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What guilty pleasures do you have in life...(Stop sniggering at the back!)
I'm talking TV shows here.....
What show do you know you really shouldn't be watching, but you just can't help yourself....?

Mine has got to be 'Phineas & Ferb'. It's a show supposedly made for kids, but much of the humour
would go straight over their heads.....Saw one episode be accident & was hooked 🙄

The Phineas & Ferb Star Wars episode was brilliant......🙂

So, what's yours ......?
 
Puppet
Puppet
Omg, love Phineas & Ferb, sucks that I can't watch it whenever I want, just hilarious.
American Horror Story (it was great at first but it started decaying after season 2)

The Walking Dead (so overrated but I still like it)

Pretty Little Liars (so cringeworthy it makes me sick)

The Flash (I don't find it great but I watch it anyways)
 
I love Phineas and Ferb (and also Kim Possible), though I know enough who do that it's not so much a guilty pleasure for me (even if someone I care about calls me a name for liking anything Disney), though my liking Wizards of Waverly Place, and actually finding Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl fun to watch (through I'm laughing AT it rather than with it) can be something I hesitate to share. I actually get more flak for liking Buffy and Angel (though not that much flak).

There are quite a few shows and movies that are "so bad they're good" that I like them. I might laugh at them, but it's still fun. Offhand, that includes the Dungeons & Dragons movie (why they make some awesome novels but can't make a decent movie is beyond me, but the actors hamming it up in a ridiculous story line always brings a smile to my face, but I mock it even as I enjoy it, and know most would consider it a cruel punishment to be forced to watch it, especially if they play D&D) and Mortal Kombat 2 (this is compounded by the fact a guy figured I'd like it despite knowing almost nothing about Mortal Kombat because I was taking Krav at the time and also sparred with my girlfriend who had competed in tournaments, not Krav, and that he'd thought I'd like that pile of crap--other than its soundtrack which I did like--was darkly hilarious, as was the look on my sparring girlfriend's face when I shared it with her as something she'd love being into martial arts).

Many have refused to watch Pride & Prejudice & Zombies with me (though one says I should read the book, it's so much better). I know I freaked someone out when we (in a group) all saw Evil Dead 2, but I think it was more my finding it hilarious (to the point I was about crying tears) than the movie itself.

I haven't watched much Xena, but I love unapologetic cheesiness like that (but that it's often delivered with a metaphoric wink means I laugh with it rather than at it). I might one day get the complete series.

I might share a movie later I loved, though as it mocks 80s cheese (and I think is Swedish, and it seems the Scandinavians just love to mock the United States and our media) I'm not sure it counts, so I won't bother trying to find it again (though I've got it saved somewhere as I watched it thrice, and the second time was immediately after the first). As soon as Hitler traveled to 1980 (or thereabouts) to kill Kung Fury, I knew I was going to love the rest (wiki description here ).

I'm sure I'll think of many more later as well, though it's much easier to think of books, like the Chicks in Chainmail series (though I haven't read those in like 10 years).

Oooh, I know, though this is strictly YouTube: about anything by Kyara Pamyu Pamyu . A lot of my enjoyment of it comes from the idea that someone actually THOUGHT of this, and then had to SELL it. Perhaps the term "only in Japan" apply here, though I get that reaction with a lot of media and vids from around the world.
 
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I like watching "The Dumping Ground" on CBBC. In my defence, I watched The Story of Tracy Beaker as a kid and this is kind of the spin off continuation of that.

It's a shame Grange Hill ended as I think that was a good place to raise issues that might affect kids.
 
I used to watch a lot of America's Next Top Model... partly cause I enjoy the pictures, partly because the drama is OH so much fun! 😀
 
Geobubbles
Geobubbles
Yes! I watch the Australian Version and its just so good haha. I love it when they analyse the pictures :')
Puppet
Puppet
Literally my exact reasons for binging it whenever I'm in the mood :)
The L Word!

Ironically, I was pressured into watching this, but by the time I got to the end I was hating myself from still watching, but I just couldn't stop (and there were moments that made it all worth it, and the acting was great). I've got the complete collection and I'm wondering whether to keep it, sell it, give it away, or toss them all (no disrespect intended for the actors, even the actors of the characters I loathed).
 
