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Fake Static
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The predictable but surprisingly effective method of ending a cellphone conversation in TV land — pretend there is interference on the line or that you are going through a tunnel, make some static noises and start saying "I can't hear you!" then hang up. Person avoided. When trying this on a fixed-line phone, tradition requires you to press and release the switch in the phone cradle rapidly and repeatedly. Sometimes subverted when the other person can blatantly tell what they are doing, or calls them back immediately. Alternate variant is to have a character claim that they "lost the connection" or that "the battery is dying" while communicating via satellite, radio, or Subspace Ansible. In older works dating from when long-distance phone lines were notoriously bad, fake static (created by crumpling a paper or blowing into the receiver) may be used to fake a long-distance phone call that's really being made from a nearby phone booth. Contrast Cell Phones Are Useless, I Can't Hear You. See Impeded Communication for when the line really does go dead. If a person is making the static sound, it also counts as Saying Sound Effects Out Loud. |
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Harrow the Ninth: The God-Emperor of the Nine Houses tells a bemused officer to keep a very cross Lyctor — one of his divine Saints — busy with fake static, explains how to make the noises, and admits that he's fooled the Lyctor with it before. | |
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In an episode of Up All Night, Reagan attempts this in the middle of a video chat with her parents, which requires her to freeze in place for several seconds at a time to give the impression that the video feed is buffering. | |
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In StarCraft, Samir Duran claims interference when ordered to intercept an attacking Zerg force; his failure to act allowed Raynor and Mengsk to escape. This is one of the first hints that Duran's loyalties are not with the UED; he in fact works for Kerrigan. Maybe. | |
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Moltar does this to Space Ghost in Space Ghost Coast to Coast. Space Ghost calls him on it: "You're just making noises with your mouth!" | |
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Variant in Gilmore Girls. Lorelai calls her mother and pretends she can't hear her mother's side of the conversation. Emily assumes there's a problem with her phone and shouts trying to get Lorelai to hear her. Lorelai continues speaking as if she's leaving a message. After she hangs up, she turns to Christopher and smugly announces "I told you it would work." | |
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At the end of Batman: Arkham Knight, an arrest warrant is sent out for Bruce Wayne because of a Dramatic Unmask that revealed Batman's identity. The police respond that their fax machine is broken. | |
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In the December 31, 2002 episode of Royal Canadian Air Farce, an Al-Qaeda receptionist uses fake static to avoid speaking with the CEO of Nortel on the phone (even the Al-Qaeda Credit Union has standards!). | |
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Better Off Ted: Veronica uses this to get out of a conversation. She's not on the phone, the person she's talking to is right in front of her, but no one dares call her on it. | |
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Angel: Spike pulls this on Angel after stealing his car. Calling his old contacts in order to locate Angel ("In the Dark") has the added consequence of stirring up Doyle's creditors. Eventually, Doyle starts resorting to the 'wrong number' trick. |
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In Star Trek: Enterprise Ensign Hoshi Sato does this to another ship before shutting down the visual and audio comunique from her console on the bridge. | |
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House: "Sorry, I'm about to lose you because I'm driving through a tunnel, in a canyon, on an airplane, while hanging up the phone." | |
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In Jonas, the brothers attempt to do this to distract their father from a Wild Teen Party. Yet their father can see them because they are on a video chat. | |
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Top Gun: Maverick: When Maverick is testing the Darkstar hypersonic aircraft prototype against the orders of Rear Admiral Cain, Cain shows up to the base during the test to personally tell him to land the plane. Maverick randomly clips out parts of his verbal response to make it seem like the comms are choppy (albeit without added "static sounds" as is usual for this trope), which Hondo helpfully explains as a result of Maverick's plane being in a layer of the atmosphere that makes communications difficult. | |
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Subverted on The Simpsons, when Homer gets a loaner car while his regular car gets repaired. When Homer and Marge are lustfully driving in the new car, Homer gets a call from the dealer saying his car is fixed, causing Homer to say they can keep it so he can keep the loaner. He then tells the man to listen to him and his wife making "sweet love", which is followed by static sounds. | |
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: In the episode "F.Z.Z.T.", Agent Coulson simulates static while talking to his superior officer in order to avoid hearing an order to kill Simmons because she has become infected. He isn't fooled. In the episode "The Singularity", Fitz and Simmons do this to Mack during a mission so they can have a long-overdue conversation about their relationship. Mack isn't fooled either; Bobbi Morse and Lance Hunter used to do the same thing to him on assignments. Luckily, he (like everyone else on Coulson's team) ships FitzSimmons and isn't too upset. |
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In Real Steel, Charlie does this when he's on the phone with a man he owes money to. | |
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Justice League: In "Eclipsed", Flash's absurdly sleazy agent does this to him. In "Panic in the Sky", Galatea is busy beating the crap out of Supergirl when her boss realizes Lex Luthor's treachery. Her boss tries to call off Galatea's attack, but she claims the signal is breaking up. Then she breaks the communicator and tells Supergirl it was a wrong number. |
