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Walkie-Talkie Gag, Over
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Unlike telephones, walkie-talkies are half-duplex devices. This means only one party may speak at a time. If both attempt to transmit simultaneously, neither of them will hear each other. In the professional world, Voice procedure keeps radio communications organized, which commonly involves saying "over" when one station finishes transmitting so that another party knows that they can begin. On large networks, call signs may be used to identify communicators without having to rely on their name. Since available channels are limited and airtime is valuable, code words (called "procedure words" or "prowords" in radio jargon) are typically used to keep transmissions brief. For example, "Roger" is generally used to mean "understood." As well, in the military, there is a codified way to respond to messages to ensure that the orders were relayed. While this makes sense for a military unit containing hundreds of soldiers or a cab dispatcher keeping track of dozens of cars, the average layperson is unlikely to be familiar with this convention. Chances are they'll think "Roger" is the name of a person, or mistakenly believe "over" is part of the sentence. An overzealous character will insist their partner use perfect protocol when it's completely unnecessary, such as when there is only one other person with another radio. Expect them to spew non-sensical military or CB slang that they don't even understand themselves. Creating outrageous code names is a must, and they will raise a fuss when the other characters don't cooperate. "Over" is the radio equivalent of Telegraph Gag STOP. Over. Contrast Hollywood CB, where walkie-talkies work like telephones and no special protocol is used. For other unrealistic depictions of radio usage by military or professional personnel, see Artistic License – Military. Oh, and "over and out"? That's an example of the Coconut Effect. In real radio transmissions this would be a self-contradictory instruction, with "over" meaning "ready for you to speak" and "out" meaning "ending communication." Nonetheless, for some reason it's been used that way in so much fiction over the years that it's passed into "Common Knowledge", so you will find people saying it even in situations where they (or at least their writers) should know better. <Walkie-Talkie Static noise> Over! |
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The Simpsons: In "Treehouse of Horror V", Marge tries to call the police on a two-way radio when Homer goes insane. | |
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Looney Tunes: In the Bugs Bunny cartoon "Haredevil Hare", Bugs is so traumatized by the rocket trip to the moon, once he lands he does a series of spastic fits. He continues to throw fits as he answers the walkie-talkie from mission control, but still takes the time to end the communication properly with "over". Later, when he tries to call for help about Marvin the Martian going to blow up Earth, all the walkie-talkie picks up is a radio commercial jingle. | |
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Adventures in Odyssey: In the episode "Heatwave", Jack Davis and Oscar Peterson are staking out a hardware store and communicating via radio. Every time Jack gives instructions, Oscar replies "Ten-four!", to which Jack will joke "Nah, it's [time-related joke]." An earlier-established bad joke buzzer goes off at the hardware store to lampshade it. | |
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Airplane!: "Over" and "roger" are the names of Captain Oveur and co-pilot Roger Murdock. To make matters worse, the Captain's first name is Clarence, which sounds similar to "clearance", which only adds to the confusion. At the same time, navigator Victor is looking for the proper vector. | |
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Mario Luigi And Gary: Raphael the Raven usually acts as though he's communicating via a walkie talkie, saying Raphael is his "call sign" rather than his name, and finishing some statements with "over." | |
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One episode of The Suite Life of Zack & Cody has Moseby (codenamed "Lard Butt") interrupting the twins' radio shenanigans to preemptively threaten them against disrupting a celebrity wedding. | |
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The name-confusion gag occurs in the prologue to the The Ren & Stimpy Show episode "Space Madness". | |
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The pilot episode of That '90s Show has Eric planning to take Leia to a father-daughter space camp, and essentially making Leia take part in a walkie-talkie bit. | |
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In one episode of M*A*S*H, Hawkeye is trying to contact his father and his call is routed through a radio communication point, requiring him to communicate in this way. Unfamiliar with it, he asks for clarification. | |
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Downplayed in The Loud House. Lincoln and his best friend Clyde live across the street from each other and use walkie-talkies so Lincoln doesn't have to fight for talk time against his 7 sisters. They use very silly Punny Name codenames but otherwise have rather mundane and ordinary communication protocol. | |
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The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius: In "Professor Calamitous I Presume", Jimmy is trying to rescue Goddard from the villain while Carl and Sheen are at the Candy Bar. They keep in communication with walkie-talkies. | |
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During the main heist of The Comedy About a Bank Robbery, Sam, one of the team members, has gone missing, leading to this radio conversation between Caprice and Cooper, who are standing outside the bank, and Mitch, who's on the bank roof. | |
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Them! does a gag with the resident Absent-Minded Professor getting frustrated when dealing with this trope when trying to talk to other characters over a radio. | |
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In the season 3 finale of Stranger Things, Hopper, Joyce and Murray are about to infiltrate the Russian Elaborate Underground Base but they need Dustin and Erika to assist them as Mission Control. The latter two agree on the condition that Murray's code sign would be "Bald Eagle". They then milk the gag for all it's worth. | |
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In Doug's 1st Movie, Doug is talking over a walkie-talkie and ends his call with "Roger" while the bully Roger is walking by and assumes Doug is talking to him. | |
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In Ed, Edd n Eddy episode "3 Squares and an Ed", after the trio are grounded, they use Tin-Can Telephone with Double D asking Eddy and Ed to use "over" when finishing. Ed, being Ed, fails to get any of his messages through. | |
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Green Eggs and Ham (2019): When Sam and Guy have to find ties to feed the Chickeraffe, Sam as his over-enthusiastic self treats it like a spy mission and imitates a walkie-talkie transmission. Even after Sam tells Guy that he should be saying "over" after his sentences, Guy says he won't do it because he's "not an insane person." | |
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Family Guy: When Stewie and Brian use a walkie-talkie, Stewie refuses to acknowledge Brian's transmissions unless he ends them with "over." This becomes a problem when the last word in Brian's sentence is "over." In the episode where Brian and Stewie join the army, Stewie says a bunch of jargon over the radio and tells Brian that he's just making up random names and numbers and doesn't know what they mean. |
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In the first Artemis Fowl book, one of the Corporals in the LEPrecon refuses to address his Captain appropriately over the radio because he is his brother. | |
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Viewtiful Joe 2: One of the bosses, Sergeant Big John, frequently talks over the military walkie-talkie and as such he always ends his sentences with "over". Even when he's disguising himself as "Big Lee" later on, he still says "over" after his sentences, which easily gives up his identity to Joe and Silvia. | |
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