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Two-Way Tapping
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A comedy trope where the presence of eavesdroppers is revealed because the bugs work both ways. For some reason, no one thought to use simple bugs for surveillance. Compare The Television Talks Back, Is This Thing Still On?, Landline Eavesdropping. See also I Know You're Watching Me. |
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One episode of Chuck has the title character accidentally reveal the bug he'd planted when he got tired of a love interest's friend bashing him and snarkily says that he makes twelve dollars an hour, okay? | |
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The Simpsons In "Trilogy Of Error", Chief Wiggum puts a wire tap on Bart. He then blows the cover when he hears Fat Tony through the wire and goes "Fat Tony, is that you?" In "To Surveil with Love", Ned Flanders & Co. volunteer to watch the surveillance cameras posted everywhere. They're supposed to be looking for crime but they end up nannying everyone, making sure nothing "naughty" happens. If they see something there's a speaker they talk through to tell the perps to cut it out. In "The Cartridge Family", after Homer buys (and is absurdly reckless with) a revolver, Marge leaves the house with the children because she's fed up and goes to a pretty lousy hotel, with things like corpses on the pool, lousy beds, and an an incredibly obvious ceiling-mounted camera that tells Marge to ignore it and go to sleep when she points it out. In "Viva Ned Flanders", when Homer and Ned go to Las Vegas, Ned isn't sure if it's the right thing to do, so he prays. A surveillance bubble in the ceiling responds. |
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Dale Gribble manages to pull this off in one King of the Hill episode, where he had attempted to bug the Hills' house, but accidentally put the wrong devices in the wrong place, so while he was scheming around what he thought was the receiving end, the Hills end up hearing everything he's saying. | |
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Justified in Dinotrux as given the means on hand, the only way to actually tap the enemy's lair is by carving a pair of acoustic mirrors into the rocks. Everyone knows this will work both ways and they try to be careful about it but still end up giving themselves away. | |
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Nineteen Eighty-Four: When Winston and Julia have a quiet conversation after one of their illicit encounters in Charrington's flat, Winston muses about a Prole woman they're observing outside, "Hers is the future, we are the dead", and Julia echoes "we are the dead". A voice from the direction of a painting on the wall immediately responds "you are the dead", revealing that there was a telescreen hidden underneath and that they'd been caught in their forbidden activities and discourse. Moments later the Thought Police arrive in helicopters and arrest them. | |
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In The Last Days of FOXHOUND, as FOXHOUND is testing Metal Gear REX, Ocelot receives a phone call from Sergei Gurlukovich. Gurlukovich believes the line to be secure, but Ocelot not only knows that the line is bugged, but also exactly by whom: | |
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Schlock Mercenary: Actually justified by Lieutenant Sorlie's "secure" bone-phone, as the intent was to let the intelligence agency doing the tapping speak privately to their mole. Unfortunately for them, Schlock has very good hearing. | |
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Commander Kitty has the cast come up with a plan as they eavesdrop on Zenith with one of the mouse nodes. The mouse announces that they should abandon that plan, with the next frame showing Zenith throw the mouse module to the group. | |
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In early strips of The Boondocks, Huey's politically-charged phone conversations would often be interrupted by wiretapping agents asking him to repeat what he just said, as there was too much to write down in one go. | |
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In the Comic Relief Doctor Who parody The Curse of Fatal Death with Rowan Atkinson, the Doctor overhears the Master's Evil Gloating while the Master is spying on him because of this. Played for drama in Doctor Who S28 E4 "The Girl in the Fireplace" where the Doctor, who is reading Madame de Pompadour's mind by hand to find out what's going on, is surprised when she starts responding aloud to his own memories. As the Madame explains, a door once opened may be traversed in both directions. However, there is also the implication that she can do it because she's exceptionally intelligent. |
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