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Pierce attempts this when he is unable to turn his phone off in Community episode "Introduction to Statistics". | |
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Doonesbury for April 12th, 2013. The Chairman of the Republican National Committee calls up Hollywood agent Sid Kibbitz and asks him to find A-list celebrities for a GOP Celebrity Task Force to present the Republican message to the public. When he says that he expects the celebrities to work for free, Sid says "Hello? Sorry, just lost you! I'm driving in a dead zone!" | |
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Modern Warfare "I'm not asking you, this is an order! You're to--" *click* "Hm. Looks like we lost our connection." A similar example in the new Medal of Honor reboot, made all the more awesome because the guy who decides to disconnect the call with the General Failure is an unnamed technician. |
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Sabretooth does a very blatant version of this to avoid helping Karima Shapandar in X-Men (Vol. 2) #198. He even says the sound effects out loud. | |
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In Scrubs, when Dr. Cox is trying to avoid his wife, she calls him while in the hospital. He picks it up, opens it, says, "I'm in a tunnel." and hangs up in the space of about a second. Then when he finally answers her call, "Oh, for the love of... WHAT!!!?!?!" | |
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In Halo 3: ODST, Sadie tries to do this to end the conversation with her father. Probably wouldn't have worked even if it wasn't video feed. | |
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Total Recall (1990): | |
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In the opening special of My Little Pony: Make Your Mark, Queen Haven calls Zipp, asking her to come back to Zephyr Heights for her royal training. Zipp makes an excuse to hang up by making fake static noises before ending the call. | |
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Elementary: Sherlock attempts to make it sound like Joan's call is breaking up, but Joan is actually walking up right behind him and catches him in the act. | |
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The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss: In "Horton Has a Hit", Horton becomes famous when Yertle turns his lullaby, "You're My Baby" into a hit rock song. Wanting to keep his success going, Yertle does everything he can to keep Horton away from Morton, his elephant bird son. At one point, when Horton calls Morton, Yertle interferes in a phone call between the two by making static noises into the phone. | |
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Superman, of all people, does this in Justice League Action. He calls Batman to tell him that he's being sent backup, and when Batman does his usual "I don't need help" thing, Superman promptly claims his signal's breaking up. | |
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In Mako Mermaids: An H₂O Adventure, Cam tries to cut a phone conversation short with fake static. Problem is, unbeknownst to him, Evie (the person he was talking to) was actually Right Behind Him. | |
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In the pilot episode of In Plain Sight, Mary simulates a bad signal by holding her phone out the window of her moving car and shouting, "What? I'm losing you!" | |
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Subverted in one episode of The Smoking Room, when Sally uses the excuse of going into a tunnel to hang up on her mother, only to realize that her mother knows she's at work, so won't be fooled. | |
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In the airplane sketch of How to Irritate People, the copilot starts issuing a "safety warning" on the PA system, which his superior interrupts with fake static, much to his hilarity. | |
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Communications Officer Skip Taylor of Legostar Galactica uses a variant when he "accidentally" hangs up on an antagonistic Remulen General | |
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An oddly frequent tactic used by the heisters while answering dead/dominated guards' pagers in PAYDAY 2. The fact that it actually works says a lot about the pager operator. | |
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Near the end of Porno, Sick Boy scrapes the grill of his phone's mouthpiece to fake static for this, so he doesn't have to argue with Begbie about returning to Leith for a card game. From Cannes. | |
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In Spies Like Us, Fitz-Hume gets out of a conference (in order to go and take his exam), by feigning a problem with the microphone: | |
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Spoofed in Saints Row: The Third, with Pierce and the Boss faking static after Kinzie tells them not to follow the truck carrying a supercomputer with a tank. Which they do anyway. | |
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Stephanie Plum does this on several occasions. Once, Morelli tells her she needs to work on her static, because he can hear phlegm in the noise she's making. | |
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In Carefree, Connors uses the "fake long distance" variant to convince Stephen Arden that he's telephoning from Honolulu. First he makes noises with his mouth, and then he puts the earpiece up to the mouthpiece of the phone to create feedback. | |
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Blue Thunder. Officer Murphy has been ordered to fly the title helicopter back to the police airbase. He decides to do something else, so he repeatedly tells the tower that their transmission is garbled and he can't read them. His captain later calls him on it. | |
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In Dragon Ball Z Abridged, Goku does this to King Kai by imitating a click noise and dial tone... while they're communicating telepathically. Amazingly, King Kai actually falls for it (though he does briefly wonder how it's even possible). | |
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Fake Static | |
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Wing Commander Academy: In "The Lords of the Sky", Maniac uses faked radio interference to ignore an order from Blair for the flight wing to stay together on a reconnaisance mission. | |
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Fake Static | |
