History ScreamsLikeALittleGirl / LiveActionTV

* In ''Series/{{Castle}}'', the title character [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6e2Rnx2AaA&feature=related 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.

-->-- '''Max''', ''Series/StrangerThings''

* ''Series/KamenRiderBuild'': Ryuga can let out some surprising squeals coming from a RatedMForManly DumbMuscle, largely due to being high strung and vulnerable to jump scares.

* ''Series/MoonKnight'': [[DorkKnight Steven]][='s=] squeals easily rival [[Film/Venom2018 movie]] Eddie Brock. Considering his nature of a mild mannered, geeky NonActionGuy, 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.

* ''Franchise/StarTrek''
** Chekov was famous for doing this on ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' (and also in ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'', ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'' and ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'').
** Harry Kim did too on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''.
** So did Geordi La Forge on ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''.
** The Ferengi as a species made an art form of it. Played for laughs 99% of the time, but when Nog was badly injured in "The Siege of AR-558" it suddenly stopped being funny.

-->"My God! That's Jellineck!"

* ''Series/{{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 [[BreakingTheFourthWall meta episode]] "The French Mistake", when the character of Misha Collins is kidnapped [[spoiler:and then murdered]] by an angel, he does quite a lot of high-pitched squealing.

* ''Series/TheXFiles''
** In the episode "War of the Coprophages", Mulder has a discussion with Scully regarding a childhood encounter with a praying mantis...

** 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 [[TheRashomon one version of the story]].

** In "Scratch 'N Sniff", Crichton and D'Argo wake up after a night partying with a couple of hot alien babes on a PleasurePlanet 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 "Scratch N' Sniff", Crichton and D'Argo get slipped mickeys and rolled. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eZ7UQjw4oE Crichton wakes up in a window without clothes.]] (Well, he had fishnets, at least.)

* ''Series/{{Farscape}}''. Season 3, Episode 13. Scratch N' Sniff. Crichton and D'Argo get slipped mickeys and rolled. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eZ7UQjw4oE Crichton wakes up in a window without clothes.]] (Well, he had fishnets, at least.)

* ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett''. One 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 majordomo crouched next to her.

* ''Series/MoonKnight'': [[DorkKnight Steven]][='s=] squeals easily rival [[Film/Venom(2018) movie]] Eddie Brock. Considering his nature of a mild mannered, geeky NonActionGuy, 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.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''
** [[LaserGuidedAmnesia 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.

** The main page quote comes from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E3SchoolReunion "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.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E2TheGhostMonument "The Ghost Monument"]] reveals that normally deep-voiced Ryan Sinclair, companion of the Thirteenth Doctor, has a surprisingly high-pitched scream.

* In the ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' episode "Into Asylum", Creator/ZacharyQuinto's high-pitched squeak of terror as Fake!Sylar is about to meet his end made the Internet laugh its collective ass off. Unfortunately... [[{{Narm}} it doesn't appear to have been played for laughs]]!

'''Eliot:''' Right answer. ''(CurbStompBattle [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckGdAY14VxM ensues]])''

* In the PilotMovie of ''Series/MyBabysittersAVampire'', 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. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCMHy8RGekE Seen here in full glory]].

** 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, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YONPclzheqc thus]]. What makes it funnier is that they're running out of a sorority, but none of the girls inside screamed.

** In season 3 episode 5, Booth [[InsistentTerminology yelps]] in an extremely girly way not once but ''twice'' when confronted with a [[WhyDidItHAveToBeSnakes clown]]. This is one of the few times, if not the only time, the alpha-male-gets-things-done image of his gets shattered. Needless to say, it's [[CrowningMomentOfFunny hilarious]].

-->[[CrowningMomentOfFunny "MY WHOLE BRAIN IS CRYING."]]

* Bud Bundy from ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'' screams like that in later episodes in his late teens and early 20s.
* In the SoapOpera ''Series/{{Passions}}'', Ethan was attacked by a demon from [[ItMakesSenseInContext 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!"

