• 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.de
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    9 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.

    • BakerBagel@midwest.social
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      9 months ago

      They use pagers all the time in Scrubs, since hospitals were one of the last places were pagers were still useful.