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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 '''"Are We Getting This?"''' The answer is usually yes, but it's anyone's guess as to whether the camera will survive the episode.
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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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[[Category:This Index Asked You a Question]]
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