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* Chatter Telephone from ''[[Toy Story 3]]'' helped Woody out when things turned sour. He also has a kick-ass film noir voice.
* Donald Sutherland's character in ''[[JFK (Film)|JFK]]''.
* ''[[All the
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* ''[[Family Guy]]'' has also had one, with the shadowed [[Mysterious Informant]] obviously being [[The Muppet Show|Kermit The Frog]]. In another episode where they had become a reality TV family and Meg was kicked out of the family for being boring, Peter and Lois met her in this fashion, complete with offering her a cigarette.
* ''[[Hey Arnold]]'': In [[The Movie]], there was a principal character who was impersonating "Deep Voice", a reference to "Deep Throat". This character also wore a trenchcoat and used a voice simulator. {{spoiler|It was really Helga Pataki.}}
* Used in ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]'' when Tootie gives Timmy's parents information about her sister Vicky's evil deeds under the alias of "[[Shout
* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"|The Mole]] in ''[[Ozzy and Drix]]''. He's not entirely sane.
== [[Real Life]] ==
* [[Truth in Television|Real-life example]] and [[Trope Makers|Trope Maker]]: "Deep Throat", the Watergate informant whose identity (William Mark Felt Sr.) was only recently revealed. So ubiquitous, nearly every [[Mysterious Informant]] is either an outright reference/parody, or at least has some aspects gleaned from Deep Throat. However, some aspects of the trope draws heavily from the [[Popcultural Osmosis]] of ''[[All the
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