TV

A TV, or television, is an item of furniture obtainable in the Animal Crossing series. Like in real life, TVs broadcast an assortment of programs when turned on, such as game shows, cartoons, or plays. TVs also feature weather forecasts that tell the player the weather of the following day. In Animal Crossing, TVs play one show that can be viewed only on a certain TV.

Televisions

Programming

Wild World & City Folk

Programs come on at certain times of day, although in Animal Crossing, TVs show the same program depending on which type of TV it is. The following programs can be found on TV throughout the day in all games but Animal Crossing:

News

The newswoman tells about some sort of speech in one report and some sort of fire, inter-spliced with a field interview of a man, as K.K. D&B play in the background. In Happy Home Designer, the fire disaster was changed to some sort of nighttime fairground display for unknown reasons.

Weather

The Weatherman tells explains about the weather while acoustic versions of K.K. Love Song, Café K.K. and K.K. Swing play in the background. This program will also display what the weather will be like tomorrow, making it useful for planning out activities that depend on the weather (such as catching certain kinds of bugs and fish).

Soap Opera

What seems to be a young man and a woman talk at some sort of house, likely confessing their love with each other. It's likely the show Sable watches, and she calls it Pointed Love. The music from The Roost in Wild World & City Folk can be heard.

Nature

The view switches from various landscapes, while the sound of nature and a narrating voice can heard.

Action

A superhero likely styled after a Power Ranger, is seen running at the front and posing while Go K.K. Rider can be heard playing.

Comedy

A man and a woman are showing at a stage, with the woman telling jokes while the man seems to be annoyed with it. For some reason, one scene has them both speaking in unison. A varied instrumentation of K.K. Ragtime is played.

Quiz

Four contestants are challenged to answer questions. The man who gives the answer gets it wrong, while the girl gets the question right.

Ball Game

There is soccer match going on, with two teams being pitted against each other.

Music

What seems to be either a live concert or a music video shows a girl with a band singing to a rendition of K.K. Jazz.

Movie

A person with a gun attempts to make their way through the building. Afterward, they notice someone and try to shoot them as the building bursts into flames.

Test Pattern

A test card is shown, while a long beeping noise can be heard. The test card resembles the SMPTE Color Bars in the Japanese and North American version, while the Philips PM5544 test pattern is used in the European version.

Static

All is shown is static, as the daily run for the television broadcast is over.

Introduced in New Leaf

Commercials

There are six new commercials introduced in New Leaf. One of them is for a drink as the startup theme from Animal Crossing (specifically the one played when booting up a copy of the game without any town data present) is played in the background. Three other commercials are slightly modified versions of the programs that would perpetually play on the Retro TV, the Apple TV, and the Snowman TV (respectively labelled "girl", "apples", and "snow" in the schedule below) in Animal Crossing series.

Aerobics

A calisthenics program based on Rajiou Taiso plays to the tune of the Morning Aerobics theme from Animal Crossing. Like Rajiou Taiso, this program only airs in the early morning.

Cooking

shows a chef making some food for the hungry woman. its unknown what food type he cooked for the woman. K.K. Etude plays in this show

Talk Show

As the music from inside the Happy Room Academy Headquarters from City Folk plays at the beginning, there's a woman talking to a man, likely expressing their feelings.

Cartoon

A cat and a mouse chase each other around in a pastiche of the Tom and Jerry animated short films while K.K. Rockabilly plays in the background.

UFO

A strange alien transmission that appears from 3:33 AM to 3:34 AM on Sunday and Monday. It seems to be delivering a message of some sort. The alien is seen moving closer and farther from the viewer

Schedule

In Wild World and City Folk

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
6am	News	News	News	News	News	News	News
6:45	Weather	Weather	Weather	Weather	Weather	Weather	Weather
7:00	News	News	News	News	News	News	Action
7:45	Weather	Weather	Weather	Weather	Weather	Weather
8:00	Soap	Soap	Soap	Soap	Soap	Comedy	Nature
8:30	Nature	Nature	Nature	Nature	Nature
9:00						Nature	Quiz
10:00	Action	Action	Action	Action	Action	Action	Comedy
11:00	News	News	News	News	News	News	News
11:45	Weather	Weather	Weather	Weather	Weather	Weather	Weather
12pm	Comedy	Comedy	Comedy	Comedy	Comedy	Comedy	Action
1:00	Soap	Soap	Soap	Soap	Soap		Ball Game
1:30	Comedy			Comedy
2:00			Comedy			Nature
3:00	Nature	Nature	Nature	Nature	Weather	Ball Game	Quiz
4:00	Action	Action	Action	Action	Action		Nature
5:00	Comedy	Comedy	Comedy	Comedy	Comedy	Comedy	Comedy
6:00	News	News	News	News	News	News	News
6:45	Weather	Weather	Weather	Weather	Weather	Weather	Weather
7:00	Comedy	Ball Game	Action	Comedy	Ball Game	Quiz	Ball Game
8:00	Quiz		Music	Nature		Comedy
9:00	Soap	Soap	Soap	Soap	Soap	Movie	Movie
10:00	News	News	News	News	News
10:45	Weather	Weather	Weather	Weather	Weather	Weather	Weather
11:00	Comedy	Nature	Quiz	Comedy	Quiz	News	News
11:45						Weather	Weather
12am		Nature	Comedy		Music	Test	Test
1:00	Movie	Music	Ball Game	Nature	Movie	Static	Static
2:00
3:00	Test	Test	Test	Test	Test
4:00	Static	Static	Static	Static	Static
5:00	Test	Test	Test	Test	Test	Test	Test

