History Anvilicious / Other

[[AC:Magazines]]
* ''Website/TheOnion'':
** [[http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29426 Klingon Speakers Now Outnumber Navajo Speakers]] Seeing as this is The Onion, the anvilicious message is basically lampshading the trope, by mocking serious news reports on the problems. It's in dire need of pointing out, remembering the [[http://techcrunch.com/2009/09/04/the-onion-keeps-on-embarrassing-newspapers/ Bangladesh incident]]. It should also be noted that there about 50 Klingon speakers (at the most) and about 170,000 Navajo speakers, thanks to revitalization efforts.
** "[[http://www.theonion.com/articles/political-cartoon-even-more-boring-and-confusing-t,1706/#enlarge Political Cartoon Even More Boring And Confusing Than Issue]]" in which nobody can understand an {{Anvilicious}} comic strip.
** The Onion is often anvilicious non-ironically. One article was simply about people in the future scolding people in the present for not legalizing gay marriage (also, in the future, every single person in the entire world is pro-choice).

[[AC:Radio]]
* The AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho audio ''The Last'' is ridiculously anvilicious in its anti-war message. It takes place in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, with statements like "Money that should have gone to space exploration went to develop more weapons" and "She should have known dropping bombs is wrong, that war is wrong".
* During UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, many radio shows devoted some time to explaining and/or promoting various wartime programs (rationing, War Bond drives, etc). Most of them were less than subtle about it. [[http://files.libertyfund.org/img/2358/RideAlone_b_1000.jpg Such as this infamous poster]].

[[AC:Tabletop Games ]]
* ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase'': basically, yay transhumanism and anarchy. Let's put it this way: the main non-transhumanist power bloc is a ruthless military junta verging on PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny.
* ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'' has always had ecological subtext, given that you're basically Gaia's superpowered children fighting against an evil corporation of polluters, but some writers handle it worse than others. In ''The Silver Record'''s prologue, for example, the plot stops for an entire paragraph just so the reader can be informed that everyone who lives in the modern world is a heartless, egocentric bastard.
-->''But y’see, science is a double-edged razor. It provides us with better ways to feed ourselves, protect ourselves, and move from place to place, but it also breeds isolation and a “me-first” mentality. When people— Garou included — don’t feel like they have to struggle to survive, they get soft and selfish. After a while, everyone starts feeling like the lead in their own personal movie. Everyone and everything else in the world becomes supporting cast and background material. At that point, nothing is good unless it enriches you. Unless it makes your life safer, more comfortable, more fun. Don’t shake your head, you know I’m right! After a while, nothing in this world matters unless it somehow makes you feel better! Now multiply that by the amount of people in the world today, square it by the economies of nations, and subtract any sort of feeling of community or family. Our family tree is dying — literally! — because we don’t feel or feed its roots any longer.''

[[AC:Theater]]
* Parodied/played for laughs in ''Theatre/AvenueQ''. "The MoneySong" starts with an over-the-top {{Anvilicious}} moral on charity and being generous... then halfway through the song, everybody [[spoiler:[[BreakingTheFourthWall runs into the audience]] asking for money.]]
* The truly {{Anvilicious}} narrator in ''Blood Brothers'' not only shows up to highlight every moment of foreshadowing in the musical but also appears at the end to let any terminally inattentive audience members know what the message was.
* ''Theatre/{{Hair}}'' sure drops a few about friendship, racism, and UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar.
* ''Theatre/TheToxicAvenger'', based on the [[Film/TheToxicAvenger campy movie of the same name]], could be a hilarious hour of nothing but New Jersey jokes, which it is in some places, but eventually it gets bogged down by its need to hammer "Pollution BAD!" into the audience. Emphasis on hammer.
* ''Film/YoungFrankenstein'''s musical [[AllMusicalsAreAdaptations adaptation]] is similar to the example of ''Toxic Avenger'' stage adaptation; compared to the movie the sexual humor is a lot more heavy-handed.
* Creator/HenrikIbsen dropped some heavy anvils in his play ''{{Theatre/Brand}}''. The title character is a notorious carrier and tosser of anvils all the way, and one scene, showing a starving and freezing mother with a child begging for clothes and shelter on Christmas Eve, is anvilicious in spades. The anvil dropped is so heavy it actually kills off one of the lead characters in-play (Agnes, the wife of Brand).

