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2	* AdaptationDisplacement: While ''Oogieloves'' is notorious for how bad it is, there's hardly anything on the entire Internet about ''My Bedbugs'' aside from a few clips on Website/YouTube and some DVD listings on Amazon.
3	* AudienceAlienatingPremise: As many reviewers have pointed out, the very concept of a film that encourages small children to make as much noise as possible in a movie theatre is not going to appeal to many parents. Your own children dancing around to a movie at home is one thing; dancing around in the crowded aisles of a theatre with dozens of other children is quite another. Though, considering the box office numbers, 'dozens' turned out to be wild optimism. Even ''tens '' turned out to be wild optimism.
4	* BileFascination: Its [[SweetnessAversion overly-cutesy nature]] has drawn the attention of snarky viewers from outside its demographic. It is also sometimes targeted by internet critics like WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob.
5	* ClicheStorm: This film copies every cliché from live-action children's shows: {{Animate Inanimate Object}}s, randomly introduced songs, and overly eccentric people. Even the AudienceParticipation, which the film prominently mentioned in its advertising, was already utilized by children's shows like WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer and WesternAnimation/BluesClues.
6	* DirectorDisplacement: One of the most notorious examples -- it's known for its ''marketer'' rather than its director (Matthew Diamond).
7	* EnsembleDarkhorse: WebVideo/CinematicExcrement and [[WebVideo/ReactionAndReview Emer Prevost]] both admit in their respective reviews that Ruffy is their favourite character in the movie. This likely stems from Ruffy being [[DeadpanSnarker considerably grouchier than the rest of the cast]] (thereby giving him more characterization than literally every other character involved) and feeling like the OnlySaneMan among the Oogieloves (namely, his line "Will this day never end?!"), which makes it easy for non-fans of the movie to identify with him.
8	* HamAndCheese: Creator/CaryElwes was ''clearly'' having fun playing Bobby Wobbly in this movie. Same with Creator/ChazzPalminteri as Milky Marvin, as well as Creator/ChristopherLloyd [[FakeNationality as]] Lero Sombrero.
9	* ItsNotSupposedToWinOscars: Kenn Viselman, the marketer, made the exact excuse that [[https://www.thewrap.com/oogieloves-worst-ever-box-office-bow-notoriety-we-were-looking-54471/ this wasn't made to win the Academy Award.]] Strangely enough, he wasn't the least bit concerned that the movie bombed either.
10	* MemeticMolester: Bobby Wobbly, an erratic cowboy trucker with an obsession with bubbles who invites children into his furnished truck bed to "wobble" with him. The dance scene also includes them all slapping their own behinds. Every reviewer has made the same "stranger danger" joke about the scene.
11	* MemeticMutation: Courtesy of Creator/BradJones: "DO YOU LIKE BUBBLES?!"
12	* NauseaFuel: The flavors of the milkshakes the Oogieloves order, most of which are weird, gross, or silly... or all three. Peppermint-broccoli-vanilla-rutabaga? Chocolate-pizza-macaroni-beets?? Sweet pickle-dill pickle-warm pickle-chilled pickle??? ''Peanut butter-pumpernickel-pasta-plum pudding (and a pinch of pepperoni)?!''
13	-->'''Ruffy:''' [[LampshadeHanging It sounds disgusting!]]
14	* NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity: Kenn Viselman wasn't deterred by the negative reviews and low box office numbers that this movie earned. [[https://www.thewrap.com/oogieloves-worst-ever-box-office-bow-notoriety-we-were-looking-54471/ In fact, he thought that the film's negative publicity would expand the Oogieloves' popularity,]] raising sales of Oogielove merchandise and media. Suffice to say he was proven wrong. Especially since [[MissingStepsPlan there was no merchandise ever made]].
15	* QuestionableCasting: For some reason, the filmmakers decided to cast Creator/ChristopherLloyd and Creator/JaimePressly as a Mexican couple.
16	* QuirkyWork: When the least weird things in the movie are a talking vacuum cleaner, an unintelligible pillow and a real grump of a fish, you know you're in for a ''hell'' of a ride.
17	* RetroactiveRecognition: Garrett Clayton of ''Film/TeenBeachMovie'' and ''[[Theatre/{{Hairspray}} Hairspray Live!]]'' fame is one of the diner dancers.
18	* SweetnessAversion: This film has a low-stakes plot (with NoAntagonist), an overemphasis of ThePowerOfLove (to the point that [[spoiler: the day is saved by blowing kisses]]), and its setting (literally called "Lovelyloveville") populated by cute puppets, eccentric people, and a bright color palette. The extreme cutesieness is probably why it bombed as hard as it did. In fact, many who saw the film being advertised thought that it would turn out to be a parody of overly saccharine kids' films.
19	* TookTheBadFilmSeriously:
20	** Even Creator/BradJones, who called the movie "filth", noted that Creator/CaryElwes [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9SGhX6-SMw#t=8m53s gave a great performance.]] Some even claim that Bobby Wobbly falls under CreepyAwesome instead of UnintentionalUncannyValley because he fully embraced the insanity of the role.
21	** Music/ToniBraxton also deserves credit for fully embracing the opportunity to do some [[AdamWesting self-parody]]. Her role as a ComicallySerious diva who performs an extravagant ballad about allergies feels like an AffectionateParody created specifically for Braxton, in a film that otherwise has some [[QuestionableCasting bizarre casting choices]].

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