History Main / NewhartPhonecall

* The page quote is from the ''Animation/SimpleSamosa'' episode "Chutney Dam", where Mayor Royal Falooda has a phone conversation while in the bathroom. Only Falooda can be heard speaking coherently; the person on the other end is only heard as sped-up gibberish.

-->'''The Chief:''' He, she, they, it what--what Barton?

* In ''Theatre/TheLastFiveYears'', whenever one of the main characters is depicted having dialogue with another character, it is presented this way, with the only exception being "The Next Ten Minutes", which is where their timelines intersect.

* In "[[Recap/ResidentAlienS2E8AlienDinnerParty Alien Dinner Party]]" from ''Series/ResidentAlien'', Ellen has one with an unknown friend or associate in which she implies that she uses her status as a nurse to commit acts of petty shoplifting and also reveals that Mayor Ben is hosting a SurpriseParty for Harry to try to get him to return to being the town doctor. This latter is overheard by Sahar, causing her to realize that Ethan Stone, the town doctor who replaced Harry, was kidnapped by the MenInBlack.

* Music/HalfAlive: Josh Tyler was planning on scripting and recording a fictional Newhart Phone Call as a brief non-musical interlude on the ''Now, Not Yet,'' album. This was because their song "Maybe" ended with a synthesizer trill that resembled a telephone ring. Then their choreographer Jordan Johnson played a voicemail where model Liz Ord expressed her surprise at [[spoiler: the band being young Christians touring in an increasingly nonreligious UK.]] Tyler realized the voicemail was better than anything he could have written, and it became "The Notion."

* Music/HalfAlive: Josh Tyler was planning on scripting and recording a fictional Newhart Phone Call as a brief non-musical interlude on the ''Now, Not Yet,'' album. This was because their song "Maybe" ended with a synthesizer trill that resembled a telephone ring. Then their choreographer Jordan Johnson played a voicemail where model Liz Ord expressed her surprise at [[spoiler: being young Christians touring in an increasingly nonreligious UK.]] Tyler realized the voicemail was better than anything he could have written, and it became "The Notion."

* Music/halfalive: Josh Tyler was planning on scripting and recording a fictional Newhart Phone Call as a brief non-musical interlude on the ''Now, Not Yet,'' album. This was because their song "Maybe" ended with a synthesizer trill that resembled a telephone ring. Then their choreographer Jordan Johnson played a voicemail where model Liz Ord expressed her surprise at [[spoiler: being young Christians touring in an increasingly nonreligious UK.]] Tyler realized the voicemail was better than anything he could have written, and it became "The Notion."

-->'''Ed Wood''': So are we gonna be working together?...Really? Worst film you ever saw? Well, my next one will be better!...Hello?

** He does this once again in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3'', this time talking to [[spoiler: the director of the CIA]].

* ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'': Played usually straight. If you could actually hear both sides of the conversation it would be a very tedious affair. "The Captain went out for a stroll in the garden, and should be back by 2:00." "The Captain went out for a stroll in the garden, and should be back by 2:00?" Late in ''Cigars of the Pharaoh'', at the reunion of the drug cartel, the chief's right-hand man initially averts it in his phone call with the leader, but lapses back into it when he learns there is an impostor. In the animated version, it's inverted.
* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':
** In the beginning of ''ComicBook/NewKrypton'', ComicBook/LanaLang receives a call from Perry White. Although Perry's side of the conversation is not given, it is clear he is trying -and failing- to talk Lana into returning to her job in the Daily Planet.
** In contrast, in [[ComicBook/Supergirl2005 2010]] storyline ''ComicBook/DeathAndTheFamily'', we hear Lana's side of her call to Perry explaining why she must take a leave of absence... and yes, she would like keeping her job.