# Most shameful guilty pleasure you've ever had **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/41 "2009-10-07T04:34:25Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > OMG. [Is it you](http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=203)? That’s exactly where my mind went. ---
**Author:** ![susan\_foster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@susan\_foster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan_foster)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/42 "2009-10-07T04:48:44Z")
Favorite movies when I was a kid included: Earth Girls are Easy Breakin’ and Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo And I know that I would still love them today. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/43 "2009-10-07T04:48:53Z")
I watched all three seasons of Bret Michael’s Rock Of Love on VH1. And I really liked them. If there’s a fourth season, I’ll watch it too. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/44 "2009-10-07T05:04:37Z")
**Instant Star** was one of my favorite shows during it’s run. It was a Canadian show meant for teenagers about a girl who wins an American Idol type contest, and how her life is turned upside down by it. Did I mention that this four seasons long show only ended a year ago? And I’m 32? I’m waiting for seasons 3 & 4 to come out on DVD so I can buy the series. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/45 "2009-10-07T05:20:16Z")
> [@Sefton](#): > > 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… This is me, word for word. Well, maybe I’m not sorry. Like Elendil’s Heir, I’ve got most of the Xanadu soundtrack on my iPod (it doesn’t help that, in addition to having a crush on ONJ, I’m also an ELO fan). I’ve got the recent DVD re-release of the movie, and we watched it at Christmas last year. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/46 "2009-10-07T05:43:16Z")
Put me down as another XANADU fan. I’ve seen it I don’t know how many times, have the soundtrack and somewhere around here, a magazine on the making of the FX and costumes. ---
**Author:** ![3trew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/13edae/32.png) [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/47 "2009-10-07T06:16:50Z")
I own a perceptibly worn copy of the soundtrack album to the 1980 film “Flash Gordon”. I still have that one, though my “Cats” t-shirt and cardboard, adhesive tape, pennies and those brass thingies you push through cardboard that act like hinges or cotter pins or something version of the glaive from “The Beastmaster” have long since vanished. ---
**Author:** ![Kneepants\_Erasmus\_the\_Humanist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/54ee81/32.png) [@Kneepants\_Erasmus\_the\_Humanist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kneepants_Erasmus_the_Humanist)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/48 "2009-10-07T06:32:06Z")
_Foolish Beat_ by Debbie Gibson isn’t a bad song. IT’S NOT! ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/49 "2009-10-07T06:46:49Z")
When I was around 14-15 I devoured teenage girls’ romance novels, one after another after another. Dad thought I might be gay. The real truth was I was starting to get interested in girls in a major way and wanted to know what made them tick. (Ok, OK, sometimes it was because I fell in lust with the chicks on the front covers - :p) ---
**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/50 "2009-10-07T07:46:23Z")
I love the _Flash Gordon_ movie from 1980. And it isn’t something I grew up on – I saw it first when I was 26, in 2004. I bought Falco’s greatest hits CD in my 20s, too. ---
**Author:** ![JoseArcadio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc348/32.png) [@JoseArcadio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoseArcadio)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/51 "2009-10-07T09:42:34Z")
Went to see Britney Spears film Crossroads at the cinema. Enjoyed it at the time. _skulks away_ ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/52 "2009-10-07T10:06:28Z")
> [@](#): > > Foolish Beat by Debbie Gibson isn’t a bad song. I just purchased the music video from I-tunes last week.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/53 "2009-10-07T10:32:09Z")
> [@JoseArcadio](#): > > Went to see Britney Spears film Crossroads at the cinema. Enjoyed it at the time. > > _skulks away_ I saw _Monkeybone_ in the theater, though I didn’t enjoy it. Well, _most_ of it. Some of the music, and a lot of Rose McGowan’s catgirl performance were pretty pleasant. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/54 "2009-10-07T10:45:03Z")
I’m a 42-year-old straight male. I have Hello Kitty wallpaper on my phone. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/55 "2009-10-07T11:29:56Z")
I love romance novels. And not historical bodice-rippers (although I enjoy those too), or mid-list bestsellers like Nora Roberts. I mean series romances. Harlequin Presents are my favorites by I’ll read any of the others. I used to be able to by 'em by the box from the used book store before I moved. When I’m laid up sick, I could read 3 or 4 a day. Nowadays I don’t read them as much because I can’t buy them by the box. Go ahead, beat that! ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/56 "2009-10-07T11:46:16Z")
In college, I made sure to arrange my class schedule each semester so that I was free between noon and 1:00. This was so I could go to the student’s lounge and watch _All My Children_ on the big-screen TV. Every day. I even wrote a fan letter to Kim Delaney, who was on _AMC_ at the time. She sent back an autographed picture. My roomates got to the mail first and gave me tons of shit over that. As they should have. ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/57 "2009-10-07T12:04:37Z")
I still re-watch Practical Magic and The Craft. And still enjoy it. ---
**Author:** ![Brainiac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8797f3/32.png) [@Brainiac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brainiac)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/58 "2009-10-07T12:13:19Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > 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. I saw Cats on Broadway the opening season, when everyone was still raving about it. And it was quite a show! The song Memory is still a favorite of mine. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/59 "2009-10-07T12:17:23Z")
I still listen to Cats, on occasion. I honestly like it. No irony, no sarcasm. I remember when my sister and I were what, 10, 12 years old and my parents somehow managed to get us seats right on the stage. Lousy accoustics and view, but every dancing girl would beam at us on their way to the dressing room, or pat us on the head. I wish I could have had those seats 10 years later :D. As for real shameful pleasures : listening to Hammerfall. It’s corny, it’s derivative, the lyrics are damn near close to parody… but I can’t help it : I still like 'em. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850/60 "2009-10-07T12:20:51Z")
> [@](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > What’s wrong with Cats? That was a great musical. I loved it. > > Is…this a whoosh? Well, **Cats** was no **Amazing Alexander** , but _I_ liked it. > **[www.betterthancats.com Parked, Courtesy of omnis.com](http://www.betterthancats.com/)** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shameful-guilty-pleasure-youve-ever-had/512850.md?page=4)