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== Live Action TV == |
== Live Action TV == |
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* An episode of ''[[Primeval]]'' features reporters who aren't smart enough to run away when a Giganotosaurus (think ''[[Tyrannosaurus Rex|T. rex]]'', only bigger) rampages through an airport. |
* An episode of ''[[Primeval]]'' features reporters who aren't smart enough to run away when a Giganotosaurus (think ''[[Tyrannosaurus Rex|T. rex]]'', only bigger) rampages through an airport. |
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* [[Alliteration|Damien Day]] from [[Drop the Dead Donkey]] likes to ''pretend'' he's in serious danger. [[Parody]] meets [[Exploited Trope]], as he's using the trope to attempt to gain better viewing figures. |
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* The Re-Imagined Battlestar Galactica has a brief scene of Baltar watching the disjointed news reports of the Cylon attack. The 'man on the street reporter' hears the boom, feels the wind, then his feed and the feed from the news studio cut to static. |
* The Re-Imagined Battlestar Galactica has a brief scene of Baltar watching the disjointed news reports of the Cylon attack. The 'man on the street reporter' hears the boom, feels the wind, then his feed and the feed from the news studio cut to static. |
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* The ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?]]'' skit "Newsflash" is a parody of this trope: it's based on putting Colin Mochrie in this role -- only he doesn't know what he's reporting on. The skit uses greenscreen technology to run footage he can't see as his "on-the-scene" background. Watch [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_swmkuwb_hc&feature=related here]. |
* The ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?]]'' skit "Newsflash" is a parody of this trope: it's based on putting Colin Mochrie in this role -- only he doesn't know what he's reporting on. The skit uses greenscreen technology to run footage he can't see as his "on-the-scene" background. Watch [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_swmkuwb_hc&feature=related here]. |
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