History Main / AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents

They always have [[OldShame a thousand-and-one stories about things their unfortunate offspring did when they were two years old]], and they're always a thousand-and-one percent certain that ''everyone'' wants to hear them. And in that respect, they're absolutely right, [[RightForTheWrongReasons just not for the reasons that they think]] -- the AlphaBitch and her ilk are just ''dying'' to hear humiliating childhood stories because they'll be able to tease the poor protagonist about them for years to come. Sometimes, childhood stories aren't even necessary: the parents' mere behavior, presence, or lifestyle are all it takes to turn a casual scene into something terribly awkward. Especially if [[SpeakingLikeTotallyTeen the parents are bent on proving how "hip" and "cool" they are]]. Older offspring whose parents are deeply embarrassing when their good friends are around just have to remember that FriendsAreChosenFamilyArent. If they're a teacher, they'll become an EmbarrassingRelativeTeacher, making things even worse.

* In her autobiography ''Fierce'', Kelly Osbourne speaks of being embarrassed by [[Music/OzzyOsbourne her father]] on numerous occasions as part of her experiences growing up. [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120505200403/http://www.monstersandcritics.com/people/news/article_1497903.php/Ozzy-Osbourne-s-thong-fury In one notable case]], Ozzy wasn't terribly amused when he found out his wife Sharon had bought then-teenaged Kelly thong underwear as a present, and then [[OverprotectiveDad proceeded to cut up the thong]]--in front of her friends.

** Mary does this to Jesus twice. First at the Finding in the Temple, second at the Wedding at Cana.

* ''VisualNovel/AceAttorney'' has [[spoiler:Apollo's adoptive father, Dhurke Sahdmadhi.]] He cheerfully talks about having pictures of a little [[spoiler:Apollo]] running around naked outside, tries reading his diary with Trucy's help, and teases his son about how him being agitated reminded him of how he used to throw tantrums as a little kid.

* In an interview, US President UsefulNotes/BarackObama stated that he and his wife Michelle had decided to weaponize this trope. They promised their daughters Sasha and Malia that if either of them ever got a tattoo, both parents would get the exact same tattoo, in the exact same place on their bodies, and would show it off at every opportunity, calling it a "family tattoo". By all accounts, the threat worked perfectly.

%% * Frank Gilbreth in ''Film/CheaperByTheDozen2003''

* Frank Gilbreth in ''Film/CheaperByTheDozen''

If the hero lets slip that he or she doesn't like their parent's behavior, then the parents tend to be hurt. Due to the RuleOfDrama (or, InformedWrongness, more accurately), [[{{MadeOutToBeAJerkass}} the situation will be contrived for maximum hurt and the hero is likely to have to spend the rest of the episode trying to make amends,]] with the whole thing ending on AnAesop with the hero learning to value the [[{{WellIntentionedExtremist}} parents that embarrass him or her in front of other people]] and the parents gaining empathy for their child. Also, [[EmbarrassingOldPhoto baby photos]], [[EmbarrassingMiddleName middle names]], and the HomemadeSweaterFromHell are a must. ParentalSexualitySquick is related but doesn't require the kid's peers to be present.

Sometimes it may not even be funny. A parent who is genuinely [[AbusiveParents screwed-up or abusive]] can go beyond 'embarrassing' and into 'humiliating' territory.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpidermanIntoTheSpiderverse:'' Jefferson Davis, after not getting a return "I love you" after dropping Miles off, ''sounds his police siren and uses the intercom to insist that Miles say "I love you" back, in front of the whole school''. Naturally, Miles' classmates mock him incessantly for this.

* ''VideoGame/EarthBound'': In literally his ''third sentence'' to the main party, Jeff's father Dr. Andonuts blurts out that his son still wets the bed sometimes.

