It's considered a given that parents love their kids, but there are those that take it to embarrassing extremes. They constantly talk about their offspring (whether or not anyone's actually listening), shove baby pictures under everyone's noses, treat each of their kids' fingerpaintings like they've recreated the Mona Lisa, get excessively worked up and upset if said kids are annoyed with them for some reason, and make a spectacle of themselves. The kids' responses to this vary according to age, personality and level of embarrassment.
May occasionally overlap with Boyfriend-Blocking Dad, My Beloved Smother, Doting Parent and Amazingly Embarrassing Parents.
Examples:
Anime and Manga
- Maes Hughes in Fullmetal Alchemist is practically the definition of this trope. Constantly talks about his daughter, check. Treats everything she does like the "best thing since sliced bread", check. Makes a spectacle of himself, check. Shows everyone photos of her whether they want to see them or not, check doesn't begin to cover it. He practically kidnaps people to get them to visit his daughter! All part of the usual humorously exaggerated characterization, of course.
- After she accepts to take part in the radio show, Ichigo from Seiyu's Life! realizes that not only has her father started following her on Twitter, he's sharing it with the entire family and posting pictures of when she was in kindergarten.
- Soul Eater: Spirit Albarn. No baby pictures, but he's got everything else covered (especially the 'making a spectacle of himself' part). His daughter is embarrased and exasperated by his foolishness... but the love is nonetheless appreciated.
- In Meet the Parents, the parents of Gaylord "Greg" Focker are totally supportive of his love life, and his mother is a sexual therapist so this sort of thing is right up her professional alley. The term "fruit of your loins" comes up often, to Greg's embarrassment.
- Roald Dahl mentioned this kind of parents (who think their stupid child is the best in the world) as being the second-worst ones in Matilda. The worst ones, however, are those like Matilda's parents, who treat a smart child like shit.
- Seinfeld:
- Jerry's parents are eager to be involved in his life that he is terrified by them moving into New York, where their phone calls will be considered "local".
- There's also his Uncle Leo, who constantly gushing about his unseen son Jeffrey who works for the Parks Department.
- Monk: Monk immediately transforms into one of these upon meeting his dead wife's daughter, taking hundreds of pictures to show off, and marveling about every little detail of her life ("You know the Internet? She's on it!")
- The song "Talent is an Asset" by Sparks imagines Albert Einstein's parents as being overenthusiastic and overprotective.
Webcomics
- Ha Jinsung from Tower of God really dotes on his student Viole, always defending him, constantly praising him, even when he's sleeping. Whenever he starts rambling, Viole just prefers to leave the room. It could be that Jinsung is trying to make Viole feel a bit better, since he fits various tropes that usually aren't good for your mental health: Anti-Villain, Broken Bird, Break the Cutie, Fallen Hero, Heartbroken Badass, Jade-Colored Glasses. This makes Jinsung one of the most likable members of the terrorist organization FUG.
- Virtual Pet Planet: Dee's owner is pretty much the definition of this trope, and can sometimes even go into Doting Parent.
- The parents of Spoiled Brat Angelica on Rugrats are like this when they're not comitting Parental Obliviousness like most of the other parents on that show.
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Rainbow Dash's parents are her biggest fans, up to and including having her image on t-shirts, that they actually wear. They go out of their way to cheer her on for everything, up to and including hanging up a towel. Now we know why Dash's ego is so over-inflated. She does get sick of them after a while, though.
