It is widely claimed that at any party, there will naturally be a lull in the conversation every seven minutes.

On TV, this will always happen just when someone raises their voice to be heard by exactly one person in spite of the crowd or background noise, when they say something private. HilarityEnsues.

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!!Examples:

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*Movie example: In the 2005 film version of ''[=~The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy~=]'', during the flashback to the party where Arthur and Trillian met, Arthur is criticizing the other party-goers for not recognizing her costume (Charles Darwin), and ends up blurting out "They're all idiots!" during the SevenMinuteLull.
** That was just when the loud music stopped, actually. Arthur's blurt ''caused'' the SevenMinuteLull.
* Happens twice to Janis of TheMuppets; once in ''TheGreatMuppetCaper'', and once in ''TheMuppetsTakeManhattan''. Both times discussing nudity.
* In ''TenThingsIHateAboutYou'', Patrick says during a loud song at a club:
-->'''Patrick''': I was watching you out there, before. I've (music stops) never seen you look so sexy.
* In ''Honey We Shrunk Ourselves'', the mother yells to overcome the noise of a nearby construction crew. The noise stops just as she's yelling about one of the kids having clean underwear, much to his embarrassment.
* Happens twice in the movie ''Dick''; the first time at the roller rink when Arlene yells "I love Dick!!" during the lull, and later outside when Betsy yells "You can't let Dick control your life" during a moment of silence.

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* In ''PorterhouseBlue'', an undergraduate university student goes to see a certain professor whom he has been assured is an experienced counselor for personal problems. The professor claims to be having hearing problems and hands the student a bullhorn, then encourages him to explain his situation in full. The student does so, unaware that his anguished confession of sexual obsession with his big breasted middle-aged bedder is echoing throughout the quad. From the amused reaction of the older students, it is implied that the professor isn't really deaf, he just enjoys getting students to humiliate themselves this way.
* Literary example in the first book of ''WheelOfTime'', where Rand shouts "Later!" to Perrin just in a lull while everybody is questioning Padan Fain about news of the problems outside.

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*In one episode of ''{{Cheers}}'', Norm is forced to shout over construction noises, but the audience still can't hear what he's saying until the construction pauses just as he shouts, "The world's biggest ass!"
*Likewise, in an episode of ''WillAndGrace'', the conversation lulls at a gallery opening on cue every time someone says "I'm out," prompting applause from the audience at the unintentional DoubleEntendre.
**In another ''WillAndGrace'' episode, Grace is talking to Karen at the opera. Grace is speaking loudy to be heard over the soprano; the music fades to silence in time for Grace's last word, "homos!" to echo several times through the silent theater.
*''FatherTed'': "Chirpy Burpy Cheep Sheep" - Ted makes a dramatic entrance to the King of the Sheep tournament. As he announces to all assembled the identity of the saboteurs, the audience mutter among themselves; as they finish, a man is clearly heard to say "Fuckin' hell!" (swearing, apart from "feck" and "bollocks", never otherwise appeared in ''Father Ted'').
*In ''HowIMetYourMother'', Ted is on a blind date at an unbearably loud dance club. After realising that his date is just nodding along politely and can't really hear a thing he's saying, he starts saying random silly things for the fun of it -- then the music cuts out just in time for him to yell "I'm wetting my pants!" in her face.
** Later during the same episode, the club plays a different song with enough space during each beat that Barney and Marshall can talk during each lullette.
* In the long running mexican SitCom ''ElChavoDelOcho'' this happen very often, with everybody arguing until Profesor Girafales or some authority figure makes everybody shut up, and only the naive Chavo still talks, ''always'' saying something insulting for the authority person. Subverted in an episode, when after a chain of similar situation the last of those ends with El Chavo saying "And now I'm not sayin' anything".
* ''{{Frasier}}'': "The Doctor Is Out". Frasier and Niles have walked into a gay bar looking for someone they believe is gay. Loud music is playing, and Niles feels more and more uncomfortable. He wishes to go home, and begs with Frasier to leave - and just as the music stops, he yells, "I’m begging you, please take me home!".
* In a late episode of ''{{Friends}}'', Mike Hannigan takes Phoebe to a hockey game for their one-year anniversary. Straining to get her voice heard by Mike over the roar of the crowd, Phoebe yells out "You're so smart, and generous, and you're AMAZING in bed!" Guess at what point the crowd died down.
* In one episode of ''GaryAndMike'', the titular duo is at a punk gig, Gary tries to tell Mike that "This band sucks, let's go", with predictable results.
* BeingHuman: George approaching his time of the month and wanting to "Bang the granny" out of any woman he can find.

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* The Eminem song "Just Lose It" includes the lines: "And it's cool if you let one go/ Nobody's gonna know, who'd hear it?/ Give a little "poot poot", it's OK! [Music Stops - Fart Sound plays]/ Oops my CD just skipped/ And everyone just heard you let one rip"

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* George Carlin, quite rightly, says that these are one of those moments that seems to last forever. ''"Right! So what I'm gonna do is, I'm gonna get my TESTICLES LAMINATED!"''

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*A variant: The other person doesn't hear or pretends not to, so that the speaker tries again louder and louder until he/she ends up shouting in public and looking like a lunatic. Webcomics: used in ''OzyAndMillie'' ("You have a red tray today!"), topped by ''TheWotch'' ("Why are you a girl?!")
* In the webcomic ''FreeFall'', it is revealed in a flashback that Florence (a genetically engineered humanoid wolf) did this at her first job ''all the time...'' she would yell at the top of her lungs constantly, unaware that the deafening machinery noises drowning everyone out were too high-pitched for any of the other (human) workers to even hear.
** Another variant from Freefall: [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1800/fc01780.htm A character shuts up right before another says something damaging.]]

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*''{{Futurama}}'', "The Farnsworth Parabox": While massive rumbling occurs in the background, Leela tries to turn Fry down for a date: "I can't go out tonight because..." (rumbling stops) "I have sweaty boot rash!"
*''SouthPark'', "Two Guys Naked in a Hot Tub": During the SevenMinuteLull, Stan's dad Randy accidentally confesses he and Kyle's dad Gerald watched each other masturbate in the hot tub.
* Happens in one of the unaired episodes of the {{Clerks}} animated series-Dante and Randall flash back to a party at an art gallery and the lull comes just as Randall says, "Rectum? Damn near herpes!" Everyone stays dead silent. Thinking their silence is an indication they didn't hear the punchline, Randall repeats himself, and as he does so the view pulls out to reveal that he and the pair he's talking to are standing next to a piece consisting of a microphone and a number of stadium bullhorns, which have been broadcasting his every word to the entire gallery anyway. Then he realizes he botched the punchline.

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