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* Lois and Peter in ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''. Especially where Meg is concerned.
** In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS2E17HesTooSexyForHisFat He's Too Sexy for His Fat]]":
--->'''Lois:''' Will you keep your voice down? You're embarrassing him! [Chris]\\
'''Peter:''' What are you talking about? If I wanted to embarrass him, I'd do something like this. Hey, hey everybody, hey look what Chris Griffin's father, Peter Griffin's doing! ''(sucks his own nipple)''
** In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS2E12FifteenMinutesOfShame Fifteen Minutes of Shame]]", Meg tricks the family onto the Jerry Springer-like talk show.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
** ''All'' of the parents, with the possible exception of [[OnlySaneWoman Sharon]].
** [[BumblingDad Randy Marsh]] is the show's crowning example of this trope, when accounting for the other degrees of [[AdultsAreUseless uselessness of the adults]]. [[OnlySaneMan Stan]] often uses a variation of the FacePalm where he closes his eyes and pinches the bridge of his nose in response to his father's stupidity.
*** He gets drunk at every little league game and gets into fights with other dads.
*** Gets caught drunk driving, thinks alcoholism is an incurable disease until getting his 9-year-old son to drive him to a religious miracle to get cured of his alcoholism.
*** Quits his job repeatedly to chase the new dream of the week, be it a reality show gourmet cafeteria chef or a worker at Walmart.
*** Along with the other adults, sends the kids away to keep them from being abducted. When several days later and a Mongolian demolition of the city wall occurs, he thinks the kids have become Mongolians.
---> '''Stan:''' Jesus they've done some stupid crap before, but Jesus Christ.
*** Convinces the town that the town's spending has made the economy, a sentient being, angry and that the town must repent by forgoing any spending and wearing bedsheets as clothing.
*** Creates the word "timecist" to describe people who are intolerant towards the people from the future. Then, after a future person takes his job, [[HypocriticalHumor becomes the spokesman for]] [[spoiler:the big pile of men having gay sex with each other to try to un-breed the future people.]]
** [[JewishMother Sheila Broflovski]], Kyle's mother, is easily a close second. An on-and-off MoralGuardian (taken to full-blown KnightTemplar levels in TheMovie) completely oblivious to the disproportional ways she treats her son vs. the rest of the world (seeing fit to control his every behavior while letting Cartman walk all over him). Oh, and she's also from [[spoiler:[[{{Joisey}} New Jersey]].]]
** The [=McCormick=] parents joined a doomsday cult of Cthulhu for free beer and are crackheads. They also have a meth lab in an open shed in their backyard.
** Ms. Cartman is apparently a famous enough porn star to end up on the cover of Crackwhore Magazine.
** This is weaponized by the parents when they find out that [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Chinpokomon]] is brainwashing kids into becoming terrorists. They know the surest way to get their kids to stop liking Chinpokomon is to pretend to like it themselves because anything parents like is automatically uncool and embarrassing for the sole reason that parents like it.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThoseScurvyRascals'': During her visit, Shark Bait's mom proves to be this. The same is implied for Smelly Pete's mom at the end of the episode.
* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' has parents like this. On the other hand, the AlphaBitch and BigBad Dr. Drakken's mothers are like this too. The Mother's Day episode is a train wreck of social awkwardness. And does not mark the only appearance of any of the Mothers.
* Professor Wakeman humiliates Jenny in ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'' and Jenny is miserable about it until Brad tells her part of being a teenager is enduring mortifying embarrassment at the hands of their parents. At which point Jenny feels a lot better, knowing all teenagers go through it.
* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'': For one episode it was both parents tucking annoying little rhyming Post-It notes on his person that people would find and read. But for the duration of the series, except for the Father's Day episode in the last season, Jake's father was not just embarrassing by the old stories ? he had embarrassing nicknames and behavior. To quote Jake when Rose asks if they can practice their lines for the play at his house: "My house is being fumigated."
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'':
** There was a variation of this in one episode: Daria quite deliberately told embarrassing anecdotes about Quinn to the "cool crowd".
** On a couple of occasions, [[InvokedTrope Helen has threatened to embarrass Daria or Quinn in order to get them to cooperate with her.]]
* Frequently comes up in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E14LisaTheGreek Lisa the Greek]]" had Bart and Marge shopping for clothing and she does things such as suggest he try on some cute underwear when other kids were around and opening the door to the changing room without warning while he was still getting dressed. It came off as less of 'Marge is embarrassing' than 'Marge is a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} Jerk'. Then again, they don't object to much of what Homer does because he is at least frequently called on it, even though everything snaps back by the end.
** The episode "The Front" has this conversation at the beginning:
--->''[After watching Krusty chastise a chef for reminding his audience that he's Jewish by preparing a dish based on his mother's recipe]''\\
'''Lisa:''' It's so sad that Krusty is ashamed of his roots.\\
'''Homer:''' (With plunger stuck on his head) Marge, it happened again. (Pulls on handle, it comes off, but suction cup stays on his head) Ohh.\\
'''Bart:''' What are you gonna change your name to when you grow up?\\
'''Lisa:''' Lois Sanborn.\\
'''Bart:''' Steve Bennett.
** In the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E24Homerpalooza Homerpalooza]]", Homer embarrasses his kids with his taste in music, which hasn't changed since his teen years in the 1970s. A flashback reveals that he felt the same way about his own father, who gives him a dire warning:
--->'''Homer:''' You wouldn't understand, dad. You're not "with it".\\
'''Abe:''' I used to be with "it". Then they changed what "it" was. Now, what I'm with isn't "it", and what's "it" seems weird and scary to me. And it'll happen to yoooooouuuu!
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'':
** Subverted when Doug is terrified that his older sister will tell everyone about his secret crush when she does a poetry recital at his school. (She doesn't.)
** Played straight when Doug's father shows up at his first party... dressed as a party clown. "The cheese stands alone! The cheese stands alone!"
** Then played straight again in "Doug's Sister Act" when Judy is afraid that her family is too boring for her new boyfriend Kyle, so she dresses up the folks and writes them a script.
** Subverted in "Quailman VII: Quaildad", where Doug is planning to go interview the Beets for the school paper, and since his dad is taking him, he worries about this happening. Instead, his dad quickly hits it off with them as they share similar taste in music, and impresses them with his drumming skills.
* In ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'', Goofy is generally this towards Max. Max is at times characterized as generally ashamed of Goofy in general, so it's not just one-way.
* Inverted in ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse''. Max was afraid his father Goofy would embarrass him on his date when the rest of cast did it for him.
* Spinelli's parents in ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}''. [[spoiler: They are actually revealed to be very famous and skilled secret agents, though Spinelli herself is unaware of this, leading one to wonder whether they really are like this or if they are faking being your 'normal ultra-embarrassing parents' as part of their secret identity.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/PepperAnn'': The titular character's mom, Lydia, occasionally slips into this. At one time, when she took Pepper Ann bra shopping, PA literally melts. However (for the rest of the series), deep down, they love each other very much.
* [[MadScientist Dr. Doofenshmirtz]] from ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' has shades of this towards [[BrattyTeenageDaughter his daughter Vanessa]], such as throwing her an embarrassing 16th birthday.
* Creator/ButchHartman must really love this trope cause this happens in almost every series he has made:
** What can you say other than poor... poor Timmy on ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents''. If they're not ignoring him, they're very embarrassing.
** And when he got Cosmo and Wanda to appear human to pose as his parents to meet Crocker for parent-teacher night, HilarityEnsued.
** Jack and Maddie in ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'', though there are frequent times both Danny and Jazz admire them and their abilities. One of the biggest extreme would be in "Forever Phantom" when the two are on a search and rescue mission for their son. One of their methods is announcing to the ''entire'' [[CityOfAdventure city of Amity Park]] to keep an eye out for their son AKA "the cutest, sweetest son in the world." They later add their further desire to "shower him with hugs and kisses".
* ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'''s "parents" are Amazingly Embarrassing for a unique reason: they're robots meant to aid in his disguise as a human being. Unfortunately, they're not very good at it. In the episode "Parent Teacher Night", Zim tries reprogramming his robot parents so that they act more human (and don't attack random passersby). Due in part to [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Gir's]] meddling, this had [[HilarityEnsues disastrous results.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' has the episode "Powerprof" in which their father Professor Utonium, wanting to spend more time with the girls, builds a power suit so he can fight crime alongside them. He then proceeds to embarrass them by being highly overprotective, using [[TotallyRadical painfully outdated slang]], and casually revealing to the public gathered that Bubbles was wetting the bed until recently.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAddamsFamily1992'', Wednesday and Pugsley's friend [[IJustWantToBeSpecial Norman]] has a father who prides himself on being the best underwear salesman ever, and his mother is a rather spacey {{Stepford Smiler}}. It doesn't help that his parents absolutely hate the Addams and tend to end up embarrassing themselves in their schemes to get them to leave. Notably in one episode, his father was doing a 'history of underwear' for school career day, making Norman hold up said historical undies.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheKidsFromRoom402'' has this with Cody's mom, who doesn't seem to grasp the fact that her son's bathroom habits aren't the sort of thing to be discussed in public, let alone in front of Cody's peer group.
* Starlee's parents from ''[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fast Forward]]''.
* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'': Ben's parents Carl and Sandra are {{New Age Retro Hippie}}s who don't really embarrass him in public in front of others -- they're just embarrassing ''on principle.''
* Peggy Hill of ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' can be like this to Bobby, he mostly finds it embarrassing in public or when he's around his friends. Usually the trope is inverted; Hank is ''extremely'' embarrassed of Bobby.
* This drives the plot of an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Birdz}}''. Eddie is embarrassed by his dopey father, but they quickly grow to bond after getting lost on a scavenger hunt.
* ''WesternAnimation/HerculesTheAnimatedSeries'': Hercules's [[MuggleFosterParents foster parents]] fell into this trope when it was the day parents visited their children at Hercules' school. In their defense, Hercules would be disappointed anyway since he expected his birth parents to show up.
* Milo's parents on ''WesternAnimation/TheOblongs''. At a parent-teacher conference, his mother gets stuck in a desk and his father plays the piano... despite having no arms or legs.
-->'''Milo:''' Helga, I want you to take this compass and drive it deep into my forehead.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** The episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E11FamilyAppreciationDay Family Appreciation Day]]" had Apple Bloom noticing all the embarrassing things her Granny Smith did once the resident AlphaBitch pointed it out to her.
** Rarity's parents seem to be this at first glance. Their manner of dress, speech, and preference for eating badly-made food indicate they're nothing like their elegant and high-society daughter. However, the main plot of the episode brushes them aside before we're shown if Rarity does feel ashamed of them or not.
** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E7ParentalGlideance Parental Glideance]]" has Rainbow Dash's parents take this UpToEleven. Their house has a room dedicated to Rainbow Dash memorabilia, which includes a [[{{Squick}} used diaper]] (from when she said her first word). They go out of their way to cheer her on for everything, up to and including ''hanging up a towel'' (Dash even lampshades the ridiculousness of that), and are [[LargeHam hammy]] enough to give [[AwesomeEgo Rainbow herself]] a run for her money. They went so far as to shoot off fireworks during an airshow, and were then shown to badly distract her from her other Wonderbolt duties with their constant cheering. The episode they appear in nonetheless ends in a pretty one-sided way, with Rainbow apologising to her parents for not appreciating them (with just the slightest nod in the other direction, as [[HypocriticalHumor the parents claim that Rainbow going out of her way to show her appreciation for them is a little embarrassing]]).
** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E6SurfAndOrTurf Surf And/Or Turf]]", Terramar and Silverstream's mother, Ocean Flow, has shades of this with this typical exchange.
--->'''Ocean Flow:''' ''[to Twilight]'' Both of my children are so smart. Would you like to see their baby pictures?\\
'''Terramar:''' MOM!
** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E8TheParentMap The Parent Map]]", both Starlight's dad Firelight and Sunburst's mom Stellar Flare refuse to leave their kids alone, with the former treating Starlight like she's still a kid, and the latter treating Sunburst like he can't take care of himself without her to guide him. Also, both parents keep constantly embarrassing them in public by calling them pet names and pestering them about the future. Though in this episode, the parents learn to respect the fact that their children are all grown up while Starlight and Sunburst learn to discuss such matters in a civil manner. Presumably, the writers had learned their lesson from the blatant InformedWrongness of "Parental Glideance".
* Roger Baxter is this to his daughter Blythe in ''WesternAnimation/LittlestPetShop2012'', especially in the episode "Helicopter Dad".
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'':
** "How To Sink a Sub" had this when Jimmy sends all his teachers into outer space and all the kids' parents decide to fill in for them, putting this trope into effect. Judy at one point shows all of Jimmy's classmates his baby pictures.
** The episode "Make Room for Daddy-O" has Jimmy altering Hugh's [[BumblingDad usual personality]] after embarrassing him in a talent show audition. Hugh becomes cool and no longer embarrassing but stops caring about Jimmy. This makes Jimmy realize he was better off with a father devoted to his role, even if he was a dork.
* The Scotsman becomes this in the final season of ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack''. Right before he and his daughters charge into battle as part of a larger army, he holds up everything to tell his daughters to cover themselves before they catch their death of cold. Every last one reacts as a typical embarrassed teenager.
** It should be noted that all of the daughters were wearing clothes that could be best described as revealing.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewMrPeabodyAndShermanShow'' has Mr. Peabody's foster parents who are non-anthropomorphic dogs. The embarrassment is so bad the normally unfettered Mr. Peabody suffers a complete nervous breakdown.
* ''WesternAnimation/PlanetSketch'': Parodied in the "My Mother, The Armchair" segments. The teenage girl protagonist often acts like her mother is doing something embarrassing, despite the latter being [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin an inanimate armchair.]].
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Witch}}'':
** Will's mother calls her by the EmbarrassingNickname "Pink Perky Pookie Pumpkin" at least once.
** Irma's parents are this way to her. They have brought cookies to Parents Night, which is mildly embarrassing enough for Irma, but they also have called her a pet name from her infancy around her friends. Episode 4 has her trying to avoid her parents embarrassing her at a party she's hosting. When she leaves them in charge to go out for a moment, she later returns to find out they actually did the opposite and made the party more fun.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}'', the title character's parents are so dull, their pictures are in the Netherworld Dictionary, under "Boring". [[NotHyperbole Literally.]] They still manage to embarrass him.
* In ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', this is actually a plot point in one episode, where Steve pretends that Greg and Terry are his parents so he won't have to introduce his new girlfriend to Stan and Francine. His reasoning is that his father would either drive her away by saying or doing something stupid and if not, then his mother's crappy food would kill her. It's further cemented when Klaus reveals that Stan keeps a pack of "inbred dinner wolves" in a trap-door under the kitchen floor to feed Francine's food to instead of eating it himself. Despite the silliness, it's still portrayed seriously, as these and other problems were all secrets the family had been keeping from each other instead of dealing with the problems.
* Linda is this to Louise in ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers''. This is really just a matter of Linda either not recognizing or not caring that Louise isn't like other girls her age and doesn't care about things 9-year-old girls are stereotypically interested in, or even about getting to know other 9-year-old girls in general. The two biggest examples are when Linda drags Louise to an 8-hour new age mother-daughter seminar in "Mother Daughter Laser Razor", and when Linda organizes a surprise slumber party for Louise without her permission, after Louise explicitly voiced her opposition to the concept, in "Slumber Party". Bob can also be embarrassing at times, but this is usually when he playfully needles Louise about being a DaddysGirl, which she takes in stride because, to a certain extent, he's right.
** Linda is this to Tina in "Grand Mama-Pest Hotel" after Tina bonding with a cool girl at a woman's empowerment conference freaks her out because she's afraid Tina won't want to hang out with her anymore. She causes trouble at the hotel to seem cool to Tina, and when she gets banned from the hotel, she [[spoiler: sneaks back in wearing a ridiculous disguise to try and convince the keynote speaker to say that her inspiration was her mother so Tina won't start devaluing Linda]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' had an example of an amazingly embarrassing ''grand''parent in the short "Hate in an Elevator", where Irwin, his grandmother, and Mandy get stuck in an elevator for 14 hours and Irwin's grandma decides to pass the time by telling humiliating stories about Irwin to Mandy. After they're finally freed, a news crew shows up to interview them about their time in the elevator, which results in Grandmama resuming telling embarrassing stories about her grandson.
* In ''WesternAnimation/PixelPinkie'', Nina dearly loves her HippieParents, but she does wish they would act a tad more conventionally in public.
* ''WesternAnimation/SheepInTheBigCity'' has Private Public's father embarrass him in "Daddy Shearest" by showing [[EmbarrassingOldPhoto humiliating childhood photos]] to General Specific and revealing that Private Public constantly wet himself until he was 17.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBremenAvenueExperience'': One episode has Tanner's dad Pete seem like this at first, interrupting their band and showing them the snacks he prepared for them. But this eventually gets subverted when Pete reveals his past, having been TheRoadie to plenty of popular bands back in his day and being a good drummer. Tanner starts appreciating his dad after this, thanking him for the snacks and letting him perform his drumming with the band once more.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'' episode "Project Pluto", Dr. Rafferty unintentionally embarrasses Sean by mentioning that when he was four, he insisted on carrying a purple hippo plush everywhere.
* Downplayed in ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse''. Steven's dad and Crystal Gems, who all act like Steven's parental figures, don't embarrass Steven as often as usual for this trope, but they still have their moments. For example, in "Bubble Buddies", Pearl embarrasses Steven by being too motherly and Amethyst embarrasses Steven by teasing him.
* ''WesternAnimation/ZekesPad'': Zeke's father, Alvin, is a total embarrassment in front of Zeke's friends. Alvin has spinach-clotted teeth, corny songs, and weird dance moves, none of which strike Zeke as cool.
* ''WesternAnimation/CentralPark'':
** In Season 1 "[[Recap/CentralParkS1E2SkatersCircle Skater's Circle]]", Molly has the unfortunate luck to see her father pantless and her mother shirtless and seeing her mother telling her father to "[[InnocentInnuendo Do me!]]". For context, Owen is ironing his shorts and Paige realizes her blouse is wrinkly so she takes it off and asks Owen to quickly iron her blouse.
--->'''Molly:''' So many parents body parts on display right now.
** In Season 1 "[[Recap/CentralParkS1E7SquirrelInterrupted Squirrel, Interrupted]]", after Molly wins her first chess match against someone other than mom, Paige loudly shouts out their family chess chant, "Stranger-Daughter Blood Chess Champion! Drink the blood!", which embarrasses Molly.
** In Season 1 "[[Recap/CentralParkS1E8HotOven Hot Oven]]", Owen and Paige teases Molly about having Brendan over for dinner and embarrass her further by thinking about showing off their dance to welcome Brendan.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'': When Mako's grandmother Yin meets Korra and Asami for the first time, she asks him why he isn't "dating any nice girls like them", unaware that the three of them had only recently gotten out of a very messy LoveTriangle.
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* ''Webcomic/{{Bard}}'' has Caek's parents reminiscing about the one time she had an octopus girlfriend. To the man she recently tied the know with. [[http://barred.smackjeeves.com/comics/1928064/how-to-go-through-a-phase/ In the middle of their wedding reception]].
* In ''Webcomic/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures'', Kria [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Soulstealer]] is quite possibly the most embarrassing parent ever. Highlights include:
