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{{quote|''"Is that camera still running?!"'' (gunfire)|'''Kane''', ''[[Command
A character is making an announcement on TV/the radio/a PA system/what-have-you. Either at the beginning or, more commonly, after the end, the character will be heard making some tangential offhand or vulgar remark, realize what he or she has just done, and ponder:
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* In the [[Show Within a Show]] for ''[[Lucky Star]]'', after the two hosts for Lucky Channel went off on a rampage, the "executive producer" is heard talking about how he had his doubts about them from the very beginning, before an underling informs him that the cameras are rolling, and he frantically orders someone to shut them off.
* Moral from [[Fullmetal Alchemist (anime)|the 2003 anime version]] of ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]''. Never rant about your evil plan in the audio room. Just don't.
* ''[[One Piece]]'' has something of this vein happen to [[General Failure]] Spandam. When trying to contact one of his agents, he inadvertently presses the button that will summon a devastating military attack on their location. When he actually contacts his agent and explains this, he's horrified to realize he'd gone and broadcast his confession, his prisoner's warnings about the mercilessness of the attack, and his almost Kefka-like glee at everyone's deaths furthering his own ambitions to his entire base. Upon his discovery, he meekly tries to say "and my name is 'Straw-Hat Luffy'." No-one buys it.
* A variation in ''[[Karin]]'': [[Hot Mom|Usui's mother]] is being molested by her boss in a supermarket, and he accidentally pushes her into the intercom, turning it on. They both get fired, resulting in her becoming very depressed and [[Emotion Eater|attracting the title character]].
* In [[Super Dimension Fortress Macross]] Kamjin is reporting via audio-visual radio to his new commander Breetai when his aide arrives and claims the prize of their bet about their ability to ram more of Breetai's ships than the number of their ramming ships by defolding not far enough. Breetai was not amused.
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== Comic Books ==
* A variant is used in ''[[ROM Spaceknight]]'' when Rom manages to free himself from a female Dire Wraith scientist's restraints, gets to a friendly human who is similarly restrained and orders the trapped villain to free him. She does so, but also quietly turns on an intercom and plays up being trapped and threatened by the alien for the benefit of the lab complex's security forces. By the time Rom realizes what she is doing, it's too late and security is charging to the room.
* In an early issue of "Threeboot" ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes (comics)|Legion of Super-Heroes]]'', Cos went into a rant to Sun Boy about how the team was falling apart, without realising he had an open comchannel. This didn't help.
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* Somewhat on one episode of ''[[Babylon 5]]''; Marcus sings, "I Am the Very Model of a Model Major General" near the end -- it continues into the credits, and finally you hear the director yell "CUT!"
* Occurs frequently on Aaron Sorkin's shows, especially ''[[Sports Night]]''.
* And subverted in ''[[The West Wing]]'', when Bartlet makes an insulting comment about his election opponent while the mic was still open just after a radio interview. Panic sets in amongst the staff and it seems they get away lucky when the opposition's response is totally inept. CJ is the only one to realize, at the end, that the president had to have done it deliberately.
* In one episode of ''[[Murphy Brown]]'', the FYI anchors are instructed to pretend to talk to each other during the closing credits. Unfortunately, Murphy forgot to turn off her mic and her inappropiate commentary goes on the air.
* ''[[30 Rock|Thirty Rock]]''
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* ''[[Radio Active]]''
** One episode involves Morgan accidentally playing her singing along with a song over the radio, and her singing becoming a hit. The other students on the show try to fake things "accidentally" going over the air to show some talent of theirs, but the student body quickly tires of it.
** Another episode involves Morgan accidentally playing over the air that she intends to quit the radio show because it's too much stress, and [[Hilarity Ensues]] as the others go to great lengths to get her to stay, since she's the only one who is actually organized.
* On ''[[Alias (TV series)|Alias]]'', Sydney and Vaughn discuss a romantic night together. After they start getting dirtier, Sydney suddenly asks "Wait, are we still on comms?" Her father Jack answers "Yes, you're still on comms! ''Right now!''"
* In ''Salvage'', the pilot for the shortlived series ''[[Salvage 1]]'', Skip Carmichael suggests to Mel Slozar [[Zero-G Spot|a way they might wile away the time on their flight to the moon]]. When she demurs, he asks if would help if he closed the blind. Their ground control then comes over the radio saying "No, but you might want to turn off your microphone".
