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Doesn't sound worthy of a trope. Unless it would be a really strange Genre Shift? I'm not sure.
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I know it doesn't but I remember reading it on tv tropes and that's what's bugging me.
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I think you want Dancing Bear where a work is sold by its gimmick rather than its content.
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Best I can find is It Amused Me or They Just Didn't Care. I get your idea. Sort of like when a show knows they are getting cancelled and are given enough notice to make some kind of conclusion. So, they pretty much throw in as many of their ideas as they can while they can.
Unrated Edition and Too Hot for TV are probably related to this.
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Played with in the last episode of Excel♡Saga, and lampshaded in its title, "Going Too Far". They made the episode as over-the-top and fucked up as possible, knowing full well that it would never air and would only be able to be seen on the home video release, despite the fact that the rest of the show was broadcast more or less uncensored. (Of course, it's completely unrelated to the plot of the show, insofar as the show actually has a plot; it's not a necessary part of the show to understand anything.)
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I tried looking at that one, but there wasn't a trope specifically about making it unairable in general, just the various parts in it that make it unairable. Interestingly, they might have been able to get it through anyways except that they made the episode 23 minutes instead of 22; Japanese broadcast standards require 22 minutes.
^ Even then, have you seen it? Tits (Gag Boobs and otherwise), blatant and explicit implications of lesbianism that stop just short of actual sex, feces sight gags, pedophilia, Cluster F Bombs, and more. Then consider when it was airing, and I seriously doubt that episode ever would have made it onto Japanese television.
But that's a digression anyway.
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In the Excel saga instance, its definitely got shades of Torch the Franchise and Run. All of these are ways of taking Refuge in Audacity, as well.
^ I can see where you're coming from, but given its massively Negative Continuity, I'm not sure Excel Saga could be torched. Didn't Excel die at the end of the main series, only to come back in Going Too Far? I could be remembering it wrong.
Although to return to the original question, it sounds like it might actually be Torch the Franchise and Run, just in a different manner from killing anyone.
^Excel dying was a bit of a running joke. The first time she died was about 3 minutes into the first episode.
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Oh, that's true. I guess it just got overshadowed for me, what with Hyatt dying all the time. :p
Yep, if you're gonna torch a franchise with un-dieing, you have to do a lot better than killing the entire cast. X3
A trope where comics try really hard to get published or something, but when they give up on it, they change the direction of the story to include a bunch of stuff (like an orgy) that would have been censored otherwise.