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1[[AC:Live-Action TV]]
2->'''Artemis:''' We're getting a lot of laughs; that's good!\
3'''Charlie:''' That's not good! This is not a comedy, okay? No one's supposed to be laughing!
4-->-- "[[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS04E13TheNightmanCometh The Nightman Cometh]]", ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia''
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6[[AC:Video Games]]
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8->'''Lucina:''' Your novel was so funny, Jade! When the main character had to leave home...I was in stitches!\
9'''Jade:''' That was supposed to be an emotional moment.
10-->-- ''VideoGame/FireEmblemEngage''
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12->''"Any tension that was in the air has just gone out the window..."''
13-->-- '''Yusuke Kitagawa''', ''VideoGame/Persona5''
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15[[AC:Web Animation]]
16->''"Taking apart an aspect of a story and showing its inner workings without a fireworks display of edgy grimdark? Why would I do that? If my story isn’t a miserable edge-fest full of gratuitous nudity, pointless glorified violence, and needless cynicism,'' '''''then how can people even take it seriously?"'''''
17-->--'''JP Beaubien''', ''WebAnimation/TerribleWritingAdvice'', DECONSTRUCTION
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19[[AC:Web Original]]
20->''"Where's the '''emotion?''' Where's the '''drama!?''' This is the final battle after twelve stages of Hell, and you come here with delivery so wooden, you could '''drive''' it through my heart and kill me!"''
21-->-- '''Dracula''' to '''Richter''' regarding the opening speech from ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight'', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA4TF0duesY "Richter Belmont is a Terrible Actor"]]'' by '''WebVideo/{{Jehtt}}'''
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23[[AC:Western Animation]]
24->''"I should not be laughing! This is a terrible situation! And yet... I find myself unable to resist... your influence!"''
25-->-- '''Jorgen Von Strangle''', ''WesternAnimation/TheJimmyTimmyPowerHour 2: When Nerds Collide''
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27->''"It's not *funny*, it's *scary*!"''
28-->-- '''Humphrey''' when people laugh at his badly-acted horror play, ''Literature/MillyMolly'', "Class Concert"
29
30!!Reviews
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32[[AC:On Anime & Manga]]
33->''"Dracula seems to have abandoned his wife, Dolores, out of grief for their dead son, leaving her to grieve for Janus at his gravestone. It's actually a kind of sad scene, at least it would be if his gravestone didn't say Rest In Peaee."''
34-->-- '''WebVideo/BennettTheSage''', in his review of ''[[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/bt/the-sage/anime-abandon/33924-dracula-sovereign-of-the-damned-with-linkara Dracula Sovereign Of The Damned]]''
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36->''"[[HarmfulToMinors A baby just watched his mother die right before his eyes.]] Why is this so hilarious to me? Oh wait, no, I know why. It's because she died by [[UndignifiedDeath getting bonked on the head by an empty shell casing]]!"''
37-->-- '''WebVideo/BennettTheSage''' in his ''Anime Abandon'' review of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamF91''
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39[[AC:On Comic Books]]
40->''"And just to show how much this is a truly emotional powerhouse of a comic, worthy of song and praise, Peter Parker lets out all of his rage and passion: "NYRAAARGH!" Ah. ''Nyraaargh.'' Just hits you...right here, doesn't it? You know, the thymus gland."''
41-->-- '''[[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]]''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6v1tuW9tYs on]] ''ComicBook/OneMoreDay''
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43->''ComicBook/SpiderMan gave Mary Jane cancer by tragically shooting her up repeatedly with his horrible radioactive Spider-Semen. ''[[ARareSentence His horrible radioactive Spider-Semen.]]'' That’s not tragic. That shit is fucking ''hilarious.
44-->-- '''Blog/ToplessRobot''' [[http://www.toplessrobot.com/2008/11/the_12_dumbest_spiderman_stories_ever_besides_the.php on]] ''ComicBook/SpiderManReign''
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46[[AC:On Film -- Live-Action]]
47->''"Be brave like my mother. Otherwise, you disgrace her." Oh, snap, that's harsh--\
48"Otherwise, she died for nothing." O SNAP NOW YOU'VE REALLY GOT HIM\
49"Otherwise, the bowl will remain empty, forever." Aaaaaand you've oversold it. There was a Line of {{Bathos}}, and you crossed it. I know it's a metaphorical fish, but sweetie, that fish ain't comin' back.''
50-->-- '''[[Creator/CleolindaJones Cleolinda Jones]]''' in the [[FootnoteFever commentary]] for ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince'' in 15 minutes
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53->''"Everyone in the theater laughed at this point. Not exactly the reaction you want for your big dramatic moment."''
54-->-- '''WebVideo/TheDistressedWatcher''', on Darth Vader's BigNo from ''Franchise/StarWars : Film/RevengeOfTheSith''
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56->"Now, is [[Film/RevengeOfTheSith General Grievous]] supposed to be funny? 'Cause they said he was a villain, right? Not a comedian?"
57-->-- '''[[WebVideo/RedLetterMedia Mr. Plinkett]]''', ''Revenge of the Sith'' review
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59->''It's incidents like when Creator/WesleySnipes gets whacked twice with a TV set and barely suffers a bruise that make up the real humor.''
