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Not Listening to Me, Are You?
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Bob is busy with something — playing a game, reading a book, tampering in the domain of God — and Alice comes up and tries to talk to him about "something important". Bob just answers with a few muttered lines of, "Yep, uh-huh, yeah," the lion's share of his concentration on his task, until Alice gets annoyed and says something completely outlandish: "There's a weasel chewing on my figgin." After a moment, the absurdity sinks in and Bob asks what she said, which (usually) prompts the stock phrase: "You're not listening to me, are you?" Variations on the gag includes Bob failing to even register Alice's outlandish comment and her lamentation that he isn't listening, or first noticing what she said after she has long given up and left the room in exasperation. The actual import of what Alice has to say, compared with the importance of what Bob is doing, is largely irrelevant to the gag — it's perfectly okay to interrupt both video games and world-saving research with relationship questions, after all. The whole point of the gag is to bring out as absurd a non sequitur as possible when Alice "tests" whether Bob's listening to her. Comes in several flavors. The most common is the girlfriend (or wife) who is angry with boyfriend/husband for ignoring her in favor of whatever he's doing. This is almost always the woman testing the man; it's a rare case where the woman is seen as the neglectful one in the relationship. Usually ends in a false reconciliation (sometimes with Bob reaching out to keep playing his game while still hugging Alice), and also often with Alice even angrier at Bob because he doesn't see what's wrong with his behavior. The next most common is the mentor or close friend (who may be either sex) trying to distract Bob from an obsession: Bob must beat the final boss, he must train until he drops, he must finish researching the cure for the supervirus. His efforts may have a noble intent, but he's going to make himself sick with how much he's putting into it, and neglecting food, sleep, and basic hygiene. If the stock phrase is spoken, it's usually with mere impatience or concern instead of outright anger. A subversion would be if they were listening and pretend not to, or appeared to be not paying attention but could repeat what the person said verbatim. This is Truth in Television as almost any couple can attest. |
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Thursday Next: Variation in The Eyre Affair: Thursday and her brother are speaking to an elderly and mostly deaf woman, and when Thursday realizes this she and her brother start saying increasingly obscene things about each other, to absolutely no reaction other than "that's nice, dear." | |
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Meet Me in St. Louis: After John kisses Esther, she says something stupid and wanders back to her house in a daze with an idiotic grin on her face. When her mother says, "Your ice cream is getting cold," Esther dreamily responds, "Isn't it?" Then when her mother asks if there's something wrong with her, Esther thoughtlessly replies, "Yes, Mama," and then goes to say something, but stops. It takes her two youngest sisters mocking her to snap her out of it. | |
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Done by the titular Patch Adams to his psychiatrist at the beginning of the movie, upon realizing that he's not really interested in his patient. It drives him to leave and become a good doctor. | |
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In Carry On Camping, Peter Potter tries to tell his wife, Harriet, that he doesn't want to go camping this summer, but instead wants to go to a resort. She is busy going through their camping things and is ignoring him, so, in the same tone of voice, he talks about his afternoon at work where a series of bizarre things happened, to which she continues talking about their upcoming camping trip. | |
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Royal Pains: Evan is worried about his father, and replies with "uh-huh, that's great" when his girlfriend says, "Oh, by the way, I'm pregnant. With triplets. Which is going to be tough in a maximum security prison." Later, at the end of the scene, he jokingly adds, "And I'll be sure to visit you and the triplets in prison." | |
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In one scene in The World Ends with You, Joshua pulls this on Neku and thus indirectly on you. After giving a bunch of exposition, Joshua wonders if you're paying attention and asks you a question about what he just said. Picking the wrong answer causes him to scold you, telling you to pay more attention. | |
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In Tokyo Ghoul, Hide and Kaneki go to their favourite hamburger place to celebrate Kaneki being discharged from the hospital, and Hide tells a funny story about a friend's girlfriend looking exactly like a pro-wrestler. Poor Kaneki is distracted by the discovery than the wait-staff look more delicious to him than the meal they're serving and responds to Hide asking what he just said by congratulating him on getting a girlfriend. Who looks like a pro-wrestler. | |
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In East of Eden, Sam throws in two lines of nonsense during a story. Adam and Cathy's lack of reaction confirm that they aren't listening. | |
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Gilmore Girls: Emily Gilmore outlines her itinerary for the day to Richard, who is engrossed in the financial pages. She ends it by telling him that she was going to have sex with the golf instructor after the party they were planning. It was averted because Richard had been listening and suggested that the golf instructor might not be able to wait. After all, he hadn't. | |
