History Main / CircleofShame

** Same thing happened in "Hurricane Fluttershy" but with adult ponies, on account of it happening to her ''for real'' when she was a filly.

** Same thing happened in "Hurricane Fluttershy" but with adult ponies.

** In "Lesson Zero", Twilight Sparkle freaks out when she worries about being late sending in a friendship report. She has an ImagineSpot where she's sent back all the way to Magic Kindergarten, and all the little ponies are laughing at her.
* In ''{{Doug}}'', Doug has a fantasy about this happening OnceAnEpisode.

** Discord's HannibalLecture to Pinkie Pie in he Season 2 premiere convinces her that her friends are always laughing at her behind her back. The scene features one of these to drive the point home.

** In "Lesson Zero", Twilight Sparkle freaks out when she worries about being late sending in a friendship report. She has an ImagineSpot where she's sent back all the way to Magic Kindergarten, where all the little ponies are laughing at her.

* In ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' has used it more than once, for example when Bart fantasizes about his family's reaction to him "ruining Thanksgiving"
* Lampshaded on ''{{Glee}}'' - "This is not happening. The cruel slow-motion laughter is just your imagination"

* TheSimpsons has used it more than once, for example when Bart fantasizes about his family's reaction to him "ruining Thanksgiving"

[[caption-width-right:350:She'll send me back to [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous MAGIC KINDERGARTEN!]]]]

* HeyArnold has this happen dozens of times. Often, several of the characters forming the circle are being laughed at in an earlier episode, because KidsAreCruel.

* In the Season 2 premiere for ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', Discord's HannibalLecture to Pinkie Pie convinces her that her friends are always laughing at her behind her back. The scene features one of these to drive the point home.

* Doug had a fantasy involving this about once an episode.

* In ''{{Pocahontas}} 2: Journey To The New World'', this happens to the titular heroine when she attempts to stop a bear-baiting at King James' party. OrSoIHeard.

The inversion of LaughingMad - a character's humiliation is depicted with a slow motion pan around a group of people laughing at them, often in slow motion. May be more or less fancifully depicted, ranging from a simple shot of a bunch of people pointing and laughing, to a FishEyeLens [[HitlerCam low-angle]] "swallowed up by the floor" shot {{Whip Pan}}ning from [[TheGrotesque Grotesque]] sneering face to sneering face.

* Used in combination with the ScreamDiscretionShot with the rape of Lucy Barker in the climax of the "Poor Thing" scene from the ''SweeneyTodd'' movie.

* Used in combination with the ScreamDiscretionShot with the rape of Lucy Barker in the climax of the "Poor Thing" scene from ''SweeneyTodd''.

* In ''{{Pocahontas}} 2: Journey To The New World'', this happens to the titular heroine when she attempts to stop a bear-baiting at King James' party. OrSoIHeard.