History Main / OverlyNarrowSuperlative

* ''io9'''s article on ''{{Roswell}}'' dubs it [[http://io9.com/5641730/roswell-the-best-late-90s-alien-teen-soap-opera-on-the-wb-ever "The Best Late-90s Alien Teen Soap Opera on The WB Ever"]].

* ''io9'''s article on ''{{Roswell}}'' dubs it [[http://io9.com/5641730/roswell-the-best-late-90s-alien-teen-soap-opera-on-the-wb-ever "The Best Late-90s Alien Teen Soap Opera on TheWB Ever"]].

* ''io9'''s article on ''{{Roswell}}'' dubs it [[http://io9.com/5641730/roswell-the-best-late-90s-alien-teen-soap-opera-on-the-wb-ever "The Best Late-90s Alien Teen Soap Opera on TheWB Ever".

* ''io9'''s article on ''{{Roswell}} dubs it [[http://io9.com/5641730/roswell-the-best-late-90s-alien-teen-soap-opera-on-the-wb-ever "The Best Late-90s Alien Teen Soap Opera on TheWB Ever".

* ''PennyArcade'' likes this trope.
** Some PS3 fans claimed that the game ''{{Lair}}'' doesn't fit existing genres and is, in fact, its own genre. This caused Mike Krahulik of ''Penny Arcade'' to call it "...a really shitty genre," and mockingly refer to the game as "The best 3D dragon-based shooter with Sixaxis controls."
** ''PennyArcade'' has also [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2000/11/29/ repeatedly]] [[http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2001/7/16/ referred]] [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2001/12/17 to]] ''{{Kolibri}}'' as "Arguably the finest hummingbird-based shooter for the 32X"; this has since become a minor [[MemeticMutation internet meme]].

* ''PennyArcade'''s "We're Right awards". Particularly notable is "Kolibri: Best Hummingbird-based Shooter Available For The 32X."

* Played hilariously straight in VideoGameCulture with some PS3 fans' reactions to ''{{Lair}}''. It was claimed by some that the game doesn't fit existing genres and is, in fact, its own genre, causing Mike Krahulik of ''Penny Arcade'' to call it "...a really shitty genre," and mockingly refer to the game as "The best 3D dragon-based shooter with Sixaxis controls."
** ''PennyArcade'' also [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2000/11/29/ twice]] [[http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2001/7/16/ referred]] to ''{{Kolibri}}'' as "Arguably the finest hummingbird-based shooter for the 32X"; this has since become a minor [[MemeticMutation internet meme]].
*** And once more when they gave it one of their [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2001/12/17/ gaming awards]].

* Played hilariously straight in VideoGameCulture with some PS3 fans' reactions to ''{{Lair}}''. It was claimed by some that the game doesn't fit existing genres and is, in fact, it's own genre, causing Mike Krahulik of ''Penny Arcade'' to call it "...a really shitty genre," and mockingly refer to the game as "The best 3D dragon-based shooter with Sixaxis controls."

** Abe Simpson describes the Flying Hellfish as "the [[PerfectlyCromulentWord fightingest]] company of the fightingest battalion of the third-fightingest regiment".

** In the same episode, one of the successful female Simpson relatives describes herself as the "regional manager of the third-largest supplier of divan and bunk beds". %% Quoted from memory; probably requires fixing %%
** In the ''138th Episode Spectacular'', Troy [=McClure=] describes the Simpsons as "America's favourite [[TheFlintstones non-prehistoric]] cartoon family".

* James Cameron is known for describing his [[OldShame directorial debut]] ''Piranha 2: The Spawning'' as "the finest flying piranha movie ever made".

** The page for ''{{AxeCop}}'' calls it the best comic by a six-year-old you'll ever read!
*** Bonus: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtOX_O_NKHY This]] RealTrailerFakeMovie refers to it as "the greatest action movie ever made...written by a five-year-old boy"

** Cathy Guisewite has reportedly described her strip ''{{Cathy}}'' as "the first widely syndicated humor strip created by a woman." [[[http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/cathy_guisewite.html link]]]

* An episode of the British ''[[WhoseLineIsItAnyway Whose Line Is It Anyway?]]'' featured a duet which host Clive Anderson called [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgC0Aph2UDc&feature=fvsr "the best song about cat litter I've ever heard."]]

* [[http://xkcd.com/770/ Sad example]] from '''{{xkcd}}''.

* A TV ad for a game based on ''Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer'' proclaimed the game to be "Probably the greatest action game based on a movie based on a superhero comic of the year." Seriously.

* In ''Brokeback Mountain'', Jack's wife Lureen makes the following comment:

*** The best one? UweBoll's ''Bloodrayne 2: Deliverence'' DVD release was promoted boldly as a sequel to the "Best-selling Live-action DVD of 2006!" A claim footnoted with "for films that made less than $5 million at the box office".

**Or [[AcceptibleTargets the best-looking girl in Wales]].
*''"[[ExitPursuedByABear Exit, pursued by a bear]]."'' (from ''AWintersTale'') is the most famous stage direction ever written.

* And the trope gets entirely inverted on ComedyCentral: "This is TheDailyShow, the most important news program... '''ever.'''"
** Their response to Rudy Giuliani campaigning for the Republican nomination in 2008 on the claim that he'd been New York City's most conservative mayor: "Wow, congratulations on being the thinnest kid at fat camp."

* In an inversion, FloggingMolly have a song called "The Worst Day Since Yesterday".

Oh my God, this is the ''second greatest'' TVTropes page about overly narrow superlatives I've ever seen [[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses in my]] ''[[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses life!]]'' After [[{{TroperTales/OverlyNarrowSuperlative}} this one.]]

That is to say, it covers situations where something seems to be highly praised, but the praise is only relative to an extremely small group (often a group of one), rendering it meaningless. Sometimes the intent is for the praise to be taken seriously (in which case it becomes a version of the [[YouFailLogicForever sharpshooter fallacy]]), but the more frequent implication is that there isn't any larger category relative to which it can apply, making it a StealthInsult of sorts. Sometimes the joke is that, even in such an incredibly narrow category, the thing being discussed ''still'' isn't first.