History FunnyBackgroundEvent / Literature

* In ''Literature/FairyOak'''s sixth isntallment, ''Flox Smiles in Autumn", we get many of these in the form of stracts of the "Fairy Oak Gazette", including, but not limited to:

* In ''Literature/{{Atharon}}'' , during a rather tense scene a character drops her bow in anger. Her servant refuses to give it back to her until she calms down. The event is ignored by everyone else present.

** On the second-to-last page, everyone is back on the bus, the unnamed boy is being annoying again, and the girl is taking out her roll of duct tape. Also, there's a kid behind the bus running to catch up.

* At the end of the fourth chapter of the ''Literature/FrannyKStein'' book ''The Fran That Time Forgot'', the illustration shows Franny walking away with a smile after the success of her Time Warp Dessert Plate, with her dog Igor in the background desperately trying to prevent a snake from eating the slice of cake the Time Warp Dessert Plate restored after Franny devoured it.

* A literary example occurs in ''Series/RedDwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers'': a scene in which a depressed Lister remembers how he arrived on Mimas is frequently interrupted by two pimps arguing over a girl called Sandra. This argument involves two ears being cut off and the death of both participants.

* The ''Pumpkin Soup'' series of children's picture books by Helen Cooper (''Pumpkin Soup''; ''A Pipkin of Pepper''; and ''Delicious'') all have a wide variety of amusing background details in the illustrations. In ''Delicious'', the activities of the insects practically qualify as an additional story.
* A scary version in ''Literature/TheCuriousIncidentOfTheDogInTheNighttime''. Christopher, who is autistic, is focused on retrieving something he dropped on the train tracks. The text is almost all about his efforts, and gives only a few mentions to the consternation of the crowd, and the brightening light and growing rumble of what the reader (but not Chris) recognizes as an approaching train.
* In ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians: The Battle of the Labyrinth'', the campers are holding an emergency meeting about the search for Daedalus's workshop in Camp Half-Blood's fencing arena, while Quintus's pet hellhound Mrs. O'Leary is chewing on a fencing dummy.

* The less serious nonfiction computer books sometimes might contain interesting or funny stuff used as examples or in the screenshots. For example, Elizabeth Castro's ''HTML 4 for the World Wide Web'': if you pay attention to the text used in examples, you'll not only learn HTML, but also get to know every single bit of trivia about Elizabeth's four cats.
* Most of the illustrations in ''Literature/PettsonAndFindus'' contain these as jokes.

* The zombie parody Literature/HowToSurviveAZombieApocalypse has instances of this when a member of a survivor group gleefully philosophizes about life while her partners are getting mauled by zombies behind her.
* A notable trait of Creator/JKRowling's writing, especially in her ''Literature/HarryPotter'' books.
** In almost every Charms class, while the Trio are discussing important information, Professor Flitwick is having all manner of unfortunate things happen to him (usually courtesy of Neville).
** In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'', the trio's discussion on their current situation takes place in a crowded hall where Peeves the Poltergeist is shooting ink pellets at people. He subsequently gets into a fight with another student and the scene ends with him emptying an entire ink bottle over the girl's head, all without affecting the main course of the scene.
* In the Literature/JeevesAndWooste' book ''Literature/TheCodeOfTheWoosters'', Sir Watkyn Basset and Roderick Spode accuse Bertie of stealing, when Madeline Basset turns up and objects to the accusations. She doesn't speak again until three pages later, when Bertie notes she had been silent up to that point due to the fact that she had inhaled an insect and been busy choking on it in the background up until that point.
* In ''Literature/{{Atharon}}'' , during a rather tense scene a character drops her bow in anger. Her servant refuses to give it back to her until she calms down. The event is ignored by everyone else present.

* In the ''Literature/JeevesAndWooster'' book ''The Code of the Woosters'', Sir Watkyn Basset and Roderick Spode accuse Bertie of stealing, when Madeline Basset turns up and objects to the accusations. She doesn't speak again until three pages later, when Bertie notes she had been silent up to that point due to the fact that she had inhaled an insect and been busy choking on it in the background up until that point.

* In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'', the trio's discussion on their current situation takes place in a crowded hall where Peeves the Poltergeist is shooting ink pellets at people. He subsequently gets into a fight with another student and the scene ends with him emptying an entire ink bottle over the girl's head, all without affecting the main course of the scene.

* In one of the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' books, the trio's discussion on their current situation takes place in a crowded hall where Peeves the Poltergeist is shooting ink pellets at people. He subsequently gets into a fight with another student and the scene ends with him emptying an entire ink bottle over the girl's head, all without affecting the main course of the scene.

* In one WheelOfTime book, Egwene is reflecting on an earlier conversation, and comments on a specific remark aloud, saying, "That's a bucket of horse spit." A man in the background carrying a bucket responds by staring at her in surprise and amazement.

* A rare literary example occurs in ''Series/RedDwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers'': a scene in which a depressed Lister remembers how he arrived on Mimas is frequently interrupted by two pimps arguing over a girl called Sandra. This argument involves two ears being cut off and the death of both participants.