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In Script Speak, a beat is an instruction in the script to leave a short pause, approximately the length of a breath, or possibly a slow single blink, before or after a line or gag. Used either to indicate 'thinking time' or to let it sink in to increase the impact of the subsequent reaction. For the actor, it indicates a change in thought process. Occasionally it will come just before the punch line, as a "here it comes" signal to the audience. Extremely common in comedy movie trailers, often combined with a Record Needle Scratch. Sometimes divided into "half-beats" or "extended beats", implying shorter or longer pauses. The Beat Panel is the equivalent in Sequential Art. Contrast with Rapid-Fire Comedy. Modern actors and directors consider scenes to be divided up into "Narrative Beats". The stage direction "beat" often marks the end of a narrative beat. Since a lot of good acting lies in finding a good rhythm, the musical choice of words fits very well to the desired result. Legend says that famous acting guru Stanislavski introduced the term when touring the United States. He would tell those who came to his lectures on acting to divide the scenes into "beats". The American actors hearing his lectures didn't realize he was trying to say "bits" with his Russian accent, and have been looking for "beats" in scripts ever since. |
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A short beat occurs in Adventure Time's "Incendium". | |
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Thud!: The teetotaling vampire Sally lampshades this by stating, "And I don't drink significant pause wine." | |
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Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog loves this trope, using it on multiple occasions, and frequently paired with Metaphorgotten. | |
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Used hilariously in the World of Warcraft Hot On The Trail questline in Westfall. All done in CSI/Film Noir style. YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! |
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In GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 15a, Miraitchi loses the Knock Tap, a doorknob-shaped Time Machine used by her and her sister Clulutchi. Mametchi and his friends react to the news that it's missing with a disheartened "Awww...", wait a beat, and then react again with a much more surprised-sounding "EEEHHHHH?!" | |
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Bojack Horseman used this for dramatic effect at the end of 3x11 when Bojack seemed to be in denial of Sarah Lynn's death in the planetarium with her head on his shoulder and, boy! Did it work! | |
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Space Ghost Coast to Coast: Uncomfortable pauses are used liberally in every episode, to the point of Lampshade Hanging: | |
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Kingdom Hearts II has a rather long pause when it's revealed that the Ansem they defeated last time wasn't the real Ansem, and was just an impostor. | |
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Used often in House. | |
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Lampshaded after Rhoda tells someone that she may be having a baby, and they're too surprised to respond. | |
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The Bugger Anthology: After Dalek Sec says the Cybermen are better at dying than the Daleks are, there's a solid ten seconds of silence before the Cyber-Leader asks how much time Sec spent thinking up that comeback. | |
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In the Lamput episode "Fracture", the docs help Lamput get back into shape when he fractures the one bone in his body. At the end of the episode, Lamput runs off free and the docs wait a beat before chasing him. | |
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In The Simpsons episode "Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk," the new owners of the nuclear power plant assess Homer's usefulness. It goes about as well as you'd expect. Hosting his show on Halloween in a vampire costume: After Chief Wiggum, Eddie and Lou see Maggie driving by in a car: Unsurprisingly, terrible news anchor Kent Brockman is prone to these: After seeing Homer and Marge kiss: When Bart costs the football team a victory due to Homer appointing him quarterback. When Bart is considering leaving the Jr Campers: |
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The audience of Whose Line Is It Anyway? has one while they process a joke told by Drew Carey. | |
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Thoroughly used and abused by Harry Hill's TV Burp, especially when it comes to the lead-up to the catchphrase, as these often tend to sneak up on the audience. | |
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Happens in the Magic Adventures of Mumfie episode "If The Hat Fits" when Mumfie and Scarecrow wonder what to do with a mischievous group of leaves that wouldn't stop bothering them. | |
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In the Justice League Unlimited episode "Epilogue": | |
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In a similar fashion to the Sky Girls example above, in Blue Exorcist there's a beat panel after the wall cracks and breaks after Shima and Rin's demon influenced perverted antics seriously caused damage to it, making all the girls and guys suddenly able to see each other. The last thing we get is Shura calling out her sword from her seal and then a scream from the boys. | |
