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Coincidental Broadcast

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193 feature instances
253 referencing feature instances

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Coincidental Broadcast	comment	Any television or radio accidentally turned on during a tension-filled moment will automatically display a news story relevant to or actually about the current source of dramatic tension. Incidentally, the broadcast will either be just starting or give enough detail for the characters (and viewers) to know what's going on, even if the characters turn on the television on advice from a telephone call. Often the news reporter will come off slightly Medium Aware, saying something like "We repeat..." or (more realistically) "For those of you just tuning in..." From watching this broadcast, the viewer(s) will gain an insight — or a kick in the pants — which will launch the next phase of the story. They will also never start mid-word when turning on the channel. This is also rapidly becoming a Discredited Trope considering how many sources parody this convention, even if the rise of 24-hour rolling news networks makes it much easier to Hand Wave nowadays, plus smartphones are becoming the preferred way to receive news on the go. Can be an example of Worst News Judgement Ever, if the story doesn't merit its place in the headlines. Alternatively, may be justified in cases where the story is big enough that most stations would interrupt their normal programming to cover it. Sub-Trope of Contrived Coincidence. Overlaps with Endangering News Broadcast or Ignored Vital News Reports. Compare with Chekhov's Classroom, Chekhov's News, Specific Situation Books, Suspiciously Specific Sermon, Laser-Guided Broadcast, and Your Television Hates You (the gag version). See also Crystal-Ball Scheduling, Emergency Broadcast, Learned from the News, News Monopoly, Practical Voice-Over, This Just In!, and We Interrupt This Program.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_109f7814	comment	Used both obviously and subtly in Sherlock; at the beginning of "The Great Game", John turns on the TV just as a news story about a Vermeer painting changes to a broadcast about the explosion that has just occurred at Baker Street. The convenient Baker Street story is of immediate relevance to John, but the Vermeer news later turns out to be just as important.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_11fd6993	comment	inFAMOUS has TVs spread across the city will report on your actions (sort of), but only when you happen to be nearby.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_15c6ea11	comment	Wonder Woman (1942): Oscar just happens reading a newspaper with a nice big picture of Dr. Psycho and an article about the explosion at the prison the villain escaped from when he walks in on Psycho coincidentally, ensuring that he recognizes the criminal despite never having met him before.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_17024c6d	comment	Subverted in The Pretender episode "Meltdown", which ultimately reveals that the television in question has been rigged as part of a sting operation to receive specially tailored fake news broadcasts originating from the next room.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_17af7793	comment	In Trading Places, Valentine and Winthorp have finally gotten on the same page as they want revenge on the Duke Brothers. As they mull over their options, Ophelia is watching the news and points out the man who bribed her as part of the plan to ruin Louis. The broadcast discusses how this is Clarence Beeks, assigned to be security for a crop report before it goes public. Valentine and Winthorp instantly recognize the name from payroll records and realize the Dukes' plot to corner the market by getting the report early.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_1929cbce	comment	In The Super Mario Bros. Movie, the only person who has faith in Mario and Luigi's plumbing business is their mother, with their father telling Mario off for being a plumber and causing him to go to his room depressed. When this happens, after playing some Kid Icarus (1986), Mario turns on the news and happens to see a report about a water main problem in Brooklyn that is causing the streets to flood - exactly the thing he and Luigi need to fix to restore their reputation.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_1beda93b	comment	Sluggy Freelance: More Lampshade Hanging in this strip, in which the news not only tells Gwynn exactly where to go, but reminds her of it again after she hesitates.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_1e511d6f	comment	On January 9, 2022, ABC News broke into America's Funniest Home Videos to announce the death of comedian (and former AFV host) Bob Saget.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_1ed2c571	comment	In The Cosby Show episode "Off To See The Wretched", Vanessa and her friends have snuck off to Baltimore to see the titular group in concert, with their alibi being that they're spending the night at one girl's house, whose parents are out of town for the weekend. However, later that night, the family is watching the news when there's a report that there's a fire in that very neighborhood. One of the people interviewed happens to be the girl's grandmother, who reveals that the girl's parents are away. Already confused by this inconsistency, Cliff and Claire are stunned when the next news story is about the Wretched concert, which reveals that the concert is not in New York, as the girls had told them.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_1f72b18d	comment	In the Tom and Jerry short "The Missing Mouse", the radio makes relevant broadcasts about a white mouse that had escaped from a lab after consuming an experimental explosive. The advice isn't necessarily trustworthy.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_1f818da5	comment	In a sketch from Channel Awesome (GNN - Interviews the Joker), the Joker idly asks the interviewer, Lori Prince, if he was forced to choose between the life of his dog and his cat, which he would choose. After saying he would pick the cat, an explosion is heard from the Joker's end. Shortly afterward, the news ticker at the bottom of the screen starts saying things like BREAKING NEWS: Small explosion rocks upscale home of late night talk show host, Lori Prince.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_1fd2699e	comment	In The Girl with the X-Ray Mind, Linda Danvers and her mother Edna are watching tv when the program is suddenly interrupted by a special bulletin. Upon hearing Supergirl is needed at Metropolis Penitentiary, Linda at once suits up and flies off.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_218f1c6	comment	Harry from Kiss Kiss Bang Bang mocks this trope, proclaiming that it only exists for clumsy Foreshadowing. Sure enough, a news report Harry later watches mentions the eventual location of the climax.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons has made frequent use/spoofs of this. Half the time, the characters don't even have to actually be shown turning on the TV themselves to catch the Coincidental Broadcast;
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_28fe1376	comment	Fringe: Subverted in the episode "August", where the title character turns on the news and has to wait a few minutes for the right news to come on. Played straight when Olivia and Peter hear the same news on the radio, though they were already listening.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_2ba3e3b9	comment	Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey begins with the Schwartzwelt Joint Project, the political and military higher-ups brought together to deal with the threat the Schwartzwelt represents, receiving footage from the probes they sent into it. At the same time, they're monitoring world news to make sure their cover story is in place. Each picture from the Schwartzwelt is paired up with a news broadcast that mirrors it (for example, Antlia, which appears as a burned and battered city in the middle of a war, is paired with news of a major conflict in Eastern Europe). Understandably, the Project initially believes they've accidentally crossed their feeds when they see the probe's footage.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_2bbcacd9	comment	In the Looney Tunes short "Birds Anonymous", Sylvester makes a vow to never eat birds again. He tries to distract himself from his cravings by watching TV, only to have the program be a cooking show presenting how to cook a turkey. When he tries to listen to the radio instead, the radio announcer says, "That was Bye Bye Blackbird. Now we'll hear, When the Red Red Robin Goes Bob-bob-bobbin' Along!"
