History Main / ExtraExtraReadAllAboutIt

* [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2001/4/11/ This]] ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'', although they only had one "[[StealthPun extra.]]" I guess they didn't have a [[{{Pun}} spare]].

In the old days before TV, radio, and the Internet, most people who followed the news got their information from the newspapers, which were (and still are) normally published at best on a daily basis. If a major story (such as the death of a President or a declaration of war) broke after the day's deadline, a newspaper might choose to print an "Extra" edition on top of their regular edition. Sometimes they were short and carried only the story itself, but more often they were identical to the earlier main edition with just the first few pages replaced. By the 1940s, though, newspapers were in competition with radio for advertising dollars, and big-city papers like the ''New York Times'' and the ''Montreal Gazette'' published four or five regular editions a day, taking any possible opportunity to publish an "extra" so they could boost circulation. Even now, papers infrequently publish short "extra" editions if a ''really'' big story breaks; many did after 9/11, for instance.

** Also for the short ''Hired!'': "Extry, extry, Pearl Harbor bombed, Roosevelt declares war!"

* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'': Gets used in a host segment or two.
** Notably, the one in ''Film/TheHorrorOfPartyBeach'' where Tom provides incredibly up-to-date newspapers with headlines like "Mike buys another paper from Tom."

* Tony Toponi becomes a paperboy in ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail: The Mystery of the Night Monster'', though he really wants to be a reporter and when he becomes discouraged and his rant begins to show it. ''(in a flat monotone voice)'' "Hey, get your paper here, whoop-dee-do paper here..." When someone passes him by, he yells "Fine! So stay ignorant!"

* Used in the ''Series/XPlay'' [[MusicalEpisode Musical]].

* The Music/AesopRock and RobSonic song ''Dark Heart News'' contains the line, "Extra, extra, read all about me!"

-->'''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Mike:]]''' ''[unable to keep from laughing]'' Now THAT'S a walk-on.

* ''Webcomic/ExtraFabulousComics'': [[InvokedTrope Extra Extra]] - [[ClickbaitGag Five Easy Steps to Enlarge Your Manhood]] - [[UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories Roosevelt's a Lizardman]] - [[http://extrafabulouscomics.com/comic/334/ We Got Proof on Page Ten]]

* Also seen in ''Anime/MakaiSenkiDisgaea'' in episode 7, where a [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins Prinny]] runs around distributing newspaper that say that [[CuteBruiser Laharl]] [[spoiler:has a sister]]. He doesn't.

* Extra! Extra! [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2003-05-19 Read all]] about it! [[Webcomic/SchlockMercenary Mercenary company]] blown to nano-smithereens![[note]]"You've got a real way with words...."[[/note]]

* [[InvokedTrope Extra Extra]] - [[ClickbaitGag Five Easy Steps to Enlarge Your Manhood]] - [[UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories Roosevelt's a Lizardman]] - [[http://extrafabulouscomics.com/comic/334/ We Got Proof on Page Ten]]

* Creator/VanBeurenStudios:
** The opening of the cartoon ''Mild Cargo'' has a goat spreading newspapers of Cubby Bear's arrival at their jungle, while shouting the phrase.
** The bird from the ending of ''A Little Bird Told Me'' says this to the kids after she's done telling her story.
* Used in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode featuring the B-Sharps, Homer's barbershop quartet. The newsboy calls out "Extra, extra, B-Sharps sing on rooftop!", which was happening ''at that moment'', within earshot. A man buys one from him and exclaims that there's nothing in there about the B-Sharps, and then chases after the kid as he runs away laughing.
** "EXTRA EXTRA! TODD SMELLS"
--->'''Rod:''' Bart, I don't know is this should be an Extra.\\
'''Todd:''' Is your source on this reliable?
* ''WesternAnimation/SchoolhouseRock'':
** "Walking on Wall Street" opens with "Extra! Extra! Latest Wall Street prices!"
** There's also a newsboy during "Fireworks", who would be holding newspapers headlining the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
* From the ''WesternAnimation/TexAveryMGMCartoons'' short ''Happy-Go-Nutty'', after Screwy Squirrel has tricked Meathead the dog into walking off a cliff:
-->'''Screwy Squirrel:''' ''[at the bottom of the cliff, holding a newspaper]'' Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Dumb dog falls for corny old gag! Extra! ''[Meathead lands]'' Paper, mister? ''[hands Meathead paper; headline reads "Sucker!"]''

* One appears in ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', "Hall Monitor".
--> [[MemeticMutation "Take it, friends! Arm yourselves with knowledge!"]]
* ''WesternAnimation/CareBearsAdventuresInCareALot'' attempts to use this phrase in one episode, but since the characters are announcing new stories on a website, it is changed to "Extra! Extra! ''hear'' all about it!" Just doesn't have the same ring to it.

