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* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': Sedusa stages a reality TV show in Townsville (DC issue #44, "Drama-o-Rama") knowing that people will be so busy hamming for TV cameras that she can rob the city blind. A bank of TV screens in a store window has Sedusa on the screens giving the citizens the go-ahead. Another page has a wall of monitors on Sedusa's wall showing the citizens' misbehavior for the sake of being on TV.
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* ''Film/TheUnjust'': The Seoul serial killer story is shown to be huge news by, among other things, all the [=TVs=] on display in a store playing a news report about it.
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* ''Series/{{Castle}}'': "Always Buy Retail". When Castle and Beckett are looking for clues about a murder suspect on Canal Street, Castle notices a display like this across from the bodega where their victim worked. It gives us the signature scene where Castle briefly admires his face on the screen from the camera mounted in the window, saying "I really am ruggedly handsome, aren't I?" before pointing out to Beckett that their killer would have been caught on the same camera.

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* ''Series/{{Castle}}'': ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'': "Always Buy Retail". When Castle and Beckett are looking for clues about a murder suspect on Canal Street, Castle notices a display like this across from the bodega where their victim worked. It gives us the signature scene where Castle briefly admires his face on the screen from the camera mounted in the window, saying "I really am ruggedly handsome, aren't I?" before pointing out to Beckett that their killer would have been caught on the same camera.
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Becoming a DiscreditedTrope as nowadays, electronic stores have the [=TVs=] locked up or in the back to prevent theft. Plus, the trope is normally used as a way to provide movies or news on the go, which is now easy to accomplish with smartphones, so this trope mostly pops up in works that were written before the [[TheNewTens early-to-mid 2010s]].

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Becoming a DiscreditedTrope as nowadays, electronic stores have the [=TVs=] locked up or in the back to prevent theft. Plus, the trope is normally used as a way to provide movies or news on the go, which is now easy to accomplish with smartphones, so this trope mostly pops up in works that were written or set before the [[TheNewTens early-to-mid 2010s]].
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* ''Film/AcrossTheUniverse'' is set in the 1960s and features a [[https://youtu.be/pcD5UbKZCRo?t=84 scene]] with Jude watching a national TV broadcast about the Vietnam war at a storefront of a TV repair shop. Later he sees the announcement that Martin Luther King was assassinated the same way.

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* ''Film/AcrossTheUniverse'' ''Film/AcrossTheUniverse2007'' is set in the 1960s and features a [[https://youtu.be/pcD5UbKZCRo?t=84 scene]] with Jude watching a national TV broadcast about the Vietnam war at a storefront of a TV repair shop. Later he sees the announcement that Martin Luther King was assassinated the same way.
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* ''Film/AcrossTheUniverse'' is set in the 1960s and features a [[https://youtu.be/pcD5UbKZCRo?t=84 scene]] with the protagonist watching a national TV broadcast about the Vietnam war at a storefront of a TV repair shop.

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* ''Film/AcrossTheUniverse'' is set in the 1960s and features a [[https://youtu.be/pcD5UbKZCRo?t=84 scene]] with the protagonist Jude watching a national TV broadcast about the Vietnam war at a storefront of a TV repair shop.shop. Later he sees the announcement that Martin Luther King was assassinated the same way.
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* ''Film/{{Threads]]'': Just before the nuclear attack, there's a shot of the window display in an electronics store with all the televisions showing one of the ''WesternAnimation/ProtectAndSurvive'' films.

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* ''Film/{{Threads]]'': ''Film/{{Threads}}'': Just before the nuclear attack, there's a shot of the window display in an electronics store with all the televisions showing one of the ''WesternAnimation/ProtectAndSurvive'' films.
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* ''Film/{{Threads]]'': Just before the nuclear attack, there's a shot of the window display in an electronics store with all the televisions showing one of the ''WesternAnimation/ProtectAndSurvive'' films.
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* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': In the opening sequence of "Right Next Door," the first Victim of the Week stops in front of an appliance store to freshen her lipstick via her reflection in the window. As she does so, an Amber Alert for a missing little girl is playing at volume on one of the tv sets. The woman continues on her way and is killed off-screen. The little girl's case becomes entangled in a more elaborate one later in the episode.

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* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': In the opening sequence of "Right Next Door," the first Victim of the Week stops in front of an appliance store to freshen her lipstick via her reflection in the window. As she does so, an Amber Alert for a missing little girl is playing at volume on one of the tv sets. The woman continues on her way and is killed off-screen. The little girl's case becomes entangled in a more elaborate one later in episode ends with Stella walking past the episode.same store while the report of a missing boy being reunited with his mother plays.
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* ''Film/ThePoliceman'': Avraham is walking his beat when he stops in front of a storefront television display, and watches cops in riot gear attacking a mob. Avraham shows obvious admiration for the kind of ass-kicking police work that he himself, being a kind and gentle soul, isn't capable of.
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*''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy'': This is how Viktor finds out about his father's death.
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* ''Film/NeverLookAway'': Kurt and Ellie, who have just defected from East Germany to the west in 1961, goggle as they watch a West German lottery drawing on the televisions in a storefront window. It's an example of the availability of Western consumer goods, but Kurt later draws a connection between lottery numbers and how random elements gain meaning in art.
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* ''Advertising/ISawYourWilly'': When running home from school after finding out everyone saw his willy, Alex stops in front of a storefront showing numerous television screens, only for a newscaster to appear on every one of the screens and announce, "Newsflash! The world sees Alex's willy!"

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