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Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
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Transcript

00:01

We speak student!

00:05

[ yodeling ]

00:07

Reality TV Part 12

00:09

Guilty Pleasure

00:13

[ bird caws ]

00:13

Guilty Pleasure versus Hate Watching

00:17

Guilty pleasure is when

00:19

you watch something that you know is supposed to be bad,

00:22

and everyone else is talking about how bad it is,

00:25

but you enjoy it.

00:27

You feel kind of a sense of -- You're kind of ashamed of it.

00:31

Then there's hate watching, which is

00:33

the same thing where you're watching something that you know is bad,

00:36

but you feel superior to it.

00:37

And you love to blog about how stupid these people on reality TV are.

00:43

Who would watch that? And all that jazz.

00:45

So these are related concepts.

00:46

You're watching something that you know to be bad,

00:49

and you're either feeling shameful for doing it

00:52

because society tells you to feel shameful.

00:54

or you are feeling superior to it,

00:56

And either way, you're doing the exact same thing

01:00

just with a different result.

01:01

[ pen writing ]

01:03

What is guilty pleasure and hate watching?

01:08

Brought to you by... [ popping sounds ]

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