History Main / LongSpeechTeaTime

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* General Secretary UsefulNotes/LeonidBrezhnev is on the third hour of a speech to the Party Congress when the KGB arrest several American spies in the audience. Brezhnev congratulates them, but wants to know how they were able to identify the spies. The KGB reply, "Comrade General Secretary, as you have often stated, the enemy never sleeps..."
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* In ''The Underground Empire'' by James Mills, a federal agent is complaining about how difficult it is to explain the complications of the international drug trade to US politicians, who would rather just be told about a BigBad they can hate. In one case, a senator actually fell asleep during his presentation.

** In an very early episode, a battle comes down to Ash's Metapod ([[MagikarpPower a cocoon capable only of hardening itself to defend from attacks]]) and his opponent's Metapod. In the middle of this stalemate, the camera cuts to [[{{Fanservice}} Misty in a bathing suit]] getting some sun. Those must have been some really dedicated trainers to not notice ''[[NotDistractedByTheSexy a girl changing clothes right next to them]]''.[[note]]Since Misty is a Water Pokémon trainer, she probably wore her bathing suit under her clothes. You know, since her Gym is a giant swimming pool.[[/note]] But hey, Pokémon battles are SeriousBusiness.

* Also occasionally happens on ''{{Anime/Pokemon}}'', usually when the Team Rocket trio are reciting their motto.

** Exaggerated in ''Anime/OhSuddenlyEgyptianGod''. The gods were having a banquet party and the god Ra is set to open the party with a speech. However, his speech ends up being so long that the gods decided to move on with the rest of the events anyway, while he's still talking. He only finishes his speech just as the party's about to wrap up and end.

* In an episode of ''Manga/ZettaiKarenChildren'', Mio called a Long TransformationSequence Tea Time.

* In a ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' comic, Charlie Brown has the baseball team at his house for a meeting because it's raining out. He begins by running through their signals, but ends up launching into an inspiring speech about team spirit and the interest the players show in the game, only to turn around and find that everyone is watching his TV. The dialogue from the strip, slightly altered, was used for a more well-known gag in ''WesternAnimation/ACharlieBrownChristmas''.

* In ''The Underground Empire'' by James Mills, a federal agent is complaining about how difficult it is explaining the complications of the international drug trade to US politicians, who would rather just be told about a BigBad they can hate. In one case a senator actually fell asleep during his presentation.

** When Lindsey tries to justify being evil Angel thinks he's so long winded he dozes off. Lindsey gets back in the final episode, where he's the one not paying attention to Angel's speech.

* In Season 7 of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', Buffy's tendency to give a RousingSpeech is a RunningGag. In "Storyteller", Andrew ducks out of the room when Buffy starts going into another soliloquy, noting that they can go on for some time. A few minutes later he looks to see if Buffy has finished -- she's still going on and even Willow is trying to hide a yawn. When Andrew himself tries to give a speech in the final episode, he's curtly told to shut up. "Nobody cares."

* In the ''WesternAnimation/CountDuckula'' episode "Igor's Busy Day", engaged American couple Scott and Laura have taken refuge from a storm in Castle Duckula, and have joined the Count for dinner. While Scott spends the entire meal [[MouthfulOfPi reciting the digits of Pi]], Laura talks at length about how she and Scott met and about her very large family. The thoroughly bored Duckula tries to keep himself occupied by balancing the contents of the fruit bowl on top of each other, firing a pea from his knife at the oblivious Scott, and scuplting a castle out of mashed potato before dozing off and falling face first into it. Meanwhile, Igor and Nanny have long since fallen asleep at the far end of the table.

* In ''The Underground Empire'' by James Mills, a federal agent is complaining about difficult it is explaining the complications of the international drug trade to US politicians, who would rather just be told about a BigBad they can hate. In one case a senator actually fell asleep during his presentation.

* A version on ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire''. Nucky is reflecting on his life in a speakeasy in Florida, while the speak's owner Sally looks incredibly bored and pours herself a drink. Finally she gets so frustrated she [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments straight up punches Nucky]].

Named for the typical gag shot of this trope, where the ignoring characters [[SpotOfTea sit down and have some tea.]]

