Hell no. Whenever my friends refer to the show as their "guilty pleasure," I fucking smack them.

Honestly, it's not really the show that gets to me, it's the people that watch it. I've watched one full episode with a large group of people and didn't find the show painful; I wouldn't watch it on my own time, but it didn't kill me. The crowd, however, angered me greatly. Talentless hacks surrounding the television made snide remarks about how they could perform ten times better than the current contestant (this was at the point of the show when all of the "awful" singers had been weeded out).

Please.