"But the fields of the waifu wars are rampant with a particularly dangerous viral agent, one that has infected every member of the enemy forces, and one which can easily infect you if you're not careful: Shit Taste! Symptoms of Shit Taste include unironically enjoying things that I don't like, disliking things that I think are great, and loving Amelia. If you're concerned that any of these may be affecting you, you should immediately seal yourself in a designated quarantine chamber to prevent the disease from threatening your fellow soldiers."
Everyone is entitled to their opinion. Everyone has different thoughts on food, music, fashion, movies, books, sports, anything. Most of the time, even if people don't agree on two things, they're happy to let the other enjoy what they like.
And then there's Bob.
Bob likes something most people can't stand, be it wearing a purple-and-red checked shirt with a built-in bow tie, a meal that even a Lethal Chef would refuse to cook, the fact that he's a Disco Dan, he likes pineapple as a pizza topping, etc. Bob's friends are so appalled that they tell him up front that his tastes are terrible.
The Bad Taste Call Out is when a character likes something that everyone else utterly hates, and gets called out for it. How they're called out varies: it can range from someone burning the bad thing in question to simply saying "How can you like this? It's terrible."
A Super-Trope to Impossibly Tacky Clothes, Fashion Disaster, Fan Hater, Fake Fabric Fashion Faux Pas, and Lethal Chef (especially if said chef likes their own cooking). Compare with Only One Finds It Fun, Incredibly Lame Fun, and Complaining About People Not Liking the Show. A Take That! may be involved if someone is said to have poor taste because they like a band, celebrity, or something else that is widely disliked in real life. Not to be confused with Dude, Not Funny!, for when a character is called out in-universe for a joke considered to be in poor taste. A character who is a Disco Dan will likely be called out for it by his peers (especially if they believe Disco Sucks). For when a character is called out for having bad taste in friends or lovers, see Horrible Judge of Character.
In real life, even the most widely disliked pieces of art or entertainment still have their fans. As such, No Real Life Examples, Please!
Examples:
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Anime & Manga
- Cross Ange: In the final episode, in addition to calling Embryo out on his narcissism and soullessness, Ange also brings up his lack of "sense of style": Embryo goes to his grave wearing the same tacky green suit, red tie, and gray undervest he's had for the series.
- The Legend of Zelda: Oracle Duology (2001): In Oracle of Seasons, Link responds to a young knight trainee insulting him by pointing out his tacky armor and cape. The trainee turns out to be fairly capable in their subsequent duel, although Link wins with a lucky strike.
- Make the Exorcist Fall in Love: Beelzebub, the Lord of Gluttony, fancies himself as a world-class culinary connoisseur who enjoys only the finest of delicacies... which just so happens to include human flesh. At the end of his battle against the exorcists, Leah lands the killing blow by using her jaws to tear out his throat. As he's dragged off to Gehenna, Beelzebub declares it to be a fitting death for the Lord of Gluttony and asks Leah to tell how he tastes. Leah tells him he tastes like crap and, far from the connoisseur he fancies himself as, he was simply a glutton with no standards.
Leah: "Mister, you were hardly a connoisseur. All you ever did was gorge yourself."
- Pokémon: Mewtwo Returns: The mineral content of the Purity River's water makes it widely considered healthful and delicious... except to Ash, who thinks "it kinda tastes like something's been swimming in it." Misty and Brock promptly lay into him for having no taste. He concedes the point when Pikachu and Togepi try a sip and both love it.
- Urusei Yatsura: Zigzagged; Lum is an alien from planet Oniboshi. By the standards of Earth, she's a Lethal Chef, but by the standards of her homeworld, a decent cook. This is because, as Lum says, to her, most Earth food has little to no flavor, being too mild. One of the exceptions is anything spicy, such as hot peppers. She's been known to chug bottles of tabasco sauce like it was a refreshing drink, and has made a concoction that resembles a type of Japanese candy, but is so spicy as to cause her fiance, Ataru, to shoot skyward with a gaseous release (it also did the same thing to a dog) and leave him with huge inflamed lips for a day. He has to write out that "It's Gross!" on a paper to her because his mouth is too inflamed for her to understand him.
