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Bob must perform a filibuster for in-universe reasons. Perhaps he is a politician and must perform a genuine filibuster.note in the U.S. Senate at least, every senator has the right to talk for as long as he likes; abusing this power by talking without end is a "filibuster". Perhaps he's been cornered by the Big Bad and is pretending to surrender and plead for mercy in the hope that the Big Damn Heroes or The Cavalry will turn up to rescue him. Perhaps The Hero is doing something critical in the next room and Bob has offered to hold the bad guys off or at least hold the attention of the audience. Perhaps two groups in the room each know One Side of the Story and he simply can't let them talk to each other. Perhaps Alice is on next and she hasn't turned up yet, but Bob knows she will if he can hang on for a bit. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Either way, Bob is screwed and his only option is to stand up and talk. And talk. And talk. What Bob says might be a Character Filibuster but more often he's making it up as he goes, going off on tangents, telling Blatant Lies or rambling. A good opportunity to rattle off exposition. May be a Multitasked Conversation. If Bob pulls it off, may become a Crowning Moment of Awesome. Bonus points if Bob can't or won't lie. Compare We Need a Distraction. May be part of a Scheherezade Gambit. May overlap with Conveniently Timed Distraction if a character stalls for time and hopes for an opportunity. Contrast Talking Is a Free Action. Do not confuse with Hold the Line which involves a lot of physical fighting, though if you throw in Blood on the Debate Floor they might overlap. Not to be confused with either a Character Filibuster, which is when the author puts an unrealistically large amount of speech in Bob's mouth to make a point, or an Author Filibuster, which is when the author stops by to deliver a message and goes on about it for waaaaay too long. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Examples: |
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In the Sherlock episode "The Sign of Three", Sherlock realizes just as he's about to end his (actually quite moving) best man speech at John and Mary's wedding that there's a potential murder victim among the guests but he doesn't yet know who. Trying to buy time and deduce at lightning speed, his speech veers off onto bizarre and inappropriate tangents. | |
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In Worm, Chapter 13.9, Skitter strikes up a conversation to try to give Parian time to ambush Bonesaw. | |
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In Sherlock Holmes (2009), when Holmes is stuck in prison, he avoids getting beaten up by telling a long series of jokes. He is released just before he runs out. | |
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Leslie holds a town hall meeting to get public support for her plan to turn Lot 48 into a park, but the only people who show up hate the idea. To avoid an inevitable negative vote, she gives a brief history of the town which eventually degenerates into her attempting to read The Phantom Tollbooth aloud in its entirety. | |
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On Chuck: Chuck Bartowski is prone to do this, particularly when trying to distract people in his personal life from discovering something related to his spyworld shenanigans, or more directly stall for time for Casey and/or Sarah to get him out of trouble. In the Grand Finale, the General is sitting on a bomb set to go off at the end of a concert - so Chuck sends in Jeffster to keep the concert going by playing "Take On Me." Chuck defuses the bomb just as the song ends. |
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On Disney's Hercules series, Icarus has to stall a restless audience waiting to see a performance by Orpheus, whom Hercules has to rescue from the Underworld. Icarus mentions that Herc got the easy job. | |
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Timon in The Lion King 1½ has to distract the hyenas long enough to allow his mom and uncle to create a tunnel underneath the hyenas to collapse (long story!) which leads to this unforgettable exchange: | |
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In Kevin & Kell, Kevin tried to resign his seat when he found out the Rabbit Council was taking bribes. They refused it since they needed his daughter Coney to protect them. When they tried to move to new business, Kevin started filibustering by chewing carrots, as under herbivore rules as long as he is chewing something he holds the floor. After four days he collapses, leaving him vulnerable to a snake. Coney kills the snake and then she continues the filibuster until the council agrees to stop taking bribes. | |
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On Parks and Recreation: Leslie holds a town hall meeting to get public support for her plan to turn Lot 48 into a park, but the only people who show up hate the idea. To avoid an inevitable negative vote, she gives a brief history of the town which eventually degenerates into her attempting to read The Phantom Tollbooth aloud in its entirety. In another episode, Leslie is holding a meeting to change some of the obsolete rules in the town charter. Gareth, the caretaker of the Pawnee historical house, opposes the changes and holds the floor by reciting his ideas for the new Star Wars movies. In the episode "Filibuster" the Pawnee city council tries to pass a law that would make it so the recently integrated-into-Pawnee Eagleton citizens could not vote. Since that is wrong (and because it would cost Leslie votes in the recall election), Leslie filibusters the vote. Councilman Jamm tries to stop her by cranking the thermostat to ninety degrees and breaking off the knob. In "Telethon," Leslie panics when her scheduled entertainment for an all-night telethon fundraiser doesn't show up. She ends up flipping a coin repeatedly, mooning the camera, and explaining episodes of "Friends" to fill time. |
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On Fringe, William Bell does this to temporarily stop the Fringe division of the alternate universe while Olivia and Walter run away from the hospital. | |
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In The Pulse, when Luke Cage proposes to Jessica Jones, the proposal — and his reasons for it — covers five pages. | |
