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Crawl
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Found on 24-Hour News Networks, such as CNN, this line of scrolling text provides viewers with the headlines while they are watching a report on, say, tax evasion. Also called a news ticker. Any spoof of a news report is almost guaranteed to have a silly headlines populating this bar for the entire time for bonus jokes, which often requires one to rewatch the scene twice to catch everything. Said headlines may or may not be about a Noodle Incident. While these seem fairly ubiquitous now, the idea of a 24-hour news crawl on the screen didn't become popular with many television news networks until after September 11th, 2001. Prior to this, a few networks did run constant crawls, but mostly with stock information, sports scores, or weather updates. Not to be confused with Dungeon Crawl, the video game Crawl, the 2019 film Crawl or Dungeon Crawling. Almost always either a Funny Background Event or a Meaningful Background Event. For a related trope for conveying the latest situation visually without the narrative stopping to exposit, see The Big Board. |
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Dropped link to APerfectCircle: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
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Dropped link to BarenakedLadies: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
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Dropped link to MetalGearSolid4: Not an Item - UNKNOWN | |
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Dropped link to REM: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
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Dropped link to ShowWithinAShow: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
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In Ultimate Spider-Man (2012), crawls ALWAYS appear as a Funny Background Event when the Daily Bugle's new screen is shown. "Mistress Death opens new cupcake shop" is a hilarious example. | |
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Chamillionaire's video for "Hip Hop Police" runs the names of rappers wanted by police on a fake news program's crawl. | |
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Jib Jab's video "What We Call the News" uses a crawl as subtitles. | |
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FreedomToons: The bottom crawl on The Echo Chamber is deliberately hostile and condescending to the audience as part of its Strawman News Media nature. | |
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RoboCop (2014) has a recurring news segment, The Novak Element. The ticker below goes off-plot easily, with things like the president approving astronauts bringing hookers into space, and "SETI has finally picked up a transmission: aliens think we're too stupid to warrant contacting." | |
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The first known example of a news ticker was used on Today in 1952, very early in the program's life. The ticker took the form of a typewritten strip of paper scrolled across the screen and superimposed via split-screening. It was quickly retired due to its unwieldy nature; it would take until the advent of computer-generated graphics for news crawls to catch on. | |
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George & A.J., a short film by Pixar related to Up, has this during the news report, and it makes humorous references to the feature film, among other things. | |
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On The Simpsons, one episode showed the Krusty the Clown appearing on Fox News, with an identical news ticker that lampooned Fox News' conservative bias (featuring headlines like "Do Democrats cause cancer?" and "Rupert Murdoch: Terrific Dancer"). Fox News was not amused The gag was repeated in "Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson", with such headlines as "Obama calls mulligan on first term" and "Europe puts Greece on eBay". |
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In the Ozy and Millie series about Isolde becoming a reporter, the news story she's covering features in its crawl "A public service announcement followed me home the other day" (a reference to R.E.M.'s song "Bad Day" and possibly the music video for the same; see above) and "Help me I'm shrinking." | |
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The Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode "Fightan Titan" opens with a news report on TV with the crawl saying things like "Celebrity gives baby stupid name", "Something bad happens in country most Americans can't find on map", and "Random person reads fake news scroll at bottom of cartoon". | |
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The browser game/forum RP Imperium Nova features a news crawl across the top of the page displaying the three most recent galactic events. Elections, natural disasters, weddings, wars, assassinations... | |
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The Community episode "Intro To Political Science" has one of these during Troy and Abed's coverage of the class election. Examples: "Professor Slater Still Missing", "Basketball Team Loses Ball", "Professor Duncan Quits Drinking Again" and (pictured) "Tickers: Do we watch them? Story at 12". Analysis of Cork-Based Networking has one briefly that reveals LeVar Burton and "non-celebrity" (Troy) were captured by pirates. |
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Ditto for SimCity 4, albeit vertically-scrolling and with less kitty kibble shortage. | |
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Saints Row features a few of these in cutscenes for the in-game news channel. Most of them are pretty humourous, including an announcement for a film starring the Real Life voice actor of a character. | |
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In Hazbin Hotel, during the news report about the turf wars in Hell, one lengthy crawl zips past that starts off relevant to the story, but quickly derails into the typist making puns, complaining about an orangutan he claims made a face at him at the zoo, and blaming his wife for leaving him after he cheated on her with a cleaning lady. | |
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In XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the situation room has a news ticker which adds some flavor to in-game events. Every mission, every council request fulfilled or denied, results in a news item. | |
