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For the proper reading experience, play the music from this video while reading on. In real life, when a broadcaster is having technical difficulties, often with transmitting equipment or loss of video/audio feed, the station will put on screen a card stating "We are having technical difficulties" or "Please Stand By", accompanied by stock music. This is rare nowadays in most countries, but the practice is still referred to in fiction. However, when this happens in fiction, it indicates not mundane malfunctions, but something either funny or deeply disturbing. And the latter usually happens when the news is being aired, or in the newsroom itself. Sometimes played for Black Comedy if the presentation of the message sharply contrasts with the horror of the scene. An even darker version is when the message is displayed, but the horrible noise in the background indicates what is actually going on. It may also happen if the Genre Blind news reporter tries to get an exclusive interview with the Eldritch Abomination. There may be other not-really-technical difficulties such as a fight breaking out on live TV or a performer (or news anchor) having an emotional breakdown, disrobing on live TV, dying, or saying something so controversial that it will cause backlash from the network censors or, worse, the FCC (and their national equivalents abroad). Actual technical difficulties are vanishingly rare in fictionland, and thanks to many stations now being run by their corporate owners from one hub (for instance, Fox runs many of their owned stations from New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and Houston), in reality also. Sometimes the message pops up as a result of Camera Abuse, which could be a valid case of technical difficulty. Can be used similarly to News Monopoly — if every station is Experiencing Technical Difficulties at the same time, something is seriously wrong. Compare with Relax-o-Vision (an innocuous image is substituted for a disturbing one), Do Not Adjust Your Set (an outside intrusion overrides the signal), and Snowy Screen of Death (damage to the camera causes the signal to flicker out and die). Often, "Spanish Flea" from Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass will appear as background music in this trope, or an instrumental recording of "The Girl From Ipanema", which also shows up in elevators. Sometimes the Intermission song from Monty Python and the Holy Grail is used as well, particularly among video game streamers or in Web Original works where copyright isn't as much of an issue. |
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One episode of Megas XLR depicted Pop TV's "Technical Difficulties" card as having Megas in the process of demolishing their studio. | |
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In Hell House LLC II: The Abaddon Hotel, this remains the official explanation for the disaster in the Abaddon Hotel. Cameras also suffer serious distortions and anomalies whenever seriously supernatural stuff starts happening. | |
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Happens in a bonus feature on Finding Nemo when Jean-Michel Cousteau loses it thanks to Nemo, Dory and Marlin. | |
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In episode 32a of Jewelpet Sunshine, when a babified Ruby fills her diaper while being carried on Kanon's back, a screen reading "We are experiencing technical difficulties." and depicting an anthropomorphic wad of feces briefly appears. | |
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A humorous example in the film I Am Curious (Yellow): Lena and her friend Börje are about to make love in her archive room. There's no bed, so they drag in a mattress and some sheets and pillows from another room, and make all sorts of elaborate preparations. At the moment they actually begin intercourse, a test pattern flips up on the screen. Cut to a pleasant looking announcer fixing her hair, not realizing she's already on camera. She says "We regret that we have had some technical difficulties owing to erection fault" (or "faulty coupling", depending on the translation). | |
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In the Bleach: Heat the Soul series Mayuri Kurotsuchi can team up with Szayelaporro Granz and get their own special finisher move, in which they do... something to their opponent just as the camera cuts away to a Relax-o-Vision scene before cutting back to the game. | |
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DEATH BATTLE!: During the rundown for "Roshi vs. Jiraiya", Boomstick claims that nothing surprises him when it comes to Naruto. Then Wiz hits a button on his arm and poofs into a Sexy Jutsu. Boomstick gets a nosebleed like a pressure washer, and then we cut to a card with Boomstick handling the camera while drunk off his ass (possibly a Shout-Out to the "Dial Z for Zombies" example below). Later during Harley Quinn's analysis in "Harley Quinn vs. Jinx", Ringmaster demonstrates the different types of ammunition Harley's popgun uses, while the boxing glove and streamers don't do anything, Ringmaster ends up breaking the camera by firing an explosive round that ricochets into it, cutting to a card depicting Wiz with his robot arm malfunctioning. During Discord's analysis in "Bill Cipher vs. Discord", Discord himself shows up in the studio with Wiz eager to learn all he can from the Draconequus who obliges by turning him and Boomstick into their respective actors (Ben Singer and Chad James), causing the hosts to panic as it cuts to the same card of Wiz's arm malfunctioning during their screaming. |
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In one rather hilarious example on Bill Nye the Science Guy this happens when Bill flicks a red-kneed tarantula onto the cameraman, causing the cameraman to drop the camera onto the floor. The cameraman screams "THE TARANTULA'S CRAWLING IN MY PANTS!!" while the trope name is broadcast on the screen. | |
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In Osmosis Jones, during the meltdown in Frank's body, when the two news anchors start arguing and beating each other up, we get "PLEASE STAND BY". We don't see them again until all the danger's clear. | |