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In Ultra Fast Pony, Rainbow Dash tries to pull this as she flies away from a face-to-face conversation. | |
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Fake Static | |
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A variation happens in Battle of Britain. A flight of Polish Pilots and their RAF instructor/flight lead are given an order to return to base by RAF Command. The RAF Flight Lead passes the order to his trainees, but as he was getting the order, one of the Polish pilots spots a couple of Luftwaffe Bombers without any escorts. The five Polish pilots gleefully take up the chance to kill some Nazis, all while telling their Flight Lead "Repeat Please" as he's telling them their instructions to RTB. He eventually gives up, and rolls in to fight along with his trainees. The trainees are later told that they have been made fully operational. To elaborate, they were hearing him loud and clear, but as English was a second language, they were feigning that they couldn't understand the instructions, which were in English. So the static in this case was a fake language barrier. |
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Fake Static | |
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The Powerpuff Girls (1998): Princess' limo driver tries to do this in the Christmas special when she asks him if she's naughty. | |
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Fake Static | |
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At the beginning of Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel!, you get to listen to Jack drop a call from Mr. Tassiter through this tactic, or so he thought. | |
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Fake Static / int_677fd618 | |
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Fake Static | |
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In Islands of Rage and Hope, when the civilian head of a Dutch-controlled Caribbean island is mentioned by Captain Smith to be screaming about Dutch Marines taken on a mission to save Prince Harry from London by US Marine Corps Colonel Hamilton, Hamilton starts faking transmission problems to not have to deal with it. Smith knows the static is fake, but it serves as sufficient excuse to not further bother Hamilton with the issue. | |
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Fake Static / int_688cfe4e | |
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Fake Static | |
| Fake Static / int_6c1d09b2 | comment |
In Fallout 2, if you accidentally contact The Enclave in the Poseidon power plant you can use this trope to buy yourself some time. | |
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Fake Static / int_6c1d09b2 | |
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Fake Static | |
| Fake Static / int_6d7c7f1c | comment |
During a "Life With Rippy" strip in Something*Positive, Rippy (the artist's muse, who takes the form of an anthropomorphic razorblade) tries to call another muse, who doesn't want to talk to him. The other tells him to hold, and hangs up. | |
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Fake Static / int_6d7c7f1c | |
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Fake Static | |
| Fake Static / int_6eb4ca5c | comment |
Jade of Jackie Chan Adventures has done this to Jackie more than once. | |
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Fake Static / int_6eb4ca5c | |
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Fake Static | |
| Fake Static / int_7149a731 | comment |
In Wonder Woman, Steve pulls one on Sir Patrick Morgan when he is given an order he disagrees with, by covering the receiver and holding it away from his face. The spotty 1910s landline probably worked out in his favor. | |
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Fake Static / int_7149a731 | |
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Fake Static | |
| Fake Static / int_73d7930f | comment |
Ezri Dax also tries this once in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, but her "static" sounds are so ridiculous that Ben isn't fooled for a second. (Of course, any engineer could probably tell the difference even with a really good static impression.) The looks on the faces of the people in Ops are something to behold. Played with a few other times. Once, Sisko's superior has just sent him a message telling him to turn around rather than go rescue two crew members deep in enemy space. Kira relays the message to him, but he insists she couldn't possibly have understood what the Admiral was saying "through all that static". She pauses for a moment before agreeing the message was impossible to understand. Played with again in an incident with some actual static interrupting a communication from Kira ordering the Defiant to move on to its rendezvous with a defenseless troop convoy rather than continue looking for Sisko's escape pod. Several of the bridge crew try to pretend they didn't understand what she was saying, but Worf is the commanding officer and after a moment of consideration he decides that he cannot justify pretending he didn't understand his orders even to rescue the captain. |
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Fake Static / int_73d7930f | |
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Fake Static | |
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Batman and Nightwing try the rumpling paper/food wrappers in Batman and Harley Quinn and get immediately called on it. "That sounds like paper!" Their target was Booster Gold, who isn't the most appreciated, or sensible, of heroes. | |
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Fake Static / int_74430cb8 | |
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Fake Static | |
| Fake Static / int_75149ccd | comment |
Wraith Squadron has a pair of pilots rubbing their gloves on their mics to simulate the sound while disobeying orders. Their commander is frustrated, recognizing the trick because he's done that himself, but he can't stop them. Both contribute hugely to the success of the mission, but both also die. | |
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Fake Static / int_75149ccd | |
| Fake Static / int_756f586b | type |
Fake Static | |
| Fake Static / int_756f586b | comment |
Frequently done to Oracle by both Black Canary and Stephanie Brown when they've decided to ignore her advice. She's never fooled, and they don't really expect her to be, they're just making it clear they're not listening. | |
