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* UglyCute: Maurice and Larry are considered quite endearing by some fans despite being a talking cockroach and maggot. Maurice in particular is actually considered quite adorable by a few due to his KindheartedSimpleton characterization, even despite how disgusting he is
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* CultClassic: Despite being relatively obscure, the show has maintained a strong cult following over the years.

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* CultClassic: Despite being relatively obscure, the show has maintained a strong cult following over the years.years, even receiving a documentary film about its production in 2019.
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* AmericansHateTingle: Although the show was a success in Canada, the same cannot be said in the United States where the series aired on Creator/FoxFamily. The series was dropped after Season 2 and its failure in America let to production company Decode pulling the plug on funding, ultimately killing the show.

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* AmericansHateTingle: Although the show was a success in Canada, the same cannot be said in the United States where the series aired on Creator/FoxFamily. The series was dropped after Season 2 and its failure in America let led to production company Decode pulling the plug on funding, ultimately killing the show.
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* AmericansHateTingle: Although the show was a success in Canada, the same cannot be said in the United States where the series aired on Creator/FoxFamily. The series was dropped after Season 2 and its failure in America almost ended up killing the show had it not been for Creator/{{YTV}} loving the show enough to greenlight a Season 3.

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* AmericansHateTingle: Although the show was a success in Canada, the same cannot be said in the United States where the series aired on Creator/FoxFamily. The series was dropped after Season 2 and its failure in America almost ended up let to production company Decode pulling the plug on funding, ultimately killing the show had it not been for Creator/{{YTV}} loving the show enough to greenlight a Season 3.show.



* HilariousInHindsight: One story involves a couple who accidentally hit a kangaroo while travelling Australia and when deciding to pose with the animal's body while dressing it up in human clothes, the kangaroo returns to life and springs away with their things. [[Film/KangarooJack Sounds familiar?]]

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* HilariousInHindsight: One story involves a couple who accidentally hit encounter a kangaroo while travelling Australia Australia. The kangaroo passes out, and when deciding to pose with the animal's body while dressing it up in human clothes, the kangaroo returns comes to life and springs away with their things. [[Film/KangarooJack Sounds familiar?]]
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* AmericansHateTingle: Although the show was a success in Canada, the same cannot be said in the United States where the series aired on Fox Family. The series was dropped after Season 2 and its failure in America almost ended up killing the show had it not been for Creator/{{YTV}} loving the show enough to greenlight a Season 3.

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* AmericansHateTingle: Although the show was a success in Canada, the same cannot be said in the United States where the series aired on Fox Family.Creator/FoxFamily. The series was dropped after Season 2 and its failure in America almost ended up killing the show had it not been for Creator/{{YTV}} loving the show enough to greenlight a Season 3.
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* AmericansHateTingle: Although the show was a success in Canada, the same cannot be said in the United States where the series aired on Fox Family. The series was dropped after Season 2 and its failure in America almost ended up killing the show had it not been for Creator/{{YTV}} loving the show enough to greenlight a Season 3.
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* HilariousInHindsight: One story involves a couple who accidentally hit a kangaroo while travelling Australia and when deciding to pose with the animal's body while dressing it up in human clothes, the kangaroo returns to life and springs away with their things. [[Film/KangarooJack Sounds familiar?]]
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* CultClassic: Despite being relatively obscure, the show has maintained a strong cult following over the years.
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* ValuesDissonance/ValuesResonance: Could be either, depending on your perspective. One segment is about a girl who grew up competing in beauty pageants, just like her mother and sisters, who resorts to starving herself and taking diet pills. It's clear that the extreme to which she went was seen as toxic, but it's not clear if the segment was intended to be critical of child beauty pageants and stage parents as a whole, since the girl is depicted as acting under her own agency.

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* ValuesDissonance/ValuesResonance: ValuesDissonance / ValuesResonance: Could be either, depending on your perspective. One segment is about a girl who grew up competing in beauty pageants, just like her mother and sisters, who resorts to starving herself and taking diet pills. It's clear that the extreme to which she went was seen as toxic, but it's not clear if the segment was intended to be critical of child beauty pageants and stage parents as a whole, since the girl is depicted as acting under her own agency.
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* ValuesDissonance/ValuesResonance: Could be either, depending on your perspective. One segment is about a girl who grew up competing in beauty pageants, just like her mother and sisters, who resorts to starving herself and taking diet pills. It's clear that the extreme to which she went was seen as toxic, but it's not clear if the segment was intended to be critical of child beauty pageants and stage parents as a whole, since the girl is depicted as acting under her own agency.
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* NauseaFuel: A lot of the stories, which involved the likes of medical waste, the contents of an RV's septic tank, mealworm-infested rat heads, dissected frogs, a live turtle, garbage recycled into sausages, food chewed up by old people, chocolate-covered cockroaches, the cremated remains of a dead relative, soup made from garbage with a loogie spat into it, human brains, cleaning supplies, mixed nuts that an old woman had sucked the chocolate off of, etc.

