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Author: CommanderPanda

Aug 24th 2011 at 5:25:23 PM

While definitely the most interesting YKTTW I've ever read, the pervasiveness of ViewersAreMorons may very well be the [[ExecutiveMeddling the spectre]] that haunts any writer intelligent enough to try to work with this theme.

Honest examples of this premise are likely to be shot down in favor of a fart joke.  If you wanted this to be a trope that followed the concept of Hauntology both in letter and spirit, you'd be left with something TooRareToTrope.  And that's a pity.

And I think the ''VentureBros'' example is actually the most relevant rather than least. It just needs a better description.

* Jonas Venture Sr., the grandfather to the ''VentureBros'', was a successful and renowned "super scientist."  His exploits well known and his influence vast, he lived a life of success under every interpretation of the word barring his premature death.  His son, Rusty, beset with the overwhelming shadow of his father spent his entire life falling short.  Among the countless machines and [[FreudWasRight enormous statue of his father]], the Venture Compound he inherited serves as a constant reminder of what he could never accomplish.