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* ''[[The Mummy Trilogy|The Mummy 1999]]'':
{{quote|'''Dr. Chamberlain:''' They are led by a woman. What does a woman know?}}
** This is, of course, immediately before we cut to Evelyn explaining exactly what she knows about the situation.
* ''[[The X-Files]]'' movie (the first one) had one of the Consortium say, in reference to Mulder, "Then you must take away what he holds most valuable, that with which he can't live without." Immediate cut to Scully. And Chris Carter claims he's not a [[Shipping|shipper]].
* At the beginning of ''[[Shrek]] 2'', Prince Charming asks who Princess Fiona is on honeymoon with. The scene immediately cuts to Shrek's face.
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Lord of the Rings]]'': During a conversation at the Hall of Meduseld in The Two Towers, Gandalf asks Theoden, "And what is the King's decision?". An offscreen voice over starts to say "By order of the King, the city must empty! We make for the refuge of Helm's Deep", cutting to a shot of Rohan refuges preparing to leave.
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* [[Fritz Lang]] does this a lot in his German films. Particularly in ''[[Dr. Mabuse the Gambler|The Testament of Dr. Mabuse]]'', almost every scene cut 'responds' in some way to the preceding scene, sometimes subtly and sometimes not.
* [[Fritz Lang]] also did this in ''Metropolis''. After rescuing the children from the flooded worker's city, she asks, "Why are all the lights out?" Cut to the workers dancing around the destroyed machines that caused it.
* In ''[[Dracula's Daughter]]'', Dr Garth asks "What could have made [[Our Vampires Are Different|those two small puncture marks]] on the neck?", and, immediately, a maid announces, "[[Inadvertent Entrance Cue|Countess Zalenska]]!"
** This exchange is actually a reference to the original Dracula film.
{{quote|'''Johnathan Harker:''' What could have caused those marks, Professor?
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** And in ''[[Dracula: Dead and Loving It]]'', this is picked up once more. One character asks, rhetorically, who in England could ''possibly'' be a vampire. Immediately, the maid announces "Count Dracula." The character who asks concedes, "All right, maybe him."
* In ''[[Bride of Frankenstein]]'', Elizabeth describes a vision of an evil apparition which will entangle Henry, and says she sees it drawing nearer — nearer — and the camera cuts to the [[Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate|evil Dr]]. [[Inadvertent Entrance Cue|Pretorius knocking at the door]].
* In ''[[Sinbad the Sailor (film)|Sinbad the Sailor]]'', when Sinbad informs the look-out Yusuf that all ships have to fly colors, as it is "the law of the sea", Yusuf contemptuously asks, "What law is stronger than Strength?" Immediately, the evil Emir's [[Pirate Parrot|Pirate myna-bird]] swoops into shot, shrieking, "[[The Faceless|Jamal! Jamal!]]"
* In the 1939 version of ''[[Sherlock Holmes|The Hound of the Baskervilles]]'', Dr. Mortimer's wife, conducting a seance, asks the spirit of the victim, "Tell us, Sir Charles! Who was it that killed you?" -- to be answered by an eerie "[[Hell Hound|AROOOOOOOOO]]!" from off the moor.
* Played with in ''[[Fantastic Mr. Fox]]''. Having successfully trapped the animals underground, a character asks his fellows, "How long can a fox go without food or water?" Cut to Kylie saying to the camera "Well, I can only answer as an opossum, but I don't think I can last more than another couple of hours before I get completely dehydrated and starve to death." After that, we cut further back and he doesn't appear to be talking to anyone in particular.
* Used in ''[[The Sixth Sense]]'' when Cole says to Malcom, {{spoiler|"I see dead people", it not only cuts to Malcolm, who is dead, but slowly zooms in on him.}} At first, the filmmakers didn't even want to include this shot, fearing it might give away the ending.
* ''[[The
* At the end of the [[Opening Narration]] for ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'', the narrator asks "Who could love a beast?" We then fade into Belle walking to town.
* "[[Shark Tale|How long must this reef live under siege? Is there no hero among us? Who can stop this shark menace?]]" Cut to Oscar.
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* In the ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' episode, "Earshot", Buffy is bedridden due to being unable to control her [[Flowers for Algernon Syndrome|temporary]] [[telepathy]]. The only cure is the heart of a certain demon. Giles wonders who will kill the demon, since Buffy herself is out of commission. Cut to Angel beating the crap out of the demon.
** Parodied in a later episode, where Giles asks Buffy how she plans to fight the incorporeal manifestation of evil itself. Buffy responds that she has "the best plan ever". Cut to her googling the word "evil."
* ''[[Dollhouse]]'': "Omega", the finale of Season 1 as originally aired. Ballard asks where Caroline's original imprint is. Cut to a shot of Wendy waking up in a chair with Caroline in her head.
* In the ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined|Battlestar Galactica]]'' episode "No Exit," Boomer and {{spoiler|Ellen Tigh}} are talking about [[The Power of Love]] on the Cylon baseship. Boomer says, "Who would I want to love?" Cut to Chief Tyrol.
* Used numerous times throughout the seasons of ''[[Top Gear]]''.
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== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* ''[[Bloom County]]'': When Steve Dallas, as lead singer and spokesman of the metal band Deathtöngue, negotiates a deal with CBS Records, he quotes the lyrics of their next song which goes "Let's run over Lionel Ritchie with a tank". Cut to the CBS CEO sitting in front of a huge portrait of Lionel Ritchie.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[South Park]]'' [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] it while explaining the problems with over reliance on in-school sex ed:
{{quote|'''Chef:''' "I know it can be hard, parents, but if you leave it up to the schools to teach sex to kids, you don't know who they're learning it from. It could be from someone who doesn't know, ''[pans to Mr. Mackey]'' someone who has a bad opinion of it, ''[pans to Ms. Choksondik]'' or even a complete pervert." ''[pans to Mr. Garrison]''
'''Garrison:''' "What-- [[Medium Awareness|why did you pan to me just now]]? What the hell is that supposed to mean?" }}
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