History Main / TellHimImNotSpeakingToHim

-->'''Buster:''' We're not speaking to you. That's what's going on!

'''David:''' "Tell your Mother, 'And a Happy New Year'!"

''(D.W. runs back to the other end of the table as the imagine spot ends.)''

'''David:''' "Tell your Mother, 'And a Happy New Year'!"\\

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' episode, "Mom and Dad Have a Great Big Fight", D.W. pictures this happening in an ImagineSpot if her Mom and Dad never stop fighting.

-->'''Nogg:''' Cardinal62. Tell them we're the good guys.\\
'''Cardinal62:''' ''(To Emily)'' We're the good guys.\\

'''Cardinal62:''' ''(To Nogg)'' She knows a dozen good seafood recipes you'd go lovely in.\\

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* In the film version of this in ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'', Hermione gets so fed up with this in relation to the arguing of Harry and Ron that she finally shouts in exasperation "I'm not an owl!", referential of the post owls in the series.

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-->'''Nathaniel''': Tell him—-oh, for heaven's sake, just tell him what the mission is and have done!

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* An episode of Hogan's Heroes (if memory serves, the final episode) had an example of this that followed the trope description at the top of the page. Colonel Hogan confronts General Burkhalter about keeping a rocket launcher in the camp (a violation of the Geneva Convention). Burkhalter tells Colonel Klink to tell Hogan that he's not speaking to him and won't discuss the matter. Then Burkhalter gets on Klink for talking to Hogan, so Klink tells Sergeant Schultz to tell Hogan that he isn't speaking to him either. Notably, the conversation goes faster and faster until Burkhalter and Hogan and Klink are yelling at each other directly, until Schultz speaks up and [[CrowningMomentOfFunny asks them to slow down so he can relay what they're not saying to each other.]]

* ''CalvinAndHobbes'': Calvin's mother drifts into this following a HorribleCampingTrip.

* In ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids'', [[http://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/1119.html Princess attempts this.]] The person she refuses to speak with is right there, and her intermediary won't cooperate.

* In ''WesternAnimation/IceAge 2'', Ellie doesn't talk to Manny, with Crash and Eddie in the middle, but the middle guys end up rewording the messages she says into their wording, trying to make him leave her alone. For Manny's credit, he ''can'' hear her as they walk. For example:

* In ''Magyk'', the first book of the ''Literature/SeptimusHeap'' series, the message rat Stanley is initially relieved when asked to do a job for wizards, as his previous job had consisted of conveying messages between two arguing sisters that had eventually descended into this. Things were so far gone that he was essentially running back and forth and saying nothing, until finally the sisters' mother was shocked by the huge bill and canceled the service.

--> '''Crash:''' She said she thinks you're a jerk and to go away.

* In ''IceAge 2'', Ellie doesn't talk to Manny, with Crash and Eddie in the middle, but the middle guys end up rewording the messages she says into their wording, trying to make him leave her alone. For Manny's credit, he ''can'' hear her as they walk. For example:

* Towards the beginning of ''Ptomely's Gate'' from ''Literature/TheBartimaeusTrilogy''', Nathaniel and Bartimaeus go through a variation of this, with Nathaniel's secretary, Ms. Piper, as the unfortunate intermediary. It finally ends thus:

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'', the breakup of Music/TheBeatles homage band The Beets plays out like this, with all four members of the group facing away from the microphone and saying things like this ("I'm not telling them, YOU tell them!") before one finally has enough and very curtly says that they're splitting up.

* ''CalvinAndHobbes'': Calvin's mother drifts into this following a terrible camping holiday.

'''Calvin''': Dad, Mom says...

* Shaggy and Scooby didn't speak to each other throughout an episode of ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo'', using Daphne as an intermediary.

* ''Series/The Big Bang Theory'' had an interesting variant where Howard was not only not talking to Leonard but also insisting that Leonard had passed on ("dead to me"). Sheldon was willing to participate until Howard acknowledged his presence and thereby violated the terms of his own premise.