# Weird smiles creep me out **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 5, 2011, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-smiles-creep-me-out/577233 "2011-04-05T03:39:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-smiles-creep-me-out/577233/21 "2011-04-08T17:36:29Z")
> [@Susie\_Derkins](#): > > There was an episode of Buffy (“Conversations with Dead People”) where Willow is supposedly talking to the ghost of a very sweet girl who died earlier in the season, but she’s not who she says she is. At the end of the conversation, the girl starts to smile and it gets wider, and wider…freaked me out more than anything else I ever saw on that show. Sounds awesome, is there a youtube or screen cap of that? ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-smiles-creep-me-out/577233/22 "2011-04-08T17:48:04Z")
Hey, it was how [all political debates were settled in 2003](http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-may-5-2003/democrats-2004--race-from-the-white-house---creepy-smile-off). (Fast forward to 2 minutes). ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-smiles-creep-me-out/577233/23 "2011-04-08T18:07:02Z")
In the original _Dracula_, there’s a scene where one of the vampirified (but still in the closet) women is smiling at an unsuspecting man who is talking to her. He looks away from her, still talking, and her focus shifts to his neck. The smile stays on her lips, but now it’s an obsessed “yummy, get a load of that pulsing artery” kind of smile. It’s right on the cusp between funny and major creepout. ---
**Author:** ![Private\_Bin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c0e974/32.png) [@Private\_Bin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Private_Bin)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-smiles-creep-me-out/577233/24 "2011-04-08T18:07:20Z")
A couple of excellent horror shorts if you really want to fuel your phobia for weird smiles: [SMILE](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntT-OYaZFo0) [There are monsters](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsL_5bovozE) ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-smiles-creep-me-out/577233/25 "2011-04-08T18:23:47Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I beg the OP not to look at the image on [this TVTropes page](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FrozenFace). What, [Technically a Smile](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TechnicallyASmile), [The Unsmile](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheUnsmile), and [Slasher Smile](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SlasherSmile) weren’t good enough for ya? _Let’s put a smile on that face…_ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-smiles-creep-me-out/577233/26 "2011-04-08T22:58:46Z")
BTW I meant to add, the scene from Buffy mentioned above was definitely on my mind when I posted this. It was probably one of the few true scares on that show. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2011, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-smiles-creep-me-out/577233/27 "2011-04-09T00:04:06Z")
[Dr. Phlox](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pV3_R4ug6I0/TKAJ11QuM5I/AAAAAAAAREs/SMfU8gTghaM/s1600/Phlox_grinning.jpg)? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-smiles-creep-me-out/577233.md?page=1)