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TV Never Lies
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People worry about the power of the media. Heck, even the media worry about the power of the media (it makes for good ratings), especially if it's a new medium that's popular among the younger set. So when Moral Guardians and executives started to worry that impressionable young viewers might take what they saw on TV at face value and never question the veracity of what they're seeing, many kids' shows started to use this as a Stock Aesop. This usually happens after a particularly anvilicious episode about either a main character using the school newspaper to print libel to boost circulation (and having it backfire painfully in a "Fawlty Towers" Plot) or the Alpha Bitch using similar means to besmirch the lead, fool her classmates, or even brainwash the school/town into doing her bidding. After the show proper ends, an epilogue tells the viewers not to believe everything they see on TV. May be Lampshaded, lampooned, or played for Hypocritical Humor in comedy shows, after which the main characters tune in to watch their favorite shows uncritically. Compare This Is Reality. See also Stock Aesops, Truth in Television. Not a rejected title for Tomorrow Never Diesnote Although it would have worked for The World Is Not Enough... If this happens in Real Life it can be because Reality Is Unrealistic. See also Television Is Trying to Kill Us, when this attitude becomes outright dangerous in real life. |
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When reading an online discussion of the legality/morality of torture, you might find someone making a reference to the five classes of torture: blunt, sharp, hot, cold, and loud. This came from an episode of Angel and was made up on the spot by the writers; it has no basis whatsoever in reality. | |
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In The Simpsons episode "Homer Badman" The sensationalist news media turns the whole town against Homer, convincing everyone that he sexually harassed his kids' babysitter. Including himself. Later... |
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Chapter 6 of The Darker Knight has the line: | |
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Harry Potter: The Daily Prophet, the British Wizarding World's only "legitimate" newspaper, is a perfect example. Everything in it is taken as gospel truth, especially jarring when it outright contradicts itself: in The Order of the Phoenix, Harry is an insane schizophrenic and Dumbledore is a senile old fool; in Half-Blood Prince, Dumbledore is the greatest Wizard EVAH and Harry is a Messianic Archetype; in The Deathly Hallows, Harry is evil and wanted for questioning on Dumbledore's death, and Voldemort is really quite a nice fellow, really, just remember to report any Mudbloods Muggle-borns to the Ministry. There are other, smaller newspapers and periodicals, i.e., Witch Weekly (apparently a "women's magazine") and the Quibbler (a tabloid-type magazine) but these don't have near the circulation nor impact of the Daily Prophet It's also a parody of The Daily Mail, which actually does this, yet is still taken seriously by an alarming number of people. |
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Played straight in Dead Rising 2. After a zombie outbreak, the news plays a grainy, low resolution tape of a guy in a biker's outfit releasing the zombies, saying that the one in the tape is Chuck Greene (the Player Character). This is taken as absolute evidence by Every. Single. Survivor. that Chuck is responsible. | |
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Don Quixote: This is one of the themes of the novel: a book published at The Cavalier Years, when the press was a relatively recent invention and a lot of people believed that fiction books were real only because they were printed. Juan Palomeque, the Innkeeper, believes that Chivalric Romance stories are real because these are printed in books, making this trope Older Than Steam: | |
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Inverted in the Discworld book Monstrous Regiment - the Borogravian citizens, living in a country where everything they read is propaganda written by the government, cannot figure out how newspapers (or anything written down, for that matter) can be trusted. | |
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The Powerpuff Girls had the "Wondrous World of Wonderful Whimsical Willy", basically an Aesop episode to teach children not to believe everything they see on TV. Near the end however, they seem to realize that they are encouraging kids against watching THEIR show, and the episode ends with the girls asking the viewers to trust television in a zombie-like manner. | |
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Stupid Kids: A newspaper reads Peter Jackson pooped then admits it was just a lie because they need to fill the paper with something in És mind nekem tapsol (And they all clap for me). Nova TV lies to the public about the titular trio died then Bazsi shows up to reveal Nova TV tried to murder them in És mind nekem tapsol (And they all clap for me). |
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Scandinavia and the World poked fun at the Spaghetti hoax, which apparently actually happened. | |
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In Undertale, Alphys convinces Undyne that anime is actual human history so that she'll watch it with her. When Alphys later confesses, Undyne can't bring herself to believe it because she wants it to be true so badly. | |
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An issue of MAD (or a similar comedy magazine) had a study guide for children doing internet research on school projects. One of the first points listed was "not everything on the internet is true", accompanied by a cartoon of a child visiting a neo-Nazi site espousing Holocaust denial. | |
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In His Coool Seha Girls, Dreamcast is, according to an Eye Catch in the first episode, "inclined to believe everything on the internet". | |
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When Gilligan's Island first aired, it's claimed that the TV station received some letters demanding to know why the camera crew wasn't helping the castaways get off the island. It's unclear if it was this trope or just the 60's version of trolling. | |
