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If TV writers need cheap exposition, the easiest way is to have a news Show Within a Show do it. Usually, the news anchors provide a Practical Voice-Over. Sometimes, they do more than that (see Coincidental Broadcast and News Monopoly). Of course, it gets boring having bland talking heads give information, so animated shows spice up their Practical Voiceover with a little parody. On any show including a fictional newscast intended for adults, you are likely to see anything but a news anchor simply telling the news. Instead, you will see anchors who: Bring way too much of their personal life into their discussion of the news. Feud with each other, or with the field reporters. Have a blatant political bias, and bring it to every story they cover. Indulge in bizarre (usually sexual) habits when they think the cameras aren't on. Sometimes mutter what they truly think of their audience (thoughts that are downright nasty). Try to make their stories more interesting with tortured metaphors and unfunny jokes, with bonus points when it's about something that isn't at all funny. Speak in a weirdly smarmy monotone that never changes no matter what the story is (they say "eight hundred people died in an earthquake" and "happy new year" in the same way). Similar to the above, react inappropriately, usually with slightly smug laughter, to any sudden (and usually horrific) developments in a way that suggests either sociopathy or a lack of attention being paid to what's going on ("And the beast is coming up Fifth Avenue — oh my God, it's on me! AGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!! OH FU-" "Hahaha, that's great, Eddie.") Snap into an outrageously thick accent when mentioning a foreign proper noun, then return to their normal accent immediately without missing a beat. Segue without a beat from a horrific or bizarre story to a "lighter side" one. Especially if we only hear the wrap-up of the horror story. (As in, "…which if true, means death for us all. And now, 'Kent's People!'") Facetiously comment on fashions, cooking or other "lifestyle" matters in front of stills or footage of an ongoing war, or on location in the war zone itself. Give some or all of their air time to weird, random stories instead of anything important. Ask leading questions to a few favored guests on their show, and ask randomly hostile questions to everybody else. Skew any "human interest" stories to allow the most blatant emotional manipulation of their audience. Are unrepentant sleaze-mongers, and get more fire-and-brimstone about it if it follows their political beliefs. Suddenly interrupt the newscast with frivolous new stories, often leading in with "This Just In!…" Are unable to finish their story because of sudden crises within the newsroom. Very visibly could honestly not give two shits about the news, the audience, professionalism or anything to do with their job except for their ego. Directly address the specific character watching. Though live-action comedies do them occasionally, these routines are much more common in animated shows. This may have to do with the fact that animated shows usually use multiple characters per actor, and can afford to have a diverse supporting cast (and also, of course, because it's infinitely easier to have Canon Discontinuity in a show which everyone already knows isn't supposed to be realistic). A regular feature of the Immoral Journalist. |
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In The Oblongs, the local TV news show is completely biased in favor of the mayor, who in turn is completely biased in favor of the town rich. | |
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Sheep in the Big City had two anchors, one of whom would give "unrelated" stories that were obviously related, once repeating the same story. | |
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Following a daring mission in which a Dalek Conquest Army General invades Skaro in an attempt to assassinate the Emperor, which considerably thins the Praetorian Guard and enormously damages Skaro City, the next day's biggest spot of news is the announcement of Skaro's Largest Kwalorblmn Fruit. | |
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BoJack Horseman has Tom Jumbo-Grumbo, a whale pundit from MSNBSea News (voiced by real-life pundit Keith Olbermann) who focuses a lot on antagonizing the titular character. | |
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RoboCop (1987): The anchors are obvious shills for OCP. | |
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In the Live-action/cartoon movie Osmosis Jones, cellular newscasters get into a brawl against each other as the film peaks into the stressful climax. When the ordeal was over, we see them again, but this time with bandages as a comedic result of their feud. | |
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The spoof news show The Day Today and its documentary spin-off Brass Eye both used pretty much every single one of these tropes. | |
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The Simpsons provides the Trope Namer, anchorman Kent Brockman, who pretty single-handedly popularized the trope. He blatantly skews reports to fit his political or personal interests, and always brings his personal views to a story. He's been fired mid-story and quit mid-story at least once. Everything he does falls into unprofessionalism. He often exhibits the Worst News Judgment Ever: In "Radio Bart", Bart has fallen into a well, but Kent abandons the news coverage of his rescue to address the discovery of a squirrel that looks like Abraham Lincoln. Soon afterwards, the squirrel is assassinated, and a shaken Brockman pledges to "cover this (story) all night if we have to." In "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy", Kent dedicates his entire half-hour news broadcast to the children's doll Lisa designed. His daughter told him to (but then again, she apparently also convinced him to cover the fall of the Berlin Wall). Then, just as the closing music plays, Kent discovers he missed something more newsworthy: Sometimes we only see the tail end of a report, which gives just enough information to leave you wondering what the hell just happened. "...making this the most recent Segway accident to claim more than 1000 lives." "...which, if true, means death for us all." "...and the First Lady has promised to sit on the egg until it hatches." "...and the fluffy kitten played with the ball of string... all through the night. On a lighter note, a Kwik-E-Mart clerk was brutally murdered last night." "...leaving the Vice President in charge." Accompanied by a very small picture of the White House, with a thin trail of smoke leaking out. (He then goes on to cover a plot-related issue of minor importance). Inverted when he starts a report, but the TV is switched off before we can hear him finish: Sometimes he can't help himself from overhyping otherwise boring news stories: In "Homer Loves Flanders": Springfield Action News achieves this through use of Cue Card Pause: "Tonight's top stories: A tremendous explosion! ...in the price of lumber. President Reagan dyes! ...his hair." Kent then hypes up a "killer storm" bearing down on Springfield; the death count is actually zero, but it's "ready to shoot right up." In "Das Bus", after the family watches a ridiculously protracted epic film about Noah's Ark, Kent decides to do a little Credits Pushback — and does it