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Cell Phones Are Useless

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Cell Phones Are Useless	comment	With the advent of the computer age, writers still don't quite know how to work Cell Phones into a story. It used to be all you had to do for a survival adventure story was plop a bunch of people away from electricity to completely strand them at the mercy of wild animals/serial killers/zombies â€” but cell phones are making that harder and harder for writers to do believably. Even in comedy situations, there are some plotlines (such as Locked in a Room) that only work if the characters don't have cellphones. This means that cellphones are lost, broken, stolen, run out of power, jammed, intercepted or tampered with far more than they should. The range of cellphones is also ridiculously reduced from what they are in real life even if elsewhere in the story reception is better than normal â€” maybe writers are confusing them with two-way radios, or don't realise that most modern phones allow long-distance and international calls. Or they're deliberately using Artistic License to artificially preserve the drama. Note that during widespread disasters, such as the London bombings or 9/11, cell networks often fail for several reasons: overload due to everyone trying to reach each other, cell towers being damaged, and civilian phones being locked out to let emergency personnel have all the capacity. However, in many situations where this trope takes place, the problem is far more localized; being lost in the werewolf-infested woods isn't a national emergency. A simpler solution is to mention that cell phones are not an available option: the guy has just lost it, forgot it at home, or even refuses to have one to begin with (such as those Hopeless with Tech). Note that, for those cases to be a valid example, the reason is merely mentioned as a Hand Wave and no further developments come from them, such as trying to locate the cell phone. Another explanation could be that the-monster-of-the-week's eldritch powers or the cursed-land are somehow jamming the signal, giving a more plausible (if not logical) explanation of the loss of signal. Often watching older sitcoms, from the early days of cellphone use ('80sâ€“'90s), the time of the cellphone's primitive ancestor, the car phone ('60sâ€“'70s) and the days when mobile phones were not available ('50s and before â€” early mobile phones existed as far back as The '40s, but were not available for civilian use) you may suffer many a facepalm as you count how many situations could have been prevented with just having a cellphone (Larry David and others have commented on how prevalent this is in Seinfeld â€” the plots of almost half of the episodes in the series simply wouldn't work if the characters had cell phones). You can even make a Drinking Game out of it. The period the work is set in or created in, the lifestyle of the characters involved, as well as the setting have a major influence over when this trope applies. A rich character living in a major metropolitan area could reasonably expect to have a cell phone on their person (and coverage in the metropolitan area) by the early '90s or so. By 2000, 50% of Americans owned cell phones; and by 2015, 93% of Americans owned smartphones. Coverage steadily increased from major metropolitan areas only in the '80s to near complete coverage except in some extreme rural areas/wilderness by 2015. A Sub-Trope of Plot-Sensitive Items. See also The Radio Dies First for this trope applied to military or naval communications and Cut Phone Lines for deliberate sabotage of landlines. Futuristic communications not working have a Phlebotinum Breakdown. See Sudden Lack of Signal for when it happens due to being transported to another world. See Fake Static if someone pretends to have a bad connection in order to avoid an inconvenient conversation. See Super Cell Reception for when the cell phone does not fail when it rightly should. See Useless Without Cellphones for the opposite problem.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_1104b72b	comment	During the Interruption chapter of Citadel, an out of control Turing type shuts down the electrical grid as well as disrupting many forms of modern technology, including cell phones. The Citadel uses a powerful duplicator with a hive mind as a temporary workaround.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_11859033	comment	In Narbonic, Dave calls his boss to tell her he's in trouble. Unfortunately, he's just been shoved out the airlock of a spaceship.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_12425f52	comment	The Bridge Curse: When two female students in the 2016 storyline are running through a hallway, one asks the other to try using her cellphone. She responds that she's not getting a signal.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_13197c51	comment	In Funny Games, the killers "accidentally" knock the cell phone into a sink full of water thereby killing it, very much truth in television until recently.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_1331990c	comment	In Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Madoka and Sayaka find an unhatched witch in episode 3, and Madoka realizes she can't call Mami because she doesn't have her number. A similar problem comes up in the next episode, but with Homura instead of Mami. Besides the weirdness of Mami not giving her number to either of her student Magical Girls, the cellphone avoidance is unnecessary, since there aren't really any situations where being able to call someone would have made a huge difference. In fact, if Madoka had called Sayaka in episode 4, that would have helpfully explained Sayaka's Big Damn Heroes moment a few minutes later. This is, of course, assuming that cell phones would function well in or near witch barriers — technology is notoriously spotty when the supernatural rears its head.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_1367cea0	comment	Played straight and justified in Worm during the events of Chapter 16, Monarch. Dragon shuts down all cell phone communication in the city. It provides a tactical advantage and she uses the cell towers to help control her armors.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_1645fb27	comment	All-New Ultimates: Cloak and Dagger can not be texted, because they don't have cell phones. They are officially dead, so it may be difficult for them to get in a cell phone plan.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_1adee40d	comment	Cell phones in The World Ends with You have no reception. The dead can't talk to the living, after all. They can receive messages from the Reapers, and your in-game menu is supposedly the cellphone menu, but other than that they're powerless. When Joshua actually talks to someone on his, Neku instantly turns suspicious (Joshua's talking to Hanekoma). NEO: The World Ends with You has the same thing happen, with the switch to Shibuya's Underground leaving the main characters with most of their phone apps unuseable and no reception... or almost: to Rindo's utter confusion, one of his contacts, an online friend with the username "swallow", can still chat with him just fine. Finding out just what is going on with Swallow becomes one of his main motivations for the rest of the game.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_1b9ff2bc	comment	In P2, the heroine tries to use her cell phone to call the police after she's been kidnapped. Unfortunately, there's no reception, and when she finally does manage to make the 911 call, the call disconnects within seconds. Justified, since the heroine is locked in an underground parking garage.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_1be75747	comment	Jack the Reaper: After the bus crash, none of the teens can get a signal on their phones.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_1beda93b	comment	Justified in the Sluggy Freelance story "That Which Redeems", thanks to the demons having a very poor understanding of cell phone technology. Justified again in the "bROKEN" story, when the Fate Spider's Apprentice intentionally makes Torg forget to charge his cell phone, forcing him to leave it off when communication would have been vitally important.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_1cac426c	comment	The beginning of "Shia LaBeouf" establishes that your phone is dead, so you're on your own when murderous cannibal Shia LaBeouf comes after you.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_1cc09117	comment	In a Bleach side omake, the sewing club is in panic since they can't find Orihime or Uryu, when someone asks why don't they have cell phones, they comment that Uryu is too poor and Orihime can't use technology.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_1cc2a512	comment	Camel Spiders: When a bunch of people hole up in a house from the camel spiders, they try to call for help on their cellphones. Unfortunately, none of them have any bars.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_1e79fd20	comment	Black Rat: When the Black Rat initially confronts the six teenagers in the school at midnight, she infects their phones with virus: disabling them so they cannot call for help.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_1f76648	comment	In A Certain Magical Index, Touma Kamijou is often unable to get reception in alleys or the underground mall. Other characters don't seem to have any problems.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_2212773a	comment	Angel is really bad at using phones, and there are several occasions in the series where he lets the charge run down, just forgets he has one with him, or can't work out the voicemail. Being about 250 years old, he loses patience with modern technology.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_2221ecbd	comment	Done somewhat realistically in the season 3 finale of CSI: NY as the criminals blow up the cell towers around the lab prior to their invasion of the CSI lab. It's also shown that this does not go unnoticed - reception is restored before the episode's end. Unfortunately, this leads to a Kinda Busy Here moment when Mac's girlfriend finally gets through to him as he's sneaking up on the Big Bad.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_226f6b3f	comment	In the Haven episode "Much Ado About Mara", none of the characters' phones work. They eventually find out a woman is emitting microwaves.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_227117b7	comment	In Helix, which centers around a CDC team dispatched to an artic Research, Inc. to deal with an outbreak of The Virus, the remote location of Arctic Biosystems precludes normal cell phone use. It has a state of the art satellite communication system with 10 gpbs, but it only functions for an hour each day. Then its sabotaged directly after the CDC's lead researcher decides he's lost control of the situation and states that he intends to call for backup.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_22803bb9	comment	Justified in Chernobyl Diaries: while the stranded tourists might very well have cell phones, there weren't yet any cell towers at the time Pripyat was abandoned, and nobody left to keep them operational even if there had been.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_2299ab0c	comment	In Katla, The Icelandic village of VÃk is depicted as having terrible cell phone coverage, which makes sense given that it is in a remote area which has been slathered in volcanic ash. From time to time, characters must borrow rather heavier satellite phones from the few characters who have them; on other occasions, they are obliged to find the nearest working landline.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_22a676c5	comment	Averted in The Death of Superman. A teenaged girl is livestreaming Doomsday's massacre in a small town, begging for help as she keeps her cellphone trained on the beast. The Justice League swoop in to save her and (try to) deal with the beast.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_261c8d3f	comment	Lampshaded in The Simpsons as far back as 1995 in "Two Dozen & One Greyhounds", when Mr. Burns tries to update the old payphone cliche with a mobile phone.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_26541dd6	comment	In Ex Machina, a close-up on Caleb's phone reveals that there is no network in the area which adds to the isolation of the place.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_2758bf7	comment	Unwanted Houseguest: The second season finale of "TRUE Scary Stories" has a variant. The character receives a series of delayed texts from a friend that were actually sent the night before, leading to confusion.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_27b0262b	comment	For a first-season MythBusters experiment, Adam built a Faraday cage and tested it by checking his cell phone while inside. Yay, no signal!
