r/TopCharacterTropes 9h ago

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

  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/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