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[[File:zac_efron_1188316736.jpg|link=High School Musical|frame|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}Kze5Eo39lzA Is this Narm? BET ON IT!]]]
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|”[[Television Without Pity]]'s [http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/show/lost/the_little_prince_1.php?page{{=}}15 recap] of ''[[Lost]]'', "The Little Prince" }}
Come on, admit it...when you saw these scenes on TV, you wanted to laugh out loud, even if you [[Narm|weren't supposed to]].
=== Series with their own lists: ===▼
* [[Narm/Doctor Who|Doctor Who]]▼
▲=== Others: ===
* Reality shows in general can often seem narmy with the way they play ridiculously dramatic music whenever there's some minor conflict, even though said music wouldn't be used in any movie or TV series except for in the most dramatic parts.
* Also pretty much every documentary ever made. Name just one that isn't essentially about how humans destroy nature or do awful things to each other.
* ''[[Are You Afraid of the Dark?]]'' had some because of its cheap production values and inconsistent acting. For example:
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** From the same episode ("The tale of the renegade virus"), there was also [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MjFCDPVdDA the Big Bad's evil laughter]. The [[Big Bad]] was a silver midget who was constantly laughing.
** Another moment was in an episode where a bunch of kids were kidnapped onto an alien spacecraft and forced to eat a horrible alien food product... which was clearly lime-flavoured jello in a bowl.
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** "The Tale of the Many Faces": When the two girls simply grab Madame Visage and she makes no attempt to break free, and they easily defeat her while she pathetically screams. So the girls have been working as slaves for her all this time and all they needed to do was simply hold her?
* ''[[Garth Marenghi's Darkplace]]'' is absolutely ''packed'' with [[In-Universe]] Narm, since it's about a [[Show Within a Show]].
* It's alluded to in the main page, but now that everything's been split off, the [[Trope Namer]] from ''[[Six Feet Under]]'' should have its own entry.
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* In the ''[[Babylon 5]]'' episode "A late delivery from Avalon", {{spoiler|when the faux-King Arthur Laments: "I was responsible...Their armor was not strong enough to protect them... Their horses were on fire!"}}
** In the episode "Moments of Transition," the denouement, in which Neroon makes a [[Heroic Sacrifice]], is just packed with Narm, especially since it turns into a three-way [[Ham-to-Ham Combat]] between Neroon, Delenn, and Shakiri.
** War Without End, Part 1: Ivanova's distress call from the future. Narm-tastically over-the-top.
* Jessie's [[G-Rated Drug|caffeine pill addiction]] on ''[[Saved by the Bell]]''. This was supposed to be a [[Very Special Episode]], but instead was considered the height of unintentional comedy for the show's fans, particularly the climactic scene in which Jessie shout-sings this:
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* Thumbs up for ''[[Dark Angel]]'':
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** Then there's the time Logan seems to get the "Virus," which stops him and Max from touching -- but OOPS! NO. It's just chicken pox.
** Then there's Brain's repeated pining over Max. She'd normally beat someone for pining over her, but she appears to think that the Max/Brain ship is possible. Let us note that Brain's a rather fat computer nerd. In Hollywood [[Shipping]], relationships like that just don't work if the fat computer nerd isn't the lead.
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*** The ending, when he screams.
** While an exhaustive list of Narm in ''[[High School Musical]]'' would be impossible, Vanessa Hudgens really deserves a mention here. Her [[Wangst]] song, where she flounces around the school in an [[Shakespeare|Ophelian]] manner and sings pitifully to a 20-foot poster of Zac <ref> incidentally...what the hell was a giant poster of a student ''doing'' in the school corridor?!</ref>, is probably the Narm high-point of the first movie.
* ''[[Law & Order|Law and Order]]'':
** "Is this because I'm a lesbian?"
** The season 4 episode "Volunteers", where the victim rants about how he's going to sue the people who attacked him and buy a "Rolls-Royce wheelchair and enough crack to last a lifetime."
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* The [[Short Runners|short-lived]] ''[[Law & Order: LA|Law and Order LA]]'' had at least one. The detectives are questioning the victim's parents and ask if she has been behaving oddly. The mother, who is sobbing in a non-narmful way, opens her mouth to say...."She deleted me on Facebook". Cue hysterical laughter from everyone in the room.
* The ''[[Law and Order Special Victims Unit]]'' episode "Authority", guest starring [[Robin Williams]] was a brilliant episode, but it had its Narm moments. They exploited Robin's ability to do voices and used it as a plot point. Or {{spoiler|the pillow fight scene}}; then again, maybe that was supposed to be funny in a disturbing way.
** "[[
** "Happy Burger"? That's the most generic name for a fictional fast food restaurant ever. You'd think the writers for this show could come up with something clever.
** "Ripped": Eliot finally sits down with a shrink and talks about the source of his scary, scary rage. And one of the early incidents was... when his dad, himself a rageaholic, smashed young Eliot's diorama. Note to writers: few dramatic revelations are successful when centered around words like "diorama."
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** "Sweet mother of God... ''it's the carjack rapist!''" This comes from a [[Cold Opening]] and the extremely nonplussed way the operator says it in doesn't help.
** Then there's the pedophile who claimed "our numbers str growing and yours are shrinking!"
** Nononononononono. Nothing can possibly beat [https://web.archive.org/web/20090917132646/http://videogum.com/archives/animals-on-film/the-monkey-is-in-the-basketbal_037431.html "The monkey is in the basketball!"] Made even worse because ''a sexual crimes division is dealing with animal smuggling''. Just watch it. The narm is underlined when they open the basketball and the monkey climbs out ''and hugs Captain Cragen''.
*** One description for that episode: "When a dead woman is found with an exotic bird..." It make you wonder if SVU got involved, then where the ''fuck'' was she storing that bird?
*** Fans of the show have adopted that as a general phrase of disbelief in relation to the show, i.e., "oh, that episode was good, but I'm calling some monkey basketball on [this ludicrous plot point]..."
*** In the same episode, the bad guy in a level of James Bond villainy kills a witness by unleashing a hyena into his apartment. How do we know the hyena has killed and eaten his victim? Because the hyena coughed up all his bling.
** In "Savior", a [[Hooker with a Heart of Gold]] has to testify against a homicidal Straw Evangelist. Cue this line:
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*** Then he rushes the bench and has to be restrained. It's supposed to be serious, but it's over the top.
** Any time the bad guy starts using his "rape voice".
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** Whatever game was in a certain ''[[Law and Order Special Victims Unit]]'' episode looked like the worst one ever made. An enemy did absolutely nothing while the character slowly hacked it with a sword. The creators had likely [[Pac-Man Fever|never seen a video game]].
** Dizzer, a [[Card-Carrying Villain]] of a DJ who was [[Pretty Fly for a White Guy]] and whose creed was "Wrecking decks and getting sex." When questioned about a girl he slept with at a party, he replied, "Which one?" His response to being asked about child support?
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** "Is there any reason you can think of that they sodomized your husband with a banana?"
** Kathleen Stabler's intervention in "Crush". The fact that we're ''still'' rooting for Olivia after that reminds us [[Narm Charm|why we still watch this show]].
** The music is the killer. [[Narm]]-tastic.
** The episode with [[Jesse McCartney]] (yeah, really; that's narmish enough on its own) involved the acronym "FATH"--"first and true husband." This led to some wacky misunderstandings regarding an instant message (the detectives thought the victim was talking about her ''father'', etc).
** An episode revolving around an alleged mentally-challenged rapist builds to a court scene which builds decent tension and pity, then completely narms it up by showing the sentence.
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** On another episode of "Criminal Intent" [[Special Guest|guest-starring]] [[Stephen Colbert]], the plot centered around an organization's attempt to push their namesake to sainthood. One plot point involved the main characters repeating the phrase "Goat Letter" every few seconds. "Goat letter" was [[Truth in Television]], since the episode was a [[Ripped from the Headlines|thinly disguised retelling]] of the [[wikipedia:Mark Hofmann|Mark Hofmann case]], which centered around the "White Salamander Letter." It just happens that goats don't have the same sinister vibe [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent|salamanders]] do...
*** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQm30mZZHwU Colbert's performance] is Narmful as well.
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** [[Confessional|"Bless me, Father, for I have sinned... but that's not why I'm here."]]
** In one episode, Nicholls is conducting a very emotional, soft-spoken interrogation of a somewhat-sympathetic serial killer, when Stevens suddenly feels the need to yell "DID COURTNEY SCREAM!?" Calm down, will you?
* The opening sequence of [[Once an Episode|almost every episode]] of ''[[CSI: Miami]]'', when Horatio Caine [[Glasses Pull|dramatically removes or puts on his sunglasses]] and [[Quip to Black|makes a clever comment]]. While this is supposed to be cool and smooth, it generally winds up being hilariously ridiculous and cliched. See [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sarYH0z948 here], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceHnUrUAbho here] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20140307001752/http://www.weebls-stuff.com/wab/
** The crowning moment is in the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNy1n-zp35Q Season 5 opener]. Caine, for some reason known only to himself, is {{spoiler|crouched in the Rodin's Thinker pose next to the statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro}}, and part of the tune is playing. Long helicopter shot of this, Caine getting up and putting on the sunglasses, and the "YEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!" kicking in.
** In isolation, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d54Ok6Uz_A&feature=related this scene] must be a Crowning Moment of Narm. Horatio Caine takes his sunglasses off just so he can dramatically put them back on.
