History Main / HatedItemMakeover

!!Examples

[[folder:Anime and Manga]]

* ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty'': A 1986 strip had Oliver's mother wallpaper his room with the giant face of Music/MichaelJackson because "Darn it, Oliver, you mixed-up kids could ''use'' a good, healthy role model these days!" ([[HarsherInHindsight which aged just as well as you can imagine]]) Later, Oliver is shown having put a picture of Albert Einstein up over Michael's nose.

[[folder:Films - Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/CuriousGeorge2006'': George sneaks into Ms. Pushbottom's apartment room. He dips his hands and feet into buckets of paint to make the bare walls resemble a jungle. Ms. Pushbottom is most indignant about this, and Ivan the employee ends up evicting Ted for being responsible for George.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie2TheSecondPart'': After Emmet's friends are brought to the Systar System, they get a makeover for Queen Watevra Wa-Nabi's wedding. [[spoiler:After Finn smashes his sister Bianca's creation and their mother asks what's going on, Finn accuses Bianca of stealing his minifigs without his permission and ruining them by changing their appearance.]]

[[folder:Films - Live-Action]]

-->'''Jay Jay:''' "It looks like a hospital!"
* ''Film/TheMuppetMovie'': The Electric Mayhem paint Kermit and Fozzie's Studebaker in wild, psychedelic colors to help them hide from Doc Hopper. Kermit is at first miffed by the change, but it soon proves useful when they elude Hopper by hiding in front of a billboard [[WallpaperCamouflage that happens to match the paint job]].
-->'''Fozzie:''' I don't know how to thank you guys.
-->'''Kermit:''' I don't know ''why'' to thank you guys.
* In ''Film/TheSmurfs'', when the Smurfs convert Patrick's office into a nursery for his soon-to-be-born son, he exclaims in frustration, "What have you done to my office!?".

* ''[[Series/ThirtyRock 30 Rock]]'': In "Respawn", Liz is chastising Tracy for invading her personal life, leading to this exchange.
-->'''Tracy:''' After all I've done for you? How many times have I come over and painted your apartment?
-->'''Liz:''' Three! And by the way, ''stop doing that!''
* In ''Series/TheBabySittersClub2020'', Mary Anne's father, realizing he's been too overprotective, agrees to let the girls redecorate Mary Anne's bedroom. The first time they try, he gets upset because he thinks they're changing too much -- it is later revealed that he and his deceased wife chose the decor together. The second time they try, it's ''Mary Anne'' who gets uncomfortable because it's ''too'' different, but she's too nice to tell her friends outright. This attempt is remedied by returning a {{painting|s}} her mother had chosen to the wall and complementing it with additional pictures of her.

* ''Series/TheMuppetsMayhem'': When the Electric Mayhem arrives at the shack they think they'll be staying at, they redecorate it to their liking - however, it actually turns out to be Creator/DannyTrejo's house, which was across the street from the shack they ''are'' actually staying at, and he appears rather upset about it. Subverted later in the episode, where Trejo happily points out that the Electric Mayhem painted his house, indicating he grew to like the change.
* ''Series/TheOddCouple1970'': In "Take My Furniture, Please", Felix gets permission from Oscar to redecorate after repainting the apartment. However, Oscar so dislikes his quirky choices (such as hand-shaped chairs) that he re-redecorates with kitschy items that nearly drive Felix out of the place.
* ''Series/{{Psych}}'': In "[[Recap/PsychS02E04ZeroToMurderInSixtySeconds Zero to Murder in Sixty Seconds]]," Gus is horrified to discover that Shawn paid for the Blueberry, his company sedan, to be [[PimpedOutCar pimped out]] by the chop shop they're investigating. He hates its tacky yellow flames, ridiculous hood scoop, and pimpage-obligatory spoiler. That is, until some women show interest. He gets it un-pimped after [=McNab=] pulls him over because he now [[{{Profiling}} fits a profile]] and the women drive off disinterestedly.

* ''Series/SesameStreet'':
** In one skit, a man asks Oscar the Grouch to "do" his windows, i.e. clean them. He coats them with mud instead, since that's what Grouches mean when they talk about "doing" windows. The man gets angry.
** In one episode, Oscar's old school friend Felix visits. [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch Unusually for a Grouch]], Felix is a NeatFreak, so he cleans Oscar's trash can. Oscar hates this, but [[VitriolicBestBuds they decide the conflict is good for their friendship since Grouches thrive on conflict]].

* The song "The Old Apartment" by Music/BarenakedLadies is about a man who revisits/breaks into the old apartment he used to live in. He expresses displeasure at how the new tenants have renovated - such as repainting the walls, paving the lawn, and plastering over the hole in the door - because [[SentimentalShabbiness he liked the wear and tear of the apartment's original appearance]].

** In "[[Recap/TheLoudHouseS2E14OutOfThePictureRoomWithAFeud Room With A Feud]]", when Lola and Lucy try sharing a room, Lucy gets mad at Lola for giving her bust of Edwin (a vampire from a ShowWithinAShow she watches) a makeover.
--->'''Lucy:''' What have you done to Edwin?
--->'''Lola:''' Brought him into the 21st century. You're welcome!
--->'''Lucy:''' That's my least favourite century.

