History PlayingWith / ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch

'''Basic Trope''': Bashing something you haven't fairly tried on a first-hand basis.
* '''Straight''': There's a sci-fi ShowWithinAShow called ''Bob's Space Gambit''. Alice, who is a MoralGuardian, complains that it's too "violent" when she hears that some kids were watching it. It's not that violent, but she doesn't know because she never even ''watched'' the show.

** Alice hates on the show after watching just one scene.

** Alice hasn't watched ''Bob's Space Gambit''. When asked if she likes the show, she says that she hasn't watched it because she has read a summary of the series and thought it sounded awful.

** Alice is only complaining about ''Bob's Space Gambit'' to impress her fellow {{Moral Guardian}}s.
** Alice gets a kick out of complaining.
** ''Bob's Space Gambit'' has [[ScrewedByTheNetwork taken the slot of ''Martha's Mansion of Mysteries'']], the show Alice is invested in.

** Alice bashes every work of fiction she has ever watched, played, or heard, and nothing else. In fact, she actually makes it a point to redo all of the works of fiction she has ever consumed in order to give it her review: A completely ruthless and unfair bashing.

** Alice was bashing ''[[SimilarlyNamedWorks Bob's Space Gambit (1959)]]'', not ''[[SimilarlyNamedWorks Bob's Space Gambit (2012)]]''.

* '''Averted''': Nobody hates the show unless they watched it.
* '''Zigzagged''': The episode is about Diane trying to find out if Alice has actually seen the ShowWithinAShow she keeps bashing.

* '''Invoked''': Charles tries to scare Alice away from watching the show by bad-mouthing it.
* '''Exploited''': Charles tells Alice ridiculous false information about the depravity of ''Bob's Space Gambit''vfor his own amusement, knowing she will believe every word.

* '''Discussed/Conversed''' [[note]] Depending on who's saying it [[/note]] "Stupid haters, hating on stuff they didn't watch"
* '''Implied''': Alice complains about ''Bob's Space Gambit'', but she sounds pretty clueless about some of its finer-yet-memorable key-aspects. Whether is due to lack of attention on her part, or because she hasn't personally watched it, isn't made clear.
* '''Deconstructed''': Alice is turned into a laughingstock when it becomes obvious that she's ranting about ''Bob's Space Gambit'' without even bothering to look up basic facts about it.
* '''Reconstructed''': Other {{Moral Guardian}}s learn from Alice's mistakes and make sure that if they're going to complain about a show they haven't seen, they'll make sure to gather information about it from reliable sources.

* '''Played For Drama''': ''Bob's Space Gambit'', its creators and its fans are unfairly maligned because people like Alice keep insisting that the show is extremely violent even though it isn't.

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%%* '''Played For Horror''': ???

* '''Subverted''': It turns out Alice has actually watched the show.
* '''Double Subverted''': Only one scene.

** Alice bashes every work of fiction she has ever watched, played, or heard, and nothing else.

* '''Enforced''': ???

* '''Exploited''': ???

** ''Bob's Space Gambit'' has taken the slot of ''Martha's Mansion of Mysteries'', the show Alice is invested in.

** Alice is complaining about an aspect of the show that doesn't require watching it to experience -- such as an annoying ad campaign, [[FanDumb idiotic fans]], [[HypeAversion how everyone won't stop praising it blindly]], or [[AudienceAlienatingPremise she finds the subject matter or even the premise itself distasteful.]]

** Alice is complaining about an aspect of the show that doesn't require watching it to experience -- such as an annoying ad campaign, [[FanDumb idiotic fans]], [[HypeAversion how everyone won't stop praising it blindly]], or [[AudienceAlienatingPremise the subject matter or even the premise itself.]]

** Alice is complaining about an aspect of the show that doesn't require watching it to experience -- such as an annoying ad campaign, [[FanDumb idiotic fans]], [[HypeAversion how everyone won't stop praising it blindly]], or [[AudienceAlienatingPremise|the subject matter or even the premise itself.]]

** Alice is complaining about an aspect of the show that doesn't require watching it to experience -- such as an annoying ad campaign, [[FanDumb idiotic fans]], or [[HypeAversion how everyone won't stop praising it blindly.]]

* '''Straight''': There's a sci-fi ShowWithinAShow called ''Bob's Space Gambit'' and Alice, who is a MoralGuardian says it's too "violent" when she hears that some kids were watching it, even though it's not that violent but she doesn't know because she never even ''watched'' the show.

** ''Everyone'' who hasn't watched ''Bob's Space Gambit'' hates it for some reason and all the fans had once experienced IDoNotLikeGreenEggsAndHam about it.

** Alice is complaining about an aspect of the show that doesn't require watching it to experience- such as its [[FanDumb fans,]] or [[HypeAversion how everyone won't stop praising it blindly.]]

* '''Parodied''': A group of haters talk about why the show they didn't watch is so terrible.

* '''Downplayed''': Alice hates on the show after watching just one scene.

%%* '''Deconstructed''': ???
%%* '''Reconstructed''': ???
%%* '''Played For Drama''': ???

* '''Inverted''': PraisingShowsYouDontWatch.

** Alice is bashing something that hasn't even come ''out'' yet.

* '''Justified''': Alice doesn't like the show based on what ''other people'' said about it.

'''Basic Trope''': Bashing something you haven't even fairly tried.

'''Basic Trope''': Bashing something you haven't even tried.

* '''Inverted''': GushingAboutShowsYouDontWatch.

* '''Implied''': Alice never specifies whether or not she has watched ''Bob's Space Gambit'', but she sounds pretty clueless.

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