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* NauseaFuel: A lot of the stories, which involved stories revolved around the likes of characters [[IAteWhat unknowingly]] consuming disgusting things like medical waste, the contents of an RV's septic tank, mealworm-infested rat heads, dissected frogs, a live turtle, garbage recycled into sausages, food chewed up by old people, chocolate-covered cockroaches, the cremated remains of a dead relative, soup made from garbage with a loogie spat into it, human brains, cleaning supplies, mixed nuts that an old woman had sucked the chocolate off of, etc.etc. with the occasional VomitIndiscretionShot once they realized exactly what it was that they just ate.
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* NauseaFuel: A lot of the EatThat stories, which involved the likes of medical waste, the contents of an RV's septic tank, mealworm-infested rat heads, dissected frogs, a live turtle, garbage recycled into sausages, food chewed up by old people, chocolate-covered cockroaches, the cremated remains of a dead relative, soup made from garbage with a loogie spat into it, human brains, cleaning supplies, mixed nuts that an old woman had sucked the chocolate off of, etc.

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* NauseaFuel: A lot of the EatThat stories, which involved the likes of medical waste, the contents of an RV's septic tank, mealworm-infested rat heads, dissected frogs, a live turtle, garbage recycled into sausages, food chewed up by old people, chocolate-covered cockroaches, the cremated remains of a dead relative, soup made from garbage with a loogie spat into it, human brains, cleaning supplies, mixed nuts that an old woman had sucked the chocolate off of, etc.
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* NauseaFuel: A lot of the gross food stories, which involved the likes of medical waste, the contents of an RV's septic tank, mealworm-infested rat heads, dissected frogs, a live turtle, garbage recycled into sausages, food chewed up by old people, chocolate-covered cockroaches, the cremated remains of a dead relative, soup made from garbage with a loogie spat into it, human brains, cleaning supplies, mixed nuts that an old woman had sucked the chocolate off of, etc.

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* NauseaFuel: A lot of the gross food EatThat stories, which involved the likes of medical waste, the contents of an RV's septic tank, mealworm-infested rat heads, dissected frogs, a live turtle, garbage recycled into sausages, food chewed up by old people, chocolate-covered cockroaches, the cremated remains of a dead relative, soup made from garbage with a loogie spat into it, human brains, cleaning supplies, mixed nuts that an old woman had sucked the chocolate off of, etc.
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I Ate What clean up. The trope is when a character eats something, unaware of what they are consuming, and then reacts in disgust after they find out what it is. Misuse will be deleted or moved to another trope when applicable. Administrivia.Zero Context Examples will be removed or commented out depending on the amount of context within the entry.


* NauseaFuel: A lot of the IAteWhat stories, which involved the likes of medical waste, the contents of an RV's septic tank, mealworm-infested rat heads, dissected frogs, a live turtle, garbage recycled into sausages, food chewed up by old people, chocolate-covered cockroaches, the cremated remains of a dead relative, soup made from garbage with a loogie spat into it, human brains, cleaning supplies, mixed nuts that an old woman had sucked the chocolate off of, etc.

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* NauseaFuel: A lot of the IAteWhat gross food stories, which involved the likes of medical waste, the contents of an RV's septic tank, mealworm-infested rat heads, dissected frogs, a live turtle, garbage recycled into sausages, food chewed up by old people, chocolate-covered cockroaches, the cremated remains of a dead relative, soup made from garbage with a loogie spat into it, human brains, cleaning supplies, mixed nuts that an old woman had sucked the chocolate off of, etc.

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* HarsherInHindsight: One story involves the pilots locked out of the cockpit while the plane is heading towards a mountain range. It's very similar to how Germanwings 9525 crashed.
* NightmareFuel: Being animated adaptations of popular urban legends and modern lore, this is a given.

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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: "The Hook" is one of the most widely remembered stories due to being a catchy (and creepy) doo-wop murder ballad adaptation of the eponymous {{Urban Legend|s}}.
* HarsherInHindsight: One story involves the pilots getting locked out of the cockpit while the plane airplane is heading towards a mountain range. It's very similar to how Germanwings 9525 crashed.
* NightmareFuel: Being animated adaptations NauseaFuel: A lot of popular urban legends and modern lore, this is the IAteWhat stories, which involved the likes of medical waste, the contents of an RV's septic tank, mealworm-infested rat heads, dissected frogs, a given.live turtle, garbage recycled into sausages, food chewed up by old people, chocolate-covered cockroaches, the cremated remains of a dead relative, soup made from garbage with a loogie spat into it, human brains, cleaning supplies, mixed nuts that an old woman had sucked the chocolate off of, etc.
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* NightmareFuel: Being animated adaptations of popular urban legends and modern lore, this is a given.

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* NightmareFuel: Being animated adaptations of popular urban legends and modern lore, this is a given.given.
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* HarsherInHindsight: One story involves the pilots locked out of the cockpit while the plane is heading towards a mountain range. It's very similar to how Germanwings 9525 crashed.

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* HarsherInHindsight: One story involves the pilots locked out of the cockpit while the plane is heading towards a mountain range. It's very similar to how Germanwings 9525 crashed.crashed.
* NightmareFuel: Being animated adaptations of popular urban legends and modern lore, this is a given.
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* HarsherInHindsight: One story involves the pilots locked out of the cockpit while the plane is heading towards a mountain range. It's very similar to how Germanwings 9525 crashed.

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