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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
The final episode of Game of Thrones.
Feels like a "How-not-to" on good screenwriting.
Do home videos count?
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.
Scott's Tots is the best episode in the entire show, and the only one that could fit right into the UK version.
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.
Any musical episode ever.
What are the rules? 🎵
Respectfully, Buffy's "Once More With Feeling" is incredible.
Except the Strange New Worlds one, that was fire
ST: Enterprise's decontamination scenes.
NSFW-ish
A screenshot doesn't convey how weird it is
For me, its the weird close ups that make it weird. Removing that it would be slightly less weird and a kind of statement indicating that these crew members are very professional.
The god damn clothes
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 quota that 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
It seems like every episode of Discovery must contain:
I'm speed-hatewatching my way through it, on season 5 right now and I can't wait until this stupid shit is over.
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.
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
Exactly staments and that captain with the eye thingy were carrying the show tbh
Any episode of peepshow
Why though?
Its super funny AND hardcore cringe.
In that sense, yes. I thought you meant it's cringe without being funny. It's a great show.
Obligatory Skylar White singing happy birthday song to Ted on Breaking Bad.
Why did they do that…
That was literally the episode I stopped watching, I just couldn't do it anymore
It’s one of my favorite shows, definitely my favorite ending to a show, but I don’t blame you for ending there.
Yeah I watched to the end but god damn does the middle drag sometimes. There were a couple episodes where I zoned out and just thought about never finishing series.
Chuck: the Subway scenes. Wow product placement.
Community: Every Subway storyline (especially the Britta relationship)
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.
Also the Dean and his Honda problem.
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...
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?
I was actually mentioning the one where they first meet up with the Ponderosa's in a Subway
Oh yeah. Holy cow thats a good find. I have memory of it looking like a subway but I don't remember any details. I'll have to rewatch the show again.
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, if the contestants are funny.
In Germany they now struggle to find any good comedians willing to join (not that we have many options in the first place). But the viewer numbers are still high somehow and they want to continue so they add more and more random personalities who are not funny at all but use this opportunity 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!
Mike Tyson blowing on that little dudes stomach