Comic Books
- Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds: During the race, Rouge mocks Wave by saying her outfit is outdated. Wave claims her outfit is timeless.
- In Ultimate Spider-Man (2024), Earth 6160's Peter Parker redesigns his Spider-Man suit with his daughter May, and at one point creates a design that's a loving nod to the Scarlet Spider. Peter thinks it's cool, while May just tells her father that it's not and that he's old.
Comic Strips
- Calvin and Hobbes: In an early arc, Calvin is trying to be "cool," and Hobbes puts on a sombrero, which Calvin says nobody wears. Hobbes comes back with some Mickey Mouse pants, which Calvin doesn't like either.
Calvin: MICKEY MOUSE PANTS?!? You don't look cool, you look like an idiot!
Hobbes: Hmph! Maybe I'm new wave!
Calvin: Maybe you're just stupid. - In Garfield Jon's Impossibly Tacky Clothes are called out on multiple occasions. Jon's such a Fashion Disaster that everyone who sees what he wears comments on it. Usually the one who comments is Garfield by giving a reaction shot on whatever mismatched outfit Jon decided to wear. When Jon got together with Liz she took over. Going through Jon's wardrobe and throwing out everything that she found ugly (which was most of it), one time even wondering where in the world Jon finds these awful clothes, and to put a specific outfit Jon had in the "ick" pile.
Fan Works
- A Game of Cat and Cat: "Cats flee before the mouse: the Trio's tale":
"Yeah, sugar and milk definitely do not go with rice," said Mina. "Rice pudding is delicious," Soma grumbled back. "You have no sense of taste," Mina declared dramatically. This was just another inside joke between them. Although he had been raised in Japan, Soma had never acquired the common Japanese aversion to rice pudding. It was his father's fault, really; he'd worked out that the best way to stop his coworkers from stealing his lunch was to make lunch that nobody else would eat, which meant (among other things) a pot of rice pudding every week he lived in Japan. Alas, he couldn't stop his own son from sneaking sweet spoonfuls right out of the pot.
- The Blood of the Covenant: Kallik's favorite snack is dried sea prunes. While no one in the Water Tribes finds this odd (as they are a common food in the North and South Poles), anyone from anywhere else who tries them (the first being Aang) finds them disgusting.
- Climbing Out: While discussing how Cybertronians are incapable of tasting things like humans can, Miko states that it's obvious some Cybertronians can't taste: why else would Starscream go around in cha-cha heels?
- The Dragon and the Butterfly: Played for Laughs. During Mirabel, Isabela, Luisa, and Camilo's first meal on Berk, they discover how bland Berk food is. The Berkians think it tastes fine, but the kids have grown up used to Julieta's Impossibly Delicious Food. Even Hiccup, who grew up eating Berk food, can't tolerate it now that he's used to good food. This leads to a few amusing outbursts:
Isabela: Does this even qualify as food?!
Mirabel: (deadpan) It's a crime. It's a crime in the form of a chicken leg.
Luisa: (crying) I miss m-mooom...
Camilo: (to the Vikings in the hall) How do you live like this? DO YOU PEOPLE NOT KNOW WHAT SALT IS?!
Hiccup: Toothless please... Toothless you gotta take me back! I can't do this, not again! Toothless please! - If Wishes Were Ponies...: Implied when Harry meets Rita Skeeter for the first time. She thinks she looks fine. But Harry, having learned a thing or two about fashion/color coordination from spending time with Rarity, knows that the unicorn would give Rita the lecture of a lifetime if she saw the reporter's outfit (acid-green leather robes with a maroon fur collar, gold teeth, and what may or may not be a wig).
- Madison Clements has an Unusual Power (And she's going to be a Hero!): Madison doesn't understand Taylor's liking of black tea.
