Quotes / Audience-Alienating Era

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"Remember the Spider-Man movies? N-no, I didn't mean those. They're classics, but I mean the ones that came after. N-no, that- that's too recent! I mean the series in between! Y'know, the villains were The Lizard? And Electro...? Ugh, the- the ones with Emma Stone! Ahh, there you go, yes, the most memorable part!"
No one was to know at the time of its release between the years of 2012 and 2014, but The Amazing Spider-Man Series would go on to be one of the most forgettable bits of the wallcrawler's career. Hell, I think by now Supaidaman is probably more beloved."

— The Mediocre Spider-Matt, The Amazing Spider-Man

Tamara: Okay, so, things are on the rise. You got Snow White, a lot of hit animated shorts...
Critic & Malcolm: Ahh...
Tamara: WHOA! But then, there's World War II, and all of your films are too expensive!
Critic & Malcolm: WHOOOOOAAAAAAAAAA!!!
Tamara: It's okay. Disneyland opened, and films are making money again.
Critic & Malcolm: Ahh...
Tamara: But, oh no! Disney died, and the company's on the verge of bankruptcy!
Critic & Malcolm: WHOOOOOAAAAAAAAAA!!!
Tamara: But, good news! The Disney Renaissance! Hit after hit is coming out now!
Critic & Malcolm: Ahh...
Tamara: But, oh no! Michael Eisner thinks he's God and has so many bad ideas!
Critic & Malcolm: WHOOOOOAAAAAAAAAA!!!
Tamara: But, it's okay. He's gone now. You just bought Marvel; Star Wars. You're churning out hit after hit.
Malcolm: Wait, what's that drop in the distance?
Tamara: Oh-ho-ho-ho! ...That's the 2023 plunge.
Critic & Malcolm: WHOOOOOAAAAAAAAAA!!!
Tamara: Wish! The Marvels! Haunted Mansion! Indiana Jones! The Creator! Quantumania! Bomb, after bomb, after bomb, after bomb, leading to a NUCLEAR EXPLOSION!

— The Nostalgia Critic on the history of Disney, "Aladdin"

"Can you see why so many people hate this show now? It used to be funny, imaginative, and lighthearted, but over the years, all of that changed. It's replaced varied humor with uncomfortable cruelty, three-dimensional characters with annoying clichés, interesting visuals with gross imagery, and it's just been around for way too long. Yes, there are technically worse shows out there, but the reason why SpongeBob's brought up so much is because there are so many different and insulting reasons why it's bad. Not to mention it really hurts a lot of people to see what was once one of the biggest shows of their lives reduced to something this uncomfortably awful. If you still like the show in spite of all of this, okay. It would be unfair of us to judge people we don't even know based on that. But don't be surprised if you find that fewer and fewer people are agreeing with you."

— Sean (formerly The Rockin' Lobster) on post-movie SpongeBob SquarePants, "Top 10 Biggest Problems With Modern SpongeBob" by coolcat001100

"Yes, everyone's favorite era of Meat Loaf: 80s Meat Loaf. When Meat Loaf performs live, everyone screams for him to perform 'Blind Before I Stop' and 'Midnight at the Lost and Found'. Yep."

— Todd in the Shadows, One Hit Wonderland: St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion) by John Parr

"Now, why the hell did Pickett think that this dumb little thing would be a hit? Well, you need to understand the cultural context, namely that the early 1960s pop scene was phenomenally stupid. The era between Elvis getting drafted and the start of Beatlemania is generally recognised by rock historians as a pretty dark time. Not that there wasn't any good music being made, because there was, but there was also a lot of Pat Boone, a lot of completely worthless teen idols, and a whole lot of talentlessness. On top of that, it was the glory era of the inane novelty song. Hell, 'Monster Mash' wasn't even the first goofy Halloween song to hit the top 10. The danger of '50s Rock & Roll had been neutered, the era of psychedelia and free love was a distant dream of the future, and in the meantime... (cut to clips from 'Witch Doctor', 'Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah' and 'The Purple People Eater') Yeah, remember that whenever your parents talk about how much better music was when they were kids, all right?"

— Todd in the Shadows, One Hit Wonderland: Monster Mash by Bobby "Boris" Pickett

Other

"There's a big chunk of The '90s that feels like nothing but filler when it comes to horror. It wasn't that the '90s produced only terrible horror movies — The Silence of the Lambs, The Blair Witch Project and Audition all came out within the decade — but for every great scary film, there seemed to be a dozen versions of I Know What You Did Last Summer. Unlike the 1970s era of disturbing exploitation cinema that had redefined the genre, the "WB period of horror," as I refer to it, had replaced the demented with good-looking actors and slashers galore. Unlike The '80s, which had become home to some of the best slasher movies in horror history, the '90s had turned to self-parody and lackluster thrillers."

— Julia Alexander, Polygon, "House of 1000 Corpses was the resurrection horror needed after the painful ‘90s"

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