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In iCarly, Carly and Spencer take turns giving speeches at a man's funeral (with hilarious results) so Sam and Freddie can search his computer for his legendary pie recipe. | |
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The Justice League episode, "In Blackest Night", has The Flash trying to stall John Stewart's trial by saying things like "So if the ring wasn't lit, you must acquit." Flash also mentions the Irony of asking the world's fastest man to slow things down. | |
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This is the basis of the long-running BBC Radio show Just a Minute, in which contestants have to speak non-stop for a minute on a topic they've just been given, without hesitation, repetition, or deviation. | |
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10 Things I Hate About You: Kat tries to distract Mr. Chapin so Patrick can escape detention. She rambles on about soccer tactics for several minutes. Patrick has almost made to the window when Kat's ingenuity begins to run out. In desperation, she begins talking about misdirection, using..."THESE!" (and lifts her shirt up). | |
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In Dragon Age: Inquisition, the Inquisitor does this to the Big Bad while everyone else escapes. They then proceed to drop an avalanche on him. | |
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Minoru in AKB49 – Renai Kinshi Jourei went up to the stage alone performing impromptu gags in one occasion to buy time for the backstage crew to repair the stage, which was damaged in an accident during the previous performance. | |
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The Gatekeeper does this in The Dresden Files book Proven Guilty. The death sentence on Molly is not considered final until all members of the senior council present have voted, so by delaying the casting of his vote he gives time for those members who aren't present to arrive and overturn the guilty verdict. | |
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On King of the Hill episode "Flush with Power" Hank filibusters at a regulations board meeting in order to make the board members use the restrooms in the building in order to make them realize the terrors of the lo-flow toilets that were recently installed. He reads two years' worth of newspaper opinion columns. | |
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An example in which the floor holder is unaware is Ianto Jones in Torchwood during the episode "Cyberwoman". When it becomes clear that Lisa isn't giving up and Ianto can't being himself to shoot her, the rest of the team open fire. | |
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Nicholas and Alexandra: the Russian prime minister says "I have the floor Mr. Kerensky." Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky, who is the Only Sane Man in the Duma later manages to silence the Duma and tells then that Rasputin's death does not solve the problems of Russia's failing government. The army deserting by the thousands, the civilians are going to organize food and fuel riots, his German wife is still ruling The Empire, and the Czar is ignoring reality. [1], [2] | |
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On The Wild Wild West, this is Artemus Gordon's go-to method for providing a distraction whenever one is called for. | |
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In Relativity, it's outright stated that this is a method the heroes have been trained to use to stall for time - to give themselves time to either escape or be rescued. | |
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On the The Twilight Zone (1959) episode "One For the Angels", to keep Death from claiming the soul of a child, a man has to give a Sales-pitch to distract him long enough so that he won't be able to claim the girl's soul within the time limit. | |
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In the opening battle of The Last Jedi, Poe stalls by hailing General Hux and pretending to not hear Hux's replies (with plenty of insults for good measure) until he's in position to begin his attack run. | |
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In Star Trek: First Contact: A somewhat silly example in that the initial conversation takes exactly as long as the distraction that follows it. |
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In The Lost Fleet, Geary has Rione do this while he prepares his fleet to leave through a jump gate. The Syndics waste a huge amount of time trying to deal with her before they realize that she is stalling. | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: In "Our Man Bashir", Bashir (playing James Bond in the holosuites) gives a lengthy speech at the end to stall the Big Bad from killing him. Normally, getting shot would just mean Game Over, but thanks to a Holodeck Malfunction, his life is in very real danger, and stalling is the only way to buy time for his friends outside to fix things. In "Looking for ''Par'mach'' in all the Wrong Places", Quark demands the Ferengi Right of Proclamation during a duel with a Klingon to give Worf and Dax the opportunity to fix the mechanism that allows them to remote control Quark's body during the duel. The Klingons give it to him as he has respected their traditions and they should respect his. |
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Mr Smith in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington filibusters in front of the Senate | |
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In Richard II, Richard has lost his kingdom to his cousin Henry and now must formally abdicate, hand over the crown and "confess" his crimes. It's only through his audacious, eloquent, and almost never ending verse that Richard maintains his power in that room during what should be his utter humiliation. He's still killed later, though. | |
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One Lucky Luke story has Luke help build a bridge, which still isn't finished by the time of the opening ceremony. Luke asks the mayor to stall for time, which he does by declaring that a few words from the Lord wouldn't be out of place, and starts reading aloud: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." By the time the repairs are done he's all the way up to Job. | |
