The works of V.C. Andrews (the vintage stuff, not the copycats her estate grinds out. I abandoned her books before that era).
Why did I waste hours of my life on that crud when I could have been reading Margaret Atwood?
Already mentioned but worth repeating:
Piers Anthony
David Eddings
The Thundercats
The Smurfs
Jason Lee
More for the list:
The Dark Crystal - rewatched it 3 years ago and was amazed that I managed to sit through such a slow, boring movie when I was a child.
The Goodies - rewatched it and wondered when the funny bits were going to show up. Then realised that my sense of humour must have changed heaps since I was 10.
Jenna Elfman - another Scientologist.
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I tried to watch the old animated Lord of the Rings a few months ago. It sufficed when it was all there was, but now it is utterly unwatchable. Wizards, OTOH, still rocks.
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Three Musketeers candybars - they’re nothing but whipped sugar.
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Land of the Lost
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Scrappy Doo - oh wait, I hated him the first time around.
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The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever didn’t turn out to suck, but it doesn’t hold up well after age 21, I discovered. I guess you have to be an angsty teenage boy to appreciate Covenant (that said, the Second Chronicles held up much better.
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For how long?
Both my sister and I LOVED this movie when we were growing up. I mean, how could you not love a movie that stars David Bowie??? So when I saw it on sale this year, I brought it home and eagerly popped it in the VCR. What a disappointment!
I felt the same way after reading about Piers Anthony. I enjoyed the Isle of Woman and the Shame of Man wasn’t too bad. He was no literary genius, but it was a decent read. I thought Rings of Ice was a fair day-read. Never did Xanth, though someone gave me a coffeetable book of Xanth art. Eh.
I’m more surprised though, to hear so many people say Steinbeck sucks. I love Steinbeck, every twelve page description of a tree stump and dark depressing tale of woe.
I guess I have bad taste in books. 
Things that I would agree suck now:
The Bugaloos. I was CRAZY about the Bugaloos. I remember getting yelled at for jumping up and down on the couch when that show came on. Yeah, it’s crap.
Cotton candy. Loved it as a child. Now I don’t get it, and neither does my own child. She’s right; It IS sticky!
That 70s Show dude, Hyde: Scientologist.
Every time I read about a Scientologist it sucks.
Money. I grew up in love with it and now I realize how uncomfortably troublesome it is.
The old 70s “Superfriends” cartoon. Lived and breathed it when I was seven, now it makes my eyeballs bleed.
I do this all the time. Was very leery of seing the special edition dvd of Willow since I used to love it as a kid. Fortunately it’s help up pretty well.
On the other hand I can now pick out all the blue screen effects for the previously cool space ship battle at the end of Return of the Jedi. So much for my proud assertion that modelwork is better than cgi :(.
Ditto for The Dark Crystal. A friend and I decided to rent it out a couple of years ago and wound up turning it off half-way through. It’s not scary anymore. But it is boring.
One more: I’ve seen maybe 10 episodes of Star Trek: Next Generation but thanks to a friend of my mum’s giving me her collection I read through lots of the Star Trek novels. I tried reading the only one I’ve got left from when I was 15 and… two pages in gave up. Boooriiing! Kirk drinks a LOT of coffee by the way.
Ok, one last one. Anything by Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman. Dragonlance seemed so cool when I was young. 
REcall the Teenage Mutant Nija Turtles series of old? To tell the truth, i still thought they were kind of neat after all these years. But the animation sucked and the humor was no longer mine. That cartoon was my absolute favorite at the time. Wonder what the new series will be like…
Pink Floyd’s The Wall
I still think the music is great, but the movie? Deep as a mud puddle and subtle as a Coulter-Moore debate.
And I really want to buy those DVDs of Battle of the Planets, but now I don’t know. If only they were available for rent.
The Monkees?
THE MONKEES??
One of the most innovative rock bands of the the '60s?
The group Jimi Hendrix opened for?
Their non-stop string of classic rock (“Last Train To Clarkesville”, “I’m Not Your Steppin’ Stone”,“Last Train to Clarkesville”, “I’m A Believer”, “Last Train to Clarkesville”, “Daydream Believer”, “Last Train to Clarkesville” and many MANY others that I could, but choose not to name here?)
The group that propelled Mike Nesmith to…non-Obscuredom.
The group that the BEATLES tried to emulate? (Remember when the Beatles when through their hippie phase? It was because they were reverse-emulating the clean-cut look of the Monkees.)
Mickey’s deep, deep [sub]deep[/sub] profound political thoughts (“Two little kings/playing a game/they gave a war/and nobody came”)
I would have to say that The Monkees are possibly the most important group in the entire history of rock music, from Chuck Berry to Kurt Colbain, none of them have contributed as much to the genre or the world. Remeber when Peter Tork slept late on that one episode? He was sleeping late for world peace. Lennon and Ono’s “Bed In” came years later.
I’m sorry Cranky. In the past, we’ve been pals but you dissing the Monkees? Well…I have no alternative but to assume you’re a Communist.
Fenris
Kidding aside, I still like the Monkees for what they were and they had some fun, pleasant songs. But I’ve got no pretentions about
The Wheel of Time series. I really liked it when I started, thought it was very interesting, well written, etc. :rolleyes: I was young and foolish. Also I hadn’t suffered through 9 of the damned things by that point. On reread I realised that the writing was poor, the characters were one dimensional, and it really wasn’t very original at all.
I’m still reading it anyway; possibly out of morbid curiousity.
1957 Chevy. Thought these were cool for a while; then I realized that, for all their mystique, they’re overweight, poor-handling barges. The cheapest Toyota is twice the car a '57 Chevy is.
“In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” by Iron Butterfly
Loved it when I was 17 - realized it sucked by the time I was 19!!
Most Hanna-Barbara cartoons. I didn’t have the appreciation for at least semi-quality animation back then like I do now.
I’ll cast another vote for Poison, the rock band. I can’t believe I actually paid hard-earned allowance money to see them in concert. Ditto for Bon Jovi. I also thought REO Speedwagon and Loverboy were cool at one time.
Fruit Roll-Ups. The last time I ate one I thought I was eating plastic.
Oh, god, most everything I liked when I was 17 sucks now. Except Dune. That’s still readable.
I used to get into Styx, ELO and Kansas. Nowadays I flip the station whenever Styx and ELO come on, but I still like Kansas…for a few days out of the year.
The ABC Friday night line up from something like 1971. Not too long ago, Nick At Night ran that line up. It included The Brady Bunch, The Partridge Family, Room 222 and Love American Style. Way back in the day I lived for Friday night! Well, re-watching it was just embarrassing.
I will be happy to relieve you of those troubles if you like…I’ll take cash or check.