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This trope is about that scene where someone is receiving, or has found, some important piece of information only to have —connection lost— —connection reestablished— then the battery gets plugged into —connection lost— —connection reestablished— except the coconut gets in the way —connection lost— —connection reestablished— and then the goat —connection lost— —connection reestablished— then I said "But you're the second one!!" Gosh, everyone was so —connection lost— —connection reestablished— but undoubtedly, the most important part is when —connection lost— —unable to reestablish communication; connection terminated— |
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In The Rising of the Shield Hero several shrines on the Spirit Turtle contained warnings and explanations from past Heroes. Key phrases and words had been lost over time, destroying the most critical information. Naofumi later suspects this to have been done by the entity behind the waves to deny future generations vital knowledge. | |
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The Loud House Movie: As the Louds arrive in Scotland, Lori tries to do have video chat with Bobby over their smartphones. However, the area's poor wifi disrupts the connection, and Bobby ends up thinking that Lori was breaking up with him. | |
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In The Belgariad's second part, a crucial piece of prophecy is garbled under an ink blot. Garion figures out something is there because the previous and subsequent sentences can't possibly go together. The important pieces of the prophecy are written on top of one another, and sealed with magic such that only exposing it to the light of the Orb of Aldur will allow them to be read. Garion works this out when he realizes he keeps getting irrationally angry and looking away if he studies the blot for too long. | |
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In an episode of Donkey Kong Country Diddy and Funky are in Funky's biplane and are told by DK over the radio NOT to read a certain piece of paper that has a terrible spell on it. Unfortunately due to static the "not" part gets cut out of the message. | |
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The Simpsons: Homer suffers a mental version of this: "When the fire starts to burn, There's a lesson you must learn. Something something, then you'll see: You'll avoid catastrophe!" D'oh! Kent Brockman is also fond of this one: A scene from the Treehouse of Horror segment "The Ned Zone", when Ned tries to warn Homer at the power plant not to push a button that could blow up Springfield. Ned tries speaking through the intercom. |
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Superhero Movie plays with this trope when Rick Riker receives a message from Professor X and it keeps buffering so the important info is lost and it sounds like something else. | |
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In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978), a Grebulon ship (which is on an exceptionally long-haul flight across the galaxy and whose crewmembers are in stasis) suffers this with their orders after an asteroid ripped through their ship which destroyed the system which held their identites and their mission plan. The only instructions they end up with are to land a safe distance from something and monitor it. | |
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Happens in Half-Life, in the level where you finally meet the Black Ops Assassins ("Apprehension"). | |
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In the original Half-Life 2, after Black Mesa East comes under attack, Eli is giving Alyx instructions on how to escape! | |
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Paranoia XP supplement The Underplex. The Signal Interference table has an entry for "Mild static punctuates the communication, obscuring occasional words." | |
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In Calvin and Hobbes II: Lost at Sea, Rupert and Earl's crew attempt to record a conversation with a cassette player, but this starts happening when its batteries start running out. | |
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Half-Life: Also from the Orange Box, in Half-Life 2: Episode Two, when Alyx (with you alongside her) tries to transmit a warning about an approaching Combine armada to her Dr. Magnusson from the radio tower, transmission interference cuts her off before she's able to convey it properly. In the original Half-Life 2, after Black Mesa East comes under attack, Eli is giving Alyx instructions on how to escape! Happens in Half-Life, in the level where you finally meet the Black Ops Assassins ("Apprehension"). |
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Doraemon: Nobita and the Animal Planet has the attempts of Chippo, the gang's new canine friend from the Animal Planet, to summon for help when the Nimuge alien invades using the transceiver from Doraemon's Expedition Gadget given to him earlier in the adventure. Unfortunately, the signal gets silenced by another attack, leading to Doraemon, Nobita, and the gang to return to the Animal Planet. | |
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House of Leaves makes use of this occasionally. For example, two of Will Navidson's dreams are recounted, and the third dream is said to be very unsettling and key to understanding his actions. Naturally, Johnny misplaced those pages. There's also the chapter where Navidson sends samples from the house to be scientifically analyzed, which seems like it would have answered a lot...except Johnny accidentally most of those pages. |
