Well, any example for Incredibly Obvious Bug is going to be humorous in some sense. I actually prefer the new picture better. Rule of Funny or not, the picture needs to at least explain the actual trope.
My Brother, and only member of my Trope NakamaWhy does the picture need to always explain the actual trope? The old picture didn't explain the trope at all, but it was funny. Why was this a problem? You say you find the new picture funnier, fine. But I doubt that was the reason why it was changed. If there was a widespread problem on the Wiki of Visual Pun pictures being overly common (the way there is a problem with Just A Face And Caption pictures), then I'd understand people setting out on a mission to root them out. But why is the rare, occasional Visual Pun such a big deal? In what way did it hurt the page? In what way does having a more descriptive image really help the page? Were people confused about the trope with the old picture, thinking it was about actual insects? Has the trope been improved in some way with this change?
I think occasionally bending rules like "the picture needs to explain the trope" for the benefit of the Rule of Funny should be perfectly acceptable, and I think the old image was great.
edited 17th Dec '10 6:38:04 AM by girlyboy
But...the image IS funny.
At any rate, the only other thing I'd suggest changing it to is the Camera Beard
◊ from Team Fortress 2, but the Simpsons one is probably more outlandish.
In my opinion is a visual pun good for tropes which are hard to visualize or would be NSFW or to gruesome due to their topic. Otherwise a real example showing the trope is better.
I think Incredibly Obvious Bug is nice trope for having a funny image. But I don’t like the Simpson picture. My first impression was, that Apu shot a hole in Homers hat. Homers facial expression and arm movement looks a bit like he tries to calm Apu…
I immediately associate the word "bug" with It Just Bugs Me! or Good Bad Bugs. I think the picture being a pun isn't going to help anymore. I'd rather see an obvious camera somewhere.
As for the current picture, it'd be funny if I could tell that was a camera and not a giant hole.
edited 17th Dec '10 10:03:09 AM by helterskelter
Camera Beard for me. A giant bug is going to be misleading and people are going to think it's Big Creepy-Crawlies.
edited 17th Dec '10 10:54:10 AM by Deboss
Fight smart, not fair.If people bother going to the page at all, I think they'll at least glance at the text, and quickly realise this is about surveillance equipment, not literal insects. A big insect was the original picture, and it was the picture for this page for a very long time before it was changed to the Simpsons picture. I doubt anyone in that time sincerely thought this was a trope about literal bugs due to being confused by the illustration, and I've certainly never seen any evidence that this was the case.
I think the old picture should be restored because of the Rule of Funny. Not everything has to be serious and practical and pragmatic, and nothing terrible will happen if this page has a non-descriptive image.
edited 17th Dec '10 11:47:22 AM by girlyboy
From the "Image Changin' Etiquette" sticky:
edited 17th Dec '10 11:50:36 AM by BlackWolfe
But soft! What rock through yonder window breaks? It is a brick! And Juliet is out cold.Actually, ideally speaking, everything should be practical and pragmatic on This Wiki. A Visual Pun or Dissimile or anything else like that is typically only used for a page image when a trope is either incredibly difficult to show clearly in a normal example or when a normal example would otherwise be NSFW and/or make many readers uncomfortable looking at a page.
And, naturally, when a large portion of tropers show a consensus for wanting a clear trope example on a page, rather than a Visual Pun, then we generally go with the consensus.
Nthing the Camera Beard (either picture).
edited 17th Dec '10 12:26:14 PM by SeanMurrayI
The camera beard fits better than Giant Hat With A Hole In It That Requires Context.
But soft! What rock through yonder window breaks? It is a brick! And Juliet is out cold.I like The Simpsons hat, and, being a Simpsons fan, I totally get it, but the camera beard is much more obvious (and therefore much more demonstrative of the trope).
Not being as big a fan as I used to be, it took reading the caption for me to remember the episode in question. Especially since it's been a while since I looked at this page and I was thinking more along the lines of Obvious Beta.
But soft! What rock through yonder window breaks? It is a brick! And Juliet is out cold.Old image is not in the page history, think the image was changed before the Great Crash. :(
I think visual puns are fun, and Rule of Funny is a perfectly good reason to do something. But it's only one reason. By itself, "this is funny" isn't worth all that many points, I don't think.
Becky: Who are you? The Mysterious Stranger: An angel. Huck: What's your name? The Mysterious Stranger: Satan.^The Great Crash was nearly three years ago; old edits in a page's history are deleted over time, which would still mean that the old Visual Pun image we're hearing about must have been changed months ago.
Edit history is only kept for about a month, apparently.
And I'm doing it again. Saved by Sean Murray I!
edited 17th Dec '10 1:33:36 PM by BlackWolfe
But soft! What rock through yonder window breaks? It is a brick! And Juliet is out cold.
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I can't find the discussion for this anywhere. When and why was the image changed? It used to be an image of an insect, as a Visual Pun. No, it was not descriptive of the trope, but it was cute and funny. I doubt it confused people as to the trope's purpose. Why was it so important to have a clear image here? Isn't the Rule of Funny a good enough reason to do anything on Tv Tropes any-more? The Incredibly Obvious Bug was awesome. This is a symptom of malignant Serious Business.
edited 17th Dec '10 6:11:10 AM by girlyboy