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'''Pegasus:''' Blah blah blah, attack mode blah.<br />
'''Yami:''' ''(in horrified disbelief)'' Blah blah blah?!<br />
'''Pegasus:''' ''(triumphantly)'' Blah!|''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!:
This trope occurs when someone is listening to someone talk and all they can hear is "blah, blah, blah". Usually used for comedic effect, it indicates that the auditor finds the conversation irrelevant, incomprehensible or boring. Or all of the above.
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An older phrase of similar usage from British television is Rhubarb Rhubarb (or, rarely, Rabbit Rabbit). See also [[Audience Murmurs]]. May combine with [[Wall of Blather]].
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== Live-Action TV ==
* Willow, in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'': ''"Blah blah Gaia. Blah blah moon. [[Buffy
** Buffy in an earlier episode interrupts a lecture of Giles's.
{{quote| '''Buffy:''' Blah blah, biddy blah, I'm so stuffy, get me a scone.}}
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{{quote| '''Buffy:''' Same as all the others. Slayer called. Blah, blah. Great protector. Blah, blah. Scary battles. Blah, blah. Oops! She's dead. Where are the details?}}
* ''[[Supernatural (TV)|Supernatural]]'' episode "Tall Tales" [[Rashomon Style|in which we see certain events through the main characters' eyes.]] Dean's version of Sam ends up nagging him in 'blah's.
* In the first ''[[The Comic Strip Presents]]'' episode, "Five Go Mad In Dorset" (a parody of [[Enid Blyton]]'s ''Famous Five'' books), [[Exact
* ''[[Malcolm in The Middle]]'': when Lois was ranting about the driver who framed her up for a traffic fine, Malcolm was hearing her clucking like a hen, Reese was hearing her say "blah blah blah", and Dewey was picturing himself in the driver seat, with his mom in the passenger's seat saying "Dewey" over and over again.
* ''[[Scrubs (TV)|Scrubs]]''. Note that this is what he ''actually'' said.
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{{quote| '''Evie''': Everything ok at home, Val?<br />
'''Val''': We're fine. Weather's nice... the girls can't wait for summer... Phil and I are seeing more of each other... blah blah blah...<br />
'''Evie''': "Blah blah blah"?? [[Is That What
'''Val''': I haven't ''needed'' that euphemism in quite a while. }}
* [[Dilbert (Comic Strip)|Dilbert]] once went on a date with a [http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1993-04-18/ serial yakker]. "Yak yak yak blah blah yak yak yak yak blah blah..."
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{{quote| '''Newspaper''': blah blah blah blah blah radish blah blah blah.}}
* ''[[Blank It]]'''s [http://blankitcomics.com/about/ about page].
* ''[[
* ''[[Skin Horse]]'' [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/skinhorse/series.php?view=archive&chapter=39951&name=skinhorse#strip3 here].
* ''Borderline Boy'': [http://borderline-boy.com/2009/06/30/tennis-1/ Jay and Trent geek out about the internet].
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* [[The Demented Cartoon Movie|"Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah...."]] [[Your Head Asplode|(cue tons of heads exploding)]]
** [[Words of Power|Zeeky Boogy Doog.]]
* Not to mention in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!:
* ''[[The Abridging of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' does this:
{{quote| '''What Kyon Hears''': "Blah, Blah, Blah. I'm a selfish jerk. Blah, Blah, Blah. Pay attention to me. Blah Blah Blah. I have delusions of godhood."<br />
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* ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents (Animation)|The Fairly Odd Parents]]'' has this with "untranslated" girl talk: ''"Blah blah blah shoes! Blah blah blah clothes! Blah blah blah boyfriends! Blah blah blah. We'll never notice you."''
* Taz's dad (a Bing Crosby Soundalike) from ''[[Taz-Mania]]'' often went ''"Blah, blah, blah, yakkety schmakkety."''
* ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy (Animation)|Ed, Edd n Eddy]]'':
** In the [[The Rashomon|Rashomon episode]] "Once Upon an Ed", all [[Teen Genius|Edd]] can say during [[The Ditz|Ed's]] flashback is things like ''"Yap yap, blah blah, drivel drivel drivel"''.
** In "Boys Will Be Eds", as the boys suddenly find themselves infatuated with Nazz, her angry tangent about them making fun of Jimmy's [[Amusing Injuries]] trails off into "blah blah blah".
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