AirOfMystery: I don't get what Sakura's complaining about here; she never does anything anyway.

ThatOther1Dude: Those things about FamilyGuy and TheSimpsons would fall under {{Padding}} if using up time was the only purpose, but both were OverlyLongGag.

EDIT: Actually parts of this article need to be dumped as they fall under Padding/

Danel: It really seems unclear to me what {{Filler}} is. At the one end of it, there's the pointless, time-filling nonsense which ''can't'' and won't be referenced again (as in {{Anime}}) and which won't even see any CharacterDevelopment. But I'm increasingly seeing it used to refer to any episode which doesn't advance the MythArc... an increasingly pervasive use which seems to me to note a general trend away from the idea of Episodic Shows. It troubles me. People used to like a nice run-around with a nice bit of character development, etc, everything you come to the show for... but I'm increasingly seeing fans acting like hot-housed students panicking about whether this'll be important in the Finale. You don't watch a mid-season episode because it'll be fun, but because it'll provide vital clues and set things up for the dramatic SeasonFinale. In Avatar, "The Puppetmaster" can't have ''just'' been a creepy tale giving the audience background about the raids on the Southern Water Tribes and showing Katara under pressure - it ''has'' to introduce us to Bloodbending so it can play a Vital Role later on. It seems to me to be a fundamentally wrong-headed way of looking at things.
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CountDorku: I've made $45 so far selling a series of joke articles on [[strike: filler and padding]] literary styrofoam to a local university newsletter. Thanks, TvTropes!
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EtherealMutation: Azxc, blindly deleting the ''SailorMoon'' entry doesn't change the fact that the show is infamous for both its filler and the AdaptationDecay that made it possible. Even the fanbase won't deny it. If there is something wrong about a particular detail (I did more research the first time you deleted the entry, so I'm pretty sure it's accurate), fix it. Don't delete the whole thing just because it's a trope that isn't very flattering (which I am forced to assume due to a lack of any given rationale).