r/AskReddit 28d ago

What is a super popular TV show or movie that you can’t stand?

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u/acidweeb69 28d ago

Riverdale. I mean it’s a common opinion that it’s a bad show but it’s still insanely popular

The actors are soooooo cheesy

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u/lurking_pigeon78423 28d ago

“I dropped out in fourth grade to run drugs to support my nana”

“Then you’ve never known the epic highs and lows of high school football”

Bruh lol

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u/Drew707 27d ago

That cannot be real dialog.

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u/icutmyliiip 27d ago

unfortunately it is.. and i'm mad to hear jumpsuit by tøp playing in the backround too 💀

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u/Burkey207 27d ago

So all those adults are in high school? And the well fed, good teeth, well groomed guy has been running drugs since he was 9?

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u/icutmyliiip 27d ago

sounds about right and makes 0 sense. it's funny because the chilling adventures of sabrina takes place in the same universe as riverdale, yet the cast of sabrina all look and act their age lmao

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u/Vandergrif 27d ago

Classic case of 30 year old looking high-schoolers, absolutely normal.

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u/[deleted] 27d ago

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u/Vandergrif 27d ago

I can't tell if this is a copypasta or if I've just witnessed someone make a staggeringly enormous mountain out of the tiniest of mole hills. Honestly I'm impressed and baffled all at the same time.

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u/JayLapse 27d ago

If you go to his profile, this guy's whole thing is writing essays to argue with people

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u/Vandergrif 27d ago

I see what you mean... What an elaborate way to waste one's own time with completely unnecessary arguments about largely unimportant matters. Even funnier when you see the last thing he wrote was "People like you shouldnt offer up your thoughts. They are better left in your head." The irony of that is pretty great.

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u/Bubblystrings 27d ago

I like how you bold things at random, really lends credence to your opinion.

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u/icutmyliiip 27d ago

bruuuh it's really not that deep LMAO. if you spend all your time writing essays to prove a point that literally no one cares about , then why don't you put your focus towards school !

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u/machingunwhhore 27d ago

Are they supposed to be highschoolers? They look like they should be attending their 10 year reunion

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u/icutmyliiip 27d ago

that's one of the problems i have with this show. they're literally in high school but because of all the drama or shit they go through, they literally seem like grown ass adults. plus, they're all super sexualized

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u/Masonzero 27d ago

It's if 17 Magazine became a drama tv show.

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u/Saranightfire1 27d ago

They actually are adults. The show runner wanted to do this with underage kids and CW put their foot down.

Yes, that’s true.

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u/mtg-nerd-alert 27d ago

The fuck? Got any sources on that one?

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u/Saranightfire1 27d ago

I heard about it in a YouTube video.

It actually makes sense in that an underage Archie has sex with a 35 year old teacher.

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u/mtg-nerd-alert 27d ago

Would you happen to remember the channel, or perhaps the video name? I’d love to watch.

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u/Notmykl 24d ago

It's easier to film with adults as you don't have child labor laws breathing down your neck plus the kids need on set tutors for their school work and the youngest kids need chaperones.

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u/TexasMonk 27d ago

And that's why the original Degrassi was popular. Actual kids that could barely act.

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u/Nimporian 27d ago

*Cue obligatory episode with Archie sweating and panting while shirtless*

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u/Sloppy1sts 27d ago

Plus, they, you know, look like adults.

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u/Masonzero 27d ago

Almost every show that has high schoolers in it has this issue. I forget the show but there is some old high school drama (I think) that holds the record for the oldest actor to play a teenager, and she was like 30.

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u/babylon331 27d ago

That's how they all look as we get older.

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u/Gamesgtd 27d ago

The funny thing about Riverdale is that the main character was actually pretty young when he was cast. He was like 20 or so when the pilot was filmed making him about two years removed from actual high school which is a lot better than most shows who gets people in their mid to late 20s playing these guys.

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u/amazingfluentbadger 27d ago

the comments SENT me. Someone said

Imagine you’re going into a dark ally to buy some coke and a nine year old shows up.

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u/ZarquonsFlatTire 27d ago

I mean, I don't consider myself a bad person but that sounds like free cocaine.

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u/jojoblogs 27d ago

As far as I know, when you’re buying drugs in an alley you give your money to the kid and he points you to the much bigger dude with the drugs who’s around the corner afterwards.

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u/HtownTexans 27d ago

Could you imagine. You go to rob this kid and suddenly look left at a car full of grown ass beef cakes getting out.

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u/Reasonable_Meet_5980 27d ago

That’s my impression from watching The Wire!

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u/Fat_Lenny35 27d ago

Yeah i would totally rob that kid too.

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u/rbtrapper 27d ago

Nah dude. That's definitely a 9-year old that's seen some shit. I would act extra careful.

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u/Fat_Lenny35 27d ago

Yeah you're right. Still i think all i would have to do is order an oz and when he shows up i yell "look out cops" while inpoint behind him. When he turns around i just punch him in the back of the head a lot take the deugs and run.

I havent done coke in like 5 years, and i never stole it, but in this totally fake scenario im robbing this kid blind and beating some sense into him.

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u/cespes 27d ago

Ya'll crackheads have an interesting sense of morality

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u/Gr_Cheese 27d ago

Narrator: You wouldn't steal cocaine from a nine year old, WOULD YOU!?

ZarquonsFlatTire: Fuck yeah I would! Free cocaine, baby!

