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* Feud with each other, or with the field reporters.
* Have a blatant [[Strawman News Media|political bias]], and bring it to every story they cover.
* Indulge in bizarre (usually sexual) habits when they [[Is This Thing Still On?|think the cameras aren't on]].
* Sometimes mutters what they truly think of their audience (thoughts that are downright nasty).
* Try to make their stories more interesting with [[Metaphorgotten|tortured metaphors]] and unfunny jokes, with bonus points when it's about something that isn't at all funny.
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Though live-action comedies do them occasionally, these routines are much more common in animated shows. This may have to do with the fact that animated shows usually use multiple characters per actor, and can afford to have a diverse supporting cast (and also, of course, because it's infinitely easier to have [[Canon Dis Continuity]] in a show which everyone already knows isn't supposed to be realistic).
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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* In the pilot episode of ''[[Just Shoot Me]]'', Maya gets fired from a news program after rewriting the teleprompter so that a pompous anchorwoman says that a decrease of gang violence was due "to the removal of the frontal lobe of my brain. And in related news, I wet myself."
* ''[[Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job]]'' has a carryover from their previous show ''Tom Goes to the Mayor'' in Jan and Wayne Skylar, the "Channel 5 Married News Team". They added John C. Reilly as Dr. Steve Brule (who has since gotten his own bits--and eventually [[Check It Out With Dr. Steve Brule|his own show]]) who provides useless health information.
* Robin on ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' has done numerous silly things on the air: ridiculous [[Could This Happen to You?]] stories, [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Incredibly Lame Puns]], and bizarre fluff pieces, especially when Barney's getting her to do a bet. When she transferred to Japan, Robin got to report actual news -- with a chimpanzee.
** Also her job on the morning news show, in which she gives CPR to the weatherman after he and the green screen catches on fire. Then she helps a deliver the child of her guest that goes into labor.
* Minor version on ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'', where after the [[Coincidental Broadcast]], the follow-up is bizarre: "Up next: kittens on parade!" and "Can apes drive? We'll find out!"
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Ratchet Deadlocked]]'' had a male alien, Dallas, and female robot, Juanita, as news anchors and announcers, who alternate between snarky comments about each other, showing off their extreme personality flaws on camera, and [[Demonization|slandering the titular character]] (until he saves everyone after the [[Big Bad]]'s goes off the deep end and tries to [[Kill
** Earlier ''[[Ratchet and Clank]]'' games had recurring robot reporter Darla Gratch.
* Fehn Digler from ''[[Beyond Good and Evil (Video Game)|Beyond Good and Evil]]'' is a [[The Quisling|Quisling-flavored]] news anchor with a habit for outrageous propaganda, flip-flopping sides, and a tendency to get a bit too... "in your face," shall we say.
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* Jane Valderama in ''[[Saints Row]] 2'' speaks in the weirdly smarmy monotone and a WASPish accent that only slips when she says her Hispanic last name. Also indulges the tortured metaphors, especially while giving running commentary as an embedded reporter in the Gang War -- she rides shotgun with the Boss, bringing her own shotgun.
* The second ''[[Oddworld]]'' game, Abe's Exoddus, has the "Magog On March" news bulletins, where a Slig anchor (yes…) presents the latest crimes of the terrorist Abe and the declarations of Glukkon directors. Not forgetting the advertisement about Glukkon products sponsors.
{{quote| ''Although Soulstorm Brewry's profits are plumetting, Mudokkons keep on disappearing here and there [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|and the toilets are flowing back]], our direction assure us that everything is alright! Huhun… I'm off.''}}
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{{quote| '''Tom:''' With the cable out in Quahog, it doesn't really matter what we say. I'm the Lord Jesus Christ. Think I'll go get drunk and beat up some midgets. What about you, Diane?<br />
'''Diane:''' Well, Tom, I just plain don't like black people. ''(the two chuckle)''<br />
'''Camera Operator:''' [[Is This Thing Still On?|Uh, guys, we're still on in Boston.]]<br />
''Cut back to Tom and Diane, who have [[Oh Crap]] looks on their faces.'' }}
** Then there was when the transmitter was fixed:
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