[[AC:Web Original ]]
* ''[[http://www.vimeo.com/6898451 Yellow Cake]]'' is loaded with anvils since it's an allegory of the evils of imperialism and ends with a ReasonYouSuckSpeech, YouBastard.
* Creator/BradJones [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/bj/dvd-r-hell/31261-rock-its-your-decision reviewed ]] ''Film/RockItsYourDecision'' on ''WebVideo/DVDRHell'', a little-seen TV movie produced by fundamentalist Christians about how rock is evil and how it'll cause you to go to Hell. It doesn't merely lob anvils, it ties them to cruise missiles and fires those at you. After the main character of the movie talks about how people at rock concerts didn't just sit quietly and listen, they got up and ''danced'', like the music was ''controlling them''; Jones jokes that the movie's [[AnAesop Aesop]] is that emotions are bad and if you dance to music, laugh at comedy acts, or cry at funerals, you'll go to Hell.
* One episode of [[WebVideo/WhatTheFuckIsWrongWithYou Nash's]] ''Classic Series/DoctorWho Reviews'' series featured a graphic of MESSAGE falling on him when he examines the [[TakeThat anti-Margaret Thatcher]] theme in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E2TheHappinessPatrol The Happiness Patrol]]. At the end as the Doctor explains how wrong the villain is the MESSAGE returns to beat him about the head.
* A [[WebVideo/HitlerRants Downfall parody]], ''The Antic Menace'' condemns human {{greed}} in its [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYnB0lYn4Gg fourth episode]], via a quote by Creator/CharlieChaplin.
* WebAnimation/LuckyDayForever: A population of short, brown people who live in a part of town that looks like your typical post-Soviet city and even speak Polish [?] are exploited by the [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation aptly named White society]] as cheap labor [[spoiler: and [[HumanResources spare parts]].]] SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped, though.
* Music/{{Brental Floss}} in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMKTdrQqpNk Tetris WITH LYRICS]].
** "So, I was trying to communicate that women, uh, enjoy ''VideoGame/{{Tetris}}'' a lot. Is that clear?
* The animated short ''[[https://youtu.be/hRiWgx4sHGg Sometimes You're a Caterpillar]]'' is intended to teach audiences about how not everyone is as privileged as they might be. The story itself was effective enough in its execution, but quickly drops the pretense to deliver it in no uncertain terms, then hastily wraps up the plot.
* 2084 ([[https://tellygunge.wordpress.com/2013/02/02/2084-chapter-1/ Part 1,]] and [[https://tellygunge.wordpress.com/2013/02/08/2084-chapter-2/ Part 2]] (NSFW) The message, being about what happens when copyright law [[GoneHorriblyRight goes horribly right,]] isn't exactly subtle about its message. The story concerns 2 people, one into [[CoveredInGunge WAM]], trying to deal with a dystopia where copyright is abused to the point where you can't basically do anything without an [=iPad=] {{Expy}}, and do anything unless you pay hefty royalties to the creator. Granted, this was written after [=SOPA=] and [=PIPA=] occurred and failed to pass, but the unrealistic description of future copyright law can come off as jarring.
* ''WebVideo/CLWEntertainment'': The ''Anime/{{Doraemon}}'' fandub episode [[https://youtu.be/rDPR90c7liM "TV & Disc Do's And Don't's"]] repeats the moral "don't watch too much TV" ad nauseam, unlike the original Japanese version which is less repetitive.
* Parodied in Jake Eyes' [[https://youtu.be/KWwLO9TAEhM?t=314 50 Ways to Die in Minecraft.]] Death #42 of the 6th episode is "Owning a Small Web Site Without Net Neutrality being Enforced", shown by a small building labeled "[=MCBLOXBLOGS.COM=]" being crushed under a larger Verizon building. Death #43 is "Witnessing a Failed Attempt at Subtlety", which involves someone who watched the bit immediately prior being crushed by an anvil with "NET NEUTRALITY IS GOOD!!!" printed on it in red block letters.