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_28c887e4	comment	In Project ARMS, Katsumi lampshades this when she, Hayato, and Ryo are trapped in an abandoned building with Egrigori agents rushing in to capture them and she had no way of calling for help ("I'm never leaving the house without my cell phone again!") Of course, given how much influence the Egrigori have over everyone, it probably wouldn't have done them much good even if she was able to call for help.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_2a8943c0	comment	Miraculous Ladybug: Played straight in "Horrificator", the cell phones lose coverage when the building is covered in goo by Horrificator. Nino lampshades it as a common horror trope. Inverted in "Lady Wifi", as the villain's powers are based on her cell phone's wifi abilities so it's necessary to figure out how to block the signal in order to stop her. Played straight again in "Oblivio". Marinette and Adrien lose their memories and would be able to contact their friends for help if their cell phone batteries weren't almost dead.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_2aaa4fff	comment	The Locals: After witnessing a murder in rural New Zealand, Grant and Paul attempt to call the police but discover that they have no signal.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_2b70efd4	comment	Averted in Old World of Darkness. Elder vampires are extremely powerful, even compared to younger vampires. But the younger one have the power of technology with them, specially when it comes to communications. Vampires born before the invention of the telephone find really hard to trust and adapt to new gadgets, and this might put them at a disadvantage despite their greater physical/mental powers.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_2b7c5c88	comment	When Dr. Daniel Harrow tries to dig up the grave of supposedly-dead serial killer Francis Chester to prove he's still alive, Chester ambushes him and he wakes up buried alive inside the coffin he'd just dug up. He can see where he is by the light of a cell phone Chester left him, but the phone is locked so it can't make outgoing calls, and there is no Emergency Call function. Chester uses the phone to taunt Daniel and to send him video calls showing him stalking Daniel's teenaged daughter, Fern, with the intention of forcing Daniel to watch Fern die before his air runs out.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_2ba48a26	comment	An episode of Castle ("After Hours"), features Castle and Beckett looking for a phone for the completely legitimate reason that they'd just escaped from a couple mob hitters, who had taken their cell phones as well as their guns away. (Castle can't believe they still make pay phones when he finds one. Too bad the mob guys cut the pay phone's cables, too.)
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_2fe3bf25	comment	In Domino, the title character is on the phone getting instructions, and thanks to poor reception she hears "remove the sleeve from his upper right arm" as "remove the right arm", with predictable results.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_2fe64106	comment	Midnight Movie: Once the cinema has been sealed, everyone trapped inside finds that their cell phones no longer work.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_303f74a5	comment	When They Cry: It seems Higurashi: When They Cry was specifically set in 1983 so people wouldn't have cellphones. If any of the kids had did (as most all Japanese schoolkids do) then there would have been no way for the Yamainu to isolate Hinamizawa and sterilize the village without someone from the outside finding out. However, one arc of Higurashi (Yoigoshi) did need to mess around with cellphones, being set a couple of decades into a Bad Future. It's a pretty typical case of no reception followed by broken cell phone. It's messed around with a bit, however. The character who had the cell phone only pretended that he didn't have coverage and then broke his own cell phone because he was afraid of someone finding him (He'd gone to Hinamizawa in a Suicide Pact, but then when everyone had knocked themselves out with drugs while waiting for the car to fill with carbon monoxide, he had faked taking his and abandoned everyone everyone else to their fates). Likewise, its Spiritual Sequel, Umineko: When They Cry, is set in 1986 for pretty much the same reason, because getting trapped on the island without communication for their Closed Circle murder mystery would be impossible with cell phones. Of course, being set on a private island far from the coastline, the setting could have been well outside the normal cellphone coverage.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_304de1c6	comment	Subverted in The Strangers; the victims' cell phones work fine, it's just that the killers destroy the first, take the battery out of the second one, and the aforementioned victims are too stupid to think to check the body of their friend for the third. This creates some Fridge Logic, as you can't help but wonder what the killers would have done if they had been able to call the police.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_310e00aa	comment	In the visual-novel based series White Album, a significant portion of drama comes from people waiting around for calls on their land line phones. Keep in mind that the anime was produced in 2009 which is well after cell phones achieved ubiquity in Japan.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_33481b6a	comment	In Mermaid Swamp, Rin tries to use her cellphone to call an ambulance when one of her friends begins falling victim to a mysterious disease, only to find that its battery has run out and that she can't recharge it due to the power going out in the house.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_33e8c894	comment	Green Box: Subverted. Sena has his smartphone with full internet access, but Green Box somehow makes his location unknown. His phone eventually gets traced to a green structure in Ibaraki.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_3558eaa2	comment	Community: One episode had the group trapped in an 'spacecraft simulator' which was actually an old RV fully covered in metal. They are sealed in, the RV is being towed and they can't get cellphone reception from inside (Faraday Cage?). However, there is a short wave radio connected to an outside antenna so they can communicate with 'mission control' once they get it working. Subverted in a season 6 episode when the gang is in a normal RV that breaks down. Everyone is careful to keep their phones fully charged... which kills the backup battery, meaning that the heat doesn't work. They even have cell reception throughout the episode and are able to call for help, but no one will be able to get to them until the morning. Completely defied within Abed's made-up horror story in the episode "Horror Fiction in Seven Spooky Steps", where the imaginary Abed made sure to keep his phone charged and immediately calls the police (a call that goes through, is answered promptly, is believed, and the cops are instantly on their way) when he believes there is an escaped serial killer outside of the cabin he's in. This is because Abed pointedly hates horror cliches which make the victims act stupid or be helpless.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_3790ae45	comment	In the avalanche started by the protagonist and Tamara in Double Homework, they couldnâ€™t use their phones to call for help because a solar flare was interfering with the reception.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_37b7264c	comment	Initial D: When Iketani decides to go to his date with Mako, after debating on whether he should pursue a relationship or not, he gets stuck in the traffic, and his cellphone fails him when he tries to call her. By the time he arrives to the meeting spot, she's already gone.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_3cc61f13	comment	In the We Bare Bears episode "Slumber Party", the Bears hear an intruder in their cave while Chloe is staying over due to a fierce thunderstorm. They try to call for help, but Chloe's phone can't get a signal due to the storm and Panda's phone is too low on battery power.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_3dea1146	comment	"Penguindrum" manages to avert this, where all main characters (except for Himari) has a smartphone, where the characters in more than one ocassion have attempted to call someone for help, send their GPS ubication in case of peril or sending emails. There's even a scene showing live internet streaming over a smartphone, something unusual in 2011.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_3ea607e4	comment	After the bus breaks down near the haunted mill in The Windmill Massacre, no one can get a signal on their phone.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_3f231b84	comment	In Jurassic World, cell phones function perfectly right up until the plot demands they not for dramatic convenience. It seemingly has worse radio coverage than the original park, much less the cell reception. No wonder they needed Verizon sponsorship.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_3f633fb4	comment	In Cracked's 5 World-Changing Trends That Will Transform Pop Culture, Robert Evans mentions how cell phones have become a Trope Breaker for 1990s sitcom plots.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_41b0198a	comment	The Dresden Files: magic screws up advanced technology like computers and cell phones, thus ruining cell phone reception whenever a wizard is around. The effect worsens exponentially when when a wizard (or other magic user) is actively casting magic, and that's not even taking into account "hexing", which is a direct magical attack with the intent of destroying technology. Dresden himself compares cell phones to a canary in a coal mine or "those guys in the red shirts on Star Trek" because they die the instant trouble hits.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_434b0f21	comment	The film adaptation of Tomorrow: When the War Began sets up the fact that the main characters can't get cell phone coverage while camping as they are too isolated early on. When they return to town to discover that everything seems abandoned, they all check their cell phones, only to discover that they still can't get coverage (presumably as the invading army has in some way caused the towers to go down). This circumvents the issue of why no one tried to contact them to warn them, and why they can't later use their cell phones to contact each other. The novel was published before cell phones were as ubiquitous as they are now.