Sturgeon's Law applies to anime as well. You have to care enough to dig through the stuff you don't like yourself, find a friend who can recommend stuff based on your tastes, or you can just stay away. Most choose the last option--they don't care enough to just dive in before they've seen anything they like, and their friends don't make good recommendations for them.

Me, I get some sick enjoyment out of some truly awful crap, so I go with option 1. I thought the clip Silverwook linked was hilarious, but it's basically just about 10 million inside anime jokes strung together, so it's not necessarily going to make any sense outside a certain circle. I mean, Love and Death is a brilliant film, but I'm not going to recommend it to someone who's not already familiar with Russian literature.