This troper's parents are always finding ways to embarrass her. My dad makes puns and the ocassional racist joke. He's from the south and his side of the family is pretty redneck so it's not ''too'' surprising that he'd make racist jokes, but he does it ''in public''. We live in Minnesota. Yeah...

This troper's sister refuses to let our parents go to any school function or family night at her school.

This troper's father cycles. In lycra (AKA spandex). He also picks me up from dancing and occasionally school, and goes shopping in said lycra. The worst part was when a couple of women walking down the street started talking about how nice his legs were.

This troper's father once started making presumptions about this troper's bathroom habits. At the dinner table. ''In a restaurant'', with staff within earshot. And people wonder why this troper tends to avoid any and all family gatherings...

This troper's overprotective mother decided it was perfectly okay and normal to follow her daughter and her first boyfriend all around town in a BIG BLACK TRUCK WITH TINTED WINDOWS... on their first date. *facepalm*

This troper's parents never bring up his love life...unless a female friend comes over or is within earshot. And for some reason they've started to think I'm gay because I didn't have a girlfriend all through high school. Example: "Oh you're so and so. You're so cute, you and my son should date. Or can you not date him because he's gay?"

This troper's father once ''danced into'' a sandwich shop in a not exactly LGBT friendly part of New Jersey singing "Keep It Gay" from ''{{The Producers}}'' ''solely to embarrass her''.

This troper aspires to one day be precisely that father.

Your father's CrowningMomentOfAwesome, perhaps?

Hope you like getting kicked in the shins.

Not this troper's parents, but her friend's dad. He's tall, fat, has bushy red hair and eyebrows that he braids when the mood strikes him, wears skin tight neon yellow bike shorts and has the most OBNOXIOUS Australian accent you will ever hear. He also sings the "Sad Clown" song loudly in public when my friend gives him a look. "Sad clown, sad clown, wipe that moopy woopy face off..." *shudder* and her nickname? Bunsy.

Tall ''and'' fat? That's a feat.

This troper's mother and father once walked down a busy shopping street, arm-in-arm, chanting something that sounded like the tuba music you hear when a fat guy appears in cartoons (hoompa-poompa-hoompa-poompa). God bless them, but DAMN was that embarrassing.

This troper's parents are obviously like this. My mother is fine, but she has the tradition of showing baby pictures on the 18th birthday. The dad is so embarrassing that it stops being embarrassing and becomes awesome, including shouting out of the window while driving along because the radio said to sing to someone you don't know.

When This Troper's father watches a movie, he feels the best way to acknowledge what's happening on-screen is to voice whatever opinion he has about a character, their actions, and future actions ''out loud''. When you're sitting down and watching a film, listening to him alternate between explaining exactly why this line is funny for this reason, and ''telling the on-screen characters what they should do next'', it's exasperating at best, turning-the-movie-off-halfway-through infuriating at worst.

Aaagh! Are you my long-lost sibling? ''My'' father does the same thing, except with TV.

This troper's mother does that. He believes she might be stupid. #QUOTE# '''Mother:''' Why is that blonde girl trying to fight those fanged guys? #QUOTE# '''Me:''' Maybe cause she's Buffy and this is Buffy the fucking Vampire Slayer!

Oh I hate that. My mom says the stupidest things whenever we watch tv or movies. "Why are those green rocks hurting the man in red and blue spandex? Do you think the guy in the white hockey mask is the killer? I can't believe he's getting back together with Rachel!"

My friend's mom does this, specifically in terms of letting us know when she finds something morally wrong. Yes we know that rape is bad, okay? Why the hell are you watching Law and Order SVU anyway?

Mine does that too, except thankfully not during the show. For some reason she felt the need to inform me that "we don't condone trying to get promoted by letting your bosses use your apartment for affairs." Really. I could never have guessed.

My father has a habit of coming into the living room, sitting down, sleeping through a show to the last five minutes, then asking to be briefed on everything that has happened so far, thus making everyone who actually cares miss the climax of the story!

My mother has to comment on Every. Single. Commercial. Of course, this is only one manifestation of her need to voice every thought that does through her head.

When This Troper was 4 I got into my mother's make-up... the resulting picture was horrible and my father often threatened to show it to anyone I knew. Thank god when we moved we lost it!