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* Happened on a semi-regular basis in ''{{LightNovel/Slayers}}''.

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* ''Series/DoctorWho'', "Planet of the Ood". When Donna steps out of the TARDIS and sees the awesome snowy vistas of the Oodsphere, her first impression is that it's bloody freezing. The Doctor encourages her to see the wider picture, appreciate the incredible views, consider how amazing it is that an average woman from Chiswick who was getting up, working, coming home, watching telly and going to bed is now travelling across space and time to land on alien worlds...and finds she's gone back into the TARDIS to get a coat.
* In the ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' episode "Ask Me No Questions," Frasier is speaking to Martin, who gets up, leaves the apartment to fetch the paper, and returns just in time to absent-mindedly agree with whatever Frasier had been talking about, all without Frasier realizing. Later, the same thing happens when he's speaking with Daphne (she goes to catch up with friends and buy some coffee). Frasier is completely oblivious.

* In season 4 of Series/HellsKitchen when Jen is first nominated for elimination she launches into a very long speech of why she should stay. Ramsay [[FacePalm face palms]] and [[LampshadeHanging hangs one]] at the end.
-->'''Jen:''' May I say one more quick thing chef?
-->'''Ramsay:''' Oh fuck me.

* A version on ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire''. Nucky is reflecting on his life in a speakeasy in Florida, while the speak's owner Sally looks incredibly bored and pours herself a drink. Finally she gets so frustrated she [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments straight up punches Nucky]].

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* In a ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' comic, Charlie Brown has the baseball team at his house for a meeting because it's raining out. He begins by running through their signals, but ends up launching into an inspiring speech about team spirit and the interest the players show in the game, only to turn around and find that everyone is watching his TV. The dialogue from the strip, slightly altered, was used for a more well-known gag in ''WesternAnimation/ACharlieBrownChristmas''.
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* A ways into the ''S'' season in WebOriginal/ShadowjackWatchesSailorMoon, Kaolinite ''distracts'' The Professor by mentioning the Grail, sending him into his OnceAnEpisode speech about his evil plan and heading him off from noticing her mounting failures.

* In ''Manga/OnePiece'''s Fishman Island arc, Jinbe spouts out about ''7-chapters long'' {{Exposition}} about the Fishmen in the past and, namely, Queen Otohime and Fisher Tiger (2 fish people notable on their crusade against racial oppression) to the Straw Hats. While the others listen carefully, Luffy just fell asleep. Cue Jinbe's WildTake.
** Later on, Jinbe gives a much shorter speech on the changes that went on following the Paramount War...only to learn that Luffy is more interested in eating his meat than listening to exposition.

* A version on ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire''. Nucky is reflecting on his life in a speakeasy in Florida, while the speak's owner Sally looks incredibly bored and pours herself a drink. Finally she gets so frustrated she [[FunnyMoment straight up punches Nucky]].

* In ''TopGear'', the characters had bought tractors and were having The Stig race them around the track to see which was slowest. They try to [[CombatCommentator commentate]] on it for a minute or two, realize the futility of it all, and then give up to go have a tea break and discuss the weather.

* A ways into the ''S'' season in WebOriginal/ShadowjackWatchesSailorMoon, Kaolinite ''distracts'' The Professor by mentioning the Grail, sending him into his OnceAnEpisode speech about his evil plan and heading him off from noticing the creations she's wasted. Goes on for a bit.
-->'''Kaolinite:''' "But from now on, I will be certain to get the Talismans needed to obtain the Holy Grail."\\
'''The Professor:''' /Niagara Falls! "The HOLY GRAIL! Yes! SOON, my dear, we shall—"\\
'''Kaolinite:''' /walks off down the hall.\\
'''Kaolinite:''' /sets the water to boil.\\
'''Kaolinite:''' /grinds coffee.\\
'''Kaolinite:''' /brews coffee.\\
'''Kaolinite:''' /pours a couple of mugs and takes them back to the lab.\\

* In a ''{{Peanuts}}'' comic, Charlie Brown has the baseball team at his house for a meeting because it's raining out. He begins by running through their signals, but ends up launching into an inspiring speech about team spirit and the interest the players show in the game, only to turn around and find that everyone is watching his TV. The dialogue from the strip, slightly altered, was used for a more well-known gag in ''WesternAnimation/ACharlieBrownChristmas''.

