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{{trope}}
[[File:xkcd.png|link=Xkcd
{{quote|'''Lizzie:'''
'''Miranda:''' [[Defied Trope|I'll ''hang up first!'' (pulls out the phone line)]]
|''[[Lizzie McGuire]]''}}
A comedy bit where two characters, usually lovers, have to end their telephone conversation and they end up affectionately arguing over which of them should hang up first. Usually only one half of the conversation is heard and it goes somewhat like this:
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''[a beat]''
'''Character''': No, you.
''[a beat]''
'''Character''': Okay, on three: one, two, three...
''[a beat]''
'''Character''': No, I didn't hang up, either. }}
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An example of how [[Love Makes You Crazy]].
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== Advertising ==
* In a TV ad for the city of Las Vegas, a man and a woman go through the routine, each at their respective house, saying "Bye" to each other two or three times without hanging up. In the next scene, the man can only say "Bye" once, because she replies and then hangs up, revealing that this time she's with friends at a Vegas hotel, and wastes no time going out to enjoy the city. The man just stares at the phone, bewildered.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[
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'''Frank''': You hang up first.
'''Margaret''': Frank, that's so high school.
'''Frank''': Well, let's count to three and then we'll hang up together.
'''Margaret''': Okay, you start.
'''Frank''': One.
'''Margaret''': Two.
'''Hawkeye and Trapper''': ''[on another line]'' Three!
'''Margaret''': Get them Frank! }}
** Burns then chases Pierce and Trapper out, falls in a hole, then they (Pierce and Trapper) park a Jeep on top of him
* ''[[30
* In an episode of ''[[Friends]]'', Ross does this with Julie. Eventually Rachel (who's only recently realised she has feelings for Ross) snaps and hangs up for him... at which point Ross actually ''calls Julie back.'' "Sorry, where were we? No, YOU hang up first!"
* ''[[Malcolm in
* ''[[The Nanny]]'' had a variation where after a few rounds of "You Hang Up First", another character - annoyed - picked up the receiver and hung up for them.
* British Sitcom ''[[My Family]]'' had Ben Harper's assistant go through this routine with her boyfriend, until he grabbed the phone from her, told the boyfriend "No, I'll hang up first." and promptly did.
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* Used bizarrely in ''[[The 4400]]'' by, of all people [[The Hero|Tom Baldwin]] and [[Anti-Villain|Jordan Collier]].
* In ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'' episode "The Large Hadron Collision", Howard says it to his girlfriend, who promptly does so.
* Haley does this with her boyfriend on ''[[Modern Family]]''
== Webcomics ==
* [http://xkcd.com/698/ This] ''[[
* ''[[Eerie Cuties]]'' in Chapter 8 - Layla was playing it with Kade (shortly after their relationship was... [[Relationship-Salvaging Disaster|revitalized]]) and [[Luminescent Blush|blushing]] as she walked into bathtub with cellphone...
{{quote|'''Layla''': M-''mom!?!'' w-''when'' did you get here?!
'''Maria''': Ten minutes before you, honey. You got it bad! }}
* ''[[Dork Tower]]'' supplies [http://www.dorktower.com/2005/05/26/comics-archive-686/ this] among other lines that would make scripts of ''[[Star Wars]]'' prequels make more sense.
* ''Optipess'' has a [http://www.optipess.com/2008/12/10/hung-up-on-hanging-up/ particularly bad case].
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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* ''[[Family Guy]]'' used the classic routine, word for word, in a scene with Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun, only, instead of hanging up first, they were arguing over who would take their [[Cyanide Pill]] first.
* Subverted in ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'', since Candace's boyfriend Jeremy isn't nearly as love-crazy as she is:
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* Customer service representatives are usually not allowed to hang up before the customer does, but in order to [[Defied Trope|stop this kind of thing]] from happening, they ''are'' allowed to hang up if the customer obviously has no other issues concerning the product being serviced.
* In the days of mechanical step-by-step telephone switches, the connection would not drop until the calling party hangs up. The called party could hang up, go to another extension, pick up the same call – and the caller would still be on the line. This was used in dirty tricks in the Nixon administration era to call a rival campaign from all of the [[Phone Booth]]s and leave the calls open to tie up all inbound lines. On an electronic or digital switch, this no longer works.
* A transcription of a phone conversation between [[British Royal Family|Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles]] shows them doing this for what must have been almost an hour. Less [[Squee]]-inducing with the knowledge that it was solid, irrefutable evidence he was cheating on Princess Diana, not that there wasn't [[Royally Screwed-Up|plenty of infidelity]] to go around there...
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