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In this Dilbert strip, the Pointy-Haired Boss calls Dilbert and says "Go through my desk and look up the billing codes". Due to poor cell phone reception in the Boss's area, what Dilbert hears is "Go throw my desk off the building." Due to the fact that nobody likes the boss, Dilbert and Alice do just that the next strip. | |
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Æon Flux: From the episode "The Demiurge", a rare example that doesn't involve transmitting equipment. Trevor Goodchild is speaking with an underling when he suddenly recalls a vital piece of information. What he says is "Wait, I remember!" — and what he says next is drowned out by the sound of an explosion behind him. | |
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If you've ever seen copies of those documents concerning the military's UFO research, you'd wonder if someone didn't just block out 80% of the text just to screw with you. It's in weird places too. Half a paragraph will be blocked, only to pick up on stuff like "...to which, the witness responded, 'I don't know WHAT they would want with my cattle, that's why I called you.'" The SCP Foundation's use of oddly placed [DATA EXPUNGED] probably owes something to these. | |
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In the Supernatural episode "Dog Dean Afternoon", the spell allowing Dean to Speak Fluent Animal wears off right before a dog can tell him about the secret origin of the dog species. | |
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In Discworld, Nanny Ogg's Cookbook is censored at regular intervals for being deemed obscene by the editors. Her chapter on "of manners and convenances in bed" is almost completely covered by the editors' memos, and only weird, out-of-context fragments are readable for added Noodle Implement. | |
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In Quentyn Quinn, Space Ranger, he is told he must take the assassin alive, but not why. | |
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In the Metalocalypse episode "Mordland", static interrupts band mascot Facebones during several important parts of the Fan Day safety briefing. | |
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In World of Warcraft there's an item called "Nat Pagel's Guide to Extreme Anglin'" that's missing every page but the last. What does it say? "... and so that's where you'll find the legendary sword of the Scarlet Highlord, Ashbringer. Ain't it amazin' what you run into in an ordinary day of fishin'?" | |
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The Adventures of Dr. McNinja has the doc riding a robot Dracula in outer space, calling his brother (who is fighting a demonic spirit in a submarine at the time) for tips on how to control it. No surprise the connection (eventually) gets lost. | |
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In the GDI campaign of Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn, there's a mission where you must sneak a Commando into a Nod base and blow up one specific building. Which one? Well, your mission briefing was over a black and white, fuzzy, static-filled channel: "Make sure you take out the - (bzzzzzzz) - and get the -(bzzzzzzz) - out of there!" If you blow up the wrong building, you get to do a follow-up mission where you attack the base with a conventional force, but the enemy has had time to expand their defenses. If you count the number of stars representing static in the objective menu you realise that only one structure has that specific amount of letters. There are a number of ways of working this out. Probably the most common is "What's the hardest building in the base to attack?" followed by, "What's the most important building in the base?". Other possibilities include "What's the only building that could pose a threat to my One-Man Army?" and "What building is there only one of?" |
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Subverted in The Spanish Prisoner, where several points of fact, detail, or exposition are obscured by environmental noise or bad camera angles as a deliberate signal to the audience of the movie that they are Macguffins. | |
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Used in A Miracle of Science to make the already weird snippets of Martian conversation even more humorously out-of context: "...yellow stuff is lemon flavored, but it's really insulation flavored." "If I knew... machetes... getting married, I'd have done it long ago." "...do not... -inate. Those are structural cockroaches." |
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail. 'Here may be found the last words of Joseph of Arimathea. He who is valiant and pure of spirit may find the Holy Grail in the Castle of aaarrrrggh'. | |
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The message from the future which the four heroes of Dinoverse receive while in the Cretaceous period starts with the one saying the message claiming he doesn't know how much time he has to tell it, and cuts off as he's about to tell them what they most importantly should not do. | |
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Another Python gag that uses this trope comes from the How to Irritate People special. | |
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This is how the events of the first Metal Gear started: Gray Fox was infiltrating Outer Heaven and scouting the various locations and the items inside, and reporting to FOXHOUND. He eventually stumbled on evidence that Metal Gear is being developed. However, he was caught, and he was about to say something regarding "Metal Gear", but the transmission was cut, with his last/only words before the cutting of transmission being "Metal Gear..." | |
