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* The setting of most Apple Computer ads since the introduction of [=OSX=], including the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2-UuIEOcss testimonial-based "Switch" campaign]], the Jason Long-John Hodgeman [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgzbhEc6VVo "Mac vs. [=PC=]" ads]], and more recently the iPhone ads. The notable exception is the iPod ads, which lean more toward the [[DesignStudentsOrgasm opposite extreme]].

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* The setting of most Apple Computer ads since the introduction of [=OSX=], including the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2-UuIEOcss testimonial-based "Switch" campaign]], the Jason Justin Long-John Hodgeman [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgzbhEc6VVo "Mac vs. [=PC=]" ads]], and more recently the iPhone ads. The notable exception is the iPod ads, which lean more toward the [[DesignStudentsOrgasm opposite extreme]].

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** .hack//GU has some as well.

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** .hack//GU ** [[DotHackGUGames .hack//G.U.]] has some as well.well, most notably The Creator's Room.
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* ''Film/{{THX 1138}}'' (pictured) is the TropeMaker, if not the UrExample.

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* ''Film/{{THX 1138}}'' (pictured) is the TropeMaker, if not the UrExample.TropeMaker.
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* Every comic strip, almost all of the time, due to the ever-shrinking size of the average strip, and artists' inability to fit anything but talking heads into each panal, as referenced in various ''CalvinAndHobbes'' strips, for instance [[http://i51.tinypic.com/1yo0uh.gif here]]

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* Every comic strip, almost all of the time, due to the ever-shrinking size of the average strip, and artists' inability to fit anything but talking heads into each panal, panel, as referenced in various ''CalvinAndHobbes'' strips, for instance [[http://i51.tinypic.com/1yo0uh.gif here]]
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* Every comic strip, almost all of the time, due to the ever-shrinking size of the average strip, and artists' inability to fit anything but talking heads into each panal, as referenced in various ''CalvinAndHobbes'' strips, for instance [[http://i51.tinypic.com/1yo0uh.gif here]]
* ''TheFamilyCircus:'' The "featureless white void" became a running inside joke on [[http://dfc.furr.org/ The Dysfunctional Family Circus]]. The "featureless white ''room''" is mentioned [[http://dfc.furr.org/archive/224.html here]] as a specific example.
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** The video for Erasure's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSnLGdpjWf4 cover]] of the same song.
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* The time travel chamber in ''GuestFromTheFuture'' is a blank white room with a small control stand in the center.
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* ''PennAndTellerBullshit'' takes place in one of these.

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* ''PennAndTellerBullshit'' takes place in one of these. True to the show's form of pooh-poohing hocus-pocus, though, the camera sometimes pulls out and reveals that the white void is just a set, with cameras and lights and crew (something that is very easy to forget when you only watch TV and movies from one side of the camera).
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* The video for ABBA's "Take a Chance on Me" as seen [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UvtOQnPE5c&NR=1 here]]. With the exception of a slight shadow of a corner in some shots.
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* IIRC such a scene was included in ''HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'' [[spoiler: Involving Harry meeting and speaking briefly with Dumbledore.]]

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* IIRC such Such a scene was included in ''HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'' [[spoiler: Involving Harry meeting and speaking briefly with Dumbledore.]]]] It stops being a blank white room and becomes King's Cross Station fairly quickly, though.
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* The shower at the beginning of ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119809/ Nowhere]]'' is a white void room. The movie starts off with credits over a white screen and pans down, down, down to show the main character, Dark, in a white void with gray steam. A shower head seemingly floating in space. It's shot from far away so that Dark looks drarfed by the infinite whiteness on the screen. When his mother knocks on the bathroom door, the shower is seen for the cramped, normal utility that it is.

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* The shower at the beginning of ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119809/ Nowhere]]'' is a white void room. The movie starts off with credits over a white screen and pans down, down, down to show the main character, named Dark, in a white void with gray steam. A shower head seemingly floating in space. It's The scene is shot from far away so that Dark looks drarfed dwarfed by the infinite whiteness on the screen. When his mother knocks on the bathroom door, the shower is seen for the cramped, normal utility that it is.
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* The shower at the beginning of ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119809/ Nowhere]]'' is a white void room. The movie starts off with credits over a white screen and pans down, down, down to show the main character, Dark, in a white void with gray steam. A shower head seemingly floating in space. It's shot from far away so that Dark looks drarfed by the infinite whiteness on the screen. When his mother knocks on the bathroom door, the shower is seen for the cramped, normal utility that it is.
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* The PilotMovie of the Showtime series ''Odyssey 5'' had one of these. It was where a member of a race of SufficientlyAdvancedAliens rescued the main characters and sent them to save Earth.

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* The PilotMovie of the Showtime series ''Odyssey 5'' ''{{Odyssey 5}}'' had one of these. It was where a member of a race of SufficientlyAdvancedAliens rescued the main characters and sent them to save Earth.
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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE1Z-nI4CMI Jazzercise]] from [[OlderThanTheyThink the 80s]]

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* This StepfordSmiler [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE1Z-nI4CMI com/watch?v=ueeucuG17k8 Jazzercise]] from [[OlderThanTheyThink the 80s]]
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More workout videos, music videos, Misery Lit



Remember that nothing screams futuristic, cutting edge, classy purity (as well as "concentrate on my smoking hot bod" AmIRight?) like a white void in your workout video.

Often a sign of the LazyArtist in SequentialArt when the background is missing.

See also MiseryLit for when a book presents the white void room on its cover to represent death.






