History Sandbox / OneEpisodeWonderWickCheck

# YMMV.CheatSlayer: Fans of isekai works were turned off by the inaccurate and mean-spirited parodies that painted the characters they were familiar with as a group of utterly horrific monsters, whereas general audiences were turned off by the excessively grim tone and graphic content (for example, the plot begins with the protagonist's childhood friend being raped and murdered). Even people who liked the idea of an anti-isekai plot were generally turned off by the story playing too many tropes that make the genre contentious straight. Needless to say, Cheat Slayer only lasted a single chapter before it was cancelled in the face of massive backlash.
# Trivia.ToonMakersSailorMoon: Just a pilot, that's it.
# Recap.StargateSG1S6E20Memento: ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Ashwan, despite being a OneEpisodeWonder, is arguably one of the biggest in the series. He overrides Kalfas' ordered strike on the helpless Prometheus, before consistently being helpful and courteous to SG-1 and the crew of the Prometheus in their quest for Tagrea's stargate, ultimately putting his own life on the line to aid a Gunship Rescue by the Prometheus and gives a Rousing Speech to convince Kalfas's followers to let the team go and support opening relations with Earth.
# WesternAnimation.MrIncredibleAndPals: In-universe. The show only had one episode produced before Supers fell out of favor with the public and were forced to go into hiding, at which point the pilot remained unaired and the show was cancelled. Given what we see, it's probably for the best.
# Trivia.HeroMamaLeague: The first episode was released in May 2018 with a Sequel Hook for more. Alas, there is no sign to this day.
# Trivia.KaBlam: The Henry and June Show.
# AudienceAlienatingPremise.WesternAnimation: What could possibly go wrong with Bubsy? A lot, actually. This cartoon is based on a video game series of the same name. The problem? The original games that the titular bobcat hails from are considered mediocre at best by the general consensus. As a result, it is easy for audiences to assume that the cartoon is terrible purely because it is associated with a brand with a less than stellar reputation. It never made it past its pilot.
# Trivia.FlavioTheGoat: It premiered on Nicktoons via Random! Cartoons, and nothing more.
# Trivia.TheAssets: One-Episode Wonder
# Trivia.PlatypusComix: "Rice Cub" ends by asking the reader to tell Peter if he or she would like to read a sequel. Even though some people answered that they would, Peter evidently never found the time to make one.
# YMMV.X23: A year before Laura Kinney, there was Avery Connor, also a teenage Opposite-Sex Clone of Wolverine with his healing factor and fighting ability, but not his Adamantium claws. She appeared first (and only) in Greg Rucka and Yoshitaka Amano's picture-novel Elektra & Wolverine: The Redeemer.
# Trivia.{{Madballs}}: Or rather, Two Episode Wonder. Only two episodes were ever made before the show was canned.
# PoorlyDisguisedPilot.LiveActionTV: When the 1961, Jackie Gleason-helmed game show You're in the Picture turned out to be an outright flop, it was quietly cancelled. In its timeslot the following week, Gleason, on a bare stage, instead delivered a half-hour, self-deprecating monologue "apologizing" for the previous week's program, and reminisced about other notable flops he had been involved in. After receiving better ratings and reception than the show itself, CBS allowed Gleason to fulfill the series' commitment by producing the remaining episodes as an informal, one-on-one interview series.
# Trivia.TurnOn: For a long time, it was considered the gold standard for this trope, with its rapid cancellation, though other examples in the years afterwards made it less unique in that regard. In fact, two of the future cases of shows getting canceled after one episode, Co-Ed Fever and McGurk: A Dog's Life (both from 1979) also featured Hamilton Camp among the cast.
# Horrible.LiveActionTV: Sett på maken ("Look At That!") was a botched attempt to make a Norwegian version of the British satirical puppet show Spitting Image. Unlike its inspiration, Sett på maken was very poorly received by audiences and critics alike, to the point where the second episode (of the 12 that had been filmed) was scrapped hours before it was supposed to be aired. The series was intended to return after a few weeks, but nothing ever materialized, dooming it to OneEpisodeWonder status.
# WebVideo.BrainScratchCommentaries: The only playthroughs that have one part each are Tetris and Pokémon Black & Blue.
# Characters.AOSP100MicrosoftSamReadsFunnyWindowsErrors: He appeared in the season 3 finale, but was killed off in the middle of the episode after a measly few minutes of screentime.

