History Main / TheTelevisionTalksBack

* In the ''{{Series/X-Men}}'' episode, "Mojovision," Scott and Jean are at the mall trying to buy a new TV. Mojo then appears in one of the TVs, warning them not to change the channel. When the store manager attempts to do so:

** In one example after Jon Stewart learned that Anthony Wiener talked about having sex while watching his show, he wondered if his audience were having sex right then and there. He then asks someone off stage to "hit the button that lets me see them" and is disgusted at what he sees.

** In one example after Jon Stewart learned that Anthony Wiener talked about having sex while watching his show, he wondered if his show was just used as foreplay. He then asks someone off stage to "flip the switch that lets me see them" and is disgusted at what he sees.

* The DoctorWho episode "The Wire" has an evil...spirit-thing that steals faces and screams at people.

* One of Penn and Teller's magic shows included a setup for this. They told how to force a card on the mark.

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* There was this one ad from around the 1990s where a computer-animated TV was talking about how people watch him all day or something like that, and that they should go outside and play. The TV was also annoyed at the end because a cat was sleeping on him. It also got annoyed because someone was flipping through the channels on the TV and it showed a news channel, a nature show and even ''{{Reboot}}''. ([[ActorAllusion The ad was made by Mainframe Entertainment.]])

* Pretty much the basis of the low-budget horror film ''The Video Dead'', as it involves a cursed television set that unleashes zombies into the real world. One of the heroes also encounters a succubus-like enemy who tries to tempt him into the television set, followed by a monster hunter who defeats her and then warns the boy through the screen about the zombies who've already escaped from it.

* The most famous non-comic example is the Telescreens from ''NineteenEightyFour'', which serve as giant video phones. In every home, you must obey the Telescreen, and they can see if you're obeying.

* In the ''DoctorWho'' episode ''Blink'', a woman has a conversation with a ''video recording'' of the Doctor made 38 years earlier. Don't ask me to explain how or I'll start to whimper.
** Put simply, this is the event that named the TimeyWimeyBall trope. 'Nuff said.
** There's also "The Wire" in the episode "The Idiot's Lantern".

* There's also the interactions of the girl on the TV in ''LifeOnMars''.

* ''MaxHeadroom'' does this regularly -- unsurprisingly, given that [[{{Distopia}} televisions contain cameras in that 'verse]].

* In ''Better Off Dead'', after Lane comes home from a rather horrible day at school, during which his math teacher asked for his permission to date his ex-girlfriend Beth, he walks past the TV, which is showing an episode of ''The Flintstones''. Cue the camera focusing on the TV and Barney Rubble asking, "Hey, Lane, I was wondering whether you'd mind if ''I'' took out Beth."

* Used in the BMovie ''Attack of the 50ft Woman'' as a sign of the title character's insanity. A newsreader begins taunting her about her husband's infidelity.
* Used in both ''HomeAlone'' movies. After watching an old black and white gangster film in an earlier scene, Kevin (Macaulay Culkin) uses the knowledge of the film's dialog to his advantage to scare away people who come to his door and can hear the audio:
** From ''Home Alone 2'':
--->"Gangster Johnny on TV": You was here, last night too, wasn't ya?
--->"Mr. Hector, Hotel Concierge": Yes... sir, I was
--->"Gangster Johnny on TV": You was here, and you was smoochin' wit my brother!
--->"Mr. Hector, Hotel Concierge": [after a pause] I'm terribly sorry, sir, I'm afraid you're mistaken.
--->"Gangster Johnny on TV": Don't gimme that! You've been smoochin' wit everybody! Snuffy. Al. Leo. Little Moe, with the gimpy leg. Cheeks. Boney Bob. Cliff.

* This is how Nicholas van Orton learns that his [[Film/TheGame game]] has started: a doll in his room hides a camera, while a news broadcast--that was partially pre-recorded--gives him the facts.