The impression of inconsistency as regards the mainland's attitude toward popular Taiwanese entertainment is not restricted to politics. Broadcast of the star-studded Meteor Garden TV series was banned in China in 2002, thanks to the intervention of the education authorities who were responding to parents who had indicated that the "bourgeois values" of the series would "distort" the growth of the young.
然而大陸對台灣流行娛樂的錯落觀感不只表現在政治上，二○○二年台灣偶像劇《流星花園》在大陸地區遭到禁播，就是因為家長反應劇中的「資產階級」價值觀會扭曲青少年的成長，才由教育當局出面要求禁止。