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In Unity, part of the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Relaunch, Quark catches Nog's attention by randomly mentioning parasites, referencing the root cause of the current crisis, which he isn't supposed to know about. Until the magic word is thrown in, Nog was just nodding and grunting. | |
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The Doctor Blake Mysteries: In "Family Portrait", Jean and Rose are discussing Jean's wedding suit when Rose notices that Lucien isn't listening and remarks that "vivid purple was a bold choice". Jean replies "It will match the shade of violet I'm planning to dye my hair". This gets Lucien's attention with a "Did you say you're dying your hair v...?" before realising he is being pranked. | |
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Angel: "Unleashed": "Harm's Way" is a Day in the Life episode about Harmony, showing her as a ditzy but hardworking Butt-Monkey that no-one appreciates. One example is when Harmony is filling the boss in on his appointments. Angel is nodding away, but turns out to be listening to a language tape. On a couple of occasions when Angel is giving a Patrick Stewart Speech. Lindsey confesses he just zones out when the yapping starts. Wesley shoots a man dead in the middle of the conversation. |
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In CSI: NY "Comes Around", Mac is preoccupied thinking about being railroaded in a case where a suspect jumped from a roof to make Mac look like a killer. Peyton is trying to tell him autopsy results and when she realizes he isn’t listening, she says she made a patê with the victim’s liver. Mac finally pays attention again. | |
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Flipped slightly in Cheers: It continues in Frasier. In "Come Lie With Me", Daphne surmises that if she moves out, it'll require a lot of hassle, including turning her bedroom back into a study. Frasier gets a distracted smile, leading to her stopping and remarking nonplussed: Funny thing as Frasier's catchphrase in Frasier is "I'm listening." |
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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: In the 6th season episode "The Gang Buys a Boat" Dennis accuses Mac of this, which he doesn't exactly deny but also claims he wasn't doing either. | |
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The Simpsons: A sequence from the episode "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes" may or may not have been intended this way: Maybe a subversion in a Simpsons episode called "Kill the Alligator and Run" where Homer gets in trouble from a guard for talking to someone: In the second season episode "Bart Gets an F", Bart is getting lectured by Mrs. Krabappel about his grades when the scene shifts to Bart's perspective and her speech becomes Blah, Blah, Blah. Then we get this exchange: |
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Castle: Beckett is out on a date, but she can't stop talking about her latest case. At one point, her date says "Do you want to have sex with me?" and she doesn't even notice. In another episode, Beckett is speculating about why a victim's clothes are missing, but Castle is distracted by thinking about his daughter having a boyfriend, and doesn't react when she suggests that giant moths killed the guy and ate his clothes. A few minutes later, he says, "Wait, did you say something about a giant moth?" |
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Monsters, Inc.: Played for Drama when Mike and Sulley are banished; Mike is furiously bawling him out for all the trouble he's caused him, but Sulley is too distraught over what's happening with Boo to care. | |
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From 8-Bit Theater: On the other hand, given that his entire purpose for helping them was to watch them suffer it's likely that he would have enjoyed said alternative plan anyways. |
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The Fifth Elephant has a lengthy discussion of the art of listening without listening (particularly the husbandly survival instincts which develop alongside it), which features His Grace His Excellency Commander Sir Samuel Vimes the Duke of Ankh not only making noises like he's listening to his wife planning for their trip to Uberwald, but adding an appropriate comment to the conversation... and then asking, a moment later, "What alligator?" | |
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Margo's father in The Shadow: | |
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Scrubs: The Janitor tells J.D. that he's going on a janitor-only cruise for the weekend. He then tells J.D. that he paid Ted and Todd to duct-tape him to the ceiling of the cafeteria while he's away and that the only reason he's telling him this is that he knows that J.D. has zoned out by now and isn't even paying attention. J.D. then leaves, saying that he wasn't sure what the Janitor had said. In another episode, Dr Cox tries the same thing on Dr. Kelso: |
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Calvin and Hobbes: Calvin tries to trick his mother by announcing that he plans to become a radical terrorist when he grows up and that he's going to inhale a pesticide, to both of which his mother responds with a distracted "Mm hmm". But when he declares that he's going to stay up all night and watch television, she shoots him down, leading him to observe "You can never tell if they're listening or not". Another has him pester her while she's reading a book. |
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A Baby Blues strip has Darryl and Wanda dining out with another couple, but they're too distracted by a little boy at another table to listen to them. The strip is titled "The Trouble with Dining Out with New Parents". | |
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This exchange from King of the Hill. | |
