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This is when a movie's first scene, usually before the credits, is so different from your preconceptions of the movie that you think you've walked into the wrong theater. Often leads to a [[Proscenium Reveal]].
Contrast with [[In Medias Res]] or [[Action Prologue]] (e.g., ''[[James Bond (
We hope it's not more proof why you should [[Never Trust a Trailer]].
See also [[Bait and Switch Credits]], [[Fake Action Prologue]] and [[Action
Overlaps with [[Art Shift]] when the scenes are delineated from the "real" movie by footage that simulates some manner of projector mishap, up to and including frames of film melting from the heat of the lamp.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* The beginning of episode 1 of ''[[Genshiken]]'' is the beginning of ''[[Kujibiki Unbalance]]'' including the [[Cold Open]] and the opening titles (complete with fake credits that are parodies of the people who really worked on the show), until the scene shifts to a character watching that show on TV. One fansub of the show took this further, and actually used parodies of the fansub-makers' screen names during this opening (listing the real ones during the end credits). Which is odd because it implies that the main character is ''watching an English fansub on TV.'' In ''Japan''.
* ''[[
* ''[[Pretty Sammy|Magical Project S]]'' opens with a saccharine theme song that suggests that the Sasami is just some ordinary girl that happily uses her magic for innocuous reasons such as conjuring food (as per the [[Cute Witch]] subgenre). The show then introduces her as being the reluctant champion for restoring balance and never once shows her using her abilities for anything besides this.
* The first ''[[
* ''[[
* The first 10 seconds of the first episode of ''[[Pokémon (
* If you don't count the part where a teenage boy is frantically beating up two girls with a [[Batter Up|baseball bat]], ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro
* ''[[The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' opens with an entire episode of a [[Bad Bad Acting|horribly made]] student film of a [[Magical Girl]] adventure with a number of bizarre details, such as a talking cat that is quickly silenced. Only at the very end the viewers see the titular character and realize that it was made by the protagonists at her insistence.
* The familiar television cast do not appear until the opening credits in ''[[Sailor Moon]] Super S: The Movie''.
* The first episode of the anime adaptation of ''[[
* Both seasons of ''[[The Tower of Druaga (
* The very first thing after the cutesy opening expository narration and theme song of ''[[Nurse Witch Komugi]]'' is... a dramatic car chase/gunfight. Turns out Komugi's an actress and she was shooting a scene...
* ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' begins with a massive space battle between a lone warship and a galaxy-worth of enemies. Then switches to the story of a young boy digging holes in a low-tech, [[After the End]] underground city. (It takes twenty or so episodes- including one [[Time Skip]]- for the story to reach the scenario shown in the prologue. Even then, there are so many differences between the series-version and prologue-version of the scenes that fans debate whether the latter is part of some [[Alternate Continuity]], or even [[Canon]].)
* ''[[Chirin no Suzu]]'' starts off as a cheerful movie about the adventures of a cute little lamb.
* On [[April Fools' Day]] 2012, it looked like [[Adult Swim|[adult swim]]] was doing an April Fools marathon of ''[[The Room]]'' for a [[Four Is Death|fourth year in a row]]... until it cut to [[And the Fandom Rejoiced|TOM-3 watching the movie and greeting viewers]] before [[Retraux|cutting to the old intro]] for ''[[Toonami]]'' and staying as ''Toonami'' for the rest of the night.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* The very first issue of ''[[The Batman Adventures]]'' (based on the 1992 animated ''Batman'' TV series) opens with Batman swooping down on a crook and punching his lights out. It's then revealed that what we actually saw was an episode of a TV show that one of The Penguin's goons was watching. (Batman as a character on a TV show being broadcast in Gotham City! [[Celebrity Paradox]], anyone?)
* In ''[[
** Used again in chapter three. What appears to be a flashback to the end of chapter two is actually a holodeck recreation for IQ Squared to work out some frustration with his father.
== [[Film]] ==
* The opening of ''[[
* The first scene of ''[[Spy Kids]] 2'' involves the [[Our Presidents Are Different|President]]'s bratty daughter being shown around an [[Amusement Park]] full of wacky CGI rides.
