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Line 2: {{quote\|''"We fight for your right on many fronts. Unfolders, started the show, in a different place. Found us. Tried to stop us. A long war in another place. A win for the home team in overtime. Locked them up. Incarceration rates have increased dramatically."''\|The Hierophant, ''[http://www.somethingawful.com/series/30.php That Insidious Beast]''.}} A character who can only communicate, or who tends to communicate, using phrases made from radio and TV clips (and almost always old, easily recognised and public domain clips). Reasons can include actually being a TV or radio, having [[Learnt English From Watching Television\|learned English from watching TV]] or just being that quirky. The longer one of these characters talks, the probability that they say one of "[[But Wait! There's More!]]", "[[Offer Void in Nebraska]]" or "[[Slices, Dices, and Makes Julienne Fries]]" tends to 1. {{examples~~\|Examples:~~ }} == Anime & Manga == * TK from ''[[Angel Beats ~~(Anime)\|Angel Beats~~!]]'' tends to speak in English song lyrics and titles. Possibly a parody as it's noted in one episode that despite this he actually speaks poor regular English. * [[Occidental Otaku]] Susana ("Sue") Hopkins from [[Genshiken]] 90% of what she says are Anime quotes (often quite obscure, but always relevant). == Comic Books == * In the ''[[Transformers]]'' comic ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass\|Shattered Glass]]'', Beachcomber has a faulty processor, and after the Autobots land on Earth he starts speaking almost exclusively in song lyrics from the 60s and 70s, almost as if he were picking up a radio station. == Film - Animated == * Wreck-Gar and all the Junkions from ''[[Transformers: ~~the~~The Movie]]'': just as they apparently patched themselves up with jumkyard scraps, their speech was a stew of radio announcers and commercials and such. (Sample dialogue: "Stop, thief! No welcome wagon 'Hello, stranger' with that new coffee flavor for ''you''!") * Radio from ''[[The Brave Little Toaster]]'' didn't communicate exclusively through radio phrases, but he did generally talk like a DJ and ocassionally did comments in the form of news reports or radio dramas. * Ibor from ''[[Twice Upon a Time (1983 film)\|Twice Upon a Time]]'' communicates through video clips playing on the TV set that makes up his head. == Film - Live Action == * In ''[[~~Explorers (Film)\|~~Explorers]]'', the three kids meet aliens who pick up [[English From Watching Television]]. One did a better job than the other so the latter communicates by speaking out tv catch phrases and clips from old black and white tv recordings. * Bumblebee from the live action ''[[Transformers (~~Film~~film)\|Transformers]]'' film had a damaged voice box and could only communicate via his car radio. This turned him into a bit of a [[Deadpan Snarker]]. (And one of the soundbites he plays is the alien from ''Explorers''.) * Weebo in ''[[Flubber]]'' uses clips from old Disney films incorporated into her regular speech. == Literature == * Mrs. Who from ''[[A Wrinkle in Time]]'' mostly spoke in quotes because plain human speech was so difficult for her. * The Doctor's conversation with Centcomp in the ''[[~~Doctor Who (TV)\|~~Doctor Who]]'' [[Virgin New Adventures\|New Adventures]] novel ''So Vile a Sin''. The system wasn't designed to have a voice of its own, so it speaks "in a jarring mix of words, snipped from media sources". {{quote\| 'I,' she said, in the voice of a little girl. 'Know,' said a deep-voiced man with a Southern accent. 'You,' said an elderly woman.}} ** The [[Genius Loci\|living city]] in the Sixth Doctor short story "Walkin' City Blues" does likewise. Except instead of choosing the right words, it picks a programme that conveys the ''impression'' of what it's trying to say. Line 60: {{reflist}} [[Category:Dialogue]] [[Category:~~Radio Mouth~~{{PAGENAME}}]] ~~[[Category:Trope]]~~