![]() Used in the start of the opening theme for Sid the Science Kid.Subverted in The Simpsons where Moe tells an awful joke, asks if his microphone is on, then gets an apology from Barney as he failed to plug the wire in.Used in the series Dave the Barbarian in which a peasant asks a series of really bad jokes before asking: "Has this thing been invented yet?".Uttered by Lrrr of the planet Omicron Persei 8 in an episode of Futurama.It uses the phrase to represent loneliness and watching the world leave you behind as you mourn a loss. Less Than Jake has a song with this trope as its name.Zach De La Rocha of Rage Against the Machine would usually open concerts by shouting "one, two".Lady Sovereign begins "A Little Bit of Shhh" with this phrase.turns sound into electricity! Can you hear me now?!" Which is especially surreal when you consider that band leader Steve Albini is a professional recording engineer. The Shellac song, "The End of Radio", repeats this phrase many times.At the start of "The Real Sugar Baby" (a cover of Eminem's "The Real Slim Shady", only with a female singer and with "sugar baby" instead of "slim shady") the singer goes into the mic at the start "Hello, is this thing on?".During the skit Ken Kaniff taps the microphone and says "Erm. ![]() The Eminem Show album ends with a skit.I sit alone in my four cornered room, starin' at candles. Stargate SG-1, season 8 episode "New Order, Part 2": Jack O'Neill does this while his mind is merged with the computer of Thor's spaceship, and he's talking through its comms.A stagehand soundchecks with "check, one, to be or not to be" before Oliver's memorial service. He then says this and taps his mouth, since they're in the Middle Ages and microphones don't exist. King Richard attempts to do a comedy routine, and fails miserably. Lucy tests it with the "Testing 1, 2, 3" method. In one of the last episodes of I Love Lucy, Fred installs an intercom between his guest house and the Ricardo's main house.This is the very first thing he says, and he's genuinely surprised that it works. Falling Skies: The bonus material on the official site has Pope starting an oral history of the Second Mass on a tape recorder he stumbles on.Doctor Who: The Doctor does this with his camera when recording his instructions for Martha in "Human Nature".During the Carson-era of The Tonight Show, Johnny would leap up to grab the boom mic, bring it close to his mouth and announce: "Attention, K-Mart shopper!" whenever a joke fell flat.Also, Is This Thing Still On will sometimes follow Is This Thing On. Not to be confused with Is This Thing Still On?, though the two are vaguely similar. Despite this fact, all forms of media still use this trope, misleading the common people to think that it is necessary to check the mic this way before speaking. The audio team will probably have already spoken into the microphone while setting up the sound system before the audience arrives, and definitely before the speaker arrives on stage. Unfortunately, because of a case of TV Never Lies, people sometimes do this in Real Life, thinking (1) it is the correct way to test a microphone or (2) that it hasn't been tested already. Nine times out of ten, you can bet any character speaking into a microphone will utter this phrase. "Hey, Is This Thing On?" *tap tap tap* "Testing, testing, 1-2-3.". The crowd remains in an eager silence as they calmly walk onto the stage and takes slow, echoing steps towards their personal, Jimi Hendrix-signed microphone. Alex the rock star is ready to wow the crowd with his hip brand of radical rap-rock- metal fusion.
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