# Embarrassing/uncomfortable moments watching TV or a movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 5, 2007, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embarrassing-uncomfortable-moments-watching-tv-or-a-movie/394693 "2007-03-05T16:20:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![TwoTrouts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a9adbd/32.png) [@TwoTrouts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwoTrouts)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embarrassing-uncomfortable-moments-watching-tv-or-a-movie/394693/41 "2007-03-07T01:04:58Z")
I was a youngster when the Adam West \*Batman \* TV show was a big hit, and it was my favorite show at the time. My father returned from his first tour of duty in Viet Nam and wanted to see this hit show that everyone seemd to be talking about. I was overjoyed that my Dad would be watching Batman with me! About half-way through he abruptly got up and announced, “This is the stupidest crap I’ve every seen!” and walked off. Holy let-down!! ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embarrassing-uncomfortable-moments-watching-tv-or-a-movie/394693/42 "2007-03-07T05:23:26Z")
[QUOTE=Tapioca Dextrin] oh, you mean panfried semen😃 [/QUOTE] A slight hijack. I recently saw a clip featuring that. They had a cup or two and poured it in the pan. The cook commented it reeked. It looked like an omelet. The poor girl who ate it said it tasted like egg white. She did not like it at all. Although she had no problem with it raw. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embarrassing-uncomfortable-moments-watching-tv-or-a-movie/394693/43 "2007-03-07T20:34:25Z")
[QUOTE=Voyager] 😛 Good for them. There is nothing we like better to do than to gross out our now adult kids with the implication that we have a sex life. [/QUOTE] Hee. My friends’ son was teasing Dad about being bald so Mom says “He got that way from hitting the headboard.” That shut kid up quick. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![STEVEHOLT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@STEVEHOLT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/STEVEHOLT)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embarrassing-uncomfortable-moments-watching-tv-or-a-movie/394693/44 "2007-03-07T21:01:37Z")
Last year, I missed Crash in the theaters and was misled by the “info” button on the cable box. It clearly stated that it was a Paul Haggis movie about racial tensions in LA and then here comes Cronenberg’s Crash. Didn’t take that long for me to realize, but both my mom and I sat through the first couple of scenes…some of which very explicit for a family night in. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embarrassing-uncomfortable-moments-watching-tv-or-a-movie/394693/45 "2007-03-07T21:24:52Z")
[QUOTE=Fern Forest] A slight hijack. I recently saw a clip featuring that. They had a cup or two and poured it in the pan. The cook commented it reeked. It looked like an omelet. The poor girl who ate it said it tasted like egg white. She did not like it at all. Although she had no problem with it raw. [/QUOTE] That sounds like an interesting flick. ---
**Author:** ![tiger\_lily](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/96bed5/32.png) [@tiger\_lily](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiger_lily)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embarrassing-uncomfortable-moments-watching-tv-or-a-movie/394693/46 "2007-03-07T21:37:22Z")
[QUOTE=Fern Forest] A slight hijack. I recently saw a clip featuring that. They had a cup or two and poured it in the pan. The cook commented it reeked. It looked like an omelet. The poor girl who ate it said it tasted like egg white. She did not like it at all. Although she had no problem with it raw. [/QUOTE] A cup or _two_?? :eek: I don’t suppose they mentioned how they acquired that much…? If the cook had thought to add some soy sauce, she could have said she was dining on bukkake teriyaki. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embarrassing-uncomfortable-moments-watching-tv-or-a-movie/394693/47 "2007-03-07T21:44:14Z")
[QUOTE=Poysyn] Watching _A History of Violence_ with my mom. My mom is generally totally cool, but the oral sex scene was a little too much for her at the time. [/QUOTE] I accidentally watched this with my sister-in-law. Very uncomfortable. ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embarrassing-uncomfortable-moments-watching-tv-or-a-movie/394693/48 "2007-03-07T23:49:07Z")
Never, ever watch an Almodovar film with your mom. Especially if she speaks Spanish. Just trust me on this one. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embarrassing-uncomfortable-moments-watching-tv-or-a-movie/394693/49 "2007-03-08T02:25:57Z")
