Guilty Pleasures - Television Tropes & Idioms

Kodomo No Jikan: Yes, it's loaded with loli fanservice, but it's actually quite a heartwarming series. In the manga the story gets a lot more developed and it's a bit of a social commentary on the relationship between Rin, Aoki, and Reiji.
Black Lagoon: It's a recreation of several big, very dumb action flicks, filtered through one mangaka's/anime director's personal version of the Rule Of Cool. Gets points for emotional complexity, though.
- Does watching the original Japanese version for the Gratuitous English also count?
Bludgeoning Angel Dokurochan: A comedy series with copious amounts of loli ecchi fanservice and over-the-top (literal!) slapstick violence. Might have Crossed The Line More Than Just Twice if it lasted longer than twelve 15-minutes episodes.
Fist of the North Star is quite an emotionally healthy alternative to anger management classes, allowing your inner Man and Warrior to live out the fantasy of killing hundreds of enemies, and punishing them by denying them the dignity of a complete corpse.
Whether or not the original Hellsing manga or Hellsing Ultimate counts is up for debate, but the Gonzo version of the Hellsing anime is definitely a Guilty Pleasure, where Alucard and Father Anderson are basically one-note characters whose sole purpose is to look cool on-screen.
- This troper thinks the previous troper is insane. The Gonzo version had awesome character development. (Seras was done beautifully.)
- This troper has all four volumes of the Gonzo version, and enjoyed it! It was her introduction to the series, and since then has bought volumes 1-8 of the manga, and the first OVA.
- Don't forget the awesome soundtrack.
Ikki Tousen, an anime/manga series that sets the reincarnation of the heroes from the Chinese classic novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms in a modern day Japanese high school context, except that the warriors have mostly reincarnated as voluptuous girls who tend to have their clothing shred with the greatest of ease during their numerous fights. Popular enough to have spawned two sequels, Ikki Tousen Dragon Destiny and Ikki Tousen Great Guardians.
- And if you enjoy the English translation of the manga, you're guilty of liking a manga series that sets the reincarnation of the heroes from the Chinese classic novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms in a modern day Japanese high school context, except that the warriors have mostly reincarnated as voluptuous girls who tend to have their clothing shred with the greatest of ease during their numerous fights... only macekered. ~~HORRIBLY~~ HILARIOUSLY.
- Practically any show that involves a Gender-Bent Three Kingdoms, as seen by Koihime Musou and Ryofuko-chan.
Kamen No Maid Guy. Come on! It's a show starring a guy with a mask in a maid costume... and he has superpowers! What more could you ask for?
- Fubuki in a waitress costu— no, wait, we got that. Fubuki in a schoolgirl uni— present and correct.
The manga adaptations of Mai-HiME and Mai-Otome (with emphasis on the latter, in terms of sheer Anime WTF-ery). You could also toss the Mai-Otome Zwei OVA into the mix. The latter two are distilled Refuge In Audacity.
Pokémon is an arguable case. Some people have very fond memories of the first 13 or so episodes and dislike anything that came afterwards, but others have been watching for 10 years with no guilt whatsoever.
Rosario to Vampire (the anime in particular): Monster girl fanservice galore.
Strawberry Panic: Yuri Fan Service out the wazoo that makes even Basic Instinct look subtle. It plays its character types and plot developments so straight (pun not intended) that it could be considered a Stealth Parody of the genre as a whole.
To Love Ru. Say it with us now: Fanservice! It even manages the rare Guilty Pleasures opening. It's the anime equivalent to Baywatch, just replacing slow motion Gainaxing with extreme closeups of boobs.
- This troper genuinely enjoys both the anime and the manga, not for the fanservice, but for the entertaining characters and plots. The large amount of fanservice, which cuts down a lot in the anime (outside of the opening, anyway, and the doesn't have much more than most in the genre) is just a nice bonus.
  - In a similar vein there is also Girls Bravo.
  - And Goshuushou-sama Ninomiya-kun.
Yu-Gi-Oh! Villains try to take over the world with ripoffs of Magic: The Gathering cards. The midget hero can magically grow two feet taller and deepen his voice while nobody notices. Everyone has hair that makes Dragon Ball look mundane. The Big Bad is named Zork and has a giant dragon head for a wang (No, really◊). Do I really need to go on?
- Not to mention the original Toei anime (or Season 0), which somehow manages to be significantly more violent and cheesy, simultaneously. (It's worth pointing out that this version preceded the more well known one that got dubbed by 4Kids. That mean the narm is actually toned down in that version. Yes.)
- Even funnier if you're hardcore into Magic or some other legitimate trading card game, and Yu-Gi-Oh! is just "that game you play for shits and giggles." Judging the series by the standards of the actual card game can only lead to hilarity: "Why are you playing Celtic Guardian?! That card sucks! You don't play sucky cards, you nimrod!"
- The card game itself falls into that category. So susceptible to netdecking, and Gamebreakers are easy to find. But one of the cards is a pack of dynamite attached to a chain. Come on, isn't that just a little awesome?
Just about half of all Unwanted Harem anime series are interchangeable with one another. Most don't have a plot other than "Unlucky Everydude is surrounded by hot women", and if there is an actual plot besides that, it doesn't actually become "important" until the end. In addition, pretty much every one of them is pure wish fulfillment, anyway. The guiltiest of these are DearS, Happy Lesson, Hanaukyo Maid Tai and Sister Princess.
- Also Guardian Hearts, Magikano, Yumeria, Maburaho, and (the first anime adaptation of) Negima.
- Though quite a few anime reviewers place it squarely in the "crap" category, there has to be at least a small fanbase for a show like Eiken, a manga turned two-episode OVA stuffed to the top with sexual imagery, and an Unwanted Harem where almost every single girl has outrageously huge knockers. "WTF-cups", indeed.
Anything by Yuu Watase (of Fushigi Yuugi and Ayashi No Ceres fame). Yes, it's highly unrealistic shoujo melodrama... but it's so pretty!
The School Days anime is enjoyed by a lot of people, if only for the love of hating Makoto. This troper suspects that a lot of guys secretly admire him. After all, he does get all the chicks and he might even have gotten away alive (as he does in most of the game's scenarios) if he hadn't been so terribly stupid and manipulative.
La Blue Girl is actually a good show, damn it. The stunningly explicit pornography is just a bonus.
- The same could go for a lot of other erotic anime and manga.
This troper thinks the idea of a nine-year-old coming on to her teacher in an overly hentai way is disgusting. Yet she still admits to watching Kodomo No Jikan all the way through. And reading the manga. And adoring the music...
- Which is just to say that good storytelling transcends all, even if the premise of a show is — uhm — squick. And of course it helps that the male victim of the girl's affections won't have any of it, so not much happens, really.
This editor admits a Guilty Pleasure to watch Anime openings on Youtube. The biggest guilty pleasures are watching such ops as the second Death Note or the fourth Bleach op with the butchered English lyrics. (Those Goddam DJ chatter! How to survive!)
- What about the One Piece original English opening? "He's made of rubber! How did that happen? Yo-ho-ho, he took a bite of Gom-Gom!"
  - Nah, that's just an Ear Worm.
- I'm semi-ashamed to admit to liking the English opening of Sailor Moon more than the original Japanese...
  - This Troper is not ashmed to admit liking the English opening of Dragonball Z more than the original.
  - This troper will admit to liking the English opening of Digimon Adventure as much as the original (but this is probably due to the nostalgia of having watched the series as a kid.
Yes, the lolicon fanservice makes Moetan a rather dubious series — but it's also filled with cheerfully zany characters that interact really well, so it is, uhm, well, actually really funny. Now stop looking at me that way!
Go Nagai's Cutey Honey, and I mean any of the numerous versions created over the last 35 years, including the live action version. She's a sexy Robot Girl, Master Of Disguise, and Jack of All Trades. Every time she shouts her Catch Phrase "Honey Flash!", she takes intentional Clothing Damage during her Transformation Sequence. And, of course, she takes any amount of unintentional Clothing Damage during her fights.
- Her signature Theme Song is very catchy and memorable... and specifically mentions her cute butt and bouncy chest as part of what makes her special. Not to mention that it includes squealing feminine exclamations like "Iya yo!" that Japanese men love so.
- This troper saw one episode each of the original 1973 series and the New Cutie Honey and Re: Cutie Honey OVAs. The last was the only one he really liked, probably because it was made by Studio Gainax, and resembled some of their other series.
Strike Witches: Say it with me now: Lolis who wear no pants and use magical powered armor to blow up aliens. And while they fly around, they make noises like World War I fighter planes while the camera zooms in on their crotches over and over and over again.
Zero No Tsukaima: Mix one part Harry Potter, One part Dungeons and Dragons. Add in a disgusting amount of fanservice and gainaxing to alienate any female viewers. And presto, you have a show that this troper still watches despite knowing that it's almost completely dropped its plot in favor of trite ecchi comedy.
- However, this troper would like to point out that once you look past the random slapstick and the over-the-top ecchi-ness, the series displays an absurd amount of character development and a deep romantic plot quite uncommon for a comedy series of this kind.
  - The absurdly good character development came with the script. The light novel's actually really good reading material, and there's lots of thought given to how everything fits together. Just that the studio decided that fanboys just want more fanservice. This policy kicked into overdrive in the second season and ramped up in the third, with Titania's tits filling most of the frames.
- This troper would like to point out that the first season ended with the main character shooting down guys flying on motherfucking dragons while flying a motherfucking WWII-Era fighter plan.
Mouse: A bumbling art teacher who is regularly browbeaten upon by a trio of Hot Teacher colleagues is secretly an ultra-thief who can steal anything. The aforementioned colleagues? Really his assistants who help him out while dressed up in extremely revealing, brightly-colored outfits and do various amounts of Fetish Fuel cosplay while in private with him while attempting to "service" him to the best of their abilities.
When you really think hard about it, Lucky Star is about a group of girls with oddly coloured hair and highly static, stock personalities standing around and talking about nothing in particular. Slice of Life shows don't generally appeal to people who think really hard about their anime.
K-On takes the same premise and turns down the intelligence (but not necessarily the wisdom) of the characters a notch. Oh, and give them musical instruments. A significant portion of the internet, including this Troper, loves it anyway.
- Any all-girl Slice Of Life show, really. Lucky Star, K-On, Azumanga Daioh, it doesn't matter. Yes, I know it's weird for a guy to watch an all-girl. Yes, I know there's no Character Development. But it's the funniest stuff out there.
Ryofuko-chan actually manages to outdo Moetan in the lolicon-department, but it's still a lot of fun to see an 8-year-old girl kick serious butt.
He Is My Master. Doesn't matter how funny it is, a manga involving a somewhat perverted 14-year old billionaire hiring girls his own age as live-in maids (complete with fetishy uniforms), filled with antics and retributive slapstick, is not one to leave laying around the house. The cover art doesn't help, either.
Shoujo manga. Especially by CLAMP. Mostly for the Narm, and sometimes the hilariously over-the-top subtext or unexpectedly decent action sequences, but occasionally a series just has an interesting enough story to read on its own merit.
Bobobobo Bobobo - Everybody say HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! HIP! POSE! STEP! JUMP!.
Shipping anything in a Shonen series fandom. Shippers as a group actually do deserve their reputation as crazed, hormonal fangirls who see Subtext in everything, but the backlash against shipping of any kind can be so strong fanboys will fervently deny ships exist in a given series at all, in spite of anvil-sized hints to the contrary that non-internet fans/casual readers would easily pick up on.
Chobits. Though it actually managed to have a poignant (if Anvilicious and Fridge Logic-filled) message.
Why is it that male readers like Ouran High School Host Club? I dunno why, but they do.
- Uhm are you talking about the manga? Because this tropers friends agree that the Ouran anime is one of the funniest things they've ever seen.
- It's a satire of Shoujo manga. What other manga (shoujo or shonen) blatantly mocks its own audience by having the grils who visit the host club be Upper Class Twit, have the openly gay guy be Haruhi's transvestite father, and pretty much make fun of every shoujo cliche in the book. Even though it's a satire its also does have emotional depth with Tamaki's horrible situation, and Kyouya's relationship with his father.
Queens Blade, a medieval fantasy Cat Fight entirely overloaded with Fetish Fuel of every possibly variety.
Dear S is Chobits minus the philosophy plus more Fanservice Which is impressive when you consider what Chobits contained.
This male Troper got hooked on Sailor Moon after watching the abridged series. How does that happen?
Pretear. A girl meets an Unwanted Harem of Magic Warriors that transform her into a Magical Girl by "becoming one" with her? But...well...they're all very cute. And her costumes are pretty.
- The "becoming one" symbolism is very much justified through the show's Applied Phlebotinum being, essentially, Life; that is — when they become one, they create new life... which isn't supposed to be dirty in any way, but you know how perverted people are these days...
Hamtaro. Admit it, you just told your friends that it ruined Toonami.
- The games are wonderful. Ham-cha!
Movies with Naughty Tentacles.
Kanokon.
Change 123. The sheer amount of justification for all the plot lifts it above the norm. I don't just read it for the boobs,I swear!
- This troper reads it for the all the Kamen ~~Rider~~ Raider references.
Shoujo Sect. This has a plot under all the fanservice... apparently.
- This troper would argue that for most guys anything this Yuri-esque is a guilty pleasure.
  - And vice versa for girls and Yaoi.
Witchblade features a cast of likeable characters, a fairly decent plot reminiscent of the better issues of the Top Cow comics series on which it's based, a lot of character development, a single mother as a protagonist, and an ungodly number of scenes that will make you cry...but try telling that to someone who's only seen the DVD cover art and the Beach Episode.
Ayano Yamane.
- Or any Yaoi manga for that matter. Though this troper has actually seen crazed Yaoi Fangirls in conventions that actually scream out and confess that they are. The things a little alcohol can do.
This Troper is a bit ashamed to admit that her guilty pleasure is finding Mind Game Ship / Foe Yay pairings in Shonen series between the young messiah main character and a villain. Yay for Ho Yay Crack Pairings.
This Troper admits to liking This Ugly Yet Beautiful World, but mainly for the hero's transformation into a monster to fight other monsters, I swear! (Unfortunetly, there's not much of that in the series itself...)
- Also, I don't care what anyone else says, I like Sonic X - even the dub - faults and all.
Card Captor Sakura. Admit it.
- Not guilty. This troper likes it honestly. He is also male.
- Same here. As a matter of fact, half of his (male) high school classmates liked it, while the other half at least respected it.
This troper watched the first episode of Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni Rei, at a cafe. He had to stop at the scene of Miyo Takano in a very revealing bikini out of embarassment. And thanks to his thing for Ax Crazy girls, many particular scenes in the first season fall under this too.
While G Gundam may be incredibly stupid, the sheer Camp and Crazy Awesome stuff that's going on somehow keep you watching. Look no further than a Gundam wearing a giant robot-sombrero being introduced in all earnest, and that's just a minor character.
Anime as a whole, for some of us. Admit it.
- Indeed. This troper's the only one in his group of friends that watches anime, but never when anyone's around.
Mirai Nikki as a whole? Not a Guilty Pleasure. But being hopelessly in love with a character who in turn is a psychotic stalker with a crush on the main character? Oh so very much.
- You are not alone there, this Troper thinks. Oh, to be confined in a dim dungeon and cared for by her.... *Full Body Shiver*
Shangri-la, not too great anime from Gonzo but watching it anyway on Crunchyroll because it's free.
Thanks to its status as one of the most controversial anime series around, Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Let's face it - this pretty much describes anyone who supports the pairings in the No Yay trope section. "Oh, sure, I have heard that there are certain people who support this disgusting pairing... *ahem*"
Probably the only way to tolerate Green Green is as a guilty pleasure. The main love story is passable, but the rest of the show is dumb enough to try anyone's patience.
Enjoying any Four Kids Entertainment dubs period, especially if you actually enjoy the dubs more than the original versions for whatever reason.
- This troper was never a big fan of 4Kids until Pokemon got sold to PokémonUSA, at which point he developed a serious appreciation for 4Kids' ability to at least make the show tolerable.
Kedamono Damono would probably be a So Okay Its Average shoujo manga were it not for its one hook.
Slayers- Yes, it's essentially all fantesy tropes personified, but it's so much fun...!
Kampfer - Oh hey what are all of these hilarious Shout Outs doing in my Gender-bending, Fanservice-laden, Les Yay action anime?

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Painkiller Jane.
Empowered. Actually pretty funny beneath all the Fanservice.
- Not to mention the amount of Character Development interspersed with the humor. Or the deconstruction of Ms Fanservice.
  - Then Volumes 4 & 5 roll around and shit gets serious.
Danger Girl.
The Punisher. At times so guilty, you wonder why Frank hasn't shot himself.
Lady Death, which really was an enjoyable horror fantasy yarn, even if you didn't appreciate the main character's notoriously Stripperific costume and truly impressive assets. Once you got past those, in fact, it seemed like anyone who tried to victimize the main character because of her sex or beauty ended up horribly killed, so as B-movie grade exploitation goes it was actually somewhat empowering. She was the self-proclaimed Queen of Hell and determined to wipe out all life on Earth...and she was the protagonist.
- On that note, practically all the other books from the now-defunct Chaos! Comics. R-rated blood, PG-13 sex, half-decent story, fuchsia dialogue. The definition of Guilty Pleasures.
- Though even better in the story and sanity department (Hope actually wears, y'know, clothes), the Medieval Lady Death re-imagining actually lost some of its appeal...not just for obvious reasons, but because the Refuge In Audacity quotient was dialed way down and it wasn't nearly so much a guilty pleasure anymore. This troper, while he liked both books, was a little ashamed when he felt a little internal cheer after he heard the original version would be getting a revival after Avatar bought the rights to the character.
Powers! Typical Bendis dialogue, with naked ape sex at one interval. Still amazing deconstruction.
This troper picked up a trade paperback of Countdown To Final Crisis and liked it, and then was baffled as to why everyone hated it.
The Trigan Empire: Stupid plots, pseudo-racism, gorgeous colours and awesome fighting. Also, two identical twin brothers fight each other in their underwear, if you're into that sort of thing.
The Doom comic.
Cavewoman. Take one Nubile Savage, give her Super Strength and thrice the usual dose of the Most Common Superpower, add a few tablespoons of gorillas, and season with dinosaurs to taste. You'll enjoy a dazzling concoction of sexual and non-sexual Fanservice! Magnifique!
Banzai Girl and the sequel Banzai Girls. Sexy schoolgirls with upward-floating skirts dealing with tentacle monsters and the like, only made better with creator Jinky Coronado herself and her friends as the stars. (She is a fan of the aforementioned La Blue Girl and Cutey Honey. But don't worry, her books are only Ecchi, not Hentai. And yes, the books include photos of Jinky in the schoolgirl outfit and other costumes.)
Dogwitch, the adventures of a "post neo-pagan" witch, her sentient stuffed animals, and the Z-grade horror movies they help her film. Violet Grimm does enjoy her polka-dot undies, but there really is good writing at work, and a dark sense of humour.
William Moulton Marston's Wonder Woman. Playing "spot the fetish" is fun!
Tarot, Witch of the Black Rose. While it really does have a interesting storyline regarding Tarot's life as a witch, and all that comes with it, gives some very factual information about the religion, it's very, very hard to look past almost the entire cast's gag boobs. Doesn't help that they're naked almost all the time. Not that there's anything wrong with that...
- You have to get out of here! Your vagina is haunted!

