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Time to go find that page... Wait. [[Self-Demonstrating Article|Is this still on?]]
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== Anime & Manga ==
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== Fan Works ==
* In the ''[[Harry Potter (Franchise)/Harry Potter and
* ''[[The Vinyl Scratch Tapes (Fanfic)|The Vinyl Scratch Tapes]]'': It takes them until part three to figure out when they aren't on the air.
* ''[[Yet Again (Fanfic)|Yet Again]] [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5218118/1/Yet_again_with_a_little_extra_help With a Little Extra Help]'' gives us one when, after Sarutobi welcomes the crowd to the Chunin Exam Finals, followed by Naruto and Sasuke performing their Firestorm combo. After {{spoiler|Orochimaru}} and Hiruzen comment on the jutsu, one of the latter's aides informs him his mic is still on, leading to the following:
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== Films -- Live-Action ==
* Subverted in ''[[Anchorman:
* A time reverse case in ''[[Head of State]]'' when Mays make a bad comment regarding school shooting to the camera, thinks it wasn't on yet, but it was revealed that it was on all the time and is still recording. Lewis then use the tape to attack Mays' presidential campaign.
* How Willie Stark (Broderick Crawford) finally destroys his political career in the classic 1949 movie ''[[All the Kings Men (Literature)|All the Kings Men]]''.
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* Subverted in ''[[Escape From LA]]'': Snake Plissken has covertly swapped an [[EMP]] control device with a similar-looking but useless playback device. The fascist President, in the middle of a nationally broadcast speech, orders Snake's death so they can find the real one. When reminded that the camera is on, he actually tells the cameramen to '''film the execution'''.
* In ''Bringing Down the House'' Steve Martin "infiltrates" the bad guys' club in a very bad "wigger" disguise, complete with his own boombox. After sitting down with the bad guy, he is ordered to turn off the boombox -- and he carefully presses Record as well, getting the entire confession on tape in the end.
* In the [[Weird Al Yankovic (Music)|Weird Al Yankovic]] movie ''[[UHF (Film)|UHF]]'', the villain goes into a tirade before one of the protagonists on [[Viewers
* Occurs toward the end of the classic ''A Face in the Crowd'' from 1957. Antihero "Lonesome" Rhodes spends the bulk of the film riding his television-friendly image to fame and power, cynically hiding his true nature behind an aw-shucks facade. {{spoiler|At the conclusion of one broadcast, Rhodes is sitting on stage with his fellow performers, apparently engaging in casual chitchat. As the show's theme music dominates the soundtrack, the home viewers can't hear what Rhodes is really saying: he's expressing his venomous contempt for his audience. Marcia Jeffries, a disillusioned former lover and business partner, commandeers the studio's control room and switches the audio so Rhodes's words are broadcast to the world. Rhodes is thereby ruined.}}
* In ''[[Galaxy Quest (Film)|Galaxy Quest]]'', Nesmith explains a plan to defeat Sarris while Sarris is still listening and watching on the big screen, thanks to the crew's mistaking the "cut the comm link" across-the-throat gesture for a "we're dead" gesture. And not actually knowing where the hold button is, anyway.
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* And subverted in ''[[The West Wing]]'', when Bartlet makes an insulting comment about his election opponent while the mic was still open just after a radio interview. Panic sets in amongst the staff and it seems they get away lucky when the opposition's response is totally inept. CJ is the only one to realize, at the end, that the president had to have done it deliberately.
* In one episode of ''[[Murphy Brown]]'', the FYI anchors are instructed to pretend to talk to each other during the closing credits. Unfortunately, Murphy forgot to turn off her mic and her inappropiate commentary goes on the air.
* ''[[
** Happens ''twice'' to Liz Lemon in the second episode. First she assures Jenna that Tracy Morgan is a talentless nut who nobody wants to be involved with the show but Jack. Jenna is still wearing her microphone however and everybody (including Tracy) hears. Later on she attempts to apologize to him by explaining that she was just trying to calm the "paranoid and neurotic" Jenna, and also insults the other writers. This time she's actually in front of a camera and everybody both sees and hears her.
