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2	[[caption-width-right:350:"Whose hand is that?"]]
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4	->''"I've got just the thing! Now, huddle up boys, and make that old whispering sound!"''
5	-->-- '''Marshie''', ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'', [[http://www.homestarrunner.com/puppetmation.html "The Animated Adventures of Puppet Homestar"]]
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7	[[{{JustForFun/DescribeTopicHere}} WE NEED A DESCRIPTION! TROPER HUDDLE!]]
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9	[==]huddle
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11	Planning a ZanyScheme? Huddle! Organizing an [[TheInfiltration infiltration]]? Huddle! Have to get your team [[RousingSpeech fired up]] for the game-winning Hail Mary toss? Huddle! Want to discuss whether or not you should let TheMole [[WelcomeBackTraitor back on the team]]? Huddle! Huddles solve everything!
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13	The huddle comes in two variations, where either the audience is part of it, or the audience isn't.
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15	If the audience is a part of it, there will be a HuddleShot. We will hear everyone's concerns as they whisper back and forth.
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17	If the audience is ''not'' privy to the huddle, we will instead see a far shot of everyone squished together. There will be [[AudienceMurmurs indecipherable whispering]]. Occasionally, especially in cartoons, one person will look up at whoever/whatever it is they're all talking about, before being dragged down by a fellow huddler. This version of the huddle follows the UnspokenPlanGuarantee-- that is, because the audience doesn't know what's about to happen, the plans will go smoothly.
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19	Fun fact: the huddle can be traced back to the 1890's when Gallaudet College's Paul Hubbard began using it during games that his American football team was in. Which was useful, since the college is made up of deaf students and the huddle enabled him to communicate to his teammates without opposing players being able to see his hand signals.
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21	May be accompanied by a TeamHandStack.
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23	Got that? BREAK!
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26	!!Examples:
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30	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
31	* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' anime episode 146. When Nel and her friends think that Ichigo and the others are bad guys, they go into a huddle to decide what to do.
32	* For a manga about football, this is actually inverted in ''Manga/{{Eyeshield 21}}''; in order to win the Christmas Bowl, the Deimon Devil Bats decide that they need to go the entire second half without a huddle so their opponents, the undefeated Teikoku Alexanders, won't have time to think.
33	** Played with against their last fight against the White Knights. With only less than a second on the clock, the Devil Bats are on the receiving end of a kick. In order to make one last touchdown, [[spoiler: Hiruma yells for a huddle during the middle of a play for Taki, Monta, and Sena. There, he passes the ball to one of them, leaving the White Knights too confused. The enemy quarterback realizes who has the ball, but a moment too late - Sena scores the winning touchdown.]]
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36	[[folder:Fan Works]]
37	* Examples from Fanfic/{{the Calvinverse}}:
38	** [[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes Moe]] and his GangOfBullies huddle in the rewritten version of ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheMovie''.
39	** The protagonists huddle in the ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'' episode "Lightning Man" when considering the titular antagonist's final plot.
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42	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
43	* ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'': When the Dwarfs manhandle Grumpy into washing his hands.
44	* ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'' featured a "Royal Huddle" between Atta and her court, in the middle of a trial that she's judging.
45	* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Mei and her friends do this to decide if they will attend Tyler's birthday party.
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48	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
49	* ''Film/{{Flash Gordon\|1980}}'' (1980). When Flash is beating Ming's warriors at "football", Klytus calls them together into a huddle and instructs them on how to beat him.
50	* ''Film/TheMightyDucks'' used this. Twice in the sequel, in fact, both times using the UnspokenPlanGuarantee.
51	* Used in ''Film/RedTails'', in which dozens of pilots form a massive huddle to pray and CrowdChant, psyching themselves up for a crucial mission.
52	* The cross-country team in ''Film/McFarlandUSA'' does this--when the team huddles, and you hear, "Uno, dos, tres... [=McFarland=]!", expect something great to happen.
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55	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
56	* The heroes in the ''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]]''-featured ''Time of the Apes'' do this at one point, prompting Crow to state their plan as "We'll bang our heads together and walk around in a daze!"
57	* Families conferring for an answer to steal on ''Series/FamilyFeud''.
58	* In the classic ''Series/MorkAndMindy'' episode, "Mork's Mixed Emotions," as a inversion of it. Mork, whose emotions are each presenting themselves as separate personalities, leans down as to confer with them in a ''one person'' huddle. After he's finished, Mindy asks what was the result and Mork answers "[[TitleDrop We have mixed emotions]]."