- The Spectacular Spider-Man: Lost in Gotham:
- Doubles as a Take That!. In their first scene together, Jason teases Tim because the former caught the latter reading The Twilight Saga. Tim tries to defend himself by saying his boyfriend told him it was good, but Jason retorts that he thought Tim of all people would read something "more highbrow".
- Justified in one chapter where Spider-Man, Nightwing, Red Hood, and Batwoman hunt through Batman's storage closet to find him a suit for the night. Most of the costumes are contingency plans that Bruce made for various reasons (though said reasons are never explained and likely never will). They include the classic suit (with eyebrows), a mummy Batsuit, a toga, and other equally ridiculous things.
- The Discowing suit is also brought up, with Nightwing's taste for itnote contrasting the rest of the family.
- THREATENING A TSURUGI: Downplayed. When Lila begins bragging in class about a ball she's going to, she shows her classmates the dress she purchased for the occasion. She believes it's very pretty, but Marinette outright gags at the terrible design while Nathaniel winces at the choice of color (burnt orange). In many of the series' other vignettes, Lila's hairstyle (long with two short ponytails framing the face and bangs) is called odd or even ugly several times by different characters (although Lila herself thinks she looks fine).
Films — Animation
- Batman: Under the Red Hood: When Joker first sees the Red Hood's "modernized" take on his own past persona, he compares it unfavorably to his own Gentleman Thief visage:
Joker: When I wore that number, it was classy, more flashy maître d' than motorcycle fetish. Oh, these kids today!
- Despicable Me:
- In Despicable Me 1, Gru reads a bedtime story (“Sleepy Kittens”) to his adopted daughters. He initially finds the book insipid, despite it being for young children and only reading the first few lines, and says so to the girls:
Gru: Wow, this is garbage! You actually like this?
- An indirect one in Despicable Me 3. While the brothers are infiltrating Bratt's HQ, Gru sees his stockpiled Evil Bratt merch and pokes fun at how Bratt was the only one stupid enough to buy the toys from his show. Dru then gushes over one of the action figures and says he had one as a kid.
- In Despicable Me 1, Gru reads a bedtime story (“Sleepy Kittens”) to his adopted daughters. He initially finds the book insipid, despite it being for young children and only reading the first few lines, and says so to the girls:
- NIMONA (2023): Nimona holds no qualms about telling people what she thinks about things. When she (as a little boy) begins kidnapping the squire in the middle of the marketplace, she gags at the fact that someone ordered pineapple as a pizza topping. Please note that this is from someone who eats things from the trash without a problem.
- Strange Magic: After catching Roland cheating on her, Marianne started wearing darker, tomboyish clothes that apparently aren't appreciated by the other fairies. When she says she's not going to "get ready" for the Spring Ball, her sister Dawn replies, "You’re going like that? Good luck being asked to dance." Subverted in that the Bog King doesn't mind how Marianne looks (according to his culture, all the fairies are ugly anyway, and most goblins don't wear clothes); he likes her because she is "different." Yet, his mother discreetly asks Marianne if she doesn't have a comb.
- The Willoughbys: While she tries to be nice about it, Nanny Linda regularly points out that Commander Melanoff's suit (which appears to be made out of candy) is a bit ridiculous.
Films — Live-Action
- Addams Family Values: Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette Morticia's confrontation with Fashion-Victim Villain Debbie in her "The Reason You Suck" Speech, in a subversion, boils down to this. Morticia could live with Debbie marrying Fester for his money, driving a wedge between him and the family, and trying to kill him. "But, Debbie... Pastels?"
- High Fidelity:
- Barry is ready to attack anyone, from potentially paying customers to his boss, on their taste in music. During one debate (about the Top Five A Side First Tracks on debut albums) he asks how someone with such shit taste in music as Rob is allowed to own a music store. Also, already in his first scene (after insulting Dick's taste in covers of "Little Latin Lupe Lou") he starts ragging on Rob's sweater asking how did Laura let him leave the house looking like that unaware that Rob and Laura had just broken up.
- Rob is also very judgmental, if less outspoken about his snobbery, and his main issue with his upstairs neighbor Ian before finding out his relationship with Laura was his taste in flavor-of-the-week world music.
