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Is This Thing On?
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Alex the rock star is ready to wow the crowd with his hip brand of radical rap-rock-metal fusion. The crowd remains in an eager silence as they calmly walk onto the stage and takes slow, echoing steps towards their personal, Jimi Hendrix-signed microphone. Their hand reaches out to grasp it. A light but dramatic cough, and... "Hey, Is This Thing On?" *tap tap tap* "Testing, testing, 1-2-3...". Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Nine times out of ten, you can bet any character speaking into a microphone will utter this phrase. Unfortunately, because of a case of TV Never Lies, people sometimes do this in Real Life, thinking (1) it is the correct way to test a microphone or (2) that it hasn't been tested already. Not only is it wrong, it's unnecessary. The audio team will probably have already spoken into the microphone while setting up the sound system before the audience arrives, and definitely before the speaker arrives on stage. Despite this fact, all forms of media still use this trope, misleading the common people to think that it is necessary to check the mic this way before speaking. Not to be confused with Is This Thing Still On?, though the two are vaguely similar. Also, Is This Thing Still On will sometimes follow Is This Thing On. Compare Feedback Rule. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Examples: |
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At one point in Batman: Arkham Asylum, Harley Quinn says this while delivering an announcement over the Arkham Asylum PA system. | |
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One of the silliest and most obviously deliberate examples anywhere occurs in Thud!: an ancient recording of a historic dwarven leader begins with a couple of loud knocking noises, followed by "Art thys thyng workyng?" | |
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In one Far Side comic, captioned "Testing whether fish have feelings", two scientists have one microphone in a fishbowl inhabited by a single goldfish and another one being held by one of the scientists. The scientist begins to yell insults at the fish, only to ask if the mic is on when he doesn't get a response. | |
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The Incredibles has it in its initial interview to Mr. Incredible. | |
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The Tango: Maureen in RENT. | |
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On the often-aired commercials for the series V (2009), the underside of the alien spacecraft was a huge video screen displaying the smiling face of their leader, Anna. Except for that one time, where it showed Zach Braff saying "Hello? Is this thing on?" It was actually a promo for Scrubs. | |
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Subverted in The Simpsons where Moe tells an awful joke, asks if his microphone is on, then gets an apology from Barney as he failed to plug the wire in. | |
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Played with in Slings & Arrows. A stagehand soundchecks with "check, one, to be or not to be" before Oliver's memorial service. | |
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Used in the series Dave the Barbarian in which a peasant asks a series of really bad jokes before asking: "Has this thing been invented yet?" | |
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Schooly D's original recording of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force theme starts with his calling out "Mic check, mic check..." | |
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Rainbow Dash says this about her own voice when she grows frustrated with everyone else ignoring her in the second story-arc of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (IDW). | |
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Said in the The Prowler when the supervising teacher tells the partygoers that there is a prowler on the grounds and everyone should stay inside. | |
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Discworld: In Soul Music, Asphalt the roadie says "One two. One. One. One two," prior to the concert at The Cavern, but doesn't know why. One of the silliest and most obviously deliberate examples anywhere occurs in Thud!: an ancient recording of a historic dwarven leader begins with a couple of loud knocking noises, followed by "Art thys thyng workyng?" |
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In Thief II: The Metal Age, Karras begins recording into the steampunk wax-cylinder device he invented thusly: "Is this functioning?" | |
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In Hazbin Hotel's pilot, Alastor jokingly The Radio Demon does this with his staff when Charlie is surprised at his offer to help. | |
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In the intro of Crash of the Titans, Cortex appears inside of a big zeppelin and utters this line before properly addressing (and kidnapping some of) the protagonists of the game. | |
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Used in Wicked — for a malfunctioning wand. | |
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In Pelswick, this is used by Vice Principal Ziegler as a Running Gag: ”Is this thing on?" "YES! IT'S ON!" | |
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In Dead to Rights, the objective of one of the levels is to stop a member of a corrupt SWAT-style unit from calling his boss. During the level the guy constantly repeats "Come in, hey Dick you copy! This stupid... What's the damn frequency?" | |
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In Turning Red, When Mei starts recording with a camcorder, Miriam sticks her face right in front of it and asks if it's on. | |
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Resident Evil 5: Albert Wesker says this in a voicemail message (don't look for it in the game; it's a joke by Wesker's VO D.C. Douglas). | |
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After beating Iggy inside the Golden Temple in Paper Mario: Color Splash the announcer will ask "Is this thing on?" before announcing Mario as the winner. | |
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Turg the minotaur asks "This thing working?" with a communication crystal ball in Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic. | |
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In The Powerpuff Girls (1998) episode "The City of Frownsville", Lou Gubrious sets a ray on Townsville that has everyone crying torrents of tears. The girls attempt to make the crowd at a festival laugh, even though they're crying as well. Blossom taps the mic and sobs, "Is this thing on?" | |
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"Leaders and Followers", an article in Dragon written as a transcript of a panel at an adventurers' convention, opens with the deaf old wizard chairing the panel tapping the mic and saying "Can you hear me now?" unaware that the audience is saying they can. Eventually, one of the panellists takes the microphone away from him. | |
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In the Big Finish Doctor Who Scrapbook Story "Tales from the Vault", Jo's story is on cassette, and begins: | |
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In Overwatch Winston said this while preparing for a Video to recall Overwatch agents in the cinematic teaser. | |
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In The Beatles episode "Tell Me Why," the boys discover a donkey that runs like a race horse when exposed to loud music. They enter it in a Madrid race with Ringo as the jockey. As they start to play the opening of the song, nothing is coming out of the speakers — because the guitars weren't plugged into them. | |
