History Main / NoisyShutup

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Bart Simpson pay homage to Quint's iconic chalkboard scratch from '''Film/{{Jaws}}'' to propose his plan for a big [[WackyFratboyHijinx college prank]]. However, there wasn't much noise going on to silence.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Bart Simpson pay homage to Quint's iconic chalkboard scratch from ''[[Film/Jaws]]'' to propose his plan for a big [[WackyFratboyHijinx college prank]]. However, there wasn't much noise going on to silence.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Bart Simpson pay homage to Quint's iconic chalkboard scratch from ''Film/Jaws'' to propose his plan for a big [[WackyFratboyHijinx college prank]]. However, there wasn't much noise going on to silence.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'', Fuzzy Lumpkins yells this in response to the Mayor's noisy political campaign. The townspeople [[MistakenForProfound take this to be a genius campaign slogan]], and Fuzzy's promptly elected the new mayor.

* Papa Smurf in ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' does this on occasion to stop his little Smurfs from squabbling.

* ''Film/DeathOnTheNile2022''. Hercule Poirot commences the SummationGathering by firing a .45 calibre pistol (used in one of the murders) in the air to show that [[LetsGetDangerous he's stopped playing games]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'', Jiminy Cricket tries to sleep in Gepetto's workshop and is kept awake by a cacophony of ticking clocks. When Jiminy yells "QUIET!!", the clocks immediately stop ticking.

* At the end of the third book of ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', the black brothers are in an uproar over something (Jon doesn't know what yet). Jon mentions the various things they're are doing to add to the commotion, including a few people shouting for silence, which, he notes, just makes it worse.

[[ShoutingFreeForAll A bunch of people are babbling or arguing all at once]]. This often happens in some sort of crisis situation, especially when most of the people involved are just civilians and they don't know how else to react. Unfortunately, all their noisy anger/panic/confusion etc. is preventing any real conversation or coordination. (Moreover, it's preventing the audience from actually listening to any particular line of dialogue.) Somebody needs to take charge and act like a leader. The leader may start by simply talking to people, but he finds that no one can really hear him. In any case, he decides to make a really loud noise to make everybody else shut up. This may involve a loud "SHUT UP!", or it may involve some other way of making noise, such as [[ShutUpGunshot firing a gun into the air]].

* ''Film/KindergartenCop'' has Arnold Schwartzenegger's character do that to a kindergarten class. They shut up all right... [[RealityEnsues then they start crying]].

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A bunch of people are babbling or arguing all at once. This often happens in some sort of crisis situation, especially when most of the people involved are just civilians and they don't know how else to react. Unfortunately, all their noisy anger/panic/confusion etc. is preventing any real conversation or coordination. (Moreover, it's preventing the audience from actually listening to any particular line of dialogue.) Somebody needs to take charge and act like a leader. The leader may start by simply talking to people, but he finds that no one can really hear him. In any case, he decides to make a really loud noise to make everybody else shut up. This may involve a loud "SHUT UP!", or it may involve some other way of making noise, such as [[ShutUpGunshot firing a gun into the air]].

* Germany does this to the other nations in the first ''Manga/AxisPowersHetalia'' episode.

* In ''Series/JessicaJones2015'', Killgrave is sitting in a swanky restaurant, looking at his laptop surveillance of Jessica. When the background hubbub of the restaurant gets higher then he likes, he uses his CompellingVoice to yell "Quiet!" The entire restaurant goes silent and motionless.

* An episode of ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' has Kermit telling some Muppets backstage to quell a group of squabbling pigs.
-->'''Kermit:''' Will somebody tell those pigs to knock it off?!\\

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' isn't above enforcing this trope with hurled sharp objects. Examples can be seen in "Checkpoint" and "Potential".

