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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.
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== Film ==
* One of the funnier ones occurs in the Jim Carrey movie ''[[Liar Liar]]'', where, after a civil trial that goes disastrously wrong because he can't tell a lie, Fletcher Reed realizes he has an out through the truth. An instant before the judge issues a ruling, Reed, amends from "I have no further witnesses" to "I call [my client] to the stand". The resulting hubbub in the courtroom is not ended by the judge's several cries for order; Reed manages to quiet them with an irritated "Knock it off!" The judge is not impressed, instructs Reed to sit down, and then:
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* Happens a couple of times in [[A Time to Kill]]: once after [[Samuel L. Jackson]]'s character is badgered into shouting "Yeah, they deserved to die and I hope they burn in hell!" and once after the unintentional victim of his shootout says he agrees with the main character's actions and that they should "turn him loose!"
== Live Action Television ==
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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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