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Stargate SG-1, season 8 episode "New Order, Part 2": Jack O'Neill does this while his mind is merged with the computer of Thor's spaceship, and he's talking through its comms. | |
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Harley does it again in Batman: Arkham City when speaking through her statue-communicators. | |
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Uncle Fred in Arthur's Perfect Christmas in his video Christmas card. "Is this thing on? ... Oh, it is!" | |
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Our Miss Brooks: Miss Brooks tests the microphone before beginning announcing duties at the titular "Walter v. Stretch Grudge Match". | |
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Mario and Sonic: Heroes Unite!: "Attention. 1, 2, 3. Uhm... is this mic on?" | |
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Nappa's ghost in Dragon Ball Abridged, while mentally contacting Vegeta. | |
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Girl Genius: In an entry of Othar Tryggvassen's twitter, our favorite Gentleman Adventurer finds his twitting device after a Time Skip. | |
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Shrek 2 has this trope, although rather amusingly, when the fairy godmother is recording an "answering machine message"... | |
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In WALL•E, the captain of the Axiom begins his groundbreaking announcement that Earth is once again inhabitable by asking this question. | |
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Similarly, Malcolm Corley said "How do I turn this thing off?" in Full Throttle. | |
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Falling Skies: The bonus material on the official site has Pope starting an oral history of the Second Mass on a tape recorder he stumbles on. This is the very first thing he says, and he's genuinely surprised that it works. | |
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Uttered by Lrrr of the planet Omicron Persei 8 in an episode of Futurama. | |
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Marika Kato of the Bodacious Space Pirates addresses the passengers in her first attack starting with questions about whether the microphone is already transmitting. | |
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Avengers: Endgame: Before recording his message to Pepper at the beginning of the movie, Tony Stark taps against his helmet (which he uses as a recorder) and asks "This thing on?" | |
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At the end of an episode of The Fairly OddParents!, a giant robot tells a bad joke and, after a second of silence, asks "Is this voice amplification device functional?" | |
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Saturday Night Live: In a "Wayne's World" sketch Tom Hanks plays Garth's cousin Barry who is a roadie for Aerosmith. Barry's job is to set up the mic stands including saying "Test test, check one, check one, sibilance, sibilance, check two check two, sibilance" into each mic. | |
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The Great Alicorn Hunt: Rarity runs into this trope while attempting to make a ship-wide announcement. | |
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Episodes of The Magnus Archives are in the form of recordings the archivist is making of statements about supernatural experiences. He utters the "1-2-3" version at the start of the first episode. | |
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The New Scooby-Doo Movies: In "The Haunted Showboat}'' the gang and the Pussycats pretend to abandon the riverboat, but hide in the cargo hold to set a trap for the crooks. They discuss their plan, only to realize that the boat's speaker tube is off the hook right next to them and broadcast their conversation through the riverboat. | |
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My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks: Just before the finals of the Battle of the Bands, Rainbow Dash does the "Check, one two, testing, testing" thing and taps the microphone. Then Sunset Shimmer unwisely raises the volume to the max, causing an ear-splitting feedback on Dash's next try. | |
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Averted in CrapShots #25. Graham tests the microphone, but does not tap it. He does say some pretty embarrassing things, though. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In episode "Sisterhooves Social", Granny Smith does it with a megaphone, before grumbling about modern appliances in general. In "Make New Friends but Keep Discord", Discord starts his stand-up routine with the obligatory "Check, check, is this thing on?" In "To Where and Back Again – Part 2", Discord again, quite naturally, asks "Is this thing on?" while taping the mic when the changelings aren't laughing at all to his jokes. |
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Doctor Who: The Doctor does this with his camera when recording his instructions for Martha in "Human Nature". | |
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In the Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series 5Ds one shot, a routine attempt at this combined with Jack Atlas having No Indoor Voice resulted in the Zero Reverse disaster. note In canon, it's because a reactor went into meltdown. Here? All Jack | |
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In Home on the Range, show cow Maggie says this line and blows at her cow bell. | |
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Parodied in Galavant. King Richard attempts to do a comedy routine, and fails miserably. He then says this and taps his mouth, since they're in the Middle Ages and microphones don't exist. | |
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In Soul Music, Asphalt the roadie says "One two. One. One. One two," prior to the concert at The Cavern, but doesn't know why. | |
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In The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!, spoken by the Captain of the Pirates of Ipecac before he announces his plans to attack Earth. | |
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In Our Little Adventure, a dwarf does this with a recording amulet. | |
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Used in the start of the opening theme for Sid the Science Kid. | |
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Twice Upon a Time: Synonamess Botch taps his mic and says "Is this thing on?" before addressing his minions. | |
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Zach De La Rocha of Rage Against the Machine would usually open concerts by shouting "one, two" | |
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In one of the last episodes of I Love Lucy, Fred installs an intercom between his guest house and the Ricardo's main house. Lucy tests it with the "Testing 1, 2, 3" method. | |
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In HOUBA! On the Trail of the Marsupilami, Not-So-Intrepid Reporter Dan Geraldo does this with the business end of a blowpipe. To be fair, he's thinking it's held by an imposter and not a real jungle native. He gets a faceful of darts for his troubles. | |
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During the Carson-era of The Tonight Show, Johnny would leap up to grab the boom mic, bring it close to his mouth and announce: "Attention, K-Mart shopper!" whenever a joke fell flat. | |
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