before the credits even start: Sometimes he's just plain unprofessional: In "Bart Gets Famous", Kent is so pissed that Bart has stolen his cheese danish that he refuses to do a news story. The network replaces him with Bumblebee Man, who turns out to be a much better anchor... at least initially. In "Deep Space Homer", Kent misinterprets an ant flying across the camera lens in space as an invasion by giant alien ants. As he announces this, he shows his true colors: In "The Boy Who Knew Too Much", Kent covers Freddy Quimby's assault and battery charge against a waiter, and laments on-air that his suggestion to dub the case "Waitergate" had been shot down. In "Bart's Comet", when faced with the imminent destruction of Springfield by meteor, Brockman chooses to spend his final broadcast by listing people who are secretly gay. Cue a quickly scrolling Long List on screen, of which several names are part of the Simpsons' production staff. In "Burns, Baby Burns" when he and "hostage" Larry Burns are surrounded by police at a movie theater, this happens: And sometimes he's actually pretty professional, but his editors and crewmates screw up: In "Lisa the Beauty Queen", Kent tries to pull up footage of Lisa losing her Little Miss Springfield crown, but instead gets a baby goat getting fed a bottle of milk. He then tries to pull up an interview he did with Pope John Paul II — and gets the baby goat again. This is what causes him to quit mid-broadcast. Kent has an ongoing feud with his helicopter newsman Arnie Pye in the Sky. Sometimes Kent can keep it together, only for Arnie to pull the feud on air: In "You Kent Always Say What You Want", Kent had made a hard-hitting editorial on the Iraq War, but the network forces him to shelve it because one of its sponsors had just sold its millionth ice cream cone (to Homer, of course) and instead makes him interview Homer. Then Kent shows his unprofessionalism when Homer spills coffee on his lap and he shouts a swear word on the air. |
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Isaac Asimov's Robots: After the Opening Narration, a newscaster for channel Galaxy 99 provides information on recent events, such as rioting in Boston and the arrival of Kelvin Amadero to Spacertown. | |
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In Parks and Recreation, the local Pawnee news programs are often a source for comedy. Joan Callamezzo, host of the morning show Pawnee Today, is extremely catty and will try to humiliate her guests for ratings and for grudges. News anchor Perd Hapley is a Captain Obvious and all-around doofus. | |
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The improv show Whose Line Is It Anyway? features the game "Weird Newscasters", where the actors perform a quick bit of Kent Brockman News. Not to mention "Newsflash", where the twist is that the 'reporter on the scene' has no idea what he's reporting on. The two "anchors in the studio" usually open the sketch with a vaguely sexual comment before they "realize" the cameras are rolling. Also used for the suggestion "Worst segues following tragic news stories". |
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Hector Ramirez, the parody of investigative reporter Geraldo Rivera from G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, The Transformers, Jem and Inhumanoids. | |
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A recurring character in F is for Family is Jim Jeffords, who is not only a local news anchor but also hosts multiple television programs, including the Hobo Jojo show. | |
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Darkwing Duck features news anchor Tom Lockjaw, arguably inspired by the same real-life personality as Kent Brockman, the famous Tom Brokaw. Lockjaw is considerably less often used than Brockman, but is nonetheless very much a whimsical addition to the show. | |
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In Double Homework, a news story about the class's escape from the avalanche signifies how the news media are changing their tune with regards to the protagonist: they mention the lives he saved, whereas they blamed him for 12 deaths after the incident from before. | |
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SimCity Enhanced had Full Motion Video clips including reports on the disasters that you unleashed, er, happened to befall your city, which were usually happening right on top of the newsroom. The news anchor thinks that reports of a rampaging monster are all just a joke until it squashes her, reports a plane crash with some odd details, fails to take her own advice over remaining calm in the face of a meltdown and also reports the meltdown at a nuclear power station next door to the studio: everyone else has been rushed to hospital except her because "I don't have insurance". | |
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Arrested Development has actual Los Angeles Fox News anchor John F. Beard (who also appears in several other Fox shows in the same capacity in a landmark 15 episodes, which ties him with Henry Winkler/Barry Zuckercorn for the most appearances of a cast member/character not featured in every episode. "Next up; weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq. Find out what this means for your weekend, after the break." |
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On Rocko's Modern Life, newscasts were often given by an unnamed bull typically called Fran, but called Dale one time. | |
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The characters on Cowboy Bebop sometimes got their info on new bounties from a news show called "Big Shot", which was aimed at bounty hunters. The cowboy hosts were a black man with a an inconsistent and sometimes nonsensical accent ("Punch") and a blonde bimbo ("Judy"). In one of the last Bebop episodes, it's revealed this was all an act: In the next episode, Faye sees Punch picking up his mother at the spaceport, but she cannot figure out why he looks familiar (probably because he doesn't have the weird accent or costume). Note that Punch's weird accent shifted from Mexican to Texan whenever he said the show's various catchphrases - in the sub, he simply said the catchphrases in English. |
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Planet Sketch has Mike Today and Sally Van who have gender related arguments when they do their newscasting. | |
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Starship Troopers: The media are owned by the Federation, so the line between "news" and propaganda is non-existent. | |
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Miranda Veracruz de la Jolla Cardinal from Married... with Children, who really didn't like her job. | |
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In the '70s Sesame Street would frequently send reporter Kermit the Frog to cover the re-enactment of some classic fairy tale or nursery rhyme; these would never go as planned. | |
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Hazbin Hotel has 666 News, which is presented by resident Hate Sink Katie Killjoy and her much-abused co-anchor Tom Trench. They report on various gang wars, Tom makes lewd remarks and Katie nails him in the groin with hot coffee, there's a cannibal cooking segment with Jeffery Dahmer, and the crawl quickly segues from explaining a bad pun to the writer complaining about his personal life, his affair with a cleaning lady, and an orangutan at the zoo he hates. Of course, it's a news station in Hell, so this is to be expected. | |
