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* After the title character of ''Film/{{The Cat in the Hat}}'' accidentally cuts off part of his own tail, causing him to blurt out a CurseCutShort by a long bleep censor, a card in the vein of this reads "Hang In There, Baby!" featuring an actual cat that's wearing a similar hat to the one the title character wears, [[ShoutOut well, hanging in there]].

* The live-action ''Film/{{The Cat in the Hat}}'' has a variation: After the title character accidentally cuts off part of his own tail, causing him to blurt out a CurseCutShort by a long bleep censor, a card in the vein of this reads "Hang In There, Baby!" featuring an actual cat that's wearing a similar hat to the one the title character wears, [[ShoutOut well, hanging in there]].

* The live-action ''Film/{{The Cat in the Hat}}'' has a variation: After the title character accidentally cuts off part of his own tail, causing him to blurt out a CurseCutShort by a long bleep censor, a card in the vein of this reads "Hang In There, Baby!" featuring an actual cat that's wearing a similar hat to the one the title character wears, [[ShoutOut well,]] [[Main/{{Glurge}} hanging in there]].

* The live-action ''Film/{{The Cat in the Hat}}'' has a variation: After the title character accidentally cuts off part of his own tail, causing him to blurt out a CurseCutShort by a long bleep censor, a card in the vein of this reads "Hang In There, Baby!" featuring an actual cat that's wearing a similar hat to the one the title character wears, [[ShoutOut well,]] [[Main/Glurge hanging in there]].

* The live-action ''Film/{{The Cat in the Hat}}'' has a variation: After the title character accidentally cuts off part of his own tail, causing him to blurt out a CurseCutShort by a long bleep censor, a card in the vein of this reads "Hang In There, Baby!" featuring an actual cat that's wearing a similar hat to the one the title character wears, [[ShoutOut well,]] [[Glurge hanging in there]].

* The live-action ''Film/{{The Cat in the Hat}}'' has a variation: After the title character accidentally cuts off part of his own tail, causing him to blurt out a CurseCutShort by a long bleep censor, a card in the vein of this reads "Hang In There, Baby!" featuring an actual cat that's wearing a similar hat to the one the title character wears, [[ShoutOut well,]] [[FauxtivationalPoster hanging in there]].

* The live-action Film/{{The Cat in the Hat}} has a variation: After the title character accidentally cuts off part of his own tail, causing him to blurt out a CurseCutShort by a long bleep censor, a card in the vein of this reads "Hang In There, Baby!" featuring an actual cat that's wearing a similar hat to the one the title character wears, [[ShoutOut well,]] [[FauxtivationalPoster hanging in there]].

* The live-action Film/{{The Cat in the Hat}} has a variation: After the title character accidentally cuts off part of his own tail, causing him to blurt out a CurseCutShort by the CensorBleep, a card in the vein of this reads "Hang In There, Baby!" featuring an actual cat that's wearing a similar hat to the one the title character wears, [[ShoutOut well,]] [[FauxtivationalPoster hanging in there]].

* The live-action Film/{{The Cat in the Hat}} has a variation: After the title character accidentally cuts off part of his own tail, causing him to blurt out a CurseCutShort by the BleepCensor, a card in the vein of this reads "Hang In There, Baby!" featuring an actual cat that's wearing a similar hat to the one the title character wears, [[ShoutOut well,]] [[FauxtivationalPoster hanging in there]].

* In 2009, an Creator/{{NBC}} broadcast of a UsefulNotes/NationalHockeyLeague game between the New York Rangers and the Pittsburgh Penguins [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lT5zAbFvsrc somehow managed to appear on]], ''of all channels'', Creator/{{Nicktoons}}, during what was supposed to be an airing of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' episode [[Recap/RugratsS4E9DustBunniesEducatingAngelica "Dust Bunnies"/"Educating Angelica"]]. And just when things couldn't get even more bizarre, just minutes later, the channel then cut to a ''WesternAnimation/{{CatDog}}'' episode in progress, and both the network's then-current screen bug and its previous bug were ''on the screen at the same time''.