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_2c079dc	comment	The Attack of the Annihilator: Wanting to cheer Barbara Gordon up, her friend Doreen switches on a TV set right when a talk show is interviewing Linda Danvers (subtly informing readers that Supergirl is in the area prior to her showing up). Suddenly the show is interrupted by an emergency broadcast reporting some lunatic is blasting holes into a research laboratory.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_2d311a08	comment	One episode of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) had a justified example. The person calling the Turtles to tell them about the news broadcast (April) was the reporter delivering it.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_2e2efbf9	comment	Back to the Future: At the beginning of the movie, Doc Brown's TV is automatically turned on just before Marty arrives. It shows a news broadcast about the theft of some plutonium by some Libyan terrorists. After Marty arrives the audience is shown a box containing plutonium underneath a bed, and it later turns out that the terrorists stole the plutonium in the hope that Doc Brown would use it to create an atomic bomb for them.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_2e3e7ac2	comment	All over the place in Justice League. Sometimes it seemed like if the news media wasn't covering a supervillain's rampage, the League would never know about it.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_31313512	comment	ANNO: Mutationem: During the roofhopping area in Noctis City, Ann battles against a Mini-Mecha on top of a building and soon collapses in the midst of the fight. The scene shifts over to Nakamura hearing about the event on the news.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_31e0f4e6	comment	Weird: The Al Yankovic Story: After Al sends his tape of "My Bologna" to the Captain Buffoon radio show, his roommates warn him that it will require years of hard work before he'll become famous. A moping Al flicks on the radio just in time to hear Captain Buffoon raving about the new tape he's just received and how he will be playing "My Bologna" all day long.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_32235825	comment	Axel Foley in Beverly Hills Cop II arrives for an undercover meeting with a criminal who's running a little late. He sits down in an empty office just in time to hear a TV news report of Bogomil's shooting.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_3495152f	comment	In Hancock, TV news is conveniently aired when needed for a scene.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_3558eaa2	comment	Subverted on Community when Abed is telling a horror story on Halloween. The characters in his story have to wait through several minutes of music on the radio before hearing the news about the escaped serial killer in their neighborhood, because it would be implausible for the report to be playing at the exact time they turned on the radio. Unfortunately for his listeners, because Abed's Genre Savvy doesn't make him any better at telling stories, much to their frustration they have to listen to hum the music numbers in their entirety.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_358d8450	comment	In book 8 of the The 39 Clues, Dan Cahill happens to see the Holts, rival Clue hunters, in a TV report on the weather at Mt. Everest. Unfortunately, a Clue is hidden on Everest as well.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_38aff798	comment	"Supergirl's Big Brother": Supergirl and her adoptive mother are making dinner when they hear a radio broadcast reporting two tigers have escaped from Metropolis Zoo and asking -specifically- the Girl of Steel's help.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_38fa34eb	comment	Wonder Woman: Wonder Woman (1942): Oscar just happens reading a newspaper with a nice big picture of Dr. Psycho and an article about the explosion at the prison the villain escaped from when he walks in on Psycho coincidentally, ensuring that he recognizes the criminal despite never having met him before. Judgment In Infinity: Black Canary, Power Girl and Huntress are discussing the Adjudicator's menace when a newscast reports on a sudden plague outbreak in Atlanta. The three women correctly guess one of his agents has begun its rampage.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_39136df1	comment	School Rumble: Yakumo stays the night at Harima's house when there's a black out. He turns the radio just in time to hear the DJ say that a black out is a good time to have sex.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_3ab9fc21	comment	In Who Took the Super out of Superman?, Superman drops by Jimmy Olsen's place, and he is told right way that some superpowerful loony is going on a crime spree. Then Jimmy turns on his radio just in time to hear a new broadcast reporting Solarman's current whereabouts.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_3b11106f	comment	Flash Gordon (1980): In Zarkov's lab, the television just happens to be talking about his wild and crazy ideas about an alien apocalypse.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_3cd90f30	comment	Subverted in Arrested Development, when the prosecuting attorney turns on the news to show Michael that his brother, Gob, has been arrested in Iraq... and they have to wait through about twenty minutes of unrelated stories. When the story about Gob's arrest has finally aired, the attorney remarks, "And imagine the impact if that had come on right when we turned on the TV!"
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_3f3abe9	comment	Rick and Morty: In "Ricktional Mortpoon's Rickmas Mortcation", as soon as Morty says he's not to blame for ruining Christmas, President Curtis begins an Emergency Presidential Address blaming him for the lightsaber incident. Which is lampshaded by Summer and Space Beth.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_41c887f7	comment	The Truman Show has a scene where Truman's own car radio accidentally picks up a frequency used by the show's producers, so he gets a convenient and alarming play-by-play of his own movements.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_42c05590	comment	In an episode of Rocko's Modern Life, Rocko is upset about the mess in his house and the fact that his old POS vacuum cleaner isn't working. Heffer persuades him to take a break, and Rocko reluctantly agrees, saying, "Sometimes, I believe I was destined to exist in an endless world of filth." The TV then plays a commercial with those Exact Words. And Hilarity Ensues from there.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_43041cff	comment	Subverted in the Made-for-TV Movie Special Bulletin, the terrorists who land in Charleston Harbor grab a TV crew who happen to be covering an unrelated story at the docks.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_432e5c6f	comment	Stone Ocean: While having a ride towards Cape Canaveral, Anasui and Weather Report have an encounter of fictional characters being brought to life, and then overhear the nearby radio detailing the phenomenon is occurring worldwide.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_43576f5	comment	Supernatural: In "What is and What Should Never Be", while in the Wish-verse, Dean channels surfs only to see a broadcast about a memorial for plane crash victims, who were saved in the regular timeline. In "Free to Be You and Me", Sam works at a bar where there is a news broadcast about various apocalypse-related phenomena, the very apocalypse a guilt-ridden Sam started. In "I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here", a news broadcast about the global meteor shower plays with footage of the falling angels in Sam's hospital room.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_4368039f	comment	Supergirl (1984): Selena accidentally switches on the car radio right when a broadcast is reporting that Superman is off-world, meaning that he will be unable to stop her evil plans.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_4617a9f2	comment	Married... with Children: Every member of the Bundy family has been featured in such a broadcast. Al, numerous times.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_4a54b863	comment	Brainiac's Blitz: As walking down her college's hallway, Linda Danvers passes by another student who coincidentally is listening to a radio broadcast about a flying saucer circling over Metropolis.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_4afc2089	comment	The same thing happens when Daffy Duck tries to capture Taz in the Looney Tunes short "Ducking the Devil".
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_4b4008d7	comment	Junjou Romantica: When Hiro walks in on Nowaki and his coworker Tsumori sleeping on the floor of Hiro and Nowaki's apartment, a news broadcast about a famous married actor being caught with another woman is on the TV. It is however, Not What It Looks Like.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_4caaff8	comment	Early in The Flash (2023), the titular hero receives a phone call from Alfred to help out with a crisis in Gotham City. Short on time, Flash asks "why not call Superman?"...only to turn around and see a live news broadcast where it turns out Superman is busy battling an erupting volcano in South America.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_4d1ba412	comment	Spoofed in one The Adventures of Dr. McNinja comic. The Big Bad, Frans Rayner, turns on a news broadcast for his captive Gordito that explains how Fran's plan is affecting the world. The Alt Text of the comic says "That isn't live TV. Frans tivoed it earlier that day." This trope was lampshaded even earlier, when a convenient newscast gave the doctor necessary information after he'd spent the day investigating. Later exploited, as Doc appeared on a talk show to sell a phony book so he could get hired at NASA.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_4d819224	comment	Life Blood: In 2009, Rhea and Brooke are able to catch a documentary that fills them in on what happened after they left the party in 1969. Justified in this case as Dan mentions that it is a rerun, and it makes sense they would be showing a documentary about the unsolved murder of a famous actor on the 40th anniversary of his death.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_4e865e0f	comment	A non-news example occurs in The Game (1997). Sitting in a diner; with his ex-wife, Nicholas sees Jim Feingold (the man who administered the Game's exams earlier in the film) playing a television-commercial "doctor" on the place's TV. At first thinking that the Game runners have found him, he quickly realizes that "Feingold" is a TV actor (of course, given that the Game runners have been watching him and are always one step ahead of him, it's quite possible that the broadcast isn't as "coincidental" as Nicholas thinks it is).
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_4fce2184	comment	Futari wa Pretty Cure: Variation in episode 36 where the Guardian's description of a place full of flowers happens to match a newspaper article in front of them instead of a news broadcast.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_4fd9904a	comment	Averted in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, where none of the news sources in the opening chapters tell Harry anything (which, as Hermione tells him, is partly because he doesn't bother to pursue them carefully).
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_4fdde19e	comment	In Trick or Treat, Eddie turns on the TV to a news report about his favorite rock star. Unusual in that he missed the beginning, so doesn't hear the main point of the story (that the guy just died) until after the report's retrospective.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_524e2e3b	comment	In the Donald Duck short "Donald Duck and the Gorilla", Donald's encounters with a gorilla named Ajax are accompanied by advice given on the radio on how to deal with Ajax. The same thing happens when Daffy Duck tries to capture Taz in the Looney Tunes short "Ducking the Devil".
