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{{quote|ACHTUNG!
ALLES TURISTEN UND NONTEKNISCHEN LOOKENSPEEPERS!
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== [[Advertising]] ==
 
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
 
== [[Comic Books]] ==
 
== [[Fan Works]] ==
 
== [[Film]] ==
* The Q-Bomb in ''[[The Mouse That Roared]]'' was covered in Blinkenlights.
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* In the ''[[Space: 1999]]'' episode "Voyager's Return", the device built to override Voyager's computer has blinkenlights that flash when it is connecting to or connected to the spacecraft... but not when the connection is terminated.
* ''[[Knight Rider]]''{{'}}s KITT had a simplified set of Blinkenlights inset into his front bumper.
 
== [[Music]] ==
 
== [[New Media]] ==
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* [[Wikipedia]] has a page about [[wikipedia:Blinkenlights|Blinkenlights]].
** [[The Jargon File]] has [http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/B/blinkenlights.html a page about them], too.
** And [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=blinkenlights so does] the [[Urban Dictionary]].
 
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
 
== [[Oral Tradition]], [[Folklore]], Myths and Legends ==
 
== [[Pinball]] ==
 
== [[Podcast]]s ==
 
== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
 
== [[Puppet Shows]] ==
 
== [[Radio]] ==
 
== [[Recorded and Stand Up Comedy]] ==
 
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
 
== [[Theatre]] ==
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
* "Blinken Lights II", from ''[[Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes]]'', is an exotic puzzle that combines blinkenlights (as the name suggests), [[Everyone Knows Morse|Morse code]] and the ''Simon'' game.
 
== [[Visual Novel]]s ==
 
== [[Web Animation]] ==
 
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In the defunct web comic ''[[Commedia 2X00]]'', Lord only knows what half the stuff in [https://web.archive.org/web/20180801170850/https://commedia2x00.wordpress.com/ Dottore's lab] do; among the [[Cow Tools]] allegedly stored in boxes in his basement are full out shout-outs to famous technobabble, including turbo-encabulators, vgrep scanners, and Blinkenlights.
 
== [[Web Original]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
 
== Other Media ==
 
== [[Real Life]] ==
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