# DiedDuringProduction.LiveActionTV: Former Jackass cast member Ryan Dunn died in a car accident in June 2011, after just one episode of Proving Ground - a MythBusters-inspired Experiment Show series he co-hosted on G4 - had aired. The show was pulled immediately, a presumed difficult decision for the network, considering that the series premiered to decent ratings and they had spent quite a bit of time in the preceding weeks promoting the series on their other programs. They eventually aired the remaining eight episodes later in the Summer of 2011, with co-host Jessica Chobot becoming a correspondent for X-Play in order to fulfill her contract for Proving Ground, which was discontinued with no chance of revival.
# Trivia.TheWheelOfTime2021: AshcanCopy: On February 9th, 2015 (at 1:30 AM!), Winter Dragon, a 30-minute adaptation of the introductory chapter of The Eye Of The World appeared on FXX. What keeps it from being just another OneEpisodeWonder are the circumstances of its production. According to the director's tweets, filming began on January 20th and post-production was completed on February 4th. The TV rights to the Wheel of Time series were set to revert from Red Eagle Entertainment (who has held them since 2004) to The Bandersnatch Group (which is owned by the Robert Jordan estate) on February 11th. Needless to say, Jordan's widow was not pleased. Lawsuits went flying and after being resolved, Harriet announced that what would become the Amazon adaptation was in the works.
# Trivia.{{Curbside}}: The pilot is all there is of this series because not only was it never picked up, but it didn't even air.
# YMMV.{{Greggo}}: High Rollers, Hit Man, Name That Tune, Now You See It, Win Richard Kim's Pocky, and WinAdmission all got one show each, for various reasons.
# Recap.StrongBadEmailE126BestThing: In-universe, Limozeen: But They're In Space! was cancelled in the middle of airing the pilot, with the animated characters discussing the cancellation.
# Trivia.TheManWhoHatedLaughter: Flash Gordon, Mandrake the Magician and The Phantom appeared together for the first time in this special. They would team up again in the 1986 animated series Defenders of the Earth (which also had a one-episode appearance by Prince Valiant) and the comic book Kings Watch.
# FranchiseKiller.VideoGames: Twisted Dreams, finally resurrected the series with Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back. While the revival was widely panned, it led to a better-received spin-off, Bubsy: Paws on Fire!, two years later.
# UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist.LiveActionTV: Needless to say, the main character of the OneEpisodeWonder Heil Honey I'm Home!.
# Trivia.TheMoxyShow: The Moxy & Flea Show only aired a pilot episode before being cancelled.

# Trivia.SouljaBoy: Soulja Boy: The Animated Series only lasted one episode.
# Trivia.LostInOz: This show only lasted one episode.
# Trivia.GameToons: Of all the video game-based animations of the channel, only seven of them formed into actual seriesthose being... Among Us, Minecraft, Friday Night Funkin', Squid Game, Poppy Playtime, Pibby, and Rainbow Friends, with three of the seven having their own pages on This Very Wiki. Fall Guys Logic only had two episodes, and the rest of the them are just one-shots.
# WorseThanItSounds.LiveActionTV: An audacious and underappreciated Dom Com in which an influential European statesman and his wife must learn to coexist with two of his most bitter enemies.
# YMMV.VoltronLegendaryDefender: TheProblemWithLicensedGames: Voltron VR Chronicles is an embarrassingly short (1 hour of gameplay to be precise) virtual reality game that was supposed to be the first of a five episode series. Its short length, uninspired gameplay, and the niche nature of VR products, in general, ensured it was a OneEpisodeWonder. Not even the focus on fan favorite Lance could convince people to buy it. Voltron: Cubes Of Olkarion, a project that was made as part of a coding contest before being released to the public as a PC game in July of 2019, is a technically impressive effort given the minimal resources afforded to the contestants. Unfortunately, said resources ensured that it is an In Name Only adaptation that uses Voltron elements as little more than decoration for a board game.
# PlayingWith.SpinoffBabies: The spinoff Baby Alice and Friends is announced two years in advance, but gets cancelled after the pilot. The spinoff is announced, but it turns out that it only takes place in the same universe and the titular Alice is a separate character from the original.
