History Main / EarpieceConversation

* Captain Jack Harness wore a huge glowing not-Bluetooth earpiece all the time in Series One of ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'', which is kind of strange considering everyone else at Torchwood Three had the standard invisible earpieces. They got rid of the thing for Series Two, because, to quote RussellTDavies, "it ruined Barrowman's excellent jawline."

* In the movie ''{{Roxanne}}'' (basically a remake of ''Cyrano De Bergerac''), Charlie (Steve Martin) talks to Roxanne (Daryl Hannah) through the [[TheDitz ditzy]] Chris, who is wearing a goofy hat to hide the earpiece. They're using a Fire Department radio, so it ends up like this:

* ''{{Sneakers}}'' has a goofy example of this. When Martin gets surprised by the mistress of the man whose office he's breaking into, his [[SpiesInAVan backup team]] starts feeding him plausible excuses to use on her for his being there. And then some less plausible stuff...

* ''{{Primer}}'' has a plot-central instance of this, where Aaron is being instructed on what to say [[spoiler:by recordings made by himself in alternate timelines, in an attempt to keep divergence between the iterations to a minimum. It doesn't work]].
* A variant occurs twice in ''{{Dave}}'', with the title character mistaking his handlers' stage directions for the next line he should say. "Go, go go." "And Go! Go! Go!"

* There's an episode of ''RadioActive'' wherein Kevin is being coached through an oral exam by a hidden microphone with Morgan on the other end.

* In ''{{SpongeBob SquarePants}}'' Patrick coaches [=SpongeBob=] through his boating test by a walkie-talkie hidden under a cowboy hat. Mrs. Puff compliments [=SpongeBob=] on his improvement, joking that it's as if someone were telling him all the answers. But when she mentions that that would be cheating, [=SpongeBob=] freaks out and confesses... and crashes the boat, failing the test once again.
* In the {{Lilo And Stitch The Series}} episode "Spike", Lilo discovers that the reason for her rival Myrtle always getting the answers correct at a quiz show was because one of the members of her posse had been giving her the answers through an earpiece that she had been wearing the whole time, which is cheating. Fortunately, Lilo sends Experiment 613 aka "Spike" to lower that girl's IQ, causing Myrtle to lose the second round to Lilo.

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* There is one Priceline commercial featuring William Shatner advising a husband speaking to his wife on travel deals. Taken literally by the husband, who starts speaking like Shatner.
* A Canadian credit union has an ad where a young girl applies for their unlimited savings account featuring unlimited withdrawals, deposits, transfers, inquiries, and sugar cubes in the bank's coffee. The teller asks if she's using this trope when she begins grilling him, and her dad says "Tell him 'no'" through her earpiece.

* ''{{MASH}}'': The episode "The Moose" had Hawkeye playing poker against a soldier who had a Korean woman in subservience. Hawkeye had an earpiece into which Radar would relay what hand the soldier had so Hawkeye could play and wager accordingly.
* Captain Jack Harness wore a huge glowing not-Bluetooth earpiece all the time in Series One of ''{{Torchwood}}'', which is kind of strange considering everyone else at Torchwood Three had the standard invisible earpieces. They got rid of the thing for Series Two, because, to quote RussellTDavies, "it ruined Barrowman's excellent jawline."

See also MissionControl, VoiceWithAnInternetConnection.

* Another PlayingCyrano example from ''WillAndGrace'', where Jack was hitting on a man while working in a retail store where he wore an earpiece. Will feeds him lines so he can look smart. The guy isn't taken in, finds Will, and asks ''him'' out.
* ''TheDGeneration'' did a sketch of them attempting to feed answers to jane Kennedy during her appearance on the celebrity edition of ''Series/SaleOfTheCentury''.

* In ''{{Coupling}}'', Jeff is being talked through a possibly-a-date with a co-worker, which ends up in a MultitaskedConversation.

* ''TheDGeneration'' did a sketch of them attempting to feed answers to jane Kennedy during her appearance on the celebrity edition of ''SaleOfTheCentury''.

* Since the ''{{Leverage}}'' gang literally wear earpieces all the time, this happens periodically. For example, Sophie is pretending to work for an African consortium that wants to buy a bunch of airplanes from the mark of the week:

* In ''SchoolRumble'' Itoko does this to help Harima talk to Tenma while in the hospital.

* In ''{{Battlestar Galactica}}'', Gaius Baltar is often being instructed in this manner by [[spoiler: Virtual six]].

* There is one Priceline commercial featuring William Shatner advising a husband speaking to his wife on travel deals. Taken literally by the husband, who starts speaking like Shatner.

* ''{{6Teen}}'': Catelyn did this once.

Sometimes a variant occurs where the reciever's connection goes bad, and what would otherwise be the perfect thing to say gets misheard as something else.

** See "The Snow Job" for one of many incidents of this leading to hilarity:

[[CloudCuckoolander '''Parker''']]: [[CompletelyMissingThePoint Pittsburgh, Detroit, Atlanta.]]\\

-->'''Sophie''': Sophie: I represent a group of investors who are looking to start an airline for short tour flights in Africa.\\

* In ''{{SpongeBob SquarePants}}'' Patrick coaches [=SpongeBob=] through his boating test by a walkie-talkie hidden under a cowboy hat. Mrs. Puff compliments [=SpongeBob=] on his improvement, joking that it's as if someone were telling him all the answers. But when she mentions that that would be cheating, [=SpongeBob=] freaks out and confesses... and crashes the boat, failing the test once again.

Often overlaps with TheCyrano. If the prompter manages to talk to his buddy on the airwaves AND the people around him at the same time, it's a MultitaskedConversation.

* Another TheCyrano example from ''WillAndGrace'', where Jack was hitting on a man while working in a retail store where he wore an earpiece. Will feeds him lines so he can look smart. The guy isn't taken in, finds Will, and asks ''him'' out.

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--> '''Charlie:''' (coaching Chris) "Reach out your hand."
--> '''Chris:''' "My hand, out reaching to - car three, car three! Proceed to the 279."
--> '''Roxanne:''' "What?"

* On one episode of ''Muppets Tonight'' with guest star Cindy Crawford, mumbling security guard Bobo the Bear develops a crush on her. They hook him up an earpiece so that Rizzo the Rat can feed him the lines, but Rizzo's nephews (coming home from somewhere with balloons) walk in, leading Bobo to hear and repeat: "Hey that's a nice set of balloons, mind if I play with them?"