* ''WesternAnimation/Rugrats1991'':

[Next shot is the car surrounded by seagulls as they drive back home.]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit'' short ''WesternAnimation/AMatterOfLoafAndDeath'', Gromit returns home from a delivery to discover Wallace's love interest Piella Bakewell has redecorated their house while he was away. Gromit is angry about the changes, especially after seeing his room getting the same treatment and his personal belongings thrown in the trash.

* In ''Series/TheBabySittersClub2020'', Mary Anne's father, realizing he's been too overprotective, agrees to let the girls redecorate Mary Anne's bedroom. The first time they try, he gets upset because he thinks they're changing too much -- it is later revealed that he and his deceased wife chose the decor together. The second time they try, it's ''Mary Anne'' who gets uncomfortable because it's ''too'' different, but she's too nice to tell her friends outright. This attempt is remedied by returning a painting her mother had chosen to the wall and complementing it with additional pictures of her.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy": When [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick try to bring their favorite superheroes out of retirement, all they do is annoy and unintentionally harass them. What puts the final nail in the coffin, and [[{{Irony}} ironically]] actually ''does'' bring them out of retirement, is the two painting Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy's Invisible Boatmobile black:

* ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe'': In the bonus short "Home Makeover", a social worker comes over to check if Gru's house is suitable for children. Since the house is full of weapons and rather intimidating-looking, the girls give it a makeover that results in it looking very cheerful and kiddie. When Gru comes home, he finds it so SickeninglySweet that he [[FaintInShock passes out]].

** In one episode, Marge and her son Bart play an online game together. When Marge gives Bart's character's room a Franchise/HelloKitty makeover, he gets mad (since Bart is playing a tough warrior) and kills Marge's avatar.

--->'''Homer:''' Sweet, merciful crap! My car!
--->[Next shot is the car surrounded by seagulls as they drive back home.]

-->-- "The Old Apartment", Music/BarenakedLadies

->''Why did you paint the walls?
->Why did you clean the floor?
->Why did you plaster over
->The hole I punched in the door?''

* ''[[Series/ThirtyRock 30 Rock]]'': In the episode "Respawn", Liz is chastising Tracy for invading her personal life, leading to this exchange.

* ''Series/{{House}}'': In "Lines in the Sand", House refuses to use his office after Cuddy replaces the carpet because there was a large blood stain on it from a disgruntled patient shooting House in an earlier episode. Instead, House works from a variety of awkward spots in the hospital, including the chapel, until Cuddy puts the blood-stained carpet back after Wilson suggests that he's autistic (but then tells House that he doesn't actually believe that, he's just an asshole making petty power plays.)

* In ''Series/TheOddCouple1970'' episode "Take My Furniture, Please", Felix gets permission from Oscar to redecorate after repainting the apartment. However, Oscar dislikes his quirky choices (such as hand-shaped chairs) that he re-redecorates with kitschy items that nearly drive Felix out of the place.
* ''Series/{{Psych}}'': In "[[Recap/PsychS02E04ZeroToMurderInSixtySeconds Zero to Murder in Sixty Seconds]]," Gus is horrified to discover that Shawn paid for the Blueberry, his company sedan, to be [[PimpedOutCar pimped out]] by the chop shop they're investigating. He hates its tacky yellow flames, ridiculous hood scoop, and pimpage-obligatory spoiler. That is, until some women show interest. He gets it un-pimped after [=McNab=] pulls him over because he now [[{{Profiling}} fit a profile]] and the women drive off disinterestedly.
* The ''Series/{{Roseanne}}'' episode "December Bride" has Roseanne decorating the wedding of her boss Leon in an elaborate but stereotypical gay wedding featuring Creator/LizaMinnelli impersonators, shirtless musclemen as ushers, and pictures of Music/BarbraStreisand on display. He's so disgusted, that he tries to run off [[RunawayBride as he had on previous occasions.]]

* The song "The Old Apartment" by Music/BarenakedLadies is about a man who revisits/breaks into the old apartment he used to live in. He expresses displeasure at how the new tenants have renovated - such as by repainting the walls, paving the lawn, and plastering over the hole in the door - because [[SentimentalShabbiness he liked the wear and tear of the apartment's original appearance]].

* ''Webcomic/FullFrontalNerdity'': One strip has the guys watching a home makeover show where a 20-somthing gamer nerd's room gets redone, destroying his classic movie posters and original roleplaying game books in the process. According to Shawn, the show will be in reruns until everyone gets out of the hospital.