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Discworld: The Fifth Elephant has a lengthy discussion of the art of listening without listening (particularly the husbandly survival instincts which develop alongside it), which features His Grace His Excellency Commander Sir Samuel Vimes the Duke of Ankh not only making noises like he's listening to his wife planning for their trip to Uberwald, but adding an appropriate comment to the conversation... and then asking, a moment later, "What alligator?" Later in the same book, Sybil mentions that she's going to have a baby, and the narrative records that Vimes' brain "hastily rewrote what she'd just said across the inside of his eyeballs in white-hot fire, then went away and hid," to prevent him answering absently with something unwise such as "Choose any colour you like," or "I'll have a man in to take care of it." Also in Maskerade, Agnes does this: Mustrum Ridcully has been described once or twice as someone who never really listens. Ponder Stibbons has abused this in the past, and thus Ridcully had to start actually listening after finding his signature on several things he supposedly "agreed to" and doesn't remember at all. |
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Also in Maskerade, Agnes does this: | |
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A Miracle of Science, when Caprice is trying to show Benjamin the sights, but he's too busy thinking about her knowing his secret now: | |
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The Big Bang Theory: the guys are busy playing Halo when Penny comes in with some of her friends and asks the guys if they want to have sex with them. When no one responds, Penny turns to her friends and says, "Told ya." After she leaves, Leonard asks if anyone heard something. The above is a Call-Back to what happened in the second episode when Penny found the guys over-thinking the process of furnishing her apartment with their complex and wholly unnecessary ideas. Penny, losing patience, and a little pissed at Howard making a rude chauvinistic remark, jokingly said, "Guys, it’s hot in here, I think I’ll just take off all my clothes." The group didn't notice at all. In fact, they were so caught up in their own plans, they also didn't notice Penny thought her room was nice as is and ran off to start the own huge collaborative building project. |
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In one episode of Iggy Arbuckle, Jiggers is talking about he feels grossed out about how he and Iggy have to pretend to be Catfish Stu's friends while his mother is visiting. He then notices that Iggy isn't listening, due to him thinking of a way to stop Stu turning a field of orchids into a golf course, so Jiggers tells him that "Martians landed in Brain Freeze today and turned all the snow into grape slushies." | |
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In Station V3, one rumormonger is constantly repeating "I know that", leading to the following dialogue: | |
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The Order of the Stick: In a variation, Roy's ghost isn't sure whether the Oracle is capable of hearing him, and tries to prompt a reaction through a series of "Yo Mama" jokes. Also subverted in that the Oracle can hear him but doesn't want him to know until it's too late for him to make much use of it. Similarly (in a more broad application of the trope), after the group splits up, Vaarsuvius spends every waking moment (and they have plenty, seeing as how they refuse to sleep) trying to devise a spell to look for Haley. Sure, they listen to the things the other members are saying, but actively dismisses them as unimportant in the grand scheme of things. |
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The Mortal Instruments: In the opening scene of City of Bones, Clary and Simon are at a club, when Clary spots a mysterious, handsome young man. As she stares at him, Simon tries to get her attention with a series of increasingly outrageous comments, culminating with him telling her that he was sleeping with her mother and considering taking up crossdressing. | |
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In Ghost Whisperer when Andrea is talking about the interior decorator... | |
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Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker: Between his regular life and being Batman, Terry hasn't gotten much sleep lately. While out at a club dancing, his girlfriend Dana notices and proclaims that her head is on fire, to which Terry only responds that she looks good. | |
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At the start of the Saints Row: The Third mission "Convoy Decoy", The Boss calls up Pierce and tells them that with STAG in town, the penthouse crib might be compromised, and they need to relocate to a more secure location. When The Boss realizes Pierce isn't paying attention (being more engrossed in a game of chess with Oleg), the Boss adds "...and we should get some horses and mount a charge on STAG," just to mess with Pierce. | |
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Newsflesh: In Countdown, Professor Mason tries to get the attention of his students, who are collectively distracted by rumors of a Zombie Apocalypse, by throwing mention of the final exam into a sentence. That doesn't work, but dropping books loudly on his desk does. Turns out the students were right to be more concerned about those rumors than about the final.... | |
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The Joker Blogs: Poison Iv - uh, Pamela Isley does this to Harleen Quinzel, who's feeling the pre-wedding nerves. | |
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Vampire Husband: In episode 2, when Charles tells Cheryl that he is a vampire, she first comforts him and then realizes what he just said. | |
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On Queer as Folk (US), Michael is in the laundry room, and there's an incredibly creepy guy there, staring at him like he wants to devour him. Michael rushes out of there and is in such a hurry that he drops things on the way out. When he comes back to the apartment, Ben is engrossed in the newspaper. | |
