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Since this was never posted, this TRS thread
made Widget Series YMMV.
I propose changing Weirdly Awesome Soviet Thing (WAST) to Weirdly Awesome Soviet Production (WASP) so that it's an actual word, and adding something separate for Russia to cover Federation-era media; either Weird Russian Thing (Wirt), Weird Thing from Russia (Water), Weirdly Awesome Russian Thing (WART), or Weirdly Awesome Russian Production (WARP).
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What would a Weird Mexican Thing be called? Wimmet?
Huevocartoon could be a Weird Mexican Thing.
Man in the Yellow Hat
I believe Sonichu would classify as a Widget Series. It already has a bizarre premise (a Sonic-Pikachu hybrid goes on adventures while the mayor gets into various mishaps) and only gets weirder from there (for example, there's a corporation based on 4chan, one of the main villains is the personification of graduation, an Idol Singer Jigglypuff makes an appearance, etc.)
There's so much I wish I could take back.
This is an actual screenshot.
How is Fireman Sam a widget series? The example only says the its original title doesn't make much sense.
ME!? You want ME to be the director of your Christmas play?!
Why would they?
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Seriously, what is it about Japan that makes their culture so strange? Is there a radioactive meteor or something in the middle of Tokyo that warps the minds of anyone who's near it for too long?
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Because several weird games represents Japan just like how Jackass represents America or how Monty Python represents the UK's mental state. Yep, makes a lot of sense.
Cultural dissonance/shock. What seems strange to individuals of one culture may be perfectly normal for those of another culture.
Their culture isn't strange at all. Most of their media is actually really normal, just like ours - it's normal by their standards, but once you have an idea of those standards, most things on this page are still weird, and have barely anything to do with them being foreign.
The NoMouth Nocturnal
Will there be an acronym for a weird Korean thing?
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Wicket?
It does not matter who I am. What matters is, who will you become? - motto of Omsk Bird
I know... how about "Weird Occurrence from Korea" or "Weird Oddity from Korea" (WOK)?
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Jacob Two-Two, really? The description only comments how canadian it is, no explanation given on how weird it is. I didn't liked the show and only saw a bunch of episodes, but the tone and writing of the show is more in the vein of those down to earth shows about kids that go to school like Hey Arnold or Recess.
Bifauxnen
How about calling weird Norwegian weird things WENT (Weird Enough Norwegian Thing)?
Nobody knows who I really am Maybe they just don't give a damn - Rie Fu(Life is Like a Boat)
Thar be flabbergasting!
Would One Piece itself be a Widget Series, albeit one with phenomenal popularity in its home country and substantial popularity overseas? Its main character is a pirate captain who stretches like rubber and hangs out with a talking reindeer, a cyborg, and a living skeleton; every character uses mollusks for all communication (and have become several key plot points); and so many weird situations and people have appeared in the series thus far that no one, Japanese or otherwise, can predict with any certainty what would happen next.
EDIT: Nevermind, it's on the list—just not in the alphabetized part.
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Would a strange multinational thing be a Weird Humorous International Project?
Fuzzy Orange Doomsayer
A while ago, GG Chrono cleaned up the examples. One of the examples he removed was this, which I think is valid:
- The Knight Life, a Life Embellished webcomic with a tendency towards parody, is very much a WHAT. Such characters as a housewife who puts on an armless costume and fights crime as "The Masked Maggot," or a lowlife who works as a human rug and can identify shoes by how they press into his back, make sense if and only if one's familiar with the parts of American culture they're mocking.
I'll put it back for now, although I'm willing to discuss it.
That's Feo . . . He's a disgusting, mysoginistic, paedophilic asshat who moonlights as a shitty writer—Something Awful
Pkfl
Should we get a new picture? This same picture is used in the Katamari Damacy page.
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Moving this here:
Japan has a culture outsiders may find pretty strange. In ancient times, Japan was a tribal culture. After making contact with China, they became an "eastern" culture, adopting a lot of Chinese cultural baggage but changing it to suit themselves while keeping older beliefs such as animism. The same thing happened during the 19th century, when Japan became an industrialized "western" culture. These three layers of culture interact in fascinating and unusual ways.
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And this:
Exemplified by the Katamari Damacy video game series. Such games have also a noticeably larger presence on handheld systems than their console brethren.
Not to be confused with the animated series about an alien named Widget. Nor with the economic term (which is shorthand for an unknown unit of production. Product X, but economic slang). Nor with that thing floating in your Guinness.
and this:
Spinoff terms you'll likely see in this page include WTF (A Weird Thing from France), WHAT (A Weird Humorous American Thing) or just WAT, Wabbit (Weird British Thing), Wicket (Weird Canadian Thing), STANZA (Strange Thing from Australia/New Zealand/Australasia), EIEIO (Excessively Irish Example of Intentional Oddity), and WIT (Weird Icelandic Thing).
Per TRS
, Widget Series was renamed to Quirky Work, and its definition was expanded
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