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*** And from the same episode: "Give Rhys all my love and I'll see you tomorrow," delivered as a low, angry hiss. Jack seems to be a magnet for these lines
** The ''[[Alien (franchise)|Alien]]'' homage in "Something Borrowed."
*** Any time -- ''any'' time -- in "Something Borrowed" when Gwen insists she's having a baby. Or refers to the [[Face Full of Alien Wingwong|alien egg thing]] as a baby... or even says 'baby'. It's the accent.
*** Her facial expression on showing Jack her engagement ring. Half cheeky surprise and half Tom Welling-style ACTING HARD face.
** Ianto and Jack. {{spoiler|Naked hide and seek.}} Series two. Some parts of that scene was meant to be humorous. Some weren't, but oh, how they were.
** Jack's "We're outside the government, beyond the police" line.
** Adam is rewriting Captain Jack's memory of his father and brother; Jack desperately tries to hold on with some awful [[Large Ham|delivery]].
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*** Ianto being [[Break the Cutie|cutie-broken]] in the same episode was cripplingly hilarious.
** Any time Ianto cries. He's...he's not a pretty crier.
** When Gwen confesses to cheating on Rhys and the Retcon kicks in, it becomes hilarious when she's trying to get him to forgive her; it turns from pleading for forgiveness to annoyed demands coupled with slapping him on the face to wake him up. Hilarious.
** Despite being terrifying in context, the scene in "Children of Earth" when {{spoiler|the Colonel comes to the realization that the 456 is ''shooting up on children.''}}
*** Even funnier is {{spoiler|Jack's giving orders to a crowd of panicking people who aren't at all listening when the virus is released.}}
** The episode "Cyberwoman," wherein the pizza girl who has had the brain of Ianto's old girlfriend-turned-Cyberwoman implanted into her (or something) tearfully recounts, at gunpoint, the time they went to the beach and had cheese toasties. If there is an award for the least poignant and dramatic phrase in the known universe, then "cheese toasties" is a strong contender.
** Jonah's "primal howl" in "Adrift".
* [[PBS]] once had a series called ''[[Wishbone]]'' in which a well-read Jack Russel Terrier would dream and imagine himself as the hero of various stories and novels. A cute idea to be sure... except that this is the kind of concept that's better animated. Instead, it was live-action; Wishbone was a real dog whose thoughts were expressed as a [[Narrator|running voice-over,]] and all the other characters were humans. For instance, kids would get to see an otherwise dead-serious dramatization of ''[[Pride and Prejudice]]'' in which Mr. Darcy is a cute little dog in a suit, and everyone else is human and [[Furry Confusion|acting as if Mr. Darcy being a talking dog is absolutely nothing out of the ordinary]].
** The ''[[Pride and Prejudice]]'' episode is further made [[Narm|Narmful]] by constant cases of [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping]] and [[Just a Stupid Accent]] due to the actors all being [[Fake Brit|Fake Brits]]. The cast aim for prim and proper English accents and come off somewhere between Canadian and Scottish.
** In one of the more boneheaded (sorry) episodes, Wishbone once did a series of three short stories from African American folklore. The first one was the story of Anansi, the [[Trickster Archetype]] Spider. Fair enough, Wishbone wore an adorable spider costume. The second was a rather dramatic slave trade story. In it, winged Africans were forced onto ships to be sold, [[Faux Symbolism|violently shedding their wings after being captured]]. The third one was the story of a plantation rebellion and in it, Wishbone, clad in ''a little doggie style plantation slave outfit'' liberates human actors. He even calls them "Brother". Its heart is in the right place, but it's just so bizarre.
** There was also a ''Romeo and Juliet'' episode [[Interspecies Romance|that featured Wishbone romancing a human actress]] and ended with Wishbone playing dead like dogs do with his legs stiffly sticking up in the air while the human cast talked about what a tragedy it was.
** Wishbone was playing [[Sherlock Holmes]], and at one point he trots into the scene with his voice actor laughing. Watson asks him what the matter is, and he responds in between giggles, "I can't tell you, Watson! It's too funny!" His next line should have been, "I'm really a dog!"
** It gets better. Several [[Novelization|novelizations]] of episodes were released. They featured more of the original literature's text, but still integrated Wishbone as a dog into the story. For example, in ''[[A Tale of Two Cities]]'', as Darnay (played by Wishbone) gets out of his coach, he muses that he needs a private moment with a tree; and it is noted that he can only trot at his (human!) wife's ankle height when they walk together.
** What about his adaptation of David and Goliath? Near the end, David is to take down Goliath headshot style. Cut to a scene of Wishbone as David, with his paw up in the air, spinning a sling around his head.
* The revelation that the Romulan senator realizes Sisko's carefully-made forgery was fake in the excellent ''[[Star Trek:
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwbPRCRkMy0 It's a Steeeeeeak!]
*** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lHgbbM9pu4 Don't you understand?! It is REEEAAL!]
** An earlier example of ''[[Star Trek]]'' Narm changed the course of an entire species. When ''[[Star Trek: The
** [[Two Words]]:
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** The best and worst ''[[Star Trek:
** ''[[Star Trek]],'' the original series: Any time [[William Shatner]] starts [[Chewing the Scenery|chewing scenery]] is Narm time.
*** He was out-Narmed by a lowly ''Ensign'' in "[http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/The_Corbomite_Maneuver_%28episode%29 The Corbomite Maneuver]":
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** A special mention to the lovely ladies from the episode "[[Star Trek: The Original Series/Recap/S3/E01
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** Spock's rather out-of-character moment near the end of "The Cage"
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** [[Star Trek: The Next Generation|"THERE! ARE! FOUR! LIGHTS!"]]. It's not the sentence itself that's Narmy, it's how Patrick Stewart delivers it. He ''shouts it'' in defiance, when he could have said it normally and with steel in his voice. Honestly, you'd expect more from Patrick Stewart.
*** It's not cut-and-dried, as there are all sorts of opinions on this scene. Some fans see it as horrible, some as [[So Bad It's Good]] -- this is here largely because of that contingent -- some as simply good, and some consider it a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] for Picard, who didn't have the strength to stand but still made the effort for a last shout of defiance. There is the argument that, when one has been incessantly tortured by a Cardassian sadist (who brings his baby daughter along to watch) in an equivalent to the Ministry of Love, a mental breakdown will occur, which would cause the petulant childish delivery.
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*** I thought it was Crusher's line "What, what's happening to meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee?"
** ''Voyager'' was loaded with them, but the topper has to be this:
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*** In the episode "Twisted," the ship is being crushed by a mysterious space wave and Janeway falls unconscious after accidentally touching the phenomenon. While the other officers stand around discussing how to save the ship, she suddenly sits bolt upright, gasps, "it's tALkiNg tO MEEEE," and then falls back down on the couch.
*** In the episode "Prototype" Torres describes how she created a prototype robot. She dramatically told Janeway that when she "installed that module, the prototype looked up at me, and '''asked me for programming.'''"
** As pointed out in a nitpicker's guide, the triumphant moment in TNG season 5 episode "Disaster" where Picard and two children, heave themselves through a doorway after escaping a stuck turbolift before it fell and climbed up the shaft, is wrecked if you realise that the ladder goes all the way up. They could have climbed a little higher and just stepped through.
** Tasha Yar's farewell speech in the episode "Skin of Evil". It's intended to be a [[Tear Jerker]] and likely affects many tropers that way, but not all of them.
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"[[Disability Superpower|Geordi]]. In those moments I felt the most despair, you took my hand and helped me to see things differently."<br />
"My friend Data. You see things with the wonder of a child." }}
** Same [[Dropped a Bridge on Him|(nsatisfactory)]] episode: That [[Special Effect Failure|ink stain]] on Yar's cheek in sickbay when Dr. Crusher tries to bring her back kills the drama of those scenes.
* Attempts to show
* [[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|The
** Crew Specialist Cally's cry of "Talk to me, motherfracker!" during a quiet moment with Chief Tyrol on the surface of Kobol.
*** Though, to be fair, this was probably deliberate, as both Tyrol and Cally crack up straight after, as soon they realise how ridiculous she sounded.
** The creepy music from the finale of Season 3 that only got creepier when you realized that it could only be heard by four people, who turned out to be Cylons, lost its effect when everyone started dramatically reciting the lyrics to "All Along the Watchtower" by [[Bob Dylan]].
** Grace Park (Boomer, Sharon) apparently has "grunt" mistaken for "roar." After headbutting plate glass, she literally yells "RAAAARRR!"
** From Season 4:
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** Season 4 also gives us an argument where two characters attempt a big [[Cluster F-Bomb|Cluster-Frak Bomb.]] It's supposed to be dramatic, and it comes to blows; but hearing two grown men yelling "Frak!" every other word is a bit much.
** All of this is trumped by Starbuck and Anders' [[Slap Slap Kiss]] scene in "Ties That Bind":
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** In the New Caprica episodes when Cally is in a holding cell, she shouts (or rather, says more loudly than usual), "You stupid frakked up toaster". It was never convincing.
** In the finale, {{spoiler|Cavil's final words and actions, as a firefight has broken out when the Cylons think they've been betrayed, is to yell "Frak!" put a gun in his mouth, and pull the trigger.}} It comes out of ''nowhere''.
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** From season four, Adama DRAMATICALLY PAINTING A WALL during his crowning moment of [[Wangst|emo.]] Seriously, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2ZxCOh9zO0 try to keep a straight face through this.] It doesn't help how visually similar it is to Starbuck's [[Erotic Dream|paint!sex]] one season earlier.