# Trivia.KamenRiderG: Can be viewed as the first episode of the Kamen Rider G series that never was.
# Trivia.GuardiansOfTheCosmos: The pilot was the only episode of the series to be produced.
# AnalogyBackfire.LiveActionTV: The pitch reel compares it to Jim Henson's and George Schlatter's respective previous work, such as Sesame Street, Laugh In ... and Turn-On. It went on the promise that the names of the executives would be household words, like "toilet." This exchange between Rowlf and George Burns: Rowlf: Oh listen, I can play in any key. I'm another Jascha Heifetz. George Burns: Jascha Heifetz played the violin.note For those unfamiliar with the show, Rowlf plays the piano. Rowlf: No one'll know the difference, George.
# Trivia.KamenRiderSDKaikiKumoOtoko: This OVA is presented much like the first episode of what could have been a Kamen Rider SD TV series.
# Trivia.{{Lookwell}}: A pilot episode that was never picked up for series, NBC burned it off in the summer of 1991 (July 28th, to be exact). The legendary Brandon Tartikoff had been a huge fan of the pilot but he had left NBC by the spring of 1991, when the time came to make a decision on whether to pick up the show for the fall season, and his replacement Warren Littlefield was decidedly not a fan. Co-creators Conan O'Brien and Robert Smigel have said that, in retrospect, this might have been for the best, as they had no idea how they would have been able to write a comedy mystery series on a weekly basis.
# YMMV.WhatACartoonShow: While a couple of shorts got sequels, nearly every one that wasn't Dexter's Laboratory, Cow and Chicken, The Powerpuff Girls, Johnny Bravo or The Chicken from Outer Space became a one-shot cartoon, and everyone has their favorites.
# Trivia.YoureInThePicture: Only applies to the original You're in the Picture format, which lasted for just one episode despite a second one being reportedly taped. The second broadcast episode was a half-hour monologue/apology by Gleason, after which the series was rebranded to The Jackie Gleason Show and changed format.
# Trivia.ChristmasInTattertown: This was originally going to be Nickelodeon's first foray into evening television (and a regular children's series for Ralph Bakshi).
# VideoGame.{{Wuppo}}: One of the purchasable items from the Blusser Island shop is the Gucu Hat. It looks exactly like a Green Skull Cap, the hat the developer's character wore in his old Maplestory videos. The tooltip even refers to 'the good old days'. An easter egg hidden in the demo version of the game is a reference to Dragon 218, a earlier work by the developers with a single episode. After beating the game, playing through the game again can cause Frederick Fish to be replaced with twkld, a reference to the previous logo and name of Knuist & Perzik. Another possible change is Denksnavel's color being blue (his color in the beta) or green (his color in the demo). These colors are also referenced if you play the full game for the first time after playing either the demo or beta. The OCSEDEOS stores are a reference to Soedesco, the publishers of the game.
# Trivia.AppleTexts: To date, the Apple Eats Texts page has only had two stories released. Ironically, the second episode used titles and segue clips that were clearly meant for the Apple Texts page.
# AudienceAlienatingPremise.LiveActionTV: ABC's Lucky 7, a drama (that was advertised as being mostly) about the downsides of winning the lottery, was cancelled after only two episodes in 2013. In hindsight, it probably wasn't a good idea to air a show about how suddenly coming into a lot of money is a bad thing during an economic downturn.note However, it was based on a British show called The Syndicate, which had more success, with four seasons that each focused on the difficulties faced by a different group of lottery winners. The fact that the National Lottery has a larger role in British culture may have been a key factor here
# Trivia.TheNakedBrothersBand: Supetastic 6, a one-off Alternate Universe animated special featuring the cast as superheroes.
# Series.{{Gogglebox}}: {{Remake}}: The rights have been sold to China, Ukraine, Spain (where it became a OneEpisodeWonder) and the US, the last one making the show as The People's Couch.
