Narm
//ˈnɑː(ɹ)m// noun
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Noun
- 1 A television or movie scene that is portrayed as serious but unintentionally seen as funny.
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Coined by TV Tropes in 2007, referring to a scene in Six Feet Under's final season where main protagonist Nate Fisher complains about his arm being numb while suffering a brain embolism and repeats the words "numb arm", quickly slurring them into the single syllable "narm".
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