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| - The drama between Susan, Karl and Mike continues. Karl is consistently showing affection towards Susan. Angry at this, Julie refuses to go to the movies with her. Just as Susan has taken her seat, she spots Mike come in with a date. She then rushes to sit next to the closest stranger and tells him to act like he knows her. The stranger immediately introduces himself as Dr. Orson to Mike, but it turns out Dr. Orson is there with his girlfriend too. Then later, he drops by Susan's house to return her purse that she left behind, and Susan ends up discussing her complicated love life with him. Dr. Orson tells Susan to quit having any feelings for Karl, he just isn't a good guy.
- Exactly What It Says on the Tin, this is when someone doesn't like to be looked at, with the title being the Stock Phrase you're most likely to hear them bellow to underline the point. Compared to Hates Being Touched, this one tends to be a more temporary state of being, often triggered by a Heroic BSOD, transformation into a Body Horror, or revealing a Red Right Hand - after all, it can be understandably difficult to write a character who actively seeks to go unnoticed. Such situations are often remedied with The Hero giving the afflicted Love Interest a Cooldown Hug and telling her that he still loves her, or that her wings are beautiful.
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| - The drama between Susan, Karl and Mike continues. Karl is consistently showing affection towards Susan. Angry at this, Julie refuses to go to the movies with her. Just as Susan has taken her seat, she spots Mike come in with a date. She then rushes to sit next to the closest stranger and tells him to act like he knows her. The stranger immediately introduces himself as Dr. Orson to Mike, but it turns out Dr. Orson is there with his girlfriend too. Then later, he drops by Susan's house to return her purse that she left behind, and Susan ends up discussing her complicated love life with him. Dr. Orson tells Susan to quit having any feelings for Karl, he just isn't a good guy. After a few more incidents where Karl tells Susan he still has feelings for her and would do anything if she told him to, Susan tells him off and returns home. Later, Karl visits Susan and tells her that he and Edie have broken up and the wedding's off. Feeling sympathetic in spite of herself, Susan invites Karl in for a bottle of wine. The two ultimately end up in bed. Susan tells Karl that she feels good about this too and she's not having any second thoughts. Just then, the phone rings. It's Edie. Edie wants Karl to get some juice. Suspicious, Susan immediately asks him why is she asking for juice from him when they've broken up. Karl tells Susan that the break-up is still a work in progress. Furious that he cheated on Edie with her, Susan throws out Karl for good. Also, Paul Young's troubles with Felicia Tilman continue. Leaving his house to go to a drug store, Paul trips badly on his front steps. It turns out his front steps have been greased with shortening. A cheerful Tilman, who's baking cookies, pops out to check on him. Next, Paul and Zach are having a cookout when Paul lights the grill to find the lighter fluid has been replaced with gasoline, resulting in a fire that shoots up in Paul's face. Later, Paul wakes up to find his house has been covered in an exterminator's tent. Angrily, he goes out, only to find Felicia Tilman merrily apologizing for giving the wrong address to the exterminator. Then she asks Paul if he was going to shoot himself like Mary Alice did. Paul grabs her by the throat, but Felicia tells everyone to look at how unstable Paul Young happens to be.
- Exactly What It Says on the Tin, this is when someone doesn't like to be looked at, with the title being the Stock Phrase you're most likely to hear them bellow to underline the point. Compared to Hates Being Touched, this one tends to be a more temporary state of being, often triggered by a Heroic BSOD, transformation into a Body Horror, or revealing a Red Right Hand - after all, it can be understandably difficult to write a character who actively seeks to go unnoticed. Such situations are often remedied with The Hero giving the afflicted Love Interest a Cooldown Hug and telling her that he still loves her, or that her wings are beautiful. In a more mundane setting, this can be merely indicative of body image issues, warranted or otherwise. This version is almost Always Female. Another version is a character being caught doing something they're ashamed of, for example if they've been Caught With Their Pants Down. Not to be confused with the remarkably similar, defensive stock phrase said when everyone in the room labels a character as the most likely culprit of some misdeed of which he's not (entirely) guilty by leveling him an accusing stare -- "Don't look at me!" rather than "Don't look at me!" -- which is... another trope entirely. Something to keep in mind when adding examples: it only counts as an example of this trope if it is used to imply that a character is ashamed of his or her appearance. Thus, it's not a Don't Look At Me if it's yelled at an Accidental Pervert stumbling upon a girl taking a bath, but it is if it's a girl disrobing in a Hentai embarrassed at the prospect of being naked in front of her boyfriend. Examples of Don't Look At Me include:
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