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Skinny jeans, however un-"manly" they are. For this male troper, it has the effect of making him feel taller.
Hats. People aren't wearing enough of them.
- I'll say!
Want to make instant cool? Have your story include nice tuxedos, pretty dresses, and Fingerless Gloves! Who cares if it's already been done? It's still neato!

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Anything by Stephen Sommers:
- The Mummy series: Movies in the style of 1930s adventure serials, except with triple the budget and half the sense. Indiana Jones written by a man who doesn't let common sense, real-world physics or plot holes get in the way of a fun movie. Features a man whose best friend is a hawk, Brendan Fraser as an Action Hero and a sunrise that travels across a giant jungle. And let's not forget that shot of London in which all of the landmarks are completely in the wrong places. Sommers has admitted that none of this makes that much sense. Then there's The Scorpion King, which by some miracle manages to be stupider.
- Van Helsing: Much the same, except replace Brendan Fraser with Hugh Jackman, full moons that last several weeks, flying Transylvanian horses and the silliest Crisis Crossover in movie history.
  - Hey, any movie that has Hugh Jackman in a Badass Longcoat...
  - One should never feel guilty about watching two hours of Kate Beckinsale.
- With Sommers rumoured to be directing the new Flash Gordon live action movie, we can expect great things.
- The sadly overlooked Deep Rising is worth a look, too. Any movie which ends with a jet-ski escape from a monster-infested sinking cruise liner laden with explosives has to be worth two hours of your time, right?
  - This troper is glad she and her brother aren't the only ones who love this movie...
  - Famke Janssen certainly helps as well. And this troper actually thought the movie was well done until rewatching it several times...Now it's just another Guilty Pleasure.
- He's directing GI Joe. No, really.
  - According to the first reviews, it's Team America without the intentional laughs.
  - Oh it's intentional, any movie where a mute guy is hamming it up next to The Doctor, Darkman, and Tommy Solomon has to be intentional.
  - No, Stephen Sommers is just an oblivious idiot. Christopher Eccleston and Joseph Gordon-Levitt make that film watchable.
While we're at it, the original Flash Gordon film more than applies. BRIAN BLESSED!, a soundtrack by Queen, Timothy Dalton with that ridiculous moustache, a Swedish guy playing an Asian stereotype, horribly dyed hair and Flash kills Ming by...I won't ruin it, it's too good.
Most softcore porn movies fit into this category. As the Agony Booth puts it: "Softcore porn to men is like Fabio romance novels to women. You will never, ever meet anyone who admits to watching this stuff, but somehow, they keep making it."
Eighties sci-fi movies, particularly Dune and Krull.
- Also Conan The Destroyer, which features the line: "Some wizard you are! Go back to juggling apples!"
I'll admit to liking the Dungeons And Dragons movie. It wouldn't be one fifth as good without Jeremy Irons Large Ham acting.
- I freaking loved that movie! ...it was the best MST fodder ever.
- My sister liked it for the henchman with the blue lips.
- I enjoyed it without irony. In my defence I was about eleven at the time.
This Troper actually liked Battlefield Earth, despite the fact it's been called the worst movie ever...and he still feels a tinge of shame every day.
- This troper didn't like Battlefield Earth, but didn't think it was so terrible, and wondered after watching it what all the fuss was about.
- This troper loved the book. Absofuckinglutely loved it.
- Is this troper the only one scared by the fact a that apparently none of the people making this film realised that a triangular pyramid is not the same thing as, and can by no stretch of the imagination be called, a dome.
Rush Hour. Chris Tucker playing a... less savvy version of Axel Foley, and Jackie Chan playing his usual role as a no-nonsense but befuddled lawman actually make for a good movie, especially since beneath it all it's actually pretty well telegraphed. Of course, in the second ones, the characters go from 3D to 2.5D, at which point the Guilty Pleasures bit comes up. The third one is so ridiculous that you'll probably eventually realize that they're just making fun of themselves at this point.
- It actually got that ridiculous in the second movie — one of the Hilarious Outtakes set right after Big Bad takes a Big Fall:
Chris Tucker: Damn! He ain't gonna be in Rush Hour 3!
I happen to enjoy the Super Mario Bros. movie, thank you very much...
- It's awesomely bizarre. However, a correct adaptation would be even more strange, so...
- I thought it was kind of imaginative, considering the source. And Yoshi was adorable.
- This troper is disappointed that there was never a sequel. Dammit, I wanted to see Princess Daisy with that brand new level of badassery...
- The makers of Super Sentai liked it well enough that Abaranger's backstory sounds kinda familiar. (Well, at least the "meteor really split the Earth into two dimensions, the human world and a world where dinosaurs evolved into Rubber Forehead Aliens." Asuka, meet Princess Daisy. Daisy, meet Asuka.
- Fifthed or sixthed here! Brilliant movie. I've tried to force it on friends but they never understand!
- Sixthed or seventhed! Mostly because Princess Daisy is adorable, but still!
- One more! This troper enjoyed it, especially the effort taken to adapt an absolutely alien premise like plumbers fighting giant turtles to the real world, and, for the most part, making it work.
- I really don't understand why people don't like this movie. There really isn't a way to adapt Super Mario Bros. This film somehow did it and made it awesome!
- The Goombah dance scene alone is worth watching the movie.
- Why The Super Mario Movie Is An Underappreciated Masterpiece
- This troper thought he was alone in loving the movie!
Mortal Kombat: The Movie.
- I enjoyed the first movie as well. Don't get me started on the second film, I hated that one.
- This troper actually enjoyed Annihilation to the point he saw it three times.
  - I will one-up you, sir: How about This Troper enjoying Annihilation so much that she owns a copy of the DVD?
  - This troper only owns Annihilation because it was the first movie and Annihilation on one DVD for $10 at Walmart. Annihilation, in my honest opinion, was like two hours of brains being mashed in with a claw hammer.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show has actually transcended this level of infamy. Refuge In Audacity does not begin to cover it.
Give My Regards To Broad Street is not a good film by most traditional measures. But if you are a student in the ways of Paul McCartney, it is essential viewing.
Most 1970s and early 1980s pop/rock/disco musicals qualify as these. Partial listing:
- Godspell (1973)
- Jesus Christ Superstar (1973 - worth noting that this and Godspell's "guiltiness" depend on how you regard hippies and/or "Jesus freaks")
- Tommy (1975)
- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978): A Technicolor Mind Screw.
- The Wiz (1978): Diana Ross is Dorothy Gale. And a black Michael Jackson is the Scarecrow...
  - Is it wrong that this troper liked it better than the original movie?
  - No, because this troper does too!
- Grease (1978) to an extent, due to it being quite popular - Grease 2 (1982), on the other hand is wholly guilty.
- Can't Stop the Music (1980) - A musical about the origins of the Village People
- Xanadu (1980) - Sooooo guilty and notorious that between that and Can't Stop the Music playing a double feature, the inspiration for the Golden Raspberry Awards arose.
  - Seconded! This troper is under the opinion that the film was So Bad It's Good genius and regards it as Roadhouse's older sister.
  - The stage version completely, cheerfully celebrates its guiltiness.
- The Apple (1980), the master class in musical guilty pleasures
- Shock Treatment (1981), the sorta-sequel to Rocky Horror
- The Pirate Movie (1982), where Kristy McNichol dreams herself into The Pirates Of Penzance, albeit a version with '80s pop existing alongside rewritten Gilbert And Sullivan tunes, and with Genre Savvy, pop-culture-spoofing antics at every turn. They're not taking it any more seriously than you are.
- What came to be known as "Paramount musicals" - dance-heavy flicks like Flashdance, Staying Alive, and Footloose
High School Musical. The title (and the Ho Yay-filled second movie) speak for themselves, really. Once the hype dies down, you'll deny having ever watched any of them...but they'll know. Oh, how they'll know!
- This troper really liked the first one but wasn't interested in the other two...
- ... while this troper thought the first one was alright, the second rather bad and the third amazing.
This troper loves watching "The Tempations Movie" when it comes on VH 1, TV One, BET, etc.
Leon (as David Ruffin): You're just another group looking for a David Ruffin!
Hudson Hawk. This troper has seen it aptly described as the film version of a role-playing game-session that gets so overblown and so deliciously out of control that in the end the game-master just throws up his hands and announces "Rocks Fall, but EVERYONE LIVES! (YAY!)"
- "Doggy, baw baw!"
Anything by Michael Bay. He is the king of Stuff Blowing Up.
- Armageddon. Oil drillers save the world, especially the heart of America.
  - I loved the film solely for one epically awesome line that is still among my most favorite film quotes ever:
  The Russian guy: American components, Russian components, ALL MADE IN TAIWAN!
  - Even better quote almost immediately afterwards:
  The Russian guy: This is how we fix things on, Russian, SPACE STATION!!
- The Rock. Nic Cage, Sean Connery, Alcatraz, nerve gas — what's not to like? And the ending!
  - Don't forget Ed Harris! Agreed, spectacular movie.
- Bay has his Crowning Moment Of Awesome, and it's this. AWESOME BARBECUE... (boom) AWESOME POOL... (boom)
  - How dare he make me like him!
- Transformers. Giant robots tearing down cities and blowing each other up.
Con Air
- Con Air is the king of over-the-top action movies and deserves a shrine. With "Put... the bunny... back... in the box" written on the frontispiece.
  - Seconded. Simply sublime.
Any of John Woo's American movies:
- Windtalkers
- Face/Off
  - Seconded... I would love to see Mike Nelson and friends get a hold of this movie.
  - Mike Nelson DID get a hold of it in his book Mike Nelson's Movie Megacheese.
- Paycheck
Species: A naked supermodel kills everyone.
Anything directed by Paul Verhoeven:
- Robocop
  - It got great reviews and is a fan favorite! What's guilty about that?
  - It's also a surprisingly vicious satire.
  - Which nobody knew until about 10 years after it was released. Verhoeven looked around, realized that he was the only one who thought it was a satire, and started telling everyone and their dog. Which begs the question of how effective a satire is if Nobody Gets It.
  - Huh? I thought it was incredibly obviously a satire.
- Starship Troopers. If you can stand the gore and random cruelty, it's quite interesting.
  - Pretty big if... maybe if you enjoy giant insects getting blown away
  - Starship Troopers is, objectively speaking, one of the worst movies of all time, yet subjectively it is an all time favorite and guilty pleasure of many movie lovers. It was made with a secret blend of eleven types of awesome! Who needs plot when I have Casper riding a giant bug?
  - The shower scene!!! okay so I was still a raging ball of hormones at the time.
- Basic Instinct. Sharon Stone played her Psycho Lesbian character too well.
- Fatal Attraction
- Indecent Exposure
- How comes Show Girls was not mentioned? I loved the film regardless of how bad it was.
  - There are plenty of reasons to like Showgirls... usually at least two per scene.
- Most of his earlier Dutch stuff wouldn't really fit here, either.
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist. It is stupid, but not in the "Guhaw, we're gonna fart and then high five!" way so common to modern comedy, but the "We're going to have the main character fight a cow!" method. (He does fight a cow. And he kicks that cow's ass.)
- Get the DVD. Listen to the "What Are They Really Saying?" audio track. In order to properly match the badly-dubbed feel of the rest of the movie, Oedekerk filmed each new scene speaking nonsense dialogue, then dubbed over it with the actual script. Watching it again with the nonsense in mind, it gets even funnier. You may never look at Sam Donaldson the same way again.
Dude, Where's My Car? Shibby!
Speed Racer is the greatest motion picture in the history of cinema, and anyone who says otherwise is in denial.
Alexander with Colin Farrell. Too gay to write slash for, not gay enough to count for porn, and too Narmy to watch with a straight face.
- I really liked it, mostly for the costumes and epic battle scenes.
- Jared Leto and Jonathan Rhys Meyers had me liking the movie. Although the British slang terms still got to me, since... they're supposed to be Macedonian.
Troy with Brad Pitt. Just... that face he makes where he scrunches up his chin and forehead — has this troper all the time. And the rest of them aren't bad to look at either. I just can't talk about liking it to my friends without them telling me it's inaccurate. I think I know that by now, thank you.
- You don't have to be accurate when you're that gorgeous.
I also happen to loved Street Fighter. (The Van Damme version not the Sonny Chiba version.) It's So Bad Its Good and that's what makes it so fun to watch.
- I would just like to go on record saying that I much prefer Bison in the movie to Bison in the game. Shoot me now. He got all the best lines and was played by Raul Julia.
  - To you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday.
Myra Breckinridge. I have seen it linked to So Bad Its Horrible, but surely it only counts as that if it has no defenders. This troper is a defender.
- You're not alone. It definitely belongs in the So Bad Its Good category. I mean, come on. Raquel Welch playing a transsexual who anally rapes her love interest under the guise of a doctor's visit. Brilliant! Just because the author of the source material was a prissy bitch doesn't mean the rest of us can't enjoy the mayhem.
And in that vain, I'd like to add Valley of the Dolls and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. NEELY O'HARAAAAAA!
- "This is my happening and it freaks me out!"
- Yesss! "You're a groovy boy... I'd like to strap you on sometime."
Barbarella, Queen of the Galaxy is right up there with my favorite bad movies. Jane Fonda refuses to talk about it to this day.
The Friday The 13th series and pretty much every other slasher movie series. There's more cliches to count, yet people can't stop watching them.
This fella is of the mindset that Last Action Hero should have made a killing at the box office back in its day. Shame about the marketing campaign, though...
Batman And Robin. It is HATED and yet in secret, several people have confessed to this Troper (who openly admits to liking it) that they rather enjoyed it too... Hey, it's got lame puns, neon, blacklights, and TWO governors! What's not to love?
- Arnold Schwarzenagger's totally over the top Mr Freeze is the reason to sit through it all! C'mon, you gotta love his delivery of puns that are so lame they're hysterical!
  - Worth it just for the line, "Finally: a laundry service that delivers!"
- Then there's Batman Forever. Yes, Two-Face's characterisation was totally butchered, but Jim Carrey was a pretty engaging Riddler, Robin wasn't handled too badly and Val Kilmer was a decent Batman.
The remake of The Wicker Man. This troper has said the only good movie Nicolas Cage ever made was "Honeymoon in Vegas". I stand by that, but it's good to at least see Nicolas RAGE back in some brief moments in this movie. 'Cause, hey, punching Wiccas while wearing a bear suit is awesome. THEY'RE IN MY EYES!
- It also taught us that killing Nicholas Cage won't bring back your goddamn honey!
  - Want to hear something horrible? The equivalent scene in the original was really, really good. Friggin' creepy.
Star Wars. Less fun when you realize just how many people have never seen Sir Alec Guinness in anything else.
- Oh, c'mon. The original trilogy is a classic.
More or less any sci-fi movie in which Milla Jovovich plays a superhuman ninja thing... Which is more or less every sci-fi movie which has Milla Jovovich.
- She also gets naked or nearly naked in every movie she's ever in. That helps too.
This troper admits, with only a little bit of guilt, to enjoying such films as The People Under the Stairs, Twister and Buffy the Vampire Slayer (yes, she prefers it to the show. Why yes, she is a blasphemer.)
Mean Guns Ice-T gathers together a bunch of crooks, con-artists, and killers in a prison and tells them they have 6 hours to kill everyone else. Last man standing wins. Seriously. It has horrible dialogue, bad acting, and the same stock mooks die like 7 or 8 times, but it's just so bad it's good.
Doomsday. Holy crap, Doomsday. It's like the director decided the last few Michael Bay films were too plot-heavy and mentally taxing for the average cinema-goer, so he decided to crate a feature length pean to Stuff Blowing Up, Bad Assery, Refuge In Audacity, and Rule Of Cool. Plus it's got an impromptu Bentley commercial just before the climax, and Scottish cannibal ninja strippers facing off against the hot British chick from Boston Legal. Not a good film, not a sane film, but undeniably an awesome film.
All of the Pokemon movies could qualify but for this troper it's especially the third one. I don't care that the IMDB gives it a rating of 3.3. I still think it's a great movie.
- You kidding? The third one is my favorite.
- So were the other two before it. Then came the fourth one, though. Yeesh.
  - This troper very much enjoyed the First Movie, even the English version, whose message of "senseless fighting is wrong" is one she thinks should be used more often, even as Anvilicious as it is.
Star Trek III, Star Trek Generations, and Star Trek Nemesis.
- I'm with you on III, though maybe not the other two.
  - This troper is not guilty about liking III, even if Robin Curtis was an atrocious Saavik. If it weren't for her I might actually love it, but any scene with her in it is just painful. Besides, Vulcans just shouldn't have 80's bouffant perms.
I, Robot! Sure, it's got blatant product placement, blasphemed its source material and shows Will Smith's ass once too many, but it's ROBOTS SMASHING ROBOTS! This troper remembers leaving the theater still stunned by all the awesomeness.
The Transporter movies are tons of fun even though Jason Statham's emotions have been accurately described as ranging between "scowling" and "scowling with his shirt off".
- All glory to the Stath!
The first Pirates Of The Caribbean movie.
- Hell, the entire trilogy for me.
- No, you can genuinely like the first film; the second and third films are pure Guilty Pleasures.
The Dukes Of Hazzard movie. Sorta dumb, yes. But it's partially what got me into the show in the first place. This, and that one Family Guy episode.
G-Force. Come to it with low expectations and it's a decently enjoyable kids action film with cute characters.
Yes, Advent Children is a movie based on a video game (that some of us have not been able to play). Yes, it has more fighting than plot by a significant margin. Yes, the characters are a significant reason to watch it. Yes, they are remarkably developed (especially for video game characters) under the pretty faces. Yes, the fighting is still awesome. Yes, I find the plot interesting, exciting, and emotionally investing even if it takes a backseat to the fight scenes. Yes, I'm extremely defensive about this.
Pretty much the entire Godzilla series, especially the '70s movies.
- The American version. Leonard Maltin put it best in his review: "doesn't make much sense, has shallow characters, and goes on for too long... yet still offers a surprising amount of fun."
All this and nobody mentions the remake of Bedazzled? My movie critic friend still gives me crap to this day for owning that movie. As does my wife. But come on..Campmaster Breden Fraizer with Elizabeth Hurley as the devil. And they obviously had fun with it.
Epic Movie, Meet the Spartans and all of the other Setzer and Friedberg movies.
Anything starring Rob Schneider, Arnold Schwarzenegger or Keanu Reeves.
Sky High. I was told that the movie was godawful, but I actually really liked it.
This troper does not really care for Major League but will watch it for one reason and one reason only: right after the team finds out that Phelps wants them to lose, they start getting in shape to win to spite her. Cue the "let's get it together" montage and there is Cerrano in nothing more than a teeny-weeny black speedo lifting weights. Who knew Jonas Blaine had a body like that? That's Allstate's stand, indeed!