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This happened to French-language TV channel Unis TV just as they were about to show an episode of Rock Lee and his Ninja Pals, where just as the episode was about to start, the SMPTE color bars showed up, then a black screen with the program and episode titles. The episode was just delayed a little bit and nothing happened to the schedule (as the show was broadcast commercial-free.) | |
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Dancing with the Stars has two similar examples to Pickler's (who, amusingly, is a former winner) In season 21, Tamar Braxton became ill before she was to perform her week 9 dance, so dress rehearsal footage was shown in place of the live performance. She became well enough to perform a duet rumba with Nick Carter later that night, but had to withdraw anyway when she contracted pulmonary embolisms. Amy Purdy suffered an injury in season 18 after performing her rumba, so the team Latin freestyle she was in was scored based on rehearsal footage. |
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Another example is at the start of his review of The Magic Voyage where he goes berserk until he breathes fire, then a cartoon of him taking his "meds" appears with the phrase "One moment please". | |
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Romero's Living Dead Series films: In the opening scene of Night of the Living Dead (1968), Johnny switches off the radio just as an announcement of this kind is being made. The original Dawn of the Dead (1978) starts with two of the main characters leaving the TV studio where they work, as this type of message is put on. |
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The Bugs Bunny cartoon "Wideo Wabbit" has the floor director in a panic putting up a "Please Stand By" card in front of a TV camera when Bugs disrupts and runs off Elmer Fudd's "Sportsman's Hour" show. For a while in the late 90s, Cartoon Network used a still of that as an actual "technical difficulties" card instead of a still of their logo, as was standard practice at the time. | |
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Happens on the Beavis and Butt-Head episode "Tornado" where B&B are watching "Barney Bakes a Cake". Barney the Dinosaur sets himself on fire and we hear him [the guy in the highly flammable Barney suit] screaming "Ow, ow! I'm burning! Kids, help! This sucks!" behind the caption (the Edited for Syndication version immediately cut to the technical difficulties card featuring a blue Big Bird rather than show Barney's hands catching fire and shortened his line to "Kids, help! This sucks!") Heh-heh. Heh-heh. | |
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In the opening scene of Night of the Living Dead (1968), Johnny switches off the radio just as an announcement of this kind is being made. | |
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After the title character of The Cat in the Hat accidentally cuts off part of his own tail, causing him to blurt out a Curse Cut Short by a long bleep censor, a "technical difficulties" card reads "Hang In There, Baby!" featuring an actual cat wearing an outfit similar to the one the title character wears. | |
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Atop the Fourth Wall: Linkara has occasionally cut to a Relax-o-Vision screen while music from Pokémon plays in the background. See "Countdown to Final Crisis Pt. 1" for an example. | |
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The Outer Limits (1963) was originally titled Please Stand By. However, the title was changed because the producers and the network were afraid that between the title and the famous Opening Narration ("There is nothing wrong with your television set..."), people might mistake the opening sequence for a real emergency alert. (To add some historical perspective, the series premiered not long after the Cuban Missile Crisis.) | |
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During a Brass Eye special on Paedophilia, there is "technical difficulties", as a member of the militant paedophile organisation "Milit-Pede" attacks the studio. | |
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Played for laughs on an episode of Empty Nest. Womanizer Charlie Dietz becomes a meteorologist on the local news and compares the size of some hailstones to the anchorwoman's breasts. Cue the trope. | |
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What the Fuck Is Wrong with You?: Nash often uses these when a news story is just too much. They usually have a variable message: "Shut the fuck up and sit the fuck down", "Don't worry, we're pretty sure he won't find the gun this time", "Please don't provoke the raging jackass." | |
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Played for drama in Modern Warfare 2, where the intro sequence to the mission "Of Their Own Accord" is an emergency broadcast system alert containing evacuation instructions for residents of Washington, D.C.. | |
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Shattered Union: In the intro, a news reporter is presenting a report from Washington DC when when the city is nuked. | |
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Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory: In the final episode of Nepstation's Walletcrusher Nep, Neptune wouldn't shut up about the Nep Bull EX II medicine, and how it must have some kind of side effect. Ultimately, the screen went black with the message, "Technical difficulties. Please wait a moment." When the broadcast came back on, she had been removed from the stage. | |
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Problem Child 2 has a patriotic puppet show suddenly hijacked, with the Uncle Sam puppet explaining "We are experiencing technical difficulties," and the bald eagle puppet chiming in with "Yeah — I had to scratch my balls!" The crowd is actually entertained for a change, and bursts into laughter. Naturally, Ben assumes that Junior is the culprit, but he's not. | |
