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* ''Series/JudgeJohnDeed'': Played with, when there is a bomb scare, and the fire alarm is then sounded to evacuate the building. This is done to prevent John from hearing a case. This backfires when John gathers the relevant people together, and begins the hearing in the judge's lodgings. Although they cannot proceed far without the paperwork, John has then established himself at hearing the case, which somebody was trying to prevent.
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** In [[Recap/BobsBurgersS5E16TheRunwayClub "The Runway Club"]], the students in Saturday detention manage to convince Mr. Frond to let them leave early, so when Principal Spoors shows up to check in on them, Mr. Frond panics and pulls the fire alarm as a distraction while he runs out of the building.
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** In [[Recap/BobsBurgersS5E16TheRunwayClub "The Runway Club"]], the students in Saturday detention manage to convince Mr. Frond to let them leave early, so when Principal Spoors shows up to check in on them, Mr. Frond panics and pulls the fire alarm as a distraction while he runs out of the building. This is a BrickJoke from earlier in the episode when we learn how the students got detention, part of which came from one of them pulling the fire alarm in confusion
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* ''VideoGame/PerfectDarkZero'''s first mission has Joanna provide ground support for her dad Jack while the two investigate a Hong Kong nightclub. Contact with Jack is lost and Joanna needs to go inside and check on him, but between the armed guards inside and the none-the-wiser club patrons dancing the night away civilian casualties are very likely, which would cause mission failure. One way to deal with it is to hack the fire alarm system to go off and cause the patrons to evacuate, allowing Joanna free reign to shoot at the guards without fear of civilians in the crossfire.
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* Early in ''VideoGame/DieHardNakatomiPlaza'', John distracts the first terrorist, Tony, by triggering the fire alarm and sneaking behind Tony when the latter tries to investigate. The movie uses a ''different'' method.
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* Early in ''VideoGame/DieHardNakatomiPlaza'', John distracts the first terrorist, Tony, by triggering the fire alarm and sneaking behind Tony when the latter tries to investigate. The movie uses a ''different'' different method.
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* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'': In the episode "False Alarm", Eugene is accused of pulling the school fire alarm and, while everyone else thinks Eugene is guilty, Arnold thinks he was framed. [[spoiler:Arnold's right; it was Curly who pulled the fire alarm.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'': In the episode "False Alarm", "[[Recap/HeyArnoldS1E17FalseAlarmWorldRecords False Alarm]]", Eugene is accused of pulling the school fire alarm and, while everyone else thinks Eugene is guilty, Arnold thinks he was framed. [[spoiler:Arnold's right; it was Curly who pulled the fire alarm.]]
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* In ''Film/TheCompanyYouKeep'', when Neal is about to leave the hotel he's left his daughter Izzy at (so his brother Daniel can pick her up and take care of her), he sees the FBI has followed Daniel because they're looking for him. So Neal pulls the fire alarm so he can slip out of the hotel in the confusion.
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* In ''Film/JasonBourne'', the ever-resourceful Bourne floods a plaza with office workers by simultaneously setting off fire alarms in every building around the district. Watch the scene [[https://youtu.be/cEpNJjRGq-4?t=65 here]].
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* In ''Film/{{Heat}}'', when Neil goes to kills [[spoiler:Waingro]] at the hotel he's hiding out at (under surveillance by the LAPD), he pulls a fire alarm once he's in the hotel so he can pretend to be a hotel security man to get into [[spoiler:Waingro's]] room.
* In ''Film/JasonBourne'', the ever-resourceful Bourne floods a plaza with office workers by simultaneously setting off fire alarms in every building around the district. Watch the scene [[https://youtu.be/cEpNJjRGq-4?t=65 here]].
* In ''Film/JasonBourne'', the ever-resourceful Bourne floods a plaza with office workers by simultaneously setting off fire alarms in every building around the district. Watch the scene [[https://youtu.be/cEpNJjRGq-4?t=65 here]].
