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RWBYraikou888 The Undercover Troper from The Kingdom of Atlas Since: Aug, 2020 Relationship Status: Complex: I'm real, they are imaginary
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#1: Jul 18th 2022 at 12:47:24 PM

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.

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#2: Jul 18th 2022 at 1:40:03 PM

I thought this had a thread already but apparently it didn't.

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#3: Jul 18th 2022 at 2:53:43 PM

[up]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

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#5: Jul 18th 2022 at 8:04:00 PM

A pic is going to need some sort of lampshade to work.

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#6: Jul 18th 2022 at 11:00:15 PM

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#7: Jul 18th 2022 at 11:15:09 PM

I can actually sort of get the trope from the image. The bear on the car is a lame attraction, but some people still buy into it for the novelty?

Edited by Adept on Jul 19th 2022 at 1:18:30 AM

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#8: Jul 18th 2022 at 11:23:25 PM

i was the one who brought it up in the explanations thread. i think it should be pulled, it doesn't make much sense

[up] even if you go with that explanation, it still doesn't make sense because there aren't many people in the crowd, so it's not really a big draw

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#9: Jul 18th 2022 at 11:46:38 PM

Pull, 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.

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#10: Jul 18th 2022 at 11:51:16 PM

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.

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#12: Jul 19th 2022 at 3:54:24 AM

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.

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#13: Jul 19th 2022 at 4:03:33 AM

^ Would fit better on the more specific Constrained Writing.

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#14: Jul 19th 2022 at 4:26:22 AM

@NoUsername: Does it have to be a big draw? A lot of the examples in the list aren't really mainstream media...

That said, the Toy Story suggestions work.

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#15: Jul 19th 2022 at 6:17:28 AM

11 could work.

For the record, this trope's name is obnoxiously obtuse. [/off-topic]

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#16: Jul 19th 2022 at 7:10:12 AM

[tup] 11

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#17: Jul 19th 2022 at 7:23:36 AM

11 is good.

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#21: Jul 20th 2022 at 7:35:43 AM

11 works. It's in and tagged, caption?

Old pic:

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dancingbear.png
Ah, ballet...

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#22: Jul 20th 2022 at 8:52:32 AM

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#23: Jul 20th 2022 at 9:41:33 AM

"Not pictured: the Creepy Dolls or creepier humans."

Edited by Earnest on Jul 20th 2022 at 10:27:38 AM

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#24: Jul 20th 2022 at 9:56:55 AM

[up][tup]

Edited by Inky100 on Jul 20th 2022 at 6:57:06 PM

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#25: Jul 20th 2022 at 10:02:32 AM

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