# Overrated! Underrated! **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [August 13, 2013, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overrated-underrated/666162 "2013-08-13T21:38:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![I\_Made\_French\_Toast\_For\_You](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/858c86/32.png) [@I\_Made\_French\_Toast\_For\_You](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Made_French_Toast_For_You)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2013, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overrated-underrated/666162/1 "2013-08-13T21:38:48Z")
Here’s the idea: 1) The first poster names something, anything, that could be labeled “overrated” or “underrated” by someone else. 2) The next poster responds with “Overrated!” or “Underrated!”, gives their reasoning as to why, and then names their own thing to be judged. 3)Repeat. (Does this qualify as an SDMB game? It’s my first try. Perhaps it belongs in IMHO.) I’ll start with: **Cupcakes** ---
**Author:** ![slm2955](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c6cbf5/32.png) [@slm2955](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slm2955)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2013, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overrated-underrated/666162/2 "2013-08-13T21:49:23Z")
Underrated, there are some tasty ones Conservatives ---
**Author:** ![I\_Made\_French\_Toast\_For\_You](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/858c86/32.png) [@I\_Made\_French\_Toast\_For\_You](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Made_French_Toast_For_You)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2013, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overrated-underrated/666162/3 "2013-08-13T22:49:17Z")
Underrated. It’s easy to mock them, but impossible to make them go away. **Teenagers** ---
**Author:** ![Lochdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/edb3f5/32.png) [@Lochdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lochdale)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overrated-underrated/666162/4 "2013-08-14T01:36:06Z")
Underrated: Elvis, The Ramones. Overrated: The 60’s. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overrated-underrated/666162/5 "2013-08-14T01:40:58Z")
In play: Teenagers Overrated. I couldn’t wait to outgrow acne, and be treated as an adult, and I doubt that’s changed. Barbecue ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overrated-underrated/666162/6 "2013-08-14T04:55:19Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Barbecue Underrated. People know it’s good to eat but it’s thought of as low class. Barbecuing is as sophisticated as any other skilled cooking method. New one: Canada ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overrated-underrated/666162/7 "2013-08-14T05:01:05Z")
Underrated. Beautiful, peaceful, friendly, big. New: **Alexander Graham Bell** ---
**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:** [August 14, 2013, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overrated-underrated/666162/8 "2013-08-14T05:03:06Z")
> [@Biotop](#): > > Underrated. > > Beautiful, peaceful, friendly, big. > New: **Alexander Graham Bell** Underrated. So much has stemmed from his work! New: Peanut Butter. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overrated-underrated/666162/9 "2013-08-14T05:04:41Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Underrated. So much has stemmed from his work! > > New: Peanut Butter. Underrated. Especially with chocolate. But other nut butters are great too! Turtles. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overrated-underrated/666162/10 "2013-08-14T05:32:27Z")
> [@jackdavinci](#): > > Turtles. Overrated. Slow. Would lose the next 100 races to the hare. Make lousy pets. Supposedly will bite your private parts in the lake. Constantly getting run over despite their supposedly helpful “shell” protection. New: **Melba Toast** ---
**Author:** ![Mann\_Slaughter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@Mann\_Slaughter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mann_Slaughter)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overrated-underrated/666162/11 "2013-08-14T07:10:38Z")
> [@Biotop](#): > > Overrated. > > New: **Melba Toast** Overrated! Let’s just call them what they are: crackers New: Half-Life 2 ---
**Author:** ![I\_Made\_French\_Toast\_For\_You](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/858c86/32.png) [@I\_Made\_French\_Toast\_For\_You](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Made_French_Toast_For_You)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overrated-underrated/666162/12 "2013-08-14T15:03:33Z")
> [@Mann\_Slaughter](#): > > New: Half-Life 2 Underrated. It is possibly the best designed video game ever. \*\* Your mom’s cooking.\*\* ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overrated-underrated/666162/13 "2013-08-14T15:13:15Z")
> [@I\_Made\_French\_Toast\_For\_You](#): > > **Your mom’s cooking.** Overrated. You’ve obviously never had my mom’s cooking! **Marriage** ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overrated-underrated/666162/14 "2013-08-14T15:15:10Z")
Underrated. IMHO it’s still the glue that binds society. **Game of Thrones** ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overrated-underrated/666162/15 "2013-08-14T15:17:31Z")
I guess a lot depends on where and when you grew up, but I’d say that for most people of my generation (or subsequent generations)… \*\* “Mom’s Home Cooking” is highly overrated.\*\* It’s NOT that my Mom was a bad cook, or that I hated what she served me. It’s more that I grew up in the Sixties and Seventies with a lot of prepackaged foods. Oh, I liked it all at the time! I still do. Grilled cheese with Campbell’s tomato soup was a great lunch. Shake and Bake chicken with Kraft macaroni and cheese was a perfectly fine dinner. I’m no food snob. But my Mom didn’t make anything I can’t make just as well and just as easily myself. So, when a commercial tries to tug at my heartstrings by saying “These cookies are just like the ones Mama used to make,” well, I think to myself “My Mom mostly bought Chips Ahoy, and when she baked cookies, she cut them from pre-made Pillsbury dough.” My Mom is a wonderful woman who always made perfectly fine dinners and lunches for four kids- she deserves a lot of credit for that. But nothing worth getting misty-eyed or nostalgic over. And most of my contemporaries would say the same. **New topic: The Toyota Prius** ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overrated-underrated/666162/16 "2013-08-14T16:13:17Z")
Oh, man… beaten to the punch REPEATEDLY! I’ve never seen _ **Game of Thrones,** _ so I have nothing to add. Sorry (sigh…). ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overrated-underrated/666162/17 "2013-08-14T17:02:59Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Game of Thrones Underrated. Nudity, violence, dragons, and zombies = awesome. And even though it gets good numbers for a premium cable show, there’s a lot of crap on TV that gets much higher ratings. **pie** ---
**Author:** ![JustsomeDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@JustsomeDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustsomeDude)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overrated-underrated/666162/18 "2013-08-14T17:07:26Z")
Underrated. Nothing like a slice of juicy apple pie. **Manhattan** (movie by Woody Allen) ---
**Author:** ![Doyle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doyle/32/439_2.png) [@Doyle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doyle)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overrated-underrated/666162/19 "2013-08-14T17:08:27Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > Underrated. Nudity, violence, dragons, and zombies = awesome. And even though it gets good numbers for a premium cable show, there’s a lot of crap on TV that gets much higher ratings. > > **pie** Underrated. I’ll take pie over cake any day. Scrotums ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overrated-underrated/666162/20 "2013-08-14T17:13:00Z")
> [@Doyle](#): > > Scrotums Plural? **Overrated**. Don’t get testy. Space [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overrated-underrated/666162.md?page=2)