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As demonstrated by the page picture, many foods fall here, including funnel cake. Indeed, this troper once heard that food could subdivided into two categories: "guilty pleasures" and "health food" (or something to that effect).
- This troper honestly finds Gardenburgers to be delicious.
Sugary breakfast cereals once you're no longer a child.
Canned pasta. This troper is past thirty and still regularly eats canned Spaghetti-Os, ravioli, and so forth. Even guiltier, I eat it straight from the can, without bothering to heat it up.
I know someone who absolutely loves circus peanuts. You know, those peanut-shaped, orange-colored, fake-banana-tasting hard marshmallows. Gross, but someone must eat them.
Arizona fruit drinks. A big ol' can of sugar for when you don't feel like paying even a dollar to hydrate yourself.
Instant Ramen Noodles. Universal favorite of college students everywhere. And orange jumpsuited ninjas.*cough* *cough* *Naruto*
- Bringing these neatly together, this editor started eating ramen... becauseitwasNaruto'sfavourite *flees*
This troper admits to inventing the peanut butter and Oreo sandwich. Not only that, but she has been known to replace the Oreos with mint chocolate bits made for baking, or butterscotch chips. And they are so good.
Japanese curry. What do you mean, "all curry is the same"?
- For those in the dark, probably the most notable difference is that Japanese curry is much less spicy, and some say less flavorful, than other curries. But for those that can't eat spicy foods, this version seems sent from heaven.

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The Inheritance Trilogy is known in some circles as "The Eye of Eragon". The books still have their fans, but there are only so many times one can play the "he was only fifteen when he wrote it!" card.
- This troper, despite hating the first two Inheritence books, considers the third a good story. He managed to get past the narm, Marty Stu, and Designated Hero bits and there's actually something worth salvaging way, way down there.
- Agreed! The first two books were painful, but the third is just amusingly bad.
- This troper knows that these are bad books, is fully aware they're badly written... but likes them anyway. And feels bad about it.
- This troper hates the books, loves to point out plotholes, regularly snarks the abundance of sues and purple-prose, and she enjoys it when others do likewise. Please ignore the fact that she has read them each three times, and pay no attention to the copy of the second book tucked in that shelf there. She just found it, really.
Tie-in and pastiche literature. Many are those who would not be caught dead with a Star Wars or Dungeons & Dragons novel in the same room... but still read them when nobody's looking.
- This troper kproudly reads Star Wars novels in public. Let the people stare. It matters not.
- This troper owns the Star Wars mangas (translated into english). And they're awesome. Even his Star Wars obsessed friend thinks he's a dork, but he cares not.
- A no-no even among EU fans, this troper actually likes the novels of Karen Traviss. Once you get past the rain of anvils, they're actually quite enjoyable wartime stories.
  - As does this troper; methinks they're just trying to Accentuate The Negative.
Trashy romance novels tend to be ill-written, clichéd nonsense often relying on sexist and ridiculous stereotypes to tell a story which doesn't aim at anything higher than about chest level. However, they can be, at their worst, unintentionally hilarious, and at their best, very hot. For an undiscerning reader they can be mindlessly entertaining - for a clever reader, good criticism practice. See Smart Bitches Trashy Books for the snarkiest way of enjoying them...
- Harlequin built a publishing empire on these, with several imprints depending on how much sex and violence was involved. Harlequin Presents were pure as the driven snow, and there might be a slap or two. They were also virtually universally written by British authors and set either in England or in some exotic foreign locale. Harlequin Superromance books were written by North American authors. Harlequin Silhouette allowed non-virginal heroines, and the love scenes were slightly more explicit. Within each of those imprints that are between four and eight subimprints that are further distinguished by specific locations, time periods, and settings.
- Or any romance novels, especially if you're male. When this troper read in a TIME Magazine review about a romance series that featured all sorts of cool supernatural creatures, he thought that it might be something he could read without feeling like a total girl. This would never have happened a couple of months later when the series broke out into the public consciousness. And yet somehow, it worked. (For the record, the book being reviewed at the time was The Host, Meyer's lone non-Twilight book—the Twilight saga was only referenced because, well, that was all the author had done up until then.)
The Bunnicula book series. It's all about a bunny who may or may not be a vampire, and this cat named after GK Chesterton, and a dog who can eat chocolate without dying, and a little weiner dog that is annoying yet endearing, and yeah...
- Oh, Bunnicula is definitely a vampire, but here's the twist: he vampirizes vegetables. Carrots and lettuce left in his cage are found the next day intact but completely limp and blanched, and untouched except for two little puncture marks. When his human owners cotton to this, they start feeding him V-8 juice instead, playing up the vampire imagery even further.
- You realize those are intentionally silly children's books, right?
- C'mon, the title of one is The Celery Stalks at Midnight. They're meant just to be funny. Also notable in that the first one begins "It was not a dark and stormy night." Yes, this troper still remembers that, years later.
- They were This Troper's favorite books when he was a kid, and even now they're a good read once in a while. Cheesy and cliched? Yeah. But it's intentional, the characters know it, and it's wonderful to see such Genre Savvy characters in a kid's story.
- Silly and self aware yes, but that doesn't mean they can't do drama, mystery or horror well even as children's books. They can take a concept like hunting down seemingly vampirized vegetables and sticking toothpicks through them and make it work.
Twilight. A great book, if your tolerance of Author Appeal and Purple Prose is high enough.
- In addition to things like a centuries old vampire forgetting he's immortal, and trying to slit his wrists. (Technically, he went to the Volturi, asking to die, which makes more sense.
- Like Cleolinda put it: "It's like when I'm in my kitchen and there's that Twinkie and I know, I know not one single ingredient in that thing originated in nature and yet... SUGARRRRRR".
  - And yet nobody stops reading it, despite the numerous bashings. This troper would like to put up the theory 'opium in book form'. (She is also, incidentally, a shameless Twilight fan.)
  - This troper would contend that Twilight is actually a little bit horrific, but my real hatred stems from how fucking dumb the vampire fad it seems to have made really, really big. The plot isn't terrible if you're a horny teenage girl or horny gay teenage dude, but that's about it. Really, truly, New Moon is one of the worst written books of all time in this tropers opinion - that said, I DID read it, which I guess has to count for something.
I rather enjoyed the Maximum Ride series, even though the main character is a shameless Mary Sue.
- Good, so I'm not the only one who's noticed.
This troper finds Dan Brown's books incredibly entertaining, even if they do contain a lot of shoddy research and the stories are predictable. If any nerds nearby see you reading one and start to complain, pull their pants down and spank them with moonrocks.
- Speaking as a computer geek, Digital Fortress is hilarious. The Reveal at the end has to be seen to be believed. Some day, Dan Brown may learn something about cryptography - and that will be a sad day for comedy.
  - I would have to agree with that. I've been hoping to find another book with the sheer failure-as-comedy value of Digital Fortress, and have yet to succeed.
  - How about "The Book of Mormon"? No, not really. They're good people. Please don't kill me.
- Seconded the initial one, though — this troper knows that The Da Vinci Code is completely and utterly innacurate, but from the moment he picked it up he could not put it down until he was done.
  - I've only read Angels and Demons so far, but I prefer to see it as a good mystery/action novel.
The Jack Reacher series by Lee Child simply cannot be anything but this. Hulking Marty Stu character, paper thin plots, a new buxom, sassy woman each book for Reacher to bed (many of whom make Denise Richards' stint in The World Is Not Enough look positively reasonable). But still... good fun to sit down and relax with if you don't want to think too much. Or at all.
- Well, Reacher is a Marty Stu alright, but the plots are quite interesting and have some nice mystery elements. Persuader and Bad Luck And Trouble were nothing if not interesting to say the least.
I really like all of Laurell K. Hamilton's books. The first eight Anita Blakes are genuinely good, but even the later ones of that series and the Merry Gentry books are enjoyable. If you stripped the excess sex out of them, they'd be a lot more easily enjoyable, but they actually do (especially the Merry Gentry) have good mystery plots and strong characters buried underneath the orgies- if you're willing to dig, they're worth it.
- If you're willing to dig through an orgy?
I used to read V.C. Andrews. All the time. I had almost all the books. And I still (whisper) kinda like them, if only in a "oh my God, I can't believe I'm reading this but she draws me in with her ludicrous plots and histrionic dialogue" kind of way. They often cross the line into So Bad Its Good, too, so I can exercise my MST 3 K gene while reading them... yeah, we'll go with that...please? So I can maintain some dignity?
Similar to the tie-in novels mentioned above, the Warhammer40000 novels fit the bill (Dan Abnett's Gaunts Ghosts and Eisenhorn, Sandy Mitchell's CIAPHAS CAIN, Horus Heresy etc). They're incredibly entertaining, but try explaining to your friends you're currently enjoying a novel where 8ft-tall super-soldiers beat the crap out of other 8ft-tall super-soldiers. With daemons. And Chainswords.
- Yet in spite of this image often the 40k fluff books, some of the Horus Heresy books especially, are very good plot and characterwise. The problem for most people seems to be the setting.
- Dan Abnett likewise (author of Eisenhorn, Ravenor, Gaunts Ghosts and two of the Horus Heresy novels) is very good at giving you a cast of interesting characters within a well structured plot. Unless you're a Warhammer40000 fan though, it's a tough sell.
Atlas Shrugged arguably Crosses The Line Twice with its frequent Author Filibusters, over-the-top Strawman Political villains, and overblown romantic adventures of the Author Avatar.
On a related note, Terry Goodkind's Sword Of Truth. From an artistic standpoint they're ridiculously bad quality (Huge piles of cliches, all good guys Mary Sues, all bad guys strawmen, 3 page monologues... it goes on), but for some reason I like several of them.
The various teen series centering around snotty, filthy-rich teen and tween girls: The Clique, A-List, Gossip Girl, and all their less-popular imitators.
The Bigtime "superhero romance novel" series isn't all that bad... this troper actually liked them, though he had to skip the sex scenes.
Anne Bishop's Black Jewels series: crammed with Mary Sue characters, melodramatic violence/violent melodrama, and a bucket o' romance novel cliches, but it still manages to get re-read every year or so, and sometimes even finds its way into my luggage despite the compilation book being a doorstopper.
John Ringo's Paladin Of Shadows series. Completely and utterly reprehensible in every way imaginable to the point where even the author is embarassed by its existence. The series has even spawned it's own horrified meme "Oh John Ringo No". And yet, probably for the same reason people stare at train wrecks, you keep reading.
- In fact, the author isn't just embarrassed by the books, he openly admits that they suck horribly and would've never been published if not for the insistence of an acquaintance of his. Ringo infamously answered a very negative review of his books (the "Oh John Ringo No" one) with the words (paraphrased) "Spot on, man."
The Resident Evil novels by S. D. Perry. All the dumb storylines and lame dialogue, now in book form. Plus a blatant Marty Stu character. But it is so fun going over the storylines again and hearing everyone's internal thoughts.
The original Conan stories. Try explaining to anyone "Yes, they're racist and sexist and nonsensical but..." This extends to most other old adventure stories, which tend to be pretty awesome but are kept down out of Values Dissonance.
Sweet Valley High. The troper adding this has a huge stack of them that she reads when she wants to de-stress and got VERY upset when they were re-issued and made the twins a size smaller. She is also waiting for Sweet Valley Confidential to come out.

