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It's a special occasion, and you want to celebrate it with someone special, or offer a token of your esteem. Maybe you just want to be nice, or show that you aren't such a bad guy after all. So you search around and finally come up with the perfect gift and... she doesn't like it? She hates it? She's running away? But you had a pet goliath spider when you were a kid - doesn't she know how cuddly they are?

Welcome to '''Don't You Like It?''', a subtrope of [[My New Gift Is Lame]] where the gift in question is inadvertently horrifying or disgusting because the giver was raised in an environment where this was considered completely appropriate - but this doesn't match up with the standards of the recipient.

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* In ''[[The Nightmare Before Christmas]]'', Jack Skellington plays <s>Santa Claus</s> Sandy Claws and distributes Christmas gifts to the children of the world - stuff like shrunken heads, carnivorous toys, etc. He is horrified to find that not only ''don't'' they like their gifts, but they shoot down his sleigh.

* ''[[Father of the Bride]]''- Brian gives Annie a blender as a wedding present and she almost calls the wedding off because she thinks he's telling her to [[Stay in Thethe Kitchen]].

* This is at least part of the story behind the Lone Power's exile in ''[[Young Wizards]]''. At the beginning of the universe, It wanted to make something completely new and original and different from the other Powers' creations.

{{quote| ''Others had invented planets, light, gravity, space. The Lone Power invented death, and bound it irrevocably into the worlds. Shortly thereafter the other Powers joined forces and cast the Lone One out.''}}

** However, while the Lone Power may have ''originally'' been misguided rather than malevolent, It stubbornly refuses to believe that there's anything wrong with Its "gift" and therefore is not exactly in a hurry to fix the problems It caused.

* Pretty much anything ''[[The Addams Family (TV)|The Addams Family]]'' has ever done as a favor for their Muggle neighbors.

* Inverted in ''[[Alien Nation (TV series)|Alien Nation]]'': If you give flowers to the Tenctonese make sure the roots are intact. Dying flowers are unpleasant.

* From the [[Jonathan Coulton]] song "Skullcrusher Mountain":

{{quote| I made this half-pony, half-monkey monster to please you <br />

But I kind of get the feeling that you don't like it - what's with all the screaming? <br />

You like monkeys, you like ponies... maybe you don't like monsters so much <br />

* The music video for [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]'s "Close But No Cigar", where a cat tries to woo a human woman with gifts of dead mice.

* From one ''[[Eight 8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)|Eight Bit Theater]]'' guest comic (which of course I can no longer find) in which BM gives his heart to White Mage... except of course it's Fighter's still-beating heart.

* ''[[Family Guy]]'': Brian is considering becoming a teacher at Chris's school.

{{quote| '''Brian:''' I probably have a lot to offer young people. <br />

'''Stewie''': What are you going to teach them? How to lick the Dorito crumbs from between the sofa cushions or how to leave a dead bird on the carpet? <br />

{{quote| '''Girlfriend''': Oh, it's...what is this?<br />

'''Van Gogh''': It's my ear! Do you like it? You don't-- you don't like it...<br />

'''Girlfriend''': No, I like it! But it's just -- why you ear?<br />

'''Van Gogh''': Because I love you!<br />

'''Girlfriend''': Well, at least this'll be a funny story to tell our kids someday.<br />

'''Van Gogh''': Oh, you want kids? Oh, yikes. Uh, I wish you'd told me that before I got you this.<br />

* On ''[[My Gym PartnersPartner's a Monkey]]'', Mr. Hornbill gives Mrs. Tusk a rhino pie, which is [[Road Apples|exactly what you're thinking it is]].

* Once on ''[[SpongebobSpongeBob SquarePants]]'', Patrick gives SpongeBob a giant ball of chewed gum as a present. SpongeBob was too polite to say anything, even after he, his house, and half the popluation of Bikini Bottom get tangled up in it.

** Not to mention Spongebob's sweater that he gave to Squidward ("Do you ''love'' it??"), which was a little itchy because it'd been made out of eyelashes.

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