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In Issue #1 of Godzilla: Rulers of Earth, Steven Woods is asking what the name of the kaiju they're dealing with is. The response through his static-y radio is "<skrt>zilla, sir. Sighting <skrt>zilla!" So Woods assumes they're calling it "Zilla." A few seconds later, both he and the newly christened Zilla find out that the person on the other end was trying to warn him that Godzilla was approaching… | |
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In the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, this is deliberately invoked in certain Cortex communications in Crash 2. This appears to be because the script is exactly the same as the original game, which is a problem because certain aspects have been changed (for example, how to access boss fights, or the placement of items around the level entrances). Rather than re-record the dialogue, static was introduced that conveniently covers up any contradicting elements. | |
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In Digimon Adventure, when Tai returns to Earth and is separated from the rest of the group, he gets a staticky message from Izzy telling him he's better off not returning. What can be heard makes it sound like everyone's in danger, but the astute viewer will note that Izzy's voice is unusually subdued. Several episodes later, we hear the other end of it: He wasn't exactly himself at the time, and he was trying to convince Tai of the meaninglessness of action in general. | |
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The American pilot for Red Dwarf ended with Lister being visited by his own future self. Future!Lister had only a few moments to convey a very important message, but everybody nattered about irrelevant details until there were only a few seconds left. The message Future!Lister finally managed to delver consisted only of "You've got to—" | |
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Towards the beginning of John Dies at the End, when John is giving David instructions through a psychic connection channeled through a bratwurst phone: | |
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Silent Hill RPG. In Alchemilla Hospital the PCs can find a videotape. When played it has an audible message in a female voice. | |
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Played straight in Screamers. | |
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In the Big Finish Doctor Who Companion Chronicles audio drama "Tales from the Vaut", a century old phonograph record in the UNIT vault contains a warning from the Doctor's companion Steven Taylor. Unfortunately, it deteriorates before it can explain exactly what it's a warning about. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: Module S4 The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth. The PCs can acquire an Apocalyptic Log document of a party that previously entered the title area. It has a number of smudges, stains, blotches and smears that cover important words and phrases. Module O2 Blade of Vengeance. Two items have missing information: Druinder's letter and the last page of the hermit's book. Ravenloft supplement Chilling Tales, adventure "The Taskmaster's Leash". The PCs receive a letter from Dr. Rudolph von Richten that has been crudely censored, with all of the segments that indicate what's really going on blotted out. |
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Galaxy of Fear: The Hunger has a record of a Lost Colony. A woman on her deathbed, previously noting that she wasn't going to log much anymore since the datapad was running low on power, starts to explain what they had had to do to feed the children when its battery dies. Years later the heroes bring new batteries and get to view the entries, but the last one still cuts out. | |
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Crimson Tide: The main conflict revolves around the differing opinions of the captain and the executive officer after they receive an interrupted emergency message that begins "Nuclear missile laun...". Having previously been ordered to launch their nuclear weapons, the captain feels they must launch immediately while the executive officer wants confirmation first. There's a Race Against the Clock on both sides to prevent what they both see as an unthinkable outcome. | |
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Call of Cthulhu supplement Cthulhu By Gaslight, adventure "The Yorkshire Horrors". An account by a Roman legion scribe of an attack by Cthulhu Mythos monsters and cultists has two parts that are hard or impossible to read. The first possibly refers to "walking trees" (actually Dark Spawn of Shub-Niggurath). The second is a stain of blood or perspiration that covers up part of the narrative. | |
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In Planet Terror, we get a "Missing Reel" screen. During the missing reel, it's implied, we'd have gotten to see Rose McGowan totally naked, plus the entire plot surrounding Ray's mysterious origins would have been explained. Hilariously, when the film comes back, everything is on fire, and we'll never know why. | |
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Look to the West takes the form of transmissions from a scouting party in an Alternate Universe sent home, consisting mainly of excerpts from local history books. As the story goes on, more of these history books have parts censored. Part #100 of the story has constant breaks in transmission with static: this is not explained until the end of the chapter, in which we learn the scouts were attacked by locals and their transmitter destroyed partway through transmission, corrupting parts of the file. | |
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Mass Effect: On Ilos, Shepard and team find an old console with an emergency transmission from the last days of the Prothean Empire. However, after fifty-thousand years it's decayed too badly to contain any meaningful information. Then the message changes to a different, utterly panicked voice. | |