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The X-Files: From the season 4 episode "Home": Scully tries to talk to Mulder about a case while he's tossing a baseball around on the field: From the season 7 episode "all things", Mulder tries to talk to Scully about Crop Circles in England, while she crunches on a salad and ignores him. |
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Smallville: As Chloe tries to inform Lana about the arrangements for her wedding day, she notices Lana isn't listening (since Lana's thinking about Clark Kent, among other things), prompting Chloe to tell her the day will end with "naked male Jell-o wrestling". | |
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The Contest: The fic opens with Rarity telling Twilight the story of why she was late to their spa appointment. Twilight, meanwhile, has tuned out long ago, occasionally giving an absentminded "uh-huh" or similar. When she realizes Rarity has finished her story and is looking at her expectantly, she manages to piece together enough memories to come up with a diplomatic response — smiling and saying, "Well, I'm just glad you were able to join us." | |
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Chowder: Played with when the title character's boss, Mung Daal, has just started lecturing him. He immediately cuts to an Imagine Spot about filling the room with chocolate and swimming in it. Also used in a holiday special Hey Hey It's Knishmas! with Panini trying to explain to Chowder that Knish Krinkle was only Gazpacho in a costume. |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Averted in the "Call to Arms" episode of when O'Brien, Dax and Rom are trying to come up with a way to block the wormhole, and Rom is apparently too preoccupied thinking about his wedding. In "The Sound of Her Voice", the crew of the Defiant makes contact with a Starfleet captain who is stranded on an inhospitable planet and maintain a pretty much continuous comlink to her. At one point, it's Doctor Bashir's turn and, distracted by his work, he basically just gives her simple answers like "yeah," "ah ha," or "oh, yeah," until finally in frustration she pretends that there's someone after her... |
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In "I Want a Trumpet" from Little Princess, when the King becomes absorbed in a music box with a little toy that plays a trumpet, Little Princess says that she wants a trumpet too, but the King doesn't even hear her, as he's completely absorbed in the music box. So she asks him "Can I have lots of ice cream... for breakfast?" and he just replies "Whatever you say, poppet." In the next scene, she's not eating ice cream, she's just irritated because she wants a trumpet. | |
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Seinfeld: Played with in that George appears to be listening but misses the point of Elaine's words. | |
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From H₂O: Just Add Water Rikki gives us this little gem while Lewis is too busy at his computer. | |
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Amélie provides the page quote. Amélie's father is distracted because his favorite gnome went missing and sent him pictures from various cities around the world. What he doesn't know is that Amélie got one of her friends who was a flight attendant to take the gnome and take pictures of it around the world, all to convince her father to travel more. | |
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Gunnerkrigg Court: Someone doing this is abused against them: When Alistair's parents ask him if he'd like to be permanently transformed into a bird this way, and accept this as an answer and go ahead with it. It's not clear if this was invoked, or if they're just negligent. In Chapter 74, Kat asks how Annie's meeting went, but clearly isn't paying any attention to the answer, as she's too busy working on her project to figure out how Annie was split into two. |
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The episode "Come Dancing" of The Goodies has an unusual example, with the one on the receiving end simply revealing he wasn't listening. The leader of a female dancing mafia (...uh, It Makes Sense in Context) is informing Graeme of the vital importance that he listen to her right now because if they genuinely win the dancing competition it will be very bad for them, while he just keeps tinkering with the gadget vital to their success. After she's done snarling and yelling, he simply says "Sorry—wasn't listening" and, distracted and absent-minded, reveals exactly what he was doing and how that machine is vital to them winning. She, however, listened. Hilarity Ensues. | |
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Clerks: Variation when a customer tries to get a disinterested Randal to help her choose a movie. She shows him the same movies multiple times to see if he's paying attention. | |
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On SHIMMER volume 26, LuFisto earned herself a title shot by asking the inattentive champion MsChif a long series of inane questions - ending in a request for a title match. | |
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The famous The Lord of the Rings fanfic Bag Enders features Aragorn trying to get Legolas' attention: | |
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In one of the Confessions of Georgia Nicolson books, Georgia's mother is clearly not listening to her and Georgia says "Something very interesting happened to me last night. I slit my throat and my head fell off. Have you seen it?" | |
