Upon first watching, it was simply a groan-inducing eye-roller for me.

- A page of jokes, generally of a groan-inducing nature.

The pleasure of them is in the shared recognition that the jokes are groan-inducing.”

He also talks spectators through the action, peppering his commentary with groan-inducing jokes.

The result is tortured syntax, groan-inducing rhymes and a language unlike that ever spoken by anyone on earth.

"seasoned business executive with a bottom-line orientation" is another groan-inducing string of nothing-speak.

In the process “Memorial Day” moves from clever mock documentary to groan-inducing conceptualism.

The dialog was considered "groan-inducing" and the score "grating".

The dialogue was described as "groan-inducing".

But in this pleasant predictability, Sherman hides a wonderfully groan-inducing mid-lyric surprise.

“I know, that would have been a fun weekend,” the stoner replies, in one of the more groan-inducing final lines of a film I’ve seen.

Such groan-inducing lyrics are lapses, though.

The witty libretto was crammed with puns and jokes and some groan-inducing lines.

Instead, we grew up on a Borscht-based diet of slapstick, ethnic exaggerations and groan-inducing puns.

The dialogue was described by Maureen Ryan of the Chicago Tribune as "groan-inducing".

When the crime is finally solved, the clue is one of the oldest, most groan-inducing clichés in the mystery racket.

So much for silly hats and groan-inducing jokes: investors met the news with the sort of enthusiasm usually reserved for turkey leftovers.

Some of the lines include groan-inducing puns, such as: "You look magically delicious, and I just happen to be a cereal dater."

The Gateway NV5214u has quirks, a brief battery life, and a groan-inducing 7-pound weight that might ward off some shoppers.

The result is an odd, lurching affair, sometimes funny but occasionally so groan-inducing that you want to gather a mob with torches and pitchforks.

AllMovie wrote, "this groan-inducing would-be camp [."

But he can’t dodge a groan-inducing simile — “We stopping them/Like cop cars” — one of many that litter this album.

Also there are groan-inducing moments, like when our hero, Gideon Davis, first lays eyes on Kate Murphy, the female lead.

The range of emotion is absorbing, less so are the script's relentless time shifts and overwrought symbolism (the struck by lightning imagery is particularly groan-inducing).

Tom Sutcliffe in the Independent suggested that the show was occasionally "so groan-inducing that you want to gather a mob with torches and pitchforks."