** [[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_944.php Flirting with her enemy]] in front of her own daughter.
** Taking her daughter on a nature walk and [[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_229.php eating their guide.]]
** [[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_335.php Killing a gardener in the belief that he was an assassin.]]
** [[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_769.php Smashing into the wrong changing rooms looking for her daughter.]]
** Suggesting that her daughter is lesbian because she hasn't tied a "hot" male friend to her bed... [[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_945.php while standing right in front of said friend.]]
* In ''Webcomic/EverydayHeroes'', Steve Mighty and Lee Free Sr. are discussing classic rock artists such as Music/TheBeatles, Music/TheRollingStones, and Music/TheGratefulDead... then [[http://eheroes.smackjeeves.com/comics/2111609/mighty-whitebread/ Mr. Mighty starts talking about his favorite bands.]]
** [[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_1043.php Making an innuendo-laden announcement]] about her boyfriend's "impressive sword" at a press conference.
* ''Webcomic/EvilInc'': Lightning Lady's mother [[https://evil-inc.com/comic/shocking-news/ visits]], unilaterally sends a cleaning service to her house, objects to her supervillain outfit, and tries to fix her up with Dr. Muskiday. She resorts to pretending to be in a relationship.
* Winston's mother in ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'' is a transhumanist whose reaction to her son dating an [[UpliftedAnimal uplifted wolf]] is scientific enthusiasm. In addition to asking embarrassing questions, she also strips off in the hope that Florence will too so she can see how she's made.
* Da-Jeong's father in ''Webcomic/TheFriendlyWinter'' is a well-meaning but immature ManChild. He also treats and dresses her like a little kid when she's nineteen, though that has to do with her looking [[OlderThanTheyLook like a seven-year-old]].
* ''Webcomic/{{Girly}}'': {{Cloudcuckoolander}} Winter's parents manage to embarrass even her. "ANYONE would be embarrassed by parents who go out in broad daylight to smack each other with bats while wearing penguin suits!"
* The queen of this in ''Webcomic/GirlsNextDoor'' is Jareth's mother Jadis. Highlights include: Routinely calling him a "waste of genes". Telling the effects of [[AnIcePerson cold air]] on guys in PaintedOnPants (his favorite clothing) in front of his friends. Writing Christmas cards to him in nothing but insults and innuendos. [[BoundAndGagged Forcing]] his unwilling love interest to participate in their family events. And getting together with the guy he loathes most.
** And this is a MegaCrossover '[[{{Webcomic/Buildingverse}} verse]] that has two AxCrazy murderers with family issues. Todd and Nathan, who both showed their embarrassing parent side in ''Webcomic/{{Roommates}}'' (on their first meeting they swapped stories and baby pictures). Also let's not forget Morgan who took pictures of her son and his boyfriend kissing in the name of fanservice in ''Webcomic/{{Superintendent}}''.
* ''Webcomic/LoreOlympus'': Eros is frequently embarrassed by both of his parents, especially when they're all under the same roof and he has to put up with Ares and Aphrodite's kinky sexual shenanigans on top of their general immaturity.
* ''Webcomic/MenageA3'': Takeru hasn't said much about his daughter Yuki's childhood (yet), but his first reaction to Gary being introduced to him as Yuki's new boyfriend was to start talking marriage and babies in faintly creepy terms. And Yuki would doubtless be embarrassed by his porn manga work if she didn't simply hate it.
* ''Webcomic/{{Misfile}}'':
** Ash's dad is a gynecologist who treats several of her friends -- and will happily talk shop over the dinner table when said friends have come over. Taken to a whole new level because he has a terrible memory for faces, but never forgets a vagina.
** Meanwhile, Ash's mom Marie is a former lingerie model who has appeared in her fair share of racy catalogs. Ash notes that trying on bras would be awkward enough even if there wasn't a large poster of her topless mother hanging in the fitting room. She's also prone to [[http://www.misfile.com/misfile/2013-07-05 embarrassing questions.]]
%%* In a ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' comic [[{{Shipping}} Naru/Hina]], Shikimaru's mother appears to be one of these. [[http://mattwilson83.deviantart.com/gallery/2433230?offset=1656#/d1s6erz this page says it all]].
* ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'':
** Dora's parents, Peter and Elssa Bianchi, are serious stoners, prone to [[TooMuchInformation massive over sharing]][[note]]that said, a ''lot'' of people are, in this comic[[/note]]. Plus, Peter shares Dora's taste in porn (who happens to be her boyfriend Marten's mother).
** Marten's mother herself; she is a high-profile fetish model and professional domme who helped Dora discover her sexuality, and she constantly asks Marten about his sex life in public.
** Claire and Clinton's mother Aurelia has her moments, though more with Clinton since he still lives at home. One time he knocked on the door and was answered by his mom and a college hunk he'd previously tutored, [[ParentalSexualitySquick in their underwear]]. Nobody else knows yet, but she managed to embarrass him even when it's just the two of them by revealing that she has a major videogame streaming channel on Website/YouTube with a sexy cow avatar.
* In ''Webcomic/{{Rascals}}'', Quick and Jazmin meet up with Kyoko, Jazmin's mom, and Gloria, Quick's Mom, erroneously assuming that they're dating and making babies as seen here and on the next few pages [[https://rascals.kemono.cafe/comic/rascals-pg-238/ here]].
* In ''Webcomic/SabrinaOnline'', you have R.C.'s parents, Conrad and Rainwater Conrad. They are serious hippies and very socially accepting. Conrad once said he was beginning to suspect R.C. was gay before he met Sabrina, NotThatTheresAnythingWrongWithThat. Conrad apparently once grabbed Zig Zag's ass as well.
* Cloud from ''Webcomic/SandraAndWoo'' probably won't [[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2010/09/20/0201-eating-out/ go to a restaurant together with his parents]] anytime soon again.
* ''Webcomic/{{Savestate}}'': [[http://www.savestatecomic.com/2015/11/thanksgiving/ This page]] demonstrates the trope quite well.
* In David Willis' ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'', the surly, misanthropic Mike's parents (who he continually denounces to his girlfriend Amber) are revealed to be extraordinarily understanding parents who appear to be straight out of a fifties sitcom -- except that they are equally extraordinarily frank about their sex life and willing to give advice. Which explains just why Mike was so keen to keep Amber as far away from them as humanly possible. However, it's never stated whether they were always like this or whether this is their reaction to [[spoiler:Mike dying at the end of ''It's Walky'' and coming back a year later with no explanation]].
* ''Webcomic/{{Spinnerette}}'' has Super Milf, whose superhero name both A. calls attention to the fact that she has kids, and B. calls attention to the fact that she's a near-exhibitionist for whom being a superhero is largely a sexual fetish. If we have yet to see the kids, in can only be because they are ''in hiding''.
* ''Webcomic/TwentyFirstCenturyFox'': Jack is staggering into the kitchen when he discovers that not only his parents but Jenny's parents as well as a crowd of relatives have arrived [[http://techfox.comicgenesis.com/d/20160919.html here]].
* ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'': Lalli manages to fall victim to this despite losing both his parents at age eight and not making any friends before age nineteen. One evening has Lalli dream of the events that caused the death of his parents, and the magic system allows his new friends to witness them. The memories include Lalli's mother giving him a big hug and calling him childish nicknames. Lalli's friends are obviously stifling laughs at the sight.
* The alt text in [[http://xkcd.com/166/ this]] ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' involving TotallyRadical.
* ''Webcomic/ZeusGodlyGoodtime'' portrays Zeus as this. His constant pestering embarrasses his son [[VideoGame/GodOfWar Kratos]]. At one point, Zeus even asks if he can join Kratos in bed!
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* Lois and Hal in ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle''.
** In one episode, it's revealed that Lois accidentally (or simply unconcernedly) humiliating him in front of other people all his life with her wisecracks, rants, and aggressive confrontations has caused Francis to become totally immune to hazing.
** In another, when Malcolm is driven home by the parents of the children he babysits, arriving while Hal and Lois are having a half-naked screaming match in the front yard while Dewey and Reese root around in the mud like animals, Malcolm tries to claim he actually lives on the next street over.
** In the pilot, Lois answers the door topless, not minding at all that she's showing everything... to Malcolm's ''teacher''.
** In the first episode of Season Five, it emerges that Malcolm didn't tell Hal and Lois about an awards ceremony (and a ceremony that was apparently a big enough deal for the mayor, news crews, and every single person at his school to attend, at that) because he was afraid Lois would embarrass him as he received his prize. Instead of being played for laughs, the episode treats the matter seriously. Lois is emotionally devastated by this, and Malcolm spends the rest of the episode trying to make it up to her.
* In ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'', Uncle Phil's mother is like this. Bonus point for the fact that Phil is middle-aged, and she manages to humiliate him in front of ''his'' children. They all think it's hilarious.
** The kids all love Grandma Banks because she's a CoolOldLady; embarrassing the stew out of Phil (whom she still calls "Zeke", and gleefully recounts stories of his childhood on the farm) is just the icing on the cake.
* Paul's father in ''Series/MadAboutYou'' is another example of a parent who is so embarrassing that he can torment his son even after he's grown up. He at one point published naked baby pictures of Paul in the newspaper. At another point, he told a theater audience about the time he caught teenage Paul masturbating. Patricide would have been perfectly justifiable.
** And when on one occasion he called his father out on it, it made its way into the newspapers turning ''all of New York City'' against Paul, to the point that random bystanders would ''spit on him'' on sight.
* In this ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tALDcVmWE9w sketch]], a recruit in the US Army is mortified when his colonel father shows up, as he genuinely does not want any special or preferential treatment. His father has other ideas.
* Likewise, ''Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond'' has [[MyBelovedSmother Marie]] and Frank continuing to torment Ray and Robert into their adulthood.
* A skit in ''Series/ThatMitchellAndWebbLook'' had a boy in the hospital from severe embarrassment from his parents, with only a few months to live. His parents try to speak to him, but only end up killing him.
* An early episode of the sitcom ''Series/{{Roseanne}}'' played with this trope, when an uptight Becky prepares to go meet her first boyfriend Chip in public, and her parents Roseanne and Dan jokingly threaten to come along, all the while picking their noses, turning their hats around backwards, etc.
** The outtakes from that scene are particularly funny, as John Goodman was hamming it up so much that Roseanne repeatedly blew the take by laughing.
** Roseanne once invoked this as punishment for her kids. She dropped little DJ off at school in the most embarrassing manner possible, by wearing a set of hideous patchwork dungarees, a huge floppy hat with a flower, and slowly, deliberately, applying bright red lipstick in front of him so she could send him off with a biiig sloppy kiss...
---> '''Roseanne''': Now hurry up. I don't want to be late to surprise your sister [at college]. I'm going to dance for them.
* ''Series/AustinAndAlly'': Austin's parents constantly dot on him to be the "prince" of their mattress company. It's bad enough they gave him his EmbarrassingMiddleName "Monica".
* ''Series/TheCloser''. Brenda's parents are good people, but they embarrass her by being so [[DeepSouth stereotypically Southern]] and so unaccustomed to the Los Angeles environment where she works.
* The point of the Australian kids' show ''Series/{{Mortified}}''. Given her father styles himself as the Underpants King (he runs an underwear store named this) and drives around in a van with this painted on the side, Taylor Fry may actually have a case.
* Stella in ''Series/SugarRush''. Childish, self-absorbed, caught banging the decorator on the kitchen table, later entices her husband to a swinger's club, only to be caught by her daughter... You don't know whether to laugh or cry, she's so horrifying.
* Many years ago there was a one-off British TV play, ''not'' played for laughs, about a boy who is so embarrassed by his mother's erratic hyperactive behavior that eventually he can't even bring himself to tell people she's his mother and calls her "a sort of aunt".
* The entire point of the aptly-named "Embarrassing Dad" sketches by UK duo Punt and Dennis, most of which had the character at some point end up in a venue with music playing and their teenage children present, and proclaim "It's got a good beat" whilst dancing horribly.
* Vala's ConMan father makes an appearance in a late episode of ''Series/StargateSG1'', showing up on Earth requesting asylum. Vala is the only one not taken in by his claims that he's trying to reform while running embarrassingly bad scams around the clock and [[spoiler:eventually leaving Earth aboard a stolen cargo ship supposedly full of Naquadah. Thankfully the team was convinced in time to help Vala double-cross him and keep the Naquadah.]]
* It is a rare episode of ''Series/TheGoldbergs'' that doesn't deal with this trope. The mother (or "Smother" as she is called by her children) is a constant source of overwhelming embarrassment.
* ''Series/StillStanding'', ''Series/EightSimpleRules'', etc. Name a sitcom revolving around a family with at least one parent and at least one child and there's a good chance that the parent(s) is/are amazingly embarrassing.
* ''Series/{{Friends}}'' has it from time to time:
** Ross and Monica's father Jack has sex-related comments (e.g. asking his daughter's husband if he's able to give her an orgasm)
** Chandler's folks: his mother is a gorgeous sex-driven blonde writer of erotic novels who even kisses one of his best friends, and his father's a gay transgender Las Vegas cabaret entertainer. At one point, Chandler was worried that he was turning into his parents. Ross asks him:
--->'''Ross:''' Chandler, have you ever put on a black cocktail dress and asked me up to your hotel room?\\
'''Chandler:''' No!\\
'''Ross:''' Then you are neither of your parents!
** The worst example would have to be Mrs Bing proving how good a mother she is by revealing she bought Chandler his first condoms. ''On the Jay Leno show.''
--->'''Chandler:''' (watching)...And then he burst into flames.
** Rachel's parents. Her father is an overbearing man who isn't a smooth tipper and is very easily irritable, but her mum takes the cake. She's like a girl who never grew up, asks Rachel and girls what's new in sex, and is unable to accept a sincere apology.
* Duncan's mom in ''Series/TheClass2006'' joins him at Yonk and Nicole's house for Thanksgiving, and as she leaves to look at Yonk's trophies, Duncan has to tell Yonk that "I know she's my mom and all, but, uh, she steals." Plus the phone calls.
* Frank and Estelle Costanza in ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}''. Another example of parents so bad that they still embarrass their grown-up son.
* During the series premiere of ''Series/CougarTown'', Travis's mother becomes the town's official MILF and his father takes a job mowing the high school's lawns (shirtless!), setting him up for plenty of parental embarrassment in episodes to come.
* ''Series/MyParentsAreAliens'' has this happen quite a lot (partly because they're both FishOutOfWater and don't quite understand human society). When Brian wanted to be a magician, he decided to take his magic show straight into the kids high school, despite not actually knowing how to perform any magic tricks in the first place.
* ''Series/HannahMontana'':
** Robbie Ray has moments like this, sometimes unintentionally such as when he brought an embarrassing kitty sweater for Miley's birthday, and sometimes intentionally such as announcing to all of her classmates that she failed her driving licenses and needed daddy to drop her off as punishment for lying and ending up in jail.
** Trey's parents from an early episode also qualify. They're amazingly snooty rich people who spend their entire episode looking down their long, snobbish noses at Miley for being 'a bumpkin' until Trey finally tells them that he's ashamed of them.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': Amanda is scolded by Sarek for embarrassing their son by describing his childhood pet as a "fat teddy-bear". [=McCoy=] is gleeful until Spock calmly informs him that the "teddy-bears" on Vulcan are "alive and have six-inch fangs".
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''
** Another case of a parent who never ceases to embarrass her daughter is Lwaxana Troi, whose flirtatious and forceful personality causes endless grief for her daughter Deanna. Whenever she comes on board the ship, she's likely to condescend to Deanna every chance she gets, butt into other people's affairs, and try to score with an equally-irritated Captain Picard. She's supposed to be a telepath who reads thoughts and emotions.
** Worf's adoptive parents embarrass him too, but they're not as bad as other examples on this page. It has more to do with Worf's uptight nature than their behavior. They are actually rather sweet.
** Even ''Data'' has an embarrassing mother: Juliana Tainer, a scientist who helps the ''Enterprise'' crew jump-start a planet's core[[note]][[spoiler:She's actually an android copy of the original Juliana, who suffered fatal injuries when Data's home colony was attacked, but even she doesn't know that.]][[/note]]. She mistakes a therapy session with Deanna for a romantic rendezvous, and later tells Geordi a story about Data's early days: they had to program in a modesty subroutine because Data, who didn't suffer from the elements, saw no reason to wear clothing, which, given that he was anatomically correct, upset the other colonists. There's a reason his parents purged Data's earliest memories. Unlike most examples, however, Data lacks the ability to ''be'' embarassed, so he doesn't really mind and even finds the whole idea interesting.
** In "Family", Chief O'Brien recounted an event where he found his visiting father chasing a nurse around a bio bed in sickbay.
** Beverly at one point wondered if her presence on the ship had a negative impact on her son Wesley's social life. However, she was by and far an aversion to this trope.
* Subverted by Bashir's parents in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "Dr Bashir, I Presume?" While this initially seems to be the case upon their arrival, the second half reveals he has genuine problems with them that go far beyond simple embarrassment. [[spoiler:Namely, that he is the product of illegal genetic manipulation, which his parents were responsible for.]]
* Carrie Martin from ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'' has no problem being constantly affectionate to the boys in public and generally tries to get involved in their social lives, ignoring their embarrassment of her.
** This carries onto the spinoff ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOnDeck'' where Zack and Cody desperately try to prevent their parents from living on the ship with them in fear of being embarrassed all over the world.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':
** "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E10Nightmares Nightmares]]", where everyone's worst nightmares were coming true had a typical tough-guy/juvenile delinquent student visited by his babying, over demonstrative mother in front of his friends.
** Buffy's mum slept with Giles in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E6BandCandy Band Candy]]". On the hood of a police car. ''Twice.''
* All four main characters in ''Series/TheInbetweeners'' have one. Will's mum [[MyBelovedSmother treats him like a child]] and [[StacysMom is lusted after by all his friends]], Jay's dad constantly belittles him in front of his friends and [[GassHole has extremely irritable bowels]], Simon's dad won't shut up about his sex life, and Neil's dad is MistakenForGay by pretty much everyone.
* Happens at least once, and more likely multiple times, to Kevin in ''Series/TheWonderYears''. Most memorably, his mother took him to the mall shopping for clothes and had him try on a new pair of jeans, right as some kids he knew from school happened to be walking by. After he steps out of the dressing room, Kevin's mom conducts an up close and personal inspection. trumpeting for all to hear that the jeans "need more room in the crotch". In his embarrassment, he imagines hearing that announced over the store's PA.
* Taken to a near abusive level in ''Series/TheHardTimesOfRJBerger''. In just one example, his mother shouts encouragement to him from the next room as he makes out with his girlfriend, and then ENTERS THE ROOM to remove said girlfriend's bra for him.
* ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'': Kelly would rather people think Sticky the Clown is her father instead of Al; Peggy prefers telling people her husband is dead. Also, Bud and Kelly are both excited when they think Al's going to prison.
* ''Series/{{Fringe}}'''s Walter Bishop is clinically insane from [[spoiler: having part of his brain cut out]], and frequently goes off on tangents about how the shaved head of the corpse that they are experimenting on looks just like [[BadassBookworm Peter's]] bare bottom when he was a baby.
-->'''Walter''': Uh oh.\\
'''[[LoveInterest Olivia]]''': What?\\
'''Walter''': I just got an erection. Oh, fear not, it's nothing to do with your state of undress. I think I simply need to urinate.
* Alan and Amy Matthews on ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'' were usually just GoodParents however they delved into this on occasion. For example, in one episode Amy decides to take a creative writing class at the local university and happens to enroll in Eric's class. She proceeds to write artsy short stories about her and Alan's wedding night and Eric's birth.
* When Rita asks Michael Bluth about his family in ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'', the "previous girlfriends" montage reveals the depths of embarrassment his family has caused him, so he simply blurts out the lie "I have no family."
-->'''Michael''': (to himself) Why didn't I think of this before?
** It only got worse when they found out about Rita anyway. They end up kidnapping her, knocking her out, and abandoning her on a bench by the road when they think they accidentally killed her.
* ''Series/{{CSI}}'' Sara to Grissom, via Skype. "Your mother is talking about our sex life."
* The Episode 10 family in ''Series/LosSimuladores''.
* [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by the hosts in an episode of ''Series/{{Wipeout|2008}}''. They even nicknamed her as such, "Embarrassing Mom".
* There was a recurring sketch on ''Series/{{MADtv}}'' that used this, except the parents weren't embarrassing but the girl acted like they were.
* ''Series/{{NUMB3RS}}'': Alan Eppes isn't usually quite this bad, but he does have his moments.
* ''Series/RizzoliAndIsles'': Jane Rizzoli's mother Angela has a noted tendency to show up at her daughter's work.
--> '''Angela:''' I promise I won't embarrass you.\\
