# TV shows/movies/songs you hate but others love? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 20, 2016, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-movies-songs-you-hate-but-others-love/760453 "2016-07-20T23:27:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hbk4894](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e68b1a/32.png) [@Hbk4894](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hbk4894)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-movies-songs-you-hate-but-others-love/760453/1 "2016-07-20T23:27:11Z")
Ex on the beach ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-movies-songs-you-hate-but-others-love/760453/2 "2016-07-20T23:36:50Z")
Dancing with the Stars. Although I have to admit I never watched a second of it, I hate the premise. Apparently it’s been on for several years, and they talk about on the News ffs, so it must be popular. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-movies-songs-you-hate-but-others-love/760453/3 "2016-07-20T23:47:25Z")
Family Guy. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-movies-songs-you-hate-but-others-love/760453/4 "2016-07-20T23:49:40Z")
There is not enough time in my day to list them all. I would say 80-90% of what 80-90% of people like I usually detest. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-movies-songs-you-hate-but-others-love/760453/5 "2016-07-21T03:02:11Z")
what **snfaulkner** said. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-movies-songs-you-hate-but-others-love/760453/6 "2016-07-21T04:52:08Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > There is not enough time in my day to list them all. I would say 80-90% of what 80-90% of people like I usually detest. This. But at least 95%, especially music. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-movies-songs-you-hate-but-others-love/760453/7 "2016-07-21T05:27:46Z")
The Princess Bride. ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-movies-songs-you-hate-but-others-love/760453/8 "2016-07-21T06:45:57Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > Dancing with the Stars. Although I have to admit I never watched a second of it, I hate the premise. Apparently it’s been on for several years, and they talk about on the News ffs, so it must be popular. I don’t hate this show, but I’m not fond of the name they gave the British version: “Strictly Come Dancing.” It makes no sense to me. One song everybody seems to love but me: “Bohemian Rhapsody.” ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-movies-songs-you-hate-but-others-love/760453/9 "2016-07-21T07:25:41Z")
> [@Lucky\_13](#): > > I don’t hate this show, but I’m not fond of the name they gave the British version: “Strictly Come Dancing.” It makes no sense to me. [Strictly Ballroom](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/StrictlyBallroom) /[Come Dancing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_Dancing). > [@](#): > > In 2004, a re-launched celebrity version entitled Strictly Come Dancing… debuted on BBC One, and became a popular hit on Saturday evenings. The title is a pastiche of the titles of both the 1992 Australian film Strictly Ballroom and Come Dancing. The format of the newer show has been successfully exported to other countries under the name Dancing with the Stars. Sorry, but as usual the British version came first: Come Dancing was enough of an institution to have a [Kinks song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEeH5OkjeIY) named after it. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-movies-songs-you-hate-but-others-love/760453/10 "2016-07-21T12:29:34Z")
My wife is a passionate follower of Game of Thrones. I don’t hate it per se, I just can’t get interested. ---
**Author:** ![GunnarFranz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/da6949/32.png) [@GunnarFranz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GunnarFranz)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-movies-songs-you-hate-but-others-love/760453/11 "2016-07-21T12:51:55Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > My wife is a passionate follower of Game of Thrones. I don’t hate it per se, I just can’t get interested. The bits of pop culture that I see the appeal of run few and far between. GoT however is one thing I can only understand loving. OT: The majority of top 40 songs since 1995, every superhero movie not named Deadpool, every crime/cop/law drama not named The Wire/The Killing. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-movies-songs-you-hate-but-others-love/760453/12 "2016-07-21T15:50:00Z")
I can think of a bunch of things that lasted for years and I couldn’t stand. Dukes of Hazzard Flintstones (mostly) reality TV Everything original on Adult Swim. (The “infinite cable TV” Rick and Morty episode was funny though.) ---
**Author:** ![Brodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cc9497/32.png) [@Brodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brodi)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-movies-songs-you-hate-but-others-love/760453/13 "2016-07-21T16:02:04Z")
Shark Tank Any of the cooking competition shows. Any of the “Follow That Bimbo!” type shows (Kardashians, Sweet 16, etc). Dancing With The Stars Big Brother Survivor Chick Flicks Torture Porn Movies (Saw, Hostel, Human Centipede) ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-movies-songs-you-hate-but-others-love/760453/14 "2016-07-21T16:03:42Z")
