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Acting's version of Hollywood Tone Deaf. In Hollywood, bad acting can only come in two flavors: Large Ham; and this trope, which involves acting that's extremely stilted, extremely wooden, or extremely monotone. It may result in something like this (read aloud in your most stilted/monotone voice): Bonus points if the character's eyes shimmy back and forth as they read the out-of-shot cuecards. Stylistic Suck is the Super-Trope of this. Contrast The Power of Acting. Examples of Bad Bad Acting include:

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  • Acting's version of Hollywood Tone Deaf. In Hollywood, bad acting can only come in two flavors: Large Ham; and this trope, which involves acting that's extremely stilted, extremely wooden, or extremely monotone. It may result in something like this (read aloud in your most stilted/monotone voice): Bonus points if the character's eyes shimmy back and forth as they read the out-of-shot cuecards. Stylistic Suck is the Super-Trope of this. Contrast The Power of Acting. Examples of Bad Bad Acting include:
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  • Acting's version of Hollywood Tone Deaf. In Hollywood, bad acting can only come in two flavors: Large Ham; and this trope, which involves acting that's extremely stilted, extremely wooden, or extremely monotone. It may result in something like this (read aloud in your most stilted/monotone voice): This often happens when characters are forced to reenact a specific event in hopes that it will have the same consequences. Often afflicts school rooms around the world where teachers have students read lines aloud, with the students not caring for the actual tone of the piece at all. What can almost be considered a trope in its own right is to attempt to homage William Shatner with strangely placed staccato pauses and random jumps in pitch. Bonus points if the character's eyes shimmy back and forth as they read the out-of-shot cuecards. Also like Hollywood Tone Deaf, in that professional actors can, well, act. If they aren't very good at their job, you wouldn't be able to tell if they were sucking on purpose for the Show Within a Show. Those that are good at acting typically couldn't mimic a poor actor, and even then, just like above, it'd be hard to tell if the actor was trying to fail -- though it's something like common wisdom that only someone who's very good at something can be deliberately bad at something. Also, as per Rule of Funny, genuinely poor acting isn't amusing -- or at least not as amusing as Bad Bad Acting. Impersonations done in Bad Bad Acting tend to involve Hugh Mann and Most Definitely Not a Villain. Just to reiterate, this is where characters try to act and do a horrible job at it, not when you think someone does a legitimately horrible acting job or even a So Bad It's Good performance. We have a whole other set of tropes for that. Stylistic Suck is the Super-Trope of this. Contrast The Power of Acting. Examples of Bad Bad Acting include:
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