# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/41 "2009-04-04T03:30:11Z")
> [@Promethea](#): > > _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. The target demographic of all CW shows is women 18-32, so you’re probably not too far off. On the other hand, I regularly read YA fiction. One of my professors made us promise that we wouldn’t turn up our noses at a book because it’s “for kids” because you miss important things that way. He seems to be right. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanTigerTamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@SuntanTigerTamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanTigerTamer)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/42 "2009-04-04T04:24:15Z")
The song “Enemy” by Ice Cube. I will forever love this song. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmEzBaLoOzE) I’m a 28 year old white kid from Minnesota… ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/43 "2009-04-04T04:32:24Z")
36 year old male Powerpuff Girls fan here. Buttercup’s my favourite. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/44 "2009-04-04T04:42:09Z")
I’m a 51 year old white female. I really don’t think that I like anything that I AM the target audience for, except possibly support garments and gourmet chocolate. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/45 "2009-04-04T04:58:02Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > I watch _Sponge Bob Square Pants_ once in awhile. I love _Sponge Bob Square Pants._ I’m not entirely sure I’m really of an an age that is ten or eleven times their demographic. I just regret that most viewers will miss the best jokes. ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/46 "2009-04-04T06:59:27Z")
When I was 14, I was a fan of professional wrestling. Not sure why I liked it so much, but I was the only girl I knew that had a Hulk Hogan poster in her room. I also used to enjoy Erma Bombeck’s books - they taught me a lot about American culture and made me realize I was not cut out to be a stay-at-home mom. Nothing wrong with it, just not for me. Now that I am a late-30s mom, I should be watching Lifetime network, listening to Josh Groban and reading _Ladies’ Home Journal_. Or so the advertisers and focus groups think. Instead, I read manga and Harry Potter books, listen to dance music and rap, and watch shonen anime. I used to claim that I was the oldest fan of Naruto, but I have since found out there are older fans. Oh, well, look for me at the anime conventions in a few years. I’ll be the Tsunade cosplayer. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/47 "2009-04-04T07:09:39Z")
> [@The\_Tooth](#): > > 36 year old male Powerpuff Girls fan here. Buttercup’s my favourite. I watched the Powerpuff Girls when they were on. I liked them too. > [@Lucky\_13](#): > > Oh, well, look for me at the anime conventions in a few years. I’ll be the Tsunade cosplayer. 😃 My wife and I are in our mid 30’s and like Anime. We even went to a convention in San Jose a few years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/48 "2009-04-04T08:02:11Z")
> [@The\_Tooth](#): > > 36 year old male Powerpuff Girls fan here. Buttercup’s my favourite. I’ll cop to this too (mid-forties male). I even saw the movie in the theater. Bubbles was my favorite. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/96bed5/32.png) [@Cat\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Jones)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/49 "2009-04-04T09:40:38Z")
I am the target audience and I’m loving this thread ! ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/50 "2009-04-04T11:51:33Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > 24 years old, female, I love the oldies…Lou Christie… Too funny - the dummer in my first mid-life crisis band was Lou’s drummer and music director for 10 years. 40’s guy - also love the PPuff Girls, Dexter’s Lab and Fairly Oddparents. And I am currently addicted to the single That’s Not My Name by the Ting Tings… ---
**Author:** ![PerditaX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@PerditaX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PerditaX)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/51 "2009-04-04T13:33:44Z")
I’m 45, and I love The Sarah Jane Adventures, which is targeted at kids/tweens and is not as “intense” as the other Doctor Who series (for the record, I also love the original Who and Torchwood). ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/52 "2009-04-04T14:21:39Z")
As a straight Christian conservative male- Tori Amos, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Will & Grace As a 47-yr old male- Lizzie McGuire, That’s So Raven, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody (because of Ashley Tisdale & Brenda Song). There! THAT raised eyebrows for two opposite reasons! ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/53 "2009-04-04T15:26:41Z")
Oh, yeah! I forgot all about Robot Wars! We all watched that on PBS, faithfully! I have a Hello Kitty wallet. I sit through Harry Potter marathons on weekends and can. not. wait until the new HP movie comes out this summer. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/54 "2009-04-04T16:10:09Z")
> [@Yookeroo](#): > > I’ll cop to this too (mid-forties male). I even saw the movie in the theater. Bubbles was my favorite. I saw it in theatre too. I got many interesting looks from parents, being by myself. ---
**Author:** ![Sonnenstrahl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Sonnenstrahl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sonnenstrahl)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/55 "2009-04-04T17:24:06Z")
I still read books from the kids’ section of the library. Last year, when I was living in a place without a kitchen (and was on medication that had the side effect of increased appetite!) I couldn’t stop watching the food network. I’m sure that most people watching weren’t gourmets, but I bet they assumed most had kitchens. Considering how shocked a friend was when I said my favourite band was the Pogues, I bet their fans are generally not mid-twenties fairly straight-laced women. ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/56 "2009-04-04T19:06:50Z")
I rush back home from leaving the kids at school so I can watch The Backyardigans in peace. ---
**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 4, 2009, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/57 "2009-04-04T23:40:50Z")
Dude, 44, and I’ll cop to _Samurai Jack_ and _Clone Wars_, too. ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2009, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/58 "2009-04-05T00:09:56Z")
Samurai Jack is definitely not for kids. I have the DVDs. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Punkyova](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@The\_Punkyova](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Punkyova)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2009, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/59 "2009-04-05T01:34:22Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > I’m on the downside of middle age, female - I used to watch Pokeman cartoons when my daughter was little. (I’m ashamed to admit it, but I had a painfully embarrassing crush on James.) [looks around suspiciously] Are you me? ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2009, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/60 "2009-04-05T02:06:07Z")
> [@The\_Punkyova](#): > > [looks around suspiciously] Are you me? No, she’s me! Well, not middle aged yet, but I, too, had a HUGE crush on James! Also, on Gyrados. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822.md?page=4)