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Name something in popular culture that you have never seen. (Original Post) Chasstev365 Apr 11 OP
... a compassionate and intelligent trDUMP. magicarpet Apr 11 #1
Not what I was going for, but I love it! 😃 Chasstev365 Apr 11 #4
. magicarpet Apr 11 #7
Bigfoot True Dough Apr 11 #2
I know nothing about current pop music. Scrivener7 Apr 11 #3
Same here..I hear singer's names talked about; just never seem to hear their music. Tikki Tuesday #45
Tik Tok or KPop or Downton Abbey or displacedvermoter Apr 11 #5
K-POP Botany Apr 12 #27
I thought the drip was a venereal disease? displacedvermoter Apr 12 #37
Pro wrestling or MMA. Raven123 Apr 11 #6
A compassionate conservative SocialDemocrat61 Apr 11 #8
Any Godfather films, any Harry Potter books or films, any Taylor Swift performances, Midnight Writer Apr 11 #9
A trump presidential funeral... MiHale Apr 11 #10
Seinfeld. Breaking Bad. Game of Thrones. Harker Apr 11 #11
Same On The Later 2 ProfessorGAC Apr 12 #21
Ah, yes, your chemistry knowledge... Harker Apr 12 #23
That'd Be My Guess ProfessorGAC Apr 12 #25
I have never seen a house fly. GreenWave Apr 11 #12
I'm so out of it Shambala Apr 11 #13
It's A Wonderful Life, The Sound of Music, Citizen Kane Mad_Dem_X Apr 11 #14
GOT, Harry Potter, any popular reality series.😊 Floyd R. Turbo Apr 11 #15
I admit to being not up with the times. lpbk2713 Apr 11 #16
Jesus rurallib Apr 11 #17
Flying saucers, bigfoot, space aliens wnylib Apr 11 #18
The Sopranos. Game of Thrones. (no HBO) Morbius Apr 11 #19
Gone With the Wind WestMichRad Apr 12 #20
Good Decision ProfessorGAC Apr 12 #22
I agree MIButterfly Apr 12 #29
I have tried to watch it a few times. murielm99 Apr 13 #41
The one redeeming factor for that movie is it became the frame for a classic Carol Burnett Show sketch ms liberty Apr 12 #36
Game Of Thrones. Aristus Apr 12 #24
Never seen a single episode of The Apprentice. OGBuzz Apr 12 #26
Me neither. Not even a partial episode. subterranean Apr 12 #30
same, my allergy to Trump goes back several decades. OGBuzz Apr 12 #32
Titanic, Forest Gump, MMA, almost all broadcast TV series this century, a personalized social media homepage Ilikepurple Apr 12 #28
I have never seen an episode of Mad Men. subterranean Apr 12 #31
Mad Men is good except Skittles Apr 13 #42
It would be easier to list pop culture I have seen. -misanthroptimist Apr 12 #33
Chasstev365........... Upthevibe Apr 12 #34
Yeah. No "reality" tv for me either Easterncedar Apr 12 #39
Have never read a Harry Potter book nor seen a movie Ritabert Apr 12 #35
Breaking Bad Easterncedar Apr 12 #38
The Simpsons Zorro Apr 12 #40
I've never seen an episode of Sex in the City. LudwigPastorius Apr 13 #43
I have never seen the movie.."It's A Beautiful Life". The Godfather" or Rocky movies... Tikki Apr 13 #44
Never saw or read any of the 50 Shades of Gray😨 Figarosmom Tuesday #46

Tikki

(15,175 posts)
45. Same here..I hear singer's names talked about; just never seem to hear their music.
Tue Apr 14, 2026, 12:00 AM
Tuesday

Tikki

displacedvermoter

(4,764 posts)
5. Tik Tok or KPop or Downton Abbey or
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 10:29 AM
Apr 11

The Wire or anything with Vin Diesel, or Game of Thrones, or the Bachelor/Bachelorette, or any of the Marvel Universe series. In other words, almost everything.

Midnight Writer

(25,554 posts)
9. Any Godfather films, any Harry Potter books or films, any Taylor Swift performances,
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 10:36 AM
Apr 11

any episode of The Apprentice or any Real Housewives shows or any show featuring Kardashians, any reality competition shows.

I am actually a big fan of American Trash Culture, such as B, C, or even D movies, pulp fiction, garage rock, underground comics. But I draw a line at the contrived "reality TV".

I have no problem with The Godfather saga, the Harry Potter stuff, or with Taylor Swift. I am simply not interested in them. Everybody should watch/view/read whatever interests them personally. We are all different (Thank God) and we can all pursue our own paths. Entertainment is a product this world is truly glutted with.

ProfessorGAC

(76,979 posts)
21. Same On The Later 2
Sun Apr 12, 2026, 02:49 PM
Apr 12

Watched one episode of Breaking Bad. Too many scientific flaws for me. One & done.
Not one episode of GoT.
I did watch Seinfeld, though.

Harker

(17,920 posts)
23. Ah, yes, your chemistry knowledge...
Sun Apr 12, 2026, 03:02 PM
Apr 12

I suppose a technical advisor for the show must have seemed superfluous to the producers.

