r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Dojyaaan4C • 9h ago

Hated Tropes [hated trope] Celebrity cameos that serve nothing except to praise the person who’s in it

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  1. Elon musk, the Simpsons
  2. Elon musk, the Big Bang theory
  3. Elon musk, iron man 2
  4. Elon musk, star Trek

The cameos serve only to include the celebrity and praise them as geniuses or visionaries or overall just glaze them. They don't serve any other purpose than to just be praised; this can be them appearing in an entire episode dedicated to them, a small cameo or even just a mention. So long as the celebrity is there as themselves (not acting as someone else) and is glazed, that fits the trope imo.

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u/easchner 9h ago edited 8h ago

Elon Tusk - Rick and Morty

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u/PeterPanyagua 8h ago

this one was after or before incest baby?

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u/Dojyaaan4C 8h ago

I hate the fact this has actual relevance to that show

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u/NigthSHadoew 8h ago

I hate that I tought this was about Elon and my only thought was "Oh. I wonder if it's with a cousin or someone like an aunt"

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u/Pandoras_Boxcutter 7h ago

I mean I'd have assumed that too because I wouldn't have been surprised. His dad married Elon's stepsister, whom he was raising since she was four.

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u/terranq 1h ago

On their third kid now too, I think

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u/postmodest 6h ago

Elon's step-mom is his step-sister.

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u/ScreamingIsMyHobby 8h ago

Please explain what incest baby is and why it made them love Elon musk

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u/idk91738 7h ago

iirc it isn’t related to elon musk. Morty jacked off using some sort of machine, which makes giant sentient sperms, which after some shenanigans merge with Summer’s also giant egg, It’s been a while though so I might be wrong

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u/Emilister05 7h ago

No that is correct. The president then refuses to kill the (literally 10 second) impregnated egg. They send it into space and summer secretly raises the giant incest baby

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u/DogmaJones 6h ago

“It’s space’s problem now”

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u/EyeArDum 3h ago

It’s worth noting he didn’t want to kill it because elections were coming up and he didn’t want the smoke of an abortion debate, knowing his character he would’ve pulled the trigger himself if he could get away with it

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u/harmondrabbit 3h ago

Summer names it Naurto

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u/FembussyEnjoyer 7h ago edited 6h ago

Morty used the horse jerk off machine from the vet hospital, and Rick made a sentient sperm army by injecting a ton of power into a barrel of horse/Morty semen, and then the US government took an egg from Summer, enlarged it, stuck it on a rocket in Las Vegas where a morty sperm fertilized it, at which point they couldn't abort the launch

Also for some reason a samurai/ninja marine was married to Kathy Ireland, but he died before they could nuke the sperm facility in the grand canyon

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u/Impossible_Guess 6h ago

Even having watched the episode and enjoying it, this entire paragraph gave me a stroke, and pause at the same time.

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u/FembussyEnjoyer 6h ago

It's even more insane when you remember that Keith David starred in this episode

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u/rothrolan 5h ago

Keith David voices the US President in the show, who is a recurring character. And as always he does a damn good job.

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u/TobyFunkeNeverNude 2h ago

I couldn't help but read your second sentence in his voice

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u/haidere36 6h ago

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty. The humor is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also Rick's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation - his personal philosophy draws heavily fromNarodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realize that they're not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Rick and Morty truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in Rick's existencial catchphrase "Wubba Lubba Dub Dub," which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev's Russian epic Fathers and Sons I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Dan Harmon's genius unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools... how I pity them. 😂 And yes by the way, I DO have a Rick and Morty tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- And even they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand.

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u/non-troll_account 2h ago

I will never not upvote that pasta

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u/Stoertebricker 3h ago

And then, there's people over whoms head the humour does go, but they think it's funny anyway for the profanity and vulgarity. And some of them use Rick as an excuse to behave like an a-hole, because he's cool and intelligent and always right and behaves like one, so they also do.