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The Truman Show: Truman tricks the cameras watching him with a Sleeping Dummy and sneaks out of the house. When the crew discover that he's missing, Christof (the show's creator) orders them to cut transmission for the first time in the show's 30 year history. Audiences across the world are left with only a title card and a message about technical difficulties. When an executive complains about the chaos, Christof notes the graphic is providing their best viewing figures ever because people are so desperate to know what's happened. | |
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Total Drama: After Bridgette ruins her part of the talent show in "Not Quite Famous" by projectile vomiting all over the audience, Chris calls for a break to clean up. The screen that follows shows a simple animation of a grayscale, 1960's-style man ironing his shirt. The accompanying music is an instrumental rendition of "The Girl from Ipanema". The contestants that went to look for help in "Celebrity Manhunt's TDA Reunion Show" reach the Celebrity Manhunt studio, where they're informed that by leaving the bus they are disqualified from participation in the next season. Eva freaks out and rampages through the studio, throwing and breaking whatever she can grab. The hosts call for the end of the episode, but it comes too late to obviate a technical difficulties screen. It's a black-and-white, Art Deco-inspired still of Blaineley getting choked by the Drama Machine while Josh looks on in melodramatic shock. The accompanying music is, again, an instrumental rendition of "The Girl from Ipanema". During Chris's episode introduction speech in "Scarlett Fever", the island's malfunctioning gets worse and worse. Chris can't even finish his final sentence due to the technical difficulties and so a full-color still is put up of Chef frying a camera on his stove. The accompanying music is–you guessed it–an instrumental rendition of "The Girl From Ipanema". |
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In the pre-show for Shrek 4D at Universal Studios, Lord Farquaad's ghost flies through the "Dungeon Cam", resulting in it cutting to a technical difficulties screen. | |
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Subverted in the first confrontation between Jonah Hex and Iron Man, after Hex asked why they replaced Terrence Howard with Don Cheadle in Iron Man 2. But all you did was just stand there for a few seconds and then say, "That's why." | |
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One episode of Freakazoid! starts like this, while you hear Freakzoid hastily try to put the finishing touches on the show in the background. | |
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Played for laughs in Obsidian. The first dream world is set in an oppressive bureaucracy populated by Vidbots that show human faces when activated. When you finally meet their chief, he loses his temper over all the rules you broke to reach him, so much that his face briefly glitches into an old color test card before he calms down. | |
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Persona 5 Kunikazu Okumura suffers a mental shutdown and dies in the middle of his press conference. As the people in the studio scream in horror, the screen quickly changes to a cutesy crayon draw of a puppy chasing butterflies while equally cute music plays on the background. | |
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The Spiffing Brit: To produce Curse Cut Short: For The Sims 4, when still working on a death room for one family of Sims, his Sim (Lord Farquaad) tried making a grilled cheese sandwich: | |
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ECW held their event ECW Gangstas Paradise on September 23, 1995, which produced two TV episodes. Near the end of the first of these shows, there was a locker room confrontation between The Public Enemy and New Jack and 2 Cold Scorpionote The main event was The Sandman/Scorpio/New Jack vs. The Public Enemy and Mikey Whipwreck in a cage match. where various cameraman were getting knocked out, leading to a "Please Stand By" message appearing on the screen. | |
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Binging with Babish: "Tiramisu from Superbad" was sponsored by Philips Espresso, giving Andrew a convenient excuse to pepper in his own homemade commercials throughout the video, which proved to be greatly beneficial when the springform pan fell open when he was moving it to the fridge. After a brief moment of panic, he has the show cut back to the commercials while he figures out what went wrong. | |
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The Nostalgia Critic: He sometimes switches to this when he really loses it; the "Technical Difficulties" screen shows him in a straitjacket (much like the one on the season five Simpsons episode "Marge on the Lam"). Another example is at the start of his review of The Magic Voyage where he goes berserk until he breathes fire, then a cartoon of him taking his "meds" appears with the phrase "One moment please". |
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Halloween III: Season of the Witch: Two of the networks running the Silver Shamrock giveaway ad cut to technical difficulties screens after Dan Challis warns them of the true nature behind them. Given the film's Ambiguous Ending, it's hard to tell whether or not he succeeded in pleading for the third network to cut the broadcast, thus saving the lives of millions of children. | |
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Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas and Fallout 4 all have a variation of the classic "Indian head" card that reads "Please Stand By" before loading the title card. Also in-universe in the fourth game. The TV news report cuts to the same "Please Stand By" card as reports of bombing start coming in. And after the apocalypse, when you give power to a television set, the card is all that appears on the screen. |
