This is considered rude??

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You posted as I was making my post. I never realized people can say they hate a TV show or a movie to express their dislike for the person.

I would still tell them "I am entitled to my opinion. If I don't like the show I don't like it. It has nothing to do with you. It's not your show."

I grew up with both directness and passive aggression from people. My friend was passive aggressive about some things and direct about others. She was direct about being passive aggressive, as in, very open in declaring that she didn't like something I did.

Robot chicken IS Awful, it wouldn't be rude if it wasn't true...

Robot chicken is quite anti-PC I don't get why would a Robot chicken fan would like you to be careful not to offend them, that goes so against the spirit of the show...

So did I. I knew this boy in my neighborhood and he was occasionally nice to me. I got it from a few others too and it would confuse me but yet felt good at the same time to even care. What did they want from me? Oh the boy had no one to play with so he played with me because I was alone and the only way to gain it was niceness.

I don't understand this. If you're an American, then how the hell do you get along with an anti-American Canadian? Do you get offend when he says F**K USA????

I remember one day at my last job seeing a coworker watching a youtube video of a kid who had won a spelling bee or the like. He was in his early teens maybe and struggling through a conversation with a news reporter. She was laughing and made the comment that "this kid is really retarded". I made the comment that it seemed like he was likely autistic. Everyone in the office knew that I have AS because I made the decision to be very up-front about it. I explained it in my cover letter. Ultimately they fired me for things that I had warned them about in advance. But when I mentioned that the kid seemed likely autistic she didn't even flinch. There wasn't any response at all.

Rudeness, it seems, is in the eyes of the recipient.

I'm not exactly overflowing with pride in my country. Not ashamed of it or anything, but I know and can accept the fact that a LOT of the world hates us. Meh, whatever.

Going through the legal immigration process with someone in the US makes you like the country a lot less, as well.

It doesn't offend me in general, but if he goes on and on about it, then I start to get annoyed.

I'd ask your mom if it's mean and rude for your brother and his girlfriend, to watch a show that routinely makes fun of people like yourself by calling them "retards".

That's a good comeback.

I don't know what gets me more annoyed : that people are dumb enough to be offended at someone expressing a distate for their preferred viewing/country/fill-in-the-blank or that your own mother would actually uphold the offendee's right to be offended.

I'd have pulled anyone up on that one - mother or no.

Being socially disabled should mean you get guidance/correction (if not moral support - GASP!) ... but I guess parents were never counsellors at the best of times.

OTOH, being 'offended' at stuff is also a time-honoured form of passive aggression.
(Islamic fundamentalist rabble-rousers spring to mind here).

Was it necessary to share that information? Were they asking you to watch? Sure this was your opinion and "truth". But not all truths need to be spoken. Same thing with pointing out that Robot Chicken is "horrible". Extraneous information. It could be truth (it certainly is a defendable subjective opinion in this case ) but the need to be said might be low.

The guess about tone of voice that someone had earlier is likely a good one, or it could be that and body language. Another guess could be the context of whether or not you have talked about this before. If you repeat this sort of thing too much, negative opinions of things or about Robot Chicken itself and the repetition tends to be seen in a poorer light. A whiner.

Or you live with some over-sensitive and/or hypocritical jerks. Or you unknowingly annoyed them or did something rude earlier in the day and exhausted your share of good will. Or they were having a bad day, or there was some other stress at play for them. *shrug* Plus being overly defensive/offensive around the feelings of a GF/BF isn't unheard of. They way you describe it it their reaction sounds a bit overblown. But really hard to say without being there and without more info from your brother and mother.

I agree with this - they are being stupid... The same stuff happens to me, too, and I hate it!

I must not have seen any of those sketches. The teenage "nerd" stereotype character isn't particularly entertaining, but even though he's a repeat character he doesn't dominate the show or anything. Most of their material is non-serial, like the sketch showing a snail with a bullhorn and a flashing red light on the top of his shell chasing another snail, yelling "puuuuuuuulllllll oooooooooovvvvvveeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrr".

You know what's really rude? Calling someone a whore.