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In The Westing Game, this trope occurs when Sam Westing's will is revealed. One character makes a stupid joke during the reading, and none of the heirs realizes that they've missed a crucial clue as a result until much later. Turns out the trope was deliberately invoked, as the joker has a hidden agenda and distracted everyone on purpose. | |
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Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) fanfiction Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): One of the soldiers sent into the zombie-infested, derelict Elaborate Underground Base where Alan Jonah was keeping Ghidorah's severed head is sent to scout out a service tunnel, keeping in touch with the rest of the team via comms, until he gets winded and loses track of his surroundings, implicitly via the Brown Note that Ghidorah is exuding. Then this happens: | |
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In Bloom County, Opus wakes up from a nap and turns on the TV only to learn that he's just missed a report on three things that have been determined to cause sudden, fatal nose warts in penguins. Opus screams at the TV, begging for the news anchor to go back and repeat the story, but the news anchor cheerfully signs off. Then as Opus stands there, staring at us aghast, the anchor adds, "Shouldn't have been napping." | |
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Oxventure: In the 2022 Halloween Dread episode, the characters are on a camping trip deep in the forest when their guide is attacked and almost killed, leaving them to fend for themselves. Madison tries to raise help on the radio, and manages to briefly get in contact with search-and-rescue before the radio dies, but most of the conversation is lost in static. The last thing that comes through is "...whatever you do ... moving. It is imperative ... stay put ...", leading to a discussion about whether it was more likely to be "keep moving, don't stay put" or "don't keep moving, stay put". (In the event, it's a moot point; they have to keep moving, because the creature that attacked their guide isn't finished with them.) | |
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The Book of Mazarbul in The Lord of the Rings is read out with all the missing bits included as ellipses. Tolkien also inscribed the relevant pages to show the missing burned parts. | |
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In Love & Pies, when Freya calls Amelia for the first time since the fire, she uses the payphone because she lost her phone. She warns Amelia not to investigate the Purple Fox, but is suddenly cut off before she could tell her what else to do due to poor reception. | |
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In Monsters vs. Aliens, as Gallaxhar is telling his life story and being cloned (when he's downed into the cloning machine, we can't hear him) at the same time. | |
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In the Teen Titans (2003) episode "Stranded" (in which the entire plot is about various miscommunications), the Titans are in their Combining Mecha-like ship and trying to shake off the Monster of the Week which is latched on to the hood. Robin orders them not to separate — twice — but a radio malfunction misleads the team into separating. | |
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This occurs frequently on Lost. The Swan Orientation film alone had multiple instances: some information lost due to film problems, some due to Radzinsky snipping it out. In season 5, a time flash occurs just as Daniel is trying to get Desmond to help him: "You have to find my mother. Her name is —." Most times the subsequent episodes complete the info. | |
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In Mass Effect: End of Days, during the first contact with Citadel races, the first thing the Alliance does upon emerging from the Relay is isolate the present Council ships just in case. All the Council receives is a barely discernible image of a 5 km ship outside the windows. | |
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In Not the Nine O'Clock News, Rowan Atkinson plays Zak The Alien who breaks into a BBC transmission to warn the earth about impending doom. He gets as far as "Beware the one who calls himself Terry Wogan. He is a Zuon from the planet Tharg and cannot be trusted..." before his universal translator breaks down. It keeps breaking down. | |
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Raiders of the Lost Ark has this trope with an unusual form of "transmission." There's a gold talisman that has instructions to find a temple. The antagonist tries to steal it from our main characters, but grabbed the talisman while it was so hot that it burned his skin. The result was that he had a copy of the talisman, and its readable instructions, seared into his palm. It looks like the bad guys will find the temple first, searching where the man's scarred skin says to search. However, the main characters then learn that the talisman actually has instructions on both sides; the bad guys' gruesome "copy" only has one side. | |
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Potter Puppet Pals has the "Elder Swear", the most ancient and powerful insult ever invented. It goes like this: | |