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* Amaterasu, the easily-bored wolf heroine of ''{{Okami}}'', will lie down and take a nap at any idle moment, even if there's important Exposition going on. It really annoys Waka.

* In season 4 of HellsKitchen when Jen is first nominated for elimination she launches into a very long speech of why she should stay. Ramsay [[FacePalm face palms]] and [[LampshadeHanging hangs one]] at the end.

* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' there's a scene where the party is discussing matters after a plot twist reveals some shocking information. After a few moments Presea sits down on the ground and Sheena starts fidgeting. Weirdly, this is the only time something like this happens (and the conversation is relatively short).

-->'''Hunter:''' I mean I don�t want this to be just sketches and novelty songs linked together. I want there to be substance, not just fluff. Not that there�s anything wrong with fluff, but I wanna strive for something that makes people really pay attention. You know what I mean?
-->'''Susan:''' Uh� I totally stopped listening.

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** In an early episode, Meowth makes a threatening monologue towards Ash's Pikachu, then finds that his fellow Team Rocket Pokémon (Ekans and Koffing) are ignoring him and having a tea break.
** In an very early episode, a battle comes down to Ash's Metapod ([[MagikarpPower a cocoon capable only of hardening itself to defend from attacks]]) and his opponent's Metapod. In the middle of this stalemate, the camera cuts to [[{{Fanservice}} Misty in a bathing suit]] getting some sun. Those must have been some really dedicated trainers to not notice ''[[NotDistractedByTheSexy a girl changing clothes right next to them]]''.[[note]]Since Misty is a Water Pokémon trainer, she probably wore her bathing suit under her clothes. You know, since her Gym is a giant swimming pool.[[/note]] But hey, Pokémon battles are SeriousBusiness.

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-->'''Hunter:''' I mean I don’t want this to be just sketches and novelty songs linked together. I want there to be substance, not just fluff. Not that there’s anything wrong with fluff, but I wanna strive for something that makes people really pay attention. You know what I mean?
-->'''Susan:''' Uh… I totally stopped listening.

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* ''{{Naruto}}'': Kakashi's typical response to Gai's impassioned declarations of rivalry is to glance up from his copy of Icha Icha Paradise and ask "Hmm? Were you saying something?"
* In an episode of ZettaiKarenChildren, Mio called a [[LongSpeechTeaTime Long]] TransformationSequence [[LongSpeechTeaTime Tea Time]].

* In ''DragonBall'' when Gotenks is fighting Super Buu inside the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, he spends a great deal of time giving a speech to his kamikaze ghosts. Piccolo then informs Gotenks of Buu, who is very nonchalantly sipping on an impressive looking drink while reading a magazine.

* In ''OnePiece'''s Fishman Island arc, Jinbe spouts out about ''7-chapters long'' {{Exposition}} about the Fishmen in the past and, namely, Queen Otohime and Fisher Tiger (2 fish people notable on their crusade against racial oppression) to the Straw Hats. While the others listen carefully, Luffy just fell asleep. Cue Jinbe's WildTake.

-->'''Clive Candy:''' The Kaiser spoke, and the Prince of Wales spoke --
-->'''Barbara Wynne:''' Spoke about what?
-->'''Clive Candy:''' Nobody could remember.

* In a ''{{Peanuts}}'' comic, Charlie Brown has the baseball team at his house for a meeting because it's raining out. He begins by running through their signals, but ends up launching into an inspiring speech about team spirit and the interest the players show in the game, only to turn around and find that everyone is watching his TV. The dialogue from the strip, slightly altered, was used for a more well-known gag in ''ACharlieBrownChristmas''.

* In the sequel to ''SpinalTap'', the rest of the band is shown leaving the stage when Nigel starts one of his guitar solos. The rest of the scene intersperses shots of Nigel playing the solo with the other band members wandering around town, having dinner, getting a shave, etc.

* Happened on a semi-regular basis in ''TheSlayers''.