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'''Meimi:''' <Yuki's was eaten by her pet zombie zilla.><br />
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"[[The Take|Takes]]" or [[Reaction Shot|Reaction Shots]] are a staple, in live action and animation.
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''(both nod and retreat into the hole; [[Beat]]; both return)''<br />
'''Godfrey''' & '''Daniel:''' Tiny girl floating in a sardine can?! }}
* In Disney's ''[[Hercules (Disney film)|Hercules]]'', while Meg and Herc start talking and falling for one another in a garden, Meg backs up into something pointed (which turns out to be a statue of Cupid, the point being his arrow). Cue a subtle, but definite double take from Meg.
 
 
== Films -- Live-Action ==
* In the film version of ''[[The Lord of the Rings (Filmfilm)|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.
* In ''[[Monty PythonsPython's Life of Brian]]'', after Brian falls into a passing spaceship, the two aliens inside do a double-take at the sight of him. More exactly, their ''eyestalks'' do a double-take.
* A rather (in)famous one in the [[James Bond (Filmfilm)|James Bond]] movie ''[[Moonraker (Film)|Moonraker]]'', with [[Animal Reaction Shot|a Venetian pigeon]] doing a Double Take at Bond passing by in a gondola-hovercraft.
** Another in ''[[You Only Live Twice (Film)|You Only Live Twice]]'' when Osato sees Bond in the SPECTRE control room.
* Alan gets one in ''[[The Hangover]]'' when he's peeing, sees a tiger in the bathroom, continues to urinate, then turns at the tiger again in utter horror and panic.
* ''[[TMNT|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze]]'' features not a double take, but a triple take when Keno notices the Turtles running up behind him.
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== Literature ==
* ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Unseen Academicals|Unseen Academicals]]'' has several of these, usually from Glenda, who gets very involved in her thoughts before reacting.
 
 
== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[Chuck]]'' gives us [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXCWIdHpxBw this gem] in its very first episode.
* 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 Onon 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...
{{quote| '''Angel:''' Buffy, I...I just... something's happened that... {{spoiler|Willow}}'s dead. ''(sees Normal!{{spoiler|Willow}} next to Buffy, waving)'' Hey, {{spoiler|Willow}}. ''(very confused)'' [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Wait a second...]]<br />
'''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:
{{quote| '''Zone:''' Who doesn't want to spend some quality time with these ''[[Sarcasm Mode|awesomely]]'' [[Sarcasm Mode|normal people?]]<br />
'''Mag:''' I don't know, it could be all right. The little Asian is kind of cute.<br />
'''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.
* In one "Superheroes" skit on ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway? (TV)|Whose Line Is It Anyway]]'', Ryan was [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?|Double-Take Boy]].
* 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]]''
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** For the [[The Nth Doctor|eleventh Doctor]], during the episode [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31 E12 The Pandorica Opens|"The Pandorica Opens"]] the Doctor {{spoiler|is talking with Rory, who was erased from existence a couple episodes ago, about missing something important. He walks away before coming back with the following:}}
{{quote| '''Doctor:''' {{spoiler|Rory, I'm not trying to be rude, but... you died.}}}}
* In the ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' episode "Hammer of the Gods," the brothers are in a creepy (4 star) hotel, and Dean walks around with his EMF detector, trying to pinpoint their [[Monster of the Week]]. As he walks down the hallway, he passes an open door, with an elephant in the room. He takes two more steps, looks up from his EMF detector, takes two steps back, and the elephant is gone, replaced by a fat black man. Dean walks away, extremely nonplussed.
* ''[[Friends]]''
** In the last episode, Chandler and Monica make their way back home to their old, soon-to-be-vacated apartment, where the rest of the gang is waiting to see their kid. Monica shows up with one of the babies, then Chandler enters the scene with the other. Cue massive [[Double Take]] from everyone; especially egregious with [[Idiot Ball|Joey]].
** Joey has a ''lot'' of these over the course of the show. When Chandler and Joey have won the girls' apartment from them, they stop by to give them a consolation gift and walk in...to find all their stuff back where it was before, because the girls switched everything while they were out. Chandler stands shocked in the doorway, while Joey strolls in, gets a beer and sits down... and ''then'' realizes.
* In an episode of ''[[Fawlty Towers]]'', Basil does this. He's in the lobby as per usual, when the Major casually walks past him carrying an enormous shotgun. Made even funnier by the fact that he's got it to kill 'Basil'.
* In the first series of ''[[Black AdderBlackadder]]'', when Edmund sees the ghost of Richard III.
* 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.
 
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* In ''[[On the Town]]'', Lucy does a [[Double Take]] between the following lines and exiting the scene:
{{quote| '''Chip:''' Well, goodbye, Miss Schmeeler.<br />
'''Lucy:''' [[Goodbye Mr. Chips|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 ==
* In ''[[Dissidia Final Fantasy|Dissidia 012 Duodecim]]'', [[Final Fantasy VI (Video Game)|Kefka]] does a ([[Monster Clown|fittingly]]) hilarious one upon realizing that [[Final Fantasy XII (Video Game)|Vaan]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aomolvvVz8&t=7m30s had taken Terra with him.]
{{quote| '''Vaan:''' We'll finish this next time! For now, I'm just gonna take the girl! Catch ya later!<br />
'''Kefka:''' ''(waving)'' Yeah, it's been a pleasure! Wait, you're, you, you're you w-w... WHAT!?<br />
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== Web Original ==
* In ''[[Dr. HorriblesHorrible'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 (Literaturenovel)|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 ==
* In the [[Tom and Jerry (Animation)|Tom and Jerry]] short ''Tom's Photo Finish'', Jerry shows a sleeping Tom an incriminating photo. Tom goes back to sleep, then does a [[Wild Take]] with his head detaching from his body and crossing to the other end of the Cinemascope screen...
* ''[[SpongebobSpongeBob SquarePants]]'': Step Four for the patended SpongeBob SquarePants Bubble-Blowing Technique: Double Take 3 Times.
* One ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'' episode actually shows it during their special episode describing some of the cartoon clichés.
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''. Aang does a big one at the end of episode 12, Book 2, when he reaches the top of the Ba Sing Se wall and sees for the first time the Fire Nation's [[This Is a Drill|Giant Drill]].
* ''[[Cat Dog]]''. When Cliff and Lube find out Shriek is a girl, they QUADRUPLE TAKE.
* Occurs about [[Once Per Episode|once per]] [[Rankin Bass]] [[Christmas Special]].
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