[[AC:Real Life ]]
* Creator/MrT, in every incarnation, is anvilicious to the point of [[ButtMonkey becoming a running joke]], thanks in no small part to the ironic humor of a large violent macho man screaming at you things a meek female kindergarten teacher would normally tell you. This resulted in a favorite satirically jumbled line from SNL: "If you believe in yourself, eat all your school, stay in milk, drink your teeth, don't do sleep, and get eight hours of drugs, you can get work!" \\
The weird thing about Mr. T is that he means all of it; the man who made a career out of screaming and hitting things is a big ol' MommasBoy who loves kids and wants to use his image to help them. In the '80s he performed in a video called "Mr. T's Be Somebody or Be Somebody's Fool," a series of vignettes encouraging self-confidence and good decision making that is so anvilicious the videotape would make a pothole if you dropped it in the street. Unlike most celebrities doing pre-teen educational/self-help/anti-drug videos in the '80s, Mr. T was not ordered to do this as the community service portion of a drug sentencing; he co-wrote and produced the thing of his own volition. That's because Mr. T don't give ya no jibber-jabber. He tells it like it is.
** Parodied [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g-s-pghtYQ in a fake Mr. T PSA]] on Series/KeyAndPeele, where all the anvils he throws down are about him.
* During the 2011 Superbowl, Will.I.Am of the Music/BlackEyedPeas took a moment during the halftime show to tell Obama to reform the school systems.
* Practically every child has had to attend an assembly at their school about how drugs and alcohol will ruin their life. In some health classes, it's not uncommon to have a "speaker" come and show the students pictures of an STD infection.
* A common problem is that older sex educational materials (and even modern abstinence-only ones) buy into the AllAbusersAreMale trope ''hard''. Every time someone is being pressurized into pre-marital or underage sex they are AlwaysFemale. So the lessons become less "be safe, sane, and consensual," and more: "GIRLS! Defend your virginity against the be-penised hordes!" Which of course leads to nobody taking them seriously at all. \\
A particularly hilarious one the Scottish "well-meaning but comically futile campaign to make children take adult things seriously" educational curriculum involves one lesson showing teenagers how being immature about sex is bad, mmkay, which begins with splitting the class into groups and ''[[SchmuckBait asking them to write down]]'' all the different terms for penises, sex, vaginas, homosexuality, and contraceptives, without fear of punishment. These are then ''[[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments read out by the teacher]].'' The intention is to engage the class and make them realize how they buy into sexist or immature attitudes. Unfortunately, this is [[KidsAreCruel Scottish teenagers.]] The end result is usually the class roaring with laughter, whilst a red-faced (and frequently deeply religious) teacher goes "boaby... fanny... walloper... [[UnusualEuphemism Glasgow typewriter]]... batting from the wrong end of the crease... bellend... tuna sandwich", leading to the children thinking less "sexist and immature swearwords are bad" and more "god, being immature is ''hilarious''."
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dAFbpk9_GM Russell Brand's "parody" of Parklife]] is about as subtle about corporate greed and political corruption as using a chainsaw to trim threads. Filled with obvious {{Take That}}s against UKIP, Starbucks, and David Cameron, it seems to paint Brand as a Straw Liberal. Worse still, it's not even funny.
* Creator/BenjaminFranklin's "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Join,_or_Die Join, or Die]]", a wood relief warning about the possible fate of the American colonies if they don't start working together.
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* The AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho audio ''The Last'' is ridiculously anvilicious in its anti-war message. It takes place in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, with statements like "Money that should have went to space exploration went to develop more weapons" and "She should have known dropping bombs is wrong, that war is wrong".

* The truly {{Anvilicious}} narrator in ''Blood Brothers'' not only shows up to highlight every moment of foreshadowing in the musical, but also appears at the end to let any terminally inattentive audience members know what the message was.

* Creator/HenrikIbsen dropped some heavy anvils in his play ''{{Theatre/Brand}}''. The title character is a notorious carrier and tosser of anvils all the way, and one scene, showing a starving and freezing mother with a child begging for clothes and shelter on Christmas eve, is anvilicious in spades. The anvil dropped is so heavy it actually kills off one of the lead characters in-play (Agnes, the wife of Brand).

* 2084 ([[https://tellygunge.wordpress.com/2013/02/02/2084-chapter-1/ Part 1,]] and [[https://tellygunge.wordpress.com/2013/02/08/2084-chapter-2/ Part 2]] (NSFW) The message, being about what happens when copyright law [[GoneHorriblyRight goes horribly right,]] isn't exactly subtle about its message. The story concerns 2 people, one into [[CoveredInGunge WAM]], trying to deal with a dystopia where copyright is abused to the point where you can't basically do anything without an ipad {{Expy}}, and do anything unless you pay hefty royalties to the creator. Granted, this was written after [=SOPA=] and [=PIPA=] occurred and failed to pass, but the unrealistic description of future copyright law can come off as jarring.

The weird thing about Mr. T is that he means all of it; the man who made a career out of screaming and hitting things is a big ol' MommasBoy who loves kids and wants to use his image to help them. In the '80s he performed in a video called "Mr. T's Be Somebody or Be Somebody's Fool," a series of vignettes encouraging self-confidence and good decision making that is so anvilicious the videotape would make a pothole if you dropped it in the street. Unlike most celebrities doing pre-teen educational/self-help/anti-drug videos in the '80s, Mr. T was not ordered to do this as the community service portion of a drug sentencing; he co-wrote and produced the thing of his own volition. That's because Mr. T don't give ya no jibberjabber. He tells it like it is.
** Parodied [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g-s-pghtYQ in a fake Mr T PSA]] on Series/KeyAndPeele, where all the anvils he throws down are about him.

