Basic Trope: A character repeats something the audience cannot hear due to the speaker being unhearable or The Unintelligible.
- Straight: Sam is on the phone, talking to Sid. "Pick you up at 5, eh? I can do that."
- Exaggerated: "Pick you up at 5, at the Civic Center, around the time you'll be done with your rock concert? You bet!"
- Downplayed: "Pick you up when now?"
- Justified:
- Sam is doing this so Cindy can hear what he's up to.
- Sam wasn't sure if Sid said "five" or "nine", so he repeated what he thought he said just to be sure.
- Sam repeats what Sid told him to make sure he heard it right.
- Inverted: "Want me to pick you up at 5?" "..." "Great! See you then!"
- Subverted: The conversation is framed so that it's revealed that Sam and Sid are Finishing Each Other's Sentences. "And you're going to the Civic Center?" "Exactly."
- Double Subverted: "And you're going to the Civic Center?" "..." "Oh! The Central Circuit! I must've misheard!"
- Parodied: "Pick you up at 5? Why am I repeating you? You're hanging up? Goodbye? Dial tone?"
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: "What? I'll be on my way."
- Enforced: The information is critical to the audience and time is of the essence.
- Lampshaded: "Uh yeah, that's what I said, Sam..."
- Invoked: "Uh, hey, Cindy's here. You want in on this, Cindy?"
- Exploited: Cindy eavesdrops on the conversation to find out something she wasn't supposed to hear.
- Defied: "Stop repeating me, Sam." "Oh, sorry..."
- Deconstructed: "Okay, Sam, we need to talk. About that habit of repeating what I say..."
- Reconstructed: "It's just... I'm trying to get an idea of everything you're saying, Sid. I just need to plan around this."
- Discussed: "Is there a reason you're always repeating me?"
- Conversed: "I'm guessing when he's talking to the robot he's translating for the characters... like the rabbits... or the dirt."
Take you back to Repeating So the Audience Can Hear? Well, alright...
