What are some of the most cringeworthy scenes or moments in TV that you've seen?

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• CitizenKong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The final episode of Game of Thrones.

  Feels like a “How-not-to” on good screenwriting.

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  • Okokimup@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Dani kind of forgot about the Iron Fleet.

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    • CitizenKong@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And the dragon melted the iron throne instead of the murderer of his mother because apparently it can understand metaphors or something.

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• scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Another Obligatory - Scott’s Tots. Unwatchable, I skip the entire episode.

  Less obvious - HIMYM’s Slap Bet, in the later seasons. In fact most of the running gags were just… hollow, by the end. To the point they were cringey . Marshall’s big “last slap” in Season 9 was cringe for the whole episode, him “retelling” the story of him talking to the “three masters”, each just being Ted, Lily, and Robin. The entirety of Season 9 was cringey, that episode is hard to watch. It took such a fun running gag… and instead it ran itself into the ground.

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  • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Scott’s Tots is the best episode in the entire show, and the only one that could fit right into the UK version.

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    • inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Without a doubt my favorite episode and #2 is so distant I don’t even know what it would be. Such a beautifully crafted train wreck of audacity, naivety and avoidable tragedy.

      I understand why people skip it, but those are the exact reason I love iy.

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• NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Obligatory Skylar White singing happy birthday song to Ted on Breaking Bad.

  Why did they do that…

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  • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That was literally the episode I stopped watching, I just couldn’t do it anymore

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    • NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s one of my favorite shows, definitely my favorite ending to a show, but I don’t blame you for ending there.

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• brrt@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Any musical episode ever.

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  • geekwithsoul@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Respectfully, Buffy’s “Once More With Feeling” is incredible.

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  • Artaca@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    What are the rules? 🎵

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  • shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Except the Strange New Worlds one, that was fire

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• theblips@lemm.ee ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Carmella “you made me so hawt down thea” to a comatose Tony was something, especially with that weird camera angle

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• phanto@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Chuck: the Subway scenes. Wow product placement.

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  • cyberic@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Community: Every Subway storyline (especially the Britta relationship)

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    • scbasteve7@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I feel like community is the only show to do it right. The product placement wasn’t subtle, they didn’t try to hide it from you. They incorporated it into the story, and anything that was an “ad read” came from subway itself, not any of the characters. They even allow for some nice tongue in cheek jokes about the product placement in future episodes as well.

      Of course I’d rather not have any product placement, but if you’re gonna do it, it should be like that.

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    • Nasan@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Also the Dean and his Honda problem.

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  • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Subway was the worst! I completely forgot about Chuck doing it, but they’ve done it in so many others. It’s Always Sunny has some bad ones…

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    • derekabutton@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I have never thought of this before, but you are on to something.

      The show has done quite a few advertisements as part of the show. First that comes to mind are Fight Milk, Kitton Mittons, and Patty’s Shotgun, which aren’t real of course. Dick towel was made to be real but that was just a genuinely good idea.

      In one scene an individual is mentioned eating a whole sleeve of Oreos, but based on the way they talk about the Oreos and the person eating them, no way they got paid to mention the product. The show also depicts Wawas quite badly in a similar way. Wouldn’t be surprised if those got mentioned purely because of their ubiquity in some areas including Philly, and not as paid advertisements. Sears comes up in one episode, but they are seemingly critiquing this exact type of advertisement as it is used in the Extreme Home Makeover show. I wonder if they were paid or if they were just convenient plot devices. Dave and Busters and TGI Fridays in the recession episode, of course.

      The Coors Light mentions are in your face ads, but I had to do some real thinking to come up with that one, since I don’t drink beer. Any others you thought of that I fail to remember?

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• ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Brazilian novelas are full of cringe moments, but one in particular, “Força do Querer”, had a “cosplayer” character (picture). “Daijobu, mom, daijobu!”

