History Main / CollectiveGroan

** There are plenty of other moments where an offscreen audience booed at him. Particularly terrible jokes in NC, WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick and WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall tend to be followed by a StockSnippet of canned booing.

** This trope happens even more legitimately in the friction episode where after the FirstNameUltimatum, "Carlos, stop!" is delivered, Keisha informs Carlos that "this is serious" to which he replies "I know; a real heavy situation" (the class is trapped inside DA's book; long story); the class is incapable from properly responding and just groans (Unusually for this type of scene in TheMagicSchoolBus, Carlos actually looks surprised when the class finds this particular joke so bad).

* ''MysticalNinja'' on the N64 had a LaughTrack, which would also groan at the ''really'' bad jokes.

* During his review of the ''DirtyDancing'' game, [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]] makes a somewhat tasteless joke about the abortion scene from the movie (it involves ''VideoGame/TraumaCenter''). Cut to stock footage of a booing audience, to which Spoony responds "What? It's in the movie!"

* In ''Fanfic/TheLegendOfTotalDramaIsland'', the contestants groan when the Music/CelineDion standee's faerie-like "backup singers" are identified as the [[Music/DixieChicks Pixie Chicks]]. Chris is pleased.
-->'''Chris:''' The greatness of a pun is measured not by the laughs, but by the groans.

* The CBS revival of ''Series/MatchGame'' in the 70s made groaning and booing from the audience a virtual ritual whenever a bad answer was given by eithet contestants or panelists.

-->'''Fletcher Limburger:''' Well.... peanuts, anyone?... that's what folks are saying� and there's an old superstition about a monster and a lost city.

->''"Gaming groups, like all tight-knit groups of people, have their collective quirks.(...) Some -- the highest echelon of geeky humour of all [[labelnote:*]]Because the point of humour is of course [[LamePunReaction to make the listener groan]].[[/labelnote]] -- engage in punning."''

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* Like [=HIGNFY=] the audience in ''Series/TenOClockLive'' will often groan at JimmyCarr's "too soon" jokes or at the various political figures who attempt to make a joke/pun.
* The CBS revival of ''MatchGame'' in the 70s made booing from the audience a virtual ritual whenever a bad answer was given by a contestant.

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** The audience made up a huge part of ''ISIRTA'''s general atmosphere. Sometimes, lines would be dropped because the audience saw the pun coming and groaned before the punchline. Occassionally, the audience would groan at a pun...and then applaud it, because it was a good pun. A typical example of the dialogue predicting the groan would go like this:

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* On ''ThomasTheTankEngine'', in "James & the Queen of Sodor". Percy wrecks James' coat after miraculously avoiding damage during his dirty jobs all day. James remarks to the others that he'll be cleaned up and "Red-ier than ever!" [[LamePunReaction The episode closes on one of these]].
* In ''RockyAndBullwinkle'', Rocky brings one of these about by finding a dirty model boat that, once washed off, was found to be made of rubies and had the words "Omar Khayyam" inscribed on it. He pronunces it "The Ruby Yacht of Omar Khayyam", much to the dismay of everyone else in the room. Note that everyone else stated they were aware of the potential punchline, but Rocky was the only one with the nerve to say it out loud.

The very opening of Bill Cosby's 1978 album "Bill's Best Friend" starts off with a joke that got some good-natured groans from his audience:

* A running gag in ''Manga/{{Eyeshield 21}}'' is that when ever Sena or Monta make a do-or-die plan, which is horribly simple such as, "Give me the ball!" Hiruma and Kurita's face shrivel up because of their stupidity. (But they [[CrazyEnoughToWork go with the plans anyway]], since Hiruma [[MagnificentBastard is just that]] {{Badass}}.)

* 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.

* It's unclear whether the ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids'' strip where the page quote annotation comes from is an example - given the BeatPanel before Ben's LamePunReaction could be either everyone groaning or StunnedSilence (after all, it's a thespian [[CaughtMeDoingIt following the geek tendency for dumb puns]]).

* A running gag in ''{{Eyeshield 21}}'' is that when ever Sena or Monta make a do-or-die plan, which is horribly simple such as, "Give me the ball!" Hiruma and Kurita's face shrivel up because of their stupidity. (But they [[CrazyEnoughToWork go with the plans anyway]], since Hiruma [[MagnificentBastard is just that]] {{Badass}}.)
* {{Genshiken}} has this when Sasahara (as the freshly elected club president) announces that the club will do a doujin for the next Comiket.

* During his review of the ''DirtyDancing'' game, [[WebVideo/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!"

This is often a sign that you're dealing with an incredibly lame pun, making it a very common LamePunReaction. {{Feghoot}}s take it even further; a Collective Groan is [[SoUnfunnyItsFunny the desired response]].

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* There is a recent ad for a tax consultancy service that lets you search for your agent based on his specialty. The last request is something like: "And they have to have a cat named Louie!" One collective groan later, only one guy is left standing.

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* In one arc of ''Comicstrip/{{Peanuts}}'', Linus ran for class president, and was very nearly a shoo-in. Then he started talking about "[[CloudCuckooLander the Great Pumpkin]]," and this trope (or rather, a collective "UGGH!") resulted.

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-->'''Fletcher Limburger:''' Well.... peanuts, anyone?... that's what folks are saying— and there's an old superstition about a monster and a lost city.

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->''"Gaming groups, like all tight-knit groups of people, have their collective quirks.(...) Some -- the highest echelon of geeky humour of all [[labelnote:*]]Because the point of humour is of course to make the listener groan.[[/labelnote]] -- engage in punning."''

->''"Gaming groups, like all tight-knit groups of people, have their collective quirks.(...) Some -- the highest echelon of geeky humour of all [[labelnote:*]]Because the point of humour is of course to make the listener groan.[[/labelnote]] -- [[LamePunReaction engage in punning]]."''

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

'''Buffy, Xander, Willow''': ''Again?''

You'll commonly hear this as well when a bad comedian relies on StockShticks that [[NeverHeardThatOneBefore everybody has heard]] [[SeenItAMillionTimes a million times]]. If he keeps it up too long, it may escalate to ProducePelting.

* ''Series/{{Community}}'' is especially fond of this, normally in conjunction with paper balls being thrown at the target of the groans. It's become a running joke that anytime Britta mentions social justice in any way the whole group boos and groans.

** While reviewing ''TheSpirit'' with [[WebVideo/BadMovieBeatdown Film Brain]], [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] cracks a pun that doesn't just get the booing but also a caption to apologise:

* ''Videogame/{{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.

* When playing together as TheRunawayGuys, this is frequently ProtonJon and NintendoCapriSun's response to {{Chuggaaconroy}} whenever he makes a terrible pun, as he's known to consciously do.