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== [[Film]] ==
* The animated film ''[[Twice Upon a Time]]'' did this, when the nightmare-maker Synonimess Botch accidentally puts a photograph of a half-naked woman in his slide show. He claims she was "an old actress I used to know."
* ''[[Atlantis: theThe Lost Empire]]'': Milo intends to start his lecture by showing a slide of the Leviathan, "a creature so terrifying that sailors were said to be driven mad by the mere sight of it." Cut to a slide of him popping up.
* This happens in the movie ''[[Hudson Hawk]]'', where the bad guy is revealing his evil plan with a visual aid and accidentally shows some sexy pictures of him and his girlfriend.
* In ''[[The Third Man]]'', Captain Calloway is about to show the protagonist a slide about incriminating evidence that {{spoiler|Harry Lime}} willingly caused the deaths of countless penicillin recipients by watering it down. Instead... he accidentally shows an educational slide of an elephant intended for the Anglo-Austrian re-education programme.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* Two schoolgirls deliberately slip pornographic slides into a magic lantern display a visiting coffee planter is giving to their school as part of a plan to seduce him in one of the erotic Edwardian novels in ''The Cremorne Chronicles''. It works.
* A less filthy but recognizable version from ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Men At Arms|Men At Arms]]'' - in the middle of Edward d'Eath's slides is an upside-down picture of a vase of delphiniums.
 
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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* Done in ''[[Brothers and Sisters]]'' with a [[Home Porn Movie]] among a collection of clips for a birthday video.
* At the end of one episode of ''[[Friends]]'', the gang is looking at old photographs of Monica and find one of what they thing is Monica naked as a baby. Ross says no, it's him. "I was trying something."
* When ''[[BeakmansBeakman's World]]'' did a slideshow about libraries, he accidentally put on in with him in his underwear. (And couldn't resist putting one in with [[Hurricane of Puns|him on a slide]]...)
{{quote| '''Lester:''' Oh, a ''slide'' show! Now I get it!}}
* In an episode of ''[[WKRP in Cincinnati]]'', some of the staff make a pitch to land an important new advertising account. As part of this, Andy Travis fires up the slide show: "...I have no idea where that pornographic slide came from."
* In the ''[[Wings (TV series)|Wings]]'' episode "Portrait of the Con Artist of a Young Man," Brian decides to play a joke on Joe by taking a close-up shot of a certain private portion of his anatomy with Joe's camera. The joke's on him when he finds out that Joe sent the film to Helen's parents.
* There was a sketch on a German comedy show (yes, they exist) where someone was giving a presentation on bikinis. Somehow an embarrassing picture of a house crept in.
* On ''[[The Office]]'', Michael Scott does this intentionally to show off who he's been dating. He oversells it with a smiling "Whoops! How did ''that'' get in there?" while no one else is amused.
* In one of the earlier seasons of ''[[Malcolm in Thethe Middle]]'', Francis put some embarassing photographs of Spangler into a slide show (I think the slide show was to do with STDs?) However, Spangler actually bothers to check the slides before the show, and changes the ones that Francis put in with embarassing pictures of Francis himself.
* Invoked in the early UK run of ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?]]'', during a game called "Expert", where Ryan Stiles, while explaining an obscure subject to Greg Proops, starts up a "slideshow" that leads right into this trope.
{{quote| '''Ryan:''' "...That's me and the wife, I dunno how that got in there..."<br />
(later)<br />
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== [[Manga]] and [[Anime]] ==
* ''Force Dimension'', the official ''[[Lyrical Nanoha]]'' [[Yonkoma]] gag comic based on ''[[Magical Record Lyrical Nanoha Force (Manga)|Magical Record Lyrical Nanoha Force]]'', has this happening to Subaru during the scene when she shows digital family photos of Tohma to her superior Nanoha, [http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/5113/forcedimsept04.jpg only in this strip], [[Home Porn Movie|she accidentally shows her stash of naked Teana pictures too]].
{{quote| '''Subaru:''' Ack! You- You didn't see that! (They're private) <br />
'''Nanoha:''' Ah~ Yup yup, such close friends [[Say It Withwith Hearts|<3]] }}
 
== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
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== Theatre ==
* In [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]]'s stage version of ''[[The Wizard of Oz (Filmfilm)|The Wizard of Oz]]'', Professor Marvel shows Dorothy a slideshow of the Wonders of the World, which turns out to have a slide from his "private collection" accidentally mixed in.
 
== [[Web Original]] ==
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* ''[[Cybersix]]'' has an example in the pilot episode. It was, sadly, the only bit of background the audience got on Lucas: that he was once an anorexic boxer.
* ''[[South Park]]'', in the episode "Cartman Sucks", where Cartman, * ahem* does something questionable to Butters, and winds up showing the slides to everyone in his class for show-and-tell before Kyle can ([[It Makes Sense in Context]]). Turns out {{spoiler|Kyle never had the photo in the first place}}.
* A version of this occurs in one of ''[[Veggie Tales (Animation)|Veggie Tales]]''' silly songs: the song is sung along with a slideshow... which eventually stops showing relevant pictures and starts showing vacation pictures instead. The song quickly ends, to the consternation of Archibald, who wonders just what the ending of the song was supposed to be.
** Heck that gets Silly Songs with Larry cancelled ''in-universe''.
* In one sketch from ''[[The Mr. Men Show]]'' episode "Eyeglasses," Mr. Stubborn (as an eye doctor) is showing slides of various objects to test Mr. Happy's eyesight. After a few mundane images, the slides suddenly show [[Embarrassing Old Photo|Embarrassing Old Photos]] of him.
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** There's also the episode where Private's in charge of a projector, and accidently puts on slides of them at the beach. After the first one Skipper goes over to him and you can hear him hit Private every time another beach picture comes up. It then shows a picture of Skipper hitting Private at the beach. After that they get to the right slides.
* In an early episode of ''[[Family Guy]]'', we see a time share presentation where the salesman is showing slides as he speaks. In the middle of his pitch, we see a slide of a giant hairy monster (on loan from ''[[Where the Wild Things Are]]'') killing and eating people at the time share. He tries to cover it up, but there are quite a few pictures of the "flesh-eating ogre" that he [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|tries to deny exists]].
* A video version occurs in ''[[American Dad (Animation)|American Dad]]'', where Stan is hosting a telethon to fund the CIA's [[Enhanced Interrogation Techniques]] and shows some [[Hilarious Outtakes]] of torture sessions. At one point, however, he cuts to pornography, planted there by Roger to sabotage the telethon.
* ''[[Johnny Test]]'': Twice in the episode [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpf4-NBcTgY#t=15m6s Johnny's Turbo] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpf4-NBcTgY#t=17m41s Toy Force].
* ''[[Jimmy Neutron]]'': In the museum robbery episode.
* ''[[Cybersix]]'': The happens to Lucas in the pilot episode.
* Happens in ''[[The Emperor's New School (Animation)|The Emperors New School]]'' twice during the Michu Pachu episode. A visitor to the school shows the students a slide-show, while explaining the legend of the "skeleton anteater". The slide then skips to a picture of his drawers. Then later, Kuzco does the same, but this time the picture of himself ''wearing the other man's drawers''.
 
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