Blair
Blair
The L Word is brilliant
supernatural 😳 i know lots of people love it but i dislike so many things about it yet i watch!
 
The L Word!

Ironically, I was pressured into watching this, but by the time I got to the end I was hating myself from still watching, but I just couldn't stop (and there were moments that made it all worth it, and the acting was great). I've got the complete collection and I'm wondering whether to keep it, sell it, give it away, or toss them all (no disrespect intended for the actors, even the actors of the characters I loathed).

The show is so bad (seriously, talk about being full of stereotypes, biphobia, transphobia, and it makes lesbians pretty much look serial cheaters lol), but yet the show is so addicting. I recently did a rewatch of season 3, and once you start watching you can't stop, even after they turned Jenny into the worst protagonist in the existence of protagonists, like can you hate the girl any more? I don't think there is any character more collectively hated by an entire fandom. And that's coming from someone who actually liked Jenny until s4 came around.

At least we get Shane, the original lesbian sex symbol, I think nowadays Ruby Rose is probly the equivalent.
 
Glee, the L word and Pretty Little Liars...
 
The show is so bad (seriously, talk about being full of stereotypes, biphobia, transphobia, and it makes lesbians pretty much look serial cheaters lol), but yet the show is so addicting. I recently did a rewatch of season 3, and once you start watching you can't stop, even after they turned Jenny into the worst protagonist in the existence of protagonists, like can you hate the girl any more? I don't think there is any character more collectively hated by an entire fandom. And that's coming from someone who actually liked Jenny until s4 came around.

At least we get Shane, the original lesbian sex symbol, I think nowadays Ruby Rose is probly the equivalent.

I think nearly everyone agrees on Jenny. I hate her so much...but one of my dear friends who introduced the show to me is completely in love with her! So we cannot watch the show together or we fight over the characters!!

The l word has its moments and it just really makes me happy that I as a lesbian have a shitty soap to turn to like straight people. Idk if that makes any sense, but it is nice to know that it is there!
 
I started watching Sleepy Hollow but I have been trying to get myself off it as it is so bad.
 
I'm gonna say it. I love Keeping Up With The Kardashians, but the older episodes are way better. They've become a bit of a parody of themselves nowadays. Khloe Kardashian is the best Kardashian.
 
The Real Housewives. I watch most of the cities...I just can't stop!
Yes! Though I only ever watch RHOBH, RHOC and RHONY, I could never get into the other ones. RHOBH is my absolute favourite though, such insanity over the years - all the old Kim and Kyle drama, all the stuff with Taylor and her husband. Holy moley!

I'd also add Vanderpump Rules to my guilty pleasures list. Do you watch that too @brinkster130? I'm obsessed with those idiots.
 
brinkster130
brinkster130
Yes, they are the worst...but I can't stop watching. My favorite is when one of them tries to use a big word and gets it wrong.
Melrose Place (the original 90s series)
Charmed
Dawson's Creek
Urban Legend (partly because I have a thing for Alicia Witt)
Commander
Kindergarten Cop
The Net
While You Were Sleeping (though I think Bullock's performance is so good it might actually be a decent film).
 
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Puppet
Puppet
Urban Legend and The Net are cult classics in my home. Watched them since I was a kid.
The Bold and the Beautiful.
Its almost a sacred stop for 'me' time family tradition. My mother watched it, and over the years its always been a talking point. I've been watching for over 20 years, i will be so sad if it is cancelled. It has evolved as well as any ridic soapie can.

And I am currently crazy for Im a celebrity get me out of here, AU. Its only wk 2!
 
Ah. The Bold and the Beautiful, I remember that!

Which reminds me of my old obsession with Sunset Beach. Such a crazy show. Especially when it went all horror/supernatural out of the blue. The writers for that show must have had such a laugh(/were very high).
 
Ah. The Bold and the Beautiful, I remember that!

Which reminds me of my old obsession with Sunset Beach. Such a crazy show. Especially when it went all horror/fantasy out of the blue. The writers for that show must have had such a laugh(/were very high).

I thought I was the only person I know who watched/remembered Sunset Beach! I used to love that show, it was seriously mental. 😀
 
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