History NarmCharm / LiveActionTV

* ''Series/DoctorWho'' is the inverse of SpecialEffectFailure, as noted on that very page. The cheesy effects are so loved that the new seasons deliberately keep the effects from being too polished to retain that feel. The new series seems to thrive on NarmCharm in all its forms.

** ''Series/KamenRiderDecade'': Many fans agree that the finishing move against the Makamou in episode 19 is perhaps the dumbest thing that has ever been on Kamen Rider.......and perhaps the most awesome thing ever as well thanks to a well-coordinated attack with ThePowerOfRock.

* ''Series/RedDwarf'': The shot of the countless Ace Rimmer coffins forming a ring system around a planet is probably the single worst special effect in the entire show, but the scene, showing how many Rimmers (the original being a cowardly, neurotic kiss-ass with delusions of adequacy even on a good day) had taken up the mantle simpy because the multiverse needed a hero, still manages to be incredibly poignant.

* ''Series/LazyTown'' is ridiculously cheesy and suffers from a major case of [[WidgetSeries cross-cultural weirdness]], but fans can't help but love every minute of it. "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AzpByR3MvI YAR HAR FIDDLE DEE DEE! YOU ARE A PIRATE!]]" "You Are a Pirate" is so awesome that Scottish Pirate Metal band Music/{{Alestorm}} made a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRKAL-i-UbE cover of it]].

*** The Daleks' famous "EXTERMINATE!" line is clearly ChewingTheScenery, except they usually come across as unstoppable, merciless [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything genocidal maniacs]] (so much that a Cambridge University academic wrote [[http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/ex-tra-po-late-moral-philosophy-and-the-daleks/ a paper]] ''about'' the Daleks' Narm Charm). So that line gives more chills than snickers. Case in point: The Daleks transmit a single-word message of their famous catchphrase across the whole earth during "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E12TheStolenEarth The Stolen Earth]]" and pretty much every one of the Doctor's earthbound former companions just about needs to change their pants upon hearing it and realising who it is. Including Sarah Jane Smith and a man ''who can't die''.
*** Their voices are high-pitched, mechanical, and screechy, such that Daleks tend to scream all their lines at the top of their voices. Usually this would make a villain hard to take seriously, but with the Daleks it instead underscores the sheer, unadulterated ''hatred'' they have for everyone else, making them more unnerving.
*** The Daleks' appearance: they look like a bumpy salt shaker with a plunger for a hand and a ray gun shaped like an egg beater. By all rights, this should make them hilarious. Instead, it enforces how utterly ''[[StarfishAlien inhuman]]'' they are, adding to their scare factor. Not to mention that every aspect of their appearance is so iconic that nobody would ever ''dream'' of altering it in any major way.
** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime The End of Time]]", we have [[spoiler: The Master Race]]. Fun to watch? Yes. Hilarious? Oh hell yes! Terrifying and dramatic? Errr...
** Then there's [[spoiler: Creator/TimothyDalton, showing the scenery no mercy as Rassilon. "'''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis I! WILL! NOT DIE!!!]]'''"]]
** Creator/MattSmith's tenure kicked off in fine form. [[FacelessEye Giant eyeball aliens]] in [[CoolStarship snowflake spaceships!]] So cheesy, they're awesome. [[{{Crunchtastic}} Cheesesome?]]
** The horrible fates of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E9TheFamilyOfBlood The Family of Blood]]. Trapped in the edge of every mirror for eternity? That's so stupid it's cool.
** One viewer who saw lost story "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E7TheMacraTerror The Macra Terror]]" on its first airing pointed out that the Macra prop only looks terrible due to the photo being out in the open, with a lot of bright light. In the episode, it’s in a dark studio, surrounded by gas, making it (to him) utterly terrifying.
** In his first serial, "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E1TerrorOfTheAutons Terror of the Autons]]", [[LargeHam the Master]] causes someone to be smothered to death by a chair. '''Smothered to death''' by a '''chair'''. And it is awesome.
** And then, he makes guys in ridiculous bobblehead costumes handing out daffodils terrifying. Did we mention he was using the daffodils to TakeOverTheWorld?
** The pointless chase scene which takes up pretty much the entirety of episode two of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E5PlanetOfTheSpiders Planet of the Spiders]]", where the Doctor and John Dearth pretty much drive or fly every combustion-engine-powered vehicle known to man with the exception of locomotives and jet fighters, and which ends with the villain vanishing anyway at the end of it, is still awesome in its own right. Of course it helps that Creator/BarryLetts wrote the sequence as a going-away gift for Pertwee, who had a deep interest in motor vehicles of all kinds and relished scenes where he could get behind the wheel.
** The production staff can be forgiven the hideous monsters from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E1TheThreeDoctors The Three Doctors]]", and Omega's scenery-chewing, as the interplay between Creator/JonPertwee, Creator/PatrickTroughton, Creator/WilliamHartnell and Creator/NicholasCourtney makes up superbly for it.
** The scene where the Master [[BoardToDeath kills his entire government cabinet with poison gas]] in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E12TheSoundOfDrums The Sound of Drums]]", complete with overacted death throes and the corny YoureInsane line, should not be as entertaining as it is, but we really grasp what kind of villain he is when he responds to the insanity accusation with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMew38zTXHQ a cheerful two thumbs up]].
** A large portion of the Classic Who fandom has cheerfully adopted the hammiest villains and most annoying companions as their mascots.