How Can You Expect to Be Taken Seriously? is, together with double A-side Where the Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes off You), the third single from Pet Shop Boys' album Behaviour. It was released in the UK as a double A-side by Parlophone Records on 11 March 1991. It was subsequently released as a single in its own right in the United States and France. The single later peaked at a low #93 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.