# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Alastair\_Moonsong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3e96dc/32.png) [@Alastair\_Moonsong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alastair_Moonsong)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2009, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/61 "2009-04-05T02:14:29Z")
If you are over the age of 30 and like Anime/Manga in any of its derivations, you are AWESOME and I totally want to hang out with you. As a 21-year-old white male, Iam not the target audience for (but enjoy): - BritWit - Classic American comedy. Three Stooges (but NOT Shemp), Marx Bros, Mark Twain, etc. I don’t like most new comedy, it’s too juvenile for my tastes. - Certain cartoons. I love Chowder, Captain Flapjack, Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends, Fairly Oddparents, and others, plus Saturday morning cartoons. - Ikea (I love studying their room designs. Their sleek, modern look is SO my style!) Maybe more; it’s hard to say. Being 21, damn near everything is targetted at me anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Woodhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@Miss\_Woodhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Woodhouse)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2009, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/62 "2009-04-05T02:30:35Z")
I’ve always loved _Blue’s Clues_. I’ve loved it since Steve, and I still like it with Joe. I also often enjoy watching shoot 'em up action flicks with my husband. ---
**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 5, 2009, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/63 "2009-04-05T03:02:35Z")
> [@Miss\_Woodhouse](#): > > I’ve always loved _Blue’s Clues_. I’ve loved it since Steve, and I still like it with Joe. > > I also often enjoy watching shoot 'em up action flicks with my husband. Every time we get the mail in my office, I sing the Mail Song. > [@](#): > > Here’s the mail it never fails it makes me wanna wag my tail > When it comes I wanna wail MAAAAAAAIIL!!! (I’m 26.) I’m also not too sure how many girls my age think _Rush_ is one of the best bands ever, but there you go. _Aerosmith_ and _Heart_ are right up there too. ---
**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 5, 2009, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/64 "2009-04-05T03:17:21Z")
Umph. Well, my sister called a couple of hours ago, and I told her to hang on, I needed to turn down YouTube. She wanted to know what was on. I told her, it’s songs from a video game, I really doubt that you’d know or care what I’m talking about, and she said that I was right. For the record, it’s various Black Mages songs from the Final Fantasy series. I know that everyone loves [One Winged Angel,](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZhEdU6BqVU&NR=1) but my favorite from FFVII is [J-E-N-O-V-A.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay1-ra1A3PA&feature=PlayList&p=5F7475241DDE3CD7&index=6&playnext=7&playnext_from=PL) ---
**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:** [April 5, 2009, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/65 "2009-04-05T03:36:26Z")
> [@Foxy40](#): > > My favs are the gangster movies. Godfather Series, Casino, Goodfellas. Pretty sure they weren’t meant to be chic flics. I like chick flicks much more than any of those you just named, even though I am among the penised. Wel,l, I was last time I checked, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Rachael\_Rage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@Rachael\_Rage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachael_Rage)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2009, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/66 "2009-04-06T04:47:36Z")
Female, 39 and a half. I was 27 when MMMBop hit it big and I was conspicuously the oldest person at the Hanson concert who didn’t have a child or tween in tow. More than a decade later, I’ve been to over a dozen concerts, met them a couple of times, have nearly every song they’ve ever recorded, carry my keys on a Hanson key chain, continue to be a paying member of the fan club, and even though they’re all married with kids I still get reflexively nervous someone’s going to call me a pedophile for liking them. Also I’ve always been a sucker for action, sci-fi and comic book movies. I just about hyperventilated when I saw the first Watchmen trailer. I’m fond of saying that the best tonic for a stressful day is a film with aliens and explosions. Preferably exploding aliens. Nearly all romantic comedies bore to me friggin’ tears. I can watch just about anything, but if it centers around a Kate Hudson/J-Lo/Sandra Bullock/Julia Roberts type pining over some cardboard cutout Hollywood manchild I’d rather gouge my eyes out than sit through that garbage. _Amelie_ was tolerable, but that’s about it. ---