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Tovah Hernandez Carlson on Clerks: The Animated Series is a newscaster of the monotone variety. | |
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The Muppet Show had the recurring "Muppet News Flash" sketch, where a myopic commentator would deliver some odd bit of news, for example a downpour of anvils or localized tidal waves hitting people, and then snidely comment on how ridiculous it was. Whatever it was would then happen to him. An alternate version had him interviewing some eccentric character played by that week's Special Guest. | |
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The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, spoofs of "traditional" news shows, use these tropes frequently. And were naturally delighted to discover a Real Life example on MSNBC, when anchors segued from footage of a cute jumping squirrel to the Columbine school shooting using the words "On a serious note..." They featured another news anchor who detested the silly gimmicks his coworkers kept using - but fell back into this trope from another direction by openly loathing them, and complaining about them on air. |
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Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird has a scene where an anchorman, played by Chevy Chase, reports on the disappearance of Big Bird from his foster family's home in Illinois. He responds to a question by Grover (who is watching the broadcast), has to be corrected by someone offscreen on the pronunciation of the word "sesame", and finally gives the weather report as "It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a beautiful day for a neighbor. Would you be mine?" in a completely deadpan tone. It then cuts to Kermit the Frog reporting on the scene, and things just get more Kent Brockman-esque from there... | |
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In the pilot episode of Just Shoot Me!, Maya gets fired from a news program after rewriting the teleprompter so that a pompous anchorwoman says that a decrease of gang violence was due "to the removal of the frontal lobe of my brain. And in related news, I wet myself." | |
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Hank Anchorman from Johnny Test. | |
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Penny Arcade occasionally features stories by anchorman Randy Pinkwood, who will report on gaming news with the comic's characteristic farcical style. He ends each one by making some sort of reference to his incredible, and often bizarre, sexual escapades. (His name itself is, of course, a Double Entendre.) | |
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Sonic Boom has achorbird Soar the Eagle, who loves to complain about his private life while reporting news: This is how he begins a report in "The Evil Dr. Orbot": While doing a report about Justin Beaver, he complaints about his daughter finding the singer cooler than him: He also took the opportunity to take a potshot at his ex-wife while reporting the beginning of the race in "If You Build Them, They Will Race": |
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DuckTales (2017): While Roxanne Featherly maintains her composure during a report on first contact with an alien civilization (who, at this point, haven't made any hostile moves), the news crawl across the bottom of the screen urges viewers to panic. Roxanne notices this and sighs, "C'mon, Carl!" A few minutes later, once the invasion proper begins, the news crawl reads "Carl was right, we're doomed!" | |
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Rex Bordeaux from Atomic Puppet, who is a complete narcissist unable to find a good story since Captain Atomic was turned into a sock puppet. | |
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In Persona 4 Golden if you romance Marie, she becomes a weather reporter in the ending, and she directly addresses the Player Character on TV by saying that she'll use her Reality Warper powers to make the weather whatever he wants. | |
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Mr. New Vegas will occasionally advertise his Christmas album and hit on the ladies of the Mojave, but otherwise sticks to nice, honest reporting. | |
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Not quite "news", but the commentators in the Pitch Perfect films perform much the same role with some amusing dialog. | |
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Red Dwarf used 'Channel 27' News to explain the Better Than Life game. Featured subtle jokes such as having a month called 'Geldof'. | |
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Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories has a news show with two anchors - one of whom is entirely mute, between each chapter of the game, talking about demon-interest pieces or actual plot relevant information. Inverted in one such "episode", where only the mute character is present; the entire episode is spent in silence, giving absolutely no information at all. | |
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Midtown Madness 2 had at least one announcer like this (out of three or four); one of their race-opening lines ended in "... probably because I'm not wearing any pants!" | |
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American Dad! features "Local anchor partners" Greg Corbin and Terry Bates, two gay news anchors who are in a relationship, who move next door to the Smiths early on in the series. They often bring their domestic lives into the news. In the possibly non-canon episode "Rapture's Delight" the Rapture is reported on TV by only one of them. He explains that his partner has been raptured by saying "Apparently God does love gays, but only if they're a top." |
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Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! has a carryover from their previous show Tom Goes to the Mayor in Jan and Wayne Skylar, the "Channel 5 Married News Team". They added John C. Reilly as Dr. Steve Brule (who has since gotten his own bits—and eventually his own show) who provides useless health information. | |
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Grojband gives us a two-fer in Chance Happenings and Buzz Newsworthy, who cover any major event in Peaceville. They are also prone to bickering with each other, trying to either one-up or put down the other. | |
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The news show seen at the beginning of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots doubles up as a fairly straightforward marine biology documentary, with the news relegated to bouncing, barely readable tickers displaying the weirdest stories ever (such as describing an accident victim as 'beheaded but in stable condition' and mentioning a 'Ghengis Khan impersonator spotted near Vancouver armed with an automatic machete'). | |
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GTA Radio is full of this, especially WCTR in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. | |
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After reporting on an attack on a public school she quickly managed to convey all of the information that she had access to, as many details of the incident had been covered up by The Men in Black. At this point, she openly admits that she is out of things to report on, and is only interviewing random bystanders as an attempt to fill time. | |
