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Can't Tie His Tie
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It's standard protocol for men to wear either a necktie or bow tie when dressed up formally. But in many cases, the guy just can't do it. Often, if there's a female companion, she will end up doing it for him, although he will not always be happy about it. This is also sometimes used as a form of Ship Tease due to the necessary proximity required, and may or may not result in a Necktie Leash. Often Truth in Television, since guys these days have the option of clip-on ties or just don't dress up often enough to get used to it, or both. Another common form is a mother tying her son's tie. Usually accompanied by comments about how handsome he looks, or how grown up he's become. If a character manages to get their tie but does it incorrectly, then it may be a Wardrobe Flaw of Characterization. Zip Me Up applies a similar Ship Tease element to female attire. For another excuse to stand beside your love interest and touch them, see Hands-On Approach. |
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In the anime of THE iDOLM@STER: Cinderella Girls, Mishiro fixes the Producer's tie within seconds of their first encounter. | |
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CSI: NY: In "Indelible", Adam has trouble with his tie while getting ready to go to the 10th anniversary memorial of Sept. 11, and Lindsay ends up tying it for him. | |
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Ryan Atwood of The O.C. cannot tie his borrowed tie on his borrowed suit. He attempts to hide this by claiming he prefers the untied look and Sandy calls him on it, then helps him. A few seasons later this replays with Ryan's brother, Trey. | |
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In Honor Harrington, the Grayson military's uniforms come with ties, and Honor has to wear them sometimes. She can't do the tie, so her steward MacGuinness does it for her. | |
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In the Dexter TV show, his sister has to tie Dexter's tie on the day of his wedding. Bit of subtext there, since their actors were married to each other at the time. | |
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The Simpsons: Homer Simpson teaches Bart how to put on a necktie by presenting his clip-on: "The hook goes over the top, and these things go in there!" | |
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For one MythBusters test, Jamie and Adam both had to don full tuxedos. Jamie had to get their guest expert to tie his bow tie for him. | |
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Blue Exorcist: At the beginning, Rin is lent a suit to apply for a job, but can't work out the tie at all. Similar to other examples, he claims he's going for the smart-casual look, but Father Fujimoto calls him on it and ties it for him. | |
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On Roseanne, David is lamenting the fact that his dysfunctional parents aren't showing up for his wedding, while his older brother Mark argues he shouldn't even care. David, meanwhile, is trying to put on his tie, which Mark eventually does for him. Mark mentions that their father taught him how to do it, but that it's really the only thing he can remember him ever doing for him. | |
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Laura Caxton: Arkeley's inability to tie his own tie after his injuries is another example of how far he's fallen, which contributes to his decision to become a vampire. | |
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Runaways (2017): In "Metamorphosis", Alex has trouble tying his tie. Geoffrey offers to help him with it, but given the previous episode, Alex isn't too keen on it. | |
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In Married... with Children, it's not indicated that Al can't tie his necktie properly, but Peg doesn't like the way he does, and insists on adjusting it, which results in their kids and the next-door neighbors being treated to an Innocent Innuendo-laden conversation. | |
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In Moriarty the Patriot, Sherlock rarely wears a tie and when he is first seen struggling with a necktie, he tells John he hasn't worn one since graduating from university. This is a repeated character flaw and is underscored when John agrees to help him fix one before meeting with Queen Victoria after a fight, signifying that they've made up. | |
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At the start of 13 Sins, Shelby ties Elliot's tie for him when he goes in for an interview with his boss that he thinks is going to result in a promotion. | |
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Ben 10: Alien Force: Given that he spent much of his adolescence on the run or in lockup, Kevin has never had much experience with school dances and struggles with his tie in "Save the Last Dance". Ben does it for him. | |
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Star Wars: Resistance Reborn: While preparing to infiltrate a fancy party, Finn needs Poe's help to tie his suit's tie, embarrassingly noting that the First Order obviously did not teach its stormtroopers how to do so. | |
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Earl from My Name Is Earl. One time he was going on a job interview and Randy had untied his tie that their grandfather had tied for him who-knows-how-many years ago. Earl complained, but Randy said he wanted to show Earl what he'd look like as a yuppie at a concert (tie tied in a simple square knot around his forehead). | |
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Minority Report: When preparing for the ceremony, Burgess has trouble tying his bow tie and asks Anderton's wife for help. It leads to a pivotal I Never Said It Was Poison revelation. | |
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Iron Man: After getting his memory rebooted, Tony Stark discovers he can't remember how to tie a tie. His friend Jim Rhodes has to help him. | |
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A "Lighter Side of..." strip in MAD magazine had a husband complaining about how hard tying a bowtie was and his wife responding that it was no harder than tying an apron (NOTE: regardless of which is more difficult, tying an apron and tying a tie are very dissimilar techniques). He says if it's so easy then she should do it for him. She does, by turning her back and tying it with him sitting behind her. | |