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Half Past Adventure invokes this frequently with the sentence "A beat." inserted into the narration, often between bits of dialog. | |
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Also common in Code Ment. It's usually followed or caused by Lelouch saying something insanely Non Sequitur. Which is often. It's also subverted when Lelouch reacts INSTANTLY to well-nigh ridiculous situations that would normally require a beat to comprehend with something even more ridiculous. | |
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Airplane! plays with this tropes a few times, but the most famous is probably the little boy and little girl dressed and acting like adults. In an attempt at making a connection, he brings her a tray of coffee, which she cordially accepts. Then this interaction happens. | |
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Every so often on Cash Cab. Most hilariously and unbelievably: | |
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Arrested Development: Michael Bluth is a master of the sarcastic blank stare. | |
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Kyon: Big Damn Hero used it as a part of an Expospeak Gag: | |
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From the King of the Hill episode "Of Mice and Little Green Men", when Peggy fills in for Bobby in the "Of Mice and Men" play he was going to do with Hank: | |
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Discworld: Thud!: The teetotaling vampire Sally lampshades this by stating, "And I don't drink significant pause wine." Going Postal: "There was a pregnant pause. It gave birth to a lot of little pauses, each one more deeply embarrassing than its parent." |
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In the novel Mogworld by Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw we have this line in an exchange between Slippery John and the protagonist, an undead mage. | |
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Metalocalypse: | |
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Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Used spectacularly in "The Overmining" cold open: | |
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The whole scene with the Black Knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Same movie : |
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From Star Trek (2009): | |
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In The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, there's the Island of Darkness. They rescue the Lord Rhoop, who tells the crew of the Dawn Treader that the island was a place where dreams came true. The crew thinks this is a grand thing, despite the ominous darkness. Rhoop repeats himself, telling everyone to think about it. In 30 seconds, the crew comes to an unspoken agreement and turns the boat around faster than they'd ever done it before. | |
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In James Bond, there's nearly always a beat within the frequent Double Entendre jokes. | |
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Turning Red: | |
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The Red Dwarf episode "Camille", when Kryten is telling her about his crewmates: | |
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Used several times in Turnabout Storm, usually setting up the road for some sort of Double Take. | |
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Avengers: Infinity War: The MCU sometimes gets accused of overusing Rapid-Fire Comedy, but this movie made good use of the comedic pause. | |
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The Nostalgia Critic also does this in his review of The Room (2003). | |
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The Azumanga Daioh manga prominently uses beat panels and, as opposed to toning them down, the anime went the other direction instead, outright turning many beats into Overly Long Gags. | |
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Used extensively in Dragon Ball Z Abridged. | |
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Surprisingly used in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs… with a character who can't speak. After swallowing a bar of soap, Dopey starts to hiccup out bubbles. Despite this, he doesn't notice he swallowed it, and continues searching, until a few seconds of silence let him figure out where it ended up. The silence passes, and then he hiccups nonstop for the rest of the scene. | |
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Hilariously discussed in Farscape: | |
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In Sky Girls, there is a beat when Otoha accidentally knocks in the flimsy dividing wall between the male and female outdoor springs. | |
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Dora the Explorer LOVES doing this. This is also a standard of other programs that use a similar form of Fake Interactivity by having the main or host character talk to the audience and wait for a response, such as Blue's Clues and Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood. | |
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Stargate SG-1 has a truly epic Beat that lasts a full twelve seconds in its 100th Episode, Wormhole X-Treme. The actress who portrays Stacy Monroe corners the director and creative consultant of the show, and asks them that age-old "phasing" problem. It's one of the funniest moments in the whole episode: | |
