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'''King Kai''': He hung up on me! [[Lampshade Hanging|How did he even do that?!]]|[[The Mentor|King Kai]] wondering how [[Idiot Hero|Goku]] [[Crowning Moment of Funny|hung up on a telepathic conversation]] in [[Dragon Ball Abridged|DBZ Abridged]].}}

 

* In ''[[Dragonball Z Abridged]]'', Goku does this to King Kai, during a ''telepathic'' phone call. King Kai tries to call Goku back but ends up getting George Takei instead.

* In ''[[Sailor Moon Abridged]]'', Serena attempts this... on a videophone.

'''Serena:''' ...No you can't. }}

 

* In ''[[Pee Wee's Big Adventure]]'', Pee-wee Herman did this to avoid having to ask Dottie out to the drive-in.

* ''[[Patton]]'':

'''Patton:''' That's what you think it says. I think it was garbled in transmission. Ask them to re-transmit the message. That'll take half a day at least. }}

* ''[[Total Recall]]'':

'''Richter:''' I'm losing you. }}

* In ''[[Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country|Star Trek VI the Undiscovered Country]]'', the ''Enterprise'' does this to avoid being forced to return to Earth, so as to buy time to effect the rescue of Kirk and McCoy.

** And he does it again in [[Unstoppable]] when his character, Frank Barnes, uses this tactic to end his conversation with Galvin before Galvin can order him not to try his plan to stop the train.

* ''[[Blue Thunder]]''. Officer Murphy has been ordered to fly the title helicopter back to the police airbase. He decides to do something else, so he repeatedly tells the tower that their transmission is garbled and he can't read them. His captain later calls him on it.

* In [[John Woo]]'s ''[[Broken Arrow (1996 film)|Broken Arrow]]'', Deacons' inside man on the warhead recovery team radioes his base while screaming in (fake) pain, while Deacons is shaving nearby. Deacons then actually holds the buzzing razor up to the microphone for a few seconds and the two share a chuckle.

* ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]] 2'': Zed does this to [[Michael Jackson]], when Michael brings up how he'd been promised a position in MIB.

* A variant is done in the movie ''Heartbreakers''. The person doing it isn't doing it to ''avoid'' someone, it's to get the person on the other end of the line to unknowingly volunteer information.

* Used as psychological coercion in ''[[Spaceballs]]''. While King Roland is trying to convince Lone Starr and Barf to rescue Princess Vespa:

'''King Roland:''' All right all right I'll pay it, only find her, save her! }}

* ''[[Wayne's World]]'': Wayne and his friends screwed with a fast food worker by only saying a couple syllables of each word in his order aloud. "I'd like 'rullers, 'ugar, 'ucks and a Mikita 'cup..." Subverted in that the Cashier was able to understand the order exactly.

* Used in ''[[Darths and Droids]]'', during their version of ''[[Attack of the Clones]]''.

* Communications Officer Skip Taylor of [[Legostar Galactica]] uses a variant when he "accidentally" hangs up on an antagonistic [[Expy|Remulen]] General

'''Skip:''' [[Motor Mouth|Whoops,hunguponhim,sorry.]]<br />

'''Captain Bob Smith:''' No apology necessary, Lieutenant, I would have done it myself in a second }}

* During a "Life With Rippy" strip in ''[[Something Positive]]'', Rippy (the artist's muse, who takes the form of an anthropomorphic razorblade) tries to call another muse, who doesn't want to talk to him. The other tells him to hold, and hangs up.

"'The Gullibility Waltz'." }}

* [http://gogetaroomie.chloe-art.com/2010/05/go-get-a-roomie-11/ The tunnel excuse is parodied in an early strip] ([[NSFW]]) of ''[[Go Get a Roomie]]''

== Web Original ==

* During an ''[[SF Debris]]'' review of a ''[[Deep Space Nine]]'' episode, he wonders exactly how an Admiral would react to Benjamin Sisko's actions. It ends with...

'''Admiral:''' Holo-communicator, Ben, I can see you making the noises right now. }}

 

* Ron tried doing this in an early episode of ''[[Kim Possible]]''; he might have pulled it off if he didn't drop the fake static in between every word of his otherwise complete sentence.

* ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'': Princess' limo driver tries to do this in the Christmas special when she asks him if she's naughty.

'''Princess:''' ''(leaning forward and knocking on his window)'' No, we're not! I'm in the car, you twit! }}

* ''[[Futurama]]'': "Kif Gets Knocked Up A Notch":

'''Zap:''' Well, well, well. [[Malaproper|Do my eyes believe me]], or is that my bosomy swan, Leela?<br />

'''Leela:''' Say again? You're breaking up. ''(throws the book she's reading at the videophone)'' }}

* In the ''[[Batman: The Animated Series|Batman the Animated Series]]'' movie ''[[Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman|Mystery of the Batwoman]]'', Bruce is riding in his limousine with Tim, and talking on the phone with Barbara, who is away at college. When she begins grilling him about Batwoman and hinting that she wants to go out while she's in town for Spring Break, Bruce panics and resorts to pulling this on her.

'''Tim:''' Squeaked through again, didn't you? }}

* Jade of ''[[Jackie Chan Adventures]]'' has done this to Jackie more than once.