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This is the thread to use if you feel that the page image itself is good but the caption needs help.

If you think that both the image and the caption are poor, please make a thread in Image Pickin' for the page, and we'll work on the image and caption both at the same time.

As with other TRS and IP threads, please state your reasons and make your case in your first post. Don't make the other posters spend time trying to pry it out of you.

Edited by Willbyr on Jun 21st 2021 at 9:42:03 AM

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#3701: May 15th 2022 at 4:26:18 PM

[up] I don't get it.

Edited by Twiddler on May 15th 2022 at 4:26:30 AM

Willbyr Hi (Y2K) Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
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#3702: May 15th 2022 at 7:22:57 PM

I think it's supposed to be lampshading getting a crappy ability upon leveling up. I'd just cut it altogether.

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#3703: May 16th 2022 at 12:10:09 AM

The caption on Prince is senseless out of context.

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#3704: May 16th 2022 at 6:00:24 AM

[up] Hoooo-boy, the changes there date back to 2018 when someone added

which immediately precedes what's there now in the episode. It can be cut.

Edited by Willbyr on May 16th 2022 at 8:00:51 AM

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#3705: May 16th 2022 at 6:09:01 AM

Agreed. The Prince caption can go; it's IMO pretty much what we used to call Fan Cruft.

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#3707: May 16th 2022 at 7:44:42 AM

Cut. It also had Does This Remind You of Anything? misuse (it's not for wordplay-based innuendos).

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#3708: May 16th 2022 at 8:05:43 AM

The caption for V (1983) is meaningless unless you're familiar with the fact that Specsavers adverts always end with that line.

Or familiar with Specsavers at all, for that matter.

Edited by TheUnsquished on May 16th 2022 at 4:25:44 PM

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#3710: May 16th 2022 at 10:18:29 AM

It makes sense to me, but it's obscure and outdated enough that I've no objections to cutting it.

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#3712: May 17th 2022 at 7:36:12 AM

The captions on Characters.Meet The Feebles need looking at. The quotes are fine, but the others are just strange. “Eeeeewwwww” and “Easily the best female in the movie” stick out the most. (Why is this, of all films, the one that’s being focused on recently? Who knows, but it’s pages do have a lot of issues).

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#3713: May 17th 2022 at 7:51:14 AM

Costume Porn has some sort of copypasta-length rant in the labelnote. Should we keep it for the funny, or...?

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FernandoLemon Since: Aug, 2015
#3714: May 17th 2022 at 8:02:35 AM

Pull for the three previous posts.

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#3715: May 17th 2022 at 8:32:56 AM

There is also a link to a cropped version of the image. I think that should be removed too.

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#3716: May 19th 2022 at 6:49:19 PM

Is the caption on Crossover.Western Animation too gushy? I know it's a holdover from the fanart pic.

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#3719: May 21st 2022 at 10:52:49 AM

According to Image Source page, the left image in Costume Exaggeration is a figure of a character from Destiny of the Shrine Maiden. The thing is that the caption doesn't mention it, but I am not sure how to mention it without chaining links.

Edited by TPPR10 on May 21st 2022 at 8:53:04 PM

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#3721: May 22nd 2022 at 12:32:33 PM

Would it be okay to suggest the following caption for Every Episode Ending?

Haven't you gotten the memo yet?

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#3722: May 22nd 2022 at 12:36:51 PM

[up] Eh, feels a little too snarky.

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#3723: May 22nd 2022 at 2:01:00 PM

Wasn't meant to (in fact, I think there was a Looney Tunes cartoon or episode that actually used a similar line as an in-joke). But fair enough.

I'm glad I dodged a bullet by asking here before trying to add it myself.

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#3724: May 22nd 2022 at 11:16:52 PM

Weasel Mascot is doubly meaningless because the trope includes ferrets.


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