59	* The New Directions on ''Series/{{Glee}}'' do this before a competition.
60	* ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'': Sergeant Terry Jeffords tries to keep his detectives in line when they are all invited to Captain Holt's birthday party. They had an emergency squad meeting in the briefing room before the party, but Terry has them in a party huddle soon after they arrive. They end it with cheer-whispering "be appropriate".
61	-->'''Terry:''' Party huddle, stat! Okay, gang, we need a new strategy.
62	* In the ''Series/BroadCity'' episode "Destination: Wedding," Abbi forms a two-woman huddle with Ilana so they can discuss how to pay for the incredibly expensive rental car. Abbi seems like she's going to try to concoct a ZanyScheme revolving around the fact that she's over 25 but has an expired license, but Lincoln pays for the car before she can finish.
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65	[[folder:Music]]
66	* The music video for Music/Hinatazaka46's "Tomo yo, Ichibanboshi da", which is set at a soccer stadium, features an OpeningNarration about huddle power.
67	* Music/{{Nightwish\|Band}} does one of these with their band members before every concert. It took on a much darker turn when they did one after a concert instead, and fired lead singer Tarja Turunen while in it.
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70	[[folder:Theater]]
71	* The Supreme Court goes into a football-style huddle in ''Theatre/OfTheeISing'' when asked to decide between corn muffins and justice.
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74	[[folder:Video Games]]
75	* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'': Rinoa and the Forest Owls have a variation where they squat down on the floor while constructing plans. Lampshaded by [[DeadpanSnarker Squall]].
76	--> '''Squall:''' How serious are you...? Really...? The three of you plop down on the floor to discuss strategy? On top of that, you can't make a decision without our input, right? How do you think we feel, working for such an organisation?
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79	[[folder:Western Animation]]
80	* WesternAnimation/{{The Powerpuff Girls\|1998}} do this on occasion, most notably with Mojo Jojo in "Forced Kin" as they must come up with a plan to stop an alien power from taking over Townsville.
81	* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' subverted this in the CowboyEpisode where "Dead-Eye" Plankton plans to take over Bikini Bottom... err, Gulch. First it looks like the citizens are huddling together, only to reveal that [[spoiler: it was just Spongebob making whispering sounds because he didn't really have a plan.]]
82	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
83	** Spoofed when the family huddles to think of a plan to get their counselor out of a tree. (Long story.) Homer begins whispering, while Lisa talks in her normal voice...
84	--->'''Homer:''' It's a huddle. You have to talk like this.\
85	'''Lisa:''' Fine, I'll talk like this.\
86	'''Homer:''' WHAAAT?!
87	** And then it turns out the wolves and cougars at the bottom of the tree the counselor is in are ''also'' huddling and whispering.
88	** In "A Tale of Two Springfields", Homer tells Music/TheWho that Old Springfield will make them "cut [their] hair, turn down [their] music, and wear frilly shirts like Keith Partridge". They're so shocked by this that Roger Daltry calls for a "Who huddle".
89	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
90	** The audience-participation version appears in the episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E15TheSuperSpeedyCiderSqueezy6000 The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000]]", when the Apple family gets into a huddle to discuss whether or not to accept the Flim/Flam brothers' partnership deal. The camera whips around to each member in turn, and ends to reveal that Flim and Flam have ''also'' joined in their huddle.
91	** Also occurs in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E19PuttingYourHoofDown Putting Your Hoof Down]]", when motivation trainer Iron Will and his entourage - consisting of goats who are never shown as even being ''able'' to speak - consider whether they should fight Fluttershy's refusal to pay for his seminar (because she was not "completely satisfied" as he had guaranteed).
92	* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewScoobyDooMovies'': In "[[Recap/TheNewScoobyDooMoviesS1E12TheGhostlyCreepFromTheDeep The Ghostly Creep From The Deep]]," the Harlem Globetrotters suggest an impromptu basketball game with the gang to while away time in a deserted mansion. When they see the Trotters do their thing, Velma suggests a group huddle to plan a strategy against them.
93	* ''WesternAnimation/MightyMagiswords'': Prohyas and Vambre frequently perform a "Warrior huddle" to discuss strategy. What follows is the one of the siblings talking into the camera with arms outstretched, switching to either the other sibling [[RunningGag or the inevitable huddle intruder(s)]] whenever they have something to say.
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