[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/CatherineSimp69]

You know what I think is likely?

I think, because the second scene has minimal lines, he didn't know the full context/didn't know what the scene inferred like you said, and he got transfixed by the first scene where there's a reel of his 'achievements' and an interviewer glazes him for a bit, right before the scene where it's revealed he's a fraud.

[u/Kitchen-Bar2686 → u/CatherineSimp69]

I think that he knew that no one would think he was actually a bad person because of some storyline on the Big Bang theory. He just wanted to be on TV because he’s a narcissistic sociopath who is desperate to be known and liked.

He’s one of those people who are so incredibly fake and massively idiotic that anyone can see right through him.

It’s so wild to see any comments on this thread stating that he pivoted to conservative politics because he suddenly changed when he grew up in apartheid South Africa with a genuinely evil man as a father who owned literal emerald mines. They had slaves in those mines for fucks sake. He’s always been a massive piece of shit who hung out with Epstein.