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Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
they never quite made it into the pantheon of excellent sitcom plot devices like answering machines
Huh. I never thought about it before, but the times I can remember pagers being a significant plot points in sitcoms is when they were already on the way out. Dennis Duffy’s pager business on 30 Rock for example.
AtmaJnana@lemmy.world 6 months ago
mister_flibble@lemm.ee 6 months ago
There was Big Bob’s Beepers on Hey Arnold.
BakerBagel@midwest.social 6 months ago
They use pagers all the time in Scrubs, since hospitals were one of the last places were pagers were still useful.
TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Still do, I have my pager on me right now. Though I feel they’ve gone down in quality over the years. I usually go through at least one a year, and the buzzer function tends to die after just a few months.