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In Real Life, being in court is a stressful and serious situation. You have to take it seriously in order to avoid being held in contempt of court and win your case. In fiction, though, it's not entertaining to see a long, dry, drawn-out court session, especially in a comedy show. That's why these proceedings are often Played for Laughs, instead, as the characters partake in antics that would never fly in a real life courtroom. Maybe they have a Bunny-Ears Lawyer whose quirks would be considered disruptive in a real court case. Maybe they're all talking in a casual, breezy language, referring to serious legal terms through Buffy Speak and cracking jokes at inappropriate times. They may even be treating the case like one big party, ordering snacks and listening to music and just refusing to take it seriously. All of this and more can be done to make a court case more entertaining for an audience, showing a sillier and livelier version of what may normally be boring and endless. A darker version of this trope might try and go for some black comedy in the form of a satire showing just how convoluted things can get even in a scenario that's meant to be serious. The antics will have bigger consequences and often disrupt the court in more ways than just being a nuisance, but ultimately they're still worth a chuckle at the chaos and just how corrupted the whole court is. This trope is common in a Courtroom Episode, and often alongside tropes like the Frivolous Lawsuit and a Common Nonsense Jury. Unconventional Courtroom Tactics is when these antics are used strategically by the lawyer to achieve a desired result. |
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: An episode had the prosecution trot out a child witness (whom they had no intention of actually forcing to testify) for the sole purpose of having him dramatically react to the defendant's (his own father) presence. The judge let it fly without so much as a jury instruction to disregard. | |
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The Smurfs: After Smurfette casually mentions that Gargamel made her, Papa immediately has her arrested and holds a trial, with Brainy as the prosecutor and Jokey defending her. However, his attempts to have a fair trial keep going Off the Rails, as none of the Smurfs want to testify against her, Brainy's attempts to take his job seriously keep getting undermined, and Jokey ultimately accuses Papa of being the one really responsible for what happened. | |
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The entirety of Trial by Jury, which involves, among other things, the court usher telling the jury to ignore what the defendant has to say and the judge marrying the plaintiff at the end. | |
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The point of This is Wonderland. Courtrooms have seen arguments (not always in English), violence, spoken-word poetry, a fake heart attack, car theft from the courthouse's parking lot, mix-ups with defendant's names, shouts of "Boo!" the outbreak of true love, and the occasional Freudian Slip. Judge Maxwell Frasier, who has been known to threaten arrest for this sort of behavior out of anyone other than himself, would often yawn loudly while people he didn't like were talking, call a recess because he was hungry/bored, or go crazy and scream. | |
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Mr. Kornada's trial in Freefall has a lot of this between Mr. Kornada's own carefully cultivated narcissistic stupidity, Blunt's repeated attempts to hijack the trial to advance his own political agenda, and the general legal informality stemming from Jean's relatively small human population. | |
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The Dick Tracy Show: "Court Jester" had Stooge Viller and Mumbles on trial for their crimes, only Stooge has taken it on the lam. The prosecution can't get Mumbles to admit they're guilty because nobody can understand his mumbling without Stooge there to decipher it. | |
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Animaniacs had an episode where Dr. Scratchandsniff gets a parking ticket and the Warners defend him in court to contest. Examples include holding up a badger to the witness and when swearing the witness in, telling her "you shouldn't [swear], it's not nice." | |
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King of the Hill: Pops up when Hank is at a workman's comp hearing after being accused of faking a back injury because he was photographed after Yoga cured him. He asks permission to call in a surprise witness — his Yoga instructor, who proceeds to prance around, accuse the officials of having bad energy, and hit on the secretary. It's lampshaded when the chairman claims they've never heard of a "surprise witness" before. Played Straight several times with Dale Gribble, who defends himself in a drug case by rejecting the courts authority because the American flag has the wrong trim, convinces Hank to fight his wrongfully incurred bill for renting pornography by accusing a vast artificially intelligent computer network known as "The Beast" of attempting to defraud him, and when representing himself in a case against his cigarette company calls himself to the stand as a witness in a scene that looks like a cross between Perry Mason and Gollum. |