'''Jane:''' Thirty years of experience says otherwise.
* Most of the main characters of ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' have embarrassing parents, Howard's mother being featured most prominently. Sometimes it's the case of ParentsAsPeople. Or the guys feel they would like to swap families because the grass is greener...
** Howard has a typical overbearing JewishMother with raspy voice who treats him as a young teenager. She treats the guys as kids who came to play etc., but to be fair, Howard clearly depends on her to take care of him as though he's a child; this and his complaining amounts to a lot of mixed signals.
** Bernadette's mother is supposed to be overbearing (that's how she and Howard bonded), but when she was later actually on-screen, she was quite normal, except she wasn't much of a talker and Howard didn't feel welcome in their home.
** Leonard's mother is an iceberg of a woman. However, Penny manages to get her drunk once, and boy, is she embarrassing! She even attempts to make out with Sheldon.
** Sheldon's mom has shades of this trope, but she's generally the favorite parent of the group. She comes from rural Texas and tends to make [[InnocentBigot racially insensitive remarks]]; when the guys get uncomfortable, she thinks it's PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad. Sheldon considers her a religious nut.
** Raj's parents embarrass him through Skype sometimes. Their emphasis on traditions is perplexing and their opinions on romantic and sexual life are extremely dated. Though once, when they wanted to berate Rajesh, they told him to take his laptop somewhere private.
* A recurring sketch in the Scottish comedy show ''Series/ChewinTheFat'' involved a teenager with his parents, who cheerfully announce to anyone they meet that their son has just started masturbating.
* In the drama ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'', Alex seems to think this about her parents (and Justin has gone there himself, but not without cause).
* ''Series/GoodLuckCharlie'':
** Bob and Amy Duncan are often considered embarrassing by their kids. And there are some moments that show they do it intentionally.
** Ivy's parents are even ''worse''. Their idea of "fun" includes playing a jigsaw puzzle, eating liver and onions, and playing on the piano "Row Row Your Boat" ''in German''. Ivy even admits that her parents' antics are the reason she's always hanging out at Teddy's house.
* In ''Series/{{Cranford}}'', Miss Mary Smith's stepmother is a matchmaker from hell who desperately tries to marry her off to anybody would make an offer. She comments on her appearance (why didn't she curl her hair?) and forces her to hold a baby in order to make Mary appear more feminine and domestic, even though Mary clearly doesn't want to.
* Finn Nelson's dad in ''Series/MyMadFatDiary''.
* Subverted in ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'', where both Sherlock and Mycroft act like their parents are mortally embarrassing, yet they're actually quite mundane. The boys are so eccentric that their normal parents are on a completely different wavelength. The third season does, however, reveal that their mother was quite brilliant in her day. She chose family over the career of a brilliant mathematician. Mary also guesses that Sherlock's father is also secretly intelligent, who immediately reciprocates.
* Subverted in ''Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack'', where it turns out that Crazy-Eyes is embarrassed by her very normal, upper-middle-class adoptive parents. She acts like a sulky teenager when they visit.
* While Freddie's mother is also a [[MyBelovedSmother smotherer]] on ''Series/ICarly'', Mrs. Bensoin becomes extremely embarrassing in "iMoveOut". First, she interrupts an iCarly webcast to bring Freddie the asparagus he didn't eat for supper, making him eat it while singing her childish vegetable song. This is done on camera in front of the iCarly audience. She later shows students at school his baby pictures.
* Played with a twist on ''Series/TheSiflAndOllyShow''. Olly had Sifl's mom call their show and tried to get her to tell embarrassing childhood stories about Sifl. She did... except the stories all actually ended up being about something Olly did.
* Dan from ''Series/OneTreeHill'' is seen practicing [[DancingWithMyself dancing with his iPod in his ears]], much to the embarrassment of Nathan who catches him.
* ''Series/UnbreakableKimmySchmidt'':
** Kimmy's stepfather is a slack-jawed moron, which is all the more alarming given that he's a law enforcement officer.
** Subverted by Jacqueline's parents, who are perfectly normal people, but she's ashamed of them simply because they're [[CulturalCringe Lakota Indians]].
* ''Series/HenryDanger'': Henry's mother has no problem talking to him about his underwear in front of his friends.
* Even Snow White and Prince Charming are not [[http://onceland.tumblr.com/post/148646803572/emma-swan-her-parents-amusing-family above mortifying]] [[http://onceland.tumblr.com/post/148199389267 their daughter]] on ''Series/OnceUponATime'', especially when said daughter's relationship with a pirate is involved.
* ''Series/{{ER}}'''s Abby Lockhart's bipolar mother shows up uninvited, unannounced, and in the beginning stages of a manic phase and proceeds to run through the ER screaming, looking for her. She cranks it UpToEleven in the final episode of her arc by walking into a store, demanding a job, trying to steal an expensive scarf, and eventually running through a glass window. When she's brought to the hospital for treatment, she repeats the "running and screaming" bit from before. Even worse, Abby's detached attitude throughout the entire segment indicates that this is the umpteenth time she's had to deal with incidents like this.
* ''Series/{{Sisters}}''. Second-oldest sister Teddy falls OffTheWagon (she's grappling with her husband's murder) the day she's to have dinner with her daughter, her daughter's boyfriend, and his parents--and shows up at the restaurant so drunk she can barely walk. Her daughter blasts her for humiliating her and her attitude indicates that this isn't the first time Teddy has done something like this.
* ''Series/GeneralHospital'''s Karen's mother is already like this, being a tramp and an alcoholic. It's driven home when Karen attends a party at her boyfriend's house and her mother shows up in a tacky dress and proceeds to get drunk. When Karen blasts her for her behavior, her mother tries to guilt-trip her, asking, "Are you saying you're ashamed of your own mother?" Karen refuses to back down, flat-out telling her, "[[ArmorPiercingResponse Yes, I am]]. [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech Look at you. You've got too much makeup on, you're hanging out the top of your dress, you've had too much to drink. . ."]]. Unfortunately, she doesn't learn much from this speech and proceeds to fawn over how rich her boyfriend is every time he's around, making Karen fear that he'll think she's a GoldDigger.
* Chelsea and Raven from ''Series/RavensHome'' usually aren't embarrassing. Sometimes, however, they embarrass their kids. In one episode, while unloading the laundry Raven and Chelsea began cooing over Nia's training bra in front of her.
* Creator/{{MTV}}'s ''Series/TrueLife'':
** "True Life: I Have Embarrassing Parents" has featured a wannabe rocker dad, a couple of ''[[NakedPeopleAreFunny nudists]],'' and a ''Franchise/StarWars'' fanboy dad. The tale of Star Wars Dad and his son is quite touching: Dad is a staunch believer in The Force while his son is an avid hunter, something dad doesn't really approve of. The son grudgingly agrees to go to a ''Star Wars'' 'con (possibly ''the'' 'con, "Celebration"). In the end, father and son are seen walking together in understanding, with dad in his Jedi robes and son... in Stormtrooper armor.
** Another ''True Life'' episode, "[[http://www.mtv.com/shows/truelife/episode.jhtml?episodeID=186541 True Life: I Have a Hot Mom]]" followed two teenage girls dealing with [[StacysMom a specific form of this trope.]]
* In the ''Series/BroadCity'' episode "Abbi's Mom," Abbi's mom gets drunk at a restaurant, stands on a table, and shouts, "My daughter fucked thirty-two men!"
* ''Series/{{Victorious}}'': While his parents don't appear, Andre does live with his grandmother, who appears to be going senile and has NoIndoorVoice. This leads to several awkward moments when she's around Andre and his friends.
* ''Series/SoAwkward'': Lily certainly feels this way about her mother. Given her mother has a habit of knitting her jumpers with Lily's own face on them, and shows Lily's boyfriend her naked baby photos, she may have a point. Everyone ''except'' Jas thinks of her father as one, due to him being TheKlutz. Jas (who is also TheKlutz) has never noticed anything odd or embarrassing about his behavior.
* A sketch in one-off comedy special ''Film/HowToIrritatePeople'' has Creator/MichaelPalin's character being repeatedly showed up by his parents in front of his new wife, mostly via his father's being as annoying as possible to get Palin to switch the channel on the TV, and then by his mother's displaying NoIndoorVoice while listing every single ingredient in the dinner that she intends to cook... and then doing it again when she remembers that she bought pork instead of chicken.
* ''Series/{{Cheers}}'': Esther Clavin has no problem embarrassing her son Cliff, a man in his thirties, in front of everyone he knows, regaling them with LittleKnownFacts, or sharing stories about how she had difficulty giving birth to Cliff in the first place. That's when she's not being genuinely emotionally abusive towards him. Strangely enough, most of the Cheers gang still seem to prefer her to Cliff.
-->'''Frasier:''' ''(having seen Esther for the first time)'' Suddenly I'm having this vision of Cliff being heroically well-adjusted!
* In ''Series/JustRollWithIt'', Owen and Blair feel Rachel and Byron are this. The latter's attempts to prove they're not just make it worse.
* The worst the parents were in ''/Series/NickyRickyDickyAndDawn'' was in "Quad for Teacher". Tom, subbing for their injured gym teacher, has the quads show off a game called "Meow Meow" they played when they were preschoolers. Even worse is when he had their classmates play it as well.
** In "Quad with a Blog", one of the reasons the quads' friends stopped hanging out at Get Sporty Cafe was because their parents were too intrusive and wouldn't just leave the kids alone.
* ''Series/WeAreWhoWeAre'': Sarah embarrasses Fraser greatly when Caitlin comes over for dinner, telling her he liked to dress up in turbans by using towels as a child, despite her wife Maggie's objections. He flies into a rage about it afterward.
* ''Series/WeAreLadyParts'': In the opening scene, Amina's parents bumble their way through a suitor meeting, hastily putting down Amina and embarrassing her by mentioning her bad stage fright.
* ''Series/BetterThings'': How Sam's daughters often see her. They're often justified in thinking that way (e.g. she talks about Frankie having her period in front of a whole auditorium). Sam's mom Phyllis also embarrasses her often, while also doing so a lot when growing up (by [[HairyGirl not shaving her armpits or legs]], for instance).
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* In ''Fanfic/TheTaintedGrimoire'', Ensei is this sometimes, like when he eats so much food at public restaurants which usually earns stares from everyone else. His daughter Kanin is unhappy about this.
* In ''Fanfic/MisfiledDreams'' (a ''Webcomic/{{Misfile}}'' fic), Ash's mother Marie joins in on the action when she cheerfully explains to her daughter the various pros and cons of a ''menage a trois''. And then mentions that she's had three-ways with a man and another woman, as well as with two other girls.
* Jimmy Michaels of the ''Manga/FruitsBasket'' fic ''Jimmy & Kyo'' has a particularly bad case. Just mentioning his mom's occupation is enough to embarrass him to death. So what does she do? She's a ''[[RomanceNovel Romance novelist!]]'' It's hinted his older brother Scott is just as embarrassed.
* The Hyuga family in ''Fanfic/AGrowingAffection''. Hiashi has Hinata wanting to move out after he goes to both Tsunade and Naruto to try to get Naruto to stop training with her. After he defrosts, he is just as embarrassed when his own father does the same thing.
* Father Brainstorm of ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'' is eager to share humiliating stories about his children, much to [[SnarkyNonhumanSidekick Jack]]'s amusement.
* Kushina in ''Fanfic/KitsuneNoKenFistOfTheFox'' is this for Naruto, especially when combined with her tendency to snark about his relationships with girls. And there's also her fan-girl attitude toward the in-universe comic book series ''Shadow Fox'', including having a cosplay costume, which causes Naruto to do a double-take the first time he sees her wearing it while she's cooking dinner.
* ''Fanfic/TheWrongReflection'': Eleya's mother asking her 29-year-old daughter if she and Gaarra are being safe. In the middle of her sister's wedding reception.
-->'''Eleya and Teri:''' ''Mother!''
* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KworV5d91xA Scrub Daddy]]'', the made-up lyrics for a song in ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'', seems to be about a clumsy father and someone, unable to take it anymore, requesting him to go away:
-->The dad's dropping chilled wood.\\
I cannot do this.\\
Please daddy leave this.\\
Scrub daddy's kept up.\\
Pleased to be going.
* Discussed in ''Fanfic/TheSecondTry'' when [[spoiler:Asuka and Shinji]] talk about throwing a birthday party for [[spoiler:Aki]] so they can embarrass her in a few years with the photos. [[spoiler: Fortunately for Aki, the pictures were left behind when they all got sent back in time.]]
* ''Fanfic/AdviceAndTrust'': Misato ''loves'' embarrassing her wards Shinji and Asuka (although to be fair, they have it coming most of the time). After telling them they're allowed to sleep together as long as they have no sex again until they're at least fifteen, Misato demands ''details'' about their sex life:
-->She grinned and looked at Asuka. "So... does he 'berserk' in bed?"\\
Asuka's jaw dropped. "What?!"\\
"You've been 'entangling your AT-Fields' for weeks. Having fun? Enjoy 'firing the Positron Cannon'?"\\
"Misato, what the Hell happened to 'we're too young for this'?!" Asuka was turning red. Shinji was turning red faster.\\
Misato just grinned wider. She finished the beer, tossed the can at the recycling bin, and grabbed another. "The cat's out of the bag, we just finished the official business part, and now it's time for your big sis Misato to embarrass the Hell out of you both. I get my payback."
* In "Christmas in Kansas", part of the ''Fanfic/SorrowfulAndImmaculateHearts'' series, Clark Kent invites Bruce and Diana home for Christmas, and his mother shamelessly tells them a string of embarrassing stories about Clark's childhood.
* In ''[[Fanfic/AftermathOfTheGames Integration]]'', Flash Sentry's mother is one for him due to her obsession to have grandchildren. She even stole the spark plugs to Flash's car to try to get Princess Twilight to spend the night at their house. Flash came to terms with his mother being crazy years ago.
** Princess Celestia, serving as a ParentalSubstitute for both Twilight and Sunset, {{Troll}}s them starting to tell Flash, Twilight's current boyfriend and Sunset's ex, embarrassing stories about the two girls when they were fillies.
* ''Fanfic/TheBridge'':
** Azusa Gojo is usually the wise, kindly, [[HappilyAdopted adoptive]] [[MuggleFosterParents mother]] of Godzilla Junior. When [[ShipperOnDeck she]] starts cheekily complimenting Junior's friendship and small ShipTease with Luna, it runs right into this.
** Rainbow Dash's mother talks to her like she's a toddler in front of her friends, and freely jokes about the time she got her flight suit all sweaty.
* ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'': King Cold is this to Frieza.
-->'''Trunks:''' If you want a Super Sayian, I can fill the part.\\
'''Frieza:''' Oh, you hear that, daddy? "I can fill the part". It's like a five-year-old trying to play police officer.\\
'''King Cold:''' Or how you play Pretty Pink Princess?\\
'''Frieza:''' Daddy! Not in front of the malcontent!\\
'''King Cold:''' But it's so cute when you do it!\\
'''Frieza:''' I haven't done that since I was eight-eight-eight-eight-my Quinceañera!
* While Misato's teasing in ''Fanfic/NeonMetathesisEvangelion'' is mostly played for laughs like in most fics, things come to a head when a drunk Misato talks too much about the planned nude synch test and teases the pilots about it. Asuka outright insults her and storms off.
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9495178/1/Return-of-the-Hero Return of the Hero]]'': Kelly is this to [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Nate]] when she calls Rosa his girlfriend and shows off the stuffed Teddiursa he had when he was five. According to a flashback, she was also this on his first day of Trainer School, when she called him her "little Teddiursa".
* ''FanFic/TheMonkeyDHaruSeries'': Unsurprisingly, [[Manga/OnePiece Franky]]. Whenever his son Nico Tom points this out, [[NotHelpingYourCase Franky bursts into tears, collapses into his wife's arms, and wails about his son doesn't love him]].
* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' of Creator/AAPessimal, Johanna Smith-Rhodes considers one of the depressingly few perks of being a mother of teenage girls is the ability to leave them mortified and embarrassed at fairly regular intervals. She aces this by going out minge-drinking with fellow mothers of her daughter's teenage friends. Much to their squirming mortification. Meanwhile Bekki's father, wizard Ponder Stibbons, is capable of getting absurdly over-protective and has a hard time adjusting to his little girl growing up.
* In the ''Total Drama'' fanfic series ''Fanfic/UnbreakableRedSilkenThread'' Jasmine's parents, as well as her family at large, to the point that her reaction to them meeting her friends is described as "honest-to-god-fright".
* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' has several examples:
** When he decides to [[{{Troll}} wind up]] his son [[Literature/HarryPotter Harry]], Thor can be very embarrassing. For example, he once cheerfully told him (after a SleepCute with his very-definitely-not-girlfriend Carol) that he hoped they wouldn't make him a grandfather until they were both eighteen at least. Poor Harry ballparks between "oh god, dad, why?" and "I hate you so much." Previously, in chapter 77 of the first book, Thor had stated that they made a lovely BattleCouple... ''in the middle of a pitched battle''. [[BrickJoke In chapter 43 of the sequel]], when Harry refers back to that battle, Thor then snarks that it wasn't a battle, but a first date. Cue another wail of teenage embarrassment.
** Jack O'Neill - yes, ''that'' [[Series/StargateSG1 Jack O'Neill]] - keeps trying to be a tough, go-getting, and snarky badass. Unfortunately, he keeps getting upstaged by his mother, Alison 'Ali' Carter, younger sister [[spoiler: (actually daughter of Steve Rogers and Peggy Carter)]] of Peggy Carter.
* In ''Fanfic/TheWesterosi'', Sarella Sand wants to disappear when her father begins to loudly and publicly ask Jade Hasegawa about whether she and Sarella are having sex or not.
* ''Fanfic/TheNewAdventuresOfInvaderZim'': In the first chapter of the non-canon spinoff ''New Adventures: Mature Edition'', Professor Membrane's reaction to meeting Dib's friend Viera is to start musing out loud on the possibility of [[ShipperOnDeck them hooking up]] and [[IWantGrandkids giving him grandchildren]]. Cue wail of embarrassment from Dib as he and Viera are left utterly mortified.
* ''FanFic/SuchADotingFather'' is set in an AU of ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' where [[AbusiveParents Endeavor]] and Rei Todoroki really are happily married, and turns both of them into this for their child Shouto.
* In ''Fanfic/AmazingFantasy'', Inko and Hisashi Midoriya were apparently {{Former Teen Rebel}}s and Izuku pledges to never look into their history out of fear of discovering something nasty. He's also mortified by his dad's [[RummageSaleReject casual wardrobe]] and quickly tosses it out to Peter without regrets.
* In ''Fanfic/MyHuntsmanAcademia'', Inko's public displays of affection for Izuku have made her a minor celebrity in Mountain Glenn, as she will toss aside trained Huntsman to get to her son when she's feeling emotional. She calls him her baby in front of his friends, bawls when she learns that his Semblance breaks his fingers, and harangues Port for releasing live Grimm in class. It's mostly PlayedForLaughs, but it's PlayedForDrama when [[spoiler:Izuku neglects to tell her that he's started dating Yang. She's devastated when she learns about this and accuses Izuku of thinking her too embarrassing to introduce to his new girlfriend.]]
* ''Fanfic/WhiteSheepRWBY'': Jaune's mother Salem openly babies him, calls him "sweetiekins" in front of his friends, and is quick to bring out the baby pictures. Of course, this is all rather surreal since she's the millennia-old Queen of the Grimm who has been trying to wipe out humanity for all of recorded history.
* ''Fanfic/BoysAndGirls'', a fanfiction of ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'', has Lori cringe at the thought of being chaperoned to a date by one's mother.
* ''Fanfic/TheChroniclesOfKaraiGettingHerShitTogether'': When the turtles ask why Splinter had such a strong fascination with turtles when he drew them in his youth, he remarked that he found them cute. When they asked him if he thought that of them, he says that he ''still'' thinks that and offers to break out the baby pictures just to mess with them.
* ''Fanfic/HeroAcademiaDXD'': Both [[Manga/MyHeroAcademia Izuku]] and [[LightNovel/HighSchoolDxD Rias]] suffer from this.
** Inko openly reminisces about her own "adventures" with her husband, is not shy about her ShipperOnDeck and IWantGrandkids attitudes, and punishes Izuku for not telling her about Rias' birthday by showing his friends [[EmbarrassingOldPhoto his embarrassing childhood photos]].
** Venelana teases the hell out of her daughter about her attraction to Izuku, while Zeoticus makes no qualms about taking photos of his daughter while she's being embarrassed.
* ''Fanfic/SonOfTheSannin'': In this story, Naruto gets to meet the spirits of ''both'' his parents at the same time, when he undergoes the training to tame Kurama and to help him even more, Hinata left him a part of her own chakra, meaning that Minato and Kushina get to meet their son's girlfriend. Kushina can't pass the opportunity to be this:
-->'''Kushina''': I mean, look at you! [[SoProudOfYou You're a Jonin at sixteen, who just tamed the most powerful tailed beast in existence]], [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and most importantly, you have a cute girlfriend!]]\\
'''Naruto''': ''(blushing)'' Uh, drop it, Mom. You're making Hinata feel embarrassed.\\
'''Kushina''': ''(raising an eyebrow)'' Just Hinata?
* In ''Fanfic/HeroesInTheShadows'', when Yoshi accompanies Donatello and Raphael to the doctor, he does so in a t-shirt saying "#1 Dad" that Michelangelo got him much to their embarrassment.
* ''Fanfic/AMoonAndWorldApart'': Vinyl's parents, Canter Rhythm and Arpeggio Chorus. Within minutes of meeting Octavia (who has known Vinyl all of two days at this point), they start talking about her and Vinyl's future kids and suggesting they not get intimate on the couch while everypony else is out of the room. Vinyl's horribly embarrassed by their words and promptly apologizes to Octavia for it.
* ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'': Delia downplays this aspect compared to her canon anime self, at least with Ash. However, she gets to play the part for Misty, telling her to call her mom, and giving her a box (all but stated to be something for sexual relationships) that leaves Misty ''extremely'' mortified.
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* AmazinglyEmbarrasingParents/AnimeAndManga