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2.4 Children
Alarm Fur Cobra 11, which is like a Michael Bay movie in German. Come for the Stuff Blowing Up, stay for the Impressive Pyrotechnics.
American Idol — Mostly the first couple of weeks with the open auditions to get into the show, where, aside from the rare showing of a person who's going to continue on, we get a parade of absolutely wretched singers, people totally pissed that their "phenomenal" singing skills aren't rewarded by the judges, and the absolutely indescribable (like William Hung, the crunky Leroy Biggums, or the guy who sang like Jigglypuff).
- In fairness, William Hung actually became a minor celebrity out of it, probably due to the fact that unlike a certain "diva" (who cussed her way out after getting a "no go") he actually owned up and showed a positive attitude... although the celebrity and media attention may have been due to him fitting a lot of Asian stereotypes. (Then again, the 'audition episodes' do seem to seek out the most outlandishly horrid auditions for their commercials, regardless of gender or ethnicity.)
- The guy that sung like Jigglypuff was probably doing it as either a) a lost bet, b) a dare, or c) to try and get on the "Worst of" special.
- Season 6 of AI was a Guilty Pleasure until just before "Idol Gives Back," in large part because of Sanjaya Malakar's Character Derailment; Simon disliked his early song choices on principle, which led to people believing he couldn't sing, and he only recovered when he decided that it didn't matter if he could sing. Ultimate runner-up Blake Lewis being a beat-boxer, and working that talent into strange places, probably didn't help. Neither did contestants picking free songs in the semis that were too modern for much of the AI audience, or else too offensive. (Sundance Head got booted for singing "Jeremy"; Alaina, for singing "Brass in Pocket"; and another girl for singing obscure Chaka Khan. Blake Lewis and Chris Sligh managed to get away with unknown songs because of their fan niches.) For these reasons, Season 7 of AI got a Re Tool which allowed true instruments and narrowed down early song choices.
- This Troper finds it hilarious that AI is considered a Guilty Pleasure - it gets 30 million viewers a night!!! That means one out of every ten Americans sits down on Tuesday/Wednesday night to watch this show, and somehow they all call it a Guilty Pleasure. Just admit you enjoy it.
- This troper ONLY watches Idol for the William Hung Parade. And only started watching it at all during season 8. Which was perfect timing, because...Michael Gurr. Just...Michael effing Gurr. Whose idea of "singing" was "I'm taking a really big shit, and it HURTS SO MUCH it's making me cry." Hung has nothing on that.
- This troper watches it because he goes to Votefortheworst.com but he doesn't actually hate the show. Oops!
America's Dumbest Criminals.
- In a similar vein, The Smoking Gun Presents: World's Dumbest __________ (different episodes have different themes), complete with wisecracks from C and D list "celebrities".
America's Funniest Home Videos — Groin Attacks. That is all.
- And here I thought I was alone. Heck, make that groin attacks in general.
  - As for AFV, what about the Bob Saget version?
America's Next Top Model. Despite the fact that after 10 cycles, not one actual top model has emerged. Despite Tyra Banks' constant ego trips, and despite the show generally spending more time watching the girls get into cat fights instead of actually modelling, this show soldiers on with a legion of fans who are not afraid to admit that they would not miss a single episode of this truly addicting Guilty Pleasure. After Cycle 9's rigged competition, though, some of them came close.
- Ironically, the Australian spinoff focuses on the modelling, is good enough that every single series has been notably successful even though they only show on cable, and in less than half the seasons has already created one internationally successful model.
Baywatch: See, there are these people whose jobs are to wear bathing suits, and... actually, that about covers it. Barely, since said bathing suits are often a size off.
Beverly Hills 90210: Here we have thirty-years-olds playing sixteen-years-olds. For ten years.
- In addition, the new one too. I don't know how many times I have to hear that "SHENAE CAME FROM TORONTO!", but damnit I watch it. Although, I can't talk about it to my friends.
Big Brother: It's The Real World meets Survivor, at least in the US.
- In the UK, it's just kak and only watched by the tabloids' TV critics.
Blind Date. Or any "reality" dating show for that matter. Find two people who are totally incompatible and put snarky comments about them on pop-up bubbles? Awesome.
- Again, here in the UK, we don't get the pop-up bubbles.
Bonekickers. Ludicrous plots, cliched dialogue, dodgy acting, even dodgier CGI, and the kind of direction that makes Indiana Jones look like an adventure. What's not to love?
- And an archaeologist who... seems to hate archaeology???
Britannia High. A British show that's a cross between High School Musical and Fame. Its badly written and has no likeable characters, but the songs are certainly catchy.
Casualty
Crossing Jordan. It's CSI without the science.
- ... Actually, CSI Miami is quite literally CSI without the science. But that thing Horatio does with his sunglasses is cool, right? ... Right?
  - YEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH! (I couldn't help myself. I'm sorry.)
  - It must be cool, ~~there's~~ there was a webpage dedicated to it. Sorry, the Wayback Machine doesn't have a copy either.
  - Don't forget Epic Oneliner!
  - "Are you paying the Who to follow us around again?"
  - I don't know about "without the science." But this fan-game-demo certainly understands that it isn't the show's primary appeal: Horatio Caine Master Investigator Don't forget to read the comments!
  - Also there's the relatively new yeaahh.com.
Doctor Who was this in the eighties, but nowadays people of all ages freely admit to watching it, now that it's the most popular drama on the BBC.
- Still a very guilty pleasure in North America. This troper is the only one out of all his friends who's even heard of it, and is trying to find a non-toxic way to introduce it to them. Preferably without bringing up the Nightmare Fuel inducing pepper shakers (yes, this is what we call pepperpots), or any comparisons to the other guys who time travel in a phone booth.
The Dukes of Hazzard: Let's face it, the real stars of the show were the car stunts and Catherine Bach's short-shorts. Often referred to as "the most popular show no-one watches" during its original run, because few over the age of fifteen would admit being a fan of the series.
Full House: The Olsen Twins, John Stamos, Dave Coulier, and Bob Saget? What could go wrong?
Gilligan's Island: Acting directly out of the Don't-Do-That! book. Plots that hold no surprises for any five-year-old, although the Dream Sequence episodes are fun.
- Any of the (all-too-rare) episodes where they're dealing with a more immediate problem than getting off the island, if only because it gives Gilligan a chance to be something besides The Millstone.
  - A good third of the episodes, rather than dealing with the castaways attempting to escape, involved them facing some danger that threatened to wipe them out, such as a massive storm, disease, or attacks by natives. In most of these cases, Gilligan ends up being the one who saves them all (admittedly, it's often by sheer luck, but he saves them nonetheless).
Jerry Springer: Today on Springer: "Teenage mothers on crack who are secretly dating their transvestite step-father's male persona, Part Two." Proudly declares itself the "worst show on television", and has been running in syndication since 1992!
- Following closely in Jerry's footsteps is the Maury Povich show, a.k.a. the "Paternity Test Hour". He and Jerry were the only ones to survive the glut of trash talk shows that emerged in the mid-to-late '90s. Further proof that if someone acts like an idiot on television, viewers will flock to it.
- There's a school of thought that Jerry and Maury's shows aren't so much Guilty Pleasures as they are a reminder to the viewer that no matter how bad their own lives are, at least they're not the people on these shows.
- Bonus points to The Oprah Winfrey Show for clambering out of this, gaining the mysterious ability to be as trashy as ever and yet be perceived as thoughtful.
- This troper likes Jerry Springer and other such shows because it's fun to watch shirtless white trash morons beat the snot out of each other on stage.
- This troper loves to watch Maury because it's fun to see the idiots get tricked by the sexy decoy and then tell their wives/girlfriends that "it wasn't me!" while said significant other is watching a video of husband/boyfriend get all sexy with the sexy decoy. Hee-larious.
Las Vegas. Molly Sims, Vanessa Marcil, skimpy costumes, and gambling? Must be NBC's formula for success. Surprisingly, it survived the dreaded 10 PM "Friday Night Death Slot" and managed to stay on the air for five seasons. The Montecito casino, however, may live on through references in other NBC shows.
My Hero: Somebody must like it, or it wouldn't have lasted this long. This editor has never met anybody who admits to liking it, however.
- You have now! (The talking baby was a bit much, though.)
- It has Hugh Dennis and Ardal O'Hanlon. I want to turn it off but I can't.
- This Troper's grandparents enjoyed it while it was on PBS and said troper and her parents got a big kick out of the one episode they saw (it was so insane that it was hilarious).
- This troper and his family all quite enjoyed it when Ardal O'Hanlon was involved, it was ridiculous but it was funny.
- It's often worth watching just to see Tyler. He's like a British Deadpool.
Power Rangers. Didactic and predictable, with cheesy special effects and even cheesier plots — but we can all remember jumping up and down on the couch and singing along to the Title Theme Tune.
- It has since gotten progressively better, less predictable, and so forth. Enough so, at least, to attract a boatload more guilty pleasure-seekers.
- This troper still believes that the theme tune to the original series contained one of the best guitar riffs of the 90's. Seriously.
  - This troper not only agrees, but bought nine of the original episodes on iTunes when he realized they were available.
  - Of course, especially the Mr. Big cover version!
- This troper has bonded with her father over the godawfulness of the last few editions. Power Rangers: bringing families together!
  - Heck, this troper is nearly an adult and she enjoys a good Power Rangers episode every now and then. (Too bad about the time slots, though...)
- Beyond Power Rangers, the handful of spinoffs that either showed up in the next few years, or, in some cases, were resurrected to capitalize on the success of Power Rangers. Masked Rider, VR Troopers, Superhuman Samurai Cyber Squad, Mystic Nights of Tir Na Nog, Tattoed Teenaged Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills. So bad. Yet so good.
  - Uh...those weren't spinoffs. Just as Power Rangers is an adaptation of numerous Toei Super Sentai series (Zyuranger, Dairanger, Kakuranger, Ohranger, etc), Masked Rider was an adaptation of the popular Kamen Rider franchise, and VR Troopers was another tokusatsu franchise adapted by Saban. The rest of the shows you mentioned are pretty much imitators of the Super Sentai formula, though.
Primeval: ITV's ripoff of Doctor Who which, actually, is quite enjoyable.
The Real World: This season, there will be temper-tantrums, spats, and drunk people in hot tubs. Like the last nine seasons. To keep things fresh, we bumped up the cleavage.
That's So Raven: A show about a girl who uses her Psychic Powers to help get her friends out of Zany Schemes. Sure, Lizzie McGuire came before it, but this is probably the show that fueled the Disney Channel's love affair for kid- and tweener-oriented live action comedies.
- This troper will admit to watching Hannah Montana occasionally, and is amused by it. While she is loathe to admit it, the episode where her father and brother get Snowed In at crazy motel, in the "lover's lair", while the insane man in charge talks to them via a Demonic Dummy, is pretty frickin' hilarious.
  - The insane man in charge was played by Kenneth Mars. Of course it's going to be frickin' hilarious.
  - And in the same vein, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, the ONLY tween-oriented show currently on Disney that I actually like. The sequel... not so much.
  - This troper got into Hannah Montana recently, and just saw the triple-threat Guilty Pleasure Wizards On Deck With Hannah Montana, and was astounded by the sheer nerve of the writers for FLOODING this show with sexual innuendo—especially the middle part, and most especially the scene with Alex hiding behind Zack's bed. WTF, Disney?!
  - Seconded by this troper who heard the line 'You'll just have to entertain yourself with what's in this room' saw Zack give Alex a leer of epic proportions and 'WTF Disney!'
- Pretty much anything Disney Channel churns out falls under this trope.
Much of the output of UPN...
- Special note for Star Trek Voyager. This show was highly confusing, often illogical (even with Tuvok there), and many episodes were effectively Mind Screws. But it ran for the full seven seasons, and many of the episodes are quite enjoyable once you apply the MST 3 K Mantra.
Professional Wrestling swings wildly between the predictable and the ridiculous, but when it's done right, the action is breathtaking — just don't tell anybody else that you like watching it, or they'll automatically deduct 20 IQ points in their estimation of you ("don't you know it's all fake?").
- Not after The Wrestler I wouldn't.
- It's more of a guilty pleasure if you're female. :(
  - Unless you're ogling the pretty one. This (male) troper saw a Pro Wrestling NOAH tag team match where all four wrestlers were Bishonen, the "senior" halves of both teams had past history together... and when he read it as a case of Ho Yay, it actually became more awesome.
Gossip Girl. Huge Love Dodecahedrons, intrigue, money, power struggles. Awe.Some.
Glee To quote this troper "All across America every woman, gay man, and me will be glued to this premiere."
Jackass... Just like America's Funniest Home Videos, except the hosts inflict grievous bodily harm on themselves... intentionally. How have they survived this long?
For this troper, this sums up his opinion of Friends just about exactly. The boneheaded plots and irritating characters can be brushed under the carpet when a good gag comes along once in a while.
The TV-reruns of movies like Dark Prince: True Story of Dracula. Historically inaccurate? Narm moments that would put Anakin Skywalker to shame? Yes. But this troper couldn't pass them up if she tried. Redeeming features include Rudolf Martin in black leather and Rudolf Martin in black leather.
Family Matters. Guiltier the further into the series you enjoyed watching it.
Torchwood. Bears a strong resemblance to Doctor Who Cookie Cutter Fic, with a Flanderized Jack Harkness fronting a team to unravel alien intrigue, usually sexually driven. Oh, and Everyone Is Bi.
- It Gets Better.
The Man Show... Well, the Adam Carolla/Jimmy Kimmel years, anyway. "Juggy Girls on trampolines/Time to loosen those blue jeans"... the theme song alone should let you know what you're getting into. After Carolla and Kimmel left, it quickly went straight to So Bad Its Horrible and cancellation.
- It doesn't help that the Carolla/Kimmel years were also misinterpreted by basically everyone; it was supposed to subtly mock the sort of chauvinism it was composed of, but wound up accruing a fanbase made up of exactly those people.
Mystery Science Theater 3000: Not the show directly, but the movies it snarks are automatically turned into Guilty Pleasures (while they would often be So Bad Its Horrible without). It could be said that this trope is what makes the show funny in the first place.
- I still say Cave Dwellers could have been good...
Survivor. The probable original intentions got derailed early on when Richard Hatch and co. defined game strategy; since then, many people who assert leadership or actual survival skills get voted off before they can reach the jury. As usually played, it is usually a psychological bloodsport with serious physical hardships mixed in. This last "half-star" season was especially chaotic, what with all the injuries and immunity hijinks. It is a nasty and messy show, and it can be addictive.
According To Jim. It is uncertain that anyone outside ABC publicly likes that show. For people who don't watch it, it can easily land in "Hey Is That Still On?" But, for reasons unknown, people are still watching it.
- [raises hand] This Troper publicly admits to liking and watching it.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World. Cheesy dinosaurs, a hot Jungle Princess in a skimpy outfit, ape men... The reasons to watch this show just keep going on and on.
- Also, Hydroelectric have started using Sir Arthur's rapidly spinning corpse to generate power...
Mind of Mencia, starring maligned comedian Carlos Mencia. Between his racially-charged humor (including egregious use of the ethnic slur "beaner") and the rumor that he may have lifted as many as 90% of his jokes from George Lopez, he's cultivated an anti-fandom as large as his fandom, mostly on the internet. Still, his opening monologue is good for a laugh or several.
Earth: Final Conflict, although this troper thought it was a legitimately good show.
- You're thinking of the 1st season.
Eurovision Song Contest — The yearly song contest that features political voting, oddball songs and really bizarre acts.
- Worth watching just for Terry Wogan's commentary. Not only does he snark at the weird acts and (with some success) predict which neighbouring countries will trade 12 point ratings, he usually starts taking it out on the hosts as the night goes on. If rumours of his resignation are true, ratings will plummet.
  - Well, in the UK, perhaps. This German troper freely admits to liking the contest, if only for our self-made snarky comments...
  - Now that Sir Terry Wogan has left, this troper has taken to watching with the TV on mute and the radio on at the same time in order to listen to Ken Bruce, another BBC Radio 2 presenter, doing pretty much what Terry Wogan used to do. The younger presenters of the semi final did pretty well, too, and now that they've had practice...
Beakmans World. Especially the rat.
Charmed is kind of like Buffy, only with crappier writing, less likeable characters, and less general awesomeness. But I still watch it, because... well, it's kind of enjoyable.
- Same here. It's strange because individual episodes are rather stupid, but the overarching plot for each season is rather interesting.
  - It's got Rose Mc Gowan - that's a redeeming quality enough.
  - Hell, it has three (fairly) hot chicks usually in fairly skimpy clothing - what's not to like?
- Charmed is actually a huge shame. Every once in a while, they had a great scene or awesome music or good acting or a brilliant episode or, hell, even nice clothes and showed us what they were capable of but, for the most of the time, they just decided not to put any effort in and coasted along.
Smallville. (But this troper is still watching because she loves the Green Arrow.)
Sesame Street. Awesome for both nostalgia factor and some genuinely funny sketches and parodies. Not to mention the unabashed squeeing this troper does when they show up in other works — I'm looking at you, Mr. Colbert. "Car is very energy efficient. It runs on imagination."
- See also: Mister Rogers.
Strangers With Candy is an odd example. It's not a Guilty Pleasure because it's bad, but because the question "So, what are you watching?" suddenly becomes very hard to answer. "Well, see, there's this prostitute..."
Mortal Kombat Conquest is currently on my watchlist over Stargate Atlantis and Heroes. Why? Every episode features insane numbers of hot women, fights with faceless goons, villains that overact like Quan Chi, a hero that hogs the spotlight in almost every single episode, a generic fantasy setting where words like "awesome" and "cool" are used in their modern context, cheesy techno music that wouldn't be out of place in a porno, most character cameos from the games are the faceless villains like Scorpian and his re-skins, and perhaps more. Yet, I just can't stop watching it!
Pick a Tokusatsu series. Any Tokusatsu series.
Merlin, the recent BBC series.
Xena Warrior Princess. So, there's going to be this dominatrix clad warrior woman with a bad past. She's gonna find a bitchy redhead who likes writing poetry; they're going to be lesbians. Now give her a flying disk thing, a horse, and throw in some Gods, make extremely unrealistic fight scenes, screw over 1000s of years of history and don't forget lots of leather and pretty scenery's.
Pick a Soap Opera. Any Soap Opera.
Saved By The Bell.
The Golden Girls. And it's a double whammy for when it's seen on LIFETIME.
Lazy Town. A Nick Jr. show that doesn't insult your intelligence, or your attention span.
Kitchen Nightmares. Nearly every episode is the same, but somehow it's really entertaining to watch Gordon Ramsey yell at people about how digusting their freezers are. "I'VE EATEN HERE!"
- On a similar note, Hells Kitchen is so blatantly staged. Between the chefs not being able to cook even the simplest meals or chefs that are so disrespectful and completely stupid but are never put up to be eliminated, you know the show is just a glorified soap opera. Regardless, watching the chefs crack under pressure and watching Ramsay calling them many names like YOU BLOODY DONKEY!! is worth a few laughs.
  - I know I should hate Hells Kitchen because it's a reality show and reality shows are as good for television as fast food for people, but, damn it all, I love seeing Ramsay rage all over the kitchen because someone brought up raw halibut to the pass.
Flavor of Love and all its spinoffs.
Who Wants To Be A Superhero?
- Diehard fan of Monkey Woman.
Ghost Hunters. I don't care whether it's scientific or even real! It's cool, dammit.
[[The Otaku Ninja This Troper likes watching show about about solving crimes/criminals/real-life cases/forsenics mainly because of her strong sense of justice and desire to see evil people be punished. (Though at times, she has gotten angry at certain cases, and her slight paranoia haen't been helped either...)
Unsolved Mysteries, the original with the late Robert Stack.
Wizards Of Waverly Place. At first look it's a typical Disney Channel tween show. But Alex is a total subversion of the typical Disney Channel heroine. She's a Karma Houdini anarchist.
Ripleys Believe It Or Not, the Jack Palance version.
Anything created by Joss Whedon.
Speeders.
The MTV latenight softcore porn Soap Opera Undressed owes every last second of its existence to this trope.
Every single Sci Fi (make that Syfy) original movie ever made falls into this category (if you can stand to watch it).
He's the bowss.
Judge Judy and her fellows. My Dad records them on DVR.

