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Ah, the old boob tube. The cornerstone of the living room. That magical box with a window into entertainment. And it's only natural that the entertainment seen on TV would have some tropes about television and its broadcasts from an in-universe perspective. So just sit on the couch, find that remote, and tune into some literal TV Tropes.
See also TheseTropesAreAvailableOnVideoAndDVD and FictionalMedia. Not to be confused with [[Wiki/TVTropes the website you're currently on]].
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!!Tropes about the television and associated equipment
* AntennaAdjusting: The TV is on the fritz, better adjust the antenna. Wait, the show's back on! Stay in that awkward position while I get popcorn.
* ApplianceDefenestration: Throwing a gadget out the window. While not exclusive to televisions, they are a common victim.
* CaughtOnTheJumbotron: A spectator at a sporting event is caught doing something embarrassing or incriminating, and everyone saw it on the arena's personal broadcast on a gigantic screen.
* TheCouch: It's rather likely there's a TV between the couch and the fourth wall.
* CrystalClearPicture: The picture on the TV screen is much too pristine to be from a real TV.
* DeadTVRemoteGag: Horror of horrors! The TV remote has run out of batteries, so the only way to control the TV is with the manual controls, if there are any!
* Franks2000InchTV: I've heard of big screen [=TVs=], but this is ridiculous!
* LostTheTVRemote: Okay, the remote now has batteries, but it's missing! Better turn the room upside-down to find it.
* OminousMultipleScreens: Multiple televisions used for horror. Often symbolic of an oppressive regime.
* OminousTelevision: A television used for horror. Just one. Often supernatural in nature.
* PercussiveMaintenance: Pounding on a malfunctioning electronic device, commonly a TV, to fix it.
* RasterVision: Analog scan lines. Can be simulated to make something look like it's on an older TV.
* ScreensAreCameras: Your television is watching you.
* ScreenTap: A form of fourth wall-breaking where a character taps your TV screen. And possibly breaks it, but don't worry about it.
* ShootTheTelevision: In a pinch, a gun can act as a substitute TV remote, for when you want to turn the TV permanently off.
* SnowyScreenOfDeath: Television static as a sign that something has gone horribly wrong.
* TechnologyMarchesOn: [=TVs=] have changed a lot through the years, from bulky greyscale [=CRTs=] with six channels, to 4K OLED flatscreens with thousands of channels and a dozen streaming services.
* TelevisionPortal: This is not a 3D movie, something really is coming out of a TV.
* TVHeadRobot: Neato! This robot has a TV for a noggin! Hey, does it get the wrestling channel?
* TwoGamersOnACouch: It's practically certain there's a TV between the couch and the fourth wall. A TV hooked up to a game console.
* VideoPhone: The retro-futuristic precursor to the likes of Skype and Zoom. It's a phone, a TV, and a broadcasting camera, all in one!
!!Tropes about the broadcast and TV shows in general
* AliensStealCable: Aliens learning about Earth culture through television signals projected into deepest space.
* AlwaysALiveTransmission: Fictional broadcasts are always live, even if their real counterparts never are.
* AnalogHorror: A genre of horror consisting of FoundFootage from VHS tapes and strange TV channels.
* AppointmentTelevision: A broadcast is so important, a character incorporates it into their schedule. Often a new episode. Hey, it's a good way to avoid spoilers.
* BooksVSScreens: Either you like watching TV, or you like reading books. You can't like both, because the other one sucks. This trope is typically done with a pro-book bias.
* CoincidentalBroadcast: Something is on TV that is relevant to a character's situation, often a news report.
* ComplainingAboutPeopleNotLikingTheShow: "This show doesn't suck! You suck!"
* ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch: "That show sucks so much, I've never seen an episode!"
* DoNotAdjustYourSet: The villain has hijacked every available TV channel in order to give the hero a message.
* EmergencyBroadcast: The broadcast has become [[HellIsThatNoise a horrible alarm]] and a horrifying warning of immediate danger. [[OhCrap Pray that it's only a test.]]
* EmergencyPresidentialAddress: The worst is about to happen, so a political leader takes to the airwaves to give their people some words of hope and/or caution.
* LaserGuidedBroadcast: Something is on TV that is extremely relevant to a character's very specific needs. Much more specific than a CoincidentalBroadcast.
* LearntEnglishFromWatchingTelevision: Learning how to understand and speak the English language through watching English-language TV shows or music.
* LookMaIAmOnTV: Whoa, I'm on TV! I better say hello to my mother while I'm still on camera.
