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When a character is presumed to be exaggerating the sorrow of their predicament in order to gain sympathy, another character may respond by rubbing their finger and thumb back and forth as if they were playing the world's smallest violin, possibly making fake violin noises with their mouth. A predominantly Western gesture, the World's Smallest Violin is used to say that a person is whining, or exaggering their plight, and that they will get no sympathy. There are other, much more rude hand gestures available to tell someone they're being an ass, but the violin is more sophisticated. It plays on the idea that wangsty characters expect the Warsaw Symphony Orchestra to pop up out of nowhere to provide some background for their soliloquies. On the other hand, when a character's sorrow is actually warranted, it can be used to show that a character is an unsympathetic Jerkass who enjoys making light of other people's misery. "BAAAWWWWWW", "somebody call the WAAAAAAAAAmbulance", "this is so sad, Alexa play 'Despacito'", and "let me press F on the world's smallest keyboard" are the internet equivalents. See also Misery Poker. |
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In The World Ends with You, Joshua plays the World's Smallest Violin for Neku after Neku shares the story of how Shiki Misaki is now his entry fee. | |
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Sluggy Freelance has two variations on the trope; the first time, when Gwynn is talking with an image of Bun-Bun about her demon problems, Bun-Bun yelps in pain because he apparently dropped the violin down his ear. The second time, when Torg is talking about his problems with Oasis, Bun-Bun says he's getting the violin to hit Torg over the head with it. | |
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Bosch: In season 3, tasked with identifying the car that was used by Sharkey's killer, Barrel says he'll look over hours of surveillance camera footage because he's "got nothing but time"—he's getting divorced. Crate ribs him by making the "tiny violin" gesture and saying "And a thousand tiny violins begin to play." | |
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The Girls first-season finale gives us Adam making this gesture while giving Hannah a (probably much-needed) snap out of your self-centered bullshit speech. Shortly thereafter, he gets hit by a van. | |
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The Simpsons: Apu does this gesture in response to his wife's complaining, but with a sitar rather than a violin. Fat Tony, having won the prized violin of Krusty's daughter in a poker game, does this when Krusty begs him to give it back. Then, realizing that he can do it for real, pulls out the violin and plays a sad melody, surprisingly well. In the episode "Them Robot" Lenny also plays the world's smallest violin for Homer, but it turns out he was actually holding a real tiny violin. Moments later he loses the bow, and Homer steps on it as he leaves the bar. A street mime mocks Lisa with a balloon whale, and after it explodes like the real one did, with a balloon violin. In "King Leer", Homer hallucinates Bart's new violin mocking him with this. |
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A variant occurs in one sketch in Horrible Histories: a poor woman in the 18th century complains to the lord of the manor about how little food she has. His response? Fake-pitying her and commanding his private orchestra to "play something sad". | |
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Atop the Fourth Wall: Linkara once got out a violin when Ultimate Wolverine was about to get into a long flashback involving how he had sex with Wanda's mother. | |
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In Borderlands 2, after you are forced to kill a mutated companion of a character from the first game, Handsome Jack taunts you, but promptly loses his violin he was supposed to play. He doesn't find it until you make it back to Sanctuary, wherein he gets mocked off-screen for being way too late to play it (and playing it poorly). | |
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Whateley Universe: From Kayda 10: There's No Place Like Poe (Part 3): | |
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In the second episode of Elementary, Dr. Watson has been trying to get Holmes back into the violin as a way to help him cope with his addiction. During one scene, the two are listening to an addict tell her story, which Holmes has deemed "useless nattering" and he mouths off to Watson in the following fashion: | |
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On American Vandal, basketball star DeMarcus likes to taunt other teams by pretending to play the violin for them. | |
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World of Warcraft has an Emote Command, /violin, which displays "You begin to play the world's smallest violin." If you have something targeted, it displays "You begin to play the world's smallest violin for [target]." | |
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The Secret Life of Dolls has a slightly more literal example: when Tonner Edward is complaining about the Ellowynes flirting with him, Cleo snarks, "Oh, WOW, not one but two pretty girls want to be your friend. I'll see if The Littlest Edward has a violin to play just for you." (The Littlest Edward being a six-inch-tall action figure, the tininess of the violin is implied.) | |
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Used by J. Jonah Jameson in Spider-Man 2, after Peter tries to appeal to his sympathy. | |
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In episode 5 of The Animals of Farthing Wood. While it's not a tiny violin, Rabbit does pick up a stick and mock-play sad violin music when Mr. Pheasant starts to get a bit theatrical about "when one faces death as often as me" before leaving back to the farm to help Adder find her way to the others. True enough, Mr. Pheasant just lost his wife to the farmer's gun, but the general opinion of his established character is that he's all too concerned in himself. | |
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Also invoked by brentalfloss in "Cave Story WITH LYRICS": | |
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xkcd "Infrastructures" It's the world tiniest open-source violin. | |
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In a soundtrack gag on Avatar: The Last Airbender, a violin plays very, very softly during Toph's brief attempt to bond with an unsympathetic Zuko during the series finale. | |
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In The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky, After Estelle admits she's a bit jealous of Khoe and Jill sharing room together, Jill replies by playing a small violin after reminding her that she and Joshua lived under the same roof for most of their life. | |
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Often lampshaded in The Goodies with someone playing violin music (not always on a violin) when a new client gives their sob story. | |