**Author:** ![carlb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carlb/32/5930_2.png) [@carlb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlb)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2009, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/67 "2009-04-06T13:33:35Z")
I’m a white male, 41, fairly affluent, and have always lived in suburbia or pretty white-bread neighborhoods. One of my regular podcasts is [Tell Me More](http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=46) from NPR. It’s directed at issues of interest primarily to Black and Latino listeners, but I find it to be one of the more informative programs out there. The host, Michel Martin, seems well-informed and runs reasonably tough interviews without being particularly partisan. They generally cover stories that either don’t get a lot of air time on other programs, or cover the same stories from a different direction. I’m fairly certain I am not the target audience. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2009, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/68 "2009-04-06T16:43:18Z")
I love a lot of the well-written animated kids stuff: currently _SpongeBob Squarepants, The Fairly OddParents_, _Phineas and Ferb_, and _The Mighty B!_. And _iCarly_- but that’s not animated. > [@infinitii](#): > > I love a lot of the Disney comedies – _Sonny with a Chance_ is one of the funniest shows on TV right now, I can’t miss an episode of _Wizards of Waverly Place_, and I once was seriously considering doing a tarot deck based on _The Suite Life of Zach and Cody_ (and now its sequel, _The Suite Life on Deck_…(In my defense, _Hannah Montana_ and a lot of other stuff on there is completely unwatchable). I think _all_ of the live-action Disney stuff\* is completely unwatchable. But for some reason, I can’t stop watching. The actors are all very good, and there are bits and pieces I enjoy (such as when they make self-references or references to stars’ or guests’ own prior work on _Hannah Montana_, some of the spell-name jokes [like the freeze-frame spell invented by a wizard named Jay Giles] and the sarcastic woman who seems to work everywhere in New York on _Wizards of Waverly Place_, and the interplay between Maddie and London and London’s Paul Lyndesque talking mirror on _Suite Life_), but as a whole, the shows seem like some sort of Miller-Boyett output of the type you’d see on ABC’s TGIF lineup in the early '90s. But I still watch for some reason- heck, I even sent a “happy sweet 16” fan letter to Selena Gomez. And the songs put out by Disney’s young stars are catchy and well-done (I like what I’ve heard of the Jonas Brothers, but I’m not a fan- all their other singing stars I like, though). I’ve said multiple times that Matthew Gerrard and Robbie Nevil are this generation’s Richard and Robert Sherman, and I still hope that someday someone other than myself knows what the heck I’m talking about. \*With the exception of _Sonny with a Chance_, which is pretty enjoyable- although later episodes I’ve seen aren’t as whimiscal and humorous as the first two, which were written by series creator and former _OddParents_ head writer Steve Marmel. And the _High School Musical_ movies- sure, they’re generic Disney pap, but they’re _good_ generic Disney pap. ---
**Author:** ![Minnie\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Minnie\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Minnie_Luna)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2009, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/69 "2009-04-06T20:23:07Z")
My husband and I (he’s 39, I’m 32) never miss Gossip Girl or the new “90210”. We were dedicated fans of Seventh Heaven, Dawson’s Creek, etc. We have a nephew who is the right age for all the Disney/Nick live-action pre-teen shows. We are now in love with iCarly… ---
**Author:** ![dubs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dubs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dubs)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2009, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/70 "2009-04-06T20:44:58Z")
A couple years ago, I stumbled across a bunch of LazyTown videos on Youtube. It’s an Icelandic kids show in English aimed at 4-7 year olds. I don’t know why…it’s really awesome…and I’m 54. ---
**Author:** ![infinitii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e8c25b/32.png) [@infinitii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/infinitii)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2009, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/71 "2009-04-06T20:59:14Z")
> [@mobo85](#): > > And the songs put out by Disney’s young stars are catchy and well-done (I like what I’ve heard of the Jonas Brothers, but I’m not a fan- all their other singing stars I like, though). I’ve said multiple times that Matthew Gerrard and Robbie Nevil are this generation’s Richard and Robert Sherman, and I still hope that someday someone other than myself knows what the heck I’m talking about. I’m a fan of Disney music as well (and since I’m a dedicated liner note reader, I know what you’re talking about as far as the songwriters) – I bough both versions of the Demi Lovato album, I have many of their compilations (Girlz Rock and Girls Next especially), and, of course, going back a little, all the Hilary Duff and Lindsay Lohan albums have been great. ---
