History Main / TastesLikeDiabetes

* Semi-parodied among Franchise/TheMuppets with Bean Bunny. The Muppet that Henson Studios learned to love to hate.
** The 1981 episode of ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' with Linda Ronstadt was arguably a low point. No offense to any Ronstadt fans out there, but she wasn't really the best choice for a guest host. After so many high-spirited and even brassy celebrities who could at the very least hold their own alongside the Muppets - PeterSellers, Creator/DomDeLuise, Raquel Welch, even Rudolf Nureyev for goodness's sakes (and when [[RussianGuySuffersMost a]] ''[[RussianGuySuffersMost Russian]]'' [[RussianGuySuffersMost can appear jollier than you]]!) - Ronstadt just seems so quiet and demure (and, with that idiotic little grin, like a StepfordSmiler) that she winds up dragging down the entire show. The Muppets try their best to compensate with their trademark subversive and even ghoulish humor, and Linda's first number, Roy Orbison's "Blue Bayou", is fine (although she performs it in [[FetishRetardant nineteenth-century "granny" underwear]] [[WTHCostumingDepartment for some odd reason]]), but the finale, with her singing "When I Grow Too Old To Dream", is just too sentimentalized and pathetic to make anyone feel good, made all the worse by resident {{Jerkass}} Rizzo the Rat actually ''shedding tears'' as he listens to the song. But perhaps the worst part is that (''Series/MuppetsTonight'' and the odd special notwithstanding) [[DownerEnding this was one of the last episodes the Muppets ever did on network TV]].

* Hilariously parodied in [[{{Creatures}} Creatures II]], (and probably in Creatures I as well) where the baddies and goodies taste like diabetes but commit all sorts of bloody acts of violence on each other.

* Hilariously subverted in ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay''. The game opens with a cutesy N64 logo dancing around (complete with cliche "nursery music"), but then [[spoiler:Conker storms in, horror movie music abruptly plays, and he proceeds to gleefully saw the N64 logo in half with a chainsaw - literally killing it]].

* This trope is invoked in the fanfic ''[[HarryPotter Dumbledore's Army]] and the Year of Darkness'', when Hannah tells Neville that her Aunt has some sickeningly cute collectible china witch figurines. Apparently, "It's like trying to eat half of Honeydukes in one sitting. You can feel your teeth start to rot the second you cross the front door."

* ''Franchise/HarryPotter''
** Rowling sends up this trope with [[Characters/HarryPotter Dolores Umbridge]] in ''Order of the Phoenix'', as she's described as having images of insipid kittens mewling on the walls of her office wherever she works and her voice is described as "high, girlish" and sounding like "poisoned honey," she wears a black hairbow, and in the movie she is seen putting loads of sugar (PINK SUGAR) in her tea (also pink). This is a subversion, because she's actually a [[SadistTeacher sadistic,]] evil, and downright [[FantasticRacism racist]] old hag.
** Beatrix Bloxam, author of the "Toadstool Tales" book series that was banned by the Ministry of Magic because the stories caused nausea and vomiting. One would normally assume this meant the stories were scary, as examplified in [[http://spitefire.livejournal.com/21148.html this]] fanfic. But in Dumbledore's notes within ''Tales of Beedle the Bard'', it's revealed that the child readers' negative reactions were instead due to Bloxam having re-written Beedle's and others' wizarding fairy tales so that they're sickeningly sweet. "Then the little golden pot danced with delight - hoppitty hoppitty hop! - on its tiny rosy toes! Wee Willykins had cured all the dollies of their poorly tum-tums, and the little pot was so happy that it - " *BARF*

** Subverted (rather cruelly) in one part of FanFic/AMVHell 4, with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTAEwkSnBFk BABY!Sasuke and his big brother Itachi]].

* ''Franchise/StarTrek'' has several episodes taking place on the resort planet Risa. It's supposed to be the Federations greatest vacation place, but both the environment and the locals are sickeningly nice and hospitable.

* This is how most people react when they first hear about an anime called ''PrincessTutu''. It's about a duck who turns into a girl who turns into a [[NinjaZombiePirateRobot Magical Girl Ballerina Princess]]! Suffice it to say that [[DefiedTrope this is NOT]] a SugarBowl.

* Being an adorable puppy voiced by five-year-old ''AmericanIdol'' contestant Kaitlyn Maher made Tiny from ''Santa Buddies'' [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter ridiculously cute]]. To some, irritatingly so.

** The trailer for KirbysEpicYarn seems to have turned this UpToEleven with the art style.

* Spoofed in the ''Comicbook/{{Batman}}''/''JudgeDredd'' crossover, where Scarecrow sprays Judge Death with his nightmare toxin, causing Judge Death to panic wildly over the sight of adorable ponies and cutesy little animals.

* Awww... wook at [[http://www.worldsfinestonline.com/WF/batman/btas/bios/babydoll/09.jpg Baby]] [[http://www.worldsfinestonline.com/WF/batman/btas/bios/babydoll/08.jpg Doll]] (''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''). Of course, she's [[OlderThanTheyLook really a thirty-year-old]] [[{{Yandere}} insane]] woman who merely [[TheFakeCutie acts like a little girl]] thanks to her massive issues stemming from being a FormerChildStar whose body never matured past childhood.

* ''FanFic/TurnaboutStorm'' has this in-universe. [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Twilight]] and Spike get rather embarassed when they mention a land overseas where weird ponies and humans coexist, those being ''Franchise/MyLittlePony's'' previous generation's characters.

** Leave it to Series/DoctorWho to combine Tastes Like Diabetes with horror...

* It's odd for Within Temptation, but In Perfect Harmony creates cavities with each repeat of the chorus.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgqDURxuZo0&ob=av2n Utopia]] takes this UpToEleven.

* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' is very found of using this trope the same way Happy Tree Friends does. Apocalypse Pony anyone?

* ''{{Annie}}''; "You're never fully dressed without a smile!" [UGH!]

* Lampshaded in Mark Waid's {{Empire}} with the line "I need insulin listening to you!"