* From what was otherwise the dramatic climax of the ''[[Caprica]]'' pilot:
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** In regards to Zoe, any seriousness of a scene where she and another character are face to face is compromised because Alessandra Torresani goes cross-eyed whenever looking anyone in the face close up.
*** Once, her eyes dart around wildly (perhaps trying to avoid going cross-eyed?), which makes her seem mildly psychotic.
* Many scenes in ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' might qualify. One that almost certainly does has to be when Hiro confronts Nathan Petrelli at a press conference and asks what he's going to do about an upcoming prophecy. When Nathan tells him that there is nothing to do and drives off, he leaves Hiro in the dust shouting, "You not a hero! You a bi-ran! You a bi-ran! Bi-ran!" (That's "villain" for the [[Engrish]]-impaired.) In the audio commentary, Masi Oka notes that the [[Rule of Three|third repetition of the phrase]] made it, ''for him,'' hilarious.
** Hiro often has incredibly moving Japanese, that is utterly butchered by the show's own subtitles. "We are taking this sword!" -- his friend, eyes askance "We?" See? utter gibberish. Hiro's we is a sort of "the group of superheros I belong to!" sort of we. It kinda indicates that he's headed off the deep end. The english kills the whole scene, because it seems like Hiro's we just includes his friend (whom the Japanese was not including).
** Several of the oddly drawn facial expressions on the characters in both the [https://web.archive.org/web/20131030170412/http://www.nbc.com/
** Any serious scene Mr. Muggles is a part of. It's so, so hard to take Sylar seriously with a cute, smiling Pomeranian tucked under one arm. Also, if Sylar kills that stupid dog, then it'll be hard for some people to regard him as a villain for the rest of the series.
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** The scene where Sylar killed the woman with super hearing. She asked, "That sound, in your heart... what is it?" And he replied, ''"Murder."''
** West in general can be narmy, especially when he said, "Mr. Butler, what are you doing?"
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*** You mean [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Petrellified]]?
** The scene with the rental guy in "The Eclipse, Part 1"...who the ''hell'' would ''ever'' react like that?
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*** Elle and Sylar are narm-y in that scene, too.
*** There are [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|disproportionately]] ominous [[For Doom the Bell Tolls|church bells]] playing over the scene.
*** Sylar's bizarre breathy, rushed way of talking in that episode. We know you know how to talk like a regular person, dude; you were doing it just fine, and ''hilariously'', when paired with Bennet. Come on.
** This may have been intended as black humour, but there's the scene in 'Cautionary Tales' where Mohinder turns to Elle and asks bluntly, "Have you killed many people?"
** In Volume 4, Sylar flashes back to the day his father sold him in a diner and watches his biological dad do the dread telekenetic-finger-slice across mommy's forehead. The music in the background and the pretentious and [[Sin City]]-esque colour filter on the blood raise the bathos levels so high that not even Zachary Quinto's incredible acting talents can save the scene from corniness.
*** The lead-in to this scene is Luke telling Sylar that maybe it's a good thing he's repressed painful memories. Sylar responds, "No, it eats away at your soul!"
** In "Six Months Ago," Sylar shrieked "It's the evolutionary ''imperative!!"'' as he whanged Brian Davis on the head.
** Although HRG is normally a [[Badass]], his "pulling the trigger" face sometimes resembles an "I'm taking a really big poop" face.
** Sendhil Ramamurthy, who plays Mohinder, seems to find many of his ''own'' scenes Narmtastic. He has mocked the endless references to his father's death and research; and on episode commentary tracks, he frequently goes into [[Mystery Science Theater 3000]] mode during Mohinder scenes.
** In the Volume 4 finale, Angela Petrelli's inhuman wails upon discovering {{spoiler|Nathan's dead body}}.
*** For those who haven't seen it, it's like a Guinea Pig about to start an [[Anime]] battle.
** Sylar's [[The Lord of the Rings|Gollum-style]] conversation with his mother in Volume 4.
** Linderman waxing lyrical about pot-pies:
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** Near the end of season 1, Sylar had just recently acquired Ted the nuclear man's powers. This is a big deal, considering the future paintings showing a destroyed NYC along with an exploding man. At the end of the episode, Sylar is playing with his powers as he gazes over the city. Then he says, "Boom." That's it? You're a nuclear bomb, and all you say is "boom!"?!
** Sylar's taco line in the third season premiere.
** From [[Walking Wasteland|Ted]], a quote hilarious when heard out of context:
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*** That line's hilarious even in context.
** In the earlier episodes, the sheer number of ways Claire managed to damage herself quickly reached [[Bloody Hilarious]] levels. Yes, honey, you can regenerate. Now ''[[Too Dumb to Live|stop sticking your hand in the trash disposal!!]]''
*** In the most recent season, she cuts her own wrists while on (yet another) [[Wangst]] fest. Geez, why not just [[Emo Teen|wear all black and get face-obscuring bangs]] already? Then again, there was that [[Bad Future]] scenario where she had dyed her hair black and wore all black clothes...
** Nathan's beard at the beginning of season 2.
** Peter's Season One Bangs. I couldn't even take the climactic scene of the final seriously, all the emotional weight just got nullified by the all encompassing Bangs!Narm. I was pissed, actually.
* A normal occurrence on several [[Perp Sweating]] scenes in many a [[Crime-Time Soap]] that happens to state that [[New Media Are Evil]], at least to anyone who has some understanding of this new media. Moreso after a few years have passed, and we get to hear Ice-T refer to videogames as "[[Ultra Super Death Gore Fest Chainsawer 3000|magical rape land]]" in reruns long after any fear is long gone.
* ''[[John From Cincinnati]]'' had a few. One example is when Butchie calls his ex-girlfriend on the cell phone and insults her, making her hang up in his face. A few minutes later, he calls her again only to repeat the ''same'' insult. He repeats the process a few times.
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* There's a [[Lifetime Movie of the Week]] entitled ''My Stepson, My Lover''. It ended with the stepson/lover completely paralyzed in a wheelchair.
** Lifetime movies are MADE of this trope. Of course, for some, [[So Bad It's Good|that is]] [[Narm Charm|the appeal.]]
* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4Ak4B-Wjqw second season finale] of ''[[The OC]]'', in which an [[Soundtrack Dissonance|incongruous vocal track]] (the refrain from Imogen Heap's "Hide and Seek") starts playing the instant Marissa {{spoiler|shoots Trey in the back}} and continues playing as {{spoiler|he slowwwwwly registers that he's bleeding,}} turns around, looks at her in shock, and then keels over. It started out shocking, but the music was stretched out too long. ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' parodied the hell out of this scene in a sketch nicknamed [https://web.archive.org/web/20131010120529/http://www.idkwtf.com/videos/latest-videos/dear-sister-snl-digital-short ''Dear Sister''], and it then became a [[Memetic Mutation|meme]] multiplying and mutating all over Youtube. ''None'' of the parodies are as hilarious as the original.
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** This could apply to most death scenes in ''[[The OC]]'' that try to be emotionally gripping, since most of them seem to involve [[The Scrappy|Marissa]].
** Especially funny because of Marissa's completely flat and hilariously badly-acted "oh my God, stop, you're killing him" when she first enters the room and sees {{spoiler|Trey and Ryan fighting.}}
* In the ''[[Masters of Horror]]'' episode "Right to Die", there's a tender scene in which a married couple - not hugely wealthy, not in showbiz or anything, just an ordinary married couple - take a bath together. They're gazing into each others' eyes, smiling gently in close-up...and then the camera pulls back to reveal that the wife is sporting the most comically enormous set of fake breasts imaginable. If you didn't know better, you'd think this was a ''[[The Naked Gun]]''-style sight gag. As it is, it destroys any claim the scene might have had to emotional realism. It also lets you know just why this particular actress was hired; the rest of the episode demonstrates it wasn't for her thespian talents).
** This is absolutely true, except the breasts in question [https://web.archive.org/web/20120905153504/http://www.boobpedia.com/boobs/Julia_Anderson are not fake (link NSFW)].
* There is so much narm in ''[[MacGyver]]'' that it could have its own page.
** Almost every [[Very Special Episode]] ends up being so over the top that it almost trivializes the issue in question. Teenage prostitution, poaching, drugs, racism, sexism, corporate corruption, pollution, and much, much more - all were handled in a completely [[Anvilicious]] manner. The show always portrayed the issues in a one-sided, [[Black and White Morality|black and white]] manner, in such a way that they became comedy. When Richard Dean Anderson was giving a speech about poaching at the end of an episode, there was simply no way to react but to laugh at the sheer narminess of it all.
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*** Earlier episodes establish that young MacGyver was a leather-jacketed motorcycle-riding loose cannon on the edge. If you started watching during a street-gang season, however, you might have missed that subtle point.
* In ''[[Super Sentai|Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger]]'', Hoji is forced to kill his old friend in what is a dramatic scene... up until he breaks out the [[Gratuitous English]] at the worst possible time.
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* At first glance, the Nanashi from the latest ''[[Super Sentai]]'' show, ''Shinkenger,'' are probably the most menacing, demonic-looking [[Mooks]] in Sentai history. This falls apart the second you see them in action. Not only are they just as ineffectual as any other Mooks, but they also have ludicrous electronically distorted voices. The costumes they wear, while quite nice to look at, are rubbery & have bits that flop around when they flail helplessly with their deceptively nasty-looking swords.
