History Main / TalkAboutTheWeather

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* ''Film/OurManFlint'' also involves the villains having a WeatherControlMachine, but when Flint brings up this trope the FemmeFatale he's talking to cuts to the chase instead.

** In the ''Dr. Watson at War'' series by Robert Ryan, Watson notes this trope has become a favorite topic again, but inverted in that everyone is hoping for bad weather to keep the German bombers and zeppelins away.

* In their first meeting in ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'', this is how child psychologist Dr. Bliss lures Helga into talking to her with a TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers list:

* In ''VisualNovel/ArcadeSpirits'', your character wants to change the subject from Naomi, Gavin, and Francine's upcoming auction by talking about how nice a day it is to go out for a drive...and then [[CueTheRain it immediately starts raining]].

* ''ComicBook/AllNewUltimates'': Black Widow said that it was a nice day, and ComicBook/MilesMorales protested that they are talking about the weather now. But, hey, it ''was'' a nice day!

* ''Literature/TheMermaid'': Amelia, who can transform between a human woman and a mermaid, is hired as an attraction by P.T. Barnum. Barnum sends her on tour with a variety of other attractions, including an orangutan whose handler keeps her in a tiny cage without enough food or water and beats her if she moves too slowly. One day Amelia sees the handler whipping the orangutan, leaving stripes on her neck and shoulders. Amelia grabs the whip and lashes him across the left cheek, leaving a welt from his mouth to his ear.

* In ''The Last Knight'', Fisk comments that different classes of people have different kinds of small talk--nobles talk about horses, townsfolk talk about taxes, and farmers talk about the weather.
* In Creator/SpiderRobinson's ''Stardance'', when Charlie Armstead asked how Raoul Brindle had managed to see the previously unreleased videos of the Stardance, rather than tell the truth or flat-out lie, Raoul answered, "Large weather we're having."

* In the UsefulNotes/ColdWar thriller ''An H-Bomb for Alice'' by Ian Stewart, the protagonist and his Aboriginal guide discover the camp they are investigating in the Australian desert has armed guards who are speaking in Russian. When the Aborigine asks what they were talking about, the protagonist says they were just griping about how hot it was.

* In the Literature/SherlockHolmes story "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons", Lestrade is at first reluctant to tell what's really on his mind, so he resorts to this.
-->''On this particular evening Lestrade had spoken of the weather and the newspapers. Then he had fallen silent, puffing thoughtfully at his cigar''

-'''Ronee:''' God, no. It rained the entire time. I basically just sat there and made boring small talk with my mother. God, I hate [[LampshadeHanging small talk]].\\

* ''Series/BabylonFive'': Used as [[SpySpeak a code for a much more serious matter]] in "Z'ha'dum":
-->'''Sheridan:''' Good. And when I see you next, if everything is set ... we'll talk about the weather.
* In ''Series/TheYoungOnes'', Vyvyan resorts to this trope when he borrows yet another cup of sugar from the same neighbor he's been borrowing them from all morning.
-->'''Vyvyan:''' Well, if you like snow and being ''really'' cold, it's a nice day.

* In ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' Sheldon has a list of safe topics he and Amy can talk about when they're driving to the aquarium, and this is one of them. She convinces him to disregard the list and just say what's on his mind but regrets it when he asks if she's had "coitus" with any of the men she's dated since they broke up.

* In ''Series/KimsConvenience'', Mr. Chin, Mr. Mehta, and Mr. Kim are shocked by a flirty message the latter's received from a secret admirer in the convenience store's Google reviews, and they are all sent into a panic when Mrs. Kim walks in. Trying to act like nothing happened, Mr. Mehta starts talking about the weather. All he can muster, though, is, "The weather! My god! It's... everywhere."

* ''The Heavy Water War''. A German officer in charge of the Uranium Group muses how every conversation with the wives (or mistresses) of Party officials starts with them saying how they know nothing about physics but find it interesting, before going on to the weather and other trivial matters.

* In ''Film/{{Paddington}}'', Aunt Lucy and Uncle Pastuzo listen to an instructional record in preparation for their trip to London. The narrator suggests talking about the weather when meeting strangers in the street.

* In ''VisualNovel/LittleBusters'', [[GenkiGirl Haruka]] and [[NotGoodWithPeople Rin]] end up doing this in one scene because Haruka feels awkward around Rin since she's so noisy and Rin isn't very good with people she doesn't know very well.

* ''Anime/{{Voltron}}: My Brother Is a Robeast

* In ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', Alphys at one point rambles about how Undyne once called her to talk about the weather... before getting hit with the FridgeLogic that there is no weather in the Underground, so why was Undyne calling her? It's implied that Undyne [[ShipTease just wanted an excuse to talk to Alphys at all]], but Alphys has such a low opinion of herself that the implications fly right over her head. This doesn't prevent [[spoiler:Asgore]] from playing the trope straight in the game's final chapter, trying to take both his and the player's minds off the impending fight to the death.

* Many British folk are a permanent example of this and many foreign and native observers have tried to rationalise their apparent obsession with the weather, to the point where anthropologists have subjected to serious study. It's true that that Britain itself [[UsefulNotes/BritishWeather is in a temperate climate with an active gulf stream leading to very changeable weather]], but there's also a general preference not to discuss personal matters ''or'' controversial ones ("politics, religion or [[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} The Great Pumpkin]]") with strangers, if only because just about everything is SeriousBusiness to someone in Britain (as has been remarked, the two nationals pastimes of the British are talking about the weather and arguing) which doesn't leave you with many options. Basically, when a British person complains about the weather, it's their way of stating either "I want to talk to you", or "I don't want to talk to you, but I have no choice."

* ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'': As discussed in [[https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/07/31/automata-page-two "Automata, Page Two"]], even automata do it, or so the resident one says:
--> '''Human:''' You're telling me you guys talked about the weather.

* In ''Webcomic/TheSpecialists'', [[http://thespecialistscomic.com/comic/page-137/ Henry, taking Agnes's presence as evidence of interest in him, says that she surely didn't come out to talk about the weather.]]
* In ''Webcomic/{{Endstone}}'', [[http://endstone.net/comic/11-27-endstone-looks-like-sunny-day/ after waking up in the woods and realizing how compromising it looked, they awkwardly talk about the morning's weather.]]
* In ''Webcomic/{{Digger}}'', Digger's response when Murai says the statue had actually held the god, that night.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': WesternAnimation/AbraCatastrophe

* In their first meeting in ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'', this is how child psychologist Dr. Bliss lures Helga into talking to her.

* In ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'', [[http://xkcd.com/1324/ this trope is hard on weather geeks]].