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In Command & Conquer, GDI mission 6, the mission briefing is really short and staticky: "Use a GDI Commando to infiltrate the Nod base. *** ** destroy the *** so that the base is incapacitated. Get in, hit it, and get the *** out." In the GDI campaign of Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn, there's a mission where you must sneak a Commando into a Nod base and blow up one specific building. Which one? Well, your mission briefing was over a black and white, fuzzy, static-filled channel: "Make sure you take out the - (bzzzzzzz) - and get the -(bzzzzzzz) - out of there!" If you blow up the wrong building, you get to do a follow-up mission where you attack the base with a conventional force, but the enemy has had time to expand their defenses. If you count the number of stars representing static in the objective menu you realise that only one structure has that specific amount of letters. There are a number of ways of working this out. Probably the most common is "What's the hardest building in the base to attack?" followed by, "What's the most important building in the base?". Other possibilities include "What's the only building that could pose a threat to my One-Man Army?" and "What building is there only one of?" |
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When Miyoshi congratulated Hasebe for his sister's upcoming marriage in Episode 9 of Servant × Service, she was interrupted by some loud noises just as she was saying Kaoru's name, causing Hasebe to misunderstand that his crush Lucy was the one getting married and throwing him into a Heroic BSoD. Thankfully for him, he managed to clear that up by the end of the episode. | |
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In an early Emergency Exit strip, Harvoc, the hook-handed mailman, accidentally tears an important part out of a letter from the villians to the heroes | |
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Futurama: In the first episode to feature the soap opera All My Circuits, Calculon reveals his terrible secret at the exact moment that Bender walks in and his antenna disrupts the broadcast. He leaves the room intending to go and complain, and the picture comes back. Calculon says "To reiterate, my terrible secret is-" and then Bender returns and disrupts the transmission again. The chronotons from the episode "Time Keeps On Slippin" start to cause "time skips" where time suddenly lurches forward. One time skip jumps to Fry and Leela's wedding, then another immediately jumps to their divorce, leaving Fry to wonder how he managed to get her to marry him in the first place and then what he did to cause the divorce. |
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In Due South Season 2 Episode 1, Ray and Fraser are on their way to Canada when Fraser deduces that their "pilot" is actually an escaped prisoner. When Ray admits that he brought his gun on board and suggests they take over, Fraser adds a caveat: | |
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Portal 2 gives us this gem. For added laughs, it's played over a graphical depiction of a giant leopard-patterned turret invading the UN, which becomes a Brick Joke later. | |
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Ravenloft supplement Chilling Tales, adventure "The Taskmaster's Leash". The PCs receive a letter from Dr. Rudolph von Richten that has been crudely censored, with all of the segments that indicate what's really going on blotted out. | |
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Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf: A humorous variant with Dracula's "Bat Laser" holographic transmitter. His words get through just fine, but the hologram failed to include his pants in the image, leaving him standing there in his boxer shorts. | |
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Wedge Antilles, during the Assault on Kile II mission in the first Rogue Squadron game, ends up having his transmission cut as he ends up shot down by an ambush of TIE interceptors. | |
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FoxTrot: Deliberately invoked by Peter in one strip. He phones his mother and asks "Would it be alright if I...saved for college?" with a suspiciously long pause in the middle. After his mother agrees, he is shown with a Playstation and explaining to his friend Steve that he'll claim he actually asked "Would it be alright if I buy a Playstation with the money I saved for college?" but the signal on his crappy phone dropped out partway through. That way, his mother will also buy him a new cellphone. | |
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In the second season of Star Blazers (Space Battleship Yamato), Trelaina's message to Earth is almost completely lost in a radio-jam by the Comet Empire, to the point that it is mostly "ip ip eh" noises mixed in with several word-halves, and yet Wildstar still senses it is important. | |
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In Triangle, Sally's Distress Call received by Greg on the Triangle cuts off before any vital information could be exchanged. | |
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Return to Zork: When you leave the mayor, Trembyle calls you through Tele-Orb: "That old bore... Oh, that reminds me. Did I tell you about that boar we ran into in the Forest of the Spirits..." and the orb goes out. When you replace the battery, Trembyle finishes the phrase "...use it wisely." The former is a useful hint, the latter is lost forever. | |
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Recess: School's Out, of all places, has this occur: After TJ escaped from his makeshift cell with Prickly and into Benedict's office (formerly Prickly's office), TJ manages to report that he located Prickly and that he discovered Benedict's plan from a mural, which was to get rid of Summer Vacation. TJ then tries to supply his friends with a plan... but was unable to even start talking because at that moment, the ugly bald guy grabbed the walkie talkie, and likewise caused the communication to go dead. | |
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The Australian The Late Show (1992), Tony Martin and Mick Molloy were discussing Thai porno movies, and the station kept having "transmission problems" just as they got to the "interesting" parts. | |
