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* In one episode of ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', Amy tells Sheldon that she'll be working on a project at [=CalTech=] so they'll be able to drive to work together. Sheldon replies that he would enjoy riding with someone other than Leonard for a change because "the only car game he ever wants to play is The Quiet Game and he's terrible at it, [[ComicallyMissingThePoint I always win]]".
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Not to be confused with ''VideoGame/TheQuietMan'', or giving someone the SilentTreatment.
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Not to be confused with ''VideoGame/TheQuietMan'', or giving someone the SilentTreatment. Subtrope of TheComplianceGame.
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* MickeyMouse and Minnie Mouse try this on Daisy in the ''[[WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse Mickey Mouse Works]]'' cartoon "Daisy's Road Trip". Daisy wins after launching them screaming out of the car and back again.
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* MickeyMouse WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse and Minnie Mouse WesternAnimation/MinnieMouse try this on Daisy WesternAnimation/DaisyDuck in the ''[[WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse Mickey Mouse Works]]'' cartoon "Daisy's Road Trip". Daisy wins after launching them screaming out of the car and back again.
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See Wiki/TheOtherWiki for [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiet_game more information]].
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See Wiki/TheOtherWiki Website/TheOtherWiki for [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiet_game more information]].
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* One ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fancomic has Fluttershy telling the Cutie Mark Crusaders she's the champ of the Quiet Game... only to think of [[TheQuietOne Big Macintosh]] and Octavia (the latter of whom had not yet had a line at the time the comic was written) and admit she's really only third.
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For children, it's because they're learning so much about the world, and their minds are racing as they process all the information they encounter. For older people, this may also be true, or they may come from a background where they wanted to talk but were shut down from being able to do so.
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For children, it's because they're learning so much about the world, and their minds are racing as they process all the information they encounter. For older people, [[ConstantlyCurious this may also be true, true]], or they may come from a background where they wanted to talk but were shut down from being able to do so.
so. Or maybe they just like the sound of their own voice.
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The idea of proposing it as a game is ''supposed to'' make it "fun", but the talkative character rarely considers it so. Proposing it as a game is also supposed to be preferable to the honest and direct route of just saying "please be quiet for a little while," or exploding with "SHUT UP ALREADY".
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The idea of proposing it as a game is ''supposed to'' make it "fun", but the talkative character rarely considers it so. Proposing it as a game is also supposed to be preferable to the honest and direct route of just saying "please be quiet for a little while," or exploding with "SHUT "[[BigShutUp SHUT UP ALREADY".ALREADY]]".
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This may also be phrased as "No Talking Contest."
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This may also be phrased as "No Talking Contest."
Contest" if there is more than one person who the other one wants to be quiet.
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* In a strip of ''Comicstrip/GetFuzzy'', Rob gets tired of Bucky and Satchel's chatter on a road trip and says "Let's play the quiet game."
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* In a strip of ''Comicstrip/GetFuzzy'', Rob gets tired of Bucky and Satchel's chatter on a road trip and says says, "Let's play the quiet game."
* In one episode of ''Series/{{Friends}}'', Phoebe is dating a guy who is getting obnoxious about how passionate he is about everything, so she suggests that they play the quiet game for a little while. After about ten seconds, he says, "I lose! Let's play Jenga."
* In the premiere of the eleventh season of the U.S. ''Series/HellsKitchen'', one of the men suggests this as they are all forced to ride from Las Vegas to Hell's Kitchen on a school bus as punishment, and one of them just can't seem to stop spouting strategy advice.
* In the premiere of the eleventh season of the U.S. ''Series/HellsKitchen'', one of the men suggests this as they are all forced to ride from Las Vegas to Hell's Kitchen on a school bus as punishment, and one of them just can't seem to stop spouting strategy advice.
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E61TheSilence The Silence]]". Colonel Taylor bets a talkative man named Tennyson half a million dollars that he can't stay quiet for an entire year. Tennyson accepts the bet and spends a year locked up in a glass cage. After Tennyson wins the bet, Taylor says that he's bankrupt and can't pay up. The TwistEnding? Before Tennyson went into the cage he [[spoiler: had surgery to render himself mute so he couldn't lose the bet]].
