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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"One more outburst like that and I'll clear this courtroom!"''}}
 
Device used to indicate shock at the events of a trial.
 
Note that the courtroom is never actually cleared. Therefore, once the '''Penultimate Outburst''' is heard, it's a signal that the trial's drama has reached its climax.
 
Also the punchline of a joke about a flatulent judge.
 
{{See also: [[|Courtroom Antic]]}}
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== Film ==
 
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== Western Animation ==
* Also seen in the 1974 [[Peanuts|Charlie Brown]] special ''It's A Mystery, Charlie Brown'', where Lucy Van Pelt uses it word for word... at the end of a "trial" where she decides that Woodstock can have his nest back from Sally Brown.
 
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