History Main / HowMuchDidYouHear

* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'': At the start of Chapter 8, Manuela and Shamir discuss a strange ailment plaguing Remire Village when [[PlayerCharacter Byleth]] and their father Jeralt walk in. Jeralt ass

* In the ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' episode "Heart of Gold," Inara engages in a confidential conversation with an associate of hers, and right after she gets finished, she looks up and sighs, facing away from the door to her shuttle.
-->'''Inara''': "I suppose you heard all of that?"\\
'''Malcolm Reynolds''': ''(leans in through the door)'' "Only 'cause I was eavesdropping."

* In an episode of ''Series/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?"
** It's a running joke that Niles knows about everything going on in the house long before any one else does by eavesdropping.
* In an episode of ''Series/{{Community}}'', Abed, in an attempt to mess with Troy's head, is pretending to be an undercover alien. At one point he pretends to send transmissions while hiding behind a bush Troy is sure to walk past. When Troy comes by and overhears him, Abed asks "how long have you been standing there?" to further the illusion that he's hiding something.

* In a first season episode of ''Series/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.

Related: RightBehindMe, ExactEavesDropping

* Was done well in the movie ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing'' (see the quotation above).
** And in the books too, naturally.

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

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

* ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob.'' Bob overhears Fructose Riboflavin muttering to himself about his tragic, secret motivation for everything he's done. Bob offers a word of sympathy. Riboflavin realizes Bob has been standing there, shouts, "That was not meant for your ears!" and launches himself at Bob. [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20100911.html And crashes into a wall.]] It's dark, you see.

* Said in the RPG ''VideoGame/GoldenSun2001'' 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 ''WesternAnimation/CentralPark'', Season 1 "[[Recap/CentralParkS1E5DogSprayAfternoon Dog Spray Afternoon]]", while Cole is taking Shampagne out for a walk for Helen, Helen is sitting on a park bench and is about to take her shoes off, but changes her mind when she gets something on her stocking. When she looks back up, she sees Cole is already back and asks him how long has he been standing there, he tells her long enough to be uncomfortable.
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' had a story to the West where the character Jade represented overheard Valmont's ancestor's plans. She averts the usual villainous capture by speaking in Chinese. The bad guys assume she doesn't understand a word of English and lets her go. [[SoLongSuckers Too bad she does.]]

* 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 ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', the King of Ooo and his henchman are [[AsYouKnow talking about]] how the "gold" stars they've been giving Sweet P are actually made from garbage, just so they can scam him into working for them, to help them 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!]]".

--> '''Qwark''': ''[to Skrunch the Monkey]'' It was ''mating season''. How was I to know she was your sister? ''[Notices a [[{{Squick}} squicked out]] Ratchet and Clank standing behind him]'' How long have you been there?
--> '''Clank''': ''Too'' long.
* Said in the RPG ''VideoGame/GoldenSunTheBrokenSeal'' 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.

* Was done well in the movie ''Film/TheFellowshipOfTheRing'' (see the quotation above).

** Failed in [[SoBadItsGood Bakshi's animated abomination]], where Sam adds "And elves, sir!"... even though elves were never ''mentioned''.

'''Bugs''': Who, me? Oh, I know lotsa things. Two and two is four...George Washington was the first president...Carson City is the capitol of Nevada...\\

->'''Gandalf:''' What did you hear?! Speak!\\
'''Sam:''' N-nothing important! That is, I heard a good deal about a [[MacGuffin ring]] and a [[EvilOverlord Dark Lord]], [[BreadEggsMilkSquick and]] something about [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the end of the world]]...

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-->'''Faye:''' How long were you in there listening?
-->'''Spike:''' Too long. Your story needs editing.

-->'''Akane:''' Ahem!
-->'''Ranma:''' How much did you hear?

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-->'''Manny''': I'm not sure how much of that you could hear?
-->'''Ellie''': Oh I heard all of it.

--> '''[=SpongeBob=]''': How much did you hear?

--> '''Mindy''': I heard enough.

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---> '''Sam:''' What did you just hear me say?
---> '''Jonah:''' (defiant) Six girls in college, maybe seven!
---> '''Sam:''' Seven. EIGHT! Mary Kelly!

-->'''Neff''': How long you been standing there?
-->'''Keyes''': Long enough.

-->'''Dark Helmet:''' Did you see anything?
-->'''Colonel Sandurz:''' No, sir! [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial I didn't see you playing with your dolls again!]]