- Jurassic World: Grey wears a fanny pack throughout his and Zach's tour of Isla Nublar, as it gives him something to keep his camera and gear in. Zach, who is trying to look cool in front of the various girls on the island, thinks the pack looks stupid, referring to it as a "dork pouch" and telling him to cover it with his shirt.
- The Martian: The only music available to Mark Watney while he's stranded on Mars is Commander Lewis' collection of Disco music, which he frequently bemoans even while playing it. When rescued, the very first thing he says to her is that she has terrible taste in music.
- The Muppet Christmas Carol: When Mrs. Cratchit, as played by Miss Piggy, insults Scrooge's selfishness and wickedness, in Miss Piggy fashion, she also emphasizes that he's "badly dressed". Only this last one makes her daughters gasp.
- Superman (2025): Clark tells Lois he's a fan of Punk Rock, particularly a band called the Mighty Crabjoys. Lois, who grew up loving punk, ribs him for this, retorting that even if they play punk songs, not pop songs, they're horribly corporate. Later, having taken him back to Smallville to recover from an injurious fight, she spots a poster for the band in his bedroom—a mark of his sincerity which further endears him to her.
- The Talented Mr. Ripley'': When Freddie finds Ripley in Rome living under Dickie's identity after murdering him, Freddie surmises Tom's story that the apartment belongs to Dickie and he's just visiting to be unlikely because the apartment's décor is so Bourgeois and too tacky for the likes of Old Money Dickie.
Literature
- Animorphs: In book 20, The Discovery, Marco implies that potential Sixth Ranger (and eventual Sixth Ranger Traitor) David isn't trustworthy because of his taste in comics and music, even before he's done anything bad, leading to this little exchange:
- The Compound: While trying to figure out a clue, Lexi brings up how their father once arranged for turduckensnote to be served at a Christmas banquet. Eli remembers the dish fondly. Lexi gives him a look and tells him that she found them gross.
- A Running Gag in the Jeeves and Wooster stories is for Wooster to acquire some piece of clothing that Jeeves tells him looks awful. Wooster will then either have the item destroyed in whatever Zany Scheme the story revolves around, or thank Jeeves for extricating him from the problem by swearing to never wear the offending article again and give it to Jeeves to dispose of.
- In the Cynthia Kadohata novel Outside Beauty, Shelby has to stay with her biological father for a while after her mother is grievously injured in a car accident. While her father, Jiro, is a good man, Shelby finds him embarrassing. For one thing, he dresses predominantly in purple golf clothes (namely a purple polo and purple-and-white checked golf shorts). She doesn't tell Jiro this to his face, but Shelby can't help remembering her mother's negative opinions about wearing purple. As she bonds with Jiro, though, she starts to understand him better and her thoughts about his attire all but disappear.
- Percy Jackson and the Olympians: In The Titan's Curse, Percy and his friends have to infiltrate a military school during their school dance. This leads to a discussion about music:
Thalia: (looking disgusted) Ugh. Who chose the Jesse McCartney?Grover: (looking hurt) I did.Thalia: Oh my gods, Grover. That is so lame. Can't you play, like, Green Day or something?
- The Sisters Grimm: In the first book, Sabrina and Daphne are given new clothes by Granny Relda. Unfortunately, she'd sent Mr. Canis to buy the clothes, and he is both colorblind and has no no idea what little girls like to wear. He ends up buying the girls matching outfits: orange sweatshirts with a goofy-looking monkey on them, and jeans with red balloons sewn up and down the legs. Sabrina hates the clothes while Daphne loves them. A few times during the girls' first investigation, the girls' outfits are called out as looking goofy. Sabrina herself does it once or twice.
Daphne: (dancing around in her new outfit) I feel like a celebrity!Sabrina: You look like a mental patient.
Live-Action TV
- Doctor Who:
- The Doctor's fashion sense can be tacky at best, and on occasion, they themselves will sense that. Even future regenerations have been criticized.
