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!Examples:

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* In an episode of ''TheBradyBunch'', Mr. Brady gets fed up with his kids hogging the phone and running up a huge bill, so he has a payphone installed for them to use.

-->'''Stephanie:''' Who are you texting now?
-->'''Daphne:''' God!

* Lampshaded and made fun of on ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. Buffy isn't responding to the Scoobies trying to call her. Giles suggests she might just have her phone unplugged, but Xander responds "It's a statistical impossibility for a teenage girl to unhook her phone."

* The ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' short "I Was a Teenage Bunny-Sitter" opens with Babs chatting on the phone with her friend Harriet, but then she has to leave to babysit and says she'll call back. After meeting the parents there, she makes a sandwich and calls Harriet back, only to hang up when she has to make mashed potatoes for Duncan (the kid she's baby-sitting). At the end of the cartoon, Babs is sleeping on the couch while Duncan is the one chatting on the phone.

A teenager who treats her (and it ''is'' almost ALwaysFemale) landline phone or cell phone as if it were the most important thing in the world and is on it constantly. This almost always leads to an insanely high bill. If she uses a cell phone, she may feel more comfortable texting than actually interacting with other people. When she has to baby-sit kids, she might not care about them.

A teenager who treats her landline phone or cell phone as if it were the most important thing in the world and is on it constantly, and this almost always leads to an insanely high bill. If she uses a cell phone, she may feel more comfortable texting than actually interacting with other people. When she has to baby-sit kids, she might not care about them.

* ''Comicstrip/{{Foxtrot}}'': Paige Fox, being a BrattyTeenageDaughter, is naturally an example. One strip has her on the phone while AnnoyingYoungerSibling Jason walks past with a cane, bald wig and long beard. "[[DontExplaintheJoke I haven't been on the phone]] ''that'' long!"

* TeenTitansGo When Starfire is given the power to "talk like an earth teen" she is practically attached to her new smartphone. When she loses this power, she tosses the device away.

* TeenTitansGo When Starfire is given the power to "talk like an earth teen" she is practically attached to her new smartphone. When she looses this power, she tosses the device away.

* ''Comicstrip/{{Foxtrot}}'': Paige Fox, being a BrattyTeenageDaughter, is naturally an example. One strip has her on the phone while AnnoyingYoungerSibling Jason walks past with a cane, bald wig and long beard. "[[DontExplaintheJoke I haven't been one the phone]] ''that'' long!"

* There have been teens addicted to cell phones on episodes of {{MTV}}'s ''TrueLife''.

* Occurs often in ''Clueless'' - but [[UnfortunateImplications only the girls]].

* In ''TheHauntingHourTheSeries'' episode "A Creature Was Stirring", Becky's father has to take her cell phone away mid-conversation to get her to stop talking.

* Lampshaded and made fun of on BuffyTheVampireSlayer. Buffy isn't responding to the Scoobies trying to call her. Giles suggests she might just have her phone unplugged, but Xander responds "It's a statistical impossibility for a teenage girl to unhook her phone."

Classic trait for the ValleyGirl, BrattyTeenageDaughter, and other teenage stereotypes.

[[AC:Web Animation]]
* Johny from ''WebAnimation/{{Siblings}}''.

* ''Comicstrip/{{Foxtrot}}'': Paige Fox, being a BrattyTeenageDaughter, is naturally an example. One strip has her on the phone while AnnoyingYoungerSibling Jason walks past with a cane, bald wig and long beard. "[[DontExplaintheJoke I haven't been on the phone]] ''that'' long!"

* ''Comicstrip/{{Foxtrot}}'': Paige Fox, being a BrattyTeenageDaughter, is naturally an example. One strip has her on the phone while AnnoyingYoungerSibling Jason walks past with a cane, bald wig and long beard. "[[DontExplaintheJoke I haven't been one the phone]] ''that'' long!"

A teenager who treats their phone or cellphone as if it was the most important thing in the world and are on it constantly, and this almost always leads to an insanely high bill. If they use cellphones, they may feel more comfortable texting than actually interacting with other people.
When they have to babysit kids, they might not care about them.

This trope is older than cell phones; it goes back to the proliferation of the home telephone. In pre-cell phone days, this often involved a gag about there being only one phone in the house (or two phones on the same line where each extension could listen in on the other). Which made it impossible for the poor parents to call while the BrattyTeenageDaughter tied things up.

* There have been cellphone-addicted teens on episodes of {{MTV}}'s ''TrueLife''.
* In ''TheHauntingHourTheSeries'' episode "A Creature Was Stirring", Becky's father has to take her cellphone away mid-conversation to get her to stop talking.
* In an episode of ''TheBradyBunch'' Mr. Brady gets fed up with his kids hogging the phone and running up a huge bill, so he has a payphone installed for them to use.

* In the episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' where a fortune teller tells Lisa about her future wedding, teenage Maggie is shown to have her own home phone and always be on it. The joke is, we never hear her voice during the whole episode because Maggie is TheVoiceless.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' shorts "Feedin' the Kiddie" and "Tot Watchers", the babysitter left in charge at Tom's house goes straight to the phone right after the husband and wife leave, only leaving the phone to punish Tom for bothering the baby (when in fact he was returning the baby after it wandered off).
* The ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' short "I Was a Teenage Bunny-Sitter" opens with Babs chatting on the phone with her friend Harriet, but then she has to leave to babysit and says she'll call back. After meeting the parents there, she makes a sandwich and calls Harriet back, only to hang up when she has to make Duncan (the kid she's babysitting) mashed potatoes. At the end of the cartoon, Babs is sleeping on the couch while Duncan is the one chatting on the phone.