Your TV, movie, and YouTube guilty pleasures. - or, video mind candy.

[American Lollinator Mace]

We've all been there. You know other people think it's crap, but you like it anyway because reasons. Tell us the stuff that you can watch over and over, but other people can't stand.

A few of mine:

retsupurae (it's like MST3K and Rifftrax, but more video game-localized and kickstarter silly)
Plinkett
CinemaSins
Xanadu (a very dumb '80s musical starring Olivia Newton-John. Gene Kelly is in it too)
Time Bandits (Terry Gilliam from Monty Python directed it, a few of the other Pythons are in it. Involves midgets and a little kid warping through time to steal valuables, among other things)

So, post yours. Maybe we'll all find some gems from each other!

 

[Bob Page]

Dune 1984 (I felt it was closer to the book than the Scifi channel version.)
Terminator: The sarah connor chronicles
as for youtube: The HWNDU videos.

 

[Wraith]

Oh the amount of guilty pleasures I have is immense. I won't say some of them because POWERLEVEL, but I will agree with cinemasins, Retsupurae and Plinkett. (Although Plinkett's latest SW video sucked donkey balls infected with bird flu.) I also get weird and watch some of those movie and vidya review top lists and such from random you tube guys. I think DreamcastGuy is really weird, but he's also a little relaxing.

There is some anime, like Samurai Pizza Cats (don't judge me!) and Great Teacher Onizuka (manga was better.)
Hard candy television shows like the first few seasons of Scrubs before it went totally to hell, and the same with The Office are some sugar infusions for me.
Movies, hell, the standard stuff. Die Hard 1 & 2, original star wars trilogy, Krull, Aliens- typical stuff.

I wish I could remember a lot more right now as I have an extensive list, but my brain is fried.

 

[Morose_Obesity]

I loved this guy back in the day:

 

[Kari Kamiya]

There is some anime, like Samurai Pizza Cats (don't judge me!)

Eh? Samurai Pizza Cats is great, I don't know what you're talking about.

But speaking of guilty pleasure anime, just about any anime that I continue watching even though it's shit simply because I have a "no drop" policy, though some anime I did enjoy despite negative feedback. I liked Sushi Police even though people were hating it, and Bennett the Sage ripped on Sailor Victory (he's a guilty pleasure as well), but I enjoyed the OVA. I even liked Prison School for some odd reason, and in hindsight, there is something about School Days that may have made it unintentionally hilarious.

For TV, any of those "point and laugh" shows like Maury and Judge Judy, and the more serious Steve Wilkos Show. Since clips and sometimes full episodes are on YouTube, I use them as background noise for when I draw. (Never could get into Jerry Springer for some reason.)

Also am not too sure how much of a guilty pleasure this is, but there's just something about This is Dan Bell's "Another Dirty Room" series that tickles my fancy.

 

[The Fair Lady]

I'm subscribed to my fair share of Youtube channels, retsupurae being one of them. I'm also still subscribed to Markiplier even though I watch him a lot less these days.

 

[Trombonista]

I like pimple popping videos.

 

[bbpoison]

I don't have guilty pleasures anymore but these are the recent media things I've been obsessed about. "Mind Candy" is a good word but it's more like a drug for me.

Death Grips - an artist organization who utilizes loud raw disgustingly catchy music and 2.0 visual media to broadcast their message of humanity's electronic "life-changing" evolutionary transitional phase , a "band" from Sacramento, California
Poppy - Poppy, She lives on the internet!
Twin Peaks - The cult classic tv show from the 90's created mostly by the most wonderful energy of David Lynch which 25 years later as demanded by the plot itself has come back with a 3rd season witch matches the zeitgeist of today so perfectly I declare it to be now the best tv show of all time, maybe because it's beyond a tv show lol.

Yeah these are the things I like right now. Very relatable, when a lot of the media things and people I talk to in my daily life are not.



I haven't checked out Death Grips' megamix yet or Poppy's new album : ( I'm holding that for my new "lifestyle paradigm"

 

[Buer]

I unironically like The Game Theorists. I know some, if not most, of Matt's theories are shit but I still find them entertaining to watch. I still think Full House is great(though I haven't watched Fuller House yet) despite what Nostalgia Critic and a lot of others say about it. I also like the video game Mystic Quest which is basically a Final Fantasy game for little kids.

 

[SnowBall]

The Big Bang Theory. It's rather cringey but there's something appealing about its cringiness.

 

[Hades]

My all-time favorite movie is this god awful, low-budget, gorey musical called "Repo! The Genetic Opera." It's a "rock-opera" directed by the guy who made Saw II, III and IV. It's probably another "so bad its good" movie made by edgelords but I absolutely love it.

