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A form of Paratext used in cinemas and live theatre, reminding audiences to turn off cell phones and refrain from disruptive behaviours during the performance. They range in complexity from a simple oral or written request for silence, to comical demonstrations of innocent audience members being hassled by neighbors' increasingly extreme misbehavior, to elaborate faux-trailers for nonexistent movies that get interrupted by noise from the audience to show how distracting such racket can be. The cinematic versions, produced by theater chains, are formally known as "policy trailers". Very old examples such as a poster for a sold-out Beethoven concert in the early 1800s asks gentlemen to refrain from wearing their swords, due to space constraints in the theater. Old versions sometimes mention crying babies rather than cell phones, asking that noisy infants be taken to the lobby. Warnings against smoking note This one is becoming less prevalent in the US as most theaters are non-smoking by law and so it's assumed that they don't need to actually tell people not to. and littering are optional but recommended. And of course, there is the obligatory, "In case of fire, walk quietly to the nearest exit. This notice required by law."note Although not legally mandated, many U.S. theaters have added a sobering "Report suspicious characters" notice in the wake of the mass theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado. Dire warnings of legal consequences for recording films in progress offer yet another reason to keep your phone switched off. Live theatre also typically warns the audience not to use flash photography, which can be distracting and even dangerous to the performers. When these rules are not followed by the audience, see Disrupting the Theater. Theme parks have similar spiels before many rides and shows — keep your arms and legs inside the vehicle at all times, don't put on the 3D glasses until you're seated in the theater, etc. Again, these can be handled in creative, funny ways. Platypus Comix has the Policy Trailer Jamboree, while FT Depot (originally Film-Tech Cinema Systems) are currently uploading high-quality trailers to their YouTube channel. TV Tropes kindly asks you to refrain from using your cell phone while reading this article.note Which, presumably, means you can't read this article on your cell phone at all. |
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Many productions of Hair have one of the hippies remind the audience that there were no cell phones in 1969, so please turn them off in order to maintain the illusion of the show. | |
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Wimbledon: Ron Roth's phone rings in the middle of the final match of the titular tournament. As he scrambles to hang up, the umpire reminds the crowd that mobile phones are supposed to be switched off inside Centre Court. This scene was actually used as a real-life in-cinema warning in the UK during the film's theatrical run. | |
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Spoofed in the The Simpsons episode "Jaws Wired Shut" with a theater running a graphic Itchy and Scratchy sketch, "To Kill a Talking Bird". | |
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The Broadway production of Be More Chill had the SQUIP instruct the audience that using any technology would result in "the termination of your viewing experience." It ends, fairly creepily, by telling everyone to "sit back, unplug, and enjoy..." | |
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At least one regional production of Urinetown had an actor planted in the audience whose cell phone rang during the pre-show message - causing the police to drag him away. | |
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Tanz Der Vampire has the actor playing the local vampire Count von Krolock give the standard spiel in a soothing, polite voice, then changing into a seductive growl as he invites the audience to "sink with him into the night" (a line from the show) as the cue for the orchestra to burst into the Overture. | |
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One of these trailers was created for Meet the Robinsons, which had Frankie and the Frogs singing a song about being disruptive in a movie theater to the tune of "I Heard It Through the Grapevine". Oddly enough, the footage from this trailer also showed up in a Spanish music video for the film. | |
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The opening bumper to one of GTAV's in-universe movies spoofs this, with a stickman usher kindly warning the audience against taking calls or texts, crying babies and public masturbation. This being GTA, after each example is shown the offenders are all violently murdered by the usher. | |
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The Movieplex chain had such a trailer featuring Mr. Bean smoking from a cigar, a pipe and a hookah, talking on a mobile phone, operating a vacuum cleaner and serving cocktails. | |
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters has one by Mastodon. And it is awesome. Among other things, they threaten to cut your face off for talking during the film, tell you to throw your baby into traffic because the film isn't suitable for children, and declare that if you are caught illegally taping the film, they will tear your wife in half. |
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Spamalot's Eric Idle tells the audience to let your phones ring willy-nilly before reminding you that most of the characters in the show are heavily armed knights who can and will drag you on stage and impale you. | |