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Fake Static / int_756f586b | |
| Fake Static / int_769c365b | type |
Fake Static | |
| Fake Static / int_769c365b | comment |
In the first episode of MythQuest, Matt is on a video call with his university collegue, who is angry at him for borrowing an archaeological artifact without permission. He claims he can't see or hear her, then hangs up. She tells him not to do this again, so evidently it didn't fool her. | |
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Fake Static / int_769c365b | |
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Fake Static | |
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In Cold Pursuit, Kim fakes an avalanche so she can get off the phone with her ex-boyfriend Kurt. Her partner Gib watches on in disbelief. | |
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Fake Static / int_76eca45c | |
| Fake Static / int_7988cb68 | type |
Fake Static | |
| Fake Static / int_7988cb68 | comment |
Mass Effect: Used sarcastically when Shepard cuts off the Council, and Joker will remark "Oops, lost the connection." (S)he doesn't bother to make any fake static, but Renegade Shepard still shoots down The Illusive Man's attempt at a tirade after blowing up the Collector Base with the line "I'm sorry, I can't quite hear you — I'm getting a lot of bullshit on this line". And, yes, (s)he can have Joker hang up on him. In the third game, you can find Joker and Liara talking over intercom on the Normandy. After Joker slips up and tells Liara how Shepard used to hang up on the council, he immediately claims they're "going through some dark matter". Also in the third game, after talking with the Council and going through the usual process, Joker makes another Call-Back and says "Well lemme know if you wanna hang up on them again for old time's sake". |
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Fake Static / int_7988cb68 | |
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Fake Static | |
| Fake Static / int_7a806a09 | comment |
Always. At the beginning of the movie, Pete is flying a fire-fighting tanker plane but is almost out of fuel. He wants to keep flying to help some fire fighters in trouble, but is ordered to return to the airbase to land. He starts making static noises into his radio to pretend that he doesn't hear the orders. | |
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Fake Static / int_7a806a09 | |
| Fake Static / int_7c038c18 | type |
Fake Static | |
| Fake Static / int_7c038c18 | comment |
Phineas and Ferb: Comes up twice in the episode "One Good Scare Ought to Do It!" First, Candace calls her mom to bust her brothers, but ends up talking to her crush, Jeremy, instead and freaks out, crinkling a ball of paper to fake static, claiming the call is breaking up. Second, Candace calms herself down and calls Jeremy, only for his little sister to pick up the phone and pull the same trick on her, which Candace calls her out on. Linda does it to Candace in "Bullseye!", prompting Candace to remark "I hate when she does 'cshhhhhh'!" |
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Fake Static / int_7c038c18 | |
| Fake Static / int_7d1c83da | type |
Fake Static | |
| Fake Static / int_7d1c83da | comment |
Better Call Saul: In "JMM", Mike calls Saul on his cellphone to forward a demand. Saul, who is at home, turns on his blender and says he's in a tunnel, finishing off by making static sounds into the phone as he goes to answer a knock at the door. Then it gets awkward when he opens the door, expecting it to be his wife Kim, and it's Mike standing there. | |
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Fake Static / int_7d1c83da | |
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Fake Static | |
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Janda Kembang: When Salmah's first intermediary Jefri is calling her out via phone for leaving their client, Rais takes the phone and imitates static sound until Jefri thinks the signal is weak and hangs up. When a debt collector demands Rais to pay his debt via phone call, Rais fakes static sound so he can hangs up. |
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Fake Static / int_853b263e | |
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Fake Static | |
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In i am sam, when Rita is on the phone with her husband, she pretends for the connection to break up so she could end the conversation early. | |
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Fake Static / int_85c47924 | |
| Fake Static / int_89726260 | type |
Fake Static | |
| Fake Static / int_89726260 | comment |
Played with in one Gaston Lagaffe comic: while talking on the phone, Gaston is frying fish in his office. The resulting noise is mistaken for static by the guy on the other end of the line (in French, static is called "friture" as it sounds like, well, something frying). Not a straight example of this trope since it's entirely unintentional on Gaston's part. | |
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Fake Static / int_89726260 | |
| Fake Static / int_8cbb747d | type |
Fake Static | |
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In What's the Worst That Could Happen?, Gloria pretends to be going through a tunnel and losing Max's signal so she doesn't have to tell him what her reading revealed. | |
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Fake Static / int_8cbb747d | |
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Fake Static | |
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In an episode of M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter is trying to call home and everyone else is trying to stop him without letting him know why (his wife paid off their mortgage early and the gang are planning a surprise party for him in his tent at her request, but Potter thinks she bought a houseboat). At one point Margaret is imitating the operator saying a line is not yet available, complete with scrunching up carbon paper to imitate static. | |
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Fake Static / int_8d814070 | |
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Fake Static | |
| Fake Static / int_8db36f7 | comment |
Whenever RoboCop in RoboCop: The Future of Law Enforcement gets orders from his precinct that conflict with his prime directives of upholding the law and protecting the innocent, he crushes the microphone in his hand and later claims that it broke just before the orders were given to him. | |
| Fake Static / int_8db36f7 | featureApplicability |
