Line #84 Quotes/UnpleasableFanbase


1	->''As a rule, man is a fool.\
2	When it's hot, he wants it cool\
3	When it's cool, he wants it hot\
4	Always wanting what is not''
5	-->--''Anonymous proverb''
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10	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
11	->For "fans", they sure do [[DearNegativeReader complain a lot]].
12	-->-- '''Dean Winchester''', ''{{Series/Supernatural}}''
13
14	->'''Frasier''': What's the one thing better than an exquisite meal? An exquisite meal with one tiny flaw we can pick at all night.\
15	'''Niles''': Quite right. raises glass [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_GF7CTBNSw To impossible standards!]]
16	-->-- ''Series/{{Frasier}}''
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18
19	[[folder:Music]]
20	->''It doesn't matter what you do\
21	It doesn't matter what you say\
22	There will always be one who wants things the opposite way\
23	It doesn't matter where you go\
24	It doesn't matter who you see\
25	There will always be someone who disagrees''
26	-->-- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxPsXPCR5MU "Philosophy of the World"]], '''Music/TheShaggs'''
27
28	->''She says, “I know you! You’re an artist, draw a picture of me!”\
29	I say, “I would if I could, but I don’t do sketches from memory.”\
30	“Well,” she says, “I’m right here in front of you, or haven’t you looked?”\
31	I say, “All right, I know, but I don’t have my drawing book.”\
32	She gives me a napkin, she says, “You can do it on that.”\
33	I say, “Yes I could, but I don’t know where my pencil is at.”\
34	She pulls one out from behind her ear\
35	She says, “All right now, go ahead, draw me, I’m standing right here!”\
36	I make a few lines and I show it for her to see\
37	She takes the napkin and throws it back and says, “That don’t look a thing like me!”''
38	-->-- "Highlands", '''Music/BobDylan'''
39
40	->''But what would you say\
41	if I walked away?\
42	Would you appreciate?\
43	But then it'd be too late.\
44	Cause I can only take so much\
45	of your ungrateful ways.\
46	Everything is never enough.''
47	-->-- "Never Enough", '''Music/DreamTheater'''
48
49	->''But it's all right now\
50	I learned my lesson well\
51	See, you can't please everyone\
52	So you gotta please yourself''
53	-->-- "Garden Party", '''Music/RickyNelson'''
54
55	->''The more they get, the more they need,\
56	And every time they get harder and harder to please.''
57	-->-- "Give the People What They Want", '''Music/TheKinks'''
58
59	->''I want you to change, but don't change\
60	I want you to grow up, but don't age\
61	I want the rage, but don't get too angry\
62	I want the new, but old Shady\
63	I want you to say what they won't say\
64	Just don't go too far, but go cray\
65	I want you to almost lose it, man\
66	They keep movin' the goalpost, don't they?''
67	-->-- "These Demons", '''Music/{{Eminem}}'''
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71	[[folder: Literature]]
72
73	->''A man and his son were once going with their donkey to market. As they were walking along by its side a countryman passed them and said: “You fools, what is a donkey for but to ride upon?”\
74	So the man put the boy on the donkey and they went on their way. But soon they passed a group of men, one of whom said: “See that lazy youngster, he lets his father walk while he rides.”\
75	So the man ordered his boy to get off, and got on himself. But they hadn’t gone far when they passed two women, one of whom said to the other: “Shame on that lazy lout to let his poor little son trudge along.”\
76	Well, the man didn’t know what to do, but at last he took his boy up before him on the donkey. By this time they had come to the town, and the passers-by began to jeer and point at them. The man stopped and asked what they were scoffing at. The men said: “Aren’t you ashamed of yourself for overloading that poor donkey of yours—you and your hulking son?”\
77	The man and boy got off and tried to think what to do. They thought and they thought, till at last they cut down a pole, tied the Donkey’s feet to it, and raised the pole and the Donkey to their shoulders. They went along amid the laughter of all who met them till they came to Market Bridge, when the Donkey, getting one of his feet loose, kicked out and caused the Boy to drop his end of the pole. In the struggle the Donkey fell over the bridge, and his fore-feet being tied together he was drowned.\
78	“That will teach you,” said an old man who had followed them: “PLEASE ALL, AND YOU WILL PLEASE NONE.”''
79	-->--"The Man, the Boy, and the Donkey," '''{{Creator/Aesop}}'''
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82	[[folder:Theater]]
83	->It’s a revolution! We’re going to offend ''somebody!''
84	-->-- '''John Addams''', ''Theatre/SeventeenSeventySix''
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86	[[/folder]]
87
88	[[folder:Video Games]]
89	->''"Come oooonnnn... More'' stuff!''"\
90	"There's'' stuff ''on that I'' don't like! ''"''
91	-->--'''Arno the Almost Omnivorous''', ''VideoGame/LogicalJourneyOfTheZoombinis''
92	[[/folder]]
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94	[[folder:Web Animation]]
95	->Fans are clingy complaining dipshits who will never ever be grateful for any concession you make. The moment you shut out their shrill, tremulous voices the happier you will be for it. [[HypocriticalHumor Incidentally, why not buy a]] [[TheMerch Zero Punctuation T-Shirt]]?
