A character or show whose jokes are so bad, and whose sense of humor is so trite, corny, and childish that — paradoxically — you can't help but laugh at it.

It's the Same, Now It Sucks!: Something is seen as bad simply because it's too similar to a previous work, rather than due to any particular flaw on its own. Once Original, Now Common · Fair for Its Day · It Was His Sled · Genre Turning Point

An attempt at a joke on such subjects can easily come across as insulting, offensive, or cruel, earning the reaction, "Dude, not funny!"

8 сент. 2021 г. · Once Original, Now Common, formerly known as Seinfeld Is Unfunny, is a mess. There are issues with rampant natter, complaining, gushing, some walls of text, ...

Just because a character's as jolly as a sloth with major depression doesn't mean they can't be funny. A Comically Serious character's lack of reaction to …

10 дек. 2023 г. · Seinfeld is Unfunny is supposed to be used for when a work's conventions have been overused to the point they seem unoriginal and derivative.

A character who screws up any attempt to tell a joke. Perhaps they forget the punchline, perhaps they have no sense of timing, perhaps they try to explain it ...

This trope is specifically about things that have become lost among their own imitators.) Examples of Seinfeld Is Unfunny include: Anime and Manga · Comic Books ...

The Humor Dissonance trope as used in popular culture. So a fictional setting has, as a plot point, something that is supposed to be very funny. The other …

13 мар. 2024 г. · TV Tropes coined the phrase “Seinfeld is Unfunny” in reference to works that were innovative and groundbreaking when they first came out but are perceived by ...