Everyone has a story about the time one of their family members did something horrifically embarrassing. Like showing baby photos to your prom date, making a scene at a restaurant, or dropping someone's car 30 feet to the ground from a forklift.Or maybe that last one is just for the family of Madea. But they all ought to be used to it by now. After all the people she's insulted, smacked, or aimed a gun at, you'd think apologizing for her antics would come as second nature to them.Tyler Perry's sixth film as the tough-talking grandmother, she doesn't look like she's getting any more respectable. From brandishing a hammer on Maury Povitch's show to driving her car into a fast food joint, Madea continues to have those moments that make her relatives hide their faces in shame.
Madea's family isn't alone, though.
Here are some of the most embarrassing moments different families have had to endure in movies.

1. NATIONAL LAMPOON'S VACATION

Family: The Griswolds

2. MEET THE PARENTS
 
Family: The Byrneses

3. THE BIRDCAGE
Family: The Goldmans

4. AMERICAN PIE
 
Family: The Levensteins

4. THE NUTTY PROFESSOR
Family: The Klumps

5. LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE
 
Family: The Hoovers

6. DEATH AT A FUNERAL (2007 / 2010)
 
Family: Both of Them

7. THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS
 
Family: The Tenenbaums

8. THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
 
Family: The Skywalkers

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Dove recently unveiled its latest campaign, and it hinges on the idea that your armpits are ugly. Dove Ultimate Go Sleeveless is supposed to give women "softer, smoother underarms in just five days"—in ads for the product, which Stephen Colbert calls a "breakthrough shame-o-vation," women cut the sleeves off their tops with joyful expressions, as if they've been liberated from a terrible scourge. If it's news to you that this part of your body is not so hot, Dove says you're in the minority, citing a survey in which 93 percent of women said they "think their underarms are unattractive." And if you doubt statistics culled from 534 women in an anonymous online poll, rest assured that Dove's best advertising efforts will be directed at making those numbers true.The history of ads directed at women is particularly rich with such fear tactics. Thus, ad copy from the 1920s and '30s warned women of their place in the "beauty contest of life" (a corset manufacturer) and reminded them that "The Eyes of Men …The Eyes of Women/ Judge your Loveliness every day" (Camay soap). A 1953 ad for Chlorodent toothpaste stated point-blank: "There's another woman waiting for every man." Yikes!

This '60s-era ad for vaginal deodorant tells women that their real problem isn't underarm stench—it's "worry-making" odors in the "most girl part" of their bodies.

The reason you're single is because of those noxious fumes from down below, this Lysol ad implies.

Too bad that Lysol was ineffective, not to mention dangerous, when used for its implied purpose as a contraceptive. Used too often or improperly diluted, it burned and blistered the vagina, and in some cases even caused death.

The phrase "often a bridesmaid but never a bride" was made famous by Listerine ads. In one 1925 image, a woman reads another woman's wedding announcement with a troubled expression on her face. "Her case was really a pathetic one," the copy intones, describing the woman as nowhere near marriage "as her birthdays crept gradually toward that tragic thirty mark." The culprit? Halitosis, of course.

Like every woman, Edna's primary ambition was to marry! Too bad that stinky breath is holding her back.

Really hammering home that "often a bridesmaid" junk …

"Many a woman who says, 'No, I am never annoyed at perspiration,' does not know the facts—does not realize how much sweeter and daintier she would be if she were entirely free from it." The facts!

"Be confident of your daintiness," exhorted a 1960 ad for Massengill Powder, offering a " 'clean' refreshing fragrance [that] makes you confident you will not offend."

Like Lysol douche, products such as FDS, Massengill Powder, and Bidette Mist at once aroused anxiety about women's vaginas and offered solutions to the problem.

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 Here’s a short list of real-life parenting confessions and some expert advice about how to do the right thing, which rules are OK to bend, and which ones you should follow at all costs.

Enjoying her last days of freedom: Kate Middleton skips along the King's Road like any normal 29-year-old

With the sun on her back and the wind in her hair, Kate Middleton had a spring in her step on the King's Road in London today.

And why shouldn't she? The happiest day of her life is just nine days away, when she will finally marry the man of her dreams in front of adoring billions around the globe.

Looking as stylish as ever and rather slender (she wouldn't be the first to diet with wedding dress in mind), Kate appeared as a free as a bird and unencumbered by the trappings of a Queen in waiting.

Future Queen of the King's Road: Kate with shopping bags, right, walks with Cath Kidston behind her. As if she needed reminding, it is marking her big day with a Royal Wedding window display
Astonishingly, she appeared to only have two protection officers in sight - and one was so casually dressed he would have gone unnoticed but for the coat he was wearing on the hottest day of the year.
Miss Middleton will walk up the aisle at Westminster Abbey next Friday to marry heir to the throne Prince William.
She wore a £480 Issa short-sleeved black wrap dress and tan court kitten heels - which she was spotted wearing four years ago - accessorised with her 18-carat sapphire and diamond engagement ring.
The ring's precious stones make it worth £250,000, but the Queen-to be's version, which used to belong to Diana, is valued at £32million.

Chelsea girl: The bride-to-be, wearing a £480 Issa dress, purchased items from Whistles, an upmarket High Street chain

Low-key: Kate had little security, save two protection officers, as she enjoyed the London sunshine

Princess-in-waiting: Kate's eye-catching engagement ring set off her simple, yet stylish, outfit perfectly

 Visitors to Cologne Zoo can look for a change not only in living animals ... And all because last week there opened an exhibition of controversial artist Gunther von Hagens, devoted pet. The exhibition presents 20 works by masters of plasticization.

 German anatomist Gunther von Hagens, who was nicknamed "Doctor Death ", became famous for creating sculptures of dead human bodies, using the plastination process invented by him.

 The process of Plastination involves removing skin from the corpses, so that could be seen naked muscle tissue, nerves and internal organs, which are covered with synthetic materials that prevent the expansion of the tissue.

 In this work Gunther von Hagens does not emit any odors and do not decompose, as all liquid and fat are removed.

 Angelina Valley - the wife of Gunther von Hagens - Posing picture next to a male gorilla, subjected to an Plastination.

 The exhibition, which opened its doors on April 15, will be available to visitors until 30 September.

 Circulatory system of the horse's head, has undergone Plastination.