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* On Creator/KidsWB's final airing of ''WesternAnimation/SkunkFu'', part of Pig's subtitled dialouge when he attempts to speak in monkey language [[http://platypuscomix.com/kidswbyourself/skunkfu7.jpg was obscured by the Kids' WB logo]].

* TNT had small pop ups that weren't very intrusive, but when it changed formats, it got bad. Spike TV had a bad habit of doing animated pop ups for their cartoons like '''WesternAnimation/GaryTheRat'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Stripperella}}'', often just before or after commercial breaks. They'd take up perhaps a third of the screen.

* As of late-2018, Creator/{{ESPN}}'s ticker now has a permanent slot for cycling advertisements in the bottom-right of the screen, typically showing promos for other ESPN programs (and, on ABC broadcasts, ABC programs). Several networks have already imitated this, including New England's NESN (which ripped off the design of the entire ticker wholesale), and NBC. MLB Network used to have a tall tab _above_ the ticker in the bottom-right to promote their next game broadcast, but has since streamlined it into the ticker itself.

* During the Creator/{{Freeform}} premiere of ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'', an ad for a showing of ''Film/HomeAlone'' that came on after the film [[https://youtu.be/r3AmULpvNwc appeared on screen]] just as [[spoiler: Bing Bong faded away]].

** During the 2018 edition of their ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' marathon, pop-up trivia facts appeared during random points in the movies. One of them, which was a TakeThat at ''Series/{{Shadowhunters}}'', [[https://deadline.com/2018/12/freeform-shadowhunters-toy-story-popnknowledge-pixar-disney-abc-twitter-saveshadowhunters-1202521157 outraged fans of the show]] since it appeared during a scene where the Magic 8 Ball tells Woody "DON'T COUNT ON IT".

* Creator/DisneyXD has ads for ''WesternAnimation/MarvelsSpiderMan'' that have Spider-Man hanging upside-down from the top-right corner of the screen and swinging down. This once showed up in a rerun of the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode "[[Recap/GravityFallsS1E11LittleDipper Little Dipper]]" during the scene where Gideon has the Pines twins shrunk, making it look like Gideon shrunk Spider-Man.

* Numerous times during Cartoon Network airings of ''{{Anime/YuGiOhGX}}'', a promo would appear on the lower part of the screen, sometimes obscuring the Life Points total.

* On Creator/KidsWB's final airing of ''WesternAnimation/SkunkFu'', part of Pig's subtitled dialouge when he attempts to speak in monkey language [[http://platypuscomix.com/kidswbyourself/thelastday.html was obscured by the Kids' WB logo]].

* During the Creator/CartoonNetwork premiere of ''[[Series/SesameStreet Sesame Street: Elmo's Playdate]]'', [[https://twitter.com/milktcouch/status/1250977018969313282?s=20 Big Bird's face was obscured by the Cartoon Network bug]].

* {{Creator/Nickelodeon}} seems to want everyone to see the Series/HenryDanger spin-off, Danger Force, not only was there a square advertising the show in the bottom left corner, but sometimes a banner will appear and cover the bottom of the screen, sometimes a transparent advertisement will appear on the screen, episodes sometimes even end prematurely to advertise some of the show.

* The ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'' Diamond Edition and ''Disney/AliceInWonderland'' 60th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray Discs advertise new bonus features during the end credits.

* A rare Literature example is the German publisher Heyne, which included a soup advert in the middle of the text of Creator/TerryPratchett's ''Discworld/{{Pyramids}}'' (see [[http://web.archive.org/web/20120127063335/http://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2011/09/02/terry-pratchett-and-the-maggi-soup-adverts/ here]] for details).

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' occasionally has a big screen bug (taking up almost half of the screen) on some shows with Huey, Duey, Louie, and Webby climbing up on the Disney XD logo, and they jump on Launchpad's ship coming from the left side of the screen.

* {{Creator/Nickelodeon}} seems to want everyone to see the Series/HenryDanger spin-off, Danger Force, not only was there a square advertising the show in the bottom left corner, but sometimes a banner will appear and cover the bottom of the screen, sometimes a transparent advertisement will appear on the screen, episodes sometimes even end prematurely to advertise some of the show.

*** The most infamous example of the use of a telop happened during the original airing of the ''VideoGame/{{Aikatsu}}'' episode "Queen of the Roses". During the performance scene in the episode, a TXN News telop about Kazuhiro Kiyohara being sentenced to 44 days in prison was superimposed over a scene in which [[spoiler: Sumire fails her special appeal]]. [[http://jin115.com/archives/52123496.html This angered many fans of Aikatsu!, as well as some parents who watched the show with their kids]], as well as [[https://twitter.com/Ryuichi_Kimura/status/710406129625346049 the show's director]].
** TV Asahi used to have large text announcing such news, but it all ended when [[https://i.imgur.com/8xNnWXO.jpg one such incident]] [[MoodWhiplash drew a lot of complaints]]. Subsequent airings of their children's programming [[https://twitter.com/love_prelive/status/632700221068148736 shrunk the news banners]] [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CRjmy8rUYAINOxw.jpg so they weren't intrusive]].

