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Non-Verbal Miscommunication
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Much comedy is based on having characters misunderstand other characters' words or language, but this can only go so far: after all, words have generally accepted meanings, which limits the possibilities for misunderstanding. With nonverbal communication, the sky's the limit. A wink, a hand gesture, a significant look — could mean anything. It's possible to have characters conduct entire conversations in which each completely misinterprets what the other is saying. A common hazard of Miming the Cues. Contrast Talking through Technique and Hand Signals, where gestures can get a very precise message across. |
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Kotaro from Sengoku Basara never speaks and keeps his face hidden, so when he invades the Tokugawa camp in 3 and starts beating everyone to a pulp, it's understandable that Ieyasu thought he was an enemy. As it turns out, he just wanted to deliver a message. | |
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The Penguins of Madagascar: In "Antics On Ice" Skipper and Rico leave their seats during an ice-skating show in order to deal with a security guard backstage; when Private questions their disappearance Kowalski tells him that they went to get popcorn. When the two return a few minutes later Kowalski tries to convey the original excuse to Skipper: | |
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The Play That Goes Wrong: Combined with Miming the Cues when Annie as Florence loses her script pages and Dennis tries to act out the response she needs to give for a question he asks: | |
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Dune: At one point in the first book, the Duke makes an offer to a Fremen, one of the wild men of the desert. In response, the Fremen spits on the meeting table in front of the Duke. As most of the men in the room rise to defend the Duke's honor, Duncan Idaho, a ducal advisor who has been living among the Fremen to learn the Fremen's ways—stops them and thanks the ambassador for the gift of his body's moisture, then quietly informs the Duke that Fremen value water very highly, and he had basically just given the Duke a compliment. Also counts as a Cross Cultural Kerfuffle. | |
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In Angel, Spike is a ghost, and is mindlessly wandering around Wolfram and Hart in silence. Fred mistakes his movement through a desk and then a wall for a sign, and by luck there really is an important plot item in the desk. | |
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Bones: Brennan is given a signal to try and perk up an unconfident intern who had missed a small but important piece of evidence. | |
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In Chuck, Devon needs to lie to his wife about where he was when he was doing spy work with Chuck, who is trying in vain to guide the story using hand gestures. Astonishingly, she doesn't buy it. | |
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In an episode of Psych, Shawn and Gus see a Bounty Hunter wink at them, and practically grow to Hero Worship him. It isn't until in their adult life, they find out said Bounty Hunter's wink was merely a facial tic. | |
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Cheers: In the very first episode, Diane picks up the phone when the caller is trying to reach Sam, who doesn't want the call, so first he makes his fingers walk to indicate "Tell her I left" which Diane understands, but when looking for an excuse, he makes scissors with his fingers and makes hair-cutting motions. Diane's interpretation: "He had to go to mime class!" In another episode, Coach is supposed to signal a corrupt card player that his opponent has a poor hand by scratching his cheek. Unfortunately, his cheek starts to itch... In yet another episode, Diane shows off her mime skills, while Cliff gives a running commentary of what he thinks she's doing. |
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In The Simpsons episode "Homer at the Bat", Homer is playing baseball on the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant team, and Mr Burns is the manager. Unfortunately, Homer zones out while Mr Burns is explaining what the signals are, and later, when Homer is up to bat, Mr Burns starts doing a series of strange actions. Homer has no idea what he's trying to say, and gets hit in the head with the ball and knocked out as a result. | |
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In Extras, a journalist is interviewing Maggie under the pretense that she is Andy's assistant. Andy sits behind the journalist and tries to mime answers to her that will make him look good. Maggie constantly misunderstands his mimes, giving bizarre and unflattering answers. | |
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Horrible Histories: In a segment on the sign language of Saxon monks, a monk's attempt to tell his brothers that the Vikings are attacking is first interpreted as "the gorillas are making clay pots" and then "the gorillas are ringing the bells". | |
