A recent study found that kids who watched television with their folks were almost four times as likely to be frightened by scary programs as those who viewed alone. Apparently seeing Mom get scared during "Sleepaway Party III" makes it even more horrifying for the kids in the house. But if watching scary movies with Mom and Dad makes them even scarier, why doesn't watching sexy movies the rents make them even sexier? Oh, that's right, because it's completely mortifying to watch anything even slightly erotic in the same room with the people who gave birth to you.
Heather: I offered to go scoop some ice cream for the whole fam when the Kelly McGinnis/Tom Cruise love scene in "Top Gun" came on. I still get skeeved out when I see that super-tame scene. It's like I'll always be 12. I also watched "I'm Gonna Get You Sucka" with my parents and grandparents. They did not appreciate the "sophisticated" humor of the Wayans brothers. Grandma referred to it as "asinine."
Andrea: "Jerry Maguire." That 10-second wall-humping scene -- WHY DIDN'T ANYONE WARN ME?
Emerald: My grandma recommended a movie to my mom, and we rented it and watched it. I don't remember what the name of it was, but it was filled with lesbian sex scenes. So it was not only embarrassing because I was trapped in a room with my mom and some lesbian sex, but also because I knew that my grandma had watched it and liked it.
Julieanne: My mom and I went to go see "Innerspace" and she thought for some reason that when Martin Short and Meg Ryan kissed (in order to transmit tiny Dennis Quaid through their spit), they were having sex. She whispered really loudly, "THEY'RE HAVING INTERCOURSE," and somebody in the theater turned around and went, "NO THEY AREN'T."
Have you ever watched something with the fam you wished you hadn't?
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Thursday 22 October
By Georgia
Watched Exit to Eden with the 'rents. It was like watching soft-core porn. Talk about awkward... for 2 HOURS! Somewhere along the way I pretended I had fallen asleep.
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Thursday 22 October
By Annie B.
Nobody's probably heard of this movie, but it's called Performance, and it starred Mick Jagger and James Fox. The movie is 1/4 gratuitous violence and 3/4 gratuitous sex- I cannot recall one scene without nudity. (Hey, it was the 60's). I watched that with my mom, yet what was truly embarrassing about that movie was Jagger's hair...
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Thursday 22 October
By Melissa
Monster's Ball. I was like 15. Completely mortifying!
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Thursday 22 October
By Amy
Knocked up. With my grandparents. I had to pretend not to get most of the jokes, and when Seth Rogen's character mentioned a BJ, my grandmother leaned over and whispered to me "What's a BJ?" I had to tell her what it stands for.
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Friday 23 October
By TOAD
True dat. i saw that with my girlfriend (when we were 17) and her parents when we got stuck during a road trip. i felt eyes on every sex reference
Thursday 22 October
By 15 year old girl
Three words
BORAT, TWO TIME
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Friday 23 October
By Hugh Jass
LOL @ Borat. Me too. I saw once with my mom. First time we went to the movies together since we saw "Grandma's Boy" which btw, is about pot-smoking, naked old people... Ugh, she thought it was a Christmas Special or something. I hate having to stifle the laughter, because I know she's doing it too...
Sunday 25 October
By Another 15 year old girl
Yes! I saw Borat with my parents. The nude wrestling scene was... just... no words.
But, I still don't think it was as embarassing as seeing Pulp Fiction with my parents. The oral sex scene, the gimp... JEEZUS
Monday 26 October
By Amanda
hey. i saw BRUNO with the rents AND grandparents. doesnt get much worse than that.
Friday 23 October
By Teeny
Swordfish, any one remember the BJ scene? Yea, not something you really want to watch with your parents.
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Thursday 22 October
By HannahBelle
Went to see American Pie with my dad. Most awkward hour and a half of my life.
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Saturday 24 October
By A
I saw American Pie with my mom and she laughed harder than I did and I was 17 when that movie came out...SO NOT AN EMBARASSING MOVIE!!
Thursday 22 October
By Hannah
Almost any movie that isnt disney or pixar is awkward to see with my parents! If I do get stuck watching something with an awkward scene in it with either of my parents, I normally just make a joke out of it or say "pffft well thats stupid looking!" My mom is the worst though!
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Thursday 22 October
By mletrav
In middle school, my dad and I watched "Wild Things." So beyond awkward. I'm still cringing!
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Thursday 22 October
By squirt787
A History of Violence with my dad. How was I supposed to know that there would be a super graphic sex scene between Viggo Mortensen and Maria Bello? I'm talking nudity, as well as an extended scene of Viggo "servicing" Maria.
My dad is a deacon at his church.
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Friday 23 October
By Lindsay
posted my comment before i read this. yeah this movie was the absolutely worst movie i could have picked to watch with my parents. mortifying
Thursday 22 October
By Kelsey
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN! In a packed theater too. I couldn't escape the awkwardness
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Friday 23 October
By Kara
I almost had to sit through Zack and Miri Make a Porno with my mom in a theater. Luckily the heater was broken so she decided she didn't want to see it.
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Friday 23 October
By Vicky
When I was 11 my mom decided we should go to see Scary Movie because it looked funny. So there I was a pre-pubescent girl watching a hardcore sex scene sitting in between my mom and dad.
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Friday 23 October
By Rhonda
17 years old - Endless Love with my mom. Got to relive the trauma from the opposite side when I was in my thirties and my 20 year old nephew and I went to see Monster's Ball. I died a thousand deaths for him.
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