History Main / VisibleBoomMic

* ''Series/QuePasaUSA'': Befitting the [[invoked]]NoBudget show, it happens quite. An egregious example happens in the final third of the episode where Carmen and Sharon go on a double date.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'' In the fourth film there is a visible microphone on a pole when Cera and Alli sing in the song, "It Takes All Sorts."

* In the 6th episode of the Wiki/TVTropes webseries ''WebVideo/EchoChamber'', the boom operator, cameraman, and boom are visible in the window reflection. However, the cameraman, Zack, was already a major character on the show, and WordOfGod has hinted that the boom operator is his brother, Dave.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'':
** Whenever the ''Sinnoh Now!'' crew shows up, expect someone to be clobbered by the boom mic at one point.
** Also used for an old Creator/KidsWB promotional gag for the original series. They're trying to set up a shot of the crew standing together, with Charizard out of his Pokeball. They keep messing up because they keep accidentally hitting Charizard with the Boom Mic, who eventually gets mad enough to spew flames everywhere.

* In the horror movie ''Film/{{Nightwish}}'', there's a visible boom mic in about three different scenes.

* Happens on the ShowWithinAShow in ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}''. The director is angry about it, not because the audience could have seen it, but because the ''dog'' could have seen it, since it would have spoiled his EnforcedMethodActing. Strangely it's not visible within the movie itself the first time, but only when the director points this out in the editing room.

* Variant: a couple of episodes of Hanna-Barbera's 1976 series ''WesternAnimation/{{Jabberjaw}} had camera shots so low the registration ruler on the camera stand could be seen. They have since been reformatted to eliminate this.

* Variant: a couple of episodes of Hanna-Barbera's 1976
series ''WesternAnimation/{{Jabberjaw}} had camera shots so low the registration ruler on the camera stand could be seen. They have since been reformatted to eliminate this.

** Also deliberately used when Tina Fey hosted the first show back from the writers' strike. Since the strike didn't do anything for the crew except put them out of work for a few weeks, the boom mike operator kept "accidentally" dropping the mike into frame, sometime hitting her.

-->-- '''The Cinema Snob''' (on ''Film/{{Dolemite}}''), ''WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob''

* In ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'', Johnny Cage's character direction takes a more [[DenserAndWaciker absurdist]] and [[BreakingTheFourthWall fourth-wall breaking]] turn, and as such, he can bump into a boom mic after winning a round and a camera crew is seen during on of his [[FinishingMove Fatalities]]. To top it all off, he also has a Brutality where he grabs the mic, beats the opponent up with it and shoves it through their mouth, [[BlackComedy performing a mic check on it]].

Boom mic sightings were not uncommon in OpenMatte VHS and Laserdisc transfers of films intended for projection at 1.85:1, as more of the image was being shown than originally intended. This, too, has all but disappeared with the advent of widescreen HDTV.

* Parodied in ''Film/TheKentuckyFriedMovie'', where the boom mic descends so low into the frame that it actually starts bumping into the actors. In another scene, one the actors pulls it down into view and speaks directly into it.

* The SoBadItsGood Steven Seagal DTV flick, ''FIlm/OutForAKill'' have an obvious boom mic during the scene when Seagal fights his hairdresser (ItMakesSenseInContext). The hairdresser attempts a jump-kick on the Sensei, the camera follows him upwards and briefly shows a boom mic on top of the frame.

* In ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'', Johnny Cage's character direction takes a more [[DenserAndWacker absurdist]] and [[BreakingTheFourthWall fourth-wall breaking]] turn, and as such, he can bump into a boom mic after winning a round and a camera crew is seen during on of his [[FinishingMove Fatalities]]. To top it all off, he also has a Brutality where he grabs the mic, beats the opponent up with it and shoves it through their mouth, [[BlackComedy performing a mic check on it]].

** In "Lisa the Iconoclast", this happens briefly during the hagiographic short film shown in class about Jeremiah Springfield.

Boom mic sightings were not uncommon in open-matte VHS and Laserdisc transfers of films intended for projection at 1.85:1, as more of the image was being shown than originally intended. This, too, has all but disappeared with the advent of widescreen HDTV.

* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''

* [[BreakingTheFourthWall Happens]] in ''Series/CornerGas'' when Brent and Wanda are [[DiscussedTrope discussing]] the comparative qualities between [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall production values and substance]].
** To clarify: The boom mic drops down and hits Wanda in the head, she then grabs it and throws it back off screen.
* Deliberately invoked in ''Series/TrailerParkBoys'' (since the series is supposed to be a documentary, the documentary crew sometimes is visible or even have lines). In one episode, Ricky grabs the boom mic, pulls it into view and shouts into it.

** To clarify: The boom mic drops down and hits Wanda in the head, she then grabs it and throws it back off screen.

* On ''Series/DarkShadows'' the boom mic was virtually a member of cast.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode parodying ''Series/TheXFiles'', [[KentBrockmanNews Kent Brockman]] mentions that the boom mic operator is going to be fired the next day and then gets hit in the head with the mic.

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* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants''