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[chief]

So everyone has a guilty pleasure or two.. Its only natural. So dig around in your deepest darkest secret joys of yours you buried away from the public and your friends.. pick a few, and tell the internet!
It can be anything.. Book, music, comic, whatever.

Seeing as I made this topic I guess I'll go first..

First, for all who know me I'm a headbanger. I love metal and I love heavy metal at that. Screaming, growling, heavy guitar riffs.. Its awesome. But I do however have two none metal songs that I love. Of course they are so far out of my normal taste that its just weird and.. Well here you are,






In all fairness I got both of those cause they played on commercials.. So for the first one I blame Heineken, (my beer of choice!) and the second one I think it was a GM commercial of some sort.


Out of music.. http://furthiahigh.c...ssioncomic.com/ Its a web comic and a really bad one at that. I just started reading it recently, haven't even finished it yet but I can't stop reading it. The art sucks. The story sucks. The writing sucks. But.. I'm still reading it for some unknown reason that I can't quite figure out why.



Alright I did it so you go. Name your guilty pleasures.


And just in case you want to what I normally listen too...

[Ratty Randnums]

Well since I've grown up there aren't many things I like that I could distinguish as guilty pleasures. After being raised on MST3K I un-ironically and unabashedly enjoy a lot of crap. One thing that I've been remembering a lot of the last couple days though that I *was* embarrassed of at the time


The show is knowingly silly, maybe even decidedly dumb, but that's what makes it so charming and so much fun.

It wasn't until recently I realized it's basically an exact copy (formula-wise) of possibly my favorite tv show ever, the original Batman TV series from the 1960s.
Complete with a ridiculously upright, clean cut, anachronistically modern and politically correct protagonist

and optional hero/sidekick homoerotic undertones.

I dunno. I guess by the time I got to see it as a kid (it was on a heavy rerun cycle on SciFi by then) I thought with the arrogance of youth that it was targeted at younger children* and that it was somehow beneath me intellectually, at the same time I was watching stuff like DBZ (Lol wut). It was too much darn fun to not sneak in a watch when I could though. Now that I'm an adult I might like it even more, camp value hooo!



And how can you not love a show that gave us Bruce Campbell with a mojo patch honestly?

*Actually like Batman it's a family show with multiple layers of writing for each section of the audience, but not condescendingly so.

PS- Xena always took itself a liiiiittle too seriously for me to enjoy it.

[chief]

You just reminded me of this hahaa.

And I use to watch that show as a kid too.

[GamemasterAnthony]

Could've been worse with Xena. That was one of the names they were going to give that one planetoid outside of Pluto's orbit back when they were determining what qualified as a planet.

Now...if you are familiar with the Sailor Moon series, picture a Sailor Xena if you will...

[BigWigRah]

I've gotta think about this one, since I don't know if there's such thing as a "guilty pleasure" for me, considering i've probably admitted a number of them on this board already (WSD, Ga'Hoole, etc). Let's face it, SatAM is a guilty pleasure isn't it? Perhaps I don't know what "guilty pleasure" means in a strict sense. If it means that other people will think you are weird for liking it for your age/gender/whatever, yeah I get it. I'm usually pretty open when telling people things I like when they ask about it. My percussion professor asked me about Richard Adams when he saw me reading Plague Dogs, and the dialogue went something like as follows...

Prof: who's Richard Adams, is he you're favorite author?
BigWigRah: I don't know if he's my favorite author, but he wrote my favorite book. Most people know him for writing Watership Down, heard of that?
Prof: No, what's that about?
BigWigRah: It's a story about rabbits
Prof: (laughs)

anyway, back on topic...if possible for me...

um...Great Mouse Detective? yeah that works doesn't it? I'll think more.

edit: ahh, got one. The Mortal Kombat movies. yeah I know they suck royally, but I usually watch them if they are on TV.

[Vlad Yvhv]

I sometimes tune in to the more kid-oriented networks, in order to avoid all of those annoying sex and booze commercials...

[pacmancdi]

Probably sonic underground. I actually didn't think it was as bad as people say. If you mute the songs it actually becomes a watchable show.

[chief]

Probably sonic underground. I actually didn't think it was as bad as people say. If you mute the songs it actually becomes a watchable show.

Oh yeah I'll fully admit that the songs were the worst thing going. I only watched a episode or two and the songs always made me cringe.

[FreakyFilmFan4ever]

Oh, geez. Um. I like the original 1960's Astro Boy, but I'm such a fan I wouldn't really consider that a guilty pleasure. Maybe my fan-juices are just clouding my judgment.

I like anything written by Ed Wood. Not just the stuff he directed, I like the scripts he wrote for other directors as well. People actually bought scripts from this man and and bothered make the God-awful movies themselves. I've no idea what they were thinking. My personal favorite movie Ed Wood merely wrote for is The Violent Years, in which you never see a dangerous gang of high school girls played by adults abduct an engaged man after chasing his fiance away.

I also like any and every Godzilla movie. Most of them are certainly not the greatest and a lot of them fall shy of being the worse, but they're very enjoyable either way. (Except for Godzilla's Revenge. What a stupid plot for such an awesome sounding movie title.)

[RedAuthar]

I've already admitted to still buying LEGOs...

I got one. The Super Mario Super Show, I still watch it. I still enjoy it. It still melts my brain cells.

Edit:
And StarWars the Clone Wars. Both Versions. yeah....

[pacmancdi]

I got one. The Super Mario Super Show, I still watch it. I still enjoy it. It still melts my brain cells.

I love the super show too. I just watched a couple episodes this morning before school.

[RedAuthar]

I usually watch an episode a week, just out of sheer randomness. I am currently looking into the Super Mario Bros. 3 series, but I haven't found anything.

[Dakota Bob]

I...I really like Lordi...

[chalcara]

I...

I play a Bloodelf-paladin. *fake-cry*

[Inhibitor]

[Rosy]

Probably sonic underground. I actually didn't think it was as bad as people say. If you mute the songs it actually becomes a watchable show.

That's exactly how I watch the show!

Otherwise mine probably would be all the old game-based cartoons like the Mario Brothers Super Show, Zelda, the Ruby Spears Megaman, Captain N & Double Dragon. Despite what people say I still like these shows and watch them to this day. Heck, even I watch AOSTH, just SatAM is my favorite Sonic Cartoon of all.

[chief]

Hehe I remember that show. I haven't watched it since I was like 8 though.

[Inhibitor]

I'm not a weirdo after all!

[Glitcher]

I tend to commit my 'guilty pleasures' to paper. I'm sure a lot of other artists do.

[furrykef]

No, Glitcher. Not at all.

...*goes back to drawing Sally gettin' it on with Bunnie*