- In "The Three Doctors", the First Doctor, sitting in a void, sees the Second and Third Doctor in the Third Doctor's TARDIS. The Second Doctor is wearing a bow tie, and the Third Doctor, a ruffled shirt and velvet blazer, leading him to quip, "So, you're my replacements: a dandy and a clown!"
- In "Time and the Rani", the newly regenerated Seventh Doctor changes out of the Sixth Doctor's clothes. Given that the Sixth Doctor preferred a colourful coat and waistcoat, stripy pants, and cat badges, the Seventh Doctor expresses relief at regaining his sense of haute couture.
- In "Time Crash", the Tenth Doctor praises the Fifth Doctor's outfit save for the celery on his lapel. All he can say is that it's a brave choice, and not many men can make it work. A little later, he crows, "Look at me, I'm wearing a vegetable!"
- In "The Day of the Doctor":
- When the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors meet, they compare their sonic screwdrivers. Eleven's is bigger, leading to this exchange:
- Tenth Doctor: Compensating?
Eleventh Doctor: For what?
Tenth Doctor: Regeneration. It's a lottery.
Eleventh Doctor: (flipping and putting away his sonic, mirrored by the Tenth Doctor) Oh, he's cool! Isn't he cool? I'm the Doctor, and I'm all cool! (windmilling, and pointing to the Tenth Doctor's shoes) Oops, I'm wearing sandshoes!
(briefly, the Tenth Doctor glances at said sandshoes)
- Having realized that he's meeting his future selves, the War Doctor asks, partly worried by their outfits, if he's having a midlife crisis.
- At the end of "The Eleventh Hour", the newly regenerated Eleventh Doctor returns to Amy, two years later, from her perspective. She's astonished that he kept the clothes he stole from Royal Leadworth Hospital, most notably, the bow tie.
Eleventh Doctor: Yeah, it's cool. Bow ties are cool.
- At the end of "The Woman Who Fell to Earth", the newly regenerated Thirteenth Doctor replaces the Twelfth Doctor's clothes with those from a charity shop, including a lengthy, hooded gray coat, and a shirt with coloured stripes on its front. "That's what you're going with?" asks a skeptical Yaz. Confident, the Doctor replies, "Yep!"
- The Doctor's fashion sense can be tacky at best, and on occasion, they themselves will sense that. Even future regenerations have been criticized.
- Friends: In one episode, the gang is touched at first by the idea that Mr. Heckles liked them enough to make them his heirs. But then they arrive in his apartment and see the piles of tacky junk...
Rachel: Have you ever seen so much crap?Chandler: Actually, I think this place sullies the good name of crap!
- Haven: Downplayed. In season one's "Fur," Audrey and Nathan investigate a series of deaths by taxidermied animals that are coming back to seek revenge on those that killed them. When Audrey first sees the club's trophy room, filled to the brim with stuffed, taxidermied animals, she remarks to Nathan that "taste is the final frontier."
- Jessie: Emma, the oldest of the titular character's charges, is a budding fashionista (and a rather rude girl) who always has something to say about people's attire. Jessie is her most common victim, as she's happy to point out any part of her nanny's wardrobe that she thinks is in poor taste. This isn't limited to Jessie, though, as anyone who makes what she considers a fashion mistake instantly earns her ire.
Emma: (after finding Betram's old bell-bottoms) Bell-bottoms, Bertram?! I can't even look at you right now!
- Lucifer (2016): In "City of Angels", it's shown how Lucifer decided to settle in Los Angeles in 2011. He first appears wearing a '70s white suit with black shirt. He thinks he’s very fashionable, because a woman says, "Nice suit," with a smile... until she adds, "My grandpa had one just like it." Lucifer is shocked, because that kind of suit was "the height of fashion" the last time he visited the Earth, but in the next scene, he is wearing more contemporary clothes.
- Murder, She Wrote: In the episode "Keep the Home Fries Burning", Jessica, Sheriff Tupper, and Doctor Seth Hazlitt are eating brunch at a Colonial America-themed diner. Seth, thinking the restaurant's decor goes a bit overboard, makes a comment about their waitress' colonial-themed costume. Jessica gives him one of these as a retort.
