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The difference between the three is essentially a bad movie is painful to watch but at least you can try to get into the story because there's something that's keeping you watching; a So Bad It's Good movie is one that is so bad that you can't suspend your disbelief enough to not laugh at it so you watch it just to riff on it and laugh at it; DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible is where not only is suspending your disbelief impossible, but it's not even fun to laugh at and merely watching it, even just to riff on it, is painful. Nonetheless, don't be surprised when you come across some items that wind up on both lists, such as ''VideoGame/BigRigsOverTheRoadRacing'' or Music/SouljaBoy's song, "Anime". On occasion, the writers may ''intentionally'' [[IntendedAudienceReaction try to pull off this trope]]. Of course, this almost ''never'' actually results in something that fits because it's hard not to [[LampshadeHanging "wink at the camera"]], [[BetterThanABareBulb so to speak]] -- though it's often still funny. Among the Japanese UsefulNotes/FightingGameCommunity, works of this nature are referred to as "[[FanNickname kusoge]]" (shitty game), where the foundation is fundamentally broken, but it's still fun to experience regardless. Sometimes, a work may fall on the line between bad and so bad it's good; most of these are box-office bombs with a strong cult following.

* The entire oeuvre of WebVideo/DharMann, a self-styled "mission-driven entrepreneur" that aims to teach [[AnAesop important life lessons]] through Website/YouTube. Basically all of the videos [[StrictlyFormula follow the same structure]]: two characters are in a room, character B [[{{Jerkass}} antagonizes character A for no real reason]] and in often [[BeigeProse blunt]] and rather stiled terms, a [[CaptainObvious didatic]] narrator explains what happens next and character B get their commeunpance [[LaserGuidedKarma in an ironic and telegraphed way]], capped off with Dhar Mann himself [[AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle explaining today's lesson]] as if what transpired was just too subtle. Add to that the [[DullSurprise poor acting]], [[BrokenAesop occasional warped morals]] and [[ThatMakesMeFeelAngry unnatural]] writing and you get videos that often get the "[[DontShootTheMessage what he's trying to say comes from a good place but...]]'' treatment, as [[WebVideo/TinyMeatGang Cody Ko and Noel Miller]] [[https://youtu.be/593fcLPv4lo can attest]].

* Website/YouTube's captioning device (which is originally used for deaf people) qualifies when it has such word salad gems as "[[Series/LegendsOfTheHiddenTemple I have a six-year-old and that may be headed for trouble]]", "[[Creator/AbbottAndCostello Fuck my sex life]]", "[[Anime/YuGiOh I designed this virtual stadium myself in prison]]", "[[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic Let me show you who's going to lose a lot of pot]]", "[[WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd It's like you've given up on election day]]", "[[WesternAnimation/EdEddnEddy I learned that I'm alive]]" and "[[Anime/SonicX My brain, you know it going to die]]" being around. These captions are considered SugarWiki/FunnyMoments, even if the video shown is supposed to be serious and/or not funny. It's even more hilarious when you find shows and video games that are mainly meant for a younger audience and they find naughty words like "[[VideoGame/KirbysEpicYarn Sexy]]", "[[WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck Vaginally]]", "[[WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck S]][[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDiGames h]][[Series/KenanAndKel i]][[VideoGame/MarioParty t]]", "[[VideoGame/MarioParty Genitals]]", "[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Fuck]]", "[[VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry Cock]]", "[[Creator/{{Disney}} Asshole]]", and "[[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Faggot]]". If you're on the hunt for hilarious and/or dirty misinterpretations, go click on the CC button for almost any video around if it's shown there. If you want to find some ''more'' of these pictures, click either [[http://youchew.net/forum/index.php?/topic/66074-post-inaccurate-youtube-transcribed-captions-here/ here]] or [[http://www.youchew.net/wiki/index.php/User:Crazy_Luigi/Funny_YouTube_Captions_Gallery here.]]. To show that Website/YouTube's captioning system has ''indeed'' left a mark on the Internet, one needs to look no further than ''[[EnsembleDarkhorse/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic "Steven]] [[Memes/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Magnet"]]'', a FanNickname given to a purple sea serpent that appeared in one episode ''because'' of the line given out during one of his scenes, ''and became his canon name''.

* Practically 98% of Website/GoAnimate videos are this, with their effortless drag-and-drop animation, unappealing artstyle that looks like it was ripped directly from Seth [=McFarlane's=] cartoons, robotic text-to-speech voices that always mispronounce things, a limited amount of animation sets (i.e. Kissing is always done with two characters sticking their tongues out at each other), and a majority of the videos having a cut-and-paste plot of "so-and-so doing such-and-such and getting grounded for it". [[http://goanimatescreencaps.tumblr.com/ There's even a Tumblr blog that collects screenshots from many of these videos.]]