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_43576f5	comment	Supernatural: In the episode "All Hell Breaks Loose, Part One" (S02, Ep21), there is no reception in Cold Oak, South Dakota. Ghosts and demons tend to interfere with electrical activity and by extension cell phone and radio reception. Indeed, one of the markers of supernatural activity is when radios and cell phones stop working or work improperly. Subverted in one episode where Dean notices his cellphone has no signal, so he can't inform Sam of what he's doing. It looks like a version of this trope until Sam finds a cellphone jammer in the Monster of the Week's room.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_479f5c5d	comment	In the Tiere bis unters Dach episode "HÃ¶hlenangst", Chiara's phone runs out of battery, Celine admits that she's too poor to have a phone, and Greta's phone breaks when she falls down a mineshaft, all in quick succession. Naturally, they get trapped in an abandoned mine. In a later episode, Kim and Constanze both leave their phones behind when they secretly go out horse riding.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_47dfc6f	comment	The Total Drama story, Legacy mentions that cell phone coverage in the vicinity of the camp is "spotty". This is presumably why the show's staff used two-way radios.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_47f7ea18	comment	In Saitama Chainsaw Shoujo, Kirisaki Fumio disables the local cell towers around her school and cuts the phone lines to ensure that nobody can call the police while she goes on a killing spree.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_480593fb	comment	In The Fifth Act, Cloud tries to call Tifa for the the call not to connect. It turns out its because the number doesn't exist yet due to him being in the past.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_495f277f	comment	In Hayate the Combat Butler, Izumi gets her cell phone stolen in a scene that doesn't seem to have any effect on the overall storyline. She ends up getting lost on a class hiking trip and unable to call anyone because of it, which then leads to her own arc.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_4ab17360	comment	Inuyasha: The Secret of the Cursed Mask. one of the first things your character does when he/she is sent to the feudal age is checking a cell phone, which of course has no signal.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_4bccdbe	comment	In Lockjaw: Rise of the Kulev Serpent, none of the kids' cell phones can get a signal at the camp in the swamp.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_4c300a8c	comment	The Lilo & Stitch: The Series episode "Retro" had the titular experiment, who is designed to transform objects into their most primitive forms, scare a honeymooning couple out for a swim and transform the wife's cell phone into an old-timey candlestick model as she attempts to call 911. She fails to get through.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_51fbebc1	comment	In The Hills Run Red, the protagonists' phones work just fine. It's just that they're lost in the middle of miles of unfamiliar forest and can't give any useful directions that would allow the authorities to rescue them from the slasher that's hunting them.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_53b9d4b3	comment	In Tricky Business, the villains have a jamming device activated before they board the ship so nobody's cell phone can place a distress call (and the heroine does try).
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_584365d4	comment	Several times in Melody, Becca visits the protagonist at his home just to ask him something rather than call or text him. Also, when Becca actually does call him (to warn him that Bethany is looking for him), his cell phone is dead.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_58808436	comment	It seems Higurashi: When They Cry was specifically set in 1983 so people wouldn't have cellphones. If any of the kids had did (as most all Japanese schoolkids do) then there would have been no way for the Yamainu to isolate Hinamizawa and sterilize the village without someone from the outside finding out. However, one arc of Higurashi (Yoigoshi) did need to mess around with cellphones, being set a couple of decades into a Bad Future. It's a pretty typical case of no reception followed by broken cell phone. It's messed around with a bit, however. The character who had the cell phone only pretended that he didn't have coverage and then broke his own cell phone because he was afraid of someone finding him (He'd gone to Hinamizawa in a Suicide Pact, but then when everyone had knocked themselves out with drugs while waiting for the car to fill with carbon monoxide, he had faked taking his and abandoned everyone everyone else to their fates).
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_5b6730c9	comment	In Force of Nature: The Dry 2, Ian tells the group that the corporate retreat is a social media free zone and forces them to hand over their phones before they set off on the hike. Alice secretly keeps a second phone with her, but it turns out there is no signal in the mountainous terrain. She briefly manages to get a signal and make a call to Aaron, but all he can make out from her garbled message is that she is in trouble.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_5eaedf15	comment	The Crazies (2010): The cell phone signal goes down as the virus starts to spread. At least here there is somewhat of an explanation, seeing as the military likely cut off phone connection in the town.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_65aabcf0	comment	The Buso Renkin of Doktor Butterfly, Alice In Wonderland, acts as a cellphone jammer. This was done deliberately so that the school he attacks could be totally isolated.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_65d9acd2	comment	Frequently abused in The Sarah Jane Adventures, usually because a phone was dropped or destroyed during an alien confrontation. They have some fun lampshading this:
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_679e5f98	comment	Zigzagged in A Grimm Quest; as Amyâ€™s phone is useful (she looks up the time, gets a convenient text message, and calls a cab) until the screen breaks when she falls through a floor. Cody also uses it to track her down when they're in Las Vegas. They cannot use any of the phones to call the Mound, however, as everyone there uses messenger orbs and they burned their emergency call saving Tyghanire.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_68d474ed	comment	Berlin Syndrome: Clare tries to call for help using hers immediately after learning Andi's locked her inside his apartment. He already took her SIM card though to prevent this.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_691be369	comment	On The X-Files, Mulder and Scully used cell phones fairly realistically but several times they were forced to leave a message when something urgent was to be communicated. They also often drive significant distances to speak in person rather than using their cell phones even when phoning would be perfectly safe. Of course, living in a Crapsack World run by a shadow government with alien technology and no accountability, Mulder really is completely justified in being paranoid enough to doubt that the person who answers when he calls Scully is, in fact, Scully if he can't see her face. Heck, there are episodes where he'd be advised to doubt it's Scully when he can see her face. For that matter, is it ever "perfectly safe" to use a phone to discuss a government conspiracy when elements of the FBI, NSA, and CIA are actively trying to monitor and/or block your investigation? Ironically, back in the day the X-Files were often mocked for their excessive use of cell phones; at least one contemporary parody showed Mulder and Scully talking to each other on cell phones while riding in the same car. A cell phone that folded up small enough to fit into your pocket was bleeding edge technology back in 1993 at a time when people still carried pagers. Mulder and Scully are often the only characters who even have cell phones.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_69a00c38	comment	Funky Winkerbean: In 2010, the series' title character was seriously injured in a car accident, caused by a young woman whose car veers into the path of Funky's car while she was talking on a cellular telephone while driving. He then appears to readers in the following day's strip as though he simply drove off the road and was uninjured. He attempts to call for help on his cell phone but is unable to get it to work. He then realizes he is in Westview as it appeared in 1980, and had seen (and in some cases, visited with) teen-aged versions of himself, Crazy Harry and Holly Budd (Funky's wife-to-be), and a younger Mr. Dinkle - all as they appeared in Funky Winkerbean strips in the early 1980s. It is only several days later that readers realize the seriousness of Funky's injuries that had rendered him unconscious, and that he was dreaming. As late as 2011, Les Moore (Funky's best friend and one of the main characters) did not own a cell phone, causing situations such as him not realizing that his daughter was injured during a game.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_6ada53b1	comment	NUMB3RS In one episode, Don tries to call another agent to warn her that there's an assassination plot in progress on the witness she's getting out of prison. He can't get through because there's no cell service in the prison. Justified in that there's a pretty good reason for a prison to cut off cell phone access; they would want to make absolutely sure that even if an inmate somehow got access to a phone, they wouldn't be able to use it. In another episode, a kidnapping occurs and our heroes only have one hour to save the kid (the episode takes place in near-Real Time, as well) and could really use Don's help as team leader. Alas, the B-plot is that Don is in a Bureau-mandated psych session courtesy of being involved in a shooting one episode prior and the psychiatrist ordered Don to turn off the phone. Don only finds out something happened once he returns to the office in the episode's denouement. (In a later episode, we learn that Don's psychiatrist has learned of this incident and no longer makes him turn off his phone.)