* In ''[[Super Sentai|Choujuu Sentai Liveman]]'' , when Guildos has just been revealed to be {{spoiler|a robot}}, he stumbles around on a {{spoiler|cliff until he trips on a rock}} and {{spoiler|falls off said cliff}}. This would be horrifying if it weren't for the cheap {{spoiler|robo-Guildos}} costume and the inanimate dummy that take Guildos' place {{spoiler|as he falls to his doom}}
* ''[[Power Rangers]]'' has a couple. There's the destruction of the Thunderzords (complete with a clearly low budget and a over the top [[Big No|NOOOO]]). There's the death of Alex in the first episode of ''[[Power Rangers Time Force|Time Force]]'', during which Erin Cahill desperately overacts Jenn's emotional reaction; her slo-mo noooooo is funny every time it's shown, and it's shown a lot in flashbacks.
** Pink Rangers are good at Narm. [[Power Rangers Operation Overdrive|Operation Overdrive's]] Rose is usually only used for exposition purposes. Then she gets an episode requiring her to do some real emotion, and we learn why. Watch her after Tyzonn's apparent death, and you'll forget all about Jen's Slow Mo [[Big No]] ''forever.''
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** "Rocky Just Wants to Have Fun."
** Tommy's [[Evil Laugh]] during the first season of ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]''.
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** A special narm award goes to ''[[Power Rangers Zeo|Zeo]]'''s "Another Song and Dance." Tommy and Tanya are put under a spell. It's played as serious because it leaves Tommy unable to operate his voice-controlled Red Battlezord. But the spell they're under is one that makes it so they can't stop singing...
** Another standout moment comes from the episode "The Ninja Encounter, Part 2," just after the introduction of Rocky, Adam, and Aisha. By this point Jason, Zack, and Trini were being represented by stock footage and some hilariously unconvincing voice actors. Austin St. John's regular voice was Narmtastic enough but [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqwET--3gzw&feature=player_detailpage#t=213s this...]
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'''Zordon''': I have been monitoring this dangerous situation, Jason. What concerns me the most is the Terrorblossom's threat to reproduce itself.
'''"Jason"''': Aw man! Can he do that?
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** In ''[[Power Rangers Samurai|Samurai]]'', children are used on a comparatively regular basis, most often for flashbacks to Jaden and Antonio's childhood. The child actors' inability to replicate American accents or actually say lines realistically turns what was written as touching scenes about friends that think they'll never see each other again into something absolutely [[So Bad It's Good|hilarious]].
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* ''[[The Naked Brothers Band]]'': Aren't those kids kinda young to be singing songs about messy break-ups? Live your lives, damn it!
* ''[[Lost]]'': WAAAAAAALLLLLLTTTTTT!!!! WAAAAAAAALLLLLLLTTTTT!!!! WWAAAAAALLLLLTTTTT!!!! That storyline of Walt's kidnapping dragged....
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** [http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Jackface "Jackface."]
** This from the episode "Dr. Linus":
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** Another Hurley line from the episode "LAX":
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*** Thanks, Hurley. That wasn't obvious at all.
** Also from "LAX," there's Dogen's quip:
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*** Dogen is a rich source of Narm, given his tendency to deliver everything in the most absurd way possible.
** A lot of police officers lol'd at Jack asking Ana Lucia how long it would take to build an army. Cops =/= Generals.
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** Desmond X {{spoiler|running over Locke X with his car and driving away. And then, several episodes later, he goes back and tries it AGAIN, only pausing long enough to beat Ben X into enlightenment.}}
** When Kate is telling her husband why they can never be together:
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** "We have to go back, Kate! WE HAVE TO GO BACK!"
** A Latin-American VA-induced one is Locke's voice in the Mexican Spanish dub. He can't be taken seriosuly once you realize that his VA is the same that did voice overs for ''Bill Cosby'' of all people!
* "Hush Little Baby", an episode of the BBC daytime medical soap ''[[Doctors]],'' had Ruth being threatened during a confrontation by an angry pedophile over the surrogate mother of his baby... ''[http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/6617/ivegotrightslg7.png with a fork]''. Yes, he was in a commercial kitchen store room, which explains why he had a fork, but it was still ridiculous.
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* One episode of ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'' had Cameron walking around wearing [[Scary Shiny Glasses]] - except that these were the absolutely ''gigantic'' shades worn by motorcycle police officers, on itty-bitty waif-child [[Summer Glau]]. The result was ''silly''. These glasses were ''so'' huge that, on the [[DVD Commentary]] for that episode, [[Summer Glau]] said they didn't even fit her head and had to be tied in place behind her ears.
** The title sequence where Summer is holding dual pistols while spinning around for no reason. :(
* ''[[Byker Grove]]'': "PJ! Noooooooooooooooo!"
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* ''[[Profiler]]'', a few episodes before the last one: The federal-law-enforcement-high-up-gone-rogue played by Gregory Itzin is having a clandestine meeting with two other people on a park bench, at night, as part of his mysterious, sinister plan. He tells them not to look at each other so they won't look suspicious. So they talk while blatantly ''not'' looking at each other, sitting up rigidly, staring straight ahead. Itzin is dressed in all in shiny black leather, from his snap-brim fedora to his pants to his shoes.
* Any of the scenes from ''[[Walker, Texas Ranger]]'' that were chosen for ''Late Night With Conan O'Brien'''s "Walker Texas Ranger Lever." The one that comes most prominently to mind is the scene in which a child is standing on a ladder and the father of the child urges him to jump down to "overcome his fear," and the father ''[[Critical Research Failure|steps out of the way and lets the child fall to the ground]]''. Cue Conan feigning horrible shock and lying down on the guest couch.
** A later episode revealed a clip that they had been hesitant to use for the segment (remember the clips are all out-of-context): Haley Joel Osment arriving with Walker somewhere and just as soon as he's greeted the others, says, "Walker told me I have AIDS." End clip. The audience reaction of shock-and-awwww was such that Conan hilariously feigned guilt and stared out the "window" of the set.
** Then there's the one where Walker tastes the ground, looks up and declares, "plane crashed here".
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** With its abundance of [[Moral Dissonance]] and the utterly straight portrayal of Cordell "[[God Mode Sue]]" Walker, the series is a veritable ''goldmine'' of pure, unrefined Narm.
** One funny point, taken overall: Walker seems to bust a meth lab every other episode. You'd think criminals would have moved out of his area of influence after the first twenty or so.
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* Lots of ''[[Smallville]]'' moments apply, but one of the Narmiest has to be the next-to-last scene in the episode "Persona" when Lex decides to step outside in the rain and do some [[Primal Scream Therapy]] and cry. Yes, he'd just ordered the death of his cloned brother, but good god it was hilarious. It was meant to call back to another episode where he was younger and did the same thing. That was also narmy but, to long term fans, it made sense.
** The 7th season finale just ''had'' to have one more narmful moment. When Clark runs into the Krypton lab (don't ask how) and faces his nemesis, who is trying to kill him '''as a baby''' and who has already beat Kara into submission -- what is the first thing he says?
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*** WHAT?! Even Brainiac doesn't seem to know how to respond to Clark's first thought being Lana when he has a dagger to Baby Clark's cute tummy.
** Chloe and Jimmy's tango was either the funniest or the most painful thing ever.
** [[James Marsters]] talking in his natural accent as Brainiac. Something about his American accent is amusing, which makes every time he has a serious scene with Clark [[Narm]]-tastic.
** Season 8, episode 3, Oliver goes through being poisoned and flashes back to his days on the island where he honed his archery skills. Later, when he's angry that Clark kept knowledge from him, he accuses Clark of never having a trying situation where he had to do something to overcome it, and he shouts, "There were mosquitoes...EATING ME ALIVE!" Probably the height of unintentional hilarity of the series as a whole.
* ''The Earth Day Special'', which aired on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] in 1990, is full of Narm. It's basically nearly every pop culture icon of [[The Eighties]] delivering a [[Green Aesop]] [[Anvilicious|Anviliciously]] . Think ''[[Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue]],'' except live action and with a more agreeable message. Bonus points for [[Robin Williams]]'s [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pueuvH02APM anguished cry of "MAMA!"]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ6HKG8R488 The] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pueuvH02APM whole] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmzWd_la6Xw thing] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzmCdT8ajhk is] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK3DERdXUJ8 available] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idyJtHza4F0 on] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SQj2qSxFWY YouTube]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gfEFeCOI-k Check] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CErH29nurNc it] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7EcWSOrtzI out] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVLbfVmlEZk .]
** How about Robin Williams giving a speech as a [[Strawman Political]] advocating progress for progress' sake at an ''Earth Day event''? And he's ''cheered'' until Mother Earth comes along!
* ''[[Doctor Phil]]'': "What gives you the right to imprison your wife in the basement?!" It doesn't sound all that hilarious; but Phil delivered it rather melodramatically, and the ads for that particular episode ''repeated it endlessly''.
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* ''[[Happy Days]]'': [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73iheHjvJ3w Richie Almost Dies.]
* When ''[[Cold Case]]'' is good, it's a [[Tear Jerker]]. When it's not, it's this. One good example of Narm comes from the third season premiere, "Family," where the detectives look into the case of a high school senior who was killed at the same prom where a newborn baby -- his daughter -- was dumped in a trash can. When the mother and daughter finally reunite, what does the mom say?
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** Bukkake -- it brings the family together!
* ''[[Ghost Whisperer]]'' can be a wellspring of this. Terrible cleavage-maximizing fashion and frequent after-school special dialogue. They also often try to make a ghost scary at first by [[The Worf Effect|having it attack Melinda.]] Frequently, [[Hilarity Ensues]].
