Out-of-context eavesdropping

  Catching something completely out of context in public. It's the trope that has spawned a thousand episodes of a thousand sitcoms. The Live-Action T.V. section of this fan-driven tropes wiki for out-of-context eavesdropping even suggests that the narrative device "was the plot of roughly 2/3s of the episodes of Three's Company." But much like any …