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal features a theater with a "tough, but fair" policy in this comic: any words spoken out loud will be carved into the speaker's face with a fork. (If you yell any words, they'll use a spoon instead.) | |
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No-Smoking variant: A memorable one was simply a very short clip from the movie RoboCop 2 where Robo surrounds a guy's head with bullet holes, he holsters his weapon, and as the cigarette drops from the terrified punter's mouth, Robo calmly says, "Thank you... for not smoking." | |
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In the late 90s Sesame Street had one preceding films shown at Loews Theatres (which was since eaten by AMC): "Don't Forget to Watch the Movie." It began like a normal policy trailer, but, in true Henson fashion, several joke rules were thrown into the mix, such as singing opera, surfing, and dancing with bears. Near the end, Elmo demands: "ENOUGH "DON'TS"!" | |
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In the Broadway adaptation of Kinky Boots, the character Don is seen on his phone before the show. He delivers the warning as he hangs up. | |
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At the Discworld Convention Maskerade, the standard warning is "If you have a portable clacks tower, please set it to 'Mime'." | |
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The Magic Mirror in Shrek 4D gives the spiel just before guests enter the main theater. | |
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Mike Birbiglia's Sleepwalk With Me movie begins with one of his older stand-up routines, asking people to turn them off then relating the story of someone answering their phone in a theater next to him with, "Who dis?" | |
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The 2023 revival of Parade was given by Senator Raphael Warnock of Georgia, since the show takes place in Georgia. | |
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They did one for Eternals that used the phrase "We'd be eternally grateful." | |
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The Broadway revival of The Rocky Horror Show suggested the audience set their phones on vibrate. "You LOVE that!" | |
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Cineplex showed other movie policy tie-in spots, including for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, The Grinch (2018) ("Don't Be a Grinch"), Bumblebee, Wonder Park, Missing Link, The Lion King (2019), and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. | |
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A gentler one was put out in 2022 featuring Marcel the Shell with Shoes On. | |
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Parodied in Yu-Gi-Oh!: Bonds Beyond Time Abridged as can be seen here. note The actual warning starts at 1:20, though the lead-up to it is tangentially related Also, besides parodying the trope, it also references/parodies the Aqua Teen Hunger Force example. |
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Disney released one that started as the DuckTales (2017) opening, only to come to a halt when someone's phone goes off. The cast blames Louie at first before he points at "that guy in the third row" as the culprit. There was also a similar trailer using footage from Mickey and the Roadster Racers. |
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The Simpsons Movie: The sign outside of the church at the beginning of the movie reads "Thou Shalt Silence Thy Cell Phone". While Homer is out to dispose of his silo full of pig crap, he hears a faint cellphone ringtone and looks around for its source. It turns out it's his own phone, which is in the pig's stomach. |
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The scene in Scorsese's Cape Fear in which Max Cady sits in a theater laughing uncontrollaby and smoking a cigar is played more often than the above trailer, to advise patrons "Don't be like Max Cady". | |
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The 2021 revival of Company (Sondheim) has a recorded spiel from Patti LuPone, who plays Joanne, sternly telling audiences to turn their phones all the way off. This is playing off LuPone's reputation for calling out audience members who use their phones during the show. | |
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The Broadway and Australian productions of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory had the actor playing Charlie remind the audience to turn off their phones and not use recording devices, before excitedly telling them "[they] can eat as much candy as [they] want." | |
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The scene in which the Gremlins hijack the theater is played in full up to the close-up of a gremlin's face, pausing to remind the audience "Don't be a Gremlin", and, alongside the usual etiquette, "no destroying the cinema". | |
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Dear Evan Hansen uses digital scenery around the stage to replicate social media pages. Before the show and right after intermission, the scenery displays several messages, formatted similar to iPhone reminders, to turn off your cell phone, with an accompanying default ringtone sound effect. This is a rare occasion of a Broadway show using the warning before both acts. | |
