Collective Groan: Difference between revisions

== [[Film]] ==

* From [[Yellow Submarine]]:

'''Other Beatles:''' Sub-scribers... ooh... ''(Paul [[Face Palm|facepalms]])'' }}

 

* ''[[iCarly]]'': Done numerous times in ''iDream of Dance''.

* ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'', the "Dirty Fork" sketch. A man in a restaurant politely complains about his fork being dirty, leading to a great deal of anger and violence. At the end of the sketch:

''(everyone in the area starts booing)'' }}

* From the end of the penultimate season 2 episode of ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Star Trek the Next Generation]]'':

''(everyone cheers)'' }}

* From ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'':

'''Buffy, Xander, Willow''': ''Again?'' }}

* ''[[The 4400]]'': Not an in-show example, but in the season three bloopers, two scenes are put back-to-back to get this effect.

'''Other actors are seen groaning''' }}

* Increasingly appearing in ''[[Harry Hill's TV Burp|Harry Hills TV Burp]]''.

* ''[[Community]]'' is especially fond of this, normally in conjunction with paper balls being thrown at the target of the groans. It's become a running joke that anytime Britta mentions social justice in any way the whole group boos and groans.

'''Study Group:''' Uuuuuggggh...! }}

 

* In ''[[I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again|I'm Sorry Ill Read That Again]]'', the ''audience'' was wont to do this at any and all puns. It's worth to note that the writers often predicted this, and made the following dialogue reflect it.

** The audience made up a huge part of ''ISIRTA'''s general atmosphere. Sometimes, lines would be dropped because the audience saw the pun coming and groaned before the punchline. Occassionally, the audience would groan at a pun...and then applaud it, because it was a good pun. A typical example of the dialogue predicting the groan would go like this:

'''Tim:''' You've got to admire the bravery of it! }}

 

* ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'' has a segment in the Haunted Gallery where you go through a series of paintings, and the game proceeds to snark the hell out of them or reinterpret them in...interesting ways. One such is [[wikipedia:File:David - The Death of Socrates.jpg|David's ''The Death of Socrates'']]. You walk past the scene in question, where Socrates has just told an [[Incredibly Lame Pun]] and everyone around is [[Collective Groan|groaning]] and slamming their heads into the wall.

* In [[The Clue Finders]] 3rd Grade Adventures, we get this little one in the opening.

'''All:''' '''''OWEN!''''' }}

* ''[[Mystical Ninja]]'' on the N64 had a [[Laugh Track]], which would also groan at the ''really'' bad jokes.

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* Invoked by the writer of ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'' in the [[Alt Text]] of [http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/5p40 this] strip.

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

** There are plenty of other moments where an offscreen audience booed at him. Particularly terrible jokes in NC, [[The Nostalgia Chick]] and [[Atop the Fourth Wall]] tend to be followed by a [[Stock Snippet]] of canned booing.

** While reviewing ''[[The Spirit]]'' with [[Bad Movie Beatdown|Film Brain]], [[Atop the Fourth Wall|Linkara]] cracks a pun that doesn't just get the booing but also a caption to apologise:

* During his review of the ''[[Dirty Dancing]]'' game, [[The Spoony Experiment|Spoony]] makes a somewhat tasteless joke about the abortion scene from the movie (it involves ''[[Trauma Center]]''). Cut to stock footage of a booing audience, to which Spoony responds "What? It's in the movie!"

** Used several other times, as well, such as when he makes a joke about the death of [[The Crow|Brandon Lee.]]