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Thankfully, this is not [[Truth in Television]], as in reality most onlookers will react with either confusion, curiosity or just plain apathy when seeing someone else's faux pas. This trope shares a bunk with [[No Sympathy]], and like that, it's a trope that [[Pet Peeve Trope|tends to really get on people's nerves]]. See also [[Humiliation Conga]].
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* Done in the film and book versions of ''[[Carrie]]''. Everybody except poor Carrie's boyfriend finds her getting doused with pig's blood to be the funniest goddamn thing in the world. [[Beware the Nice Ones|Then she snaps]], [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|and things start getting much less funny in a hurry]].
** Actually averted in the movie, in that <s>most</s> ''all'' of the students but the girl who set up the prank are in shock and horror, but Carrie hallucinates them laughing at her. In the book, survivors admit that they were so shocked they didn't know what else to do.
** Played much straighter near the beginning, when Carrie has her [[Averted Trope|first]] [[No Periods, Period|period]] in the girl's locker room. Every other girl savagely mocks her for this with laughter and thrown tampons, as though they never had one of those before, while Carrie cowers in the corner, terrified that she's bleeding to death.
* Subverted in ''[[Trading Places]]'': when the Dukes take Valentine, the homeless man they're training to be a commodities trader, to a big business dinner with a client, the client asks Valentine his opinion on whether or not he should buy wheat futures. Literally ''every single person'' in the restaurant stops what they're doing and stares at Valentine. But he gives a picture-perfect answer and impresses the client.
** This may also have been a parody of some famous TV commercials for E. F. Hutton & Co., an American stock brokerage firm. The firm was best known for its commercials in the 1970s and 1980s based on the phrase, "When E. F. Hutton talks, people listen" which usually involved a young professional remarking at a dinner party that his broker was E.F. Hutton, which caused the moderately loud party to stop all conversation to listen to him say what E.F. Hutton thought about an investment.
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