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Linkin Park, just, Linkin Park.
Any 80s song. Period.
Anything by the band Journey. Legitimized somewhat by the inclusion of the song "Don't Stop Believin'" in the finale of The Sopranos and in an episode of Family Guy, but find anyone who admits to liking "Wheel in the Sky"...
- This Troper has publicly claimed "Wheel in the Sky" as his favorite Journey song.
- The Supernatural episode Bloodlust makes good use of "Wheel In The Sky" on its Previously On segment and that's all this troper will admit to regarding it.
- Screw you, Journey's awesome.
  - I concur.
- Everyone and their dog loves "Separate Ways (Words Apart)", no matter their usual Journey Attitude.
  "Someday, love will find you\\Break those chains that bind you\\One night will remind you\\How we touched and went our separate ways..."
- I LOVE Journey. Wheel In the Sky, Any Way You Want It, Lights, even Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'.
- Wheel in the Sky is my life. Like the troper who replied first, if I hear anyone speak bad about it, I will cut them.
German Schlagers or Dutch Smartlappen. Most people will tell that they hate this music, but some of these people are outselling Madonna.
- One Word. HEINO.
  - Clap! Clap! Clap! Clap! Clap! Clap! Clap! Clap!
The Spice Girls sold about 13 trillion CDs in the mid-90's, and their songs were played to death on the radio. And yet not one person on Earth would admit to buying one of their albums.
- I will! And I enjoyed Spice World on top of that.
  - Really? I'm sorry to hear that.
  - I don't know who bought the CD in our house, but it's there.
- Ditto for every other manufactured band/performer/entity. Britney Spears, New Kids On The Block, The Backstreet Boys, N*Sync, Ricky Martin, Christina Aguilera… They all sold boatloads of albums and tickets, yet they don't seem to have any fans. At least the USA doesn't have generational bands like Menudo, yet.
  - This troper genuinely finds Aguilera's "Beautiful" quite inspirational. But isn't sure whether he likes Il Divo in an ironic manner or not... "All By Myself" sung straight-faced in Spanish?
  - This troper believes that music does not have to be art all the time and a lot of music is just meant to get your toes tapping. This is why there will always be bubblegum pop and why I'll keep chewing until my last tooth rots out. So There... Nyah.
  - Don't you dare include the Backstreet Boys in that list. I don't care about N'Sync (despite owning the first two albums), Ricky Martin (despite loving his self-titled album to death), or Britney Spears (despite really liking "Toxic," "Stronger," and "Hit Me Baby One More Time"). BSB is good.
  - This troper is barely 20, and she still enjoys a good Backstreet Boys/NSYNC song.
t.A.T.u. This troper admits he likes to hear t.A.T.u songs, when this troper is male and 20 years old. And no, he didn't like it because of the lesbian/lolicon fetishistic videos. Feels very pleasurable, yet very guilty at the same time.
- Ditto. They also do a cover of The Smiths' "How Soon Is Now?" that is legitimately really cool, if completely different...and about a third the length, despite being the whole thing (if you've heard the original, you should understand how that's possible).
  - DOOOOOOOOOOW-WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW
- Hell, this troper bought a signed, numbered copy of the hyperion-plate edition of their latest single as a gift for his best friend and can't wait for the album.
This troper actually likes B*Witched. There's something enthralling about that banjo! So there!
- You're not alone. Pop that CD in and I'm fourteen again...
- No disagreement there. This troper thinks the fact that they mix in traditional Irish instruments and musical techniques makes their style of pop much more interesting and enjoyable than US pop is.
Cobra Starship actually have a song called "Guilty Pleasure" and they are. This editor is unashamed.
- Well kind of, the song's not so much about liking something despite it not being cool to, but about liking someone you might not want to admit to liking. However this troper is willing to agree that the band itself are quite the guilty pleasure.
  - Considering one of the band's mission statements (supposedly following orders from [[ a talking cobra from the future]]) is to make hipsters stop taking themselves seriously, it might be somewhat intentional.
This troper likes any kind of 1980s bubblegum pop. From Tiffany to Paula Abdul's "Straight Up", play it for him, and he'll tap his foot with the best of them.
- Tiffany is mostly known for her one pop hit "I Think We're Alone Now", which is super cheesy. But she had a lot of great songs. If you can hear this and not shed a tear or two, you have no soul.
- When I confessed to my best friend that I secretly listen to Paula Abdul, he said, "Oh, honey" in the same tone he would have used if my cat had died. Who cares? I am Forever Her Girl.
- Debbie Gibson's "Foolish Beat". It is the only song This Troper can listen to over and over and over again and never get tired of. Goddamn, that saxophone work is beautiful. (Especially in the extended version of the song.)
And this troper, whenever he gets Rickrolled. usually stops to listen to the entire song. Hey, it's catchy. Don't judge me!
- "...I just wanna tell ya how I'm feeling, gonna make you understand! Never gonna give you up..." This troper agrees with you.
- Try having it in your regular playlist and announcing to everyone aware of the Meme when it pops up.
- Not to mention Tay Zonday's cover.
  - Or "Back Roll." For the uninitiated, that's Rick Astley overlaid with Sir Mix-A-Lot, and everyone I've showed it to agrees that it's actually really good.
  - How about "The Hand That Gives You Up"?
- I've, among other things, set it as my ringback theme on my phone (so that people hear it whenever they call me), hijacked a party's playlist with it, and used it as an audition song. I got a pretty good part with it, too!
This troper will admit to liking the much reviled English credits song for Symphony of the Night. "I am the Wind" isn't a bad song, really... just it's not suited for the game.
"We Built This City" is strongly hated for the hypocritical sound it has, but this troper thinks got a nice beat.
- Seconded
Disco — a whole genre of music has become this.
- This editor still listens to the Village People.
  - This troper's first CD ever was the Village People. It's STILL awesome.
This troper likes Bon Jovi. There, I said it.
- There's nothing quite like a good Hair Band...
  - Not anymore, anyway.
Styx's "Come Sail Away".
"Come sail away, come sail away, come sail away with me..."
- Perhaps my favourite South Park gag ever.
- Agreed. I love Styx in general, though.
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Family Guy said it best: Anything by Wayne Newton or Barry Manilow, including Copacabana, "Dankeschoen" and "Mandy"
- Manilow is utterly awesome as long as your remind yourself he's very much trying to be an entertainer, not a serious "artist" (or whatever people like to call themselves). He's a cheesy goofball with a knack for ridiculously catchy songs, and he doesn't take himself at all seriously.
Many Queen songs: "We Are The Champions", "Theme from Highlander", "We Will Rock You" and "Under Pressure".
- By "Theme from Highlander" do you mean "Princes of the Universe"? And how can you feel guilty about liking Queen?
- If liking "Under Pressure" is wrong, there's no way I want to be right.
- This troper used "Don't Stop Me Now" as motivational torture when writing a time-critical essay a few years ago. It was placed on loop and not taken off until the essay was finished. It must have done something to her brain... because by the end, she liked it.
- What do you mean, 'Flash Gordon approaching'?
- The notion that Queen is something to be ashamed of is so ridiculous to me, I can't even comprehend it. My favorite band by MILES AND MILES.
- Agreed, hell I've never known anyone to admit to NOT liking Queen. I'll second that.
"Trapped in The Closet" by R. Kelly. It has selfcontradictory sentences ("I drove 85 all the way home, then a policeman pulled me over for doing 60 in 50 mile per hour zone,") closeted incest, unrelated plotlines appearing out of thin air, characters who say what they feel and describe everything that happens, inappropriate rhymes and much more.
- This troper is pretty sure "Drove 85 all the way home" is referring to interstate highway 85, not the speed he was driving.
Most anime theme songs are silly J-pop fare. But darn, those guys often come up with the most insanely beautiful melodies - or so this troper thinks anyway.
Thanks to copius Youtube Poops, Hide and Seek by Imogen Heap.
- If you're male, her other songs apply as well. It's like estrogen distilled into song form.
  - This troper solves that problem by only playing I Megaphone around other people and keeping her later stuff to himself.
- Hey, this male troper thinks Imogen Heap's music is awesome and not at all guilty. and Hide and Seek ROCKS - it's utterly unique, musically, in my experience.
The entire soundtrack to The Transformers: The Movie, but particularly "The Touch" and "Dare", both by Stan Bush.
- This troper has that movies entire soundtrack and considers it Pure Awesome.
- The theme itself is covered twice in the movie; first by a band called Lion with movie-related lyrics (and they're awesome). The other consisted of a super-eighties synthesizer-based version of the theme, with Stan Bush progressively singing "Trans-formers! More than meets the eye!" in higher and higher keys.
Amy Winehouse. Sure, her life is a tabloid circus, the woman herself is a mess, and all her songs are hideously depressing... But blast it if the girl can't sing!
Tokio Hotel. Just...Tokio Hotel.
There seems to be some sort of taboo against admitting to liking Coldplay or James Blunt... despite the fact they've sold millions, and Viva La Vida whipped up a storm of publicity around its release. Recycled "Coldplay = you're gay" jokes don't tend to help.
- Nor does the lawsuit from Joe Satriani...
A huge majority of this troper's music library consists of eurobeat and video game soundtracks. He has no friends whose musical tastes top his in terms of ridiculousness.
OK, J-Pop fans, admit it. You like Morning Musume.
- Can I admit to loving Johnny's Entertainment instead? They're all addicting to watch, godammit!
Anything by Dragonforce that isn't Through the Fire and Flames. Lots of fast guitar playing and cheesy lyrics galore. And you get bombarded by those who hate it that they have no talent and that all the songs sound the same. But they have quite a large fanbase, since they are coming out with a fourth album.
- MY SOUL AND MY SPIRIT WILL GO OOON!
- FOR ALL OF ETERNITYYYY! Seriously, Dragonforce rules. Built for AM Vs, they was.
- FAR AWAY, WHERE OUR EYES NOW SEE THE DAY!
- In the land of desire, your heart filled with fire, you live for the right to be free! We will sail on, forever on, to the land of the evening star! In the land of desire, your heart filled with fire! The land of the evening staaar!
- This Troper listened to "Valley of the Damned" back when Dragonforce was Dragonheart and they had the song available on MP 3.com — I felt no guilt in enjoying it then, and I feel no guilt in enjoying it now.
  - Word. Speaking of that fourth album...it's farking awesome. 'Cept maybe "A Flame for Freedom," but "Last Journey Home" more than makes up for it.
  - And what's wrong with liking "Through the Fire and Flames", dare I ask?
- So what if all their songs sound the same? At least they're consistent.
  - Agreed. Why fix what isn't broken?
Chris De Burgh. This troper was recently exposed to "Spanish Train", and while it'd work far better sung by someone who can actually do rock, it's a pretty good ballad — despite it being Chris De Burgh...
- "Don't Pay The Ferryman" kicks so much ass that it should be illegal.
- "Patricia the Stipper" is a freaking great tune, also "Crusader" is badass.
ABBA. They wrote dozens of cheerful catchy songs, but to admit that you like them marks you forever as Uncool.
- Only really true in certain circles these days; ABBA has been pretty firmly established in the mainstream for over a decade now and you can very easily find people who like it irony free. Granted it still might considered a Guilty Pleasure if you are a straight young male (like this troper).
This troper has a completely un-guilty, shameless love for Enya.
- How is this a guilty pleasure anyway? This troper loves all her songs, and feels no shame for it.
  - Enya gets flak for being a New Age artist and being notoriously formulaic. Your Mileage Will Vary. This troper just pretends that all of her post-Watermark stuff consists of remix albums.
- Enya wins. Case closed.
- Along the same lines, Enigma.
  - This Troper lover what his parents call "that annoying moaning song", also known as Enigma's Return to Inocence
This troper is a huge metalhead and yet has a fondness for the band that got him into music in the first place... Linkin Park... shut up, they're not... that... bad... *sighs*
- Linkin Park are fine as long as you don't take them seriously.
  - This troper's mother, for some inexplicable reason, loved that band. This troper is an unrepentant metalhead, whose favorite bands include Nightwish, In Flames, and Devil Driver, and even he doesn't think Linkin Park is all that bad, though he'd never admit it aloud for fear of losing his street cred.
- This troper is a longtime Linkin Park fan (while still enjoying the music by the likes of Aqua and the Dave Matthews Band - I have very eclectic tastes, you see.)
- This troper enjoys Linkin Park, but equally enjoys spoofing their cookie-cutter emo style. "Craaaaawling iiiiiiin my eeeeeend! It doesn't matter what's craaaaaaawling iiiiiiin my eeeeeeeeend!"
This troper strangely enough never liked music until age sixteen, then became obsessed with rap (even mimicking the speech; year of my life I will never live down), eventually moved to heavy rock and initially disliked female lead singers and now stands with Nightwish, Evanescence, Within Temptation and Avril Lavigne as his favorites with only Disturbed ranked higher. He nonetheless admits this all proudly! You can imagine the reaction, especially when it is known this troper has played Girlfriend over two hundred times. Don't you judge my taste!
- I get all kinds of flak for pretty much only listening to metal with female singers (and the odd tuneful male one), as I don't think someone screaming into the mic is music.
  - WHO THE HELL SAID METAL WAS JUST DUDES SCREAMING INTO THE MIC?!?!?! Rob Halford is now officially gunning for YOU.
  - And he's BRIGHTER THAN A THOUSAND SUUUUUUUUUNS! That section of "Painkiller" is some of the best vocal harmony this troper's ever heard.
  - Female vocalists, for the most part, are about as melodic as mic feedback, so in a way, all women's music is metal.
  - Anybody who says all metal bands with male singers just do mindless screaming and noise has never heard Alice in Chains' Unplugged or Jar of Flies albums.
- Maybe it's not to your taste but to say you don't think it's music is to show yourself as ignorant.
Katy Perry. Sleazy club teen pop, but nonetheless ever-so-catchy. However, as her song "I Kissed A Girl" was once listed under So Bad Its Horrible, Your Mileage May Vary.
- I don't think the mileage varies so much for "Hot n Cold".
- "You're so gay / and you don't even like boys..." Great video of it too.
The One And Only MANOWAR (!) The sound can blow out your head (in a good way) but it is impossible to sing it in public ... or tell your secret special favorite to a serious metalhead.
Nearly everything Rod Stewart recorded after his early 70s singer-songwriter period falls under this trope. Come on, who hasn't found themselves singing "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?", especially when no one's around? Even Ned Flanders enjoys it, albeit in Bowdlerised form.
Puff Daddy, a.k.a. P Diddy, a.k.a. Diddy, a.k.a. Sean Combs, has done some really terrible songs. "Come With Me" from the Godzilla soundtrack is probably one of the most terrible ones. And yet this troper loves it. ^_^;
- The only good thing about "Come With Me" is Jimmy Page's guitar riff, which appeared 20 years earlier.
TLC, especially the song "Scrubs", which no one professed to like even when the band was at its peak, although my entire middle school (which, granted, only consisted of sixty kids) sang along to it when I requested it at my sixth grade Halloween dance...
DarknessLord loves the song "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun", which would be merely of questionable taste, if he wasn't male.
Depending on who you ask, Hair Metal falls under this, So Bad Its Good, or So Bad Its Horrible.
You Spin Me Right Round, baby, right round, like a record, baby, right round, round, round...
- Or anything else produced by Stock Aiken Waterman.
This troper's favorite band will always be Fischerspooner, even though few bands can hope to be as kitschy.
Remember 90s dance? Ace of Base, La Bouche, Le Click, Real McCoy, No Mercy, etc.? This troper is still listening.
- This Troper still listens to Ace of Base's second album ("The Bridge") on a semi-regular basis; in fact, it's his all time favorite album, with "Edge of Heaven" , and "Experience Pearls" being his favorite tracks.
- Let's not forget 2 Unlimited, Fun Factory, Haddaway, Capella... those were great times. This Troper refuses to acknowledge any of the modern dance music and switched to rock, but still loves 90s dance.
  - WHAT IS LOVE? Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more...
Every friggin' Award Bait Song ever. Sure, you can lament to your manly male friends all you like about how cheesy and overly sentimental they are. But you know, and we know, that you cry every time you listen to "Beauty and the Beast."
I love Alizee. And not just because of the fanservice.
I absolutely love every Creed album, I own all of the Nickelback C Ds and absolutely adore Linkin Park. How is it that these bands sold eleventy billion albums, and yet everyone is pretending that they don't like them now? I never got sick of Creed.
- This troper admits freely loving Nickelback as of late, although she doesn't much love the sex songs. The other half of their songs are good, though, and this troper also doesn't understand the hate suddenly generated for Nickelback.
This troper loves the group Chicago.
- Me too!
- This is a Guilty Pleasure? Chicago is awesome
  - Kath-era Chicago is awesome. After that...not everyone agrees.
- A-hem. They are the Chicago Transit Authority.
This troper still listens to the first two N'Sync albums. Backstreet Boys, as well, but I refuse to feel guilty about that.
The Killers. Yes, Brandon is crazy. Yes, the great Jeph reserves a special place in hell for them. Yes, their new album is shameless in its influences. Yes, "are we human or are we dancer" is a really stupid line. But still...
- Stuff guilty pleasures, The Killers ROCK. This troper loves their new album, thinks Sam's Town gets better everytime I listen to it and I don't even mind their version of Shadowplay - and I happen to be a huge Joy Division fan. And Tranquilise is awesome.
Jojo, German soft rock band. Very obscure. Listen to the sample of "Extasy" here http://www.aor-fm.com/playtrack.aspx?ID=876 Trust me, it's quite catchy if poppy as heck!
Two Words: Free Bird! This troper realizes it's become a cliche to play it or even mention it at a concert, but still likes the song itself.
- This troper does not feel guilty about liking "Free Bird". Requesting it on the other hand...
- This troper will proudly yell 'FREEBIRD!' every chance he gets. That's the song that separates the guitar men from the guitar boys.
Surely somebody else out there must still like September by Earth, Wind & Fire...
- What, people don't like that song? But it's so damn catchy!
- I hunted down a best-of CD JUST for that song!
- That's the song my husband and I danced to at our wedding because WE MET ON THE 21st of SEPTEMBER!!!!! How could people NOT like that song!
Don' wanna clo-ose mah eeeeeeyes! Don' wanna fa-all asleep, caws Ah miss you baby, an' I don' wanna miss a thi-ing! It may be cheesy as hell, but it makes for good AMV usage for Shipping, and Steven Tyler's facial expressions in the music video are funny as hell.
Miya-hee. Miya-hoo. Miya-ho. Miya-haha. No one alive will admit to liking this song. Key word: admit. We know. Oh yes, we know how much you love it. Don't worry, your secret's safe with us.
- While on the subject of internet meme music: "Tunak Tunak Tun."
One word, children of the 90s - MMMBop.
- ... Da ba doo wop. Dooby da- DAMMIT LOOK WHAT YOU HAVE STARTED.
- When VH-1 listed MMMBop as one of the Top 100 songs of the 90s, one reviewer said it perfectly: You can try to resist the effervescent charm of Hanson .... but why?
- WORD. Hanson was this troper's first concert. She was thirteen, so her dad went with her... and he enjoyed the music.
This troper normally doesn't like My Chemical Romance that much, but for whatever reason, loves the hell out of "The Black Parade". I don't care how full of Narm it is.
- This troper, who hates the band vehemently, will acknowledge that they are at least reliably catchy. And sometimes, when no one else is in the room, listens to that song "Honey, This Mirror Isn't Big Enough For the Two of Us".
- Teenagers.
Almost all of the James Bond title songs are insanely awesome, but then there's the song for The Man With The Golden Gun which is just awesomely insane. Lulu belts out the Barely-single-entendre lyrics with such conviction, you really can't help but love the total OTT-ness of it all. It also doesn't hurt that the basic tune is quite catchy — just ask this guy.
- The end titles to Moonraker. In this instance, if disco is wrong, then I don't want to be right.
Two words: Meat. Loaf. So cheesy, yet so hilariously awesome.
I wanna know what love is... I want you to show me...
Anyone who's considered a "gay icon" (Barbra, Judy, etc.).
This troper wonders if people would look at him funny for liking Melissa Etheridge.
- Or Le Ann Rimes.
This troper has concluded that he is the only person on Earth who Wants to Be A Cowboy. Yo yo yo.
The A*Teens. Just the A*Teens. Teen Spirit is still great.
- I even got my fiance to like them. Now he enjoys "Upside Down" as much as I do :D
  - This troper's delighted to learn she isn't the only one. She also used to comfort herself during the lonely hours of school days by that song.
Even in the 1990s when pop opera musicals were still dominating Broadway, a fangirl of Michael Crawford had to brace herself for scorn. It was worth it though, and still is - his range (both in voice and choices of material) and heart-on-his-sleeve emotion brings out the beauty in even the silliest showtune.
"One (Always Hardcore)" by Scooter. Don't think too hard on the lyrics.
- At least for the German audience, Scooter in general - should not be surprising, since they're very much about doing the same song about a billion times, yet always sell like mad. And yes, this troper admits to liking it. In small doses.
Mecha theme songs. Cheesy yet epic with a slight hint of earworm.
This troper loves the whole New Age genre.
- Seconded. At least you know they're Doing It For The Art since they'll never be on radio.
This troper likes the band Bush. Yes, they are blatant Nirvana clones. Yes they are full of overly angsty borderline narmful lyrics. This troper likes them anyway.
Gino Vannelli. And if all you've heard is "I Just Wanna Stop," you have no idea.
What What (In The Butt). Goddammit.
Children's music, especially of the Sunday School sort. You will never convince this troper that he is too old to be listening to "Jesus Loves Me" or "Father Abraham".
This troper admits to liking some (but not all) Eminem songs.
Young Love. The band is so blatantly geared towards teenage girls, it's a wonder that I even like them.
I like K-pop and think Korean celebs are so hot. I could never admit this in public because I'll get weird stares since I'm not Asian.
Air Supply is awesome. "Making Love Out of Nothing at All" is freaking epic, man.
*cough* I'm Ri, and I regularly listen to Disney movie songs.
Video game music. All of it. Well, at least music that is clearly out of a game, like everything out of the 16-bit era and before.
- Says you! Half my iPod is video game music, and I'm damn proud of it!
- On that subject, remixes by The One Ups are good enough to not be guilty pleasures.
- Really? Video game music? This troper has yet to see anyone who appears ashamed or scorns people who play video game music. Logically speaking, the people who didn't like the game wouldn't have played through it (and therefore wouldn't remember the tune of the music). And the people who did like the game and remember the music... would have no reason to be ashamed or dislike it. In fact, every time this troper saw people recognize a video game music, they tended to think it was really cool and were very happy about it.
  - Video game music is nothing but beeps and blips.
Disney tween-pop artists, such as Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers, generally have cheesy lyrics and subjects that have been done to death. And they pretty much take up most of the memory on my iPod.
Rock Me Amadeus!
Mariah Carey's stuff. Yes, she's awful. Yes, she's brainless and completely self-obsessed but... goddamnit, her songs are creepily catchy.
Slipknot. They're frighteningly unoriginal, they're a nine-piece band where at least two of the members are utterly superfluous, they use a DJ, they wear stupid masks, they sing power ballads while wearing said stupid masks, their lyrics read like a 14-year-old's diary who just watched all the Tarantino movies in a row, and their fanbase is just so insanely stupid, constantly claiming that they're a real metal band. But... for just a song or two... they're so damn GROOVY!
Prog rock in general. Yup, I know Yes's lyrics mean absolutely sod all. Yup, I know Genesis are often in danger of disappearing up their own arses. But damn, if there was ever a more epic half-hour than the Close to the Edge album, or anything more brilliantly insane than Selling England By The Pound, I'll be rather surprised.
- Yes is awesome! As is ELP. I'll listen to the ridiculous yet awesomely epic "Karn Evil 9" over and over and over again. WELCOME BACK MY FRIENDS TO THE SHOW THAT NEVER ENDS etc.
This is humppaa. Admit it, you're secretly adding this to your iPod right now, aren't you?
This song is seen (heard?) through nostalgia goggles, but I still love Pretty Woman's It Must Have Been Love. All reasoning suggests I shouldn't like this song, but I really do dangit.
T-Pain's "Apple Bottom Jeans" song. I LOVE that tune. Especially when this kid and his sister are dancin' to it.
This troper's guilty pleasure is "Ice Ice Baby." I have yet to find someone else on this wiki who likes this song.
This troper's favorite band is the pillows, but the strange glances from friends who hear Sawao Yamanaka's unedited singing voice keep him pretty quiet about it.
Snap's "Rhythm is a Dancer," the Bangles' "Eternal Flame," and Roxette's "Listen To Your Heart."
I spent the entire time reading this page listening to various songs from the Pokémon soundtracks. Note: songs, not instrumentals. I actually really like them. I currently have "You and Me and Pokémon" playing.
Most of the songs I like, I like loudly and proudly without any admission that they should probably be guilty pleasures. Bring It from Snakes On A Plane, on the other hand, will make me scratch my neck and turn away...
This song is listed on the page for narm, but that doesn't mean anything, I mean, Zombie cheerleaders? What's not to love?

