Double Take: Difference between revisions

 

Bonus points if you include an [[Eye Take]], [[Spit Take]], [[GASP]], or if the words which prompt the Double Take are, before the take, unthinkingly repeated by the Double-Taker (as in the example above).

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* In an early episode of ''[[Gundam Seed]]'', Lacus is being transferred from the Archangel over to ZAFT. In order to fit into the spacesuit, she had to remove her bulky skirt, which she then stores ''inside'' the suit, making her look pregnant. When she's handed over to the ZAFT soldier (who just so happens to be her [[Arranged Marriage|fiancé]] Athrun), he does a visible Double Take at the sight of her "belly".

* In episode 8 of the first season of ''[[Sekirei]]'', Minato feels at ease after having a private talk with Tsukiumi about her not losing a fight, which he had with Musubi in an earlier episode. He then wonders out loud if they're not the same despite their differences. He opens the door slightly, and sees Musubi standing by the door. He nonchalantly closes it for a few moments, then opens it again, and after she says something to him, he screams, wondering if Musubi just heard what he said comparing the two girls.

 

* Even robots can fall victim to the double-take: see ''[[WALL-E]]''.

* In ''[[Winnie the Pooh|The Tigger Movie]]'', this is Tigger's reaction to Roo asking him to teach the [[Overly Long Name|Whoopty-Dooper-Loopty-Looper-Alley-Ooper Bounce]]:

''(both nod and retreat into the hole; [[Beat]]; both return)''

'''Godfrey''' & '''Daniel:''' Tiny girl floating in a sardine can?! }}

* In the film version of ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Lord of the Rings]]: The Two Towers'' Pippin does one of these when he realizes that the tree he is climbing is, in fact, sentient.

* The French soldier in ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]'' does a big double-take when he sees the huge "Trojan rabbit" being wheeled up to the gate.

** A good one in ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067108/ Delusions of Grandeur]'', when Don Saluste guides the king of Spain to the bedroom where they expect to surprise the queen with her lover... only to find her old gouvernante, Doña Juana, in the arms of Blaze the valet. Saluste double-takes, closes the door hastily and starts speaking gibberish out of shock.

* [[The Three Stooges]], fairly constantly.

 

== Literature ==

 

== Live-Action TV ==

* In an episode of ''[[Father Ted]]'', Bishop Brennan is coming to stay and he is terrified of rabbits. Ted comes down in the morning and the lounge is bizarrely full of rabbits. He sits down and starts to read the newspaper for a while, before finally noticing, leaping up and screaming his head off. A similar thing happens when he completely destroys a car donated as a raffle prize by the diocese in the process of trying to tap out a tiny dent. In the [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|appropriately-titled]] episode "Kicking Bishop Brennan Up The Arse" he also doesn't realise that Ted has just kicked him up the arse until he's in Rome at an audience with the Pope, at which point it dawns on him and he goes running out.

* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''. When Vampire!Willow (a second Willow, from an alternate dimension) is spotted by Angel...

'''Xander:''' We're all right there with you. }}

** This wasn't the first time he'd do this. Just turned evil, Angelus sides with the psychotic Drusilia and The Judge, who's meant to be invincible. That was before Buffy has something stolen for her, a rocket launcher. When Angelus sees it he just knows that it's time to get out of there, and we get a second close up Double Take of [[Oh Crap|fear in case it was missed in the first wide shot]].

* In the ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' episode "Alone", Wilson kidnaps House's guitar to {{spoiler|force him into hiring a new team.}} He leaves a ransom note made of letters cut from a newspaper taped to House's wall. When House sees this, he barges into Wilson's office to reclaim his guitar. Wilson smugly proclaims his innocence, then signals the conversation is over by opening his newspaper... the paper with all the bits cut out, causing House to do a (hilarious) double take.

* ''[[Dollhouse]]'' gives us this:

'''Zone:''' She's a tech-head. Mag. ... She's a ''girl'', Mag! }}

* While it ''may'' have happened at some point in ''[[Star Trek]]'' (with five different shows and nearly a dozen movies, ''you'' check them all to see one), there was definitely one from its creator, Gene Roddenberry. He married Majel Barrett, who had been removed from her role as Number One due to [[Executive Meddling]] (this was just after "The Cage" had been shot). Barrett, in order to get back ''on'' the show (albeit in a different role) dyed her hair, and was talking to a producer or someone when Roddenberry walked through, said hi, began walking out, and double-took.

* In ''[[Sister, Sister]]'', Tia is being told off for causing the star player of High School to become dangerously close to flunking due to her tutoring skills. Tia denies that she was doing it, and also denies ever tutoring him. However, mid-sentence, she realizes... cue double take, Tamera apparently disappearing when she was present beforehand, and then a cutaway to the outside of the school with Tia's voice screaming "TAMERA!" at the top of her lungs and in a long manner.

 

 

* In ''[[On the Town]]'', Lucy does a Double Take between the following lines and exiting the scene:

{{quote|'''Chip:''' Well, goodbye, Miss Schmeeler.

'''Lucy:''' [[Goodbye, Mr. Chips]]. }}

* Mortimer does a big one in ''[[Arsenic and Old Lace]]'' after [[Dead Man's Chest|discovering there's a dead body in the window-seat]].

 

== Video Games ==

'''Kefka:''' ''(waving)'' Yeah, it's been a pleasure! Wait, you're, you, you're you w-w... WHAT!?

''(beat)'' }}

 

== Web Animation ==

** It's a jibe at the game's [[Artificial Stupidity]]: the program's pathfinding tendencies to lead one's units through the shortest route possible, even if it isn't the safest way around. It's [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] by the Commando that ordered the Harvester to come home and the Harvester's seemingly [[Simpleton Voice]].

{{quote|'''Nod Commando:''' Harvester Number Two! I want the resources back to the base a.s.a.p.! And ''don't take a goddamn shortcut!''}}

 

== Web Original ==

* In ''[[Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog]]'', Captain Hammer gives Penny one when he realizes that the girl he just "saved" is kinda cute.

* One literal trailer for the fourth ''Twilight'' film: "Edward looks shocked, and Bella looks stunned/ ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]], Breaking Dawn''... [[Trilogy Creep|Part 1]]?" It then ''cuts to the person literalising'', who can't quite believe what he just read, then does a [[Curse Cut Short]].

 

== Western Animation ==

{{quote|'''Roscoe:''' ''(flying through the air, hand stuck in out-of-control magic bag)'' Hi, Felix.

'''Felix:''' Hi, Roscoe. ''(aside)'' Even Roscoe. ''(realizes what just happened)'' }}

 

== Real Life ==

 

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