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On 25 September 2021, a fire destroyed a control panel at UK broadcasting company Red Bee Media, knocking Channel 4 and Channel 5 off air completely. Both channels were still being run off backup systems a week later, creating numerous problems including wrong episodes of shows being aired, programmes being aired with the subtitles unavailable or the colour balance being off, the channel occasionally falling off air again, and The Last Leg (a late night chat show which is broadcast live) having to do an entire episode braced for the possibility they might fall off air at any moment. | |
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In At Last the 1948 Show, a costume drama in the vein of The Forsyte Saga has been de-railed by heads of programming leading visiting TV executives from first Jordan, then Nigeria onto the set, unaware they are broadcasting live. The continuity announcer snaps that perhaps the head of children's television will follow this by leading a group of Eskimos onto the set. A placard appears reading "Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible" — and, sure enough, the head of children's television and a group of Eskimos smash straight through the placard. | |
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For unexplained reasons, in 1992, Harry Groener and the cast of Crazy for You did not perform their selection live; rehearsal footage was shown in its stead. | |
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In the Archer short “Cooking with Archer�, a brawl ensues between Archer and celebrity chef Alton Brown after they start throwing food at each other. The scene cuts away to a Technical Difficulties card, and about thirty seconds later, the scene resumes with Alton finishing the dish, Archer’s newly remodeled kitchen destroyed, and Archer stuck head-first through the oven door. | |
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Dead Set features any number of them. In this case the hopelessly non-descript "PLEASE STAND BY" of the messages serve to underline just how quickly and violently overrun everything was. | |
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Sonic Mania: At the end of the Studiopolis Zone Act 2 boss fight, the TV in the background displays a modified version of The BBC's test card F (an Eggman symbol replaces the girl and clown from the original), with loud static. Said static is taken directly from Sonic's 25th Anniversary livestream, where it infamously plagued said stream, and the numbers on the card even match the date of the stream. | |
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BioShock is littered with TVs that show nothing but a flickering test card reading "PLEASE STAND BY", emphasizing the theme of Rapture being essentially abandoned. | |
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Network parodies this and references the Christine Chubbuck tragedy after Howard Beale sarcastically announces that he's going to commit suicide on camera. At first the studio staff don't realize he's said it, mumbling gossip while the commercial is on; then panic, they open the studio mike to communicate with Howard, the immortal words "WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON" go out to 67 affiliates, he replies that he can't hear what they're saying, they come back from commercial and Howard is being pulled away from his desk by the floor crew — and just as the mayhem really starts the TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES PLEASE STAND BY card flips up. | |
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Seen on The Colbert Report many times, usually when Stephen is doing something that would get him arrested or at the very least result in a lot of viewer complaints. The show experienced "technical difficulties" during the week the show spent in Iraq when Colbert is tranquilised with a dart in his neck and secretly transported to an "undisclosed American military location in Iraq". The January 7, 2013 show saw him invoke the wrath of the Technical Difficulties screen + lawyer appearing three times. First, when commenting on Bill O'Reilly's over-generalization of Asians, he said that black people were fast because they came from Africa, then the screen cut to a technical difficulties image. |
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The Goodies. In "Invasion of the Moon Creatures", Graeme Garden loses contact with the moon rocket after it's hit by a meteor shower, whereupon his video screen shows: NORMAL SERVICE WILL BE RESUMED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. | |
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Pizza Tower: Falling out of bounds will bring up one of three "technical difficulties" screens depicting Pizzaface as a TV director taping Peppino's various misfortunes. One shows Peppino with a broken leg, one shows him lying on the ground in a pile of spaghetti, and one shows him grumbling over dropped ice cream. Similarly, falling out of bounds as Gustavo and Brick brings up a similar screen depicting the two bandaged and bruised. All four screens feature the text "TECHNICAL DIFFICULTY" in the top-left corner and "PLEASE STAND BY" in the bottom-right. | |
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The remake of the first Journeyman Project game, Pegasus Prime does this. When you're comparing video footage to find how the past was changed, one of them shows spokesperson Enrique Castillo being killed on-stage. The video then cuts to a futuristic TV test card, with the words "Please Stand By" over it. | |
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At the end of The Running Man, the TV screens all read PLEASE STAND BY after Ben Richards and his girlfriend walk off the game show's studio set. | |
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In stage 2 of Space Channel 5, a test pattern briefly pops up when Jaguar crashes Ulala's broadcast. It also happens in Part 2 when Ulala is apparently killed by Purge, and one of these replaces the loading screen. | |
