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** In "Cheer Up Star", Marco has a bad day that includes getting his trademark red hoodie ripped, revealing an embarrassing FunTShirt ("I Kissed a Ninja at Karate Kon 2012"). Not only does a random guy on a bicycle point and laugh at him, but Marco's SitcomArchNemesis Jeremy Birnbaum shows up to rub it in.

* In ''Literature/AngelasAshes'', the children immediately notice and mock Frank's shoes. Partly justified since they're just kids, and KidsAreCruel.

* ''Film/AustinPowersInGoldmember'': Austin gets publicly humiliated twice by his father not attending an honor from the Queen, and earlier, his becoming valedictorian at spy school - both times a wizened old janitor/groundskeeper points and laughs loudly.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', when Ming embarrasses Mei at the Daisy Mart, all of the customers in the store laugh at her.

Compare OpenTheDoorAndSeeAllThePeople, when the character is surprised by a mob of onlookers, and PassingJudgment, when a character does something embarrassing in public and gets stared at by appalled passengers of a passing vehicle. See also ShamedByAMob, when the fallen character is met with the crowd's quiet look of disapproval. Compare and contrast PointAndLaughShow, when it's the audience who's expected to laugh at a contestant's misfortune

** In "Mama's Girl", Spinelli happens to accidentally [[ItMakesSenseInContext call Miss Grotke "mama"]] and ''everyone'', including [[NotSoAboveItAll her own friends]], laugh at her for most of the episode.
** Then there's "Mikey's Pants", wherein Mikey rips his pants and his friends try to save him from being faced with [[SternTeacher Miss Finster's]] needle ''and'' further humiliation, using various materials like newspaper, papier-mache, an empty pickle barrel and "space pants" from the former UsefulNotes/SovietUnion. Finally, however, Miss Finster catches Mikey with his ripped pants, which drives TJ, Vince and Gus to [[HeroicSacrifice intentionally rip their own pants to share Mikey's shame]]. Ultimately {{subverted|trope}} when King Bob witnesses this and urges all the other kids to show respect for this brave act, rather than jeering at the boys' ripped pants.

* A RunningGag on ''Series/DocMartin'' is a bunch of teenage girls that appear and mock whatever snafus happened on the episode (mostly to the titular Doc Martin), capping it off with at least one calling him [[CatchPhrase "Tosser!""]].

Compare OpenTheDoorAndSeeAllThePeople, when the character is surprised by a mob of onlookers. See also ShamedByAMob, when the fallen character is met with the crowd's quiet look of disapproval. Compare and contrast PointAndLaughShow, when it's the audience who's expected to laugh at a contestant's misfortune. Related to PassingJudgment.

** The trope gets invoked again in ''Film/IAccuseMyParents'', when the main character's mom is drunk in front of Jimmy.

* The music video for Cher Lloyd's "I Want You Back" has the romantic rival accidentally spilling food on herself. Everyone else in the restaurant points and laughs, and she starts to scream with rage.

* A RunningGag in ''ComicStrip/Curtis'' is Curtis's mom dragging him out to buy new school clothes, sending him to the changing room, and then opening the door while he's in his underwear, prompting everyone in the store to laugh at him. As [[https://joshreads.com/2012/08/sunday-post-3/ noted]] by ''Website/TheComicsCurmugeon'', these laughing strangers are only seen in the relevant panels, as if they were summoned into being by his embarassment.

Often illustrated with a CircleOfShame shot, as the focus of the humiliation looks around them and all they can see are laughing faces.

* In ''Film/HomeAlone2LostInNewYork'', conflict between Kevin and the rest of his family starts because Buzz plays an immature prank on Kevin while he's doing his vocal solo in the school Christmas Pageant. Said prank involves using two prop candles to give Kevin bunny ears, pretending like he's using Kevin's head as a drum, etc., and almost the entire auditorium full of ''adults'' (except the [=McCallisters=] with the exception of Uncle Frank who is laughing, the conductor (who looks unimpressed and a bit perplexed) and pianist (who even turns back to the audience giving them stares during the laughter)), and maybe a few others) and other students (not to mention the choir) thinks it's ''hilarious''. Never mind the fact that essentially Buzz is ruining the Christmas Pageant simply to act like a jackass behind Kevin, Buzz should be lucky he wasn't suspended, he realistically would have been. Kevin got the upper hand though after he shoves Buzz, but unfortunately having everyone else get knocked over shutting the audience up, not to mention the Christmas set, and having a tree fall on the pianist knocking her over got him mostly in trouble, apparently, no one understood how he must have exactly felt (needless to say his own family). To be fair, the prank was still hilarious, and the people who laughed (namely the adults) probably saw it as a harmless prank, kids goofing around with kids, though it was as clear as day as what Buzz was trying to do, but if you are being laughed at, especially like that, intentionally or not, how can you realize how someone means it.