** It also happens to Jack Donaghy, when he doesn't realize that a remote mic is broadcasting him while he gives himself an extremely embarrassing pep talk.
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'''Producer:''' Stephen... this ''is'' live. }}
* On ''[[Have I Got News for You]]'', [[Guest Host]] [[Top Gear|Jeremy Clarkson]] managed to offend several countries with offhand remarks. Panelist Charles Kennedy noted that he'd offended Scotland and Ireland and wondered if he was planning to try for Wales next. Jeremy added that he'd also offended Birmingham, but that it was before recording had started. Paul Merton pointed out that they were, however, recording ''now''.
* On ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway? (TV)|Whose Line Is It Anyway]]'', one of the Scenes From a Hat was "things the pilot wishes he hadn't said when the intercom was on." The performers listed:
{{quote| '''Ryan Stiles:''' Ooh, those chalupas are coming back on me.<br />
'''Colin Mochrie:''' Hawaii's shaped like a liver, right?<br />
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** In "Mr. Monk and The End Part 1", Stottlemeyer and a squad of policemen were staking out at a train station for Kazarinski to capture him alive and find out what product he poisoned Monk with, as well as which poison he used. Disher arrives at the control tower after their odd lack of a response, and finds the tower staff murdered with blood everywhere. Unfortunately, Kazarinski left something else besides dead bodies at the tower, as he also left the mic on, causing the staff and passengers to hear Randy attempting to report to Stottlemeyer.
* On an episode of ''[[Frontline]]'', Mike starts insulting one of Elliot's songs after his microphone has been cut off at the end of the show. Unfortunately, he forgets that the camera is still on him during the end credits and that there's a sign language interpreter next to him. His comments are translated accurately and reported in the following day's newspaper.
* On ''[[
* In ''[[
* In an episode of ''[[Wizards of Waverly Place]]'', Justin reports to Rudy, the head of the Monster Hunter Council that three level 6 monsters (his vampire girlfriend and her parents) have been detected on Waverly Place and Rudy says he'll send over their best available monster hunters. After the conversation ends, Rudy says "That kid'll be a bone necklace inside of an hour", prompting an appropriately frightened look from Justin. Rudy notices this and begins backpedaling, saying that he meant a different bone necklace.
{{quote| '''Rudy:''' How do I turn this thing off?!}}
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** When you reach a certain point in ''[[Ratchet and Clank Up Your Arsenal]]'', Big Al professess his love for Helga over the intercom at the Starship Phoenix, then realizes the intercom is on.
* In the first ''[[Command and Conquer]]'' game, after a mission in which you (playing GDI) save a town from being wiped out by Nod, there is a cinematic featuring a reporter in front of a scene of destruction saying that the town was wiped out by GDI. It then cuts to a green-screen in a studio, where [[Big Bad]] Kane begins to give orders on the distribution of the propaganda video before noticing the camera and shooting it while ordering the destruction of its film.
* ''[[Tyrian (Video Game)|Tyrian]]'' has this happen in Episode 4. [[Big Good]] Transon Lohk leaves the mic on after recording his messages twice; the first time is only mildly interesting, but the second time drove the protagonist to do [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here|this]].
* In ''[[ER (TV)|ER]]: The Game'', the player is frequently called over the intercom to be assigned a new task. One of these calls...
{{quote| '''Jerry Markovic:''' This place is going to the dogs! What...? The mic is on? Ahem... Doctor, the lady with the dogs has finished her exams and is waiting for you....}}
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'''Smithers:''' Sir, you have to let go of the button.<br />
'''Burns:''' Oh, [[Curse Cut Short|son of a bi]]-- }}
** Let's not forget the episode with Gabbo and "all the kids in Springfield are SOBs" (a line inspired by a [[Truth in Television|real life kids' entertainer]] who got caught in his own [[Is This Thing Still On?]] moment. [[Beam Me Up, Scotty|Allegedly.]]). Although in the case of Gabbo, it was more of an [[Engineered Public Confession]] than an actual "Is this thing still on?" moment, as the camera was actually off, but Bart managed to stealthfully turn it back on while Gabbo was ranting about how Springfield's children are Sons of Bitches. It is played completely straight with Kent Brockman shortly thereafter, however, with [[Youre Fired|predictable results]], ironically right after chastising Gabbo for the faux pas.
