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* ''[[Date Night]]'' has an early mention of a local senate, an iconic broom and clean-up act who turns out to play a big part in why the heroes are getting chased down.
* Early in the first ''[[Back to The Future]]'' movie, a random passerby mentions the 30th anniversary of a terrible lighting bolt that struck their monument in 1955. {{spoiler|1=At the end of the movie, since plutonium was very rare at the time, Doc Brown and Marty, stuck in 1955, use the power of the bolt to power the DeLorean and go back home}}.
* [[Lampshade|Lampshaded]]d in ''[[Kiss Kiss Bang Bang]]'', where the narrator expresses his contempt for the trope. It is later played straight by the film.
* Subverted in ''[[Shaun of the Dead]]'', where the news broadcasts follow this trope, but the characters never notice them.
 
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