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{{trope}}
[[File:alice_gasping_3601.jpg|link=Care Bears|frame|A textbook example. Alice gets [[Rank Inflation|an S ranking]].]]
{{quote|'''Everyone''': GASP!
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Compare [[Milking the Giant Cow]], [[Large Ham]], [[Chewing the Scenery]], [[Rule of Drama]], [[Big "What?"]], [[Big Word Shout]], [[Big No]].
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=== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ===
* ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' would use this tons of times, with gasps that lasted the greater part of a full minute.
** And they always make weird sounds and faces while doing it, to the point where it becomes a [[Big Ham]] instead of a significant effect.
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* ''[[Kirby of the Stars]]''.
=== [[Commercials]] ===
* ''Jack in the Box''.
* ''Wienerschnitzel''.
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* ''Chick-fil-A''.
=== [[Fanfic]] ===
* This happens ridiculously often in ''[[My Immortal]]''.
* Also overused in ''[[Starkit's Prophecy]]''.
=== [[Film]] - Animation ===
* ''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs]]''.
* ''[[Bolt]]''
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* In ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'', Belle does a quick gasp and turns away in horror when she first sees Beast.
=== [[Film]] - Live Action ===
* ''[[Max Keeble's Big Move]]''.
* Done for comedy in ''[[Spaceballs]]''. When Dark Helmet orders Colonel Sandurz to go to "Ludicrous Speed!" everybody on the bridge gasps.
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* [[Christopher Lloyd]] is ''really'' good at these; a perfect example comes in the first ''[[Back to the Future (film)|Back to The Future]]'', where Doc Brown gets a classic reaction face when a burning wind-up car drives into a pile of oily rags.
=== [[Live Action TV]] ===
* ''[[Frasier]]''. Frasier does this when enraptured with something, a ''lot''.
* ''[[Sonny With a Chance]]'' does this all the time, but usually they're parodying their fictional TV show "MacKenzie Falls".
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* ''[[Angel]]''. Cordelia does this when spoofing the Buffy/Angel romance in "Fredless".
=== [[Video Games]] ===
* Done [[Narm|Narmingly]] in ''[[Discworld]] Noir''. The film noir-ish protagonist Lewton is usually pretty hard-boiled and cool, but when he meets Death in person, he gives an enormous gasp, with the overacted line, "You're DEATH!" What's even funnier is that the character onscreen isn't animated any differently than usual, so it's all in the voice acting. Unfortunately, unlike most things Discworld, this is likely ''not'' meant as parody and is just a case of bad acting.
=== [[Puppet Shows]] ===
* In "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" puppet skit, the boy gasps when he sees the wolf approaching him before the wolf reveals to the boy that he isn't really evil.
* In the "Gunni Wolf" puppet ski, the little girl gasps repeatedly.
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* ''[[Sesame Street]]''.
=== [[Web Comics]] ===
* Seen in [http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0356.html this episode] of ''[[Darths and Droids]]'', then doubled for good measure [http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0357.html an episode later].
* [http://xkcd.com/742/ This] ''[[Xkcd]]''-strip.
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* Used in the ''[[Yogi Bear]]'' franchise.
* The ''Flintstones'' franchise.
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* The ''[[Inspector Gadget]]'' franchise
== Parodic, Spoof and Similar Examples: ==
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* One issue of ''[[Groo the Wanderer]]'' has a large crowd perform a ''COLLECTIVE GASP!''
=== [[Live Action TV]] ===
* Spoofed on ''[[Will and Grace]]'', when Grace snooped in Leo's bag and found a romantic letter from another woman, but wants to pretend to be shocked when he finds it:
{{quote|'''Grace:''' But then he'll know I snooped. No, he's got to find this on his own. And I've got to be there when he reads it so I can act all shocked about it. Ooh, I know what I'll do. I'll do this. ''(does three quick gasps)'' No, too big. Maybe ''(gasps twice)'' Maybe just one. ''(does a long and wildly exaggerated gasp, with slow-mo facial expressions)''
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{{quote|'''Students:''' Gasp!}}
=== [[Newspaper Comics]] ===
* ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' parodied this, during a series of strips where Calvin floats away with his helium balloon, it pops and he figures it must be a dream. To try and wake up, he looks down toward the ground and "GASP!"s repeatedly. It doesn't work.
=== [[Radio]] ===
* ''[[I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again]]'' had characters saying 'gasp' pretty often. The most notable example is probably when the entire cast, upon being told that their in-universe radio station is being closed down, react with "''SHOCKED GASP!''"
=== [[Theater]] ===
* Parodied in ''[[Urinetown]]'', when Pennywise reveals that {{spoiler|Hope is her daughter}}, the poor react with a "Gasp." When she follows it up with the fact that {{spoiler|[[Department of Redundancy Department|she is Hope's mother]]}}, the poor give a much more dramatic, "''GASP!''"
=== [[Web Animation]] ===
* See ''[[The Demented Cartoon Movie]]'' for this taken to its logical extreme.
* Spelled out in ''[[Bonus Stage (web animation)|Bonus Stage]]'' episode Evil's New Groove.
* ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' uses a "GASP!" stock effect whenever a character declares they're going to do something daring (or [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|what they think is daring]].) A good example is [http://homestarrunner.com/xmas08.html Decemberween].
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* Parodied in ''[[Fairly Oddparents]]'' a couple of times, at one point which Timmy's dad yells, "'''GIGA.GASP!!!'''"
* Parodied in an episode of ''[[The Oblongs]]'' where a crowd of people continually gasp until it's revealed it was just Mikey's (the ass kid) asthma.
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* In ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'', this is Twlight Sparkle's (and the audience's) first impression of [[Cloudcuckoolander|Pinkie ]][[Genki Girl|Pie]]. All Twilight said was "Hi..."
=== Web Original ===
* In episode 3 of ''[[Rose of Versailles Abridged]]'', Maria Theresa ended her lesson on "Amp up the drama" with a shot of Oscar gasping.
* ''[[Avatar: The Abridged Series]]'': "Le Gasp! I must flee, sexily."
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