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In Lucky Star, Konata brings up the issue of her dad's attraction to small girls. | |
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Going Postal: "There was a pregnant pause. It gave birth to a lot of little pauses, each one more deeply embarrassing than its parent." | |
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Kyon from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, in his usual snarky way, will usually break a potential beat with a thought of his own. This doesn't happen when he encounters something he can't explain, like accidentally walking in on a Mikuru clothes-changing session. Also, Taniguchi walking in on Kyon and Yuki in a suggestive position after the fight against Ryoko. |
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Steven Universe absolutely lives on this trope. For example: | |
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Seinfeld uses them regularly, often because the studio audience won't stop laughing. | |
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Phineas and Ferb. Used fairly often, for instance in "Chronicles of Meap", when Isabella is irritated at Phineas for failing to realize that she might be causing the interference in his cute tracker: In "That Sinking Feeling": |
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During the "Fixer Upper" song in Frozen (2013)... | |
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The first Shadow Hearts 1 has this long (and hilarious) example: | |
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In Chapter 15 of Ghost Trick, one puzzle requires you to swap a bullet in with a wool hat after it's fired. After you perform the required action and unstop time, the game lets the scene hang there for a moment, so you can realize the implications of what you just did. If you did the puzzle wrong and swapped in a metal hard hat instead, the feeling of "that was clearly not the correct action" is very effective. | |
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On the second season of The Joe Schmo Show, Derek Newcastle (actually a disguised version of Ralph Garman) does this just after the cast has watched Cammy's Porked 'n Beans food fetish video. "I'm sorry we had see that [beat] on such a small monitor." | |
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A very short one in Red vs. Blue during the Curb-Stomp Battle of Tex vs. Everyone, when Tucker jumps away at the very last moment when Caboose drops a shipping container on him and Tex while the two are fighting. | |
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In The Ides of March there is a pause in Stephen's speech to Governor Morris about how he broke the only rule in politics. "You can't fuck the interns. …They get you for that." Director George Clooney said in the audio commentary how Ryan Gosling was uncertain about that beat to let the audience laugh. | |
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Tin Cup: | |
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Lampshaded in Gru's speech in Despicable Me. | |
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YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! | |
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Dream High School represents beats with two periods, like this: "I need to run through.. some things with you…" (the ellipsis is more like trailing off). | |
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Toy Story: And earlier… |
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Futurama: Used quite a few times through out the series, but most notably after the show returned to Comedy Central: | |
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Friendship is Witchcraft has one so long that the characters start blinking in time with the beat of the background music. | |
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OnCinema: Used quite frequently, especially if someone says something over another person which leads to slight awkward moments of silence. | |
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In the Hetalia: Axis Powers movie, England and France stumble upon a digital map of ongoing/successful invasions. England absent mindedly reaches out to touch the UK and a pop up appears, a voice (the narrator) reading it aloud. | |
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Life Is Strange Episode 3 has this exchange when Max tries on Rachel's clothes… | |
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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power makes use of it here and there to great effects. | |
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Mass Effect 2 has this with a romance between Garrus and Female Shepard | |
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The iDOLM@STER 2 - Whenever Miki mentions Ritsuko's name, there's a beat before she adds the honorific -san at the end of her name. That happens even when she's having a heated discussion with Touma after her unit beats the RGKM the first time. |
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In Akame ga Kill! after the ex-general Najenda comes to prevent the execution of one of her comrades on a flying beast. | |
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By far the most common gag on Kaamelott, given that everybody considers themselves Surrounded by Idiots. Arthur remains the Only Sane Man. | |
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Serenity: | |
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In Dredd two young gang members find the fully armored judges and approach them from behind and tell them to freeze, it goes as follows: | |
