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A Show Within a Show or other Meta Fiction by a character inside another story is often presented in an inferior writing style (for obvious reasons, it's a bit difficult to do it the other way around -- if the writer could do better, then he would presumably use that as his baseline, unless it's using the first person). The most conspicuous aspect of this is in terms of dialog, in which one can expect the characters to speak in a stilted, mechanical tone for no apparent reason at all. The main character often is a obvious stand-in for the fictional author. A Super-Trope to: Not a Sex Tropes.

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  • Stylistic Suck
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  • A Show Within a Show or other Meta Fiction by a character inside another story is often presented in an inferior writing style (for obvious reasons, it's a bit difficult to do it the other way around -- if the writer could do better, then he would presumably use that as his baseline, unless it's using the first person). The most conspicuous aspect of this is in terms of dialog, in which one can expect the characters to speak in a stilted, mechanical tone for no apparent reason at all. The main character often is a obvious stand-in for the fictional author. A Super-Trope to: Not a Sex Tropes.
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  • A Show Within a Show or other Meta Fiction by a character inside another story is often presented in an inferior writing style (for obvious reasons, it's a bit difficult to do it the other way around -- if the writer could do better, then he would presumably use that as his baseline, unless it's using the first person). The most conspicuous aspect of this is in terms of dialog, in which one can expect the characters to speak in a stilted, mechanical tone for no apparent reason at all. The main character often is a obvious stand-in for the fictional author. This can serve to distinguish the nested story from the main one, or to demonstrate the limited skills or intellect of the character who writes it. Alternatively, a really inferior writing style, presented right, can provide So Bad It's Good comic effect. There's No B in Movie is related, though in that case the focus is on the audience of the Show Within a Show rather than on its writer. If the material is not horrible, merely so-so, but is supposed to be awesome, it's an Informed Ability. See also Rule of Funny. A Super-Trope to: * Bad Bad Acting ("bad" acting) * Her Codename Was Mary Sue ("bad" writing with a "bad" main character) * Hollywood Tone Deaf ("bad" singing) * Terrible Artist ("bad" drawing) * Playing Pictionary (It's bad enough that people mistake a drawing for something else) * Intentional Engrish for Funny ("bad" translations) * Kitschy Local Commercial ("bad" local commercials) * Our Slogan Is Terrible ("bad" business taglines) * Soap Within a Show ("bad" soap operas) * So Unfunny It's Funny ("bad" jokes) * Ultra Super Death Gore Fest Chainsawer 3000 ("bad" video games) It's been suggested by various movie critics that this is done solely because it would be irritating to the viewer and humiliating to the writer if the story within was a lot more interesting than the story around it (though an enterprising author could release it as a spin-off, not unlike the real-life Radioactive Man comics), so they do what they can to kill it while retaining its purpose. May overlap with The Power of Acting. Contrast with Framing Device. Basically So Bad It's Good Played for Laughs. Not a Sex Tropes. Examples of Stylistic Suck include:
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