* ''[[Austin Powers]] in Goldmember'' began with a fairly serious spy movie chase scene, starring Tom Cruise as Austin Powers, Danny Devito as Mini-me, and [[Hilarious in Hindsight|Kevin Spacey as bald megalomaniacal supervillain]] Dr Evil. We find that this an [[Show Within a Show|in-universe adaptation of Austin's life]].
* ''[[Star Trek II:
* ''[[Con Air]]'' starts with a montage about the U.S Army Rangers.
* ''[[
* ''[[The Fifth Element]]'' opens at an archaeological dig in Egypt in the 1920s. The rest of the movie is set in the lavishly-designed hi-tech future.
* The opening of [[The Film of the Book]] ''[[Gangs of New York]]'' seems to take place in some sort of underground [[Schizo
* [[The Film of the Book]] of ''[[
* ''[[Home Alone]] 3'' starts with a bunch of shady characters smuggling a piece of military hardware through airport security.
* ''Lemony Snicket's [[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'' (2004) opens with a [[Tastes Like Diabetes|stomach-turningly twee]] musical CGI animation about a happy little elf, which is fortunately stopped cold by Jude Law's first voice-over.
* In the first scene of ''[[The Princess Bride (
* The 2001 DVD-release of ''[[Monty Python and
* ''[[
* The first scene of ''[[The Scorpion King]]'' takes place in a snowy, mountain region, which is in complete contrast to the sandy desert region of the rest of the film.
* The [[Popeye]] [[Live Action Adaptation|live-action movie]] opens with what appears to be an old black-and-white Popeye cartoon. Then a (newly-animated) cartoon Popeye emerges and realizes he's in the wrong movie. Then with a thunderclap, we cut to the storm that introduces the setting.
* The beginning of ''[[
* ''[[Stargate (
* The first part of ''[[Velvet Goldmine]]'', a movie about glam rock and the rise and fall of a David Bowie-like star, opens with a UFO streaking across the sky. Then it cuts to the childhood years of Oscar Wilde.
* ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'' opens with "Something's Cooking", a Maroon Cartoon starring Baby Herman and Roger Rabbit. Halfway through, the director yells "Cut!" and we are suddenly in a live-action set where [[It Makes Sense in Context|the cartoon is being filmed]].
* ''[[Poetic Justice]]'' begins with Billy Zane getting it on with some girl, and getting killed. It's actually a movie Janet Jackson is watching.
* ''[[X
* ''[[Indiana Jones and
** ''[[Indiana Jones and
* ''[[Harry Enfield|Kevin & Perry Go Large]]'' begins with the execution of Anne Boleyn, which is later revealed to be one of Kevin's daydreams.
* The all-marionette film ''[[Team America: World Police]]'' opens with a poorly-controlled marionette against a crudely painted flat backdrop. After a few moments, the camera pulls back, revealing that this puppet show is just a [[Show Within a Show]] for the real setting, which is much more elaborate. Trey Parker and Matt Stone did this as [[Biting the Hand Humor|a joke to freak out investors]] who had sunk a lot of money into the film.
* ''[[Hudson Hawk]]'', the Bruce Willis caper movie, opens with [[Leonardo
* Subverted in the western ''[[Young Guns]] II''. Over the credits an old prospector-type guy leads his mule across the desert. Which is fine for a
* ''The Beautician and the Beast'' opens with an animated ''[[Sleeping Beauty]]'' scene. It quickly turns into a [[Fractured Fairy Tale]] when Sleeping Beauty (voiced by Fran Drescher) turns Prince Charming down, protesting that she wants to be [[Real Women Never Wear Dresses|a modern, professional woman]], and tries to run for it. Then it turns out to be [[All Just a Dream]] being had by Drescher's character.
* ''[[Under Siege]] 2'' begins with a space shuttle launch. This relates to the plot-significant [[Kill Sat]], but has no other relevance to a train-based action movie.
* ''RRRrrrr!!!'' begins with a white-text-on-black-background narration about some soldiers in Vietnam and their days-long combat ordeal before announcing: "This movie has nothing to do with this" and going into the movie proper.
* ''[[From Dusk
* ''Safety Last'''s opening shot makes it look as if [[Harold Lloyd]] is about to be hanged, until the reverse shot of the same scene shows he's just leaving on a train trip.