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Played for laughs on Sports Night; in the episode "Thespis", the Show Within a Show has been plagued by difficulties all night, and the latest is when a power grid goes off upstate, which affects their transmission and forces them to put up the graphic detailing technical difficulties. | |
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30 Rock uses this graphic.◊ (And no, it's not used by NBC in real life.) | |
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When CBS broke into their regular programming note (at 1:40 PM Eastern time/12:40 Central time during As the World Turns and at 11:40 AM Mountain time/10:40 AM Pacific time during a repeat of The Real McCoys) to report on the shooting of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, they only had their "Bulletin" bumper slide up as their cameras were not warmed up yet. This "technical difficulty" was never specified on-air but did occur twice. CBS eventually went live with Walter Cronkite at the top of the hour after they broke for ten seconds to allow their affiliates to identify themselves and join the network. | |
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ＬＯＣＡＬ５８ is this trope in action, given that the installments are VHS recordings of a TV station made as a whole bunch of opaquely bad things are happening. One particular installment, “Weather Service,â€� shows an EAS alert being triggered over a moon-related event that is fought over by a second party intentionally trying to cancel the alert, then by a third party (or possibly the first party) clearly compromised and encouraging everyone to step outside and look at the moon. (And then there’s other “wrongâ€� things like a “show for childrenâ€� with a deeply sinister premise running at 4:00 am, a “contingencyâ€� film where an unknown US government department instructs everyone to commit suicide before hastily showing a “hoaxâ€� apology card at the end of the film, and the station supposedly transmitting dash cam footage of a driver getting lost by their GPS.) Given that it’s a series created by Kris Straub of pioneering internet Creepypasta Candle Cove, it makes perfect sense. | |
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In one episode of Death Note, the cult of Kira is being broadcast live worshipping him. Since they are presented as basically a scam, Mikami uses his death note to kill all of them. After their gruesome heart attacks, the screen changes to a "cutesy" "be-right-back" message. | |
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In the Ziwe episode "Democracy", when Plague Doctor Richard Nixon spins the "Mobilize the Vote" wheel and it lands on "Haters" (Makes Just as Much Sense in Context), Bob The Drag Queen cheerily quips "Oh, this is your people!" at Ziwe. She gives Bob a Death Glare as she spurns her for "coming on her show just to insult her" as though gearing up to beat her ass, followed by a cut to an all-pink SMPTE colorbars reading "Please standby we're experiencing technical difficulties." | |
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In the Dinosaurs episode, "Network Genius", Earl becomes a TV executive. When he creates programming that makes most of Pangaea's population stupid, the cameraman in the newsroom fails to focus on Howard Handupme's anchoring, bringing up a "PLEEZE STAND BIE" card. | |
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Early in Ape Escape 3, Specter's taunting message to the heroes is interrupted by Dr. Tomoki's overdramatic posturing. When Specter loses his patience, the screen briefly cuts to a "Technical Difficulties" card showing a sad monkey. | |
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When Buzz in Monster Brawl is forced to shoot his fully zombified (it was inevitable) co-host Sidney, the film displays a "please stand by" banner. When the program returns, Buzz is wearing a neckbrace and laments how his co-host had to be put down "like mongrel dog". | |
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The same image shows up at the end of his review of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, as he leaves to test a theory of whether replacing the filling of a Cadbury's Creme Egg with Branston Pickle would be a good idea (as an illustration of the concept that just because you can do something, doesn't mean that you should). Predictably, it wasn't. | |
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A staple of davemadson (yes, THAT davemadson)'s Funny Signs series, "technical difficulties" cards are usually put up in the aftermath of a tantrum, which sometimes plants at least one character in the ground. | |
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The Castle of Cagliostro: This happens to the broadcast of the Count's wedding, courtesy of some of his Elite Mooks, after Lupin starts disrupting things. Unlike most such examples, the broadcast is soon restored because the newscaster so happens to be Fujiko, who is quite capable of defeating them. | |
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I'm a Marvel... And I'm a DC: Subverted in the first confrontation between Jonah Hex and Iron Man, after Hex asked why they replaced Terrence Howard with Don Cheadle in Iron Man 2. But all you did was just stand there for a few seconds and then say, "That's why." Played straight with a Running Gag. Every time someone mentions Bryan Singer, an image of Deadpool tangled in wires appear for a second before cutting back to said characters being reprimanded by lawyers.note Singer was the target of sexual harassment charges around the time of this example being in play. |
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Occurs near the end of Joker (2019), complete with "Spanish Flea" playing, after Arthur, now taking up the persona of Joker, guns down talkshow host Murray Franklin on live television. Joker grabs the camera, mockingly imitates Murray's catchphrase "And always remember, that's li-" as he's cut off by the studio switching to the Indian head test and playing "Spanish Flea" (although on another screen, we see Joker was jumped by a security guard right after that). | |