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_6cb2d709	comment	Harry Potter: The absence of Cell phones when they could have solved a lot of problems is justified. Not only do high concentrations of magic canonically play merry hob with transistorized devices, but all but the last chapter of the last book take place in the 1990s (each book is set approximately ten years behind its publishing date, though the textual indications of this aren't obvious and the films don't explicitly point this out either). While cell phones existed, people have a tendency to forget that they didn't really become ubiquitous until the next decade, and service was patchy at best (Hogwarts is someplace very deep in Scotland, which even in 2023 is plagued with cell phone dead zones). Franchise fans are understandably upset about having to explain this tidbit again and again.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_6ce5d654	comment	Save Yourselves!: While Jack and Su both have their phones with them, their isolated location means that they barely get any signal, essentially rendering the phones useless.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_6ecd1807	comment	A very silly plotline on Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip called for Danny and Jordan to get locked on the studio's roof so that they'd be forced to discuss their relationship. Aaron Sorkin does find it within himself to pay lip service to the idea that they could just call someone to unlock the door... by having them wander around holding their phones aloft, complaining that they can't get a signal. On a roof. In the middle of L.A. For no reason. It would've been better if they had just left them in their coat elsewhere, or in a desk drawer, or something.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_6f734712	comment	In Smallville, Lois' phone runs out of batteries when something nasty is going down and she needs to make a call. She even says "Really?!" when it happens, as if disbelieving that such a cliche could happen to her.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_7041cf12	comment	Kaguya-sama: Love Is War: Kaguya's cell phone doesn't work during the fireworks arc when she tries to call the rest of the student council. She briefly wonders if it's either due to a lot of people making calls at the same time or if her 11 year old phone is simply having trouble getting a signal (most likely a combination of the two). Notably, she didn't have any trouble sending a text to Fujiwara in the previous chapter, though there would have been a lot less cell phone traffic at the time.note Shirogane also didn't have any trouble sending Fujiwara a text around the same time that Kaguya's call failed to go through in the anime, though his phone was a much newer model and only a few months old.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_713fa68e	comment	In Silent Hill: Promise, Vanessa's cell phone hasn't worked correctly yet.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_749a0710	comment	In Fredbear and Friends, when Thomas realizes he's locked up in the pizzeria, he attempts to call for help, only to discover that his smartphone's battery is dead.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_750c88d7	comment	In The Butchers, the bus breaks down in a valley where the mountains block cell phone signals. Bill briefly manages to get half a bar, and no one else can get anything.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_75ce2a6b	comment	You're Next has this with one character outright figuring out that the villains are using a cell phone jammer and stating that they're illegal, even how much they cost. Said character is working with the killers to murder everyone else, so this actually counts as Foreshadowing of his involvement.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_75e497c6	comment	The Spooksville episode Phone Fear plays for horror, as answering a phone gets you picked off by a mysterious fog.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_7832b74c	comment	Steven Universe: In the season 3 finale, Steven complains about the lack of cellular reception... as he floats in a bubble through space. Right past a satellite, no less! Zigzagged in the season four finale: People go missing, and a call to one of them is unanswered. They turn out to have been kidnapped, and either had their phones taken or just couldn't answer them (by merit of being gagged and largely immobilized). One more person is captured, but still had her phone, and sends some pictures of her location despite being gagged—which the kidnappers wanted (or did themselves) to lure out the Crystal Gems.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_789a0271	comment	Averted in Jurassic Park III. The protagonists spend a good deal of time chasing after a satellite phone instead. Any cell phones that they might have had would have been useless; they were on an island far from any towers. This is mixed with a Behind the Black moment, when they hear the sound of the phone but not the freaking huge dinosaur approaching in whose stomach the phone is. Clearly, the phone is quite louder than the dinosaur itself!
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_7bf45181	comment	Double subverted in Dead Snow. The cottage has virtually no reception but near the end of the film, Martin manages to get enough signal to call the emergency services. Unfortunately the respondent doesn't believe that the Nazi Zombie attack is real and hangs up. The others promptly chew him off for not making up a more plausible scenario.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_7cb04bb5	comment	The Inside No. 9 episode "The Harrowing" is told that the street on which she's housesitting for a creepy family is a cell "dead zone" and she'll have to use the land line. The one time she does try to use the land line phone it's in use by a party line call.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_7dbde88b	comment	Drake & Josh are forever losing their cellphones to trap them in odd situations.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_7f0ba89e	comment	In The Way of the Gun, various characters have difficulty reaching each other due to their junky cell phones failing to work.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_7f49dfdb	comment	When the blackout hits in Devil Survivor, cell service goes down as well, which the characters note as odd, because the towers shouldn't be affected ("But the phone centers have their own backup power, right? This doesn't make sense!"). Later in the game, the lack of cell service is alluded to, when someone claims to have called someone outside the lockdown; which isn't possible, of course. And in the sequel, JP's are in control of the only still-working phone network, eventually allowing the protagonists to communicate with each other once they join.But when trying to save people from their Death Clip fate, there is always one reason or another to prevent them from contacting each other: When saving Daichi, the hero and Io haven't joined JP's yet. When saving Jungo in Nagoya, Brainwashed and Crazy Fumi had hacked the server shutting down service. With Makoto we have Ronaldo trashing the Osaka branch and the phone lines with it. As for Joe, his battery conveniently runs out just as he encounters a horde of demons.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_8132b616	comment	Uzumaki features an early example. Although it would be believable for cell phones not to be present at all in the graphic novel's setting (given that it's set in or around 1998), a reporter is seen attempting to call out of town only to find that her cell phone doesn't work after the town of Kurozu-cho has gone full Closed Circle.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_81692f99	comment	A common aspect of Star Trek, in general. Working communicators and transporters have the potential of removing any danger from a given situation, so often one or both become unusable for some reason or another. In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Disaster," many of the difficulties faced by the crew of the disabled Enterprise could have been avoided if their communicators were working. Partly justified in that the main computers (which link the communicators together) are down, although Fridge Logic kicks in when you wonder how an Away Team talks to each other when the Enterprise is out of range.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_819b8c9e	comment	Warehouse 13: Averted. Instead of cell phones, all Warehouse agents use Farnsworths, black-and-white Video Phones invented by Philo Farnsworth (the inventor of TV) that work anywhere (even in the middle of nowhere, where the Warehouse is located) and can't be intercepted or traced. They still carry their personal cell phones for when non-Warehouse people need to reach them, although reception inside the Warehouse is awful (possibly by design). Claudia even tries to mess with her Farnsworth to change the ringtone, which, naturally, almost leads to a disaster. Artie is adamant about her not messing with any artifact. Occasionally played straight due to the fact that Myka and Pete only have one Farnsworth between the two of them, so when they split up, this trope kicks in.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_819e7714	comment	The Accountant (2016). When Wolff learns that Dana is going to be killed, he tries to warn her by calling her, but since she didn't exchange numbers with her, the call comes up as an unknown number in Dana's phone, so she ignores it.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_820eaf0e	comment	In Big Driver, Tess's car gets a flat tyre on a remote country road in a spot where there is no cell phone signal. Justified as the nails on the road had been laid deliberately as an ambush, and Lester had deliberately picked a spot with no reception.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_8501afb1	comment	Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children uses phones as a metaphor for emotional contact. The result of this is that Cloud and Vincent's reluctance to use phones (Cloud only uses his voicemail, and Vincent doesn't own one at all) is a symbol of their inability to integrate themselves into normal life, and so when Cloud refuses to call for back-up it's all right, because it's all a metaphor. Tifa lectures Cloud about how not getting rid of his cell phone shows he still cares about people deep down, and Vincent later announcing his surprise arrival to help the heroes out after all with the line "where can I buy a phone?" At the end, Vincent buys a phone and Cloud starts using his again properly. Made funnier when Vincent tells Cloud to pass on a message telling Yuffie to stop calling his number. Of course, the fact that they're symbolic doesn't mean they aren't also Product Placement. Also, the funniest moment in the entire film: after a long fight, Tifa defeats Loz, and the Final Fantasy victory music is faintly heard. It's Loz's ringtone!