** The January 7, 2013 show [[http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/422659/january-07-2013/blood-in-the-water---bill-o-reilly-s-racial-insensitivity saw him invoke the wrath of the Technical Difficulties screen + lawyer appearing]] three times. First, when commenting on Bill O'Reilly's over-generalization of Asians, he said that black people were fast because they came from Africa, then the screen cut to a technical difficulties image.

** Roughly 2005 or so, in Chinese news, there was a statement, "Censorship has relaxed in China, however, it is still present, as in the case of... [[AC:(broadcast interrupted)]]." Nobody died though, as the reporter was still around to announce the news.

* Outright [[AvertedTrope averted]] -- because his news conference was not being aired live -- by the similar suicide of Budd Dwyer, a Pennsylvania Republican treasurer who was convicted of a lot of fraud charges, including embezzlement.

* While not quite technical difficulties per se, anyone in the USA who thought to flip through the channels as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks 9/11 happened]] ([[HeroicBSOD and no one can blame folks who didn't]]), saw that many non-news/non-kids stations had some sort of card up saying they would be off the air for the rest of the day due to the events going on. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYvbmCAz658 Examples of this from television stations in New York can be seen here.]]

** Similarly, in 1989, pregame commentary for the World Series was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8ExMR0c0aM knocked off the air because of a huge earthquake]] in San Francisco, where the game was being played.

* Atlanta TV station WATL once aired the movie {{Film/Crash}}. What makes this unusual is that the opening [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vh0h23VNnQg logos]] were actually glitching.

* UsefulNotes/{{Miami}} Creator/{{NBC}} station WTVJ-4 and Creator/{{CBS}} station WCIX-6 swapped analog channel positions at 1 a.m. on September 10, 1995, with WTVJ moving to channel 6 and WCIX becoming WFOR-4. Viewers who were watching [=W27AQ=], a channel 6 translator on channel 27 based in Pompano Beach[[note]]now separetely-programmed WFUN-LD on channel 20[[/note]] that was fed via microwave, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXz7LRUp1tg&feature=youtu.be ended up being treated to technical issues]], starting off with the actual studio-transmitter link switch from WCIX/WFOR to WTVJ being delayed long enough to allow the entirety of WFOR's first thing broadcast, a station ID, to be seen before cutting to WTVJ's live coverage of the switch, and even after the actual switch, [=W27AQ=] continued picking up WFOR's aural signal, which bled over WTVJ's aural and visual signals.

* The [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Bugs Bunny]] cartoon "Wideo Wabbit" has the floor director in a panic putting up a "Please Stand By" card in front of a TV camera when Bugs disrupts and runs off Elmer Fudd's "Sportsman's Hour" show. For a while in the late 90s, Creator/CartoonNetwork used a still of that as an actual "technical difficulties" card instead of a still of their logo, as was standard practice at the time.

* In season 21, Tamar Braxton became ill before she was to perform her week 9 dance, so dress rehearsal footage was shown in place of the live performance. She became well enough to perform a duet rumba with Nick Carter later that night, but had to withdraw anyway when she contracted pulmonary embolisms.

* This happened to French-language TV channel Unis TV just as they were about to show an episode of [[Manga/RockLeesSpringtimeOfYouth ''Rock Lee and his Ninja Pals'']] (TheOneWith the Mister Konoha beauty pageant), where just as the episode was about to start, the [=SMPTE=] color bars showed up, then a black screen with the program and episode titles. The episode was just delayed a little bit and nothing happened to the schedule (as the show was broadcast commercial-free.)

* A 1987 broadcast of ''Series/HighRollers'' on [=KXAS-TV=] in Dallas, Texas, U.S. encountered a issue wherein [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJD74wvgY8k master control accidentally let the M&E audio track go to air]].

* A 1987 broadcast of ''Series/HighRollers'' on [=KXAS-TV=] in Dallas, Texas encountered a issue wherein [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJD74wvgY8k master control accidentally let the M&E audio track go to air]].
* Qubo suffered a ''massive'' bout of technical difficulties on the night of January 12, 2021, with the E/I bug, Qubo screenbug, and TV ratings bugs glitching out at certain points during programs (even popping up during a ''commercial break'') and the channel repeatedly going to black.