# I used to love this? What was I THINKING? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 26, 2011, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-love-this-what-was-i-thinking/572715 "2011-02-26T17:52:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-love-this-what-was-i-thinking/572715/1 "2011-02-26T17:52:25Z")
My tastes have been somewhat variable through the years, but not a huge amount. There are a few things that I used to love that I don’t understand any longer (I was completely addicted to “Trapper John, MD” as a kid. WTF?) What books, movies, shows, music have you gone from “OMIGOD, this is the best thing EVER!” to “I would be happier never to see that again”? ---
**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:** [February 26, 2011, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-love-this-what-was-i-thinking/572715/2 "2011-02-26T17:57:50Z")
My girlfriends and I watched “Flashdance” almost every weekend in high school - I watched it a couple of years ago, and while I can see the allure for teenage girls (and boys, frankly), it was…not a great movie. ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-love-this-what-was-i-thinking/572715/3 "2011-02-26T18:03:50Z")
My ex-husband. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-love-this-what-was-i-thinking/572715/4 "2011-02-26T18:05:39Z")
As a teen, I thought the song “[Through the Barricades](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLR9yyI9CHg)” by Spandau Ballet was the DEEPEST THING IN THE WHOLE WORLD. ---
**Author:** ![Heyoka13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Heyoka13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heyoka13)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-love-this-what-was-i-thinking/572715/5 "2011-02-26T18:07:16Z")
Cottage cheese Pickle and pimento loaf bananas dirt (yeah, I remember eating dirt and liking it when I was a kid) Fig Newtons (Just realized OP uses the word ‘tastes’ but uses no food examples, if this is OT, sorry) ---
**Author:** ![Hakuna\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hakuna\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hakuna_Matata)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-love-this-what-was-i-thinking/572715/6 "2011-02-26T18:08:17Z")
Any of the shows from my childhood. Gilligan’s Island–watched that the other day with my kid and she was like WTF!! I had to sort of agree with her–what an awful show, but I used to love it growing up. Another one was Starksy and Hutch. I LOVED this show as a teen–terrible acting and just a bad show overall now looking back. ---
**Author:** ![Heyoka13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Heyoka13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heyoka13)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-love-this-what-was-i-thinking/572715/7 "2011-02-26T18:13:00Z")
OK, music example; Yvonne Fair’s album The Bitch is Black (I had nothing to do with the name) has a song on it called “It Should Have Been Me”. I remember loving that song way back when, I finally found a CD of the album on Ebay, ordered it, and when I played it, I was like, WTF?!?!?!. Have no idea what happened, it is the same song, even the same ‘take’ I recall, but it is like finger nails on chalk board now. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-love-this-what-was-i-thinking/572715/8 "2011-02-26T18:15:23Z")
If we count things we liked as kids, there would be a ton. My brother and I used to watch Brady Bunch every day and I adored the old Dennis the Menace TV show. More recent, though: Austin Powers - I know, a lot of people still like it. I saw it recently and except a few brief moments, I found the whole thing terribly unfunny now. [Saviour Machine](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-Sn_YCQvOs) - Used to be my favorite band. Now, I see how lame they were in many way. Just not my cup of tea, anymore. I guess they were OK, but I used to insist they were the best band ever. I was clearly wrong. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![multimediac17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@multimediac17](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/multimediac17)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-love-this-what-was-i-thinking/572715/9 "2011-02-26T18:18:10Z")
> [@Heyoka13](#): > > dirt (yeah, I remember eating dirt and liking it when I was a kid) [Katy Perry] “I ate some dirt and I liked it…” [/Katy Perry] As a kid I used to love The Brady Bunch, now I watch reruns and can hardly get through them. The other day Alice was trying to catch a mouse or some shit and it was like “Who the fuck cares?” I still really love The Brady Bunch Movie though. ---
**Author:** ![Heyoka13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Heyoka13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heyoka13)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-love-this-what-was-i-thinking/572715/10 "2011-02-26T18:21:01Z")
I chew ice cubes now. I have been told this condition is called ‘pica’. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-love-this-what-was-i-thinking/572715/11 "2011-02-26T18:23:53Z")
When I was a younger nerd, Monty Python’s Flying Circus would make me laugh until my sides hurt. Now I can generally take it or leave it, although there are certainly a few classic sketches that still make me smile. ---
**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:** [February 26, 2011, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-love-this-what-was-i-thinking/572715/12 "2011-02-26T18:27:26Z")
Most of the cartoons I watched as a kid. I can still watch Transformers, laughing at the stupidity of parts of it. (That I’m still a fan of the franchise in general probably helps.) Disney stuff stands up. Robotech hasn’t flagged. Surprisingly, the Littles actually stands up pretty good. But GI Joe? He-Man and She-Ra? Voltron? Alvin and the Chipmunks? Jem past the first season (first season’s actually pretty good, though)? Good goddess, no. I actually actively refuse to rewatch a lot of stuff, now, just to avoid sullying it like I did. ---
**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:** [February 26, 2011, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-love-this-what-was-i-thinking/572715/13 "2011-02-26T18:27:54Z")
About the only thing that disappointed me was rewatching **My Favorite Martian**. I liked it as a kid but the last time I saw it, it was awful (to be fair, the show jumped the shark after a season or so and I stopped watching; this may have been after I had stopped). Other than that, I haven’t seen anything that brought that reaction. But remember, my tastes as a kid were not usual. For instance, when I was twelve, I decided the best movie I ever saw was **Dr. Strangelove**. I’d watch things like **Gilligan’s Island** , but I new they were bad even then. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-love-this-what-was-i-thinking/572715/14 "2011-02-26T18:32:14Z")
Me: duster My wife’s answer: leggings ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-love-this-what-was-i-thinking/572715/15 "2011-02-26T19:32:20Z")
Nickleback used to be my favorite band EVAR. ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-love-this-what-was-i-thinking/572715/16 "2011-02-26T19:43:07Z")
I’ve been a martial arts film fan since I was around 5 years old. A channel here used to show old Run Run Shaw and Golden Harvest films, and then I watched the newer hollywood stuff like Jean Claude Van Damme, Karate Kid, Chuck Norris, Steven Segal, etc. Then, my girlfriend took me to see Rumble in the Bronx at a foreign film theater, and I realized how bad Hollywood films were in terms of choreography, speed, cinematography, etc. Recently it’s been better though thanks to using Hong Kong choreographers, cameramen and fight coordinators, but when I watch the older stuff nowadays, I wonder why everybody is moving so slowly, like a bad musical. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-love-this-what-was-i-thinking/572715/17 "2011-02-26T19:43:24Z")
**I Love Lucy** and **Weekend at Bernie’s**. Both were side-splittingly funny to me and now I can’t watch either. ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-love-this-what-was-i-thinking/572715/18 "2011-02-26T20:11:58Z")
Gino Vanelli (WTF?) Gary Wright The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Hazel Bachelor Father ---
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-love-this-what-was-i-thinking/572715/19 "2011-02-26T21:12:14Z")
Anne Rice. Oooooh I was so _edgy_. Evanescence. Oooooh I was so _edgy_. Super baggy jeans. Oooooh I was so _edgy_. Sailor Moon. Oooooh I was so…nevermind. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-love-this-what-was-i-thinking/572715/20 "2011-02-26T21:15:00Z")
\*\*Two from the '60s: Bonanza\*\* - must see TV in 1965. Completely unwatchable today. **Bewitched** - Darrin was an asshole. Endora was absolutely right. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-love-this-what-was-i-thinking/572715.md?page=2)