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In the American Dad! episode "Phantom of the Telethon", Roger sabotages Stan's CIA telethon and then undoes Stan's bowtie which he can't redo. | |
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In Peter Pan Mr. Darling is having problems tying his bowtie properly when he and Mrs. Darling are getting ready for their evening out, and she has to tie it properly for him. Given that he was in the middle of a rant as he was trying to tie it though, it's not entirely clear if didn't know how to tie it, or if he was just too flustered to concentrate on it. | |
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The Nostalgia Critic: One behind-the-scenes video shows Doug Walker, being unable to tie his trademark red tie, right before shooting his crossover with James Rolfe, The Angry Video Game Nerd. He asks all the men present in the house for help, including the cameraman (his brother Rob), Mike Matei, and even James Rolfe himself, who tries and fails multiple times to tie the tie. In the end, James Rolfe's wife is the only one who is able to do it. | |
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School Zone Girls has Rei, who's a rare female example. While the school requires girls to wear neckties as part of the uniform, Rei doesn't wear hers. Possibly as a result of this, she's utterly hopeless at tying it when she has to wear it to a school assembly, forcing her best friend Kei to help her. | |
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Neon Genesis Evangelion: Angelic Days uses this in its final volume. Asuka fixes Shinji's while complaining about how she has to do this, and how Shinji can't, and other things while blushing. The others take it as a sign that their Relationship Upgrade is holding. | |
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In The Automatic Detective, Mack's big smashy hands are simply incapable of tying ties and he requires assistance. A later short story establishes that he switches to clip-ons and loves them. | |
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Steven Universe: In "The Big Show", Buck gets some flack for being completely unable to tie a tie despite being the son of the previous mayor, who wore them every day. He admits that Bill wore clip-ons. | |
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Twin Peaks: In "The Return: Part 5", Janey-E ties Cooper's tie, when he leaves the house with it still around his neck untied. | |
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In one story on Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling, the good wrestlers are helping a friend run a hotel. Hulk Hogan couldn't tie his bowtie and Wendi Richter had to help him. | |
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Near the beginning of Peter Pan, Mr and Mrs Darling are dressing to go out for dinner; Mr Darling can't get his tie to work ("Not round my neck! Round the bed-post! Oh yes, twenty times have I made it up round the bed-post, but round my neck, no!") and has to get his wife to tie it for him. | |
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Akuma no Riddle: In this case, her tie; In the final chapter, Tokaku and Haru are adults, both wearing suits. Noticing Haru's loose tie, Tokaku tightens it up for her. | |
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Sports Night: Casey ("I used to have a wife for that"), which is why Kim is tying it for him in "The Hungry And The Hunted". | |
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As the World Turns: Noah has trouble tying his tie and Luke helps him, leading to their First Kiss, which is the first male/male kiss shown on American daytime. | |
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NCIS: In "Institutionalized", Gibbs walks into the lab to discover Kasie attempting to tie a necktie. When Gibbs asks her what she is doing, she explains that an old friend has a job interview and doesn't know how to tie a tie. She promised him she would tie it for him, only to discover she doesn't know how to tie one either. Gibbs takes the tie from her, ties it around his own neck, and hands it to her. Kasie's friend later turns to be the main suspect in the Mystery of the Week. | |
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In W817, Tom needs his fiancé Ellen's help to properly tie a tie: | |
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In Superman: The Wedding Album, Clark is struggling with his bowtie, and Jimmy Olsen says, "Let an expert help with that," before turning out to be Mr Mxyzptlk. (It doubles as a Mythology Gag since the Silver Age Jimmy and Mxy both wore bowties all the time.) | |
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In Animorphs #21: The Threat, Ax needs to disguise himself as a human Controller, but the disguise includes a tie, which none of the guys know how to tie. Rachel ends up doing it. | |
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Batman: Wayne Family Adventures: Played for Laughs in "S.O.S.". Youths Duke and Damian can't tie their ties for a party without Alfred on hand and turn to Bruce for help. It turns out Bruce can't do it either, and frantically winds up calling Superman and the Justice League for help. And when that doesn't work they just follow Wonder Woman's suggestion to go without ties in the end. | |
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Dave in Alvin and the Chipmunks. Simon has to help him with his bow tie while they’re talking in "Chipwrecked", as Dave’s getting ready to have dinner with the captain. | |
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Daredevil: In "Penny and Dime", Matt is about to put his tie on when Karen shows up at his apartment as he's getting dressed for Grotto's funeral. She decides to tie his tie for him (even though he's more than capable of doing it himself), the two of them gently flirting the whole time. | |
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Right at the beginning of Little Women Part II, Meg finishes getting dressed and ties her husband-to-be's cravat for their wedding, dispensing with the usual superstition about how a groom shouldn't see the bride before the vows and demonstrating how simple and domestic their wedding is to be. When Aunt March arrives and is instantly greeted by Meg, she tries to tell her that she shouldn't be seen yet, but Meg laughs it off. | |
