![]() Another brief example occurs in the episode "Once More, with Feeling", with the gang's reaction to Anya's theory that bunnies are causing the problem-of-the-week.and Christmas, right? Let's fight that evil! Let's kill something! Oh, come on! Come on! Vampires! Grrr! Nasty! Let's annihilate them, for justice, and for. ![]() I say we go out there and kick a little demon ass! What? Can't go without your Buffy, is that it? Too chicken? Let's find her. Spike: What's this? Sittin' around watching the telly while there's evil still afoot? It's not very industrious of you. The heavy silence that follows is punctuated by a candy floss falling from its stick and rolling around like a tumbleweed. Wallace & Gromit: In The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, the constable accidentally repeating "The beast isn't actually dead yet?!" in his megaphone provokes a Mass "Oh, Crap!" at the fair.Shrek Forever After: When Shrek meets Fiona for the first time in the alternate timeline and tries to tell her who he is, the story is so unbelievable that all the ogres are speechless, and crickets are heard chirping in the background.Buck comes up with a loony plan to avert The End of the World as We Know It instead of running for their lives, finishing his Rousing Speech with "WHO'S WITH ME?" Cue the crickets and the Herd putting their heads together to see if this includes them. Follows an embarrassing moment of silence (even the background music has stopped) as everybody look at them in confusion, with only a discreet cough being heard. In My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks, Twilight and friends lock hands together before the whole student body, and she dramatically exclaims "Friendship is magic!", hoping to summon their magic to get rid of the Dazzlings.He gets captured later and mutated for it, even asking "If this is about the chirping thing." He apologizes for the chirping and leaves for home. ![]() There's a cricket in Penguins of Madagascar who chirps following the awkwardness between the penguins and Dave.Strange Magic: When Sunny tries to rally his fellow elves into saving Dawn, an onscreen cricket chirps awkwardly when no one joins in.At the beginning of Cars, a speech by Lightning McQueen is greeted only with a shout of " Free Bird!".Grandmother Willow locates the noisy frog and gives him a Death Glare, whereupon he shuts up too. Lampshaded in Disney's Pocahontas, where Grandmother Willow shouts for the clamoring animals to be quiet, and silence descends, leaving behind the sound of a frog croaking. ![]() More often than not, it's coupled with a Sweat Drop. Of course, birds can also have other symbolic meanings so don't be too quick to apply this to every appearance. In anime, this trope may be represented not by insects but by birds flying by (such as the Idiot Crows). Basically, it's what happens when the script calls for silence but needs an audio cue to indicate the silence.Īlternatively, someone might throw a tomato at him. Sometimes the sequence includes microphone feedback. Occasionally visually accompanied by tumbleweed blowing past, in which case the crickets can sometimes be replaced by blowing wind, or a wolf howling in the distance, with perhaps a distant bonging church bell. But instead of the reaction he expects, he hears nothing but the sound of crickets chirping, suggesting that nobody is responding, and they may, in fact, be stunned into silence, completely baffled, or missing altogether. Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice ( Beetlejuice!)Ī character says or does something intended to elicit an enthusiastic response from a group watching him, such as the audience in a theatre or a band of comrades. ![]()
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