This troper was at a Lieutenant Dan Band concert at USC. At one point, during Journey's "Don't Stop Believing", the trumpeteer, behind the main event, started to use his trumpet as an air guitar.

This troper is currently in production of a musical that involves a meaningful scene taking place in a poor village around several campfires. He and his partner sit at their campfire in the background miming passing around a bottle of something and acting increasingly drunk, but subtly, to the point where we get 2 or 3 people who notice it period.

This troper envoked this in a production of Through the Looking Glass. This troper played the White Knight and in a scene where the White Queen was talking to Alice, he would play games with the pawns in the background. Sometimes he would fence them, (including a pretty awesome moment where this troper managed to spin a sword out of a pawn's hand and catch it) some times he would play rock paper scissors, and sometimes they would play patty-cake, but it was usually subtle enough not to be too noticeable.

This troper was at a Tapes N Tapes concert... okay, snuck into a Tapes n Tapes concert my sister was at, and started throwing his jacket off and yelling "WHOO! FREEBIRD!". My sister didn't even know it was me.

This troper witnessed a news story that inverts this, where it was a funny one turned unsettling. It was a news report of a college basketball player (whose name escapes me, unfortunately) who had died of an enlarged heart that caused a heart attack, but not before he made one final score before dropping and dying. As it cuts to an anchor man describing a different game taking place, there was one player who done a similar shot to the late player's last throw and, not just him, but ''another'' player had both fallen after the shot (the one who threw the shot had the other guy fall on top of him). Normally it's amusing with how they fell (the way they plopped down and all), but considering the story that came before this and how close it mimicked the late player's final act before death, it was freaky despite nobody reacting to the two until both of the fallen players eventually stood up again, unharmed.

This troper is in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream playing the Funny Background Event character Philostrate. Usually this guy, from what I can tell, is delegated to just kinda standing there in the background. But my director gave me a large amount of freedom to make the character into a living Funny Background Event.

Fitting, because Philostrate can be seen as a counterpart to Puck in the "real world". In every production of ''Midsummer'' I've ever seen/been involved in Puck funny-background-events Oberon in every scene they're in together.

In the production of ''TheMerchantOfVenice'' that I was in, Salarino (played by my sister) became the ''king'' of these:

While Lorenzo soliloquizes about the letter that Launcelot (played by me) has brought him, Launcelot waltzes up to Salarino and gives him a ''big hug''. (Up to this point in the play, the two characters are complete strangers.) Salarino backs away slowly...

Gratiano, Salarino and Solanio enter, all attired for the "masque", except that Solanio's mask is on upside-down. In the middle of Gratiano's speech, Salarino notices, gives Solanio a withering glance, and turns the mask right-side-up for him.

After Jessica throws the casket full of money down to Lorenzo, Lorenzo realizes how heavy it is, and hands it to Salarino, who spends the rest of the scene trying to palm it off on the other characters. At one point Gratiano takes it, buckles under the weight...and hands it back. When Jessica comes down, she and Lorenzo have a little "moment", staring into each other's eyes...until Salarino coughs loudly. Lorenzo rolls his eyes and takes the casket, and they all leave.

On another note, I read about a production of ''Merchant'' where, after Bassanio says, "Why, I were best to cut my left hand off/And swear I lost the ring defending it," Launcelot shows up and, eager to help, pulls out a knife and hands it to his master. Cue Bassanio (and the nearby Antonio) looking appropriately freaked out at the idea of actually going through with it.

The IB Music class at my school did a little dance/skit/thing to I Bought Me A Cat. Tree #3 (who has green paper plates on his hands) occasionally dances in a very amusing way. A funny foreground event is the Hen got in the Cat's way and got stepped on.

When this troper was three years old, she was in a Christmas musical at church. She doesn't really remember it, but her mother assures her that instead of singing, she mimed everyone else's part for the entirety of the show.

A bunch of my friends posted a video on Facebook. The best part of the video? Watching their brother play with a pillow in the background.