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== [[Advertising]] ==
* Future Shop had an advertisement which would start with an employee answering questions, which in this case, was answering how to restore files on a hard drive after a crash, but it would get interrupted by an announcement of a sale at the store.
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(cuts to announcement of a recent sale at the store)
Be sure to follow those 4 crucial steps and you'll get your files back. }}
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== [[Film]] ==
* Played straight in ''[[Screamers]]''.
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I missed that last part, over... (static) }}
* In ''[[Planet Terror]]'', we get a "Missing Reel" screen. During the missing reel, it's implied, we'd have gotten to see [[Rose McGowan]] totally naked, plus the entire plot surrounding Ray's mysterious origins would have been explained.
** [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Hilariously]], when the film comes back, ''everything is on fire'', and [[Noodle Incident|we'll never know why]].
* This exchange from ''[[Ocean's Eleven]]'', where Rusty is instructing Linus:
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'''Livingston:''' (off screen) Rust, can you come here a sec?
'''Rusty:''' Sure thing. (leaves)
'''Linus:''' ... }}
* ''[[Superhero Movie]]'' plays with this trope when Rick Riker receives a message from Professor X and it keeps buffering so the important info is lost and it sounds like something else.
* Type 1b is used (in the form of [[Plot-Based Voice Cancellation]]) in ''[[Kill Bill]]'' volume 1 to delay the audience finding out The Bride's real name, {{spoiler|Beatrix Kiddo}}. Slightly funny and disturbing when you realize {{spoiler|Bill had been calling her Kiddo all along, which until the reveal seemed like a term of endearment}}.
* ''[[Star Trek VI]]: The Undiscovered Country''. One of the villains' allies decides to tell Kirk and McCoy the master plan, but they are beamed to safety by Spock before they get to hear a word of it.
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'''Chekov:''' You want to go back?
'''McCoy:''' Absolutely not!
'''Kirk:''' (whispering) It's cold. }}
* ''[[Crimson Tide]]''. The main conflict revolves around the differing opinions of the captain and the executive officer after they receive an interrupted emergency message that begins "Nuclear missile laun...". Having previously been ordered to launch their nuclear weapons, the captain feels they must launch immediately while the executive officer wants confirmation first. There's a [[Race Against the Clock]] on both sides to prevent what they both see as an unthinkable outcome.
* In ''[[Shrek]]'', the titular character tries to silence Donkey by covering his mouth, to little avail.
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''(mumbling)''
'''Donkey:''' ...and then I ate some rotten berries. Man, I had some strong gasses leaking out of my butt that day! }}
* ''[[Event Horizon]]'' has a horrific Type 1a. The distress signal sent by the titular starship contains the Latin phrase ''liberate me'' ("save me"). It was later realized that the message was actually {{spoiler|'''''liberate''' tute'''me'''t ex inferis'' ("save yourself from Hell")}}.
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* German Writer Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), in his "Ideen", had a whole (single page) chapter where all text is blacked out, as by an official censor. The only text left are the three starting words "Die deutschen Zensoren" (the German censors) and somewhere halfway the word "Dummköpfe" (blockheads, idiots).
* The Book of Mazarbul in ''[[Lord of the Rings]]'' is read out with all the missing bits included as ellipses. Tolkien also [[Doing It for the Art|inscribed the relevant pages]] to show the missing burned parts.
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* ''[[Monty Python and The Holy Grail]]'': 'Here may be found the last words of Joseph of Arimathea. He who is valiant and pure of spirit may find the Holy Grail in the Castle of [[His Name Is|aaarrrrggh]]'.
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'''King Arthur:''' Look, if he was dying [[Lampshade Hanging|he wouldn't bother to carve "aaargh", he'd just say it]].<br />
'''Galahad:''' Perhaps he was dictating.<br />
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* Episode 30 of ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' had a [[Running Gag]] where periodically the skit would cut to a bizarre set of instructions being read that included the phrase "and paste down the edge of the sailor's uniform, until the word 'Maudling' is almost totally obscured." Near the end of the show, the scene cuts to BBC Newsman Richard Baker at a newsdesk talking and making increasingly strange hand gestures, however there is a voice over preventing us from hearing what he is saying. Finally the voice over ends and the normal audio concludes with Richard saying "... until the word 'Maudling' is almost totally obscured." Bonus points for never knowing what the instructions are supposed to be for to begin with.
** Another ''Python'' gag that uses this trope comes from the ''How to Irritate People'' sketch.
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Also: "In the event of an emergency, it is vitally important that you *static..........................* AS THE WARNING BUZZER SOUNDS! }}
* The Australian ''Late Show'', Tony Martin and Mick Molloy were discussing Thai porno movies, and the station kept having "transmission problems" just as they got to the "interesting" parts.
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** Which show is this from?
