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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).

 

== Anime & Manga ==

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

* While it ''may'' have happened at some point in ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|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.

* One of Harry Enfield's sketch shows featured recurring characters "The Double-Take Brothers", a pair of gormless unobservant idiots who react this way to ''everything''.

* ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]''

* Tucker does this in ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'' Season 4, when confronted with Crunchbite for the first time.

* Seen in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGtd0KkOvG4 this satirical animated short (from 6:40 to 7:42)] of ''[[Command and Conquer]]: Tiberian Dawn'' when a [[Green Rocks|Tiberium]] [[Worker Unit|Harvester]] from one side [[You Require More Vespene Gas|returns to its home base]] by making a calm, friendly drive past its adversary's base without getting shot at. The base's guards [[The Guards Must Be Crazy|get carried away]], [[Alertness Blink|only to realize]] that [[Crowning Moment of Funny|they've just let an enemy Harvester escape under their noses]].

** 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!''}}

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