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Ratchet: Deadlocked had a male alien, Dallas, and female robot, Juanita, as news anchors and announcers, who alternate between snarky comments about each other, showing off their extreme personality flaws on camera, and slandering the titular character (until he saves everyone after the Big Bad's goes off the deep end). | |
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Three Dog frequently interrupts his own news broadcasts to talk about "the good fight", make fun of President Eden ("that other radio host") and deliver segments about the escapades of the Lone Wanderer. Depending on the number of sidequests the player has completed and how far in the story they have progressed, these LW segments can outnumber actual news about the wasteland. | |
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Travis is easily the most Kent Brockman-ish of the three, especially before the quest to make him more confident. Highlights include audibly cursing himself while the mic is still running, banging his head on something in his radio office, screaming about how the Brotherhood of Steel's arrival means we're all going to die, and his commentary on the writer of one of the songs he plays. The entirety of his very, very awkward commentary can be heard here. | |
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Micah Tannenbaum from Muggle Cast throws in snide remarks and personal opinions, all while being a Deadpan Snarker. | |
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Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy had one of these as its main character, although he was a consummate professional until the events of the film take place. | |
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Something*Positive had one strip starting with a news anchorwoman saying: "... And that's all for the Baby Pageant Massacre" and then segues into a report about Kharisma getting arrested. | |
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One of the news anchors in Die Hard speculate that the hostages have developed "Helsinki Syndrome, named after Helsinki, Sweden," and the other corrects him - Helsinki's in Finlandnote They're talking about Stockholm Syndrome. Then the cut back to Nakatomi Plaza shows quite clearly that they're talking out of their asses. | |
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Fehn Digler from Beyond Good & Evil is a Quisling-flavored news anchor with a habit for outrageous propaganda, flip-flopping sides, and a tendency to get a bit too... "in your face," shall we say. Guess who's one of the first to start sucking up to the good guys when the truth of the Alpha Sections is exposed? | |
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Detroiters has Mort Crim, longtime real-life news anchor— who among other things was cited by Will Ferrell as an inspiration for Ron Burgundy— playing a version of himself. Crim delivers his lines professionally, although the copy for his news segments is often absurd and/or inappropriate. (Example: "And the proof turned out not to be in the pudding, but in the murderer's blood and semen.") And then there's his "Chump of the Week" segment, where Crim highlights a local who's offended, pissed off, or just annoyed him in some way; viewers respond to the segment by mailing the Chump of the Week boxes of shit. | |
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In Incarnations of Immortality, Purgatory's news always relates to the listener. The newscaster also editorializes from a highly moralistic Christian viewpoint, objecting to people's actions based on their sinfulness or lack thereof, because that's the kind of place Purgatory is. And at one point, Death's horse is interviewed, and after making a pun about the horse's mouth, the newscaster takes a moment before remembering he needs to translate Mortis' neigh for the audience. | |
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Trivia game You Don't Know Jack would often have fake bumpers for Kent Brockman News over the credits. "Coming up: I couldn't string two sentences together to save my life. Tonight." | |
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Jane Valderama in Saints Row 2 speaks in the weirdly smarmy monotone and a WASPish accent that only slips when she says her Hispanic last name. Also indulges the tortured metaphors, especially while giving running commentary as an embedded reporter in the Gang War — she rides shotgun with the Boss, bringing her own shotgun. She continues the trend again in The Third and even when she's acting as a radio host in IV. | |
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In Simple Samosa, the Garma Garam newslady usually avoids the comedic trappings of this trope, but in the episode "Mayor Gaayab", she has no problem with outright declaring she should be the mayor and making a run for the town hall, abandoning the news program as she does so. | |
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The three main radio hosts of the Fallout series, in varying flavors. Three Dog frequently interrupts his own news broadcasts to talk about "the good fight", make fun of President Eden ("that other radio host") and deliver segments about the escapades of the Lone Wanderer. Depending on the number of sidequests the player has completed and how far in the story they have progressed, these LW segments can outnumber actual news about the wasteland. Mr. New Vegas will occasionally advertise his Christmas album and hit on the ladies of the Mojave, but otherwise sticks to nice, honest reporting. Travis is easily the most Kent Brockman-ish of the three, especially before the quest to make him more confident. Highlights include audibly cursing himself while the mic is still running, banging his head on something in his radio office, screaming about how the Brotherhood of Steel's arrival means we're all going to die, and his commentary on the writer of one of the songs he plays. The entirety of his very, very awkward commentary can be heard here. |
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On an episode of The Armstrong and Miller Show, there is a sketch wherein a reporter in the Middle East speaks over satellite, while the presenter in the studio uses the delay as an opportunity to accuse him of various unsavoury things. | |
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Segments on the Onion News Network tends to run with this, especially In The Know and Today Now!. | |
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Mixels has the Newzers, a whole tribe themed around newscasting. | |
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The Kentucky Fried Movie, where between skits a newscaster would pop up with oddball news flashes like "I'm not wearing any pants, Film at 11." And again when he says in the same deadpan tone "Moscow in flames, missiles headed towards New York. Film at 11." | |
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Lexx had a recurring anchor for the season set on present-day Earth, whose twin obsessions were fluff pieces and the US stock market. | |