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_86a96109	comment	In Shrooms, a bunch of teenagers go into the wilderness to eat shrooms and do wacky teen stuff. Then people start dying and they want to call the cops. And all of a sudden all their phones are missing. Turns out the killer hid all of them right before starting the killing spree.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_875a9156	comment	Claw (2021): After their car gets a flat tire in the desert, Julia and Kyle try to see if they can get a signal on their cell phones. They have no bars.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_8763ca4e	comment	Parodied in Tucker & Dale vs. Evil, where one of the Wrong Genre Savvy characters smashes a cell phone because he knows it won't work in a horror movie - before even checking if it works.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_8910a978	comment	In Another World with My Smartphone plays with it given its basic premise. Touya Mochizuki initially notes that he'll be unable to recharge his smartphone in the fantasy world as he would in the real world, but he can use magic to recharge it. Additionally, he is no longer able to use it to communicate with anyone in the real world, but can use it to communicate with God. However, he can still use it to access the real world's internet and keep up with its goings-on. God also tweaked the phone's map function to display maps of the fantasy world instead of the real world.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_89465e75	comment	In Percy Jackson and the Olympians, cell phones aren't so much useless... as just a very good way for demi-gods to have monsters jumping down their throats to tear them open. Either way, they're not used until The Last Olympian, where the 'monsters-tracking-you' problem is moot because New York is faced with an outright invasion.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_8d7f29ec	comment	The author of the Glee Slash Fic Clouds Between Their Knees, in which Kurt and Dave Karofsky are lost in the woods after a plane crash, actually asks the reader to ignore the fact that Kurt would probably be able to use his phone to at least find out where they are.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_8d817ccb	comment	In Lost, Boone is shown trying to use his phone just after the crash, but he can't get reception on an island in the middle of the South Pacific. Ironically, people with functional satellite phones arrive in the fourth season, but they can only call each other. The people currently off the island seem unwilling to call each other, preferring instead to show up in person, usually with a dramatic reveal. However, they do call each other when it's urgent, like when someone's life is in danger. Also, the Island travels through time, which can't be good for reception. In general the island is subject to powerful electromagnetic fields that have been manipulated by various visitors which could help explain some of the weirdness. Though its not consistent. Desmond is able to call Penelope back in England on one of the satellite phones.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_8d81bb26	comment	In the NCIS episode "Boxed In", Tony and Ziva are trapped in a shipping container and try desperately to get signal on their cell phone - justified here, as the container would act as a Faraday Cage. Also justified is Abby being unable to call Gibbs directly in the container yard due to all the containers wrecking the signal.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_8fd3db0b	comment	Lampshaded in Star Trek: Lower Decks episode "Mining the Mind's Mines" when the ensigns from both the Cerritos and Carlsbad are stuck in a cave and they try to use their commbadges to contact their ships, leading Mariner to snark "It's not a full day in Starfleet until the comms get blocked!". Equally lampshaded to hell and back in the episode "Caves". Each of the stories deal with one of the main four being trapped in a cave (or a turbolift in Tendi's case) and their comms not working. The one time comms weren't blocked, in Mariner's story, it turns out they were out of range.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_90642471	comment	In Hush, Hush, Nora's phone constantly goes out while she's with Patch, even when she specifically notes she thought she charged it. She never finds this suspicious. She and Patch later end up in a motel that had its power lines knocked down in a storm, with the explanation that the motel clerk/owner simply doesn't have a cell phone because it costs too much.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_90a3a7f4	comment	The Kim Possible episode "Return to Wannaweep" averts this by Ron run toward the emergency phone at the camp just as Gill is attacking and being thankful that he hears a dial tone. However, Gill destroys the phone before he is even able to make a call. Justified in the first encounter with Gill as he used telecommunications equipment to jam cell signals.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_960062b7	comment	My Hero Academia: Midoriya averts this in his fight against Stain (he sends his location to Todoroki, who arrives as backup), but he can't repeat the trick in his fight against Muscular, since the villain's first attack pointedly destroys his phone.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_9888e7c2	comment	Parodied in Dan Vs. "Technology." Chris attempts to call for help after crashing in the woods, only for his cell phone to explode in his hand as he dials.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_98b697e9	comment	Inverted in Scream where the existence of cell phones makes things harder for everyone. The police question Billy because he has a cell phone and he points out "everyone has one": a chilling revelation when the murderer targets people via phones and everyone having cell phones means you can't rule potential suspects out because they were on a landline while killings happened.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_9a0cb5f4	comment	Bob's Burgers: In "The Belchies", Linda tries to call for help when the Belchers are stuck in a candy factory that's due to be demolished, but can't get a signal. She blames it on their cheap cell-phone provider, while Bob blames it on the fact that they're underground. In "Into the Mild", Bob's old cell phone conks out after he's locked in a closed outdoor supply store, leaving him unable to call for help after he discovers the landlines have already been disconnected.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_9a67b688	comment	Case Closed: There are numerous times where a cellphone doesn't work right as the characters found out they were locked in a creepy old house with a psycho killer. Conan was also almost caught by Ran when she found his "Shinichi" cell phone. On the other hand, Conan solves cases as Shinichi long-distance via cellphone all the time without issue. An in-universe novel contained the old misunderstood tragedy of a couple waiting on opposite sides of a pillar for the other, thinking they've been stood up. It's mentioned that, in this age, such a problem wouldn't exist anymore because cellphones are such a common thing. This is the first clue Conan got about the author being someone who doesn't know how the outside world has advanced in the last fifteen years, since said author also has delinquents be the only ones with bleached hair in his story. Turns out, the author was his writer brother's ghost-writer, locked up in the attic, after he was lead to believe that he accidentally killed his girlfriend—it was his own brother who was the true murderer, finishing the job after he went to check on the girlfriend, who he was having an affair with.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_9b4cdc62	comment	In The Haunting of Whaley House, the kids do try to use their cell phones to contact outside help, but the ghosts catch on and disrupt the reception.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_9dde377d	comment	Dark Hole: Phones stop working around the sinkhole. As the smoke spreads through the city it interferes with the survivors' phones too.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_9e876c22	comment	In Good Omens, Crowley and two Dukes of Hell describe what they have done to aid the spread of evil that day. One Duke corrupted a politician. The other tempted a priest. Crowley disabled every cell tower in Central London for 45 minutes... during lunch hour. The other demons don't understand. Crowley figures that spreading low-level frustration to thousands of people on a regular basis is much more efficient in the corruption of souls than the one-on-one approach — a thousand grouchy people spread a lot more misery around than one awful person. In the TV series, this ends up biting Crowley in the butt. He tries to call Aziraphale from the car, only to be unable to reach him due to the disruption.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_9e9eee54	comment	Part of what drives the drama in The Ruins is that regular cell phones can't get reception in the middle of nowhere in South America, but one of the characters claims his brother, lost at the site, has a "world phone" that would connect (presumably satellite based). Unfortunately, it's in the middle of the eponymous ruins. And it's been broken the entire time. It was the plants that were mimicking a ring tone, to lure the tourists in. To their credit, the tourists do check to see if they have cell phone reception earlier in the film, but the person checking their phone lies about getting reception because he knows that otherwise, the girls wouldn't agree to go with them.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_a32b6a64	comment	In The West Wing two-part episode "20 Hours in America," Josh, Donna, and Toby get stranded at a campaign stop and can't get in touch with the rest of the staff because they're already up on Air Force One (there was also a mixup with time zones). They briefly get hold of CJ once the plane lands, but then the battery on Donna's phone dies which prevents any further contact with the White House.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_a4c8f35d	comment	In Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth, when the S.E.E.S. gets transported to Yasogami High, they soon get the idea to use their phones to call out. Naturally, they get no service, nor does the GPS work.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_a60f8e43	comment	Realistically treated in The Host (2006), where Hyun-seo is trapped in the sewer without a recharger and with terrible reception. She's able to get one call through, which is what starts off much of the plot.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_a662a127	comment	The Adventure Zone arc "Amnesty" is set in Kepler, West Virginia, which is located inside the United States National Radio Quiet Zone. This is a real place that exists to facilitate scientific research that would be interfered with by radio waves; you can be fined for unauthorized Wifi use.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_a81325d3	comment	Also, the funniest moment in the entire film: after a long fight, Tifa defeats Loz, and the Final Fantasy victory music is faintly heard. It's Loz's ringtone!
