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Status Cell Phone

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48 feature instances
26 referencing feature instances

Status Cell Phone	type	FeatureClass
Status Cell Phone	label	Status Cell Phone
Status Cell Phone	page	StatusCellPhone
Status Cell Phone	comment	Once upon a time, cell phones served as a status symbol. In The '80s, when they had just been invented and were both too bulky and too expensive for widespread use, carrying a cell phone was a shorthand for high status and wealth. Businessmen were always bound to show up with one. (The earliest examples of this variation on the trope use a beeper instead, but the intent is the same: to show that the owner is important and needed.) In The '90s, as mainstream cell phone ownership was starting to take root, their role as a status symbol in media evolved. Sure, anyone might own one, but only the wealthiest had the ultra-advanced camera phone decorated with gems and a super fast internet connection. Special attention was paid to the brand and the utilities of the phone denote the character's status, making it ripe for Product Placement. Expect the Rich Bitch and the Phoneaholic Teenager to show up with one. This trope is almost dead in today's day and age. Nowadays, cellphones have become so mainstream and so much more affordable that it's basically expected for someone to have one, and having a top-of-the-line model doesn't really mean that much anymore either—especially since it's probably got at least a dozen nearly identical competitors and is only an incremental upgrade to phone's previous model anyway. Certain brands still play it straight to a point, but if the trope appears in contemporary fiction it's likely to be either satire, parody or deconstruction (unless it's a Period Piece set in an era when cell phones were less ubiquitous). A contemporary variant is for a character lacking a cellphone to be more notable, signifying poverty, being out-of-touch (especially if they're elderly), or technophobia. Starting in The New '20s, expect some characters downgrading to feature phones due to factors such as social media being detrimental to their well-being and the need for real social interactions. Subtrope of Technology Marches On.
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Status Cell Phone	isPartOf	DBTropes
Status Cell Phone / int_109f7814	type	Status Cell Phone
Status Cell Phone / int_109f7814	comment	In Sherlock, Irene Adler's (modified) cell phone is a Vertu Constellation Quest (see Real Life below), which retails for £17,300 ($26,845). Subverted in that you need to be familiar with the brand to recognize the model. Many viewers probably thought it was a BlackBerry or something. It does, however, raise the question of how Sherlock was able to afford one for his attempt to trick Irene with a copy of her phone, considering he can't afford to rent from Mrs. Hudson on his own and is cavalier about getting paid for his work.
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Sherlock	hasFeature	Status Cell Phone / int_109f7814
Status Cell Phone / int_109f965c	type	Status Cell Phone
Status Cell Phone / int_109f965c	comment	In Hey Arnold! The Jungle Movie, which was made several years after the show ended, despite the evolving technology that took place over that time, Rhonda is the only student seen with a smartphone, to emphasize her Rich Bitch status.
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Hey Arnold! The Jungle Movie	hasFeature	Status Cell Phone / int_109f965c
Status Cell Phone / int_10d303a2	type	Status Cell Phone
Status Cell Phone / int_10d303a2	comment	Shin Megami Tensei IV uses an After the End, practical twist. Smartphones are important because they're needed to summon and command demons Why phones? It's not because they're phones; it's because they're portable computers. The Demon Summoning Program has been a mainstay of the Shin Megami Tensei series since the late 80s, and works by digitally simulating a summoning ritual. Any general purpose computer will do, but the heroes prefer portable ones; the less than canon first user had a laptop, and the canonical first user had a bulky wearable computer., and it's said that a grunt in the Ashura-Kai has to deal Red Pills for months before they're given a phone.
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Shin Megami Tensei IV (Video Game)	hasFeature	Status Cell Phone / int_10d303a2
Status Cell Phone / int_1554a3a3	type	Status Cell Phone
Status Cell Phone / int_1554a3a3	comment	Miyuki from Nurse Angel Ririka SOS owning a cellphone in the mid-1990s (and as an elementary schooler no less) signifies her as wealthy.
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Nurse Angel Ririka SOS (Manga)	hasFeature	Status Cell Phone / int_1554a3a3
Status Cell Phone / int_2dec4b1c	type	Status Cell Phone
Status Cell Phone / int_2dec4b1c	comment	In Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, one of the two girls gets a flip phone to complete the image of their being successful businesswomen so they could impress their classmates.