** Flashbacks to Melinda's horrible high school experience. They kept 29-year-old Jennifer Love Hewitt, but tried to make her look sixteen by giving her the worst hairdo possible. Then she would talk to ghosts in the middle of the corridor instead of, say, an empty classroom. Naturally, the other kids teased her. JLH's subsequent attempts to cry resulted in more hilarity.
* ''[[Jekyll]]'' with James Nesbitt gets increasingly Narmy as Hyde takes over.
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* ''[[Chuck]]''. Every time he decides to get anywhere with Sarah, BAM--Bryce Larkin. It's supposed to be a dramatic moment, every time. They put Matthew Bomer's name in the opening credits, guaranteeing that either we get a flashback episode or he's gonna appear in the end. It's usually the latter. No surprise.
* ''[[24|Twenty Four]]''. twice during day 4, the son of the Secretary of State gets brought into CTU under suspicion of working with the terrorists. Each time, he cries and whines to most hilariously Narmy levels. "YOU CAN'T DO THIS TO ME! THIS IS ILLEGAL!" It gets even worse towards the end of the season with [[The Reveal]] that "the secret he's been holding back", which CTU has spent hours torturing him to get him to divulge, is that {{spoiler|he's bisexual.}}
** {{spoiler|Wayne Palmer's}} cerebral hemorrhage in series 6 is quite narmish to some.
** Visual Narm, Hector Salazar [http://i606.photobucket.com/albums/tt149/johanley/iamhector.jpg before being killed by his brother Ramon]
** On Day 2, a U.S. general relevant to the plot was named Colonel Samuels... kind of difficult not to mentally fill in "Colonel Sanders."
** Jack Bauer's well-known shouting usually falls under the [[Rule of Cool]], but two moments on Day 4 stick out: his [[Big No]] when {{spoiler|Habib Marwan falls to his death, which he yells up at the sky like a werewolf}} and {{spoiler|the fact that the critical nuclear device was called "the nuclear football." Maybe this is [[Truth in Television]] - regardless, hearing Jack violently demand "WHERE IS THE FOOTBALL?" is freaking hilarious.}}
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* In a TV Series about ''[[Odyssey|The Odyssey]]'', one of the main characters, before committing suicide because of one of Odysseus' men, spins around screaming "NO!!!"
** Armand Assante as Odysseus himself.
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** Also, when Penelope tries to stop Odysseus' mother from drowning herself, she gives a Narmtastic [[Big No]] complete with melodramatic hand movements.
* The [[Patrick Stewart]] TV movie ''Safe House,'' when his ex-DIA character Mace meets his live-in maid/caretaker Andi (played by Kimberly Williams-Paisley), this conversation takes place:
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** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjpObUPEJpg "YOU MOTHERFUCKERS ARE GONNA KILL ALL MY LILIES!"]
** Especially narmy is the gun is loaded with bullets which don't pierce the water.
* [[Deus Angst Machina|Excessive angst]] and unsubtle tearjerking can create [[Narm]] (we laugh so that we do not cry), and so there's a lot of inappropriate laughing when watching ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]''. The Most Pathetic Christmas Ever (tm) does it for some. The ending of "Heart" is another: It's [[Old Yeller]], but with cleavage!
** In the episode "Fallen Idol," a man was in his house, late at night. He just sent the maid home for the evening, and he hears something behind him. He turns around, gasps in horror and says "It's you!? You're supposed to be dead!" The ghost? ABRAHAM LINCOLN! With the most narmish expression of unbridled rage on his face, too.
** The entire fifth season finale. Especially that moment where {{spoiler|Dean puts on 'Rock of Ages' by Def Leppard to break up the non-fight between Michael and Lucifer}}. It's especially funny because {{spoiler|he trundles up in the Impala so slowly!}}
** In the season 4 episode "When The Levee Breaks," there is a scene where Sam tells Dean to say what he's thinking (that Sam is a monster). He hisses, "Say it!", reminiscent the narmful scene in ''Twilight'' in which Edward says the same. Credit is given to Supernatural, though; after that line, the scene ends in one of the saddest ways up to that point: {{spoiler|Sam walking out on Dean voluntarily, leaving him alone and crying on the floor}}.
** Season 6's opening episode "Exile on Main Street": the scene where Dean is lying on a bed while hallucinating that Azazel kills Lisa and feeds Ben demon-blood. Dean's desperate cries and sweaty face, the wobbly camera effect, and Lisa's "it's all your fault" are what really sell the hokeyness.
** Boss Leviathan Dick Roman's own personal form of [[You Have Failed Me...]], "Bibbing". It ''should'' be horrifying, he's essentially forcing his underlings to devour themselves. However, "bib" is just such a [[Inherently Funny Words|stupid word]] that it immediately kills the intensity any scene it's uttered in. It doesn't help that the first time we see him do it to someone, he has his secretary dress them up with a handkerchief first.
** The leviathans in general tend to be pretty narmy. They don't seem to be able to go a single scene without mentioning that they eat people. Their big plan is to make humans lazy and fat. And then there's all the jokes about their leader being named Dick...
* In ''[[The X-Files]]'', the eighth season episode where Mulder finally comes back but seems to be dead ends with what should be an incredibly brutal scene of Scully collapsing to her knees and giving a [[Big No]], with Gillian Anderson demonstrating that she's one of a diminishing number of actors who can pull it off. Except, before that, the script makes her shout "This is not happening!" because a guy at the beginning of the episode said it, and it's the title of the episode, so it means...something. It just comes off as utterly [[Out of Character]]. Though there are some fans who believe that line works, and it's the "Noooooo!" that doesn't.
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* National Geographic's ''[[Fight Science]]'' -- the little monologues at the end of each segment involving the "winning" martial artist trying to sound tough while shadow-boxing, getting out of breath as they monologued.
* [[Discovery Channel]]'s "Challenge of the Fire Beasts". Especially its opening narration. To wit:
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* ''[[The Secret Life of the American Teenager]]''. There are numerous examples, but one of special note:
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** Every single episode contains some elements of narm.
* Singapore's early attempts at English-language drama were considerably marred, and even put on hold for nearly a decade, all thanks to one narm-tastic line in the soap-opera-esque series [[Masters Of The Sea]]. The premise holds together well on its own - rival shipping companies with all their dark dealings and hidden secrets make up the plot - but then the dominative matriarch responsible for much of this ill will (making her the [[Big Bad]] by default) relates to her successors her basic strategy:
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* [[The BBC]] show ''[[Being Human (UK)]]'' has a main character who's a werewolf. We see him change into a werewolf several times, with the occasional flash of his naked body mutating and writhing to the sounds of bloodcurdling screams and crunching bones. At the end of this fantastically gritty transformation... we get a guy in a bad werewolf suit.
* [[Ashlee Simpson]]'s attempt at lip syncing through her ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' performance being ruined when they played the wrong song was funny. That she reacted by doing a "hoedown" and then wandering offstage as the band continued to play? Hilarious.
* ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]'' is usually campy enough to avoid this trope, but it occurs in a few episodes where it takes itself too seriously. The sixth season episode "The Haunting of Amphipolous" in particular is pretty much made of narm.
** Also the series finale:
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** ''"I'm Livia!!!"''. [[The Scrappy|Sure you are, dear]].
* ''[[Kamen Rider]]'' franchise:
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** Frank and Jane's {{spoiler|suicide}} at the end of the Season 2 finale. Surely ''everyone'' knew [[Special Effects Failure|that was fake]].
** In "Sex, Birth, Death", the team interview a troubled teen named Nathan Harris about local murders of prostitutes. Nathan insists that he didn't kill them, but admits that he felt a desire to. In interrogation, this happens:
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** It makes perfect sense in context for him to say this, because he wants to get across the idea that he's turned on not by thoughts of having sex with women, but thoughts of killing them, and that really scares him, but the delivery makes it sound like he thought that fantasising about killing them is ''better'' than fantasising about having sex with them.
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** It possibly becomes even funnier if you realize that this is the ''second'' episode of ''Monk'' in which the killer has dressed up as Santa. What ''is'' it with San Francisco's murderers and Santa?
* The opening scene in one episode of ''[[Hill Street Blues]]'' contains vintage Narm. A man is being booked at the police station and his wife follows him in, livid at the trouble he's gotten into. He protests his innocence, but she's not buying it. She shouts this:
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** She continues to scream "Lester Goober!" about a dozen times as he becomes increasingly angry. He lunges at her, and she grabs a cop's gun from a nearby desk and shoots him to death. This scene was unintentionally hilarious because of the name "Lester Goober."
* In one episode of ''[[Grey's Anatomy|Greys Anatomy]]'', [[Fan Nickname|McDreamy]] lost it and got himself into a [[Mexican Standoff]]. In the OR. With ''scalpels''. It was hilariously funny.
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** Also, several narmy moments in "Grey's" happen before Meredith and Derek's romp at the "Prom," while they're arguing. First, Meredith breaks into a speech about not being all right and presses "I am not. Alright" in a confusingly British accent. Then there's [[Fan Nickname|McDreamy]]'s acidic and almost scary "YOU THINK I WANNA LOOK AT YOU????"
* [[7th Heaven|"Thank you, Staff Sergeant Dwight J. Morgan."]]
