I think it was brought up in the ask for explanations thread.
Pull. It's not even a good Visual Pun because the bear isn't dancing.
Edited by rjd1922 on Jul 18th 2022 at 2:54:44 AM
Keet cleanupPull, because people may confuse the trope with a literal dancing bear. I think the trope name is really bad too, but that's a topic for another thread.
Fjón þvæ ég af mér fjanda minna rán og reiði ríkra manna.I think it works with the caption (cuz it makes it clear-ish that Homer boils down ballet to one weird attraction) but it's still only clear-ish. Not against pulling at all.
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.The page image for Literature.Gadsby can be fairly easily be tossed onto Dancing Bear (you don't get much more Dancing Bear than advertising your book as not using a letter on its cover), but it would require changing the work's page image.
"Who cares that the humans in this movie look terrible? It's the world's first CGI animated movie!"
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Edited by Earnest on Jul 20th 2022 at 10:27:38 AM


Disregarding the Visual Pun, there's nothing about the page image to suggest it conveys that a gimmick is what brings people's attention to something. The trope itself is named after a proverb; not any sort of real-life event to take inspiration from.
Orcus on His Throne will always be my pet peeve.