SCP Foundation

First idea: An object that is described in the report as being ridiculously over-the-top, with the entire report written as if by a deranged fanboy of the object. I'll call it SCP-∞

For example, something like:

Class: Hyper Infinite Keter
Special Containment Procedures: You can't contain it, it can escape ANYTHING!

And a test log like:

- Introduced to SCP-682. 682 started wetting itself and crying for its mommy right before it died!
- Put through SCP-914 on Very Fine setting. Came out exactly the same except for a note reading "Sorry, can't improve on this". SCP-914 then exploded.
- Introduced to SCP-343. 343 started worshipping it.

At the end there is an addendum revealing that this SCP is nothing more than a mundane object whose only anomalous property is that anyone that touches it becomes convinced it is the most awesome/powerful/dangerous thing ever, and the initial report was written by someone who had touched it. That researcher was reassigned and the one writing the addendum makes it clear that none of the test logs and such in the original report ever happened.

The second is a description of what seems to be an invisible, intangible, indestructible entity (classified keter), which is contained in a hugely reinforced cell with meters-thick walls of the strongest materials, telekill alloy, etc. There will be details of many failed attempts to measure and destroy it, the entity proving immune to detecting and indestructible every time. In the end there will be a note like:

- Um, guys? I think it's just an empty room.

The third one will be an object (maybe an anvil with an ACME logo on it) that causes anything in its immediate area to operate under "cartoon physics", such as being able to walk past ledges and only fall after looking down, survive falls from great heights and leave body-shaped impressions in the ground, be unharmed by explosives and only get soot on your face, be able to paint a tunnel on a wall and then go through it, etc.

Do any of these sound like they have potential?

darkblade and jack lready do the "omg soo awesome thing" so i think we're covered there

the second one would be hard to get right but if done correctly would be incredible

the third one seems like the easiest, and simplest so yeah.

It seems like I've run into something similar to your second idea at some point. Isn't there a Tale that's just a long list of things that one particular person thought were SCPs, but turned out to be perfectly normal?

You'd also have the problem of explaining why the Foundation would put so much work into containing something that, by virtue of its nonexistence, couldn't have actually been doing anything containment-worthy.

On the other hand, if there were an SCP whose only effect was to make people think that there was a huge incorporeal indestructible super-powered terrifying SCP present, that might be a hook. It's probably been done before (someone else might know), and it's actually sort of a combination of your first and second ideas, now that I think about it, but that'd be a way around the why-did-we-contain-nothing-in-the-first-place problem. There are probably other, better possible approaches.¹

The cartoonifier … I'm not sure. So many of the SCPs are already pretty cartoony, you know? I'd be interested, but it seems to me like it might actually be harder to write successfully than the second option, since a lot of the basis for the piece will be taken directly from other sources: I could see a lot of people criticizing it for lack of originality.

I thought LOLFoundation was the point of Joke SCPs

About your second joke idea, we already have The Collection, which is in effect a bunch of researchers overreacting over non-anomalous items.

I like the second idea. I don't think it's too similar to The Collection, as long as it's written well; in fact it reminded me more of Russell's Teapot. To me, The Collection is more of a parody of SCP clichés than an excuse for futile test logs, which this idea would probably be. That being said, it would need to be very well written to avoid being compared to The Collection, which is one of the best joke SCPs in existence.