Split-Screen Phone Call: Difference between revisions

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[[Split Screen]] is one of those Camera Tricks that were never really popular... except for depicting people calling each other on the telephone, that is.

* This trope appears in one episode of ''[[Family Matters]]'' involving Steve, Laura, Maxine, Waldo, and Eddie.

* The ''[[Roswell]]'' episode "I Married An Alien" is partly done as a ''[[Bewitched]]'' style sitcom; at one point there's a four-way split-screen as the real characters and the sitcom characters carry on separate phone conversations, until they get mixed up and start responding to the wrong conversation.

* ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' uses this trope constantly and finds new ways to play with it.

* ''[[Angel]]''. [[Played for Laughs]] in [[The Teaser]] of "Provider". A [[Victim of the Week]] is being chased by an [[Shadow Discretion Shot|unseen monster]], [[Broken Heel|stumbles in the rain]], [[Coincidental Broadcast|finds himself clasping an Angel Investigations flyer]], rushes to a phone booth and begins to dial frantically. We then [[Split Screen]] to Team Angel staring at the phone waiting for a call—only for the screen to split again to [[Bait and Switch|show a pizza parlor cook picking up the phone]]. Apparently the wrong number was printed on the flyer.

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

* [http://www.cracked.com/video_17443_answering-phone-in-movie-can-be-tricky-at-first.html This Cracked video] explains why it's scary to answer phone calls in movies.

** "Where was I? Where the hell did I go? Why was David Bowie there?"

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* ''[[Super Mario World (animation)|Super Mario World]]'' did the parody version with Yoshi and Oogtar. ("Yoshi hear Oogtar ''too'' good! Who need telephone?")

* ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' also did the parody version with Spongebob and Patrick.

* [[Lilo and Stitch (Disney film)|"Oh, my gosh! My dog's found a chainsaw!!!"]]

 

 

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[[Category:Camera Tricks]]

[[Category:Phone Tropes]]