
Ramiel responds with silence broken only by the sound of a cuckoo clock.

In "Stuck in the Middle with You", Crowley (not quite the King of Hell at this point) introduces himself to Ramiel like his name should mean something.Dean then stands up, the music stops, and there is only the sound of crickets chirping as Dean waits for the crossroad demon to appear. In " All Hell Breaks Loose, Part Two" (S02, Ep 22), this is Played Straight with Dean speeding to the crossroad and digging with his hands in the dirt of the crossroad to summon a demon while a driving guitar riff plays.Cue actual chirping crickets, which were notably silent until she tried. After Snow White and Prince Charming pass through Regina tries. In the Once Upon a Time episode "A Curious Thing", there is a portal that only the "pure of heart" may pass through.lampshades an awkward silence caused by Monk telling a terrible joke about Max's weight by playing the sound effect of chirping crickets.

Monk is on the Air," during Monk's second interview with Max Hudson on the air, J.J. One example is when Jay tells the final four on Cycle 1 that they would be posing with diamonds. America's Next Top Model is particularly fond of this trope.In the season three blooper reel of Criminal Minds, there was a scene where the only sound was chirping crickets which leads Thomas Gibson (the actor who plays Hotch) to deadpan: "Got a non-union cricket."."You would hear crickets chirping, but they were too uncomfortable about just how un-funny that actually was." Dr Cox references this in Scrubs after a painful attempt at a joke by Carla.Community subverted this, by having the chirping crickets played over the loudspeaker as soothing nature sounds.The Girls Next Door uses this a lot, to accompany blank or stunned reactions after something dumb is said.Oh, and apparently the crickets didn't want to play either. An episode of X-Play used the sound effect to point out the scarce population of an online game.This happened whenever Vic tried to tell a joke in Shooting Stars, with every stock sound effect coming into play.(The episode revolved around people singing and dancing to music coming out of the air we can give the crickets a pass.) Another brief example occurs in the episode "Once More, with Feeling", with the gang's reaction to Anya's theory that bunnies are causing the problem-of-the-week.and Christmas, right? Let's fight that evil! Let's kill something! Oh, come on! Come on! Vampires! Grrr! Nasty! Let's annihilate them, for justice, and for. I say we go out there and kick a little demon ass! What? Can't go without your Buffy, is that it? Too chicken? Let's find her. Spike: What's this? Sittin' around watching the telly while there's evil still afoot? It's not very industrious of you. The heavy silence that follows is punctuated by a candy floss falling from its stick and rolling around like a tumbleweed. Wallace & Gromit: In The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, the constable accidentally repeating "The beast isn't actually dead yet?!" in his megaphone provokes a Mass "Oh, Crap!" at the fair.Shrek Forever After: When Shrek meets Fiona for the first time in the alternate timeline and tries to tell her who he is, the story is so unbelievable that all the ogres are speechless, and crickets are heard chirping in the background.Buck comes up with a loony plan to avert The End of the World as We Know It instead of running for their lives, finishing his Rousing Speech with "WHO'S WITH ME?" Cue the crickets and the Herd putting their heads together to see if this includes them. Follows an embarrassing moment of silence (even the background music has stopped) as everybody look at them in confusion, with only a discreet cough being heard.

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