Correction: Making rediculous movies with your friends
starring a busty fragile and sensitive senior in tight bunny costume and waitress suit and having her fall into water is something that people will actually want to watch
I agree with your point; and to add to your last sentence, it does also show that wishing to hard may make us blind to the pleasures and interesting things we already have; as in how Haruhi had no clue that she was gallivanting with an alien, esper and slider.