History Main / EmbarrassingOldPhoto

** In "[[Recap/TheLoudHouseS2E25TheCryingDameAntiSocial Anti-Social]]", Lynn Sr. posts on [=SwiftyPic=] a picture of young Lori during her "awkward stage", in which she used to wear nerdy glasses and braces. Lincoln thinks old photos are harmless, until his father posts a picture of him as a baby from when he was potty training.

* ''VideoGame/IdolManager'': One possible event consists of old photos of one of the idols getting posted online, revealing her to be FormerlyFat to an unhealthy extent. The Internet being [[InternetJerk the Internet]], this will have consequences for the idol's mental well-being.

* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainFlamingo'': "Past Imperfect" has Milo's family showing off their old baby pictures of Milo from their old album, much to his embarrassment.

** In the episode "[[Recap/TheLoudHouseS2E25TheCryingDameAntiSocial Anti-Social]]", Lynn Sr. posts on [=SwiftyPic=] a picture of young Lori during her "awkward stage", in which she used to wear nerdy glasses and braces. Lincoln thinks old photos are harmless, until his father posts a picture of him as a baby from when he was potty training.
** The ''Casagrandes'' episode "Señor Class" has [[BackToSchool Hector go to Ronnie Anne and Carl's school]] to live out the experience he didn't get to have due to him running the family's mercado as a kid. When he shows Ronnie Anne's class the Casagrande Family Tree, he humiliates Ronnie Anne with a photo of her as a baby wearing a dirty diaper.

[[NakedPeopleAreFunny For some reason]], "Embarrassing baby pictures" often consist of the subject lying naked, butt-up on a fur rug.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'' episode "Growing Pains", Flash Thompson's mother has a framed photo of him as a toddler happily running around with no pants on, which Peter points out upon the revelation that he and Flash had been best friends in nursery school.
-->'''Peter''': Who do you think gave ''Eugene'' his nickname? And hey, it wasn't 'cause he ran fast.\\

-->'''Peter''': Who do you think gave ''Eugene'' his nickname? It wasn't 'cause he ran fast.\\

--> '''Gwen''': ''pointing at the walls'' Normally we find embarassing photos of you online and print them up real big.

* ''WebAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls2015'': Batgirl's "Hero of the Month" short ends with her being embarrassed by her father showing a baby picture where she's making a mess with spaghetti.

* Similarly in ''Series/ShakeItUp'', Rocky blackmails Ty into dancing with her and [=CeCe=] in the taleent show with an embarrassing childhood photo of him trick-or-treating dressed as [[Franchise/StarWars Princess Leia.]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/AllGrownUp'' episode, "Petition This", Kimi starts a petition drive to ban the use of cell phones from school. Around the same time, Tommy is preparing a movie for the Finsters' tenth wedding anniversary, using pictures from the present and the past. Angelica, who isn't going to stand for Kimi's petition, browses Tommy's computer for a photo embarrassing enough to humiliate Kimi while Tommy has fallen asleep from all his hard work. She settles on one of Kimi's ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' counterpart sitting on a potty chair and crying, which she puts on posters with a speech balloon saying "Quick! Someone hand me a cell phone!"

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Jaune mentions early on that his [[MassivelyNumberedSiblings seven sisters]] put his hair in pigtails at least once. When the team ends up at the house of his eldest sister, Saphron, Jaune is annoyed to discover that she has a picture of the event framed in her living room.

* There's a scene in ''Webcomic/WapsiSquare'' where Monica is embarrassed by a bunch of her teenage photos where she's wearing nerdy glasses and hair. Later on, she shows one to her friends and they think it's cute. And she does replicate the look later on for a night in with some other [[spoiler:(supernatural)]] friends, so...

* ''Webcomic/CheapThrills'': Shortly before Jeordie's graduation, his mom shows his girlfriend photos of him as a baby bathing in the bathtub, dressed as a fireman, and dressed in a pink onesie, to Jeordie's complete embarrassment.
* ''Webcomic/GrrlPower'': Alluded during [[https://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-82-whos-interviewing-who/ Sydney's interview at Archon]]
--> '''Gwen''': ''pointing at the walls'' Normally we find embarassing photos of you online and print them up real big.
* ''Webcomic/TheCallOfWhatever:'' A pair of Cthulhu's Star-Spawn claim that the Necronomicon is actually their family photo album, and the BrownNote effects on humans are attributed to their baby photos.
* ''Webcomic/{{Rascals}}'': Mitzu used one to track down Jazmin for her client. The photo was later revealed to be of a drunk Jazmin [[KissingUnderTheInfluence making out]] with her equally drunk [[IncestIsRelative sister]] Reiko.
* ''Webcomic/{{Forestdale}}'': In order to humiliate the school bully Katie Kiel during one of her livestreams, Izabell pulls out a photo of her gorging herself on halloween candy in a rather unflattering onesie and tells all of Katie's viewers where they can go to purchase their own copies of the humiliating picture if they're interested. Needless to say Katie cut the livestream right then and there.
* ''Webcomic/AssignedMale'': When Frank visits Steph's house to work on a group project, [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} Steph]] asks her dad to take down a pre-transition photo of her.

