White Void Room: Difference between revisions

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[[File:THX1138-2.jpg|link=THX 1138|thumb|400px|THX 1138's imprisonment.]]

 

{{quote|''I'll wait in this place where the sun never shines''

 

A featureless white room. So featureless, in fact, that you can't even tell where the walls, floor, and ceiling end—they all blend seamlessly together under the uniform light, so the chamber looks more like a white void than a room. Sometimes, the only indication that it's ''not'' a void is the fact that the characters have something solid to stand on.

* How about those Progressive commercials? It's a white "store" filled with only empty boxes labeled with policies, and people in white clothing are employees there.

* The setting of most Apple Computer ads since the introduction of OSX, including the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2-UuIEOcss testimonial-based "Switch" campaign], the Justin Long-John Hodgeman [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgzbhEc6VVo "Mac vs. PC" ads], and more recently the iPhone ads. The notable exception is the iPod ads, which lean more toward the [[Design Student's Orgasm|opposite extreme]].

* Those late-'90s Gap ads that everybody's forgotten by now.

** Referenced by ''[[Ozy and Millie]]'' once when Avery decides to become a marketing icon. "I plan to spend a lot of time dancing weirdly in front of a white background."

* One of the more famous "Got Milk?" commercials involved a man who dies and wakes up in an empty white room in what seems to be heaven. Of course, then it turns out to be [[Hell|the other place.]]

 

 

** And one toilet, and a pellet dispenser. And somewhere, presumably very far off, is an elevator that gets you out.

*** That toilet is their only water supply (so they wash up in it too), and the only non-stairs element besides the machine. It constantly flushes, but still.

* Inverted in ''The Time Ships'', by [[Stephen Baxter]]. The Time Traveler is imprisoned by Morlocks by means of a single shaft of light in a seemingly-infinite ''black'' room. He's psychologically unable to walk out of sight of the beam.

* Played straight in ''Dr. Franklin's Island'' by Ann Halam. Semi, the main character, and Miranda, her friend, are able to communicate through radio when they are animals, but in a white-void-like space where they both appear in their human forms, where Miranda has a large black clamp on her leg, the same as the one she is wearing to stop her flying away as a bird.

* [[The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect]] has several characters in a post-[[Technological Singularity]] universe living in white void rooms. Most, though, find that they don't really want to live in a completely featureless white void, and and up decorating their living areas, thus completely missing the point of not owning anything when there's no longer any meaning to concepts like "home".

 

* The [[Pilot Movie]] of the Showtime series ''[[Odyssey 5]]'' had one of these. It was where a member of a race of [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens]] rescued the main characters and sent them to save Earth.

{{quote|"God really IS an old, white guy."}}

* Most of the holding chambers in [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|The Initiative]] are like this.

* For a really obscure example: A 1990s Comedy Central sketch-comedy show called "Limboland" was entirely set in one of these.

* ''The Eyewitness'' series of science/nature documentaries feature [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSNJpoUmJcg an opening sequence ] in which the camera zooms through a kind of [[Mishmash Museum]] with animals of all sorts running about; the walls also have screens and picture frames depicing various images from the natural world.

** The museum itself is shown as being like this throughout the documentaries themselves, with video clips being introduced by the camera panning to the screens and picture frames. It also had the added strangeness effect of the pictures depicted being different every time, because they would be related to the subject matter.

* [[Art Attack]]

* An episode of ''[[The X-Files]]'' had Mulder captured and interrogated in one of these rooms.

 

== Music ==

* [[Invader Zim]]'s Room... with a MOOSE!!

* There was a ''[[SpongeBob]]'' episode where Squidward was on a [[Time Machine]] that went haywire and ended up in one of these.

** Minus the floor. It's literally a bottomless abyss.

* According to a ''[[Family Guy]]'' cutaway, Purgatory is this.

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