HBO Knows How Awkward It Is to Watch HBO With Your Parents

 By 
Brian Anthony Hernandez
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HBO Knows How Awkward It Is to Watch HBO With Your Parents
Credit: HBO Go

We've all experienced it -- the moment when you're devouring a movie or TV show on HBO and your parents wander in at the moment something awkward, like an explicit sex scene, pops up on the screen.

Sometimes, there's silence. Other times, well, your mom or dad chimes in with a comment, intensifying the awkwardness to dangerously creepy levels.

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HBO perfectly captures these scenarios in its seven "Awkward Family Viewing" commercials, below, for its subscription-streaming service, HBO Go.

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