!!Examples:

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* ''Anime/{{Boruto}}'': Sasuke Uchiha tries to bond with his daughter Sarada Uchiha by taking her to Konoha's Parent and Child festival but all his attempts become awry due to [[NoSocialSkills his lack of social skills]] and not being in his daughter's life for so long, much to his dismay. In the end, he encourages Sarada to pursue her ambition to become the Hokage.
* In ''Manga/KaijuGirlCaramelise'', Kuroe Akaishi's HonoraryUncle Koutarou Hibino ends up meeting her crush Arata Minami at a metal festival. The first thing Koutarou does is jokingly claim to be Kuroe's boyfriend, much to their shock. He then bluntly asks Arata if ''he'' is Kuroe's boyfriend; Kuroe manages to awkwardly end that conversation by drawing attention to a band that is starting to play. Downplayed with Kuroe's actual mother Rinko, whose GenkiGirl personality and demands for hugs leave Kuroe a bit flustered, but as Rinko largely doesn't interact with anyone other than Kuroe it tends to get nipped in the bud.
* One of Murai's friends in ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka'' is incredibly ashamed of his super unattractive mother, which happens to be the total opposite of Murai's own situation with his mom. [[StacysMom Murai's mother]] also embarrasses him when they drop in on a hot, sweaty day by only wearing a tank top and shorts. No bra.
* The series ''Anime/KamisamaKazoku'' demonstrates why you do NOT want these parents to be gods with RealityWarper powers and total omniscience. When the main character, Samataro, is in school and idly thinking about the school's banning of revealing gym shorts for girls, his dad picks up on the thought. Dad immediately has the male teacher express his love for them, and come from behind the podium ''wearing them'', to the total shock of the class. Also, Samataro's mother surprises the boy when he comes home by having [[InnocentFanserviceGirl herself]] and his two sisters wear them! And then ''Dad himself'' comes out wearing them!
* It's a case of embarrassment all around in the fourth episode of the third season of ''LightNovel/MariaWatchesOverUs'' when the cast's parents arrive for the school athletics carnival:
** Normally quiet and reserved Shimako curls up in a little ball and whimpers when her father (a Buddhist monk who has just come from presiding over a funeral and is still in his robes) is paraded in front of the entire school as part of the scavenger hunt.
** In addition to her other [[ParentalAbandonment issues]] with her father, Sachiko finds his actions fit this when he meets Yumi, though her judgment may be clouded.
** Yumi is afraid her parents are going to do this to her when she introduces them to Sachiko for the first time.
** Yoshino's parents ''do'' do this to her in the novel that this episode was adapted from.
* When Tamaki's kendo team visits her house in the ''Manga/BambooBlade'' manga, her father wastes no time in breaking out the photo album, much to Tama-chan's chagrin. Then he brings put the video of her bathing as a child...
* In ''Manga/LuckyStar'', normally Konata is perfectly okay with her dad's otaku tendencies, being as she's just as much one herself, but it would be nice if he toned down the ComedicLolicon aspects when visiting the school on sports day. Or with friends visiting [[note]] (he's why she's unsure about having a sleepover with friends from school at her house)[[/note]]. Or while her younger cousin is living with them while she attends Ryou-ou...
* ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'':
** Haruhi is embarrassed of her father. He's constantly trying to get her to dress more lady-like. Funny enough, the rest of the club seems fine with it. Oddly, she doesn't really care about the cross-dressing. Her views on gender identity are...relaxed (probably ''because'' she grew up with a dad who wears a dress). It seems to be more because Ryouji/Ranka, [[ParentsAsPeople for all of his good heart]], is both [[BumblingDad bumbling]] and [[OverprotectiveDad overprotective]].
** Yuzuru to Tamaki might qualify, though he's more formal with him in the anime. Tamaki doesn't seem to approve of his father's actions, even though they're similar in a couple ways.
* Otoha from ''VisualNovel/{{Happiness}}'', who is prone to greeting her son Yuuma enthusiastically while at school. As a result, Yuuma tends to avoid the cafeteria where she works.
* ''Manga/ThePrinceOfTennis'': Ryoma Echizen would be ''very'' grateful if his RetiredBadass father Nanjirou also wasn't a meddling, smartass slob. He gets along better with his mother Rinko, even if he whines about how she cooks too much Western food for his taste.
* ''Anime/MagicUsersClub'':
** Aburatsubo's ultra-affectionate and ultra childish mom, Akiko. He does care for his mom but is ''terrified'' at the mere prospect of her showing up at his school.
** Nanaka's mom is this too, once showing up to a school meeting while in her gardening clothes.
* If {{parental substitute}}s count, there's Yayoi from ''Manga/KoeDeOshigoto'', who reveals a few choice anecdotes about her little sister Kanna to their co-workers.
* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'':
** "Don't forget to change your—" "Alright, mom! Jeez!" Done regardless of who (friends, neighbors) or what (television cameras) is nearby, either. In the English dub, Delia is reminding Ash to change his underwear. In the original Japanese, she's reminding him to brush his teeth. The English dub exaggerated this as it has Delia embarrassing Ash more than she originally did.
** [[VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon Lusamine]] was made into this in the anime, coming across as overly affectionate towards her own children, especially Lillie, even to the point of giving her a noogie, much to her dismay.
* Umi's SickeninglySweethearts parents in ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth''. Their daughter is almost squicked when they act like 15-year-olds around her.
* You think these others have it bad? Try being a girl with a father who can [[MakingASplash summon waves out of nowhere]], is a total spaz, [[RaisedAsTheOppositeGender insists you're a man]], and ''lives in your school'' so you won't be able to get rid of him! Ryuunosuke Fujinami from ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'' is the girl in question, and she doesn't like it.
* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'':
** More than one of Fujinami-san's worst traits slipped into Genma Saotome. His son Ranma really, ''really'' hates him when he's in full JerkAss mode. Which, sadly, happens almost 24/7.
** Soun Tendo sometimes is like this too, but it's more about him being both very old-fashioned ''and'' very melodramatic. Oh, and arranging his daughter Akane's marriage to Ranma without really asking her first. Akane cares for him more than Ranma does for Genma, but such stuff won't be forgiven ''ever''.
* The ''Anime/{{Planetes}}'' manga features several of them, as it concentrates on the lives and personalities of the characters:
** Tanabe's mom, Yukari, is ''very'' enthusiastic about her girl finally getting a boyfriend and is an avid Ai x Hachi shipper.
** Goro Hoshino, Hachi's dad, is a true BunnyEarsLawyer, being a huge JerkWithAHeartOfGold prone to amusing (and often violent) outbursts -- his RunningGag, for example, is his constant rivalry with Hachi for the last piece of tonkatsu. But he's just ''that good'' as a spacecraft engineer.
* ''Manga/SengokuYouko'' has main character Tama's [[spoiler: mother Kuzunoha in a relationship with the BigBad of the series. Needless to say, Tama is not very happy about it.]]
* The protagonist in one of the stories of ''Himitsu Kichi'' thinks of his father this way. He's a comedian who's SoUnfunnyItsFunny and he's always being silly, which [[TheStoic his son]] hates.
* One of the few cases where this is PlayedForDrama is ''Manga/DearBrother''. Mariko Shinobu's father Hikawa is a novelist... but not just any kind of writer, but a writer of erotic novels. While he donates quite the money to the Seiran campus, Mariko is looked down on by other students for being "the daughter of a pornographer". And ''specially'' by the local AlphaBitch, Aya Misaki.
* ''Manga/ShinjiIkariRaisingProject'':
** The ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' spinoff manga casts '''Gendo''' in this role due to him being an AccidentalPervert (how many times did he trip and groped Ritsuko in public?), his [[LimitedWardrobe closet containing only copies of his usual outfit]], being mistaken for a pervert ''every time'' he visits Shinji's school, and [[http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/5274/enlightenedgendocg7.png his way of showing paternal love being more like a Godzilla attack than anything]].
** [[SparedByTheAdaptation Asuka's mother]] [[DitzyGenius Kyoko]] is more subdued about it, but she still has moments of this. One that springs to mind is during a group picnic at the park, where she playfully needles Asuka about her & Shinji's relationship and jokingly (?) makes comments about [[IWantGrandkids their potential future children]].
* Mako's eccentric mother from ''Manga/WanderingSon'' is constantly embarrassing her.
* ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'':
** Queen Misaki towards her eldest daughter Aeka. (She gets along with Sasami just fine.) This is mostly due to the fact that Misaki still sees Aeka as a little girl, so she expects her to call her "mommy" and act adorable around her. Kind of zig-zagged, as Aeka actually ''enjoys'' the excuse to act childish instead of refined, just not in front of others. Such as Ryoko, who finds it finds funny... until [[ActionMom Misaki]] goes MamaBear on her... and childishly pulls on her cheeks, much to Ayeka's embarrassment.
** Then, there's Tenchi's own mom, Kiyone Masaki (not to be confused with Kiyone Makibi, one of the six girls vying for him). Unlike his saintly ActionMom Achika in ''Anime/TenchiUniverse'', it turns out that Tenchi's mom was actually a major prankster that even turned her ''own death'' into a gigantic prank.
*** Washu often does this to Ryoko--as if a TrulySingleParent has a responsibility to be ''twice'' as embarrassing.
* ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'':
** The ''Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaInnocent'' AlternateUniverse version of Precia Testarossa is an extremely DotingParent who is not ashamed to shower both of her daughters with love, attention, and worry in front of their friends, much to her daughters' dismay. This makes the history of the EvilMatriarch Precia from the main continuity all the more tragic, [[spoiler:as it gives us a glimpse of what could have been had [[LoveMakesYouEvil the death of Alicia not broken her mind]]]].
** In the main canon, we have Nanoha herself, sneaking into St. Hilde's to take pictures of Vivio while she's in class during the ''[=StrikerS=]'' epilogue and letting her BloodKnight personality shine through when Vivio introduces her to Einhart in ''[=ViVid=]''.
* Mikoto's mother in the [[LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex Indexverse]], who provides advice on [[BerserkButton improving]] [[ACupAngst her bust size]]. In front of Touma.
--> "Put plainly, eat a lot and get bigger"
* {{Downplayed|Trope}} in ''Manga/ServantXService''. Kanon doesn't mind her father Kenzou's ''stuffed bunny'' avatar too much. She won't however acknowledge him around her friends.
* ''Manga/SoulEater'': Maka's BumblingDad Spirit. Deep down, he's a good person who [[DotingParent really cares for Maka]], and a very powerful Death Scythe, but his tendency to [[LovableSexManiac shamelessly hit on anything with a skirt]] (to the point that his wife finally divorced him over it) pisses her off to no end.
* Chi-Chi from ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' can be this at times. In the ''Bojack Unbound'' movie, she does a clumsy cheerleader routine, while cheering for Gohan to fight at the tournament, obviously embarrassing him. Also, in a filler episode called "He's Always Late", when she's dancing, Trunks remarks "Your mom's obviously as cool as your outfit, Goten." Goten then asks Gohan if he thinks her (Chi-Chi's) outfit is cool. Gohan couldn't give a straight answer, as he was embarrassed. Then again, in Chi-Chi's defense, she was raised in seclusion, so she probably lacks good social skills and probably doesn't know she's being embarrassing.
** Subverted in ''Anime/DragonBallGT'': Vegeta's preteen daughter Bulla tells him "Dad, [[PornStache that mustache]] has got to go! It makes you look like a total geek!" and Vegeta is so horrified, either by the idea of looking like a geek or by the idea of his daughter not approving of him, that he immediately shaves the mustache off.
* ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'':
** Issei's parents appear normal at first, having to be magically calmed down after [[NotWhatItLooksLike finding him naked in bed with Rias]]... and then it later turns out the fruit has not fallen far from the tree. His father is openly supportive and playfully jealous of his son's HaremSeeker aspirations, and his mother introduces [[TheCutie Asia]] to the NakedApron, and then tells Issei ''point-blank'' she doesn't mind him having sex in the kitchen as long as they clean up afterward.
** Rias' family is close to the only thing (short of [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend hurting Issei]]) that can break her [[{{Ojou}} calm and polite exterior]]. [[EveryoneCanSeeIt Everyone with eyes]] might know she fancies Issei, but her father telling Issei to call him "Dad" is enough to make Rias choke on her food and then flee the room. He says, verbatim:
--->'''Rias' Father:''' I see it as a father's responsibility to embarrass his daughter!
* After she accepts to take part in the radio show, Ichigo from ''Manga/SeiyusLife'' realizes that not only has her father started following her on Website/{{Twitter}}, he's sharing it with the entire family ''and'' posting pictures of when she was in kindergarten.
* In ''Manga/YourLieInApril'' Kaori's parents show Kousei old pictures of Kaori, including the ones of her naked as a baby, to her great embarrassment.
* ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'': In a more sinister vein, Hild sometimes does this as part of her AffablyEvil shtick by acting overly affectionate with her daughter Urd. However she ''is'' the [[SatanicArchetype Daimakaicho]] so as often than not, it's part of a (not necessarily evil) plot.
* Akihito's mother in ''LightNovel/BeyondTheBoundary'' is a CloudCuckooLander who likes to cosplay as animals and often wears provocative clothing. On parent's day in elementary school, she dressed up as a panda and pretended to be one of the students.
* Goro's mom in ''Manga/SquidGirl''. She's quick to admit that [[{{Troll}} she's doing it on purpose]].
* One episode of ''Anime/YokaiWatch'' has Nate trying to avoid his friends seeing him going grocery shopping with his mother. There's nothing really embarrassing about that, though Nate is a child so his overreaction is understandable. The ''really'' embarrassing part is when Nate's mom starts talking about his underwear in front of his friends (including his crush Katie). She mentions that he needs new ones because his old ones are full of holes. This causes Nate to collapse from embarrassment.
* ''Anime/YourName'': In a markedly less comedic way than most examples, Mitsuha's father Toshiki interrupts his political rally to tell her off about her poor posture as she's walking past on the way to school. She is very upset because he embarrassed her in front of a large part of the town's population in the process.
* PlayedForDrama in ''Manga/GoodnightPunpun''. Aiko's mother is a cult member who goes door-to-door trying to get people to join. She drags along Aiko, who finds it all embarrassing and hates it.
* ''LightNovel/AkashicRecordsOfBastardMagicInstructor'': Both Celica (Glen's adoptive mother) and Leonardo (Sisti's biological father and Lumia's adoptive father) are this to their respective children. It's played for HypocriticalHumor, as they criticise the other for their behaviour while refusing to acknowledge that their own behaviour is embarrassing. Celica brings along a camera to Parents' Day[[note]]which is meant for teachers to meet the parents of their students, but Glen and Celica are ''both'' teachers, adding another level to the trope[[/note]] and loudly takes photos of Glen in the middle of a lesson. Leonardo calls her out on being disruptive... but turns out to have brought along his own camera.
* Shouko Komi's mother Shuuko of ''Manga/KomiCantCommunicate'' enjoys acting like a ditzy teenager, even referring to herself as an "eternal 17-year old", much to her daughter's embarrassment. Her father, despite being similar to Komi, isn't much better as when Tadano and his sister first meet him at a shopping center, he's in a godfather's getup, styled by Komi, that unnerves Tadano.
* Shinichi Kudo/Conan Edogawa's parents in ''Manga/CaseClosed'' embarrass and annoy him to no end with their eccentric personalities and antics. Both parents possess a flair for dramatic pranks but expertly portray them as life-or-death situations, understandably terrifying and aggravating Conan. Mildly subverted because they can't acknowledge him (Conan) as their child in public situations.
* ''Manga/WelcomeToDemonSchoolIrumaKun'' has Sullivan, Iruma's adoptive demon grandfather. Every chance he gets, he acts embarrassingly doting towards Iruma, from showing off a picture of him to every other student at his school, to driving him to said school in a fancy carriage.
* ''LightNovel/EvenThoughImAFormerNobleAndSingleMother'': Shirley is this to her daughters, as is the Demon King to his daughter. When they meet, they actually get into a fight over whose daughter(s) is the cutest.
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* The alt text in [[http://xkcd.com/166/ this]] ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' involving TotallyRadical.
* ''Webcomic/{{Misfile}}'':
** Ash's dad is a gynecologist who treats several of her friends -- and will happily talk shop over the dinner table when said friends have come over. Taken to a whole new level because he has a terrible memory for faces, but never forgets a vagina.
** Meanwhile, Ash's mom Marie is a former lingerie model who has appeared in her fair share of racy catalogs. Ash notes that trying on bras would be awkward enough even if there wasn't a large poster of her topless mother hanging in the fitting room. She's also prone to [[http://www.misfile.com/misfile/2013-07-05 embarrassing questions.]]
* In ''Webcomic/{{Rascals}}'', Quick and Jazmin meet up with Kyoko, Jazmin's mom, and Gloria, Quick's Mom, erroneously assuming that they're dating and making babies as seen here and on the next few pages [[https://rascals.kemono.cafe/comic/rascals-pg-238/ here]].
* In David Willis' ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'', the surly, misanthropic Mike's parents (who he continually denounces to his girlfriend Amber) are revealed to be extraordinarily understanding parents who appear to be straight out of a fifties sitcom -- except that they are equally extraordinarily frank about their sex life and willing to give advice. Which explains just why Mike was so keen to keep Amber as far away from them as humanly possible. However, it's never stated whether they were always like this or whether this is their reaction to [[spoiler:Mike dying at the end of ''It's Walky'' and coming back a year later with no explanation]].
* ''Webcomic/{{Girly}}'': {{Cloudcuckoolander}} Winter's parents manage to embarrass even her. "ANYONE would be embarrassed by parents who go out in broad daylight to smack each other with bats while wearing penguin suits!"
* In ''Webcomic/EverydayHeroes'', Steve Mighty and Lee Free Sr. are discussing classic rock artists such as Music/TheBeatles, Music/TheRollingStones, and Music/TheGratefulDead... then [[http://eheroes.smackjeeves.com/comics/2111609/mighty-whitebread/ Mr. Mighty starts talking about his favorite bands.]]