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* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E61TheSilence The Silence]]". Colonel Taylor bets a talkative man named Tennyson half a million dollars that he can't stay quiet for an entire year. Tennyson accepts the bet and spends a year locked up in a glass cage. After Tennyson wins the bet, Taylor says that he's bankrupt and can't pay up. The TwistEnding? Before Tennyson went into the cage he [[spoiler: had surgery to render himself mute so he couldn't lose the bet]].
* In one episode of ''Series/{{Friends}}'', Phoebe is dating a guy who is getting obnoxious about how passionate he is about everything, so she suggests that they play the quiet game for a little while. After about ten seconds, he says, "I lose! Let's play Jenga."
* In the premiere of the eleventh season of the U.S. ''Series/HellsKitchen'', one of the men suggests this as they are all forced to ride from Las Vegas to Hell's Kitchen on a school bus as punishment, and one of them just can't seem to stop spouting strategy advice.
* In one episode of ''Series/{{Friends}}'', Phoebe is dating a guy who is getting obnoxious about how passionate he is about everything, so she suggests that they play the quiet game for a little while. After about ten seconds, he says, "I lose! Let's play Jenga."
* In the premiere of the eleventh season of the U.S. ''Series/HellsKitchen'', one of the men suggests this as they are all forced to ride from Las Vegas to Hell's Kitchen on a school bus as punishment, and one of them just can't seem to stop spouting strategy advice.
* ''Webcomic/PebbleAndWren'': In one strip, one of Wren's dads tells her and Pebble to see who can be quiet the longest. Wren isn't falling for it, but Pebble decides that he wins.
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* In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E17StareMaster Stare Master]]" on ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', Fluttershy proposes this as a game to the Cutie Mark Crusaders, telling them that she's a champion. They all immediately say that they've lost.
* MickeyMouse and Minnie Mouse try this on Daisy in the ''[[WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse Mickey Mouse Works]]'' cartoon "Daisy's Road Trip". Daisy wins after launching them screaming out of the car and back again.
* Raven pulls this on Melvin, Timmy and Teether in the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' episode where she has to babysit them.
* MickeyMouse and Minnie Mouse try this on Daisy in the ''[[WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse Mickey Mouse Works]]'' cartoon "Daisy's Road Trip". Daisy wins after launching them screaming out of the car and back again.
* Raven pulls this on Melvin, Timmy and Teether in the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' episode where she has to babysit them.
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* In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E17StareMaster Stare Master]]" on ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', Fluttershy ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': At the end of "Food Truckin'", Bob proposes this as a game to the Cutie Mark Crusaders, telling them that she's a champion. They all immediately say that they've lost.
* MickeyMouse and Minnie Mouse try this on Daisy in the ''[[WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse Mickey Mouse Works]]'' cartoon "Daisy's Road Trip". Daisy winsafter launching them screaming out of the car and family's food truck has exploded, during the long walk back again.
* Raven pulls this on Melvin, Timmyto civilization. Louise is very proud to be clever enough to win the game - and Teether in the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' episode where she has to babysit them.promptly exclaims as much.
* MickeyMouse and Minnie Mouse try this on Daisy in the ''[[WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse Mickey Mouse Works]]'' cartoon "Daisy's Road Trip". Daisy wins
* Raven pulls this on Melvin, Timmy
* MickeyMouse and Minnie Mouse try this on Daisy in the ''[[WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse Mickey Mouse Works]]'' cartoon "Daisy's Road Trip". Daisy wins after launching them screaming out of the car and back again.
* In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E17StareMaster Stare Master]]" on ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', Fluttershy proposes this as a game to the Cutie Mark Crusaders, telling them that she's a champion. They all immediately say that they've lost.
* In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E17StareMaster Stare Master]]" on ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', Fluttershy proposes this as a game to the Cutie Mark Crusaders, telling them that she's a champion. They all immediately say that they've lost.
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* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': At the end of "Food Truckin'", Bob proposes this game after the family's food truck has exploded, during the long walk back to civilization. Louise is very proud to be clever enough to win the game - and promptly exclaims as much.