For youtubers I know they are pretty cringey but I love Filthy Frank and his crew of assholes. There's something about overly edgy, anti-pc humor that gets a chuckle out of me.

 

[Shokew]

There's a lot of cartoons out there I like that everyone else hates or ignores - and NO (and fuck off!), I'm not saying any examples. Honestly, that's all you need to know about me - as well as the FACT that they're NOT guilty pleasures for me, either. They're either stuff I legitimately enjoy, even if I'm too fucking old for them, or I hate them and avoid them like the plague; simple as that.

When it comes to anything I watch (movies/cartoons/anime/some live-action), I either like it and follow it willingly, unless it pisses me off, or I hate it, I unleash verbal hatred on it, then avoid it like the plague, and afterward, leave it to rot.

 

[Picklepower]

Catfish the show, talk shows, the youtube show One Hit Wonderland, Phelous.

 

[Maiden-TieJuan]

I really Like old movies. Like Glass Bottomed Boat with Doris Day, With 6 You Get Eggroll, Yours, Mine and Ours with Lucille Ball; and even older cartoons like A Flight of Dragons with James Earl Jones and John Ritter, the Last Unicorn, The Point with Ringo Starr, and even Wizards.

I also dig stuff like Interstella 5555: the 5Tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem by Daft Punk. Also love watching White Christmas and Holiday Inn.

 

[millais]

The Jesus Chatline.

It was a meta-troll show from the very dawn of internet livestreaming. The premise was two money-grubbing, homophobic, technologically illiterate televangelists hosting a public access religious call-in show, which was ostensibly the target of 4chan troll raids and other internet pranksters. It was big way before Deagle Nation and M60ForJesus, and it produced much classic, spontaneous comedy due to the chemistry between the two hosts, the regular callers, and the occasional clever anon. The hosts really played their parts to the hilt and made a tremendous effort to avoid breaking character, and they played off very well against the more skilled and elaborate trolls (many of whom were in on the joke) while simultaneously delivering savagely humorous in-character beat downs on the fail-trolls, cringey atheists, and weens who thought they were actually pulling a fast one over some dumb evangelical pastors. What really set the Chatline apart from other troll shows was the high level of production value that went into making it look like a real mid-budget Christian TV show, in addition to the skilled video editing work for some of the more gimmicky episodes. Over the years, I still kept up with the Jesus Chatline's far less successful and lower production spin off shows, but nothing can beat the perfection of the original premise and setup.

there are many good 5-20 min "best of Jesus Chatline" highlight/compilation videos on Youtube, but here is the complete full episode listing for anyone interested: https://www.reddit.com/r/Jesus_Chat...anyone_who_wants_it_i_just_made_an_order_for/

this all happened back in the Stone Age of livestreaming, so they didn't always have the hard disk space or cloud storage to record and save all of the livestream episodes, unfortunately, but there is really only one particularly memorable episodes that was lost to time.

here is a good example of one of the main regular trolls, a flamboyant homosexual sinner who was constantly hitting on the "oblivious" hosts:

and here is an example of one of the hosts trolling an angry Muslim kid who thinks he is debating a real Christian pastor on theological matters

 

[tehpope]

Showgirls. Is it pure trash? Is it great satire that crosses over to trash? A bit of both?

 

[Morose_Obesity]

I recently binge-watched "Apb" on the Foxnow app. It felt like one of those shows you'd pair with "Earth Final Conflict" in a insomniac slot in the late 90s. Fun and ultimately dumb despite its tech genius concept. The female lead always had a look of "this script is bullshit" amusement.

 

[Some JERK]

Clickspring. Cinemasins. the Hydraulic Press Channel. Dashiegames. First We Feast. Watchtanaka1.

 

[American Lollinator Mace]

I really Like old movies. Like Glass Bottomed Boat with Doris Day, With 6 You Get Eggroll, Yours, Mine and Ours with Lucille Ball; and even older cartoons like A Flight of Dragons with James Earl Jones and John Ritter, the Last Unicorn, The Point with Ringo Starr, and even Wizards.

I also dig stuff like Interstella 5555: the 5Tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem by Daft Punk. Also love watching White Christmas and Holiday Inn.

Oh, wow. Somebody else who watched the Last Unicorn and The Point, let alone enjoyed them?! Marry me.

 

[Maiden-TieJuan]

Oh, wow. Somebody else who watched the Last Unicorn and The Point, let alone enjoyed them?! Marry me.

Lol I LOVED the Point as a kid. Ended up buying Harry Nielsson's album that it came from and it was basically the soundtrach of my kid's preteen years. The still enjoy pulling out the DVD every once in a while. We put the pillows on the floor and lay and watch it while eating popcorn and having belching contests (ain't we classy?). And yes, interwebz marriage is a go.