
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.

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.)


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. In My Little Pony: Equestria Girls Rainbow Rocks, Twilight and friends lock hands together before the whole student body, and she dramatically exclaims "Friendship is magic!", hoping to summon their magic to get rid of the Dazzlings.He gets captured later and mutated for it, even asking "If this is about the chirping thing." He apologizes for the chirping and leaves for home. There's a cricket in Penguins of Madagascar who chirps following the awkwardness between the penguins and Dave.Strange Magic: When Sunny tries to rally his fellow elves into saving Dawn, an onscreen cricket chirps awkwardly when no one joins in.
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At the beginning of Cars, a speech by Lightning McQueen is greeted only with a shout of " Free Bird!".Grandmother Willow locates the noisy frog and gives him a Death Glare, whereupon he shuts up too. Lampshaded in Disney's Pocahontas, where Grandmother Willow shouts for the clamoring animals to be quiet, and silence descends, leaving behind the sound of a frog croaking.