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In the Monk episode "Mr. Monk and the Man Who Shot Santa", Monk shoots and severely wounds Michael Kenworthy, a retired parole officer who was dressing up as Santa to throw toys off a roof, in self-defence (with Kenworthy's own revolver). The details are ambiguous, but Captain Stottlemeyer cringes upon seeing news reporter Brandy Barber (played by Gina Phillips) show up on scene. He calls her "a vampire with a press pass" and for good reason: most of her reports are emotionally charged rather than done rationally, and often has her skewing the story to humiliate the interviewee. Her story skews the events and makes it seem like Monk is some kind of Grinch with a grudge who deliberately shot Kenworthy, which is out-of-character for the description of a 48 year old detective with OCD who served on the San Francisco Police Department for 14 years with a badge, and has solved numerous high-profile cases as a consultant for that same department. For whatever reason, pretty much every civilian in town - except officers in the SFPD - seems to believe this broadcaster. | |
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In an episode of Legion of Super Heroes (2006), two announcers cover the 343rd Intergalactic Olympics fairly well... but when a brawl between the winners, the Legion of Super-Heroes, and the Fatal Five break out, they cover it with no change in tone at all, even stopping for commercial breaks midway through the fight. | |
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A Pup Named Scooby-Doo used a newsflash wherein the newscaster conversed with the Scooby gang. | |
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Mike The TV from ReBoot fits this role, often with huge amounts of Large Ham. | |
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In Groundhog Day, this is usually Phil Connors' style of reporting. He has nothing but contempt for Punxsutawney, its people, its festival, and anyone in his TV audience who actually cares about the festival. Part of his Character Development involves him growing out of this, and he eventually gives a genuinely heartwarming speech. | |
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All newscasts in Dinosaurs are done by the same caster, Howard Handupme. While he would try to be professional, sometimes his skewed basis would be seen, or perhaps he would be just a little too candid. For example, in "Monster Under The Bed", when Baby Sinclair figures out a way to resolve the crisis without it having to devolve into a firefight, he keeps trying to downplay it until it becomes apparent that the situation will end peacefully, and not in a juicy bloodbath like he clearly hopes. Also, this bit from the first episode: | |
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Cow and Chicken had an instance when everybody in the world believes the planet is about to get hit by a comet (it's actually a golf ball suspended in front of an observatory's telescope). | |
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Mock the Week has done "Things a newscaster would never say" as an improv sketch, naturally almost entirely composed of examples of Kent Brockman News. | |
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Ratchet & Clank: Early games had recurring robot reporter Darla Gratch. Ratchet: Deadlocked had a male alien, Dallas, and female robot, Juanita, as news anchors and announcers, who alternate between snarky comments about each other, showing off their extreme personality flaws on camera, and slandering the titular character (until he saves everyone after the Big Bad's goes off the deep end). A Crack In Time gives us Kip Darling and Pepper Fairbanks, a pair of radio personalities. In the first level of All 4 One, they do a running commentary on the Light-Eating Z'Grute's rampage through Luminopolis. Besides giving us a play-by-play of the beast's destruction, they also comment on Galactic President Qwark's regime, as well as taking time to plug some of their sponsors. |
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In The Men from the Ministry there's Newsreader John Curle/Bryan Martin, who often delivers the news of the problems One and Two's bungling has caused, always with complete serenity no matter how insane they are, and Forth Robinson, a Welsh reporter who often ends up witnessing the chaos the General Assistance Department causes first-hand. | |
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In an episode of Rugrats, the television breaks. The babies get a hold of a large box and cut a hole in it to substitute it. Chuckie hosts the evening news show, but ends all of his reports with "Why did this happen? Nobody knows." And then it gets better as Phil and Lil whisper insults about each other to Chuckie. | |
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Futurama has co-anchors Morbo and Linda. Morbo claims to be a scout for his species' upcoming alien invasion, and regularly voices his hatred and contempt for all things - especially humanity - on air. His co-anchor, Linda, always responds to his threats with an empty-headed laugh. | |
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On The Weird Al Show, while flipping through channels, Al would always pass by a newscaster (also played by Yankovic) who would be reporting on a mundane, nonsensical, or just plain pointless "story". ("This just in...Ping-Pong spelled backwards is Gnop-Gnip.") | |
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The second Oddworld game, Abe's Exoddus, has the "Magog on the March" news bulletins, where a Slig anchor presents the latest crimes of the "terrorist" Abe and the declarations of Glukkon directors, with ads for various Glukkon products sprinkled throughout. | |
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In the near-future America of Prez, news anchor/talk show host Amber Waves is not that weird in herself if you ignore her penchant for an Improbable Hairstyle, but enables all kinds of ludicrous goings-on from her guests. | |
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Bruce Almighty: Bruce/God's "adjustments" to Evan Baxter's brain reduce Evan to babbling incoherence: "Caca poo poo pee pee…" Bruce's own live televised reactions to the news that Evan got the anchor position... |
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The Fairly OddParents! has Chet Ubetcha, who like all the other grown ups, is very dim. He's also very short, and has size issues. He often reports on the aftermath of Timmy's wishes. He has a daughter called Yvette who takes his job when the kids take over the world. In the episode, "The Secret Origin of Denzel Crocker!", his mother, Nanette, was also an anchorwoman, and in the episode "The Good Old Days!", his grandfather, Chester, was a radio announcer. | |
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Vanna White and George Hamilton play news anchors in Double Dragon (1994). In one broadcast, George laments the end of the (fictional) relationship between Madonna and Tom Arnold. | |
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Generator Rex has the tabloid news show "Ultimate Exposure", which is also the focus of the episode "Exposed." | |