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Fake Static | |
| Fake Static / int_90a3a7f4 | comment |
Ron tried doing this in an early episode of Kim Possible; he might have pulled it off if he didn't drop the fake static in between every word of his otherwise complete sentence. | |
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Fake Static / int_90a3a7f4 | |
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Fake Static | |
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In the Batman: The Animated Series movie Mystery of the Batwoman, Bruce is riding in his limousine with Tim, and talking on the phone with Barbara, who is away at college. When she begins grilling him about Batwoman and hinting that she wants to go out while she's in town for Spring Break, Bruce panics and resorts to pulling this on her. Becomes a Brick Joke when they really do drive through a tunnel shortly after. |
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Fake Static / int_90b916ba | |
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Fake Static | |
| Fake Static / int_91c4612a | comment |
Hotel Transylvania 2: Dracula does this when the facecam conversations with Mavis get awkward. | |
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Fake Static | |
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Patton: | |
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Fake Static / int_937d01ca | |
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Fake Static | |
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In Judas Kiss, Junior pretends that his phone battery is dying as he and Ruben are driving back from the ransom pickup. He uses this as an excuse to stop the car, claiming that he has spare battery in the back. Once out of the car, he shoots Ruben in the head. | |
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Fake Static / int_958a5f0f | |
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Fake Static | |
| Fake Static / int_97218fa4 | comment |
Parodied in Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal. Ratchet tries to pull this trick during a video call, forgettting the other guy could see him. He promptly shuts him up by killing the conversation. | |
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Fake Static / int_97218fa4 | |
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Fake Static | |
| Fake Static / int_985ad25d | comment |
In Dragon Ball Super, Mr. Satan pretends to lose his phone connection with a news reporter after falsely claiming to have some involvement with the massive shockwaves that are in fact being created by the divine battle between Goku and Beerus. After the reporter presses him for details, he realizes he has none and pretends to fade out while saying he has bad reception, then hangs up. | |
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Fake Static | |
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In the Dan Vs. episode "The Animal Shelter," Dan does this to get out of a phone call with Elise. She gets annoyed that he isn't even bothering to make the noises, but is simply saying "crackle" and "buzz". | |
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Fake Static | |
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In The Good Place, Michael and Janet (afterlife beings who have just escaped to Earth) are having a video call with Gen (aka the Judge of the afterlife), and Michael pretends their line is breaking up when Gen mentions she'll be waiting for them to give them their punishment. Gen isn't fooled, since the video call is being done over a magic key which should rule out any potential for static or other mishaps. | |
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Fake Static | |
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Murder, She Wrote: At the start of "The Error of Her Ways", a cop gets out of a conversation with the dispatcher by repeatedly thumbing the send button on his radio to make it seem like the signal is breaking up. | |
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Fake Static / int_9f78fda3 | |
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Fake Static | |
| Fake Static / int_a0ae46f | comment |
Toy Story 2: Al claims to be going through a tunnel while talking to Mr. Konishi. | |
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Fake Static / int_a0ae46f | |
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Fake Static | |
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Futurama: "Kif Gets Knocked Up A Notch": | |
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Fake Static / int_a183d57f | |
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Fake Static | |
| Fake Static / int_a2add1d3 | comment |
Marie tries this on her walkie-talkie in Splatoon 2 in order to avoid another one of Sheldon's ravings. The joke comes from Marie blatantly not being anywhere near a tunnel. Also the fact that the lecture in question is about radio static. | |
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Fake Static | |
| Fake Static / int_a309c5a5 | comment |
In Hannah Montana, Robby Ray is arguing with Selena Gomez's character's manager over the phone and starts crunching chips and saying that there is a lot of static, although the manager sees through the trick. He does it again in the crossover with The Suite Life on Deck when, after Jackson Rico and Oliver are pinned to the window by a giant inflatable castle that Robby Ray ordered, Robby Ray calls them and pretends to help only to start making bad connection sounds to scare them as a joke. |
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Fake Static / int_a309c5a5 | |
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Fake Static | |
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In one JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind fancomic, Doppio attempts this on his own split personality to avoid having to explain that he's having lunch with Bruno rather than killing him. | |
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Fake Static / int_a3748187 | |
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Fake Static | |
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Wayne's World: Wayne and his friends screwed with a fast food worker by only saying a couple syllables of each word in his order aloud. "I'd like 'rullers, 'ugar, 'ucks and a Mikita 'cup..." Subverted in that the Cashier was able to understand the order exactly. | |
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Fake Static / int_a506a38b | |
