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TV Telephone Etiquette

188 statements
35 feature instances
35 referencing feature instances

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TV Telephone Etiquette	comment	The inability for main characters who answer the phone to either hang up the phone, acknowledge the caller, or say any "good-bye" equivalent. This is because phone calls are often done solely for exposition, and saying good-bye is seen as wasting valuable screen time. If there is no split-screen and the other end is not heard by the audience, characters are also required to repeat back everything the person on the other end says to them. Now available in montage form!
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TV Telephone Etiquette / int_109f7814	comment	Sherlock: Whether they're talking to a terrified hostage, or talking to the villain, or are the villain, people in this show are terribly polite and almost invariably answer the phone with "hello". Saying something along the lines of "goodbye" at the end, not so much.
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TV Telephone Etiquette / int_17024c6d	comment	"What?" is Miss Parker of The Pretender's signature greeting.
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TV Telephone Etiquette / int_2268de37	comment	On a Season 6 episode of Grimm, Sean Renard does this on a video call. When the conversation was finished he simply closed the chat window.
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TV Telephone Etiquette / int_24a9f8f0	comment	Fearless: Gaia Moore greets callers with "speak".
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TV Telephone Etiquette / int_2d0735c6	comment	Lampshaded in Broad City: "She didn't even say 'Bye, Lincoln'. That takes one more second. People have no phone etiquette these days."
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TV Telephone Etiquette / int_457b671e	comment	24. Nobody ever says goodbye on the phone, which is a little funny since Jack spends at least half the series on one.
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TV Telephone Etiquette / int_4da7528e	comment	In "Slumber Party" from the PBS animated The Berenstain Bears, every time that Sister and Lizzie take another call from someone else wanting to attend Lizzie's slumber party, they wrap up the conversation with "Sure, what's one more?" and hang up.
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TV Telephone Etiquette / int_58c6d2c0	comment	Twice in Bridge of Spies. In the first scene, Abel receives a phone call from his superiors and doesn't give any sort of greeting. Later on, the American agent receives a call from an East German agent, and silently picks up the phone, listens, then hangs up without a word. One would think in that situation it would be important to verify who you're talking to.
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TV Telephone Etiquette / int_59da62aa	comment	Inverted in the Fallout: New Vegas DLC Old World Blues: After Dr. Mobius delivers his terrifying broadcast from the Forbidden Dome, he caps it off with a cheerful "That is all. Bye bye."
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TV Telephone Etiquette / int_5aca0f8e	comment	Peppa Pig has become known on the Internet for a scene in which Peppa, unable to whistle, hangs up on Suzy Sheep when she whistles on a phone call despite claiming not to even know what whistling is.
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TV Telephone Etiquette / int_64e5f385	comment	In The Smiling Lieutenant, the lieutenant gets the news from a lady friend that he is being forced to marry a princess he's not interested in. He hangs up the phone without saying goodbye.
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TV Telephone Etiquette / int_706b3301	comment	The Jolly Roger Telephone Company provides bots that are designed to frustrate telemarketers and scammers. Despite all their training, there are times when the bots wear them down so much that they simply end the call without saying goodbye in some fashion.
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TV Telephone Etiquette / int_74fb542e	comment	Parodied in That Mitchell and Webb Look: one sketch features Da Chief angrily yelling at a subordinate over the phone and slamming it down... only to pick it back up after a few moments and apologize sincerely for being so rude and unprofessional.
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TV Telephone Etiquette / int_7884ec15	comment	Characters on Seinfeld seemed to have a particular aversion to saying goodbye.
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TV Telephone Etiquette / int_7899c84f	comment	Discussed in Adrian Mole. In Growing Pains, he phones his parents when he has run away from home, and notes that the phone isn't snatched up immediately like it is in the films about runaway children.
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TV Telephone Etiquette / int_8516dd7d	comment	Craig's Wife: Harriet hangs up on Ethel's suitor Mr. Fredericks abruptly, after saying "I don't care to disturb her just now. I'm very sorry." Justified in this instance as Harriet is trying to keep them apart.
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TV Telephone Etiquette / int_8dfbdff2	comment	In Law & Order (and later Law & Order: SVU) Captain Cragan invariably answered the phone by yelling "What?".
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TV Telephone Etiquette / int_9f1766e4	comment	The Brady Bunch: Mike calls a friend of his about a problem; he jumps right into the topic and doesn't say goodbye. Robert Reed wrote one of his many scathing memos about this scene.