**Author:** ![tds1273](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@tds1273](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tds1273)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2009, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/72 "2009-04-06T21:05:34Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > Umph. Well, my sister called a couple of hours ago, and I told her to hang on, I needed to turn down YouTube. She wanted to know what was on. I told her, it’s songs from a video game, I really doubt that you’d know or care what I’m talking about, and she said that I was right. For the record, it’s various Black Mages songs from the Final Fantasy series. I know that everyone loves [One Winged Angel,](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZhEdU6BqVU&NR=1) but my favorite from FFVII is [J-E-N-O-V-A.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay1-ra1A3PA&feature=PlayList&p=5F7475241DDE3CD7&index=6&playnext=7&playnext_from=PL) I suppose I could be the target audience, but the FFVII soundtrack gets a pretty decent amount of play on my winamp. Not just the orchestral stuff, but all the midi songs as well. There are some great earworms, as well as some surprisingly beautifully composed pieces, and it covers just about every sort of genre as well. I know the entire Final Fantasy series is known for having great music, but this one really stuck with me. ---
**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 6, 2009, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/73 "2009-04-06T21:13:40Z")
I used to think I wasn’t the target market of _Oz_, but then someone at HBO told me it had tons of women and gay guys tuning in for the melodrama, violence and hot guy-on-guy action. (So, if not the intended target with the pilot, then certainly a significant part of the fanbase.) ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2009, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/74 "2009-04-06T21:18:44Z")
41-year-old man. I enjoy watching _The Hills_. There, I’ve said it. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2009, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/75 "2009-04-07T16:26:03Z")
> [@Alastair\_Moonsong](#): > > If you are over the age of 30 and like Anime/Manga in any of its derivations, you are AWESOME and I totally want to hang out with you. I’m over 60, and going to my fourth anime convention this coming weekend. (I combine with my other hobby, photography, by taking [pictures of the cosplayers](http://www.flickr.com/photos/75905404@N00/collections/72157616379026001/)). I must be about as far out of the target demographic as is possible for anime and manga. ---
**Author:** ![C.Montgomery\_Burns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecd19e/32.png) [@C.Montgomery\_Burns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C.Montgomery_Burns)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2009, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/76 "2009-04-08T02:56:40Z")
I’m 27 and watch TCM all the time and listen to old time radio shows. I highly recommend Jack Benny and The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show for comedy, and Lights Out and X Minus One for Horror/Sci Fi! ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2009, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/77 "2009-04-08T03:23:07Z")
> [@Miss\_Woodhouse](#): > > I’ve always loved _Blue’s Clues_. I’ve loved it since Steve, and I still like it with Joe. I was going to say this, I really like Blue’s Clues as well, though I haven’t seen it in a few years. They threw in clever stuff here and there for us “adults” to appreciate. ---
**Author:** ![maplekiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@maplekiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maplekiwi)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2009, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/78 "2009-04-08T03:31:03Z")
I’m a middleaged female who loves 90s boy bands - especially 5ive & Westlife. I love American high school movies like Pretty in Pink (right until she chooses the wrong guy!) 10 things I Hate About You & Freaky Friday - even though I’m a middleaged kiwi & wasn’t particularly happy at high school. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2009, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/79 "2009-04-08T06:48:55Z")
I have a bizarre affection for the Power Rangers. Science really doesn’t work that way. Nor combat. And the Kiwi scripts can get…odd. When I was a kid, I probably would have cringed at a lot of it. Well, depending on what age of kid. But I got hooked with SPD & its giant blue anthropomorphic-dog cop… ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2009, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822/80 "2009-04-08T11:48:13Z")
42yo male here who **adores** the 1991 film _Beauty and the Beast_. I even have the 20th-edition soundtrack in my car CD player. Also, _Moulin Rouge!_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-something-that-you-arent-the-target-audience-for/491822.md?page=5)