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Mega Monster Battle: Ultra Galaxy Legends has a similar promo featuring several Ultras - including Belial, the movie's Big Bad - in a theater, and Belial talking on his phone annoys several Ultra-patrons around him to "shush" him (complete with tiny Specium Rays coming out their fingers!) | |
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There was a Descendants PSA that had the characters texting, before Uma tells them that texting is not allowed at the movie theater. | |
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Co-writer Harvey Fierstein did the honors for the 2010 revival of La Cage aux folles. Fierstein also recorded the spiel for the 2022 revival of Funny Girl, since he revised the book for this version. | |
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A David Mamet spiel preceded the Broadway premiere of American Buffalo — complete with a Precision F-Strike. | |
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In Teen Titans Go! To the Movies, Slade tells the audience that the Justice League is watching a movie, and therefore can not come and stop him due to them turning off their cell phones. He then breaks the fourth wall and notices that some people watching could be on their phones. | |
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The Light in the Piazza's spiel is completely in Italian, since the show is set in Italy, with the exception of some key words, such as "cell phones", "video recordings", "cough drops" and "unwrap now", which remain in English. | |
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Before Capote, Moneyball, and Foxcatcher, Bennett Miller directed the Inconsiderate Cell Phone Man trailer that ran in the late '90s/early Noughts. This was spoofed in this compilation of Fandango commercial parodies, as well as in this video made for Halloween Horror Nights. |
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A Strange Loop has writer Michael R. Jackson bring up his own experience as an usher (which inspired the story) while imploring audience members to keep their phones off. | |
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The Garden of Sinners movie adaptations has one for each movie, starring stop motion clay dolls of the cast. One such example. | |
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There was one based on I, Robot, featuring Sonny saying (paraphrased): "Welcome. Although I have nothing against the use of advanced technology, please turn off all mobile phones." | |
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Yet another Disney policy trailer, which was shown in 2017 at both NCM and Screenvision theaters: "This is Star Butterfly. She's not from Earth, and it's her first time at the movies!" | |
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Later on they had one featuring the characters of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. | |
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Aeon Cinemas uses the character Panpaka Pants for its trailers. In each of them, the titular character meets a character who comes from a different franchise that isn't following theater rules, and tries to correct them: The 2016 version stars Crayon Shin-chan, who puts on his 3D glasses before the movie and then gets distracted when a lady's cellphone rings. Shin then compares this to eating natto, much to the shock of Panpaka. After being told to shut the cellphone off, Shin-chan asks for the lady's phone number. The 2017 edition stars Lala-chan, the mascot for Japanese arcade chain Molly Fantasy, who wants to use a face mask to talk during the movies without getting caught. |
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Mean Girls has Tina Fey tell the audience to put their phones away because "Twitter isn't cool, Instagram is for thirst traps, and Snapchat is over," and anybody calling or texting you during the show isn't a real friend. | |
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They also had one tying in with Moana, urging moviegoers to silence their shell phones. | |
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There was also a similar trailer using footage from Mickey and the Roadster Racers. | |
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Julie Andrews, who voiced Queen Lillian in the movies, recorded a spiel for Shrek: The Musical that warns that an ogre will drag anyone using a cellphone "Far, far away." | |
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Referenced in World War Z, when Gerry's phone goes off as the soldiers are sneaking past a Z herd during the Korea mission. One of the soldiers snarks about this trope just before the zombies attack. | |
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The Spongebob Movie Sponge On The Run skipped a theatrical release in the U.S. in favor of Paramount+, but did make its way to Canadian theaters. There, it had its own short policy trailer reminding the audience not to be disruptive, and - since this was still the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic - to keep a safe distance. | |
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Emil and 2B warn the audience to not take out their phones or make any noise for NieR: Automata concerts, with the former singing his signature ditty to do so, while 2B treats the audience as if they're also part of YoRHa. | |