* ''[[G.I. Joe:
* At the behest of Alfred Hitchcock himself, audiences were not allowed to enter ''[[
* The first half hour of ''[[Cloverfield]]'' [[Developing Doomed Characters|plays like a romantic comedy]]. This is done deliberitely, to show how random the monster's attack is from the character's perspectives.
* The trailer for ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130809004009/http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/disney/greenwithenvy/ Green with Envy]'' {{spoiler|aka ''[[The Muppets (
* ''[[He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not]]'' seems to be a predictable and cliched romance movie... Then the story is told again, [[Unreliable Narrator|this time more complete]].
* [[The Coen Brothers]]' film ''[[A Serious Man]]'' takes this to [[
* ''[[Kiss Kiss Bang Bang]]'' begins in a church picnic with a kid doing magic tricks.
* While [[James Bond (
* Trailer example: The 1939 coming-attractions spot for [[John Ford]]'s ''[[Stagecoach]]'' (a Western set just after the [[Civil War]]) opens with....documentary footage of trains (a stretch for the Old West, but still believable) and airplanes! It makes no sense at all without the narrator's commentary: he's comparing the present (1930s) with the past, and actual footage from the movie doesn't show up in the trailer until the narrator says something along the lines of "What were things like back then?" (Weird, to be sure, but justified and even effective for a moviegoing audience who up to this point had probably never seen a Western movie, or at least one that was done so well.)
* Another trailer example: ''Bean'' opens with a montage of ''National Geographic''-style footage of exotic locales, including one showing some tribal islanders worshipping a statue. The narrator explains that the statue is of Mr. Bean, although [[Rule of Funny|it's never explained to us why the islanders would believe Mr. Bean was a god]].
* The trailer for ''Mr. Bean's Holiday'' starts with a montage of brave explorers throughout history, going on to equate those with Mr. Bean's journey... [[What Do You Mean
* ''[[Snakes
* The underrated western ''A Big Hand for the Little Lady'' has its opening as a fast stagecoach rolls over beautiful landscapes and rolling hills. What appears to be a gorgeously shot sprawling epic with picturesque backgrounds changes completely when you find out that the movie is in fact about a secret high stakes backdoor poker game, and thus takes place almost entirely in a dreary claustrophobic room with nothing but the actors to look at. So much for that landscape.
* [[The Film of the Book]] ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'' begins with the 1940 bombing of London by the Luftwaffe.
* Double subverted in ''[[Mission: Impossible (
== [[Literature]] ==
* A short story by Brazilian [[Luis Fernando Verissimo]] goes like this:
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* ''When You Are Engulfed In Flames,'' by [[David Sedaris]], features a fake-out book jacket, which initially describes it as a detective thriller. After a paragraph, it tries to claim that it is an instruction manual for when you are set on fire, before finally admitting that it's yet another collection of [[Seinfeldian Conversation|essays about nothing.]]
* ''[[Frankenstein]]'' begins with a [[Scrapbook Story|series of letters]] from an Arctic explorer to his sister.
** This probably wasn't a surprise to the novel's first readers, since far-off settings and adventurous characters were pretty common in Romantic-era fiction. It's only surprising to ''us'' [[Unbuilt Trope|because of what we've been conditioned to expect from the]] ''[[Unbuilt Trope|Frankenstein]]'' [[Unbuilt Trope|mythos]]. (Some paperback editions of the novel actually pander to modern prejudices by omitting the Arctic framing tale and jumping straight to the creation of the monster, including cover art that depicts the monster as Boris Karloff played him, and even including the tagline "It's alive, it's alive! Oh, God - it's ''alive''!" - [[Beam Me Up, Scotty|which is]] ''[[Beam Me Up, Scotty|not]]'' [[Beam Me Up, Scotty|in the book]].)
* ''Cat-A-Lyst'' by [[Alan Dean Foster]] opens with two soldiers on a battlefield in the American Civil War. It turns out to be a scene from a movie, starring the main character.
* ''If On A Winter's Night A Traveller,'' by [[Italo Calvino]]. The whole book is a sequence of these, held together by a reader trying to continue the story he had begun but getting continually drawn off into new stories.
