Vote for the Most Unintentionally Funny Scene!

Today’s category in the Yahooies!, Yahoo TV’s awards celebrating the best of the 2014-15 TV season including summer shows, celebrates those scenes that weren’t meant to make us laugh (at least not as much as we did).

The nominees for Most Unintentionally Funny Scene are…

The final question round, Miss USA Pageant

She wasn’t the only one who struggled (Nevada was asked how she’d improve race relations in America and to “be specific”), but Rhode Island clearly didn’t understand the term “political correctness” when she was asked whether it was helping or hurting our country. After asking for the question to be repeated, she only had time to say, “I think that it’s a balance of both. We need the people to remind us, especially politicians to remind us, what to do right, when to do wrong.” — Mandi Bierly

Juliette hits rock bottom, with a snow globe, Nashville

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Juliette’s pregnancy had plenty of moments that were meant to make us chuckle (see: the scooter), but her postpartum depression is a serious matter. As a viewer, it’s difficult — and frustrating — to watch a character in that deep of denial. So why did we laugh when she and Avery got into a blowup while he was holding the baby she’s been so busy avoiding? Because her diva tantrum and disconnect was so over-the-top — “Give it to me… Give me the damn baby!” — and ended with her throwing a snow globe at Avery’s head. A snow globe. — MB

Aria and Spencer might freeze to death, Pretty Little Liars

Are characters ever not getting locked in odd places? Photography dark rooms, basements, stores… the list goes on and on. But when Aria and Spencer wound up trapped in a freezer in an abandoned ice cream factory (don’t even get us started — there are so many abandoned factories and warehouses in Rosewood!) while looking for Mona’s laptop, it pretty much took the proverbial cake. Or ice cream cake, in this case. As usual, “A” magically knew where the girls were and magically had a key to turn on the power to start pumping life-threatening levels of liquid nitrogen into the tiny room. After Emily fails to save them in her first try, she watches as their faces in the window get absurdly iced over. We should be terrified, but when have those Liars ever not gotten out of such a bind? — Breanne L. Heldman

“It’s like blue balls… in your heart," True Detective

How did Vince Vaughn manage to deliver this all-time howler with a straight face? (It sounds like a lame joke from one of his frat-boy movie comedies.) And how did Colin Farrell manage to receive it without giggling and ruining the take? This is the true mystery of True Detective… even more so than what the hell happened this season. — Dave Nemetz

Home invasion by a stealth bear, Zoo

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Actually, he wasn’t that stealth at all. We could hear him breathing. Why couldn’t the French woman he followed through her home and into her kitchen? And you know those hardwood floors would creak. — MB

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