It's hard to list all the ways that this troper's father is embarrassing, and luckily most of them are kept to the privacy of our home when our older/savvy friends are around. But that doesn't stop him from doing such things as rolling down a car window and shouting "WOLFMOTHER" at the top of his lungs into the ear of a passing cyclist.

This Troper's Dad is so meddlingly into her love life, he specifically went to talk to her crush-at-the-time to ''ask him if he loved her''. I wanted to crawl into a hole and NEVER, EVER COME OUT!!!!

This Troper's mother liked to hand-made his clothes on a sewing machine, rather than buying them at stores. When he complained that he looked like a character out of Li'l Abner, Mom would say, every time, "Nonsense. Everybody uses clothes like these."

Inverted for this miserable troper. When I was attempting to get into a secondary school, I actually probably would have made it into a very highly scoring private school... had I not screwed up the interview so badly that I ended up cutting my results ''in half''. My poor father regrettably was there to see it all. Since that fateful day, I've been becoming a lot less... overconfident.

This troper's mother would announce to nearly everyone in the store "YOU GOT A GRAY HAIR!", ask to look for gray hairs when I specifically told her "NO", frequently give TooMuchInformation, announce all sorts of things to the world...His neighbours parents were even worse. They would often make accusations of what they ''think'' was going on with their private lives in front of the school (And these were stuff like "You were having sex with *student*!", "You're having phone sex in your room!"), then would go ''through their rooms'' looking for incriminating evidence. Then not clean up the mess and tell ''them'' to clean it up. They even went so far as to buy ''deadbolt locks'' for their rooms, and guess what happened? Their parents cut them and ransacked their rooms anyways.

And this troper's dad was once so hot in the airplane...he ''removed his clothes''.

My mother did the grey hair thing to me in the dentist recently. Made worse by the fact I'm a guy with short hair. And she constantly complains that I'm too skinny and states that my jeans are falling down (when they're not). In public.

Not this troper's mom, thank GOD, but I was with a friend of mine on vacation in Cozumel- we're trying to go up in an elevator and the maid outside keeps pressing the button, making the full elevator door open before we had a chance to go up. Fed up with this, my friend's mom starts shaking her finger and saying in the most awkward baby talk voice, "No touchie touchie! No touchie touchie!" My friend turned bright, bright red- it was one of the funniest things I'd ever seen.

My father used to act like this on purpose, but I found a way to balance the situation: Everytime he tries to do something potentially embarrassing, I threath him telling I'll spread the rumor his older son is gay (Of course, that would be me). I couldn't care any less what other people think about me, but that would surely humilliate him...And we are all happier now!

{{Averted}} hard with This Troper's parents. Her father is a rather tech-savvy man, with a penchant for miniatures and gaming, and her mother knits, crotchets, quilts, sews, and does totally epic embroidery and costuming. Her father has a good sense of humor, calls himself an {{Adult Child}} (or rather, Adult Teenager - he's the oldest 14 year old) who can act well enough that he ''seems'' like a standard adult, and his name is a very, ''very'' evil trap that we have in the wings for unwanted boyfriends that might (unlikely) try to date This Troper. Her mother is a big fan of a number of {{Joss Whedon}}'s works, plays a lot of computer games (like {{Diablo II}}) and is also the GM of This Troper's pen-and-paper roleplay group. And This Troper is ''very'' proud to have her parents for parents.

Also inverted - This Troper was at Hastings with her mother and stated that she was half-tempted to buy a Mana Potion because she had a feeling she might need more mana. Her mother later stated she was embarrassed, hanging a lampshade on it by asking "Isn't it supposed to be the ''teenager'' who's embarrassed by the ''parent''?" (or something to that effect...)

Averted for me ({{Ryumaru}}), too. My parents are pretty nice to me and my friends, and my Dad is as big a geek as I am (it's where I got it from). I play co-op games with him almost regularly, for CrystalDragonJesus sake. My younger siblings, on the other hand....

My Dad still uses "Gettin' jiggy wit it." Not in an ironic/intentionally embarrassing way. He still thinks it's "what all the kids say." He used it in the mall one day during my teen years and about 20 heads whipped in our direction.

This Troper's mother is frankly infuriating, and has caused an enormous amount of embarrassment. It's bad enough that she insists on pinching or slapping my butt at home, but she does it in public, too. Then complains loudly enough for passers by to hear when I explain (for the thousandth time) that I'm not comfortable being touched there and wish she would at least keep her hands to herself in public.