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_5286ec36	comment	In Who Framed Roger Rabbit, while hiding in the theater from the Weasels, Eddie was about to give up on piecing together the connection Cloverleaf Industries had with Acme's murder when a news reel came on about Maroon's sellout to said company.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_53a0bd32	comment	The Twilight Zone (1959): The episode "Time Enough at Last" manages this trope with a newspaper. Henry Bemis opens the paper to see that the top headline on the first page (which actually has a realistic layout) is "H-Bomb Capable of Total Destruction"... and you can guess what happens next. Probably justified, since a hydrogen bomb being completed is pretty big news.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_553099d9	comment	Played with in Rough Night; the protagonists do see a television broadcast revealing that the man they had killed earlier and presumed was the stripper they'd hired for the night was actually a jewel thief, as well as revealing that the two men who came to their house are actually the thief's accomplices, but in this case the TV was already on; it had been set to mute since the bachelorette party began and one of the group glanced at the TV at just the right time.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_562e8a6e	comment	Max Payne and the sequel. No matter how long Max waits to get to plot-specific televisions, it's always just in time to learn the next bit of broadcast news about the rampage he is currently involved in. Oddly enough, this applies to several differing television dramas that are also playing on other channels.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_565f7bd0	comment	Sheldon: This strip has the TV asking Gramp a bunch of questions about his feet - if they're dry all the time, if his toenails are all wonky, if his feet have developed the look and feel of a rhino's hide. Then...
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_585e7a79	comment	In UHF, George is in a seedy bar ready to begin a new career in drinking after reaching his Despair Event Horizon. However, the bar's TV happens to be tuned in to Channel 62, and the patrons are watching the show George just casually put Stanley Spadowski — the station's janitor — in charge of. Their enthusiastic reaction to Stanley on the air convinces George to race back to the station, and it's the turning point of the story.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_5874fe63	comment	Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon act 5. Ami has been doubting the authenticity of her friendship with Usagi. She walks past a TV at an electronics store with a movie about a woman betraying and killing her friend.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_5a3533fe	comment	Subverted on My Name Is Earl. Randy has stolen an ambulance, in an attempt to get Earl to the hospital after he got hit by a car (again). He turns on the radio to calm down, and the dispatcher implores him to return the ambulance, saying that if the patients die, it will be on him. Randy, being The Ditz responds like so:
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_5c208620	comment	A similar joke was made in Superman: The Animated Series when Lobo asks a policeman about Superman:
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_5ebd9db6	comment	At the exact time that Queen Elizabeth II's death was announced (September 8, 2022 at 1:30PM EST), most PBS affiliates in the Eastern timezone were airing a rerun of the Donkey Hodie episode "The Masked Veggies; The Royal Hosts", whose second segment focuses on Donkey Hodie and Purple Panda meeting King Friday for the first time.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_6059314b	comment	xkcd suggests assuming this is the case to make the news more exciting.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_60f02ddb	comment	In American Dad!, Stan has Roger framed and sentenced to a maximum security prison in Thailand, due to Roger's usual bout of Disproportionate Retribution leading him to try and murder the Smiths for having said incredible hurtful things to him at his birthday roast (a roast he wanted). Immediately after Stan finishes explaining Roger's no longer a threat, Terry on Action News reports "breaking news from Asia!" Steve dully states "oh no" as it cuts to a photo of Roger using a raft made out of the severed limbs of the prison guards.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_623f0768	comment	Batman: Year One is a borderline case. Miller uses a lot of news broadcasts to further/hand-wave certain plot developments, but these are more for the readers' convenience; few if any of the characters are shown directly responding to them.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_6274e926	comment	In the "One Jem Too Many" episode of Jem, after Jerrica "Jem" Benton claims that a Jem imposter is on the loose, Kimber turns on the news and the Holograms see someone else playing Jem on live TV. The Agony Booth recap of this episode even refers to this as "the Most Coincidental TV Station Ever".
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_62894fec	comment	Justice League of America: In the debut story of the Queen of Fables, shortly after she awakens in the modern world, she mistakes a TV for a magic mirror and commands it to reveal who the Fairest of Them All is. The TV was showing news coverage of the Justice League's most recent battle, and at that moment showed Wonder Woman. The Queen then plots to destroy her, thinking Wonder Woman is her ancient enemy, Snow White.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_64a41059	comment	In Superman II, after de-powered Clark gets beaten up by a bully, the diner's waitress turns on the TV and there's a broadcast by the President of the U.S. surrendering the Earth to General Zod. This clues Clark into the fact that he needs to get his superpowers back ASAP.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_656a52a9	comment	In Fahrenheit, the hero Lucas Kane is beginning to understand someone used ancient Maya magic to force him to commit a crime. He's wondering what to do next, turns on the TV, and stumbles upon the interview of a world-famous Maya religion expert who precisely happens to be organizing an exhibition in the same city.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_6644f858	comment	One Sherman's Lagoon strip has Sherman and Hawthorne watching TV. The announcer asks a bunch of questions that apply to Sherman... then, as Sherman is picking his nose, asks, "Is your finger inching its way toward your nostril?"
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_66f137ce	comment	BASEketball features a scene where the main character is depressed and driving down the road listening to the radio. At first the lyrics are vaguely inspirational, then become progressively more specific: "Even though some guy's trying to blackmail you / And your girlfriend thinks you suck / All you have to do is let 'em know / That it's all part of some rich guy's evil plan! / Look out ahead, there's a truck changing lanes / You've got some yellow crumbs on your upper lip / And those warts on your dick will never go away / Unless you start using topical cream every day!"
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_691be369	comment	The X-Files: In "The Erlenmeyer Flask", Mulder watches the news informing on the case he's about to investigate. Justified because he got an echo from Deep Throat, his secret informant.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_694ab80	comment	The opening scene of Batman Beyond shows a group of kidnappers watching a TV news report about their crime. The TV also shows a business news item that introduces two bits of exposition: Bruce Wayne is now considerably older, and a rival named Derek Powers has been trying to take over his company.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_695487a1	comment	A Semester in the Life of a Garbage Bag: Sean laughs at Jardine's claim that the island of Theamelpos is endowed with good luck. Then he opens a magazine with a story about an unemployed dockworker who got rich and married a supermodel during a vacation to Theamelpos.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_6c548b23	comment	This happening in Alone in the Dark (1982) actually saves the day. When the last maniac, a paranoid schizophrenic, has the cast on arrowpoint, the Big Blackout is fixed and the electricity comes back. And just in time to put the television back on to show the news, which features an interview with one Dr. Merton, the guy whose "death" the maniac and his fellow mental patients were trying to avenge. Upset about learning that he has been fighting the wrong fight, the maniac simply leaves.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_6e5f40f6	comment	Cool as Ice: Both the protagonist and antagonist learn about Kathy's identity when they see her interviewed by a TV reporter. Adding to the improbability, the villain watches the interview in a location which is implied to be far away from Kathy's hometown, and presumably in a different media market.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_70c7b114	comment	It's probably easier to list the number of Gilligan's Island episodes that don't revolve around what they just happen to hear on the radio. One of the worst offenders may be the episode where a crate of coconuts wrapped in newspapers happens to wash-up on shore. An article in one of those papers happens to implicate one of the castaways as a possible murderer. They spend the rest of the episode suspecting each other and even reenacting the murder in order to prove they're all innocent. Queue the radio conveniently broadcasting a retraction of that article and identifying the real killer (that matched what the castaways learned) the very next day.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_73660c17	comment	In Four Lions, a character is on a tram when he hears a news broadcast on the vehicle's TV screens alerting him to the fact that another character's body has been discovered.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_73b4d4c1	comment	Call of Cthulhu, The Unspeakable Oath magazine #10 adventure "In Media Res". Four men find themselves inside a farmhouse with the dead body of a murdered prison guard lying on a table. Each man has complete amnesia about their past. In a nearby room, a television set is showing a local newscast about the crash of a bus owned by the "Liberty Center for the Criminally Insane" and the escape of several dangerous inmates being carried by the bus. Guess what the men are?