* If there is one television channel that is so bad that it is good, then the majority of Hungarians will surely choose Budapest Eur"pa Telev" (formerly Budapest Telev"). The channel itself was a completely unviable attempt to compete with the more advanced commercial channels of the time, and thanks to its policy (it was not funded by advertisers between programmes, but by contractors who rented the screen for their own shows) the quality was low to say the least. Most programmes were full of mistakes, untalented presenters and other bloopers. This was quickly noticed by viewers and many of the recorded scenes were uploaded to Website/YouTube, making the doomed channel legendary.

* {{WebVideo/MarioTehPlumber}}. Nowadays, it's almost unanimously agreed that he's a {{Troll}}, but his "reviews" consist of such over-the-top [[SensoryAbuse screaming into the microphone]], [[FreudWasRight sexual interpretations of mundane objects]], and [[ClusterFBomb Cluster]]/[[AtomicFBomb Atomic F-Bombs]] galore, that he sounds like a raving lunatic. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrLnsp4cmbk This]] video, for example, has the commentator crack up laughing after the introduction when his ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'' "review" begins, and a few people have made videos parodying him, such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU6-8LKwrqI this]] one.

* ''Literature/ShangriLaFrontier'' revolves around Rakurou Hizutome, game-handle Sunraku, who is renowned throughout the gaming community as the "Trash Gamer" since he practically ''embodies'' BileFascination due to how the only games he cares much to buy are the ones so full of bugs and poor playtesting that they're clear {{Obvious Beta}}s, specifically due to a love of the CatharsisFactor that comes from finally beating them despite all the problems. The story also makes frequent mentions of various {{Fictional Video Game}}s the cast have played before, most frequently the kind Sunraku looks for like a fighting game utterly bloated with GoodBadBugs that provide major edges or an MMO with such terrible item-drop rates that it turned into an unofficial "looting simulator" in order for players to actually get anything they need or want. The storty starts when after some egging on by a store-clerk he knows, Sunraku finally decides to give a genuinely ''good'' and properly balanced game a try by playing Shangri-La Frontier under the idea that his catharsis at playing bad games would be enhanced by playing something well-made.

* ''Literature/ShangriLaFrontier'' revolves around Rakurou Hizutome, game-handle Sunraku, who is renowned throughout the gaming community as the "Trash Gamer" since he practically ''embodies'' BileFascination due to how the only games he cares much to buy are the ones so full of bugs and poor playtesting that they're clear {{Obvious Beta}}s, specifically due to a love of the CatharsisFactor that comes from finally beating them despite all the problems. The story also makes frequent mentions of various {{Fictional Video Game}}s the cast have played before, most frequently the kind Rakurou looks for like a fighting game utterly bloated with GoodBadBugs that provide major edges or an MMO with such terrible item-drop rates that it turned into an unofficial "looting simulator" in order for players to actually get anything they need or want.

* Discussed by Georg Rockall-Schmidt in his " What Makes A Movie So Bad It's Good? " video. He claims that So Bad It's Good means "So bad it's enjoyable". He also states that very few movies actually achieve this status while most of the bad movies ( like ''Film/TheWickerMan2006'') only have one or two scenes that qualify as this whille the rest of the movie is a slog to get through. He also states that many so-balled bad movies like ''Film/ManosTheHandsOfFate'' are simply a chore to get through with little entertainment. He also claims that the movies that deserve the title of being so bad they're good the most, are most likely made by narcissists that lack self-awareness, and who really think they are making a masterpiece.

* Discussed by Georg Rockall-Schmidt in his " What Makes A Movie So Bad It's Good? " video. He claims that So Bad It's Good means "So bad it's enjoyable". He also states that very few movies actually achieve this status while most of the bad movies ( like ''Film/TheWickerMan2006'') only have one or two scenes that qualify as this whille the rest of the movie is a slog to get through. He also states that many so-balled bad movies like ''Film/ManosTheHandsOfFate'' are simply a chore to get through with little entertainment.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/user/nuttymadam3575 Nuttymadam3575]] is an obsessed fan of ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' whose videos trying (and failing) to defend the franchise from the wrath of the {{hatedom}} as well as her reactions to the ''Breaking Dawn'' [[TheFilmOfTheBook movie]] trailers make for a good laugh.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZgeIReY04c This anti-piracy PSA]]. As a teenaged boy downloads Music/FooFighters music from a site labeled "Illegal Site" (a piece of paper with a download bar on it affixed to a computer monitor), a law enforcement agent kicks down the door, yells so loudly that he blows out the mic, then arrests the teenager at gunpoint. It's incredibly amateurish, but rather amusing to watch.

* This is the main appeal of dad jokes. In fact, you could say they're [[JustForPun So Dad, They're Good]].

