Music
- In a rare auditory example, the Laugh Track skips at one point on the third verse to Ray Stevens' "The Streak".
- Frank Zappa wrote an ode to the Special Effects Failure called "Cheepnis". Found on the album Roxy & Elsewhere (1974), it opens with Zappa monologuing about the concept of cheepnis (which is what he calls the Special Effects Failure) in relation to his love for monster movies, citing an example from It Conquered the World.
- The Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour" features a stock sound effect of a bus driving between the stereo channels. However, the stock sound effect ended with the bus skidding and crashing, which it actually does on one occasion where the faders are brought down too slowly. (On another occasion, the sound effect is cut off suddenly before the crash with an audible click.) Cue Paul Is Dead jokes....
Music Videos
- Spoonfeedas' Attack of the Hadedas
parodies Birdemic and its shoddy effects, obvious cutout birds and all, in homage to movies of its kind. - Pretty much all of Randy Travis' "Before You Kill Us All" has bad chroma-key. Most obviously, there's a constant mask around Randy's mullet, and his guitar clips the background a few times.
- To say the CGI in Eiffel 65's Blue was dated even in 1999 is an Understatement. The way the band is inserted into the footage makes it all the more jarring.
- The fight scenes are less "fighting" and more "a bunch of guys lightly tapping aliens once and a while". Either that, or the aliens have exceptionally poor combat skills.
- The video for "Move Your Body" is a sequel to the "Blue" video, the band being poorly-inserted and CGI included.
- The music video for Zorotl's I Wanna Be calls back to both above examples (although with a similar-looking alien and different musicians). Made worse where the later happens in a sports stadium.
- Kelly Rowland's Dilemma is a pretty iconic song from the The 2000s, thanks to heavy airplay that in the music video, the message about unrequited love is displayed, amongst other things, as a unanswered text message. In Microsoft Excel, that is.
- The Beastie Boys music video for Don't Play No Game I Can't Win is all a bunch of dolls/action figures and other toys in an action movie-like adventure. You can clearly see the wires, hands, and dowel rods used to maneuver everything.
- The effects for ZZ Top's music video for "Doubleback" are pretty bad.
- The bike morphing into a pimpmobile from Coolio's "Fantastic Voyage" video. THAT IS NOT HOW MORPHING IS DONE. It's so bad the copyright owner is embarrassed.
- The poorly Photoshopped bus stop sign in the "Friday" music video by Rebecca Black, as seen here
- Also the night scene, which was clearly filmed on either a greenscreen or a simple backdrop.
- It's Raining Men... through crappy green screen effects. The sets are also quite cheap-looking (although both of these might've been done intentionally, both to spoof low budget weather forecasts and for the sake of Camp).
- Invoked in the video for "Jurassic Park" by "Weird Al" Yankovic. Most of the video is done in Claymation, but when the park's gates are shown a second time, one of the torches has gone out - so an arm reaches in and lights it with a lighter.
- The borderline Body Horror 'floating' effect from Blancmange's "Lose Your Love" music video. Not to mention it failed as soon as it started, unless it was intentional.
- The music video for Will Smith's "Men in Black" features a poorly done dancing aliennote midway through. The practical alien body parts towards the beginning don't fare much better.
- The music video for "Nod Ya Head" (from the second film) features a glaring amount of very obvious CG.
- The music video for "Nod Ya Head
- The music video for Brainbug's Nightmare is intentionally full of this, mainly as homage to the 50's.
- Billy Joel's "Pressure", while having some impressive physical effects, the post-production ones are obviously digitally composited and animated, a very early example of the technique.
- Played for Laughs in the Tenacious D music video for Rize of the Fenix, done up to look like a video that hasn't been dropped yet, with hastily-edited duplicate shots of fans, weird-looking disembodied heads of Kage and Jables on swords and devilish snakes to represent critics, too many explosions (and explosion fails), horribly animated bats, superfluous green-screen shots, shoddy CG supertitles, and many VFX screens and clipart images reading "Stockpic," "Unrendered," and "Missing Media."
- Although the human violence in Biting Elbows' video for "Bad Motherfucker" is realistic enough, the incident when the protagonist kicks the German shepherd out the window uses a very obvious stuffed dog dummy. Possibly an intentional example, if the band didn't want to receive outraged e-mails from dog lovers by shooting the event too plausibly.
- P. Diddy's "Come With Me" video, which was a tie-in music video to the 1998 Godzilla movie has the title character as an example, in which the title character looks compressed and looks even worse than in the movie.The Music Video Show: I'm watching the video right now...the monster looks like garbage, let's watch something else."
- The mostly unused animatronic is also featured in a few shots whenever the monster isn't CGI, and its movement is pretty slow compared to how the he moved in the movie.
- The video for A Flock of Seagulls' "I Ran", which is shot in a Hall of Mirrors setting, fails to hide the camera reflected in the mirrors that pass behind the musicians.
- The video for "You Surround Me" by Erasure uses chroma key to replace the background with images of cityscapes. In certain lights, Andy Bell's shoes are close enough in colour to the background that they get erased too, so at some points he appears to have no feet.
- At points during the video for "Night Boat To Cairo" by Madness, the platform they're performing on can be seen to wobble where it meets the backdrop, giving away the fact that the pyramid background is bluescreened in.
- Devo's "Freedom of Choice" video has a stop motion segment where chocolate mini-donuts move in time with the music - one leaves a visible piece of its frosting on the backdrop. In a commentary track for the video, director Jerry Casale admits he noticed the mistake but the sequence was just too time consuming to do over, and jokingly calls the chocolate stain a "skidmark".
- Rag'n'Bone Man's "Human" video tries to imitate Vertigo Effect with Chroma Key and jittery zooming background footage. There's one problem with it: normally, dolly zoom causes the character in the foreground to distort slightly, getting wider and slightly warped, while here, it's just the background that zooms in and out. Also, the keying on several characters is slightly off.
- Rush's "Time Stand Still" features some of the worst green screen effects that a big-name band has ever gotten away with (ironically, despite the video being directed by Zbigniew Rybczynski, a famous cinematographer who helped pioneer the technology). It's very blatant that the members of Rush and guest singer Amiee Mann just got cut out and dragged around the scene to create the impression of them floating, with nearly no effort put into making it look believable.
- The music video for Danny & Armi's "I Wanna Love You Tender", the English version of their 1978 duet "Tahdon olla sulle hellä", became an Internet meme almost overnight when a muddy, low-resolution copy of it was uploaded to YouTube in 2006, to the point where viewers regularly shot parodies of the video replicating its bizarre dance choreography. While best known for said choreography, it's also filled to the brim with terrible Chroma Key, where holes constantly appear in the performers and the original background fades in and out of view in several places.