* Has been used in ''WesternAnimation/{{Histeria}}'' with Loud Kiddington as the paper boy in question.
* The ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode "The Flying Fishmonger" has a paper-boy attempt to sell papers during Grandpa Fletcher's gorge jump stunt, but as the events keep changing in real time, he struggles to keep up and then quits.
* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987''
** Present in the episode "Master of the Djinni".
** In "[[Recap/DuckTalesADuckTalesValentine A Duck Tales Valentine]]", a newsboy yelling a headline about Scrooge and Aphroducky's relationship appears midway through the episode.

* Eddie the Wet-Nosed Newspup is often shown selling papers like this in ''WesternAnimation/DogCity'', hence being referred to as a newspup.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E20TheOneWherePinkiePieKnows The One Where Pinkie Pie Knows]]", Featherweight announces himself selling the Foal Free Press paper in this old-fashioned way. He's even dressed for the part, like an old-school paperboy.
* A paperboy appears at the start of ''WesternAnimation/TheBeatles'' cartoon "Misery":
-->'''Paperboy:''' Extra! Extra! Dracula strikes again! Police search Picadilly for new vampire!

* The intermissions for Cartoon Network's Toon Extra go like this.

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* Also seen in ''Anime/MakaiSenkiDisgaea'' in episode 7, where a [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins Prinny]] runs around distributing newspaper that say that [[CuteBruiser Laharl]] [[spoiler:has a sister]]. He doesn't.
* ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'': Karen and Erika shout this while spreading an article on the balloon thief all over the school in the anime (while the same article does exist in the manga, they just stick one to a bulletin board rather than throwing copies everywhere).

* Used for a gag in ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}''--the newsboy (a stubble-faced dwarf [[RuleOfFunny for some reason]]) not actually proclaiming a story, but loudly expressing his opinion of The Word's decision to fire Spider Jerusalem.

* A newsboy is shown hawking a paper this way (an extra about Central City's brand-new superhero) at the end of [[Franchise/TheFlash Barry Allen]]'s origin story.
* ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'': The first issue of "Dead-End Kids", where the Runaways wind up in 1907, shows a newsboy yelling "Wuxtree" about an issue about Typhoid Mary to emphasize the setting.

* Tony Toponi becomes a paperboy in ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail: The Mystery of the Night Monster'', though he really wants to be a reporter and when he becomes discouraged and his rant begins to show it. *in a flat monotone voice* "Hey, get your paper here, whoop-dee-do paper here..." When someone passes him by he yells "Fine! So stay ignorant!"

* ''Film/ThePoorLittleRichGirl'' (1917): "Wuxtra! Wuxtra! Panic in Wall St.!" Used as exposition to indicate that the rich girl's father is having some problems with his investments.
* ''Film/InvasionUSA1952''. [[https://youtu.be/P8doNVpX2cs One of the most bizarre and badly staged in film history]]. As the main characters Vincent and Carla stare lovingly into each other's eyes in the foreground, a newsboy walks in, yelling, "Extra! Paper! Read all about it!", and ''stares directly at the two'' (who don't notice and continue to look into each other's eyes like zombies); he then turns around with barely a pause and walks off '''''from the same way he entered'''''.
-->'''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Mike:]]''' ''[unable to keep from laughing]'' Now THAT'S a walk-on.
* Used in ''Film/{{Newsies}}'', and that's set in 1899!
* ''Film/OvernightDelivery'':
-->'''Ivy:''' Extra, Extra. Read all about it. Kim can shake her pom-poms but she won't go at it!
* The newsboy in ''Film/{{Chicago}}'' says this when Roxie Hart's verdict is revealed. Mocked, because they have stacks of newspapers with pre-written articles declaring "Guilty" or "Innocent" and use a kid signaling from the courthouse window to tell them which one to sell.
* There is a running gag involving a newsie shouting this in the movie ''Film/JohnnyDangerously''.

* He shouts "Check it out!" instead of "Extra! Extra!" - but the loud and aggressive Gotham City vendor who sells papers on the bridge overlooking Gotham Plaza in ''Film/BatmanReturns'' otherwise fits this trope. In a neat modern twist, he's hawking ''tabloid'' newspapers.
* ''Film/TheWolfman2010'' used it, complete with the classic little Victorian British boy in a cap on the corner of the sidewalk selling newspapers.
* ''Film/AngelsWithDirtyFaces'' has a paperboy selling them this way, with the "extry" variant.

* ''Film/TheDayTheEarthStoodStill1951'', the original version, used it.
-->"Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Spaceman still at large. Army put in charge!"

* The movie version of ''Theatre/DamnYankees'' has newsboys shouting headlines about Joe Hardy being in trouble.