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Cats. Isn't it interesting that a musical nobody ever admits to liking is the second-longest running show in Broadway history?
- I admit to liking it. I even admit to owning the DVD. It's like Cirque du Soleil without the pretentiousness.
- While on the subject of Andrew Lloyd Webber, this troper freely admits to an unabashed and unironic love for The Phantom Of The Opera—every spectacle-laden melodramatic minute of it. (Just don't ask me about the movie. Seriously, don't.)
  - I'm supposed to feel guilty about that?! (And I loved the movie. Then again, it was the first version I ever saw.)
  - If you're a "serious" music theater fan...yes.
  - I'll be serious when I'm dead. For now, let me watch the spectacle. (Although, I still hate the movie)
- Though, with Cats, it seems to be less a guilty pleasure and more a 'how do I describe anything in this without sounding insane?' deal. This troper openly admits to loving the musical with a passion, but trying to say anything more than that makes people think you're on crack unless they've seen it themselves.
  - "The five second plot with Grizabella is damned beautiful"?
In reference to the above comment, this troper loves Cirque du Soleil shows — especially Mystere — unironically. But she won't deny they still get a big "huh?" out of a lot of people, especially the ones that shade into True Art Is Incomprehensible (she hasn't quite figured out all the seemingly random background characters in "O"). Heck, circus in general can be seen as a Guilty Pleasure nowadays, if only because of the poor opinion people have of clowns...and don't get some people started on animal acts.
Any and all Las Vegas shows. Cirque, the departed Sigfried & Roy, the few "feather shows" still running, celebrity impersonators, magicians — it's a marvelous parade of Guilty Pleasures.
- Them and, face it, the whole Las Vegas tourist industry is built on Guilty Pleasures.
Anything by Frank Wildhorn. Especially Jekyll and Hyde.
- Hey now, Jekyll and Hyde is *awesome* ((I will hurt you if you say you like "This is the moment"
- This troper has to admit that she even likes the Hasselhoff version- though that's mostly because it's the only one she has been able to find...
Disney on Ice shows, especially the ones that serve as Massive Multiplayer Crossover stories. An early 90s edition alone combined characters from Ducktales, The Little Mermaid, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and The Jungle Book, plus Mickey Mouse and his gang and a handful of cameos.
Their spiritual predecessor, the infamous Ice Capades, went extinct at the turn of the millennium, but it was basically the G-rated equivalent of old-school Vegas shows, the butt of many a joke. (Part of the reason for its demise was that pro skaters were tired of playing second fiddle to cartoon characters and sequined kicklines and started more straightforward exhibition tours.)
The musical Anyone Can Whistle. Its plot alternates between imbecility and incoherence, but its Stephen Sondheim score is worth listening to.
Wicked. The script and the lyrics are cheesy, and the plot is incredibly Disneyfied. But who cares? I call it Wonderful.
- "Believe me, it's hard to resist/'Cause it feels wonderful." ;D

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Just as many adults would rather no one knew of them playing with their kids' toys, or, heaven forbid, buy their own (and many teenagers seem to pretend that they emerged into the world as they are, akin to Minerva), a lot of people outside the target audience of a show won't admit to watching it.
This troper still collects Hot Wheels cars even though he only started doing so last year. And this troper is 23 going on 24.
The Half-Life plushies are so cute… even for a male around 30 years.
- So sad it's not available in retail and is often out of stock. :(
Image Macros.
Toy weapons. Especially lightsabers and guns.
- This troper has an arsenal of Nerf guns that could only be described as Crazy Prepared... if terrorists were vulnerable to flying foam.
  - This troper brought a sampling of his arsenal to college. The blasters are stored in a duffle bag over his shelf space. The weather's getting nicer...it's only a matter of time...
  - This troper has gotten into Nerf despite his age, having recently acquired a Maverick, and now, a Vulcan. Also, while not exactly a Nerf brand, he also has a double-barreled shotgun with realisting loading and awesome shell ejecting action, for when he needs to hunt for foam animals. Or zomb ies. Foam zombies.
- Also, the Nerf Vulcan EBF-25 must have been made for adults. It's a belt-fed, motorized Nerf machine gun with a freaking tripod. I Call It Vera.
  - Really? I call it the Nerf Heavy Bolter.
You never outgrow Lego. I will fight you if you disagree.
- Wait a minute...there are people who deny this?!?! How can you outgrow Lego??
- Of course, Lego has been combatting this with advanced product lines like Pneumatics, Technic and Mindstorms.
  - Also, they have come to terms with the fact they have a strong adult fanbase and have reached out to them via elaborate community programs, often going so far as involving fans in design processes. This Troper should know, he's a LEGO Ambassador. Go get some, you know you want to.
- This troper outgrew Legos around the age of 14. Around the age of 21, he grew back into them... and discovered why his parents wouldn't get him all the Legos he wanted. They're insanely expensive, and as yet this troper can't justify spending that much money on what basically amounts to toys, vs. bills, insurance, and groceries. Damn you cruel world!
  - The tendency to drop LEGO for a while, and coming back when you understand it's not as childish as they would have you believe, is fairly common and is known as one's dark ages. Most people coming out of it know that you can't ever say "legos", though. How dare you.
- This troper didn't so much as outgrow them but they stopped selling the sets and basic pieces that he liked most, combined with them becoming very expensive.
- This troper's parents bought the Lego sets for themselves, and we kids got each kit after they were through playing with them.
- Lego Digital Designer. Build a virtual model, then order exactly the pieces to build it for real. This troper used it to build the original Megazord (TWO HIT COMBO!). (Now all he has to do is actually order the parts.)
  - WWWWHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAT? this troper completely forgot about that program. /mourns the stuff that is in all likelihood unrecoverable/
- This troper actually grew into LEGO, having not really built any until her little brother started collecting Bionicle.
- This troper grew up loving LEGO but eventually moved on to other things. Now, he has a seven-year-old son. Guess who's back into LEGO again? The boy got literally ten sets of LEGO for his birthday between family and friends, and guess who put them all together (the Darth Vader TIE Fighter is far too cool). I just spent some time at the LEGO store that's 15 minutes from my house and picked up the $499.99, more than FIVE THOUSAND PIECE Millenium Falcon and considered it strongly, until I got the "look of death" from the wife and slowly put it back. Incidentally, I'm 39, and have said more than once that if I ever win the lottery, I'm building a new house that's going to have a large LEGO room just for those toys.
Coloring books.
- Um, why? I collect ones featuring Disney characters — where else are you going to find pages and pages of on-model line art for only a few bucks?
Transformers would be right up there with Lego in the "toys you don't outgrow" category.
- This troper has shevels full of vintage/reissued Transformers, but the most cherished is my Defensor. He's over 24 years old, fully complete, and a few years ago was given a full cleaning and application of reproduction labels for him. He stands top center above my computer monitor, and if anyone, be they sibling or supermodel, damages him, their body will never be found.
- One defence that may not be good but nobody's complained yet: "Dinobot was awesome".
Fans of Ball-Jointed Dolls often like them for their artistry, their customizability, and as an outlet for playful and creative expression. There is little doubt that the main target audience for these dolls are full grown adult collectors (who often pay up to hundreds of dollars for them and for their clothing and accessories.) And yet, you'll be hard-pressed to find a BJD fan who hasn't been told at least once, "Aren't you a little too old to be playing with dolls?" You either come to terms with it or go completely daft and start calling them your resin babies.
I used to joke about being the only 21 yearold guy who lives with his mother and sleeps with a teddybear. Then I moved out and it stopped being so valid, though I still sleep with the teddybear.
- This troper would like to mention that both she and her husband cuddle teddy bears (as well as each other) and that they don't think there's anything wrong with that.
- If you try to take away William and Spottie, this troper's two well-loved stuffed whales, you are liable to get your eyes clawed out.
- This troper and one of her female friends got together to take one of their male friends to Build-a-Bear Workshop. His squeeing nearly broke the windows in the place, as did his ridiculous hopping-up-and-down reaction when he discovered that he could dress his bear up in an Air (Bear?) Force uniform.
- On that note, Beanie Babies could easily fall into this category — especially the new 2.0 line, where they come with secret codes to allow you to play with your Beanie in their own cutesy virtual world. This troper always makes sure to play with and feed her Fluffball (a hamster) before going to bed!
- This troper is 29 and would like to note that you can take her stuffed toy donkey when you pry it from her cold, dead hands. And she still lived with her mother at 20.
- This troper never got on with stuffed animals. But if you hurt her Vegeta action figure, you have seen your last sunrise. (And no, she doesn't sleep with it, it's on a nearby shelf.)
- This Troper got his teddybear when he was 1 year old. He still has it. He still sleeps with it. And he's happy with it.
- This Troper has had a teddybear ever since he was born, and is now 18. Though he dosen't draw very much attention to it while sleeping. Interesting fact is when this troper was got it, the bear was bigger then him (and the bear is just over a foot tall).
- This troper still has his "Big Bear" which he got when he was about 2 years old. He's 18 now and still sleeps clutching him tightly.
  - The saddest thing about going to college six states away from where I grew up is that my four foot long White Bear couldn't come with me.
- This 19 year old male troper sleeps with plush dogs and a plush baby chick he has had SINCE HE WAS 2!
- This troper not only sleeps with an orange bunny rabbit she's had since she was eight, she also can't remember the last time said rabbit had a wash.
- Not even the love of this troper's life can come between her and a battered pink baby blanket as old as she is.
  - Ditto in blue.
  - Ditto in peach (but it's faded to more of a whitish pink color).
  - Same in blue, pink and yellow checks.
  - Ha! I win! Mine has DINOSAURS!
  - Beat this: My pink blanket was crocheted by my great grandmother for me since I was her first great granchild and named for her.
- This troper sleeps with a plush dog, though he (probably wisely) chose not to bring him to college. The poor thing needs a little surgery, though.
- This Troper has a perfectly valid reason for collecting stuffed lions of various sizes, and some of the others are sentimental, or classic... No such excuse for sleeping with Mokona (Larg, not the manga-ka).
  - OMG I have a plushy Mokona too! :D
- This Troper went to Build-a-Bear on her twentieth birthday. She quickly became so attached to her bunny, Lloyd, that he is the only plush toy she actively searches for upon waking up (as she tend to toss a lot, plushies have a history of ending up on the floor). Beyond that a wolf, cat, and alligator also share her bed.
- This troper's 22-year-old sister? She sleeps with her plush lamb. And the troper used to sleep with her plush baby seal... and sometimes still does.
- This 19-year-old Troper has six soft toys (affectionately dubbed the Bed Crew) that he always sleeps with, whether he is at home, at uni, or on holiday. They consist of a lion Beanie Baby, a panda he got when he was just six hours old, a smaller panda, two dragons (one green, one bue), and Tinky-Winky. He has no idea why he just admitted to that last one.
- This troper was heavily influenced by certain Pixar films at a young age...so when I go off to college in a year or so, some of my stuffies are coming with me!
- *sniff* Now you got me... I love you, Felix, you are the best plush dog ever!!!
- Remember Puffalumps? This troper has eight of them, one of which is the designated traveling companion. They're all mostly falling apart due to 21 years worth of love and cuddles, and I long ago realized that I would risk my life to rescue them from natural disasters. Losing them now would be like losing an arm.
- This troper slept with two stuffed animals (one of which he got at age 1) until he was 21. One day when he was in a particularly bad mood (probably after an argument with his then-girlfriend) he picked up those stuffed animals and said "I'm twenty-one fucking years old, I don't need this crap!" and threw them into the closet, where they remain to this day. This troper is now 25. And after reading some of the above, he feels like a grade-A jerk.
Webkiiiiiinz...
- Beanie Babies came first.
- This troper is nearly an adult, but I still have a lot of stuffed animals including my beloved teddy bear I got for my first birthday, a couple of unicorns, a few Pokemon plushies, a wolf, a Kakashi plushie I got from my friend, a white tiger I made at a Build-A-Bear-type store, and newest to the bunch, a little snake and a black cat that's rather tall/long.
This troper owns 74 cuddly toys and still wants more, I tend not to invite people round a lot.
This troper is of the age where his high school classmates will castrate him for owning Star Wars action figures, let alone play with them. And yet, someone was in his room last night reenacting Commander Cody and Captain Rex's campaign for the planet Rodia...
Damn you E Bay for taunting me with Stitch and Angel (and Scrump) plushies from Japan! In fact, screw Japan and their infinately better toy designs.
Bubble wrap. Not designed as a "toy" per se, but OMG so much fun for this troper even at age 39. Pop pop pop pop pop...
- My handle is Rand and I've been popping bubbles in wraps far longer than I care to remember...
  - All: Hi Rand....
- This troper took a roll of giant bubblewrap (think bubbles the size of your hand) to an arts-and-crafts event full of college kids. Let's just say it didn't get used for art. (BANG!)
- This troper believes that this one of the few universal human traits: regarless of what culture you've been brought up in, even if you were raised in a wooden hut in the middle of the rain forest and had no contact with "civilization", when given a sheet a bubble wrap, you WILL be popping some and enjoy it.
  - According to WALL-E, this impulse extends even to artificial intelligence, so you're probably on to something there...
Apparently, you are expected to stop playing with Barbie dolls by the age of thirteen. I'm sure there are other sophomores on my college campus who still play with them, but since we all do it in secret I've never met them.
- This college age troper has seen a woman in her class break out the Bratz and Barbie dolls (complete with brushes and FURNITURE) in the middle of our Ethnic Studies course.
Beyblades. Nuff said.
This 20-something troper's pride and joy is her collection of paper dolls.
Collecting figurines of certain anime and games isn't something this troper likes to display◊ very often...mostly due to some unfortunate connotations.
Any and all collectible card games. Ever.
- I've gotta find where I put my old collection of Pokemon cards!
- This troper seconds that.
In college, This Trouper was known to stage giant battle royales with his 20-odd Rasslin' action figures to relieve stress.
Oh, hell. I don't care that I'm a grown woman with a healthy social life, My Little Pony dolls are my passion.
Power Rangers toys of all kinds.
Toy commercials of all kinds.
Any form of sex toy, for obvious reasons.