Jessica: Doctors who make their rounds in hip boots hardly qualify as fashion experts.
- Parks and Recreation: Ben's love of calzones is met with nothing but derision.
Leslie: Calzones are pointless. They’re just pizza that’s harder to eat. No one likes them. Good day, sir!
- Power Rangers Ninja Storm: In "Shimazu Returns Part 1", the Rangers fight Lothor’s newest general, Shimazu (who wears a gaudy, colorful costume), and his minions, the Wolfblades. After unleashing the Wolfblades on the Rangers, he taunts them by accusing them of being terrified. Dustin retorts "The only one who should be afraid is you!", and Tori adds "And whoever designed that ridiculous outfit.".
- Seinfeld: Inverted in "The English Patient". Where everyone in her social circle adores the eponymous movie, Elaine vehemently hates it, much preferring the contemporary Sack Lunch. Whenever she voices her disapproval, she receives equally vigorous pushback, being dumped by her boyfriend for a friend of hers who likes the movie, being abandoned by a server at Monk's Cafe, and being fired by her boss, only being rehired when she agrees to visit the desert where the movie was filmed.
- In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "A Matter of Time", Rasmussen enters Data's quarters without knocking and finds that Data was listening to music. Rasmussen covers his ears and doesn't initially believe Data's claim that it was music. Data explains that he likes to listen to several songs at the same time, and turns most of the music off when Rasmussen requests it. A variant in that Rasmussen wasn't complaining about the songs themselves, but the fact that Data was listening to four completely different songs at the same time, and at a very high volume.
- The Suite Life of Zack & Cody: London is The Fashionista who prides herself on her expensive taste and high standards. Thus, one of her favorite pastimes is insulting Maddie's wardrobe choices and hairstyle (as Maddie can't afford London's standards of what qualifies as good fashion). The sequel series continues this with London insulting Bailey's fashion choices.
- Will & Grace: Karen is constantly making fun of Grace's outfits, even if they are not particularly tacky.
- The Wire: Ziggy Sobotka uses money from a heist to buy a $2,000 Italian leather jacket that gets no respect, with a co-worker "accidentally" spilling coffee on it and telling him to go steal a container of baby wipes to clean it. Later, after Ziggy also gets swindled from the profits of a drug deal, Cheese comes to collect from him, and Ziggy tries to offer the jacket as payment causing the Cheese to laugh at him and tell "not even a black man could style that".
Music
- "I Can Tell That You Shop At Hot Topic" by The Gothsicles is a Pretender Diss at people who dress in alternative styles bought from the chain store.
- Killer Mike has a Take That! against the Ed Hardy fashion brand on "Ready Set Go"
Ed Hardy ass nigga and ya sequins
Might as well shop at Victoria Secret
Have 'em gift wrap you some "I love Pink" shit - The Kinks song Dedicated Follower of Fashion
celebrates the sort of personality who in The '60s let trendiness and devotion to fashion far outstrip any considerations of good taste or aesthetic.
- Local H: In High Fiving MF, the subject of the song is lambasted for having the same haircut since 1983, wearing stonewashed jeans and the latest brands, and worst of all, "[having] no taste in music and [really loving] our band."
- The South African comic song Stukkie van der Merwe, performed by Pieter Smit, appears to celebrate a guy whose aesthetic tastes (in clothing, hairstyle, music, etc.) are at best uninspired and at worst questionable. His girlfriend also has unsophisticated tastes note .
- "Weird Al" Yankovic's song "Tacky".
Theatre
- Shrek: The Musical: When he first meets Farquaad, Shrek gives him one of these.
Shrek: Are you Lord Farquaad?Farquaad: Maybe? Why, does the name strike fear in your heart?Shrek: No, but that little hat does!
Video Games
- Arknights: Alcohol is Serious Business to the Durin of Zeruetza, and the city is largely split into two factions that favor either whiskey or mead as their beverage of choice. However, there is one thing they can agree on: local architect Catch Lightrace, who prefers berry tomato wine instead, has terrible taste in alcohol.
