Movie/tv scenes that make you uncomfortable

[Soubriquet]

I don’t mean in horror or thriller or torture porn but I mean things that are supposed to be funny

Watching a film on Netflix called The Switch

A woman wants to have a baby by sperm donor, throws a getting pregnant party, and the best friend switches his sperm with the real donor.

Supposed to be a way of him covering up his accident of spilling said sperm but to me this just feels uncomfortable. The man made it clear from the start he doesn’t approve of her using a sperm donation and this is a way of him getting his “win”

[FrankButchersDickieBow]

16 candles is pretty shocking. Jock guy offers nerd guy his girlfriend, basically says he will get her off her tits on drugs, then nerd guy will be able to do what he wants with her. Sick.

Also 'Weird Science' showed up as a 12 on Netflix, so we watched it with 12yo dd and I obviously misremembered it, cos it was fucking gross, so so sexist. Dd was like 'why the hell would you think this was a good movie to watch.

It was disgusting.

[HearMeSnore]

Many, many scenes in Game Of Thrones. Too many to list... but having read the books it was at least consistent with the thoroughly dysfunctional and brutal world that GRRM created. However the one scene that sticks in my mind was Daenerys and Khal Drogo's wedding night. He assaulted her, and even in the context of the narrative there was no need for it. In the book that scene was totally different. He was gentle with her, and they up didn't DTD until she consented. It made the subsequent love story a bit more believable (as believable as it can be, when it was still about a young girl being sold in marriage to a notoriously brutal war lord).

[HearMeSnore]

Ah - but I've just realised you wanted scenes that were supposed to be funny.
Ignore me.
As you were.

[EmbarrassingAdmissions]

I couldn't find Rita, Sue and Bob Too at all comedic.

I don't know if my reaction would have been different if I'd seen the films/TV when they were released but watching them now, they're so abhorrent it's hard to accept it was ever considered humorous.

Kathleen Turner's performance is probably good but I don't like Peggy Sue Got Married and the ending.

I don't care about the humour, variations on the film Sabrina or Gigi will never be OK.

[SmokedDuck]

Oh, Weird Science was really quite awful. There was some other film from about the same time about a female vampire who only would stay young looking if she could drink the blood of a virgin, and there was only one adult make virgin in the town, a high school student. So she keeps after him. In the end he looses his virginity and the vampire i sout of luck. It was sooo weird and sexist.

I think at some level they were both supposed to be kind of sexist, that was part of the joke, that young men are such idiots. But they were still pretty cringey.

[DancelikeEmmaGoldman]

Pretty much all of Marilyn Monroe’s Bus Stop. He stalks her, kidnaps her, forces her to give up her job. I watched it once through my fingers when I was a teenager, but never again. It was supposed to be romantic comedy. 🙄

[EdgeOfACoin]

The 1950s version of A Christmas Carol. It's the bit where Scrooge has realised that he hasn't missed Christmas and will be a better man.

As part of his celebrations he seizes and pins his terrified maid to the stairs to kiss her. I think we're supposed to laugh at her discomfort because she doesn't understand what has happened to Scrooge.

That scene mars the whole film for me. It's not in the book, and fortunately the remakes have not seen fit to include a similar scene.

[worried3012]

It's not meant to be funny so sorry for not picking a funny one but Fatal Attraction. I actually really like the film and seen it loads but it was only recently when I watched it that I realised my sympathy lay 98% (minus 2% for the bunny) with Glenn Close.

Like we were meant to be kinda on Michael Douglas side but really he was a complete arsehole to her and treated her like crap. Yes she was obviously very unstable but he was more of a villain in that then she was IMO.

For 'funny' uncomfortable movie or TV movements I'd say the obvious Benny Hills or Carry Ons but understand they were from a different era. Agree about Dirty Dancing being a bit creepy although I loved it growing up.

[yourhairiswinterfire]

Rocky always bothered me but was a mainstay on TV due to my brother and father both loving the series.

I was coming to say Rocky too. The first kiss in the first film is awful.

Adrian is very shy, uncomfortable and says multiple times that she wants to leave, so Rocky blocks the door and traps her in the corner of the room with his arms to get her to stay and kiss him.

Not romantic at all.