History Main / AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents

* The series ''[[KamisamaKazoku Kamisama Kazoku]]'' demonstrates why you do NOT want these parents to be gods with RealityWarper powers and total omniscience. When the main character, Samataro, is in school and idly thinking about the school's banning of revealing gym shorts for girls, his dad picks up on the thought. Dad immediately has the male teacher express his love for them, and come from behind the podium ''[[FanDisservice wearing them]]'', to the total shock of the class. Also, [[HotShounenMom Samataro's mother]] surprises the boy when he comes home by having [[InnocentFanserviceGirl herself]] and his two sisters wear them! And then ''[[FanDisservice Dad himself]]'' [[FanDisservice comes out wearing them]]!

* [[{{Anime/Pokemon}} "Don't forget to change your—" "Alright, mom! Jeez!"]] Done regardless of who (friends, neighbors) or what (television cameras) is nearby, either.

* [[{{Pokemon}} "Don't forget to change your—"Alright, mom! Jeez!"]] Done regardless of who (friends, neighbors) or what (television cameras) is nearby, either.

* From ''Real Genius'':

* FireAndIce: Necron's actor, Sean Hannon, talked about how upset he was when he learned of the idiotic characterization of Juliana, Necron's mother. He was actually embarrassed by it, and then realized what an interesting dynamic it created. He incorporated that embarrassment into Necron's character, explaining why Necron was so impatient with Juliana.

* The alt text in [[http://xkcd.com/166/ this]] xkcd.

* {{Girly}}: CloudCuckooLander Winter's parents manage to embarrass even her. "ANYONE would be embarrassed by parents who go out in broad daylight to smack each other with bats while wearing penguin suits!"

* Dora's parents, Peter and Elssa Bianchi -- in QuestionableContent -- serious stoners, prone to massive over sharing, her dad shares her taste in porn (who happens to be her boyfriend's mother), and apparently [[spoiler:Elssa apparently slept with Peter's brother to conceive Sven, and Peter was okay with this.]]

* It's all relative: Billy Joel once stated that the only thing he had to do to get his teen-aged kids to behave in public was to threaten to start singing.

* {{MTV}}'s ''True Life: I Have Embarrassing Parents'' featured a wannabe rocker dad, a couple of ''[[AlwaysNaked nudists]],'' and a StarWars fanboy dad. The tale of Star Wars Dad and his son is quite touching: Dad is a staunch believer in The Force while his son is an avid hunter, something dad doesn't really approve of. The son grudgingly agrees to go to a Star Wars 'con (possibly ''the'' 'con, "Celebration"). In the end, father and son are seen walking together in understanding, with dad in his Jedi robes and son... in Storm Trooper armor.

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* The core plot in ''Meet the Fockers''.

* You think these others have it bad? Try being a girl with a father who can [[MakingASplash summon waves out of nowhere]], is a total spaz, and [[GenderBender insists you're a man!]] [[UruseiYatsura Ryuunosuke Fujiyama]] has, and she [[{{understatement}} doesn't like it]].

* You think these others have it bad? Try being a girl with a father who can [[MakingASplash summon waves out of nowhere]], is a total spaz, and [[GenderBender insists you're a man!]] [[UruseiYatsura Ryuunosuke Fujiyama]] has, and she [[understatement doesn't like it]].

* The alt text in {{http://xkcd.com/166/ this}} xkcd.

** In addition to her other [[ParentalAbandonment issues]] with her father, Sachiko finds his actions fit this when he meets Yumi, though her judgement may be clouded.

** I think there was another episode where Roseanne threatened to drop little DJ off at school in the most embarrassing manner possible, by wearing a set of hideous patchwork dungarees and slowly, deliberately, applying bright red lipstick in front of him so he could send him off with a biiig sloppy kiss...

* Many years ago there was a one-off British TV play, ''not'' played for laughs, about a boy who is so embarrassed by his mother's erratic hyperactive behaviour that eventually he can't even bring himself to tell people she's his mother and calls her "a sort of aunt".

* ''{{Friends}}'' has it from time to time: Jack with sex-related comments (e.g. asking his daughter's husband if he's able to give her an orgasm), but particularly Chandler's folks: his mother is a gorgeous sex-driven blonde who even kisses one of his best friends, and his father's a transgendered Las Vegas cabaret entertainer.

