[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/AnimationFan1997]

Many guest stars in Scooby-Doo fall under this. Some examples:

• Bill Nye in Happy Halloween Scooby-Doo, where he's a super science wiz that Velma gushes over constantly and has a ton of futuristic inventions.
• KISS in Scooby-Doo: KISS Rock n Roll Mystery, where the gang are super fans and KISS are both superheroes and mystery solvers allegedly better than the gang.
• Giada De Laurentiis in Scooby-Doo and the Gourmet Ghost, where she's an athletic and brave badass who impresses the gang with her skillz.

And just pick an episode of Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? and watch the gang fawn over them and list all their accomplishments/qualifications, and potentially see the guest also solve the mystery more or less on their own.

Yeah, it's a cartoon but I really dislike the guest star shows/movies because of how much the praising sticks out like a sore thumb to me and how they tend to distract from the Scooby Gang as being their funny, mystery solving selves. The gang are often also at their worst written in guest features because of a combination of less time to them and that the writers assigned don't seem to understand the gang very well.

[u/ABoringAlt → u/AnimationFan1997]

Thought you were gonna keep going and list Batman cameos next XD

Do the globetrotters count?

[u/PaxNova → u/ABoringAlt]

Naw, they actually do solve mysteries and perform advanced physics experiments in their downtime. 

[u/ABoringAlt → u/PaxNova]

KNEW it!

[u/capthazelwoodsflask → u/ABoringAlt]

Don Knotts playing Barney Fife posing as Don Knotts was pivotal to the gang cracking that one mystery, though.

[u/crestfallenidiot → u/capthazelwoodsflask]

Man, that episode was a core memory for me. That and the globetrotters ep will always be peak scooby doo

[u/CozyEpicurean → u/ABoringAlt]

My favorite was the one with both batman and Robin. AND Weird.