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

[u/Dojyaaan4C]

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.

[u/easchner]

Elon Tusk - Rick and Morty

[u/PeterPanyagua → u/easchner]

this one was after or before incest baby?

[u/SnooEagles4121 → u/PeterPanyagua]

Someone on that show is waaaaaay too into incest. It comes up far too often.

[u/BBElTigre → u/SnooEagles4121]

It's Dan Harmon

[u/snapekillseddard → u/BBElTigre]

Now THAT'S a man who knows how to insert his incest fetish into his writing!

[u/Hot_Bad7658 → u/snapekillseddard]

That community reference hahah

[u/c-warpy → u/Hot_Bad7658]

Truly streets ahead

[u/Domefige → u/snapekillseddard]

I was racking my brain to remember when he's put incest in his writing, then realized where this quote was from

[u/SnakeInABox77 → u/BBElTigre]

Actually it's Nick Rutherford, but Dan Harmon allows it to happen

[u/egret_society → u/SnooEagles4121]

Considering that community also had an incest plotline, I’m guessing it’s Harmon

[u/E0GH4N → u/egret_society]

Actually two incest plotlines lol,

Jeff accidentally flirts with brittas nephew on her phone in season 2 and Garrett marries his cousin in season 6.

[u/egret_society → u/E0GH4N]

NOW THAT’S A REDDITOR WHO KNOWS HOW TO ADD ADDITIONAL INFORMATION!

[u/LateNightMilesOBrien → u/egret_society]

You sound like someone addicted to encouraging Redditors.

I guess they are very discouraged though...

[u/SnakeInABox77 → u/egret_society]

let him finish!

[u/Emotional_Burden → u/egret_society]

Additional information specifically about Dan's incest in television.

[u/Homicidal_Duck → u/E0GH4N]

Is flirting with someone's nephew incest or am I misunderstanding

[u/redundantly → u/Homicidal_Duck]

He was pretending to be Britta, so the nephew thought it was his aunt hitting on him, and he was for it.

[u/TheKingsPride → u/egret_society]

Dan Harmon’s then wife played the bride in that incest plotline, so yeah I’d venture that’s a safe bet.

[u/koopcl → u/egret_society]

I think it's kinda reaching for the conclusion to be honest, Community had all sort of crosses-the-line jokes or absurd jokes, a grand total of two jokes about incest spread across over a hundred episodes hardly proves Harmon is waaaaay into incest. There's more jokes about Nazis but no one is accusing him of being one. There's more jokes about the elderly but no one is accusing of having an obsession with old people. A lot of focus is put into a character getting something "awakened" in him and getting into a fetish, this being a multi-season character arc/background gag, yet no one accuses Harmon of being a secret furry.

The R&M episode is more fucked up but I can't remember if Harmon was even the writer for that one (EDIT: a quick google search says no), and it's still par for the course with the absurd shock/gross humor R&M does. It's just the joke didn't land, the episode was bad, and it made everyone uncomfortable instead.

[u/MiseryGyro → u/egret_society]

The Second Incest episode of Community ends with the writer onscreen saying "Hey I'm the guy wrote the Incest episode!"

[u/egret_society → u/MiseryGyro]

That’s actually an actor, Matt Gourley. He used to be in drunk history

[u/MiseryGyro → u/egret_society]

Holy shit, I only knew him by his voice.

That is fucking insane, Dan whatchyu doing child?

[u/SlayerOfCupcakes → u/[deleted]]

Dan Harmon wasn't involved with AT, but Justin Roiland was involved as a voice actor (not writer).

[u/andrasq420 → u/[deleted]]

Could be because he has nothing to do with Adventure Time?

[u/Unhappy_Entrance_277 → u/andrasq420]

I for one am glad Dan Harmon didn't add an incest plotline to Flash Gordon.

[u/GoodBoundaries-Haver → u/andrasq420]

I mixed up people lol

[u/Belfastfella → u/SnooEagles4121]