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In The Losers, when on top of a tall building, villain nods to his agent, who then throws a businessman down. Villain then "complains" that it wasn't that kind of nod and he just wanted the agent to beat the victim. It's one of the Big Bad's not so funny jokes. | |
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This comes up in chapter eighteen of Cellar Secrets. Because the she tends to communicate nonverbally, Ryuuko gestures to Uzu, however, unlike her sisters, he can't understand her gestures, in which case, she gets frustrated and hits him. | |
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Jessie: In "101 Lizards", Ravi finds that he cannot handle raising all of Mrs Kibling's 12 babies and eventually gives them away to a nice woman named Cassandra, who claims that the lizards will be be living a farm upstate. Bertram starts talking about a time his goldfish died and his parents flushed it under the pretense of it going to live in a "farm upstate". Jessie waves her hands repeatedly to get him to stop talking, but he continues anyway and Ravi faints in horror. He then wakes up thinking it was All Just a Dream and Jessie repeatedly waves her hands again before Luke can correct him that it wasn't a dream, but Luke does so anyway worrying Ravi even more. Jessie eventually gives up and says "Apparently, I need a new signal!" | |
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On Scrubs Carla tries to use pantomime to remind Turk of a deceased patient's name as he fumbles to recall it in front of the patient's grieving family. Her strange head gestures lead Turk to confess, "We used to call him Ol' Turkey Neck." Bob's family weren't thrilled by this response. | |
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Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein features a scene where the monster grabs and chokes Frankenstein. Since he cannot talk, he frantically uses Charades to communicate to his assistants that they should sedate his monster. They take a long time about it before Igor finally guesses "Sedagive!". Frankenstein is not pleased. | |
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Garfield has a subversion: Garfield successfully mimes a message to Jon ("You're standing in my food"), but Jon doesn't get that he is, in fact, ankle-deep in Garfield's food bowl. He thinks it's just a game of Charades, where he was supposed to guess a message (like a movie title) that has nothing to do with the situation at hand. | |
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This is how a mountain on Discworld ended up being called Your Finger You Fool (much like in Jokes above). An explorer pointed to the geographical feature he wanted the name of, got this response, and didn't realize what it actually meant. The footnotes reveal other geographical locations known as 'I Don't Know, What?', 'Just a Mountain,' and 'Who Is This Fool Who Doesn't Know What a Mountain Is?' | |
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Supergirl fanfic my youth is yours: Averted; Kara and Lena's nonverbal communication skills were so good in college they were banned from charades. This continues in the main story, where Lena nearly always interprets Kara's expressions perfectly (and vice versa) even when others have trouble. | |
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In The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, Zack has to pretend to be Cody for an interview and Cody (who can't be himself after accidentally messing up his hair and not wanting to be embarrassed) stands from behind trying to signal his brother over what to say. It didn't go well. | |
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In Jak II: Renegade Onin is a wise old soothsayer who gives Jak and Daxter advice many times during their quest. She's mute, and so normally communicates through hand motions which are translated by Pecker, her Moncaw companion. When Daxter tries to do this himself, he fails miserably. | |
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CODA is about a deaf family with one daughter who can hear. Ruby assists her parents and brother in communication with other hearing people, but misinterpretations do happen. Gertie asks Ruby how to sign the expression "You’re really smoking hot," to Ruby’s brother Leo. After she signs to Leo on her way out of the house, Leo signs to Ruby, "What's up with Gertie? She just told me she has herpes." Mr. Villalobos meets Ruby’s family after the choir’s recital. Mr. V signs what he thinks is a pleasantry to Ruby’s family, which leaves them uncomfortable. Mr. V had inadvertently given them the wrong hand sign, meaning “Nice to fuck you�. |
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DuckTales (2017): In "Day Trip of Doom!", Webby is trying (and failing) to talk her way out of an awkward situation with the manager at Funso's Fun Zone. Louie makes a throat-slashing "cut it out" gesture, but Webby misinterprets it and briefly looks like she's seriously considering attacking the man with a spork before Louie stops her. | |