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_abc09ce0	comment	In What's New, Scooby-Doo? episode "There's no Business Like Snow Business", a journalist was having trouble with her cell phone while ranting about audience, which made the gang regard her as a suspect while all Fred pointed out was that he thought cell phones worked well in that area. At first, it seemed he was Comically Missing the Point, but it turned out to be a Chekhov's Gun, as the Monster of the Week was a machine radio-controlled by the Villain of the Week, whose radio signs were causing interference on the cell phones.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_afc879df	comment	In Until Dawn, the characters are up on a mountain and can't get any reception. When Chris asks Josh (son of the owners of the lodge) about the lack of reception, Josh says he'll install a cell tower if Chris has a spare million lying around somewhere. The characters still use their cell phones for light and music, though. In The Quarry, the prologue features two characters who get lost because they have no GPS signal and aren't sure how to read the paper map. The teens in the bulk of the story have mobile phones, but in order to get them to behave and do their jobs as camp counsellors, their phones were confiscated for the last month. They ran out of charge while unattended.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_b09be8	comment	In Gundam Build Fighters: GM's Counterattack, when the Gunpla Mafia take over Yajima Stadium with the main protagonists trapped inside, Nils discovers his phone has no signal, which the Meijin figures is a jamming device being used.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_b12795de	comment	Drag Me to Hell had the protagonist pull out her cell phone during a haunting. The demon performing said haunting responds by draining her cell phone battery and making a scary zombie face appear on the phone's screen. Oh Lamia, you are such a card.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_b36b9a9c	comment	Subverted in Hush: the killer confiscates all of the cell-phones.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_b36b9a9f	comment	Husk: After their car crashes into the cornfield, none of the protagonists can get a signal on their cell phones. (Only Scott is shown trying, but it can be assumed the others did as well.) Undoubtedly a property of the curse that lies upon the field.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_b3704ffa	comment	In the first Saw movie, Jigsaw leaves a cell phone in order to inform Lawrence that his wife and daughter are being held hostage. Naturally, the first thing Lawrence does when he finds the phone is to attempt to call the police, but it turns out that the phone is somehow modified to only receive calls, and not even dialing 911 works.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_b4996199	comment	Spider-Man: Miles Morales is having an Enemy Mine team-up with Rhino. He insisted to Rhino that it would be easy for them to keep in touch if they text each other. Rhino loathes cell phones, doesn't have one, and doesn't want to.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_b61bbe0a	comment	The show Modern Family goes out of its way to avert this all the time. Part of the show's original concept was to defy the belief that modern inventions (and primarily the cell phone) had made a modern sitcom impossible.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_b745e48f	comment	One Night in October: When Marcos, Brittany, Kate, and Charlie try to use their cell phones to call for assistance after their car breaks down, they find they lack bars. Marcos' phone gets bars, though... for a few seconds.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_b8e28f2e	comment	In the TV series, this ends up biting Crowley in the butt. He tries to call Aziraphale from the car, only to be unable to reach him due to the disruption.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_ba30a9db	comment	Kruel: In the area where Willie is keeping Elliot, and later also Jo, prisoner, he has a cellphone jammer set up, which keeps Jo from sending her dad much information. However, Jo's dad gets help to triangulate where the jamming is taking place, and narrows down the area where Jo might be.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_bb8b80ae	comment	Justified in the film 30 Days of Night after The Renfield steals and burns the cellphone of everyone in town. It doesn't break the Willing Suspension of Disbelief because of how it's presented: the opening scene is a pair of policemen finding a pile of melted plastic with a few recognizable satellite phone bits. That, and Barrow is small and remote anyway, so it's comparatively easy to do.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_bc3e398b	comment	In an episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Sarah tries to track a truck by using John's cell phone as a beacon. This works perfectly until the truck hits a bump, and the phone breaks irreparably after falling 3 feet. Apparently, the future leader of the human race decided to buy the most fragile phone on the face of the Earth. Can be partly explained by the fact that they come from before smartphones were a thing. The episode where Sarah meets Andy Goode, she is trying to buy cell phones for herself and John, only to be stumped by the touchscreen interface, and all of Andy's Techno Babble goes over her head.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_bccad09b	comment	Tiger House: After considerable effort, Kelly manages to retrieve her cell phone from her bag and drag it into her hiding place under the bed. She composes a text message requesting help and and is about to send it when the battery dies.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_bd310eaa	comment	El Goonish Shive: Nanase is unable to call for help during a wizard attack on her school in this strip. It this case, the attacking wizard was explicitly blocking all phone communication through magical means. In the "Family Tree" arc, Ellen and Nanase once again find themselves unable to call for help. This is immediately Lampshaded by Ellen. Once again, it is suggested that the villain of the arc knocked out cell phone reception and internet connectivity as part of his attack, although it's unknown if magical or technological methods were used. Even then, cell phones don't end up being completely useless, as the characters did their best to get outside of the range of the jamming so that they could call for help.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_c402a2a6	comment	Nite Tales: The Movie: In "Storm", after the storm knocks out the phone lines, the students find that their cell phones aren't working either.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_c4282b71	comment	Spike in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic has the ability to use his fire as a glorified fax machine, so expect him to be explicitly absent from plots where he could have easily been with the other characters and thus call for backup. The most notable instance is "The Cutie Map", where having someone along who could call for help and whose abilities couldn't be neutralized by the villain would have ended the two-parter in about five minutes.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_c4861c99	comment	In Alien Abduction (2014), the Morris family doesn't think much of their poor cell reception, as they are camping in the middle of the woods. It's when their GPS signal starts going wonky that they (and the audience) start to suspect that something is truly wrong.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_c759f5ab	comment	In Night of the Demons (2009), the mansion where the protagonists are trapped has no cell phone reception.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_c7912cea	comment	An episode of Jimmy Two-Shoes has Lucius getting swallowed by a sea creature. While in its mouth he attempts to use his cell phone, to no avail.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_cac1f772	comment	CSI: It becomes a plot point in "The Chick Chop Flick Shop" that the cell phone signal drops out a particular point in the movie studio during a storm, allowing Ronnie to be cornered by the killer as her phone call to Catherine breaks up. Of course, this was an episode that was deliberately playing with a lot of horror movie tropes.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_cb003be1	comment	Deranged (2012): When the girls arrive at the villa, they discover there is no phone signal.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_cb49bbf3	comment	This is justified on the Transformers: Robots in Disguise episode "Collect 'Em All": Filch captures Denny for his shiny hat and strands him on her nest made of shiny stuff. Denny tries to call for help only to discover his cell phone battery is dead, apparently from playing too much Sudoku. He does manage to recharge it just in time to call Russell.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_cc1983ac	comment	In Derailed (2002), the engine compartment is hijacked by two men who take control of the train. They install a cellphone jammer to prevent people from calling authorities.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_d6c9c0a4	comment	Cell phones often aren't mentioned in Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex because every member of Section 9 has radio implants (or an always-on Internet connection) and they're used about like cell phones would be. However, one episode does show that Section 9 is capable of jamming civilian model phones on short notice.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_d87c1aa8	comment	In Siren (2010), the yacht runs aground in what seems to a black spot for cell phone reception. Later on, Rachel checks her phone and finds that the battery is completely dead. Both of these effects are implied to be a property of the island itself.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_d88d5457	comment	The protagonists of Lemon Tree Passage discover that their cell phones stop working on Lemon Tree Passage Road.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_da52a723	comment	Peter Grant from Rivers of London faces a similar problem to Harry Dresden's, except that his power only trashes electronics if he actively uses magic without disconnecting their power supplies, first. In later novels, he subverts this trope by getting a phone with a cut-off switch that he only flips "on" to make a call or check his texts. (It's still often played straight with his Airwave [police radio], though, since it doesn't have a cut-off.)