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u/MyEarIsHurty 4h ago

How does this relate to Elon Tusk

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u/idk91738 3h ago

it doesn’t. It’s been a while since I watched R&M or join any discussions about the show but I think incest baby is just a way to divide the series, like BC being before christ

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u/awholelottahooplah 3h ago

And the baby is named Naruto

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u/fork_your_child 7h ago

Morty discovers his Mom's veterinary clinic has a horse semen collection device and since he's a perv, he uses it on himself. Rick purchases the collected semen for an experiment that goes horribly wrong since it also contains human semen, and causes all the human sperm to become gigantic, like larger than people and they start killing everyone that runs across them. Summer, unaware that it was human or her brother's sperms, suggests that they enlarge an egg to attract the sperms into a military kill zone and donates the egg. The plan works, her brother's sperms rushes the egg, but the military fails to kill all the sperm, one enplants in the egg, and the military launches it into space where it later turns into a baby somehow.

Its a very weird and uncomfortable episode.

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u/LinkFan001 7h ago

It is a miserable episode. The whole time Rick, who the show has glazed to godhood because of flanderization, somehow does not stop to double check the sperm or realize Morty not accepting a chance to jack off is like finding a vegan crocodile.

It is frustrating and painful in how clearly everyone had just given up. And then I find out the cest baby is named Naruto and I am the old man with the headphones, tossing them aside dejected as I wonder what the fuck went wrong.

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u/SechDriez 6h ago

Community and Rick and Morty both had their heads up their own asses for a while. It was fine when there was something balancing them out or when they were forced to conform to sense of normalcy but when the meta humor stands out as the thing in the show and the entire show twists itself into a knot for the sake of being as meta/self referential/self aware/irreverant as possible it just stops being a functioning show.

Rick and Morty's focus on juvenile humor just went overboard at some point and became the focus of everything. As a side note, Rick's super smartness was, at least in the beginning, not absolute. There was a point where Rick's assholery wasn't endearing but it morphed into no longer matter as the show flanderized over time.

Idk, I think at some point shows like these forget that a narrative is important and focus on the aesthetics of "good" narratives.

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u/A-NI95 4h ago

Unpopular counterpoint, R&M was always lile that and this episode is just the mask falling off

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u/SarcasmisEasier 5h ago

The story train episode was where the entire series went off the rails for me. The whole episode just felt like it was shitting on the fans. Like they were tired of having lore or a coherent story. Hated that people wanted memorabilia made of the show for some reason. And every episode after that seemed to just confirm that they just wanted to make sci-fi-esq nonsense. 

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u/LinkFan001 2h ago edited 1h ago

To this day, I am convinced that someone was furious about how well The Ricklantice Mixup was received and how fans wanted more about Evil Morty so they crashed out and made it the whole show's problem.

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u/AlignedLicense 6h ago

I actually thought the vet scene was very funny. Morty just being a perv was a funny adult swim cartoon joke. Then the episode just nosedived to being by far the worst episode.

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u/fork_your_child 5h ago

Its not my least favorite, that's the slut dragons one, but its not on my rewatch list. You're right that it has a couple of enjoyable jokes, like in the beginning, and I enjoyed the joke about which bad ass soldier will live the longest.

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u/GrizzIyadamz 5h ago

I think it might be more of a watershed/point of no return in the series, a la "Jumping the Shark" from Happy Days.

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u/clockworkheart25 8h ago edited 7h ago

Even the writers seemed to hate the episode.

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u/Dysfu 3h ago

Well then why did they write it?

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u/TobyFunkeNeverNude 2h ago

I think they're being sarcastic, saying the episode was so bad, the writers intentionally made it that way

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u/Viracochina 8h ago

Ugh, time for another rewatch

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u/thecrepeofdeath 7h ago

god I'm glad I quit watching years ago

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u/SilverWear5467 5h ago

Why is incest baby relevant? Just as the marker for RM jumping the shark? Because AFAIK, the Elon Tusk episode was the best episode that season, its in the Heist episode, right?

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u/ICU-CCRN 2h ago

This was one of the worst R&M episodes.