The weirdest recommendation Netflix has given you.

Cafe Society
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So, everyone who uses Netflix has certainly gotten recommendations from it that leave them baffled. I’d like to hear the most ludicrous ones you’ve gotten.

Mostly because Netflix’s ‘weird rec’ hit a new record for me, today, and I wanted to share it.

The recommendation bar was:

‘Because you watched ABCs of Death 2’

… The first one on the screen was:

Pokemon Indigo League.

Pokemon must have really changed after I stopped following it!

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I noticed the other day they were getting strange too. The one that tipped me off was they recommended:

Oklahoma City, A documentary about Timothy McVeigh

because of my interest in Cheers

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Announcer: Cheers is filmed in front of a live studio audience

[Norm enters Cheers]

Everyone: Norm!!

Woody: What’s up, Mr. Peterson?

Norm: Not the Alfred P. Murrah buidling in a little while.

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Not Netflix, but DoorDash. I use DoorDash fairly often, but I never order anything from a place that is close to my house (I live in walking distance to quite a few), and always get pretty healthy stuff. It’s usually from a Thai or Indian restaurant.

So I get this message from DoorDash the last time I logged on: Based on your earlier choices, you might like this restaurant: And it’s a Burger joint that I can walk to in 5 minutes from house. :smack::smack::smack:

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Netflix once recommended a chick-flic and a romantic comedy, two genres I hate. That’s when I realized I had to create a separate profile for my gf.

I have the same problem with Amazon. I have Prime, and I allow coworkers to order stuff using my account.

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Mine appears to be completely random. I watched a holocaust documentary and got a weird assortment of documentaries, kids shows and movies, TV shows, shows about the arts, biopics, horror movies, drama, and true crime.

The Confession’s of Thomas Quick
Malaysia 370: The Plane that Vanished
Brad Pitt War Machine
Bill Nye Saves the World
Real Crime: A Very Special Constable
The Winding Stream
A Tale of Two Thieves
Untold Stories of the ER
Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You
Mercy
A Royal Night Out
Prince Philip
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
Oceans Rising
Lemony Snicket’s: A Series of Unfortunate Events
Bigger Fatter Liar
Spirit: Riding Free
H2O
American Horror Story
Elizabeth at 90
No No a Duckumentary
Sunset Strip
Orange is the New Black
Dirty Wars
A Kind of Murder
A Very British Gangster
Reel Injun: On the Trail of the Hollywood Indian
Greenwich Village
Goosebumps
Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me
White Chicks
Brilliant Lights, Brilliant Minds
Ballet 422
Life Itself
The Galapagos Affair
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
Camp Rock 2
The Irish Mob
Deep Water
True Memoirs of an International Assassin
Never Back Down 2
The Blue Planet
Don’t Stop Believin: Everyman’s Journey
Ouran High School Host Club
The Vampire Diaries
Trans Fatty Lives
Burn
Gotham
The Great British Baking Show
Lost For Life
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Raiders of the Lost Art
Most Likely to Die

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Netflix might get better data if they weighed whether I watched a significant portion of a show. I get “because you watched X you might like Y” on shows that I dumped after 10 minutes.