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Fake Static | |
| Fake Static / int_a50ae25d | comment |
In The Final Reflection, an ensign under Krenn's command tries a version of this on Krenn, who is amused by it but isn't fooled for a moment. | |
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Fake Static | |
| Fake Static / int_a56c17cc | comment |
In Kim's Convenience, Jung tries to fake a bad connection over video chat with Kimchee, making it look like his screen is freezing up, but Kimchee can see his fan moving in the background at normal speed. | |
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Fake Static | |
| Fake Static / int_a57cf54d | comment |
Darths & Droids: Used by R2-D2 during the adaptation of Attack of the Clones, when he gets annoyed that Obi-Wan wants to use the droid's "superior capabilities" merely to relay a message. | |
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Fake Static / int_a57cf54d | |
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Fake Static | |
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Immortals After Dark: Nix does this on one occasion with one of her sisters. When said sister says she's obviously blowing into the receiver, Nix stops and says it seemed less rude than the alternative. When asked what that is, she hangs up. | |
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Fake Static | |
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Kolchak: The Night Stalker. In the episode "The Vampire", Intrepid Reporter Kolchak is sent to Los Angeles to get a story. While talking on the phone to his editor in Chicago, he puts a towel over the phone and uses an electric razor near the phone. He wants to make it seem like the line is full of static to he doesn't have to answer the editor's questions. When he gets tired of this he hangs up, assuming that the editor will think they were cut off. | |
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Fake Static | |
| Fake Static / int_a8729c90 | comment |
In an episode of The Fairly OddParents!, Cosmo does this to distract Wanda from the fact that he's screwed up, resulting in an attack by intelligent roaches. Then the roaches swarm over him and he cries out, "Aah! This tunnel's itchy!" | |
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Fake Static | |
| Fake Static / int_aa855418 | comment |
In the third (televised) episode of Almost Human, Detective John Kennex is ordered by Captain Maldonado to safely evacuate a building under siege with the civilians rather than keep after the perpetrators who are holding hostages on one of the upper floors. He responds with "There's....I can't....wha...de..wh...do you...bu...an....Christmas..." | |
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Fake Static | |
| Fake Static / int_aaaf0367 | comment |
In T.U.F.F. Puppy in the episode "Guard Dog" Kitty said to Dudley they were passing through a tunnel when she really just wanted to play with the cat toys in the cat car. | |
| Fake Static / int_aaaf0367 | featureApplicability |
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Fake Static / int_aaaf0367 | |
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Fake Static | |
| Fake Static / int_b37094c1 | comment |
In Stag, Pete uses Stoker's phone to call the agency to tell them that the strippers are leaving Victor's place and that they won't be able to make the next job. He does this so that—if anyone does report them missing—it will be assumed that it happened after they left Victor's. He pretends that the connection is bad to keep the call short and cover that he doesn't sound much like Stoker, and quickly hangs up. | |
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Fake Static | |
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Parodied in Sailor Moon Abridged, with Serena attempting to do this on a video phone. It doesn’t work too well. | |
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Fake Static / int_b55114e6 | |
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Fake Static | |
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In the Modern Family episode "Connection Lost", Hailey confronts Clare on FaceTime about Clare assuming that Hailey was pregnant by Andy and going to Las Vegas to elope only for those to be misunderstandings, Clare avoids the conversation by pretending that the video feed was buffering by freezing every few seconds. Unsurprisingly, Hailey doesn't buy it. | |
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Fake Static | |
| Fake Static / int_b88460c9 | comment |
Whodunnit? (UK): In "A Bad Sign", the murderer uses tape recorded traffic noise to fake calling from their car phone to establish an alibi when they are really calling from another room in the same building. | |
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Fake Static | |
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In one comic of Zits, Pierce (Jeremy's tattooed/body-pierced friend) doesn't just do this, but a perfect imitation of one with just his voice, as a way to hide the fact from his mom that he's playing music with his bandmates instead of studying for school. (As a bonus, it's signified by the words in his speech balloons being drawn/written scrambled or distorted.) | |
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| Fake Static / int_b8c3cc30 | type |
Fake Static | |
| Fake Static / int_b8c3cc30 | comment |
Young Justice (2010): Lagoon Boy tries doing this while communicating telepathically with the rest of the team. Nightwing immediately calls foul. | |
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Fake Static / int_b8c3cc30 | |
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Fake Static | |
| Fake Static / int_bc848d30 | comment |
A scene in SpongeBob SquarePants between Sponge Bob and Patrick pretending to be astronauts and always ending with static hiss. | |
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Fake Static / int_bc848d30 | |
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Fake Static | |
| Fake Static / int_bcdcf629 | comment |
Bumblebee in Transformers: Animated tried this once. When Prowl did it later, Ratchet replies that Bumblebee's fake static was more believable. | |
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Fake Static | |
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Men in Black II: Zed does this to Michael Jackson, when Michael brings up how he'd been promised a position in MIB. | |
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Fake Static / int_bf471bbe | |
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Fake Static | |
