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* Early on in ''[[Earth Girls Are Easy]]'', Geena Davis's character throws her doctor fiance out when she finds him cheating with another girl. The next day, as she's weeping at the kitchen table, a soap opera shows a doctor fooling around with a nurse, ''on top of his comatose wife.''
* In ''[[Oh, God!]]'', God wants Jerry Landers to build an Ark for an impending flood. Jerry is resistant, and at one point he sits in his car and all that's on the radio are songs that involve the word "rain."
* ''[[Modern Times]]'' has one, even though the movie itself is [[Older Than Television]]. In one scene, the Tramp is in a waiting room sitting near a woman with a terrible and noisy gas problem. Eventually, he turns on the radio next to him, to a commercial for antacids. He turns it off quickly.
== Literature ==
* In ''[[Bad Monkeys]]'', after Jane's [[Heroes-R-Us|crime-fighting company]] finds out that she used to sleep with younger men, all she sees on TV is ''[[Teacher-Student Romance|The Mary Kay LeTourneau Story]]'' and all she hears is [[Michael Jackson]] songs.
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* This happens once to Fez on ''[[That '70s Show]]''.{{context|reason=At least tell us which episode it happens in.}}
** A similar example occurred to Eric, though it was more Your Radio Hates You. When he broke up with Donna, the next morning every song on the radio station was about breaking up.
* It also happens to Fran and Maxwell on ''[[The Nanny]]'' when she loses his Shakespeare original after being mugged. They were treated to Shakespeare plays, on their channels.
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* Your Radio Hates You occurs in [[Basehead]]'s song "Not Over You", where one of Michael Ivey's friends is trying to cheer him up after he breaks up with his girlfriend, by putting on the radio, which is playing nothing but love and breakup songs.
* Ditto "Songs About Rain."
== Newspaper Comics ==
* From ''[[Garfield]]''; this seems to happen to the protagonist every time he's on a diet, there seems to be a lot more food commercials when he watches television. Worst example: In one arc, he tried to watch TV to take his mind off food, and turned to a program called ''Bowling for Meatloaf''. In the next panel, he and Jon were at the vet's waiting room with the TV lodged in Garfield's mouth.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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* In ''[[Frisky Dingo]]'', Killface, brooding over the betrayal of his friendship by 'Barnaby Jones' (in reality Xander Crewes), tries to take his mind of things by watching TV, except that every single channel is either about Xander Crewes, Barnaby Jones, friendship, or spells out 'Xander Crews' or 'Barnaby Jones' by judicious use of channel flipping. Eventually he just shoots the TV.
* In the ''[[Family Guy]]'' episode "Stewie Loves Lois", Peter feels sexually violated after his prostate exam and Brian tries to console him by turning on the TV, but every channel is about fingers and fingering.
* In ''[[The Owl House]]'' episode “Thanks to Them”, Luz gets this bad. Amity turns on a movie adaptation of ''[[Show Within a Show|The Good Witch Azura]]'' (a franchise they are both fans of) suggesting she and Luz cosplay on Halloween as Azura and Hecate (Azura’s rival-turned-ally, who has been compared to Amity in a previous episode). The scene in question shows Azura protecting Hecate from a villain named Luci, and given the small amount of information given, it seems Luci has betrayed them for what she claims to be a greater good. The tearful Azura does not believe her, vowing that Luci will ''never'' be forgiven. This only reinforces the guilt Luz herself has of being Belos’ [[Unwitting Pawn]], having been fooled into helping Belos release the Collector (believing she was doing the right thing) and possibly dooming the Boiling Isles. It's not helped that Luci even looks slightly like an older, evil version of Luz.
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