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_75584731	comment	This happens with an Entertainment News show early on in Tropic Thunder.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_788767ba	comment	Justified in Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality series: the Purgatory News specifically puts together separate broadcasts for each resident, so whenever one of the Incarnations turns their office TV on, the news will always be relevant to them.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_78f6a3f	comment	Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Roy Neary obsessively creates sculptures of a butte/mesa to match the image placed in his mind during a UFO encounter. A news broadcast shows Devil's Tower, Wyoming, which is an exact match for his sculptures. Neary takes the hint and leaves for Devil's Tower. Somewhat justified in that the government had planted false stories of an anthrax outbreak centered on Devil's Tower to drive people away from the area so they wouldn't see the alien spaceships arriving. Also played with by having Neary fail to notice the TV for several minutes while it's showing footage of Devil's Tower.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_792b8174	comment	Both subverted and played straight in Network. Network executive Frank Hackett gets on the phone with another network staffer, who immediately starts complaining about the content of that day's episode of The Howard Beale Show. Hackett asks his interlocutor to calm down, saying that he's in California and the other staffer is in New York, so New York's local network aired the show three hours earlier and Hackett couldn't have gotten a chance to see it yet. Meanwhile, the show is on TV in the same room where Hackett is, but he completely ignores it; in fact, he asks the hotel staff to turn down the volume so he can take the phone call. After hanging up, though, he does turn his attention to the show.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_7aaf9e41	comment	Batman: Batman: Year One is a borderline case. Miller uses a lot of news broadcasts to further/hand-wave certain plot developments, but these are more for the readers' convenience; few if any of the characters are shown directly responding to them. It's frequently used throughout Batman: The Dark Knight Returns for exposition. Batgirl: Year One: As changing channels idly, Dick Grayson hears of a newscaster reporting a hostage crisis in the Bristol Country Club. The Attack of the Annihilator: Wanting to cheer Barbara Gordon up, her friend Doreen switches on a TV set right when a talk show is interviewing Linda Danvers (subtly informing readers that Supergirl is in the area prior to her showing up). Suddenly the show is interrupted by an emergency broadcast reporting some lunatic is blasting holes into a research laboratory.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_7d20ef2c	comment	Often parodied in Bloom County, usually with Opus as the viewer. The news report is either turned on just AFTER the important information is presented, or is just lying. In both cases the information specifically pertains to the viewer. An example is when Opus, after a nap, turns on the news to catch the end of a presentation of several items known to cause fatal nose warts in penguins.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_7d4d7d22	comment	In Casper, when Casper is trying to look for a friend, he changes the channel to Mister Rogers' Neighborhood,note The clip shown is not an actual episode of the show, however; it instead comes from the "Musical Stories" release. with the show discussing how proud you should feel to be yourself.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_7d5e43b0	comment	Often spoofed in the British TV comedy series The Goodies, for instance when they are trapped in their apartment and have just lost the telephone service, Tim says "well, at least we still have the television" and turns it on, whereupon the announcer says "...and now a service announcement: The BBC today announced a cutback of one hundred percent." (TV screen immediately goes blank).
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_7e793c21	comment	In Watchmen, Ozymandias turns on his giant wall of televisions just as President Nixon begins his statement on the events he just described to the protagonists.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_7ff3216c	comment	Often seen in Garfield and Friends. It was lampshaded once when Jon says something about "I gotta go on a diet," immediately followed by a commercial asking "Do you have to go on a diet?" and Jon says "Why does my TV always knows what I'm thinking?"
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_84104967	comment	It happens twice in Steel Angel Kurumi 2. The first time, Uruka watches a TV show about a teacher seducing one of his students and believes that Mr. Kizuki is trying to seduce Nako at school. The second time is when Uruka watches a news broadcast about the winner of the cello contest will study abroad to Vienna. Nako won the contest, but it turns out that she wasn't eligible for that particular prize because it was only for high school students.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_8763ca4e	comment	Tucker & Dale vs. Evil has a paper version when an old newspaper found in a derelict building coincidentally turns out to have a front-page story revealing a major plot twist.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_87b652bb	comment	The news broadcasts in Starcraft II are usually relevant in some way or another to the current or previous mission. The Ihan crystal missions are an exception, naturally (the "missions" are memories of Zeratul's that Raynor is reliving, so all that's happening is he's staring at the Ihan crystal for hours on end), which gives the writers the opportunity to put in irrelevant celebrity news and hilarious ads. A particularly on-point example is the news broadcast of Raynor's capture and execution in mid-cutscene in Heart of the Swarm. In this case, the TV turns itself on without prompting, so the computer might have been on the lookout for news stories about that topic, but the timing is still implausibly dramatic.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_888d73d1	comment	In Red's Planet, a talking show about alien abductions start off the comic.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_8ac81016	comment	Sleep Dealer: Memo Cruz and his brother catch a broadcast of "DRONES!" (an American reality television program depicting the live conquests of drone pilots who â€œblow the hell out of the bad guysâ€�) while out running errands. As the show's host gleefully describes how the drone pilots are tracking a terrorist hacker who's been intercepting the communications of the private military drones owned by the Del Rio Water Company, the Cruz family home appears in the crosshairs of the live footage. The brothers rush home but they're not fast enough to save their father when the drones start launching rockets.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_8bd06774	comment	Sunset Shimmer Is Mad About Everything: The Harmony Table in Home Again, Home Again, Jiggety-jig because of the tiny dog inside of the table.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_8df5521b	comment	Superman: In Who Took the Super out of Superman?, Superman drops by Jimmy Olsen's place, and he is told right way that some superpowerful loony is going on a crime spree. Then Jimmy turns on his radio just in time to hear a new broadcast reporting Solarman's current whereabouts. In Who is Superwoman?, Supergirl and Lana Lang switch on the news to find villain Reactron escaped from police custody. In Strangers at the Heart's Core, Linda turns the TV on to watch a quiz show; suddenly, the program is interrupted for a special news bulletin reporting that the house of Linda's ex-classmate Professor Rudolph Clement has been destroyed by one gravity experiment gone wrong. In Superman's Return to Krypton, Superman goes back in time and ends in Krypton. As soon as he arrives in Krypton's capital city, Superman passes by a street screen broadcasting the wedding between renowned scientist Jor-El and Lara Lor-Van, thus informing Superman of his time of arrival and his biological parents' location. In The Girl with the X-Ray Mind, Linda Danvers and her mother Edna are watching tv when the program is suddenly interrupted by a special bulletin. Upon hearing Supergirl is needed at Metropolis Penitentiary, Linda at once suits up and flies off. The Leper from Krypton: Superman is passing by a tv store right when Lex Luthor hijacks the news channels to announce he has gotten Superman infected with a virulent and incurable alien disease. Supergirl (1984): Selena accidentally switches on the car radio right when a broadcast is reporting that Superman is off-world, meaning that he will be unable to stop her evil plans. Brainiac's Blitz: As walking down her college's hallway, Linda Danvers passes by another student who coincidentally is listening to a radio broadcast about a flying saucer circling over Metropolis. "Supergirl's Big Brother": Supergirl and her adoptive mother are making dinner when they hear a radio broadcast reporting two tigers have escaped from Metropolis Zoo and asking -specifically- the Girl of Steel's help.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_8f36f969	comment	The Loud House: In the episode "Sound of Silence""
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_8f88ec9e	comment	In I Saw What You Did, Kit and her father are listening to a ballgame on the radio while driving home from Libby's when the game is interrupted by a report about the murdered woman found in the woods, including a vague description of the murderer.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_9058ad7e	comment	In The Terminator, there's a news broadcast about a killed Sarah Connor. When Sarah is fetched from the restaurant, the newscaster conveniently adds "To recap:" and then repeats the entire story.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_90a126e1	comment	Subverted in Abbott Elementary, "Attack Ad". The teachers learn there's a commercial attacking them on the television and turn on the TV, hoping to watch it...only to see a totally unrelated commercial. Ava comes in with it loaded onto a laptop and they watch it there.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_90a3a7f4	comment	Kim Possible uses this a lot. No matter if it's revealing information about the latest villain plot, Kim's parents wondering what she was doing parachuting into their front yard at 7:45am, or after Kim has blown up the superweapon, if someone turns on a TV, it's there.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_90c73dda	comment	Animorphs has a Coincidental Broadcast about a Coincidental News Event: After learning that a Pemalite ship has been found underwater by the Yeerks, the Animorphs discuss ways of diving that deep (such as sperm whales or giant squid). That very evening, Rachel catches the tail end of a report about a sperm whale that beached itself in their town. This is no coincidence, as they very well know. Either of the Eldritch Abominations using them as pawns in their game made the whale beach itself so the kids could go out to sea and find the ship.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_91500502	comment	A newspaper variant in The Call of Cthulhu, in which the protagonist Thurston just happens to come across a newspaper article about Gustaf Johansen, prompting him to investigate.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_92844ddb	comment	Parodied in Dinosaurs, in which turning on the news reveals that an asteroid is about to hit the family's television, after which it immediately happens.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_928b5dfe	comment	Done three times in SheZow episode, "Super Sidekick". Once for the hair monster, one for a Your Television Hates You moment for Guy, and one to reveal that Maz is in hot water.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_93133ff6	comment	In Beyond: Two Souls, after Jodie Holmes kills Gemaal Sheik Charrief, who Jodie was told was a dangerous warlord, on the helicopter ride back to America she turns on the TV to hear a news report about him and learns that he was not a warlord, but in fact a democratically elected president. This causes her to defect from the CIA..
