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Tied Up on the Phone
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })An old telephone with a cord for the receiver is a dangerous object! Especially in fiction, when a) that cord can be absurdly long for no practical reason, and b) characters are easily distracted and ignorant of the world around them when they become engrossed in the phone conversation. This results in the phone user, or more often the people around them, finding themselves caught in a messy web of tangled phone cord quite easily. Can occur if the character likes to Walk and Talk, slowly encasing themselves and any innocent bystanders as the conversation goes on. Of course, they could just as easily fall into the phone, and if a villain is short on rope a phone cord is the surprisingly popular alternative to tie up or strangle a victim. Sadly, Technology Marches On, and the advent of cordless phones and cellphones are the Trope Breaker for this trope. This can also add to the trope though; if a character is used to using cellphones and has to rely on an old phone in an old building etc, they would invariably struggle with an unexpected cord. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Examples: |
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A running gag in the Fred movie is that because Fred can never stop moving, he has to untangle himself from the cord at the end of every phone conversation. | |
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Happens in Better Days, where a young Fisk is talking to his mom and... | |
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The butler in Oliver & Company is watching a wrestling match on TV and getting caught up in the action when the phone rings, and he swings around so hard when answering it that he gets tangled up in the cord. | |
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In one Bug comic, the main character says that one of the nice things about growing up in a home with a very long phone cord was the ability to clothesline his sister and Make It Look Like an Accident. | |
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At the end of Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, the eponymous duo attempt to get revenge on everyone who said bad things about them on the internet. One man is on the phone, so Silent Bob grabs the phone cord and tangles him up in it, starting to strangle him. | |
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A sketch on The Benny Hill Show has appliances come to life and attack humans; at one point a phone cord wraps itself around Hill. | |
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The animated film Freddie as F.R.O.7 has a character who is constantly doing this to himself with long phone conversations. | |
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In the Phineas and Ferb episode "De Plane! De Plane!", Doofenshmirtz manages to trap Perry the Platypus in a phone cord for a while. | |
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In an early episode of Soap, Danny tries to kill Burt by wrapping a phone cord around his neck. Burt, being oblivious to the murder attempt, takes the handset and says, "Hello?" | |
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This sometimes happens to Hyacinth in Keeping Up Appearances, as her prized white Slimline telephone with recall facility seems to have an absurdly long cord. | |
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In the film 9 to 5, Doralee Rhodes rips the phone cord out of the wall and ties up her boss Frank Hart with it to prevent him from calling the police on her, Violet Newstead, and Judy Bernly for their accidental attempt of poisoning him and covering up the evidence. | |
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In FoxTrot, at one point Paige is on the phone, wandering about the house. In the final panel, the perspective widens and we see that she's ensnared every member of the house in the phone cord. | |
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Zits has had Jeremy do this by moving from phone to phone in the house, stretching out the cord on one phone till he can pick up the receiver on the next. | |
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In the Doctor Who story "Terror of the Autons", the Doctor's phone cord deliberately ties him up — its plastic covering is possessed by the Nestene Consciousness. | |
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An insanely long phone cord used for slapstick purposes is one of the few bits in Noises Off, which actually goes as planned. | |
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In one scene of Police Story, Jackie Chan is alone in the squad room and so has to answer several phones ringing at the same time. He gets rather confused and ends up placing the receivers on the wrong telephones, leading to the room being strung with telephone cords. | |
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