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On TV, this will always happen just when someone raises their voice to be heard by exactly one person in spite of the crowd or background noise, when they say something private, highly insulting, or incredibly bizarre (or [[It Got Worse|all three]]). [[Hilarity Ensues]].

 

== [[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.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

** In another ''[[Will and Grace]]'' episode, Grace is talking to Karen at the opera. Grace is speaking loudy to be heard over the soprano; the music fades to silence in time for Grace's last word, "homos!" to echo several times through the silent theater.

* ''[[Father Ted]]'': "Chirpy Burpy Cheep Sheep" - Ted makes a dramatic entrance to the King of the Sheep tournament. As he announces to all assembled the identity of the saboteurs, the audience mutter among themselves; as they finish, a man is clearly heard to say "Fuckin' hell!" (swearing, apart from "feck" and "bollocks", never otherwise appeared in ''Father Ted'').

** 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.

** 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!".

* In a late episode of ''[[Friends]]'', Mike Hannigan takes Phoebe to a hockey game for their one-year anniversary. Straining to get her voice heard by Mike over the roar of the crowd, Phoebe yells out "You're so smart, and generous, and you're AMAZING in bed!" Guess at what point the crowd died down.

* In one episode of ''[[Gary And Mike]]'', the titular duo is at a punk gig, Gary tries to tell Mike that "This band sucks, let's go", with predictable results.

* Happens in ''[[Neighbours]]'' when the stereo is unplugged just when Janae is telling Darren that they should come clean to Libby about their kiss.

* In an episode of ''[[Mork and Mindy]]'', the lull happens just as Mork tells Mindy "...and you look great naked."

* One of [[Penn Jillette]]'s trick is a double magic trick with another magician, the two of them simultaneously asking separate audience members to draw a card and not show it. They both talk [[Motor Mouth|really fast]] over each other's lines and when the other one stops, he leaves Penn to deliver the perfectly audible line "... while traveling through vinegar", bereft of any context.

 

== [[Music]] ==

== [[Stand Up Comedy]] ==

* [[George Carlin]], quite rightly, says that these are one of those moments that seems to last forever. ''"Right! So what I'm gonna do is, I'm gonna get my TESTICLES LAMINATED!"''

 

== [[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!"

* 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.

* In the ''[[Daria]]'' episode Ill, Jane wants to ask Daria whether she wants to get a burger, but the music is too loud. She ends up yelling "GET! BURGER!" just when the music quiets down.

 

== [[Real Life]] ==

* Courtesy of [http://textsfromlastnight.com/Text-Replies-35861.html Texts from Last Night:]

 

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