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* Subverted in ''[[Escape From L.A.]]'': Snake Plissken has covertly swapped an [[EMP]] control device with a similar-looking but useless playback device. The fascist President, in the middle of a nationally broadcast speech, orders Snake's death so they can find the real one. When reminded that the camera is on, he actually tells the cameramen to '''film the execution'''.
* In ''Bringing Down the House'' Steve Martin "infiltrates" the bad guys' club in a very bad "wigger" disguise, complete with his own boombox. After sitting down with the bad guy, he is ordered to turn off the boombox—and he carefully presses Record as well, getting the entire confession on tape in the end.
* In the [["Weird Al"
* Occurs toward the end of the classic ''[[A Face in the Crowd]]'' from 1957. Antihero "Lonesome" Rhodes spends the bulk of the film riding his television-friendly image to fame and power, cynically hiding his true nature behind an aw-shucks facade. {{spoiler|At the conclusion of one broadcast, Rhodes is sitting on stage with his fellow performers, apparently engaging in casual chitchat. As the show's theme music dominates the soundtrack, the home viewers can't hear what Rhodes is really saying: he's expressing his venomous contempt for his audience. Marcia Jeffries, a disillusioned former lover and business partner, commandeers the studio's control room and switches the audio so Rhodes's words are broadcast to the world. Rhodes is thereby ruined.}}
* In ''[[Galaxy Quest]]'', Nesmith explains a plan to defeat Sarris while Sarris is still listening and watching on the big screen, thanks to the crew's mistaking the "cut the comm link" across-the-throat gesture for a "we're dead" gesture. And not actually knowing where the hold button is, anyway.
* ''[[Airplane!]]''
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* Happens in ''[[Mister Roberts]]'' when Morton leaves the mike to the ship's PA switched on when screaming at Roberts. This lets the crew know the truth about Roberts strange behaviour and that Morton is really the one to blame.
* ''[[Horrible Bosses]]'': Harken's confession is broadcast to and recorded {{spoiler|'for quality control purposes' by the navigation-system operator}}.
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