* Used for a funny moment in ''Film/AdeleHasntHadHerDinnerYet''. After the hero, a famous American detective, arrives in Prague, he asks the local Director of Police, if his arrival had been kept strictly secret. The Director confirms. Cue a paperboy announcing: The most famous American detective's in Prague!....
* In ''Film/FiveStarFinal'', a film about a newspaper, these words are heard over the opening credits. Then, as the Gazette is reporting on the Townsend tragedy, newsboys in the street shout "Extra, extra, all about the big suicide!"
* A newspaper boy shouting "Extra! Extra!" shows up briefly in the German movie ''Der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer'', which is set in 1950s Germany detailing the hunt for Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann.
* ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stripped_(film) Stripped]],'' a documentary about NewspaperComics and WebComics, has a pencil drawing of a boy like this in the credits; the headline reads "Extree! Extree! [[LampshadeHanging 30's Stereotype Sells Paper!]]"
* ''Film/NoGodNoMaster'': A news boy announces the death sentences against Sacco and Vanzetti this way.

'''Man:''' ''[buys paper]'' Hey, there's nothing in here about three men being swindled!\\

* ''Series/That70sShow'':
-->'''Eric:''' Extra. Extra. Read all about it.\\
'''Steven Hyde:''' "Skinny Dillhole Talks Like An Idiot"?

* ''Series/FilthyRichAndCatflap'':
-->"Extra! Extra! I'm an extra!"
* ''Series/Batman1966'': A very old newsboy is cleverly used to HandWave a PlotHole at ''Zelda The Great'':
-->'''News Boy:''' ''[handling the Gotham City Times Extra with the lines: “Big joke on bank bandit: stolen cash was counterfeit!]'' Extra! Extra! Get your newspaper here! Read about the bandit’s stolen counterfeit money, [[ContrivedCoincidence Yes that’s all what he did, steal counterfeit money!]]\\
'''Bystander:''' Hey, [[FridgeLogic what was counterfeit money doing in the vault of the First National Bank?]]\\
'''News boy:''' Well, if you want to know it you will have to buy a paper. I am not a special news service.\\
''[bystander buys paper and leaves]''\\
'''News Boy:''' And what was it doing there? ''[[HypocriticalHumor [reading the paper]]]'' [[HandWave Oh, awaiting at the bank for disposal.]] ''[[BreakingTheFourthWall [looking directly to the camera]]]'' Makes sense.
* Subverted in the ''Series/TheGreenHornet'', when Britt Reid gets a call from his old school reporter, Mike Stanford, about a hot news story that they should run an extra on. Reid immediately shoots him down noting that his paper doesn't run extras; his business' radio and TV broadcasting sections handle the breaking news.
* ''Series/ElChavoDelOcho'' was once selling newspapers and shouting the trope to announce about cops chasing smugglers and a female domestic servant strike. Watching a cop stalk a woman in maid attire made him mix up. Later, he played on the old joke mentioned in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' example and shouted an announcement about thirteen deceived people. Don Ramon bought a newspaper and complained it was a week-old one. He updated it to fourteen. Then Quico, who had previously asked to read a ''[[Series/ElChapulinColorado Chapulin]]'' comic book to check if he hasn't already read it, returned it, claiming he had already read it. As Quico shouted about ''fifteen'' deceived people, Don Ramon laughed at how the trick was turned on Chavo.
* The phrase was used in the theme song for the Australian kid's show ''Smedley's Weekly News'', highlighting the very oldfashioned nature of the eponymous publication.
-->''Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Read all about it in....Smedley's Weekly News!''

* The Music/AesopRock and RobSonic song ''Dark Heart News'' contains the line, "Extra, extra, read all about me!"
* The Music/BlueOysterCult song ''Morning Final'', about the murder of a drug addict in a subway, ends with a paper boy shouting the headline ''Extra Extra! Police say no motive for murder in subway. Extra! Read all about it! No motive for murder in subway...''
* The Music/{{Genesis|Band}} song "Paperlate" derives its title from at least one of the British equivalents of the phrase.

* ''Series/SesameStreet'' did it as a RunningGag. "Extra! Extra! Four people fooled!" Then Ernie buys the newspaper, discovers there's no such article, and the newsboy shouts, "Extra, Extra! Five people fooled!" This joke is sometimes used by other children's media.

'''Carl:''' ''[squeaky street-hawker's voice]'' Extra! Extra! Read all about it! ''[audience laughter]''\\

'''Carl:''' ''[same voice]'' Thank you, Peter.

* Tony Toponi becomes a paperboy in ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail: The Mystery of the Night Monster'', though he really wants to be a reporter and when he becomes discouraged and his rant begins to show it. *in a flat monotone voice* "Hey, get your paper here, whoop-dee-do paper here..." When someone passes him by he yells "Fine! So stay ignorant!"