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Guardians of the Galaxy (2014): Peter Quill convinces Drax the Destroyer not to kill Gamora as Revenge by Proxy for the murders of his family at the hands of Ronan the Accuser, suggesting that they work together, as that will lead them to Ronan, and then Drax can kill him in person, which Quill emphasizes by doing the slit-throat gesture. | |
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The Middle: When Sue is at the meeting listing all the activities she tried (and failed) at in a speech, Frankie gives her a 'hurry up' gesture from the audience. Sue sees this and concludes "Oh, yes, and tumbling." | |
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In Rush Hour 2, Lee takes Carter to a massage parlor in Hong Kong because Lee wants to have a talk with the Triad boss Ricky Tan (also a friend of his late father's and his murderer). When Carter finds out, he takes his "LA cop" image a little too far and tries to strongarm Tan into going with them to the police station, not realizing that nearly every other client in the parlor is a Triad member. When Lee half-winks and nods to the side, he's trying to get Carter to leave before it's too late. Unfortunately, Carter assumes Lee wants him to grab Tan and drag him out of the parlor. Cue dozens of henchmen getting up to defend Tan. | |
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Red Dwarf: In "Dear Dave", Cat attempts to convey his news to the rest of the crew through charades (because he is bored). His attempt to mime 'the mail-pod has arrived and crashed into my clothes' is construed by the others as everything from 'we're about to fly into a black hole' to 'we're being attacked by zombies'. | |
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In Lone Survivor, the injured soldier Luttrel is given shelter by a village in Afghanistan. He needs to remove shrapnel from his leg, and since he cannot speak their language, he mimes for a knife. A boy hands him a duck instead. The boy's father understands and produces a knife, but thinks he wants him to slaughter the duck until Luttrel finally manages to get him to hand him the knife. | |
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Galaxy of Fear has a scene where Zak is floating in a bacta tank and can't hear a thing. His sister has discovered something terrible and suspicious about the facility he's in and tries mouthing it, but he can't read lips and her miming doesn't make much sense, though he can at least tell something's up. Finally she hits on something, but it takes a bit. | |
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In Bob and George, Nate tries to inform Mega Man and Bass about Mynd's evil plans, but they think he's reminding them about the upcoming Halloween strip. However, Protoman gets it. | |
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In the Myth Adventures novel Hit and Myth, Skeeve gave the weak and underhanded King Roderick and the ambitious and ruthless Queen Hemlock wedding rings that can't be removed, and tells them that the rings link their lives, so neither of them can murder the other. At the end of M.Y.T.H. Inc Link, Skeeve receives a finger with a ring on it in the post, and the message seems clear; Hemlock has cut off her finger so she can kill Roderick, and is now taunting them about it. In the next book, it turns out that this was Roderick's finger, which she cut off after he died of natural causes and she didn't, and the intended message was more like "I'm kind of in over my head, but you're good at sorting things out, so I'd like you to be my new consort." | |
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A similar incident to the above happens in Elemental Gelade, wherein poor Rowen, across the ship from his Trigger-Happy boss Cisqua, tries frantically to signal to her not to intervene in his battle with the opponent of the day (for fear that her bullets will damage the ship). Cisqua cheerfully misinterprets this as a plea for assistance and breaks out the guns. Hilarity Ensues. | |
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Danger 5, a spoof of 1960s TV spy series. Claire is being led away by enemy soldiers. | |
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Happens in an episode of Storm Hawks when Aerrow is attempting to interpret Radarr's mime: | |
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Beetlejuice. The title character is trying to get Lydia to say his name three times so he can be released from his imprisonment. He's not allowed to say his own name, so he uses a sort of visual image Charades to teach her his name. Trouble starts when he tries to get to say the "juice" part. | |
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In the X-Wing Series this trope is mentioned when it is explained to Dia that charm-signing, a body language/gestures thing, is, like flowers, another way people communicate. | |
