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== [[Movies]] ==
* ''[[
** Also plays it straight, when McClane is able to interrupt Hans in mid-sentence.
** In ''Live Free Or 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
* 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.
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* ''[[The Dukes of Hazzard]]'' -- Anybody could pick up his CB and call anyone, and that person was on that frequency.
* ''BJ and the Bear''
* The ''[[
* The walkie talkies on ''[[Lost]]'' -- The signal can travel long distances (even to a nearby island.)
** 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)
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Your radio in ''[[
* Dialed [[Up to Eleven]] in [[Metal Gear Solid]] - The "Codec" supposedly puts the sound straight into your earbones so only you hear the person talking to you (with ample opportunity for [[Fridge Logic]], considering the speaker's own voice should still be very audible to their surroundings - this becomes particularly ridiculous in [[Metal Gear Solid 2 Sons of Liberty]], where characters standing barely two feet away from one another will decide to switch to nanocommunications for privacy). Plus, despite supposedly being an audio-only device, the HUD displays it almost like a videophone. On top of that, you have a number of people whose frequencies you have to find.
** 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 ==
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