History Main / LongSpeechTeaTime

* Kael'thas Sunstrider in ''WorldOfWarcraft''. Players ''died'' because they didn't realize he'd finally finished his speech and had started attacking them again.

* In ''ShadowHearts: Covenant'', one of the villains is giving a monologue about how the party is doomed, etc. However, he's doing this while sitting on a floating pillow, leading to the party discussing how the pillow floats. When he finishes, Yuri has only one question: "Where can I get one of those pillows?"

* Happens repeatedly in ''RanmaOneHalf''. Particularly effective in the first NonSerialMovie, where it's basically a character trait (and BerserkButton) of the Chinese girl Lychee to deliver a heartfelt, sobbing tale of woe only to be summarily ignored.

* [[{{Naruto}} Kakashi]]'s typical response to Gai's impassioned declarations of rivalry is to glance up from his copy of Icha Icha Paradise and ask "Hmm? Were you saying something?"

* An episode of ''OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' had the St. Lobelia girls making an impassioned speech... pan to the Host Club sitting on the couch, utterly bored. One of the twins is playing on a Nintendo DS.
* In the ''[[SonicTheHedgehogTheMovie Sonic The Hedgehog]]'' anime movie, Dr. Robotnik/Eggman gives a speech about how his robot generator is going to blow up if the heroes don't do something about it, then notices that everyone in the room, including Sonic, Tails, and even his own robots have fallen asleep.

* Charlie Brown attempting to direct his actors in ''ACharlieBrownChristmas'', only to find out that they've headed off to dance on the stage.
* Dr. Drakken gloats over his plan to lure out ''KimPossible'' and blast her with his latest device, but then notices Shego leafing through the cable TV guide. "Trap for Miss Perfect, got it."

* In Season 7 of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', Buffy's tendency to give a RousingSpeech is a RunningGag. In "Storyteller", Andrew ducks out of the room when Buffy starts going into another soliloquy, noting that they can go on for some time. A few minutes later he looks to see if Buffy has finished -- she's still going on and even Willow is trying to hide a yawn. When Andrew himself tries to give a speech in the final episode, he's curtly told to shut up. "No-one cares."

* In Season 7 of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', Buffy's tendency to give a RousingSpeech is a RunningGag. In "Storyteller", Andrew ducks out of the room when Buffy starts going into another soliloquy, noting that they can go on for some time. A few minutes later he looks to see if Buffy has finished -- she's still going on and even Willow is trying to hide a yawn.

** Which shows he's a hypocrite: when Lindsey tries to justify being evil Angel thinks he's so long winded he dozes off.

* In the ''DoctorWho'' ''Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures'' novel ''Sometime Never'', Sabbath talks for a whole four-page chapter. While he's talking, the Doctor and his daughter (adopted... [[KidFromTheFuture or is she]]?) have started trying to reassemble a device the Doctor dropped in surprise when said daughter showed up, while the Doctor's granddaughter watches, and only one other person understood what the heck Sabbath was even talking about anyway. Since he apparently needs a page or so to recharge his vocal chords, Sabbath lets them puzzle it out on their own.

* In the ''{{Frasier}}'' episode "Ask Me No Questions," Frasier is speaking to Martin, who gets up, leaves the apartment to fetch the paper, and returns just in time to absent-mindedly agree with whatever Frasier had been talking about, all without Frasier realizing. Later, the same thing happens when he's speaking with Daphne (she goes to catch up with friends and buy some coffee). Frasier is completely oblivious.

* A version on ''BoardwalkEmpire''. Nucky is reflecting on his life in a speakeasy in Florida, while the speak's owner Sally looks incredibly bored and pours herself a drink. Finally she gets so frustrated she [[FunnyMoment straight up punches Nucky]].

* In the early days of TV in the 50s-70s, a common trope in Third World [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny "republics" with leaders of questionable democratic legitimacy]] was that the leader was usually a bit of a windbag and could--and did!--interrupt prime-time programming for hours on end with a long speech about nothing in particular, during which the preferred activity of the people (those who had [=TVs=], anyway) was to eat dinner or have some kind of snack. Kenneth Kaunda, President of UsefulNotes/{{Zambia}} 1964-1991 and one of the more benign examples of this kind of leader, was still famous for being so long-winded he could speak for ''five hours'' without stopping.

* In the early days of TV in the 50s-70s, a common trope in Third World [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny "republics" with leaders of questionable democratic legitimacy]] was that the leader was usually a bit of a windbag and could--and did!--interrupt prime-time programming for hours on end with a long speech about nothing in particular, during which the preferred activity of the people (those who had [=TVs=], anyway) was to eat dinner or have some kind of snack. Kenneth Kaunda, President of Zambia 1964-1991 and one of the more benign examples of this kind of leader, was still famous for being so long-winded he could speak for ''five hours'' without stopping.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Suikoden II}}'', a rare variant of Riou and Nanami's Unite attack has Nanami sit down for a cup of tea and so on whilst Riou does all the fighting, becoming more and more exhausted-looking as the attack sequence plays out.

* In the last season of ''SailorMoon'' a villain once escapes during the titular character's InTheNameOfTheMoon speech, after getting frustrated from its length.

* From ''TheLifeAndDeathOfColonelBlimp'':

* The after credits sequence of IronMan3 reveals that [[spoiler:Banner was listening to Tony tell him the story of the movie and fell asleep ten minutes in]].

* Used to mock a villainous InTheNameOfTheMoon speech in the third episode of BlackLagoon, where Revy casually reloads her guns and lights a cigarette while on of the Neo-Nazis brags about how awesome his gun is.

* In the ''DoctorWho'' EighthDoctorAdventures novel ''Sometime Never'', Sabbath talks for a whole four-page chapter. While he's talking, the Doctor and his daughter (adopted... [[KidFromTheFuture or is she]]?) have started trying to reassemble a device the Doctor dropped in surprise when said daughter showed up, while the Doctor's granddaughter watches, and only one other person understood what the heck Sabbath was even talking about anyway. Since he apparently needs a page or so to recharge his vocal chords, Sabbath lets them puzzle it out on their own.

** In an very early episode, a battle comes down to Ash's Metapod ([[MagikarpPower a cocoon capable only of hardening itself to defend from attacks]]) and his opponent's Metapod. In the middle of this stalemate, the camera cuts to [[{{Fanservice}} Misty in a bathing suit]] getting some sun. Those must have been some really dedicated trainers to not notice ''[[NotDistractedByTheSexy a girl changing clothes right next to them]]''.[[hottip:*:Since Misty is a Water Pokémon trainer, she probably wore her bathing suit under her clothes. You know, since her Gym is a giant swimming pool.]] But hey, Pokémon battles are SeriousBusiness.

** In a episode featuring Team Galactic, they easily set up and execute their counterattack in the length of time necessary for Team Rocket to deliver the motto.

** In a recent episode featuring Team Galactic, they easily set up and execute their counterattack in the length of time necessary for Team Rocket to deliver the motto.

* In a recent episode of ZettaiKarenChildren, Mio called a [[LongSpeechTeaTime Long]] TransformationSequence [[LongSpeechTeaTime Tea Time]].

[[YugiohTheAbridgedSeries In America!]], you're likely to hear ChirpingCrickets instead. In comic format, likely to involve the WallOfBlather. Compare and contrast PassThePopcorn (where the audience finds someone else's trouble entertaining) and TheSnackIsMoreInteresting (where someone is directly involved, but acts strangely unconcerned).

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Poppa's Got a Brand New Badge", Home lists all the jobs he's had up to that point, all while Marge gets all her curlers into her hair.