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'': Eleven's instructions to {{spoiler|Rory}} in "The Big Bang"
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== [[Music]] ==
* The [[Jonathan Coulton]] song "Chiron Beta Prime"
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We really hope you'll come and visit us soon
I mean we're literally begging you to visit us
And make it quick before they -MESSAGE REDACTED- }}
* [http://www.ookingdom.com/laughs/billboard This song] is about a billboard that had been pasted over with innumerable new advertisements. The top layers had begun peeling off, leaving words from underneath exposed. When putting the whole thing together, you had a wonderful medley of nonsense made from mixing up phrases from all the various ads.
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** Module O2 ''Blade of Vengeance''. Two items have missing information: Druinder's letter and the last page of the hermit's book.
* ''[[Silent Hill]]'' RPG. In Alchemilla Hospital the [[PC|PCs]] can find a videotape. When played it has an audible message in a female voice.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* In GlaDOS' opening announcement from ''[[Portal (series)|Portal]]'':
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** She does it again when explaining the safety instructions for the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device, and there is also this pearl:
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** And under no circumstances should the portal device be
** ''[[Portal 2]]'' gives us this gem. For added laughs, it's played over a graphical depiction of a giant leopard-patterned turret invading the UN, which becomes a [[Brick Joke]] later.
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* Also from the Orange Box, in ''[[Half-Life 2]]: Episode 2'', when Alyx (with you alongside her) tries to transmit a warning about an approaching Combine armada to her Dr. Magnusson from the radio tower, transmission interference cuts her off before she's able to convey it properly.
** In the original ''[[Half-Life 2]]'', after Black Mesa East comes under attack, Eli is giving Alyx instructions on how to escape!
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* One more from the Orange Box, Valve's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=han3AfjH210 "Meet the Demoman"] segment for [[Team Fortress 2]]:
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* Happens in the original ''[[Half Life]]'', in the level where you finally meet the black ops ninjas ("Apprehension").
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* In ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' there's an item called "Nat Pagel's Guide to Extreme Anglin'" that's missing every page but the last. What does it say? "... and so that's where you'll find the legendary sword of the Scarlet Highlord, [[Infinity+1 Sword|Ashbringer]]. Ain't it amazin' what you run into in an ordinary day of fishin'?"
* In the GDI campaign of the original ''[[Command and Conquer]]'', there's a mission where you must sneak a Commando into a Nod base and blow up one specific building. Which one? Well, your mission briefing was over a black and white, fuzzy, static-filled channel: "Make sure you take out the - (bzzzzzzz) - and get the -([[This Trope Is Bleep|bzzzzzzz]]) - out of there!"
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* In ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'', Princess Peach has found out what the villains plan to do with her ({{spoiler|have an [[Eldritch Abomination]] possess her}}) - just as she's typing a message to inform Mario of it, the [[Big Bad]] walks in to take her away, and the message is sent incomplete, leaving the [[The Reveal|Reveal]] to the climax of the game.
* ''[[Sonic Colors]]'':
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* ''[[Tron 2.0]]'' is loaded with this. For about three-quarters of the game, Jet's receiving incomplete, cryptic, and static-filled transmissions from Ma3a or "Guest." In "Guest's" case {{spoiler|it turns out Alan is making do with an old arcade game and junk from the storage closet he's locked in}}. Unfortunately, the poor communication ''does'' kill {{spoiler|Alan doesn't realize it's his son that's trying to help Ma3a}} and Jet doesn't get the message {{spoiler|''not'' to compile the Tron Legacy ([[Tron: Legacy|no relation]]) code}} until it is ''way'' too late.
* One of the Marine logs in ''[[Metroid Prime]] 2 Echoes'' has it abruptly ending in static.
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** Kent Brockman is also fond of this one:
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* In the ''[[Metalocalypse]]'' episode "Mordland", static interrupts band mascot Facebones during several important parts of the Fan Day safety briefing.
* In the ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' episode ''Stranded'' ([[Fridge Brilliance|in which the entire plot is about various miscommunications]]), The Titans are in their [[Combining Mecha]]-like ship and trying to shake off the [[Monster of the Week]] which was latched on to the hood. Robin orders them not to separate-- ''twice''-- but a radio malfunction misleads the team into separating.
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** The [[SCP Foundation]]'s use of oddly placed [DATA EXPUNGED] probably owes something to these.
* Railway platform announcements, as immortalised by this Usenet signature:
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* Bill Cosby mentions something similar in one of his routines; during a conversation with an old wino, the wino mentions that he's the guy who announces the bus schedule.
* The Wikileaks cables get like this sometimes.
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== Other ==
* Used by Rowan Atkinson in a comedy routine:
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* This trope can be invoked if you are about to explain something about the [[Candle Jack]] trope, like how it's very important to nev
* This trope accidentally a [[Memetic Mutation]].
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