Hey, now. You can tell people you like Seinfeld. Tell people you loooovvvvee it. OTOH. That's probably one of the big distinctions isn't it?
On the fence about this - is cult something before it gets hot? Or something that just has a huge underground following and may or may not get hot = popular?
Seinfeld might be an odd example - it wasn't merely unnoticed in early years and then "hot" later. Seinfeld, in it's first seasons, was a show that people mostly hated. And even at it's height, most Seinfeld fans hadn't seen those episodes and wouldn't have liked them if they did.
Possibly Unrepresentative Anecdote Alert:
I distinctly remember, back in college when everybody got together to watch Friends & Seinfeld (the first season of Friends) one of my buddies saying "anybody who claims to have liked this show from the beginning is lying" -- and that's the sort of fan a cult show has. Friends in contrast, people were always "this show is pretty okay" about from the get-go.
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Date: 2007-07-02 10:32 pm (UTC)Seinfeld might be an odd example - it wasn't merely unnoticed in early years and then "hot" later. Seinfeld, in it's first seasons, was a show that people mostly hated. And even at it's height, most Seinfeld fans hadn't seen those episodes and wouldn't have liked them if they did.
Possibly Unrepresentative Anecdote Alert:
I distinctly remember, back in college when everybody got together to watch Friends & Seinfeld (the first season of Friends) one of my buddies saying "anybody who claims to have liked this show from the beginning is lying" -- and that's the sort of fan a cult show has. Friends in contrast, people were always "this show is pretty okay" about from the get-go.