When participants are given plot-crucial information, or a “spoiler,” before reading a short story, the story is subsequently enjoyed as much as, or more than, unspoiled stories (Leavitt & Christenfeld, 2011, 2013). Other research (Rosenbaum & Johnson, 2016; Levine, Betzner, & Autry, 2016) offers a more complicated picture, showing that these findings may be driven by an interaction of individual differences, such as Need for Cognition, rather than a broad spoiling effect. These findings are counterintuitive because spoilers are culturally regarded as something that detracts enjoyment from a narrative. In Experiment 1, we tested if reported enjoyment of a narrative decreased even when participants were alerted to the presence of a plot spoiler, to replicate previous findings for short stories while adding a condition informing participants beforehand that their short stories was being spoiled. Experiment 2 extended this methodology to episodes of television. Our results fail to replicate previously reported positive effects of spoilers and show that spoilers have a negative effect on enjoyment for television, but not short stories.