"Holy shit! You should have seen the look on your faces. And you? Who screams like that? You sound like a little girl."
— Max Mayfield, Stranger Things
- Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: In "Repairs", Fitz screams loudly when he accidentally triggers a prank he had set up earlier in the show and forgot about. He also at one point accuses Simmons of screaming like a girl. She answers, "I am a girl."
- Probably the second reason to watch America's Funniest Home Videos, after the groin shots.
- Nev from CBBC's Bear Behaving Badly (a spinoff of the children's variety show Smile).
- James in Big Time Rush, especially in the first season.
- An actor in The Bill had a scene where he fell off a platform while chasing a criminal in an Abandoned Warehouse. He mentioned that his scream as he did this stunt had been too high pitched, so they had to dub a more 'manly' scream on afterwards.
- Howard Borden, the "wacky neighbor" on The Bob Newhart Show, does this.
- Used in the season finale for Season 4 of Bones:Zack: I yelped! I didn't scream.
Fisher: He screamed like Slutty Girl Number One in a cheesy horror flick. - The Book of Boba Fett. Seeing they are about to be eaten by a giant rancor, Peli Motto gives a loud scream which is matched in pitch by the male Twi'lek crouched next to her.
- Bottom: Eddie does this after Richie sticks an umbrella into his groin. And opens it.
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
- Season 6 episode "Tabula Rasa". Spike, who has fallen asleep lying on top of a shop counter as the result of a spell, rolls/falls off said shop counter with a girly scream.
- A Running Gag with Wesley in Season 3. Buffy even lampshades it.
- And Xander in "The Zeppo"Xander: Who, at a crucial moment, distracted the lead demon by allowing her to pummel him about the head?
Faith: Yeah. That was real manly how you shrieked and all. - In "The Killer in Me" a hex turns Willow into a man. When she gives a squeal after bumping into her lesbian lover the latter quips, "Safe to say no one will ever accuse you of being too butch."
- In Castle, the title character gives one
when a dead body tumbles out of the fridge he opens. Naturally, he attempts to protect his dignity by covering it up as a cough. Surprisingly, no one comments on it.- Happens fairly often, actually, like when he visits Beckett at home and, due to having a stalker at the time, she opens the door with her gun pointed at him.
- In Community, when the going gets tough Troy has a tendency to regress into the personality of a six-year-old girl, completely with girly screams and panicky dancing.
- From the DVD commentary on the Criminal Minds episode, "Revelations":Matthew Gray Gubler: So, we were filming the scene in which my character was being tortured. And in between takes, everyone was laughing, and I couldn't figure out why. And finally, at the end of one take, the director came up to me and said, "Okay, but can you try screaming in a way that does NOT sound like a little girl?"
- Doctor Who:
- The main page quote comes from "School Reunion", after Mickey Smith, well, screams like a little girl when he's startled by a discovery of freeze-dried rats in a closet, and the Doctor decides to mock him for it.
- "The Ghost Monument" reveals that normally deep-voiced Ryan Sinclair, companion of the Thirteenth Doctor, has a surprisingly high-pitched scream.
- In the Eureka episode "Up in the Air" Sheriff Jack Carter's reaction upon seeing how high in the air he is while trying to get inside a floating bank.
- Farscape
- In "Scratch 'N Sniff", Crichton and D'Argo wake up after a night partying with a couple of hot alien babes on a Pleasure Planet to find the girls spiked their drinks, robbed them, and left them in a shop window being gawped at by amused onlookers. Crichton then realises he's wearing black lacy stockings, does this trope and runs off.
- In "Fractures", Jool and Crais get splattered with Ludicrous Gibs from an exploding alien. Despite a Running Gag of Jool being a Screaming Woman, Crais—a tough ex-Peacekeeper captain— screams just as loud as she does.
- Frasier. Both Frasier and Niles scream like a girl.
- In the episode "Boo!":Frasier: That is not funny! You don't sneak up on someone and startle them!
Martin: First of all, it's very funny. And secondly, I only did it to prove a point.
Ronee: And you called it: he does scream like a woman.
Frasier: I do not scream like a woman. It was a manly throaty wail.
(Niles comes in the front door)
Niles: Frasier, you may want to call security. As I got off the elevator, I heard a woman screaming hysterically. - In the episode "Don't Go Breaking My Heart", after a womanly high-pitched scream was heard.Daphne: Are you all right?
Niles: Yes. I just jumped into bed with your mother.
Daphne: Oh, dear. No wonder she screamed.
Niles: That wasn't her.
- In the episode "Boo!":
- In The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Carlton tends to do this, but Will can too when he's being hammy: "MAMA, NOOOO!!!"
- Friends. Ross screams like a little girl when Rachel and Phoebe come out of his apartment's curtains and shout danger to scare him.
- Hercules: The Legendary Journeys: Salmoneus does this occasionally. On one occasion, Hercules and his nephew, Deon, heard screaming off in the distance. Deon said it sounded like a woman in need of help, but Hercules (having known Salmoneus long enough by this point) immediately knew who it was.
- In the Heroes episode "Into Asylum", Zachary Quinto's high-pitched squeak of terror as Fake!Sylar is about to meet his end. Unfortunately it doesn't appear to have been played for laughs!
- How I Met Your Mother
- When Ted gets his tattoo removed.
- Barney has a couple of instances of this as well. A notable example is when he accidentally burns a hole through one of his ties.
- What Hastur does in Good Omens when his fellow demon is killed by having holy water dumped on his head.
- iCarly: Nevel, when he gets locked in a fighting octagon with Sam, Shelby and Carly.