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_936e99ce	comment	In Dirty Sympathy, Trucy is watching the news in the background when the entertainment segment starts ten minutes early with breaking news of Klavier's "stage accident", telling Apollo that Klavier was nearly killed. Justified that a rock star's near-deathly accident would make a headliner.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_94a5035e	comment	In Babylon A.D., this is used a bit more judiciously. There's an entire wall showing dozens of channels, which makes it easier to accept if at least one of the channels is showing something relevant.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_961b37e0	comment	DC Extended Universe: Man of Steel has a variation in General Zod addressing Earth, demanding that Kal-El turn himself in within 24 hours. Not only does this reveal to Lois the nature of what she discovered and get Perry to believe her; it also shows Clark that Zod knows who he really is. In SHAZAM! (2019), after losing Shazam, who transforms back into Billy Batson, in the middle of the panicked crowd at the mall where they first fought, Dr. Sivana is able to track him down when he sees Freddy, another boy living in Billy's foster home, looking for Billy as a news clip plays of him arguing with Shazam. Early in The Flash (2023), the titular hero receives a phone call from Alfred to help out with a crisis in Gotham City. Short on time, Flash asks "why not call Superman?"...only to turn around and see a live news broadcast where it turns out Superman is busy battling an erupting volcano in South America.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_976efc02	comment	Mystery Science Theater 3000: Lampshaded during one invention exchange, with a special radio that only used channels from old movies and TV shows, including the "Incredibly Plot Specific News Station": "The Harlem Globetrotters have been missing at sea and are thought to have washed up on some uncharted desert isle." They also lampshaded it whenever it was used in a movie, usually with some comment like, "but first, a message from Plot Convenience Playhouse" or "You're listening to K-PLOT."note From Gamera Vs. Zigra and Angels Revenge, respectively. At the beginning of "Young Man's Fancy,"note Riffled alongside The Violent Years the daughter is ironing and shuts off the radio just as the reporter is announcing, "According to the latest bulletins...," and Crow fills in with, "...ironing can be deadly!"
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_9ff4a8d9	comment	Godzilla: Godzilla (1954) has a good example. As Dr. Serizawa laments on what he should do with his Oxygen Destroyer, his television broadcasts footage of a choir group of children singing for peace and hope, finally encouraging him to use his device to kill Godzilla. It's especially noticeable because the television wasn't even on, and no one was close enough to switch it on either. Averted at the beginning of King Kong vs. Godzilla. The news broadcast spends about a minute on an irrelevant earthquake in Chile before moving to discussing events that are important to the plot. Played straight for the rest of the movie.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_a0309a8a	comment	Wolves: Played with. Cayden is watching TV with the Tollermans when a news broadcast about him comes on. Panicking, he turns the TV off before he can be exposed as a fugitive and awkwardly announces that he's going out. When he comes back hours later with Angel, he walks in to find them watching a news story that clearly shows his face. Weakly, he asks if that's been on the whole time, and Clara admits they Tivo'd it. They're playing it as a way of starting a conversation about Cayden's past, and where he came from.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_a0500a06	comment	In the Rugrats episode "Pickles vs. Pickles", after being sent to her room for not eating her vegetables, Angelica claims that her parents are being too bossy. She then sees an ad for a law firm on TV, which leads to the Dream Sequence that takes up most of the episode.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_a1b86873	comment	Run for the Sun: When Van Anders gets the radio working, the first thing it picks up is a news broadcast about Mike and Kate's missing plane.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_a4274674	comment	Man of Steel has a variation in General Zod addressing Earth, demanding that Kal-El turn himself in within 24 hours. Not only does this reveal to Lois the nature of what she discovered and get Perry to believe her; it also shows Clark that Zod knows who he really is.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_a4a6b86a	comment	Code Geass: When the Black Knights get their new mobile hideout, one of the first things they do is check out the TV set — which happens to be broadcasting news of the hotel takeover incident. Conveniently, it's right at the start of the incident, allowing them to move in and save the day.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_a8729c90	comment	Parodied in The Fairly OddParents!. Repeatedly invoked in the episode "Chip Off the Old Chip", in which Timmy switches voices with Chip Skylark. Every time Timmy and/or his fairies get stuck on what to do, they turn on their TV and invariably get a broadcast telling them exactly what they should do. This culminates in a Wheel of Fortune parody with (almost) the right solution appearing on the puzzle: "GET CHIP SKYLARK TO SAY I WISH I HAD TOMMY TURNER'S VOICE". In another episode, immediately after proclaiming that "everything will be fine", Timmy turns on the TV to see Chet Ubetcha delivering a report that begins "Everything is not fine!" In "Inspection Detection", a news report detailing what got stolen from the "Wall 2 Wall Mart" comes on right when Timmy is walking by with said items.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_ac03f223	comment	Played with on FlashForward (2009) in "A561984" where the redemption scene is playing over the final scene in the airport, with Demetri and Mark who has just been fired from the FBI. Could also be a case of Crystal-Ball Scheduling, but Mark visibly turns to look at the broadcast before his line.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_ac1c3727	comment	Parodied in Johnny Dangerously when the villain, Vermin, needs to kill the DA. Vermin turns on the radio, which immediately (1920s-era tube-warmup time notwithstanding) details that the DA will be watching a movie premier that night. After he turns the radio off, his lackey asks what theatre they will be at. Vermin turns the radio back on, and the radio gives him the theatre name and address.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_ac67074d	comment	Teen Titans:
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_ae7abd6	comment	In Evangelion/Street Fighter crossover Neon Genesis Evangelion Senshi No Michi, Gouken is watching TV while having lunch when a news broadcast shows a battle in Tokyo-3, and a giant robot using one of his fighting moves on a monster. Shocked, Gouken realizes that his underage disciples are being forced to fight giant aliens, and he needs to go to Tokyo-3 and give Gendo Ikari a piece of his mind.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_af2a147e	comment	Edward from Enchanted treats TV as a magic box that answers all his questions.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_af9e9ab2	comment	At the beginning of "Young Man's Fancy,"note Riffled alongside The Violent Years the daughter is ironing and shuts off the radio just as the reporter is announcing, "According to the latest bulletins...," and Crow fills in with, "...ironing can be deadly!"