* LilWayne and KanyeWest's Lollipop African Remix, as seen [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR7_VACr-8Q here]]



* The Yoga series from [[http://www.raviana.com/ Ana Brett and Ravi Singh]] often feature this room, as well as their website.

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* The Yoga series from [[http://www.raviana.com/ Ana Brett and Ravi Singh]] often feature features this room, as does their website.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hBHh5tsiY8 Capoeira Fitness (Nike Courses)]]
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeHSOuEW8l0&feature=related Chris Freytag]]
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQYYM6t8Qfk Kim Strother]]
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xTGTj_2JdE This]] spine-destroying CGI workout.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5uK5ohqUm8 This]] Pilates video
* Cindy Crawford subverts this by working out in a white void
room, as well as their website.colored void rooms.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE1Z-nI4CMI Jazzercise]] from [[OlderThanTheyThink the 80s]]

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* The final {{cutscene}} in ''CommandAndConquer 4: Tiberian Twilight'' is in a white void room [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8No_Ea6tmYY inside the Scrin tower]].



* BlankIt takes place in one of these.

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* BlankIt ''BlankIt'' takes place in one of these.



* There was a {{Spongebob}} episode where Squidward was on a TimeMachine that went haywire and ended up in one of these.
* This is what ChalkZone is without any chalk in it.

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* There was a {{Spongebob}} ''{{Spongebob}}'' episode where Squidward was on a TimeMachine that went haywire and ended up in one of these.
* This is what ChalkZone ''ChalkZone'' is without any chalk in it.
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*** That toilet is their only water supply (so they wash up in it too), and the only non-stairs element besides the machine. It constantly flushes, but still.


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** Minus the floor. It's literally a bottomless abyss.
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* In one of WarrenEllis' issues of ''Dv8'', Copycat steps on a booby trap that apparently teleports her into one of these. [[spoiler: The white void later turns out to be a simulation, a result of being teleported to another room in the facility and hooked up to a virtual reality machine.]]
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* The Yoga series from [[http://www.raviana.com/ Ana Brett and Ravi Singh]] often feature this room, as well as their website.
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* [[Creator/WilliamSleator William Sleator's]] SF novel, ''Literature/HouseOfStairs'' where the setting is just a big white void... criss-crossed with stairs.

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* [[Creator/WilliamSleator William Sleator's]] WilliamSleator's SF novel, ''Literature/HouseOfStairs'' where the setting is just a big white void... criss-crossed with stairs.



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* There's a SF novel called ''House Of Stairs'' where the setting is just a big white void... criss-crossed with stairs.

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* There's a [[Creator/WilliamSleator William Sleator's]] SF novel called ''House Of Stairs'' novel, ''Literature/HouseOfStairs'' where the setting is just a big white void... criss-crossed with stairs.
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* The [[YearInsideHourOutside Hyberbolic Time Chamber]], a.k.a. the Room of Space and Time, from DragonBallZ looks like a small but ornate building with two huge hourglasses flanking it, all of which is located in a white void.
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* In ''DoomPatrol'', former Brotherhood of Evil member Eric Morden volunteers for an [[EvilutionaryBiologist ex-Nazi scientist's]] experiment in which he's temporarily immobilized and placed in a spherical white room where he can do nothing but sit and stare at the whiteness until he goes mad. Eventually a tiny black dot, projected on the white expanse, seems to him to grow larger and larger until it transforms him into the abstract, shadowy villain Mr. Nobody with the power to drain the sanity from others.

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* The setting for[[{{Beyonce}} Beyonce's]] ''Single Ladies'' video.

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* The setting for[[{{Beyonce}} Beyonce's]] for {{Beyonce}}'s ''Single Ladies'' video.video.
* As well as Michael Jackson's "Scream"[[hottip:*:Technically not featureless, but it was clearly meant to [[InvokedTrope invoke]] this trope]], Chris Brown's "I Can Transform Ya," and about a million other music videos.
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[[{{Film/THX1138}} http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/THX1138-2.jpg]]
[[caption-width:350:THX 1138's imprisonment.]]
->''"I plan to spend a lot of time dancing weirdly in front of a white background."''
-->--'''Avery''', ''OzyAndMillie''

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->''"I plan to spend a lot of time dancing weirdly in front of a white background."''
-->--'''Avery''', ''OzyAndMillie''
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* Surprisingly ''not'' the "White Room" described in the Eric Clapton song quoted, which features "black curtains"
* The setting for[[{{Beyonce}} Beyonce's]] ''Single Ladies'' video.
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* The PilotMovie of the Showtime series ''Odyssey 5'' had one of these. It was where a member of a race of SufficientlyAdvancedAliens rescued the main characters and sent them to save Earth.
--> "God really IS an old, white guy."
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* Richard of ''LFGComic'' was banished into a featureless white void while battling the sisters. He dubbed it the "Plane of Suck".

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* Richard of ''LFGComic'' ''LookingForGroup'' was banished into a featureless white void while battling the sisters. He dubbed it the "Plane of Suck".
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* [[{{Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds}} Zone]] resides in one of these.

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*Some CIA interrogators "break" detainees who won't confess by making them spend time in a featureless white room that's brightly lit all day and air-conditioned enough to be uncomfortable.

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*Some * Some CIA interrogators "break" detainees who won't confess by making them spend time in a featureless white room that's brightly lit all day and air-conditioned enough to be uncomfortable.uncomfortable.
* These rooms are actually not uncommon and used for photo shoots. The walls and floor are painted white and the corners are carefully filled in, rounded together and painted white to give it a blank uniform appearance.


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