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Romy and Michele's High School Reunion	hasFeature	Status Cell Phone / int_2dec4b1c
Status Cell Phone / int_2e839104	type	Status Cell Phone
Status Cell Phone / int_2e839104	comment	Scarface: The World Is Yours: Played with. Tony's acquisition of a cell phone is used to underscore the fact that he's rebuilding his criminal empire and climbing back to the top of Miami's criminal underworld. However, rather than acquiring it legitimately, he steals it.
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Scarface: The World Is Yours (Video Game)	hasFeature	Status Cell Phone / int_2e839104
Status Cell Phone / int_3431a79e	type	Status Cell Phone
Status Cell Phone / int_3431a79e	comment	Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories by contrast has Vic, being from a poorer background, only carry a pager to get contacts. It's only after stealing the coke that he managed to procure one (albeit briefly, since he still uses a pager for most of his contacts).
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Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (Video Game)	hasFeature	Status Cell Phone / int_3431a79e
Status Cell Phone / int_39f37adb	type	Status Cell Phone
Status Cell Phone / int_39f37adb	comment	Harry from When Harry Met Sally... has a fake plastic car phone, just so he can fake talking on it, to look rich and important when someone else is talking on theirs.
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When Harry Met Sally...	hasFeature	Status Cell Phone / int_39f37adb
Status Cell Phone / int_3defe34c	type	Status Cell Phone
Status Cell Phone / int_3defe34c	comment	Suzu expresses surprise that someone as old-fashioned as Matsuri has a smartphone. He hadn't used it as a phone very much, as his grandfather was his only contact, and may have gotten it just to receive alerts from the Creature-Hunter Organization he belongs to (though he's still a compulsive mobile game player).
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Discussed Trope	hasFeature	Status Cell Phone / int_3defe34c
Status Cell Phone / int_3eacc2fd	type	Status Cell Phone
Status Cell Phone / int_3eacc2fd	comment	On Corner Gas the town of Dog's River is in the middle of nowhere and has really lousy cell reception. The residents are forced to use special cellphone with bulky signal boosters. When it is announced that a new cell tower will be erected in the town, the main characters get new cellphones and a try to show up each other by getting progressively smaller cellphones. However, when the plans for the new cell tower are abandoned, they have to go back to their old bulky models.
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Corner Gas	hasFeature	Status Cell Phone / int_3eacc2fd
Status Cell Phone / int_3ebc1967	type	Status Cell Phone
Status Cell Phone / int_3ebc1967	comment	Gordon Gekko on Wall Street has an extravagant, top-of-the-the-line, and brick-sized cell phone. This is used as a Technology Marches On gag in the sequel Money Never Sleeps when he is released from prison and gets said phone, now obsolete, returned to him.
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Wall Street	hasFeature	Status Cell Phone / int_3ebc1967
Status Cell Phone / int_4522fd1	type	Status Cell Phone
Status Cell Phone / int_4522fd1	comment	Whateley Universe: With more than one Gadgeteer Genius working on cellphones, and charging appropriately, the quality of a cellphone indicates either your connections to those Gadgeteers, or your ability to pay the price for such a cellphone: Such as the bPhone and the stuff Jadis's dad can make, as said in Ayla and the Mad Scientist (Chap 20): Or the enhanced gPhone from The Final Trump (Part 1):
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Whateley Universe	hasFeature	Status Cell Phone / int_4522fd1
Status Cell Phone / int_453a04b0	type	Status Cell Phone
Status Cell Phone / int_453a04b0	comment	When Timmy goes to the 1980s in an episode of The Fairly Oddparents, he sees that Chet Ubetcha's short stature stems from radiation poisoning due to his human-sized cellphone.
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The Fairly OddParents!	hasFeature	Status Cell Phone / int_453a04b0
Status Cell Phone / int_4962e658	type	Status Cell Phone
Status Cell Phone / int_4962e658	comment	Mean Girls: Gretchen, the wealthy daughter of the inventor of toaster strudel, is the only character in the film with a cell phone, which she lends to Regina so that she can humiliate a classmate.
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Mean Girls	hasFeature	Status Cell Phone / int_4962e658
Status Cell Phone / int_49e34fa1	type	Status Cell Phone
Status Cell Phone / int_49e34fa1	comment	In the Past Doctor Adventures novel Business Unusual (written in 1997, set in 1986) Mel's dad is a businessman who's extremely proud of his mobile phone. The Doctor, who knows that in ten years they'll be a fraction of the size and a lot more common (and has vastly more advanced tech in the TARDIS), isn't impressed.