* Robbie Ray from ''HannahMontana'' has moments like this, sometimes unintentionally such as when he brought an embarrassing kitty sweater for Miley's birthday, and sometimes intentionally such as announcing to all of her classmates that she failed her driving licences and needed daddy to drop her off as punishment for lying and ending up in jail.

* The ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode where everyone's worst nightmares were coming true had a typical tough-guy/juvenile delinquent student visited by his babying, overdemonstrative mother in front of his friends.

* Dora's parents, Peter and Elssa Bianchi -- in QuestionableContent -- serious stoners, prone to massive oversharing, her dad shares her taste in porn (who happens to be her boyfriend's mother), and apparently [[spoiler:Elssa apparently slept with Peter's brother to conceive Sven, and Peter was okay with this.]]

** The Mother's Day episode is a trainwreck of social awkwardness. And does not mark the only appearance of any of the Mothers.

* ''AmericanDragonJakeLong'': For one episode it was both parents tucking annoying little rhyming Post-It notes on his person that people would find and read. But for the duration of the series, except for the Father's Day episode in the last season, Jake's father was not just embarrassing by the old stories ? he had embarrassing nicknames and behaviour.

* Frequently comes up in ''TheSimpsons''. One episode had Bart and Marge shopping for clothing and she does things such as suggest he try on some cute underwear when other kids were around and opening the door to the changing room without warning while he was still getting dressed. It came off as less of 'Marge is embarassing' than 'Marge is a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} Jerk'. Then again, they don't object to much of what Homer does because he is at least frequently called on it, even though everything snaps back by the end.

* Robbie Ray from ''HannaMontana'' has moments like this, sometimes unintentionally such as when he brought an embarrassing kitty sweater for Miley's birthday, and sometimes intentionally such as announcing to all of her classmates that she failed her driving licences and needed daddy to drop her off as punishment for lying and ending up in jail.

-->'''Mother''': ''* nods* '' “My little James is growing up. He’s going to have an orgy with all his little friends, aren’t you Captain Muffinpants?”
-->'''Me''': ''* suppresses laughter* '' “Will that be all?”
-->'''Son''': “YES! YES THAT WILL BE ALL!” ''* runs to car* ''

* One of Murai's friends in ''GreatTeacherOnizuka'' is incredibly ashamed of his super unattractive mother, which happens to be the total opposite of Murai's own situation with his [[HotShounenMom mom]]. Murai's mother also embarrasses him when they drop in on a hot day by only wearing a tank top and shorts. No bra.

* In the second live-action DeathNote film, Light's dad Soichirou gives him the bollocking of a lifetime, ''right in front of his girlfriend and all his work colleagues''. [[spoiler:Although that's not really the most important thing on his mind at the time, hyuk hyuk...]]
* Particularly cruel version from Truffaut's ''The 400 Blows'': Once Antoine's parents learn that he's been skipping school, they decide to punish him in the most humiliating way imaginable to a preteen boy--by going down to school, storming into his classroom, slapping him in front of all his classmates, and letting him (and everyone else in the room) know, in no uncertain terms, that there's more to come once he gets home. They then leave him to stew in terror and suspense for the rest of the school day.

* HonorHarrington has a father whose a dignified former naval doctor from a well thought of family... and mother makes up for it in sheer embarrassing abilities. The ''very first thing'' she does onscreen is observe how nice the ass[sic] of Honor's second-in-command is, [[CrowningMomentOfFunny and telling her she needs to tap that]].

* An early episode of the sitcom ''{{Roseanne}}'' played with this trope, when an uptight Becky prepares to go meet her first boyfriend Chip in public, and her parents Roseanne and Dan jokingly threaten to come along, all the while picking their noses, turning their hats around backwards, etc.

* Stella in ''SugarRush''. Childish, self absorbed, caught banging the decorator on the kitchen table, later entices her husband to a swinger's club, only to be caught by her daughter... You don't know whether to laugh or cry, she's so horrifying.

* StillStanding, EightSimpleRules, etc. Name a sitcom revolving around a family with at least one parent and at least one child and there's a good chance that the parent(s) is/are amazingly embarassing.