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Golden Tee Golf. None of the major gaming sites talk about this arcade golf game, but the game has become a phenomenon at bars and pubs across America.
- That the one with the giant ball? Yeah I've played that a couple times. But only when I was high.
- Pretty much any game from Golden Tee publishers Incredible Technologies qualifies, too, especially Silver Strike Bowling and Target Toss Pro: Bags, with the latter game showing up on Wii Ware last month... and it was still ignored by the mainstream gaming media despite being in the top 5 WiiWare downloads list since its second week up on the service...
Most games produced by Eugene Jarvis fall under this trope. Nobody on the Internet will admit to liking the Cruis'n driving games, or especially ''Target: Terror''...
- This troper does like ''Fast and the Furious: Drift'', though. It plays like a Cruis'n game, but with the license of another guilty pleasure thrown on and some cool track designs.
Dead Or Alive Xtreme, because "games" with chicks in bikinis always sell. Heck, let's just throw The Movie in there, while we're at it.
- The same goes for Rumble Roses, a pair of all-female wrestling games fueled by Fanservice. Hell, the back cover blurb for the PS 2 edition openly acknowledges its status by coming out and saying "Face it, you've always wanted this."
- This Troper actually bought the original Dead Or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball. Initially, it was out of curiosity for the fanservice. But then he actually played the volleyball portion of the game. Turns out, he now believes it's the best volleyball videogame EVER (the fanservice is just a nice side bonus). And he has no trouble admitting it to anyone who might ask.
  - DOA XBV was surprisingly good! The volleyball was simplistic, but fun in a way and the gambling during the night was so addictive.
Again, Pokemon. It's rare to find someone past puberty who's willing to admit to liking the games, but there are plenty of 'em. Including this troper. (And this one) (As does this troper) (And This Troper's High School Calculus class. (as does [1] this troper who turn 24 in TWO FUCKING WEEKS.)
- This troper is happy to disagree. Her entire class of 15-16yr olds often play it in class. This troper acheived greatness for trading a Shiny Riolu for a non-Shiny Feebas. During a test. Why? She damn well wanted a Milotic and she hates Lucario regardless of shine. Hooray for Wi Fi! She also witnessed a Crowning Moment of Awesome for a friend; said friend was able to defeat an EV'd Entei with a Delcatty. In less then five turns.
- This article criticizes the tendency for it to rarely even make any gaming site's "Top 100" despite how genuinely fun the games are, even when the same site will give it a fairly good rating.
  - Incidentally, the anime's first theme, Pokemon Theme, is awesome.
- Speaking of Pokemon, this troper, her brother, and a mutual friend have wasted many hours of their lives that they will never get back playing Hey You, Pikachu together. It was fun.
- Shin Megami Tensei is Pokemon on crack. You gather demonic allies, train them, fuse them to gain new demonic allies, negotiate with enemy demons while fighting with them, and so on.
- But Nintendo took SMT and simplified/marketed it for kids...
  - Oh dear God the Fusion Search function in the DS game, Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor. It's like putting the internet fusion guide into the DS and then making it amazingly easy to use! Yes, I know that half the fun of a Shin Megami Tensei game is the fusion aspect to find new demons, but the Search function saves so much time and frustration in finding that perfect combination. Even jaded hardcore fans should appreciate the accessibility it adds to the game!
- This troper has to admit liking the games very much, but not having a DS (and thus the newer games) due to being a broke college student whose entertainment budget (roughly $30/month) is spent on MMOs.
- I gave up the series years ago, yet was recently dragged back. Pokemon was always awesome and I shall admit that to anyone who asks dammit!
- This troper was recently at a party where the subject of Pokemon came up. He described it as "that one thing from your childhood you would love to admit you never got into, but can't cause everyone knows your a damn liar and did somehow get sucked in." Cue one (big, burly male) guest pulling a Mime Jr. doll out of his shirt and shoving it in my face.
  - My (belated) Christmas present to Ni xon was a soft toy Mudkip. I herd he lieked them.
- This Troper is guilty, and he knows a few friends who like it as well. Unfortunately, This Troper is the only one This Troper knows in real life that knows about Smogon and EV training and stuff like that. However, This Troper has noticed that Pokemon is much more popular with the online community. Places such as Gaia Online house a pretty large Pokemon fanbase and a decent number of Pokemon roleplays.
- This troper prefers Ruby & Sapphire over all games, and I've played since the beginning. Also, Pokemon Battle Revolution, a game mostly seen as So Bad Its Horrible.
- Hi. My name is ______ and I'm 39, married, have two kids, and I love ... I love ... *sob* "Say it! Let it out!" I LOVE POKEMON!
- When this troper bought his Game Boy Color, he picked up a copy of Pokemon Yellow "to see what all the fuss is about." He then went on to buy Red and Blue, not to mention a Nintendo 64 Pokemon Stadium Bundle Set. Just last night I used Pearl to make eggs for Charmander, Squitle, and Bulbasaur for my Platinum game. One of the reasons he bought a D Si was so I could trade Pokemon by myself. At age 37. I also make sure to get/breed a Raichu in every game since.
- This 20-years-old troper probably got herself a boyfriend just by admitting she is a big Pokemon nerd (and spending the following three hours discussing strategies with the soon-to-be boyfriend).
- This troper has been a fan of Pokemon ever since it came out, and it's one of the few video games I'd actually play. I haven't played a game in years, though, but maybe one of these days I'll start up again...
This troper has tons of them, so she might as well go down a list:
- Vexx. Derivative Platformer that takes the whole Darker And Edgier thing to ridiculous levels—the game's signature MacGuffins are disembodied demon hearts, for one thing. However, it does have some good jumping puzzles, an actual difficulty curve (a rarity these days, as the hardcore frequently lament), and some pretty sweet music.
  - Ah, but the levels are ridiculous in a mind-blowingly beautiful way.
- The Pokémon Trading Card Game for the Game Boy Color. Exactly What It Says On The Tin. It's like regular Pokémon, but not! It's even more Serious Business than usual! It's actually really fun!
  - Oh, man, I can't believe someone other than me remembers this game.
  - Best. Game. In. The. Entire. Franchise. My brother and I agree, and while we were disappointed when our Yellow and Gold games didn't work after a few years, it didn't yet match the devastation of when our TCG game stopped working after a few months (due to, I later learned, a glitch that caused the save mechanism to fail or something?). This discovery was later followed by the very bitter realization that there was a SECOND TCG for Gameboy game featuring the Team Rocket set. Which would have allowed this troper to build her dream deck with Dark Blastoise...
  - I had that game! I can't remember a damn thing about my deck, though, it was like 10 years ago.
  - Potentially neverending gameplay, that's what I say. One of my favorite Game Boy games. By the way, an unofficial translation of the second game is in works: here.
  - I borrowed that game from a friend and got so addicted that I finished the thing in roughly 24 hours while having high fever. Best TCG Video Game ever.
  - This troper cites the very well-written soundtrack as part of his reason for liking the game. But of course, the gameplay itself is solid—heck, it taught this troper how to play the damn TCG!
- Yoshi's Story. An almost universally maligned side-scrolling Platformer that is nonetheless near and dear to my heart. Partially due to its difficulty under the right kind of Self Imposed Challenge (nothing but melons on a level) and partially due to nostalgia. Certain songs from the game have actually been known to make me tear up.
  - You are not alone! This troper got it on VC and while it hadn't aged well, he still loved the [[TastesLikeDiabetes super cute artstyle and those songs...
- Pokemon Snap. Yep, more Pokeymans! It's actually a Rail Shooter, so this one may get more of a pass than usual.
  - Well, I liked that one too. Though I never got to play all that much.
  - I have a funny memory about that game, actually. I loved it to bits, and one day, when my save disappeared, I got severely pissed at a friend because I thought he caused it. I then spent the next few hours getting through all six levels only to find out that the game's save battery was dead, and that's why I lost my previous game.
- Just about any Mons game gets this troper in a tizzy.
- This troper collects them! He hasn't even finished Pearl version! And it's for lack of trying, I swear!
This troper loves Prince of Persia 3D.
This troper proudly admits to loving Sonic 3D Blast. Sure, the gameplay wasn't amazing, but it had some really catchy music...
- This troper thinks that the gameplay really isn't all that bad, if you think of it more as the sequel to the first Flicky instead of a Sonic game. And the Special Zones in the Sega Saturn version are the best special stages in the entire series, bar none.
This troper, usually, has good taste in games and can differentiate between competence and shit but he has an affinity for fighting games, even the really bad ones. Battle Arena Toshinden, Killer Instinct, Steet Fighter, War Gods, Mortal Kombats after 3 and the original Virtua Fighter all held his interest. He does have a limit, though: Time Killers was too shitty.
- This troper is a big fan of most fighting games, too.
Bloody Roar is a workable fighter, but just that, and just barely, in a fairly filled genre with many better-designed options. It's still enjoyable to watch a penguin beat the snot out of a werewolf, even if there is a bit of button-mashing involved.
- This troper admits that BR 1 and 2 were really good, and 4 sucks
- This troper has only ever played the third one and enjoys it specifically because of the interesting monster fight comboes, like a giant rabbit-girl fighting a giant mole-man.
- 2 isn't a GP at all, really. I mean the graphics are complete crap, but the mechanics are so utterly wonderful, and the ai is among the best in almost any fighting game. If this one was realsed in place of PF or 4, no one would call the games button mashers. 3 isn't bad, but everytime I play, I can't help but wonder why im not playing Soul Calibur instead
- This troper thinks that 4 is another GP. Yes, the game sucks and kills the franchise, and the voice acting sucks. But hey, you gotta be lying if you don't think that Nagi is hot.
Sonic Adventure 2 Battle. An example of everything the Hatedom loves to rag on, but the Sonic and Shadow stages are still fast-paced blasts, and the amnesia questioning is actually done well, for the type of game.
- And the music is awesome.
- The shooting levels are very fun too. This Troper finds that the only guilty part about this pleasure is the Chao raising.
This troper admits loving Pit Fighter even though it's not that good of a game.
This editor is absolutely certain that Sonic Riders and Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity are good games with bad learning curves.
- HELL YES. And don't forget the plots. Jet's fantasy of bathing in a sea of gold and jewels? Amy signing up to get defeated in her first race? Extensive I, Robot parody in the second game? And the crazy endings? Instant guilty pleasure right there!
Bikini Karate Babes. Exactly What It Says On The Tin: A fighting game featuring beautiful women who thrash each other in bikinis. Fanservice abounds. One fighter can even swipe the tops off some of the others for a One Hit Kill victory! This game managed to be popular enough to get a sequel, Warriors of Elysia.
This troper lies about hating Final Fantasy X-2, even though he enjoyed it.
- This troper loved the game, even if he played it with the volume turned down in case anyone came by.
- This troper just played it with the volume off 'cause he couldn't stand the music. The gameplay was incredibly fun, though.
- This troper not only enjoyed the game itself, but played it in the first place solely to get the good ending. Dammit, after saving the world TWICE in as many years, Yuna deserves her happy-ever-after! Try explaining THAT and retaining some shred of credibility. (Also, as a 22 year old female, holy pretty boys, batman.)
- This troper will admit he enjoyed it more than the first game.
- I'm amazed that a single game can be so cringeworthy and still be enjoyable. Bonus points if you cried during Thousand Words.
Oregon Trail II is probably the greatest computer game ever made.
This troper and her best friend absolutely adore the Nancy Drew Computer Adventure games, even though they have the plot of an episode of Scooby Doo and are geared towards 12 year olds. Did I mention we're 18?
- Except for the quality graphics, interesting settings, great voice acting, well-done minigames and puzzles, beloved iconic heroes, believable characters (by the standards of young adult fiction), that they're educational without being boring, that they have a strong moral code without being Anvilicious, stories that twist and turn, an immersive world where you can do things like check your e-mail and phone your friends (Frank and Joe Hardy) for help, gameplay that challenges the player to really think like a detective, and the budget-friendly price tag (they're available for dirt cheap over services like Real Arcade and Big Fish Games), the Nancy Drew games are not that great. Sorry to gush, but these games are just top-notch. They make this troper wish he had kids so he could force them to play Nancy Drew and have their lives enriched. And if it matters, he is 31 and male. (Of course, this troper secretly believes that when he eventually does have kids, they will be fully accomplished ghost-busting treasure-hunting villain-thwarters by age 10.)
- This troper is 19 and still enjoys those games. But she's not the one in her family who really loves them. Her mother is. But really, those puzzles are awesome, and the games are incredibly fun to play, even if the culprits do tend to be obvious.
KOEI's (Insert Historical Period) Warriors games are historically inaccurate, incredibly repetitive (three combos per character), laughably easy on all difficulty modes except Chaos, completely impossible on Chaos, have 'last'-generation graphics... but damn it if they aren't fun to play. This troper still gets a warm fuzzy feeling when the kill counter hits 1000 and the current general declares you the Greatest Warrior In The Three Kingdoms. Or Japan. Or wherever.
This troper recently played through a Dora The Explorer game. She's in college, and has never even seen the show. But come on - it had dinosaurs!
Space Channel 5 and its sequel.
- SQUEE!
Runescape. Yes, I know it's just a World Of Warcraft knockoff, but it's free. And killing chickens with a mace is fun.
- And the Camp is pushed way past Eleven.
- Ditto here. Oh and Runescape is older than World Of Warcraft. (Runescape started in 2001, World Of Warcraft was released in 2004)
- It's an Ultima Online knockoff.
Final Fantasy Mystic Quest. It's the franchise's "Easy Mode" game, and can be beaten in less than ten hours (less than six if you're speedrunning), but the music is trés magnifique.
- (leftglance) (rightglance) !? (cue appearance of Tristam)
- This troper let out a squeal of glee upon seeing a thread with Mystic Quest art on 4chan's /c/ board. She learned she was not alone in loving this easy but fun game.
This Troper, despite being a college sophomore, still owns a copy of The Logical Journey of the Zoombinis. Also, she owned a copy of Barbie's Pet Rescue for longer than she would care to admit...and she was NOT party to her father's decision to throw it away.
- This troper still owns both Zoombinis games (and would like to note that the third one is Dis Continuity).
- Quest 64. Ithis troper can't help but play this game over a thousand times just because of the different ways to level up the spirits.
  - Pah, I've got you both beat. Atari Pac-Man.
  - This Quest 64 troper(from earlier) has a new one...Lagoon, the fake difficulty-inpsired action rpg.
Final Fantasy X-2 actually has a decent plot about how beating the big bad doesn't magically make things perfect, and that the battle always goes on and how you have to keep growing and changing, even if it hurts. But just try and explain that to people who watch you play the game given that the Lady Luck dressphere makes all your main characters look like Vegas Showgirls and is one of the best costumes in the game.
- Lady Luck, nothin'. Thief outfits are miniskirts and bikini tops. Not to mention the booty-shaking charge pose in said outfits. Somewhat distracting, to say the least.
  - Hey, if your gonna be staring at arses all battle they might as well be good looking ones.
In Elite Beat Agents, playing some songs are guilty pleasures to some (including me), especially Sk8er Boi, and all the bonus songs (Believe, ABC and Survivor). Except Material Girl. Ugh.
Light Crusader for Sega Genesis. Some say it's the worst game Treasure made but to this troper, it's an incredibly fun game full of nostalgia.
Pop'n Music. Despite all the cartoony graphics (and much of the game text being in Japanese characters), it can be as fun as most other Rhythm Games.
Although this troper doesn't like rap music or rap culture, and the story sounds idiotic, to say the least, the upcoming game 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand actually looks playable. This troper might hate himself for it when he rents it.
- Considering how the first 50 Cent game turned out, they had nowhere to go but up.
- Penny Arcade really liked the sequel
This troper is absolutely in love with Clock Tower 3. Unfortunately, most people seem to think that CT 3 is a game about a Sailor Moon clone who fights gay men in tight pants. So this troper usually plays it when no one is around.
- No, you've got to wait until the halfway point to get to that stuff. See if I'm lying.
Azurik: Rise of Perathia, an adventure/platformer for the Xbox. The atmosphere was great, and is quite the experience in a surreal world.
Hentai games. Some of them do have surprisingly good storylines, but really, most of them range from "Skip all the text to look at pictures of anime people having sex" to, "The Japanese have the most bizarre fetishes of any country in the world."
- The 3D games made by Japanese company Illusion are often basically nothing but Dead or Alive Xtreme except without the games. Or clothes. And then there are some really disturbing ones that it's probably best to let the reader discover if they should so desire.
Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure. Yes, it's by Atlus (or Nippon Ichi), but you try explaining that the main character fights using a freaking coronet... This troper is kind of ashamed to admit that the soundtrack CD that came with the game is fully memorized, and the English "Let's Go On" can give her the wibblelip.
- Well, try liking that game and being a guy. It's the sort of thing you'll hardly admit.
Secret Of Evermore. It gets a lot of flak just because it wasn't Final Fantasy V or Seiken Densetsu 3 (and is often — and inaccurately — cited as the reason those games did not see life outside Japan in the SNES generation), but — for crying out loud, this was Jeremy Soule's first video game soundtrack. And it is awesome. (Helps that the game itself is playable, too, especially if you find the fake movie titles amusing.) Good luck finding people who will admit liking the game, though.
- For all that the outside world gave up on it, the actual makers of the game came up with a fantastically unique game. Darkly whimsical settings and characters, parodies and references to more genres than you can count, and using a modified version of the ultra-good Secret of Mana engine to back it all up.
This troper admits to having quite an interest in Maple Story, despite the ridiculous exp curve that occurs in the higher levels, the 10% exp penalty upon dying, and the vast majority of the game's community being assholes. (especially the killstealers)
Thanks to the popularity of two certain Rhythm Games, the Be ma ni franchise could fall under this.
Being a Challenge Gamer. This includes playing games for points.
Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Zombie Ninja Pro-Am. You will never find anyone who admits to playing it. You'll barely ever find anyone who admits to knowing about it. And as a game, it schizophrenically splits between a normal golfing game with a few cracked-out power-ups (such as having Frylock turbocharge your golf ball), a free-roaming beat-'em-up in which you use chainsaws, swords, and guitars to annihilate robotic turkeys from the future, and a dodgy kart race against a pair of jackass fratboy aliens. And yet it's still quite entertaining, especially when you're given instructions like "Go ahead, break all of Carl's windows, they're not yours anyway."
- I have never heard of the game before reading this article, but damn, that sounds fun. Do you know where I can get it?
  - Try Ebay or your local video game store. It's not particularly common, presumably because IGN, Game Spot, and Game Pro all hated it. It has a website here.
Assault Suits Valken.
Final Fantasy VII is not in any way a guilty pleasure. Having your desktop be a very pretty picture of Tifa and Aerith holding hands and smiling happily, on the other hand, is.
Action 52.
Tetris: The Grand Master. It's a bit hard to justify why you would go out of your way to play that instead of just settling for any version of Tetris.
- Not even the extra modes and rules, especially now that, regrettably infinite spin is part of the standard ruleset? And would this be possible in any non T: TGM game? I think not.
Playing classic games on their original formats when they have rereleases readily available for newer systems (i.e. 360 through XBLA, Wii through Virtual Cosnole). It took a lot of convincing for this troper to give that pleasure up and resort to emulation.
Guitar Freaks and Drummania.
What? No Backyard Sports?
Three words: Spyro the Dragon.
The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer. Ha ha, so many memories. And robots.
Shin Megami Tensei, because of its religious overtones.
This troper currently regards RayCrisis as his favorite game in the Ray Series, despite the shmup fanbase's general consensus of it being "worst game in the series".
Eternal Sonata. Moeblob protagonist with an incurable disease? Check. Cutesy characters? Check. Bright and colorful graphics? Check. Lots of children protagonists? Check. Extremely polarizing on the internet? Check, but damn it, I loved this god damn game and I wanted to give Polka a great big hug.
The Legend Of Dragoon . Filled to the brim with [[Narm overenthusiastic voice acting]], a bad script, and all sorts of other problems, all while being essentially a rip-off of Final Fantasy. It should be a horrible game, but it's fun and playable and one of this troper's favorite games of all time.