{{quote| '''Kent Brockman:''' Gabbo's kind of language has no place on or off TV. And that's My Two Cents. Heheh, that oughta hold the little SOBs. Heheh... ''(a prompt comes up with his picture while giddily saying this previous statement and a caption saying "Brockman in Trouble")''... WHAT THE?!}}
** In yet another episode, Homer is brought on stage to demonstrate a motion capture suit for animation. After hamming it up a bit, he goes off to the bathroom, complete with the CG dog doing likewise. "Urinal cake eroding...eroding...gone!"
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* Lrrr from ''[[Futurama (Animation)|Futurama]]'' after he makes a threatening transmission to Earth and cues for the camera to be off.
{{quote| '''Lrrr:''' Well I think that went well. ''(starts to scratch himself)'' Ya know it when you can't scratch is when you you have to. What... we're still on?! UGH! ''(camera cuts off)''}}
* Used in an episode of ''[[Sushi Pack]]'' to give the villain of the day, a [[Nice Character, Mean Actor]] kids' show host, his comeuppance.
* ''[[South Park (Animation)|South Park]]'':
{{quote| '''Mayor:''' Nohoho nooo. Now I'll be stuck in this podunk town forever, with all these stupid hick, redneck, jobless, truck driving idiots.<br />
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* The [[Urban Legend]] mentioned in the Radio section is given a nod in the ''[[Pinky and The Brain (Animation)|Pinky and The Brain]]'' song about the parts of the brain, by The Brain, naturally.
* In the ''[[Arthur (Animation)|Arthur]]'' special regarding Francine starting a rock band that quickly becomes a celebrity band, the Principal, after doing the announcements, is muttering bitterly to himself about the band's choice of a band name ("You Stink!"), only to realize shortly thereafter realize that he left the mic on.
* Used and lampshaded several times in the ''[[American Dad (Animation)|American Dad]]'' episode "You Debt Your Life." The school's morning announcement readers repeatedly get [[Drunk With Power]], only to be deposed by this. The crème de la crème comes after Principal Lewis has cancelled the announcements and grumbles about why he ever quit being a cocaine dealer in South America, where he had all the money, blow, and girls ("[[Lolicon|not women, GIRLS!]]") he could ever want. Then a teacher tells him that the mic is still on; cue hearty [[Precision F
* In one episode of ''[[Combo Ninos (Animation)|Combo Ninos]]'', Diadoro makes unflattering comments about the audience just as his assistant has finished repairing the equipment and activating the microphone.
* The "beginning" variant shows up in ''[[Batman:
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* [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/03/peggy-noonan-mike-murphy_n_123647.html This incident] from the 2008 Republican National Convention, in which Peggy Noonan and Mike Murphy (commentators one would normally expect to be sympathetic to Republicans) made dismissive comments about the party's prospects and selection of Sarah Palin as its Vice-Presidential candidate.
* Jesse Jackson was caught on mic whispering, "I wanna cut his nuts off," referring to Barack Obama. Made further hilarious by the jerking motion he made, as though motioning just how he would go about with the castration.
* [http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20090323/SPORTS/90323012 Three employees] were [http://www.kcci.com/news/19010464/detail.html fired] from a Des Moines sports radio show when their [[Cluster F
* While attending a course during his time posted to Egypt, then-Lieutenant Charles Hazlitt Upham (later winner of TWO Victoria Crosses) once looked out into a briefing-theatre full of generals and muttered, "My oath -- what a galaxy of bloody talent!"... not realising he was standing next to a live microphone.
* When showing live coverage of a speech given by George W. Bush on the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, CNN anchor Kyra Phillips [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp7QhEeQF_o visited the bathroom, leaving her mic on]. Parts of a personal conversation between Phillips and a colleague -- criticizing her sister-in-law and giving advice on men -- were broadcast live as though it were color commentary. How this was not noticed by a sound engineer before Kyra returned to the studio is unknown.