- Ultima VII: Played for laughs. When Smith the horse asks you which room in his house you prefer, no matter which one you choose, he replies "you always did have bad taste".
Web Animation
- GoAnimate: In "Caillou Goes to Italy and Orders Pineapple Pizza/Executed/Grounded", Caillou requests pineapple on pizza. Boris tells him off because he thinks such a topping is an "insult to pizza". Caillou later goes to an Italian restaurant to order it anyway, and Mario is just as disgusted by his taste in food. He then gets two guys to shoot Caillou to death. And then his dad grounds him posthumously.
- Helluva Boss: In "Truth Seekers", after Blitzo and Moxxie have inhaled truth serum gas, Blitzo reveals that he thinks Moxxie has shitty taste in music.
Moxxie: Shit taste? You said you liked that musical I recommended to you!
Blitzo: I lied! I left halfway through!
Moxxie: You... you said you loved it!
Blitzo: It was awful, Moxxie! It was about ugly, horny cats!
(both start crying)
Web Comics
- Batman: Wayne Family Adventures: Dick's inability to feel embarrassment also means that he can/will wear literally anything and not care if others think it looks cool. In the episode "The Tournament", his Discowing suit is called out by everyone for being garish and hideous... although Dick honestly doesn't see what was wrong with it.
- Scarlet Lady:
- Chloe (due to being a Jerkass and Alpha Bitch) loves teasing others for their "utterly ridiculous" clothes while flashing her own expensive clothes and accessories. She does this so often that, when she tries to be nice and/or compliment people, people can't take the compliments because they're waiting for Chloe to drop the other shoe and insult them.
- People that Chloe has no power over (such as strangers she doesn't know) can get one on her by pulling this trope. For example, Adrien's photographer regularly refers to her as "the idiot who wears white pants to the park".
- When Marinette is hired by Jagged to design his new album cover. Bob Roth hijacks his email to her and instead sends his suggestions for the cover. Roth wants something that Marinette deems not only nothing like Jagged Stone's signature style, but utter garbage. She ends up creating a prototype and sending it directly to Jagged for his opinion. He, like Marinette, agrees that it stinks and tells her to make what he asked for instead of Roth's tasteless demands.
- One xkcd comic has a Bookcase Passage activated by pulling an Ayn Rand book that takes you to an empty room with “You have terrible taste” written on the wall.
Web Original
- Mother's Basement: The "Waifu Wars" video (presented as a wartime propaganda piece) warns that "the enemy" is infected with the "Shit Taste" virus, and that you can easily end up infected too.
Western Animation
- Amphibia: A variant appears when the olm twins Lysil and Anguine are arguing: "Mom always liked me best!" "That's because she had terrible taste!"
- Arcane: When Jinx and Sevika are trying to sneak into a prison to save Isha and several protesters, Jinx distracts a guard. The guard believes Jinx is just another protester pretending she's the real thing, and (along with telling Jinx Your Costume Needs Work) insults her wardrobe.
Jinx: (confused and offended) What's wrong with my pants?Guard: You look like a half-eaten circus tent.
- Avengers Assemble: In "Spectrums", while Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, and Ant-Man are battling Dr. Spectrum (who wears an orange, blue, yellow, and green costume), he yells at them to go away. Iron Man responds "Sorry, but we don't take orders from maniacs in clown suits. Seriously, who designed that look?".
- DuckTales (2017): The episode, "Whatever Happened to Della Duck?!" reveals that Gyro Gearloose's Oxy-Chew gum (which can provide the chewer with oxygen, water, and nutrients even in the middle of space) was made to be his favorite flavor: black licorice. Della Duck does not like that flavor, pointing out several times that she hates it and thinks black licorice is the worst flavor ever. She never says this to Gyro's face, but she tells everyone else what she thinks of the gum.
- Futurama: In "My Three Suns", Bender receives the position of ship's cook. Leela questions the decision since, as a robot, Bender has no sense of taste. Bender replies in a very Bender way:
Bender: Honey, I wouldn't talk about taste if I was wearing a lime-green tank top!