* Nick-At-Nite puts gigantic rectangular advertisements for whatever's coming up next that block the bottom third of the screen.

* Some children's preschool programming blocks like Nick Jr. and Playhouse Disney kept a solid logo in the corner of the screen, obscuring what was under them. On one broadcast of an episode of ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'', a scene where Dora counted five objects for the viewer had the fifth one completely obscured by the network logo in the corner. Eventually, networks switched to either a transparent logo, a smaller logo or no logo at all.
** When Playhouse Disney was about to premiere ''[[WesternAnimation/JojosCircus [=JoJo=]'s Circus]]'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_iOWqsRwBM they showed a bumper that not only took up part of the screen]], but also had an animation of a floating balloon accompany it.
* Nickelodeon suffers from a very bad case of this. In addition to taking the annoying practice of shrinking the main picture and filling the resulting space with promos, they have done the following:
** To plug ''WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutronBoyGenius'', Nickelodeon had these with Jimmy coming up and doing a short as one of these bugs. They diverted the attention from the show to Jimmy doing experiments anywhere on the screen at any time. He did stuff like modifying the original bug at first, but it grew more clever. During an episode of ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', Jimmy came in, hit a button, and for several seconds the episode turned into [[http://nickelodeonhistory.tumblr.com/post/163505682607 a puppet show version of itself]].
** There were also bugs where they replaced large segments of the show with a bunch of random clips from all of their other shows. However, unlike the puppets, it replaced an actual part of the episode, and often times, the punchline of the show's best joke.
** Nick actually did a whole marathon where the ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' would randomly run through parts of the show, too. The bugs actually ran by as part of a contest: Name what show, episode, and scene the baby ran by in, send it to Nick, and you'd be in the runnings for a treehouse.
** This happened during the UK Nicktoons airings of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''. The bug that was the most noticeable was a pole-vaulting brain-thing which happily runs across the entire screen, usually during a climactic scene, but their habit to smush the credits to start showing trailers goes wrong during the longer-running season finales.
** When ''WesternAnimation/TakAndThePowerOfJuju'' and ''WesternAnimation/BackAtTheBarnyard'' were originally premiering, Nick would promote the show by either having a giant splat of milk suddenly appear on-screen, or having Tak appear and summon a giant yellow tornado, thus scaring the crap out of viewers watching the network. They later did ''much'' subtler promotions for shows, such as having a character from ''The Thundermans'' freezing the Nick channel bug, then moments later have it thaw.
** Like the Engvall example for TBS, Nickelodeon tried the same in 2013 with their infamous ''Nick Studio 10'' block, where ''Spongebob'' repeats were interrupted with random "comedic" videos for the first couple weeks and a mocking voice stating that "Nick Did It!". Even though it only affected repeats seen hundreds of times before, viewers weren't happy to see a network messing with programming they paid for, and Nick quickly did away with the intrusions (and eventually the block).
** They also did the same to promote other shows like ''WesternAnimation/SanjayAndCraig'' by having a promo cut in immediately after a show's intro is finished.
** An ad for the Nickelodeon phone app sometimes would (translucently) cover the entire screen during some shows.
** Beginning in June of 2019, Nickelodeon would have a distracting graphic cover the last few seconds of the show to promote other programs. For example, during the premiere of ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' episode "Roll Model", an animated wrecking ball smashed through the screen and cut into a promo for ''Series/AllThat''.
** Over Christmas Eve 2019, Nickelodeon and its sister channels were airing a popup that crunches the show you're watching to half of the screen inside a snowglobe, which lasts the whole show. Like the ''Nick Studio 10'' popups, viewers complained over social media and it ended after the 1PM hour.
** On January 2, 2020, a ''[=SpongeBob=]'' marathon was run to promote four new episodes that had trivia panels transparenly covering half of the screen during the rerun portion of the marathon.

* In the first airing of the ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' episode [[Recap/TheLegendOfKorraS1E6AndTheWinnerIs "And the Winner Is..."]], a bug of WesternAnimation/{{SpongeBob|SquarePants}} laughing shows up just as Korra is shown falling, making it look like he was laughing at her misery. It's even become a [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/inappropriate-timing-spongebob-banner meme]] where [=SpongeBob=] laughs at other sad moments in movies and TV shows.