* An episode of ''[[Empty Nest]]'' has Dr. Harry Weston fielding calls from the public on a radio talk show. After an incredibly long day, Harry declared, "Thank God that's over, because I ''really'' have to go to the bathroom!", leading his embarrassed producer to tell him to turn off his microphone.
* ''[[Monk]]''
** In the episode "Mr. Monk Gets Fired", Stottlemeyer admits to his wife that he realizes that having her do the documentary on him and the rest of the police force was a very big mistake, as the Lithonian Torso case, Monk getting fired, and the Commissioner hounding him is getting on his nerves... and then he realizes the camera's still on.
** In "Mr. Monk and The End Part 1", Stottlemeyer and a squad of policemen were staking out at a train station for Kazarinski to capture him alive and find out what product he poisoned Monk with, as well as which poison he used. Disher arrives at the control tower after their odd lack of a response, and finds the tower staff murdered with blood everywhere. Unfortunately, Kazarinski left something else besides dead bodies at the tower, as he also left the mic on, causing the staff and passengers to hear Randy attempting to report to Stottlemeyer.
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== Radio ==
* The famous [[Urban Legend]] has it some children's radio presenter in the '30s finished up his show, then said "That oughtta hold the little bastards!" on an open mic. He was allegedly fired immediately. The slip is supposedly uttered by Uncle Don, but [http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/radio/uncledon.asp his career says otherwise].
* A 1969 NBC radio news capsule ended with the anchor recapping the headline, followed by somebody in the background uttering the word "bullshit".
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'''Chairman Drek:''' ... and if you don't like it, you can take your whiny, sniveling, snot-nosed population, form a line behind me, and kiss my--! What, is it still on? Well, turn it off, you idiot! }}
** When you reach a certain point in ''[[Ratchet and Clank Up Your Arsenal]]'', Big Al professess his love for Helga over the intercom at the Starship Phoenix, then realizes the intercom is on.
* In the first ''[[Command
* ''[[Tyrian]]'' has this happen in Episode 4. [[Big Good]] Transon Lohk leaves the mic on after recording his messages twice; the first time is only mildly interesting, but the second time drove the protagonist to do [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here|this]].
* In ''[[ER]]: The Game'', the player is frequently called over the intercom to be assigned a new task. One of these calls...
{{quote|'''Jerry Markovic:''' This place is going to the dogs! What...? The mic is on? Ahem... Doctor, the lady with the dogs has finished her exams and is waiting for you....}}
* In ''[[The Movies]]'', on the radio announcement two years before the depression event hits early in the game.
{{quote|'''Radio Announcer:''' ... Including this news reporter, who's set to make a fortune and kiss goodbye to all you hardworking suckers out there. Wait, is this thing still on?}}
* Both of the UNN reporters in ''[[Starcraft II]]'' are terrible about this. For instance, when Kate reports on Donny Vermillion's sudden hospitalization in a neutral "news" tone, and wishes him well - and forgets to turn her mic off before [[Crowning Moment of Funny|celebrating her promotion to anchor]].
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfKyHvaAZxA A Southwest Airline pilot ranted] to his co-pilot about the lack of [[Sexy Stewardess]] on his flights, and being around with only gays, grannies, and overweight folks. Unknowingly, he had turned on the mic, broadcasting to everyone in Texas airspace, but didn't even stop when an air traffic controller tried to butt in.
* In October 2011, this happened to two world leaders for the price of one. At a G20 summit, French President Nicolas Sarkozy called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a liar; President Obama responded "You're fed up with him, but I have to deal with him every day!"
* Another rather innocent thing, A local news station had an anchor who was feeling sick to his stomach, but was going to do the broadcast either way since it was live and he had a devotion to his job. Eventually he started to feel sick during the broadcast and asked them to cut. The cameramen saw that he was getting pretty pale and sweaty, so they killed the video feed...unfortunately the audio was still being recorded, so viewers could hear the news anchor shout, "GET A BUCKET! QUI-" and then the sound of him throwing up on the floor, and it was broadcast live. [[Never Live It Down|20 years after the incident, they still played that clip]].
* During an interview on ITN, the unpopular British Prime Minister John Major - thinking that his microphone was off - was caught on tape referring to rebellious members of his Cabinet as a shower of "bastards".
* '[[Scandalgate|Bigotgate]],' a scandal centred around British PM Gordon Brown insulting one of his voters, came about because he forgot to switch off his microphone.
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