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TV Telephone Etiquette / int_a33c20a6	comment	On Covert Affairs, Annie calls Auggie on this early in an episode, saying that "normal people" say good-bye. He replies that it's just one more reason not to. This becomes a very minor comedic subplot, until the end of the episode, when Auggie is going off on his own to seek revenge. Annie knows something is wrong when he says . . .
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TV Telephone Etiquette / int_a57ee9c1	comment	Shadow of the Thin Man: After receiving a vital piece of information over the phone during the Summation Gathering, detective Nick Charles slams the phone down without saying goodbye.
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TV Telephone Etiquette / int_a6b9b759	comment	In The Guild, the leader of the evil guild is overtly rude over the phone. He answers the phone by stating the activity that you're interrupting, like "Journalling!" He also hangs up abruptly without saying goodbye, which confuses Cyd.
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TV Telephone Etiquette / int_aba7ffb9	comment	In The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel, nobody seems to say "good-bye" talking on the ARCUS unit. For example, when Instructor Neithardt calls Rean in Chapter 4 to ask him to swing by the lounge, he simply repeats his request at the end of the conversation and then clicks off. Rean even lampshades it at one point when Sara makes the same request...
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TV Telephone Etiquette / int_acb92fd0	comment	Father Ted once had Dougal finish a phone call by simply dropping the handset and letting it fall to the floor as he walked away.
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TV Telephone Etiquette / int_b0183e04	comment	Parodied along with everything else on Garth Marenghis Darkplace. Most of the time, characters will end even the most desperate and ominous conversations with an inappropriately casual "Bye!" At the other end of the scale;
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TV Telephone Etiquette / int_b96564e6	comment	Fawlty Towers: Justified in "The Germans", as throughout the episode, Sybil is constantly phoning to check up on Basil. At first, he starts and finishes the calls normally, but as this goes on, he does not bother to check who is calling; at one point he picks the phone up, yells into it, and immediately slams it down again.
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TV Telephone Etiquette / int_ba9c8f40	comment	Shaft does it in style...
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TV Telephone Etiquette / int_d14c3aa1	comment	Ghostbusters features a moment where the 'Busters overworked secretary Janine answers the latest in an endless series of client calls with "Ghostbusters, whaddya want?!"
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TV Telephone Etiquette / int_db3b75ff	comment	On Barney Miller, a man tried to commit suicide by drinking a chemical. Wojo called Poison Control to ask what to do, but they needed to know what chemical the man drank. Eventually he reveals that it was food coloring. Wojo says "Food" into the phone, then realizes what the man said, and hangs up without another word.
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TV Telephone Etiquette / int_dc08e6b1	comment	Played for comedy in The Life & Times of Tim, when Tim bungles a call from a prospective employer by hanging up when he thinks the conversation is over. After a pause, the caller continues speaking, not realizing that he's hung up.
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TV Telephone Etiquette / int_dccfc4b8	comment	In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, when Ron Weasley calls to try to talk to Harry, Vernon Dursley tells him that there is no Harry Potter there, to never contact him again or come near his family, and "throws the receiver back onto the telephone as if dropping a poisonous spider." But given that it's Vernon and that Ron was shouting, not knowing how to properly use a "fellytone," it's pretty much to be expected.
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TV Telephone Etiquette / int_e6267766	comment	Star Wars Legends: Emperor Palpatine needs no comm etiquette, as is pointed out in Shadows of the Empire. He has a habit of stating what he wants without greeting, then ending the conversation without any kind of farewell. His subordinates have learned to accept this as 'just one of those things'.
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TV Telephone Etiquette / int_e91033c0	comment	In Troubled Blood from the Cormoran Strike Novels, when Cormoran Strike's old friend Shanker is finished with a conversation with Strike, he simply hangs up the phone.
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TV Telephone Etiquette / int_ee5582ae	comment	David Sandstrom of ReGenesis answers with an impatient "Yeah?" or, later in the series, "What?" This seemed to vary in its hostility based on whether or not another then-present character was prodding him to answer his phone.
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TV Telephone Etiquette / int_efa49b17	comment	On The Mentalist, Teresa Lisbon likes to do this to Patrick Jane sometimes. Given that it's Jane, it can almost be said to be a Justified Trope.
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TV Telephone Etiquette / int_fe2020ef	comment	In Layer Cake, the protagonist remarks "That's rude, Mr. Dragan", after the caller (a psychopathic Serbian hitman) hangs up without saying goodbye.
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