Split-Screen Phone Call: Difference between revisions

* 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.