* ''[[Bored of the Rings]]'' starts with an almost-sex scene that has absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the plot, and shocks people who are expecting a parody of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''.
* The first ''[[Harry Potter]]'' book opens with a description of the Dursleys and their banal existence. The fourth book opens by describing events which occurred fifty years ago in a town that had never been previously mentioned in the series. The sixth book opens with the unnamed Muggle Prime Minister of all people.
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* [[The BBC]] 2008 adaptation of ''[[Sense and Sensibility (
* The first scene of ''[[
* The second season premiere of ''[[
** ''Lost'' has made bait and switch season openers a tradition. Season 3 begins with newcomer Juliet making brownies and talking with her fellow suburbanites. Except "suburbia" is actually {{spoiler|a small village on the island}}, Juliet and friends are the {{spoiler|previously "uncivilized" Others}}, and the event that ruins their day is {{spoiler|the crash of flight 815}}.
*** And then it's inverted, with Juliet again. In the episode "Not in Portland" we are led to believe that she is on the island, for the first few scenes. Then she talks to a gal, which in reality is her sister, and opens the drapes, revealing that they are in Miami.
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** Season 5 plays with the trope: it's rather obvious who the faceless individual is ({{spoiler|Marvin Candle/Pierre Chang}}), but what isn't clear is when the scene is occuring and why we're witnessing it. The real twist is the sudden appearance of {{spoiler|Daniel Faraday}}.
** Even the infamous Nikki and Paulo got this; Nikki was doing a show within a show for her flashback episode.
* ''[[
** Episode 12 from Series 2 ("Spam") opens with authentic-looking full titles and [[Opening Scroll]] for an 18th-century pirate movie called ''The Black Eagle''. The movie plays for a few moments before its characters walk by John Cleese at his announcer's desk. "[[And Now for Something Completely Different]]."
** Episode 3 from Series 3 starts with the actual opening titles to BBC financial show ''The Money Programme''. The presenter begins normally, then starts ranting about his [[Money Fetish]] and [[Money Song|breaks into song]].
** Another third series episode begins with the intro music and logo for Thames TV, followed by an appearance by its announcer, David Hamilton. "We've got an action-packed evening for you tonight on Thames, but right now here's a rotten old BBC programme."
* The first episode of the new ''[[
* The [[
* Episode 3 from Series 1 of ''[[Black Books]]'' ("The Grapes of Wrath") starts with a scene about a monk at a monastery in France, who has found grapes growing off a rose bush. {{spoiler|the miracle grapes are what the incredibly expensive wine that Bernard and Manny accidentally drink is made of}}
* Alluded to for laughs on German late night show ''[[TV Total]]'' when an audiobook narrated by band ''[[Scooter]]'''s [[Face of the Band|H.P. Baxxter]], in which machines were mentioned, was suggested by host Stefan Raab to be a ''
* On ''[[Quantum Leap]]'', the teaser for "Moments to Live" has Sam as a surgeon whose patient is dying. The patient's husband shoves Sam to the wall and says, "You killed her." When we return from the titles, we learn that Sam has leaped into {{spoiler|an actor who plays a surgeon on a soap opera}}. He also leaped into {{spoiler|Al's dream}} at the beginning of "A Leap for Lisa".
* The cold openings of ''[[Bones]]'': usually have two unsuspecting individuals doing something totally unrelated to
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* The famous music video for [[Michael Jackson]]'s "Thriller." It opens with a sequence that's clearly set in the 1950s, with the young ingenue playing a teen girl and Michael playing an admirer of hers who turns into a werewolf. We then cut to a shot of a movie theater where the ingenue and Michael are watching the scene, and it then becomes clear that the ingenue has imagined herself and Michael in the roles. They then leave the theater (whose marquee, appropriately, features the title of ''Thriller'')....at which point Michael finally starts singing, and the ''real'' horror begins. Not so much a Fake Out Opening as an overly drawn out [[Cat Scare]], really.
* "Hello", the first track of [[Oasis]]' "(What's the story) Morning Glory", begins by fading in the first few chords of their previously released single, and considerably more well-known song, "Wonderwall". This is promptly interrupted by the ([[Loudness War|MUCH louder]]) sound of a water droplet followed by the thundering first notes of "Hello".