* The Music/{{Genesis}} song "Paperlate" derives its title from at least one of the British equivalents of the phrase.

* There is one of these in ''FanFic/TheTaintedGrimoire.''

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* ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan'': A paperboy was shouting that in "Spidah Man" and Spidey found himself surprised there were still people doing that.

* In the city of Cork in Ireland, the ''Evening Echo'' regional newspaper has vendors who shouts "Echo!" to sell papers, most of which being elderly men who have been doing this for decades of their lives. They became something of a [[MemeticMutation local icon]].

* Used in ''Manga/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' by the Shadow Play Girls during the Black Rose arc as their catch phrase. "Gogai! Gogai! Gogai!"

** Used in the opening of the Halloween cartoon "[[http://www.homestarrunner.com/hallowday.html Happy Hallow-Day]]":

** [[EasterEgg Eggs tree, eggs tree!]] [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} This get-up]] ''[[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} is]]'' [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} mah get down!]]

* [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2001/4/11/ This]] ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'', although they only had one "[[StealthPun extra.]]" I guess they didn't have a [[IncrediblyLamePun spare]].

* ''Series/ElChavoDelOcho'' was once selling newspapers and shouting the trope to announce about cops chasing smugglers and a female domestic servant strike. Watching a cop stalk a woman in maid attire made him mix up. Later, he played on the old joke mentioned in ''TheSimpsons'' example and shouted an announcement about thirteen deceived people. Don Ramon bought a newspaper and complained it was a week-old one. He updated it to fourteen. Then Quico, who had previously asked to read a ''[[Series/ElChapulinColorado Chapulin]]'' comic book to check if he hasn't already read it, returned it, claiming he had already read it. As Quico shouted about ''fifteen'' deceived people, Don Ramon laughed at how the trick was turned on Chavo.

(''comes onscreen from behind the couple, stares openly at the couple, turns around, walks offscreen while repeating previous line'')\\

-->'''News Boy''' ''[handling the Gotham City Times Extra with the lines: “Big joke on bank bandit: stolen cash was counterfeit!]'': Extra! Extra! Get your newspaper here! Read about the bandit’s stolen counterfeit money, [[ContrivedCoincidence Yes that’s all what he did, steal counterfeit money!]]\\

'''News Boy:''' And what was it doing there? [[HypocriticalHumor ''''[reading the paper]'']] [[HandWave Oh, awaiting at the bank for disposal.]] [[BreakingTheFourthWall ''[looking directly to the camera]'']] Makes sense.

-->'''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Mike:]]''' ''[Unable to keep from laughing]'' Now THAT'S a walk-on.

--> "Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Spaceman still at large. Army put in charge!"

'''Man:''' (''buys paper'') Hey, there's nothing in here about three men being swindled!\\

-->'''Micky:''' (''dressed as a newsboy'') Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Rock and roll group gains fame and fortune by introducing harp into act!

--->'''Paperboy:''' ''(From offscreen)'' Ex-tra, Pa-per, America invaded, read all about it!\\

--> "Extra! Extra! I'm an extra!"

-->'''News Boy''' (handling the Gotham City Times Extra with the lines: “Big joke on bank bandit: stolen cash was counterfeit!: ''Extra! Extra! Get your newspaper here! Read about the bandit’s stolen counterfeit money, [[ContrivedCoincidence Yes that’s all what he did, steal counterfeit money!]]''
-->'''Bystander:''' ''Hey, [[FridgeLogic what was counterfeit money doing in the vault of the First National Bank?]]''\\
'''News boy:''' ''Well, if you want to know it you will have to buy a paper. I am not a special news service.''\\
[Bystander buys paper and leaves]\\
'''News Boy:''' ''And what was it doing there?'' [[HypocriticalHumor (Reading the paper)]] [[HandWave ''Oh, awaiting at the bank for disposal.'']] [[BreakingTheFourthWall Seeing directly to the camera:]] ''Makes sense.''

-->'''Rod:''' Bart, I don't know is this should be an Extra.\\

-->'''Screwy Squirrel:''' (''at the bottom of the cliff, holding a newspaper'') Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Dumb dog falls for corny old gag! Extra! (''Meathead lands'') Paper, mister? (''hands Meathead paper; headline reads "Sucker!"'')

--> '''ECHO!!!'''

--> '''ECHO!!! DAAAILEE MI-RROOOR!!!'''

* ''Film/InvasionUSA1952''. One of the most bizarre and badly staged in film history. As the main characters Vincent and Carla stare lovingly into each other's eyes in the foreground, a newsboy walks in, yelling, "Extra! Paper! Read all about it!", and ''stares directly at the two'' (who don't notice and continue to look into each other's eyes like zombies); he then turns around with barely a pause and walks off '''''from the same way he entered'''''.