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Disgaea 5 features a "Nether News" ticker that runs while you're in the home base. Its stories mainly consist of interviews with character class representatives, advertisements for the various base shops, and the occasional details on the Lost's advances and conquests. | |
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The Simpsons Movie: | |
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At one point in Undertale, Mettaton forces you to take part in his news show, which has a crawl at the bottom that displays humorous news stories about enemies you've encountered, and differs depending on whether or not they lived. If you let the scene run long enough, the crawl finally ends with "HISTORIC NEWS TICKER HEADLINE SHORTAGE." | |
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In The Joker Blogs, there is an episode which is a news report with a crawl full of Mythology Gags. | |
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| The Joker Blogs (Web Video) | hasFeature |
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American Dad!: In "Bullocks to Stan", Hayley breaks up with Deputy Bullock over the phone during a news conference, and the "C-Spin" ticker shows headlines regarding the scenario. | |
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Star Wars Uncut: The discussion between Darth Vader, Grand Moff Tarkin, and Admiral Tagge about the Imperial Senate is presented by Talking Heads on ENN along with a text crawl underneath: "Senate Dissolved...Moisture Farmers See Record Low Season" | |
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Grrl Power featured one of these as a Funny Background Event when a reporter is interviewing Sydney. | |
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Celestus has one at the bottom of the screen, providing advice, lore, and stupid jokes. | |
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The into to Karl's "Monkey News" segment on The Ricky Gervais Show features a monkey newscaster with a crawl reading "EEEP... SCREECH... OOOH..." | |
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| The Ricky Gervais Show (Radio) | hasFeature |
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In the same vein as The Onion, gaming parody site The Eggplant has a joke headline crawl. | |
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| The Onion (Website) | hasFeature |
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The UNN crawl in Starcraft II actually provides a complete story, about a drug-addled celebrity (the one painted on Tychus' shoulder) who christens a battlecruiser, runs away from rehab and is found hiding in a zoo. | |
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30 Rock featured a fake news crawl with headlines such as "Panda Murder-Suicide Shocks China"; "Wolf Blitzer Injured In Wolf Blitz"; "Mysterious Visitor From Future Wins Lottery Again"; "Anne Heche Leaves Husband For Pony." The season 2 episode "Somebody to Love" reused the news crawl from a previous episode, then added “NEWS CRAWL AFFECTED BY WRITERS STRIKE — USING REPEAT TEXT FROM PREVIOUS SEASON.” |
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Ridge Racer 7 has one that's relatively serious. The crawl occurs between races and shows off the top times of certain series. These are interspersed with news stories related to the game and its setting. | |
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Bee Movie, complete with Lampshade Hanging. | |
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Viscera Cleanup Detail has the News Ticker machine on some levels which runs a series of stories. Most of them are fluff pieces about heroes they idolize along with some Shout Outs and other jokes. | |
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs features this in every news report scene, the best being when the food raining is first announced, and a standard crawl of weather in various cities changes to "Whaaaat the heck is that cheeseburgers raining right now?! Sorry, back to the ticker." An earlier crawl includes "Stay tuned for 'Wet Pets': 2 hours of puppies caught in the rain" and "Tsunami warning in Wichita confuses many." |
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A rare print example occurs in Stephen King's Carrie. During Carrie's rampage and destruction of the school, the narration occasionally cuts away to a transcript of coverage of the story on the crawl for the national news. | |
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In Super Mario Sunshine, while out in Delfino Plaza, a news crawl will be shown that gives updates on happenings all around the Isle Delfino. These updates are based around things you do in game that has effects on the island's status, such as the sunshine slowly returning and appearances of Shadow Mario, just to name a few. | |
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In one episode of Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, which parodied the War on Terror, Phil Ken Sebben installed a news crawl in the cafeteria. The news crawl actually appears at the beginning of the obligatory court scene as well, where Mentok tries to predict what it's going to say next before finally just shutting it off. |
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Used on Doctor Who and its spinoffs, whenever footage from BBC News or the fictional AMNN news channels appear. | |
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Ring of Honor's HD Net and Sinclair television shows would sometimes have crawling text updating fans on where ROH wrestlers not currently on the show were wrestling or where ROH would be coming next. | |
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In a trailer of sorts for the Lost and Damned download content for Grand Theft Auto IV, done in the style of a Weazel News report, talks about bikers causing violence while the crawl below reads things like 'Laid off worker gets laid', 'Stimulus package includes vibrator', and 'Bologna recall totally fucks worker's lunch plan' among others. And it's done again in a similar trailer for The Ballad of Gay Tony, with the main report focusing on illegal guns trade while the crawl has lines like 'Swine Flu scared by woman in mask' and 'Parents demand school closing - saying public education is socialism'. | |
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The Muppets (2011) has one as a Funny Background Event during a montage (namely, when recruiting Sam Eagle). | |
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