Character Filibuster: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Boston Legal]]'', [[Once an Episode]]. It got so bad and so continuous and so integrated and so expected that nearly every case in the last series featured the judge telling the filibusterer to [[Get On With It]] already.

** [[Justified Trope]]. That's what a closing argument ''is''. In real life, if the case is big enough, closing arguments can go on for ''days''.

** [[Stephen Fry|"I've missed your angry logic, David!"]]

* Happens more than [[Once an Episode]] in ''[[Grey's Anatomy]]''.

* Steve's legendary rants in ''[[Coupling]]'' on subjects such as cushions, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZsrU9unlE8 locks on bathrooms] and lesbian porn.

* One Japanese variety show once had a segment in which a couple of highschool students did a movie parody of Charlie's Angels. One of the students was so impressively good at this trope that at one point the camera (an industrial, movie-business type of camera, mind!) literally stopped working before he stopped.

** It only makes sense that Frasier managed to hook up with Diane Chambers on ''[[Cheers]]''. She has frequently made long-winded speeches, novels, and even answering machine messages.

** Frasier's biggest one has got to be the time he spent an ''entire'' episode parked at the exit of a parking garage refusing to pay the $2.00 fee because he didn't actually park after entering it, while bending the ears of the ticket guard's and the angry crowd behind him about stupid rules. Niles, who is stuck in the car with him, calls him an idiot for fifteen minutes before Frasier ''finally'' realizes that maybe he's wrong, and he should stop feeling the need to filibuster all the time, leading to this priceless exchange:

'''Frasier:''' Oh come on, I can only change one character flaw at a time! }}

* Parodied on ''[[Green Acres]]''. Oliver would sometimes go into a long winded speech about how great America is and/or how it was great because of farmers accompanied by a fife playing either "Yankee Doodle" or "Battle Hymn of the Republic". At one point, everyone just got bored and left, even the unseen fife player.

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