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KÀ features a dialogue-free warning in which an actor in the audience is caught breaking the rules: using flash photography, having his cell phone on, and smoking (in that order). Unfortunately, it's the show's bad guys who catch him, and in turn they throw his camera into a giant pit...then his cell phone...then him. | |
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Some performances of John Cage's "4'33" — a piece where the musicians simply do nothing for the duration of the piece — omit this warning, with the intent being that Everything Is an Instrument. Your friend snarking with you about when the actual music will start? Your phone going off because you forgot to silence it? That baby crying in one of the back rows? All part of the performance. | |
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Spoofed in Tampopo, in which a Yakuza gangster does the reminder at the start of the movie and not-so-subtly hints at violent punishment for offenders. | |
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The Spongebob Musical: One of the security guards that deals with Patchy the Pirate figures she might as well tell the audience to turn their phones off as long as she's on stage. | |
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The preshow warning by Mystère's emcee Moha-Samedi and his bird puppet is called back to twice via Non-Ironic Clown Brian Le Petit. First, in a blackout skit he tries to take a photo of the whole audience and when Moha-Samedi chews him out over it offers to take his photo (tricking him into stepping off a high ledge in the process). Later, when he gains control of the puppet, he tells the audience that they are now free to smoke, take pictures, and take their clothes off before Moha-Samedi gets it back. | |
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Hamilton begins with King George making the announcement. This was even kept in the Disney+ presentation. | |
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In the Tiny Toon Adventures movie How I Spent My Vacation, a movie screening is preceded by what starts out as an advertisement for the Acme Gazette newspaper turn into the warning "No smoking cigarettes in the theater". A giant, anthropomorphic lit cigarette leaves the venue, grumbling all the way, as the kids who were seated near it cheer. | |
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For the 20th anniversary celebration of SpongeBob SquarePants, Screenvision, one of Viacom's major partners note One theater owned by them, National Amusements, has held many Nickelodeon-themed events, including Nick Jr. At The Movies and a one-day screening of Hey Arnold! The Jungle Movie, made an exclusive policy trailer that's identical in tone to the Muppets one, but less insane. This short also played before the television premiere of The Spongebob Musical, with mild editing to refer to the musical rather than a movie (despite the fact that most people probably watched it in home, not in a theater). | |
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Another one tied in with La La Land, repurposing the clip where Sebastian and Mia are about to kiss in the movie theater only to be interrupted. In the actual film, rather than a cell phone, their intimate moment is cut short when the film they are watching breaks. | |
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Cinema screenings of the Doctor Who episode "The Day of the Doctor" had a specially filmed preshow warning where the Doctor's ally Strax (who is otherwise completely absent from the episode itself) lectures the audience on cinema etiquette in an in-universe manner ("Your feeble human minds are not so disciplined!"), showing that phoning (as it only opens up a communication channel to the enemy), talking (which hinders the consumption of food) and digital piracy ("The greatest of all war crimes!") will get you Strapped to an Operating Table. There is one human cinema etiquette he approves of at the end, though: eating popcorn... if only because popcorn is a living, sentient organism, fulfilling his sadism. | |
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Waitress opens with a Sara Bareilles song about turning off your phone in the theater. | |
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Qi: In the Series 9 episode "The Immortal Bard", the panel discussed theatrical superstitions. Bill Bailey pointed out that a superstition stating that it was bad luck to whistle backstage was originally a practical concern since stagehands whistled to signal changing the set between scenes. David Mitchell then said that they adopt that idea with cell phones, to make people thing having a cell phone on during a stage performance was bad luck. | |
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When the Pokemon film Pokémon: The Rise of Darkrai came out in Japan, there was a policy trailer with Meowth talking about said movie and getting interrupted by his cell phone. After shutting it off, he reminds the audience to shut off their own phones. | |
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Blue Man Group uses a dot-matrix sign to give various information to the audience, as the Blue Men are all Silent Bobs. One message before the show is that excessive talking or using the phone will trigger the patron's Ejection Seat. | |
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One trailer for Escape from L.A. goes along these lines, getting increasingly alarming as it goes on. Starting with "no talking, no smoking", it then moves into "no red meat", and then "no freedom of religion". Failure to obey these rules results in loss of citizenship, and deportation to Los Angeles. | |
