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[NARPASSWORD]

Did TV Tropes just managed to out-autist Game Theory?
I didn't think we could reach that level of autism, but here we are.

 

[muina]

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

• Teresa Lee's post-election article is both this and Tearjerker, describing the feelings of paranoia and heartache many ethnic Americans have.

Because we all know no minority ever voted for Trump.

 

[friedshrimp]

Don't tell me they've made a page for the 2016 election, too...

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Don't tell me they've made a page for the 2016 election, too...

it's from Cracked's nightmare fuel page

 

[friedshrimp]

it's from Cracked's nightmare fuel page

They're so exceptional they would made a page for that. And honestly don't be surprised they just start making one page for Donald Tuck alone

 

[Kinkshamer]

"these people have crossed the Moral Event Horizon with their views"
lol.

Politics and diversity in media would be decent ideas for threads in any other website, but with the average Troper's level of :autism:, the whole discussion turns into a circlejerk of "Republicans and cis white people are evil".

Their obsession with political correctness is almost as bad as their obsession with anime pedophilia a few years ago.

 

[BlueSpark]

Their obsession with political correctness is almost as bad as their obsession with anime pedophilia a few years ago.

Let's indulge ourselves with some nostalgia:

 

[NARPASSWORD]

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RealIsBrown
I swear, this, and many other, pages related to video games seems less like giving examples, and more like an excuse for tropers to bash games they don't like. And considering this is TV Tropes, that in itself is about as autistic as mindlessly spewing love for everything they do like.

 

[Kinkshamer]

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GoAnimate

• "Scary Voice" is a really deep voice that will most likely scare people if it's used correctly, though it can become unintentionally hilarious like the other voices like it does here.

• Caillou, depicted in the African Vulture videos has a rather creepy obsession with Chuck E' Cheese.

• The grounding videos, while they are mostly funny, can be creepy considering the amount of time the troublemakers get grounded for. The inherent Fridge Horror that comes with a lot of the groundings and punishments (and even just the treatment of the troublemakers in general) can make it even worse.

lol

 

[LucasSomething]

Nightmare fuel pages are always hilarious. The more childish the media, the scarier it is.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/SawI
According to word counter: 849 words.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Poltergeist
According to wordcounter: 935 words

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/TheExorcist
According to word counter: 1025 words.

Meanwhile...

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/CareBears
1151 words

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks
2209 words

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/EdEddNEddy
2353 words

 

[Xerxes IX]

Nightmare fuel pages are always hilarious. The more childish the media, the scarier it is.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/SawI
According to word counter: 849 words.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Poltergeist
According to wordcounter: 935 words

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/TheExorcist
According to word counter: 1025 words.

Meanwhile...

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/CareBears
1151 words

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks
2209 words

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/EdEddNEddy
2353 words

To be fair, Nightmare Fuel used to be about horror in non-horror media, particularly about things that scared tropers as children because lord knows they are all stuck on their childhoods. "High Octane Nightmare Fuel" used to be about things that were deliberately scary, but they probably dropped that distinction since it's autistic.

 

[Reality]

Nightmare fuel pages are always hilarious. The more childish the media, the scarier it is.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/SawI
According to word counter: 849 words.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Poltergeist
According to wordcounter: 935 words

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/TheExorcist
According to word counter: 1025 words.

Meanwhile...

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/CareBears
1151 words

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks
2209 words

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/EdEddNEddy
2353 words

A long-running television series has more overall content then a handful of films. Who knew?

 

[Chris did nothing wrong]

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Literature

• The Foolish Giant is a fairy tale picture book about a kind-hearted giant and an evil wizard who plans to turn everyone in the kingdom into stone toads. Speaks for itself.

 

[LucasSomething]

To be fair, Nightmare Fuel used to be about horror in non-horror media, particularly about things that scared tropers as children because lord knows they are all stuck on their childhoods.

Unless tropers had really messed up childhoods, they shouldn't be having nightmares after watching these movies.

 

[vertexwindi]

The scariest part about Barbie is how she can keep that figure without dying.

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

Unless tropers had really messed up childhoods, they shouldn't be having nightmares after watching these movies.

Well to be fair, those movies do have nightmarishly cheap CGI.

 

[AngeloTheWizard]

The scariest part about Barbie is how she can keep that figure without dying.

Cybernetic implants.

 

[Darwin Watterson]

While we're on the topic of Nightmare Fuel, I'd like to bring the discussion back to South Park.

For starters, this is the image they decided to use for the header:

And it only goes downhill from there. Here are some assorted entries:

• "Trapper Keeper." On one hand, it's an awesome episode with a cool homage to AKIRA (among other sci-fi classics). On the other hand, it has an homage to Akira. And then the B-plot is about Rosie O'Donnell...

Bolding's mine in this one. Yeah, the mere fact that Rosie O'Donnell showed up is apparently terrifying. To be fair, she IS repugnant, but she didn't even do anything remotely "scary" at all.

• Wendy getting breast implants in "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society." Luckily, the syndicated version of the episode removes the scene.

This one, to be fair, COULD realistically be seen as disturbing (if you're delicate). But the wording makes it seem like the scary part is just the fact that she got breast implants. Also, the scene in question wasn't really all that scary.