96	-->-- '''[[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw]]'''
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99	[[folder:Web Original]]
100	->I'm not a Creator/SethMacFarlane fanboy. I've always been staunchly pro-''Simpsons'' and anti-''Family Guy''. I never watch any of [=MacFarlane's=] other shows, either. And I'd take a bullet to the dome before watching five minutes of ''{{Film/Ted}}''. So I'm not in the tank here when I say that [=MacFarlane=], all things considered, did a perfectly adequate job hosting the Oscars on Sunday night. He took a thankless task and the worst audience in show business and managed to, at the very least, slip in a few subversive wisecracks AND keep his energy level high for four straight, interminable hours. At this point, I don't really know what else you want from an Oscar host. If people aren't bitching about Billy Crystal being too mild, they're bitching about [=MacFarlane=] being too harsh on a group of people that '''DESERVE''' harshness.
101	-->--'''[[http://www.gq.com/blogs/the-feed/2013/03/make-it-stop-the-worst-of-the-week-of-030113.html Drew Magary]]''', ''Make It Stop''
102
103	->There is a diabolical twist to Franchise/StarWars fandom, you see, that defies comprehension, and yet is the life-blood of all Star Wars fans. It is this: '''Star Wars fans hate Star Wars'''. If you run into somebody who tells you they thought the franchise was quite enjoyable, and they very-much liked the originals as well as the prequels, and even own everything on DVD, and a few of the books, ''[[NoTrueScotsman these imposters]]'' are not Star Wars Fans.
104	-->-- '''Andrey Summers,''' ''[[http://web.archive.org/web/20090123053145/http://jivemagazine.com/column.php?pid=3381 JIVEMagazine]]''
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106	->[[VindicatedByHistory In hindsight,]] of course, everybody recognizes that Kinda is a classic piece of ''Doctor Who''. And yet in the ''Doctor Who Monthly'' poll on Season 19 [[MagnumOpusDissonance it ranked dead last]] -- as the absolute worst story of the season.... if you prefer either [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS19E7TimeFlight}} Time-Flight]] or [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS19E2FourToDoomsday}} Four to Doomsday]] to Kinda, there's something seriously wrong with you. And unfortunately, apparently the ''Doctor Who Monthly'' readers, or at least those that answered the season poll, did.\
107	The usual cautions about the tastes of ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' readers apply, but what we have to remember is that this was also an era where Creator/JohnNathanTurner was [[PanderingToTheBase overtly courting fandom]] through the magazine. And here, quite frankly, we see where this becomes really, really toxic. Because by most metrics, even in [[TheEighties 1982]], it would have been clear that there are really interesting and praiseworthy things going on here and that this is a model story for how to do ''Doctor Who''. Instead, though, [[WhatCouldHaveBeen the whims of fandom had sway.]]
108	-->--'''Dr. El Sandifer''' [[http://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/one-tiny-little-gap-in-the-universe-left-just-about-to-close-kinda/ on]] [[{{Recap/DoctorWhos19E3Kinda}} "Kinda"]]
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110	->''[[Series/StarTrekEnterprise Enterprise]]'' took a lot of flak for showing many aliens that weren't in the other series, especially since ''Enterprise'' was exploring space closer to Earth than any of the other series. It also used some aliens that appeared in later series when they shouldn't have. The writers just couldn't win.
111	-->-- '''''[[http://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A6756294 h2g2]]'''''
112
113	->''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'' was a megahit. It changed video games, revitalized the arcade scene, and pleased just about everybody -- excluding, I suppose, fanatical ''VideoGame/KarateChamp'' loyalists. Naturally, fans craved more. Creator/{{Capcom}} took an "[[StrictlyFormula if it ain't broke, don't fix it]]" approach to following it up, releasing ''Street Fighter II: Champion Edition'' and then ''Street Fighter II: Hyper Fighting''... But by the time Capcom unveiled ''Super Street Fighter II Turbo'', many fans were turned off. "[[ItsTheSameNowItSucks Just more of the same]]," they grumbled, and went to place their quarters on the ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' and ''VideoGame/SamuraiShodown'' cabinets. Capcom took heed and released ''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha''. It was a fine game, and a good starting point for a new 2D fighting series, but I don't recall it turning many heads. "Sure, [[SoOkayItsAverage the new graphic style is nice]]," we said. "But there aren't enough characters, and most of them are just the same people, anyway. It's still too much of the same old, same old. When is ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIII'' coming out already?" A couple years later, Capcom released ''III'', and nobody even cared. "[[TheyChangedItNowItSucks It's too different]]," we whined this time. "Who are all these new people? What happened to the old ones? What's with only being able to pick one Super Art? And besides, 2D games are practically antiques at this point. 3D games - now ''those'' are the wave of the future!" Recently, when Capcom announced ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV'' would contain most or all of the old cast from ''Street Fighter II'' and would be 3D, gamers were already tearing their hair out and wailing that it was definitely going to suck. I would hate to have an audience like us.