> [@Penfeather](#): > > [Strictly Ballroom](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/StrictlyBallroom) /[Come Dancing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_Dancing). > > Sorry, but as usual the British version came first: Come Dancing was enough of an institution to have a [Kinks song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEeH5OkjeIY) named after it. My mind is blown! I had assumed that the show was named after the Kinks song. But I see from wikipedia that the show dates back to 1949, so obviously it was the other way around! Edited to add, things I hate that others love: Deadpool. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2016, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-movies-songs-you-hate-but-others-love/760453/15 "2016-07-21T16:24:33Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > My wife is a passionate follower of Game of Thrones. I don’t hate it per se, I just can’t get interested. First thing that came to mind. My wife is also a fan of the show and books. I just don’t get it. There are at least a dozen different convoluted plotlines that seem to only be passingly related to each other, every character is a dirty white guy that looks exactly like some other character that’s also a dirty white guy, and despite years and years of promising, apparently Winter never actually comes. Anything having anything to do with The Kardashians, “Real” Housewives, any Osbourne not named Ozzy, or pretty much anything airing on E! or Bravo. It’s completely beyond my comprehension why anyone gives a fuck about any of these useless, vapid, attention-whoring cunts. Singing/talent competitions. **Star Search** was a joke in the 80s and nobody cared; the few truly talented people who appeared on that show later became famous _in spite_ of being on **Star Search** , not because of it. Then suddenly **American Idol** rekindles the format, and it and its myriad clones became practically the only show on network TV. I still could not possibly care less. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-movies-songs-you-hate-but-others-love/760453/16 "2016-07-21T17:10:45Z")
Any song by Rush ---
**Author:** ![GunnarFranz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/da6949/32.png) [@GunnarFranz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GunnarFranz)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-movies-songs-you-hate-but-others-love/760453/17 "2016-07-21T17:13:58Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > First thing that came to mind. My wife is also a fan of the show and books. I just don’t get it. > > There are at least a dozen different convoluted plotlines that seem to only be passingly related to each other, every character is a dirty white guy that looks exactly like some other character that’s also a dirty white guy, and despite years and years of promising, apparently Winter never actually comes. > > **Anything having anything to do with The Kardashians, “Real” Housewives, any Osbourne not named Ozzy, or pretty much anything airing on E! or Bravo. It’s completely beyond my comprehension why anyone gives a fuck about any of these useless, vapid, attention-whoring cunts.** > > Singing/talent competitions. **Star Search** was a joke in the 80s and nobody cared; the few truly talented people who appeared on that show later became famous _in spite_ of being on **Star Search** , not because of it. Then suddenly **American Idol** rekindles the format, and it and its myriad clones became practically the only show on network TV. I still could not possibly care less. Very well said, as for GoT winter just came. 6 seasons and 60 hrs deep. That build up doesn’t do it for you? I’d bundle up what you said with all “faux” reality TV. If the camera man isn’t in danger or there isn’t a score, the reality is not real. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-movies-songs-you-hate-but-others-love/760453/18 "2016-07-21T19:31:17Z")
I’m assuming plays count, and I know I’m going to get pummeled, but after hearing the soundtrack to _Hamilton_, I probably wouldn’t see it even if I had a snowball’s chance in Hell of doing so. ---
**Author:** ![Philliam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/philliam/32/3011_2.png) [@Philliam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philliam)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-movies-songs-you-hate-but-others-love/760453/19 "2016-07-21T19:58:49Z")
Sturgeon’s Law proven again… ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-movies-songs-you-hate-but-others-love/760453/20 "2016-07-21T20:38:53Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > I’m assuming plays count, and I know I’m going to get pummeled, but after hearing the soundtrack to _Hamilton_, I probably wouldn’t see it even if I had a snowball’s chance in Hell of doing so. You’re not alone. The emperor is naked. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-movies-songs-you-hate-but-others-love/760453.md?page=2)