60-->-- '''[[http://www.reelviews.net/movies/d/demo_man.html James Berardinelli's review]]''' of ''Film/DemolitionMan''.
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62->''...I guarantee you if Creator/GerryAnderson had come up with that plot for'' Series/{{Thunderbirds}} ''or'' Series/{{Stingray|1964}}'', he would have torn the place up.''
63-->-- '''Creator/MarkKermode''' on ''Film/AngelsAndDemons''
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65->''In rough cut, ''Film/TheLonelyLady'' was [[SoBadItsGood one of the funniest bad movies ever made]]. Sadly, its makers previewed their film in Long Beach a week or two after I saw the rough cut, and, realizing what a total turkey they had in their hands, went through the movie trying desperately to cut all the laughs. But without the laughs, the movie was about 17 minutes long.''
66-->--'''[[https://books.google.com/books?id=bLpJHjGFNk8C&pg=PT231 John Wilson]]''', ''The Official [[Usefulnotes/GoldenRaspberryAward Razzie]] Movie Guide''
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68->''It's a very, VERY funny moment, but I'm not sure the movie agrees.''
69-->--'''[[WebVideo/FoldingIdeas Dan Olson]]''' on ''Film/TheSnowman2017''
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71[[AC:On Literature]]
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73->''"[The Deerslayer's] pathos is funny."''
74-->-- '''Creator/MarkTwain''', "Literature/FenimoreCoopersLiteraryOffenses"
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76->''One must have a heart of stone to read [[Literature/TheOldCuriosityShop the death of little Nell]] without laughing.''
77-->--'''Creator/OscarWilde'''
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79[[AC:On Live-Action TV]]
80->''You would have to have a heart of stone to watch Rory laying down his own life to save Amy ([[TheyKilledKennyAgain for the sixteenth or seventeenth time]]) without giggling, at least a little.''
81-->-- '''[[http://www.andrewrilstone.com Andrew Rilstone]]''' reviewing ''Series/DoctorWho, The Angels Take Manhattan'' in ''The Viewer's Tale''
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83->''This is one of those episodes that even though it is not supposed to be funny it is in fact hilarious. From [the voice of] Piglet [as] Jack the Ripper and the stoned crew of the Enterprise there are no stop laughs in this episode. It is just impossible to take any of it seriously.''
84-->-- '''[[https://www.jeremysstartrekreviews.com/2020/07/kirk-runs-into-jack-ripper-who-is-still.html Jeremy Perron]]''' on ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', "The Wolf in the Fold"
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86[[AC:On Video Games]]
87->''"When I saw '''this''' for the first time, I… '''laughed'''. But I did not just laugh. I laughed… '''for five minutes'''. I could not believe what I just saw. This has to be a joke… right? Sage reaches [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove her key emotional shift]]… with a forty-five second montage of her and Eggman sitting in one spot— arguing for half of it— set to what sounds like the soothing voice of a… child who’s really trying their best at the talent show. No… it’s not a joke. It’s not even meant to be ironic, like showing that Sage has a really skewed perspective of love towards a vile man, no… It’s played entirely straight, having this long ending shot and everything. One of the included flashbacks was literally a scene that was played thirty minutes ago, that is how little there is to this… 'relationship'. It’s not like there was no time to build it up. It’s not like '''nothing''' could have been done to sell this. Even the few scenes we did have between them could have been utilized better. Could you imagine… if this exact thing happened in a 2000's Sonic game? It would be the biggest meme ever!"''
88-->-- '''[[https://www.youtube.com/@JebZone JebZone]]''' on Sage's flashback montage in ''VideoGame/SonicFrontiers'', [[https://youtu.be/o5Myw7yAR0c "The Cyber-Corruption of Sonic Stories"]]
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90[[AC:On Webcomics]]
91->''"Chris explains to the audience that this ray only works on the slow-in-mind. Hilarity ensues [[FridgeLogic when you realize]] this means that whenever Sonichu and friends fight Mary Lee's minions, [[UnfortunateImplications they are actually beating through wave after wave of the mentally handicapped]]."''
92-->-- [[http://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Sonichu The Bad Webcomics Wiki]] on ''Webcomic/{{Sonichu}}''
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94->''"I think what pisses me off the most about the art style in ''Jack'' is that Hopkins thinks he can tell a deep, dramatic, violent, trauma-filled horror story with [[FurriesAreEasierToDraw fucking cartoon animals]]. Look at their eyes! Look at their big, badly-drawn hands and their big squishy noses! They look like they should be swinging goddamn mallets at each other; not contemplating the meaning of life and death. (…) It may be possible (and very entertaining) to cast cute cartoon characters for a dramatic story if you're going about it in an ironic sense, but ''Jack'' seems like something that's trying so '''hard''' to be art. It wants '''so much''' to be beautifully tragic and beastly and for the people to look upon it and weep with envy, sorrow and understanding all at once."''
95-->-- [[http://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Jack The Bad Webcomics Wiki]] on ''Webcomic/JackDavidHopkins''
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97[[AC:On Western Animation]]
98->''"Primal kinda died, too, by [[SquashedFlat becoming a hilarious pancake on the floor]], which seems more like a gag for Waspinator in ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' than a supposed-to-be dramatic death for your main hero."''
99-->-- '''WebVideo/{{Phelous}}''' in his review of ''WesternAnimation/BeastMachines''

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