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Regardless, misunderstandings and misinterpretations about Earth culture and human behavior from tiny snippets of old sitcoms are [[Rule of Funny|comedy gold]] especially if it means they [[Wrong Genre Savvy|expect earth to be like that]], if they [[Learnt English From Watching Television|learn their English from it]] it justifies [[Aliens Speaking English]] and so the concept keeps coming back up. Compare [[Alien Arts Are Appreciated]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
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* ''[[Phules Company]]:'' In the novel ''No Phule Like an Old Phule'', the Zenobians revere a figure called L'Vis which is actually from an old broadcast of {{spoiler|Elvis}}.
* ''Adrift Among The Ghosts'' by Jack L. Chalker, in which an alien race sentenced a criminal to criss-cross space at just the right distance from earth to intercept and record historic radio and TV broadcasts. Why was this considered a punishment? Because it forced him to relive our nuclear holocaust over and over and over and over...
* In the ''[[Transformers Shattered Glass]]'' prose stories, the Transformers tune into broadcast signals to study Earth culture in preparation for travelling there, with some Transformers adopting aspects of Earth culture they find appealing. Unfortunately, they also believe based on [[Buck Rogers|old scifi serials]] that Earth's weaponry is primitive compared to their own, which leads to them arriving at Earth and [[Nuke
* ''[[The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy]]'' gives us Ford Prefect, who calls himself that due to having originally learned about Earth culture by watching TV and coming to the conclusion that [[Mistook the Dominant Lifeform|cars were the dominant species]].
** Also in ''Mostly Harmless'', the Grebulons, a group of aliens who have lost their memories, fill their cultural vacuum by watching TV from their base on the 10th planet of our solar system.
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'''Aliens''': (standing on some device with a tape drive) Blasphemy! }}
** The above-mentioned aliens are, in fact, the title characters from ''[[Melonpool]]'' and ''[[Zortic]],'' both of whom are obsessive Trekkies.
* The webcomic [[Zortic]] kicks off with two aliens who find out they're perfect for each other because [[So Bad
* Aliens in ''Luke Surl comics'' steal internet. And plan the [[First Contact]] [http://www.lukesurl.com/archives/1694 accordingly].
* The Aliens (they are actually called that; they are from the planet Alien) from the [[Walkyverse]] are dopey pop-culture junkies who are obsessed with human television and movies.
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{{quote| '''Lrrr:''' This is ancient Earth's most foolish program. Why does Ross, the largest friend, not simply eat the other five?<br />
'''Ndnd:''' Perhaps they are saving that for [[Sweeps]]. }}
* ''[[Kim Possible (Animation)|Kim Possible]]'': Warmonga, an amazonian [[Green
* The Junkions in the animated ''[[The Transformers (Animation)|The Transformers]]'' [[Transformers the Movie|movie]] apparently learned English from watching Earth TV broadcasts. Which explains lines like "Steady as she goes, Bob! Snoopy visitors get mud in the eye, by and by! [[Film At Eleven]]!", and the battle cry "Destroy Unicron! Kill the Grand Poobah! Eliminate even the toughest stains!"
** The key difference between Movie!Bumblebee and G1!Junkions is that the Junkions are capable of saying anything but choose to parrot TV and radio clichés with their own voices, whereas Bumblebee, who can no longer speak (or speak well, at least), hacks together bits and pieces of actual audio clips from the radio.
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* Inverted in the ''[[South Park (Animation)|South Park]]'' episode "Canceled", where Cartman's [[Anal Probing|anal probe]] picked up an advertisement for the [[Truman Show Plot|intergalactic reality show "Earth"]]. Of course, it was broadcast in an alien language, so the scientist Jeff [[No Celebrities Were Harmed|(Goldblum)]] had to translate it into English.
* Inverted in ''[[Drawn Together]]'' as well, where the house steals cable from Captain Hero's home planet.
* The first thing ''[[Johnny Bravo (Animation)|Johnny Bravo]]'' does after becoming king of an entire planet of [[Green
* In ''[[Young Justice (Animation)|Young Justice]]'', Miss Martian based her form and personality on a short lived ''[[Saved By the Bell]]'' style sitcom called ''Hello Megan!''.
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