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* Casey Kasem wants to know why he's coming out of a [http://www.youtube.com//watch?v=fDYK2H0ldbo fucking up tempo record into a death dedicaton.] Kasem knew the mic was on, he just didn't expect the outtakes to ever be heard outside of the recording studio.
* During his tenure on [[CBS]]' Early Show, Bryant Gumbel was interview [[Media Watchdog|Media Research Center]] president [[Culture Police|Brent Bozell]] in 2000 when Gumbel turned around and [http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/jun/07060604.html dropped an F-bomb] on Bozell (keep in mind, this is fairly early in the morning). Also keep in mind that he was being forced to talk to a man arguing that gay people should be forbidden to become scoutmasters in Boy Scouts.
* CNN, covering the 2004 Democratic National Convention, cut to a live feed from producer Don Mischer's microphone, just in time to catch him upbraiding his staff for a mediocre balloon drop. [[Cluster F
* While being driven to his next appointment after a conversation with a local voter about immigration, UK Prime Minister [[Gordon Brown]] [http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/04/28/gordon-brown-apologizes-for-calling-a-pensioner-a-bigoted-woman/ referred to her as "a bigoted woman"]. After the audio made the news, he took a trip to her house to personally apologize. In between, he also failed to realise there was a camera filming him in the radio studio where the news was broken to him on air.
* Back when Oliva Munn was part of ''[[Attack of the Show (TV)|Attack of the Show]]'', She did interviews around E3 2010. On one night she did an informal E3 Stream with Co-host Kevin in their hotel room. During the stream Kevin made comments about Olivia's sex life, not amused she decided to cut to commercial break and reveals her [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing|persona]] to Kevin. Fast forward about four minutes later and she's about to turn the stream back on, but there's a problem...she never turned it off
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* From Reader's Digest: an air traffic controller aboard a US Navy aircraft carrier didn't realize his mic was still on after talking to a pilot, saying "That guy [[Elmuh Fudd Syndwome|sounds just like Elmer Fudd.]]" After a long, awkward silence the pilot radioed back: "Be vewy vewy quiet. We're hunting submawines."
* BBC weatherman Tomasz Schafernaker [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BImuobqTcds gave a sarcastic newsreader the finger], then realised half a second too late that he was live on air. His goggle-eyed [[Oh Crap]] face is priceless.
* During the September 11th, 2001 attacks, broadcasters had far bigger things to concentrate on than FCC regulations, so most news broadcasts gave viewers an almost uninterrupted 8-hour stream of [[Cluster F
* In 2009, Chilean senator Fernando Flores is about to finish an interview for the CNN Chile channel. His host makes some questions that he dislikes, then finishes the interview. Just before the transmision was about to finish, a pissed-off Flores rants about how the guy's questions were [[Precision F
* During the Apollo 16 lunar mission, while the astronauts were resting after a moonwalk, John Young told his colleague Charlie Duke how the potassium-laced orange juice they were given to drink was giving him gas, and how he intended never to eat another [[Precision F
* Shortly after the astronauts aboard Apollo 13 moved to the lunar module, the mike setting was switched to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice-operated_switch VOX] (voice-operated transmission) by accident. The Capcom first tried to hint that the mike was hot by responding to the astronauts' private conversation; despite the hint, [[Failed a Spot Check|the astronauts still failed to see that the mike setting was not on "Normal Voice".]] It eventually had to be pointed out directly by the Capcom, similar to [[Apollo 13|the movie]]. Even worse, later in the mission, Lovell accidentally made a comment that it would likely be the last mission for a long time; again, this was while the mike was on a VOX setting.
* At a city council meeting in 2010, [[Stargate City|Vancouver]] mayor Gregor Robertson landed himself in hot water when he was recorded [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IDcmUQa0WM insulting his constituents as "hacks" of a rival local political party] because they opposed his rental housing development plan. Annoyingly, the media (and inevitable backlash against the reports) focused on a [[Windmill Political|supposed outrage over his use of profanity]] rather than the fact that he was [[Unfortunate Implications|belittling anyone who disagreed with him]] as a "hack" of a local political party. (The idea of a "hack" of any municipal political party sounds hilarious to this Vancouverite).
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