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Seltzer And Friedberg really needs a new intro. It's out of date both in its information, and even its use of wiki words is laughably dated. Here's an attempt at a new one.

Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg are a pair of writer/directors that collaborate with each other on all of their projects. They create comedic movies that parody and reference pop culture in the Zucker, Abrams and Zucker style of rapid-fire gags without concern for the overarching plot or characterization.

Their first official project was the 1996 Leslie Nielson spy parody Spy Hard. It received a lukewarm reception and little notice at the box office. Their next contribution to parody films was one of the many scripts that was folded into the first Scary Movie. The duo finally attracted commercial success on their own with the 2006 film Date Movie. While panned by critics, the film made back triple its meager budget and secured them a contract to do a couple more films. They became known for turning out simple, cheap, and quickly produced parody films during the mid-late 2000s, releasing Epic Movie, Meet the Spartans, and Disaster Movie back to back over 2007 and 2008, the latter two films coming out within mere months of each other. Their movies were routinely Not Screened for Critics. The few critics that did see them had nothing but scorn for them. However, the duo's successes tend to involve the low-cost of their movies (not a one of them has a budget over $20 million) and their release dates during the typical Dump Months of January and February when the competition is light and a film simply cashing in on a pop culture craze can stand out.

After Disaster Movie flopped even by their standards (largely due to popping up in August, which has become a much more crowded Dump Month in recent years), they took a short break before jumping on board the Twilight train with Vampires Suck. While the latter was still not well received, it did slightly better critically than their previous couple of films and returned them to box office glory. They are currently working on two more projects, Best Night Ever and The Starving Games, the latter a clear parody of The Hunger Games. While their output has slowed since their heydey, they've hardly stopped.

Due to the nature of their films largely being simplistic parodies of whatever is popular at the time, a number of other parody films in the same style have been wrongly attributed to them. This includes Not Another Teen Movie, Superhero Movie (which was in fact by a different pair of Scary Movie alumni), and Dance Flick (which was actually the Wayans brothers).

This duo tends to attract writing just as negative as their own, so the page is locked.

edited 8th Jan '13 11:24:16 PM by Rebochan

On Adolf Hitler's page, could we add

• Youtube War Expert: Showing that this trope is older than the internet, Hitler, towards the end of the war and desperately hoping for a miracle, tried to justify appointing the helplessly underqualified Reichsfuhrer-SS Heinrich Himmler to command Army Group Vistula. In a furious argument with Colonel-General Guderian, he attempted to claim that he knew generalship because he had read all about it in books:

—>Guderian: The Reichsfuhrer-SS has neither than requisite experience nor sufficiently competent staff officers to command an Army Group. —>Hitler: I don't permit you to tell me that Heinrich is incapable of carrying out his duties! I've read Clausewitz and Moltke and all the Schlieffen Papers! I know more about fighting than you do!

edited 9th Jan '13 3:12:14 AM by Achaemenid

Schild und Schwert der Partei

In Chekovs Gun, BabylonFive needs changing to Series/BabylonFive.

All your safe space are belong to Trump

This has been brought up on the discussion page of Edit War. The page quote is really random, as well as being fake. Can it be swapped for the following, from the quotes tab? I think it's a better (and realer) quote; it's more descriptive of the typical war.

What mighty contests rise from trivial things.

— Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock

edited 9th Jan '13 12:56:48 PM by Telcontar

That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.

I'd like to merge the long Memetic Mutation section on Mass Effect 3 into Bioware, which has most of the same ones already. However, the latter is locked for some reason.

Edit: Looks like there's several hottip tags on Bioware that need fixing too.

edited 9th Jan '13 2:56:46 PM by InsanityPrelude

@4430: Sandbox the merge and I'll replace it. We've had problems with people going balls-out insane over Bioware.

@4429: Done, and I just plain killed the fake quote. Why keep it if it's fake?

@4428: Done.

@4427: Pretty sure we agreed that historical figures only get tropes about their appearance in media, not for themselves. Declining that.

@4426: Haven't we already sandboxed and replaced Seltzer and Friedberg's description several times already? Seems they can't stay uncontroversial. I'll look at it later.

edited 9th Jan '13 3:05:55 PM by Fighteer

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

Updating all the hottip markup took longer than I expected. Here's the sandbox, with the sections from Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3 merged in.

Edit: Crap, wait a minute, I messed up a couple tags.

Edit 2: Okay, fixed it.

edited 9th Jan '13 4:04:07 PM by InsanityPrelude

It's more that it was dated, was missing recently-added wiki words to works pages of their films, and also had issues with not really giving much of an impression of them. I was try to find a way to address the first one and realized the third was an issue as well. It's tricky to "future proof" a trope page on creators that are still actively adding to their resumes. I'd seriously question why they're still locked, but I've gotten the impression this page will always be locked on principle.

All the Tall, Dark and Bishoujo wicks on Final Fantasy VII are wrong, but the page has been locked due to edit warring/vandalism. Could you please axe these?

@4432: Done

@4433: I replaced the description.

@4434: Done

edited 10th Jan '13 11:21:13 AM by Fighteer

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

• On Let's Play, the listing for the Kirby 64 LP by Medibot has a redlink to the nonexistant trope Invincible Powerup that needs removal.

Or, you know, changing to Invincibility Power-Up.

on Compensated Dating, Audrey Hepburn needs changing to Audrey Hepburn. And then Audrey Hepburn can be put on Completed Namespace Migrations.

edited 11th Jan '13 7:21:01 AM by TheOneWhoTropes

Keeper of The Celestial Flame

Sonichu needs Shallow Love Interest renamed to Satellite Love Interest

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

The last three are done. Is there anything that hasn't been done yet?

Double Standard needs Shallow Love Interest changed to Satellite Love Interest.

Speaking words of fandom: let it squee, let it squee.

I' like someone to add this to Wreck-It Ralph:

• Hilarious in Hindsight
  • In their gameplay of Sonic2006, Arin said "It's not about using the character, it's about manipulating the glitches". That's exactly what Vanellope's power does. Bonus for Sonic actually appearing in the movie. (feel free to edit this example)

My work is here. Current main fic: Tengen Toppa Gurren Solvernia

I fail to see how that's related at all to Wreck It Ralph aside from Sonic getting a cameo there. You'll need more relevance than that for it to be an actual example.

Evil Overlord List Cellblock A needs Shallow Love Interest changed to The Ditz

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

4441, 4444: Done.

4443: Agreed.

edited 11th Jan '13 3:59:30 PM by Willbyr

Monster / Film needs Alan Rickman namespaced to Creator

There is an example from a long-since found and axed Hentai (it even says it's one in the example) on Horny Devils.

   Evil is my favorite color.   

Done.

I was gonna leave that for now, but the general statement further down the list is better for our purposes, so let's go with that.

edited 11th Jan '13 8:42:41 PM by Willbyr

Please change Main.Hitman to VideoGame.Hitman on Let's Play.

Done.