History Main / CollectiveGroan

* Increasingly appearing in HarryHillsTVBurp.

** Oh, come on. How often do you get to use that pun? Almost ''never'', that's when!
*** How often ''should'' you get to use it? [[{{Pun}} Even less often]].
**** [[SelfDemonstratingArticle Booo!]]

[[AC: VideoGames]]
* In GuildWars, before the Venta Cemetery mission, Koss mentions to a group of refugees that their path home will be a tad more "difficult" than they expected. Naturally there's a bit of disappointment.
* ''{{Kingdom of Loathing}}'' has a segment in the Haunted Gallery where you go through a series of paintings, and the game proceeds to snark the hell out of them or reinterpret them in...interesting ways. One such is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:David_-_The_Death_of_Socrates.jpg David's ''The Death of Socrates'']]. You walk past the scene in question, where Socrates has just told an {{Incredibly Lame Pun}} and everyone around is [[CollectiveGroan groaning]] and slamming their heads into the wall.
* In TheCluefinders 3rd Grade Adventures, we get this little one in the opening.
-->'''Fletcher Limburger:''' Well.... peanuts, anyone?... that's what folks are saying— and there's an old superstition about a monster and a lost city.
-->'''Santiago:''' Superstition!
-->'''Leslie:''' Lost city?
-->'''Joni:''' Monster?!
-->'''Owen:''' ...peanuts?
-->'''All:''' '''''OWEN!'''''
* ''MysticalNinja'' on the N64 had a LaughTrack, which would also groan at the ''really'' bad jokes.

[[AC: {{Film}}]]
* From YellowSubmarine:
-->George: Maybe we should call a road service?
-->Paul: Can't, no road!
-->Ringo: And we're not sub... scribers.
-->Other Beatles: Sub-scribers... ooh... (Paul [[FacePalm facepalms]])

[[AC: WebComics]]
* Invoked by the writer of ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' in the AltText of [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/5p40 this]] strip.
-->'''AltText''': If the internet were an auditorium, I'd be on stage grinning proudly against a chorus of groans.

* Invoked by the writers of DrMcNinja in the AltText of [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/5p40 this]] strip.

-->Other Beatles: Sub-scribers... ooh... (Paul [FacePalm facepalms])

-->(The other Beatles groan)

* [[DoctorWho The Doctor]] causes this occasionally.

* On ''Series/TeenTitans'', Beast Boy says after just having frozen Brotherhood of Evil leader The Brain: "Check it out, brain freeze." Cue groans from the two dozen or so heroes assembled.

* On ''TeenTitans'', Beast Boy says after just having frozen Brotherhood of Evil leader The Brain: "Check it out, brain freeze." Cue groans from the two dozen or so heroes assembled.

*** How often ''should'' you get to use it? [[IncrediblyLamePun Even less often]].

* In ''JusticeLeagueUnlimited'', Batman remarks that he's got The Question trying to dig up information on Project Cadmus. Everyone groans, and even Batman admits that The Question is [[ConspiracyTheorist a bit nuts]].

* ''{{Kingdom of Loathing}}'' has a segment in the Haunted Gallery where you go through a series of paintings, and the game proceeds to snark the hell out of them or reinterpret them in...interesting ways. One such is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:David_-_The_Death_of_Socrates.jpg David's ''The Death of Socrates'']]. You walk past the scene in question, where Socrates has just told an {{Incredibly Lame Pun}} and everyone around is [[CollectiveGroan groaning]] and [[WallBanger slamming their heads into the wall]].

** This troper laughed especially hard at this, for her sister actually is in that business and has a cat named Louie.

* TheNostalgiaCritic had a moment where, in the "Top 11 animated nostalgic hotties", he commented that [[{{Thundercats}} Cheetara]] gave new meaning to the term "fast pussy". Booing ensued.

*** How often ''should'' you get to use it? [[IncrediblyLamePun even less often]].

-->'''Britta:''' Oh I'd very much mind, Annie. There's no such thing as a quick invasion of civil liberties!
-->'''Study Group:''' UUuuuuggggh..!

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* TheNostalgiaCritic had a moment where, in the Top 11 animated nostalgic hotties, he commented that [[{{Thundercats}} Cheetara]] gave new meaning to the term "fast pussy". Booing ensued.
** There are plenty of other moments where an offscreen audience booed at him.
** Particularly terrible jokes in NC, [[TheNostalgiaChick the Chick]] and AtopTheFourthWall tend to be followed by a StockSnippet of canned booing.

* During his review of the ''DirtyDancing'' game, [[TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]] makes a somewhat tasteless joke about the abortion scene from the movie (it involves ''TraumaCenter''). Cut to stock footage of a booing audience, to which Spoony responds "What? It's in the movie!"
** Used several other times, as well, such as when he makes a joke about the death of [[TheCrow Brandon Lee.]]

* Played straight four times, then subverted in HomestarRunner, when Bubs lets loose a string of bad puns, then an apparent non sequitur, which leads an offscreen audience to groan after each bad pun, and give a collective "Huh?" after the non sequitur.
** IN the "Which Ween?" 'toon, everyone dresses up in Decemberween costumes. Coach Z's is just a giant sheet of paper. When Strong Bad finally asks him what he's supposed to be, he explains... he's "Rapping Paper." Cue trope.

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--->''--Annotation for [[http://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0368.html this]] DarthsAndDroids strip''

** Particularly terrible jokes in NC and AtopTheFourthWall tend to be followed by a StockSnippet of canned booing.

-->-''Annotation for [[http://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0368.html this]] DarthsAndDroids strip''

->Gaming groups, like all tight-knit groups of people, have their collective quirks.(...) Some - the highest echelon of geeky humour of all * - [[AWorldwidePunomenon engage in punning.]]\\
[=*=]:Because the point of humour is of course to make the listener groan.
-->-Annotation for [[http://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0368.html this]] DarthsAndDroids strip