Everyone has missed the point of a joke at some point or another. It may be embarrassing, but everyone moves on. Sometimes it's just a moment of slowness, sometimes the joke lacks necessary background information, sometimes it's just a bad joke. Regardless, it's okay to not get them all. But some jokes are so blatantly obvious that the sarcasm practically punches you in the face. These are the ones that are actually embarrassing to not get right away. It still happens at times though, and it's kind of funny in a roundabout way, and kind of cringe, if it's a real bad moment.

Reddit's /r/whoooosh is filled with the best moments of people totally missing the most obvious of jokes. The secondhand embarrassment from these posts is real, and you will feel it strongly. Here are 14 images found in the wild of people experiencing major big-brain moments.