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* This [[https://www.ispot.tv/ad/1CiM/xfinity-internet-neighbor-stink-eye Xfinity commercial]] features an apartment resident who just got 5G Internet "kick people off" the network to improve the speed by pulling the fire alarm and making them evacuate. It's implied to not be the first time it's happened, as the other apartment residents give "OhNoNotAgain" reactions among hearing the alarm sounding, and the commercial ends with [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome firefighters breaking into the man's apartment and telling him he's going to jail]]. Bonus points for the commercial using a realistic modern fire alarm sound effect instead of [[TheCoconutEffect an older-style fire bell]] as commonly used in the media.
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* This [[https://www.ispot.tv/ad/1CiM/xfinity-internet-neighbor-stink-eye Xfinity commercial]] features an apartment resident who just got 5G Internet "kick people off" the network to improve the speed by pulling the fire alarm and making them evacuate. It's implied to not be the first time it's happened, as the other apartment residents give "OhNoNotAgain" reactions among hearing the alarm sounding, and the commercial ends with [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome firefighters breaking into the man's apartment and telling him he's going to jail]]. Bonus points for the commercial using a realistic modern fire alarm sound effect instead of [[TheCoconutEffect an older-style fire bell]] as commonly used in the media.
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* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndGuessWho'': In one episode, Sia's doppelganger ghost pulls the fire alarm in a jewelry store, which she did in order to set off the sprinklers and slow down the gang enough for her to escape.
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** Inone episode, "Revenge of the Swamp Monster", the titular monster is chasing Scooby, Shaggy, and Chris Paul through an art school. As the monster closes in on them, Shaggy activates a fire alarm pull station and shouts "Fire drill!" The alarm bells are so loud that the monster runs out of the building in fear [[HellIsThatNoise to get away from the noise]].
** In "Now You Sia, Now You Don't", Sia's doppelganger ghost pulls the fire alarm in a jewelrystore, which she did store in order to set off the sprinklers and slow down the gang enough for her to escape.
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** In "Now You Sia, Now You Don't", Sia's doppelganger ghost pulls the fire alarm in a jewelry
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** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS24E10ATestBeforeTrying A Test Before Trying]]", Bart convinces Skinner to pull the fire alarm to clear out the building and give Bart one more day of studying for an important exam.
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* ''Fanfic/AlecGoesToWinslow'' has a variant of this trope. Instead of pulling the fire alarm, Alec ''throws a book at a sprinkler'', setting it off and dousing himself- and the girls who were bullying his friend Taylor- in stinky water.
* ''Fanfic/AlecGoesToWinslow'' has a variant of this trope. Instead of pulling the fire alarm, Alec ''throws a book at a sprinkler'', setting it off and dousing himself- and the girls who were bullying his friend Taylor- in stinky water.
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Needless to say, you should '''[[DontTryThisAtHome never]]''' try this in real life for ''any'' reason. An intentional false alarm is a criminal offense with very serious consequences.
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* ''A Scandal in Bohemia'' by Creator/ArthurConanDoyle. Literature/SherlockHolmes has Watson throw a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke_testing_(mechanical) plumber's smoke-rocket]] into Irene Adler's house so she's rush to where she's hidden the compromising photograph, revealing its location.
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* ''A Scandal in Bohemia'' by Creator/ArthurConanDoyle. Literature/SherlockHolmes has Watson throw a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke_testing_(mechanical) plumber's smoke-rocket]] into Irene Adler's house so she's she'll rush to where she's hidden the compromising photograph, revealing its location.
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* ''A Scandal in Bohemia'' by Creator/ArthurConanDoyle. Literature/SherlockHolmes has Watson throw a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke_testing_(mechanical) plumber's smoke-rocket]] into Irene Adler's house so she's rush to where she's hidden the compromising photograph, revealing its location.
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* ''A Scandal in Bohemia'' by Creator/ArthurConanDoyle. Literature/SherlockHolmes has Watson throw a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke_testing_(mechanical) plumber's smoke-rocket]] into Irene Adler's house so she's rush to where she's hidden the compromising photograph, revealing its location.
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