History Main / HowMuchDidYouHear

* Said in the RPG ''VideoGame/GoldenSun'' at the beginning of the game, after the HeroicMime overhears the {{Knight Templar}}s' plans to steal the MacGuffin of the game. It does not go well for him.

*** In all fairness, though, Bakshi's representation of Sam fell somewhere between CloudCuckooLander and TheDitz.
*** ...or because Sam's line was pulled unmodified from the book, where Gandalf ''does'' mention the Elves...

* Was done well in the movie ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' (see the quotation above).

* ''DoubleIndemnity'': As he is finishing his recorded confession of murder, Neff looks behind him to see Keyes standing in the doorway.

* Used, {{Lampshaded}}, subverted, and inverted in the SpriteComic ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge''. [[VideoGame/MegaMan Dr. Wily]] was the usual victim.

* An episode of WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime had Knock Out overhear Starscream taunting Megatron's lifeless corpse, [[spoiler:bragging about how he killed him]]. Of course, since Knock Out has been casually assisting Starscream to overthrow Megatron he suffers no punishment.
* On AdventureTime, the King of Ooo and his henchman are talking about how they've been scamming Sweet P in order to rob people and would have to "take care of him" if he ever found out, when they hear him standing right outside the door. King of Ooo invokes this trope but the henchman points out it doesn't matter ''how much'' the kid heard, "[[OhCrap NONE OF IT WAS GOOD!]]"

* On AdventureTime, the King of Ooo and his henchman are talking about how they've been scamming Sweet P in order to rob people and would have to "take care of him" if he ever found out, when they hear him standing right outside the door. KoO uses this trope but the henchman points out it doesn't matter ''how much'' he heard, "[[OhCrap NONE OF IT WAS GOOD!]]"

* Happens between Ratchet, Captain Qwark, and a monkey in ''RatchetAndClankUpYourArsenal''.

* In an episode of ''TheNanny'', Max is talking to Fran about something confidential. When he's done he presses the intercom button and asks "Your big fat ears catch all that Niles?"

* In ''WesternAnimation/IceAge3DawnOfTheDinosaurs'', after Manny, Diego, Crash, Eddie and Buck's "laughing-gas-trip" in The Chasm of Death.

* In ''WesternAnimation:IceAge3DawnOfTheDinosaurs'', after Manny, Diego, Crash, Eddie and Buck's "laughing-gas-trip" in The Chasm of Death.

* More of "What did you see?", but in ''DarwinsSoldiers'' Shelton almost [[http://z7.invisionfree.com/thegangoffive/index.php?showtopic=7319&view=findpost&p=9188683 asks this]] after Agito implies he witnessed Shelton and Shakila [[RelationshipUpgrade upgrading their relationship]] in the closet.

* On TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir, paired with RightBehindMe, Vivian walks in on Phil bragging to the boys about how he stands up to her if and when she tries bossing him around. She reveals her presence and demands to know how long he's been badmouthing her.

* In the ''StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' fanfic ''FanFic/MemoriesBornOfFire'', when Kirk realizes Spock walked in on him getting scolded by Komack, he asks, "How long have you been standing there?" He had tried to keep the fact that he had disobeyed direct orders a secret.

->'''Sam:''' N-nothing important! That is, I heard a good deal about a [[MacGuffin ring]] and a [[EvilOverlord DarkLord]], [[BreadEggsMilkSquick and]] something about [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the end of the world]]...

->'''Sam:''' N-nothing important! That is, I heard a good deal about a [[MacGuffin ring]] and a DarkLord, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick and]] something about [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the end of the world]]...

->'''Sam:''' N-nothing important! That is, a great deal about a [[MacGuffin ring]] and a DarkLord, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick and]] something about [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the end of the world]]...

-->'''Robin:''' Were you reenacting the last scene of ''SleeplessInSeattle''?

-->'''Ted:''' Then yeah, just the last scene.

* In a first season episode of TheCloser, an arrogant entitled rich kid had murdered his parents' Mexican maid's daughter, and then fled to Mexico where the LAPD had no jurisdiction, taunting Brenda with his intention to vacation there permanently. Brenda requests that the Mexican authorities arrest him prior to an extradition process, and then visits him, during which time Brenda threatens to arrest his parents for the crime, listing all of the circumstantial evidence which could be made to point to his mother and his father's complicity after the fact in arranging the kid's escape to Mexico. The kid agrees to a full confession if Brenda agrees not to prosecute his parents. Brenda then announces that while she had no authority to arrest him, ''the Mexican police officers standing behind her'' were fully fluent in English and had just heard him confess to killing a Mexican citizen, do have the authority to arrest him, and that the Mexican prisons and prisoners were probably going to be a whole lot worse for him than the American version.

* In a first season episode of TheCloser, an arrogant entitled rich kid had murdered his parents Mexican maid's daughter, and then fled to Mexico where the LAPD had no jurisdiction, taunting Brenda with his intention to vacation there permanently. Brenda requests that the Mexican authorities arrest him prior to an extradition process, and then visits him, during which time Brenda threatens to arrest his parents for the crime, listing all of the circumstantial evidence which could be made to point to his mother and his father's complicity after the fact in arranging the kid's escape to Mexico. The kid agrees to a full confession if Brenda agrees not to prosecute his parents. Brenda then announces that while she had no authority to arrest him, ''the Mexican police officers standing behind her'' were fully fluent in English and had just heard him confess to killing a Mexican citizen, do have the authority to arrest him, and that the Mexican prisons and prisoners were probably going to be a whole lot worse for him than the American version.

* In ''Anime/CowboyBebop'', Faye's conversation with Ein about [[spoiler:her past life]] is overheard by Spike from a nearby bathroom.

* One of Shepard's lines to Joker after the latter [[MomentKiller interrupted an]] AlmostKiss in MassEffect is "Are you spying on us, Joker?"