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Tintin: In Tintin and the Picaros, San Theodoran television shows a Kangaroo Court sentencing Castafiore to life imprisonment, at which point she starts to sing an aria. It quickly cuts to a "PLEASE EXCUSE THIS INTERRUPTION" message, followed by a cartoon interlude. | |
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The Futurama episode "Bender Should Not Be Allowed On Television" had one after a child actor robot breaks down (literally) during an episode of All My Circuits. The technical difficulties card had a broken robot shrugging his shoulders and the words, "Oops! Broken Actor" and the show cuts to an episode of Everybody Loves Hypnotoad (which, Fry remarks, "...has been going downhill since season three"). Also used during the episode "The Problem With Popplers" when the Omicronians return to Earth, and the news station starts falling apart from the shaking. |
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Actually happened at ABC during the September 24, 1977 East Coast broadcast of Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics. In the middle of the Scooby-Doo cartoon, the film suddenly froze as it became jammed in the telecine. A black screen followed, then a bumper slide of the show appeared with the ABC announcer telling kids and their parents that they were experiencing technical problems and were working to resolve it. No footage of this is known to exist. | |
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James May's Man Lab: The cameraman gets so bored with the crew's argument over how to make tea that he simply puts his camera down and walks off. Cue an absolutely terrifying version of Test Card F, with Oz Clarke as the girl and James as the clown. | |
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A card depicting a panicking cameraman dousing another guy with a fire extinguisher (in trying to aim for a camera that's on fire) appeared a few times in Dilbert, including once where a Bob Ross-Expy named Rusty Shanks was assaulted by a hitman from the "five families of art" (leading to a Brick Joke where Dilbert is delivered Rusty's head on a platter at a restaurant). | |
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The hotel-room-esque Relaxation Chamber you start Portal 2 in has a TV in the corner; the first time you wake up it's off, and the second time it displays this message. It's pretty redundant with everything else going on. | |
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This happens during the Countertop intro of the VeggieTales video "The Ballad of Little Joe", when Bob and Larry are arguing on whether to tell a Bible story or a Western story, before ultimately deciding on a combination "Western-Bible story". There's also a Muzak version of "His Cheeseburger" playing (first heard in "Madame Blueberry"). | |
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Suikoden III: In the William Tell play, if the Son gets hit, the screen will fade to black, and Nadir will apologize for that technical difficulty. | |
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This has happened at least twice in the Into the Looking Glass series of novels by John Ringo. Once it was in connection with Deadline News, another time a reporter "failed a SAN check" and started to scream, "I'm reading this on my TelePrompTer, but it's not really happening!" | |
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A news report on a motel television in Mystery Case Files 9: Shadow Lake is interrupted by a screaming face followed by a technical difficulties sign. | |
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Several characters in The Morning Show are eventually silenced by a test pattern. | |
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Saturday Night Live has used this multiple times. One sketch involved a children's show called "Jingleheimer Junction", with characters personifying Friendship, Unity, Caring, and Kindness. And yes, they all had their initials written on them. Naturally, this trope was used repeatedly (telling viewers that they would be back in a "Jingleheimer Jiffy"). A season 28 sketch has host Bernie Mac playing a game show host, and he asks a contestant the question "Who is Winnie the Pooh's feline friend?". As the contestant is about to answer, the scene cuts to a "Please Stand By" screen, and then cuts to the host attacking the contestant, who is shouting "I meant to say Tigger, with a T!". On the season 35 episode hosted by Drew Barrymore (for the sixth time, making her the show's most frequent female celebrity host), there was a sketch featuring a cooking show on the roof of a building. The show cuts to a "Please Stand By" placard every time the show hosts (played by Drew Barrymore and Andy Samberg) are attacked by crows (which are attracted to the bread crumbs the two are using for chicken parmigiana). The TV Funhouse sketch "Conspiracy Theory Rock" immediately cut to a "Please Stand By" card (with the NBC peacock sweating nervously) as the song continued to accuse NBC of being GE's lackey. The song even pointed out that this trope is used as a cheap way to censor out anything sponsors or the network may deem inappropriate ("'Please stand by'/'Please stand by'/It means there's technical difficulties, supposedly/So if you see/A "Please Stand By"/You know it's all part of GE's big lie...") |
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Home Improvement's Show Within a Show Tool Time would sometimes cut to these when Tim injured himself somehow. Such as the time he nailed his foot to the floor, and one of these pops up. Then we hear the sound of his co-host pulling the nail out... | |
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The original Dawn of the Dead (1978) starts with two of the main characters leaving the TV studio where they work, as this type of message is put on. | |
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A 1987 broadcast of High Rollers on KXAS-TV in Dallas, Texas encountered a issue wherein master control accidentally let the M&E audio track go to air. | |
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Atlanta TV station WATL once aired the movie Crash. What makes this unusual is that the opening logos were actually glitching. | |