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In classic first season episodes of Saturday Night Live, Chevy Chase was responsible for the "Weekend Update" news segment. It would always begin with him on the phone with an unidentified lover, saying things like "No, lots of people scream." This is unique in that the implied perversion is at the start of the report, rather than interrupting it. From then on, "Weekend Update" has often incorporated this trope; the most memorable examples being those in the Not Ready For Prime Time Players era (seasons 1-5) that had such characters as Roseanne Roseannadanna, and John Belushi's editorials where he started off quite well but then breaks into his trademark catchphrase: But nooooooooo! and goes into a flurry of madness. More recent non-"Weekend Update" examples include a reporter (Kristen Wiig as Michelle Dison) who clumsily hits on her attractive female subjects in the middle of interviews, a promo for a Sioux City newscast that brags about being "America's most Youtubed news team", though it turns out to be for things like constant off-color bloopers, and Bill Hader's Herb Welch, an elderly reporter for WXPD New York who antagonizes his interview subjects by whacking them in the mouth with his handheld mic and feuds with the anchor (Jason Sudeikis) during the broadcasts. During the Kevin Nealon era, as a Running Gag, a picture of a figure in the news would appear, Kevin would name him, and then Kevin would cut to the next story. Will Ferrell had a recurring role as an utter Cloudcuckoolander version of Harrah Carrey whose questions never had anything to do with the news. |
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In the Game of Thrones Whole-Plot Reference, one newscaster carries his microphone everywhere and always talks in his professional newscaster voice. Even when off the clock. | |
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Act III of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog gives us two rather hammy TV news anchors whose coverage of Captain Hammer's "inspirational acts of heroism" segues neatly into the following gem — "Next up, who's gay?" (For extra humor, the next line is sung by Captain Hammer's Camp Gay Fanboy.) They are later shown weeping uncontrollably on the air over Penny What's-her-name's death. | |
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The "News from Lake Wobegon" section of A Prairie Home Companion is based on this premise. | |
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The Proud Family has Marsha Mitsubishi, who very clearly hates her job and frequently comments about it on air. | |
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Johnny Elaine, the realistic fish head from SpongeBob SquarePants. Also the regular newscasters (Bob and Barbara), who tend to laugh at whatever they report the few times they've shown up. | |
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While reporter Carol Brown from El Goonish Shive is typically a bit more professional than this trope implies, she does occasionally deliver a proper silly news broadcast. Some examples: She once proposed that reports of an "evil monkey" attacking a high school could be the work of an evil monkey trainer determined to terrorize our children. She then quickly dismissed this theory, and admits it was only an excuse to show a silly graphic of a Dastardly Whiplash. After reporting on an attack on a public school she quickly managed to convey all of the information that she had access to, as many details of the incident had been covered up by The Men in Black. At this point, she openly admits that she is out of things to report on, and is only interviewing random bystanders as an attempt to fill time. |
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Transmetropolitan has enough examples of this to cover the inside of a barn. Just to give an idea, one of the most straightforward and reputable shows in future America is built around its host being a giant, grim, stern, intense, scar-faced, concealed weapon-carrying Violent Glaswegian who's not afraid to bully the president to his face. | |
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The cases on Boston Legal are occasionally commented on by outspoken legal analyst Gracie Jane, a parody of Nancy Grace. One episode also featured a reporter named Wolfgang Blitzkrieg (Wolf Blitzer). | |
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Each Splatoon game features a pair (or trio) of popular in-universe idols or musicians that host a news program that plays whenever you boot up the game, alerting the player to the current playable stages (each mode uses a map rotation system) and any new updates (be it new weapons, a Splatfest, or a gameplay patch). They usually lapse when it comes to giving any useful advice to the player however, and instead start rambling, gossiping, and generally going on tangents more often than not. | |
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Cecil in Welcome to Night Vale, who reports the constant horrors of the town calmly and almost cheerfully and frequently interjects personal opinions. Things he's dropped the smooth radio voice for include whenever Steve Carlsburg, Desert Bluffs, or the Apache Tracker (who he hates with a passion), reacting to cat videos, and waxing lyrical over Carlos the scientist, who he is in love with and describes as perfect, beautiful, etc whenever he comes up. Whenever something big happens, such as Carlos calling him in episode 16, almost dying and then returning his affections in episode 25, and their first date in episode 27, then it will invariably hijack Cecil's attention and subsequently the focus of the episode. Even when he's not dropping his radio voice, he'll imitate the original speaker if he's quoting someone, and frequently waxes poetic seemingly at random, which frequently comes across as extremely creepy. | |
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The 1989 Batman featured newscasters on a Gotham City news show, talking about a recent rash of killings by The Joker, when a female newscaster starts laughing uncontrollably and her astonished partner looks on in disbelief, trying to ignore her, before she collapses dead on the ground. Turns out she'd been given a dose of the Joker's poison. | |
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The LoadingReadyRun podcast Qwerpline has this as its central premise. | |
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Minor version on Pushing Daisies, where after the Coincidental Broadcast, the follow-up is bizarre: "Up next: kittens on parade!" and "Can apes drive? We'll find out!" | |
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Monty Python's Flying Circus sent up BBC News in a great many ways. This is helped by the fact that Richard Baker, an actual BBC newscaster, often appeared in this role on the show. | |
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A Crack In Time gives us Kip Darling and Pepper Fairbanks, a pair of radio personalities. In the first level of All 4 One, they do a running commentary on the Light-Eating Z'Grute's rampage through Luminopolis. Besides giving us a play-by-play of the beast's destruction, they also comment on Galactic President Qwark's regime, as well as taking time to plug some of their sponsors. | |
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Jellystone!: Snagglepuss is the local news anchor. Depending on the Writer, he's either the Only Sane Man or is part of that week's shenanigans. When reporting on escaped convicts who simply dug out of jail, he ends his report with "Our town is truly the worst." | |
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The central conceit of Some More News is that The News Dude (played by Cody Johnston) constantly presents Real Life news in this manner in order to provoke laughs from the audience. The News Dude is constantly disheveled, presents news in an over-the-top, bombastic manner, speaks to inanimate objects, has no sense of (or pretense of) objectivity at all and frequently dives into sarcasm, crude sex humor and petty insults towards the subject of the week's broadcast. | |