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In an episode of Ned's Newt, Ned's parents call off a trip to New York after watching a programme about dangerous alligators living in the NY sewers. When Ned tried to persuade them that it's just an urban legend, and pointed out that the programme was called "It's A Myth", his parents replied with this trope. "They wouldn't put it on TV if it weren't true." | |
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The setup for Galaxy Quest is a species of aliens that do not have a concept of lying in their culture, only first encountering a being who would lie when they met the villain of the movie. Because of this perspective they accept everything on TV as being a literal truth, viewing TV shows as "historical documents". This leads them to accept the cast of the Show Within a Show Galaxy Quest as actual space heroes, and they mourn the situation of "those poor people" on Gilligan's Island. | |
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The Garfield and Friends episode "It Must Be True!" has a TV show which shows absurd facts (such as "There's no such thing as Wyoming" and "Raisins are shrunken bowling balls") because of this trope. But when Garfield says "Dogs have no brains", an all-dog audience beats him up. | |
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Gargoyles did one of these in one of their first post-pilot episodes, where they met the Pack, who were heroes on TV but mercenaries in real life. Blatant advantage was taken of the fact the gargoyles were from the Middle Ages and still adjusting to the twentieth century and its media. | |
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In Methods of Rationality Harry sits down to read The Quibbler on grounds that, being the only alternative to the establishment/government-backed Daily Prophet, it has the better chance of containing some actual news. | |
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A Rugrats comic story has Angelica fool the babies into believing that the grownups are bringing home actual elephants from a white elephant sale, but Tommy believes his toy mouse will scare them off. When Angelica points out the problem with his theory: Made funnier when the Mythbusters actually proved elephants actually are scared of mice. |
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In the Teen Titans Trapped in TV Land episode, "Do Not Adjust Your Set", after defeating Control Freak's scheme, the Titans at the end resolve that watching too much TV is not necessarily a good thing, while at the same time noting that Beast Boy's ridiculously extensive knowledge of TV trivia helped them beat Control Freak. They conclude that there really isn't any moral to the adventure, and then close with an "Everybody Laughs" Ending. | |
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Robert Zemeckis once jokingly told interviewers that the hoverboards in Back to the Future Part II were real prototypes created by Mattel but kept off the market because of pressure from parental watchdog groups who felt they were unsafe. Zemeckis then took it to Trolling Creator levels by shooting phony "behind the scenes" footage of the hoverboards using the special effects in the film proper. Naturally, a bunch of people fell for it, and Mattel was inundated with letters and phone calls begging them to sell the hoverboards. Sometimes they'd tell the truth; other times they would tell the would-be hoverboarders to "wait until 2015". That date drawing near, Funny Or Die produced a fake commercial for them in 2014 featuring Doc Brown himself, Christopher Lloyd. | |
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Of course Mr. Krabs has to learn things the hard way on SpongeBob SquarePants. After printing several scandalous issues of the Krusty Krab's own Krusty Khronicle, which features nothing but wild rumours, he incurs the wrath of everyone in town but refuses to stop the presses. Then SpongeBob prints another issue focusing solely on Mr. Krabs himself. | |
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The Mythbusters are occasionally wrong, rarely censored, and routinely facetious, but they've never out-and-out lied to the viewer (lying to Adam and Tory is okay though, because it's funny when they injure themselves). | |
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In Central Park, Season 1 "Hot Oven", Owen read online that he can get his oven hot enough to cook his pizza by leaving it on broil the entire time. Molly points out that doesn't sound safe but Owen said they wouldn't put that information online if it wasn't dangerous. Later on, Owen's oven catches on fire and the oven knobs are on fire. | |
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Sticky Dilly Buns: It's discovered that Dillon has been under the impression that lots of straight men secretly have sex with gay men because the first time a supposedly straight man did this with him, the man cited Oprah as a source, and "Oprah never lies!" | |
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English Brainiac: Science Abuse, by contrast, has been known to fudge results in the name of Rule of Funny (and, on one occasion, to collect on a rather sizable golf bet when an experiment in probability fails to obey the law of averages). | |
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In Family Guy, when Meg joins the school newspaper to pad out her extra-curricular activities, her father Peter "improves" a story of hers by outright fabricating a story saying "Luke Perry is Gay". This works wonders for Meg at first until Luke Perry reads a copy of the paper. Turns out he was gay. With Mayor Adam West... | |
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The Daily Prophet, the British Wizarding World's only "legitimate" newspaper, is a perfect example. Everything in it is taken as gospel truth, especially jarring when it outright contradicts itself: in The Order of the Phoenix, Harry is an insane schizophrenic and Dumbledore is a senile old fool; in Half-Blood Prince, Dumbledore is the greatest Wizard EVAH and Harry is a Messianic Archetype; in The Deathly Hallows, Harry is evil and wanted for questioning on Dumbledore's death, and Voldemort is really quite a nice fellow, really, just remember to report any Mudbloods Muggle-borns to the Ministry. | |
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