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PONIES The Anthology uses this to comic effect as a transition from one clip to the next, always involving Derpy Hooves in some way. | |
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Critical Role: Episode 72, campaign 2: After Liam O'Brien goes on an unhinged rant à la Network, the stream cuts to a card with Trinket note Vex'ahlia's pet bear from campaign 1, of which Liam's character Vax'ildan is a Cool Uncle to having unplugged the cable. Matthew Mercer and Marisha Ray decided to have a nice fire going during their Q&A session for The Explorer's Guide to Wildemount. They ended up setting off the fire alarm multiple times (once cutting Marisha off in the middle of a sentence), but refused to put it out until Travis Willingham put his foot down and called Marisha, presumably to exercise his CEO position and make them extinguish the fire. The YouTube version promptly cuts to a hand-drawn card of Matt and Marisha frantically trying to put out a blazing fireplace while their pet bird Dagon flies in a panic towards the screen, with cheerful classical music as background. |
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Blindsprings has a graphic that pops up when a page is delayed from the usual schedule based on the old Indian head test pattern but with Tammy, the main character, shrugging at the top. | |
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In SpongeBob SquarePants' "The Fry Cook Games", when the torch's flame is blown out by the wind, we get "PLEASE STAND BY" right before the runner brings back another, larger flame. The very same "PLEASE STAND BY" screen appeared during the Patchy segments from "SpongeBob B.C.", when Patchy has an accident as stagehands appear on the set. |
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In Transformers: Animated, Soundwave started a Robot War by turning machines against humanity. When the news guy's camera bot begins chasing him, turning the broadcast into a "Jaws" First-Person Perspective shot, and just as it catches up with him we get a "PLEASE STAND BY" screen instead of the probably un-TV-Y7 fate of the newscaster. | |
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Oddity Archive naturally has an episode devoted to the subject. | |
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Brows Held High has a moment where Kyle flips out during the Sweet Movie review over actual footage of war crimes: "Cannibal Holocaust didn't use real bodies —" The screen then cuts to a "missing video" screen for an editing program, with the test card drone playing over it. | |
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A series of LoadingReadyRun Crapshots feature a gardening show called Gardening With Greg with a highly-strung host who invariably does something that causes the show to cut to a technical difficulties card. The last episode reveals that most people actually watch the show specifically for these moments rather than for gardening advice. | |
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Shaun of the Dead features a sequence where a character flips through the channels and sees nothing but Technical Difficulty screens, even on the satellite channels which normally only stop working due to bad weather affecting the signal (such as the Discovery Channel). | |
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"Technical Difficulties" by Julien-K, a rather indistinct song done for Transformers. | |
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In the first season finale of The Hour, during the Show Within a Show, a graphic with this description goes up when a government official and higher-ups at the BBC think the show has gone too far. | |
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Monty Python's Flying Circus had this narration over the BBC world logo: | |
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One-Punch Man uses this after Saitama mistakenly pulls a Groin Attack on Speed of Sound Sonic. | |
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The Spoony Experiment: Combines this with Heroic BSoD when Spoony sees the VHS case for Highlander II: The Quickening call itself "the smartest sci-fi thriller since Blade Runner", though instead of a TV "Please Stand By" card, it invokes a Windows program-crash dialog box ("This application has performed an illegal operation and must close down"). It pops up again in his Ultima VIII review. Other variations include "Spoony needs CPR" after he passes out following a Motor Mouth description of the requirements of a single quest in Ultima VII "We'll be right back! Time for my medicine!" in Mazes and Monsters and an "Insanity Break" after his "transporter psychosis" flares up in the Star Trek: Borg review. |
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Used repeatedly in the intro piece "SCG03 Special Report" to the Lordi album The Arockalypse as reporters are clearly taken out by monsters while on air. | |
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Used in The Sandman (1989) when Dr. Destiny makes the world go crazy and a kids' show host encourages children to commit suicide. | |
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In one episode of South Park a news anchor does this manually— holding a card with an image of TV static and making Fake Static with his mouth— after the man-on-the-street interview they were doing resulted in a pedophile getting airtime. The anchor does it again after the pedo somehow gets interviewed again, muttering "goddammit" and making the static noises again. | |
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The original Godzilla (1954) has this when a radio newsreader is killed. Interestingly, we see the scene from his perspective. He keeps on reporting on the situation even as Godzilla is bringing down the tower he's standing on, fully realizing he's about to be killed, and announcing this fact to his listeners. | |
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Bruno the Bandit: Multiple strips: August 21, 1998 July 23, 2007 |
