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* The cover art for ''Foolish'' by {{Music/Superchunk}} is a self portrait of bassist Laura Ballance looking uncomfortable, with a dead rabbit hanging from the ceiling behind her. The album was completed shortly after Laura Ballance and guitarist/vocalist Mac [=McCaughan=] had broken up, and many of the lyrics reflect it, so fans speculated about where the album art ties into their relationship. According to Laura, she wanted the cover to be a painting of a woman because of an unidentified album by the band American Music Club; when she couldn't find anyone to model for it, she just painted herself. Meanwhile the dead rabbit was added as a reference to the Creator/MichaelMoore documentary ''Pets or Meat: The Return to Flint'', which she'd recently watched.

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* The cover art for ''Foolish'' by {{Music/Superchunk}} is a self portrait of bassist Laura Ballance looking uncomfortable, with a dead skinned rabbit hanging from the ceiling behind her. The album was completed shortly after Laura Ballance and guitarist/vocalist Mac [=McCaughan=] had broken up, and many of the lyrics reflect it, so fans speculated about where the album art ties into their relationship. According to Laura, she wanted the cover to be a painting of a woman because of an unidentified album by the band American Music Club; when she couldn't find anyone to model for it, she just painted herself. Meanwhile the dead rabbit was added as a reference to the Creator/MichaelMoore documentary ''Pets or Meat: The Return to Flint'', which she'd recently watched.
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* The cover art for ''Foolish'' by {{Music/Superchunk}} is a self portrait of bassist Laura Ballance looking uncomfortable, with a dead rabbit hanging from the ceiling behind her. The album was completed shortly after Laura Ballance and guitarist/vocalist Mac [=McCaughan=] had broken up, and many of the lyrics reflect it, so fans speculated about where the album art ties into their relationship. According to Laura, she wanted the cover to be a painting of a woman because of an unidentified album by the band American Music Club; when she couldn't find anyone to model for it, she just painted herself. Meanwhile the dead rabbit was added as a reference to the Creator/MichaelMoore documentary ''Pets or Meat: The Return to Flint'', which she'd recently watched.
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** Someone [[http://genius.com/Strong-bad-and-coach-z-fish-eye-lens-lyrics made a page]] on Genius (a website dedicated to crowd-sourced analysis of song lyrics and other media) for "Fish-Eye Lens", singling out all the ways the cartoon parodies rap and hip-hop videos from TheNineties (especially the use and abuse of the FishEyeLens in music videos by the Music/BeastieBoys).

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** Someone [[http://genius.com/Strong-bad-and-coach-z-fish-eye-lens-lyrics made a page]] on Genius (a website dedicated to crowd-sourced analysis of song lyrics and other media) for "Fish-Eye Lens", singling out all the ways the cartoon parodies rap and hip-hop videos from TheNineties (especially the use and abuse of the FishEyeLens in music videos by the Music/BeastieBoys).
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* Alison Bechdel, in her graphic novel memoir ''ComicBook/FunHome'', notes how annoyed she was with her college English professors forcing symbolism on everything they read. Probably the funniest panel in the book is a bewildered looking student asking "You mean... like... Hemingway did that stuff on purpose?" Elsewhere in the book, she and her girlfriend analyze several children's books (e.g. ''Literature/JamesAndTheGiantPeach'') [[SatireParodyPastiche for their "erotic undertones".]]

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* Alison Bechdel, Creator/AlisonBechdel, in her graphic novel memoir ''ComicBook/FunHome'', notes how annoyed she was with her college English professors forcing symbolism on everything they read. Probably the funniest panel in the book is a bewildered looking student asking "You mean... like... Hemingway did that stuff on purpose?" Elsewhere in the book, she and her girlfriend analyze several children's books (e.g. ''Literature/JamesAndTheGiantPeach'') [[SatireParodyPastiche for their "erotic undertones".]]
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Misuse - The stating that Lost is meant to evoke this trope and fails to do so does not make at an example of the trope. Whether or not Lost is meant to evoke the trope is subjective, and stating the show was "made up as it went along" is debatable conjecture.


* The show ''Series/{{Lost}}'' is meant to evoke this. The show is filled with all kinds of mysterious symbols, strange happenings, and hints that there's something happening that's bigger than anyone had anticipated. The show's creators insisted that they had a plan all along, but by the time the show was over, most people realized that they were making it up as they went along. There wasn't a big overall plan, and most of the symbolism used to hook people didn't really amount to anything.
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* There's a special feature on the Muppets season 1 DVD which apparently was a video specifically made for Stockholders meant to convince them to buy stocks in ''Series/TheMuppetShow''. In it, the muppet presented a list of various demographics, and what that demographic would like about the show and why. One of those groups listed was intellectuals and college students, and the thing that would appeal to them was the meaning of everything.

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* There's a special feature on In the Muppets season 1 DVD which apparently was a video specifically made "pitch reel" for Stockholders meant to convince them to buy stocks in ''Series/TheMuppetShow''. In it, ''Series/TheMuppetShow'', the muppet spokes-muppet presented a list of various demographics, and what that demographic would like about the show and why. One of those groups listed was intellectuals and college students, and the thing that would appeal to them was the meaning of everything.

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