Seven Minute Lull: Difference between revisions

 

== [[Film]] ==

* Happens twice to Janice of [[The Muppets]]: once in ''[[The Great Muppet Caper]]'', and once in ''[[The Muppets Take Manhattan]]''. Both times discussing nudity.

* In ''[[Ten Things I Hate About You]]'', Patrick says during a loud song at a club:

* In ''[[Honey, I Shrunk the Kids|Honey We Shrunk Ourselves]]'', the mother yells to overcome the noise of a nearby construction crew. The noise stops just as she's yelling about one of the kids having clean underwear, much to his embarrassment.

* Happens twice in the movie ''[[Dick]]''; the first time at the roller rink when Arlene yells "I love Dick!!" during the lull, and later outside when Betsy yells "You can't let Dick control your life" during a moment of silence.

** Later during the same episode, the club plays a different song with enough space during each beat that Barney and Marshall can talk during each lull.

* In the long running mexican [[Sitcom]] ''[[El Chavo Del Ocho]]'' this happens very often, with everybody arguing until Profesor Jirafales or some authority figure makes everybody shut up<ref> "Silencio. ¡Silencio! [[This Is Sparta|¡¡¡SI-LEN-CIO!!!]]"</ref>, and only the naive Chavo still talks, ''always'' saying something insulting towards the authority person (such as referring to Profesor Jirafales as "Maestro Longaniza", as Don Ramón aften does).

** Subverted in at least one episode, when after a similar situation happens, it ends with El Chavo saying "And now I'm not sayin' anything".

* ''[[Frasier]]'': "The Doctor Is Out". Frasier and Niles have walked into a gay bar looking for someone they believe is gay. Loud music is playing, and Niles feels more and more uncomfortable, especially knowing that Daphne expects him home soon - so he pleads with Frasier to give it up and leave, and just as the music stops, he yells, "I'm begging you, please take me home!".

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* ''[[Futurama]]'', "The Farnsworth Parabox": While massive rumbling occurs in the background, Leela tries to turn Fry down for a date: "I can't go out tonight because..." (rumbling stops) "I have sweaty boot rash!"

* ''[[South Park]]'', "Two Guys Naked in a Hot Tub": During the [[Seven Minute Lull]], Stan's dad Randy accidentally confesses he and Kyle's dad Gerald watched each other masturbate in the hot tub.

* Happens in an episode of the ''[[Waterman]]'' animated series - There's flash back to a party at an art gallery and the lull comes just as Waterman says, "Rectum? Damn near herpes!" Everyone stays dead silent. Thinking their silence is an indication they didn't hear the punchline, Waterman repeats himself, and as he does so the view pulls out to reveal that he and the pair he's talking to are standing next to a piece consisting of a microphone and a number of stadium bullhorns, which have been broadcasting his every word to the entire gallery anyway. Then he realizes he botched the punchline.

== [[Real Life]] ==

* On an early episode of [[QI]] John Sessions told the following anecdote:

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