* In ''Webcomic/SabrinaOnline'', you have R.C.'s parents, Conrad and Rainwater Conrad. They are serious hippies and very socially accepting. Conrad once said he was beginning to suspect R.C. was gay before he met Sabrina, NotThatTheresAnythingWrongWithThat. Conrad apparently once grabbed Zig Zag's ass as well.
* ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'':
** Dora's parents, Peter and Elssa Bianchi, are serious stoners, prone to [[TooMuchInformation massive over sharing]][[note]]that said, a ''lot'' of people are, in this comic[[/note]]. Plus, Peter shares Dora's taste in porn (who happens to be her boyfriend Marten's mother).
** Marten's mother herself; she is a high-profile fetish model and professional domme who helped Dora discover her sexuality, and she constantly asks Marten about his sex life in public.
** Claire and Clinton's mother Aurelia has her moments, though more with Clinton since he still lives at home. One time he knocked on the door and was answered by his mom and a college hunk he'd previously tutored, [[ParentalSexualitySquick in their underwear]]. Nobody else knows yet, but she managed to embarrass him even when it's just the two of them by revealing that she has a major videogame streaming channel on Website/YouTube with a sexy cow avatar.
* Cloud from ''Webcomic/SandraAndWoo'' probably won't [[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2010/09/20/0201-eating-out/ go to a restaurant together with his parents]] anytime soon again.
* In a ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' comic [[{{Shipping}} Naru/Hina]], Shikimaru's mother appears to be one of these. [[http://mattwilson83.deviantart.com/gallery/2433230?offset=1656#/d1s6erz this page says it all]].