** One could make a drinking game out of the narmy moments in ''[[7th Heaven]]''
* The very end of the Season 5 finale of ''[[Medium]]''. There's a {{spoiler|Not [[Really Dead Montage]] of all the times Allison woke up from her [[Prophetic Dreams]].}}
** There's an opening scene that's Narmful in a joke with a punchline sort of way. A man calls a woman's house, asking for a Naomi he met at the bar because he was given that number, and the woman assumes it was a man simply given the wrong number by an uninterested woman. The man keeps calling, and the woman slowly becomes increasingly annoyed until she notices that her dog is dead. When the man mentions the dead dog, her annoyance quickly turns to fear, realizing that he's right there. Suddenly he grabs her and stuffs her in the closet. The punchline? Naomi was dead in the closet all along!
* ''[[One Tree Hill]]'' on [[The CW]] was already a crappy, Narm filled show [like most of what is on [[The CW]]], but watching [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzPDEirVTZk A DOG EAT A MAN'S HEART TRANSPLANT] is so high up on the Narm-o-meter that you just can't help but laugh at how bad it is.
** See, ''this'' is what happens when a serious show decides to plagiarize ''[[Rat Race]]''.
* ''[[Kyle XY]]'': In one episode, as he and Jessi are exploring a cabin in the woods, Kyle exclaims, "Is that a ''closet''?" as though a closet is a highly unusual thing to find in a house. It's not so much the line itself but the way he said it that made it Narm. (And that says a lot about the way he said that line.)
* ''[[Sea Change]]'': Two scenes, one sad, the other serious, both from the episode 'Looking Forward to the Past'.
** The sad one is when Laura, who is failing to make decent lemon butter, follows the recipe for lemon butter in the cookbook of her ex-boyfriend (who left at the start of the season). Later, Miranda (her daughter) finds her sitting on the floor crying. Naturally, she's concerned. When she asks what's wrong, Laura looks up with teary eyes and a red face and utters a hilarious and Narmish line:
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** The serious one is when, after Angus' ex-girlfriend returns and informs him that she left because she was pregnant and she terminated the baby, Karen (his current girlfriend) convinces him to tell her what's wrong. The next bit has Laura opening the door to find Karen screaming at Angus, "Pregnant? You got another woman pregnant?"
* In the [[NBC]] miniseries ''Meteor'', there is a scene where Dr. Chetwyn (portrayed by Jason Alexander) is angry and stressed out over the situation he's in, and snaps at the people around him. While this was meant to be a serious scene, Dr. Chetwyn yells and looks up into the air the ''exact'' same way [[Seinfeld|George Costanza]] would have, which ruins the moment.
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** The [[You Fail Physics Forever|electromagnetic field radiated by the star "fragment"]] causes things to start FLOATING. Highlights are a guy and his kid grabbing onto a swing set to avoid falling up, and a train being ''launched off the rails into the air'' in a scene strangely reminiscent of ''[[Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue]]''.
** No, not the electromagnetic field. They said "gravity fluctuations," which is even MORE ridiculous (gravity is constant to the amount of mass. Gravity can't fluctuate without [[Incredibly Lame Pun|massive]] changes in that)! Also, the scene with the ship being sucked off of the water, but the water not moving at all was pretty narmy.
* In the BBC version of ''[[Robin Hood (TV series)|Robin Hood]]'', the death of peasant girl Kate's brother was meant to be a tragic, heart-rending event, and it perhaps would have been...if it weren't for the spectacle of Kate's utterly bizarre [https://web.archive.org/web/20100819102142/http://www.robinhood2006.com/gallerys3/Series3/episode2/slides/S3E2249.html HAIR]. It's impossible to even ''concentrate'' on the scene, let alone be moved by it, when you're fixated on the fact that the actress looks like she's wearing a basket on her head. It became something of a [[
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** Then there's Tuck. The writers of the show drop the "Friar" part of his name and refer to him as "Brother" Tuck. For the record, this is historically accurate, considering there was no such clerical position as "friar" until many years after [[King Richard|King Richard's]] reign. The problem is that Brother Tuck was played by David Harewood...a black actor. So we end up with a group of white Merry Men (Djaq is already gone) who are constantly referring to the only black guy in England as a "brother." It's utterly hilarious, particularly since Harewood takes his role ''oh so very seriously''.
* ''[[True Blood]]'' has a lot of narm because it is about vampiric [[Large Ham|ham]] and [[Camp|campiric]] supernaturalism in [[The Deep South|rural Louisiana.]] Examples:
** In the second season of ''[[True Blood]]'', any time Sookie or Tara look at that awful picture of Gran. Often, sad music plays, and the actresses have a pained expression as they mourn the old lady and remember how it was back then. The problem: Some guy behind the scenes had the brilliant idea to photoshop Gran to make her look younger. Apparently, they decided that it would be best to hire an amateur who sucks at Photoshop and who probably never heard of it before coming into work. The picture looks like Gran during her first time on crack trying hard to do something that resembles a smile. The worst part is that the camera keeps zooming in on that awful picture as if they're proud of their shitty work.
** Tara's alcoholic mother, upon having coffee spiked with alcohol spilled all over her, starts sucking her clothing, yelling "It's the demon, honey! It's the demon!" It's supposed to be sad, but it's just funny... which makes it just sad again.
** Almost any time Sookie or Bill open their mouths... ''especially'' if [[Romantic Plot Tumor|they're together]]... ''especially'' if Bill's calling Sookie "SOOKAH!!!".
*** "Thyat will NOT be NYECCESSERAH!" Bill is priceless.
*** What about his love declaration to Sookie?
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** For the record, Bill is supposed to have an Old-Timey Southern Accent, in the vein of ''[[Gone with the Wind]].'' But it comes out wrong, and he sounds more like [[Looney Tunes|Foghorn Leghorn.]] Still an old-timey Southern accent, but it's lacking a certain something. His accent usually blends in, but whenever he tries a particularly heavy or oddly-worded line, you will roll your eyes.
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** There's one line from the Channel 4 trailer for the show that is amusing -- and sad if you know the show's premise.
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** [[No Yay|"GODRIC, DON'T DO IT!! PLEASE!!!! BAW BAW BAWWWWWW!!!"]]
** PIIIIIIIIIIG!!!
** There's this [http://trueblood.wikia.com/wiki/Cooter one werewolf named Cooter] who gets killed. Next episode, his girlfriend is trying to explain to her boss what happened while blubbering and sobbing. Then, all of a sudden, this immortal line:
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*** [[Beat Panel]] and then...uncontrollable laughter. Everyone else in the room during this scene deserves an award for making it through without cracking.
** The episode with her {{spoiler|Grandmother's funeral}}. The way Sookie snaps at Mrs Fortenberry for taking a pie out of the fridge is just hilarious for Anna Paquin's delivery and the fact that she uses the [[Full Name Ultimatum]] too. Also her randomly shouting "shut the fuck up!" when she's giving her speech because of everyone's thoughts. Imagine being at a funeral and someone's giving a speech but then randomly shouts at you to "shut the fuck up". Oh Sookie.
* The [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079499/ 1979 Ian McKellen version] of [[Macbeth]]. Specifically, Judi Dench as Lady Macbeth. The part in the banquet scene where Macbeth has gone (in this version) berzerk at the sight of Banquo's ghost, and she tells the other guests to leave? [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu-rE6Nc0QI She practically ''shrieks'' the line.] Nooo, nothing suspicious happening at ''all''...
** [[Ian McKellen]] going crazypants oscillates so quickly between genuinely good acting and [[Chewing the Scenery|spittle-flecked]] Narm, your [[Mood Whiplash|neck starts to ache]] after a while...
** This is the same version where MacDuff's son gets tossed around like a hot potato before finally being skewered on a sword and shrieking, "They have killed me, Mother! [[Monty Python and
** The Australian Macbeth is the funniest. The witches hiss!
* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'': in the episode "Lifeboat," it was pretty Narmish [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9yQNIpilqE#t=6m when Daniel let out a bloodcurdling scream when he saw Teal'c.] It was probably the hand-gesture and the face.
** In "Evolution pt2," [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg8hy3UumO8#t=8m26s the kidnapper says, "If you value the life of your friend, you will tell me what I want to KNOW!"] The delivery was pretty funny, for some reason.
** In "Homecoming," Jonas Quinn's finger gets zapped by a force field, leading to this dialogue:
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*** That was probably intentional, though it technically was a "Narm."
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* Watching ''[[Harry Potter (film)|Goblet of Fire]]'' on [[ABC Family]] in December. Just try watching the depressing ending and seeing CGI Santa Claus on the bottom of the screen reminding you that it's 25 Days of Christmas.
* Many years ago, [[VH-1]] ran a ''Behind the Music'' episode on the [[Village People]]. At one point, the narrator intoned, in the kind of completely serious voice usually reserved for car crashes or drug overdoses, "Some people began to suspect there were homosexual undercurrents to their songs." [[Sarcasm Mode|WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!]]
* ''[[Sanctuary (TV series)|Sanctuary]]'' in the episode "Kali, Part II" Will attempted to contact a god-like abnormal. It went something like this:
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* ''[[Yo Gabba Gabba!]]'' manages to have this. Normally it would be overlooked because it is a show for preschoolers. But in the episode "Careful," Plex is temporarily shut down because he was hit by a ''snowball'' by Muno. Everyone else proceeds to sing about not throwing things at friends. Was there ice in that snowball, or is ''[[Yo Gabba Gabba!]]'' trying to eliminate snowball fights?
* ''[[Dollhouse]]'': "Omega, why did you hit me with a pipe?"
* There was a microwave instructional video played in some home economics classes that showed a girl putting a donut in a microwave. After she pressed the start button, the video then showed footage of the atomic bomb exploding.
