People have different tastes.

I've known a fair lot who are Office fans and these people are nothing basic. It's just different tastes. Sense of humor has a lot to do with cultural background too.

I cringe at American office

Isn't that the entire point? I hate cringe comedy myself - you couldn't pay me to watch The Office or IT Crowd, but "I dislike the show/genre" is pretty different from "the entire show/genre and everything in it sucks".

Are people just really basic or am I out of touch?

Maybe just a tad edgy about this. "People are basic" is rarely a good look even if you're right. In this case it's completely subjective.

Anyway, GoT S1 was really good, S2-4 were still decent, S5-7 stank like bad pooooosey, and S8 was so god-awful it retroactively made the whole series unwatchable for me, and turned me off the books too. Which is actually a real stroke of luck, beats waiting for Godot-R.-R.-Martin over here.

Apart from that, I don't remember watching a new show due to memes or popularity since Big Bang Theory, which was pitched as a "geek humor" thing but instead turned out to be... well, whatever BBT was.

Are people just really basic

Says the guy making a thread from 2009

The Walking Dead. Mediocre acting and worse writing. Production was really all it had going for it, which is ultimately just money that could have been better spent elsewhere.

It actually WAS Community for me. I tried it a few years back and it just didn't click. I think because Joel and Pierce especially are such shitty people. Tried it again last year and loved it.

Same thing happened with The Orville. I didn't even make it through the first episode the first time I tried it. Loved it the next time.

Sometimes it's all about the timing in our lives or the experiences we've had.

Morbius It wasn't bad enough to finish or good enough to enjoy. Never said it was Morbin time. It had Dr. Who so there was that.

I first watched SpongeBob SquarePants as an adult and it’s shit. Maybe if I’d started watching when I was five it might have liked it.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine feels that way to me. Not that I think it's a particularly bad show, but I definitely feel like the memes spawned from it already contain the funniest parts of the show. The actual content of each episode is kinda predictable with the protagonist learning stone sort of lesson.

Also I so desperately wanted to get into Bojack Horseman because I love animation, puns, and to cry while watching shows. The memes showed so many really deep and interesting moments, but by the end of the third season, I just couldn't stand to watch Bojack learn a lesson only to revert to being a complete asshole an episode later. I get that's kind of the point, but it was more infuriating than engaging.

Not a show, but a movie. I watched Napoleon Dynamite because of the memes and because several people I knew would quote it a lot. I found it to be slow paced and boring outside of the scenes with the memes.

That banana stand show was hella underwhelming. The memes were everwhere and are still popular now, it felt like everybody bsck then was raving about how sidesplittingly hilarious and clever this show was.

The Star Wars prequels.

Out of curiosity, specify which Avatar

I think the problem is that a lot of shows become overhyped once they reach a certain level of popularity. While you may have enjoyed it if you came across it naturally, the hype you've encountered around it makes you expect more. Avatar and Parks and Rec are great shows, but they're definitely not the best shows of all time (although I do really love Parks and Rec) and you'd probably expect them to be these amazing shows if all you know about them is the hype from superfans.

I think you should leave. Memes were great. Show was alright

Spice and wolf. I saw "a picture" of the main girl Holo and was "intrigued" but the show it's was more about medival economics than what I expected.

Good show from what I heard, just not what 14 y/o me was interested in

I saw some memes with Good Omens templates and decided to give the show a watch.

Season 1 was pretty good, the kind of comedy that made me smile occasionally, which is fine.

On the other hand season 2 was mostly boring, 2 episode's worth of story was stretched out to 6, and the ending ruined the friendship between the main characters, which was the cornerstone of the whole concept.