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Mass Effect 2 has a wonderful example from Mordin Solus. If you pursue a romantic relationship with a crew member he'll offer advice, which is quite helpful in the cross-racial routes. If you don't pursue a relationship, he turns you down. Apparently you blinked at him in a suggestive manner. | |
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At the start of Holmes & Watson, Watson misinterprets Holmes' attempts to suggest other means of killing himself as Holmes talking him down off the roof and telling him that he loves him. | |
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Parodied in a sketch on The State where a choking restaurant customer putting his hands to his neck — the international signal for "I'm choking" — sets in motion a train of weird nonverbal gesticulations by his fellow diner, their waiter, the maitre d', and the busboy, while a Narrator explains the various misunderstandings caused by their failure to recognize each other's signals. The sketch ends with the choking victim recovering after having a year's supply of radishes dumped on him, and the audience realizing that the whole mess could have been averted if anyone had thought to speak. Other than the guy who was choking, of course. | |
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My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Summertime Shorts: In "Epic Fail", Sunset Shimmer does increasingly outrageous gestures to warn Rarity that she has a piece of lettuce stuck in her teeth. Rarity believes that Sunset is greeting her or being playful, and can only look bewildered as Sunset resorts to chewing one of the library's potted plants' leaves (this being Sunset's epic fail). Rarity still doesn't get it, leading to her own epic fail. | |
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An entire episode of Seinfeld is built around this trope: George, with a piece of pulp in his eye, gets one of his co-workers fired and accidentally sells George Steinbrenner's birthday card to a sports memorabilia shop by way of some badly-timed winks. | |
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A memorable example occurred in Phineas and Ferb when Perry the Platypus is acting as Doctor Doofenshmirtz's wingman on the latter's date. Perry tries to signal to Doof to invite the woman to dinner: | |
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In Gunnerkrigg Court here, you can tell Annie is just feeling intimidated, but Reynard, whose most anthropomorphic form is a teddy bear, mistakes it for something else entirely. | |
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In Galaxy Quest, Jason Nesmith signals Gwen DeMarco with a throat-slashing gesture while talking to Sarris on a comm channel, then turns to the crew and explains his plan to trick Sarris— oblivious, despite gestures, to the fact that the channel is still wide open. | |
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Before the end of an episode of KaBlam! the director makes a stretching motion with his hands. June asks if that means he wants her to make taffy. | |
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Janda Kembang: Episode 19 has Slamet mistaking Rais' "Pay Me" hand gesture for a dhikr gesture, so he gives Rais a dhikr counter instead of money. | |
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Used in 30 Rock. Liz Lemon tries to hide the fact that Tracy went to a strip club by telling his wife that he took his pet snake to the vet. When Tracy returns and his wife asks where he was (because "I'm back from doing whatever Liz Lemon said!" wasn't sufficient), Liz ALMOST saves the day. | |
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In the miniseries Dune, the Fremen leader Stilgar spits on the table in front of Duke Lete Atreides (which in the Fremen culture is a gesture of respect). Paul is the one who steps in (this showing he knows the ways of the desert) to prevent Stilgar from being attacked. | |
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In Specter of the Past, Wedge Antilles, two other Rogues, and Lando Calrissian all meet somewhere in a marketplace, and while the other two Rogues know the local language and customs, at least to some extent, Wedge and Lando do not. Wedge barely makes it past a very pushy melon seller to see Wes. | |
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Doctor Dolittle: While the doctor learns to speak to animals, he tries to tell a pig "Good morning" by grunting and shaking his right leg. However, he shakes his left leg, which translates to "Good night." | |
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In one of the One Piece specials, the villain captain and one of his underlings attempt to communicate through eye contact and subtle gestures. It fails. | |
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The novel Good Omens contains a scene in which two conspirators exchange nonverbal signals and each, knowing something the other doesn't, receives a different message from what the other intended to send. A particularly extreme example, since a single wink manages to screw up the End of the World! | |