* ''Webcomic/{{Spinnerette}}'' has Super Milf, whose superhero name both A. calls attention to the fact that she has kids, and B. calls attention to the fact that she's a near-exhibitionist for whom being a superhero is largely a sexual fetish. If we have yet to see the kids, in can only be because they are ''in hiding''.
* ''Webcomic/ZeusGodlyGoodtime'' portrays Zeus as this. His constant pestering embarrasses his son [[VideoGame/GodOfWar Kratos]]. At one point, Zeus even asks if he can join Kratos in bed!
* ''Webcomic/{{Bard}}'' has Caek's parents reminiscing about the one time she had an octopus girlfriend. To the man she recently tied the know with. [[http://barred.smackjeeves.com/comics/1928064/how-to-go-through-a-phase/ In the middle of their wedding reception]].
* Da-Jeong's father in ''Webcomic/TheFriendlyWinter'' is a well-meaning but immature ManChild. He also treats and dresses her like a little kid when she's nineteen, though that has to do with her looking [[OlderThanTheyLook like a seven-year-old]]

* ''Webcomic/EvilInc'': Lightning Lady's mother [[https://evil-inc.com/comic/shocking-news/ visits]], unilaterally sends a cleaning service to her house, objects to her supervillain outfit, and tries to fix her up with Dr. Muskiday. She resorts to pretending to be in a relationship.

