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== Advertising ==
* A ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_RGWc4CUPY&feature=relmfu Consumer Cellular]'' ad played with this trope with the McCann Twins.
== Anime and Manga ==
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* In ''[[Tremors|Tremors 3]]'', Burt Gummer and the tour-guide have an angry conversation while Burt is driving. When Burt arrives and parks, he is perhaps ten feet from the tour-guide, yet they continue talking on the phone. At least until Burt hangs up and delivers to the guide's face that classic line "Is your head up your ass for the warmth?".
* This occurs in ''[[WALL-E]]'', where two of the Denizens of the Axiom are videoconferencing in their hoverchairs... Right next to each other. It serves to emphasize how ''everyone'' on the ship is dependent on their gadgets to the point of being unaware of what's going on around them.
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* Parodied in ''[[Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood]]''. Two guys page each other, and then have a phone conversation even though they're standing next to each other.
* Used in a non-comic context in ''[[North by Northwest]]'' where Eve and Leonard discuss plans in two adjoining phone booths.
* ''[[Help!]]'': [[Mad Scientist]] Foot and his flunky Algernon are rigging up an exploding curling stone; Algernon describes his progress on a headset to Foot, who is standing right beside him.
* ''[[Richie Rich (comics)|Richie Rich]]'': While eating dinner, Richie's mother calls Richie (sitting on the other side of the long dining table) over the phone if he wants to dine with the parents. It makes sense to maintain indoor voice.
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* After being eliminated from ''[[The Biggest Loser]]'', one contestant surprised his wife this way.
* In one episode of ''[[Only Fools and Horses]]'' Rodney, applying for a job he's seen advertised in the paper, unknowingly calls Del's mobile (because Del advertised for someone to do Rodney's job when Rodney wanted out). Del, in the kitchen, puts on a silly voice and strings him along for a bit.
* ''[[Home Improvement (TV series)|Home Improvement]]'': Tim and Jill are on the same line talking to Al, but after Al hangs up they continue talking over the phones. They continue oblivious until Randy enters the scene and gives a WTF? look that Tim notices.
* In an advertisement for Dell computers, a mother is in a Skype conversation with her college-age daughter. The mother is carrying her Dell laptop around to show the daughter the house decorated for Christmas. Upon opening the front door, she finds the daughter is standing outside with her own Dell laptop, unexpectedly having arrived at home for Christmas.
* In on episode of ''[[Kenan and Kel]]'' Kenan gets out of listening to Kel's rambling monologue by calling Kel on his cell phone.
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* Variation in ''[[Dexter's Laboratory]]'': Dexter calls his arch-rival Mandark to get his help in destroying a bunch of meteors headed towards the Earth. Mandark immediately announces he will solve the crisis himself to get all the glory and leaves...but doesn't hang up, leaving Dexter to [[Idiot Ball|stupidly]] keep saying "Mandark? Hello?" while Mandark takes off in his robot, gets the robot wrecked, stumbles over to Dexter's lab and stands behind him...while he's still on the phone.
{{quote|'''Dexter''': ''[to the phone]'' Hello? I'm talking to you!
'''Mandark''': Alright Dexter. We must work together [[For Science!|in the interest of science]]!
'''Dexter''': ''[to the phone]'' Great! Come on over!
''[Dexter turns around to find Mandark standing in front of him]''.
'''Dexter''': That was fast. }}
* In the ''[[Dilbert]]'' show, Dilbert called Customer Service, and once he got past the computerized options, he discovered that it was the guy in the next cubicle over, who was performing this job for dozens of companies owned by the self-aware computer Compucomp.
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(Pan out to reveal that he's standing back-to-back with another guy with a cell phone)
'''Jerry''' (Shouting into phone:) "Barely! There's some guy next to me screaming his head off! }}
* Inverted in ''[[Richie Rich (comics)|Richie Rich]]'', while Richie and his dad are showing a guest around the mansion. Guest wants to say hi to Mom, and Richie picks up a phone. Then he asks for the long-distance operator.
* An episode of ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'' opened with Jimmy and Beezy were texting and sending funny pictures to each other. When we pan out, they're standing right next to each other.
* In the third-to-last episode of the fourth season of ''[[Code Lyoko]]'', Aelita gets a phone call from Jeremie, only to find out that a few seconds later that he's right behind her.
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