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The Ultimates: USA Today said that Thor took down the big mothership, but People says it was Iron Man. Jan points that Tony Stark owns a 52% stake in People, so she would believe in USA Today. | |
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The Codename: Kids Next Door episode "Operation: C.A.K.E.D.-F.O.U.R." featured Nick and Chip, annoying, pointlessly judgmental reporters whose voices are reminiscent of Howard Cosell and Harry Carey no matter what's happening — until they get scared, which promptly reveals that at least in Nick's case, the monotone isn't his real voice. They appeared in quite a few episodes after that, providing commentary the bowling tournament in Operation: M.I.S.S.I.O.N., the Vaseball game set up by the bullies in Operation: B.R.E.A.K.U.P., the butt-busting contest in Operation: S.A.F.E.T.Y., and even the scavenger hunt in Operation: I.N.T.E.R.V.I.E.W.S. |
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South Park: In the episode "Krazy Kripples," the reporter tries to liven up his story with creative metaphors ("If irony were strawberries, we'd all be drinking smoothies now, Tom.") Possibly a reference to Dan Rather. In an episode where a whale is stolen from an aquarium, one on-site reporter makes a fairly on-topic joke: "It certainly is a WHALE of a problem down here." To which the reporter at the desk responds, "Yes, This situations is becoming un-BEAR-able." Cue odd looks. There are a variety of weird field reporters, generally Threefer or Fourfer Token Minorities, to do remotes. (Curiously, almost all the weird field reporters, when on-screen, appear to be consummate professionals for the most part: "Thanks, Tom!...") The form is usually "Live, with that story, is..." "A quadriplegic Swiss man on a pony." (He's lashed to it with ropes) "A midget in a bikini." (A very short man in a polka-dot two-piece) "A 34-year old Asian man who looks strikingly similar to Ricardo Montalbán." "A normal-looking guy with a funny name." (His name: "Creamy Goodness") "R. Kelly" "A Hispanic man with gravy stains on his lapel." The "Simpsons Already Did It" episode even showed Kent Brockman himself as part of a hallucination where Butters sees the entire town as Simpsons characters. During the fourth season, a recurring gag in news stories was to have the scene begin with the character(s) watching the tail end of a story about the ever-increasing size of Hillary Clinton's ass. In the episode 'Night of the Living Homeless', the evening news is presented "...with Chris Swollenballs." In the Game of Thrones Whole-Plot Reference, one newscaster carries his microphone everywhere and always talks in his professional newscaster voice. Even when off the clock. |
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Manitowoc Minute: The Manitowoc Minute Man frequently digresses into anecdotes about his personal life, which are all usually stereotypically Midwestern things to do(ice fishing for walleyes, hunting deer, drinking Old Fashions, etc.) He's also not the most professional of newscasters, often adding his personal opinions into the mix. | |
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Ugly Americans has a young, attractive, female news anchor who is always smiling cheerfully, even when reporting the most horrific things. | |
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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory: The news anchor states that there must be something going on in the world besides chocolate, but he can't think of anything. | |
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A newscast from the "Multipimpcity" episode of Pimp Lando has shades of this, especially in the sports and weather sections (the sportscaster is more excited about his awesome wallpaper than reporting the sports). | |
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The Fast Show had a repeating sketch where a news reporter would appear to offer a special report, which was always something inane such as her American friend pronouncing "yogurt" differently. They also had "Chanel Nine" news, which seems to use some elements of this trope. It's hard to tell, since it's done entirely in Foreign Sounding Gibberish. "HI, I'm Ed Winchester!" "You're standing in a woodchipper, Ed." |
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Drop the Dead Donkey was mostly about the chaos behind the cameras, but occasionally Henry's temper or Sally's neuroses would manifest while broadcasting. There's also Damian's sensationalist field reports (which always resulted in the cameraman being injured). This parodies the Real Life situation involving News At Ten anchor Reggie Bosanquet, an erratic and unpredictable anchor who could usually be relied upon, by ten at night, to be at the very least interestingly drunk. It is thought the reason Bosanquet escaped the sack and remained a newsreader for so long is that the public loved him and his appearances guaranteed high ratings. He could be relied upon to be, er, gallant to his female co-anchor, and the bit at the end of the news where the two anchors are seen chatting to each other - without sound - was usually a case of Reggie sexually propositioning her, and she trying to take it with a smile on her face, as if they were merely exchanging small-talk. This was further parodied by Not the Nine O'Clock News as the Reggie Bosanquet Song - the high-functioning alcoholic had a sizeable Estrogen Brigade fan-club who adored him. | |
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Family Guy: The reporters are constantly blurting out odd things that they would never say if they remembered that the cameras were still on. They also have a blatant hatred for one another ("We now go live to Diane being a bitch. Diane?"). During an early episode where Death was incapacitated, they took the opportunity to get violent with each other. Also poked fun at is the tendency of news organizations to relegate minorities to support staff, with "Asian Reporter Tricia Takanawa", and black weatherman Ollie Williams and his "Blacku-Weather Forecast," where he just yells out a succinct description. ("ISS GON' RAIN!" "ISS RAININ' SIDEWAYS!") Apparently he talks like that all the time, as demonstrated in his cooking segment ("EGGO!"), his helicopter traffic report ("EVERYBODY LOOKS LIKE ANTS!") and his adopt-a-pet segment. ("WHO WANTS THIS DAWG?!") One episode "explains" Ollie's speech patterns as the result of alcoholism. From the Star Wars parody episode, Blue Harvest: The second episode of Family Guy involves the TV transmitter getting destroyed, taking out TV for all of Quahog. This results in the following situation: Then there was when the transmitter was fixed: Drunk Billy was the Quahog 5 News Traffic Cam helicopter pilot. In the episode "Dial Meg for Murder", Drunk Billy tragically dies in a fatal collision with a highway overpass. In anticipation for this moment, colleagues Tom Tucker and Diane Simmons present a pre-prepared collection of accidents and near misses from Billy’s career. When Meg got an internship at the news studio, Tom showed her how they put together "interviews" with celebrities who are too busy to come to the studio. They cut between Tom in the studio asking questions and almost-appropriate clips of various films the actor has appeared in. The Dustin Hoffman "interview" is already bad enough, but it ends with a clip from Hook where Hoffman demands "Bring me Peter Pan!" in response to Tom asking if there's anything he could ever do for him which only warrants a chuckle from Tom. There's also the fact that Neil and Meg each get to present a report of their own. Neil's is just footage of Meg kissing him when they thought they were going to die in a newscopter crash. Meg's is her rebuttal, insulting him and interviewing various people to prove that she never would have kissed him if she didn't literally believe she was about to die. The anchors (and producers, who either didn't prescreen them or didn't care) treat them as any other human interest piece. One episode shows Tom backstage practicing in front of a mirror. Granted, there's no indication he's practicing for a real news story, but after trying out a few more serious takes, he settles on "What's the President doing in this casket? Find out after the break!" |