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Status Cell Phone / int_4bd693d0	type	Status Cell Phone
Status Cell Phone / int_4bd693d0	comment	Almost no one in As Told by Ginger has a cellphone besides the rich kids.
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Status Cell Phone / int_4c44acb7	type	Status Cell Phone
Status Cell Phone / int_4c44acb7	comment	In one round of "Swankers" on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, in which the panelists have to keep one-upping each others' boasts, they describe increasingly absurd features of their cellphones, until Jeremy Hardy wins by saying his phone plugs into the wall, so he'll never lose it.
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I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio)	hasFeature	Status Cell Phone / int_4c44acb7
Status Cell Phone / int_503d5009	type	Status Cell Phone
Status Cell Phone / int_503d5009	comment	Smartphones are commonplace in Ayakashi Triangle, but both modern versions of the trope come up: Suzu expresses surprise that someone as old-fashioned as Matsuri has a smartphone. He hadn't used it as a phone very much, as his grandfather was his only contact, and may have gotten it just to receive alerts from the Creature-Hunter Organization he belongs to (though he's still a compulsive mobile game player). Lu comes from a wealthy family, and uses a specific model of smartphone (iPhone 11 Pro) that's not just much more expensive than the others, it has a visibly-advanced three-lens camera for her obsessive photo-taking.
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Ayakashi Triangle (Manga)	hasFeature	Status Cell Phone / int_503d5009
Status Cell Phone / int_550f5b20	type	Status Cell Phone
Status Cell Phone / int_550f5b20	comment	In We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story, Lonely Rich Kid Cecilia explains her situation of Parental Neglect as "my father's very business, and my mother's very social." And just how "business" is her dad? When we see a "wish you were here" photo of him and his wife (without Cecilia, of course) on a tropical vacation, they're on the beach in bathing suits and yet he still has a big early-90s brick clutched to his ear.
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We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story	hasFeature	Status Cell Phone / int_550f5b20
Status Cell Phone / int_5b3356f8	type	Status Cell Phone
Status Cell Phone / int_5b3356f8	comment	In Turning Red, Tyler has a camera phone which, given that the movie is set in 2002 when those were just coming out, is very impressive.
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Turning Red	hasFeature	Status Cell Phone / int_5b3356f8
Status Cell Phone / int_5d2be66d	type	Status Cell Phone
Status Cell Phone / int_5d2be66d	comment	The Barrier: Cell phones exist, but have become too expensive for most people, who share public landline phones. Because of this, people who own cell phones are rich, high-ranking or someone who has been provided one by a member of the two former categories.
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Status Cell Phone / int_67a8ab63	type	Status Cell Phone
Status Cell Phone / int_67a8ab63	comment	Salt-N-Pepa reference this in their song, "Express Yourself". They talk about a "businessman with a beeper for a reason, not like Tim because it's in this season."
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Salt-N-Pepa (Music)	hasFeature	Status Cell Phone / int_67a8ab63
Status Cell Phone / int_6c11bb94	type	Status Cell Phone
Status Cell Phone / int_6c11bb94	comment	In Horton Hears a Who! (2008), one of the mayor's girls wants a cell phone, claiming that everyone else in class has one. When her dad says she's exaggerating, she shows him her class photo, with everyone but her talking on their cells.
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Horton Hears a Who! (2008)	hasFeature	Status Cell Phone / int_6c11bb94
Status Cell Phone / int_6c6852c4	type	Status Cell Phone
Status Cell Phone / int_6c6852c4	comment	Yakuza 0 (which takes place in the 80s) has an NPC who is very proud of his top-of-the-line "bag phone", a precursor to the cell phone the size of a large purse. Majima thinks It Will Never Catch On, especially given the many items he needs to give before he can finally make a call (or rather, would have made a call, since he forgot who he wanted to call while going around collecting all the items he needed). Once you've completed the sub-story, you can use the bag phone as a Save Point whenever you meet the NPC, although you need to give him a battery each time.
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Yakuza 0 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Status Cell Phone / int_6c6852c4
Status Cell Phone / int_746814ae	type	Status Cell Phone
Status Cell Phone / int_746814ae	comment	An early 2000s episode of Arthur had the local Rich Bitch, Muffy, as the only character known to have a cell phone. Later episodes have everyone owning one.