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The final scene of Big Eyes is full of this, as Walter loses his lawyer team just before Margaret's lawsuit is reviewed and chooses to represent himself instead of asking for the trial to be postponed and get someone else. Eventually he and Margaret end up shouting at one another, leading to an exasperated judge declaring that they'll have a paint-off to resolve the issue once and for all. Walter proceeds to fake an arm injury to try to get out of it. | |
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The Discworld novel Making Money has a trial in which the hero, Moist von Lipwig, currently acting chairman of the bank, is on trial for the unexplained disappearance of nearly ten tons of gold. He's very nervous about a former accomplice of his threatening to reveal that he is, in fact, a former con artist who had been hanged under an assumed name, and has a slightly guilty conscience as he submits to questioning, when he sees a small dog (the actual chairman) wander in while sitting down and wagging its tail. These are both happening at once because the dog is holding in its mouth its favorite toy — a huge chewy vibrator — which has turned itself on and whose vibrations are propelling the sitting dog backwards across the courtroom floor and out of sight while everybody tries desperately not to notice and offend the Patrician. Lipwig reasons that a world in which this can actually happen in the middle of a court is a world which can handle him acting as chairman of a bank, and proceeds to confess everything about his backstory. | |
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22 July: Anders takes advantage of the captive audience of the court by doing Nazi salutes and using his platform to speak as an opportunity to call for further terrorist attacks and to brag about how many people he killed. He did this in real life too. | |
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Clerks: The Animated Series: First, the trial is presided over by the honorable Judge Reinhold, and he lets Randal get away with his nonsense through open bias. Randal calls a series of "surprise witnesses." All of the witnesses are directors of movies Randal didn't like, and he demands refunds from each of them. After he's finished, the witnesses leave, without ever saying a single word that has to do with the trial's actual proceedings. He also calls a girl to the witness stand just to get her phone number.The prosecuting lawyer has Dante questioned by a pair of giggling girls, and plays the tapes of a completely unrelated prank call made by Jay and Randal. | |
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In Sonic Boom, Eggman sues Sonic and Knuckles is the Lawyer. Knuckles, being Knuckles, cross examines himself (and makes it seem like Sonic us guilty) and doesn't notice how blatantly Eggman has rigged things in his favor. Such as the judge being a robot and Cubot and Orbot faking testimony in the courtroom. | |
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The Dark Knight: Not expected or intended, but deliberately played on: a gangster witness tries to shoot Harvey Dent in the middle of the trial. Dent promptly delivers a cross to his face and disarms him, stunning the entire court. When the judge calls for a recess, Dent hams it up: "Your honor, I'm not done yet." A straight version happens later in the movie, when Dent intends to try most of the Mafia roll call (549 criminals) in one sitting. There's a hilarious scene where the judge reads off the list of transgressions, then asks "How do the defendants plead?" Change to the courtroom, packed with mobsters and their attorneys, and all of the attorneys jostle above each other trying to be heard while the stenographer drops his hands, confused. |
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Gintama episode 95 shouts out to Ace Attorney series, so naturally plenty of courtroom antics ensue, including but not limited to watching porn submitted as evidence during trial and having the judge abuse his power to rewind his favorite scenes in slow motion. It has to be seen to be believed. | |
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In The Kentucky Fried Movie, a court skit features a prosecutor who pulls out a large, floppy dildo and waves it threateningly at a witness, inquiring "Are you aware of the penal codes in this state?" | |
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In Battletech, Nicolai Malthus, during his imprisonment after the Clan Invasion, happened to catch an episode of a cartoon series in which a fictionalized version of himself was the villain (the in-universe equivalent of the real-life cartoon). His outrage led someone to inform him that he couldn't declare a Trial by Combat in the Inner Sphere, and that his only recourse would be to hire a lawyer and sue for slander. Which he promptly did. The case was thrown out after Malthus attempted to challenge the judge to a fight. | |
