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\n* One episode of ''{{Arthur}}'' had a character with a bed-wetting problem invited to Muffy's sleep over and with no way to politely decline. She's too embarrassed to put on her pull up, so she stays awake most of the night worrying. She turns on the television, only to be presented with images of running water and talk of sealing leaks.

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* In ''OverTheHedge'', R.J. discovers that he is being included as a member of the family (who don't know that he is exploiting them to pay back a hungry bear). When he turns on the TV they've given him, a SoapOpera is playing in which a woman says "We let you into our lives and you deceived us!" An instance where this trope is both PlayedForLaughs and used for CharacterDevelopment.

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* In ''OverTheHedge'', ''Film/OverTheHedge'', R.J. discovers that he is being included as a member of the family (who don't know that he is exploiting them to pay back a hungry bear). When he turns on the TV they've given him, a SoapOpera is playing in which a woman says "We let you into our lives and you deceived us!" An instance where this trope is both PlayedForLaughs and used for CharacterDevelopment.
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* Ditto "Songs About Rain."
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Nope, the montage of face slapping all happens to Phil. There aren\'t any telly scenes around that point.


* After a few successive failures at courting Rita, getting slapped in the face each time, [[Film/GroundhogDay Phil Connors]] turns on his TV and is treated to a montage of people getting slapped in the face.
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* ''TrueBlood'' has a moment where Jason -- who's just been violently dumped by his current girlfriend, in part because he's jealous of the vampire she let bite her -- starts gloomily channel-surfing and finding that every station is talking about vampires, including a nature documentary about vampire bats.
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\n** Turns into a case of [[YourTelevisionHatesYou Your Movie Theatre Hates You]] in the episode "Heat". Trying to find relief in the cool movie theatre during a heat wave, the only movies playing are ''The Day the Sun Exploded'', ''Invasion of the People Melters'' and ''Hotter Than the Sun''.

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* Your Radio Hates You occurs in Music/{{Basehead}}'s song "Not Over You", where one of Michael Ivey's friends is trying to cheer him up after he breaks up with his girlfriend, by putting on the radio, which is playing nothing but love and breakup songs.
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* Practically parodied in {{Hoodwinked}} Too. The poor Wolf just keeps flipping channels, and the TV just gets more ridiculously pointed.
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* In ''OverTheHedge'', Bruce Willis' character discovers that he is being included as a member of the family (who don't know that he is exploiting them to pay back a hungry bear). When he turns on the TV they've given him, a soap opera is playing in which a woman says "We let you into our lives and you deceived us!" An instance where this trope is used for both humor and CharacterDevelopment.

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* In ''OverTheHedge'', Bruce Willis' character R.J. discovers that he is being included as a member of the family (who don't know that he is exploiting them to pay back a hungry bear). When he turns on the TV they've given him, a soap opera SoapOpera is playing in which a woman says "We let you into our lives and you deceived us!" An instance where this trope is both PlayedForLaughs and used for both humor and CharacterDevelopment.
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* In two songs about failed romances, this happens with a radio. "There's Always Something" describes the tunes as "a soundtrack to the love we had." "Songs About Rain" goes so far as to list them in the chorus, all of them titles of real songs.
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* In the RockosModernLife episode "Tickled Pinky" Rocko is in a hospital bed where he is going to get his appendix cut out, he turns on the tv to take his mind off of it and sees an ad for a kitchen device called the Cut-O-Matic that looks like a mini guillotine, a [[CanadaEh chain saw competition]], and a detective show with a seedy man taking out scissors to "cut someone out".
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* In the episode "Arnold's Hat" in ''HeyArnold'', our hero is depressed because he lost his hat. To take his mind off it, he turns on the TV and sees that it's Hat Day at the local ballpark, and everyone in the stadium is wearing one. [[{{Understatement}} It doesn't help.]]


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* In the episode "Arnold's Hat" in ''HeyArnold'', our hero is depressed because he lost his hat. To take his mind off it, he turns on the TV and sees that it's Hat Day at the local ballpark, and everyone in the stadium is wearing one. [[{{Understatement}} It doesn't help.]]

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* In the episode "Arnold's Hat" in ''HeyArnold'', our hero is depressed because he lost his hat. To take his mind off it, he turns on the TV and sees that it's Hat Day at the local ballpark, and everyone in the stadium is wearing one. [[Understatement It doesn't help.]]


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* In the episode "Arnold's Hat" in ''HeyArnold'', our hero is depressed because he lost his hat. To take his mind off it, he turns on the TV and sees that it's Hat Day at the local ballpark, and everyone in the stadium is wearing one. [[Understatement [[{{Understatement}} It doesn't help.]]

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* In the episode "Arnold's Hat" in ''HeyArnold'', our hero is depressed because he lost his hat. To take his mind off it, he turns on the TV and sees that it's Hat Day at the local ballpark, and everyone in the stadium is wearing one. It doesn't help.


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* In the episode "Arnold's Hat" in ''HeyArnold'', our hero is depressed because he lost his hat. To take his mind off it, he turns on the TV and sees that it's Hat Day at the local ballpark, and everyone in the stadium is wearing one. [[Understatement It doesn't help.