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Arthur	hasFeature	Status Cell Phone / int_746814ae
Status Cell Phone / int_75debb	type	Status Cell Phone
Status Cell Phone / int_75debb	comment	Used in a roundabout way in the 2000s book Parrotfish. Grady being a nerd is accentuated when he complains that he's one of the few kids at his high school without a phone.
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Parrotfish	hasFeature	Status Cell Phone / int_75debb
Status Cell Phone / int_7a7102f5	type	Status Cell Phone
Status Cell Phone / int_7a7102f5	comment	In Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Tommy Vercetti steals a cellphone from a hitman, Leo Teal, in order to search and trace for possible assailants behind the botched deal. Teal carrying a cellphone implies that his boss, Mr. Black paid him handsomely to afford it.
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Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (Video Game)	hasFeature	Status Cell Phone / int_7a7102f5
Status Cell Phone / int_7aad167d	type	Status Cell Phone
Status Cell Phone / int_7aad167d	comment	The 2001 short A Kitty Bobo Show: Cellphones was about a cat who recently got a cellphone. Kitty Bobo is constantly annoying his friends by bragging about his phone. In the end he breaks it and his friends all get cellphones, causing him anguish because everyone else has one but him.
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A Kitty Bobo Show	hasFeature	Status Cell Phone / int_7aad167d
Status Cell Phone / int_81202666	type	Status Cell Phone
Status Cell Phone / int_81202666	comment	One of the few times Chainsaw Man directly emphasizes its late-90s setting is when Asa Mitaka reveals she has a cell phone handed down from her recently-deceased mother. It briefly impresses her peers before she accidentally breaks it. Yoshida also has a cell phone (which he didn't show because it wouldn't work), which is another sign he's a very well-connected, probably well-paid individual.
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Chainsaw Man (Manga)	hasFeature	Status Cell Phone / int_81202666
Status Cell Phone / int_83897713	type	Status Cell Phone
Status Cell Phone / int_83897713	comment	In the 1980 comedy film Caddyshack, Rodney Dangerfield plays Al Czervik, a real-estate developer who is shown to be eccentric and filthy rich right from the start. He has a telephone right in his golf bag, which he answers while out on the course. This was not a typical "brick" phone, but from what we could see it was more like a typical 1970s desk phone, complete with an acoustic ringing bell and a coiled handset cord.
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Caddyshack	hasFeature	Status Cell Phone / int_83897713
Status Cell Phone / int_89bf8ce	type	Status Cell Phone
Status Cell Phone / int_89bf8ce	comment	Spoofed on 30 Rock with Dennis Duffy, who brags about being the top beeper supplier in the city, at a time when beepers were becoming obsolete.
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30 Rock	hasFeature	Status Cell Phone / int_89bf8ce
Status Cell Phone / int_8a3a1edd	type	Status Cell Phone
Status Cell Phone / int_8a3a1edd	comment	Saved by the Bell was one of the earliest examples, as Zack Morris' cellphone is a sign that's he's an ambitious schemer.
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Saved by the Bell	hasFeature	Status Cell Phone / int_8a3a1edd
Status Cell Phone / int_960062b7	type	Status Cell Phone
Status Cell Phone / int_960062b7	comment	My Hero Academia provides a variant with Uraraka, whose relatively low-class background is signified by her carrying around a flip phone instead of a smartphone like everyone else.
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My Hero Academia (Manga)	hasFeature	Status Cell Phone / int_960062b7
Status Cell Phone / int_967347ea	type	Status Cell Phone
Status Cell Phone / int_967347ea	comment	Touga is the only character in Revolutionary Girl Utena who owns a cellphone. Since the anime first aired in 1997, this signifies both that he's rich and is such a ladykiller he needs a way for all his girlfriends to contact him quickly.
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Revolutionary Girl Utena	hasFeature	Status Cell Phone / int_967347ea
Status Cell Phone / int_9888f901	type	Status Cell Phone
Status Cell Phone / int_9888f901	comment	Daria: The main character's parents both own cellphones, in the middle-late 1990's when this was comparatively rare and cellphones were the size and shape of housebricks. Helen Morgendorffer carries hers because she is genuinely in a high-status high-wage job (lawyer). Jake Morgendorffer carries his because he aspires to be in a high-status well-paid job.