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Homestar Runner: In the Strong Bad Email "pizzaz", Strong Bad is interviewing himself, and at one point the interviewee gets mad and shouts "This interview is OVER!" Cut to a "HANG IN THERE" card featuring The Cheat standing next to an unplugged cable. The Thanksgiving cartoon "Fall Float Parade" cut to a similar card, with a turkey instead of The Cheat, when the Marshie balloon crashed into the hosts' booth (and, presumably, broadcast equipment). |
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Alabaster: The Doomed Session uses this trope both for laughs and horror. Usually you don't want to see more clearly what's behind the noise. | |
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Invoked in VVVVVV by several room names of the final level. Right after yet another teleporter accident brings the hero to a place that's definitely not right — with Alien Geometries and disquieting music. | |
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Hell House LLC: The official explanation for how fifteen people, including the entire crew, died. Throughout the film technical problems plague the Hell House team with disastrous results on opening night. In Hell House LLC II: The Abaddon Hotel, this remains the official explanation for the disaster in the Abaddon Hotel. Cameras also suffer serious distortions and anomalies whenever seriously supernatural stuff starts happening. |
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Likewise, its spiritual predecessor System Shock 2, set on the starship Von Braun, has a movie theater displaying the Tri-Optimum logo, and stuck in a looping countdown with the words "Please Stand By", never showing any movies. | |
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This happens in the Zero Punctuation review of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky when the video seemingly begins to stutter like a broken CD. Cut to a still image Yahtzee and an imp playing Tic-Tac-Toe (see Test Card F in the 'Real Life' section below) whilst smooth jazz plays. The same image shows up at the end of his review of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, as he leaves to test a theory of whether replacing the filling of a Cadbury's Creme Egg with Branston Pickle would be a good idea (as an illustration of the concept that just because you can do something, doesn't mean that you should). Predictably, it wasn't. |
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The original airing of the 20/20 special "My Mother's Sins" on March 23, 2019 cut to another episode about the Menendez brothers midway through the commercial break, causing outrage from viewers. | |
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In the Strong Bad Email "pizzaz", Strong Bad is interviewing himself, and at one point the interviewee gets mad and shouts "This interview is OVER!" Cut to a "HANG IN THERE" card featuring The Cheat standing next to an unplugged cable. | |
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In Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, a Gas station clerk flicks though multiple channels, each with a test card on. Further proof that Skynet is taking over. | |
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"Microsoft outages" (a more detailed explanation isn't available) prevented the virtual premiere of Zack Snyder's Justice League from happening on schedule on March 15, 2021. The people who were invited to it received such messages. | |
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The Critic has many pun-based technical difficulty signs used on Coming Attractions with Jay Sherman, such as "We'll be right bark!" with a picture of Jay as a dog. | |
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In the Babylon 5 episode "Severed Dreams", an ISN reporter interrupts the news broadcast to announce that several Earth colonies have seceded in protest of President Clark's bombing of Mars and that armed troops have invaded ISN headquarters. An explosion is heard, then the broadcast goes off the air and is replaced by a network logo (without an explicit "Technical Difficulties" message, but with the same implications). | |
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Gremlins 2: The New Batch: This ultimately happens on every single channel shown by Clamp Cable as the titular critters wreak havoc throughout the building. Bonus points because the technical difficulties title card bear the image of a grinning gremlin. Even better when Clamp authorizes the "Final Broadcast" where a peaceful female voice over images of nature scenes and wildlife says, "Due to the end of civilization as we know it the Clamp Cable Network is now ceasing transmission." This is a parody of an Urban Legend that CNN has a tape narrated by Ted Turner over nature scenery ready to roll to close out world history just in case of global annihilation. In 2001, the New York Daily News reported that CNN does have a tape prepared for an end-of-the-world scenario, but it consists of a recording of "Nearer, My God, to Thee" over footage of a waving American flag. No nature footage. |
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The TV Funhouse sketch "Conspiracy Theory Rock" immediately cut to a "Please Stand By" card (with the NBC peacock sweating nervously) as the song continued to accuse NBC of being GE's lackey. The song even pointed out that this trope is used as a cheap way to censor out anything sponsors or the network may deem inappropriate ("'Please stand by'/'Please stand by'/It means there's technical difficulties, supposedly/So if you see/A "Please Stand By"/You know it's all part of GE's big lie...") | |
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One short for Gravity Falls featured a commercial for a show called, "Lil' Gideon's Big House", which starred Lil' Gideon after he was sent to prison at the end of the first season. It ends with a still of a sparrow with the words 'TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES' 'PLEASE STAND BY' and Bud Gleeful saying, "Lil' Gideon's Big House will return as soon as we contain this riot." | |
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