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* In an episode of ''SpongebobSquarepants'', Squidward is trying to forget about [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick playing in their box, but everything on TV is about boxes, even [[VisualPun boxing]].

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* In an the episode of ''SpongebobSquarepants'', "Idiot Box", Squidward is trying to forget about [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick playing in their box, but everything on TV is about boxes, even [[VisualPun boxing]].
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* In Lithuania, TV3 had a program called "Dar pažiūrėsim" (translation: We'll see it again) which acted as a parody of all the other Lithuanian TV shows and well-known movies like TheMatrix, with channel changing written ''into the script'', making this trope.

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* In Lithuania, TV3 [=TV3=] had a program called "Dar pažiūrėsim" (translation: We'll see it again) which acted as a parody of all the other Lithuanian TV shows and well-known movies like TheMatrix, with channel changing written ''into the script'', making this trope.
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* In Lithuania, TV3 had a program called "Dar pažiūrėsim" (translation: We'll see it again) which acted as a parody of all the other Lithuanian TV shows and well-known movies like TheMatrix, with channel changing written ''into the script'', making this trope.

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* In ''OhGod'', God wants Jerry Landers to build an Ark for an impending flood. Jerry is resistant, and at one point he sits in his car and all that's on the radio are songs that involve the word "rain."



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stadium is wearing one. It doesn't help.

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* A MontyPythonsFlyingCircus animation piece has a man watching the news on TV, when a series of nasty devices come out of the top and do grotesque things to his eyes. The wife comes out and tells him that TV is bad for his eyes.

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* A MontyPythonsFlyingCircus animation piece has a man watching the news on TV, when a series of nasty devices come out of the top and do grotesque things to his eyes. The wife comes out and tells him that TV is bad for his eyes.
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* A MontyPythonsFlyingCircus animation piece has a man watching the news on TV, when a series of nasty devies come out of the top and do grotesque things to his eyes. The wife comes out and tells him that TV is bad for his eyes.

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* A MontyPythonsFlyingCircus animation piece has a man watching the news on TV, when a series of nasty devies devices come out of the top and do grotesque things to his eyes. The wife comes out and tells him that TV is bad for his eyes.
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* A MontyPythonsFlyingCircus animation piece has a man watching the news on TV, when a series of nasty devies come out of the top and do grotesque things to his eyes. The wife comes out and tells him that TV is bad for his eyes.
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* In ''TheSimpsons'' episode "Homer Badman." After being publicly accused of molesting a baby sitter, Homer watches TV in the fetal position while David Letterman remarks "Ans the number one reference I am running into the ground is... Homer Simpson! (in parody of his famous Top Ten lists.

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* In ''TheSimpsons'' episode "Homer Badman." After being publicly accused of molesting a baby sitter, Homer watches TV in the fetal position while David Letterman remarks "Ans "And the number one reference I am running into the ground is... Homer Simpson! (in parody of his famous Top Ten lists.
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* In an episode of ''SpongebobSquarepants'', Squidward is trying to forget about [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick playing in their box, but everything on TV is about boxes.

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* In an episode of ''SpongebobSquarepants'', Squidward is trying to forget about [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick playing in their box, but everything on TV is about boxes. boxes, even [[VisualPun boxing]].
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* Early on in ''EarthGirlsAreEasy" Geena Davis's character throws her doctor fiance out when she finds him cheating with another girl. The next day, as she's weeping at the kitchen table, a soap opera has a doctor fooling around with a nurse, ''on top of his comatose wife.''

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* Early on in ''EarthGirlsAreEasy" ''EarthGirlsAreEasy'', Geena Davis's character throws her doctor fiance out when she finds him cheating with another girl. The next day, as she's weeping at the kitchen table, a soap opera has shows a doctor fooling around with a nurse, ''on top of his comatose wife.''
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* Early on in ''EarthGirlsAreEasy" Geena Davis's character throws her doctor fiance out when she finds him cheating with another girl. The next day, as she's weeping at the kitchen table, a soap opera has a doctor fooling around with a nurse, ''on top of his comatose wife.''
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* In ''TheSimpsons'' episode "Homer Badman." After being publicly accused of molesting a baby sitter, Homer watches TV in the fetal position while David Letterman remarks "Ans the number one reference I am running into the ground is... Homer Simpson! (in parody of his famous Top Ten lists.
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** A similar example occurred to Eric, though it was more Your Radio Hates You. When he broke up with Donna, the next morning every song on the radio station was about breaking up.
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Compare CoincidentalBroadcast, where this phenomenon is used as a plot device instead of a gag. May coincide with ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere if the thing that keeps popping up on TV or radio is something that the character is trying to quit.

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Compare CoincidentalBroadcast, where this phenomenon is used as a plot device instead of a gag. May coincide with ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere if the thing that keeps popping up on TV or radio is something that the character is trying to quit. See also MockingMusic for the radio version.
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* It also happens to Fran and Maxwell on ''TheNanny'' when she loses his Shakespeare original after being mugged. They were treated to Shakespeare plays, on their channels.
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