* MissingTheGoodStuff: Something is on TV that the character wants to see, but, due to inconvenient circumstances, can't.
* NewMediaAreEvil: The book is good. The box is evil. And the web? Super-duper evil (This applies with older examples).
* NicheNetwork: A TV channel with a very specific subject.
* OneJokeFakeShow: An in-universe TV show with a premise built around a single joke. You'd think it'd get old fast, but...
* OldMediaAreEvil: The web is good. The box is evil. And books can't be trusted either (This applies with newer examples).
* RefugeeFromTVLand: Characters from an in-universe fictional work escape into "reality".
* ShowWithinAShow: Fictional movies and TV shows, as seen on real TV!
* TaughtByTelevision: A character has learned a certain skill from watching it on TV.
* TheTelevisionTalksBack: The TV broadcast is actively reacting to the characters, to the point of having a conversation. Might be a hallucination.
* TrappedInTVLand: Oh noes! The main characters are stuck in an in-universe fictional world, in this case, the world of TV shows! And if someone is channel flicking, they're being brought along to the next channel!
* TVNeverLies: Someone believes everything they see on TV. Or any media at all.
* WeAreExperiencingTechnicalDifficulties: Something's gone wrong for the broadcaster. Please stand by until it's fixed.
* WereLiveRealization: Someone said something they shouldn't on live TV, because they weren't aware the cameras were rolling already or weren't off yet.
* TheWholeWorldIsWatching: Everyone is watching this broadcast. Everyone.
* YourTelevisionHatesYou: Someone's in a bad mood and figures watching TV will lighten it up, only for the broadcast to seemingly actively make it worse.
* YouWatchTooMuchX: A response to someone who thinks they know what'll happen next because they saw something similar on TV, or in a movie, or even in a non-screen-based medium like a book, but that last one is not really important right now.
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Keep in mind, this index is for the in-universe portrayals of TV shows. See the floatbox to the right for indexes that cover some of these genres more broadly, and include tropes that are done more in reality than in fiction. Also, for brevity's sake, tropes for in-universe commercials won't be covered here, because that would require copying half of the advertising tropes index.
* AddictiveForeignSoapOpera: A character is a huge fan of a soap opera that is from a foreign culture. Might not have subtitles.
* AlphabetNewsNetwork: News shows are typically referred to by their acronym. Most likely ends with "NN", short for "News Network", copying CNN.
* BoringBroadcaster: A show or channel that the common man would consider boring. Often lampooning the likes of PBS.
* CandidCameraPrank: Surprise! You're on a prank show!
* ChekhovsNews: A news report that seemed irrelevant to the plot early on turned out to be rather important later.
* ConfusedBystanderInterview: A news report gets some man-on-the-street interviews with witnesses of the plot, who don't have all the details right.
* {{Crawl}}: A row of headlines near the bottom of the screen of a news show. Has great potential for silliness.
* DaytimeDramaQueen: A character is a huge fan of a soap opera, despite not being the genre's typical demographic.
* DeadlineNews: The news reporter is in danger, live!
* DelusionsOfLocalGrandeur: A newscaster has developed an overinflated ego due to how many people watch their show and know their name.
* DepravedKidsShowHost: The host of a TV show for kids is a rather unpleasant person, especially towards kids when the cameras aren't rolling.
* EndangeringNewsBroadcast: Information obtained from a news report is used to put someone in danger.
* ExcitedKidsShowHost: The host of a TV show for kids is a rather excitable person, if not bouncing-off-the-walls zany.
* ExplainingTheSoap: A character tells another about the plot of a SoapWithinAShow.
* FilmAtEleven: A stock phrase alluding to a news story to be covered later that night.
* GameShowAppearance: A character appears on a game show, and it just might be a real one and not just a parody!
* GameShowGoofballs: A character appears on a game show, but is too stupid or eccentric to have any hope of winning.
* HumanInterestStory: A heartwarming news story about the human endeavor. Sometimes treated as the least seriously-taken form of news reporting.
* IgnoredVitalNewsReports: Something important is on TV that is relevant to a character's immediate future, but they're not paying attention.
* ImmoralRealityShow: A reality show that forces its contestants to do painful or humiliating things, with the potential of being deadly.
* JeopardyIntelligenceTest: A trivia game show is used as proof of a character's knowledge or lack thereof.
* KentBrockmanNews: In-universe news show that acts as a parody of real news shows out-of-universe, and can act as exposition in-universe.
* KidsShowMascotParody: A mascot for a show for very young children. Overly sweet, friendly, simple, cloying, and a big annoyance for nearly everyone outside the target demographic. Almost universally a parody of [[Series/BarneyAndFriends Barney the Dinosaur]].
* LenoDevice: Portrayals of late-night talk shows to talk about a story event, with the actual hosts playing themselves or a parody of themselves.
* TheMeanBrit: A character who is British and mean. If he's the harsh critic on a talent show-like form of Reality TV, he's most likely a parody of Simon Cowell.
* NewscasterCameo: Fictional newscasters played by real ones, or real newscasters delivering a fictional world's news.
* NewsMonopoly: Every single TV channel is talking about the same news story.
* PracticalVoiceOver: A news report, or possibly even a documentary, provides exposition on something the in-universe audience likely already knows, but the out-of-universe audience doesn't.
* SadisticGameShow: A game show that also forces its contestants to do painful or humiliating things, with the potential of being deadly.
* SmarmyHost: A game show host or sports commentator that is a complete and utter jackass.
* SoapWithinAShow: Fictional soap operas, also as seen on real TV!
* StrawmanNewsMedia: A news show with an obvious political bias.
* StatusQuoGameShow: The prize money earned from a TV show would shake up the status quo, so the character will inevitably lose or get a non-monetary prize.
* TalkShowAppearance: A character appears on a talk show.
* ThisJustIn: A news report interrupts itself due to an important new news story.
* TrumanShowPlot: A character's life has unknowingly become one big reality TV show, and it might've been that way since birth.
* WeatherReport: A news report segment reporting meteorologists' predictions for the weather. It will turn out wrong.
* WeInterruptThisProgram: Something ''was'' on TV, but has been interrupted for some reason, often by a news report that is relevant to a character's situation.
* YetAnotherBabyPanda: A cute, warm, fuzzy news report featuring animals, often used as filler and to be set up for or interrupted by something more serious and plot-relevant.
[[caption-width-right:350:Three knobs? No cable box? And that tiny picture! This television is practically from the stone age!]]
Ah, the old boob tube. The cornerstone of the living room. That magical box with a window into entertainment. And it's only natural that the entertainment seen on TV would have some tropes about television and its broadcasts from an in-universe perspective. So just sit on the couch, find that remote, and tune into some literal TV Tropes.
See also TheseTropesAreAvailableOnVideoAndDVD and FictionalMedia. Not to be confused with [[Wiki/TVTropes the website you're currently on]].
%%No out-of-universe-only tropes, please. This is exclusively for the in-universe stuff, though tropes that are both in-and-out-of-universe are acceptable.
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!!Tropes about the television and associated equipment
* AntennaAdjusting: The TV is on the fritz, better adjust the antenna. Wait, the show's back on! Stay in that awkward position while I get popcorn.
* ApplianceDefenestration: Throwing a gadget out the window. While not exclusive to televisions, they are a common victim.
* CaughtOnTheJumbotron: A spectator at a sporting event is caught doing something embarrassing or incriminating, and everyone saw it on the arena's personal broadcast on a gigantic screen.
* TheCouch: It's rather likely there's a TV between the couch and the fourth wall.
* CrystalClearPicture: The picture on the TV screen is much too pristine to be from a real TV.
* DeadTVRemoteGag: Horror of horrors! The TV remote has run out of batteries, so the only way to control the TV is with the manual controls, if there are any!
* Franks2000InchTV: I've heard of big screen [=TVs=], but this is ridiculous!
* LostTheTVRemote: Okay, the remote now has batteries, but it's missing! Better turn the room upside-down to find it.
* OminousMultipleScreens: Multiple televisions used for horror. Often symbolic of an oppressive regime.
* OminousTelevision: A television used for horror. Just one. Often supernatural in nature.
* PercussiveMaintenance: Pounding on a malfunctioning electronic device, commonly a TV, to fix it.
* RasterVision: Analog scan lines. Can be simulated to make something look like it's on an older TV.
* ScreensAreCameras: Your television is watching you.
* ScreenTap: A form of fourth wall-breaking where a character taps your TV screen. And possibly breaks it, but don't worry about it.
* ShootTheTelevision: In a pinch, a gun can act as a substitute TV remote, for when you want to turn the TV permanently off.
* SnowyScreenOfDeath: Television static as a sign that something has gone horribly wrong.