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"The Whole Being Dead Thing" from Beetlejuice features the titular character warning the audience, "And if I hear your cell-phone ringing, I’ll kill you myself!" Speaking of Beetlejuice, here is a video from Playbill.com going over theater etiquette formatted similarly to one of these. |
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Delicious Party♡Pretty Cure: Dreaming♡Children's Lunch! opens with a quick reminder from Cure Precious not to talk loudly or wander the theatre during the film, accompanied by illustrations of the mascots demonstrating good and bad cinema behaviour. By this time, they’d eschewed Audience Participation with the Miracle Lights. | |
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Regal Cinemas (and also other NCM cinemas and Cinemark) has a warning/Sprint ad at the ticket booth when you purchase tickets that says, "Angry Birds have just entered a no-fly zone. Let's all turn off our phones so we can enjoy the movie together." | |
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Homestar Runner featured a "No bazookas" warning in a movie theater in the Strong Bad Email "the movies", "Because no one wants to watch a smoldering crater." | |
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An episode of Family Guy had a parody of the "Let's all go to the lobby" commercial from the 50s about theatre shootings. | |
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Zoos and aquaria often have "quiet please" and "no flash photography" warning signs at the entrances to any nocturnal exhibits, to discourage visitors from disturbing such animals' keen senses with loud talk or bright smartphone flashes. One of the funniest examples of such a sign is "Do Not Flash the Octopus". | |
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The Lorax (2012) even had one. | |
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Parodied in the How I Met Your Mother episode "Bachelor Party." Before his stripper starts her intricate performance, Barney tells his friends, "Please turn off your cell phones, pagers, and sense of shame." | |
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British mobile phone company Orange has a long-running campaign that depicts real films or actors getting totally messed up by Orange sponsorship, usually centering the focus of the film on Orange or phones in general with no regard to the plot or setting - thereby combining reverse psychology with movie cross-promotion. For example, when The Muppets (2011) was about to release in the country, they had this ad where Pepe got Orange as an investor for the Muppets' in-universe comeback show, rebranding it as "The Orange Show" (complete with rewritten version of The Muppet Show's theme song), much to Kermit's disgust. In another one, the company forces a movie set in the wild west to include mobiles. The punchline to all of these ads is, "Don't let a mobile phone ruin your movie. Turn it off now". | |
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A TV spot for Superior Ultraman 8 Brothers starts off as a normal TV spot for the movie with all the action and such, until Super Alien Hipporito's cellphone goes off and he answers it, interrupting the fight. The Ultramen are not amused and end up rebuking Hipporito for it, to which he does stop what he does and apologize, ending with a reminder to "protect the movie's showing" from such distractions. See it here and be amused. | |
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The Las Vegas production of The Phantom of the Opera had the Phantom doing the preshow voiceover and warning that if anyone broke the rules, he would not be responsible for the consequences... | |
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In The Frogs, the Invocation and Instructions to the Audience, among other things, has the leads sing for the audience to remember to not open candy wrappers, not get up for the bathroom in the middle of the show, and to turn off their cellphones. The last one is accompanied by the sound of a phone ringing and them reacting with disgust, only for it to be revealed that it's one of their own phones (the owner of the phone proceeds to run off the stage answering the call, with "Can you hear me now? How about now?"). The instructions also get a bit meta and bizarre, as they also instruct the audience to react positively to the jokes, to not shout, "What?" in response to lines not understood, and not to fart for lack of oxygen. There's also a plea not to swim ("the theater's a temple, not a gym!") which is a reference to the first production of the show, held in the Yale swimming pool. | |
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There is a policy trailer for The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part. A Romanian-language version surfaced online months before the Blu-ray made an English version widely available. | |
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Oh, Hello on Broadway incorporates the rules about theatre etiquette into Gil and George's performance about 17 minutes in, although they naturally get all the rules twisted. They tell the audience they can take phone calls and text people, but "do it like your dad in temple" (looking back between the phone and the performance). They also say, in regards to coats and hats, the audience can "put their shit wherever they want," and that they can eat a full meal and unwrap their candy slowly and noisily. | |
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