| Fake Static / int_bf661555 | comment |
In the 1998 The Parent Trap, Hallie does this to Annie when she is unwilling to believe that her father is going to marry Gold Digger Meredith. | |
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Fake Static / int_bf661555 | |
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Fake Static | |
| Fake Static / int_c35714d6 | comment |
In Blackadder Goes Forth, the title character avoids battle orders from his sadistic superiors by pretending there is radio interference in the line leading to his unit's phone. (His "static charade" even goes so far as to include snippets of weather reports, a rendition of "A Wandering Minstrel I" sung in a tinny Radio Voice and saying "Quickly! Quickly, potato-head!" in German) This causes an interesting little anachronism, as commercial radio and the radio weather forecast (both of whom Blackadder imitates) had not been invented yet at that point. Apparently, the static was so bad it was picking up interference from the future (Then again, it was hardly the most egregious anachronism ever to appear in the show). The message was something about he had a lion up his end, so there's an advantage to an enema at once. |
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Fake Static | |
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In "Fighter Flight" from Star Wars Rebels, Zeb attempts some when speaking to Imperials on the ground from the stolen TIE fighter after they ask him for his operating number. They don't buy it and start ignoring his orders. | |
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Fake Static / int_c72c2d06 | |
| Fake Static / int_c747499e | type |
Fake Static | |
| Fake Static / int_c747499e | comment |
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Magical Movie Night — "Mirror Magic": When her boss calls her to get back to work, Juniper Montage pretends that there is static on her walkie-talkie by making sounds with her mouth. | |
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Fake Static | |
| Fake Static / int_c7c11ab4 | comment |
The French movie La Vérité si je Mens! 2 has Serge Benamou (José Garcia) doing it, moving the phone back and forth away from his mouth and pretending he's in a tunnel, before hanging up. | |
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Fake Static / int_c7c11ab4 | |
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Fake Static | |
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A variant is done in the movie Heartbreakers. The person doing it isn't doing it to avoid someone, it's to get the person on the other end of the line to unknowingly volunteer information. | |
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Fake Static | |
| Fake Static / int_cf4d7781 | comment |
Disney's RocketMan: Randall breathes on the mic to simulate static when Bud tells him to take off. The connection is already spotty, but it's a video call, so he's not fooling anybody. | |
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Fake Static | |
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Sonny with a Chance: Sonny calls Chad about a little girl wanting to meet him. Chad refuses and pretends that he's going through a tunnel, yet Sonny catches him sunbathing outside. | |
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Fake Static / int_cfa07f59 | |
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Fake Static | |
| Fake Static / int_d22a9a66 | comment |
In Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: Mighty Little Defenders episode 37, Rolly and Raoul receive a call from General Wolf through their earpiece about if they've caught Wolffy yet. Worried that the general will get mad at them if they answer "no", the wolf duo pretend the reception on their earpiece is starting to get fuzzy, complete with one of them making fake static sounds. | |
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Fake Static / int_d22a9a66 | |
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Fake Static | |
| Fake Static / int_d38fe19f | comment |
In Star Wars: Clone Wars, Anakin claims the radio connection is breaking up when Obi Wan orders him not to pursue a Sith fighter alone. | |
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Fake Static | |
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Chekov and Sulu use a variation in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, pretending to be caught in a blizzard. Uhura just laughs it off. | |
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Fake Static / int_d578ee98 | |
| Fake Static / int_d9c602eb | type |
Fake Static | |
| Fake Static / int_d9c602eb | comment |
In the South Park episode, "A Ladder To Heaven", to cut off an interview with a pedophile, the news broadcasters hold up a cardboard test pattern with an image of TV static on it, shake it in front of the camera, and make static noises with their mouths. | |
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Fake Static | |
| Fake Static / int_e5dde8d5 | comment |
Denzel does it again in Unstoppable when his character, Frank Barnes, uses this tactic to end his conversation with Galvin before Galvin can order him not to try his plan to stop the train. | |
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Fake Static / int_e5dde8d5 | |
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Fake Static | |
| Fake Static / int_e694aadb | comment |
Alluded to in The Traitor's Hand, when the Valhallan Sentinel squadrons take off to deal with a heretic shuttle without actually waiting for their orders to come in first. | |
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Fake Static / int_e694aadb | |
| Fake Static / int_e76f2e85 | type |
Fake Static | |
| Fake Static / int_e76f2e85 | comment |
The Murderbot Diaries: In Rogue Protocol, Murderbot lures in an Attack Drone by putting out a fake distress call assembled from clips of recorded audio, with the editing obscured by recordings of actual static. The drone in turn is putting out recorded bursts of static to make it sound like someone is trying to contact the caller, to encourage them to keep transmitting. | |
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Fake Static / int_e76f2e85 | |
| Fake Static / int_e8605f7 | type |
Fake Static | |
| Fake Static / int_e8605f7 | comment |
Dingo Doodles has Erina try to pull this with Sips when he makes psychic contact with her, on account of her being angry with him. Given that it's a psychic connection and he can see her making noises with her mouth, he doesn't buy it (though she is able to somehow hang up on him, much to his rage). | |
