# Enjoying something that you aren't the target audience for **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 3, 2009, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822 "2009-04-03T07:25:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/1 "2009-04-03T07:25:39Z")
Even though I’m male, and, at the time, I was just a kid, I watched Murder She Wrote, Golden Girls, and Designing Women. And, at the time at least, I actually enjoyed them. So, what TV shows or movies do you watch, or music you listen to, that really isn’t targeted at you? ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/2 "2009-04-03T08:01:46Z")
Romantic comedies. I am a 42 year old man, business owner, hard as nails guy. And true love winning out in the end can make me cry tears of joy. No kidding. I tear up. ---
**Author:** ![Promethea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Promethea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Promethea)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/3 "2009-04-03T08:34:22Z")
_Gossip Girl_. I don’t think women in their '30s are the target audience somehow. But I just can’t resist any of Josh Schwartz’s TV shows. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Seventh\_Deadly\_Finn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6bbea6/32.png) [@The\_Seventh\_Deadly\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Seventh_Deadly_Finn)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/4 "2009-04-03T08:41:52Z")
When I was a boy\*, I read tons of juvenile novels from the 1920s and '30s about (and for) tweenage girls. Then again, I did grow up to be a total pussy. \*Meaning “before I grew to be a man,” not “prior to my sex change operation.” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Seventh\_Deadly\_Finn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6bbea6/32.png) [@The\_Seventh\_Deadly\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Seventh_Deadly_Finn)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/5 "2009-04-03T08:45:42Z")
Also, I’m a balding, 42-year-old man who loves to watch 20-something girls walk by in sexy outfits. I’m pretty sure I’m not the target audience, but I enjoy it just the same. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/6 "2009-04-03T10:33:37Z")
When I was about 10 I started reading my stepdad’s old copies of _Mad Magazine_. I got the impression right away that the target audience was not ten-year-old girls. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/7 "2009-04-03T13:10:54Z")
The Three Stooges. The Hardy Boys. ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/8 "2009-04-03T13:32:21Z")
_Avatar: The Last Airbender_ is a great series, despite being made for kids. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/9 "2009-04-03T13:39:04Z")
Likewise _SpongeBob SquarePants_, the books of Rosemary Wells and the music of Raffi. I will even confess to having two Raffi songs on my iPod. ---
**Author:** ![Foxy40](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@Foxy40](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foxy40)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/10 "2009-04-03T13:56:52Z")
My favs are the gangster movies. Godfather Series, Casino, Goodfellas. Pretty sure they weren’t meant to be chic flics. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/11 "2009-04-03T13:59:46Z")
I love a good romantic comedy. The concept of “chick flick” is just plain idiotic – a good movie is a good movie and men and women aren’t all that different. From what I’ve seen of **Sex and the City** , I’d love to see more. It’s actually my wife who isn’t interested in it. ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/12 "2009-04-03T14:29:37Z")
> [@thetruewheel](#): > > Also, I’m a balding, 42-year-old man who loves to watch 20-something girls walk by in sexy outfits. I’m pretty sure I’m not the target audience, but I enjoy it just the same. 😃 :rolleyes::D:D:D ---
**Author:** ![JR\_Brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JR\_Brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JR_Brown)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/13 "2009-04-03T16:31:47Z")
> [@thetruewheel](#): > > When I was a boy\*, I read tons of juvenile novels from the 1920s and '30s about (and for) tweenage girls. :eek: 😕 🆒 Where in damnation did you _find_ “tons” of such books? Did you live near a library that hadn’t updated their collections in 80 years, or what? Also, any recommendations? ---
**Author:** ![tds1273](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@tds1273](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tds1273)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/14 "2009-04-03T16:37:18Z")
26-year-old guy who’s loves include women, hip-hop, and football, but what else do I enjoy? \ _Wife Swap_ _d&r_ I just think it makes for fascinating character study, and to the editor’s credit, 95% of the time they manage to pull at least something redeeming from the big bag of crazies on the show. I also love the concept of seeing someone dropped into such foreign environments and then how they and that environment interact and adapt to each other. I’m also a big fan of _Morgan Spurlock’s 30 Days_, which is a far less embarrassing admission. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Am\_The\_Lorax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19adc/32.png) [@I\_Am\_The\_Lorax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Am_The_Lorax)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/15 "2009-04-03T16:47:16Z")
The Marx Brothers, The Twilight Zone, anything with Paul Newman, Simon and Garfunkel, Bob Dylan. I’m a 25 year old woman. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/16 "2009-04-03T17:00:28Z")
I’m pretty sure the primary target audience for _Veronica Mars_ was not thirty-something single guys, but I thought the first series was awesome, and once I learned that Kristen Bell was substantially older than the high school junior she played I could even talk about it without shame. Unfortunately, the writing and intellectual level of the second and third series were about at the level of teen drama and I found it uninteresting and badly contrived. I’m not really clear who the target audience for _Dead Like Me_ was–one friend opined that it was middle-aged women, but presumably ones who have grown tired of the Lifetime Channel–but I really enjoyed it and wished they’d been able to take the story to fruition rather than the abortive ending and pointless direct-to-DVD movie that resolved nothing. _The Westing Game_ and _Watership Down_ are still two of my favorite books that I reread more-or-less annually as an adult. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/17 "2009-04-03T17:05:06Z")
I like to watch those _Supernanny_-type shows whenever they come on, even though I’m not a parent or a children’s caregiver. I think I like watching bad parents get the what-for. I also really enjoy the work of Rick Mayall and Ade Edmondson, especially the series _Bottom_. I don’t think it’s necessarily aimed at 20-something American girls. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/18 "2009-04-03T17:07:01Z")
> [@olivesmarch4th](#): > > When I was about 10 I started reading my stepdad’s old copies of _Mad Magazine_. I got the impression right away that the target audience was not ten-year-old girls. Same here. My life has been a series of ‘Ohhh, that’s who/what they were referring to!’ moments. Also, I remember getting really lost when they did the ‘musical’ comics, setting funny lyrics to songs I’d never heard of. And I still love stupid puns. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/19 "2009-04-03T17:12:49Z")
At 42, I still love current music, including some hip hop and rap. Good music is good music to me; “Low” by Flo-Rida might not be world-changing, but it’s fun. We watch “Smallville” too, because Jim is a huge Superman fan. There are many eye-rolling moments for us watching it (we have a drinking game where we would take a shot every time they say something like, “Trust me” or “Let’s just say…”) but it’s marginally entertaining. There’s a certain amount of self-awareness that makes it tolerable. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/20 "2009-04-03T17:19:34Z")
It’d be easier to find things I enjoy that I AM in the target audience for. I watch Saturday morning cartoons - Transformers Animated, Pretty Cure, and Dinosaur King being the ones I go out of the way to catch. Precure I’m not in the target demographic twice over! Ignoring that not being Japanese, I’m obviously out of the target audience for all the non-licenced anime and manga I follow, a significant portion of it is Josei and Shojo (targeted at women and girls, respectively), half the male-aimed stuff is Shonen (aimed at boys). The last movie I saw in theatres was Coraline…I was the only adult male in the place not with a girlfriend or child, or both. (I saw it a week after I saw Watchmen. THAT one, I was in the target demographic for.) I play the Pokemon games. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822.md?page=2)