- Gravity Falls: In typical Alpha Bitch fashion, Pacifica Northwest often puts down others based on their tastes in fashion and entertainment. In "Irrational Treasure", she makes fun of Mabel's trademark handmade goofy sweaters and the fact that she's wearing nachos as earrings. By the end of the episode, though, Mabel realizes that being yourself, no matter how silly you are, is nothing to be ashamed of, and Pacifica's taunts never bother her again.
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Due to Rarity's special talent being fashion, she's able to instantly tell whether or not something is fashionable or not. Often, the first thing she'll note about an outfit/building/interior design is whether or not it's aesthetically appealing. If it isn't, she'll make sure she lets someone know.
- The Owl House:
- Eda's most prominent outfit is a red dress with a ragged, diagonal hem. In "Covention", she adds a black hood to disguise herself, and is likened to a trash collector by Lilith, her much more refined sister.
- At least on the Boiling Isles, the Good Witch Azura series isn't highly regarded. When Luz and Amity set up a stand at Hexside to advertise their fanclub, Boscha stops by to skewer the books, criticizing the covers, and mockingly reading an excerpt from one book.
- In "King's Tide", before Emperor Belos (a.k.a. Witch Hunter Philip Wittebane) is about to head back to the Human Realm after wiping out all the inhabitants of the Isles, expecting to be lauded as a hero for "protecting humanity", Luz points out that no one would take him seriously due to his archaic beliefs, and that he won't be helped by his outdated outfit.
Luz Noceda: Not to mention, a fashion sense like that...
[Belos examines his outfit, surprised]
Luz Noceda: [deadpan] Yikes, my dude! - In "Thanks to Them", Hunter is convinced that he can walk around Luz's hometown while cosplaying as a character from Cosmic Frontier. Amused, Willow snaps a picture for her scrapbook, and Amity asks him to change, snarking that humans aren't ready for the brave fashion choices of 2008.
- Phineas and Ferb: In "Lord of the Firesides", during a Fireside Girls meeting, Isabella feels overwhelmed when she accidentally causes a dispute between cupcake flavors which turns into an all-out war amongst the troop. Isabella tries to regain order, but Holly questions Isabella’s tastes, as she mocks how she finds Phineas cute, despite him having a triangle head.
Isabella: HE'S MORE THAN A TRIANGLE!
- The Real Ghostbusters: In "Don't Forget the Motor City", the Ghostbusters build a special car as a trap for the gremlins that are sabotaging the cars of a factory. Egon and Ray paint the car olive green, and Winston asks them why they haven't chosen a decent color. Ray doesn't see anything wrong with it; he even has an olive green suit, and Pete comments "That's why you're such a lonely man."
- Regular Show: Inverted in "Cool Bikes", where Mordecai and Rigby's attempts at gaining Benson's approval lead them to being called out for being too cool for society. They're put on trial where they need to prove they actually are losers.
- Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: In "Smart Lair", it's shown that Donatello's favorite genre of music is a brand of dubstep/techno that no one else in the family enjoys. Raphael learns this when he asks S.H.E.L.L.D.O.N. to play some music, and reacts accordingly.
Raph: [groans in disgust] You got anything that's not ear-bleeding? This is horrible!
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012): Leonardo's brothers regularly call him out for liking Space Heroes, a sucky Star Trek Expy with a Designated Hero.
- Total Drama: At the beginning of "Hide and Be Sneaky", Lindsay is drinking the grapetastic pop from Heather's reward basket in the previous episode. When Heather gets annoyed with her, she grabs the bottle, yells, "How can you drink this sugar water?!" and throws it away.
- Wander Over Yonder:
- As ridiculously nice as Wander is, even he can't help but show disgust as Sylvia's favorite dessert: jellyfish pie. Based on how everyone else often reacts to the food, she may be the only one in the galaxy who likes it.
- Also, in "The Cool Guy", Commander Peepers tells Emperor Awesome that his clothes are ugly.