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British comedy like Monty Python
Also Dr Who. Our school had a kid who wore a big Tom Baker scarf and hat everyday. I hope he's doing well.
Really, people got shunned for watching Monty Python in the 80s and 70s?
It wasn't so much that there was a stigma against watching Monty Python per se. It's that it became sort of inextricably linked with a certain type of kid who became obsessed with it, could (and frequently would) recite all the lines of the movies from memory, and would tend to be a little obnoxious about their fandom. They were usually nerdy kids who already weren't well liked by the more popular cliques, and aggressively shouting lines from Holy Grail at people wasn't helping matters. Like, my friends and I loved those movies, but I guess not as much as the theater kids who were galloping around the school on imaginary horses shouting, "Ni!" at people and demanding a shrubbery.
We all know that person...
And that person is the most obnoxious one to have around. They're the people who on YouTube, would create lego reenactments of the scenes from that movie and everything. It's like their entire form of communicating is just being quirky set to 11 and making numerous quotes from anything they've watched and heard.
I see!
Shunned? No.
Mocked? Yes.
Why? How come? I never imagined either would be the case
For the same reason as anime: it was unusual, foreign, and associated with nerds