This (male) Troper's ''dad'' does this in public. This Troper is too embarrssed to say anything and now walks approximately 1.5 metres behind his family at all times, just in case anything embarrassing occurs, giving him time to turn away and FacePalm.

This troper's mother has the ability to embarrass him in the ''privacy of their own home''. She frequently ends up doing exercises/physiotherapy in his room that would make her look like a crazy homeless person if she did anything like it outside. Also, this troper's mirror is one of those tall door-mounted ones, so she often stops by his room to model what she'll be wearing the next day. She also has a notorious overprotective streak.

My mom was a teacher at my middle/elementary school. Everyday, the teachers had "storybook" day for the younger kids, where they would dress as characters from books. Mom dressed in a giant WinnieThePooh costume. Before she left the house that morning... and did not deviate from her routine of stopping at a gas station for coffee... in a Pooh Bear costume...

This troper's mom commented to our waitress one evening on what a cute small butt she had. My dad wears embarrassing, overly preachy or cheesy Christian shirts out in public.

If my mum isn't all like "YOU'VE GOT A GREY HAIR THERE" really loudly in public, then she's being really loud in general and really forward with my friends. Sadface.

Mild compared to other stories, but my mother can now recite any DrSuess book from memory, due to working with Toddler-Pre-School age children for a living. AS A RESULT, she will randomly start quoting it in public, whether it fits the situation or not, and it gets rather awkward when curious heads snap our way. Also, I remember one situation a couple years ago when this troper was Thirteen years old and going through her Goth phase. Her mother tailed her into Hot Topic, and promptly wandered over to some strange, tall, semi-muscular man with a rainbow mohawk and a variety of tattoos, and began to ask about his various piercings, asking if when he got them, why he got them, if they hurt, etc. Humiliating at the time, but I will admit the total stranger's confused/slightly scared face was pretty funny.

This troper would like to nominate her father. He once complained loudly about how noisy a deaf kid was being (in front of the kid's hearing parents), will often do everything short of pointing and laughing to embarrass people with some deformity in public, and cannot be trusted in a movie theater. Why can't he be trusted in a movie theater? (Keep in mind, all of these were very loud.)

At Star Wars Episode II after Janga Fett gets decapitated: Is he dead?

At The Village during every dang scene with Noah: What a retard!

At LOTR The Two Towers when the wall of Helm's Deep blew up: OW-CHIHUAHUA!!!!! He also loudly kept track of how many orcs were being killed and when the calvary arrives he excalimed, "There couldn't still be that many!" He's probably right, but still ...

At LOTR Return of the King when Frodo says, "Oh Sam" in the Spider Tunnel: "Too late now, igmo!" (Of course, everyone laughed at that one.)

My grandfather ''loves'' to argue, and there is simply no way of telling him that there's a time and a place and ''this isn't it!'' He actually started arguing politics with me at my graduation dinner, which was at one of Indianapolis's most upscale restaurants and that my mom and stepdad had been saving all year to throw for me. Fortunately, both my mom and aunt (his daughters) told him to shut up or go walk around the Circle because he was embarrassing them, too. Dethroning Moment of Suck for my grandfather, Crowning Moment of Awesome for my mom and aunt.

Played for laughs by my father: he realizes what is embarrassing and what is not, and yet, he likes the idea of shaming my brother in front of his friends; I'm immune to his act, since he knows I can ashame him as well (my plan is saying "I'm gay" in front of HIS friends; nothing to be ashemed of, but you know, he is of a different generation

This troper's parents have a long, long history of this.

He is 15 minutes late? His father is already calling everybody he knows.

His mother is not much better, she can and WILL get on fights with salespeople, all of this for some small $2 issue. I've often felt like saying 'take this $2 and pay it before I go away' or 'forget it, I don't need it anymore, let's go home'. Also she tends to call me cute and kiss me (in the cheek) when I am with my friends. Thanks for making me look like an 11-year-old which will never find a girl, mother.

This Troper's father is very old (mid 40s when he was born, regularly mistaken for a grandparent), and was of a generation and class (2nd oldest of 8 kids in a very poor West Virginia family) that believed in punishing for failure rather than encouraging. So his favorite way of teaching me to play sports was to loudly ridicule me in front of my friends when I screwed up, and encourage them to join in on it. Of course, he was always willing to go play catch or be all time quarterback when we wanted to play football, so the ratio of him being awesome vs being embarrassing was something like 20/1, but still. He only quit doing that in my late high school years, after he did it in front of my girlfriend and she yelled at him for being a jerkass.