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In Bee Movie, Barry objects to the honey companies using a bear as their logo (which isn't really relevant to his case), and brings in a live, aggressive bear to demonstrate why this is inappropriate. While demonstrations in court are common (there is even a term for items used in demonstrations; Demonstratives), needless to say, a dangerous animal is not allowed in a courtroom. | |
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The murder trial in Little Fuzzy, starting even before the trial begins, with two murder cases being combined into a single trial, the appointment of the defense attorneys as special prosecutors, and key witnesses being seized as "evidence." It goes on to mutate from a civilian trial into a court-martial and an academic seminar, with two flavors of surprise witnesses, and the continued prosecution of a dead man after one of the defendants commits suicide. And there are in-universe precedents for most of this: "You could find a precedent for almost anything in colonial law." | |
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In Laughter in Paradise, Deniston's secretary Sheila — who is secretly in love — insists on being a witness at his trial. Her passionate defense of him contributes almost nothing to the case (save to prove that he does actually have an occupation), and confuses and frustrates the magistrate no end. | |
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In one episode of Rugrats, Angelica sues her parents for feeding her broccoli. Once in court, she instantly wins over the judge, calls her doll Cynthia and her stuffed zebra as witnesses, and the jury awards her all of her parents assets without even deliberating. It turns out that the episode was All Just a Dream of Drew's. | |
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In The Trial Of Tim Heidecker, Tim represents himself in his murder trial, despite having zero legal training. Nearly everything he does violates courtroom decorum, from insulting the judge, to arguing with and threatening witnesses, to using the court to settle his own petty debates, to using Insane Troll Logic to claim innocence, to blatantly forging evidence in his favor. However, none of that is enough to get him convicted, since he has a hung jury. | |
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Neverwinter Nights: In act three, you can agree to help defend Rolgar, a tribesman charged with murder. The prosecutor of the trial is Igland of the Swift Sword, who upon introducing himself loudly declares that he's never lost a case. Which is kind of hard to believe, because he's absolutely obnoxious - constantly speaks out of turn, makes spurious accusations in order to sway the jury (which unfortunately works), and repeatedly interrupts your questioning of the witnesses to put his own spin on the statements. He's repeatedly ordered by the judge to stop his disruptive behavior, but ignores it (and the judge doesn't back up his warnings). If you manage to win the case (mainly by sticking to the facts and avoiding questions that gives Igland something to twist) he'll throw a massive tantrum over the fact that he lost, acting like you cheated somehow, and leaves in a huff. | |
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Hardison's performance as a lawyer on Leverage was full of this. He started by bringing in a massive amount of information so boring and irrelevant that the judge was falling asleep, when by that point she should definitely have been demanding an actual justification for why it was important. Then he discredited his opposition's expert witness by bringing up the fact that he was on the no-fly list, which he only knew by hacking into their database and so had no proof of, and claiming that if the government didn't trust him to fly, how could they trust his testimony. The judge ignored their objection and didn't give so much as a Disregard That Statement. | |
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Rumpole of the Bailey: In "Rumpole and the Last Resort," Rumpole secured an adjournment in spite of an unsympathetic judge by collapsing and dying right there in the courtroom. | |
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A mild case in The Lady from Shanghai; Arthur is called on by the prosecution to take the stand as a witness. Once the prosecution is finished Arthur lightheartedly tells them that since he is also the defense attorney he must now cross-examine himself, and does so briefly. | |
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Blackadder: The Witchsmeller Pursuivant episode of series one has the Witchsmeller bring in Edmund's horse, Black Satin and first decide its silence means it has something to hide, and then when it says "Neigh" he doesn't believe a word of it, bring in a dog which he claims is Edmund's son, and accuse Baldrick of being a witch for saying that carrots don't grow on trees. Maybe it's just because he was playing a sick man, but BRIAN BLESSED isn't the biggest ham in that episode. | |
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Duck Soup has a version in which the Marx Brothers are performing courtroom antics not to prevent/assure convictions, but simply because their characters are...well...who they are. Cases in point: offering the witness bets on whether there's a conviction, objecting on the grounds of "I couldn't think of anything else to say," sustaining objections on the grounds of "I couldn't think of anything else to say either," and a pun or two. | |
