History Main / EarpieceConversation

* A side quest in ''VideoGame/ShadowrunReturns: Hong Kong'' involves you guiding your team's very socially inept decker past a series of obstacles by feeding her lines across a really bad commlink connection that frequently blacks out. HilarityEnsues.

* On one episode of ''Series/MuppetsTonight'' 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?"

* Several instances in ''Series/PersonOfInterest'', given that [[VoiceWithAnInternetConnection Harold Finch]] usually communicates with John Reese via a hidden earpiece. In "Prisoners Dilemma", Reese has been arrested, and is being interrogated by [[FriendOnTheForce Detective Carter]], who is wearing an earpiece so [[InspectorJarvet FBI agent Donnelly]] can feed her questions he wants answered. Finch secretly hacks into the earpiece so he can also feed Carter information as well as hear Reese's answers and provide a fake background on the internet.

* In ''DrakeAndJosh'', this is done by having Josh feed information to Drake through an earpiece in a Quiz Bowl-esque contest to impress a smart girl.

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

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

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

* ''WesternAnimation/6Teen'': Catelyn did this once.

Compare MimingTheCues. See also MissionControl, VoiceWithAnInternetConnection.

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

* Parodied on the Community episode ''[[Recap/CommunityS6E11ModernEspionage]]'' in which the various characters use obvious bluetooth headsets while talking. [[StageWhisper They also encounter the obvious problem of being overheard.]]

* A variant in ''Film/CasinoRoyale'' has two British Secret Service agents communicating over earpieces while on a mission. Bond has to remind the younger agent not to put his finger in his ear while using the earpiece, a nervous tic which of course gives the younger agent away and spooks the guy they're tailing.

* Two LooneyTunes cartoons used a candlestick phone receiver in a scheme of manipulation, both by Friz Freleng. "Stooge For A Mouse" had the mouse turning the bulldog against Sylvester when up to then the two had been friends. "Bugsy And Muggsy" had Bugs making Rocky paranoid that Muggsy was out to off him.

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

* ''Series/{{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.

* On one episode of ''MuppetsTonight'' 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?"

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

-->'''TheMark''': Where are you from?\\

* In the ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'' 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.

* Team radios in ''FutureGPXCyberFormula'' tend to lead to dramatic conversations, where drivers either develop HeroicSecondWind or eventually crash out from sheer depression.

* Team radios in ''FutureGPXCyberFormula'' tend to lead to dramatic conversations, where drivers either develop HeroicSecondWind or eventually [[VillainiousBreakdown crash out]] from sheer depression.

* Team Radio in ''FutureGPXCyberFormula'' tend to lead to dramatic conversations, where drivers either develop HeroicSecondWind or eventually [[VillainiousBreakdown crash out]] from sheer depression.

This will inevitably lead to a situation where the prompter is distracted by something and says or does something not meant to be heard and repeated, but the person on the other end faithfully mimics it anyway. The IdiotBall is promptly passed to the person wearing the earpiece as they do as they were instructed, never considering even for a second that screaming out "OH GOD! NOT THE FACE!" might not be the best thing to do while you're trying to impress your dream date in a crowded restaurant.

* On ''TheSimpsons'' there was a gag where Kent Brockman was being fed lines this way even when he was socialising.
* In the ''PinkyAndTheBrain'' episode "The Pink Candidate," Brain coaches Pinky through his presidential campaign speeches this way. While Pinky is holding a press conference, the wireless earpiece fails and starts picking up other random transmissions (a bank intercom, a drive-thru, a sports announcer), but by coincidence the answers still please everybody.