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{{quote|''"Why is the news always the same as the miniseries that was just on? What are the odds of that?"''|'''[[Dilbert (animation)|Dilbert]]'''}}
# Strike fear into the hearts of viewers who stake their survival on keeping tabs on the late-light news;
# [[If It Bleeds, It Leads|Pull in big ratings with the promise of lurid tales of death and violence]];
# Plug the [[Made for TV Movie]].
Rarely is the correct answer given ("No. That's just stupid."), and rarely is the answer given before the end of the news (see [[Film At Eleven]])
See also [[You Can Panic Now]]. The equal and opposite reaction to [[Ripped from the Headlines]].
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** Of course, as par for the course with [[Beakman's World]], the question was not ''that'' ridiculous. It turns out they used to explode until the modern flush toilet's air trap came along.
* Parodied by real-life news anchor John Beard on ''[[Arrested Development]]''. No matter how outlandish or irrelevant the story he's teasing, he'll always throw in something like "What this means for your weekend, at 11."
== [[Video Games]] ==
* The [[GTA Radio]] segments for Ammu-Nation (the gun store parody) love this trope. One particular version of this was citing a statistic about how a burglar could break into your house, have his way with your wife, then have time to go back for seconds before the police would arrive. After warning the listener not to let this happen to them, they used this to segue into the Ammu-Nation ad.
** Some of the other commercials for other products, like for sunscreen and other similar products, would also warn of dire consequences that could happen to the listener, then would immediately segue into the commercial, often exaggerating the dire consequences of not doing so in the process.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In ''[[Family Guy]]'', TV anchor Tom Tucker practices in front of a mirror for different ways of announcing a president's hypothetical assassination. One of his different methods is this.
* Being the [[Trope Namer]] for [[Kent Brockman News]], this
{{quote|'''Kent:''' I'm Kent Brockman, on the eleven o'clock news tonight... a certain type of soft drink has been found to be lethal. We won't tell you which one until after sports and the weather with 'Funny' Sonny Storm!"}}
:* There's also this gem:
{{quote|'''Kent:''' A certain house-hold fabric could kill you! Find out after the break!}}
== [[Real Life]] ==
* Happens
* [[German TV Stations|German TV channel Pro 7]] does this on the slot before or after every single movie that is about a major nature phenomenon that usually ends with the world obliterated. More often than not, this will be done via a special episode of some kind of science-show and tell the audience how unlikely the event in real life would be. Sometimes also done with alien invasions, Roswell and ghosts.
* The "X? In ''my'' Y?" [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/x-in-my-y meme] started from an ad (currently providing the page image) that took this approach to warning of porn and computer viruses.▼
▲* Happens ALL THE TIME in real life. Be it chemicals in various things that could give your child cancer, or a new credit card scam, or what have you, this is transparent and frequent. While they sometimes have valid points, it's a very cheap tactic (forgoing responsibility to the public and focusing on profits by taking advantage of fear-mongering).
▲* The "X? In ''my'' Y?" [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/x-in-my-y meme] started from an ad (currently providing the page image) that took this approach to porn.
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