* TechnologyMarchesOn: [=TVs=] have changed a lot through the years, from bulky greyscale [=CRTs=] with six channels, to 4K OLED flatscreens with thousands of channels and a dozen streaming services.
* TelevisionPortal: This is not a 3D movie, something really is coming out of a TV.
* TVHeadRobot: Neato! This robot has a TV for a noggin! Hey, does it get the wrestling channel?
* TwoGamersOnACouch: It's practically certain there's a TV between the couch and the fourth wall. A TV hooked up to a game console.
* VideoPhone: The retro-futuristic precursor to the likes of Skype and Zoom. It's a phone, a TV, and a broadcasting camera, all in one!
!!Tropes about the broadcast and TV shows in general
* AliensStealCable: Aliens learning about Earth culture through television signals projected into deepest space.
* AlwaysALiveTransmission: Fictional broadcasts are always live, even if their real counterparts never are.
* AnalogHorror: A genre of horror consisting of FoundFootage from VHS tapes and strange TV channels.
* AppointmentTelevision: A broadcast is so important, a character incorporates it into their schedule. Often a new episode. Hey, it's a good way to avoid spoilers.
* BooksVSScreens: Either you like watching TV, or you like reading books. You can't like both, because the other one sucks. This trope is typically done with a pro-book bias.
* CoincidentalBroadcast: Something is on TV that is relevant to a character's situation, often a news report.
* ComplainingAboutPeopleNotLikingTheShow: "This show doesn't suck! You suck!"
* ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch: "That show sucks so much, I've never seen an episode!"
* DoNotAdjustYourSet: The villain has hijacked every available TV channel in order to give the hero a message.
* EmergencyBroadcast: The broadcast has become [[HellIsThatNoise a horrible alarm]] and a horrifying warning of immediate danger. [[OhCrap Pray that it's only a test.]]
* EmergencyPresidentialAddress: The worst is about to happen, so a political leader takes to the airwaves to give their people some words of hope and/or caution.
* LaserGuidedBroadcast: Something is on TV that is extremely relevant to a character's very specific needs. Much more specific than a CoincidentalBroadcast.
* LearntEnglishFromWatchingTelevision: Learning how to understand and speak the English language through watching English-language TV shows or music.
* LookMaIAmOnTV: Whoa, I'm on TV! I better say hello to my mother while I'm still on camera.
* MissingTheGoodStuff: Something is on TV that the character wants to see, but, due to inconvenient circumstances, can't.
* NewMediaAreEvil: The book is good. The box is evil. And the web? Super-duper evil (This applies with older examples).
* NicheNetwork: A TV channel with a very specific subject.
* OneJokeFakeShow: An in-universe TV show with a premise built around a single joke. You'd think it'd get old fast, but...
* OldMediaAreEvil: The web is good. The box is evil. And books can't be trusted either (This applies with newer examples).
* RefugeeFromTVLand: Characters from an in-universe fictional work escape into "reality".
* ShowWithinAShow: Fictional movies and TV shows, as seen on real TV!
* TaughtByTelevision: A character has learned a certain skill from watching it on TV.
* TheTelevisionTalksBack: The TV broadcast is actively reacting to the characters, to the point of having a conversation. Might be a hallucination.
* TrappedInTVLand: Oh noes! The main characters are stuck in an in-universe fictional world, in this case, the world of TV shows! And if someone is channel flicking, they're being brought along to the next channel!
* TVNeverLies: Someone believes everything they see on TV. Or any media at all.
* WeAreExperiencingTechnicalDifficulties: Something's gone wrong for the broadcaster. Please stand by until it's fixed.
* WereLiveRealization: Someone said something they shouldn't on live TV, because they weren't aware the cameras were rolling already or weren't off yet.
* TheWholeWorldIsWatching: Everyone is watching this broadcast. Everyone.
* YourTelevisionHatesYou: Someone's in a bad mood and figures watching TV will lighten it up, only for the broadcast to seemingly actively make it worse.
* YouWatchTooMuchX: A response to someone who thinks they know what'll happen next because they saw something similar on TV, or in a movie, or even in a non-screen-based medium like a book, but that last one is not really important right now.
!!Tropes about a specific show or specific genre of TV show
[floatboxright:
We'll be right back
after these indexes.
+ AdvertisingTropes
+ GameShowTropes
+ LiveActionTVTropes
+ NewsTropes
+ RealityTVTropes
]
Keep in mind, this index is for the in-universe portrayals of TV shows. See the floatbox to the right for indexes that cover some of these genres more broadly, and include tropes that are done more in reality than in fiction. Also, for brevity's sake, tropes for in-universe commercials won't be covered here, because that would require copying half of the advertising tropes index.
