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B-Roll Rebus
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That thing where national news runs a story, and over every noun they show footage of what that noun is, even if it's a metaphor. It's usually when they're rambling about something with opinions, and they're telling both sides while narrating and not showing an anchor: News on the radio, especially on NPR, does something similar with sounds. Voiceover Guy will say "The Vermont maple syrup harvest is starting up this cold February day." This cues the sound editor to play crunching snow noises as the Vermont farmer is walking through the field of snow. There may or may not be a farmer remarking, "You can't get the-yah from he-yah." Also known as the 'Lord Privy Seal' effect, after a sketch in which the Lord Privy Seal (a sinecure post in the British government) was illustrated with pictures of a nobleman, a lavatory and a pinniped. Since then phrases like "it's a bit Lord Privy Seal" have been heard across the halls of British television news production. Related to compulsive hyperlinking syndrome - the inclination to turn every word in text into a hyperlink, even if there's no need for explanations and the link is not used to make any point or minimal research is necessary anyway. Usually observed on fans of The Other Wiki, probably just because the wiki engine makes cross-linking so easy. We have it Just for Fun on This Very Wiki... if interested, jump over to All-Blue Entry. Naturally, a Sub-Trope of B-Roll. |
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Also in another Chris Morris series The Day Today, with the pictures gradually illustrating smaller and smaller bits of speech, with the sketch being colloquially known as "Click Ting Stamps". | |
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Employed to great lengths by Warner Bros. in their ads for the Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD boxset, as seen here. For instance, "a 24-karat collection..." is illustrated with a clip of a plane dropping a bunch of carrots into a compartment, and the line "so if you're hungry for great cartoons, now you can get your fill" is illustrated with clips of Sylvester luring a monkey with a banana, pieces of cheese raining down over Speedy Gonzales' Mexican mice friends, Sylvester shoving Tweety into his mouth, and Daffy Duck as a cowboy eyeing a milkshake. | |
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Parodied at least once in Brass Eye: Chris Morris declares "let's shatter some myths" and destroys a statue of a centaur to make the point. Also in another Chris Morris series The Day Today, with the pictures gradually illustrating smaller and smaller bits of speech, with the sketch being colloquially known as "Click Ting Stamps". |
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Parodied by Nathan Fielder in an episode of This Hour Has 22 Minutes. Whenever he says a certain noun, he pulls it out of his coat. Harpo Marx liked to pull things out from his coat to match what people are saying. Which makes this Older Than They Think. |
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Dead Ringers parodied Dr. Simon Schama's tendency towards using these by having a Schama impersonator tell the story of Henry VIII using a deck of cards, a set of scales and a cake - it's stated that because of Schama's massive fee, they could only afford three illustrative props. It results in puns such as "ignoring the advice of Card-(shot of a card)-inal Wolsey" and "Or should he wait?" (shot of scale with a weight in it). The sketch ends with Schama declaring that next week he'll be doing the whole Renaissance with nothing but a compass, a pipe and a potato. | |
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In an episode of Frontline, Mike explains the concept to his niece Rebecca when she's doing her work experience, and her response presents her as savvier about the show he works on than he is: she asks if that's why every time they do a story involving gay people they splice in footage from the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. Later in the episode, the show does exactly that, preceding a story about a gay teacher allegedly sacked based on discrimination. | |
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A number of voiceover-over-slide-show video series have followed Yahtzee's lead, including former Escapist series Extra Credits, which uses a mix of original cartoon drawings and found images (often macros). In one episode, the line "things we can't even imagine" is accompanied by cartoonist Allison Theus at her drawing board saying "Things we can't even imagine? How the f**k am I supposed to draw that?!" | |
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The Legs & Co. dancers on Top of the Pops were famous for this to the point that people would joke that you could figure out what song was playing with the TV muted. This was actually used as a round on Never Mindthe Buzzcocks at one point. | |
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This is a major source of humor in the AMV Hell compilations. | |
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In the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Krusty Krab Training Video", the narrator is not amused when, after he says "As you can see by this graph", it cuts to live-action footage of a giraffe. | |
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After YouTube music videos dedicated to expressing the lyrics in plain pictures, parodies began to flood in with the same principle, but of misheard/parodied lyrics instead, to hilarious effect. | |
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The Chaser's War On Everything discussed this practice on A Current Affair and Today Tonight, which used pointless visualisations of lines like "a dog of a year" and "It felt like I'd been hit in the face with a wet fish." | |
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The visuals in Zero Punctuation, which often feature obscure references and Visual Puns (such as the logo for the University of California accompanying the phrase "You see...") and in one case a confession that he couldn't think of a good image to illustrate/accompany the topic at hand. | |
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