-->'''George''': Pop, you want a shock? I think you're a great guy. (aside) Oh, did you hear that, Annie?
-->'''Annie''': [[ServileSnarker I heard it. About time one of you lunkheads said it.]]

* In ''Literature/RangersApprentice,'' Will gloats a little over the fact that Crowley, his superior, has been using the same hideout for the past three years to spy on his fellow {{Ranger}}s.[[note]] As every Ranger is a StealthExpert, they take great pleasure in sneaking up on and hiding from one another[[/note]]. [[TheMentor Halt]] notes that while Crowley may be getting a little "long in the tooth," his silent movement skills are as good as ever, leading to a classic RightBehindMe moment:
-->'''Will:''' [[OhCrap He's standing behind me, isn't he?]]
-->'''Halt:''' *nods*
-->'''Will:''' He's been there for a while, hasn't he?
-->'''Halt:''' *nods*
-->'''Will:''' Is he...close enough to have heard what I said?
-->'''Crowley:''' [[SarcasmMode Oh, good grief, no. He's so old and decrepit these days he's as deaf as a post.]]

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-->'''Inara''': "I suppose you heard all of that?"
-->'''Malcolm Reynolds''': ''(leans in through the door)'' "Only 'cause I was eavesdropping."

-->'''Robin:''' Ted? Are you reenacting the last scene of ''Film/SleeplessInSeattle'' with little dolls?
-->'''Ted:''' How long have you been standing there?
-->'''Robin:''' Ten seconds.
-->'''Ted:''' Yeah, just the last scene.

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-->'''Rocky:''' (''pulling a gun on Bugs'') All right, rabbit...how much do ya know?\\
'''Bugs:''' Who, me? Oh, I know lotsa things. Two and two is four...George Washington was the first president...Carson City is the capitol of Nevada...\\
'''Rocky:''' Cut it! Dis guy knows too much.

-->-- ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings''

* On ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', the King of Ooo and his henchman are [[AsYouKnow talking about]] how they've been [[FromBadToWorse giving Sweet P ''fake'' gold stars (made of garbage), to scam him into working for them, so they can 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 ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', the King of Ooo and his henchman are [[AsYouKnow talking about]] how [[SerialEscalation they've been giving Sweet P ''fake'' gold stars (made of garbage), to scam him into working for them, so they can 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 ''WesternAnimation/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!]]"

* Played with in the Series/Frasier episode ''The Gift Horse''. Martin has just been given the old horse he rode as a mounted cop as a birthday gift. He goes to the stable and tenderly talks to it; Frasier and Niles don't think that Martin knows they're there, so Martin screws with them. "And you know, if you don't like it here, then we'll do what we said we would. We'll just go to Montana, start a ranch. You know, we still got all that money we took from those drug dealers buried in the old box canyon."

-->'''Robin:''' Ted? Are you reenacting the last scene of ''SleeplessInSeattle'' with little dolls?

->'''Gandalf:''' What did you hear?! Speak!
->'''Sam:''' N-nothing important! That is, I heard a good deal about a [[MacGuffin ring]] and a [[EvilOverlord Dark Lord]], [[BreadEggsMilkSquick and]] something about [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the end of the world]]...

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* Variation in ''Literature/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe: After getting a big lesson on the situation in Narnia from Mr Beaver, the Pevensie children suddenly realize that [[spoiler: Edmund]] is missing. The whole party then tries to remember how much [[spoiler: he ]] has heard, and thus will be telling to the Witch...

* Variation in [[{{Narnia}} The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe]]: After getting a big lesson on the situation in Narnia from Mr Beaver, the Pevensie children suddenly realize that [[spoiler: Edmund]] is missing. The whole party then tries to remember how much [[spoiler: he ]] has heard, and thus will be telling to the Witch...

* On ''OneLifeToLive'', as a character concocts a foolish plan with two of his friends to help his girlfriend get over her fears about marrying him, said girlfriend walks into the room. Although she wasn't exactly eavesdropping, the hurt and angry expression on her face makes it clear that she's heard everything. Aside from reinforcing her decision to leave him, she's now furious with his friends as well.

* Tom Hanks' son overhears Hanks talking about his college conquests in ''SleeplessInSeattle''.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/IceAge3DawnOfTheDinosaurs'', after Manny, Diego, Crash, Eddie and Buck's "laughing-gas-trip" in ''The Chasm of Death''.
-->'''Manny''': I'm not sure how much of that you could hear?
-->'''Ellie''': Oh I heard all of it.