* Practically every child has had to attend an assembly at their school about how drugs and alcohol will ruin their life. In some health classes, its not uncommon to have a "speaker" come and show the students pictures of an STD infection.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dAFbpk9_GM Russell Brand's "parody" of Parklife]] is about as subtle about corporate greed and political corruption as using a chainsaw to trim threads. Filled with obvious {{Take That}}s against UKIP, Starbucks and David Cameron, it seems to paint Brand as a Straw Liberal. Worse still, it's not even funny.

* ''DarthWiki/TheChroniclesOfFate''. The [[MythArc entire theme]] of this setting is basically one big anarchist message about how [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop society is bad]]. That's it. That's all it's about. [[{{Railroading}} You cannot play a good character who believes in law, order, and following the rules in this world]]. Everyone who does those things is, [[AlwaysChaoticEvil by definition, evil in this setting]]. [[InvertedTrope Only people who practice chaos and freedom are heroes]]. Perhaps the creator of this setting is [[WriterOnBoard trying to say something]] about their views on anarchy vs civilized society?

* ''Website/TheOnion'': [[http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29426 Klingon Speakers Now Outnumber Navajo Speakers]]
** Seeing as this is The Onion, the anvilicious message is basically lampshading the trope, by mocking serious news reports on the problems. It's in dire need of pointing out, remembering the [[http://techcrunch.com/2009/09/04/the-onion-keeps-on-embarrassing-newspapers/ Bangladesh incident]]. It should also be noted that there about 50 Klingon speakers (at the most) and about 170,000 Navajo speakers, thanks to revitalization efforts.
** Also parodied: "[[http://www.theonion.com/articles/political-cartoon-even-more-boring-and-confusing-t,1706/#enlarge Political Cartoon Even More Boring And Confusing Than Issue]]" in which nobody can understand an {{Anvilicious}} comic strip.

* Creator/BradJones reviewed [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/bj/dvd-r-hell/31261-rock-its-your-decision Rock: Its Your Decision]] on ''WebVideo/DVDRHell'', a little-seen TV movie produced by fundamentalist Christians about how rock is evil and how it'll cause you to go to Hell. It doesn't merely lob anvils, it ties them to cruise missiles and fires those at you. After the main character of the movie talks about how people at rock concerts didn't just sit quietly and listen, they got up and ''danced'', like the music was ''controlling them''; Jones jokes that the movie's [[AnAesop Aesop]] is that emotions are bad and if you dance to music, laugh at comedy acts, or cry at funerals, you'll go to Hell.

* 2084 ([[https://tellygunge.wordpress.com/2013/02/02/2084-chapter-1/ Part 1,]] and [[https://tellygunge.wordpress.com/2013/02/08/2084-chapter-2/ Part 2]] (NSFW) The message, being about what happens when copyright law [[GoneHorriblyRight goes horribly right,]] isn't exactly subtle about it's message. The story concerns 2 people, one into [[CoveredInGunge WAM]], trying to deal with a dystopia where copyright is abused to the point where you can't basically do anything without an ipad {{Expy}}, and do anything unless you pay hefty royalties to the creator. Granted, this was written after [=SOPA=] and [=PIPA=] occurred and failed to pass, but the unrealistic description of future copyright law can come off as jarring.

* Creator/MrT, in every incarnation, is anvilicious to the point of [[ButtMonkey becoming a running joke]], thanks in no small part to the ironic humor of a large violent macho man screaming at you things a meek female kindergarten teacher would normally tell you. This resulted in a favorite satirically jumbled line from SNL: "If you believe in yourself, eat all your school, stay in milk, drink your teeth, don't do sleep, and get eight hours of drugs, you can get work!"
** The weird thing about Mr. T is that he means all of it; the man who made a career out of screaming and hitting things is a big ol' MommasBoy who loves kids and wants to use his image to help them. In the '80s he performed in a video called "Mr. T's Be Somebody or Be Somebody's Fool," a series of vignettes encouraging self-confidence and good decision making that is so anvilicious the videotape would make a pothole if you dropped it in the street. Unlike most celebrities doing pre-teen educational/self-help/anti-drug videos in the '80s, Mr. T was not ordered to do this as the community service portion of a drug sentencing; he co-wrote and produced the thing of his own volition. That's because Mr. T don't give ya no jibberjabber. He tells it like it is.

