History Main / ExtraExtraReadAllAboutIt

* Parodied in ''TeamFortress2'':

* {{The Day The Earth Stood Still}}, the original version used it.
---> "Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Spaceman still at large. Army put in charge !

Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Cliché [[StockPhrases stock phrase]] from the 1890s through the 1940s used to denote breaking news! Sometimes uses "extry" or "wuxtry" to denote a NewEngland accent! Often shouted by overzealous newsies and paperboys! A DeadHorseTrope nowadays owing to television and the internet! Related to SpinningPaper! Extra! Extra!

* TheWho's RockOpera ''Tommy'': "Extra! Extra! Read all about it: Pinball Wizard in a miracle cure! Extra! Extra! Read all about it, extra!" Yeah, that's the whole song.

* "Extra! Extra! [[{{Futurama}}Greatest opera of all time sucks!]]
** [[RunningGag "I'll take eight!"]]

* "Extra! Extra! [[Futurama Greatest opera of all time sucks!]]

* The Town Cryer in CorpseBride preceeds this tropes natural occurrence by about a century or two, and proceeds to play around with it...

* Extra! Extra! [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20030519.html Read all]] about it! [[SchlockMercenary Mercenary company]] blown to nano-smithereens!

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* ''Overnight Delivery'':

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-->Micky: [dressed as a newsboy] Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Rock and roll group gains fame and fortune by introducing harp into act!
* ''[[That70sShow That '70s Show]]'':

Steven Hyde: "Skinny Dillhole Talks Like An Idiot"?

** Also for the short ''Hired!'': "Extry, extry, Pearl Harbor bombed, Roosevelt declares war!"

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* [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2001/4/11/ This]] ''PennyArcade'', although they only had one "[[StealthPun extra]]". I guess they didn't have a [[IncrediblyLamePun spare]].

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* From the ScrewySquirrel cartoon ''Happy-Go-Nutty'', after Screwy has tricked Meathead the dog into walking off a cliff:

--> '''Zoidberg:''' I'll take eight!

* Tony Toponi becomes a paperboy in ''AnAmericanTail: The Mystery of the Night Monster'', though he really wants to be a reporter and when he becomes discouraged and his rant begins to show it. *in a flat monotone voice* "Hey, get your paper here, whoop-dee-do paper here..." When someone passes him by he yells "Fine! So stay ignorant!"

* Has been used in ''{{Histeria}}'' with Loud Kiddington as the paper boy in question.
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* The Examiner in San Francisco also utilizes callers.

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* There's an [[http://www.corbisimages.com/images/67/CD9FCCD6-0945-4D7D-A035-49138870C6E3/HU007415.jpg iconic picture]] ([[DeadLink please repair]]) of a paper boy doing this in the wake of the Titanic disaster.
-> '''[[IncrediblyLamePun TITANIC DISASTER]]'''
-> '''[[CaptainObvious GREAT LOSS OF LIFE]]'''
--> '''EVENING NEWS'''

* There's an [[http://www.corbisimages.com/images/67/CD9FCCD6-0945-4D7D-A035-49138870C6E3/HU007415.jpg iconic picture]] of a paper boy doing this in the wake of the Titanic disaster.

-> '''TITANIC DISASTER'''

* [[CareBears Adventues in Care-a-Lot]] attempted to use this phrase in one episode, but since the characters were announcing new stories on a website, it was changed to "Extra! Extra! ''[[WallBanger hear]]'' all about it!" Just doesn't have the same ring to it.

* ''SesameStreet'' did it as a RunningGag. "Extra! Extra! Four people fooled!" Then Ernie buys the newspaper, discovers there's no such article, and the newsboy shouts, "Extra, Extra! Five people fooled!"
** Which is also a clich?ag in children magazines' "funny corner". Or maybe it's just a case of SeinfeldIsUnfunny.

* Also seen in the {{Disgaea}} anime in episode 7, where a [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins Prinny]] runs around distributing newspaper that say that [[CuteBruiser Laharl]] [[spoiler: has a sister.]] He doesn't.

* Parodied (along with every other newspaper trope) in the {{Discworld}} novel ''The Truth''. William de Worde, editor of the Discworld's first mass-circulation newspaper, the Ankh-Morpork Times, hires some beggars to act as newsies. Since the beggars in question are [[CrazyHomelessPeople Foul Ole Ron]] and his friends, all of whom have a somewhat weak grip on reality, they manage to mangle the newsie stock phrases further, turning them into shouts of "Bungyarulup!" and "Squidaped-''oyt!''"

* In a the Spongebob Squarepants "Hall Moniter" episode