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Bored of the Rings. When the "tall, dark Ranger" tries to use Hand Signals to tell Frito to meet him in the men's room in five minutes, several onlookers think he's trying to play a game of Charades and start calling out "Famous saying?" and "Sounds like!" | |
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Discussed by Claudia in Kaspall on page 238, with some Alt Text lampshading. | |
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Dog with a Blog: Tyler has to pretend to be a dog whisperer so that Nikki doesn't find out Stan's secret. He can't figure out what's wrong with Nikki's dog, Evita, but Stan sees that she has a bur in her paw and must tell Tyler without alerting Nikki. He gesticulates his paw but Tyler gets it wrong. Stan then writes it on the wall, but since he's a dog he doesn't know how to write. Finally, Stan calls Tyler. | |
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In an early episode of Code Geass, Lelouch pulls the collar of his shirt to signal Suzaku to meet on the roof later. The audio dramas expand this quite a bit: Lelouch, a Crazy-Prepared super-nerd even at that age, had created an entire language of over a hundred hand signals for them to communicate with. Of course, Suzaku couldn't remember them all, leading to quite a bit of confusion until Lelouch simplified it. | |
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In The Emperor's New Groove, Yzma's plan to poison Kuzco has failed, instead turning him into a llama. Kuzco hasn't noticed, and continues their dinner conversation. Yzma starts beating two pieces of broccoli together, trying to tell Kronk to knock him out. He thinks she's just asking for more broccoli. Yzma finally gets the message across by pounding her palm with her fist. | |
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In Ice Age, Scrat attempts to warn Manny and Sid of the ambush by Diego's pack. They understand "pack of..." but can't find out the last part, even when Scrat points directly at Diego. | |
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Lucifer: Charlotte tries to get Detective Chloe Decker to investigate a case without revealing Charlotte and Lucifer's prior involvement. Lucifer tries to mime signals from behind Chloe. | |
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Mimpi Metropolitan: In episode 17, people who helped push Bambang's car extend their hands to ask for payment, but Bambang mistakes it for wanting a low-five. They quickly explain their intention verbally afterwards. In episode 19, Alan tries to get Pipin to keep her mouth shut about Prima in front of Yola by winking. Pipin doesn't shut up since she mistakes it for Alan getting something in his eye. |
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Examples in the Calvinverse: When Hobbes waves frantically to Calvin while the latter is talking on the phone to his mother in Calvin and Hobbes III: Double Trouble, Calvin simply says "Hobbes says hi." The above gag is inverted in Calvin & Hobbes: The Series - Hobbes misinterprets a hand signal to get evidence as a friendly wave. |
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In Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N., Robin, thinking that his girl Wednesday doesn't speak English, gets her to explain her situation through charades, leading to this. It then turns out she speaks fluent English, but was enjoying their little game. | |
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The Twelve Tasks of Asterix. Julius Caesar is watching a gladiator rehearsal fight when one of his minions tries whispering some information in his ear. Caesar can't hear what he's saying because of the noise, so he gives the thumbs down to get them to stop, only to find out afterwards the gladiators have all killed each other. | |
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In the Modern Family episode "Snip", Mitch has conspired with his and Cam's friend Longinus to have a conversation while at the latter's clothing boutique that will lead to Cam taking a job there, since Mitch wants him to but knows better than to suggest directly. It almost works, but as Cam is within earshot in the changing room trying on a shirt, another employee blabs about the whole scheme, completely oblivious to Longinus and Mitch's hand signals to shut up, and Cam storms out in a huff. | |
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The classic example being the scene in Fawlty Towers where Basil is attempting to tell Polly the name of a racehorse behind Sybil's back, for complicated reasons. Its name was Dragonfly. | |
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In Quick, Chun-shim attempts to signal the police that her helmet has a bomb in it by pointing at her head with both hands. The confused cop mouths back "I heart you, too?". | |