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Invoked in Wizard and Glass, the fourth book in Stephen King's The Dark Tower series, when Eddie Dean, confronting Blaine with bad jokes, is ordered to stop his nonsense. When he rubs his fingers together, Blaine demands, "What does that signify, foolish creature?" Eddie's reply: "The world's smallest violin playing 'My Heart Pumps Purple Piss' for you." | |
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This exchange in the Warehouse 13 episode "Merge With Caution" after the Warehouse agents just jumped out through a window and Pete is complaining about his knees: | |
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In Reservoir Dogs, Mr. Pink does this to show his lack of sympathy for underpaid waitresses during a debate about tipping. | |
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M*A*S*H: When Charles complains that an overflow of post-op patients has kicked him out of his tent: | |
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Xenoblade Chronicles X occasionally has fun with its Dialogue Trees and players have the option to make their Player Character act snarky. One such instance is responding to another character complaining that you are crushing his business reputation by how well you are doing by, "Rubbing your fingers together like you're playing the world's smallest violin" | |
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Soul Eater: Troubled Souls: There’s apparently a freaking phone app for that in-universe! Nayumi and Tsuji play it in response to Caius and Claudia's Melodrama. | |
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Spoofed in the Toon Sandwich video, Super-Villain-Bowl!, which has it's main villain Oscar growing himself to kaiju size. One of the heroes, Dr. Manhattan, in similar giant-size, confronts Oscar heads-on, and Oscar makes this gesture while Dr. Manhattan tries to talk him down. | |
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The Nostalgia Chick: Doctor Tease once played a tiny violin to accompany the Chick angsting. Which, according to the commentary, had been an actual gift from Lindsay, prior to that. The violin returns in the She's All That review for Freddie Prinze Jr. — though first The Makeover Fairy appears with a real violin as Lindsay can't find it. |
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Lampshaded in Super-Hero-Bowl!, during the dialogue between kaiju-size Oscar and Dr. Manhattan. | |
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On a Saturday Night Live skit, Saddam Hussein (Horatio Sanz) calls Osama bin Laden (Jimmy Fallon) to complain about bin Laden running him down in one of his tapes. Osama rubs his finger and thumb together and says, "You know what I'm doing? I'm playing the world's smallest violin." | |
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In Joe Dirt, Robby mocks the title character with this example: | |
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On a season 4 episode of Modern Family, Lily, while going through a snarky phase asks Cam and Mitch if they need a WAH-mbulance, it was later revealed that Lily had picked up the sarcastic remark from Claire. | |
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One State Farm ad has two men — Lebron James and Aldis Hodge — who were in a car accident; when Hodge blames Lebron, he (Lebron) uses the State Farm jingle to summon the World's Smallest Violin. | |
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Referenced in AdventureQuest Worlds in the description of the Bone Violin. | |
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The Non-Adventures of Wonderella: In the 2018 St. Patrick's Day Episode, Wonderella and Rita are banished by a leprechaun to an abandoned space station. They send a distress message to Earth telling that they need a "multi-billion dollars rescue mission". When the response comes, they have to enhance and zoom the picture a lot on the already large computer screen before it can be recognized as a very tiny violin. | |
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Todd in the Shadows plays with it reviewing Chris Brown's "Deuces". He sets his piano on violin and plays a song to "show his sympathy". | |
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The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage has it as a throwaway gag — an annoying street musician has a sign "World's Smallest Violin". (At ca. 50% normal size it must be the largest World's Smallest Violin ever.) | |
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Jon Stewart used the "WAAAAAH-mbulance" on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart once. | |
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In School of Comedy, a brash character attending a group therapy session actually produces a miniature violin to play for someone relating their story. | |
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South Park: In the episode "Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes", Cartman played a violin while a small business owner talked about how Wall-Mart's low prices had forced his business to close down. When Kyle then smashed the violin, Cartman tells him that he can just go buy another one from Wall-Mart. | |
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In "Not Pictured", the season 2 finale of Veronica Mars, Vinnie Van Lowe, in jail for trying to rob the mayor's house, offers Keith a 60/40 split on reward money. When Keith responds that it should be 50/50, Vinnie whines that he's the one in jail, and Keith does this to him: | |
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Invoked in Pantera's "Walk": | |
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AJR literally has a song titled “World’s Smallest Violin”, in which the singer invokes this trope on himself, getting annoyed with himself for complaining about small problems when his father and grandfather had it way worse than him. However, he knows that his problems, however small they may seem, are still valid, and this trope is ultimately defied. | |
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In an early episode of Family Guy, Peter gets sent on a Vision Quest. When the trees start talking to him, he asks the old question: | |
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An actual weapon in Kingdom of Loathing (and a fairly good one at that), although the item description references the related symbolism. | |
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The violin returns in the She's All That review for Freddie Prinze Jr. — though first The Makeover Fairy appears with a real violin as Lindsay can't find it. | |
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Repeated on Sabrina the Teenage Witch, when Principal Kraft, under a spell, mouths off to Libby: | |
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Raylan's version of this in Justified Season 2, Episode 5: "Do you know what that is? That's the world's smallest man playing "My Heart Bleeds For You" on a tiny violin." | |
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An old Captain America cartoon has Cap asking the Red Skull if he wanted someone to play a violin while he told his sad Backstory. | |
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