Pagers were a big deal for a while there, even if they never quite made it into the pantheon of excellent sitcom plot devices like answering machines did. Anyway, [Finnley Dolfin] had some pagers a…
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.
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.
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.
They use pagers all the time in Scrubs, since hospitals were one of the last places were pagers were still useful.
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.
There was Big Bob’s Beepers on Hey Arnold.