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== Film ==
* ''[[Transformers (
* In ''[[Slumdog Millionaire]]'', Jamal gets an internship at one of these places. The workers are supposed to pretend to be British, and are even briefed on British soap operas to maintain their guise.
** At one point Jamal (whose duties by this point were limited to making chai) takes a call and pretends to be British rather unsucessfully: "I live near Loch... Big... Big Ben. Loch Big Ben."
* ''[[The Other End Of The Line]]'' is a romantic comedy where a woman with this job falls in love with an American customer she first contacted about... well, it was something about identity theft, but that was just to get the plot rolling.
* In ''[[The 40-Year-Old Virgin]]'', Andy calls customer support for Viagra-like drug after having an erection for more than four hours. Of course, he never actually took the drug.
* ''[[Outsourced (
== Live Action TV ==
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* An early episode of ''[[The Colbert Report]]'' episode used this to illustrate outsourcing. Stephen was flattered that they put his call "all the way through to India", probably because he's a celebrity.
{{quote| '''Tech Support''': Am I speaking to Mr Col-burt?<br />
'''Stephen''': [[It Is Pronounced "Tro
* An episode of ''[[The Daily Show]]'' also poked fun at this by having Aasif Mandvi interrupt his "live" report from India to take someone's Tech Support call on his cell phone, while claiming to be an American named "Chandler". He then excuses himself to Jon by claiming this is an "Indian custom"
* ''[[Hello Mumbai]]'' is a Work Com based in one of these call centers.
* ''[[Mumbai Calling]]'' is another one.
* Along with ''[[Outsourced]]'' and [[Outsourced (
* Done on ''[[The Suite Life On Deck]]'': When Zack and Cody go to the top of an Indian mountain (Cody hopes to meet a religious man who can help him reach nirvana), they discover that the so-called 'religious man' actually runs a technical-support center for computers...[[Crowning Moment of Funny|the same one that Mr. Moesby has been trying to contact so that he can fix his computer]].
* In the ''[[Life]]'' episode "Hit Me Baby", Crews gets tech support for his Bluetooth from an operator in India(though she refuses to disclose her location), and ends up calling her back during his latest case to bounce ideas off her.
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