10 TV Shows That Mock You For Paying Attention

2. "Find A Hobby For God's Sake" - Silicon Valley

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Here's a gag which fans actually spotted in the trailer for Silicon Valley's fifth season, as later appeared in earnest in the episode "Tech Evangelist."

When Gavin Belson (Matt Ross) is shown practising his presentation, he's stood in front of a large string of binary code.

Naturally fans immediately suspected it contained a hidden message for attentive viewers, and so decided to decode it into English, only to find themselves being thoroughly trolled.

In actual fact, the binary code reads, "Find a hobby for God's sake." What a perfect indictment of the obsessive, tech-loving nerds who actually cared enough to translate the code.

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