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The Looney Tunes Show's Prison Episode starts with Bugs and Daffy getting sent to prison for contempt of court in a Surprisingly Realistic Outcome for pulling antics like spitting soda in each other's faces in a courtroom despite the judge's warnings. | |
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A number of these occur in The Three Stooges short "Disorder in the Court," which is to be expected when characters like the stooges enter a courtroom. While trying to clear an innocent woman of murder, they proceed to re-enact the events of the night of the murder, including an unrelated musical sequence, get perhaps a little too realistic when re-enacting the murder itself (no one dies, but Curly is subject to a bit of abuse), and chase a parrot around the courtroom with a fire hose. | |
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Ace Attorney is practically the poster boy for this trope. From bringing animals into the courtroom to the defense getting everything but the kitchen sink thrown at them to the prosecution playing air guitar and the witness playing literal guitar, there's never dull moment in court. | |
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The entire courtroom scene from Alice in Wonderland. The Queen bosses everyone around everyone during the trial and tries to give the sentence at the start of the trial instead of the end. Witnesses who had nothing to do with the case are called and their testimony is treated like it is vital evidence. And the whole trial gets derailed into an unbirthday party for the Queen which devolves into chaos when the Cheshire Cat appears and causes the dormouse to panic leading to the Queen accidentally getting smashed on the head with a hammer, which Alice gets blamed for. She then defends herself by turning herself into a giant and frightening the court, causing the King and Queen to try to get her to leave by citing Rule 42, "All persons more than a mile high, must leave the court immediately." Alice refuses to go and gives the Queen an epic verbal beatdown, not noticing until too late that she is shrinking back to normal size. | |
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Wander over Yonder: In "The Good Deed," Wander breaks up a fight between two Feuding Families of hillbilly aliens by staging a frantic courtroom argument all by himself, playing the prosecutor, defense, judge, stenographer, and even the bailiff. The aliens are so baffled they agree to stop fighting just to shut Wander up. | |
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Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! episode "The People vs. Fred Jones" uses a trial as a framing device for the latest mystery. Not only is the jury composed entirely of people they've unmasked in previous episodes (one of whom is a childhood friend of the defendant, two of whom are children, and one of whom takes this as an opportunity to escape), Daphne acts as the defense attorney after getting her law degree from a side-scrolling platform game, the prosecutor routinely storms out of the room to protest the antics before rushing back in for his cross-examination, and the judge allows Shaggy to blatantly modify his testimony (after the prosecutor accuses Fred of being the monster, Shaggy describes him slipping on a burst fire hydrant, being hoisted into the air by a giraffe, mocked by a clown, dumped by his girlfriend who drives away with said clown, and ultimately carried away by an eagle) simply because the image is amusing. Mystery Inc.'s behavior is somewhat justified as an attempt at The Perry Mason Method to get the guilty party to come forward, while the prosecutor is the guilty party trying to frame Fred. The judge and jury come down to pure Rule of Funny. | |
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Frasier: A mental competency hearing for a wealthy old man, in which Frasier is appearing for the defense, is going very well for Frasier, who is acting like a consummate professional — until the defendant's senility kicks in and he chooses that moment to start acting like a train conductor, including punching 'tickets' (the judge's notes and Frasier's tie) and announcing arrivals. Meanwhile Niles, who is appearing for the plaintiff, realizes that the proceedings are being televised and starts playing up to the cameras outrageously. The judge is still quick to tell him off about it, however. | |
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Zexion's impeachment trial in Ansem Retort was chock full of this, given how Sora tries to plead the 19th Amendment, Zex makes it clear he won't tell the whole truth, and Zex's lawyer Axel literally threatens the jury into delivering a not guilty verdict. Even the judge eventually gets in on it. | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation: "Devil's Due" has the Enterprise crew going into a court case against a woman claiming she is calling a planet in on a thousand year old debt. During the trial, she causes earthquakes and shapeshifts into the Devil, then "disappears" Picard. Data, acting as judge, allows some leeway, but only some. | |
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