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* Used in ''[[Newsies]]'', and that's set in 1899!
* ''[[Overnight Delivery]]'':
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* 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.
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* The 2008 movie ''Changeling'' has this, but it does make sense as the movie is set in the 1930s.
* The Town Cryer in ''[[Corpse Bride]]'' precedes this tropes natural occurrence by about a century or two, and proceeds to play around with it...
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* 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.
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* The paperboy in ''[[The Hudsucker Proxy]]'', saying "The man from Muncie, a Moron after all! Read all about it!"
* ''[[The Day the Earth Stood Still]]'', the original version, used it.
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* Reflecting the 1930s period it's set it, ''[[The Rocketeer (film)|The Rocketeer]]'' played this straight.
* From the [[Show Within a Show|Broadway play within a film]] in [[The Muppets Take Manhattan]]:
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* ''[[The Monkees]]'' episode "The Devil and Peter Tork":
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* ''[[That 70s Show]]'':
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Steven Hyde: "Skinny Dillhole Talks Like An Idiot"? }}
* Gets used in a host segment or two in [[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]. Notably, the one in ''[[Horror of Party Beach]]'' where Tom provides incredibly up-to-date newspapers with headlines like "Mike buys another paper from Tom".
** Also for the short ''Hired!'': "Extry, extry, Pearl Harbor bombed, Roosevelt declares war!"
** [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment]] from ''Invasion USA'' ([[Chuck Norris|The other one]]), after a scene ending with the [[Official Couple]] staring into each others' eyes:
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'''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.
* Used in the [[X-Play]] [[Musical Episode|Musical]].
* ''[[Filthy Rich and Catflap]]'':
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* [[Batman (TV series)|Batman TV series]]: A very old newsboy is cleverly used to [[Hand Wave]] a [[Plot Hole]] at ''Zelda The Great'':
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'''Bystander:''' ''Hey, [[Fridge Logic|what was counterfeit money doing in the vault of the First National Bank?]] ''<br />
'''News boy:''' ''Well, if you want to know it you will have to buy a paper I am not a special new’s service.''<br />
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* The Newsboys' song in ''Gypsy'':
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Historical news is being made!
Extra! Extra! They're drawing a red line
Around the biggest scoop of the decade!
A barrel of charm, a fabulous thrill!
The biggest little headline in vaud-e-ville! }}
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* Used in ''[[Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Rescue Team]]''. The news is important in this case because the Pokémon who were trying to capture the player character realize that s/he isn't the one behind the natural disasters, and you can return to your home.
* Parodied in ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'':
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== Web Comics ==
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* 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.
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'''Man:''' ''*buys paper*'' Hey, there's nothing in here about three men being swindled!
'''Newsboy:''' Extra! Extra! Four men swindled! }}
* ''[[Schoolhouse Rock]]'''s "Walking on Wall Street" opened with "Extra! Extra! Latest Wall Street prices!"
* From the [[Screwy Squirrel]] cartoon ''Happy-Go-Nutty'', after Screwy has tricked Meathead the dog into walking off a cliff:
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* "Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island!":
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* Arnold the newsboy in ''[[The Flintstones]]'' did this on occasion.
* From ''[[Futurama]]'':
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'''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!"
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* [[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]]'':
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* One of the [[So Bad It's Good]] poorly animated and dubbed animations from [[Dingo Pictures]] called Mouse Police, played it straight, despite being relatively new, thus reviving dead horse trope.
* ''[[The Legend of the Titanic]]'' has paperboys shouting that, too.
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* 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.
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'''GREAT LOSS OF LIFE'''
'''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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