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{{trope}}
Quick! Something particularly exciting has happened! And, for some reason, there's a reporter on the scene, complete with cameraman! At a particularly exciting moment, the reporter has ''got'' to turn to the camera and say something to the effect of '''"
{{examples}}
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* In Scott Westerfeld's book ''Extras'', the main character, Aya, is constantly asking her hovercam, Moggle, "Are you getting this?"
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* Done on ''[[Babylon 5]]'', when an Earth reporter gets rare footage of Ambassador Kosh.
* Asked repeatedly by D'Anna Biers, the reporter in the ''[[Battlestar Galactica
* Said by the remote operators who find the {{spoiler|faked}} wreckage of Oceanic 815 in the ''[[Lost]]'' episode "Confirmed Dead."
* Used in a sketch on ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'', where the premise is the gang at a frat party and someone is recording the events. One character makes a double entendre, and Jimmy Fallon's character turns to the camera and says "Tommy, please tell me you got that!"
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Used during part one of the ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'' [[Five Episode Pilot]] "Treasure of the Golden Suns", during Scrooge and his nephews' confrontation with the Beagle Boys at the candy factory.
* Averted in ''[[Frisky Dingo]]''.
{{quote|Grace Ryan: (gasps) Are you getting this?
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