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Devon in Raven's Home; he ends up going to Raven for help. | |
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In Seeds of Yesterday, Chris ties his tie, and then promptly asks Cathy to redo it for him. | |
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When preparing for his homecoming date, Spider-Man: Homecoming's Peter Parker is shown consulting a Youtube tutorial on the Windsor knot. | |
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The West Wing: On at least one occasion Donna Moss has had to do up Josh Lyman's bowtie for him which only ramped up the Unresolved Sexual Tension between them. | |
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In Sorority Row, Cassie unties Andy's tie on the pretext that he has put it on wrong and she is going to retie it for him. However, she then pulls him down on to the bed. | |
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In Heavy Rain, the police chief is shown struggling with a tie, as he usually wears a clip-on to avoid it being used against him by a suspect. | |
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The Patrick Star Show: In "Bummer Jobs", Cecil ties his tie, but ends up making it too tight. Later on, Patrick tries to put on a tie himself, but ends up getting it wrapped around his arms and legs and strangling himself with it. | |
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On The Jeffersons, there was a flashback to George getting ready for a meeting with a banker for a loan to start his own cleaners. He put on his suit and was having difficulty with his tie when the banker arrived. George told him he was just taking it off. | |
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The Ripper (1997) opens with Inspector Hansen agonising over how to properly tie his cravat for dinner with Sir Charles at Sir Charles' Smoky Gentlemen's Club, and complaining that there are over a dozen different ways to tie a cravat; to the bewilderment of his assistant Sergeant Bell. Later, when Hansen confronts Prince Albert during a pheasant shoot, Albert looks at Hansen's cravat and tells him that a reverse Clarendon is really only appropriate in town and unties it before retying it in an ascot, which he says is much more appropriate for the country. | |
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Sometimes used as part of an absent-minded characterisation of the Doctor in Doctor Who: The Second Doctor can tie his bow tie, but never straight or evenly. The knot is correct but askew. The Fourth Doctor almost always ties his cravat incorrectly, although the precise way in which it's incorrect depends on the story itself. He tends to twist it up and just double-knot it, or occasionally just pins it together. |
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Person of Interest. In "Provenance", despite being known as "The Man in a Suit", Badass in a Nice Suit John Reese still needs instruction from Sharp-Dressed Man Harold Finch on how to do up his tie for a Black-Tie Infiltration. Sameen Shaw enters and promptly lampshades the Homoerotic Subtext. | |
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During the opening montage in Up, Ellie is seen straightening Carl's tie. She's seen doing it many times as they grow older. The rest of the movie, which takes place after Ellie dies, only ever shows Carl wearing a bowtie, showing that he never learned how to tie his tie even after Ellie died. | |
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In God's Army, there's a sequence where Elder Allen has a hard time getting his tie to the right length. Elder Dalton finally gives him a pre-tied tie. | |
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CSI: In the episode "Formalities" at a fancy dinner, Grissom has trouble with a bowtie and grumbles that he needs a clip-on, so Catherine steps in to help with a dry "you need a woman" comment. | |
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Eighth Doctor Adventures: In The Last Resort, Fitz doesn't seem to be doing a good job tying a tie when he's forced to pass as a respectable businessman, so Anji helps. | |
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In The Batman (2022), Bruce has so little interest in his civilian ID that he is almost leaves to attend the mayor's funeral wearing a shirt with uundone cuffs because he couldn't find his cufflinks. Alfred cannot allow him to leave the house like that and removes the cufflinks from his own shirt and puts them on Bruce's. | |
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Job: A Comedy of Justice: Part of the early indication that there was a relationship between "Alec" and Margrethe is her willingness to help Alex into his formalwear, including tying his tie. | |
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Stan on The Golden Girls — Dorothy winds up tying it for him. | |
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Fruits Basket: In the second chapter/episode, Tohru helps Yuki fix his tie after accidentally transforming him. Yuki's reaction is stunned but pleasant surprise at the fact that she genuinely doesn't care about his curse and still wants to be his friend. Not necessarily romantic, but definitely heartwarming. | |
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Superboy (1994): Roxy has to tie Superboy's tie for him when he tries to dress nice for a date with Tana since he never learned how to do so himself. | |
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In the BBC's 2002 production of The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Henry struggles with his white tie when dressing for dinner, and Watson finally does it for him. | |
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Clumsy has a few fumbles tying his tie in The Smurfs (1981) episode "The Golden Smurf Award". | |
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Joey from Friends gets others to tie ties for him. One scene begins with Ross apparently doing up his own tie only for him to take it off and hand it to Joey instead. | |
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