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Harvey Birdman often blends longer beats with faster speed for comedic rhythm. | |
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Bubba Ho Tep has a very noticeable beat when Elvis attempts to banish Bubba using the chant from the book of souls. | |
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From My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "A Bird in the Hoof," Rainbow Dash tries to get a reaction from Celestia's guards, then says In episode "Owl's Well That Ends Well", Spike needs to get a quill for Twilight Sparkle. So of course, he goes to Quills and Sofas… which just so happens to be out of the former. |
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Played often in Doctor Who. | |
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Occurs in the second season of Let's Play series Mianite, at 1:15:23 of Episode 31 from Syndicate's perspective, when CaptainSparklez talks about making his RV float with balloons (makes sense in context), then uses an air pump in real life to clear out his computer mouse's sensor. Syndicate has this reaction: | |
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In I'm Not Rappaport, Nat and Midge declare that they're both in love with a beautiful girl that is at the park, painting. Midge says that it's the first time he's ever been in love with a white woman. Nat asks why this is and Midge tells him that while he may have run around with a wild Commie crowd, he was stuck with with his own where he came from, being a black man. "Wait, stop, excuse me..." says Nat and there is what the script of the original stage play specifically describes as being a beat before Nat takes out his bifocals and studies Midge, declaring "My God, you're right. You are a black man." Another beat, then he bursts into laughter, then following this Midge does too as realizes that Nat has got him again. | |
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The conclusion to the Den-O arc of Kamen Rider Decade. Long story short: Kuuga sees two Imagin fighting, proclaims that he knows who the enemy is, and proceeds to Rider Kick that Imagin… but he attacks Momotaros, the heroic Imagin, not the actual enemy, the Alligator Imagin. Decade, who was supposed to punch out Alligator, abruptly stops mid-punch to berate Kuuga on his mistake. Does that convince you of a lull in the battle? No? Then how about, during the whole fiasco, Kuuga was dangling in mid-air, his feet lodged against Momo's neck! | |
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Battlestar Galactica uses this trope to no end, but one example stands out: in the pilot miniseries, Adama calls Col. Tigh out on flipping over a table while completely hammered, inciting a fight between him and Starbuck. Tigh unsuccessfully defends his position. | |
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Star Trek V: The Final Frontier In the turbolift on the way to the bridge, after shore leave has been cancelled: From Star Trek (2009): |
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Jak 3: Wastelander has a great one when the precursors are finally revealed for the first time | |
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Jeopardy!: After the famous Ken Jennings "What's a hoe?" response (the clue: "This term for a long-handled gardening tool can also mean an immoral pleasure seeker"), there's a beat between Alex ruling it wrong and realizing exactly what Ken said. | |
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The Hamilton Mixtape's cover of "Helpless" omits Angelica's part from the musical where she elaborates on how she "wants to form a harem" in favor of stopping the music to emphasize Ashanti's response to the proposed polygamy. | |
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Calvin & Hobbes: The Series refers to a beat by name at one point. | |
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Episode six of Mystery Show has two pretty good ones: When Starlee asks Beverly, a witness, about the knotted jacket on the lunchbox that she's investigating, all Beverly can offer is "It might be a joke." Then, Starlee gets to share some interesting information with Elmer Lenhardt's former neighbor: |
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The Ace Attorney series does this a LOT. | |
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: After Ron eats a love-potion infused chocolate (intended for Harry), he declares his love for Romilda Vane. The resulting silence lasts almost a minute. | |
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Don't Hug Me I'm Scared This happens right after Sketchbook smears paint all over Yellow Guy's painting of a clown. Also used after Red Guy calls Sketchbook's form of self-expression "boring". Used again in the third video after the chicken picnic has been eaten by Duck Guy and Red Guy. Duck Guy insists that they have finished the chicken picnic and stares at the screen for a few moments in complete silence. Happens after Colin reveals his "digital mind" in the fourth video. When Red Guy asks about the relevance of the Internet, Colin hesitates. |
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Episode 41 of Well There's Your Problem has one when Justin learns of the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg earlier on the day of recording. | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation used one for maximum effect when Worf was giving Wesley romance advice. | |
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