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From the Star Trek expanded-universe novel Q-Squared (and paraphrased from memory): In the Star Trek: Voyager Relaunch, Chakotay isn't listening to Janeway as she recounts her latest meeting with the admiralty. Janeway therefore gets his attention by mentioning how Admiral Nechayev supposedly turned up naked, with Admiral Montgomery offering no comment. In Unity, part of the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Relaunch, Quark catches Nog's attention by randomly mentioning parasites, referencing the root cause of the current crisis, which he isn't supposed to know about. Until the magic word is thrown in, Nog was just nodding and grunting. |
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A brief flashback sequence in Audrey, Wait! gives us this exchange that happened before the break up. | |
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Girl Genius: When Dr. Sun Jen-djieh hears that Gil threatened to destroy England the fact that Gil is not listening is pointed out with a helpful arrow. After Agatha has been traumatized by her meeting with The Master his daughter Colette sees her traumatized reaction and confesses to love her. She takes Agatha's lack of response as confirmation that she's not pretending. |
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30 Rock does it a few times. From the episode "Jack the Writer". Done again in "Black Tie": |
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From the Death Note fanfic It's Just a Game, we get this exchange: | |
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In the Star Trek: Voyager Relaunch, Chakotay isn't listening to Janeway as she recounts her latest meeting with the admiralty. Janeway therefore gets his attention by mentioning how Admiral Nechayev supposedly turned up naked, with Admiral Montgomery offering no comment. | |
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NCIS: In a season 3 episode, McGee is deeply absorbed in a bit of computer geekery and totally ignoring Abby, prompting her to say: "I'm pregnant, McGee. Twins. Haven't told the father yet. It's Gibbs. I know it's wrong, but something about his silver hair just gets me all tingly inside." Tony comes in just in time to hear her. Happens again in the season 7 premiere when Tony is distracted by Ziva's absence. |
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In the early fifth season of Sailor Moon, Usagi and Mamoru are on another one of their dates, but Usagi is noticing that Mamoru is seeming a bit distant and distracted at the moment. So she starts muttering a few Japanese tongue twisters in hopes of getting a reaction, but he just mutters "yeah" to every one until she starts openly confronting him about it. She doesn't realize at the time that Mamoru was cursed by a fragment of Nehelenia's dream mirror, which leaves its victims hopelessly apathetic. | |
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Played with, like so many other tropes, in Kim Possible: Kim claims Ron wasn't listening to her and it not only turns out that he was listening, but that he fully expected her to claim otherwise and recites her words back exactly. | |
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In an episode of Dinosaurs, Earl is poring over his new car's operating manual while Fran tries to tell him her errands for the day. She then tries to get his attention with a line something like "...and then I'm going to strip down and start dancing in the driveway." Earl just brushes her off with "Have fun," while the baby asks to dance with her. | |
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Eliza from The Wild Thornberrys does this when her parents aren't listening. "I'm gonna go stay up all night, makes some prank phone calls." | |
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In Nightwing, Dick has recently graduated the Bludhaven Police Academy, and gets a message on his answering machine that an opening is available. He rushes out and runs into his landlord Clancy. | |
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The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet: In the episode "Harriet Gives a Party", Harriet tries to get Ozzie to help her plan the guest list for the titular party, but he's clearly distracted by his newspaper. | |
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Used in Extraordinary Measures by, of all people, a sickly girl. Realizing that her father is not paying attention to her playing, she tells him about how her doll is going to go Axe-Crazy and slaughter penguins. It takes him a while to notice. | |
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Daria: From the episode "That Was Then, This Is Dumb": Played with in "Murder, She Snored": Played straight in Is It Fall Yet?: Subverted in "The Old and the Beautiful", when Daria is reading to an old lady in a nursing home: |
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In U.S. Acres, Orson is reading a bedtime story to Booker and Sheldon. Noticing they seem to have fallen asleep, he starts ad-libbing about a monster meeting a little chick and an egg with feet, "and then he stomped the suckers flat!" | |
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In Archie Comics, Archie sees Veronica speaking to a handsome guy and begins ranting jealously. Betty tries to convince him to forget them and go off with her, but when it's clear he isn't listening, Betty begins uttering nonsense to get his attention. ("Do you like the shade of green I dyed my hair? I dyed my other head purple! How does that grab you?") Then it emerges that the handsome guy was talking to Veronica because he wanted to be introduced to Betty. The two go off together and now it's Veronica ranting jealously as Archie tries to get her attention, resorting to spouting nonsense himself. When it's clear Veronica didn't hear a word he said, Archie glumly states that's not a very nice way to treat people. | |
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In an episode of Murder, She Wrote, Jessica is worrying about her new book while the sheriff tries to discuss the case with her. Eventually he says they found lion tracks around the body, and she nods absently. Subverted when the next body shows up and she asks, "No lion tracks this time?" | |
