# Drama question: What kind of scenes are you no longer able to watch? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 16, 2014, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drama-question-what-kind-of-scenes-are-you-no-longer-able-to-watch/701525 "2014-10-16T20:02:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drama-question-what-kind-of-scenes-are-you-no-longer-able-to-watch/701525/41 "2014-10-17T20:06:37Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Oh yeah, I cannot watch any of that “America’s Funniest Home Videos” shit. You watch something that could easily be a tragedy, and then everyone starts laughing. It’s pretty appalling. Oh, I completely agree. How the _Jackass_ variety of things became so popular, I have no idea. Ugh. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drama-question-what-kind-of-scenes-are-you-no-longer-able-to-watch/701525/42 "2014-10-17T20:11:36Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Oh yeah, I cannot watch any of that “America’s Funniest Home Videos” shit. You watch something that could easily be a tragedy, and then everyone starts laughing. It’s pretty appalling. I can watch that shit; I just don’t get the joke. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drama-question-what-kind-of-scenes-are-you-no-longer-able-to-watch/701525/43 "2014-10-17T20:13:24Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > I can watch that shit; I just don’t get the joke. It’s not the footage so much as the audience and smarmy host response. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drama-question-what-kind-of-scenes-are-you-no-longer-able-to-watch/701525/44 "2014-10-17T20:22:01Z")
Girl on girl kissing. I mean, if it’s a serious movie about two girls being in love, then that’s one thing. But when you’re doing it to shore up the college frat boy demographic, it takes me right out of the show. Like just the other day, I was watching Gotham. I’ve really been enjoying this series so far, but then they had to fuck it up with a girl on girl scene. And comically, they did it with one of the most interesting characters on the show. She didn’t need that scene to add to her character. But whateves… ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drama-question-what-kind-of-scenes-are-you-no-longer-able-to-watch/701525/45 "2014-10-17T21:54:49Z")
Along the lines of America’s Funniest Videos, any awkward setup where someone is to be humiliated, made fun of. Years ago David Letterman would send a stooge wearing an earphone out in public to do or say crazy things, and it was amusing. Years ago. I can’t watch that kind of thing any more. Candid Camera has come back and I think I would vomit if I had to watch the idiotic shennanigans. They probably sound funny on paper, but IRL a broken vending machine or any of the stupid shit they do just disgusts me. (As I’ve grown older, I guess I’ve lost a lot of my sense of humor. Just reading about Jackass makes me cringe, I could never watch it now.) ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2014, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drama-question-what-kind-of-scenes-are-you-no-longer-able-to-watch/701525/46 "2014-10-18T03:26:54Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > In the first place, despite my genial dislike of dogs, anybody who thinks that dogs lack the ability to feel empathy has not paid attention to them. > > In the second place, I do not understand how non-human animals’ inability to feel empathy for others makes them innocent. Innocent as in unknowing–if you don’t understand that others suffer as you suffer, you can’t really be held responsible for causing suffering. Dogs may have empathy–I have no dog in that fight. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drama-question-what-kind-of-scenes-are-you-no-longer-able-to-watch/701525.md?page=2)