** In "Choices", Willow has been captured and the BigBad offers a HostageForMcGuffin trade. However the McGuffin is essential for his plan to TakeOverTheWorld, so an argument breaks out that they should [[ColdEquation destroy the box and sacrifice Willow.]] Her boyfriend Oz, who has been quiet throughout, gets up and smashes the magical urn that could have been used to destroy the McGuffin. As Oz's laidback nature is a RunningGag, this [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness out-of-character behaviour]] brings the talking to an immediate halt.

* A RunningGag on ''Series/{{Community}}'': the differences of [[RagTagBunchOfMisfits the oddball main cast]] come to the fore yet again and everyone starts in on a rant of their own, with seven or eight people talking over each other from across the study table until someone shouts the rest down -- usually but not always ostensible leader Jeff, and often an outsider expressing disbelief that they're supposedly a group of friends. Later variations have the group ''instantly'' pick up old arguments the second the subject is broached, or the everyone babbling happily over some offscreen bonding the audience didn't get to see.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', Terry shouts "SHUT UP!!" to a cheering audience in a ShoutOut to the Comedy/CheechAndChong routine mentioned above.

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* The ''Series/DoctorWho'' episodes "Midnight" and "Planet of the Dead", along with a ''bunch'' of other episodes.
* In a ''Series/PowerRangersZeo'' episode, Rocky does one as Bulk and Skull bicker, and ends up hurting his throat.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', season 4 episode "Night Terrors". Thanks to being trapped in a NegativeSpaceWedgie that's causing sleep-deprivation, the entire crew is on edge, angry and paranoid. As the main cast attempt a last-ditch attempt to break free, a bunch of off-duty personnel gather in Ten-Forward (which had been thoroughly dismantled in an epic BarBrawl earlier) and one guy's nerves start getting the better of him and voices are raised. Refusing to have her bar trashed twice in one week, Guinnan pulls out a very large (and likely illegal) plasma cannon [[TwoShotsFromBehindTheBar from under the counter]] and shoots it at the ceiling, causing a small explosion and making everyone stare at her in shock.
-->'''Guinnan:''' "That was setting ''one''. Anybody want to see setting number two?" (Nobody does.)
* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'':
** A scene plays out like the aforementioned one from ''Film/ThePrincessBride'', with [[CheerfulChild Naomi Wildman]] as Inigo and [[MsFanservice Seven of Nine]] as Fezzik.
** In "Living Witness", Voyager has been given a HistoricalVillainUpgrade by an alien historian 700 years in the future, portraying them as squabbling thugs responsible for genocide. Annoyed when a ready room meeting breaks down into a fistfight, Evil Janeway pulls out a phaser and shoots an innocent computer screen to make them stop.

* ''Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond''. Commander Ian Fleming has just been made responsible for sorting out the chaotic Naval Intelligence headquarters at the start of [=WW2=]. He tries to introduce himself, but everyone is too busy to pay attention. So he starts cranking up a nearby air raid siren.
* In an early episode of ''Series/HarrysLaw''. Harry is mediating a sit-down between two gangs, and when it inevitably descends into a loud argument, Harry silences them by letting off an airhorn. Leads to an equally funny/awesome moment later on, when merely ''reaching'' for the airhorn is enough to silence them.
* In ''Series/JessicaJones2015'', Killgrave is sitting in a swanky restaurant, looking at his laptop surveillance of Jessica. When the background hubbub of the restaurant gets higher then he likes, he uses his CompellingVoice to yell "Quiet!" The entire restaurant goes silent and motionless.

* In ''Disney/{{Pinocchio}}'', Jiminy Cricket tries to sleep in Gepetto's workshop and is kept awake by a cacophony of ticking clocks. When Jiminy yells "QUIET!!", the clocks immediately stop ticking.

* In Series/JessicaJones, Killgrave is sitting in a swanky restaurant, looking at his laptop surveillance of Jessica. When the background hubbub of the restaurant gets higher then he likes, he uses his CompellingVoice to yell "Quiet!" The entire restaurant goes silent and motionless.