, all over a painstakingly rendered animated star-field backdrop, that's Epic right there. At the time of this edit, Apple had neither confirmed nor denied that the next version would play Strauss's ''Also sprach Zarathustra'' while in operation.
* A [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Air_Force_Special_Operations_Weather_Technician United States Air Force Special Operations Weather Technician]] What's more mundane than doing the weather report? How about from behind enemy lines!
** They also have [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Air_Force_Combat_Control_Team special forces air traffic controllers.]]
* Does [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5FzCeV0ZFc Howard Dean]] count?
** [[MemeticMutation BWAAAAGH!]]
** Only in the way it was covered, not anything he did. As Diane Sawyer pointed out, you couldn't even hear him over the enthusiastic cheers of his supporters. It was only when the "news" people stripped out the crowd's voices that his yell seemed weird and out of place. Anybody who was there could attest to the truth of this.
* A piece of music called (depending on the variant) either "Entry of the Gladiators" or "Thunder and Blazes" ''must'' be pretty awesome, right? [[spoiler: Well, actually, it's the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B0CyOAO8y0 circus clown music]]]].
** Performed by a full military-style band, the music itself ''is'' pretty awesome. That still makes it an example of the trope, though, because the having a big, brassy march as background music for [[spoiler:some guy in whiteface falling on his prat]] is perhaps a ''bit'' over the top.
* Ohhhhhhhhh, the Alcatel [=OmniPCX=] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_exchange phone exchange]] promotional video. What do you do when your engineers fail? You call James Bond to save the day!
* Every single word spoken by Don [=LaFontaine=], aka the original [[InAWorld Trailer Voice Guy]], ever. The man could make ordering a burger at [=McDonalds=] sound like the ultimate battle for the fate of the world. (''"InAWorld where burgers are grilled, one man will rise to fight...for the fate of a cheeseburger.''") [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQRtuxdfQHw Witness for yourself]] what happens when you put Don and four other famous Voiceover Guys in a limousine and tell them to drive to an awards show. R.I.P, Don, the world is a less Awesome place without you.
** "It's never too early... for a ''salad.''" [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4hth2 About 3:01 in this video.]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJMGS7l0wT8 Paula Sala is a real GEICO customer, not an actor. So to help tell her story, we hired that announcer guy from the movies]].
* The Backside of Water at the Jungle Cruise in the Ride/DisneyThemeParks. Some skippers have been known to go off into a massive speech upon approaching it, declaring how incredibly amazing it is. Even the normal spiel generally involves referring to it as "The Eighth Wonder of the Natural World" and announcing [[PunctuatedForEmphasis "The back! Side! Of! WATER!!!"]]
** The skipper will, inevitably, be disappointed to discover that it looks a lot like the front side.
* In an essay in ''Me Talk Pretty One Day'', David Sedaris details his aversion and hatred of computers, and among his complaints is their presence in movie scenes that fall under this trope. "Each tiresome new {{Thriller}} includes some scene in which the hero, trapped by some version of the enemy, runs for his desk in a desperate race against time. Music swells and droplets of sweat rain down onto the keyboard as he sits at his laptop, frantically pawing for answers. It might be different if he were flagging down a passing car or trying to phone for help, but typing, in and of itself, is not an inherently dramatic activity"
* FlairBartending.
* Creator/BillyMays, from the various {{Ridiculously Loud Commercial}}s for cleaning products he's done (RIP Beardman).
** Also the [[Creator/VinceOffer ShamWow guy]]. [[{{Narm}} His headset puts it over the top.]]
--->"Stop having a boring tuna! [[SeriousBusiness Stop having a boring life!]]"
*** On top of that -- introducing the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWRyj5cHIQA Rap Chop]] (remixed, not original, sadly).
* Zinedine Zidane is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lkOegLzmR8 even more awesome]] with OminousLatinChanting.
* The Physics Department of the University Of Wales has a "Centre for Explosion Studies". That can't really be as cool as it sounds.
** If such a department needs to be made cooler, just see if Creator/MichaelBay is willing to lend a hand.
** Syracuse University has (or had) the Center for Really Neat Research (which most of it really was).
* Several manufacturers of obscure industrial equipment are prone to this. Some people, nightly, have to deal with the terror of working with a machine called the Predator SS... which shrink wraps boxes placed on a pallet. And sometimes must wear a garment called the Revolution XR55, a simple safety harness.
* Creator/BrianBlessed.
** Brian Blessed is ''exactly'' that awesome. A short read about [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_blessed his life]] is like the cliff-notes version of a Norse saga or something.
* Tim Pawlenty kicked off his presidential campaign with two ads that were just made of this trope. Creator/StephenColbert was quick to [[http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/377119/march-10-2011/colbert-pac-ad parody it]].
* Google has recently made a tool called [[https://www.youtube.com/searchstories Search Stories]] which lets you upload videos of Google searches with ''epic camera pans'' and ''epic music'' if you like.