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_b0028436	comment	JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Played with during Stardust Crusaders. When Joseph Joestar tries to use his Stand's ability of diviniation on a TV set in order to learn information about the enemy, it rapidly flicks through channels in a way that forms a complete sentence from bits of dialogue from different broadcasts. Diamond is Unbreakable: Kai Harada, who hosts the Morioh Town Radio show, tends to bring up subjects that are related to whatever the heroes are dealing with at the moment. Stone Ocean: While having a ride towards Cape Canaveral, Anasui and Weather Report have an encounter of fictional characters being brought to life, and then overhear the nearby radio detailing the phenomenon is occurring worldwide.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_b0b22636	comment	Repeatedly invoked in the episode "Chip Off the Old Chip", in which Timmy switches voices with Chip Skylark. Every time Timmy and/or his fairies get stuck on what to do, they turn on their TV and invariably get a broadcast telling them exactly what they should do. This culminates in a Wheel of Fortune parody with (almost) the right solution appearing on the puzzle: "GET CHIP SKYLARK TO SAY I WISH I HAD TOMMY TURNER'S VOICE".
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_b0f81f82	comment	Chicken Run features a non-broadcast version, with Mrs. Tweedy declaring she's sick and tired of making minuscule profits with her husband's chicken farm, only to spot an ad in a pile of mail with the phrase "Sick and tired of making minuscule profits?" emblazoned on the front, which just happens to be for a meat pie-making machine.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_b1f8e5ae	comment	The Little Rascals: A loudspeaker truck announcing the upcoming beauty pageant is a Plot Point in 'Beauty Queen for a Day'. It prompts Darla to compete in it as a way to gain back the boys' affection and friendship.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_b36b5c6a	comment	In Heat, this is how Donald Breedan's wife learns of his death in the bank robbery shootout. Somewhat justified in that it's a major breaking news story and he was killed in the midst of a pretty deadly shootout in the middle of downtown Los Angeles in which at least five people were killed (Cheritto, Breedan, a police detective, a patrol officer and a grocery store employee).
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_b370dca2	comment	In They, Julia comes home and turns on the TV to hear a story about rolling blackouts in the city. She's just recently learned that the only thing that can keep her safe is the light.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_b3f687d1	comment	One FoxTrot arc was about Jason attempting to start a web business. He's just telling his mom about what he resorted to showing his potential investors when the news begins talking about a potentially world-ending computer virus.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_b4996199	comment	Spider-Man: In The Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #43, Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson are watching a music program which is suddenly interrupted by a special bulletin with breaking news of Rhino's rampage.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_b4fe32c9	comment	In Invader Zim episode "Rise of the Zitboy", Zim develops a spot. Shortly after being told by Gir 'You've got a pimple!' an advert for 'Acne-Blast' comes on the TV.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_ba7b59af	comment	Card Captor Rad: Flower Child has Alexis and the Autobots seeing a broadcast from the science fair being messed with by a Sakura Card.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_ba9a9454	comment	Seen in Se7en when Mills enters an office with a TV on just in time to catch a news report on the serial killer's murder. Justified in that it's a live broadcast, and Mills walked through the press conference it's covering 30 seconds ago.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_bc6bfb5	comment	In The Young Poisoner's Handbook, Dr. Zeigler happens to walk past the inmates' rec room at precisely the right moment to see footage of Graham being arrested on the news.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_bc848d30	comment	SpongeBob SquarePants Parodied in the "Nasty Patty" episode, after SpongeBob and Mr. Krabs play a prank on what they think is a phony health inspector: "Squidville" has a particularly elaborate example, after SpongeBob and Patrick destroy Squidward's house with reef blowers. Squidward tells them that he's had enough and is moving away. And in "MuscleBob BuffPants", right when SpongeBob is wondering how he can get muscles without unpleasant labor, a commercial for fake muscles comes on.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_c03c5ae2	comment	In The Rise Of Golus, the rampage of Golus manages to hit the news rather quickly, alerting both teams of heroes.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_c17aa0c9	comment	March Comes in Like a Lion: Rei sees a nature documentary that perfectly describes (at least in his perspective) how he's taken over the lives of his adoptive family, prompting him to set out on his own.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_c2fcda	comment	In SHAZAM! (2019), after losing Shazam, who transforms back into Billy Batson, in the middle of the panicked crowd at the mall where they first fought, Dr. Sivana is able to track him down when he sees Freddy, another boy living in Billy's foster home, looking for Billy as a news clip plays of him arguing with Shazam.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_c3c3dfc	comment	Played with during Stardust Crusaders. When Joseph Joestar tries to use his Stand's ability of diviniation on a TV set in order to learn information about the enemy, it rapidly flicks through channels in a way that forms a complete sentence from bits of dialogue from different broadcasts.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who In the TV Movie, just as the Doctor has convinced Grace that the only way to save the planet is to gain an atomic clock from somewhere, the news reports that one is being unveiled at a nearby university. The episode "The Lazarus Experiment" has a variation; a Coincidental Phone Call telling the characters to turn on the news.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_c48ef022	comment	Doraemon: Nobita and the Tin Labyrinth: Gian and Suneo are infiltrating the robot-populated city of Mechapolis while disguised as robots, when they entered a diner and, in a Too Dumb to Live moment, Gian accidentally orders katsu-don, human food, in a world where humans are hunted by robots on sight. Just as the diner's robot chef starts eyeing on Suneo and Gian suspiciously, an emergency news report suddenly and conveniently broadcasts news about two human intruders in Mechapolis. Cue Gian and Suneo making the split when the robot chef's back is turned.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_c4a7b5d3	comment	Subverted in Shaun of the Dead, where Shaun switches on the news to find they're talking about the zombie plague... and promptly changes the channel. But the chunks of speech from the various channels all form a continuous sentence (even though Shaun doesn't seem to notice anyway).
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_c66ffb9c	comment	Disney Fairies: A low-tech version appears in Tinkerbell and the Lost Treasure when the play at Fairy Tale theater just happens to be the prophesy that Tink needed to hear.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_c6fec0cf	comment	Denpa Teki na Kanojo: This happens a lot in the two OVAsâ€¦ until you realize that the Big Bad of the first OVA invoked this trope when a magazine mentions the mysterious Serial Killer as the first step of the Evil Plan to get the protagonist Lured into a Trap. All of the other cases play the trope straight.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_ca5d97f1	comment	Monty Python's Flying Circus. The "Penguin On The Telly" Sketch. In the episode that focused on ants, one character settles down to watch TV with his pet ant Marcus.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_cac20f89	comment	This happened several times on JAG, and in it ZNN was the news network of choice.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_cd62d386	comment	In the 7 YÃ¼z episode "HayatÄ±n Musikisi", Pinar first learns that OÅŸa has been arrested for fraud while leaving work, walking past the giant television screen in the lobby. Coincidentally, it's also at a moment she needs him the most.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_cefeef21	comment	Dartigan from Game Sins points this trope out whenever possible, referring to it as "the exposition news network".
