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{{quote|''"This is not happening. The cruel slow-motion laughter is just your imagination" ''|'''Sue Sylvester''', ''Glee''}}
The inversion of [[Laughing Mad]] - a character's humiliation is depicted with a pan around a group of people laughing at them, often in slow motion. May be more or less fancifully depicted, ranging from a simple shot of a bunch of people pointing and laughing, to a [[Fish Eye Lens]] [[Hitler Cam|low-angle]] "swallowed up by the floor" shot [[Whip Pan|Whip Panning]] from [[The Grotesque|Grotesque]] sneering face to sneering face.
Can occur in [[Bad Dreams]], or can just be an [[Imagine Spot]]. Every now and again it might even happen for real.
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Can be used in [[Flash Back]] to set up [[They Called Me Mad]] and/or [[Who's Laughing Now?]].
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' has used it more than once, for example when Bart fantasizes about his family's reaction to him "ruining Thanksgiving"
* In ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'':
** Discord's [[Break Them by Talking]] to Pinkie Pie in the Season 2 premiere convinces her that her friends are always laughing at her behind her back. The scene features one of these to drive the point home, complete with mocking laughter as Pinkie trips and lands in the mud.
** In "Lesson Zero", Twilight Sparkle freaks out when she worries about being late sending in a friendship report. She has an [[Imagine Spot]] where she's sent back all the way to Magic Kindergarten, and all the little ponies are laughing at her. Later, Twilight hears some giggling little ponies at play in the park, and imagines that they're laughing at ''her''.
** Same thing happened in "Hurricane Fluttershy" but with adult ponies, on account of it happening to her ''for real'' when she was a filly.
*** Taken [[Up to Eleven]] when Fluttershy starts [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJWRu7QF2Hw hallucinating about many, many disembodied eyes staring at her, laughing demonically.]
* In ''[[Doug]]'', Doug has a fantasy about this happening about [[Once an Episode]].
* ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'' has this happen dozens of times. Often, several of the characters forming the circle were laughed at in an earlier episode, because [[Kids Are Cruel]].
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