* Winston's mother in ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'' is a transhumanist whose reaction to her son dating an [[UpliftedAnimal uplifted wolf]] is scientific enthusiasm. In addition to asking embarrassing questions, she also strips off in the hope that Florence will too so she can see how she's made.

* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss'', Anise Tatlin's parents are the most embarrassing parents to ever live due to being so bad at telling when people scam them out of their money with unbelievable offers. They even think the thieves who stole from them ''had a very good reason to do so'', which isn't even the case. Their overall stupidity is just perhaps the reason their daughter turned into a conniving GoldDigger desperate to solve their horrendous financial situation.

* ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' has a case of this where the generational gap is vastly distant, but the effect is still the same. Sivir is an acclaimed treasure hunter/mercenary who just happens to be [[SecretLegacy the last remaining descendant]] of Azir, [[BenevolentMageRuler the last emperor of the Shuriman Empire]] who was recently resurrected centuries [[VestigialEmpire after he and the land fell due to ancient cataclysm]]. He wants his last remaining family member to take her rightful place in the ResurgentEmpire, but Sivir [[RefusalOfTheCall is completely uninterested and wants to continue operating on her own]], creating some genuine friction as well as [[CringeComedy endearingly awkward laughs]].
-->'''Azir''': Sivir! [[TheComicallySerious I thought I might get to know my greatest granddaughter.]]\\
'''Sivir''': [[DeadpanSnarker Don't ever call me that again]].

* Kōyō Ozaki's father was a male {{Geisha}}. He was so embarrassed by his father's profession that he didn't want to talk about him to his friends.

* Roo thinks of his mother Kanga this way in ''WesternAnimation/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'' and ''WesternAnimation/WinnieThePooh'' (the 2011 movie).
* In a brief scene where he's cleaned by his mother, Sarabi for Simba in ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}''.

* Goofy in ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie'' (and its sequel) is this to Max, and in ''WesternAnimation/MickeysTwiceUponAChristmas'' Max brings home his girlfriend Mona to meet Goofy only for his dad to embarrass him by doing such things as showing off a [[EmbarrassingOldPhoto huge baby picture]] of Max. See ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'' for more examples.

* ''WesternAnimation/FireAndIce'': Necron's actor, Sean Hannon, talked about how upset he was when he learned of the idiotic characterization of Juliana, Necron's mother. He was actually embarrassed by it and then realized what an interesting dynamic it created. He incorporated that embarrassment into Necron's character, explaining why Necron was so impatient with Juliana.