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* ''Series/TheRedGreenShow'': In ''Snowed In'', the tv goes out due to the snowstorm, and being snowed in, nobody can get to the rooftop antenna from the outside, so [[ButtMonkey Harold]] is sent into the attic to try to adjust it from underneath. [[ItMakesSenseInContext Naturally, cannibalism jokes ensue.]]

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* ''Series/TheRedGreenShow'': In ''Snowed In'', the tv goes out due to the snowstorm, and being snowed in, nobody can get to the rooftop antenna from the outside, so [[ButtMonkey Harold]] is sent into the attic to try to adjust it from underneath. He fails. [[ItMakesSenseInContext Naturally, cannibalism jokes ensue.]]
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* ''Series/TheRedGreenShow'': In ''Snowed In'', the tv goes out due to the snowstorm, and being snowed in, nobody can get to the rooftop antenna from the outside, so [[ButtMonkey Harold]] is sent into the attic to try to adjust it from underneath. [[ItMakesSenseInContext Naturally, cannibalism jokes ensue.]]

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* Came up on more than one occasion on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', for example:
* In ''Series/TheTraceyUllmanShow'' short [[http://www.snpp.com/episodes/mg48.html "TV Simpsons,"]] this is the entire plot.

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* Came up on more than one occasion on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', for example:
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example, in ''Series/TheTraceyUllmanShow'' short [[http://www.snpp.com/episodes/mg48.html "TV Simpsons,"]] this is the entire plot.

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* TheStinger of the ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' Season 3 opener "She's the Boss" sees Martin struggling to get a coherent picture on the television. Daphne solves the problem by picking up Eddie, who is wearing a protective plastic collar to stop him from scratching the cuts he picked up in a fight with another dog, and putting him on top of the set.

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* TheStinger of the ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' Season 3 opener "She's the Boss" sees Martin struggling to get a coherent picture on the television. Daphne solves the problem by picking up Eddie, who is wearing a protective plastic collar ConeOfShame to stop him from scratching the cuts he picked up in a fight with another dog, and putting him on top of the set.
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* One of the games in ''[[VideoGame/WarioWare WarioWare: Smooth Moves]]'' is about this.

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* ''VideoGame/WarioWareSmoothMoves'': One of the games in ''[[VideoGame/WarioWare WarioWare: Smooth Moves]]'' is about this.microgames requires adjusting a house's antenna to the right position to win.



** In ''Series/TheTraceyUllmanShow'' short [[http://www.snpp.com/episodes/mg48.html "TV Simpsons,"]] this is the entire plot.

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Sometimes the TV goes on the fritz. What to do? Other than PercussiveMaintenance, try adjusting the antenna, which may take a while. Conversations can go like this:

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Sometimes the TV goes on the fritz. What to do? Other than PercussiveMaintenance, try adjusting the antenna, which may take a while. Conversations can go like this:
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Sometimes the TV goes on the fritz. What to do? Other than PercussiveMaintenance, try adjusting the antenna, which may take a while. Conversations can go like this:

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* ''VideoGame/CreepTV'': When the TV stops working, Courage has to fix the antenna on the roof of the house with [[spoiler:a wire hanger from the laundry bin]].
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* A 2010s example was the antenna on the [[https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-antennagate-scandal-timeline-10-year-anniversary-2020-7?r=US&IR=T iPhone 4]], which could lose effectiveness depending how the phone was held.

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Specifically, the only way to fix this condition in a comedy is to get the ButtMonkey to wear a tin-foil hat with rabbit ears and pose like an idiot at the direction of his so-called friends, possibly while also standing on the roof.

A ''very'' common gag in Swedish media. Very likely a DeadHorseTrope due to improvements in television transmission and reception, especially if your country's made the switch to digital media, rendering rabbit ears both obsolete and utterly useless.

This gag could also work on wi-fi routers in cases of wonky signals.

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Specifically, the only way to fix this condition in a comedy is to get the ButtMonkey to wear a tin-foil hat with rabbit ears and pose like an idiot at the direction of his so-called friends, possibly while also standing on the roof.

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roof. This is a ''very'' common gag in Swedish media. Very likely media.

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a DeadHorseTrope DeadHorseTrope, as due to improvements in television transmission and reception, reception over the years, these sorts of aerials just aren't used anymore, especially if your country's made the switch to digital transmissions and digital media, rendering rabbit ears both obsolete and utterly useless.

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useless. Unless it's a PeriodPiece from the [=2000's=], you'll likely never see this trope in modern works, unless it has to do with wi-fi routers in cases of wonky signals.
(and even then, the routers themselves are seldom the issue).

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