SunnyV's maternal grandfather acted like this to her mother when she was a teenager: he would put on a fake limp, lean on her, and speak in a Polish accent. Subverted in that she actually didn't mind.

I see all of your parents and raise you my dad. Most of the time, he acts like the typical Strawman bible-thumping Republican, no matter where and when. Second, he is unable to pay attention to movies or TV shows. If he tries to watch a movie, he constantly bugs us about what the hell is going on (Who's Rosebud again?). When its over with, he starts giving us the complete play-by-play assuming we hadn't watched it. Third, he is liable to yell at those movies, especially if they contain Nazis (I started a count during Inglourious Basterds. 23, then I lost track. This was a crowded theater.) Fourth, he enjoys practicing Tae-Kwon-do nearly everywhere, even in parking lots, sidewalks, or school events. Finally, he enjoys grabbing me, right above the butt. At 16 and 6'2'', this troper is usually taken for older than he really is. So it gets really awkward in some less gay-friendly parts of town when my dad fails to understand such subtexts. *facepalm*

This Tropers dad once started dancingoutside in his underwear during a rainstorm.

This troper predicts that she will be one herself, unless her children continue to never be embarrassed by anything. Yeah, right.

This troper was playing ''WorldOfWarcraft'' about a year ago when this appeared in general chat: "Looking for a guild for my son's hunter. He's 15 now, not really a baby." Someone else immediately quipped, "That guy's son, if you're listening on this channel, this is why you never, ever play on the same server as your parents." This spawned a short-lived meme of insulting people with {{Compliment Backfire}}s such as "He's not really into bestiality" or "He's not really a terrible player that will wipe your raid." (His poor son reportedly had to change servers to find a guild...)

My mother will always bring up 2 things about me. 1) That I was apparently in love with Smurfette, and 2) That I got lost in a shopping centre once and cried and cried and cried. Even though she was the one who wandered off without checking to make sure I was with her.

DO NOT mention the song "Apache" within earshot of this troper's twin sister or mother: her mother is constantly threatening to dance embarrassingly to it, and nothing traumatizes her sister more than her mother's dancing.

This troper has a father who dances in grocery stores, acts utterly infantile, brings up embarrassing childhood memories (really, Dad, you don't need to tell the guy I like about how I was sick once in a restaurant. Really.), is frequently quite politically incorrect, and has the most insane sense of humor I've ever come across. And yet...he's a fantastic dad, happily watches Series/{{Doctor Who}} with me, hugs me when I cry, and always backs me up. I don't know what to do if he wasn't around. My MOTHER, on the other hand, is just embarrassing without the attached awesome/funny/etc...*shudder*

This Troper has a kid just entering high school and is eagerly taking notes from this page. We're not clueless, we're doing it on purpose! This is our revenge for years of back-talk and eye-rolling. MWAHAHAHAHA!

This Troper had a one time experience of this trope - his parents tried a hand at doing a BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine at a Christmas Party. The problem? All their jokes were computer related, and they acted out the kinds of stories you'd find here. Cue facepalm. What made things worse was that his mother was the Tsukkomi while his father was the Boke.

This troper has had exaggerations of this trope happen ''twice'', both cases because of some girl bullying her, staff who would do nothing about it, and her mom apparently thinks "I need to get something off my chest" is synonymous with "I want you to do something about this"

First: 5th grade. mom had the gall to come in and yell at the girl ''during a math test''. This troper was no longer bullied, but lost all of her friends and would much sooner have both friends and enemies than neither.

Second: 8th grade. one week before school ended to be exact. this time, it was a girl on the bus. Mom came ''onto my bus'' to start moving seats around so the girl in question would no longer be near me. not only was this troper embarrassed, but guess who got in trouble just because she's her daughter....

In high school, this troper's mother assumed that he and his close female friend were a couple. (We were actually more like PlatonicLifePartners.) This wouldn't be that embarrassing, except that she liked to go on about it ''within earshot'' of the two of us. The exchange "Your mom is insane." "Yeah, I know. I am really, really sorry," happened quite frequently.

This troper's stepdad once introduced her to a guy from another high school that he knew. She had a conversation with the guy, and he seemed nice enough.. blah blah blah. As everyone was about to leave, her stepdad walked over to the guy's car, leaned in the window and said "She's seventeen. And she's single." Then just got into our car and drove off, leaving her dignity far, far behind.