  When you consider how these novelas are made (50+ yo writers that have no fucking clue about current trends, but want to talk about them to the similarly clueless audience), the cringe makes perfect sense

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• XaetaCore@lemmy.xaetacore.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I found that Star Trek Discovery was a bit too forced when it came to introduce inclusivity and diversity which made a lot of the interactions between those people feel very unnatural and forced.

  Doe not get me wrong I Am All for representation inclusivity and diversity but it feel natural. And not like it’s another quote out of has to be reached I think they missed nail on that one because I found the characters quite interesting in immersive especially the science officer but some of the interactions just completely pull me out of that immersion I don’t know if other people share this opinion with me but that’s what I think of Star Trek Discovery and I think that’s kind of cringe

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  • Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    by the 4th season you can clearly tell they wanted only one demographic as the crew. when ST has always have been about everyone else, not just one demographic.

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    • XaetaCore@lemmy.xaetacore.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      hen ST has always have been about everyone else, not just one Exactly that was the whole point of the Federation everyone could join, There has been klingons too working in the fed.

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  • klemptor@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It seems like every episode of Discovery must contain:

    • A red alert
    • A fistfight or space battle
    • Egregious unnecessary special effects
    • A tear-filled conversation, often at a very inappropriate time
    • A character saying “When I was younger” to start a stupid overwrought reason why the current mission has personal meaning for them due to some deep trauma or insecurity
    • Somebody saying how important it is to “connect” with others
    • Some race against the clock that would not be needed if the characters would quit crying to each other and act like goddamn professionals
    • Cringeworthy unprofessional levels of awkwardness

    I’m speed-hatewatching my way through it, on season 5 right now and I can’t wait until this stupid shit is over.

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    • XaetaCore@lemmy.xaetacore.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I fully agree with your assasement, it gives me alot of SBI/DEI vibes as if there is a certain quota to be reached.

      It looks more like it was about bringing a message acros that pure entertainment, sure it had its moments epic ones too.

      But the execution of the acting part was very disappointing.

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  • Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Discovery was the cringiest Trek series from start to finish. Naming a woman a guy’s name was so cringe and unnatural. Yea staments was interesting, but they marginalized him by the 3rd season as a background characthrr

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    • XaetaCore@lemmy.xaetacore.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Exactly staments and that captain with the eye thingy were carrying the show tbh

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• polle@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Any episode of peepshow

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  • jbone@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Why though?

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    • polle@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Its super funny AND hardcore cringe.

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• ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  So we have this format called Last One Laughing in Germany (it started in Japan). The first 2-3 seasons were pretty funny but lately it has become unwatchable.

  For anyone who doesn’t know, the concept is a bunch of comedians are put in a room together for 6 hours and are not allowed to laugh. Whoever laughs is out, last one wins (hence the title). So everyone is trying to be as funny as possible by finding out that one trigger for each person or by shooting in every direction. It’s a great concept.

  In Germany they now struggle to find any good comedians willing to join (not that we have many options in the first place) so they add more and more random personalities who are not funny at all but use this opportunity and to show the world what they’re made of. Imagine that one guy who doesn’t belong to a group and desperately tries to belong but here everyone is that guy.

  Then there is the annoying host Bully Herbig who is constantly fake-laughing for the audience and holding his hand over the red button like „Oh my god look how funny this is! It must be happening any second!“ It’s basically a laugh track. Later they even added people into the stage who fake-laugh. It’s ridiculous.

  On top of that the show runners tuned the concept so there is no time for anyone to settle anymore, it’s just one special event after the other. It’s like Tik Tok. No opportunity for the contestants to just do a random joke during conversations or something. Also what counts as a laugh is so strict, they only need to move a muscle and it counts.

  The UK finally started doing their own version and the first season is so much better than what Germany does. There are much less special events and they are more controlled. Most laughs happen from random conversations and they don’t even need to be so strict about what is a laugh because this is actually funny and they are laughing out loud!

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• kandoh@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Do home videos count?

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