- Just Roll With It: It was revealed in "Lightning and Lockdown" that Owen screams this way when he hears thunder.
- Kamen Rider Build: Ryuga can let out some surprising squeals coming from a Dumb Muscle, largely due to being high strung and vulnerable to jump scares.
- From Leverage:Eliot: Hey. What smells like crank and screams like a girl?
(breaks meth-head kidnapper's knee, making him scream like a girl)
Eliot: Right answer. - Bud Bundy from Married... with Children screams like that in later episodes in his late teens and early 20s.
- An episode of Mighty Ships set on the largest carrier in the world, the USS Nimitz, showed a rookie pilot getting his callsign, which is usually done by consensus of other pilots in the rookie's flight group. This particular pilot had made no mistakes even when landing on a carrier at night, but when catapulted off for the exercise had, in his own words, screamed like a little girl. Another pilot noted that "screams like a girl" could be acronymed into "slag", which is also a British slang term meaning, roughly, slut, and (though this wasn't mentioned on the show) is originally an industrial term for waste product from smelting. Congratulations, Lieutenant Slag...
- Adrian Monk of Monk.
- In "Mr. Monk Goes Camping", when the eponymous obsessive detective encounters a bear, the previews feature Tony Shalhoub's own scream, whereas the scream in the episode is overdubbed with a little girl's.
- In the Pilot Movie of My Babysitter's a Vampire, Ethan and Benny let out two incredibly high-pitched screams when they discover Sarah feeding on a rat. Or rather, Ethan screams once, and Benny screams three times before running for it.
- Moon Knight (2022): Steven's squeals easily rival movie Eddie Brock. Considering his nature of a mild-mannered, geeky Non-Action Guy, this happens a lot like when he opens the door, sees a hippo headed Egyptian goddess and only starts screaming when she greets him in a soft feminine voice.
- Nick in New Girl screams like a girl in a Halloween episode, after Jess sneaks up on him in a clown costume.
- In the Soap Opera Passions, Ethan was attacked by a demon from the Bennett's closet to Hell. The shriek he let out was very girlish. So girlish in fact, many people commented on it on the internet and one of this Troper's co-workers said, "Not even my three-year-old girl screams like that!"
- Used numerous times on Psych. Someone even made a montage of it.
- After Shawn and Gus are at a séance. A ghost appears, and then the lights cut back on. Shawn's love interest wonders where he and Gus went. Cut to the outside of the building, where Shawn and Gus are running for their car while screaming incomprehensibly. What makes it funnier is that they're running out of a sorority, but none of the girls inside screamed.
- Another hilarious example.
- The Red Green Show: Harold is constantly making strange, high-pitched noises. But when Red and Dalton trick him into tasting some extra-spicy barbecue sauce, he begins running around and screaming with that same high pitch.
- On an early Ernie and Bert sketch on Sesame Street, after counting sheep and fire engines, the scanimate balloon pops which causes the bedroom to shake and scare Bert.
- Scrubs: Hilariously, both J.D. and his best friend Turk. Multiple times.
- Star Trek:
- Chekov is famous for doing this in Star Trek: The Original Series (and also in Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home).
- Harry Kim does too in Star Trek: Voyager.
- So does Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: The Next Generation.
- The Ferengi as a species make an art form of it. Played for Laughs 99% of the time, but when Nog is badly injured in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The Siege of AR-558", it suddenly stops being funny.
- A shrill scream rings through the corridors of Flatpoint High in Strangers with Candy. Mr Noblet instantly knows who's in trouble:"My God! That's Jellineck!"
- In Stranger Things, Max makes fun of Lucas for this after she joins the kids' trick-or-treating group by jumping in front of them in a Michael Myers costume. It's even funnier when you know that that's how Caleb McLaughlin screams in real life.
- Marion Moseby of The Suite Life of Zack & Cody and The Suite Life on Deck does this when startled, which is ridiculously easy to do. Cody Martin too. And even Zack, that one time.
- Cody's girly scream is notable in that Cole Sprouse is able to maintain it even after going through puberty. He even screams like this enough to warrant a video tribute.
- Cody's girly scream is notable in that Cole Sprouse is able to maintain it even after going through puberty. He even screams like this enough to warrant a video tribute.
- Supernatural:
- Dean does this hilariously in the episode "Yellow Fever" when he's infected with a paranormal curse that makes him scared of quite literally everything. Including cute little lap dogs with pink bows.
- And in the meta episode "The French Mistake", when the character of Misha Collins is kidnapped and then murdered by an angel, he does quite a lot of high-pitched squealing.
- Will & Grace, where Grace's apartment got burgled.Will: Did I just scream like a woman?
Grace: Don't flatter yourself. You screamed like a girl. - The X-Files:
- In the episode "War of the Coprophages", Mulder has a discussion with Scully regarding a childhood encounter with a praying mantis...Mulder: I had a praying mantis epiphany, and as a result I screamed. No, not... not a girly scream, but the scream of someone being confronted by some before unknown monster that had no right existing on the same planet I inhabited.
Scully: Mulder... are you sure it wasn't a girly scream? - In a later episode with the same writer ("Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space'"), we get to hear Mulder's girly scream upon spotting "a real live dead alien body" — at least according to one version of the story.
- In one episode of Saturday Night Live hosted by David Duchovny, the opening sketch is a parody of The X-Files that takes place backstage at SNL. At one point Duchovny hears a girly scream, runs toward it, and finds cast member Molly Shannon, thinking it was her. He finds out it was actually fellow cast member Chris Elliott who screamed.
- In the episode "War of the Coprophages", Mulder has a discussion with Scully regarding a childhood encounter with a praying mantis...
