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In “This Is Awkward” Plakias mentions that the possible scenarios for awkwardness to arise is near endless, but one interesting scenario is the plot of… Read More »Kimmy Schmidt? I hardly know her!

Flight of the Conchords is a musical television show featuring two men who pose as a direct opposition to Alexandra Plakias’ assertion that people aren’t… Read More »Flight of the Conkwards

In “This is Awkward” Alexandra Plakias explores the feeling and phenomena of awkwardness, studying social behavior. Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Crashing is a British comedy limited series… Read More »Crashing into the Awkwardness of Life

In the absence of social scripts, which Plakias describes as unconscious prescriptions of behavior that guide us through social interactions, the resulting awkwardness can produce… Read More »Awkward interviews, unstoppable forces and immovable objects

In ‘The Zany Science’, Sianne Ngai considers the emergence of the ‘zany’ as an aesthetic category that reflects anxieties surrounding the increasingly blurred distinction between… Read More »‘I’m charmed I’m sure’ – The Zaniness of Mrs Featherbottom

“This Is Awkward” by Alexandra Plakias explores awkwardness as a social phenomenon emerging from instances when people lack clear scripts or guidance for their behavior… Read More »Impractical Jokers and This Is Awkward

As Secretary of State under Dwight Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959, John Foster Dulles was often referred to in popular culture as “the most boring… Read More »I Made a Fool of Myself Over John Foster Dulles!

Plakias discusses how awkwardness ensues upon the failure of an infrastructure. In this post, I will look at two of the examples of failures of… Read More »That is a $200 Plasma Screen TV You Just Killed

Although Creep (2014) is billed as a horror movie, many of its fans would sooner describe it as an example of cringe comedy with a… Read More »I’m a Creep, I’m a weirdo…