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Pretty much anywhere but Ye Internet, webcomics in general qualify as Guilty Pleasures. Still, a few deserve special mention:

Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire. Here's a fun game: run down all three forums, and see how long it takes you to find a single positive comment not defending the strip from someone else's negative comment. And yet, all three get heavy traffic, and the strip has 160 Wicks.
- It used to be much better than it is now. (Well, the writing did. The art's been holding steady since 2004 or so.) This troper considers the Snowsong arc to be the turning point, though Your Mileage May Vary.
El Goonish Shive, here serving as delegate for Transformation Comics. It's about high school students, the device that drives the plot is used to turn people into anthros and/or switch their gender, and nearly every storyline after the first year involves a boy being turned into a girl, with the Fetish Fuel aspects recognized and often played for laughs. Known here as the first webcomic to be Trope Overdosed.
- You forgot the multiple instances of Fan Service for both sides and Schoolgirl Lesbians. That, and it's Animesque. (Ironically, the author based most of the comic off Music, not Anime.)
Peter is the Wolf, a furry Lemon, co-created by the infamous Kris "Damn You!" Overstreet, that (in its adult form) is straightforward Fetish Fuel pornography, except with some actual plot and artwork to space out the sex. As porn goes, it works, possibly because someone else does the art.
Something Positive and Narbonic: Also comics that this troper has read too often. Most of the jokes involve sociopaths hurting the main characters and in retrospect, they are extremely repetitive.
- This troper loves Narbonic, especially now that it comes in 'Author Comments' form.
The Wotch is a guilty pleasure for this troper. If only the update was more regular.
People will try to rag on you for genuinely enjoying Ctrl+Alt+Del, and mayhaps with good cause, but damn if the humor isn't spot on sometimes.
- The parody is much funnier.◊
- I'm a fan that thinks the strip's gone downhill, but I genuinely enjoy the "Ethan MacManus, Space Archaeologist" parts.
Two Kinds falls under this trope. Yes, there's a plot, and well-developed characters, but everyone just reads it because there are naked furries running around and the comic is proof that Freud Was Right.
- Which is pretty much the sole reason why the Bad Webcomics Wiki dislikes the comic, as the writer clearly knows why the fans read it and speeads less time working on the plot. (at and if you're going to go naked furry than you should go full way)
Jack: It's a very violent/dark furry comic, but I still enjoy reading it. (Mainly because I like to see evil people get what's coing to them in the end...)
Menage A 3 ...that's all

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Show Us Your Wound.
Listen to Me.
Seanbaby.
X-Entertainment.
TV Tropes. Tell me you don't spend time on here when you're meant to be doing something else.
- Go on, admit to your family that you spend Friday night editing out shameless plugs for Instrument Of God.
  - Now go to the forums and admit that you read it.
- Even better yet, being an Entry Pimp on the wiki. With every new entry you make, you begin to feel that the other tropers are getting a wee bit tired of your obsession with a certain preteen psychic and a certain photographer, but you forge on ahead regardless because blast it, it's fun getting anal about your favorite things in front of hundreds of people you don't know.
Youtube Poops.
- "Nnnooo! Not into the pit! It burrrrns!"
- "That's Mama Luigi to you, Mario!"
- "You fat sack of--! instruction book."
Caramelldansen videos and the song itself.
- And the remixes, especially the one from the Beatmania artist.
- This troper got up and followed suit in a crowded party after a drunk girl started the dance. No one else joined in. I still danced.
Gaia Online, for anyone over the age of 20.
4chan. There's a reason for rules 1 and 2, and it isn't just to keep people out.
Neopets, for anyone over the age of 12.
- Neopets was originally targeted toward college students, hence why there's gambling games, a stock market, and lots of other stuff most kids don't deal with on a regular basis. That said, ever since the revamp, it has become more of a guilty pleasure. But this troper still logs on multiple times a day to check her virtual stocks.
  - That explains all the slots and dice games I love to play being on there...
  - Also, Key Quest on Neopets is ridiculously addictive.
Fark.com. Known as a hateful site full of flame wars, but there are actually plenty of good discussions if you know where to look.
Reading Flame Wars in general. If you've been having a bad day, it's kind of cathartic.
- Participating in Flame Wars. I know I'm just feeding the inferno, but I can't let someone be wrong, not in teh interwebz!
Fan Fiction, although some fandoms more so than others, and especially if you write slash or a Crack Pairing.
- This troper feels a bit guilty when she reads Twilight and Harry Potter fanfiction.
- Xander fanfic on Buffy sites like twistingthehellmouth.com .
- Real person fanfiction. Real person slash. I started and I can't stop. Help.
The now-defunct Your Webcomic Is Bad and You Should Feel Bad. As befits a blog that arose from the Something Awful forums, it's horribly, at times cruelly nasty to many webcomics and their creators. However, many of the reviewed comics really are/were terrible and at least two of the dissed cartoonists really are seriously but entertainingly messed-up. Also, underneath the vitriol and wall of profanity is some genuinely valuable advice for aspiring creators.
"Improv Everywhere", a New York-based organization that, contradicting the name, plans events intending to confuse other people. Of particular note is the annual "No Pants Subway Ride", which is a guilty pleasure simply because some people have hilarious reactions (including some not-so-innocent children), and because some of the girls have some really cute panties. :3
- It's this Troper's dream to participate in at least one of these events.
O Game. It's a text based space opera game with nothing but small static graphics and it's really fucking addicting.
Internet pornography.
Furry porn. Goddammit, Freehaven.
- Furry Fandom in general, really. For all the bashing that goes on, this troper's actually found it to be less drama-infested than a good portion of the Internet. Lots of talented artists, to boot.
  - Hey! There's a difference between furry furries and furry-porn furries.
  - And they both consider the other kind to be weird.
- No. Just no.
Bringing us back to non-porn, Cute Overload. Not educational in any way. But oh, the fluffy! Look! Four tiny Siamese kittens!
Kink Memes. Especially writing for kink memes.
- How did it become so addictive? I hate writing fic! And I hate writing fic where people feel compelled to make requests of me, and I can't write porn, and I just know they'll hate it, and— hey, where did all those comments come from? People like it? Squee! Kink memes are dangerously addictive. Even on TV Tropes I'm not checking back several times an hour to see if a prompt's been filled.
Encyclopedia Dramatica. It's like Wikipedia if some shut-in with a perpetual hategasm was the one and only editor. It's useful for looking up the origins of your favorite memes, satiating your morbid curiosity when Tv Tropes draws the line, and reading insane rants about things you hate. Much of the time I stop after an hour browsing it and hang my head in shame, but I can't help it.
Cracked.com. I've met grad students who relectantly admit to reading articles and than hitting every link at the bottom for hours on end.
- ...Similarly, TV Tropes. This Troper has three browser windows open right now, each with around two dozen tabs of articles.
  - I haven't restarted in a week or two because of all the TV tropes tabs I have open. Well over 90, and quite possibly into the hundreds. I lost track five days ago. For every one I close I open ten more... Insert whimper here.
Social networking sites. What?! They're useful for communicating with friends when I don't have their phone numbers or rarely have a chance to see them in person!
- Flash Games on social networking sites. Try bringing that up when hanging out with gamers.
crank.net. You can find some good MST fodder, as well as lots and lots of entertaining insanity.

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Oh boy! This troper when through his entire teen years watching cartoons every saturday. I even turned it off when I heard something move upstairs. See I knew I wasn't supposed to be watching cartoons, after all I was a teenager and they were for kids but I JUST COULDN'T HELP IT!
Kappa Mikey borders on the insane. Like many Nicktoons, it is for this reason that it enjoys what popularity it does.
Totally Spies: Three valley girls playing "pass the Idiot Ball" as they stumble upon one fetishistic plot after another. Still quite fun if you can tune out the Valley Speak.
- This troper admits to watching this show regularly... and he even found the Valley Speak amusing...
- I only watch it for Greg Cipes's voice.
Kim Possible.. so far out of the demo it's not funny, but what's not to love. Snarky Sidekicks, Harmless Villains, constant lampshading, Fanservice, Les Yay, Motor Ed (seriously), brilliant animation and action. *Air Guitar*
- And monkeys!
The same is true for A.T.O.M.
This editor admits to watching Legend Of The Dragon so often she knows it by heart...
Surely someone out there must genuinely like Lil Bush...
- No.
This troper profoundly hates the Winx Club, and equates it to being just "Harry Potter meets Sailor Moon". In addition, he cannot stand to watch even five minutes of the original Italian version. Yet he still goes on a Winx forum, is on speaking terms with some of the more "normal" fans, and works on an original fiction magic girl story to show "This is how it's done."
- This Troper is highly offended that anhyone would attempt to equate Harry Potter or Sailor Moon with Winx Club. Go sit in the corner like the naughty troper you are.
This troper absolutely adores Code Lyoko. She admits that it pretty much went completely batty after the second season, but she actually enjoyed the fact that XANA was a genuinely menacing villain in the first season, and liked the arc in the second season. But it's pretty much gone crazy now.
- This troper feels quite the opposite, that Season 1 of Code Lyoko was not quite as good character-wise as later seasons. XANA is a really well-written villain, but what draws me to the series is the stuff happening outside of Lyoko, at the school and in the past. Season 4 was a sub-par compared to season 2, though.
Aqua Teen Hunger Force: This troper cannot explain why it is funny but the show is at its best, hilarious.
- This troper feels the embarassing need to explain how the latest seasons have fallen so far from the heights of the first few seasons, which requires explaining that the first seasons are GOOD.
This troper actually likes the Disney The Hunchback Of Notre Dame. It's a godawful adaptation of the original Hugo novel, but if you can forget about that, it isn't half-bad on its own merits. It has some gorgeous songs on the soundtrack and good voice acting, and the themes are surprisingly adult and dark for a Disney movie.
- 'Isn't half-bad'? Gorgeous, intelligent, musically wonderful, with a genuinely awesome Disney Girl this time around. Since when has Disney (or Hollywood in general) made a faithful adaptation of anything? So this is legit, this troper is always sort of nervous to admit just how awesome of a villain I think Frollo is.
  - Don't be nervous to admit that, he's half responsible for Ho ND having as many fans as it does in the first place.
- This troper is proud to attend parties where the watching of Disney movies is not uncommon. And he LOVES T Ho ND.
- Along the same lines, I was genuinely surprised to find out how little loved Treasure Planet is. I mean, come on — it's a Steam Punk Fantasy Pirate movie! What's not to like? (Apart from the damn robot, that is.)
  - Captain Amelia certainly helps, too.
  - This troper very much enjoyed Treasure Planet, especially the song "I'm Still Here" by Jogn Rzezeznik of The Goo Goo Dolls. That song is awesome.
- Agreed, I have no idea why it wasn't nominated for an Oscar. Also, Treasure Planet had the misfortune of coming out before POTC made pirates popular again.
- Not Disney, but Anastasia is inaccurate in its history, but this troper still loves it.
  - Er, the premise is that Anastasia lives. Isn't it kind of bound to be historically inaccurate?
- I... kind of... am learning as many of the songs in Aladdin as I can... andi'mmale.
  - That just makes you lucky. The guys have all the good songs in that one... I can has more than half a song's worth of soprano part?
  - Heh,who wouldn't want to burst out with Jafar's Villain Song at the right moment? "Rrrread my LIPS/And come to grips/With the reality!" Mocking,villainous sneer compulsory.
  - This male, college-age troper thinks Scar's villain song is better. The song you want to memorize off the Aladdin soundtrack is Friend Like Me.
  - You memorize. I'm too busy staring at the harem girls.
You will be regarded as suspicious if you like any version of Transformers other than the live-action movie. Of course, this is not without reason; the most annoying Transformers fans being somewhat similar to the most annoying Star Trek fans and for the same reasons.
- To be Fair, Beast Wars won a Emmy and Beast Machines is probably more well thought and deep than many Anime shows with the same themes (if you can pass the angsty). Still, this troper has friends that roll their eyes with my Transformers obssesion.
Martin Mystery: A show about a supernatural investigator with a very big ego, his long-suffering stepsister, and their caveman buddy, from the people who brought you Totally Spies! Martin is one of those characters who really needs to just get laid already.
This female troper's Guilty Pleasure is Galactik Football Football...IN SPACE! What's not to love?
Fire and Ice has half naked people killing each in the ice age and narmy acting. What's not to like?
This editor enjoys the Storm Hawks but has no idea why, as it's designed for 10-years-old boys.
- Because of the Stork!
This troper doesn't give a damn if it's blatant Adaptation Decay: she loves, loves, loves the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog. It's hilarious, and it's got sentimental value for her.
- Not to mention "PINGAS!" Oh, Long John Baldry, trying to say "Snooping as usual" and coming out with "SnooPENISHusual"
- Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog wasn't a guilty pleasure. It was just plain awesome incarnate.
  - This Troper thinks you're thinking of Sonic The Hedgehog, a completely different show that aired at the same time. The Nostalgia Critic addressed this (skip to 10:38).
- And let us not forget the USA Street Fighter...IT IS DELICIOUS!
  - YESH! YESH!
On the above note, Youtube poops (where there's smoke, they pinch back). This troper finds them to be utterly hilarious to the point of rib-shattering laughter.
- MAH BOI!
- That's Mama Luigi to you, Mario!
Heavy Metal may be adolescent and dumb in its tastes, but the Den story is so much a epitome of erotic fantasy that, combined with John Candy's dialogue, is irresistible.
- Shit man, I'm not ashamed at all to admit that I actually -like- Heavy Metal. I watched it as a kid (thanks Animation Age Ghetto!), and it subconsciously stuck with me. When I re-watched it as an older troper, I was amazed at parts of it. It was creative, well-drawn, and the soundtrack was just... Look, I literally went "Is that JOURNEY?!" As for Den... Den is the height of Heavy Metal. Neverwhere isn't just an erotic science-fantasy, which is enough to entice most, it's the gotdamn -ultimate- nerd fantasy. I mean, think about it; you, a random nerd, just suddenly get thrown into some fantastic world where you're given an incredible, Adonis(or Aphrodite for the gals)-like new body, stunning members of the opposite sex throw themselves at you, you can suddenly perform incredible feats of athletics and skill, you get to be friends with a bunch of Mandalorian-ape men, and somehow only -your- specific nerd knowledge can save the world. "We need someone who can list the ten scariest moments in Evangelion, the history of the Lower Planes in D&D, and the voice actors for Knights of the Old Republic II or Yog-Sothoth will rise and FUCK US UP!" Neverwhere isn't a fantasy; it's frakking -heaven-.
  - I never got to see "Den" as a kid thanks to all the full-frontal; the entire segment was cut from cable airings and the film wasn't made available on home video for a long time. Regardless, "B-17" is the one that does it for me. It's the shortest of the bunch, but it's also so goddamn terrifying that it stuck with me ever since I first saw it.
For this male troper, Sabrina The Animated Series counts as a love/hate/guilty pleasure show. I mainly watch it because I think Aunt Zelda is hot and I love Salem and Pi's humorous antics. Also, my fave episode is "Planet Of The Dogs" due to my cartoon dog obsession.
This troper truly loves Captain Planet, even if it is so over the top... or maybe that's why it's loved...
This troper watches The Mighty B whenever it is on.
Drawn Together, anyone? Even for a fan of Dead Baby Comedy the terribly lazy joke-writing leaves it teetering on the brink of So Bad Its Horrible... but you just can't stop watching because every now and then it manages to do something so brilliantly offensive it crosses the line a couple dozen times and then some.
- The scene when a woman comes into her office to find everyone dead. "Oh my god! OH MY GOD" Cut to her photocoping her ass "WEEEEEEEEEEEE!" Funniest thing I ever saw. Not that I'd ever admit to it in public.
This troper is a complete atheist, but still likes Veggietales. Sure, it's a religious show, but it focuses more on the "Be nice to other people" aspects without ever getting preachy, and is surprisingly funny and clever for a Christian kid's show about talking vegetables.
- Does this mean that troper has or hasn't seen when the Veggietales appeared on Drawn Together? Crowning Moment Of Awesome for both shows.
  - Depends, since their cameo on Drawn Together was meant to be an extremely vicious Take That (so in other words, "a cameo on Drawn Together").
Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi: There's very little about this show that feels either original or imaginative and yet it is impossible to ignore once it comes on.
Sponge Bob Square Pants. Admit it, you watch it too, and you love that adorably squishy and huggable yellow sponge just as much as any little kid. ^^
- While the more recent episodes have taken a severe drop in quality compared to older episodes, this Troper has to agree.
- This Troper has entire classes of college students who regularly discuss said episodes.
This troper watches Winx Club purely because those girls are hot and because of the FetishFuel in the show. Still he doesn't want people to know. The same goes for Totally Spies and to a lesser extent Kim Possible.
Questfor Camelot: A box office bomb? Yes. Anvilicious? Yes. Some pretty cringe-worthy dialogue? Yes. Weird humor based on out-of-place pop culture references? Yes. Despite all that, is it genuinely heartwarming and funny in some spots? You bet your sweet ass it is!
She Ra, when you're a boy. Yes, this troper even loved the Christmas Special.
Although the first season of Loonatics Unleashed was indeed horrible, This Troper is only slightly ashamed to admit that the second season does actually have some halfway decent episodes.
The Barbie films. Good Lord...This troper will only admit under duress that she has watched almost every single one, and enjoyed them. Immensely. Despite the Costume Porn, cliche storylines, and sometimes ridiculously bad acting, they have fun characters and good morals at the end of them.
This Troper maintains that The DCAU shows were the most awesome fiction ever put on television, and, at the age of 41, was majorly bummed at its end. He still gets depressed at the final heroes parade at the end of Destroyer.
This Troper happens to be a fan of Ben 10, but strongly believes that {{Ben 10: Alien Force}}, had a LOT of wasted potential.
Er... The Magic School Bus is one of This Troper's favorite guilty pleasures- even going so far as to read MGS fanfiction.

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Studying the Japanese language. It's hard to admit you want to study it when being able to speak ~~Japanese~~ moonspeak will get you labeled as a "weeaboo."
- This troper got over the hot burn of shame when he actually went to Japan. It's still embarrassing to practice, but at least I can justify it by remembering that's what they actually sound like.
- No the worst part is when the teacher asks "why do you want to study Japanese" and everyone else turns out to be a business student.
- Any Asian language gets this. If it's not Japanese, and your taking it it's because it's "The closest thing to Japanese you can" or "You can't tell the difference, stupid weaboo." I used to get that when I took Chinese, because OBVIOUSLY you can't be interested in BOTH Japanese and Chinese culture and language, or, god forbid, just culture and language as a whole.
Fetishes. Half of this troper's real-life friends would most likely disassociate with him in a heartbeat if they found out what kind of stuff he enjoys. And this is without getting into Nightmare Fetishism...
- Oh, we've all been there. Your best hope is to keep it on a laptop, back to the wall.
  - Private Browsing mode in Safari and Incognito Windows in Chrome are everyone's best friends.
This programming troper takes shame in having Java as his first programming language (despite being the same case for most of his classmates due to it being the dominant language in his college's computer science department), and just as much enjoying a class on C#.
- Java? Dude, what are you complaining about? My first was COBOL!
There's this weird place on the internet that's completely ruined my life, and yet I can't stay away!
This Troper recalls being embarrassed about being in Boy Scouts while in middle school and early high school (but became comfortable with it as he matured).
I'm a young woman and I liked reading the random men's magazines that found their way into the apartment like "ESPN The Magazine", "Field & Stream" and "Maxim" (I can truthfully say this is just for the articles), and "Boy's Life" (boy scout mag) years ago at a friend's house. I think this stems from just not being exposed to this kind of stuff but heck, I'll take "how to dress a deer after shooting it with a bow & arrow" and "intersting executions" over "making place mats with handkerchiefs" and "what is your teen *really* saying?" any day.
- Sometimes I would read Playboy just for the articles. Really. Some of them are actually pretty good.
The continuing, pathetic life that is ChrisChan are so painful to watch, yet they are so hilarious. Similiar to the JerrySpringer mention above, it really just seems like you can feel glad your life will never be this bad.
Similar to fetishes, porn. All of it.

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