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_dda7fe2b	comment	In the Bobbinsverse special issue Murder She Writes, a winter storm and the setting's remoteness results in poor mobile phone reception, preventing the main characters from just summoning the police. That is, until Lottie and Shelley discover the house's long-forgotten landline phone hidden in a cupboard. Naturally, the police only arrive after the denouement.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_de8f6b17	comment	Godzilla (1998): In the third act, immediately after finding the Godzilla progeny (and running away from them), Philippe Roache gives Nick Tatopolous a cell phone and tells him to call the Army and use the term "Code Firefly" to request an air strike on Madison Square Garden. Unfortunately at that specific moment thousands of angry New Yorkers are calling the base asking when are they going to be allowed entry into Manhattan and the lines are swamped. Nick's call does not goes through, either through the cell phone or a nearby phone booth, forcing the crazier plan to broadcast the Godzillas' location from one of the Garden's TV station booths.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_e233ff0e	comment	Lone Hero: Some expository dialogues in the barroom, where Tim is showing off the mobile pone he won in a poker game, explains that there is no cell service in Profit, and he would have to travel more than 100 miles before he could pick up a signal. This explains why none of the locals have a mobile phone and cannot call the state police when the Iron Bandits cut the phone lines and take over the town.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_e4498d95	comment	Subverted for laughs by Board James when he's trying to force his friends to stay and play 13 Dead-End Drive with him. With the doors and windows barred he cryptically says the phone's are also likely down due to the storm, so with no way out and no way to call for help they have no choice but to play the game. Bootsy and Mike just whip out their cell phones and James smashes them in a fit of rage.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_e6318baf	comment	Midsomer Murders: In "Hidden Depths", Barnaby and Scott get locked in a cellar where there is no cell reception. In "Happy Families", the remote location of the island combined with a heavy rainstorm means the detectives can't call anyone or use the internet to help solve the case.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_e67a7d6c	comment	Hilariously subverted in Negima! Magister Negi Magi, when Negi is shown that pactio cards can be used to communicate with his partners, but its only one way. Negi quickly surmises that cellphones are better. Played straight when everyone gets trapped in the magical world.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_e694aadb	comment	Ciaphas Cain: The title character deals with this problem on a regular basis. However, it's justified: due to his origin note A hive world, aka an extremely overcrowded planet he is very competent at orientation in closed spaces and thus constantly gets assigned to missions that deal with such spaces. Such as tunnels or caves. Which are, you know, underground, so it's hard to keep contact. In For the Emperor, for example, it was a major plot point, since he managed to find out the true reason behind the conflict and must find his way to the surface as soon as possible to prevent a large-scale war, since he can't just tell that over the radio.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_e9091a5c	comment	A deliberate example shows up in Miami Vice, where signal-jamming tech is used to ensure every cell phone for a few blocks around the transmitter is useless. The main characters comment that this is "what the CIA does in Baghdad", and its presence at a drug deal is their first hint that who they're after is a major kingpin.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_ea4f62db	comment	Lampshaded in the Family Guy episode "Peternormal Activity" when the guys are trapped in the basement of an old abandoned asylum. Quagmire points out to Joe that if cellphones in these situations worked, then the movie would only be two minutes long. In the episode "And Then There Were Fewer", after the dinner party turns deadly, the remaining party goers try to call for help, but no one has a working signal, blaming it on the fact that the mansion they're in is in the countryside, meaning a weak signal in good weather, but the current thunderstorm is scrambling all radio signals.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_eb5d7301	comment	Zig-zagged in Amphibia. While Anne can't do anything involving a cellular network or Wi-Fi, she still finds uses for her phone. Namely looking at photos and videos from back home. The issue regarding battery life is tackled in an episode where the phone's battery dies, after which she manages to find a source of electricity able to charge it, but whether her friends (who are later seen using their own phones for similar purposes) managed to figure out a similar trick is never shown.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_ef366257	comment	Discussed by The Distressed Watcher.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_f00d6346	comment	In Color Out of Space (2020), the titular Color is capable of causing electromagnetic disruptions that render cellphones all but inoperable, transmitting only sounds of garbled screams, effectively isolating the farm from the outside world. For some reason the Internet connection works slightly better — for a while.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_f0578285	comment	In House on Haunted Hill (1999), after the house has mechanically sealed itself, beginning the game of murder, Chris Kattan's character gives the classic line informing the guests that the phones are dead. Many simultaneously respond, "I've got a cellphone." All of them reach for their phones, but none of them can get a signal. Again, it's presented as a sign of supernatural interference.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_f2ce633a	comment	In Coherence, the characters are isolated in the house with no phone reception or internet, which they suspect is due to a comet flying overhead.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_f5459b8	comment	In Panic Room, the heroine and her daughter are trapped in the panic room while the house is being robbed. They immediately go for the land line, only to remember that she never hooked it up, thinking it was unnecessary. In a suspenseful trip outside the room, she manages to get a cellphone, only to find there's no reception in the steel-plated walls, which essentially turns the panic room into a dead zone.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_f5c936a3	comment	In Cloverfield, Rob's cellphone battery runs out just as he is trying to call Beth after the monster attacks. He takes a new one from an electronics store, which has just enough seed charge to contact her and find out she's in trouble. He then leads the group on a rescue.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_f69ce8db	comment	Bacurau: We never see how the village loses its previously excellent signal, but it is obviously a deliberate act by the people who are Hunting the Most Dangerous Game.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_f6c05e8e	comment	Either mobile phones weren't all that popular in the USA before 2004 or the writers of Friends chose to ignore their existence, because a good deal of the plots of many episodes would not have worked with mobile phones present. For example, the premise of the story of Joey missing the audition for Mac and Cheese. Chandler would have easily found Joey had he had a phone, though it's not unreasonable to believe that Joey, a perpetually unemployed actor, simply couldn't afford one.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_f724b70d	comment	In Code Lyoko, the main characters all have cell phones and never have any problem with reception or anything, but usually their phones get broken while fighting on Earth. (Strangely, they always have a new cell phone by the next episode, even if no return to the past occurred. They never seem to complain about having to buy new cell phones so frequently, though...) Played straight in one episode where a X.A.N.A. attack makes everyone's phones ring durring class, causing the teachers and faculty to confiscate everyone's phones. Fearing that without their phones they won't be able to contact each other if a X.A.N.A. attack happens, Ulrich and Odd steal back their and Jeremie's phones, but at this point they've already figured out that X.A.N.A. is already in the process of hacking a potentially armed military satelite. Yumi, the only one without her phone, stays behind to keep an eye on things, only for the Jeremie to realize too late that since X.A.N.A. wouldn't risk firing upon the factory since it would destroy the supercomputer, and itself with it, Yumi is the next most likely target and they have no way of calling her. They manage to send a warning note to her thanks to Kiwi, but the satelite still targets her and Odd barely manages to get to her in time to warn her before the satelite starts firing on her.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_f74b5f80	comment	Babylon 5: In one episode, Marcus Cole (who doesn't wear a hand link because he's not part of the station crew) finds another person's communicator. However, he can't use it to call for help, because the communicator will only work for authorized crew members. Given that the hand link is a military communicator, this could be considered justified, though one would think that even a civilian (or, for that matter, Ranger) would carry at least a civilian communications device—and we never see him use one. Word of God says that Marcus chose not to carry a communications device, because it draws too much attention and his responsibilities had him dealing with a lot of shady people who DON'T want that attention. Of course one would think even a military communicator would have a 911 equivalent given the likelihood a soldier might be incapacitated while protecting a civilian. The scripts and business imply that authentication works by verifying the identity of the person touching the back panel (which when worn is molecularly bonded to the skin and hairs, explaining why Jerry Doyle's hand has been depilated). Anyone can press the call button provided they don't take it off the authorised wearer. On the other hand, that doesn't explain why the apparent use of a stolen communicator doesn't automatically summon a security patrol. Babylon 5 has a fixed-line civilian videophone network (Babcom, which links to the galactic Stellarcom network) as well as the military communicators, and the videophone and communicator systems can be linked, but although portable civilian communication devices are frequently shown they are mostly used by spies and criminals (and never tapped or triangulated). All but once they are treated like walkie-talkies, and the only mobile phone shown in he series appears on Mars.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_fca4d79d	comment	In The Cries of Haruhi Suzumiya, there's no contact between Hinamizawa and anything outside it. Whatsoever. Justified, because Hinamizawa is actually in 1983, and cell phones don't exist yet. The first phone call from a truly portable handset (still the size of a brick, though) to the general phone network was made on April 3, 1973, by Motorola's Martin Cooper, and by 1979 the world's first mobile network appeared in Japan, though initially only around Tokyo. So it's possible that by 1983 it reached Hinamizawa (the nationwide coverage was achieved in 1984), but it's still unlikely that modern phones (most of which are 2G systems like GSM) would work on this 1G system.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_fd77861b	comment	NEO: The World Ends with You has the same thing happen, with the switch to Shibuya's Underground leaving the main characters with most of their phone apps unuseable and no reception... or almost: to Rindo's utter confusion, one of his contacts, an online friend with the username "swallow", can still chat with him just fine. Finding out just what is going on with Swallow becomes one of his main motivations for the rest of the game.