# ShoutOut.{{Voltron}}: Commander Hawkins is probably named after Jim Hawkins of Treasure Island fame.Rocky might be named after that Rocky (Balboa) or at least Rocky Marciano. Commander Hazar has a unisex Turkish given name originating from a Turkic tribe's name who lived around the Caspian Sea between the 7th and 11th centuries. Dorma, sister of Hazar, shares her name with the tragic first love of Marvel Comics' Sub-Mariner, whose skin was also a shade of blue. Twyla from Vehicle Team Voltron has her name recycled from a one-shot Arusian character of the same name in Lion Force Voltron. Captain Mongo might be named after the fictional planet of Mongo from Flash Gordon (the planet under the dominion of Ming the Merciless). Emperor Zeppo might be named after Zeppo Marx of Marx Brothers fame.
# WebVideo.SharkJumping: invoked Covered on Once a Pilot, provided the show even made it to air in the first place.

# Trivia.KorgothOfBarbaria: Was intended to be a full series, but unfortunately for its fans it was never picked up.
# CommonKnowledge.AnimeAndManga: Everyone knows that the reason it was a OneEpisodeWonder is because Ryusuke Mita, the mangaka, was arrested for drug possession. Or alternately, that the animators were arrested for drug possession. Except there’s no evidence of any such thing ever happening; there’s no record of Mita ever having any kind of drug-related criminal charges, and he’s actually still making manga. And the animators? Well... The real reason the Dragon Half anime is so short is because it’s just a two-episode OVA rather than a proper series, and the manga itself was a bit of a Short-Runner anyways. The whole thing seems to just be an urban legend that spread too far, helped by the fact Dragon Half is the only of Mita’s works to get attention in the US, let alone any sort of localization. The whole thing is likely because the English DVD commentary made a joke about drug possession and some people took it literally.
# YMMV.TotalXtremeIsland: Doc was this in SPADES! He's by far the most popular one-episode character in the entire cast, and Zetsu is also fondly remembered for his relationship with Tempest. They were popular enough to become ascended extras and return in the rest of the loser episodes.
# WebVideo.AOSP100MicrosoftSamReadsFunnyWindowsErrors: In Season 3 Episode 5, the Winter 2014 intro was used before it was interrupted and replaced with the current intro of the time. Exaggerated in that same episode by using almost entirely errors that was used in Mac Voices Reads Funny Windows Errors THE FIRST, which was cancelled after only one episode. Besides that, the Moving Victoria Virus was mentioned, but was defied when the Ancient Joke Police censored it. Starting from there, old concepts for the characters started to be used. In MSSAM TV Episode 1, the Revamp, the NSA which came from Thunderbirds101's series seized a part of the video and revealed their name change to MPFNSA ("Mitchell Productions Fictional NSA"). Subverted when the Ancient Joke Police has censored them. The operating systems transitions was reintroduced after Season 1 Episode 1 and Season 2 Episode 4.
# CruelAndUnusualDeath.WesternAnimation: Though there were quite a few different deaths in the OneEpisodeWonder Korgoth of Barbaria, nothing matches the death of a Giant Mook named Scrotus, who gets interrupted in the middle of a wonderful To the Pain/Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon speech. After the title character is unimpressed by the overly long speech, he proceeds to dish out a brutal murdering by ripping half of the mook's skin off from the ponytail straight down, tossing a full glass of alcohol into the godawful wound, then setting the alcohol on fire.
# DisasterDominoes.LiveActionTV: This happens in one sketch on the OneEpisodeWonder sketch show Out of the Trees written by Douglas Adams and Graham Chapman. A young couple pick a flower from a peony shrub, and this sets in motion a chain of events that ends with the world blowing up.
# Creator.LinksTheSun: Body Count, a OneEpisodeWonder counting the total number of victims of notorious fictional killers. invoked
# Trivia.BirthOfTheTenthGatherAllKamenRiders: Can be viewed as the first and only episode of the Kamen Rider ZX series that never was.
# TheOfficeUS.TropesFToO: The pilot for proposed Dwight Schrute spinoff The Farm, rejected by NBC, was re-worked into a 9th season episode of The Office appropriately titled "The Farm".
# Trivia.K9AndCompany: Though aired as a one-off special, it was planned to be the first of an ongoing series. A change in management at the BBC prevented this from coming to pass.
# Trivia.{{Darkman}}: The abandoned TV pilot is one of the finest and most accurate examples of superheroics on live-action television.
# YMMV.TheSimpsons: Jessica Lovejoy has a massive fanbase for someone who only had a speaking role in one episode, thanks to her Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon demeanour and attractive design. She is the most outright evil of Bart's love interests, and one of the most popular among fans.