Oh man, I’ve got a bunch of these. Back when I was in college, I had a friend who was always raving about what a great movie “Something Wild” was. So one weekend my folks were in town and one of the nights they were there we decided to rent a movie. I grabbed “Something Wild” because my friend had been going on about it. I just about wanted to crawl under the couch during the scene where Melanie Griffith has Jeff Daniels tied to the bed. Another time, I was spending the weekend at my girlfriend’s house, and “Airplane” was on TV. We had both seen it but neither of her parents had. We had to make a quick getaway to the kitchen to, um… get something to drink, yeah… when the scene came on where the stewardess has to manually reinflate the copilot. The best one, though, was us kids were teens and my dad’s much older sister and her husband were visiting one night. It was a Sunday, which was the night our local PBS station showed Monty Python. So at 9 o’clock all of us kids come piling into the living room to watch the show, and mom and dad are explaining to my aunt and uncle how much us kids love this show and how funny it is… and the episode that night was “Full Frontal Nudity”. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embarrassing-uncomfortable-moments-watching-tv-or-a-movie/394693/50 "2007-03-08T02:40:49Z")
[QUOTE=tiger lily] A cup or _two_?? :eek: I don’t suppose they mentioned how they acquired that much…? [/QUOTE] The girl who ate it started out naked with a pitcher under her chin while a whole bunch of guys went to work. It was definitly an ‘only on the internet’ type clip. I wonder if they read GQ? ---
**Author:** ![Full\_Metal\_Lotus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Full\_Metal\_Lotus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Full_Metal_Lotus)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2007, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embarrassing-uncomfortable-moments-watching-tv-or-a-movie/394693/51 "2007-03-11T01:57:49Z")
Another Monty Python “bleak moment” It was 1972, and I was 11… Monty python came on late, and by being a very very good child all week, I was allowed to stay up and watch it. The "Sam Peckinpah Tennis Club " sketch came on, and I started litterally shrieking with laughter at the first cutting off of hands by the piano key lid. My mom was awoken by my noise and half asleep walked into the room, to see me convulsing on the floor, while what was being shown on the TV was a pile of bodies and body parts artistically fountaining blood in slow motion. (sorry about the spoiler if you haven’t seen it) Needless to say, the TV was turned off, and Monty Python wasn’t allowed on the viewing choices for a number of years. As a matter of redemption, she accompanied me to “And now for something completely different”, as it came out in Canada I was too young to go and see it without an adult. regards FML ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2007, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embarrassing-uncomfortable-moments-watching-tv-or-a-movie/394693/52 "2007-03-11T04:37:39Z")
I was around 14 or 15 when _Six Degrees of Separation_ came out. My mother took my sister and me to see it, no doubt thinking it was going to be a comedy since Will Smith was in it. We were kind of quiet afterwards. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_C](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Captain\_C](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_C)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2007, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embarrassing-uncomfortable-moments-watching-tv-or-a-movie/394693/53 "2007-03-11T04:44:56Z")
Last Christmas I received “The SNL Best of Christopher Walken” DVD, and of course I had the bright idea of watching it with my parents. One of the sketches involves Mr. Walken playing the part of Colonel Angus, and many jokes related to the pronunciation of this. Needless to say it is completely hilarious, except when your mother doesn’t get the joke and wants you to explain it… ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2007, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embarrassing-uncomfortable-moments-watching-tv-or-a-movie/394693/54 "2007-03-11T12:37:14Z")
Hubby and I loved _Will and Grace_ when it first appeared. He thought it would be fine to watch it with his aging parents. They are in their 80s. Pop is very involved in the church, but Mom is pretty liberal. Of course, the episode on that week was one where Jack, and Grace fondled each others’ breasts. The scene seemed to go on forever. Pop suddenly decided he needed to feed the dog (again). We never introduced them to new TV after that. ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2007, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embarrassing-uncomfortable-moments-watching-tv-or-a-movie/394693/55 "2007-03-11T12:51:24Z")