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Blazing Saddles. As Bart approaches Rock Ridge, Gabby Johnson's shouts are obscured by the tolling of a bell, and are misheard by Sam Johnson as "The sheriff is near". It doesn't help that Gabby's normal speech is peppered with "authentic frontier gibberish". | |
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The Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law episode, "Sebben & Sebben New Employee Orientation / Juicer Instruction" video has a number of instances where the audio or filmstrip skips, skipping a piece of information that was about to be disclosed, or connecting two unrelated topics in the middle of the narration. As well as, of course, cutting away from the Employee Orientation into how to use your new juicer. | |
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One of the Marine logs in Metroid Prime 2: Echoes has it abruptly ending in static. | |
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One episode of I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again featured an experimental "stereo" broadcast. Listeners with ordinary radios (i.e., everybody) only got to hear half of what was being said. | |
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In Rebel Assault II, the first mission Cut Scene has a static - ridden message from a freighter pilot, mentioning "...new weapons..." and generally foreshadowing. Several missions later, you recover the freighter itself and can receive the full message. The static is done so that if you know the full message, you can just tell most of it when reviewing the original. | |
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God of War (PS4): The Witch in the Woods tries to warn Kratos and Atreus to "be very careful not to-" before she's fully expunged from Alfheim and separated from them, leaving them to retrieve the Light of Alfheim with what they have. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In "It's About Time", Future Twilight keeps getting interrupted by Present Twilight (who is geeking out over the fact that she apparently will learn time travel) and doesn't get to reveal her intended message before getting dragged back to the future. | |
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Doctor Who: Eleven's instructions to Rory in "The Big Bang". The last word turns out to be "trouble". | |
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An episode of kids' show Martha Speaks has the kids and Martha hiding a tape recorder to record the plans of what they think are a couple of criminals getting ready to rob a bank. They retrieve the recorder later and take it to the police. When they play the tape, just as the criminals are starting to discuss details, the tape has been recorded over with Martha singing pop tunes. (No explanation over how she managed to get time to record herself singing between the time they retrieved the tape and arrived at the police station.) | |
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In Super Mario Galaxy, the yellow Toad sleeping on the Comet Observatory's garden will make comments while sleeping based on your progression, with the final one being "Bowser's weakness is... zzz..." | |
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TRON 2.0 is loaded with this. For about three-quarters of the game, Jet's receiving incomplete, cryptic, and static-filled transmissions from Ma3a or "Guest." In "Guest's" case it turns out Alan is making do with an old arcade game and junk from the storage closet he's locked in. Unfortunately, the poor communication does kill Alan doesn't realize it's his son that's trying to help Ma3a and Jet doesn't get the message not to compile the Tron Legacy (no relation) code until it is way too late. | |
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Monty Python's Flying Circus: Episode 30 has a Running Gag where periodically the skit would cut to a bizarre set of instructions being read that included the phrase "and paste down the edge of the sailor's uniform, until the word 'Maudling' is almost totally obscured." Near the end of the show, the scene cuts to BBC Newsman Richard Baker at a newsdesk talking and making increasingly strange hand gestures, however there is a voice over preventing us from hearing what he is saying. Finally the voice over ends and the normal audio concludes with Richard saying "... until the word 'Maudling' is almost totally obscured." Bonus points for never knowing what the instructions are supposed to be for to begin with. Another Python gag that uses this trope comes from the How to Irritate People special. Also: "In the event of an emergency, it is vitally important that you *static..........................* AS THE WARNING BUZZER SOUNDS! |
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In an episode of Sushi Pack, Tako goes with his newly-discovered cousin to a family reunion. After he's gone, the rest of the Pack start to worry that this reunion is a trap, and go investigate in their underwater craft. When they spot a couple of octopi, Kani turns on an eavesdropping device, but it cuts out at a crucial moment, making it sound like the family reunion is indeed a trap. It turns out the reunion was actually a surprise party honoring Tako's achievements as an octopus and a member of the Sushi Pack. | |
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In Disney's RocketMan, Randall explains what the Martian dust storm they're experiencing is like to NASA. As the video jumps, Julie looks more and more concerned at what he's saying, implying that even with the full transmission it wouldn't have made much sense. | |
