->''We have long studied your puny Terran broadcasts and analysed every detail of your primitive speech. Now, take me to your leader. Take me to ... [[Series/{{Teletubbies}} Tinky Winky]].''
-->--'''Creator/DavidLangford''', ''[[http://www.ansible.co.uk/sfx/sfx033.html SFX]]''

->''Know what I hate about deep space? Crap radio stations from two centuries back. Gosh, we were idiots.''
-->--'''Jeff "Joker" Moreau''', ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' [[note]]which is set in the 22nd century[[/note]]

->''We are communicating across the vast '''chasm''' of space. [[ItMakesSenseInContext Do we truly]] '''[[ItMakesSenseInContext want]]''' [[ItMakesSenseInContext the phrase]] '''"[[ItMakesSenseInContext Robot Pornography]]"''' to be broadcast across the '''cosmos''' to become some distant, advanced '''Alien''' civilization's '''first''' impression of mankind?''
-->-- '''Carl Sagan''', ''ComicBook/AtomicRobo''

->''Okay, so they've got a sports draft and ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' on Zeist? Are there any other anachronistic references to Earth culture that you wanna make that you'd have no realistic way of knowing, like "Music/{{Elvis|Presley}} has left the building", or "[[Series/ILoveLucy Lucy, you've got some 'splaning to do]]"?''
-->-- '''The Spoony One''' (during his review of ''Film/HighlanderIITheQuickening''), ''WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment''

->'''Graeme:''' Suppose the aliens got their whole idea of what humans are like through watching television!\\
'''Bill:''' Good grief! They probably think we're a race of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Parsons Nicholas Parsons]].\\
'''Graeme:''' If they've got any moral feelings at all...\\
'''Bill:''' They'll blast us out of the universe!
-->-- ''Series/TheGoodies'' ("U-Friend or UFO")

->''"I have been monitoring your electronic wave-signals," said the alien. "10,000 channels of reality TV is enough to convince anyone you're worthy of extermination."''
-->-- ''Fanfic/Plan7Of9FromOuterSpace''

->''"It's a fairly well known fact that the Earth's television transmissions bounce around the atmosphere and off satellites positioned around the Earth's orbit. Some of these signals are beamed far into space where they could, potentially, be picked up by aliens. What? You don't believe in aliens? You better think again. The Earth is being threatened by something, and it's sure not human..."''
-->-- ''VideoGame/AttackOfTheMutantPenguins'' manual

->'''Kid Flash:''' Wait. ''Hello, Megan!'' is [[ShowWithinAShow a TV show]]?\\
'''Robin:''' I just thought it was [[CatchPhrase something she [Miss Martian] said all the time]].
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'', "Image"

->'''Green Beetle:''' For years, the one you call "Martian Manhunter" has sent communications from your world to ours. Television signals. They are quite entertaining!\\
'''Robin III:''' All Martians love television.\\
'''Green Beetle:''' Indeed.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'', "True Colors"

->"Remember what happened last time you woke us up for a supposed distress signal? We spent three whole weeks screwing around looking for a wormhole and a ship full of strange alien life forms, only to have it turn out to be a [[Series/{{Farscape}} television transmission]] that'd been traveling through space for centuries."
-->-- '''ALIEN!!!''', a SlashFic parody by Odon

->"We have successfully traveled eons across both space and time through the Fargate...to get free cable!"
-->-- '''Oglethorpe''', ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce''

->"Start with the Intersolar Distress Frequency," she said, "then use your discretion. Try Terran-English, Esperanto, High and Low Martian... anything you can think of. Maybe these aliens have been monitoring our broadcasts like in those old scientifilms."
-->-- ''Fanfic/RocketshipVoyager''
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