In the theater: Going to see **Fast Times at Ridgemont High** with my Dad and sister, and having to endure the masturbation scene. TV: When I was dating my now-DH, we had a long conversation one day in which he was exploring reasons why he just wasn’t sure that he wanted to get married a second time, as his first marriage didn’t really go so well. I myself didn’t want the marriage option to be taken off the table and the discussion was kind of emotional at times. The next day, we were just hanging out watching the Food Network. It was May or June, and every single ad it seemed, was about weddings. Made for a long day. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2007, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embarrassing-uncomfortable-moments-watching-tv-or-a-movie/394693/56 "2007-03-11T13:03:20Z")
I took my little sister about 8 at the time to Romancing The Stone. They have a bed scene where they are shown naked starting at the head going down with a moving camera. They got to about the waste line and I put my hands over her eyes, and said don’t look. A sheet shows up well below the normal waste line, just before it’s usless. I would have liked to have the director present to discuss the PG movie rating they released it with. I don’t take little kids to see R rated movies. Now they release many movies to television without a rating, to get past the age restrictions. This movie not rated is all the warning you get that the kids shouldn’t watch, because they know it’s R or X rated the bastards. This is done on many broadcast shows, so using the rating function on the television equipment doesn’t prevent childern watching inapropriate movies locked out at certain ratings. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2007, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embarrassing-uncomfortable-moments-watching-tv-or-a-movie/394693/57 "2007-03-11T13:20:35Z")
I was watching _Annie Hall_ on TV with my wife and she suddenly turned to me and said, “You’re thinking about Jeanie aren’t you,” naming my first wife. And she was dead right. I had been sitting there thinking how many of Diane Keaton’s _Annie Hall_ endearing/annoying mannerisms reminded me of the ex. Naturally I instantly denied her accusation so convincingly that she called me a “fucking liar.” Dead right again. ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2007, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embarrassing-uncomfortable-moments-watching-tv-or-a-movie/394693/58 "2007-03-11T13:22:47Z")
[QUOTE=olivesmarch4th] When I was 12 or 13, my mother took me to see _Eyes Wide Shut_ based solely on the knowledge that it had Tom Cruise in it. We sat down in the front row. That goes down in history as one of the most awkward moments ever between my mother and I. I just kept thinking, _Ewww. I hope she doesn’t think I’m enjoying this._ Afterward she just muttered, ‘‘I thought it was going to have a moral or something.’’ [/QUOTE] _Eyes Wide Shut_ was released [July 1999](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120663/), so you would have been somewhat older. Still not a movie I would want to see with my Mom though. ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2007, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embarrassing-uncomfortable-moments-watching-tv-or-a-movie/394693/59 "2007-03-11T15:18:09Z")
I was living in Japan and I had not seen an English-language film in quite sometime so my Japanese friends decided to take me out to a double feature. I don’t think any of us checked what the films were about just that they were mostly in English. The first one was a terrible Racquel Welch movie about a woman who ends an abusive relationship by setting her husband on fire. I am not sure if it ever was released in the U.S. The other, however, was _Tora, Tora, Tora_ (about the bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese). Here I am the only American in the theater as audience members get caught up in the film and shout, “Banzi”, “Kill the Americans” and other such cheers. At the end of the film, the audience broke out into a patroitic song. My friends were more than a little bit uncomfortable, and I was a bit frightened. On the ride home after the movies, my friends attempted to make small talk about Raquel Welch but that movie was so bad, that was even hard. ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2007, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embarrassing-uncomfortable-moments-watching-tv-or-a-movie/394693/60 "2007-03-11T16:55:00Z")
Last year, my sister went on vacation and left her (outdoor) cat with my brother and me. On the morning of the day my sister was to return, bro went to get the paper and found the cat dead on the front yard and one of the larger neighborhood dogs walking away. When the Princess awoke, she walked around the house looking for the cat, and I had to explain that the cat was now in kitty heaven (I called the animal shelter to dispose of the remains). I decided to put on Disney channel to distract her, aware that they show movies on Monday mornings. The day’s movie was “The Aristocats”. Needless to say, I changed the channel to Nickelodeon ASAP. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embarrassing-uncomfortable-moments-watching-tv-or-a-movie/394693.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embarrassing-uncomfortable-moments-watching-tv-or-a-movie/394693.md?page=4)