* AddictiveForeignSoapOpera: A character is a huge fan of a soap opera that is from a foreign culture. Might not have subtitles.
* AlphabetNewsNetwork: News shows are typically referred to by their acronym. Most likely ends with "NN", short for "News Network", copying CNN.
* BoringBroadcaster: A show or channel that the common man would consider boring. Often lampooning the likes of PBS.
* CandidCameraPrank: Surprise! You're on a prank show!
* ChekhovsNews: A news report that seemed irrelevant to the plot early on turned out to be rather important later.
* ConfusedBystanderInterview: A news report gets some man-on-the-street interviews with witnesses of the plot, who don't have all the details right.
* {{Crawl}}: A row of headlines near the bottom of the screen of a news show. Has great potential for silliness.
* DaytimeDramaQueen: A character is a huge fan of a soap opera, despite not being the genre's typical demographic.
* DeadlineNews: The news reporter is in danger, live!
* DelusionsOfLocalGrandeur: A newscaster has developed an overinflated ego due to how many people watch their show and know their name.
* DepravedKidsShowHost: The host of a TV show for kids is a rather unpleasant person, especially towards kids when the cameras aren't rolling.
* EndangeringNewsBroadcast: Information obtained from a news report is used to put someone in danger.
* ExcitedKidsShowHost: The host of a TV show for kids is a rather excitable person, if not bouncing-off-the-walls zany.
* ExplainingTheSoap: A character tells another about the plot of a SoapWithinAShow.
* FilmAtEleven: A stock phrase alluding to a news story to be covered later that night.
* GameShowAppearance: A character appears on a game show, and it just might be a real one and not just a parody!
* GameShowGoofballs: A character appears on a game show, but is too stupid or eccentric to have any hope of winning.
* HumanInterestStory: A heartwarming news story about the human endeavor. Sometimes treated as the least seriously-taken form of news reporting.
* IgnoredVitalNewsReports: Something important is on TV that is relevant to a character's immediate future, but they're not paying attention.
* ImmoralRealityShow: A reality show that forces its contestants to do painful or humiliating things, with the potential of being deadly.
* JeopardyIntelligenceTest: A trivia game show is used as proof of a character's knowledge or lack thereof.
* KentBrockmanNews: In-universe news show that acts as a parody of real news shows out-of-universe, and can act as exposition in-universe.
* KidsShowMascotParody: A mascot for a show for very young children. Overly sweet, friendly, simple, cloying, and a big annoyance for nearly everyone outside the target demographic. Almost universally a parody of [[Series/BarneyAndFriends Barney the Dinosaur]].
* LenoDevice: Portrayals of late-night talk shows to talk about a story event, with the actual hosts playing themselves or a parody of themselves.
* TheMeanBrit: A character who is British and mean. If he's the harsh critic on a talent show-like form of Reality TV, he's most likely a parody of Simon Cowell.
* NewscasterCameo: Fictional newscasters played by real ones, or real newscasters delivering a fictional world's news.
* NewsMonopoly: Every single TV channel is talking about the same news story.
* PracticalVoiceOver: A news report, or possibly even a documentary, provides exposition on something the in-universe audience likely already knows, but the out-of-universe audience doesn't.
* SadisticGameShow: A game show that also forces its contestants to do painful or humiliating things, with the potential of being deadly.
* SmarmyHost: A game show host or sports commentator that is a complete and utter jackass.
* SoapWithinAShow: Fictional soap operas, also as seen on real TV!
* StrawmanNewsMedia: A news show with an obvious political bias.
* StatusQuoGameShow: The prize money earned from a TV show would shake up the status quo, so the character will inevitably lose or get a non-monetary prize.
* TalkShowAppearance: A character appears on a talk show.
* ThisJustIn: A news report interrupts itself due to an important new news story.
* TrumanShowPlot: A character's life has unknowingly become one big reality TV show, and it might've been that way since birth.
* WeatherReport: A news report segment reporting meteorologists' predictions for the weather. It will turn out wrong.
* WeInterruptThisProgram: Something ''was'' on TV, but has been interrupted for some reason, often by a news report that is relevant to a character's situation.
* YetAnotherBabyPanda: A cute, warm, fuzzy news report featuring animals, often used as filler and to be set up for or interrupted by something more serious and plot-relevant.
