History Main / FeeFiFauxPas

This trope has no connection whatsoever to the webcomic ''[[http://www.ozfoxes.com/fauxpas.htm Faux Pas]]'' (which is actually pronounced "Fox Paws," unlike the french, which is more to the affect of "fo pa")

See also OhGodDidSheJustHearThat, where the character doesn't even have to speak. IMeantToDoThat is when the character pretends the blunder was in fact done on purpose in order to mitigate the embarrassment. Compare ProtocolPeril, which is what happens when a particular faux pas is treated as a life or death matter.

* SammysGlassEye

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* On ''TopGear'', while in America filming a "f
actual documentary" which is getting dangerously close to becoming entertaining, the presenters are [[{{Kayfabe}} stopped by a patrolman]]. Jeremy Clarkson takes it upon himself to explain the situation, with helpful hand gestures.... and in the process flips the cop off three or four times.

* In the first issue of the new ''[[{{Batgirl2011}} Batgirl]]'' series, Barbara Gordon's new roommate sees the wheelchair lift on Barbara's van and makes a comment about how being "trapped in a chair" is her worst fear, since it would be "like prison." Barbara's internal narration says that she knows her roommate didn't mean anything by it, and she's not ready to correct her and that she has no way of knowing that ''Barbara herself'' used to need it, and when she was in the chair she was [[VoiceWithAnInternetConnection Oracle]].

* On ''TopGear'', while in America filming a "factual documentary" which is getting dangerously close to becoming entertaining, the presenters are [[{{Kayfabe}} stopped by a patrolman]]. Jeremy Clarkson takes it upon himself to explain the situation, with helpful hand gestures.... and in the process flips the cop off three or four times.

See also OhGodDidSheJustHearThat, where you don't even have to ''speak'' to embarrass yourself. IMeantToDoThat is when you ignore to mitigate the embarrassment (often adding a dash of comedy in the process). Compare ProtocolPeril, which is what happens when a particular faux pas is treated as a life or death matter.

Admit it; you've done it. You know you have. We all have.

Maybe you [[DidIJustSayThatOutLoud said something inappropriate]] or embarrassing [[RightInFrontOfMe to the wrong person]] or [[RightBehindMe within earshot of the wrong person]]. Maybe you [[FurAndLoathing wore fur in the presence of an overzealous animal lover]]. Or you were [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking eating peas with your knife]]. And now it seems [[PassingJudgment the eyes of the world are upon you]], sneering and/or laughing contemptuously at your little (or not so little) faux pas.

This trope has no connection whatsoever to the webcomic ''[[http://www.ozfoxes.com/fauxpas.htm Faux Pas]]'' (which is actually pronounced "Fox Paws")

* One episode of ''{{Seinfeld}}'' involves Jerry tiptoeing around these while dating [[ManHands a Native American woman]], avoiding common phrases with Native roots ("scalping" for tickets, "Indian givers") to not offend her.

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* A photographic interpreter ends up picking the wrong time to joke that the Eternal City (whose sides are each at ''least'' 932 miles long!) should be renamed Coruscant... specifically while General David Petraeus, already gloomy over having ordered the deaths of nearly a half-million beings by [[spoiler:nuclear initiation]], was facing the possibility of being forced to kill many, ''many'', '''MANY''' more.
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See also OhGodDidSheJustHearThat, where you don't even have to ''speak'' to embarrass yourself. IMeantToDoThat is when you ignore to mitigate the embarrassment (often adding a dash of comedy in the process).

* BorisJohnson.

* Pet lover Agent Laburnum of the ''{{PPC}}'' suffered a rather nasty attack at the paws of a bunch of TalkingAnimal characters. When she got out and was being patched up, she said "Oh well, I've already been bitten, clawed, licked, pissed on, and pawed about by a bunch of animals already, a few more won't make any difference ..." before realising that she was still talking to some ''other'' Talking Animals, who were in fact unaware of the existence of ''non''-talking animals, thus [[ReallyGetsAround making them wonder about her for quite a while]].

* BorisJohnson. [[XJustX Just]]...BorisJohnson.

*** Then he changed it to "God luv ya. You've got them standing up for you now, pal."
** Biden's good at these. Such as calling the Health Care Reform bill "a big f*** ing deal" right next to a live microphone.
** Three words: "Clean and articulate."

* BorisJohnson. Just...BorisJohnson.

* In the fourth StrikerS sound stage, it is revealed that she introduced it to Mary. Ginga, who also drinks her tea this way, asks her father, who is suggested to be of Japanese descent, if he would like to try it, and he politely refuses.

* In the first season of ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'', Admiral Lindy, wishing to make Nanoha more comfortable and show her appreciation for Nanoha's culture, invites the title character to a [[SpotOfTea tea ceremony]]. She then proceeds to prepare her green tea by dropping lumps of sugar in it and adding milk, a Japanese no-no that caused Nanoha to [[http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/5218/ohgodwhatthefuck.png wince]]. This later turned onto a running gag.
** Milk and sugar in green tea? Blechh.
*** Ever had Green Tea flavored Ice Cream? Yes, it's a valid Japanese product.
*** Delicious, in my opinion. Lindy was onto something.
*** It's not BAD...but it no longer tastes like Green Tea.
** The main thing is, Nanoha is Japanese, and while Lindy employs Japanese aesthetics, drinks her tea British-style.
** In the fourth StrikerS sound stage, it is revealed that she introduced it to Mary. Ginga, who also drinks her tea this way, asks her father, who is suggested to be of Japanese descent, if he would like to try it, and he politely refuses.

See also OhGodDidSheJustHearThat, where you don't even have to ''speak'' to embarrass yourself.

* ''Ridicule'' by Patrice Leconte depicts the fearsome consequences of social blunders at the court of Louis XVI. People were DrivenToSuicide for saying the wrong thing at the wrong moment.

* TruthInTelevision example: [[StarTrek William Shatner]] was once berated for attending an environmentalist gathering in a ''seal skin'' jacket. OrSoIHeard.