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Daria	hasFeature	Status Cell Phone / int_9888f901
Status Cell Phone / int_9a0cb5f4	type	Status Cell Phone
Status Cell Phone / int_9a0cb5f4	comment	Bob's Burgers does the "lack of cellphone to signify poverty" variant. From 2011 into the 2020s, the Belcher family only have a flip phone each for the parents and a third they only allow their kids to use for emergencies.
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Bob's Burgers	hasFeature	Status Cell Phone / int_9a0cb5f4
Status Cell Phone / int_9e876c22	type	Status Cell Phone
Status Cell Phone / int_9e876c22	comment	Crowley having a car phone in his Bentley (also, owning a Bentley) and an answering machine in Good Omens is a symbol of his being filthy rich.
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Good Omens	hasFeature	Status Cell Phone / int_9e876c22
Status Cell Phone / int_a0500a06	type	Status Cell Phone
Status Cell Phone / int_a0500a06	comment	Charlotte Pickles' cell phone in Rugrats distinguished her as a wealthy businesswoman.
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Rugrats	hasFeature	Status Cell Phone / int_a0500a06
Status Cell Phone / int_a609791a	type	Status Cell Phone
Status Cell Phone / int_a609791a	comment	The first instance of a cell phone appearing in a Scooby-Doo series was in the Cosmetically-Advanced Prequel A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, where rich girl Daphne Blake had such a phone and was the only member of the gang with one. Subsequent shows would give nearly everyone mobile phones.
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Scooby-Doo (Franchise)	hasFeature	Status Cell Phone / int_a609791a
Status Cell Phone / int_a899034c	type	Status Cell Phone
Status Cell Phone / int_a899034c	comment	The main characters in Clueless all having mobile phones despite being in high school was intended as a joke about how spoilt and well-off they were. Modern viewers tend not to understand why a high school student with a mobile phone is supposed to be funny.
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Clueless	hasFeature	Status Cell Phone / int_a899034c
Status Cell Phone / int_aca7b22d	type	Status Cell Phone
Status Cell Phone / int_aca7b22d	comment	The Amazing World of Gumball (which began in 2011) never showed cellphones as rare, but in early episodes only the well-off kids Masami and Tobias had smartphones, while the Wattersons kids lacking any cellphones (barring a horribly-outdated brick in "The Phone") is a sign of their Perpetual Poverty. By "The Best" (aired 2017), Gumball and every single kid in his class are shown using a video-and-internet capable cellphones.
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The Amazing World of Gumball	hasFeature	Status Cell Phone / int_aca7b22d
Status Cell Phone / int_b0fc9724	type	Status Cell Phone
Status Cell Phone / int_b0fc9724	comment	In the "Jeffery's" recurring sketch on Saturday Night Live the manager of a Jeffery's (designer clothing) store has a very tiny phone, about half the size of his thumb. In the last sketch he has a really large brick phone. When the sales clerks laugh at him he says "big is the new small. Cami Diaz has one twice this size."
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Saturday Night Live	hasFeature	Status Cell Phone / int_b0fc9724
Status Cell Phone / int_b28b08e6	type	Status Cell Phone
Status Cell Phone / int_b28b08e6	comment	Touhou Kourindou ~ Curiosities of Lotus Asia has a spin on this thanks to Touhou's Schizo Tech setting. When Sumireko (a person from the Outside World) visits Kourindou, she unintentionally takes some wind out of Rinnosuke's sails by saying that the Outside World technology he has on display is 20-30 years out of date; in particular she's somewhat surprised to see an old model cellphone that doesn't fold. She then impresses Rinnosuke by showing him her smartphone and describing some of the things it can do.
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Touhou Kourindou ~ Curiosities of Lotus Asia	hasFeature	Status Cell Phone / int_b28b08e6
Status Cell Phone / int_b3f687d1	type	Status Cell Phone
Status Cell Phone / int_b3f687d1	comment	Parodied by FoxTrot in this series of strips from 1998. Roger, tired of being the only one at the office without a cell phone, decides to one-up all his co-workers... with an absurdly oversized phone that must be half his own height, and needs to be plugged in because no battery can hold a charge long enough to power it. Naturally, Roger is the only person who thinks this is a good idea.