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_d0f124da	comment	Jonny Quest episode "Attack of the Tree People". When Topper turns on the radio he and Silky hear a broadcast about Jonny and Hadji's being shipwrecked and that a reward is being offered for their return.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_d14c3aa1	comment	In Ghostbusters (1984), Dana sees the Ghostbusters' commercial right before she opens her fridge to find a parallel universe in there.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_d31ffd8d	comment	In Get Smart, in a bizarre twist on this trope, Max gets a coincidental cake, which contains a note telling him to turn on the radio, which causes him to catch a public message one of KONTROL's mooks aired to tell Max where a nuclear device will be detonated, as a thank-you for Max hearing him out on his marital problems.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_d56c92f3	comment	In Who is Superwoman?, Supergirl and Lana Lang switch on the news to find villain Reactron escaped from police custody.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_d5cc6418	comment	Subverted in Largo Winch: Largo turns off the radio just as it starts talking about the murder of a Birman army officer and before it can mention that Largo's friend Simon is accused of it.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_d5e9a8ed	comment	In The Ultimates, Ultimate Captain America tracks Hank Pym down to a bar after he put his wife in a coma and menacingly asks if he's watching anything interesting. The TV happened to be broadcasting a report on the case in question, which Cap calls a "cosmic coincidence" before dragging him outside.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_d6c9c0a4	comment	Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: One episode has one of Aramaki's political contacts call him and ask if he's watching the news. When Aramaki says no, he urges him to turn it on, just in time for Aramaki to hear the start of a breaking news development.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_dc414e1c	comment	The Leper from Krypton: Superman is passing by a tv store right when Lex Luthor hijacks the news channels to announce he has gotten Superman infected with a virulent and incurable alien disease.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_de174365	comment	In The Simpsons: Road Rage, in the opening cutscene the family turns on the television to the news channel in light of Burns buying Springfield's public transit, and Brockman is idly staring off-camera, then immediately stares at the camera to give his report, as if he was waiting for the Simpson's TV to turn on.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_de8f6a97	comment	Godzilla (1954) has a good example. As Dr. Serizawa laments on what he should do with his Oxygen Destroyer, his television broadcasts footage of a choir group of children singing for peace and hope, finally encouraging him to use his device to kill Godzilla. It's especially noticeable because the television wasn't even on, and no one was close enough to switch it on either.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_df6d09aa	comment	In GEOWeasel, a news presenter warns of the weather event that drives the plot of the episode, inexplicably interrupting a video game to bring this news. The original sprite comic the episode was based even has the news interrupt a handheld game.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_e05ef82a	comment	In The Darkside Detective, one of the things that can happen if you turn on the radio in McQueen's office is a breaking news bulletin about the events you're currently investigating.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Played straight in the famous episode "Hush": The Scoobies are all grouped around a TV showing a news broadcast from LA regarding everyone in Sunnydale losing their voices. A strong argument could be made that this example is justified: An entire freaking town losing their voices simultaneously is bound to get through at least one person's Weirdness Censor. Also the Scoobies were already watching the TV; Xander simply calls attention to the broadcast at the appropriate point. There's also the point that such a story might merit round-the-clock coverage, especially if it's a recent development. In "The Harsh Light of Day", while everyone is at Giles' apartment to research the latest crisis in Sunnydale, Xander is shocked to discover that Giles has a TV set that had been buried under some boxes of books. He turns it on, and everyone gathers around it to watch. Giles tells them all to get back to work. "Watching television is not going to help us right now." Cue a news report that gives them a vital clue. Also done in "Who Are You?", when the Scoobies (minus Xander) turn on the TV to find out vampires have taken control of a church (justified as Xander called Giles and told him to turn on the TV), and Faith sees the broadcast from the airport just as she's about to leave.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_ea4f62db	comment	Spoofed in Family Guy. In "Foreign Affairs," Peter is watching a piece on a new "Goat Flu" epidemic and becoming more and more afraid. The report shows people sneezing at a salad bar, licking subway turnstiles, and "a man with the flu making out with you while you sleep" (with Peter Griffin actually shown).
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_eb0c9938	comment	Diamond is Unbreakable: Kai Harada, who hosts the Morioh Town Radio show, tends to bring up subjects that are related to whatever the heroes are dealing with at the moment.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_eb7d4774	comment	Superman Film Series: In Superman II, after de-powered Clark gets beaten up by a bully, the diner's waitress turns on the TV and there's a broadcast by the President of the U.S. surrendering the Earth to General Zod. This clues Clark into the fact that he needs to get his superpowers back ASAP. In Superman Returns, Clark goes to a local bar to mull over Lois' engagement to Richard. Fortunately, the television is tuned to coverage of an experimental shuttle launch that Lois is covering, all just minutes before Luthor knocks it out of the sky. We even get the news camera pointing at Lois as she asks a question to make sure Superman knows she's on the plane when its not normal practice for a newscamera to point at a print journalist when she's asking a question. Usually, you'd hear Lois speaking in the background with the camera still pointed at the spokeswoman. Possible Fridge Brilliance. Being the worldwide known Superman exclusive journalist and greatest link to Superman she's certainly more well known than the person she's interviewing.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_ec2531c4	comment	In Coco when Hector confronts Ernesto De la Cruz he repeats the words that were spoken to him on the night he died. Miguel then tells Hector that he's just repeating the lines from a movie starring de La Cruz, only for Hector to mention that he really did hear those words. When Miguel points to a nearby TV that is showing that very scene in the movie, where De la Cruz's character was poisoned by his best friend. This leads Hector to realize that on the night he decided to quit show business and go back to his family, De la Cruz, gave him a poisoned tequila shot, told him he got a bad case of food poisoning, and subsequently stole Hector's music book, and got famous by performing the songs Hector composed.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_ec25a849	comment	In an episode of Doug, our title character had just legally obtained a large sum of cash after no one claimed it from the police. Doug's busy totaling up how much was in there and, when he gives the final amount, it's echoed on the TV. Turns out that the money belonged to a little old lady who was going to lose her home if she didn't have it.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_ede1d1a9	comment	In Strangers at the Heart's Core, Linda turns the TV on to watch a quiz show; suddenly, the program is interrupted for a special news bulletin reporting that the house of Linda's ex-classmate Professor Rudolph Clement has been destroyed by one gravity experiment gone wrong.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_ef4fd083	comment	Subverted in The Brave Little Toaster, where the TV is actually trying as hard as he can to get the attention of the humans so they would go and rescue the protagonists (even saying "this just in" at one point). Radio also likes to pretend he's receiving coincidentally relevant broadcasts, but they're usually with 1940s personalities and all in his voice.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_f0c816fb	comment	Breaking Bad: Near the end of the episode "Half Measure", Walt hasn't been able to reach Jesse all day. As he's getting ready for dinner with his family, he overhears a news report about a boy who was shot to death in a gang-related execution earlier that day (a boy he knows was under the employ of the same drug lord as him), and realizes then and there why Jesse was missing all day and what he's about to do, and rushes to save him. In the episode "Granite State", Walt finally emerges from the mountain cabin where he's been hiding out and goes to a bar. What pops up on the television mounted above the bar? Naturally, a PBS interview with Gretchen and Elliott Schwartz, Walt's old partners and co-founders of Gray Matter.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_f53fe2fa	comment	The same ploy was used in Mission: Impossible: "Ultimatum," Combined with "We Interrupt This Program". The target of the sting was not smart enough to question the coincidence that his music program would be repeatedly interrupted with information directly relevant to his own situation.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_f7f25782	comment	Pee-wee's Big Adventure: Mickey, after picking up hitchhiking Pee-Wee, switches on the radio to the announcement "...is believed to be armed and dangerous" and promptly switches it off - as if the handcuffs weren't a giveaway.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_fd0b8b37	comment	At the beginning of Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives!, Eddie, now working construction in Montreal, walks into a bar to grab lunch. Not only are the TVs in the bar all showing music news, it's music news about Eddie — specifically, that there will be an Eddie Wilson lookalike contest that night in New York City. Next scene: Eddie driving from Montreal to New York. The movie does this over and over again, alternating between ex-MTV veejay Martha Quinn and Larry King.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_fd4f5c15	comment	Judgment In Infinity: Black Canary, Power Girl and Huntress are discussing the Adjudicator's menace when a newscast reports on a sudden plague outbreak in Atlanta. The three women correctly guess one of his agents has begun its rampage.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_fdbace96	comment	Gravity Falls: When Mabel is playing with her pet pig Waddles in "The Land Before Swine", she sees a commercial for a baby-carrier called the Huggy Wuvvy Tummy Bundle, which stresses that the Huggy Wuvvy Tummy Bundle also works for pigs. "IT WORKS FOR PIIIIGS!!" In "The Golf War", Mabel is sulking over Pacifica bribing her way onto the front page of the Gravity Falls Gossiper and stealing Mabel's spot-light, when she overhears a TV ad for the local mini-golf course.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_fed59573	comment	Justified in The Osterman Weekend when a 'news article' on the illicit use of Swiss bank accounts appears on television as part of the psychological warfare tactics being used against the protagonists. It's actually being sent via a video feed by the CIA surveillance team.
