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* There's no better way to mess with your friends than by breaking the fourth wall in conversation. That way, if there's ever a movie made of your life, you can include fourth-wall breaking scenes without having to fictionalize anything.
* There's no better way to mess with your friends than by breaking the fourth wall in conversation. That way, if there's ever a movie made of your life, you can include fourth-wall breaking scenes without having to fictionalize anything.
** So that's what you've been doing. Knock it off, Derek! {{color|white|Yes, this is an attempt to mess with the heads of every Derek in the world. Don't spoil it}}
** So that's what you've been doing. Knock it off, Derek! {{color|white|Yes, this is an attempt to mess with the heads of every Derek in the world. Don't spoil it}}
* Thanks to the existence of wiretaps, it is now possible to break the fourth wall by giving a friendly, or not so friendly, hello to the FBI/DHS/NSA/SRI/etc. This is customarily done after making a particularly seditious comment, as exemplified by [http://xkcd.com/525/ this xkcd] comic and ''[http://www.gigaville.com/comic.php?id=415 another] from ''[[Last Days Of Foxhound]]''.
* Thanks to the existence of wiretaps, it is now possible to break the fourth wall by giving a friendly, or not so friendly, hello to the FBI/DHS/NSA/SRI/etc. This is customarily done after making a particularly seditious comment, as exemplified by [http://xkcd.com/525/ this xkcd] comic and ''[http://www.gigaville.com/comic.php?id=415 another] from ''[[The Last Days of Foxhound]]''.
** Can you say that directly into the microphone please? ''* Prominently displays shirt pocket or some other mundane place a microphone could be hiding* ''
** Can you say that directly into the microphone please? ''* Prominently displays shirt pocket or some other mundane place a microphone could be hiding* ''
** [[George Carlin]] once told a story about a friend of a friend who, while under investigation by the FBI, took to answering his phone with "Fuck Hoover" instead of "Hello".
** [[George Carlin]] once told a story about a friend of a friend who, while under investigation by the FBI, took to answering his phone with "Fuck Hoover" instead of "Hello".