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** 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
{{quote| [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bflYjF90t7c "I'm So Excited!] [[That Makes Me Feel Angry|I'm so Excited!]] [[Very Special Episode|I'm so...scared..."]]}}
* Thumbs up for ''[[Dark Angel]]'':
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*** Example: [[Special Guest]] Martin Short attempting to growl out "Best sex I ever ''had!''" Made worse because his character was a fake psychic. (This example not spoilered because, frankly, [[Narrowed It Down to The Guy I Recognize|why else would Martin Short be on]] ''Law And Order''?)
** "Your husband cheated on you...[[Squick|with his own daughter]]".
** 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
** Dizzer, a [[Card
{{quote| "My baby mamas are just glad their babies look like me."}}
** "Is there any reason you can think of that they sodomized your husband with a banana?"
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** Every bit of "Bedtime" after the first 15 minutes. It's like the writers had a contest going to see how much narm they could cram into a single episode.
* ''[[Law and Order Criminal Intent]]'', "The Good Child". A murderer and his murderous mistress are betrayed by the mistress's kleptomania, as she stole an eggcup from the murder scene. The episode ends with the murderer being dragged away by the police, screaming "Eggcup!" over and over again.
** 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
*** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQm30mZZHwU Colbert's performance] is Narmful as well.
{{quote| "BECAUSE I'M BRILLIANT AT WHAT I DO!"}}
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{{quote| "THE WOMEN!!"}}
** [[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
** Deanna sensing "great joy and gratitude" in the pilot episode.
*** Actually, most scenes where Deanna uses her empathic ability fall into this category, particularly in the early seasons.
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** From Season 4:
{{quote| "They killed my cat!"}}
** Season 4 also gives us an argument where two characters attempt a big [[Cluster F
** All of this is trumped by Starbuck and Anders' [[Slap Slap Kiss]] scene in "Ties That Bind":
{{quote| "I don't want to fight, Sam. I want to frak. You don't get it, do you? I'm not the same girl you married. All I want to do right now is frak. Really frak, like it's the end of the world and nothing else matters. So come on, Sam. Make me feel something. I dare you."}}
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{{quote| "She filled me in pretty good, you serial killin' scum of the earth! ...I should kill you right now! I'd be a bona fide hero!"}}
*** Elle and Sylar are narm-y in that scene, too.
*** There are [[What Do You Mean
*** 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?"
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** Made all the Narmier because the actress playing the mother, Kelly Lynch, has done full frontal nudity in other films.
** You could just read about it [http://www.somethingawful.com/d/movie-reviews/cyber-seduction-his.php here].
** The [[So Bad
* 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
* 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 [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.
{{quote| ''Mmmmm-whatcha-saaaay...''}}
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'''"Jason"''': Aw man! Can he do that?<br />
'''Zordon''': It's going to try. }}
** 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
* On the old soap opera ''[[First Love]]'', a cliffhanger episode was supposed to end with Rosemary Priz's character telling Patrica Barry's character that "Chris cracked up his plane." She misread it as "Chris ''crapped'' up his plane." Even Barry laughed. On camera.
* ''[[Waking the Dead]]''. Peter Boyd's shouting.
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** In another season eight episode, there's a flashback that shows Mulder telling Scully that she the reason she can't have children is because her ova were removed and are being stored in a government warehouse. This scene was appropriately heart breaking until Scully responded with, "You ''found'' them?" The narm had nothing to do with melodrama--Gillian Anderson executed the line wonderfully. It was just that it sounded hilarious in context.
** Donnie Pfaster's (luckily very short) "metamorphosis" in the otherwise excellent episode "Irresistible".
* The last part of the Belgian programme ''man bijt hond has amateur stage players try playing a scene from a feuilleton. This is always outrageously funny because the actors are hamming it up every scene and don't sound natural at all. It's [[So Bad
* ''[[Bonekickers]]''. Lines such as 'I have an Etruscan spear and I'm not afraid to use it!' from supposedly serious archaeologists.
* 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.
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{{quote| "Why don't you tell them about the night you broke parole with Lester Goober?"}}
** 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 ''[[
{{quote| Put down the scalpel, Derek.<br />
No, ''you'' put down the scalpel! }}
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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)|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 [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 [[Me Me]] in the fandom, earning Kate the name [[Fan Nickname|"Braid-Face."]] [[Wall Banger (Darth Wiki)|Not that concentration would have helped]] [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|in this case.]]
{{quote| ''He keeled mah bruthah!''}}
** 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''.
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** Having a United States Senator played by the actor who played Shooter McGavin in ''[[Happy Gilmore]]'' was Narmish.
** In the episode "Sabotage," Camile's frenzied "YOU WERE GONE FOR HOURS!" Classic narm.
* In the teen [[Soap Opera]] "[[Rebelde]]", there's an episode where Teo, the [[Give Geeks a Chance|heroic nerd]], and Giovanni, the [[What an Idiot!|complete moron]], are trapped in a burning cellar. They discover a [[Air Vent Passageway|passage]] leading out, but for some reason, Teo can't escape, so Giovanni goes through it and promises to look for help. Giovanni spends quite some time walking around the roofs and looking for a way to get back to ground level. The situation is very serious as Teo is in real danger, but somehow the producers missed the point that absolutely everything Giovanni has done throughout the series has been for [[Rule of Funny|comedic purposes]] and it's not appropriate to suddenly put him on a dramatic situation. Result: Giovanni walking around the roofs for [[Arc Fatigue|a couple of episodes]] instantly becomes a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]], especially if you had missed the previous episode and you didn't know why on hell Giovanni was there.
** The fact that such a dramatic moment is one of the funniest moments of the series says something about its quality.
* A Hamas propagandist decided to tell Palestinian tv viewers a story of a dying man leaving his grandson Farfur the deed to his land, which he must protect from the evil Jews who try to take it from him by force, ([[Sarcasm Mode|because that's just what Jews do in their spare time]]), and ends up being martyred. Also, [[Captain Ersatz|Farfur is a high-pitched Mickey Mouse rip-off]]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2J3my3pOIc&feature=player_embedded Behold]
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* 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.
* ''[[
* From ''[[Farscape (TV)|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.
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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 In Jerkass|acting completely out of character]] to Trina, very angrily demanding her Cuddle-Me-Cathy doll back and saying that she would kill her. And punching Sinjinn then spitting on him. And then just before she leaves, she looks at Jade and says, "...Why can't I be pretty like you?"
* 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
* From ''[[Degrassi]]'':
** The most prominent example is Rick pushing Terri and she falls and her head hits a rock. Which can actually be as devastating as the show projects, but because [[Reality Is Unrealistic]] falls here.
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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]] [[
*** 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!".
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** 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
* 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.
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* The paranormal documentary series ''The Most Terrifying Places in America'' has plenty of cheesy puns and horror-movie cliché lines in its relentlessly hammy narration. But one particularly standout narm line came from the fifth incarnation while introducing a haunted library: "Even the Dewey Decimal system can't help you now!"
* ''[[Primeval]]'' has a scene where protagonist Matt fights an aboreal dinosaur. Problem is that it looks like he is waving his knife at nothing (they didn't have the both of them in the same shot, which makes things worse).
* For those who don't believe in doomsday paranoia, shows like ''Doomsday Preppers'' and ''Doomsday Bunkers'' are definitely [[So Bad
* [[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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