# PromotedFanboy.WesternAnimation: "Please Mail Your Unsolicited Manuscripts Along With A Self-Addressed Envelope To: Some Other Show!"
# Funny.PrincessTutu: Any scene with Femio in it. Period. No wonder he's an Ensemble Dark Horse / OneEpisodeWonder.
# Trivia.MockingbirdLane: The pilot episode was as far as this series got before NBC cancelled it.
# Trivia.GogosCrazyBones: The cancelled 2012 Animated Adaptation.
# Literature.ThatWackyRedhead: invoked Just like its counterpart in our timeline, Turn-On does not have a lengthy run. And it ruins producer George Schlatter's career to boot.
# Sandbox.Inky100: AdvertisedExtra: A rare fandom-related variant, overlapping with OneEpisodeWonder and Ensemble Dark Horse. Fans of the show have taken notable attention to plenty of minor, one-shot or background characters. The droves of fan works involving these characters, alongside a surprising amount of traction with ships, would make a person outside the fandom think that they're at least frequently recurring characters (among other misconceptions based on how fans portray them). Some of the biggest examples are Maggie from "Funny Business", Rocky from "Back in Black", and the love interests from "L is for Love" who didn't re-appear afterwards (Francisco, Silas, Skippy, Winston and David) or at least didn't have significant further development (Paige).

# WesternAnimation.SheZow: SheZow was originally a OneEpisodeWonder on Shorty McShort's Shorts, which in turn was a kid-friendly adaptation of a mature cartoon by the creator of the show.
# Trivia.HeatVisionAndJack: Or more like One Unaired Pilot Wonder.
# Trivia.{{Tatort}}: The format resulted in a number of one-episode wonders as a new investigative team set in a different city was tried out but for one reason or another (often other commitments by the lead actor) was cancelled after just one episode. One such case was Diether Krebs (Michael in Ein Herz und eine Seele) who played the deadly serious Kriminalhauptkommissar Nagel from Hanover in 1979, while Klaus Schubert ("Ekel Alfred" himself) played retired Kriminalhauptkommissar Felber in Frankfurt in 1995. Klaus Löwitsch played two such roles in 1982 and 1985, in the first episode he did his character was killed in the line of duty. "Gisbert Engelhardt" was a single-episode wonder on the Munich Tatort (he died in the episode he was introduced) so the actor, Fabian Hinrichs got the role on the first Franken Tatort
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# Sandbox.WickCheckProject: Attracts some misuse for characters or other aspects that only appeared in one episode, as opposed to works that only lasted a single installment. We also want to free up the title for a TLP draft that's making the misuse into its own YMMV item.
# YMMV.HowToPlayBrawlLikeAMan: It's in character for the Muscle Sage to call himself "the fan's favourite character" but that doesn't change the fact the he's actually right for once. Let's Play Subspace Emissary Like A Badass was supposed to be only be one episode.
# TheShowMustGoOn.LiveActionTV: British television channel ITV Play went on with the premiere of its topical phone-in quiz show The Debbie King Show, even though it was announced earlier in the day that the channel would be "suspended" (in reality, it was shut down permanently) as part of an audit over the broadcaster's use of premium-rate phone lines. It ended up becoming a OneEpisodeWonder.
# IThoughtItMeant.OToR: One-Episode Fear is not about how one episode of the show was scary.Nor is it the staff of a TV show fearing that it'll get canceled after only one episode.
# Manga.{{Bakuman}}: invokedAshirogi attempts this after reading a bunch of fan letters, and the result is shit. Their editor justifies this by saying it supposed to be their story, not the fans, and it's also indicated that the ones who write fan letters are not necessarily representative of the majority of the readers.Nanamine's style of editing and creative process could be an even bigger Take That! or Deconstruction of fan-pandering. His manga's ratings drop lower and lower because of taking too many suggestions from his select fan-pool, to the point it becomes a cluttered mess and eventually gets ten-weeked. This is later revealed to be the result of many of the contributors being anonymous and unpaid, and while it is not difficult to get them to collaborate for a one-shot, Nanamine cannot manage them and keep the story consistent over a long period of time.
# SkewedPriorities.LiveActionTV: Sheila: I hope he's got a background in criminal law. Dan: I hope he plays chess. Sheila: A new man has been appointed to the bench, and all you hope for is someone who can play chess?