This troper's mother is bipolar. She once wandered into a classroom I was in and cheerfully, obliviously, manically attempted to give a speech about the Great Enlightenment that she thought was coming any day now. I still hate her for that sometimes . . .

It never fails, when I answer the phone and my parents are around, my dad manages to imply that I am bisexual: #QUOTE#Dad: Is it your girlfriend? #QUOTE#Me: No. #QUOTE#Dad: Then is it your boyfriend?

This troper's mother tends to fly off the handle for no real reason and embarrass herself as much as me. It's got to the point where my friends, if present, just roll their eyes and mutter "blast off!" and then mock her when she's out of earshot. Also, before I came out but my father still suspected something, he'd casually yet obviously point out cute girls to me. In public. Loudly. I couldn't look any of them in the face.

Thankfully averted with my parents; both of them are high level government employees and very professional both at home and out and about. Unfortunately, this sort of upbringing did not prepare me for the first time I went to over to my then girlfriend's house, and her father began cracking dirty jokes and making fun of me. She told me repeatedly that it was her family's way of welcoming me, but I hated it so much that I simply stopped interacting with her family, which did not help the relationship.

It's secondhand, so it may be inaccurate, but it still fits extremely well. A friend of mine once related about the time his brother was being dropped off at school by his dad. The son got out of the car, and his dad yelled, "LEWIS! YOU FORGOT YOUR HUG!" If I recall correctly, he even got out of the car and pursued him to get the hug.

This troper's father liked to talk about his high school romances. Really embarrassing when you're inheriting the family charm.

This troper's parents know nothing about theater. This becomes painfully obvious when this troper, who works in theater, takes them anywhere and leaves them unsupervised for any length of time. They will invariably find the one person I'm trying to impress and proceed to look ''dumb''.

This troper's father, when we would go out to eat, would ALWAYS announce at the top of his lungs that he needed to go to the bathroom. In that same sentence, he would ask if any of us kids wanted to come with him, still at the top of his lungs. Facepalming became very common.

My mom walks around the house, making "That's What She Said" jokes, and my dad has embarrassing nicknames for me that he likes to break out in public. However, the one thing that bothers me the most is that my parents have not only threatened to cry, but also to dance embarrassingly at my wedding. I dread the day I get married.

This troper's mom would periodically ask him various things in the middle of a movie or other show ("Do you need to go to the bathroom?" "Are you enjoying this?"). He wishes he'd thought to answer the latter with "No, because you're asking me these stupid questions." This troper and his brother never wanted to sit by her.

Subverted: My sisters REFUSE to be in a 100-foot radius with my dad in public. I, however, couldn't give a flying fudgemuffin. Once he refused to let me out of his car when dropping me off at a field trip before I gave him a kiss goodbye. I did, in front of a bus-ful of classmates.

This Tropette would like to say: Your parents. And if they aren't, she'd like to say: ''You liar.''

This troper's parents seems to have the urge of telling people embarrassing stories about me when I was little. Like I had no coordination and nicknaming me "White boy" and how I use to f-up like lock the car keys in the car. It's not just them telling it is what bothers me. It's that they would sometimes bust out these stories in the most inappropriate times and that they talk about it as if it still applies to me today. These things happened a long time ago, WHY WON'T THEY LET IT GO?

My parents like to do embarrassing things in the car. Once, my mother heard dogs barking on someone's porch, slowed the car, and started making barking noises at the dogs while their owner was there. Another time, my father got an Atkins diet book-on-tape and listened to it in the car. He claimed he couldn't hear it well, so we basically drove down main street blasting information about the Atkin's diet. My parents also moo when they drive past a farm or deer on the side of the road. To make all of these things worse, one of the cars we drive in has my father's name and phone number on it in big letters/numbers.

This troper has a "coming of true friendship" in that all her closest friend have seen her mother walk across the house naked at night to use the bathroom. I'm 23, I have had 4 very close friends... Does anyone have a rock to crawl under? There's a reason my mother has the nickname "Chichi Mama" among my friends.

This troper had the awkward experience of her father cracking jokes about "the facts of life" and the potency of sperm during her 18th birthday party. Cue in troper turning the same shade as her red dress, and all of troper's friends and cousins cringing. Said father nearly did the same thing during a younger sister's birthday celebration a year later..in front of college friends, most of whom were teenage males.