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Line 9: {{examples}} == [[~~Movies~~Film]] ==▼ * ''[[Die Hard]]''~~—Averts~~ averts this. McClane gets a bad guy's walkie-talkie, and talks to Al the policeman, and it's made clear that the bad guys can hear everything he's saying, hence why he goes by "Roy" instead of using his real name.▼ ▲== [[Movies]] == ▲* ''[[Die Hard]]''—Averts this. McClane gets a bad guy's walkie-talkie, and talks to Al the policeman, and it's made clear that the bad guys can hear everything he's saying, hence why he goes by "Roy" instead of using his real name. Also plays it straight, when McClane is able to interrupt Hans in mid-sentence. In ''[[Live Free Oror Die Hard]]'', McClane uses the bad guy's CB's to contact the FBI. Partially justified in that he knew the correct frequency and had a world-class amateur hacker working for him [[In a World]] where hacking can do goddamn everything. * ''[[Smokey and the Bandit]]'' * Everybody in ''[[The Cannonball Run]]'' seems to have their CB radio tuned to the same frequency. Possibly the racers had agreed to a specific frequency before the race started, but also they have no trouble communicating with plenty of random truck drivers during the race. ** Relatively justified since in the CB heydey channel 19 was a ''de facto'' standard for truckers on the interstate; there were exceptions for specific routes but they were pretty well known. Maybe they simply stayed on 19, or changed to 19 when they wanted to talk to a trucker. * In the first ''[[Tremors]]'' movie, the people of Perfection use a CB radio to warn the Gummers of impending Bad Things possibly coming their way. Actually justified in this case, since it's made clear that they can't reach anyone outside their valley with their ~~[[CBS]]~~CBs, and it would make sense for everyone to use the same frequency. == [[Live -Action TV]] == * ''[[The Dukes of Hazzard]]''—Anybody could pick up his CB and call anyone, and that person was on that frequency. * ''BJ and the Bear'' Line 27 ⟶ 25: ** To be fair, the Island ''did'' have plenty of man-made constructions, and it is possible that the Others may have built a repeater to extend the range. (according to Lostpedia) * Memorably subverted in ''[[The Young Ones]]'', in which Neil is instructed to make the static noises himself when using his police walkie talkie. == [[Music]] ==▼ * The song "[[wikipedia:Convoy (song)\|Convoy]]" and [[Convoy\|the film it spawned]].▼ == [[Video Games]] == Line 33 ⟶ 34: The "speaker's own voice" issue could probably be [[Handwaved]] by invoking [[wikipedia:Subvocalization\|subvocalization]]—methods of turning it into audible speech have appeared in science fiction at least as far back as [[Neuromancer]]. ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater]]'''s radio was essentially the same as the above Codec, though it also worked around the "speaker's own voice" issue by having Snake communicating back to [[Mission Control]] via a [[wikipedia:Throat microphone\|throat mike]]. ▲== Music == ▲* The song "[[wikipedia:Convoy (song)\|Convoy]]" and [[Convoy\|the film it spawned]]. ---- {{quote\|''"This here's the Rubber Duck on the side--We gone, Bye, Bye..."''}} {{reflist}} [[Category:~~Hollywood CB~~{{PAGENAME}}]]▼ [[Category:Action Adventure Tropes]] [[Category:Hollywood Style]] ▲[[Category:Hollywood CB]]