History Main / TheThemeParkVersion

* After breaking into the mainstream consciousness, EmoMusic wound up spawning the theme park version of itself, trading the often dramatic yet tasteful introspection of the earlier days for cheesy [[BreakUpSong breakup songs]] & [[{{Wangst}} immature self-pitying]] and favoring glossy radio-ready hooks over experimentation with melody & dynamics.

** Psychology is usually not taught at a school level and barely touched on in high school but unfortunately, it has to compete with Popular Psychology and misrepresentations on shows like ''Series/CriminalMinds'', ''Series/{{Bones}}'' and other media works. The idea of psychology most people derive from such works is extremely simplified, misapplied, out of date, or outright wrong. Of course complicating the problem is that [[Analysis/AllPsychologyIsFreudian there are many contending theories and ideas about psychology and each group tends to insult and denounce the other]], making it harder for people to grapple with the truth. The most common and pervasive idea is Freudian Psychology and even that is highly misunderstood and distorted.

* After breaking into the mainstream consciousness, EmoMusic wound up spawning the theme park version of itself, trading the often dramatic yet tasteful introspection of the earlier days for cheesy [[BreakUpSong breakup songs]] & [[{{Wangst}} immature self-pitying]] and favoring glossy Warped Tour-ready hooks over experimentation with melody & dynamics.

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* The NinetiesAntiHero is the theme park version of the acclaimed graphic novels ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' and ''Comicbook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns''. In a case of the cycle repeating, these characters would end up getting theme park versions themselves in UsefulNotes/TheModernAgeOfComicBooks, often depicted as coming from a time when everything was needlessly edgy or as an antagonistic character that ''wishes'' everything was. Whenever people want to draw the "90's version" of a comic book character, they go for the (itself theme parked) grim, gritty Creator/ImageComics look with too many belts, zippers, and guns to count, and tons of uneccesary gore all over the page.

->'''Federal Government:''' “What do you have that [Alaska] doesn’t then?”
->'''Florida:''' “Lobsters and lighthouses!”
->'''Maine:''' “Settle down there, first page of Google.”

* After it's mainstream breakthrough (especially during the early 2000s), PopPunk wound up becoming the theme park version of PunkRock, having the stereotypical fashion sense and snotty attitude without the artistic free-spiritedness and with, at best, [[RuleAbidingRebel only a superficial amount of rebelliousness]].

* Most characters in ''VideoGame/PunchOut'' are over-the-top national stereotypes (even the Japanese ones,) with the Wii version showing them coming from The Theme Park Version of their respective countries.

* The live action feature film version of the Japanese manga series Great Teacher Onizuka parodied this idea by showing the abandoned remains of a (fictional) failed theme park called "Canadaland." Flashbacks to the park's glory days were... embarrassing, to say the least.

* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', when Fry visits a Ride/{{Disneyland}}-esque theme park on the moon. In the future, most people have forgotten the first manned mission to the moon, and an animatronic display offers a version of history in which the moon was "discovered" by space whalers, which all visitors accept as the truth. When Fry tries to tell everyone the real story, Leela insists the theme-park version is just harmless fun and that no one really cares how the moon was first explored.

* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', when Fry visits a Ride/{{Disneyland}}-esque theme park on the moon. In the future, most people have forgotten the first manned mission to the moon, and an animatronic display offers a version of history in which the moon was "discovered" by space whalers. When Fry tries to tell everyone the truth, Leela insists the theme-park version is just harmless fun and that no one really cares how the moon was first explored.