* Every Easter since at least 2008, the Manitoba-based Church of the Rock has performed a pageant. These ''always'' end up being {{Jukebox Musical}}s that attempt to combine the story of Jesus' death and resurrection with something from popular culture (examples including ''Film/TheAvengers2012'', ''Film/ThePrincessBride'', and a play that's named after ''Film/{{Tombstone}}'' but comes off as a generic Western). Between the amateur performances, the shoehorned and often {{bowdlerised}} songs, the often hilariously inappropriate picks regarding which character gets the Christ role in each one ([[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbean Captain Jack Sparrow]] getting crucified, anyone?), and the surprisingly good set designs, and you have some of the best worse cases of a church trying to be relevant to today's youth in recent history. WebVideo/JennyNicholson covers them [[https://youtu.be/ZK4gM7RC1M0 here.]]

* For deep youtube diggers, [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoJHscdepRxR24-FvgvQ5lw Compent]] brings you his short web animations Blakfist (and Don Spaghetti, the sequel), fused with [[ChromaKey stock green screen clips]], characters made out from hilarious stock photos, mediocre voice acting made by a minimal cast of two [=YouTubers=]!! According to some commenters, it is a loose parody of ''Kamen Rider'' and ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' and includes appearances of some [[NewMedia internet memes,]] such as the Left Shark from Super Bowl, ''Film/CoolCatSavesTheKids'' by Derek Savage (as one of the doctor's forms), and few other obscure content.
** However, since of 18th March 2016 (its latest episode's upload) [[{{Vaporware}} the series isn't seeing light on the rest of the series]] due to the author stating his retirement after uploading Don Spaghetti Episode 2, but yet, you have the channel's stuff at safety.
** There was a slight (now removed) announcement which tells that there was supposed to be a GrandFinale of the series as a Blakfist and Don Spaghetti crossover, but soon it was taken down and so the series was taken to the forgotten pits.

* The entire oeuvre of WebVideo/DharMann, a self-styled "mission-driven entrepreneur" that aims to teach [[AnAesop important life lessons]] through Website/YouTube. Basically all of the videos [[StrictlyFormula follow the same structure]]: two characters are in a room, character B [[{{Jerkass}} antagonizes character A for no real reason]] and in often [[BeigeProse blunt]] and rather stiled terms, a [[CaptainObvious didatic]] narrator explains what happens next and character B get their commeunpance [[LaserGuidedKarma in an ironic and telegraphed way]], capped off with Dhar Mann himself [[AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle explaining today's lesson]] as if what transpired was just too subtle. Add to that the [[DullSurprise poor acting]], [[BrokenAesop occasional warped morals]] and [[ThatMakesMeFeelAngry unnatural]] writing and you get videos that often get the "[[DontShootTheMessage what he's trying to say comes from a good place but...]]'' treatment, as [[WebOriginal/TinyMeatGang Cody Ko and Noel Miller]] [[https://youtu.be/593fcLPv4lo can attest]].

* If there is one television channel that is so bad that it is good, then the majority of Hungarians will surely choose Budapest Eur"pa Telev" (formerly Budapest Telev"). The channel itself was a completely unviable attempt to compete with the more advanced commercial channels of the time, and thanks to its policy (it was not funded by advertisers between programmes, but by contractors who rented the screen for their own shows) the quality was low to say the least. Most programmes were full of mistakes, untalented presenters and other bloopers. This was quickly noticed by viewers and many of the recorded scenes were uploaded to YouTube, making the doomed channel legendary.

* For deep youtube diggers, [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoJHscdepRxR24-FvgvQ5lw Compent]] brings you his short web animations Blakfist (and Don Spaghetti, the sequel), fused with [[ChromaKey stock green screen clips]], characters made out from hilarious stock photos, mediocre voice acting made by a minimal cast of two {{YouTuber|s}}!! According to some commenters, it is a loose parody of ''Kamen Rider'' and ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' and includes appearances of some [[NewMedia internet memes,]] such as the Left Shark from Super Bowl, ''Film/CoolCatSavesTheKids'' by Derek Savage (as one of the doctor's forms), and few other obscure content.

* The works of the {{YouTuber|s}} [[https://www.youtube.com/c/lhugueny/videos LHUGUENY]] consist mostly of incredibly autotuned parodies of various songs, accompanied by OffModel video game characters and repetitive, jerky animation. The result is usually a combination of AccidentalNightmareFuel and {{Narm}}, with his two most [[MemeticMutation infamous]] works being [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=982Vbt7qiFA&ab_channel=LHUGUENY FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S 3 THE MUSICAL]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MobkO51msMI&ab_channel=LHUGUENY UNDERTALE THE MUSICAL]] (the latter usually being referred to as "Story of Undertale" to avoid confusion with Man On The Internet's [[WebVideo/UndertaleTheMusical version]]).