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{{quote|"Extra! Extra! I'm an extra!"}}
* [[Batman (TV series)|Batman TV series]]: A very old newsboy is cleverly used to [[Hand Wave]] a [[Plot Hole]] at ''Zelda The Great'':
{{quote|'''News Boy''' (handling the Ghotam City Times Extra with the lines: “Big joke on bank bandit: stolen cash was counterfeit!: ''Extra! Extra! Get your newspaper here! Read about the bandit’s stolen counterfeit money, [[Contrived Coincidence|Yes that’s all what he did, steal counterfeit money!]]''
'''Bystander:''' ''Hey, [[Fridge Logic|what was counterfeit money doing in the vault of the First National Bank?]] ''
'''News boy:''' ''Well, if you want to know it you will have to buy a paper I am not a special new’s service.''
Bystander buys paper and leaves.
'''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.
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* [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]]''.
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* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' featured an extra who seems to [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2011-01-12 idolize the old paperboys.] He even stole someone's newspaper for his performance.
== Web Original ==
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** [[Cloudcuckoolander|Eggs tree, eggs tree! This get-up]] ''
== Western Animation ==
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