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Played for drama in Inglorious Basterds, where this gets a lot of people killed. A British officer is inside Germany in World War II, impersonating a German officer. A real German officer gets suspicious and starts to quiz him. The Brit seems to have fended off the German's suspicions—until he orders drinks, signaling the waitress for three drinks by raising the index, middle, and ring fingers of his right hand...when a real German would use their index finger, middle finger, and thumb. Cue a bloody shootout. | |
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In an episode of Mad About You, the two main characters are told by a counselor to only communicate non-verbally for a set period of time. Hilarity Ensues. | |
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In Down Periscope, Kelsey Grammer's character LCDR Dodge is in command of an old diesel submarine pitted in a training exercise against the nuclear Navy. During one engagement, they hide on the bottom of the ocean, while a nuclear submarine is right above them. Trying to get the other sub to leave, he tries to get Sonar to play taped recordings of whale song against the hull. He tries, unsuccessfully, for about a minute with only gestures, which results in another crew member making completely different gestures, completely confusing Sonar. After Dodge starts over and seemingly gets his point across, Sonar misinterprets the order and starts making the whale noises himself. And it works. | |
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The Worst Year of My Life, Again: In "Maths Test", Simon attempts to mime to Alex that Mr Norris had announced that the art teacher was sick. Alex somehow interprets this as they are going to have a maths test. | |
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In Kemonozume Toshihiko and Yuka are hiding from the enemy. They try to discuss what to do via hand gestures (subtitled on screen). Hilarity Ensues. | |
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In This Bites!, this applies given that the city of octopi the Straw Hats run into communicate mainly by eight-tentacled sign language... and Vivi and Robin end up insulting the shogun, his lineage and his surfing skills when Vivi accidentally uses the eight-tentacled dialect instead of the eight-jointed-limbed dialect. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In a case of both this and Shown Their Work, this is why the ponies are afraid of Zecora when she first goes to Ponyville. She digs her hoof into the ground, which is something that zebras do in real life to search for water. Unfortunately for her, for horses, this is a threat gesture. When Twilight goes to meet her, the other ponies warn her that Zecora is "scary and threatening". She WAS, it was just due to a misunderstanding rather than malicious intent. | |
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Doctor Who: In "The Unicorn and the Wasp" has a similar situation of Charades under pressure. As the Doctor tries to flush cyanide out of his system, he has to silently ask for a list of seemingly random things to help detoxify himself. Donna has a great deal of trouble with this, interpreting "salt" (represented with a shaking fist, i.e. sprinkling salt on food) as a cocktail shaker ("What do you want, a Harvey Wallbanger?") and "a shock" as a song (for which she suggests "Camptown Races?"). | |
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Men in Black: Played with when the attractive female medical examiner attempts to signal to Agent J that there's a hostile alien in the room with them, and he thinks she's flirting with him, and while she is talking most of her indications of the alien are nonverbal. | |
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Monty Python's Flying Circus. One sketch had a courtroom where the participants communicated using Charades, resulting in a judge misinterpreting a jury's decision as "Not guilcup". | |
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Peep and the Big Wide World: One episode has the birds trying to find acorns for the squirrel. Quack consistently misunderstands the squirrel's pantomiming, thinking he's saying "he wants to dance with a chicken" or "frogs are flying in from the west". | |
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The Gods Must Be Crazy. The natives shake their heads to say yes, so when one character asks them to back his story that rhinos stomp out fires they look like they're disagreeing with him. | |
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In the My Life as a Teenage Robot episode "Speak No Evil", Jenny loses the language disc that allows her to speak English, and tries to explain the problem to Dr. Wakeman with a game of charades. Dr. Wakeman manages to understand "I cannot...", but gets confused when Jenny gets to "speak English", misinterpreting the sentence as "I cannot stop eating cheese in my milkshake" and "I cannot stop petting those cute little puppies". When Jenny becomes so frustrated by this that she complains in Japanese, Dr. Wakeman figures out that Jenny is unable to speak English, but doesn't figure out that this was what Jenny had already been trying to tell her. | |
