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{{trope}}
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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== Film ==
* 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.
* Buddy, having been raised as an ''[[Elf]]'', doesn't really know what lingerie is, but sees it advertised as "the perfect gift". He buys it as a present for his dad, who, needless to say, isn't thrilled about it.
* ''[[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 the Kitchen]].
== Literature ==
* Crops up in the first [[Elf Quest]] novelisation: The Sun Folk want to welcome the Wolfriders with a feast. The Wolfriders are horrified at the cooking. They prefer eating meat raw.
* 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.
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== Music ==
* From the [[Jonathan Coulton]] song "Skullcrusher Mountain":
{{quote|I made this half-pony, half-monkey monster to please you
But I kind of get the feeling that you don't like it - what's with all the screaming?
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== Music Videos ==
* 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.
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== Webcomics ==
* From one ''[[8-Bit Theater
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Family Guy]]'': Brian is considering becoming a teacher at Chris's school.
{{quote|'''Brian:''' I probably have a lot to offer young people.
'''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?
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* In one episode of ''[[Sushi Pack]]'', the Pack is chosen to greet a group of delegates [[Title Drop|From The Planet Citrus]], and present them with gifts. However, because they were too busy to read up on Citrusian culture, their gifts of cut flowers, chocolates, and a painting titled "Making Applesauce" don't go over well with the delegates, who are essentially living fruits.
* Once on ''[[SpongeBob 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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