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* Certain [[Stock Shticks]] are rendered broken by technology, such as GPS doing away with the "man never asking for directions" shtick.
** Early commercials for Tom-Tom put a new spin on it, though, having guys ask "Mom-Mom" or "Doug-Doug" for directions instead of getting a Tom-Tom.
** ''[[Cars]] (2006)'' pretty much turns "[[Route 66]]? It's not on my GPS." into a running joke, along with surprise that "it's still here". US66 was decommissioned in 1985 and a fifth of it no longer exists, so there still is a need for specialist printed maps like the eight-state "Here It Is!" series.
* Caller ID can break the stock plot of a person pretending to be calling from a place where he is not (though cell phones can sometimes help it work anyway). There are other ways to mask the number from which you're calling, but these never come up in the shows themselves.
** This was [[Lampshaded]] by, of all people, [[Blink-182]] (yes, the frat-punk band) in the song "What's My Age Again?" where the narrator's prank call is defeated by Caller ID.
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