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Cell Phones Are Useless / int_ff9ab17f	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Cell Phones Are Useless / int_ff9ab17f	comment	In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Disaster," many of the difficulties faced by the crew of the disabled Enterprise could have been avoided if their communicators were working. Partly justified in that the main computers (which link the communicators together) are down, although Fridge Logic kicks in when you wonder how an Away Team talks to each other when the Enterprise is out of range.
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Bungo Stray Dogs: Dead Apple / int_a7313018	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie: Rebellion / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Miles Morales: Spider-Man (2018) (Comic Book) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
The Evil Within (Comic Book) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
The Oracle Code (Comic Book) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Funky Winkerbean (Comic Strip) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Cardcaptor Rad / Fan Fic / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Into the Hedge (Fanfic) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
The Fifth Act / Fan Fic / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Chosen One's Adventure with Legendaries (Fanfic) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Fox in the Bunnyhouse (Fanfic) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Jaune Arc, Lord of Hunger (Fanfic) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Legacy (Total Drama) (Fanfic) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
One Good Turn Deserves Another (Fanfic) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
The Choices We Make (Fanfic) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
The Turn of Haruhi Suzumiya (Fanfic) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
A Good Day to Die Hard / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Abominable / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Another Cinema Snob Movie / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Assimilate / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Bacurau / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Bait 3D / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Big Driver / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Black Rat / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Boys Don't Cry (2000) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Burning Bright / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Camel Spiders / int_a7313018	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Claw (2021) / int_a7313018	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Coherence / int_a7313018	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Color Out of Space (2020) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Derailed (2002) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Deranged (2012) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Dinosaur Hotel / int_a7313018	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Domino (2005) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Drag Me to Hell / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Ex Machina / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Force of Nature: The Dry 2 / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Fracture (2007) / int_a7313018	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Fresh (2022) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Frozen (2010) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Funny Games / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Godzilla (1998) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Greenland / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Grizzly Park / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Grizzly Rage / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Gutterballs / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Hellfighters / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
He's Out There / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Honeymoon / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
House on Haunted Hill (1999) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Hush / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Jurassic Park III / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Jurassic World / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Kidnap / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Laid to Rest / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Left Behind (2014) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Lemon Tree Passage / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Les Visiteurs / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Little Monsters (2019) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Lone Hero / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Los Cronocrimenes / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Midsommar / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Mimic / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Mindhunters / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Moon / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
mother! (2017) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Mr. Jones (2013) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Nite Tales: The Movie / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Nocturnal Animals / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Oculus / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
One Night in October / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Outpost / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
P2 / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Panic In The Skies / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Panic Room / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Picture Day / int_a7313018	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Pizza / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Plane / int_a7313018	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Population 436 / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Relic / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Return of the Living Dead Part II / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Riddle of Fire / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Save Yourselves! / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Saw / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Sick / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Snuff 102 / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Superbad / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
The Accountant (2016) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
The Book of Henry / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
The Bridge Curse / int_a7313018	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
The Cabin in the Woods / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
The Crazies (2010) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
The Demon / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
The Game (1997) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
The Haunting of Whaley House / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
The Hitcher / int_a7313018	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
The Host (2006) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
The Menu / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
The World's End / int_a7313018	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Till Death / int_a7313018	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Tomorrow: When the War Began / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Tucker & Dale vs. Evil / int_a7313018	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Unknown (2011) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Vanishing on 7th Street / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Welcome Home / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Welcome Home (2018) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Wicker Park / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
You're Next / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
StarCraft (Franchise) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Runner Guitar (Lets Play) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Campione! / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
In Another World with My Smartphone / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Magical Girl Raising Project / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Mai-HiME Destiny / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Adrian Mole / int_a7313018	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Another / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Bone Street Rumba / int_a7313018	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Campione! / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Cerberus High / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Desperation / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Dream / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Final Girls / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
How NOT to Write a Novel / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
How to Survive a Horror Movie / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
In Another World with My Smartphone / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Magical Girl Raising Project / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Mai-HiME Destiny / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
New Moon / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Newsflesh / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Strange Weather / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
The Nullweaver Cycle / int_a7313018	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
The Outsider (2018) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
The Twisted Ones / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
The Wandering Inn / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
The Woods Are Always Watching / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
20th Century Ghosts / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Wayfarers / int_a7313018	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Worm / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
CellphonesAreUseless	sameAs	Cell Phones Are Useless
Ayakashi Triangle (Manga) / int_a7313018	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Green Box (Manga) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War (Manga) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Mitama Security: Spirit Busters (Manga) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Nichijou (Manga) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
The Secret Recipe (Manga) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Uzumaki (Manga) / int_a7313018	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
"Shia LaBeouf" Live (Music) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Bounty Hunters of the Apocalypse (Roleplay) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Persona Requis Aeterna (Roleplay) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
American Horror Story: Hotel / int_a7313018	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
CSI / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Deadloch / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Fear Itself / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Ghosted / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Hard Sun / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Harper's Island / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Helix / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
I Shouldn't Be Alive / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
In Plain Sight / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Inspector Zenigata / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Journeyman / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Katla / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Life (2007) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Longmire / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Los Espookys / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Mahou Sentai Magiranger / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Midsomer Murders / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Minder / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Outer Banks / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Skymed / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Stag / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
The City Hunter / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
The Haunted Hathaways / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
The Haunting Hour / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
The Sopranos / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
The Thick of It / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
True Detective / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Æon (Tabletop Game) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Come from Away (Theatre) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Escape To Margaritaville (Theatre) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
No Exit (Theatre) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
A Short Hike (Video Game) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Big Larry (Video Game) / int_a7313018	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Body Count (Nell Bolton) (Video Game) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Claire (Video Game) / int_a7313018	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Corruption Expanded (Video Game) / int_a7313018	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Crimson Snow (Video Game) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Cursed Trilogy (Video Game) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Devil Survivor 2 (Video Game) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Final Fantasy XIII (Video Game) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Fredbear and Friends (Video Game) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Gone Home (Video Game) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Goodbye Volcano High (Video Game) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Kinder (Video Game) / int_a7313018	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
NEO: The World Ends with You (Video Game) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Night in the Woods (Video Game) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Nightcry (Video Game) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Oxenfree (Video Game) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
PAYDAY 2 (Video Game) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Paper Bride (Video Game) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Perception (2017) (Video Game) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Relicta (Video Game) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Silent Hill: Homecoming (Video Game) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Silent Hill: The Short Message (Video Game) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
16 Ways to Kill a Vampire at McDonalds (Video Game) / int_a7313018	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
StarCraft (Video Game) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Super Lesbian Animal RPG (Video Game) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
The Bit More Know Zero (Video Game) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
The Joy of Creation: Reborn (Video Game) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
The Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverie (Video Game) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
The World Ends with You (Video Game) / int_a7313018	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Twisted Wonderland (Video Game) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Until Dawn (Video Game) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Yesterday (Video Game) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Double Homework (Visual Novel) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Echo (Visual Novel) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Melody (Visual Novel) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Morenatsu (Visual Novel) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Never 7 (Visual Novel) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
The Haunting of Braidwood Manor (Visual Novel) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Bad Movie Beatdown (Web Video) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
BrainScratch Commentaries (Web Video) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Oxventure (Web Video) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Spaz Attack Commentaries (Web Video) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Suburban Knights (Web Video) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Unwanted Houseguest (Web Video) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Hypergamouse (Webcomic) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
qxlkbh (Webcomic) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Sailor Ranko (Webcomic) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Silent Hill: Promise (Webcomic) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
The Hues (Webcomic) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Bob's Burgers / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Buddy Thunderstruck / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Magical Movie Night / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Onward / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Ozzy & Drix / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
The Bob's Burgers Movie / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
The Whizzard of Ow / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Domino / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless

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