In New Leaf

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
6am	News	News	News	News	News	News	News
6:15	Weather	Weather	Weather	Weather	Weather	Weather	Weather
6:30	Aerobics	Aerobics	Aerobics	Aerobics	Aerobics	Aerobics	Aerobics
6:59 CM	Detergent	Gym	Soft Drink	Gym	Detergent	Soft Drink	Detergent
7:00	News	News	News	News	News	News	Action
7:29 CM							Snow
7:30							Action
7:59 CM	Gym	Gym	Gym	Gym	Gym	Gym	Apples
8:00	Soap	Soap	Soap	Soap	Soap	Soap	Cartoon
8:19 CM	Gym	Gym	Gym	Gym	Gym	Gym
8:20	Nature	Nature	Nature	Nature	Nature	Nature
8:29 CM							Girl
8:30							Cartoon
8:59 CM							Apples
9:00							Quiz
9:18 CM	Detergent	Detergent	Detergent	Detergent	Detergent	Detergent
9:19 CM	Gym	Gym	Gym	Gym	Gym	Gym
9:20	Nature	Nature	Nature	Nature	Nature	Nature
9:29 CM							Detergent
9:30							Quiz
9:59 CM	Gym	Gym	Gym	Gym	Gym	Gym	Soft Drink
10:00	Action	Cartoon	Action	Action	Cartoon	Action	Comedy
9:29 CM	Soft Drink	Soft Drink	Detergent	Detergent	Soft Drink	Detergent	Detergent
10:00	Action	Cartoon	Action	Action	Cartoon	Action	Comedy
9:59 CM	Soft Drink	Gym	Soft Drink	Soft Drink	Gym	Soft Drink	Soft Drink
11:00	Cooking	Cooking	Cooking	Cooking	Cooking	News	News
11:29 CM	Detergent	Detergent	Detergent	Detergent	Detergent
11:30	News	News	News	News	News
11:45	Weather	Weather	Weather	Weather	Weather	Weather	Weather
11:59 CM	Apples	Gym	Gym	Gym	Gym	Gym	Gym
12pm	Comedy	Comedy	Comedy	Comedy	Comedy	Comedy	Talk
12:29 CM	Soft Drink	Soft Drink	Soft Drink	Soft Drink	Soft Drink	Soft Drink	Soft Drink
12:30	Comedy	Comedy	Comedy	Comedy	Comedy	Comedy	Talk
12:59 CM	Detergent	Gym	Gym	Gym	Gym		Gym
1:00	Soap	Soap	Talk	Soap	Soap	Ball Game
1:30	Comedy		Comedy
2:00				Comedy			Nature
3:00	Aerobics	Aerobics	Aerobics	Aerobics	Aerobics	Ball Game	Quiz
3:59 CM	Soft Drink	Soft Drink	Girl	Soft Drink	Soft Drink	Soft Drink	Soft Drink
4:00	Action	Action	Cartoon	Action	Action	Ball Game	Cooking
5:00	Comedy	Comedy	Comedy	Comedy	Comedy	Comedy	Comedy
6:00	News	News	News	News	News	News	News
6:45	Weather	Weather	Weather	Weather	Weather	Weather	Weather
7:00	Comedy	Ball Game	Cooking	Cartoon	Ball Game	Quiz	Ball Game
8:00	Quiz		Music	Nature		Comedy
9:00	Soap	Soap	Soap	Soap	Soap	Movie	Movie
9:57 CM	Gym	Gym		Gym	Gym
9:58 CM	Soft Drink	Soft Drink		Soft Drink	Soft Drink
9:59 CM	Gym	Gym	Gym	Detergent	Gym
10:00	News	News	News	News	News	News	News
10:45	Weather	Weather	Weather	Weather	Weather	Weather	Weather
11:00	Comedy	Nature	Quiz	Comedy	Quiz	News	News
11:29	News	Soft Drink	Detergent	News	Soft Drink	Detergent
11:30	Comedy	Nature	Quiz	Comedy	Quiz	Cooking
11:55	Girl	Apples	Snow	Girl	Apples	Snow	Snow
12am	Nature	Test	Music	Test	Music	Test	Test
12:57	Gym	Gym	Gym	Gym	Gym
1:00	Movie	Music	Ball Game	Nature	Movie	Static	Static
2:00
2:45 CM	Gym	Gym	Gym	Gym	Gym
3:00	Test	Test	Test	Test	Test
3:33						UFO	UFO
3:34						Static	Static
4:00	Static	Static	Static	Static	Static
5:00	Test	Test	Test	Test	Test	Test	Test
5:55 CM	Girl	Apples	Snow	Girl	Apples	Snow

Commercials

Commercials
Retro TV Commercial		Snowman TV Commercial		Apple TV Commercial

Trivia

• Most TVs in the Animal Crossing series series appear to be based on CRT monitors (which were standard among households from the late 1940's to the late 2000's), with only a select few based on HD LED monitors (which have been standard among households since the late 2000's).

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