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NARPASSWORD said:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TropeOverdosed
A list of Tropers' preferences, listed in alphabetical order. I have to wonder how many of these are actually "Trope Overdosed" and not just a case of :autism:
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Well we already know that the MLP pages are pure, unadulterated :autism: because of just how much attention they get.

But taking a glance, it's not that hard to jump to the conclusion that they're all :autism:, just to varying degrees of sperginess.
 
  • The Team Fortress 2 parody in season 6, despite the game having been out for 5 years and still extremely popular by the time the episode aired. The skit starts out promising with a recreation of the class selection screen, then it goes downhill from there. The Demoman and Pyro are generic white mercs, when their defining traits is that the Demoman is the Token Minority and the Pyro is The Faceless, the characters all have realistic weapons when the game is well-known for its cartoonish art style, the Soldier and Medic both wield SMGs, a weapon used only by the Sniper, and the Medic shoots the Nerd to death when they're on the same team; friendly fire is possible in-game, but it needs to be turned on by a server admin, and it never is due to the game's griefer population. Less reprehensible is that the camera doesn't switch to third-person when the Nerd is killed.
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TF2 parodies are SRS BNS
 
What kind of parody hit six seasons?
 
  • [1]: "3 Acts Of God." I'll be honest, I am a Christian, albeit one who is struggling with a few vices. So this episode obviously serves a a Berserk Button for me. However, even if you're atheist and don't mind how this episode portrays God, there's no denying that this episode still has very many problems with it. To make things easier, I'll get the Berserk Button stuff out of the way. But first, a short summary: Peter and his friends are sick of their favorite football team always losing. So when they hear members of the winning team thanking God for their success, they conclude that God is responsible for the Patriots losing. So they go all over the world looking for Him, eventually being taken to Heaven by Death (they just ask him). When they find God, He tells them He will let the Patriots win if they can get some guy whose name I forgot to smile. They make him smile, and God keeps His promise. Now, for the Berserk Button fuel: God is portrayed as a lazy Jerkass who doesn't really do anything about the problems on Earth. He even says He's upset about people dying in Africa, but isn't gonna do anything about it. Um, hello. You're God. God is omniscient and omnipotent. He can do literally anything in just seconds. And to top it all off, Peter is the one who talks some sense into Him. Well, not really sense. More like he just tells Him how much the Patriots mean to him. Right, because God has nothing better to do than help some drunk and abusive man with his mundane problems. Especially since God would normally prefer you to make Him the most important thing in your life, so that you can join Him in Heaven forever. And He's also autistic. Yes, you read that right. God, who is supposed to be 100% perfect because He is the Creator of the world, has autism, which is some sort of disability and therefore, a flaw. (Not that it's bad or wrong to have autism. I have aspergers myself, as does a friend of mine.) And then there's Jesus being a Bastard Boyfriend to Carrie Underwood. Family Guy, just stop. Okay, now let's get to the problems that everyone can agree with. For one thing, Peter and Co. somehow don't know how to get to God. Well, except for Joe, who tries to hang himself to get to God. Which reminds me. That joke was kind of okay, but then they ruined it with Joe saying he texted Bonnie. Then we get aCutaway Gag of Bonnie getting the text, smiling evilly, exiting the house, burning it, and walking away. Just... Just what the heck?? Why does Bonnie hate Joe so much all of a sudden? Back to the main plot, they try finding His address, somehow not realizing that dying is the only way. And then we get some more cutaways that try to Cross the Line Twice, but only cross it once, not that that's a surprise. First, we get one of a pedophile opera (which yes, includes Herbert in the audience.) And later, we see one with Peter working as an umpire for a baseball game of small children... and he tells the batter that he has the best ass on the playing field. And that's like, what, the fifth or sixth time this show has implied that its protagonist is a pedophile? And to make matters worse, after the aforementioned opera gag, Peter complains to the audience about not winning an Emmy for it, saying that Modern Family would win one had they done that joke today. I don't watch Modern Family, so I don't know if that's a joke they would make. But demanding an Emmy for a pedophile joke? No. Just no. If you want an Emmy so badly, try and make a joke that can actually be funny, and don't whine about it. Oh, But Wait, There's More!. When Peter and Co. go to Jerusalem to find God, everybody there is an exact duplicate of Mort, and they all pick up the pennies Joe tosses them. Will you writers please just leave Jews alone, already? To portray every Jew in one city like that is just atrocious! And there aren't even any women there, either! Oh, and remember the guy they had to make smile? Guess how they do it? By having Joe tell him about his miserable life. Just why? Oh, and then there's the ending: Peter says he asked God to do one last thing for him. And then, all of a sudden, Meg fades out of existence. And that's it. Unbelievable.
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tldr lol
 
That's a long-ass way of saying "I don't like this episode of Family Guy because it insults my religion".
 