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Atticus, from To Kill A Mocking Bird has to give a filibuster in court...because, well, he's a lawyer. An incredibly awesome speech it is, too. | |
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Journey to Chaos: The Big Bad of A Mage's Power doesn't explain his Evil Plan to gloat or Motive Rant but to buy time for his reserve troops to show up and subdue the heroes who have cornered him. | |
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In 30 Rock, when Jack's girlfriend tries to leave him during a wedding, Liz does this in her speech in order to keep her seated, and give Jack time to commit to her. Considering it's Liz's ex-boyfriend's wedding, things get awkward. | |
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In the season 7 premiere of NCIS, Tony is captured by terrorists, goes through a rough interrogation under the effects of a truth serum, swearing his captor will die. Despite being forced to tell the terrorists everything, he stalls by telling them about the NCIS team one by one until Gibbs turns up to rescue him. | |
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In the Monk episode "Mr. Monk Goes to a Wedding", the title character does this to keep a suspect from leaving the hotel until Captain Stottlemeyer can bring Randy down to identify her. | |
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In the eighth book of A Series of Unfortunate Events, Klaus and Sunny disguise themselves as surgeons (yes, Sunny's a baby and no, no one notices) to try to stop the "cranioectomy" (read: decapitation) about to be performed on an anesthetized Violet at the hospital by Count Olaf and his henchmen. However, once they enter the operating theater, they realize they have no direct way of stopping the plan, so they try to explain the "surgery" to be performed to the observers in great detail to give Violet the chance to wake up and escape. They end up having to explain the history of the knife, among other things, in order to stall for time. | |
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In Kim Possible Kim is late to the school's talent show, so Ron goes on stage with an improvised act to buy some time before she can turn up. He wins. | |
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A somewhat silly example in that the initial conversation takes exactly as long as the distraction that follows it. | |
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Merida in Brave keeps four clans focused on her while her mother, turned into a bear tries to sneak up to her room. | |
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In Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The Enterprise Incident", when Kirk steals the Romulan cloaking device, Spock demands the Right of Statement to buy Scotty enough time to install it on the Enterprise. | |
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In one of Futurama's Anthology of Interest episodes, Bender is turned into a human and the professor plans to show him off at a science convention, but Bender goes missing, causing the professor to do a rather poor attempt at this. Made better by the fact he finishes with the line "Without further stalling for time." | |
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In The West Wing episode "The Stackhouse Filibuster" a senator filibusters a health care bill. The staff spend the episode trying to work out why. Turns out the senator's grandson has autism, and the push to vote immediately is blocking autism funding from the bill. | |
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In Crown Duel by Sherwood Smith, Meliara attempts to plead for the life of her brother despite her obstinate attitude. Just as the villain catches on to her behavior, she reveals she was stalling for time as the Hill Folk arrive and save the day. | |
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The Due South episode "One Good Man" (alternate title "Thank You Kindly, Mr Capra"). A variation in "Mountie on the Bounty Ep. 1"; while Ray explores a ship that was dumping toxic waste into Lake Michigan, Fraser distracts the crew assembled in the mess hall by leading them in a chorus of "Barrett's Privateers". |
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In What About Bob?, Bob is sent to an 'official' mental hospital, dropped off by the gradually insane Leo Marvin. His plan fails, however, as Bob holds the floor by telling psychiatric jokes. Bob probably didn't even do it on purpose. The whole plot of the movie is that Bob is actually a pretty likeable guy that everyone loves, except for the unfortunate individual he's decided to fixate upon (for the duration of the movie, this is Leo; it apparently also happened to Bob's former analyst, who seems pretty happy to be rid of him). |
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One of Albert Campion's handiest skills is being able to do this (oft times in a comedic manner), and it has saved both his and many other people's lives many times throughout the series. | |
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Akeelah and the Bee: Akeelah leaves the Spelling Bee for several minutes and Javier stalls spelling his word ("ratatouille") to give her time to get back. Paraphrased: Amusingly after he and Akeelah both return to their seats, she thanks him and he remarks (paraphrased) "I was about to start a tap dance." |
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In a FoxTrot comic, Paige tries to avoid eating her mother's cooking by filibustering a pre-dinner toast, which consists of reading War and Peace aloud in its entirety. | |
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The Leverage episode "The Boiler Room Job" has a long and elaborate example; the entire con turns out to be an elaborate distraction to keep the mark's attention away from Hardison pilfering his accounts. | |
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When Diane of El Goonish Shive is attacked by a spider-vampire, she knows that she has absolutely no chance in a fight, but she also knows that there are a number of people heading her way that could absolutely wipe the floor with the creature. As such, she tries to buy time by asking questions. While she only buys herself a few seconds, it ends up being enough. | |
