Top 10 Things Certain Video Games, Movies and TV Shows are Praised for Despite Not Actually Having

I realize that this is all very subjective in its own way, but I just really needed to get these things off of my chest
The Top Ten
1 "Good writing" beneath all of its lame and unfunny gross-out and shock-value over-reliance - The Ren & Stimpy Show

Just take a look at Intrancity's and MisterBoyyo's scorecards for this and Rocko; both of them (absolutely ridiculously) elevate Ren & Stimpy onto the animation god-tier (simply for being "the show that did gross-out humor first", despite the fact that said type of humor isn't even the real main focus of Rocko at ALL) while casually brushing Rocko off as being "just okay" despite it having the more substantial depth and entertainment value of the two by MILES (and, you know, actually DESERVING to be on the western-animation god tier).

Believe me, I've seen RIDICULOUSLY worse cartoons than R&S for sure, but calling it the better overall series (art style and voice acting aside) between it and Rocko is just plain ABSURD on so many levels that I don't even know where to begin

2 Subtlety in its adult humor - Rocko's Modern Life

Just to name a few reasons why this item is here:

The "Naked Beach" scene from Sand In Your Navel
"We're gonna make you SQUEAL, piggy" from No Pain, No Gain
The "All Scottish Show" from Who Gives A Buck
Naked fairy voyeurism scene from Sucker For The Suck-O-Matic

"Doggy Style" scene from Who Gives A Buck
Filburt's same-sex marriage to Rocko in Kiss Me I'm Foreign, during which he even offers him a foot massage

Heffer's facial expression when addressing Rocko's staircase-descending nakedness in Camera Shy
Really Really Big Man's "Nipples Of The Future" latching themselves onto Rocko's eyeballs in Power Trip

The episode Leap Frogs, in its entirety
Filburt's heavily implied porn fetish all throughout the whole series in general

Ball-fondling scene from Flu-In-U-Enza

Cleavage scene from Sand In Your Navel
"Doctor Bendova" and his rubber gloves, both from Flu-In-U-Enza

"SAUSAGE IS VERY SEDUCTIVE" from Schnit Heads
The ...more

So do you think rocko is underrated or overrated or what?

3 "Amazingly deep and complex" storyline - Half-Life 2

Come on, guys; even Undertale at least has an actually FINISHED plot with at least somewhat properly developed characters (provided that you're playing the Pacifist Run, at least); this, on the other hand, is just plain bland and cliched, almost to the point of making Chrono Trigger actually look like Xenogears (not going to lie, however, the gameplay is still far beyond amazing for what it is, albeit nowhere near as creative as that of the first game)

And don't even get me STARTED on Episode Two's still-unresolved cliffhanger ending either

4 Realistic morality system - Undertale

Sure, the game's combat (Sans and Genocide Undyne aside) might be ridiculously easy, but still, come on, Toby Fox, seriously, almost literally EVERYTHING in this game is trying to kill you and you still aren't allowed to fight back at any moment in it besides the Asgore and Omega Flowey fights if you want to get the proper intended experience out of the game

5 A storyline that "completely defies" traditional superhero and action-movie cliches - The Dark Knight

If there's any superhero movie or action movie that truly did this, it would be Sin City. Watchmen did this to a smaller degree.

More like completely EMBRACES them

6 "Such amazing depth" - Super Smash Bros.

It has great depth as far as core gameplay but nothing else. I think they were talking about the gameplay only

Seriously, have people forgotten that this was explicitly designed as a party game or what?

What...all you do is beat the crap out of each other. What depth? Are they high

Uh, look up My Smash Corner on YouTube, that will set you straight

7 Any real reason for people to like it so much besides nostalgia - Doug (Nickelodeon)
8 Even an ounce of subtlety in the way that it conveys its anti-drug message - Requiem For a Dream

Believe me; if you think the film is extremely blatant and ham-fisted at its beginning, it gets MUCH worse

9 "Skill-Based" Gameplay - Fortnite: Battle Royale
10 A Good Soundtrack - Frozen

In my opinion, it actually does. I respect Frozen's soundtrack, but it's fine if others don't.

The Contenders
11 Major fundamental differences from pretty much any other ridiculously over-the-top shonen anime out there - Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

Guys, it's intended as a PARODY of shonen anime tropes, not a subversion of them

12 Funny dialogue - The Big Bang Theory

Trust me, the laugh track is only there for show (as it is in most sitcoms)
Even compared TO most other sitcoms, however, BBT is STILL downright painfully unfunny

This show is so unfunny

13 Realism - Minecraft

Ok, let me just drop out of the sky while holding a lava bucket made of some iron, dump it down, use water on It, turn it into obsidian, punch the obsidian apart, walk over to a tree, beat it up with a flower, and then create an infinite water source.

14 "Completely unique and original" animation style - The Amazing World of Gumball

Can't say for sure whether or not Gumball "ripped the show off", so to speak, but Courage The Cowardly Dog already had an INFINITELY more aesthetically pleasing version of this show's art style a LONG time ago (back in the late 90s, to be exact)

How is this show a ripoff of Courage the Cowardly Dog of all cartoons? There are other cartoons that resembled this one way more than Courage.

15 Saddest Video Game Storyline Ever - Undertale

I agree if you're talking specifically about the Genocide Run

16 Main Character that Isn't a Complete Mary Sue - Batman

So who's the Mary Sue of Batman. Because Batman is a raging psychopath with no sense of humor.

There are people that praise batman for this?

17 The Best Original Trilogy of Seasons of Any Cartoon Series Ever Created - SpongeBob SquarePants

(cough) Rocko alone would DESPERATELY beg you to differ (cough)

18 Subtlety in Its Satire - South Park

If the episode "Osama Bin Laden Has Farty Pants" doesn't cement this, I don't know WHAT does

19 Plot that Isn't a Complete Mess - Avengers Infinity War

How will our heroes idiotically screw themselves over right when then they are JUST about to win next?

Tune in next time to find out; same STAR LORD time, same THOR channel

20 "Unique and Original" Art Style - Rayman Origins

ANIME version of REN AND STIMPY? Bruh, you need to put down the weed and take a hard look at the art again.

(cough) totally not an anime version of the Ren & Stimpy art style (cough)

21 Depth or Polish of Any Real Sort - Skyrim
22 Main Villain that Was "the First of Her Kind" - Portal

THAT would be Shodan from System Shock, as well as perhaps, stretching a little, AM from I Have No Mouth

23 Interesting Character Cast - The Loud House

The cast is as dull as educational shows like Dora and Caillou.

24 "Epic" Storyline - Adventure Time
25 Well-Developed Characters and Story - Classic Star Wars
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