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u/AdvocateSaint 27d ago

"I can relate. I quit preschool to avenge my son."

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u/icutmyliiip 27d ago

STOPPPPP 😂😭

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u/Necromancer4276 27d ago

Wouldn't running drugs be like... transporting them from the supplier to the dealer or something?

Like he just carries it on his bike in a backpack, he doesn't sell it. Right?

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u/costlysalmon 27d ago

It's more real than we can possibly imagine

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u/reincarN8ed 27d ago

Jesus Christ my brain just tried to leap out of my skull

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u/TymStark 27d ago

Mine did and I can't find it :(

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u/PrivilegeCheckmate 27d ago

my brain just tried to leap out of my skull

Mine succeeded.

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u/hollow1367 27d ago

If it had succeeded you could have gone to write for Riverdale

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u/phlural 27d ago

Oh my god is the whole show like this? I’m gonna dvr the shit out of it if so. Pure comedy

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u/derrida_n_shit 27d ago

I honestly feel like people are watching it wrong. It's supposed to be a campy mess. I would get drunk with my partner and watch this shit all night. We wouldn't stop laughing. Then there was even a season where they cross over with Sabrina the Teenage Witch I think it was and there's like stupid magic bullshit and it's even funnier lol

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u/YoMrPoPo 27d ago

Ngl this sounds kind of fun

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u/icutmyliiip 27d ago

watching compilations on youtube of riverdale bad writing is hilarious if you're ever bored !

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u/Gerhardt_Hapsburg_ 27d ago

They have to be doing it intentionally. It's good sketch comedy.

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u/Meeshellkuhn 27d ago

The comments 💀

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u/bad_scribe 27d ago

That was the worst thing I’ve ever seen

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u/Dredgeon 27d ago

I was laughing from start to finish.

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u/j52utre 27d ago

they ruined tøp for me, bye.

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u/icutmyliiip 27d ago

literally same they had no right using that song 💀

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u/j52utre 27d ago

ong😭

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u/SkepticSMT 27d ago

Bro whaaaat. That's unreal lmao. Imagine someone wrote that line and they looked at it and read it outloud and still thought, yeah that works. Im dying

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u/Rover_791 27d ago

That's the funniest thing I've seen all day

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u/ezpzlight-n-breezy 27d ago

This is the greatest scene I've ever witnessed. Wow. I've heard Riverdale is bad but that was in a class all its own.

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u/banana27420 27d ago

ahaha it's actually real lmao. i think this youtube comment says it best "The guy who dropped out in fourth grade to sell drugs probably sold some of the drugs to the Riverdale writers too."

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u/mrwho995 27d ago

Holy fuck I thought those two lines were just completely separate lines he picked out because of how dumb they are individually. Didn't even occur to me they were right after each other.

Also those men are at least 20, easily could be a few years older than that. They're supposed to be high schoolers?

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u/VoreLord 27d ago

this plot sounds like it was written by an AI

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u/EvryMthrF_ngThrd 27d ago

... a bad AI.

That, or Skynet abandoned its Terminator program, and is now trying to bore us to death.

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u/pmyourquestions 27d ago

Are… are they in jail? I thought this was about high schoolers? Isn’t this the same universe as Sabrina?

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u/icutmyliiip 27d ago

i was just telling someone else that riverdale and sabrina are set in the same universe, yet the characters in sabrina look and act their age. absolutely wild

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u/federvieh1349 27d ago

...are they in jail? What is that show?

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u/pw7090 27d ago

I've never seen the show, but as I watched on mute at work I was way too distracted by how insanely good looking everyone was.

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u/YoMrPoPo 27d ago

Just like a normal jail in small town USA!

/s

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u/ArNaSTy 27d ago

What in the fuck? I just watched that with my own two eyes and I’m still not convinced it’s real.

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u/the_fathead44 27d ago

What the fuck, that's dumb.

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u/RealAstroTimeYT 27d ago

Nooo, they ruined Jumpsuit

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u/TheVillianousFondler 27d ago

I don't want to live on this planet anymore

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u/AICOM_RSPN 27d ago

For anyone wondering, yes, this shit dialogue is right at the 0:45 mark, and it is as bad as you could ever think it would be.

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u/RaiseYourTemp 27d ago

I can't even begin to conceive of the target audience for this horse shit. I hope it doesn't exist. I hope it's just fucking AI and bots watching that crap. For fuck's sake. I feel slightly deader than before, having subjected myself to it.

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u/JRSly 27d ago

It's mind boggling. The 40+ year olds who might have some fondness for Archie wouldn't want a shitty mystery show. The children watching CW don't know what the fuck an Archie is. Who thought this was a marriage of concepts made in heaven?

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u/Wildfires 27d ago

jesus thats some shit dialog id expect out of a twilight novel, not a show about Archie and friends. glad i never got into it,

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u/Scarlet_Skye 27d ago

What the hell did I just watch?

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u/HtownTexans 27d ago

This is such a train wreck I'm really sad I want to know who won MVP.

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u/pangeapedestrian 27d ago

What the fuck did i just watch.

Why is it a prison show.

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u/avaldeso 27d ago

Is it bad acting? It's look like bad acting but you have to be a hell of an actor to say that shit without laughing your ass off so... they're good actors? idk it's so confusing

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u/afrozone100 26d ago

I knew what was coming and I still cringed when I heard it.