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Houston Knights: Detective Lundy tells his distracted lieutenant that he's thinking about buying a suspect lunch, a new car, and a round-trip ticket to Paris. She doesn't react as he says it, but a few minutes later she dryly warns his bemused partner that she doesn't want to see a ticket to Paris on their expense report. | |
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Lucifer: Unusually for her, Maze offers a sympathetic ear to Chloe's problems, but we keep cutting to loud rock music from Maze's point-of-view. Turns out Maze has earphones hidden under her hair, while pretending to nod her head in agreement to what Chloe is saying. Chloe eventually realises what is happening and tells Maze that she intends to adopt a dozen puppies and let them sleep in Maze's bedroom. | |
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The Amazing World of Gumball: In "The Phone", Gumball tries to get Darwin's attention while the latter is playing on the phone: |
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In Jade Empire, a man sends you to search the marshes for Fen, whom slavers have captured. You find a woman, but she isn't pleased to find out that you've been sent to find her husband's ox. When they leave the marshes together: | |
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Played with in a Peanuts comic when Lucy pretends to fall asleep on Schroeder's piano. Schroeder doesn't buy it and flirts with her to see if she's awake. | |
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The Heroes of Olympus: In The Mark of Athena, Percy sums up his attempts to have conversations with a severely distracted Annabeth: | |
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Home Improvement had Jill trying to talk to Tim about ballroom dancing lessons while he was trying to listen to a football game on the radio through an earbud. Tim remains completely oblivious. | |
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One FoxTrot strip had Peter make all sorts of strange statements, which Roger basically ignores giving the "yeah", "uh-huh", and "that's nice" responses because he's reading the paper... right up until he says he's staying an hour past curfew, and he promptly shoots down his request. He comments that one day he's going to get past his filter. Meanwhile, Jason is telling him his intent to change his name to a semicolon, with the same initial responses. | |
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Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog: Dr. Horrible is in the middle of conducting a heist via remote control when his crush, Penny, asks him to sign a petition for a homeless shelter. He tries to keep up a conversation with her while working the remote, and she picks up on his distraction: | |
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Zits subverted this one: Walt's driving Jeremy to school, asks Jeremy a question, no response. Then he gets more outlandish, promising Jeremy more "gigawhatevers" in his computer, a raise in his allowance... oh, and Martians have landed. As Jeremy leaves, he agrees with Walt's plans for more memory and allowance and the like, but notes that the Martian thing seems unlikely. | |
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My World… and Welcome to It: In "Rules for a Happy Marriage," Nathan Williams presents his magazine colleagues with an Imagine Spot that relates how he eventually informed his wife he was leaving her one evening. During the whole conversation, she intently scrutinizes her fingernails and distractedly says "Uh huh" or "Yes dear" or "Certainly, dear," regardless of what Nathan tells her. This echoes John's situation at home earlier that morning, when he absentmindedly agreed to have lunch with Ellen at noon (naturally, he forgot). | |
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In The Judgement of the World (5Ds), Red Dragon Archfiend tries to have a conversation with Stardust Dragon while the latter is staring at the cave Black Rose Dragon is hiding in: | |
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El Goonish Shive: | |
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In Neither a Bird nor a Plane, it's Deku!, Inko and Hisashi Midoriya have this conversation while moping around their campsite. | |
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In one episode of The Donna Reed Show, Mary complains that her father doesn't actually pay attention when she tells him about her day. To demonstrate: | |
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A very dark example in American Psycho. Bateman often reveals his psychotic nature to friends by saying things such as "I like to dissect girls. Did you know that I'm utterly insane?" They either are not listening or think he is someone else. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic In the episode "Dragonshy," Fluttershy tries to get out of going on a dangerous mission, and approaches Twilight Sparkle while she's reading the map. The unicorn isn't really listening and just keeps saying, "Uh huh," even when Fluttershy says she should just stay home. Later, in "Spike At Your Service", Twilight unwittingly ignores that Spike is leaving her side to be Applejack's aide due to his Dragon Code. When Twilight is told of it while she's actually paying attention, her reaction is what would be expected. |
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The Bill: When DCI Meadows is distracted by the promotion he's applied for, DI Deakin snaps him out of it by telling him that Jim Carver loves wearing women's clothing. | |
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Season 3 of The Wire: Bunk is also guilty of doing this to Lester. Lester is obsessed with the problem of how drug kingpin Marlo is cutting a swath through Baltimore, and yet none of the bodies are being found. While he's pondering over this, a drunken Bunk is focused only on the pretty girls at the bar where they're sitting. The two go on like this for more than a minute, each in their own world, before Lester realizes what's happening and finally gets exasperated at Bunk. Link |
