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Found on [[24-Hour News Networks]], such as [[CNN]], this line of scrolling text provides viewers with the headlines while they are watching a report on, say, tax evasion. Also called a news ticker. Any spoof of a news report is almost guaranteed to have a silly headlines populating this bar for the entire time for bonus jokes, which often requires one to rewatch the scene twice to catch everything. Said headlines may or may not be about a [[Noodle Incident]].

 

 

Not to be confused with [[Dungeon Crawl]] or [[Dungeon Crawling]].

 

== Film ==

* ''[[Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs]]'' features this in every news report scene, the best being when the food raining is first announced, and a standard crawl of weather in various cities changes to "Whaaaat the heck is that cheeseburgers raining right now?! Sorry, back to the ticker."

 

== Live Action TV ==

* Used on ''[[Doctor Who]]'' and its spinoffs, whenever footage from BBC News or the fictional AMNN news channels appear.

 

 

== Music ==

* The video for A Perfect Circle's [[The Cover Changes the Meaning|creepy cover of "Imagine"]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dunKAwRN3P8 has a fake news crawl].

* The song "Bad Day" by [[REM]] has a video that spoofs news reports, complete with a crawl filled with spoof news items such as "[[Doctor Who]] was born in 1937, could be expected to live for many more years even if he was captured".

 

== Video Games ==

 

 

 

== Web Original ==

* [[The Onion]] News Network, naturally, features joke headlines in its crawl.

{{quote|...news that's fine to ignore --- World famous shaved yeti exposed to be just normal man. Ticket sales have been unaffected. --- There once was a man from Nantucket. If you see or have any information on this man please call your local authorities. His family misses him. --- A recent study suggests that an enlarged scrotum has little to no effect on... --- ...itchiness is increased by over 25% --- Mom, don't forget to feed Darth Tickles his pills. Last time he missed his pills he squirted milkshake all over the driveway. Gross --- Local news ticker writer is reportedly underpaid --- Childhood obesity is officially at an all time high. A candy parade will be held in celebration this weekend. --- Moms everywhere have been growing increasingly suspicious of their teenage sons' long bathroom visits. --- The President of the United States of America has agreed to solve abortion law issues through an immense royale rumble to the death. The first five hundred participants to sign up will receive a free hat and a refreshing fetus shaped popsicle. --- A poll conducted by your own Channelate studios revealed that non-news watchers are totally stupid jerks. --- The National Indoor Soccer Tournament has been cancelled due to lack of interest, throwing their fan into an uproar. --- Local authorities are confounded by donut without hole. A thirty-six hour round of questioning eventually lead the donut to confess to being a club sandwich. --- What the hell, is it snowing? Damnit I wore shorts today! Punch him extra hard for me.}}

 

== Western Animation ==

* ''[[Pixar Shorts|George & A.J.]]'', a short film by [[Pixar]] related to ''[[Up (animation)|Up]]'', has this during the news report, and it makes humorous references to the feature film, among other things.

** The news crawl actually appears at the beginning of the obligatory court scene as well, where Mentok tries to predict what it's going to say next before finally just shutting it off.

* The into to Karl's "Monkey News" segment on ''[[The Ricky Gervais Show]]'' features a monkey newscaster with a crawl reading "EEEP... SCREECH... OOOH..."

 

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