* A local TV station in Columbus, Ohio once aired a negative review of the film 1941, given by a strait-laced newscaster. She tried to be indignant as she asked, "What is so funny about the inability to make a bowel movement?" but came off as unintentionally hilarious.
* Mentally-ill Selwyn in ''Moses Jones'' explains that some thugs, who he refers to as demons, "Ironed him! With a... [long pause]... iron!" It's probably the accent.
* ''[[Blake's
* From ''[[Farscape]]'': when Crichton discovers the reason why Zhaan was an imprisoned convict, he decides to shout the information back at her. Twice. "You '''killed''' the man you were having '''sex''' with!" The line is bad enough, but the way he stresses the words makes it sound as though he considers having sex with someone is just as horrific as killing them afterwards.
** A lot of Ben Browder's line deliveries can count as this.
** Each time a cast member yelled "STARBURST!" to send one of the leviathans into overdrive was rather painful considering Starbursts are a brand of candy. After a while, it's hard not to imagine the characters demanding a lollipop or a gummy fruit whenever they shout the word.
* In the new miniseries of [[Terry Pratchett|Terry Pratchett's]] ''[[
** Moist reacts to a vision where he apparently personally drove Adora Belle Dearheart smoking with the same terror as he did from learning that he unintentionally drove people, including her father to suicide. OK, smoking is bad, but the impact is rather wasted after the previous visions. It may go better with the [[Rule of Symbolism]], though, for Adora's smoking is obviously symbolic.
** In contrast to the character's subtle menace in the book, Mr. Gryle the banshee spends most of his screen-time screaming and ranting in the hammiest possible way. It doesn't help that his costume looks like he just fixed some wings to a suit. And then he's blown up by a swarm of burning letters, of all the damn things.
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*** And please don't miss the part where Tubbs had formed a relationship of sorts with said daughter, which was obviously rather marred by his participation in her father's death--so the ending scenes are scored with "What's Love Got To Do With It?" Awesome. There should be a category for Musical Narm.
* In the vampire story arc of ''[[Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation|Ninja Turtles the Next Mutation]]'', we get this little exchange.
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** Let's get this straight: those vampire kids know enough about human technology to know what tanning salons are, yet they still refer to the Sun by an archaic and mystical-sounding name?
* An episode of ''[[One Life to Live]]'' had a couple driving off to get married. They had been planning this for several weeks, complete with numerous anvils about how happy and in love they were and the wonderful life they were going to have together. . .only for her to unbuckle her seat belt when she dropped the box containing their wedding rings. A few seconds later, the car to crash into the river.
* The 2010 [[
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* The ''[[Scrubs]]'' episode "My Cabbage" has, early on, an explanation of germs spreading showing with a green glow. OK, it's a little silly, but it's used silly at first anyways, so it's OK. Then at the end, as the screw-up intern is leaving and touches a patient leaving the hospital, they bring it back for drama. Which would still be fine. Then the patient touches her face and looks so much like an grandmother version of The Hulk that the drama just turns into full-on hilarity.
** There is a moment in Season 9 that is potentially Narm if you know the series far too well. It's a regular dramatic moment, with Turk trying to stop a patient from dying. The problem is the music. It's the same music they used for when JD and Turk were practicing their slow-motion running way back in Season 4.
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' fans just love to mock the scene in the season one finale when Angel tells Xander that he can't perform CPR on Buffy because, being a vampire, he has no breath. Except that they had been running down a tunnel for a while, and David Boreanez is audibly winded as he says the line.
** Dark!Willow's "bored now". It was supposed to be horrifying and a reminder of the awesome creepiness that was Vampire Willow. With Miss Hannigan playing Dark!Willow like she was sleepwalking, it didn't really have the intended effect.
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** Spike's [[Dull Surprise|non-reaction]] to Dru siring him in "Fool for Love".
** "I, Robot. You Jane."
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** The way Willow [[Gangsta Style|brandishes the gun]] in "The Killer Inside Me" is distracting.
* Much like the above mentioned ''[[Are You Afraid of the Dark?]]'', the old ''[[Goosebumps]]'' TV series was pretty narmfull. [[Up to Eleven|Even more so]] than the books, due to overenthusiastic acting on the young actors' parts, and some ''really'' cheesy effects.
* ''[[Full House]]'' has incredible amounts of Narm. [[Tastes Like Diabetes|If there has ever been a moment in it that actually moved you, you must have a strong stomach. Danny Tanner would aggravate any normal child for his patronizing (and slightly creepy) 1-minute speeches that seem to solve everything, but somehow the Tanner children flew into his arms every time.]]
** Got to put in a special mention on this one. In a [[Very Special Episode]] about child abuse, there is a boy in Stephanie's class who keeps showing up to school covered in bruises. When questioned, he says he "[[Cut Himself Shaving|fell down some stairs]]". He finally confesses the truth to Stephanie:
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* All of the ads for ''[[NBC]]'s'' ''[[The Event]]''.
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** The entire show IS narm. There's even the beginnings of an [[Mystery Science Theater 3000]] style following of people who watch The Event just to laugh at it.
** Made even narm-ier for anyone who's ever watched the [[After the End|post-apocalyptic]] Quiz Broadcast sketches from [[That Mitchell and Webb Look]], which repeatedly and vaguely refer to "The Event".
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* ''[[Tipping the Velvet]]'' - the BBC adaptation... Oh god, SO MUCH NARM.There's nothing wrong with the acting, but the BBC for some reason got very overexcited and tried to fill what was essentially a period drama with special effects. This includes slowmo, fastmo, PEOPLE RANDOMLY TURNING NEGATIVE WHEN KISSING EACH OTHER...
** Not to mention [[Big No|Nan's big "NOOOOOOOOOO"]] when she walks in to find {{spoiler|Kitty and Walter having just had sex}}
** The opening credits with the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63WWfKAPH3I&feature=related SLOWMO OYSTERS FALLING FROM THE SKYYYYYYY]
** Nan's somewhat stupid narration. Yes I understand they had to simplify the story to make it easier to understand for people who hadn't read the book, but the narration did make her sound hopelessly naive and a bit on the wrong side of thick
** The "there's a rose..in my heart...for youuuuuuu." Didn't happen quite like this in the book. The moment was so filled with narm (slowmo spinning rose!) that [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdNitiDM9GE when French and Saunders parodied it they barely had to change anything.]
* The fight scene between Marc Antony and a teenage Octavian on ''[[Rome]]'' was quite hilarious, although it certainly wasn't intended as such.
* ''[[Las Vegas]]'': the fifth season episode "My Uncle's a Gas" ended with a bunch of thieves releasing some sort of toxic gas into the casino, causing everyone to panic and pass out. Our hero, Danny, attempts to single-handedly bring down the bad guys, but passes out before he can...in slow-motion...to the mournful strains of Gary Jules' "Mad World." It's an aggressively silly show anyway, but this was just spectacular.
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** One of the victims in a first-season episode hallucinates being attacked by a swarm of razor-edged ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t5RLpowQQU butterflies.]'' It's a bizarre notion, even for ''[[Fringe]]'', but the kicker is when the butterflies [[Doomy Dooms of Doom|of DOOM]] make him leap out a twentieth-story window in [[Slow Motion Fall|slow motion]], with [[Soundtrack Dissonance|oddly]] [[Crowning Music of Awesome|gorgeous music]] playing in the background. The whole thing is just so damn ''weird'' you don't know whether to laugh or be horrified anyway.
* ''[[LazyTown]]'': YAR HAR FIDDLE DEE DEE! [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AzpByR3MvI YOU ARE A PIRATE!]
** Heck, ''all'' of ''[[LazyTown]]''.
*** It's worth saying that most fans [[Periphery Demographic|above the age of nine or so]] consider the [[Narm]] [[Narm Charm|to be part of what makes the show so much fun.]]
* ''[[Pretty Little Liars]]'' on [[ABC Family]].
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** Also, the following exchange, after Ezra discovers the writing on his windshield. Eerie music plays and Narm ensues:
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'''Ezra''' (highly alarmed tone): [[Captain Obvious|Aria, it means somebody saw us!]] }}
* ''Stolen Voices, Buried Secrets'' is a true crime show on the cable channel Investigation Discovery. Murder cases, narrated in the (entirely fictional) voices of the murder victims. Exactly '''how''' did they fail to notice just how narmy this would be!?
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* In ''[[
* There is no doubt [[Gackt]] was having ''a lot'' of fun playing the role of a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6dwJaSDcYI cannibalistic serial killer] in the TV series ''Mr. Brain''.
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* ''[[Glee]]'' has a few scenes like this:
** Quinn's introduction in The Purple Piano project comes wiith her turning completely goth with pink hair, nose ring, and a Ryan Seacrest tattoo on her back. It is quite hilariously cringe worthy, just like a good majority of this show.
** One of the most cringe-making examples was during the ''Defying Gravity'' sing-off between Rachel and Kurt. When Kurt misses the high note towards the end of the song, he makes ''such'' a weird, helium-high, almost robotical ''Mal-function!!'' sound that all inherent tragedy/sympathy in the scene is lost. It's more like "Woah, that was f*cking weird!", than "Aw, bless his heart." That coupled with his shiny, disappointed-post-ejaculation-face compounds the effect.
** An unintentional one during Duets, although YMMV: When Artie is calling Brittany out on her using him for his voice and for not realising how important losing his virginity was for him, he leaves her in the hallway and wheels away...at which point it can be seen his back wheels had ''flashing rainbow lights.'' It completely ruined the scene, since they most definitely weren't there before this scene. Also, the awkward moment when Brittany had to lift him out of his chair and carry him bridal-style to the bed so they could have sex. I know it was necessary, but she looked just a little bit silly.
