History Main / DelusionsOfLocalGrandeur

* Kent Brockman on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' is a merciless parody of this.
* Tom Tucker on ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' is incredibly pompous with an over-inflated ego from his job as the anchor on the local nightly news.

* "WesternAnimation/DanVs Traffic": Dan butts heads with an obnoxious traffic reporter, Helicopter Hal, who takes offense at being called just a minor celebrity.

* In "WesternAnimation/DanVs Traffic", Dan butts heads with an obnoxious traffic reporter, Helicopter Hal.
-->'''Elise:''' Dan, land the helicopter and let the minor celebrity go.
-->'''Hal:''' ''[[ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne Minor]]'' celebrity?!
-->'''Dan:''' You really didn't know, did you?
* In ''WesternAnimation/MonstersVsAliens'', when federal agents are attempting to tranquilize Ginormica, they manhandle local weatherman Derek Dietl, who snarls, "Don't you know who I am?"
* Morbo on ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' counts as this. He certainly makes a big deal over the superiority of his alien race.

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* The usual real-life example on a national scale are all the shows on Sunday mornings on American networks which consist of journalists trying to all demonstrate how smart and knowledgeable they are. Unfortunately many have lasted decades, possibly because it being Sunday morning it's not as if there's a lot of competition in the timeslots.

** This is not limited to "hard news"; ESPN's long running "The Sports Reporters" is the ur-example of sports' answer to those news shows.

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Subtrope of SmallNameBigEgo.

* Arguably, Morbo on ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' counts as this. He certainly makes a big deal over the superiority of his alien race.

* Arguably, the alien news anchor on ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' counts as this. He certainly makes a big deal over the superiority of his alien race.

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In the best case, this may result only in increased [[WittyBanter chatter between newsreaders]] during [[NewsBroadcast the News]]. However, this can also lead to newsreaders gaining local talk shows, movie critique shows, or opinion segments. These last as long as it takes the station to discover how bad an idea that was. At its greatest extreme, this can lead to forays into local politics, [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment which are beyond the scope of this Wiki]].

In the best case, this may result only in increased [[WittyBanter chatter between newsreaders]] during [[NewsBroadcast the News]]. However, this can also lead to newsreaders gaining local talk shows, movie critique shows, or opinion segments. These last as long as it takes the station to discover how bad an idea that was. At its greatest extreme, this can lead to forays into local politics, [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement which are beyond the scope of this Wiki]].

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* Film/AnchormanTheLegendOfRonBurgundy: The title character is supposed to be a big deal; people know him.
* Film/GroundhogDay: An arrogant and smarmy weatherman for a local TV news station in Pittsburgh, [[TheGrinch Phil Connors]] before he [[CharacterDevelopment matures.]]

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* On British TV, when Creator/{{ITV}} was regionalised, the local stations' news anchors genuinely ''were'' big local stars. This was not so marked in the BBC regions: these were staffed by ambitious newbies trying to get noticed and break into the big time in London, usually paired with cynical elders who had worked out that the BBC only recruited its national stars in the South-East, and the further away you were from London, the more you could forget it. But ITV's local stars, like Bob Greaves in Manchester and Richard Whiteley in Leeds, were big names.[[note]]Greaves remained unknown outside the Granada region; whitely was obscure outside Yorkshire until the advent of a quirky word-game show called ''Series/{{Countdown}}''.[[/note]] Their day is now over since ITV de-regionalised.

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* Kent Brockman on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' is a merciless parody of this.

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-->'''Rita::''' ...there are no little stories, Phil. Only [[SmallNameBigEgo little reporters with big egos]] who think they're too good for the job they have to do.

* On British TV, when ITV was regionalised, the local stations' news anchors genuinely ''were'' big local stars. This was not so marked in the BBC regions: these were staffed by ambitious newbies trying to get noticed and break into the big time in London, usually paired with cynical elders who had worked out that the BBC only recruited its national stars in the South-East, and the further away you were from London, the more you could forget it. But ITV's local stars, like Bob Greaves in Manchester and Richard Whiteley in Leeds, were big names.[[note]]Greaves remained unknown outside the Granada region; whitely was obscure outside Yorkshire until the advent of a quirky word-game show called ''Series/{{Countdown}}''.[[/note]] Their day is now over since ITV de-regionalised.

* Perd Hapley of ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'', who managed to get a judge show.

* On British TV, when ITV was regionalised, the local stations' news anchors genuinely ''were'' big local stars. This was not so marked in the BBC regions: these were staffed by ambitious newbies trying to get noticed and break into the big time in London, usually paired with cynical elders who had worked out that the BBC only recruited its national stars in the South-East, and the further away you were from London, the more you could forget it. But ITV's local stars, like Bob Greaves in Manchester and Richard Whiteley in Leeds, were big names. Their day is now over since ITV de-regionalised.

* Film/GroundhogDay: Phil Connors, an arrogant and smarmy weatherman for a local TV news station in Pittsburgh...
-->'''Phil (opening lines):''' Somebody asked me today, "Phil, if you could be anywhere in the world, where would you like to be?" And I said to him, "Prob'ly right here - Elko, Nevada, our nation's high at 79 today." Out in California, they're gonna have some warm weather tomorrow, gang wars, and some *very* overpriced real estate. Up in the Pacific Northwest, as you can see, they're gonna have some very, very tall trees.

-->'''Phil:'''Great. That's great. That's the mark of a really good producer. Making the talent happy.

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* Tom Tucker on ''FamilyGuy'' is incredibly pompous with an over-inflated ego from his job as the anchor on the local nightly news.

In the best case, this may result only in increased [[WittyBanter chatter between newsreaders]] during [[NewsBroadcast the News]]. However, this can also lead to newsreaders gaining local talk shows, movie critique shows, or opinion segments. These last as long as it takes the station to discover how bad an idea that was.

Kent Brockman on ''TheSimpsons'' is a quite merciless parody of this. Tom Tucker on ''FamilyGuy'' takes it UpToEleven. (Also, [[{{Anchorman}} Ron Burgundy]] is supposed to be a big deal; people know him.)

At its greatest extreme, this can lead to forays into local politics, which are beyond the scope of this Wiki.

Kent Brockman on ''TheSimpsons'' is a quite merciless parody of this. (Also, [[{{Anchorman}} Ron Burgundy]] is supposed to be a big deal; people know him.)