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A [[Stock Phrase]]. Comes in three versions:
'''Something to Hide''': The [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]], rock star or other celebrity on a TV show is asked a rather uncomfortable question, and doesn't want to damn himself in front of thousands of witnesses armed with video recorders;
'''Have Some Decency''': Rarer is when it's an offence to human decency - it's not something that should be filmed and used as entertainment.
'''Blocking The Fourth Wall''': This covers all the other times, when the person just wants the camera crew to stop sticking a camera in his face.
In any case, the plea is the same: "Look, Turn Off the Camera". Very much [[Truth in Television]].
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== Blocking the Fourth Wall ==
=== Film ===
* [[Paparazzi]] in general.▼
* It was said by Bree in an episode of ''[[Desperate Housewives]]'', after she tried decorating a croquembouche on a TV interview and failed miserably. Specifically, she said, "Turn off the damn camera."▼
* This is also used in [[Mockumentary]] [[Blair Witch]]-type movies, and the cameraman always has some feeble answer, like "People will want to know" or "It keeps me sane," to justify the inevitable payoff of his 1st-person death scene.
* Appears in Reality Show outtakes when someone is upset. Probably after someone says, "[[I'm Not Here to Make Friends]]".▼
* In the fictional documentary "Under the Hood", part of the ''[[Watchmen (film)|Watchmen]]'' movie universe, the Comedian says to get the camera out of his face, and the voiceover says he is unavailable for comment.
* Used on several occasions by Terrence in ''[[Kate Modern]]'', and memorably by Rupert in "The Last Work".▼
* On ''[[Top Gear]]'''s Polar Special, Clarkson tells May to turn off the in-car camera just after they've hit a large ice block and are getting out to look at the damage, presumably to make room for a whole heckuva lot of profanity.▼
* Brock Lovett says it in ''[[Titanic]]'', after failing to find the diamond in the safe at the beginning of the film.
=== Live-Action TV ===
* [[Family Guy|Meg Griffin]] says it once she's had her fill of the family's reality show.▼
▲* It was said by Bree in an episode of ''[[Desperate Housewives]]'', after she tried decorating a croquembouche on a TV interview and failed miserably. Specifically, she said, "Turn off the damn camera."
* [[Grand Theft Auto IV]] does it in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbjZamTkBEs this] cutscene. ▼
▲* Appears in Reality Show outtakes when someone is upset. Probably after someone says, "[[I'm Not Here to Make Friends]]".
▲* Used on several occasions by Terrence in ''[[
▲* On ''[[Top Gear]]'''s Polar Special, Clarkson tells May to turn off the in-car camera just after they've hit a large ice block and are getting out to look at the damage, presumably to make room for a whole heckuva lot of profanity.
=== Video Games ===
▲* ''[[Grand Theft Auto IV]]'' does it in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbjZamTkBEs this] cutscene.
=== Web Original ===
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140629234554/http://maniacworld.com/interview-with-a-cat.html Interview With a Cat: Bobo, An Intimate Potrait]
=== Western Animation ===
=== Real Life ===
▲* [[Paparazzi]] in general.
== Something to Hide ==
=== Anime and Manga ===
* Used by the CEO of Little Chef when [http://www.channel4.com/food/on-tv/heston-blumenthal/big-chef-takes-on-little-chef/ Heston Blumenthal confronted him] about his 'nationwide' rollout of Heston's new menu... over ''three'' cafés.▼
* Said during ''[[Lucky Star]]'' by the in-universe director when "Lucky Channel" was airing only a shot of their destroyed set.
* [[30 Rock|Liz Lemon]] and Tracy Jordan go through gymnastics trying to keep their feuding off Angie's reality show.▼
=== Live-Action TV ===
▲* ''[[30 Rock
=== Real Life ===
▲* Used by the CEO of Little Chef when [http://www.channel4.com/food/on-tv/heston-blumenthal/big-chef-takes-on-little-chef/ Heston Blumenthal confronted him] about his 'nationwide' rollout of Heston's new menu... over ''three''
== Have Some Decency ==
=== Film ===
* Invoked by [[Terry Pratchett]] in [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7560713.stm a BBC documentary about his Alzheimer disease].▼
* Used in the ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' episode "Heroes" when {{spoiler|Dr. Frasier}} dies.▼
* In ''[[Die Hard 2]]'', the reporter pushes the camera down when the McClanes reunite, partly to highlight that she is better than the guy from the first movie.
=== Live-Action TV ===
▲* Used in the ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' episode "Heroes" when {{spoiler|Dr. Frasier}} dies.
=== Real Life ===
▲* Invoked by [[Terry Pratchett]] in [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7560713.stm a BBC documentary about his Alzheimer disease].
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