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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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#5352: Oct 20th 2023 at 2:04:57 AM

The caption on Last Rites appears to be both a complaint and needless reviewer reference at once

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#5353: Oct 20th 2023 at 6:43:27 PM

[up] I say cut.

Series.Chucky has a caption that just repeats the tagline on the image. Any suggestions?

Edited by BigBadShadow25 on Oct 20th 2023 at 9:46:06 AM

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#5354: Oct 20th 2023 at 6:55:04 PM

Funny.Once Upon A Time has a referential caption that was picked by me in the thread.

Sigh...

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#5355: Oct 21st 2023 at 7:21:33 AM

[up][up] Best to cut it unless there's some other promotional line.

Nightwalker has a caption that is nothing but a Take That! at Twilight. I suggest cutting it.

Edited by Reymma on Oct 21st 2023 at 3:21:44 PM

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#5357: Oct 22nd 2023 at 1:54:47 PM

[up][up] Cut away.

Jenna Ortega's caption has a chained pothole sinkhole:

Edited by Bullman on Oct 22nd 2023 at 3:55:38 AM

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#5358: Oct 22nd 2023 at 1:58:39 PM

I'd only preserve the Wednesday one.

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#5359: Oct 22nd 2023 at 4:08:13 PM

The quote is from Stuck in the Middle, though. Maybe just take out the middle pothole (Hilarious in Hindsight).

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#5361: Oct 22nd 2023 at 4:18:17 PM

Yeah. I feel like there are probably better captions for her (I'd rather have something that doesn't require familiarity with a work to get the joke), but as long as that one is being used, that's the potholing I'd go with for it.

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#5362: Oct 24th 2023 at 1:28:55 PM

Bait-and-Switch Compassion has an image that only works if you know the dialogue (it's not from IP, it was chosen in TLP). I suggest captioning it with "I can't bear to watch an animal suffer..." which at least explains it to readers.

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#5363: Oct 24th 2023 at 1:31:29 PM

That caption definitely helps.

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#5365: Oct 25th 2023 at 4:18:34 AM

The caption on The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask doesn't really work IMO. I get it's meant to be a play on the saying "Saving the world, one day at a time", but I feel the use of "three days" misses the point of the saying since the saying is meant to be about saving the world every day or whatnot.

I feel the game's tagline might be better.

Edited by Tylerbear12 on Oct 25th 2023 at 6:05:29 AM

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#5370: Oct 25th 2023 at 9:21:35 PM

I would like to suggest a caption for the page image of the Black Mirror episode "Arkangel": "What would a mother not do for her child, what lengths would a mother not go..."

The episode is about an overprotective mother who becomes a Well-Intentioned Extremist to keep her daughter safe, and the caption is the opening lyrics of "After All", a song from the musical adaptation of Ever After about a mother's vision for her daughter's future.

Edited by Snowsky on Oct 25th 2023 at 9:22:31 AM

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#5371: Oct 26th 2023 at 2:17:18 PM

And after I was sure I was in the right thread too.

Edited by MaeBea on Oct 26th 2023 at 8:18:20 AM

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#5372: Oct 26th 2023 at 6:02:16 PM

[up](x7) I think with 4 votes for this, we can swap the caption with the new one and tag it.

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#5373: Oct 26th 2023 at 6:11:36 PM

Someone changed the Film.Five Nights At Freddys 2023 caption to have a sinkhole or whatever.

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#5374: Oct 30th 2023 at 10:17:23 AM

I noticed that the caption for the Franchise.Marvel Cinematic Universe had been removed when the image was swapped.

"There was an idea — to bring together a group of remarkable people, to see if they could become something more... To fight the battles we never could."

Should we restore it? Or try and find something new.

Honestly, I am not against replacing it. Not only is the quote a bit lengthy, but it's already used as the quote for The Avengers (2012), so It might be better to find something else.

I feel the Tony Stark caption used for the Infinity Saga image can work as a general caption.

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#5375: Oct 30th 2023 at 10:44:39 AM

RuPaul currently has this caption:

Is it worth keeping after we resolve the disambig and/or the chained sinkholes?

Edited by Mrph1 on Oct 30th 2023 at 5:44:53 PM

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