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Gus: Did a little reshaping, just because it felt like the lead was a bit buried.

RedBeardSean: What a wonderful wiki entry! If this is public domain, I'd like to send this entry verbatim as a reply to the email Glurge I find myself subjected to on a regular, almost daily basis. Glee!

Gus: Wiki text is as public-domain as it gets. ;-)

AugustDerleth: No, probably not. I know mine isn't.

Ununnilium: Hey, the corrected spelling of "although" in the middle of the sentence is copyright me! u.u

Guesss Who: I think there was a parody of this in one, Alice in Wonderland (the poison bottle) and two, Discworld (the match-girl).

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Caswin: Is this Glurge or Tastes Like Diabetes? A lot of the examples seem less "heartstring-pulling dubious message" than "moralistic preachy and near-sickeningly sweet."

• sun tzu: Seconded. If "Chicken Soup for the Soul" and "The Care Bears" are Glurge, then I apprently don't understand what Glurge is.

Caswin: As such, removing the following entries:

• Any (and every) given Lifetime Movie Of The Week.
• The Chicken Soup for the Soul books.
• Anything shown on the Hallmark Channel.
• Care Bears

...with uncertain, but suspicious glances in the direction of After School Special. Those aren't Glurge, they're just sappy or Tastes Like Diabetes or something else along those lines.

Elihu: Snipped for bitterness.

• Considering that this troper has taken a character all the way to twenty, by the tract's reasoning this troper has obviously ascended to godhood, and thus Jack Chick can start quoting this troper's scripture or shove it.time=1215444116