What's one highly extolled piece of media that you absolutely cannot stand in any way shape or form.

My mother is a huge star trek fan from the era where it was biggest. The thing that really did it for her was that it's one of the few good outcomes in the future. They're out on space exploring for altruism and the novelty of it, not colonialism, not for the destruction of earth's enemies, not to find a home became we destroyed ours, almost every other space media uses it as a for-warning of the outcome of the poor choice we currently make. Star trek is the future we want. No money because all needs are met. Alien contact because they believe we have potential to be equals, stuff like that.

The shows actually do a terrible job conveying this and a worse job using the tools at hand, but I honestly don't know any other media with such a hopefully fiew.

Have a few in mind:

Catcher in the Rye. Holden is insufferable and I found it baffling that adults expected me to relate to him as a teen.

Grease aged very poorly and I do not understand the hype (is it because John Travolta is wearing tight pants?)

Family guy. The ship that launched a thousand cringe as fuck "adult animation" shows. Yes, I'm salty as hell about it.

I would never put the book as a comedy. Was the movie supposed to be funny?

Oh yes, it stirred something deep inside. This show could be used as an ipecac substitute. I may be particularly sensitive as I was on crew for this production many moons ago.

Just stab yourself in the ear with a rusty knife, you'll get the gist of it.

It certainly tried, with trash tier "school of Marvel" jokes and timing

Anything anime. Lots love it, I hate it.

Hard, hard disagree. Not a fan of his recent stand-up, but The Office was an absolute breath of fresh air at the time and was so hilarious and relatable to my own work experience.

I remember my boss complaining that it wasn't funny and he didn't know what the fuss was about, which made absolute sense to me as it was basically taking the piss out of people like him and highlighting how absurd petty and insecure managers can be.

The characters are timeless, and I think the Christmas special was among the best pieces of British TV ever.

I haven't seen a full episode but Big Train seems like it had some legs, and was right around The Office timeframe.

My favorite scene with a VERY young Simon Pegg: https://youtu.be/VKH9ECC_Qa4?is=sntN4AxaEXgPHFsg

The US Coupling could have been the new Friends, but they bungled it just as bad as That 80s Show.

Star Wars. I really wanted to like it, I'm a huge nerd, but I just am not into it. I watched 4 and 5 and got maybe an hour into 6 and got up and walked away. I was so bored with the whole thing.

Not liking anime is so isolating as a nerd because people find out I'm into nerdy stuff and all they want to do is recommend anime to me and talk about anime and I have to explain that I don't like anime and won't be watching that show they love (insert show here).

Utter snoozefest I didn't get the hype at all

Completely agree with your take on the UK office. Worse, it started a trend in trying to make the audience cringe instead of laugh.

And I've always been at least mildly irritated by Gervais, the cunt. Bothered me how everything he did got critical acclaim and I'd have to have the same conversation over and over again about how he just sets my teeth on edge, and no I haven't watched, and no, I don't want to give this one a try, and no, please stop trying to persuade me to like anything with that shit in it, it's not going to happen, yes I guess I probably am the weird one for not liking him...etc.

Country music or rap. And I don't call it rap music because it's not music.

When I refer to country music that I cannot stand, I'm talking about the abomination they call country music that has been released since the early to mid-90s. I'm still not a big fan of old country music but the newer stuff is just awful and I don't understand how it has an audience. It's nothing but drunken pop music that only discusses five topics.

Any rap music that came out after the year 2000 is also horrible. Sure, there are a few minor exceptions here and there, but for the most part it's all shit. I'd have much more appreciation for these artists if the background music was actually made by them with real instruments and real musicianship. All these people do is write down a bunch of words and speak them. And nowadays, they don't follow the beat, they don't stay in tune, they use auto-tune, it's all no-talent crap. When I see people riding down the road bumping modern rap music, I just shake my head, especially 30-year-old or 40-year-old white women.

If you didnt laugh at futurama you didnt laugh at the simpsons. Even the early ones. You may have been a child that was giggling at the colors or that a catoon was on at night but you werent listenting to the punch lines at the time.

I find it amusing that most of the commentors in here cant tell you why they dont like something they just simply chose to not like it and are carrying that forward. There are a few who recoil at cringe comedy but the majority of responses are unbacked opinions.