• The ending where we see Liane spoiling Cartman and it zooms up to his face while "Ave Satani" plays.

The scene in question is just Cartman looking at the screen while some dramatic music plays. Pants-shittingly horrifying, amiright?

• All the "shit" imagery in "You're Getting Old". Also counts as serious Nausea Fuel.

"Nausea Fuel" is more believable than "nightmare fuel" for this one.

The end scene of 1% with Polly Prissy Pants. Cartman is more fucked up than anyone thought.

• The charred body of Peter Panda.
• Muscle Man Mark being boiled alive, Fatal Attraction style.
• Considering the series the episode may have been a parody of, ( more specifically a jab at the Shkannon Culprit Theory) it should not be surprising this episode is nightmare fuel.

For context, they're talking about Cartman's stuffed animals getting destroyed.

• The completely senseless death of the UPS driver in "Insecurity", mostly due to the parallels with real life situations of innocent people having their lives destroyed by ignorance.

Yet another example of TV Tropes completely missing the point. That was the whole point of the episode.

• "Snooki wants Smoosh-Smoosh!"

Since TV Tropes helpfully neglects to provide context, they're talking about a weird rat version of Snooki from that Jersey Shore show.

• The scene where the 2012 GOP candidates say quotes they said in Real Life during the local debate in "Faith Hilling". The voiceover quotes and how unlike most celebrity appearances their appearance had little humor until they started Faith Hilling gave it a creepy and surreal Uncanny Valley vibe.

I imagine that if these people ever got exposed to actual horror, it'd cause them to die of heart attacks. Tropers are scared of soundbites/archive footage.

From "Where My Country Gone?", we have Mr. Garrison raping a Donald Trump Expy. It's pretty funny in theory, but the actual scene looks like something from a horror film. Given that it came out immediately after the episode that lampooned Political Correctness, it's possible that Matt and Trey were trying to mentally prepare their audience for this.

• Before that, we had a scene showing that PC Principal practically has Mr. Mackey as his (woo-woo!) servant. Him shuddering in fear in PC Principal's presence is what really sells it.

Poorly-animated construction paper cartoon rape wouldn't be out of place in a horror film? Umm...do they know what constitutes a "horror film?" Also, I'm sure Matt and Trey weren't doing anything to prepare these severe autists against getting triggered by minor shit.

• "Tweek x Craig": This episode shows why you shouldn't put boys in yaoi.

Note: There was NOTHING that could even remotely be considered scary in this episode. Tons of fanart lifted directly from DeviantArt, though. Maybe THAT'S the scary part.

• And at the end of the episode we find out that PC and Leslie might be part of a greater conspiracy.

The visual in question is a man pushing a little girl on a swing.

• Truth and Advertising: Leslie and Jimmy continue to converse and Jimmy is slowly beginning to fall for her wiles. The boys similarly get sidetracked from the big conspiracy by random ads which slowly turn Stan and Kyle against each other. Then Leslie takes advantage of Kyle. No, not in the way we associate that term with.

Plot developments are scary!

"Skank Hunt":

• Notice how Ike is not talking to Gerald in the scene. Like Ike knows.
• What the boys are going to do with Cartman. The way they're saying it, it's possible that they're going to murder him. They don't really do it, they just destroy his electronics.
• But, however, the above manages to be scary as Cartman is screaming throughout the aforementioned scene. It's made even worse in the teaser for the episode, in which there's absolutely no implication of what's happening. It cuts off when Cartman discovers the hole and shovel next to the cabin and we can only hear him screaming bloody murder.
• Scott Malkinson's attempts to delete his Twitter account. The poor kid does not want to be trolled, and his talking to Mr. Mackey isn't working, as he even talked to him at night.

I especially love that last bullet point. Quitting Twitter, in the episode, is treated with the same seriousness as suicide. Tropers are such dense motherfuckers that they end up becoming South Park characters without even realizing it.

"The Damned":

• The very first few minutes of the episode has the police (no Officer Barbrady) investigating why Cartman no longer has a Twitter account.

Again, the whole joke is how everyone thinks quitting social media is serious business.

• Gerald decides to explain himself by faking a piss fetish. This manages to cover up his trolling, but Sheila supports this apparent kink by peeing on Gerald, making "piss porn".

The scene was a bit gross, but like everything else, was not "Nightmare Fuel" by any stretch of the imagination.

"Douche and a Danish":

• How about Mr. Garrison entering Randy's club? Garrison doesn't even know what Member Berries are.

How about not?

"Fort Collins":

• Heidi Turner discovers that the key to finding out who said what on the Internet is to check how they use emojis. That's right: a ten-year-old girl figured out the secret to finding the identity of anonymous Internet users. Not only that, but it's brought her closer to discovering Skankhunt's true identity.
• Randy and Garrison's attempt to kill the berries. They attempt to burn them alive with a flamethrower. Then they pour chemicals on them.

Using emojis and burning grapes with a blowtorch (not a flamethrower) are terrifying!

 

[friedshrimp]

Yeah, the mere fact that Rosie O'Donnell showed up is apparently terrifying. To be fair, she IS repugnant, but she didn't even do anything remotely "scary" at all.

That depends

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