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[[File:paperboy.jpg|frame|Extra! Extra! Read all about it! [[Dead Line News|Newsie killer still at large! Extr...urrrgh!]]]]

 

 

Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Cliché [[Stock Phrases]] from the 1890s through the 1940s used to denote breaking news! Sometimes uses "extry" or "wuxtry" to denote a [[New England]] accent! Often shouted by overzealous newsies and paperboys! A [[Dead Horse Trope]] nowadays owing to television and the internet! Related to [[Spinning Paper]]! Extra! Extra!

For extra cliche points, this trope is frequently trotted out for minor happenings and other news events that wouldn't normally warrant the printing of an extra edition, particularly ones exhibiting the [[Worst News Judgment Ever]].

 

 

== Anime and Manga ==

 

 

 

 

== Film ==

 

* Used in ''[[Newsies]]'', and that's set in 1899!

* The newsboy in ''[[Chicago]]'' says this when Roxie Hart's verdict is revealed.

** Mocked, because they have stacks of newspapers with pre-written articles delaring "Guilty" or "Innocent" and use a kid signaling from the courthouse window to tell them which one to sell.

* There is a running gag involving a newsie shouting this in the movie ''[[Johnny Dangerously]]''.

* The 2008 movie ''Changeling'' has this, but it does make sense as the movie is set in the 1930s.

* In ''Silent Movie'', the stack of newspapers is thrown at the vendor.

* Played straight in the 1930's gangster movie ''Dead End'', when a gangster dies in a shootout and a newspaper goes to print with an extra edition.

* The paperboy in ''[[The Hudsucker Proxy]]'', saying "The man from Muncie, a Moron after all! Read all about it!"

* From the [[Show Within a Show|Broadway play within a film]] in [[The Muppets Take Manhattan]]:

 

 

* Used by the Newsboy Legion in [[DC Comics]], back in the days when they were [[Artifact Title|actually newsboys]].

 

== Literature ==

 

* ''[[The Monkees]]'' episode "The Devil and Peter Tork":

Steven Hyde: "Skinny Dillhole Talks Like An Idiot"? }}

** Also for the short ''Hired!'': "Extry, extry, Pearl Harbor bombed, Roosevelt declares war!"

'''Mike:''' Now ''that's'' a walk-on! }}

* ''[[Sesame Street]]'' did it as a [[Running Gag]]. "Extra! Extra! Four people fooled!" Then Ernie buys the newspaper, discovers there's no such article, and the newsboy shouts, "Extra, Extra! Five people fooled!" This joke is sometimes used by other children's media.

'''News Boy:''' ''And what was it doing there?''[[Hypocritical Humor|(Reading the paper)]] [[Hand Wave|''Oh, awaiting at the bank for disposal.'']] [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|Seeing directly to the camera:]] ''Makes sense.'' }}

* Subverted in the ''[[The Green Hornet]]'', when Britt Reid gets a call from his old school reporter, Mike Stanford, about a hot news story that they should run an extra on. Reid immediately shoots him down noting that his paper doesn't run extras; his business' radio and TV broadcasting sections handle the breaking news.

 

* The Newsboys' song in ''Gypsy'':

The biggest little headline in vaud-e-ville! }}

 

== Video Games ==

 

 

== Web Comics ==

* [http://www.somethinghappens.net/d/20060803.html This], from ''Something Happens'': "Extry! Extry! Read all abaht it! Veteran cliche of old B-movies obsolete due to advent of TV and internet!"

* [http://wondermark.com/197/ This] ''[[Wondermark]]'' guest comic, by Rob Balder of ''Partially Clips'' and ''[[Erfworld]]''.

 

== Web Original ==

 

 

== Western Animation ==

* Used in ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode featuring the B-Sharps. The kid claimed the newspaper had an article on them sitting on a rooftop, but a guy who took one from him exclaimed that there was nothing of the sort, and then chased after the kid who ran away laughing.

** That ''has'' to be a reference to the ancient joke.

'''Newsboy:''' Extra! Extra! Four men swindled! }}

* From the [[Screwy Squirrel]] cartoon ''Happy-Go-Nutty'', after Screwy has tricked Meathead the dog into walking off a cliff:

* "Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island!":

* Arnold the newsboy in ''[[The Flintstones]]'' did this on occasion.

* From ''[[Futurama]]'':

'''Zoidberg:''' I'll take eight! }}

* Pops up often in ''[[Looney Tunes]]''. One appears during the opening titles of "[[Porky in Wackyland]]", and in one Pepe LePew short a Parisian newsboy shouts "Le wuxtry! Le wuxtry!"

* [[Care Bears|Adventues in Care-a-Lot]] attempted to use this phrase in one episode, but since the characters were announcing new stories on a website, it was changed to "Extra! Extra! ''hear'' all about it!" Just doesn't have the same ring to it.

* Parodied in ''[[Robot Chicken]]'':

* ''[[The Legend of the Titanic]]'' has paperboys shouting that, too.

* Tony Toponi becomes a paperboy in ''[[An American Tail]]: The Mystery of the Night Monster'', though he really wants to be a reporter and when he becomes discouraged and his rant begins to show it. *in a flat monotone voice* "Hey, get your paper here, whoop-dee-do paper here..." When someone passes him by he yells "Fine! So stay ignorant!"

* Recurring theme in ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]''.

 

 

== Real Life ==

* Evening Standard stand traders still do this though no extras. If you ever find yourself at Waterloo in London you might be interested to know that [ "Reehaallbouddit" ] translates as "Read all about it" and "Hetyorhevenstndaarhhd!" is "Get your Evening Standard".

** Manchester has similar ranters. If you're ever in the city centre and wondering why a bloke behind a yellow cart is yelling "Final!" every twenty seconds, it's because he's selling the third (and last) edition of the day's Manchester Evening News.

* In New York and Washington DC, scalpers do this on big-headline news-days.

* There's an [http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47642000/jpg/_47642294_-7.jpg iconic picture] of a paper boy doing this in the wake of the Titanic disaster.

'''EVENING NEWS''' }}

* Prior to newspapers, of course, civic announcements were proclaimed in public areas by town criers who would shout for attention before relating the news.

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