History Main / NarmCharm

* ''Fanfic/TeaOfSagittarius''. Especially the Sidestories, full blown ContemplateOurNavels and psychological issues compiled with usual [[HilarityEnsues Haruhi-style balls to the walls plot]]. You think one DeadpanSnarker is enough, this story have two, [[AlternateUniverse who technically is same person]], [[GenderBender technically different gender]], and [[ScrewYourself technically a couple]]. [[MindScrew Confused]]?

* On the whole, this is how ''WebVideo/JonTron'' feels about the various [[UsefulNotes/Xbox360 Xbox Kinect]] Franchise/StarWars games. While he does find them silly, unresponsive, bland, and more or less describes them as UsefulNotes/ShovelWare, he admits he feels a sense of childish whimsy when playing them as he found himself actually enjoying pretending to be a Jedi. In the end he admits he ''did'' have a ton of fun playing it despite the goofy flawed nature of the game.

* ProfessionalWrestling ''itself'' is this. You know, somewhere in the back of your mind, [[{{Kayfabe}} it's a show, that the matches are predetermined]]. And while it has to be a WorldOfBadass just for those men and women to survive the moves and often to come back from the numerous injuries they receive (and it should be remembered that every so often, [[CareerEndingInjury a wrestler]] [[KilledOffForReal doesn't come back]], [[AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle so please]], DontTryThisAtHome), it's also a WorldOfHam, because for almost anyone to get over they need to be ChewingTheScenery. But if two great performers are in the ring, [[SpotMonkey jumping off to attack each other from impossibly high places]] and [[GarbageWrestler smashing each other with every single]] "[[Wrestling/{{WCW}} international]]" [[GarbageWrestler object they can find]] [[WrestlingPsychology while still telling a great story through the match]], and if [[ExecutiveMeddling some idiot]] [[Wrestling/VinceMcMahon named]] [[Wrestling/VinceRusso Vince]] doesn't write something DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible, the voice reminding you that [[HamAndCheese the overacting is just covering for bad writing]] is going to be absolutely ''silent'' until that final bell rings, because you'll not only [[Film/SupermanTheMovie believe a man can fly]], you'll also believe he'd use that power to defeat a [[TheGiant humongous]] [[WrestlingMonster monster]] by flipping through the air and crashing through a table with the monster on it.

* The 1984-1988 [[Creator/{{Disney}} Walt Disney Classics]] logo (shown [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDnqibkPLLM here]]) has some really cheesy and primitive animation and music, but can be considered endearing because of its cheesiness.

* From Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses:

** ''WebVideo/{{Kickassia}}'' (Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses's second year anniversary video) THRIVES off this. Almost everyone overacts, scenes are over the top and goofy, and yet it's ''awesome''. Part 4 has some good plot developments, and an honestly creepy scene where the Critic explains what the dynamite is for. And it's because you're not supposed to take anything seriously that you're able to enjoy what happens in it.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmSEC6hSBes This 1986 Venezuelan commercial for the Toyota Corolla]]. Produced by Franco Rubartelli and sung by Guillermo Carrasco, it features an incredibly campy yet endearing song praising the Corolla as a SimpleYetAwesome daily-driver car.

* Ted-Ed Riddles. It is easy to make fun of the arbitrary rules (and many of the comments do that). However, the videos are well animated and the riddles themselves are interesting to solve (possibly ''because'' of said rules).

Often invoked as a form of ageism, when something that was considered normal for the time something was made is seen as narm by audiences of a later generation (for example, the fact most actors in the early days of cinema were theatre actors who, naturally, needed to overact a little on stage and knew no better when on camera, or silent-era actors who similarly acted differently than sound-film actors might). The interval between a production's release and it being seen as narm by new audiences is decreasing rapidly .

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* This does happen in real life, though it's sometimes best not to dwell on it depending on the situation. A situation will occur where a person will think to themselves that in any other situation this would be funny.
* As parents know, a toddler with a sore throat can have the cutest little whispery-raspy voice - but the poor kid isn't feeling well, either.
* School plays--particularly Nativity plays--are full of this. Small children in badly made costumes, and making it obvious from the way that they recite their lines that they have ''no idea what they're saying''.
** With their [[SpecialEffectsFailure lack of special effects,]] low-budget props, and inexperienced actors, high school productions aren't immune to this trope, either.
* Crying your heart out usually involves [[InelegantBlubbering ridiculous expressions and "dying moose" noises]], but in most situations people are willing to forgive you for it.
* Some attempts at social distancing are this-- they're ridiculous on paper, but in practice, they actually work to an extent. Behold, [[https://metro.co.uk/2020/05/15/german-cafe-customers-wear-swimming-pool-noodle-float-hats-help-social-distancing-12707261/ noodle floats in Germany]] and [[https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/coronavirus-restaurant-bumper-tables-trnd/index.html inner tubes in Maryland.]]
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* Taker's most famous rival, Wrestling/MickFoley, actually came up with a gimmick that invoked this trope: Dude Love. A Wrestling/ShawnMichaels ripoff (his finisher was called "Sweet Shin Music"), who dressed in tie-dye shirts, wore old-school sunglasses and spoke in corny lingo that would've been out of touch in 1969. It was an absurd, bush-league persona, and fans just loved Mick Foley that much more for it.

-->-- Creator/TerrenceMalick

* Well-written ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fan fictions that deal with serious topics like murder or horror are often not only able to sincerely scare you and [[TearJerker jerk some tears]], but actually make you accept that it's taking place in a world of [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation fuzzy little technicolor horses]] that [[RuleOfCute run on adorableness]]. Prime examples are ''FanFic/FalloutEquestria'' which is every bit as desolate and dark as ''[[VideoGame/{{Fallout}} the source material]]'' and ''FanFic/{{Cupcakes}}'' which intentionally uses the nature of the show [[MetaTwist to make the twist all the more horrifying]].

* The bits of comedy that ''Webcomic/MegaTokyo'' contains post-CerebusSyndrome often slip into this. For example, in [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/1241 this]] strip, Ed is taunting and tormenting Ping with text messages while planning to kill her; meanwhile he strikes up a pleasant conversation with our favorite {{Cloudcuckoolander}} Largo and (among other things), complements him on his NiceHat.