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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 -- thoughfail—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 -- oramusing—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]].

* Basically any movie that parodies the 50's Sci-Fi film genre will feature [[Bad Bad Acting]].

* The entire film ''[[The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra]]'' is this way -- theway—the actors were playing the part of B-movie actors in a film, not like the characters.

*** This was ''actually'' Harold Ramis making sure he hit his mark -- themark—the director thought it was so perfect he kept that take.

* In ''[[Dunston Checks In]]'', a maid's boss's boss wants her fired, but her boss likes her and knows his boss will never remember the incident when he shows up again next year, so for the meantime the maid is on two weeks paid vacation. The joke is supposed to be that she's trying to seem sad in front of her boss's boss but is actually happy to be on vacation and is bad at acting. Interestingly enough, the actress seems to have been ''trying'' for [[Bad Bad Acting]] as a way of making the joke clear to the audience. What came out was more like bad bad bad acting.

** An older [[SNL]] sketch, "Goth Talk" was more or less [[Bad Bad Acting]] of the [[Large Ham|hammy]] variety. The two black-shrouded hosts, Stephanie and Todd (aka [[Darkness von Gothickname|Circe Nightshade and Azrael Abyss]]), as well as all of their guests, tried to be ludicrously morbid, gothic and emotional, even when referencing very modern, pedestrian things. The fact that they essentially broke character every few sentences did not help.

* ''[[The Daily Show]]'': For a while, the end segment (a.k.a. "the toss") that segues into ''[[The Colbert Report]]'' was pre-taped, instead of done with a live audience as usual. Fans noticed and were displeased. On the show that returned to live tosses, Jon Stewart acknowledged that the fans enjoyed the expression of "warmth and genuine camaraderie" between him and [[Stephen Colbert]] -- and—and both immediately became very wooden, read robotically off the teleprompters, and expressed relief when it was over.

** In an episode, Barclay performs a play with Dr. Crusher. He is terrible at acting, stammering and forgetting lines. The audience, however, is too nice to criticize him and politely applaud the performance while saying things like "bravo" -- except—except for Data.

** Cordelia also displays this -- especiallythis—especially in a risible performance in Henrik Ibsen's ''[[A Doll's House|A Dolls House]]'' -- but—but improves markedly.

** [[Bad Bad Acting]] is a staple of KYTV's "Brazilian soap opera, ''Ole!'', translated and dubbed by KYTV," where the "Brazillian" actors play with exaggerated melodrama, while the voice-over actors read their lines in a dull, monotone way, regularly missing their cues, reading the wrong lines and mispronouncing words.

* In the British cop series ''Jericho'' the title character is asked to introduce a television series about his 'real life' cases (actually fictional cases delivering moral [[Aesop|Aesops]]s). He's eventually replaced by an actor because his performance is too stilted.

* The [[Myth Busters]] sometimes do [[Stylistic Suck]] videos that illustrate a myth that they're doing. When they do this, the acting is either over-the-top or oddly stilted. While this is somewhat justified by the fact that none of them (with the possible exception of Adam) are professional actors, it still manages to be [[So Bad It's Good]] in the ''exact'' way [[Bad Bad Acting]] generally is.

** The tutorial of ''[[Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People|Strong Bads Cool Game for Attractive People]]'' is full of [[Bad Bad Acting]], with Strong Sad and Bubs reading their lines with all the pathos of a plank of wood, occasionally broken up with complaints about the awful, awful script.

* An episode of ''[[The Amazing World of Gumball]]'' called "The DVD". In the episode Gumball and Darwin try to produce their own version of "Alligators on a Train" to replace the one they destroyed. Obviously, the end result had hilariously [[Bad Bad Acting]] and did not fool anybody.

** Also in the porn film featured in "A Big Ball of Garbage" -- with—with ''gusto''!

** Also in the ''[[Star Trek]]'' episode where [[William Shatner]] himself does it. It's the complete opposite of his usual [[Large Ham|unholy acting talent]], and the entire ''Star Trek'' cast follows suit with their own embarrassingly monotone acting -- thoughacting—though the fact that they're being held captive and forced to perform a fanboy's [[Marty Stu]] script goes a long way towards explaining their complete lack of effort.

** Sierra's attempt at a {{spoiler|dramatic farewell}} to Cody in "Planes, Trains, Hot Air Mobiles" is so [[Narm|Narmy]]y it's actually hilarious that she thought it sounded heartwarming.

* Seen in the ''[[Mega Man (animation)|Mega Man]]'' cartoon on two separate occasions when Mega and Roll try to fool Wily. (You can also tell which of Roll's voice actresses voices her by this--Robynthis—Robyn Ross doesn't do this, while Kathleen Barr does.)