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On one episode of Ed, Edd n Eddy, Eddy is rendered speechless after swallowing a fly, and is given a bell to communicate with. Rolf claims to understand what the bell rings mean, but the things he does for (or rather, to) Eddy are clearly not what Eddy wants. | |
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Played for laughs, of course, on Police Squad!. In one episode, criminals leave a message for the police. But instead of tying a note to a brick and hurling it through the window, they tie a mime to a brick and hurl him through the window. The mime then proceeds to act out the criminals' demands, which the detectives must interpret. Frank Drebin, as you'd guess, is terrible at charades. | |
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In the Pokémon: The Series fanfic Symbiosis, Ash misinterprets Pikachu's hand signals for leash as a noose. | |
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This Karate Bears guy probably won't get any of these girls to go out with him. No matter what he actually says. | |
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Mime from Happy Tree Friends is not incapable of speech, but he chooses not to out of showmanship. This includes when calling 911 in "Who's to Flame?", with predictable results. | |
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In Dr. Franklin's Island, being turned into weird animals makes it hard for Semi and Miranda to communicate. They're too paranoid of being overheard to use their Electronic Telepathy much, especially regarding escape plans. Because of their Pseudo-Romantic Friendship they're able to convey some things, mainly feelings-based, through body language, but this is limited. Once when Miranda makes a point of showing Semi a pattern of items she's arranged, Semi splashes her tail to convey "it looks nice!" and Miranda, frustrated, sweeps it away with her wings - she'd been trying to tell Semi what the code to the keypad locking a cage was. | |
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The above gag is inverted in Calvin & Hobbes: The Series - Hobbes misinterprets a hand signal to get evidence as a friendly wave. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Hush" involved demons who stole everyone's ability to speak, forcing the heroes to communicate with each other through pantomime. While brainstorming on how they might slay the demons, Buffy shrugs and nonchalantly pumps her hand up and down in the air in front of her, drawing looks of startled disbelief from her friends. Embarrassed at their reactions, she pulls a wooden stake out of her bag and repeats the motion. Everyone gets it. Later, Buffy tries to signal to Riley that he needs to smash the box on a table that's holding all the voices inside it. Riley thinks she means the crystal next to it and hits that, then grins like a dope at her before an exasperated Buffy makes more specific gestures. | |
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In A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Pseudolus pretends to be a soothsayer telling an old man's fortune, while Hysterium gestures frantically behind the old man's back. | |
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Star Wars Legends: In the X-Wing Series this trope is mentioned when it is explained to Dia that charm-signing, a body language/gestures thing, is, like flowers, another way people communicate. In Specter of the Past, Wedge Antilles, two other Rogues, and Lando Calrissian all meet somewhere in a marketplace, and while the other two Rogues know the local language and customs, at least to some extent, Wedge and Lando do not. Wedge barely makes it past a very pushy melon seller to see Wes. Lando meets up with them after a while, with a melon under his arm. Galaxy of Fear has a scene where Zak is floating in a bacta tank and can't hear a thing. His sister has discovered something terrible and suspicious about the facility he's in and tries mouthing it, but he can't read lips and her miming doesn't make much sense, though he can at least tell something's up. Finally she hits on something, but it takes a bit. |
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In Family Guy, the news had a Mime Weatherman. When he tried to communicate rain, Tom thought he was stating that "peoples' parents will throw fecal matter down on them from the rooftops." Until an angry glare from said mime set Tom straight. | |
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How I Met Your Mother: Averted with Lily and Marshall, who have perfect "couple telepathy". Played straight with Ted and his fiancée Stella, after Stella's sister informs them that her fiancé ran off and she can't get a refund. Ted thinks their conversation is about paying for lunch. Stella thinks it's about taking the wedding. It's also Foreshadowing; Ted and Stella later break up. It's also played straight with Ted and Barney during a "conversation" about whether to close the bar they're watching. Ted seems to think they've come to an agreement and will close the bar, but then Barney announces "Good news, everyone! We're keeping the bar open all night!" Another episode included Robin desperately trying to communicate to Lily that she should not open the gift Robin brought to the Bachelorette party in front of all her family. Lily seems to have completely understood the telepathic message and leans over to whisper something to her mother... who then discreetly passes Robin a tampon. Lily then looks over with a very self-pleased "you're welcome". |
