Your Television Hates You: Difference between revisions

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Compare [[Coincidental Broadcast]], where this phenomenon is used as a plot device instead of a gag. May coincide with [[Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere]] if the thing that keeps popping up on TV or radio is something that the character is trying to quit. See also [[Mocking Music]] for the radio version.

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== [[Comic Books]] ==

* Similar to the ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'' below, one story in ''[[Archie Comics]]'' had Archie and the gang trying to find some way to escape the heat on a scorching summer day. Eventually they retreat into an air-conditioned movie theatre. the movie showing is called ''Way Down Below'', which they assume will be a [[Sub Story]]. It turns out to be set in [[Fire and Brimstone Hell]].

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* In ''[[Stranger Than Fiction]]'', Harold is told to take a day off to "do nothing," so he stays at home and watches TV to try to get his mind off of the voice declaring his imminent death. So he turns on nature shows, because he likes animals. Unfortunately, all the nature shows he turns on involve animals killing each other.

* In ''[[Over the Hedge (animation)|Over the Hedge]]'', R.J. discovers that he is being included as a member of the family (who don't know that he is exploiting them to pay back a hungry bear). When he turns on the TV they've given him, a [[Soap Opera]] is playing in which a woman says "We let you into our lives and you deceived us!" An instance where this trope is both [[Played for Laughs]] and used for [[Character Development]].

* In ''[[Bedtime Stories]]'', Adam Sandler's character gets told, through one of his bedtime stories told to his niece and nephew, that he's going to have some sort of close encounter with fire. Naturally, the songs he hears on the radio the following morning include such hits as "I'm On Fire," "Fire," and "Disco Inferno."

* In ''[[Bedtime Stories (film)|Bedtime Stories]]'', Adam Sandler's character gets told, through one of his bedtime stories told to his niece and nephew, that he's going to have some sort of close encounter with fire. Naturally, the songs he hears on the radio the following morning include such hits as "I'm On Fire," "Fire," and "Disco Inferno."

* In ''[[A New Life]]'', newly-divorced Steve flips channels only to keep seeing the same mattress store ad with the jingle "have more fun in bed!"

* Practically parodied in ''[[Hoodwinked]] Too''. The poor Wolf just keeps flipping channels, and the TV just gets more ridiculously pointed.