* [[http://stfuparents.tumblr.com/ STFU, Parents]] documents parents who use Facebook to this effect.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
** According to the episode "The Secret Box", an embarrassing snapshot of [=SpongeBob=] at the [[NoodleIncident Christmas party]] can be found in Patrick's secret box.
** When thinking of how to scare the Flying Dutchman while he's trapped inside his mind in the HalloweenEpisode "WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfBooKiniBottom", [=SpongeBob=] notes that he really gets scared when his mother shows people his naked baby pictures, which gives him the idea to scare the Flying Dutchman by thinking up himself as a giant naked infant.
* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'':
** Whilst clearing out Ron's garage, Kim finds a video labelled "Ron's Big Day", which Ron instantly snatches from her hands while saying that it's "[[BlatantLies nothing]]". At the end of the episode, we discover why after it's been switched with his monster movie -- the tape is of a young Ron using the toilet.
** Kim, on the other hand, has a fair few. Jim and Tim embarras her while she's on a date by playing a video of her as a toddler playing in the bath, and she has a series of embarrassing school pictures that make her determined to have the perfect school photo.
* ''WesternAnimation/BikerMiceFromMars''. In the episode "A Scent, a Memory, a Far Distant Cheese", Charley, Modo, and Throttle get a hold of Vinnie's very embarrassing baby picture. Oddly plot-relevant, as it is used to help defeat that episode's villains.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** In the episode "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song", Bart is watching a video of embarrassing things that have happened to the family in years gone past. Bart says that he wants to take it to school but Marge tells him that he wouldn't find it funny if people laughed at him. Bart says that would never happen... until he sees his younger self on the toilet.
** In a later season, Bart and Lisa use an old camera to take a picture of a forest fire for a contest to see what will go on the cover of the new phone book. When Marge develops the roll of film, she finds an old picture of toddler Bart and Lisa sharing a toilet. That one wins the contest.
** DoubleSubversion in "Barting Over", an even later episode. Lisa found a videotape which she thought was labeled "Bart Sad", but turned out to be "Bart's Ad". It was a commercial for a very dangerous cure for bad baby breath; he was the "before" baby. It was still enough for Nelson to mock him about. More than just being embarrassing, though, it showed Bart that he had earned a lot of money [[FinancialAbuse which Homer spent]] to cover up another photo, this one of him [[HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood dropping Bart off a balcony.]]
** A tie-in book called "The Simpsons' Family Album" did, indeed, feature a much younger Bart naked, butt-up on a bearskin rug. As the cover illustration.
* This is TruthInTelevision in WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes. An embarrassing baby photo became the basis for Tweety's character design.

* Subverted in the series finale of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''. Katara, wanting to cheer everyone up, attempts this. It doesn't work, and in fact ends up bringing the mood down further, because...
-->'''Katara:''' I was looking for cooking pots in the attic, and I found this! ''[flourishes a scroll with a painting of a baby next to a sandcastle]'' Look at Baby Zuko! Isn't he cute?\\
''[everyone croons; Zuko scowls]''\\
'''Katara:''' Oh, lighten up, I was just teasing.\\
'''Zuko:''' ''[flatly]'' That's not me. [[StrongFamilyResemblance It's my]] [[BigBad father.]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'' episode "Cold Sweat", thanks to Odd an embarrassing photo of Yumi ends up in the ''school newspaper''. It shows her disguised as a fairy for Halloween, with a blonde wig and pink dress. Pink really isn't Yumi's color.

* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'':
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WKUtkiEBAI This gem]]. Doofenshmirtz will never live it down. It's also a bit of a ContinuityNod because he mentions the video was lost. In a previous episode, a lot of his junk was dumped out of his aircraft.
** Also, the recurring photo that the OWCA use as his ID. "Yeah, that picture's gonna haunt me."
** In "Does This Duckbill Make Me Look Fat?" Linda shows Jeremy a video of Candace as a baby in the bathtub, oblivious to the fact that Candace is right there watching this in Perry's body.