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From an episode of Sushi Pack, where Maguro is trying to get Tako to stop playing a video game and come to dinner: | |
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Hunter × Hunter has a moment during the Greed Island arc during the dodgeball match against Razor. Gon has called himself back into the game and Biscuit tells him not to overburden himself, but he just mutters "yeah" to everything, so she eventually asks "what's one plus one?" and gets the same response. Realizing he's obsessed with beating Razor, she only gets a response when she says "Alright, beat him even if you die!". Gon was really pissed off at Razor because a deadly throw nearly hit his best friend Killua, and so Gon want's a total victory against Razor: beating him at all costs is all he's caring about now. | |
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In the webcomic Sorcery 101, a werewolf girl is trying to set up a romantic evening with her boyfriend, a bounty hunter who's busy planning his next kill. He doesn't even notice that he's agreed to watch a chick flick with her, so she asks if she can paint his claws bright pink. | |
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True Lies: Helen Tasker (Jamie Lee Curtis) tells husband Harry Tasker (Arnold Schwarzenegger) how the plumber wants a small fortune for what she considers a small repair, so (thinking he's not listening) mentions that she slept with the plumber and he knocked $100 off the bill. Harry then says to her that was good thinking, and gives her a kiss as he goes on his way to work, as if he never heard a word she said. Played with, as it's heavily implied he heard everything and is just playing up his persona as being either oblivious or perfectly aware she's trying to mess with him. | |
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In The Looney Tunes Show, Bugs tries to tell Daffy about his childhood, but realizes he isn't listening and switches to Superman's origin story. This makes Daffy listen, but being Daffy, he believes every word. | |
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The above is a Call-Back to what happened in the second episode when Penny found the guys over-thinking the process of furnishing her apartment with their complex and wholly unnecessary ideas. Penny, losing patience, and a little pissed at Howard making a rude chauvinistic remark, jokingly said, "Guys, it’s hot in here, I think I’ll just take off all my clothes." The group didn't notice at all. In fact, they were so caught up in their own plans, they also didn't notice Penny thought her room was nice as is and ran off to start the own huge collaborative building project. | |
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In Uncommon Animals, Jessie is only minorly annoyed to realize that Terry isn't listening to her, before diving back into her fan fiction. | |
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Lampshaded in Pokémon Sun and Moon, during a conversation between the player and Hau. | |
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In Power Rangers S.P.D., while Cruger is distracted during her report, Kat tells him that the Rangers have requested clown suits while on patrol, and that she approved them. Cruger just replies with "Uh huh." | |
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The Bolt Chronicles: In "The Car," Penny and Bolt are sitting together on the patio area at Dinny's Diner, the girl enjoying coffee and both munching on apple pie. Penny talks to the dog about various subjects, but Bolt is far too focused on his plate of pastry to pay any attention to her. She realizes this and then starts to describe an outlandish fictional situation she suggests doing instead of attending college in the fall. Bolt continues munching on pie, still unaware Penny is teasing him. | |
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The Shaggy Dog (2006) has a scene where Dave's wife Rebecca is trying to point out to him that he's turning into the present-in-body-only form of Disappeared Dad. She points out the kids got into an argument and took the dog's side. Dave nods. Then, to test if he's listening, she tells him that a neighbor asked her something and she told the neighbor the family had converted to cannibalism. Dave replies, "OK, great. I'd have said the same thing." In an odd twist, he does not pick up the absurdity, and Rebecca is forced to drop a pile of heavy law books on his desk to get his full attention. | |
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The 4400 has "So I took my pistol and I shot her in the forehead." Tom immediately looks up and says "Shot who?" The other character laughs at how he was clearly not listening. | |
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Diana's mother in The Phantom: | |
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Once Upon a Time: In the Season 1 episode "Skin Deep", Belle agrees to be the maid for Rumpelstiltskin. When he assigns her a list of tasks, she agrees to each one automatically, without really listening. He catches on and adds "You must skin the children I hunt for their pelts", causing her to drop the teacup she is polishing in shock, at which point he assures her that he was only kidding. | |
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Lois & Clark: Lois is distracted on the way home after an evening out with Lex Luthor. When she doesn't respond to his comments about the production of Othello they just saw, he says, "Did you know that Shakespeare didn't write Othello? Turns out it was written by Dr. Seuss." Lois just nods and says "mm-hm". | |
