bathos

  • (noun): Overdone or treacly attempts to inspire pathos.
  • (noun): Depth.
  • (noun): (the arts) Risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to
  • (noun): (the arts) The ironic use of such failure for satiric or humorous effect.
  • (noun): A nadir, a low point particularly in one's career.