# ReferencedBy.CombattlerV: Daimos also shares the same villain line-up as Combattler. Garuda is Richter, Miia is Raiza, Girua is Balbas, and Narua is Georiya. King Olban is also Daimos's equivalent of Oreana and Empress Janera.There was also that one time when Combattler had to use Daimos-like motion controls instead of its normal controls (after Hyoma had to pilot the robot without his arms because they were blown off by Garuda). Combattler's GranDasher mode also looks a lot like Daimos's Tranzer/Transer mode pre-transformation. This comes to a head in Super Robot Wars Alpha 2 & 3 and Advance. The elaborate Combination Attack shared by Voltes, Combattler, and Daimos in the games has Daimos in Tranzer mode traversing the "Grand Light Wave Rail" instead of Combattler V.
# UnintentionalPeriodPiece.The90s: In 1995, Marvel put out a comic starring Billy Ray Cyrus. Many remarked that this was dated even at the time, as Cyrus, though not quite a One-Hit Wonder, was officially past his peak by that point—"Achy-Breaky Heart" came out in 1992, and nothing he put out after even approached it. It only lasted a single issue.
# Trivia.TrickMoon: Despite the pilot having positive reviews, gaining a million views in less than a month, and quickly garnering a passionate fanbase, the pitch for a full series was rejected in the midst of company restructuring.
# Characters.TheWildThornberrys: He only appears in one episode, but he's still an important character.
# Trivia.AyanesHighKick: Ayane's High Kick is actually a two episode wonder, as it was originally planned as a six episode OVA.
# Trivia.{{Cartoonstitute}}: Just about any of these, save Regular Show and Uncle Grandpa.
# Trivia.TamagotchiVideoAdventures: "Now Museum, Now You Don't" is the only episode that was ever made.
# Trivia.TheModifyers: Nickelodeon dropped it after airing only the pilot.
# Series.ZNation: To Zombieland. With the actual attempt at making a series out of the aforementioned film having become a OneEpisodeWonder, it's as close to a Zombieland series as we're going to get.
# Characters.ShadowOfIsraphel: AscendedExtra: He only appeared in writing in an adventure map, but the memorable voice acting done by Simon made him into a OneEpisodeWonder that made him become a part of the Shadow of Israphel backstory (spelled "Grizwold") in the Legend of Verigan special.

# WebVideo.PersonaMemeverse: ContinuityNod: Despite being a OneEpisodeWonder and a massive source of Creator Backlash, "Persona 3 In A Nutshell" is given one in "Haru Gets Her Show":; the contract that Haru signs in the latter is already signed "ToasterFricker249", implying it’s the same one that Igor made the P3 Protagonist sign in the former. This also bizarrely implies that Yu Narukami and Igor are either the same person or they share contracts, since the hooded man who gives Haru hers clumsily reveals that his name sounds like the English word "you".
# Trivia.{{Durendal}}: His pilot for Dur en Dalle, where he planned to eat food from several movies. It didn't take-off and even he hates it.

# EnsembleDarkHorse.StarWarsTheCloneWars: Keeli, the Clone Commander under Ima-Gun Di on Ryloth. While supplies are negotiated off-planet, he and his Jedi Master make the most of being One Episode Wonders by holding the Separatist droid army off at all costs, with Keeli courageously refusing to leave his Jedi general and dying alongside him.
# Characters.HomestarRunnerOther: In-Universe, their cartoon. It was cancelled before the credits ran.

# Trivia.CheatSlayer: The manga was cancelled after a single published chapter due to its extremely poor reception from readers.

# Trivia.KamenRiderOOO: DevelopmentGag: #27, the 999th episode of the franchise, has a list of all Kamen Rider shows represented by title cards including mocks for Riderman, V3's secondary who was indeed considered for a spin-off before being dropped in favor of Kamen Rider X, and Kamen Rider ZX, which was intended to become series but ended as a OneEpisodeWonder.
# ParodyDisplacement.WesternAnimation: The Modifyers is a rejected pilot that gained a lot of popularity when it was uploaded to the internet in 2010. In the years since, however, if someone stumbles upon a picture of the characters, they're far more likely to think of Zone's fan-made porn parody more than anything else.