Chirping Crickets: Difference between revisions

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*Laspistol discharges, body falls* }}

* ''[[Dragon Ball Abridged]]'', after Nappa tears off Tenshinhan's arm.

{{quote|'''Vegeta:''' Looks like he's been...[[Incredibly Lame Pun|dis-armed!]]

*Gust of wind*

'''Nappa:''' I get it! }}

* ''[[Turnabout Storm]]'', when [[Ace Attorney|Phoenix Wright]] has a serious case of [[Critical Research Failure]].

{{quote|'''Phoenix:''' A storm cloud!? You call that decisive!? How could you place blame on my client for that!? Unless you are honestly suggesting [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|Rainbow Dash]] can [[Painting the Frost on Windows|move around clouds and make them shoot lightning at will!]]

*Complete silence, chirping crickets*

'''Phoenix:''' ''([[Why Are You Looking At Me Like That?|Why is everyone staring at me like that?]])'' }}

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* In ''[[Doctor Who]]'', the Doctor saves the Earth yet again and says, "Who da man?", which is promptly followed by a beat of silence from his companions Amy and Rory, which leads to the Doctor saying, "I'm never saying that again."

* ''[[Attack of the Show]]'' has recently been hosted by Chris Hardwick while Kevin Pereira is off to cover the Consumer Electronics Association trade show. Any time Hardwick tries to be funny in this role (which is near-constantly), one has to feel embarrassed due to the cringe-inducing, near-complete lack of audience response.

* ''[[Attack of the Show!]]'' has recently been hosted by Chris Hardwick while Kevin Pereira is off to cover the Consumer Electronics Association trade show. Any time Hardwick tries to be funny in this role (which is near-constantly), one has to feel embarrassed due to the cringe-inducing, near-complete lack of audience response.

* ''[[~~Myth Busters~~]]'' uses both crickets and the tumbleweed sound effect, usually following a particularly bad pun by a member of the build team.

* ''[[MythBusters]]'' uses both crickets and the tumbleweed sound effect, usually following a particularly bad pun by a member of the build team.

{{quote|'''Kari:''' [[Lampshade Hanging|Where are these fricking crickets?]]}}

* ''[[The Girls Next Door]]'' uses this a lot, to accompany blank or stunned reactions after something dumb is said. Kendra gets a lot of these.

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== [[Web Comics]] ==

* Invoked in [http://www.explosm.net/comics/1184/ this] ''[[Cyanide ~~and~~ Happiness]]'' strip. Played with [http://www.explosm.net/comics/2107/ here] as you can't tell whether the crickets are chirping as their form of applause or if the comedian is misinterpreting their chirping as applause.

* Invoked in [http://www.explosm.net/comics/1184/ this] ''[[Cyanide & Happiness]]'' strip. Played with [http://www.explosm.net/comics/2107/ here] as you can't tell whether the crickets are chirping as their form of applause or if the comedian is misinterpreting their chirping as applause.

* 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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== [[Web Original]] ==

* Both played straight and parodied in [[The Nostalgia Critic]]'s review of ''[[Good Burger]]''. Twice, an animated tumbleweed rolls across the screen during a particularly unfunny scene. The third time, it starts to roll across the screen, stops, says, "You know what? Fuck it." and then puts on a fedora and ''walks'' off the screen the way he came.

* Happens a couple of times in [[The Nostalgia Chick]]'s review of ''[[Hercules (~~Disney~~ film)|Hercules]]'', whenever the plot gets especially confusing.

* 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 [[Lampshades]] it.

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** And again in the 138th Episode Spectacular, when Troy McClure introduces the lost scenes to the "Who Shot Mr. Burns" two-parter, he starts out with a dramatic, "This past summer, all of America tried to find out who shot Mr. Burns..." then shifts to a flat, "Then they found out it was the baby." Silence, save for a deliberate cough.

** The standard audience reaction to a joke by Krusty is a deathly silence punctuated by the sound of a lone man coughing in the back row.

* Lampshaded in an episode of ''[[Lilo ~~and~~ Stitch: The Series]]'' where Pleakely tries to become a stand-up comic. After his first few jokes fall flat, we hear chirping crickets... followed by Pleakely asking "Where'd those crickets come from?"

* Lampshaded in an episode of ''[[Lilo & Stitch: The Series]]'' where Pleakely tries to become a stand-up comic. After his first few jokes fall flat, we hear chirping crickets... followed by Pleakely asking "Where'd those crickets come from?"

* In the episode "Almost Got 'Im" of ''[[Batman: The Animated Series|Batman the Animated Series]]'', an episode in which the villains describe their elaborate schemes to get Batman, Killer Croc describes how he faced off with Batman in a quarry, and then...

{{quote|'''Killer Croc:''' I THREW A ROCK AT HIM!

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