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' had Johnny reading a bodybuilding magazine at a supermarket. A little girl yells that this man is looking at pictures of other brawny men, causing everyone in distance to look over and [[OnceAcceptableTargets gasp in horror]].

* In ''Film/HomeAlone 2'', conflict between Kevin and the rest of his family starts because Buzz plays an immature prank on Kevin while he's doing his vocal solo in the school Christmas Pageant. Said prank involves using two prop candles to give Kevin bunny ears, pretending like he's using Kevin's head as a drum, etc., and almost the entire auditorium full of ''adults'' (except the McCallisters with the exception of Uncle Frank who is laughing, the conductor (who looks unimpressed and a bit perplexed) and pianist (who even turns back to the audience giving them stares during the laughter)), and maybe a few others) and other students (not to mention the choir) thinks it's ''hilarious''. Never mind the fact that essentially Buzz is ruining the Christmas Pageant simply to act like a jackass behind Kevin, Buzz should be lucky he wasn't suspended, he realistically would have been. Kevin got the upper hand though after he shoves Buzz, but unfortunately having everyone else get knocked over shutting the audience up, not to mention the Christmas set, and having a tree fall on the pianist knocking her over got him mostly in trouble, apparently, no one understood how he must have exactly felt (needless to say his own family). To be fair, the prank was still hilarious, and the people who laughed (namely the adults) probably saw it as a harmless prank, kids goofing around with kids, though it was as clear as day as what Buzz was trying to do, but if you are being laughed at, especially like that, intentionally or not, how can you realize how someone means it.

* In ''Film/HomeAlone 2'', conflict between Kevin and the rest of his family starts because Buzz plays an immature prank on Kevin while he's doing his vocal solo in the school Christmas Pageant. Said prank involves using two prop candles to give Kevin bunny ears, pretending like he's using Kevin's head as a drum, etc., and almost the entire auditorium full of ''adults'' (except the McCallisters, with the exception of Uncle Frank who is laughing, the conductor (who looks unimpressed and a bit perplexed) and pianist (who even turns back to the audience giving them stares during the laughter)), and maybe a few others) and other students (not to mention the choir) thinks it's ''hilarious''. Never mind the fact that essentially Buzz is ruining the Christmas Pageant simply to act like a jackass behind Kevin, Buzz should be lucky he wasn't suspended, he realistically would have been. Kevin got the upper hand though after he shoves Buzz, but unfortunately having everyone else get knocked everyone over shutting the audience up, not to mention the Christmas set, and having a tree fall on the pianist knocking her over got him mostly in trouble, apparently, no one understood how he must have exactly felt (needless to say his own family). To be fair, the prank was still hilarious, and the people who laughed (namely the adults) probably saw it as a harmless prank, kids goofing around with kids, though it was as clear as day as what Buzz was trying to do, but if you are being laughed at, especially like that, intentionally or not, how can you realize how someone means it.

* In ''Film/HomeAlone 2'', conflict between Kevin and the rest of his family starts because Buzz plays an immature prank on Kevin while he's doing his vocal solo in the school Christmas Pageant. Said prank involves using two prop candles to give Kevin bunny ears, pretending like he's using Kevin's head as a drum, etc., and almost the entire auditorium full of ''adults'' (except the McCallisters, with the exception of Uncle Frank who is laughing, the conductor (who looks unimpressed and a bit perplexed) and pianist (who even turns back to the audience giving them stares during the laughter)), and maybe a few others) and other students (not to mention the choir) thinks it's ''hilarious''. Never mind the fact that essentially Buzz is ruining the Christmas Pageant simply to act like a jackass behind Kevin. As officious and rude as it was, most likely people laughed not to crap on Kevin, but because they thought it was just a typical kid prank, but still that could put a kid in much trouble. Buzz is lucky he wasn't suspended. Kevin got the upper hand though after he shoves Buzz knocking him and the rest of the choir over, shutting the audience up, but unfortunately having everyone else get knocked everyone over, not to mention the Christmas set, and having a tree fall on the pianist knocking her over got him mostly in trouble. Unfortunately, the audience did not take into consideration how Kevin must have felt during his solo, but designated laughter, unfortunately, works like that in fiction and reality.