-->'''Frasier:''' That is not funny! You don't sneak up on someone and startle them!\\

-->'''Daphne:''' Are you all right?\\

* Series/{{Friends}}. Ross screams like a little girl when Rachel and Phoebe come out of his apartment's curtains and shout danger to scare him.
* On an early Ernie and Bert sketch on ''Series/SesameStreet'', after counting sheep and fire engines, the scanimate balloon pops which causes the bedroom to shake and scare Bert.
* ''Series/WillAndGrace'', where Grace's apartment got burgled.
-->'''Will:''' Did I just scream like a woman?\\
'''Grace:''' Don't flatter yourself. You screamed like a girl.
* ''Series/TheXFiles''
** 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 [[TheRashomon one version of the story]].
** In one episode of ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' hosted by Creator/DavidDuchovny, the opening sketch is a parody of ''Series/TheXFiles'' 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.
* Adrian Monk of ''Series/{{Monk}}''.
** In "Mr. Monk Goes Camping", [[spoiler: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''.]]
* ''Series/{{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 [[BreakingTheFourthWall meta episode]] "The French Mistake", when the character of Misha Collins is kidnapped [[spoiler:and then murdered]] by an angel, he does quite a lot of high-pitched squealing.

** After Shawn and Gus are at a seance. 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, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YONPclzheqc thus]]. What makes it funnier is that they're running out of a sorority, but none of the girls inside screamed.

* Nev from CBBC's ''Series/BearBehavingBadly'' (a spinoff of the childrens' variety show ''Smile'').
* ''Series/{{Bottom}}'': Eddie does this after Richie sticks an umbrella into his groin. And opens it.
* In ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'', Carlton tends to do this, but Will can too when he's being hammy: "MAMA, NOOOO!!!"
* Howard Borden, the "wacky neighbor" on ''Series/TheBobNewhartShow'', does this.
* Probably the second reason to watch ''Series/AmericasFunniestHomeVideos'', after the [[GroinAttack groin shots]].
* Used in the season finale for Season 4 of ''Series/{{Bones}}'':
-->'''Zack:''' I yelped! I didn't scream.\\
'''Fisher:''' He screamed like Slutty Girl Number One in a cheesy horror flick.
** In season 3 episode 5, Booth [[InsistentTerminology yelps]] in an extremely girly way not once but ''twice'' when confronted with a [[WhyDidItHAveToBeSnakes clown]]. This is one of the few times, if not the only time, the alpha-male-gets-things-done image of his gets shattered. Needless to say, it's [[CrowningMomentOfFunny hilarious]].
* From the DVD commentary on the ''Series/CriminalMinds'' 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?"
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''
** [[LaserGuidedAmnesia 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 RunningGag 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.

* From ''Series/{{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. ''(CurbStompBattle [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckGdAY14VxM ensues]])''
* ''Series/ICarly'': Nevel, when he gets locked in a fighting octagon with [[CuteBruiser Sam, Shelby]] and Carly.
* An actor in ''Series/TheBill'' had a scene where he fell off a platform while chasing a criminal in an AbandonedWarehouse. 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.
* In ''Series/{{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.
-->[[CrowningMomentOfFunny "MY WHOLE BRAIN IS CRYING."]]
* ''Series/{{Farscape}}''. Season 3, Episode 13. Scratch N' Sniff. Crichton and D'Argo get slipped mickeys and rolled. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eZ7UQjw4oE Crichton wakes up in a window without clothes.]] (Well, he had fishnets, at least.)
* In the ''Series/{{Eureka}}'' episode "Up in the Air" Sheriff Jack Carter's reaction upon seeing how high in the air he is while [[ItMakesSenseInContext trying to get inside a floating bank]].
* As the page quote indicates, Mickey Smith of ''Series/DoctorWho'' fulfills the traditional role of the [[ScreamingWoman terrified companion]].
* 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....
* A shrill scream rings through the corridors of Flatpoint High in ''Series/StrangersWithCandy''. Mr Noblet instantly knows who's in trouble:
-->"My God! That's Jellineck!"
* Nick in ''Series/NewGirl'' screams like a girl in a Halloween episode, after Jess sneaks up on him in a clown costume.
* ''Series/TheRedGreenShow'': 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.
* In ''Series/StrangerThings'', 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=] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqW4l9Y5cXY screams in real life]].
* ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'': In "Repairs", Fitz screams loudly when he accidently 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."