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* A non-advertising example happens sometimes on Japanese networks whenever a major earthquake [[note]] It is rare for this to happen during minor ones.[[/note]] is about to occur. First, a large pop-up showing a map of where the earthquake will happen is shown on screen along with text mentioning the affected areas, accompanied by the sound of chimes and a narrator saying "This is an early earthquake warning. Prepare for powerful tremors", which repeats twice. Sometimes, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_l7x_Tes9s two of those graphics will pop up at once and cover the entire screen.]] It can be a major distraction for anyone watching whatever program is currently on. [[note]]This is because since the country uses the ISDB digital TV system, which allows sudden calamity warnings to occur as a safety feature for those near calamity-prone areas.[[/note]]

* A variation happens on video sharing websites such as Website/YouTube where the pop-ups are usually for larger companies. Case in point: During a stream of an ''[[VideoGame/{{Amagami}} Amagami]]'' video, an ad for UsefulNotes/McDonalds coffee showed up, resulting in [[http://i.imgur.com/VDLFv.jpg a hilarious juxtaposition]]. [[{{Squick}} It basically looked like the character was peeing out of her bathing suit]].

* Someone on late-night Creator/{{Teletoon}} must be an epic troll, because they've done these commercial pop-ups during ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' over things that require the bottom of the screen, such as Toshi's subtitles or the "Bill Publishermann" gag.
* During the 'world premiere' of the ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' [[TheMovie film]] on Adult Swim, the movie was displayed without sound in a tiny box in the corner of the screen, and episodes of ''Family Guy'' and ''Futurama'' aired while the movie ran (in its entirety) in the corner. During this, humongous pop-up ads for the movie with loud sound effects also appeared from time to time. But...this 'world premiere' was on Main/AprilFoolsDay several days before the theatrical release, so it wasn't meant to be the 'serious' television debut by any means.

** Also parodied in ''[[TheMovie The Simpsons Movie]]'', where, during a scene where Homer and Bart are daring each other, a pop-up ad for ''Are You Smarter Than A Celebrity'' appears, stating "Yes, we even have these in movies now." (Actually, it's a newsbar, but still...)
** Marge went further at the start of the 2007 Treehouse of Horror: with so many ads, she gets angry ("Can't people just watch the show they're watching?") and gets rid of the promos in various ways, such as vacuuming football players with a minivac, sticking House in a microwave and putting the rest in a meatloaf. Wherein they wriggle.

-->'''Brian:''' Dammit, Fox, that's not an excuse to ruin our moment to expand your media empire!

** This also happens in the United States, too. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrqvLUaF-vI Here's an example]] from a Creator/{{qubo}} airing of ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' that involves a weekly required [[EmergencyBroadcast Emergency Alert System]] test. There's also variants where maps tracking the path of a severe thunderstorm, hurricane, tornado or snowstorm are superimposed over the program, like [[http://www.neighborhoodarchive.com/images/dtn/episodes/104a_daniel_gets_mad/snapshot20120905191321.jpg this image]] from the premiere airing of the ''WesternAnimation/DanielTigersNeighborhood'' episode "Daniel Gets Mad" on a PBS affiliate in Illinois.

** This also happens in the United States, too. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrqvLUaF-vI Here's an example]] from a Creator/{{qubo}} airing of ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' that involves a weekly required [[EmergencyBroadcast Emergency Alert System]] test.

* Children's networks have taken up the more annoying practice of shrinking the main picture and filling the resulting space with promos.
** To plug ''WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutronBoyGenius'', Nickelodeon had these with Jimmy coming up and doing a short as one of these bugs. They diverted the attention from the show to Jimmy doing experiments anywhere on the screen at any time. He did stuff like modifying the original bug at first, but it grew more clever. During an episode of ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', the kid came in, hit a button, and for several seconds the episode turned into [[http://nickelodeonhistory.tumblr.com/post/163505682607 a puppet show version of itself]]. There were also bugs where they replaced large segments of the show with a bunch of random clips from all of their other shows. However, unlike the puppets, it replaced an actual part of the episode, and often times, the punchline of the show's best joke.

** During the UK Nicktoons airing of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''. The bug most noticeable is a pole-vaulting brain-thing which happily runs across the entire screen, usually during a climactic scene, but their habit to smush the credits to start showing trailers goes wrong during the longer-running season finales.

** Over Christmas Eve 2019, Nickelodeon and its sister channels were airing a popup that crunches the show you're watching to half of the screen inside a snowglobe, which lasts the whole show. Like the ''Nick Studio 10'' popups, viewers complained over social media.

* As of late-2018, Creator/{{ESPN}}'s ticker now has a permanent slot for cycling advertisements in the bottom-right of the screen, typically showing promos for other ESPN programs (and, on ABC broadcasts, ABC programs). Several networks have already imitated this, including New England's NESN (which ripped off the design of the entire ticker) and NBC.