# Comedies with an extremely cringy and awkward major character **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [December 12, 2024, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedies-with-an-extremely-cringy-and-awkward-major-character/1011534 "2024-12-12T04:45:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedies-with-an-extremely-cringy-and-awkward-major-character/1011534/61 "2024-12-14T23:09:07Z")
I was beginning to think that I was going to be the one to name this, and it sprang immediately to mind when I read the thread title. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2024, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedies-with-an-extremely-cringy-and-awkward-major-character/1011534/62 "2024-12-15T00:26:36Z")
I was shocked when I got so far into without seeing it. It’s an entire comedy movie based around awkward characters! ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2024, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedies-with-an-extremely-cringy-and-awkward-major-character/1011534/63 "2024-12-15T00:41:18Z")
Maybe this isn’t what you meant by “cringy” but in the deservedly short-lived sitcom Mulaney (it never should have seen the light of day), Elliot Gould played the neighbor Oscar with every gay stereotype in the book, well, every effeminate one anyway. He didn’t cringe at all, but I sure did, followed by throwing up in my mouth a little. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2024, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedies-with-an-extremely-cringy-and-awkward-major-character/1011534/64 "2024-12-15T00:44:56Z")
_The Big Bang Theory_. Everything, from the smart but homely girl, the cute clueless girl, the guys. If it didn’t have a laugh track you wouldn’t know it was supposed to be funny. Oh, and the laugh track itself is cringy. Ha, Ha, Ha,. Insert joke about Jeopardy here. ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2024, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedies-with-an-extremely-cringy-and-awkward-major-character/1011534/65 "2024-12-16T06:46:23Z")
> [@Dallas\_Jones](#): > > _The Big Bang Theory_. Everything, from the smart but homely girl, the cute clueless girl, the guys. If it didn’t have a laugh track you wouldn’t know it was supposed to be funny. > > Oh, and the laugh track itself is cringy. Ha, Ha, Ha,. Insert joke about Jeopardy here Must agree. The only I find not cringy is the calibre of guest stars, like Wil Wheaton and Stephen Hawking. The totally stereotypical depiction of nerdy people and their girlfriends makes me shake my head. Oddly, I find Young Sheldon much more tolerable. Maybe because they got rid of the laugh track. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2024, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedies-with-an-extremely-cringy-and-awkward-major-character/1011534/66 "2024-12-16T08:22:20Z")
Every character on _Two Broke Girls_. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2024, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedies-with-an-extremely-cringy-and-awkward-major-character/1011534/67 "2024-12-16T13:42:10Z")
> [@peccavi](#): > > At least for me, these two from much-celebrated sitcoms: > > Ross from _Friends_ > > George Costanza from _Seinfeld_ > > Both were supposedly intelligent people, but constantly, when confronted with multiple choices on how to proceed in a situation, taking the choice leading to cringy outcomes. Haaave you met Ted (Mosby from How I Met Your Mother)? Much like Ross from Friends, Ted is frequently mopey, passive aggressive, fickle, charmless, womanizing, and stalkery, often getting into cringey situations of his own making. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedies-with-an-extremely-cringy-and-awkward-major-character/1011534.md?page=3)