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Dan Green is the master of awesome cheesiness.

"Part of Resident Evil's charm is that it still takes itself seriously, despite having the most atrociously written story and dialogue of any product of human endeavor, since Hulk Hogan took one too many clotheslines to the head and decided he could act."
—Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw, on Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles

You're watching a show, and there's a Narm moment. Someone said a line too emphatically, or the alien is obviously a guy in a rubber suit.

So why aren't you laughing?

Perhaps the rest of the work is so good, you're too wrapped up in it to notice. Or what's cheesy is more the fun kind of cheesy, so you're grinning, not laughing. Or maybe Rule Of Cool is working its magic.

This is Narm Charm, something that by all reason should kill the drama, but doesn't. Of course this is subjective. Some people will still find them to be true narm anyway. But to some, it's just part of the fun.

This can separate So Bad Its Good from So Bad Its Horrible. It can keep a Large Ham from falling into Feed Me.

Compare Mostly Narmless.

A close cousin to Camp.

If a remake does away with the Narm Charm, it can result in I Liked It Better When It Sucked.

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