** Another common problem is that older sex educational materials (and even modern abstinence-only ones) buy into the AllAbusersAreMale trope ''hard''. Every time someone is being pressurized into pre-marital or underage sex they are AlwaysFemale. So the lessons become less "be safe, sane, and consensual," and more: "GIRLS! Defend your virginity against the be-penised hordes!" Which of course leads to nobody taking them seriously at all.
** A particularly hilarious one the Scottish "well-meaning but comically futile campaign to make children take adult things seriously" educational curriculum involves one lesson showing teenagers how being immature about sex is bad, mmkay, which begins with splitting the class into groups and ''[[SchmuckBait asking them to write down]]'' all the [[TooDumbToLive different terms for penises, sex, vaginas, homosexuality, and contraceptives]], without fear of punishment. These are then ''[[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments read out by the teacher]].'' The intention is to engage the class and make them realize how they buy into sexist or immature attitudes. Unfortunately, this is [[KidsAreCruel Scottish teenagers.]] The end result is usually the class roaring with laughter, whilst a red-faced (and frequently deeply religious) teacher goes "boaby... fanny... walloper... [[UnusualEuphemism Glasgow typewriter]]... batting from the wrong end of the crease... bellend... tuna sandwich", leading to the children thinking less "sexist and immature swearwords are bad" and more "god, being immature is ''hilarious''."
*** The same idea has since been spread to other countries. This troper remembers doing it in Australian schools from around Grades 6-9. The idea behind it though was to get the "silly" terms out of your system, so you could learn to say penis, vagina and whatnot without feeling embarassed (in theory). I should add that unlike the system above, the kids would have to say the things listed.

* Creator/BenjaminFranklin [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Join,_or_Die draws it like it is.]]

** A particularly hilarious one the Scottish "well-meaning but comically futile campaign to make children take adult things seriously" educational curriculum involves one lesson showing teenagers how being immature about sex is bad, mmkay, which begins with splitting the class into groups and ''[[SchmuckBait asking them to write down]]'' all the [[TooDumbToLive different terms for penises, sex, vaginas, homosexuality, and contraceptives]], without fear of punishment. These are then ''[[CrowningMomentOfFunny read out by the teacher]].'' The intention is to engage the class and make them realize how they buy into sexist or immature attitudes. Unfortunately, this is [[KidsAreCruel Scottish teenagers.]] The end result is usually the class roaring with laughter, whilst a red-faced (and frequently deeply religious) teacher goes "boaby... fanny... walloper... [[UnusualEuphemism Glasgow typewriter]]... batting from the wrong end of the crease... bellend... tuna sandwich", leading to the children thinking less "sexist and immature swearwords are bad" and more "god, being immature is ''hilarious''."

** "So, I was trying to communicate that women, uh, enjoy {{Tetris}} a lot. Is that clear?

* ''Theatre/{{Hair}}'' sure drops a few about friendship, racism, and TheVietnamWar.

* {{Brental Floss}} in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMKTdrQqpNk Tetris WITH LYRICS]].

* ''EclipsePhase'': basically, yay transhumanism and anarchy. Let's put it this way: the main non-transhumanist power bloc is a ruthless military junta verging on PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny.

* ''{{Hair}}'' sure drops a few about friendship, racism, and TheVietnamWar.
* ''The Toxic Avenger'', based on the campy movie of the same name, could be a hilarious hour of nothing but New Jersey jokes, which it is in some places, but eventually it gets bogged down by its need to hammer "Pollution BAD!" into the audience. Emphasis on hammer.
* ''Film/YoungFrankenstein'''s musical [[AllMusicalsAreAdaptations adaptation]] is similar to the example of ToxicAvenger stage adaptation; compared to the movie the sexual humor is a lot more heavy-handed.

* BenjaminFranklin [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Join,_or_Die draws it like it is.]]

** The Onion is often anvilicious non-ironically, as the writers' very liberal bias is worn like a badge. One article was simply about people in the future scolding people in the present for not legalizing gay marriage (also, in the future, every single person in the entire world is pro-choice).

* Film/YoungFrankenstein's musical [[AllMusicalsAreAdaptations adaptation]] is similar to the example of ToxicAvenger stage adaptation; compared to the movie the sexual humor is a lot more heavy-handed.
* Creator/HenrikIbsen dropped some heavy anvils in his play {{Theatre/Brand}}. The title character is a notorious carrier and tosser of anvils all the way, and one scene, showing a starving and freezing mother with a child begging for clothes and shelter on christmas eve, is anvilicious in spades. The anvil dropped is so heavy it actually kills off one of the lead characters in-play (Agnes, the wife of Brand).