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{{trope}}
[[File:ChirpingCrickets 2985.png|link=El Goonish Shive|frame|Given that it's indoors, that is some
{{quote|''"When I get my hands on that cricket, it's ''snack time!''"''
|'''Beetlejuice''', ''[[Beetlejuice (animation)|Beetlejuice]]''}}
A character says or does something intended to elicit an enthusiastic response from a group watching him, such as the audience in a theatre or a band of comrades. But instead of the reaction he expects, he hears nothing but the sound of crickets chirping, suggesting that not only is nobody responding, there's nobody there ''to'' respond.
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In anime this trope may be represented not by insects but by birds flying by (such as the [[Idiot Crows]]). Of course, birds can also have other symbolic meanings so don't be too quick to apply this to every appearance. More often than not, it's coupled with a [[Sweat Drop]].
Compare [[Loudspeaker Truck]]. Contrast [[Dramatic Wind]] for a completely different use of a tumbleweed blowing by.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* Happens to Ponty from ''Mike Nelson's Death Rat!'' when he tries name-dropping some of his written works while talking to his roommates, hoping for some form of recognition. The next sentence simply reads: "Far away, a dog barked."
== [[Music]] ==
* In the video for [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]'s [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2mU6USTBRE "Fat"], the silent seconds between the transition from black and white to color and the beginning of Al's "transformation" are filled with chirping crickets.
== [[Radio]] ==
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* Used a few times in ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'', [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0421.html once] when Elan messes his [[Rousing Speech]], and [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0097.html once] when Xykon is incapable of joining his minions in a hearty laugh (though in this case, with no crickets available, a demonic cockroach had to provide the cough).
* Spoofed in ''[[Adorable Desolation]]'' [http://adorabledesolation.comicgenesis.com/d/20090116.html here], when a main character swears she heard them.
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** Used again [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-08-25 here] along with the tumbleweed to highlight emptiness rather than awkward silence or a joke falling flat.
* This trope is explained in [https://web.archive.org/web/20131226042433/http://partiallyclips.com/2007/10/02/cricket/ this] ''[[Partially Clips]]''.
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* Happens a couple of times in [[The Nostalgia Chick]]'s review of ''[[Hercules (1997 film)||Hercules]]'', whenever the plot gets especially confusing.
* For those that need to hear it themselves, [http://instantrimshot.com/index.php?sound=crickets voila!]
* During Team RWBY's first encounter with Penny in S1E15 of ''[[RWBY]]'', the tumbleweed-and-wind version happens ''twice'' in the space of a couple minutes. Penny even [[
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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