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Fake Static / int_e8605f7 | |
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Fake Static | |
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Used as psychological coercion in Spaceballs, when King Roland is trying to convince Lone Starr and Barf to rescue Princess Vespa: | |
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Fake Static / int_e885c808 | |
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Fake Static | |
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In Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, the Enterprise does this to avoid being forced to return to Earth, so as to buy time to effect the rescue of Kirk and McCoy. | |
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Fake Static / int_ed0803a7 | |
| Fake Static / int_edcc9cce | type |
Fake Static | |
| Fake Static / int_edcc9cce | comment |
In an episode of Austin & Ally, Ally does this when her mother tries to show her a gorilla birthing video. | |
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Fake Static / int_edcc9cce | |
| Fake Static / int_ee3dc5ea | type |
Fake Static | |
| Fake Static / int_ee3dc5ea | comment |
In Nights of Azure, Arnice gets a call from Simon through a phone next to a mysterious door. When asked where it leads, Simon tries to do this to hide the fact that it leads back to the hotel. | |
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Fake Static / int_ee3dc5ea | |
| Fake Static / int_ee6c1abc | type |
Fake Static | |
| Fake Static / int_ee6c1abc | comment |
In the Strong Bad Email "too cool", Strong Bad makes fake Walkie-Talkie Static sounds while talking to Bubs. Bubs, meanwhile, says the word "Static". | |
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Fake Static / int_ee6c1abc | |
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Fake Static | |
| Fake Static / int_ef076a36 | comment |
Star Trek: Voyager. In "Persistance of Vision" while communicating with a hostile alien, Tuvok turns the bridge viewscreen to a Snowy Screen of Death so he can delay answering in order to discuss the matter with Captain Janeway. | |
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Fake Static / int_ef076a36 | |
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Fake Static | |
| Fake Static / int_ef45023f | comment |
The Brady Bunch Movie has Mr. Dittmeyer attempting to use this on his boss in the opening scene. | |
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Fake Static / int_ef45023f | |
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Fake Static | |
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Often in Burn Notice. An excellent example would be when Fiona's about to ask where a fake banker was dropped off, Michael tells her over the phone to be gentle on the human smuggler, over the phone, when she responds with "You're breaking up" and hangs up on him. | |
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Fake Static / int_f4e799ee | |
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Fake Static | |
| Fake Static / int_f6c05e8e | comment |
Friends does this one a few times, both with the tunnel excuse and various others (skip to 1:30). | |
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Fake Static / int_f6c05e8e | |
| Fake Static / int_f724b70d | type |
Fake Static | |
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Code Lyoko: Jérémie calls Jim, using the Supercomputer to disguise his voice as the principal's, to get him to release Ulrich and Odd. Jim falls for it, but then tries to discuss "a personal matter. It's about Suzanne Hertz..." Jérémie quickly blurts out, "Oh, it's a tunnel. We're about to get cut off!" | |
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Fake Static / int_f724b70d | |
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Fake Static | |
| Fake Static / int_f74b5f80 | comment |
Employed several times in Babylon 5, but most prominently in the episode "The Fall of Night" when Captain Sheridan cuts off his BabCom conversation with an angry Ambassador Londo Mollari by saying that "the line was breaking up" even though it wasn't (and Mollari being aware of the lie with an exasperated "Captain!" before the channel is cut). Sheridan proceeds to order the computer to run a diagnostic in order for Mollari's subsequent call not to come through. | |
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Fake Static / int_f74b5f80 | |
| Fake Static / int_f7f25782 | type |
Fake Static | |
| Fake Static / int_f7f25782 | comment |
In Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Pee-wee Herman did this to avoid having to ask Dottie out to the drive-in. | |
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Fake Static / int_f7f25782 | |
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Fake Static | |
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Wario does this in the opening of WarioWare Gold after Mona asks him about how much she'll be paid to make games for him. | |
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| WarioWare Gold (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Fake Static / int_fa003b78 | |
| Fake Static / int_fa77d43c | type |
Fake Static | |
| Fake Static / int_fa77d43c | comment |
Terminator Salvation has a variation: when John Connor gets in an argument with General Ashdown over the radio, the general orders John relieved of his position, then signs off. Two of John's men who overheard the argument immediately say that they didn't catch the general's last order, indicating that they'll help with John's plan. They're invoking fake static to somebody on the same end of the conversation, but the intent is the same. | |
| Fake Static / int_fa77d43c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Fake Static / int_fa77d43c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Terminator Salvation | hasFeature |
Fake Static / int_fa77d43c | |
| Fake Static / int_fe24dd6f | type |
Fake Static | |
| Fake Static / int_fe24dd6f | comment |
A similar example in the new Medal of Honor reboot, made all the more awesome because the guy who decides to disconnect the call with the General Failure is an unnamed technician. | |
| Fake Static / int_fe24dd6f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Fake Static / int_fe24dd6f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Medal of Honor (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Fake Static / int_fe24dd6f |
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