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FoxTrot (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Status Cell Phone / int_b3f687d1
Status Cell Phone / int_c24649f8	type	Status Cell Phone
Status Cell Phone / int_c24649f8	comment	Parodied on Zoolander, where the title character's cell phone is impractically tiny. This was intended partly as commentary on the then-contemporary trend of technological miniaturization, taking the idea to a Logical Extreme.
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Status Cell Phone / int_c24649f8	featureConfidence	1.0
Zoolander	hasFeature	Status Cell Phone / int_c24649f8
Status Cell Phone / int_d2d6de50	type	Status Cell Phone
Status Cell Phone / int_d2d6de50	comment	Ocean's Thirteen: Willy Bank demands that his assistant get him an extremely fancy, gold-and-jewel-encrusted cellphone. She tries to explain that it's only just entered production and won't be available for months but Bank wants it now. Ocean's crew take advantage of this, and Yen having a connection with the company responsible, to send a rigged version of the phone that will knock out the security system in Bank's casino for them.
Status Cell Phone / int_d2d6de50	featureApplicability	1.0
Status Cell Phone / int_d2d6de50	featureConfidence	1.0
Ocean's Eleven	hasFeature	Status Cell Phone / int_d2d6de50
Status Cell Phone / int_e936047a	type	Status Cell Phone
Status Cell Phone / int_e936047a	comment	Rich kid Lorenzo from Hey Arnold! has a cellphone at a time when pagers were still commonplace. This wasn't a sign of him being spoiled, rather that he was acting way too much like an adult businessman. In Hey Arnold! The Jungle Movie, which was made several years after the show ended, despite the evolving technology that took place over that time, Rhonda is the only student seen with a smartphone, to emphasize her Rich Bitch status.
Status Cell Phone / int_e936047a	featureApplicability	1.0
Status Cell Phone / int_e936047a	featureConfidence	1.0
Hey Arnold!	hasFeature	Status Cell Phone / int_e936047a
Status Cell Phone / int_ea4f62db	type	Status Cell Phone
Status Cell Phone / int_ea4f62db	comment	In "Brian Wallows, Peter Swallows" on Family Guy, Brian sings a song about how society has changed since the 50's, which includes a line about a businessman with a cell phone:
Status Cell Phone / int_ea4f62db	featureApplicability	1.0
Status Cell Phone / int_ea4f62db	featureConfidence	1.0
Family Guy	hasFeature	Status Cell Phone / int_ea4f62db

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Status Cell Phone	processingCategory2	Dead Horse Trope
Status Cell Phone	processingCategory2	Luxury Tropes
Status Cell Phone	processingCategory2	Phone Tropes
Status Cell Phone	processingCategory2	The Newest Ones in the Book
Alex (Comic Strip) / int_3773f8d5	type	Status Cell Phone
FoxTrot (Comic Strip) / int_3773f8d5	type	Status Cell Phone
Caddyshack / int_3773f8d5	type	Status Cell Phone
Clueless / int_3773f8d5	type	Status Cell Phone
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_3773f8d5	type	Status Cell Phone
Romy and Michele's High School Reunion / int_3773f8d5	type	Status Cell Phone
Wall Street / int_3773f8d5	type	Status Cell Phone
Zoolander / int_3773f8d5	type	Status Cell Phone
Generation P / int_3773f8d5	type	Status Cell Phone
StatusCellphone	sameAs	Status Cell Phone
Salt-N-Pepa (Music) / int_3773f8d5	type	Status Cell Phone
Corner Gas / int_3773f8d5	type	Status Cell Phone
Hang Time / int_3773f8d5	type	Status Cell Phone
The Barrier / int_3773f8d5	type	Status Cell Phone
Toast of London / int_3773f8d5	type	Status Cell Phone
JumpStart Adventures 4th Grade: Haunted Island (Video Game) / int_3773f8d5	type	Status Cell Phone
A Kitty Bobo Show / int_3936e8f5	type	Status Cell Phone
A Pup Named Scooby-Doo / int_3773f8d5	type	Status Cell Phone
Beverly Hills Teens / int_3773f8d5	type	Status Cell Phone
Daria / int_3773f8d5	type	Status Cell Phone
Pixel Pinkie / int_3773f8d5	type	Status Cell Phone
When Harry Met Sally... / int_3773f8d5	type	Status Cell Phone

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