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The Slammer: When the Governor loses his memory, Gimbert attempts to mime the name of the next act to him from offstage. The first attempt to convey the name of acrobat Alina Eskina is interpreted by the Governor as "a lean, mean laughing monkey". | |
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A variation is used in an old comic of The Moomins where the Moomins are being held by pirates. A pirate orders them to work "or else", and makes a cutting gesture across his throat. The Moomins are appropriately horrified: "We must do what he says or he'll commit suicide!" | |
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When Hobbes waves frantically to Calvin while the latter is talking on the phone to his mother in Calvin and Hobbes III: Double Trouble, Calvin simply says "Hobbes says hi." | |
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Eyeshield 21: Panther finally finds Shin, but then remembers that he can't speak Japanese. So he tries to motion that he wants to test his skills against him. Shin concludes that Panther's hungry. Later, Mamori frantically tries to signal to the Devil Bats that the opposing team is planning something, but most of the team thinks she's trying to cheer them on. |
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Friends: When Rachel goes to her second job interview at Ralph Lauren, she doesn't notice she has ink on her lip from biting down on a pen. The interviewer gestures at his lip to try to alert her, but she mistakes it for a sexual proposition and furiously storms out before he has the chance to correct her. Then when her friends repeat the same gesture to her, she just thinks they guessed how her interview went. Chandler is on the phone with a girl and Joey starts a really strange pantomime that he assumes is related to something Joey wants him to say to the girl. After he hangs up, he asks Joey what the hell he was signaling and Joey just explains he wanted to know if Chandler wanted to order a pizza. |
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A non-comedy example: In Babylon 5, the Earth-Minbari war started when a human commander misunderstood a Minbari gesture of respect as a signal that they were about to attack. Namely, they opened their ship's gunports while approaching, and as a bonus used scanners powerful enough to fry electrical systems on the human ships. The gesture of respect was the space equivalent of an open hand: gunports would be open but weapons would remain unpowered. Unfortunately, with their sensors overwhelmed by the Minbari scans, the humans couldn't tell that the weapons weren't powered, only seeing open gunports. Minbari leader Dukhat realized the potential misunderstanding but too late. He was killed in the opening volley, and the simple majority (i.e. by one vote) of the Grey Council voted to destroy humanity. | |
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In an episode of Phil of the Future, Keely is enrolled into an advanced maths class after accidentally saying the correct answer to an equation that Phil figured out since it's the maths from his timeline. To keep up the charade, Phil works as being in charge of the projector in the advanced and gives the answers to Keely; although he trouble giving the answer x2. | |
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In Lilo & Stitch, Lilo's sister tries to prompt Lilo from behind the social worker's back. It all goes well until Lilo misinterprets an enthusiastic gesture, a five-finger "stop" reaction, and a face palm as "I get... disciplined? Five times a day, with bricks!" | |
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Not Always Working provides us this fine example of workplace communication. At least they figured out some of it. | |
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One scene in Scooby-Doo: Monsters Unleashed has Shaggy and Scooby infiltrate a Bad Guy Bar where past foes of Mystery Inc. hang out called the Faux Ghost by pretending to be Shizzy McCreepy and S.D. McCrawly. Scooby dances at one point and Shaggy tries to gesture to Scooby that his wig is slipping off. Scooby misinterprets this as a dance move and starts jumping around pointing at his head. | |
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Night Court. A friend of Mac's cannot communicate that he is choking on a hot dog and is forced to write a plea for help on the table in ketchup. "'Mac, I'm cooking'?" | |
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