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** Inadvertently weaponized by the villain Simon Bar Sinister. He dotted the city with innocent-looking [[https://thetvdb.com/series/underdog/episodes/457671 "Phoney Booths"]] that put any user under his mental control, giving new weight to his catchphrase "You will do what Simon Says!" He wasn't expecting Underdog to come out of one and be his puppet!

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In RealLife, a phone booth's glass-paned walls would make changing in one problematic.

The slow disappearance of phone booths due to [[TropeBreaker the ubiquity of cell phones]] has lead to this trope being mostly [[DiscreditedTrope discredited]] in modern works, though you still will see references to it occasionally, more often in parody or less serious works.

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In RealLife, a Until the 1950s, RealLife phone booth's glass-paned walls would make changing booths were made of wood with slit windows, offering an amount of privacy. Then they started being replaced by booths walled in one problematic.

glass or plexiglas-walled booths, making this a DiscreditedTrope ripe for parody. The slow disappearance of phone booths due to [[TropeBreaker the ubiquity of cell phones]] has lead to this trope being mostly [[DiscreditedTrope discredited]] a ForgottenTrope in modern works, though you still will see references to it occasionally, more often in parody or less serious works.
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* Referenced in ''Animation/HappyHeroes''' two-part first episode; the title card for both parts has various robots dressed like Franchise/{{Superman}}, Franchise/SpiderMan, and Franchise/{{Batman}} attempting to go into a phone booth, only for Happy S., who is hiding inside the booth, to [[TakeThat beat them up]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheatricalCartoons'': In the short, WesternAnimation/TheMechanicalMonsters, Clark Kent changes into his Superman suit in a phone booth. This is in fact the first time Superman was depicted doing this.

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* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheatricalCartoons'': In the short, WesternAnimation/TheMechanicalMonsters, "WesternAnimation/TheMechanicalMonsters", Clark Kent changes into his Superman suit in a phone booth. This is in fact the first time Superman was depicted doing this.

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