# Most shameful guilty pleasure you've ever had
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [October 6, 2009, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850 "2009-10-06T20:39:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2009, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/1 "2009-10-06T20:39:38Z")
And no, stuff like “I watch Sex and the City/Grey’s Anatomy/chick flicks” doesn’t count. I’m talking SHAMEFUL, guys, not slightly embarrassing.
I’ll pretty much win (or lose) this thread. I know this. When I was twelve years old, I saw a certain musical and then listened to the soundtrack every day for maybe a year. That musical was…CATS.
In my defense, I was young, and at least I didn’t debate what was canon and write fanfic about it. Yes, fanfic exists.
I feel so much better having admitted that! You guys have anything rivaling this?
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### Author:  [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2009, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/2 "2009-10-06T20:45:40Z")
I’ve seen the Rocky Horror Picture Show hundreds of times and love it, but not in a _because its cheesy_ hipster way.
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### Author:  [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2009, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/3 "2009-10-06T20:48:33Z")
The Rocky Horror Picture Show?! Pleasurable, perhaps, but guilty? Come on. Would you truly be ashamed to admit to that? I had to go to hours of therapy before I could resurrect MY memory which had been buried for a decade!
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### Author:  [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2009, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/4 "2009-10-06T20:49:22Z")
I liked Milli Vanilli. I was about 12 at the time, but still.
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### Author:  [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2009, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/5 "2009-10-06T20:55:16Z")
I was crushed on Ariel from the Little Mermaid? Does that count? She was cute! I even bought a “Little Mermaid” pillowcase.
I was in college at the time.
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### Author:  [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2009, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/6 "2009-10-06T21:14:42Z")
I watched, like, well… you know, every single episode of _Growing Pains_ 'cause I had a crush on whoever played Carol Seaver.
**Divemaster** , I would’ve kept that last little tidbit to myself. 😉
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### Author:  [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2009, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/7 "2009-10-06T21:15:29Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#):
>
> And no, stuff like “I watch Sex and the City/Grey’s Anatomy/chick flicks” doesn’t count. I’m talking SHAMEFUL, guys, not slightly embarrassing.
>
> I’ll pretty much win (or lose) this thread. I know this. When I was twelve years old, I saw a certain musical and then listened to the soundtrack every day for maybe a year. That musical was…CATS.
>
> In my defense, I was young, and at least I didn’t debate what was canon and write fanfic about it. Yes, fanfic exists.
>
> I feel so much better having admitted that! You guys have anything rivaling this?
Me too.
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### Author:  [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2009, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/8 "2009-10-06T21:58:12Z")
> [@divemaster](#):
>
> I was crushed on Ariel from the Little Mermaid? Does that count? She was cute! I even bought a “Little Mermaid” pillowcase.
>
> I was in college at the time.
OMG. [Is it you](http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=203)?
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### Author:  [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2009, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/9 "2009-10-06T22:19:38Z")
> [@divemaster](#):
>
> I was crushed on Ariel from the Little Mermaid? Does that count? She was cute! I even bought a “Little Mermaid” pillowcase.
>
> I was in college at the time.
Best post/username combination EVER
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### Author:  [@Iggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggins)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2009, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/10 "2009-10-06T23:39:31Z")
One of my favorite movies is “Hedwig and the Angry Inch”. I mean probably top 10. Is that shameful for a 36 year old guy?
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### Author:  [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2009, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/11 "2009-10-06T23:47:54Z")
No! These are all perfectly respectable things to like! None of you need to feel even a little ashamed of liking these things.
**Zsofia** –really? REALLY?
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### Author:  [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2009, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/12 "2009-10-06T23:54:27Z")
Legally Blonde and Bring it on
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### Author:  [@Justin\_Credible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Credible)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2009, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/13 "2009-10-07T00:01:20Z")
I hate pop music. I mean I hate all of it with a passion.
And yet, I used to love listening to Hollaback Girl. I think the spelling out of “bananas” did it for me.
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### Author:  [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2009, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/14 "2009-10-07T00:09:59Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#):
>
> No! These are all perfectly respectable things to like! None of you need to feel even a little ashamed of liking these things.
>
> **Zsofia** –really? REALLY?
I made my mom drive me back to the theater the next day to buy a shirt. With my savings. You know, the shirt that had the cat eyes on the back, only the pupils were dancers.
It’s okay if anybody reading has lost respect for me. I accept that. (I was also, I think, 12.)
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### Author:  [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2009, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/15 "2009-10-07T00:13:50Z")
As a young man, I had the world’s biggest crush on Olivia Newton-John. And every time HBO played _Xanadu_, I watched it and sung the songs around the house.
Oh God, I’m so sorry…
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### Author:  [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2009, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/16 "2009-10-07T00:30:56Z")
> [@Zsofia](#):
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> I made my mom drive me back to the theater the next day to buy a shirt. With my savings. You know, the shirt that had the cat eyes on the back, only the pupils were dancers.
>
> It’s okay if anybody reading has lost respect for me. I accept that. (I was also, I think, 12.)
My dad drove me back the next day and I bought the soundtrack and the book. (Okay in my defense, he offered to do that–it wasn’t my idea.) But I must admit to listening to it pretty much nonstop for a long time.
Xanadu? Now that’s the kind of guilty pleasure I’m talking about!
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### Author:  [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2009, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/17 "2009-10-07T00:42:23Z")
I am _entirely_ sure I could blow everyone here out of the water with some of mine.
But, so as to not kill the thread right off, I’ll say “I own a copy of the _Mama Mia!_ musical soundtrack.”
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### Author:  [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2009, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/18 "2009-10-07T00:45:57Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#):
>
> I am _entirely_ sure I could blow everyone here out of the water with some of mine.
>
> But, so as to not kill the thread right off, I’ll say “I own a copy of the _Mama Mia!_ musical soundtrack.”
I do, too. Not the movie, but the London soundtrack (I randomly d/led it). Even though I already have pretty much all those songs by ABBA.
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### Author:  [@Idlewild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idlewild)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2009, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/19 "2009-10-07T00:59:17Z")
I used to be able to tell you which Jean Claude Van Damme movie had which variation of the same basic plot. Couldn’t get enough of the little Belgian dude. In a purely carnal lust way.
I dunno, I think that beats Cats.
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### Author:  [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2009, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/20 "2009-10-07T01:00:43Z")
I’ve got you all beat. I re-read certain sections of _The Painted Bird_. Those of you who’ve read it will know what sections I’m talking about.
Don’t ask me why I re-read them. The older me says maybe it was because I couldn’t believe what I was reading and had to read it again to see if the words changed. But to be honest, the younger me had a fascination with depravity.
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