114	-->-- '''Pat R.''', [[http://socksmakepeoplesexy.net/index.php?a=ff08 "A Series Discovers Its Crack Pipe"]]
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116	->"I CAN'T PLEASE YOU FUCKING MORONS!!!"
117	-->-- WebVideo/TheAmazingAtheist in his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alvPppffh6Q BEST SONGS EVER]] video
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120	->''"Mike Scully had a responsibility to take ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' in a new direction. Like, I love the Oakley & Weinstein years, but the show can't stagnate. It has to keep trying new experiments. If he had just copied the goals and styles of the early years, you'd be getting a Website/YouTube essay [[ItsTheSameNowItSucks complaining about how the show played it safe]]. I think there's something to be said about this laser-focused season 10 that they delivered. That we have this year full of [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E2TheWizardOfEvergreenTerrace these fun Homer adventures]], [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E11WildBartsCantBeBroken big character conflicts]], [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E7LisaGetsAnA irreverent B-plots]], and [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E12SundayCruddySunday a marathon's worth of running around]]."''
121	-->-- '''WebVideo/TheRealJims''', "[[https://youtu.be/M0lnB3Wqcu8 The Simpsons Season 10 Retrospective]]"
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124	[[folder:Western Animation]]
125	->'''Focus Group Guy:''' Now, how many of you want to see Itchy and Scratchy face real life problems, like the ones you face every day?
126	->'''Kids:''' Me! Me! I would!
127	->'''Focus Group Guy:''' And how many of you would like to see just the opposite? Getting into far-out situations involving robots and magic powers?
128	->'''Kids:''' Me! Me! I would!
129	->'''Focus Group Guy:''' (''{{beat}}'') So... you want a realistic down-to-Earth show... that's completely off the wall... and swarming with magic robots?
130	->'''Kids:''' Yeah, that sounds good.
131	->'''Milhouse:''' And also, you should win things by watching!
132	-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "The Itchy and Scratchy and Poochie Show"
133	[[/folder]]
134
135	[[folder:Real Life]]
136
137	->You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time.
138	-->-- '''John Lydgate''', later paraphrased by UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln
139
140	->Of course I listen to my readers! So the next book will be: Set in Ankh-Morpork/not set in Ankh-Morpork. With lots of the good old characters/with a whole cast of new characters. Written like the old books, which were better/written like the later books, which were better. With lots of character development/none of that dull character development stuff, which gets in the way of the jokes. Short/long. You want fries with that?
141	-->-- '''Creator/TerryPratchett'''
142
143	->Second, y'know, I get asked a lot, 'Give us ALIEN aliens.' So I do. And then I get gigged because they don't act like we'd expect humans to act. Sometimes I just throw up my hands....
144	-->-- '''Creator/JMichaelStraczynski'''
145
146	->Only one death threat, two demands for my immediate resignation, and two for my suicide. IT'S A HIT!!
147	-->'''@steven_moffat''' on his [[http://twitter.com/#!/steven_moffat/status/77324229388943360 Twitter]], in the aftermath of ''Series/DoctorWho'': "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar A Good Man Goes to War]]"
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149	->Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.
150	-->-- '''Music/BobDylan'''
151
152	->Think of the most vicious, bitchy [[CampGay queen]] you've ever met. The worst of the fans are much, much worse.
153	-->-- '''Creator/JohnNathanTurner''', ''Series/DoctorWho'' producer and {{showrunner}}
154
155	->You can't please all of the people all of the time, and last night all of those people [[ProducePelting were at my show.]]
156	-->--'''Creator/MitchHedberg'''
157
158	->People used to complain about how the list was too hard to navigate and that we should turn into a calendar. Now all I hear is that the calendar is too hard to navigate and we should go back to a list. The lesson here? Never listen to fans.
159	-->-- '''[[http://www.formspring.me/bclev/q/635045732 Brian Clevinger]]''', on the ''[[Webcomic/EightBitTheater 8-Bit Theater]]'' archive design
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161	->I just find it amusing that for eight years you said that you’d be happy if only [[{{Creator/BrianMichaelBendis}} Bendis]] weren’t writing AVENGERS any more, and here we are on that day, and you’re not remotely any happier.
162	-->-- '''Tom Brevoort''' to a fan on his formspring.
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164	->There will be people who might feel disappointed if fighters that appeared in a previous title are not included. I didn’t want any players to feel that way, so we worked really hard to make this happen. But what I learned is that regardless of doing our utmost, no matter how hard we try, and no matter how many fighters we include, there will always be people who feel that way.
165	-->-- '''Creator/MasahiroSakurai''' on the roster of ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate''.
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