"Hey, I like this now!"

Weird Al: Before 2023, I didn't really think much of Al. The only real exposure I had was a few uploads on Dreams and a few of his cameos. But almost a year ago, I started listening to him. And then LittleBigPlanet's servers shut down. I was really depressed when that happened. Then one morning, I was watching Toon In With Me and saw an ad for some guy with a HUGE Weird Al collection. That somehow made me want to listen to some of Al's music, and now I'm a pretty big fan of his.

Interesting about the Top Gear, I knew one guy who was big into it, but he was also big into cars and Fast and Furious movies. Interesting to hear that there can be some value gleaned from it from "non-car people"

I had my first experience (I think) of Weird Al when I heard "A Complicated Song".  I say I think hearing "A Complicated Song" was my first experience of him as I have a vague memory of possibly seeing part of an episode of the Weird Al Show in the late 90s or very early 00s but I don't remember if I did or not or at the time. One of the vague memories I have is seeing the Weird Al Show logo on TV and the episode possibly being the one where Al got robbed.

At the time I found A Complicated Song, I liked Avril Lavigne's Let Go album. While I was looking up if Avril Lavigne made any more music, I found out about Weird Al and that song was the first I heard of his. I then found more of his music and videos and liked him ever since and have probably heard most of his music.

I remember some people passing around MP3s that were supposed to be music of Weird Al. Many were not and you could tell where they came from due to the filename saying "Yankovich" instead of Yankovic. Some I remember being clamed to be by Weird Al were: "What if God Smoked Cannabis" a parody of "One of Us" but like the original it has a woman singing it, so can't be Al. Another two were "Star Wars Cantina" a parody of "Copacabana" and "What if Eminem Did Jingle Bells?" which was actually a song by Bob Rivers and released on his "White Trash Christmas" album.

I remember being surprised in the late 2000s when I heard one of his songs on the local radio "That's Your Horrorscope For Today" as I had never heard any of his songs being played on radio where I live. 

The Legend of Zelda. I had never played any Zelda games until like a couple of years ago, so I can't really say I disliked it, but I was kind of indifferent to it. I love it now!

1.Jojoś Bizzare adventure. I originally watched it at an anime club and remember finding it really off putting. Its now one of my favorite animanga

2. Gravity Falls. idk i didnt like it as a kid dont remember why.

3. Radiohead

</div>Yeah, I could see a number of us folks here disliking stuff due to sheer overexposure and people just not shutting up about it. An example-I liked the Office in the 2000s, and it still has funny moments, but not sure I can actually sit through an episode today with the same spontaneous, unpredictable spirit I did then, because I have seen SO MUCH of it plastered all over the internet and even in real life memorabilia. 

The Star Wars movies are at the very least filled with solid displays of classic archetypes, stunning breadth of vision, and FUN worldbuilding IMO. I was never super obsessed with them or anything, and didn't really get people who were, I "liked them" but we definitely got the original trilogy on DVD and watched it both at home and on a car ride. I can also appreciate the MEGA risk Lucas took in bringing his vision to the screen, having read a book that mentioned the actual production of the first movie.

Adventure Time is a show I just couldn't get into when it premiered and aired originally, it was just too weird and random to me, and I didn't care for the crude art style and humor. But having watched an interview with the creator and his discussion of how he structured the series, I can appreciate what it was trying to do. I probably will still prefer Regular Show in the end, but I can say I do like Adventure Time now.
 

Ooohhh JoJo is definitely one that fascinates me, do you know how you came around to appreciating it?

I didn't like the Avatar animated series originally when it first aired in 2005, but my sibling and I practically DEVOURED the episodes when they reaired in holiday marathons on Nicktoons Network on our extended family's TV. We even tried to watch Korra as it came out, with very mixed results XD