* ''WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries'': In the episode "[[Recap/TangledTheSeriesS1E02RapunzelsEnemy Rapunzel's Enemy]]", one of the things Rapunzel tries to win over candymaker Uncle Monty, who seems to like everyone in the kingdom except for her, is repainting his store sign with a more elaborate design. It just makes him hate her more because the original sign was painted by his great-grandfather when he first built the shop.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'':

** In "The Odd Couple", Tommy is staying over at Chuckie's house and rearranges the latter's toy village so that items are at the wrong buildings, one building is taken apart, and people are hanging out of the windows. Chuckie hates this and yells at Tommy.
** In "The Art Fair", Angelica is instructed to paint the Finster household's den. She orders Chuckie to help her, but he runs from her, and when she chases him, she knocks over the cans of paint, resulting in very colorful walls. Charlotte's impressed by this, but Chas clearly doesn't share the same opinion, as [[TheScream the scene cuts to the outside of the house as he screams in horror]]. Charlotte later tells Angelica not to take it too personally because he doesn't know what real art looks like.

------

------

Sometimes, especially if the owner is a young child, they find the makeover scary. Or it could just be that the owner [[ThePigPen hates having their possession cleaned]] or [[TrashOfTheTitans likes being disorganised in general]], or they're just a plain old UngratefulBastard.

* ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty'': A 1986 strip had Oliver's mother wallpaper his room with the giant face of Music/MichaelJackson because "Darn it, Oliver, you mixed-up kids could ''use'' a good, wholesome role model these days!" ([[HarsherInHindsight which aged just as well as you can imagine]]) Later, Oliver is shown having put a picture of Albert Einstein up over Michael's nose.

* ''Film/TheMuppetMovie'': The Electric Mayhem paint Kermit and Fozzie's Studebaker in wild, psychedellic colors to help them hide from Doc Hopper. Kermit is at first miffed by the change, but it soon proves useful when they elude Hopper by hiding in front of a billboard [[WallpaperCamouflage that happens to match the paint job]].

* ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'': In Chapter 53, Chiyo rearranges the badges that Kusuri pinned to her book bag. Kusuri doesn?t want Chiyo messing with her stuff and is about to remove Chiyo?s glasses to make her cry [[SubvertedTrope before realizing she was just arranging them in a neat order]].
* ''Manga/FairyTail'': When Natsu first meets Zeref on Tenrou Island, Zeref?s death curse activates with Natsu only surviving thanks to his scarf absorbing the miasma which involuntary turns Natsu?s white scarf black. Once Natsu realizes his scarf is now black he?s less then pleased and intends to find Zeref and beat him up for it, with Natsu temporary wearing his jacket inside out in order to solve his fashion dilemma. His scarf is later turned back to normal by Wendy thanks to her removing said miasma, with Natsu being very happy about it.

* ''WesternAnimation/UnstableFables'': In ''Goldilocks and the 3 Bears'', Goldilocks and her crew refurbish the Bear family's home by [[UnconventionalFoodUsage making them a new house made out of candy]]. They are rather put-out by this; Mac thinks the bed that's made out of gelatin is too wobbly, and Junior thinks it's disgusting to [[ToiletHumour use a toilet that's made out of donuts]].

-->Jay Jay: "It looks like a hospital!"

* ''Literature/CuriousGeorge'': In "Curious George Takes a Job", George is tasked into washing windows. He sneaks into someone's apartment room as several painters have left for a lunch break and notices the bare walls. He paints palm trees on the walls and paints the chairs and a rocking horse to resemble leopards and a zebra, respectively. When the painters come back in, they chase George out and the woman who owns the place is horrified.

* ''Series/{{House}}'': In "Lines in the Sand" House refuses to use his office after Cuddy replaces the carpet, because there was a large blood stain on it from a disgruntled patient shooting House in an earlier episode. Instead, House works from a variety of awkward spots in the hospital, including the chapel, until Cuddy puts the blood-stained carpet back after Wilson suggests that he's autistic (but then tells House that he doesn't actually believe that, he's just an asshole making petty power plays.)

* In ''Series/TheOddCouple1970'' episode "Take My Furniture, Please", Felix gets permission from Oscar to redecorate after repainting the apartment. However, Oscar dislikes his quirky choices (such as hand-shaped chairs) that he re-redecorates with kistchy items that nearly drive Felix out of the place.

* The ''Series/{{Roseanne}}'' episode "December Bride" has Roseanne decorating the wedding of her boss Leon in an elaborate but stereotypical gay wedding featuring Creator/LizaMinnelli impersonators, shirtless musclemen as ushers and pictures of Music/BarbraStreisand on display. He's so disgusted, that he tries to run off [[RunawayBride like he had on previous occasions.]]

** In one episode, Oscar's old school friend Felix visits. [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch Unusually for a Grouch]], Felix is a NeatFreak, so he cleans Oscar's trash can. Oscar hates this, but [[VitriolicBestBuds they decide the conflict is good for their friendship, since Grouches thrive on conflict]].

** In "Cereal", D.W. [[MistakenForThief thinks Arthur stole her cereal]]. Buster asks her why she thinks that, since Arthur [[DoesNotLikeSpam doesn't even like that kind of cereal]], so she suggests it was {{revenge}} for putting his Bionic Bunny action figure in a dress.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy": When [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick try to bring their favorite superheroes out of retirement, all they do is annoy and unintentionally harass them. What puts the final nail in the coffin, and [[{{Irony}} ironically]] actually ''does'' bring them out of retirement, is the two painting Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy's Invisible Boatmobile: