Do people make fun of you for "knowing"?

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I think it's really about developing a sense of humour about it. What good does it do mankind that I have endless knowledge about serial killers, movies, and 80's trivia? None. But I notice that whenever we play a trivia game, everyone either wants to be on my team or hates to play against me. There's no middle ground. It's a raving love or a pure hatred depending on which side of my obsessive knowledge they are on (winning or losing, of course).

I often tell my friends that everything I say is a movie line, but they just don't know the movie. Does that save anyone from starving? No. However, I've just learned when it's appropriate to verbally vomit my vast trivial knowledge on others and when I really need to stop. Sometimes I can't. But luckily, most people I know appreciate me because (maybe in spite) of it. I've built a bubble around me, obviously.

Meerkat Manor? Garbage. What a stupid premise.

I tend to reference cartoons which some people may not have seen, so I try to offer some backstory to why the joke in the cartoon was funny.

I think part of it is your self-consciousness about your knowledge. Knowledge is nothing to be ashamed of having (we've all left the Garden of Eden now). Knowledge is something you have that may be helpful for them to know. Anyway you're passionate about it, and it makes you happy. You neither have to rub it in nor hide it like some secret.