* Used briefly by [[
* At the 1999 CMA Awards, Alan Jackson started out his performance with his scheduled song, "Pop a Top", but stopped halfway through the song and switched to George Jones' "Choices" (which had some controversy regarding the awards at the time) for the chorus. When he was done, he walked off the stage, left the building, got on his bus, and left.
* While [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]'s parodies, and most parodies in general, are designed to make the listener think they're the original song at first, the same is true for several of his polkas. "Polka Your Eyes Out", "Bohemian Polka" and "The Alternate Polka" start out as near-clones of [[Billy Idol]]'s "Cradle Of Love", [[Queen]]'s "Bohemian Rhapsody" and [[Beck]]'s "Loser" before introducing any traditional polka instruments.
* [[Blue
* [[Queen]], in particularly [[Freddie Mercury]], thrived on writing in this style - most notably through abuse of the a-capella operatic choir. To name but a few songs: "Bohemian Rhapsody", "I Want It All", "Breakthru", "You Take My Breath Away", "Somebody to Love", "Don't Stop Me Now", "Fat Bottomed Girls"... you get the idea.
* [[Primus]]'s ''Frizzle Fry'' starts the same way as their live debut ''Suck On This'', with a quote of the drum intro of [[Rush]]'s "YYZ"... Except this time, it's followed by a swift [[Letting the Air Out of
== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
* [[World Wrestling Entertainment]] pay-per-view events occasionally open with very strange segments that are apparently supposed to be "gimmicky" and sometimes [[
* Oh yes, and who could forget the flamboyantly tasteless one introducing ''WWF Invasion'' (the landmark show in which WWE wrestlers fought WCW and ECW wrestlers), which opened with newsreel footage of [[Franklin Roosevelt]] announcing in 1939 (1941?) that "I have failed to prevent the invasion" - followed immediately by Stephanie McMahon maniacally screaming "Nothing can stop the Invasion!" and a wacked-out montage of Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin and so forth juxtaposed with [[Kurt Angle]], Diamond Dallas Page, and all the other WWE, WCW, and ECW wrestlers? Especially gauche in that the pay-per-view was held in 2001 - the year that marked the 60th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack.
* The 2005 edition of ''The Great American Bash'' opens with what seems at first to be a melodramatic political ad for television, complete with a soaring bald eagle, a double exposure of a fluttering American flag, and majestic Aaron Copland-style music. You get the sense that [[Ronald Reagan]] would have loved it.
* The cold opening for WWE's 2010 pay-per-view ''Over The Limit'' at first appears to be a grainy old educational film urging schoolchildren to follow the rules....which then yields to major [[Mood Whiplash]] as it becomes apparent that the WWE Superstars are ''not'' going to be doing that.
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* ''[[Assassin's Creed]]'' starts with a glitchy white computer field as Altair, before switching to...somebody who is most definitely not Altair in the future.
** Considering the game was billed as a semi-realistic depiction of the ancient order of assassins, and reviewers were forbidden to discuss the five-minute twist, it was generally ''very'' jarring to new players. Nowadays, [[It Was His Sled]].
* The intro to ''[[
* Several of the ''Fallout'' games, particularly the first and Bethesda's third installment, begin with kitschy, fifty-styles advertisements about what a great world it is. The camera slowly pulls back, showing the advertisements playing on a television in the middle of a nuclear wasteland. Enter Ron Perlman's iconic narration...
* ''King's Quest III'' seems to start out with a protagonist and a setting completely unrelated to the first two games, but {{spoiler|it's eventually revealed that the hero is the long-lost son of King Graham, protagonist of ''King's Quest I'' and ''II''.}} In this case, the [[Fake Out]] lasts about 3/4 of the game.
* One level of ''Sexy [[Parodius]]'' looks a bit like a parody of the ''[[Castlevania]]'' series. The music for that level begins with the first few notes of the easily recognizable "Vampire Killer" (a very popular Castlevania theme) before turning into, of all things, a ''polka''. The boss fight against Medusa does the same thing with the classic boss theme "Poison Mind".