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StarCraft II has news anchor Donny Vermillion blatantly paint Jim Raynor's rebels as ruthless terrorists even when his respondent tells him most of the civilian casualties in the most recent battle were caused by overzealous Dominion soldiers. This is further accented with ridiculous censorship of an interviewed subject, lots of talk over the logo, and other antics. Then he finds out that Mengsk, the guy he had been shilling the whole time, was the one responsible for his brother's death on Tarsonis. The final news broadcast is on how Donny Vermillion has gone insane and the respondent is taking over as anchor. | |
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The French puppet show Les Guignols de l'Info, running since 1988, is entirely about this trope. The anchor Patrick Poivre d'Arvor never misses an occasion to make snarky comments just after interviews or shows naïve agreement when explained horrible things by "officials" (like the marketing plan to sell...the War in Irak). He is not above bullying (puppets of) journalists of other channels who have been fired or suspended for some reason, like David Pujadas or recently Harry Roselmack, treating them like trainees who must learn from him. And sometimes, we switch to this inside the show, presented this time by Jean-Pierre Pernaut, the anchor of the 13 o'clock news on TF1 (a channel considered blatantly rightwing, pro-government, anti-strikers and anti-public servants) which has a tendency to show anecdotes about the "deep traditional France" or the holiday departures rather than important news. | |
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Robin on How I Met Your Mother has done numerous silly things on the air: ridiculous Could This Happen to You? stories, Incredibly Lame Puns, and bizarre fluff pieces, especially when Barney's getting her to do a bet. When she transferred to Japan, Robin got to report actual news — with a chimpanzee. Also her job on the morning news show, in which she gives CPR to the weatherman after he and the green screen catches on fire. Then she helps deliver the child of her guest that goes into labor. | |
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Drawn Together, of course, has several versions which, like every other aspect of the show, is deranged and nonsensical. The anchors usually state something that either Crosses the Line Twice or inexplicably correlates to the characters directly. | |
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The Tick - events on the show are often reported by news anchor Brian Pinhead (pronounced 'Pin-ADE'). | |
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The 'weird, random stories instead of anything important' version was a staple of radio satirists Bob & Ray, usually personified by inept roving reporter Wally Ballou (Bob). Sent to meet interesting people at the airport, Wally manages to find the guy who was headed to Paris to lobby for tunafish as the traditional meal for Bastille Day. Even when Ballou found himself pursuing an actual legitimate story, it quickly lapsed into absurdity - as when he discovered that a paperclip company was able to keep costs down because they only paid their workers 14 cents a week. ("How in the world could they live on that?" "Well, we don't pry into the personal lives of our employees, Wally...") Additional amusing touch: Wally's broadcasts always started in mid-spiel. "-lly Ballou here..." This sketch was parodied at least once on The Al Franken Show on Air America Radio. Wally Ballou is interviewing a British Airways passenger whose flight has been delayed, and Ballou remains oblivious that the person he's talking to, Muhammad al-Khazmani, is implied to be a terrorist hijacker. |
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Bananas begins with Howard Cosell himself presenting the "live, on-the-spot assassination" of the dictator of San Marcos for Wide World of Sports. | |
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Stan Blather from Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers is a parody of both Dan Rather and Walter Cronkite. | |
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Economy Watch: News programs are used to provide exposition from time to time, often featuring different channels and hosts. 3 news hosts featured are Jimmy Garcia, Pepita and Frederick Jones. | |
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Alot of the news broadcasts in the Rampage series are like this. | |
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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines has a TV in the protagonist's hideout. It's delivering pretty normal news... Except when you play as Malkavian, which turns the news into Kent Brockman variety. | |
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Transformers has "Around Cybertron", an Official Fanclub mini comic about the eponymous in-universe newscast. It features the various journalist characters from the franchise, typically reporting humorously on the major events of whatever the latest Fanclub storyline is. The comic (and show) thus spans several different universes in the franchise. Shattered Glass Rook probably hews closest to the Kent Brockman model. Being a mirror-universe Autobot, he's actively psychotic and offered highly propagandistic reports where he expresses his disgust at the dastardly Decepticons saving orphanages. He also frequently cuts to reporter Punch giving exposes on the deeds of himself in a Paper-Thin Disguise. |
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Gravity Falls: Toby Determined who owns, reports for, and edits, a local newspaper called the Gravity Falls Gossiper, and does work for TV and radio from time to time, but is widely considered too inept for his chosen career. In his first speaking role, he tried to interview Stan only to be told "Your microphone's a turkey baster" and a headline for his paper reads "Reporter calls mom". On the opposite end of the spectrum is Shandra Jimenez, "A real reporter", who covers all of the events that happen in town. The problem is that Shandra's a normal newscaster who's stuck a weird place like Gravity Falls. When the mayor dies in "The Stanchurian Candidate", she breaks down in tears because it's the first piece of real news she's had to report in a while. |
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