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Coincidental Broadcast / int_ff3132b2	comment	In Superman's Return to Krypton, Superman goes back in time and ends in Krypton. As soon as he arrives in Krypton's capital city, Superman passes by a street screen broadcasting the wedding between renowned scientist Jor-El and Lara Lor-Van, thus informing Superman of his time of arrival and his biological parents' location.
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Coincidental Broadcast	processingCategory2	Discredited Trope
Coincidental Broadcast	processingCategory2	Exposition
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Coincidental Broadcast	processingCategory2	Suspiciously Convenient Index
Code Geass / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
My Neighbors the Yamadas / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (Comic Book) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Batman: Year One (Comic Book) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Brainiacs Blitz (Comic Book) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire (Comic Book) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Captain Carter (Comic Book) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Codename: Genetix (Comic Book) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Judgment In Infinity (Comic Book) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Mega Man (Archie Comics) (Comic Book) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Supergirl (1984) (Comic Book) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Supergirls Big Brother (Comic Book) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Superman's Return to Krypton (Comic Book) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
The Attack of the Annihilator (Comic Book) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
The Girl with the X-Ray Mind (Comic Book) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
The Leper from Krypton (Comic Book) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
The Punisher: Welcome Back, Frank (Comic Book) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Who is Superwoman? (Comic Book) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Who Took the Super out of Superman? (Comic Book) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Wonder Woman (Charles Moulton) (Comic Book) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Sherman's Lagoon (Comic Strip) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Cardcaptor Rad / Fan Fic / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Infinity Train: Voyage of Wisteria (Fanfic) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Only the Results (Fanfic) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Shelluva Boss (Fanfic) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Sunset Shimmer Is Mad About Everything (Fanfic) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
The Minkiad (Fanfic) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
The Rise Of Golus (Fanfic) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
White Sheep (RWBY) (Fanfic) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
A Diva's Christmas Carol / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
A Place in the Sun / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
After Dark, My Sweet / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Airport / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Atlas Shrugged / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Babylon A.D. / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Back to the Future / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Bad Boys (1995) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
BASEketball / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Batman Returns / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Between Two Ferns: The Movie / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Beyond the Line of Duty / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Birdman / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Blow Out / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Brewster McCloud / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Bright Eyes / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Close Encounters of the Third Kind / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Cobra / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Commandos Strike at Dawn / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Cool as Ice / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Deathtrap / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Decision Before Dawn / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Desire (1936) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Don't Look Up / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Eight Hours of Terror / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
8th Wonderland / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Elmo Saves Christmas / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Enchanted / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Everybody's Famous / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Fire at Sea / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Flash Gordon (1980) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Four Lions / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Galaxy Quest / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
General Della Rovere / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Godzilla (1954) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Gone Girl / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Hancock / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Heat / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Heat Lightning / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Home Alone / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Honeymoon in Vegas / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Hope and Glory / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
I Saw What You Did / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Japanese Summer: Double Suicide / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Jingle All the Way / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Kingsajz / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Layer Cake / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Le Boulet / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Little Man / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Making Contact / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Mission: Impossible (1996) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Mississippi Mermaid / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Model Shop / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Mrs. Doubtfire / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Murder! / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Nightmare Alley (2021) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Nowhere / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Outrage (1950) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Outside the Law / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Pee-wee's Big Adventure / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Persecuted / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Quarantine (2008) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Quiz Show / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Saboteur / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Single White Female / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Skin (2018 Short) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Sleep Dealer / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Spider-Man: No Way Home / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Splendor in the Grass / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Superman II / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Terrifier 2 / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
The Anthropophagus Beast / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
The Blue Dahlia / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
The Day After Tomorrow / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
The Flash (2023) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
The Game (1997) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
The Happening / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
The Hitch-Hiker / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
The Host (2006) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
The Last Circus / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
The Last Slumber Party / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
The Net (1995) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
The Old Man & the Gun / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
The Osterman Weekend / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
The Pied Piper / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
The Princess and the Warrior / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
The Star / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
The Swindlers / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
The Terminator / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
The Thin Man / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
The Three Brothers / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
They / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Thieves Like Us / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Thor: The Dark World / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Time After Time / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Titanic (1997) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Tomorrow Is Forever / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Trading Places / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Tucker & Dale vs. Evil / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Turnabout / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
2001: A Space Odyssey / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Unknown (2011) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Veronika Voss / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
WarGames / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Who Framed Roger Rabbit / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Zombi 2 / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Twitch Plays Pokémon Colosseum (Lets Play) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Bodies Are Where You Find Them / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Bone Chillers / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Denpa Teki na Kanojo / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Imperial Radch / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Jack Blank / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Johnny Maxwell Trilogy / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
The Last Dragonslayer / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
The Three Investigators / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
This Is It, Michael Shayne / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
White Teeth / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
And Yet the Town Moves (Manga) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Bocchi the Rock! (Manga) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Love Tyrant (Manga) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
March Comes in Like a Lion (Manga) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
No Matter How I Look at It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular! (Manga) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Ramen Fighter Miki (Manga) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Ratman (Manga) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Sabagebu! (Manga) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
School Rumble (Manga) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Karuki Zamen Kuri No Hana (Music) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Plumbing the Death Star (Podcast) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Dawn of a New Age: Oldport Blues / Role Play / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Toro League (Roleplay) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Bosch / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Bron\|Broen / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Charles in Charge / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Chief of Staff / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Cocaine Coast / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Fargo: Season Five / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Forever Knight / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Grey's Anatomy / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Hi-de-Hi! / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
JAG / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Nathan Barley / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
9-1-1 / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Ordeal by Innocence / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Preacher (2016) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Rescue 911 / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
7th Heaven / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Sloborn / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Soap / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
The Bridge (2011) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
The Brittas Empire / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
The Letter People / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
The Thick of It / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
The Umbrella Academy (2019) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
The Young Ones / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Trust / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Under the Dome / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Untold Stories of the E.R. / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Vincenzo / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
7 Yüz / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Arkham Horror: The Card Game (Tabletop Game) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Call of Cthulhu (Tabletop Game) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Theatre) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals (Theatre) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
ANNO: Mutationem (Video Game) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Alpha Protocol (Video Game) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Beyond: Two Souls (Video Game) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Chzo Mythos (Video Game) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Day of the Tentacle (Video Game) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Gadget: Past as Future (Video Game) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
inFAMOUS (Video Game) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Max Payne (Video Game) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Persona 2 (Video Game) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
PokÃ©mon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon (Video Game) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Ratchet & Clank (2016) (Video Game) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey (Video Game) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm (Video Game) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Xenoblade Chronicles 3: Future Redeemed (Video Game) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan (Video Game) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
CROSSâ€ CHANNEL (Visual Novel) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Policenauts (Visual Novel) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse (Web Animation) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Bonus Stage (Web Animation) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
GEOWeasel (Web Animation) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
My Story Animated (Web Animation) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Friend or Foe (2021) (Web Video) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Ricesnot (Web Video) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Twitch Plays PokÃ©mon Colosseum (Web Video) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Wedding Peach Abridged (Web Video) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
City of Blank (Webcomic) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
L's Empire (Webcomic) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Redd (Webcomic) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Red's Planet (Webcomic) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Sheldon (Webcomic) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Skin Horse (Webcomic) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Team Fortress 2 (Webcomic) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Titanzer (Webcomic) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Atomic Puppet / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Chicken Run / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Coco / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Donald Duck / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
F is for Family / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Goof Troop / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Jem / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Jonny Quest / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Ratchet & Clank (2016) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
SheZow / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Sonic Boom / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
The Brave Little Toaster / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
The Point / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
The Super Mario Bros. Movie / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Trollz / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast

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