* MyParentsAreAliens has this happen quite a lot (partly due to the fact they're both FishOutOfWater and don't quite understand human society). Although the only example I remember was when Brian wanted to be a magician, and decided to take his magic show straight into the kids high school, despite not actually knowing how to perform any magic tricks in the first place.
* Robbie Ray from HannaMontana has moments like this, sometimes unintentionally such as when he brought an embarrasing kitty sweater for Miley's birthday, and sometimes intentionally such as announcing to all of her classmates that she failed her driving licences and needed daddy to drop her off as punishment for lying and ending up in jail.
** Trey's parents from an early episode also qualify. They're amazingly snooty rich people who spend their entire episode looking down their long, snobbish noses at Miley for being 'a bumpkin' untill Trey finally tells them that he's ashamed of them.
* In ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' we have another case of a parent who never ceases to embarrass her daughter in [[TheScrappy Lwaxana Troi,]] whose flitatious and forceful personality caused endless grief for her daughter Deanna. Whenever she comes on board the ship, she's likely to condescend to Deanna every chance she gets, butt into other people's affairs, and try to score with an equally-irritated Captain Picard.
** Worf's adoptive parents embarrass him too, but they're not as bad as other examples on this page. It has more to do with Worf's uptight nature then their behavior.

* Played with a twist on SiflAndOlly. Olly had Sifl's mom call their show and tried to get her to tell embarrassing childhood stories about Sifl. She did... except the stories all actually ended up being about something Olly did.

* While the Nurse is technically not one of [[RomeoAndJuliet Juliet's]] parents, she otherwise fits this trope to a T. She's filled with embarrassing stories about Juliet as a toddler, and she loves to tell them at great length long after her audience has lost interest. Juliet has to beg her to shut up on more than one occassion.

** Meahwhile, Ash's mom Marie is a former lingerie model who has appeared in her fair share of racy catalogs. Ash notes that trying on bras would be awkward enough even if there wasn't a large poster of her topless mother hanging in the fitting room.

** The Mother's Day episode is a trainwreck of social awkwardness.. And does not mark the only appearance of any of the Mothers.

** According to him, embarassment is the ultimate weapon for parents. He even suggests using it as legal punishment:

* {{MTV}}'s ''True Life: I Have Embarassing Parents'' featured a wannabe rocker dad, a couple of ''[[AlwaysNaked nudists]],'' and a StarWars fanboy dad. The tale of Star Wars Dad and his son is quite touching: Dad is a staunch believer in The Force while his son is an avid hunter, something dad doesn't really approve of. The son grudgingly agrees to go to a Star Wars 'con (possibly ''the'' 'con, "Celebration"). In the end, father and son are seen walking together in understanding, with dad in his Jedi robes and son... in Storm Trooper armor.

* If {{parental substitute}}s count, there's Yayoi from ''KoeDeOshigoto'', who reveals a few choice anecdotes about Kanna to their coworkers.

** Normally quiet and reserved {{Yamato Nadeshiko}} Shimako curls up in a little ball and whimpers when her father (a Buddhist monk who has just come from presiding over a funeral and is still in his robes) is paraded in front of the entire school as part of the scavenger hunt.

* In LuckyStar normally Konata is perfectly ok with her dad's otaku tendencies, being as she's just as much one herself, but it would be nice if he toned down the {{lolicon}} aspects when visiting the school on sports day.
* Haruhi on OuranHighSchoolHostClub is embarassed of her father. Not only does he cross-dress, but he's constantly trying to get her to dress more lady-like. Funny enough, the rest of the club seems fine with it.

* MagicUsersClub has Aburatsubo's ultra-affectionate and ultra childish HotMom, Akiko. He is ''terrified'' at the mere prospect of her showing up at his school.

* Stella in ''Sugar Rush''. Childish, self absorbed, caught banging the decorator on the kitchen table, later entices her husband to a swinger's club, only to be caught by her daughter... You don't know whether to laugh or cry, she's so horrifying.

* Robbie Ray has moments like this, sometimes unintentionally such as when he brought an embarrasing kitty sweater for Miley's birthday, and sometimes intentionally such as announcing to all of her classmates that she failed her driving licences and needed daddy to drop her off as punishment for lying and ending up in jail.
** Trey's parents from an early episode of HannahMontana also qualify. They're amazingly snooty rich people who spend their entire episode looking down their long, snobbish noses at Miley for being 'a bumpkin' untill Trey finally tells them that he's ashamed of them.

* Just recently, in David Willis' ''Shortpacked!'', the surly, misanthropic Mike's parents (who he continually denounces to his girlfriend Amber) are revealed to be extraordinarily understanding parents who appear to be straight out of a fifties sitcom. Which explains just why Mike was so keen to keep Amber as far away from them as humanly possible.