Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: What to do?, started by sgrunt on Jan 29th 2011 at 11:13:13 PM
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanPoint number one: It is not "identical to Coincidental Broadcast." Coincidental Broadcast is "Any television or radio accidentally turned on during a tension-filled moment will automatically display a news story relevant to or actually about the current source of dramatic tension." This trope is about interrupting a program that the characters are already listening or watching with a news story.
Point Number two: It now has three media examples, and there are certainly more, just considering how often War Of The Worlds has been homaged or parodied.
This should not be cut.
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
I'm glad you included the SpongeBob ones.
Edited by MrStranger616