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== [[Film]] ==

* 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 (~~Film~~)|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 ''[[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 ''[[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.

* 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."

* 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."

== Literature ==

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== Music ==

* Your Radio Hates You occurs in [[~~Basehead (Music)|~~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.

* 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."

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* In the ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]'' episode "Tickled Pinky" Rocko is in a hospital bed where he is going to get his appendix cut out, he turns on the tv to take his mind off of it and sees an ad for a kitchen device called the Cut-O-Matic that looks like a mini guillotine, a [[Canada, Eh?|chain saw competition]], and a detective show with a seedy man taking out scissors to "cut someone out".

* In the episode of ''[[~~Spongebob~~ SquarePants]]'', "Idiot Box", Squidward is trying to forget about SpongeBob and Patrick playing in their box, but everything on TV is about boxes, even [[Visual Pun|boxing]].

* In the episode of ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'', "Idiot Box", Squidward is trying to forget about SpongeBob and Patrick playing in their box, but everything on TV is about boxes, even [[Visual Pun|boxing]].

* The [[Looney Tunes]] short "Birds Anonymous", in which Sylvester tries to swear off eating birds. He turns on the TV, and there's a cooking show featuring a chef cutting into some poultry. The radio hates him, too: The playlist features "Bye Bye Blackbird" and "When the Red Red Robin Comes Bob Bob Bobbin' Along". Talk about [[Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere]].

* In the first episode of ''[[Ren and Stimpy]]'', Stimpy leaves to become a big TV star, leaving Ren all alone. To take his mind off it, he turns on the TV... and wouldn't you know it, Stimpy's on every channel.

* In the [[Pilot Movie]] of ''[[~~Fosters~~ Home for Imaginary Friends]]'', Bloo has just learned that Mac has to give him up, and as he changes the channels late at night, every show is about having "the blues". One show even talks about the Grand Canyon being a "deep depression".

* In the [[Pilot Movie]] of ''[[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends]]'', Bloo has just learned that Mac has to give him up, and as he changes the channels late at night, every show is about having "the blues". One show even talks about the Grand Canyon being a "deep depression".

* Happens in ''[[The Simpsons (~~Animation~~)|The Simpsons]]'' episode "Deep Space Homer." Homer, after losing an award to an "inanimate carbon rod" and being ridiculed by his family, sits down to watch TV, saying "TV respects me. It laughs ''with'' me. Not ''at'' me." He turns it on and the first thing that appears on screen is a man pointing at the camera laughing hysterically and saying "You stupid..."

* Happens in ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' episode "Deep Space Homer." Homer, after losing an award to an "inanimate carbon rod" and being ridiculed by his family, sits down to watch TV, saying "TV respects me. It laughs ''with'' me. Not ''at'' me." He turns it on and the first thing that appears on screen is a man pointing at the camera laughing hysterically and saying "You stupid..."

** Also happens on ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode "Homer Badman." After being publicly accused of molesting a college-aged baby sitter, Homer watches TV in the fetal position while David Letterman remarks "...and the number one reference I am running into the ground is...Homer Simpson!" followed by an episode of the Mexican Bumblebee Man's sitcom, in which the Bumblebee Man gets pinched in the butt while smelling a flower and yells, "Ai-yi-yi! Es Homer Simpson!"

* In the episode "Arnold's Hat" in ''[[Hey Arnold]]'', our hero is depressed because he lost his hat. To take his mind off it, he turns on the TV and sees that it's Hat Day at the local ballpark, and everyone in the stadium is wearing one. It doesn't help.