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* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': At A variation in the end ''WesternAnimation/PeppaPig'' episode "Chatterbox". Peppa's friends berate her for talking too much, so she asks her mother if she does talk too much. Mummy Pig says that Peppa is indeed "a bit of "Food Truckin'", Bob proposes this game a chatterbox", so Peppa clams up. Her friends decide to make it into a competition, which Peppa loses after someone describes the family's food truck kids as "playing at being quiet", to which she retorts that it's work, not play.
* Raven pulls this on Melvin, Timmy and Teether in the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' episode where she hasexploded, during the long walk back to civilization. Louise is very proud to be clever enough to win the game - and promptly exclaims as much.babysit them.
* Raven pulls this on Melvin, Timmy and Teether in the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' episode where she has
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The general outcome of this gambit, however, results in the one[s] asked to play the game either blithely [[ComicallyMissingThePoint missing the point]], or seeing it for what it is, refusing to play along, or playing along only to declare instantaneous defeat, much to the dismay of the person trying to get a little quiet. Part of the problem is that there's rarely any actual prize, meaning that the only incentive to win the game is the lure of winning itself. For the person who just wants to talk, the lure of simply talking is probably stronger.
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The general outcome of this gambit, ruse, however, results in the one[s] asked to play the game either blithely [[ComicallyMissingThePoint missing the point]], or seeing it for what it is, refusing to play along, or playing along only to declare instantaneous defeat, much to the dismay of the person trying to get a little quiet. Part of the problem is that there's rarely any actual prize, meaning that the only incentive to win the game is the lure of winning itself. For the person who just wants to talk, the lure of simply talking is probably stronger.
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* In ''Comicbook/YoungJustice'' during a game of Truth Or Dare, Impulse is dared to keep quiet for 5 minutes. He barely lasts 5 seconds.
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* In ''Comicbook/YoungJustice'' ''ComicBook/YoungJustice'' during a game of Truth Or Dare, Impulse is dared to keep quiet for 5 minutes. He barely lasts 5 seconds.
* ''Fanfic/{{The Contest|MyLittlePony}}'' is a ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fic based on a throwaway line from the episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E17StareMaster Stare Master]]", in which Fluttershy tries to play the quiet game with the Cutie Mark Crusaders and claims to be world champ. The fic is based on the premise that Fluttershy actually ''is'' world champion of the Quiet Game and follows her through the world finals as she defends her crown.
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* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' 's titular character proposes this game after the family's food truck has exploded, during the long walk back to civilization. Louise is very proud to be clever enough to win the game - and promptly exclaims as much.
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* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' 's titular character ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': At the end of "Food Truckin'", Bob proposes this game after the family's food truck has exploded, during the long walk back to civilization. Louise is very proud to be clever enough to win the game - and promptly exclaims as much.
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* In ''WebVideo/ImAMarvelAndImADC'', ComicBook/CaptainAmerica gets {{Deadpool}} to shut up by handing him a phone and saying it's for him. When Deadpool can't hear anyone on the other end, he responds, "Oh, yeah? Well, two can play the quiet game!"
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* In ''WebVideo/ImAMarvelAndImADC'', ComicBook/CaptainAmerica gets {{Deadpool}} ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} to shut up by handing him a phone and saying it's for him. When Deadpool can't hear anyone on the other end, he responds, "Oh, yeah? Well, two can play the quiet game!"
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* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' 's titular character proposes this game after the family's food truck has exploded, during the long walk back to civilization. Louise is very proud to be clever enough to win the game - but not clever enough to not exclaim that she's winning after a little while.
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* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' 's titular character proposes this game after the family's food truck has exploded, during the long walk back to civilization. Louise is very proud to be clever enough to win the game - but not clever enough to not exclaim that she's winning after a little while.and promptly exclaims as much.
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* In "Olivia and Her Alien Brother" from ''WesternAnimation/{{Olivia}}'', when Olivia and Ian argue in the car on their way to the planetarium, Olivia's dad says they should try to see who can be quiet the longest. The game gets ruined because although they're quiet, they make faces at each other, which causes little brother William to cry, which causes Ian to speak to blame Olivia for doing it.
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