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This exchange from Ocean's Eleven, where Rusty is instructing Linus: | |
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In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Princess Peach has found out what the villains plan to do with her (have an Eldritch Abomination possess her) - just as she's typing a message to inform Mario of it, the Big Bad walks in to take her away, and the message is sent incomplete, leaving the Reveal to the climax of the game. | |
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In the Warrior Cats book Rising Storm, Whitethroat is injured, and Fireheart questions him about Runningwind's death. But just when Whitethroat opens his mouth and begins to speak, a monster roars past so Fireheart can't hear him, and when Whitethroat tries to speak a second time, he dies. | |
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Portal: In GlaDOS' opening announcement: She does it again when explaining the safety instructions for the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device, and there is also this pearl: And under no circumstances should the portal device be ~BZZT~. Portal 2 gives us this gem. For added laughs, it's played over a graphical depiction of a giant leopard-patterned turret invading the UN, which becomes a Brick Joke later. |
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Played for laughs in the Hancock's Half Hour TV episode "The Radio Ham". Our hero is a ham radio operator who receives a Mayday call from a sinking yacht, but is unable to write down its position because events - a power failure, an angry neighbour and a blown circuit - keep preventing him. Eventually the yacht is saved by one of Hancock's regular correspondents, much to his disgust, and he gives up the hobby. | |
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The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark: McQueen manages to make contact with the missing Dooley, and the connection holds while they exchange greetings but starts breaking up and then cuts out entirely right when Dooley starts giving useful information about where he is. | |
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In the Star Wars Legends book The Jedi Path, the prophecy of The Chosen One is conspicuously redacted. Luke suspects that Palpatine is responsible. | |
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BoBoiBoy Movie 2: In an emergency transmission when the TAPOPS station is under attack, Koko Ci sends the heroes a coordinate and says to follow its attached instructions. The data for the latter gets corrupted after a crash-landing at the desired planet, so all they know to do is search for Hang Kasa. Only when they see the full uncorrupted message later do they realise that they were never meant to train under Hang Kasa, just get information on how to defeat him, as they were once friends. | |
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Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. One of the villains' allies decides to tell Kirk and McCoy the master plan "since they're going to die anyway", but they are beamed to safety by Spock before they get to hear a word of it. | |
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In Event Horizon, the distress signal sent by the eponymous starship contains the Latin phrase liberate me ("save me"). It was later realized that the message was actually libera te tutemet ex inferis ("save yourself from Hell"). | |
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Primeval: Narrowly subverted in Season 3, Episode 5. Sarah urgently calls Jenny's cellphone to warn her that burning the fungus creature to try and contain the fungus will backfire catastrophically, but since Jenny and the team are hunting the creature underground, interference stops Jenny from getting the message (instead, Jenny thinks Sarah is telling her to press forward). Sarah manages to get the words through to the other end and Jenny manages to call off the rest of the team when they're seconds away from using flamethrowers on the cornered fungus creature. | |
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Dead Space 2: "Isaac it very important that you..." | |
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The end of the first issue of The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye has a transmission arrive claiming to be "from the future", pockmarked with static. The list of cryptic instructions that they not open the coffin or go to Delphi gets through mostly intact, but the final instruction just trails off into pure noise after "For the sake of the Cybertronian race itself, please don't-" In season 2, we get to see some of our heroes actually send the full broadcast while time travelling for other reasons, and Cyclonus yells at them because nearly everything they said to avoid had a net positive outcome. | |
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Halfway through Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry observes Professor Slughorn's memory of talking to a young Lord Voldemort in a pensieve. At certain points the image suddenly turns grey, and we hear Slughorn saying things that he didn't say — he modified the memory to cover up telling Voldemort about Horcruxes. Ironically, once the true memory is revealed, it turns out Slughorn mostly confirmed what Voldemort had already learned. What Voldemort wanted to know was if it was possible to create multiple dark objects to keep himself alive by killing seven people. | |
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In Ultima VII Part 2 Serpent Isle, the Avatar is warned by a ghost during a seance that many angry spirits (who have been, ahem, helped along by the Avatar) are waiting for him in the next world, and that he must always remember... | |
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