* EXTREME [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf8cM7f6P2I RICE]].
* Extreme [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_ironing IRONING]]. Your whites will ''never'' be starched this way again.
* Apparently a GPS manufacturer created [[http://starwars.tomtom.com/voices/index-starwars.php?Lid=4 an application]] that turns the voice into [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader's]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ljFfL-mL70 A "making of"]] shows how it's a full-fledged example of this trope.
** You can also get Creator/NorioWakamoto to narrate your GPS for you.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JpKuYbJQK4 The Brian Blessed SatNav]]
* UsefulNotes/BorisJohnson explaining the origin of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsFRgIb8mAQ Ping Pong]]
* A new sport from Germany: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsVcMqgQdJo Sporthocking]]...'''EXTREME SITTING!'''
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAJmp_QAdLk Parodied here]].
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L54a6Lao50k Indoor Cycling Gymnastic Championship]]
* As a rule, [[GameMusic music from your favorite video games]] can greatly enhance your life experience. Try playing some of the synth classics or rehashes by The Advantage or The Black Mages while writing a paper or simply ''walking around''. The fact is this genre was intended to make everything you do in games ([[MundaneMadeAwesome shopping, hiking, fighting, talking,]] [[DieChairDie breaking vases]]) infinitely more exciting. This effect naturally translates itself into RealLife.
* CPR... with a ''[[http://wisconsinnewsarticles.com/wisconsin_articles/2005/03/cpr-with-a-toilet-plunger-4620.htm toilet plunger]]''!
* The [[http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi4233010457/ Breaking Dawn Part I]] trailer. Wedding invitations, a ceremony, scenes from a honeymoon, and Bella's DullSurprise scored with OminousLatinChanting.
* T.E. Lawrence wrote about how he once parodied Auda abu Tayi's way of telling stories like this.
--> '' 'This was a close parody of Auda's epic style; and I mimicked also his wave of the hand, his round voice, and the rising and dropping tone which emphasized the points, or what he thought were points, of his pointless stories.' ''\\
--\\
'' 'I told how we left the tents, with a list of the tents, and how we walked down towards the village, describing every camel and horse we saw, and all the passers-by, and the ridges, 'all bare of grazing, for by God that country was barren.' ''\\
--\\
'' 'And we marched: and beyond the what-do-you-call-it there was a what-there-is as far as hereby from thence, and thereafter a ridge: and we came to that ridge, and went up that ridge: it was barren, all that land was barren: and as we came up that ridge, and were by the head of that ridge, and came to the end of the head of that ridge, by God, by my God, by very God, the sun rose upon us!' ''
* [[Creator/TomokazuSugita ORRE]] [[Creator/YuuichiNakamura NO]] [[Creator/TakahiroSakurai CHYUU]] [[Creator/NorioWakamoto DORRE]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNkATKq0bUw DA!?]] Courtesy from them playing a Manga/YuYuHakusho game.
* And now, Creator/AlanRickman [[http://io9.com/5935919/alan-rickman-is-awesome-even-when-hes-making-tea-in-extreme-slow+motion making tea in slow motion]] to the soundtrack to Film/{{Inception}}.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axe_Murder_Incident#Operation_Paul_Bunyan Operation Paul Bunyan]] consisted in chopping down a tree whose position could have sparked a border conflict between the two Koreas without having North Korean soldiers hack to death the choppers as in the first attempt. The Americans sent sixteen combat engineers equipped with [[ChainsawGood chainsaws]], with a direct escort of sixty men armed with pistols and axe handles, an indirect escort including 64 South Korea special forces soldiers armed to the teeth daring the North Koreans to cross the nearby Freedom Bridge, an American [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M728_Combat_Engineer_Vehicle M728 Combat Engineering Vehicle]] ready to blow it up and an American infantry company with twenty utility helicopters and 7 attack helicopters, and support from U.S. B-52 bombers and F-4 fighters and South Koreans F-5 fighters. Then, [[NoKillLikeOverkill just to make sure]], the aircraft carrier ''Midway'' and her task force had been moved in the area, and the whole South Korean military and the American troops in Korea (plus troops from Okinawa) were ready to intervene. The tree was cut without incident.
** [[ItMakesSenseInContext Some background is perhaps necessary.]] The tree was in such a place that it isolated a border observation post from being seen by the next closest one. This lack of visibility meant that something could happen to the soldiers at that post if it were taken by surprise without their neighbors able to see they needed help. At first a handful of Korean workers and American troops went to trim the tree, but were attacked by North Korean soldiers, with two American officers being hacked to death by axes. Operation Paul Bunyan was partially to deal with the original problem of the tree, and mostly to make it abundantly clear to the North Koreans that [[GunboatDiplomacy interfering in the operation again would be unacceptable.]]
* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reply_of_the_Zaporozhian_Cossacks Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks]] is a painting of a real-life epic StronglyWordedLetter writing (although the latter was a self-conscious parody of the diplomatic etiquette which was [[JustForFunz most likely never sent]]).
* Board games. We've come a long way from the days of ''Monopoly'' and ''Snakes and Ladders''. Titles like ''[[http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/87890/pret-a-porter Prêt-à-Porter]]'' or the upcoming ''[[http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/126163/tzolkin-the-mayan-calendar Tzokol'kin]]'' take mundane activities like running a fashion magazine or assigning workers and make them compelling enough for you to want in on the action.
* General relativity made just about everything awesome. For instance, that apple you ate for lunch? E = mc^2 reveals that you just ate something containing ten times more energy than the world's most powerful nuclear bomb.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2_5lkW54Lk Walking Made Awesome]]
** Oh yeah, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA6Tcdw3M98 life will never be the same]]
* You can even play the HomeGame!
** Get your favorite music conveyance such an iPod or CD loaded with "Enterprise Leaves Moorings" from ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'', "Leaving Drydock" from ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'' or "Stealing The Enterprise" from ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock''.
** If necessary, cue it up to the ''right part'' of the music where ''Enterprise'' would be leaving in the film.
** Play it as you start up your car. Backing out of your driveway will ''never'' feel the same again. Cut your grass with it, paint the house, whatever. You'll be ''dying'' to do the chores.
** Parallel park your car while the "[[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey Blue Danube Waltz]]" plays.
** Just about anything by Music/TwoStepsFromHell works. As does a fair amount of Music/ESPosthumus.
*** Along the same vein, Music/{{Sabaton}} makes even doing the dishes awesome.
** Play "[[Music/TheProclaimers I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)]]" next time you take a stroll anywhere.
** Isn't this basically the function of driving music?
* Michelangelo illustrated [[http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/michelangelos-hand-drawn-grocery-list_b81242 his grocery lists]].
* 24 hour sports news channels. Sky Sports News is a particularly JustForFun/{{egregious}} offender. Its overly dramatic theme music and presenters who constantly act excited, even in the off-seasons when ''nothing is happening''.
* The Brazilian carnival is decided with a vote count two days after the parades. While in sports such as gymnastics they just show the grades after the performance, in carnival's case a deep-voiced announcer reads aloud every grade the 12 "samba schools" had - 10 categories, each with 4 judges (and like with sports, the lowest one is dropped from the count). And by the last categories, you can hear the glee of the schools' supporters with each "TEN!". In the case of the biggest ones in Rio and UsefulNotes/SaoPaulo, said count is ''broadcast nationally'' - that's right, Brazil's biggest network dedicates two hours of programming (each!) to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLOq1_nuaiI a guy reading grades aloud]].
* Any kind of macro photography. For example, [[https://polymathically.wordpress.com/2015/04/13/ladybug-droplets/ a ladybug on a wet flower]]. [[https://polymathically.wordpress.com/2015/05/11/weekly-photo-challenge-rusty-nail/ Or a rusty nail]].
* Starting lineups in sports can be just a bland reading of names. Or, you can combine with ThemeMusicPowerUp and a highlight reel for your home team, like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIny_09AIHQ this]]:
--> '''''[[BigEntrance THIS]]''''' [[BigEntrance Is the starting five!]] [[NoIndoorVoice For your Virrggiinniiaaa Cavalieeerrsss!]]
** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] when introducing the line ups for the visiting team. The boredom in the announcer can result in extreme MoodWhiplash.
* The enthusiastic [[http://www.mobygames.com/game/computer-maniacs-1989-diary/cover-art/gameCoverId,390985/ back cover blurb]] for the ''Computer Maniacs 1989 Diary'' software tries its best to make a calendar application sound awesome.
* The Kosciuszko Bridge connecting Brooklyn and Queens in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity was given a new bridge to replace the old one, which was built in the 1930s. The first half of the project was completed on April 27th 2017 and rather than celebrate with just a typical ribbon cutting ceremony, the city went the extra mile by [[http://abc7ny.com/news/new-span-at-kosciuszko-bridge-set-to-open-with-light-show/1921278/ blasting music and showing off the colorful LED lights on the new bridge.]]
* While you're at it, a full Moon night is more appreciated when you think no other Solar System ''planet'' except UsefulNotes/{{Jupiter}} (and for a very narrow margin) has a satellite that appears on its sky so large as ours, and especially not as luminous, as for example the already mentioned Jupiter receives just 1/30th of the sunlight received by Earth.
* Air New Zealand created a ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings''-themed [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOw44VFNk8Y airline safety video]] to celebrate the release of ''Film/TheHobbitTheBattleOfTheFiveArmies''. And you thought those [[Advertising/AirNewZealandSafetyVideos pre-flight videos]] would never ''not'' be boring.