Uncanny Valley said:
"Now, for the Berserk Button fuel: God is portrayed as a lazy Jerkass who doesn't really do anything about the problems on Earth. He even says He's upset about people dying in Africa, but isn't gonna do anything about it. Um, hello. You're God. God is omniscient and omnipotent. He can do literally anything in just seconds."
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Has this egg somehow managed to avoid all religious satire until Family Guy? I mean, the idea of an uncaring God is such a staple that it's hard to imagine anyone feeling shocked or appalled by it. (Though I suppose it wouldn't be TV Tropes if someone wasn't offended by a cartoon.)
 
Magnum Dong said:
Has this egg somehow managed to avoid all religious satire until Family Guy? I mean, the idea of an uncaring God is such a staple that it's hard to imagine anyone feeling shocked or appalled by it. (Though I suppose it wouldn't be TV Tropes if someone wasn't offended by a cartoon.)
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I wouldn't be surprised if that were the case. I mean The Simpsons did it practically all the time in the earlier seasons. How could he not notice those?
 
Jewelsmakerguy said:
I wouldn't be surprised if that were the case. I mean The Simpsons did it practically all the time in the earlier seasons. How could he not notice those?
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I think people are more forgiving when The Simpsons does something shocking and/or offensive, but when the clone shows like Family Guy or South Park do it, it's like the show just clubbed a baby seal while singing the Taliban national anthem. And I don't think it's a TVTropes thing; it's been happening since South Park and Family Guy premiered in the late 1990s, which was around the time The Simpsons was starting to become less popular.
 
The Simpsons was only shocking and relevant back when it first aired. After season 8 when people stopped caring, it got away with Homer getting raped by a panda simply because no one watched it any more.
 
Asa_Spades60 said:
I think people are more forgiving when The Simpsons does something shocking and/or offensive, but when the clone shows like Family Guy or South Park do it, it's like the show just clubbed a baby seal while singing the Taliban national anthem. And I don't think it's a TVTropes thing; it's been happening since South Park and Family Guy premiered in the late 1990s, which was around the time The Simpsons was starting to become less popular.
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To an extent people are forgiving when South Park does it too, if they can justify it as "relevant, hard-hitting satire" that doesn't come across like it was either a) done before or b) written in an hour. Mostly when people bash South Park's offensive content, it seems to be in reaction to episodes that come across as particularly unoriginal or lazy.

So, in this theory, people are more consistently upset when Family Guy does it because its most frequent criticisms are that it's derivative and its gags lack effort.
 
Magnum Dong said:
To an extent people are forgiving when South Park does it too, if they can justify it as "relevant, hard-hitting satire" that doesn't come across like it was either a) done before or b) written in an hour. Mostly when people bash South Park's offensive content, it seems to be in reaction to episodes that come across as particularly unoriginal or lazy.

So, in this theory, people are more consistently upset when Family Guy does it because its most frequent criticisms are that it's derivative and its gags lack effort.
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Good point.
 
  • Similarly, the novel's treatment of Selden the serial killer (a term which didn't exist in Doyle's day) as a walking personification of pure evil seems a bit reductive by modern standards. Nowadays Seldon would probably be diagnosed as psychotic and declared insane, and many later adaptations of the novel (particularly the Granada/Jeremy Brett version) are more sympathetic towards him.
  • It was explicitly stated that Selden was spared the death penalty due to his sanity being in question, so it's not that bad.
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Aren't mental health activists wonderful?
 
I hate to admit it but I used to find myself mindlessly clicking links and even joined tvtropes for a bit. I didn't really post much and I forgot my password. I wanted to post a link to that one gay koopa junior webcomics page but they removed it. However I found the next best thing:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanWorks/SuperMarioBros

To be honest, I really don't have a problem with fanfiction (just be aware some people won't like it). But I think super mario bros is the last thing you'd want to write fanfiction for.
 
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