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Effectively the opposite of [[Two Scenes, One Dialogue]]. Two
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** In the first season finale, GOB has a scene with Kitty in which he does this; she's trying to convince him to join her to take over the Bluth company, but he's trying to figure out what he can order that's OK for the Atkins Diet. In the commentary, the entire cast was silent for this entire exchange (if you can call it that) and spent a couple of minutes singing the praises of Will Arnett for his performance in the scene, and it was impressive; not a single one of his lines worked off of anything she was saying. "What about macaroni -- let me finish -- ''salad''? GOB is kind of dumb.
* Happens several times in [[Seinfeld]], done three-way at least once.
* Lennier and Vir meet on a weekly basis to do this on ''[[Babylon 5]]''. Sheridan also likes doing this, mostly with Delenn and/or Ivanova, when he's coming up with one of his "clever ideas"
* This is the entire basis of Darin's conversations with his buddy at the bar he goes to on ''[[Bewitched]]''.
* Happens often on ''[[Just Shoot Me]]'' between Nina and some other character (usually Maya). Self-absorbed Nina often doesn't realize there is someone else talking next to her.
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