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In "Infection", an old mentor of Stephen Franklin's comes back with some alien artifacts that look like they're organic technology. Stephen gets so absorbed in the research that his friend tries to draw him out with the statement, "There's a Martian war machine parked outside; they'd like a word with you about the common cold." | |
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Homestar Runner: In the Strong Bad Email "dullard", one of Strong Bad's methods for dealing with "the office dullard" is to pretend to be listening while saying things like "Yeah? Yeah! Oh yeah!" During the demonstration, Homestar (playing the dullard) catches on and walks away, annoyed. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: "Life Serial": Willow realises Buffy is doing this and uses the opportunity to confess to spilling something on Buffy's sweater that she borrowed without permission. Angel has just broken up with Buffy, so she's found a Corner of Woe. In the aborted Buffy: The Animated Series, Mr. Exposition is going on about the upcoming apocalypse. |
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Quest for Camelot: Kayley, having just been saved by Garrett from two of Ruber's steel men, says something like this when Garrett only pays attention to his ruined fishing net: | |
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An episode of Stargate Atlantis uses this. | |
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Subverted in Starslip: | |
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What the Jealous Bunny Girl in Wholesome Girlfriend ASMR says when the viewer is paying more attention to the dog. | |
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Zero Punctuation: Often to show people involved in a bad game not listening to each other. In his Medal of Honor: Warfighter review, after laughing at the redundant title: On how unfocussed The Evil Within is: |
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On how unfocussed The Evil Within is: | |
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In an episode of Star Trek: Voyager, B'Elanna makes the mistake of building Tom a television set. | |
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How I Met Your Mother: In an early episode, Ted took a girl out dancing but eventually realized she was only nodding politely to his conversation because she couldn't hear him over the obnoxious club music. He started saying random silly comments for the fun of it but then the music dropped out just long enough for him to scream "I'm wetting my pants" in her face. |
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In "The Taketombo" from Timothy Goes to School, the Franks are sad and muted at dinner because of having broken Yoko's taketombo. When Big Frank tries to get them to guess what they're having for dinner and they don't really respond, he comments that it's "stewed brontosaurus with Brussels sprouts on the side." This is met with a sort of general "that's nice" from both of them. | |
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Eight Legged Freaks: Bret, the son of the Mayor, heads out for the night, and tries to tell his dad, who is talking on the phone. He realizes his dad's not listening, so he mentions he's going to do some increasingly extreme activities like having a wild orgy or stealing cars, even offering to get one for his dad. His dad merely gives an impatient "I'm on the phone. You go on and have some fun", to which Bret says to himself "thanks for caring, dad." | |
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Funny thing as Frasier's catchphrase in Frasier is "I'm listening." | |
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From Babylon 5: In "Infection", an old mentor of Stephen Franklin's comes back with some alien artifacts that look like they're organic technology. Stephen gets so absorbed in the research that his friend tries to draw him out with the statement, "There's a Martian war machine parked outside; they'd like a word with you about the common cold." In "Messages from Earth", Marcus Cole is giving a status report to Commander Ivanova, and slowly realizes she isn't listening to him at all. "There's always the threat of an attack by say, a giant space dragon, the kind that eats the sun once every thirty days. It's a nuisance, but what can you expect from reptiles? Did I mention that my nose is on fire? And that I have fifteen wild badgers living in my trousers? [She finally reacts.] I'm sorry, would you prefer ferrets?" |
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This happens to Amy in one issue of Sonic the Comic – Online!. Her friend says, to see whether she's listening or not, "I'm really Don Long-Legs in a wig" (which is funny since she has no hair, being an anthropomorphic bug), and Amy just replies "Mm". | |
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In Sharon Kay Penman's The Sunne in Splendour there is a scene where Richard, Duke of Gloucester, is thinking about his love, Anne Neville, and his brother, the king, says, "...and so there you have it, Dickon. If they cannot pay the ten thousand marks by noon Monday next, a gallows shall be set up in Cross Cheaping and—" He falls for it, spluttering in confusion, and gets gently laughed at it for it. | |
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Another variation: The movie Birthday Girl uses this to show that Nicole Kidman's character can't speak English. At the end, when it's been revealed that she was actually faking the non-comprehension and has been fluent in English all along, she translates it into Russian and asks the same three questions of Ben Chaplin's character, who actually doesn't understand her. | |
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In WKRP in Cincinnati, Johnny Fever is introducing Les Nessman to his daughter, Laurie, but he quickly realizes Les is too distracted by getting ready for his news segment to pay attention. Johnny decides to have a little fun. | |
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