. . . "Basic Trope: Fictional cellphones are either more unreliable than Real Life cellphones, or fictional characters are less likely to possess them than in the real world. \n* Straight: Alice is trying to contact Bob but he is in the middle of a forest and thus out of reach of a cellphone tower. \n* Exaggerated: Alice is trying to contact Bob using a cellphone but cannot find a signal, despite the fact that they are both in downtown New York. \n* Justified: Bob is in an out-of-reach location where it genuinely is difficult to get a cellphone signal (such as a basement, the middle of a desert or Antarctica). \n* Inverted: \n* Alice's cellphone is so powerful it is capable of doing things no cellphone should be able to do. \n* Alice has a satellite phone. \n* Subverted: Despite being out of an urban area, Bob is still within cellphone range and Alice's call gets through. \n* Doubly Subverted: The line is unclear, however, and cuts out before Alice can impart her message to Bob. \n* Parodied: Despite the fact that they all have working cellphones, in an emergency none of the characters even thinks about using them to contact any of the others. \n* Deconstructed: The uselessness of cellphones in general means many companies go bankrupt and millions of workers are put out of jobs. \n* Reconstructed: The uselessness of cellphones in general puts pressure on cellphone companies to finally improve service by building more powerful towers. Those that do not go bankrupt. \n* Zig Zagged: Bob repeatedly goes into areas of bad phone service. \n* Averted: Fictional cellphones are exactly as reliable and widely-possessed as they are in Real Life. \n* Lampshaded: \"Damn, the reception out here is terrible.\" \n* Invoked: Bob intentionally gives Alice a malfunctioning cellphone so that she will not be able to contact anyone in an emergency. \n* Defied: \n* Alice is Crazy Prepared and always has a working phone with her. She might even carry several. \n* Alternately, Alice has a satellite phone which always works. \n* Or, Alice and Bob have radios and know how to use them. \n* Discussed: \"Don't you have a cell phone?\" \"Yeah, but all the cellphone towers around here can't get a signal if you're more than two feet away!\" \n* Conversed: \"Wow, the cellphone service providers these characters have suck.\" Back to Can You Hear Me Now"@en . . . . "Can You Hear Me Now/Playing With"@en . "Basic Trope: Fictional cellphones are either more unreliable than Real Life cellphones, or fictional characters are less likely to possess them than in the real world. \n* Straight: Alice is trying to contact Bob but he is in the middle of a forest and thus out of reach of a cellphone tower. \n* Exaggerated: Alice is trying to contact Bob using a cellphone but cannot find a signal, despite the fact that they are both in downtown New York. \n* Justified: Bob is in an out-of-reach location where it genuinely is difficult to get a cellphone signal (such as a basement, the middle of a desert or Antarctica). \n* Inverted: \n* Alice's cellphone is so powerful it is capable of doing things no cellphone should be able to do. \n* Alice has a satellite phone. \n* Subverted: Despite bei"@en . . .