ProfessorGAC

(76,979 posts)
25. That'd Be My Guess
Sun Apr 12, 2026, 03:23 PM
Apr 12

Or, they had one but ignored them because the story was better without those pesky scientific principles.

lpbk2713

(43,282 posts)
16. I admit to being not up with the times.
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 12:19 PM
Apr 11


Now and then I check the TV listings. More often than not I don't recognize any
of the names of the guests who will be appearing on the late night talk shows.

wnylib

(26,234 posts)
18. Flying saucers, bigfoot, space aliens
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 02:36 PM
Apr 11

Reality TV shows.

A sane MAGA.

Graphic novels.

Terrorist immigrants (I know that a few exist, but have not known any, and I used to teach ESL so I've known a lot of immigrants)

Morbius

(1,031 posts)
19. The Sopranos. Game of Thrones. (no HBO)
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 08:55 PM
Apr 11

Anything by Taylor Swift. Any of the Fast and Furious series. The Apprentice TV series (or should I say the notorious Apprentice TV series). I've seen the fallout from this last one, but never actually watched it.

Survivor. The Amazing Race. American Idol. The list of "reality" series is very, very long, and grows each season.

ProfessorGAC

(76,979 posts)
22. Good Decision
Sun Apr 12, 2026, 02:52 PM
Apr 12

It's WAY too long, the cinematography is overrated, the story thread is very sympathetic to the slave owning south (so many victims), the acting is overwrought & melodramatic in many spots.
I saw it for the first time in a HS film class. 40 minutes each day until the whole thing was done.
Hated it 55 years ago. No interest in ever seeing it again.
Your decision to keep your record in tact is wise!

MIButterfly

(2,892 posts)
29. I agree
Sun Apr 12, 2026, 03:47 PM
Apr 12

I saw it when I was 16, the height of teenage girl romanticism, and I thought it was long and boring.

murielm99

(33,020 posts)
41. I have tried to watch it a few times.
Mon Apr 13, 2026, 01:05 AM
Apr 13

I have never managed to stay awake for the whole movie.

ms liberty

(11,291 posts)
36. The one redeeming factor for that movie is it became the frame for a classic Carol Burnett Show sketch
Sun Apr 12, 2026, 04:14 PM
Apr 12

Also, the costume design was magnificent.

Aristus

(72,318 posts)
24. Game Of Thrones.
Sun Apr 12, 2026, 03:10 PM
Apr 12

Never seen a single episode.

Don’t get me wrong; I’m a big fan of gratuitous sex. Ghoulish gratuitous violence? Not so much.

Ilikepurple

(741 posts)
28. Titanic, Forest Gump, MMA, almost all broadcast TV series this century, a personalized social media homepage
Sun Apr 12, 2026, 03:32 PM
Apr 12

subterranean

(3,774 posts)
31. I have never seen an episode of Mad Men.
Sun Apr 12, 2026, 03:49 PM
Apr 12

I also probably wouldn't recognize Lady Gaga if she walked past me on the street.

Skittles

(172,187 posts)
42. Mad Men is good except
Mon Apr 13, 2026, 01:59 AM
Apr 13

they had a disclaimer for an episode featuring blackface (you know, it was the times)- no such disclaimer for the rampant sexism in every episode

Upthevibe

(10,207 posts)
34. Chasstev365...........
Sun Apr 12, 2026, 04:02 PM
Apr 12

NO on reality T.V.! Just No (for me).

NO Kardasians (not sp. correctly on purpose)
NO Housewives
NO Survivor
NO American Idol

Easterncedar

(6,387 posts)
38. Breaking Bad
Sun Apr 12, 2026, 05:06 PM
Apr 12

I managed 5 minutes of The Sopranos.

I hate mafia culture. Too close to home. ( Not my waspy family, but it was all around my rust belt town, and my civil rights father was threatened.)

LudwigPastorius

(14,841 posts)
43. I've never seen an episode of Sex in the City.
Mon Apr 13, 2026, 02:08 AM
Apr 13

...or The Cosby Show

...or almost all "reality" TV shows

I never saw the movie Saturday Night Fever, most recent Disney movies, none of the Fast & Furious movies, none of the Twilight books and movies, or Hunger Games stuff.

Never seen the Andrew L W, The Phantom of the Opera, never seen Hamilton, or Mamma Mia!, or Jersey Boys, Rent,

I haven't purchased any popular music from the past 30 years...I have a lot of unpopular music from that time...and a lot of popular music before then.

Never read a Da Vinci Code, Dragon Tattoo, Harry Potter, 50 Shade of.., etc...

Tikki

(15,175 posts)
44. I have never seen the movie.."It's A Beautiful Life". The Godfather" or Rocky movies...
Mon Apr 13, 2026, 11:56 PM
Apr 13

Tikki

Figarosmom

(12,502 posts)
46. Never saw or read any of the 50 Shades of Gray😨
Tue Apr 14, 2026, 12:02 AM
Tuesday

Nor do I care about any of the reality shows.

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