** Kurt's coming out to Mercedes in the third episode was pretty narmtastic in that his closet was [[Transparent Closet|rather see-through.]] Especially since people had been warning Mercedes earlier on in the episode to stop crushing on him because he was so obviously gay.
** Quinn's pregnant girl version of "It's A Man's Man's Man's World" is also slightly ruined by the fact that it's so painfully obvious that the pregnant dancers ''weren't actually pregnant.'' Because no girl who is ''that'' heavily pregnant can dance like that. In the same way, Bohemian Rhapsody became one huge narm when they decided to cut from Vocal Adrenaline's performance to Quinn [[Screaming Birth|giving birth.]] The whole this was so cheesy and quite frankly bizarre that it became hilarious.
** Could be that the writers knew that it was badly conceived but just didn't care; Artie's comment after the [[Married... with Children|pregnoids]] come in but before they perform is almost a [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshade]].
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** Kurt and Blaine's slow motion gay run.
** What probably should've been a touching [[Tear Jerker]] of a goodbye in the "Somewhere Only We Know" number ends up becoming hilarious due to Blaine's [[Gonk|Gonkish]] and overdone "crying" face, which looks more goofy than sad.
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** Kurt's presidential debate speech is rather heartfelt and touching until he utters a line equating gym dodgeball to modern-day stoning.
** In season one, when Finn sincerely sang "Stand by You" to {{spoiler|the ultrasound of what he was led to believe was his and Quinn's baby}}. Then his mom comes in to see what he's doing, and [[Mood Whiplash|the scene does a 180-degree turn]].
* ''[[
* So does ''[[Victorious]]''. An example being "Beck's Big Break", when the obnoxious lead star of a movie, Melinda Murray, is quarreling with Tori who is trying to convince her to let Beck back on the film, she yells "GET OUT!", which was the cue of one of the cast members, who then shoots a crossbow that ''goes through Melinda's hand''. It shouldn't ''be'' funny, but given how much the rest of the cast hated her, it turns out to be.
** "Who Did It To Trina?": Jade's side of the story has Tori [[Took a Level
* The latin-American children's show ''Nubeluz'' was chock-full of [[Narm|Narmy]] songs. Not only the songs were almost idiotically childish (as in, it's a kid's show, but ''there are still some limits''), but one of the two female hosts seen pouting like a little girl at ''every single thing''. The worst case is [[Scare'Em Straight|the song about]] [[Toxic Friend Influence|boundaries and risks]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkocghJnidc "Cuidado"] ("be careful!"): the lines supposed to teach kids [[An Aesop]] about not letting strangers touch them inappropriately are ruined because, instead of making the girl look plucky and determined to not let others walk over her, she looks so very ''whiny'' and cross-eyed. Way to ruin the lesson, lady.
* From ''[[Degrassi]]'':
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** "YOU TOLD ME TO PLAY '''''BASKETBALL!!!!!!'''''"
** "My dad used to yell at me!"
** Clare's entire [[Melodrama|"DID YOU EVER LOVE ME AT ALL!?"]] speech to Eli in ''Lovegame'', [[Stock Phrases|on]] [[Cliché Storm|so]] [[It's All About Me|many]] [[Took a Level
*** And before that, there was Eli's meltdown in ''Drop the World'': "YOU RIPPED MY HEART OUT!"
** After Riley consults a man on how to "cure" his homosexuality, he tells Fiona about it at school. Fiona responds negatively, and says something along the lines of "Riley, you can't cure being gay" Riley in turn SHOUTS back with "TOO BAD YOU CAN'T CURE BITCH!".
* ''[[What Would You Do]]'' doesn't always have the most amazing acting. For instance, the test on "mothers forcing their daughters to get their stomach stapled" featured the actor playing the daughter, who delivered the ridiculous line "'''WURY ARE YOU ASHAMED OF ME!? UUUUUURRR HURR HHURR HURR HURR!!'''"
* ''[[Oz]]'' features some classic "playing a retarded person" acting from Scott William Winters as Cyril O'Reily, which is sometimes played for laughs (with his childlike voice), but at other points, you're supposed to take it seriously. Any scene where he goes berserk and starts flailing around like a crazed loon tends to have a bit of Narm attached to it.
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*** My favorite is when Ghost (who is completely silent in the books) is trying to warn Jon Snow that the wights are up and about. The "wolf's" whining and scratching at the door was so dog-like that I half expected Jon to ask, [[Lassie (TV series)|"What is it, girl?]] [[Timmy in a Well|Did Rickon fall down the well again??"]]
** YMMV, but the ''insane'' level of [[Fan Service]] becomes kind of funny after a while. The sheer non-stop boobage crosses over from sexy to hilarious round about the dozenth time naked chicks are just sort of... there.. in the scene.
** In one [[Fan Service]] scene, [[Smug Snake|Theon]] is having sex with [[Canon Immigrant|Ros]]. Alfie Allen puts ''a lot'' of effort into his [[Immodest Orgasm]]. It looks like he has had twelve-thousands volts put through him from the way he jerks around in ecstasy, and he bites his lower lip, which, combined with his little beard, makes him look like an electrocuted rat.
** During Syrio Forel's [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] one of the Lannister men, straight out of [[Mook]] acting school, calls him a "foreign bastard", delivered with a very thick [[Evil Brit]] accent.
* Hudson's speech to Mrs Bridges in the ''[[Upstairs, Downstairs]]'' episode where he becomes infatuated with Lily the housemaid. With Hudson's gloomy demeanour it's entirely in character. However, it comes across as if they wanted to make him look like a cape-swirling villain crowing about his crime and is rather cringeworthy when you consider his position and beliefs about personal dignity. Because of her age it also makes him look perverted and a bit of a [[Dirty Old Man]]. The series is filmed in an old-fashioned, teleplay style and the acting is rather wooden to modern audiences, but this is far and away the most Narmful scene they ever came up with because the acting style can't handle the subtleties of Hudson's feelings for Lily.
* The ABC Family movie ''Cyberbully''. The focus of the film is a nasty rumor that was started by a girl using a [[Ripped from the Headlines|fake internet profile to masquerade as cute boy.]] The main character [[Genre Blind|falls for this]] and then attempts to kill herself, but can't get the child safety cap off before her friend arrives to stop her. The solution to this problem is apparently getting the government to pass legislation to ban trolling minors on the internet. Yes, [[Nineteen Eighty-Four|That was the actual solution to the movie]].
* The "Boys Beware" TV PSA from the 50's on the EVILS OF THE GAY! (Seen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijbovskICjk here]). See [[That Guy With The Glasses|Doug Walker's]] reaction [http://www.criticswatch.com/reviews/that-guy-riffs-boys-beware here].
* In episode 14 of ''[[Choujin Sentai Jetman]]'', Kaori tells Ryu that no matter how he may feel about her, she will always love him. Gai, who is in love with Kaori, responds to this by furiously driving off on his motorcycle, crashing it, and then sobbing his eyes out as he demands to know why he can't be the one in Kaori's heart. A bit too melodramatic to really work.
* The Hallmark miniseries of [[Classical Mythology|Jason and the Argonauts]]. The scariness of [[Evil Uncle|Pelias]] is dimineshed as soon as Dennis Hopper takes his helmet off, wearing what can best be described as a Raggedy Ann [http://www.cinemotions.com/data/films/0227/89/2/photo-Jason-et-les-Argonautes-Jason-and-the-Argonauts-2000-4.jpg wig]{{Dead link}}. And that's before we get to the [[Dull Surprise|performance]] of the main actor. The Argo is less wooden than he is.
* On ''[[Pan Am]]'', Kate is frustrated with her sister Laura seemingly still acting like a child. When Laura refuses to admit it, she shouts "You're wearing bunny slippers! YOU'RE WEARING BUNNY SLIPPERS!" The delivery just makes it sound like she considers this an act akin to robbing a bank or something. Not helping is Laura's response of "I like them!"
* Mexican telenovela ''La Rosa de Guadalupe'' may be the best example of this trope. The series features a single-episode story dealing with contemporary teen issues (and a few episodes dealing with an [[Adult Fear]] every now and then), ranging from drugs usage to "''My mother uses Facebook''". The point of it is being a "modern take" of old telenovelas similar to this one, as at the plots of the episodes are always resolved due to the characters' commitment to the ''Holy Virgin of Guadalupe''. Needless to say, in a typical telenovela-fashion, incredibly cheesy acting is to be expected, unrealistic portrayals of a lot of groups are shown, scriptwriting seems to be nonexistant, and the moral manipulation is just ''freaking'' evident. It has unfortunately achieved a quite strong following for the series ''per se'', but still for half the audience it's their favorite ''comedy'' show (there was an episode addressing cosplay and the anime subculture, with... [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCOfA13Qi6w&feature=related disastrous results]). [https://web.archive.org/web/20150225150258/http://www.anatoleserial.net/blog/archives/238 This blog entry sums it up nicely].
* ''[[Hoarders]]'' is loaded with Narm, but one example stands out: "Darth Vader Mr. Potato Head! What is wrong with you people?"
* An Australian telemovie, ''Panic At Rock Island'', is a gold mine for unintentional hilarity.
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* [[Once Upon a Time]] is generally well-written and well-acted, but when Grumpy tells Snow not to take the potion that will erase her memories of the Prince, his line of "Pain makes me who I am! It makes me...Grumpy!" was groan-worthy and completely ruined all of the drama in that scene.
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