One I thought of was in 2 and a Half Men after Judith leaves Allen because she’s realized she is a lesbian. Charlie and Allen go to the movies and bump into Judith and another lady happens to be standing there and Allen introduces himself thinking she’s Judith’s new lover, which she’s not of course.
I have the same problem. I often get up in the middle of a show and need to go find something else to do because I’m feeling so profoundly embarrassed for the characters that it’s uncomfortable. My husband thinks it’s ridiculous, but I can’t control it.
As others have said, Frasier did that to me a lot. I also don’t like much of Steve Carrell’s stuff, because most of it is along the same lines.
The scene in Say Anything where John Mahoney starts flirting with the cashier, then leaves embarrassed b/c his card was declined.
The scene in Lucas where the bullies bring Lucas up on stage - first he makes do of it by making people laugh, but by the end he’s asked to leave the stage and walks out in total silence.
The scene in Leaving Las Vegas where Nicolas Cage is too wasted to write his name on his bank check.
Star Trek V
At the end.
When they sing.
Actually most of that movie was awkward.
I think maybe the “You’re my density” scene in Back to the Future. I think it’s the extreme awkwardness that Crispin Glover conveys that makes it so damn funny, and hard to watch at the same time.
Halle Berry- “Make me feel good! Make me feel good!”
Ugh. Just stop.
No. He can’t write his name on the check because he’s got the shakes; he hasn’t had anything to drink yet (or not enough, or what he did have wore off). Cut to a scene in a bar where he proceeds to get drunk, back to the bank, signs perfectly and says “solid as a fucking rock!” (or something similar). Cashier is embarrassed.
That’s right. Ugh.
maybe not what the OP was asking for but I found Animal room with neil Patrick Harris extremely disturbing. Not what I was expecting at all. If it came on I would have to leave the room if I couldn’t change the channel.
Seconded. When I saw it, I had just been through a breakup. Really made me squirm.
The pageant scene in ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ repulsed me, too. I’m the only person I know who feels that way, though.
That reminds me of the scene near the begninning of Marty where he is on the phone trying to get a date with a girl he recently met and it’s becoming more and more clear that she’s not interested. You can see Ernest Borgnine getting more and more downhearted as he starts to get the message.
Blood Simple had plenty of awkward scenes. And I’m not talking about the knife scene, though that did make me squeam. It was the awkward silences in conversation. That movie was not a great endorsement for Texas.
Pretty much any old Woody Allen comedy, especially the inevitable part where he breaks into a neurotic monologue while trying to woo a girl.
Pretty much any scene with Eugene Levy in “American Pie”.
Oh hooray! I’m not the only one. I can’t stand this sort of comedy, to me it’s not funny it’s just awful - The Office,* Curb*,anything of that ilk, they don’t just leave me cold, they make me leave the room. Which is a pity as Mrs Marcus and the junior Marcus’s just love them…
There was no. such. movie. They just figured the even movies were the good ones and jumped from 4 to 6.
The oldest films are actually the funniest…the scene in Bananas in the magazine store was creepy but really funny.
North by Northwest, where Cary Grant is trying to get himself arrested at an auction, by acting inappropriately. I think it’s because I find that behavior so uncomfortable in real life, I hate watching that scene.
On the other hand, the Ross & The Pizza Girl scene in Friends is one of the funniest in the series.
Same here. I can’t watch embarrassment-by-proxy stuff - either the kind where the character doesn’t realise he’s making an eejit of himself, or the kind where he realises and can’t stop. And yeah, I’m kind of disturbed by the whole idea of humour that only works in the absence of empathy.
I barely made it through the Borat movie. Every five minutes or so I had to get my husband to hit Pause so I could uncurl myself from a knot of pure cringe, and I only found a few bits actively funny.
Weirdly, I loved Sasha Baron-Cohen’s TV sketches - they were cringey, yeah, but I found them way funnier than they were cringey. I think it was because in the sketches, specially the early ones, he let the victims do all the work of making eejits of themselves. He dangled the bait, but it was up to them whether they took it - and some of them didn’t, and didn’t come across looking like eejits at all. By the movie, though, he was knocking people on the head and jamming the bait down their throats. There was no way for the situations to be anything other than cringeingly awkward.
Breaking Bad is replete with awkward moments. The two most cringe inducing to me has got to be:
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When Walt & Jessie try to escape Tuco’s clutches. Tuco’s paralyzed father ringing that bell with his one working finger. Aaaaahhh!!!
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the conciliatory breakfast Walt makes for his wife Schuyler, which goes great until he goes into an extended “explanation” as to why she “thinks” he has two phones (it’s a long story, but for those who don’t follow the show suffice to say, he’s trying to cover a lie - badly. Very, very badly.)