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Sarge walks up to Beetle Bailey, fists clenched, saying "say your prayers, Beetle!". Beetle says "all right Sarge, don't rush me." The last panel shows Beetle reading aloud from the first chapter of the Gospel of John, the implication being that he's reading through the entire Bible to stall for time. | |
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In The Black Adder, Prince Edmund is about to be burnt as a witch, when he is given one last chance to confess (which won't stop him being burnt, but will supposedly mean he doesn't go to Hell). Realising he can't be burnt while he's confessing, he starts admitting that he coveted his father's adultery and failed to honour his neighbour's ass. It doesn't work, since the Witchfinder gets fed up and lights the bonfire anyway. | |
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Arlo Guthrie was opening for some other band. They hadn't shown up yet. So, Arlo created and performed the (rather long) song "Alice's Restaurant" right there on the spot. | |
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Doctor Who: In "Flesh and Stone," as the Weeping Angels are closing in on him inside the crashed ship, the Doctor buys himself time to escape by Holding the Floor. As he runs off amid their confusion, he actually yells back to them, "And I'll tell you something else. Never let me talk." The Tenth Doctor gives a great one in "Age of Steel," where he gives a long rambling speech to John Lumic, giving a few vital hints in the process as he knows that Mickey is watching, and the speech goes on just long enough for Mickey to understand, and give all the Cybermen back their emotions, causing them to realise what they've become, followed by a System Overload. The funny thing is, the speech, despite the fact that the Doctor is just rambling to give Mickey time, it's perfectly structured, and he gives the kickass conclusion exactly when Mickey is ready and he can stop talking, despite the fact that he has no clue whether Mickey is ready. |
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In the first Men in Black film, Agent J does this (and takes quite a beating) while Agent K "goes to get his gun". After the Big Bad swallowed it. | |
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Our Man Flint. The U.S. President is on television and about to surrender to the Galaxy organization. Derek Flint contacts his boss Lloyd Cramden and gives him the location of Galaxy Island, which will allow the U.S. to launch a counterattack. Cramden contacts the President: | |
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Tony Stark in The Avengers (2012) does this twice. The first time he is being his usual charming self while putting a hacking device on the computers on the Helicarrier bridge. The second he is stalling Loki (though he claims he is merely threatening him) while his new suit is brought online. | |
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It happened in Criminal Minds once, where Hotch and Reid are locked in a room with a serial killer and the guards won't be back for fifteen minutes. Hotch takes off his suit jacket and tie to prepare to fight the guy, but then Reid, true to his nature, starts babbling about all of the possible factors contributing to the killer's sociopathy. For fifteen minutes. It works, too, even though the guy is on death row and specifically attempting to kill them to create enough chaos to postpone his execution. Luckily, Reid is good enough at reading people to figure out that the guy is an enormous narcissist who would rather listen to people talk endlessly about how great and misunderstood he was than, you know, live. | |
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In the Grand Finale, the General is sitting on a bomb set to go off at the end of a concert - so Chuck sends in Jeffster to keep the concert going by playing "Take On Me." Chuck defuses the bomb just as the song ends. | |
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In Dragon Ball Z, Goku has to stall Babidi and Buu while Trunks searches for the Dragon Radar in his house in West City before the two villains can destroy it. Goku does this by talking, and promising Buu a tough opponent in the future by demonstrating Super Saiyan 3 (which itself takes a while to initiate). | |
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Chaucer's "Wait! I haven't given my introduction!" speech in A Knight's Tale buys time for William to tend to his injury. | |
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In King Solomon's Mines, the heroes take advantage of a Convenient Eclipse to impress an African tribe with their power to "kill the moon". At the time of the eclipse they pretend to perform a ritual, which (banking on the natives not knowing English) in fact consists of long nonsense speeches strung together for as long as the eclipse lasts. | |
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In Dragon Age II, should Hawke agree to help Anders in his final companion quest they will need to hold the floor with Grand-cleric Elthina whilst Anders sneaks into the back and plants a bomb that destroys the chantry and kills the only mediator in the mage-Templar conflict. | |
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Ace Attorney: The second half of case 2-4 breaks down to this, as, just before the trial, Detective Gumshoe starts tracking down Maya's kidnapper, and Phoenix has to stall for time—making the trial last as long as possible—because the verdict is the kidnapper's ransom. Case I2-5 has both the defense and (substitute) prosecution trying to do this, because the real prosecutor is missing (along with crucial evidence), and meanwhile Edgeworth has to find him. |
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In The Mentalist, this trope is Patrick Jane's only weapon against the criminals he corners since he's a "consultant" and not an actual agent, and hence doesn't carry a gun. | |
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In the School of Rock episode "Video Killed the Speed Debate Star", the gang needed to erase a video in the principal's office while she was coaching the Speed Debate team tryouts. They needed more time so Summer slowed her speech way down. | |
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