History Main / ShamefulShrinking

* A man shrinks out of embarrassment in this Finansbank [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFUxoMmGap0&list=PL770CCB9D1D28AAF0&index=71 commercial]]

* A man brings his girl champagne but it's not the right brand. He exits, dwindled down to 2 feet tall in outsized clothes. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx3bV-P27Mw]]
* In an anti-sexual harassment PSA, a man talks to a woman at work, and as he tells her she should ShowSomeLeg etc., she shrinks smaller and smaller; when she says "that's sexual harassment and I don't have to take it" she regrows to full size. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP7kPrdayTM]]
* In this Established Men spot, one man shrinks out of embarrassment as another man successfully woos a woman. [[https://youtu.be/1hhZc7GA42o]]

* An old commercial for Maaco auto re-painting shows car owners shrinking to 3 or 4 feet tall out of embarrassment because of the shameful condition of their car. [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WPueQqTWLQo]]

[[folder:Web Original]]
* Downplayed in the WebAnimation/MinilifeTV "LOST EPISODE" special. DJ DIAL-UP shrinks a few inches after telling his fellow robots that he found a bigger ''Minilife TV'' fan than him wearing a ''Minilife TV'' shirt.

* The music video for "Close, but No Cigar" by ''Music/WeirdAlYankovic'' has an [[InterspeciesRomance anthropoid cat who dates beautiful human women]]. However, once he finds even the slightest fault about them (imagined or otherwise) he verbally roasts them. Each time he does, the woman gradually shrinks until she's a tiny, bite-sized version of herself. She then suffers the ultimate humiliation when he grabs her, stuffs her into his mouth, [[EatenAlive messily chews her up and devours her.]]

* The music video for "Close, but No Cigar" has an [[InterspeciesRomance anthropoid cat who dates beautiful human women]]. However, once he finds even the slightest fault about them (imagined or otherwise) he verbally roasts them. Each time he does, the woman gradually shrinks until she's a tiny, bite-sized version of herself. She then suffers the ultimate humiliation when he grabs her, stuffs her into his mouth, [[EatenAlive messily chews her up and devours her.]]

* {{Exaggerated|Trope}} in the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Chef Bob", when [=SpongeBob's=] titular puppet with a mind of its own insults Squidward as a part of his insult comedy act. Squidward shrunk until he disappeared. When [=SpongeBob=] reprimanded Chef Bob, saying he can't talk to one of his "best friends" like that, Squidward grew back into existence, claiming that was even more insulting.

[[folder:Asian Animation]]
* ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'': In ''Mighty Little Defenders'' episode 1, when Wolffy is told by Wonky that their leader has promoted the wolves and given them a raise, he tells Wonky that the letter he is reading from is upside-down. Wonky says he was just easing the tension and shrinks as he blushes.
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* There was a ''Pokemon'' comic strip where one of the running gags was that Clefairy had very low self-esteem and would involuntarily shrink whenever they felt unwanted or panicked about their insecurities.