* The title characters of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' have a good laugh after viewing Mojo Jojo's baby photos.
* In the ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'' episode "The Prisoner of Benda", we see Amy Wong's employee of the year photo from 2997. She was quite fat back then. It's also a ContinuityNod to "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles", where the preteen Amy is depicted as being pudgy.
-->'''Amy:''' ''[to Farnsworth]'' Would you please take that down? It's making me hungry.
* In the Parents Day episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'', Spinelli's parents show the gang a picture of her as a baby naked with her butt sticking in the air.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' episode "An Elk For Heffer" Heffer casually asks Elkie if she would like to see some embarrassing pictures of himself as a child.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'' episode, "Tuckered Out", Jenny, Brad, and Sheldon show a bunch of old home movies of Tuck to his second grade class as revenge for [[PrimaDonnaDirector how badly he treated them when he directed a movie about Jenny]]. These include a young Tuck being potty-trained, urinating on a MallSanta out of fear, and the infamous "naked-baby-on-fur-rug" photo.
* The ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' episode "Max's Embarrassing Date" has Mickey introducing a cartoon and saying that Max loved it since he was "a tiny tot in diapers" and proceeds to show a baby picture of Max on a tricycle.
* Near the beginning of the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode "The Inconveniencing", Mabel embarrasses her brother Dipper in front of his crush Wendy by showing a picture of Dipper, aged five, in a lamb costume.
-->'''Dipper:''' Now is ''not'' the time to talk about the Lamby Dance!
* In the ''WesternAnimation/AllGrownUp'' episode, "Petition This", Kimi starts a petition drive to ban the use of cell phones from school. Around the same time, Tommy is preparing a movie for the Finsters' tenth wedding anniversary, using pictures from the present and the past. Angelica, who isn't going to stand for Kimi's petition, browses Tommy's computer for a photo embarrassing enough to humiliate Kimi while Tommy has fallen asleep from all his hard work. She settles on one of Kimi's ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' counterpart sitting on a potty chair and crying, which she puts on posters with a speech balloon saying "Quick! Someone hand me a cell phone!"
* ''WesternAnimation/TheMrPeabodyAndShermanShow'' has Mr. Peabody's foster parents show a slideshow of family pictures to an audience on Mr. Peabody's TV show. When Sherman zooms in to highlight the zits on his high school band picture, the normally unfettered Mr. Peabody has a breakdown.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' episode "Infernal Slumber", Mac is embarrassed when Eduardo finds and photographs one of Mac's baby pictures, which depicts him bathing in the sink with his rear end visible.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'' episode "Growing Pains", Flash Thompson's mother has a framed photo of him as a toddler happily running around with no pants on, which Peter points out upon the revelation that he and Flash had been best friends in nursery school.
-->'''Peter''': Who do you think gave ''Eugene'' his nickname? It wasn't 'cause he ran fast.\\
'''Flash''': I WAS ''FOUR'', OKAY?!
* At the end of ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperheroSquadShow'' episode "Mother of Doom", Doctor Doom's mother gets back at her son by posting embarrassing pictures of him on Maskbook, which are unseen by the audience.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'', [[AlphaBitch Sandi]] continually tries to harass Quinn about her relationship to Daria, but Quinn, without confirming or denying it, not-so-subtly mentions that she has a picture of Sandi when she was in elementary school with huge braces, but has decided not to show the picture to anyone out of the goodness of her heart... or at least not yet. [[ShuttingUpNow Sandi quickly backs off.]]
** In "The Invitation" Daria mentions having a picture of Quinn in her "chubby stage." A tie-in book also shows an unflattering picture of her in her "awkward stage," which apparently only lasted about a week.
* The ''WesternAnimation/SheepInTheBigCity'' episode "Daddy Shearest" has Private Public's father General Public humiliate his son by showing embarrassing childhood pictures to General Specific. We don't actually see any of the pictures, but one of them is described as depicting Private Public having spots on his butt.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' and its spin-off, ''WesternAnimation/TheCasagrandes'':
** In the episode "[[Recap/TheLoudHouseS2E25TheCryingDameAntiSocial Anti-Social]]", Lynn Sr. posts on [=SwiftyPic=] a picture of young Lori during her "awkward stage", in which she used to wear nerdy glasses and braces. Lincoln thinks old photos are harmless, until his father posts a picture of him as a baby from when he was potty training.
** The ''Casagrandes'' episode "Señor Class" has [[BackToSchool Hector go to Ronnie Anne and Carl's school]] to live out the experience he didn't get to have due to him running the family's mercado as a kid. When he shows Ronnie Anne's class the Casagrande Family Tree, he humiliates Ronnie Anne with a photo of her as a baby wearing a dirty diaper.
** In "Matters of the Kart", another ''Casagrandes'' episode, Irving has dinner at the Casagrandes' apartment after Carl saves him from Sergio's pigeon friends. During the dinner, Frida tries to show Irving some of Carl's baby pictures. Rather than the expected gag of showing baby Carl sitting on a potty or lying naked on a bear-skin rug, the photo Frida shows is of baby Carl having taken the diapers of the other babies at his daycare center. The reason Carl finds this embarrassing is because he doesn't want Irving to see his true colors.[[note]]Namely, that Carl hired Sergio's pigeon friends to attack Irving so he could save him from them, and that Irving would see him as a caring, compassionate person deserving of the pizza go-kart he won in a contest as a result.[[/note]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TeachersPet'' episode "Being Mrs. Leadready", Leonard mentions that his mother once embarrassed him by showing the class his naked baby pictures.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheWackyAdventuresOfRonaldMcdonald'': The home movie variant is alluded to in the ending of the live-action portion of ''The Legend of Grimace Island'', where the [=McDonaldland=] gang watch home movies of Grimace's family. Hamburglar laughs at a video of Grimace when he was a baby because of Baby Grimace wearing a diaper, with Birdie chiding Hamburglar for his mockery by bringing up that she recalls a certain home movie of Hamburglar running through the sprinklers (what's embarrassing about it isn't addressed, but it's likely because the younger Hamburglar is naked in the video).