** At the end of the ''[[Tokimeki Memorial]]''-themed stage in ''Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius'', the bosses are giant schoolgirl forms of previously-playable characters Hikaru and Akane. Their theme from the previous installment plays for a few bars before turning into Necke's "Csikos Post".
* ''[[The Three Stooges]]'' computer game from [[The Eighties]] opens with the title screen for ''Defender of the Crown'' for a few moments before the Stooges show up and correct the error.
* ''[[
* ''A Space Shooter Two Bucks!'' has a lengthy intro cutscene about a weak student who has trouble with a bully. He trains to be strong enough to fight against the bully. When he's ready to fight, the bully knocks him out, the bully joins the space corps, and you play the game as the bully.
== [[Web Animation]] ==
* ''[[
* On the DVD for ''[[
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'''Simmons''': "What, no it's not!"
'''Grif''': "[[Lampshading|Then how do you explain all those kick-ass explosions we just saw?]]" }}
== Webcomics ==
* ''[[
== Web Original ==
* In [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc3plOLumRc&feature=related this] ''Random Crap With [[Homestar Runner]]'' video, the first 55 seconds are of animated versions of Masterofhomestar and his friends playing [[
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[The Triplets of Belleville]]'' starts as a 1930s-style black-and-white cartoon, which is actually playing on the main character's TV set.
* The action-packed opening sequence from ''[[
* ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]] 2'' begins as a sci-fi adventure with Buzz Lightyear fighting Emperor Zurg. Suddenly, Zurg vaporizes Buzz. Fortunately, it was all a video game being played by Rex.
* ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]] 3'' begins with {{spoiler|a Western-themed adventure with Woody and Jessie chasing [[Call Back|One-Eyed Bart (Mr. Potato Head)]]. Later, Buzz arrives to help Woody and Jessie, and [[Call Back|Evil Doctor Porkchop (Hamm)]] also comes in. It turns out to be a play scenario by Andy from when he was a child, and then... ''[[Tear Jerker|it begins.]]''}}
* ''[[
* ''The [[
* The ''[[
* ''[[
** ''[[The Rugrats Movie]]'' opened with an action sequence where the babies (in full [[Indiana Jones|"Okie-Dokie Jones"]] regalia) try to retrieve some kind of monkey idol. It turns out to just be another one of their daydreams.
** A somewhat stranger example opened the sequel, ''[[Rugrats in Paris]]'', this time with a [[Parental Bonus|parody of]] ''[[
** ''[[Rugrats Go Wild]]'' continued the tradition by showing the babies having a jungle adventure. Yet another daydream, which the babies imagined after watching some of [[The Wild Thornberrys|Nigel Thronberry]]'s documentaries.
* The [[Mega Man (
* Inverted with the ''[[Tom and Jerry: The Movie]]'' which actually starts out as a traditional ''[[
* The opening credits of ''[[Rock
** That was probably supposed to be a send-up of ''[[Star Wars]]''.
** Something similar occurs in ''[[Happy Feet]]''.
* The [[Animated Adaptation]] of ''[[Watership Down]]'' begins with a ''massive'' [[Art Shift]] in a sequence relating the tale of [[Just
** The fact that even this intro sequence features the bloodied corpses of bunnies on screen, and that while the art is more stylized it is no softer, mean viewers are fairly unlikely to be lulled into any false sense of security about the film as a whole.
* The [[Wartime Cartoon]] [[Looney Tunes]] ''Brother Brat'' opens with a stirring, graphically dynamic montage saluting women in the workforce exceptionally handling defense factory work - and it all leads to the big question of where to leave their kid while they're at the job. It's a setup for slapstick mayhem as Porky Pig babysits a terrifying infant.
* [[Tex Avery]] in his early years at MGM set up cartoons like [[Screwball Squirrel]] and [[Red Hot Riding Hood]] by opening them in the overly saccharine storybook style that had been the studio's stock in trade - before going utterly crazy.
** Tex doesn't waste time in ''Batty Baseball." It opens with the title card then a good 20 seconds of cartoon mayhem on the baseball diamond before one of the characters stops everything and demands to know what happened to the MGM lion opening. The narrator apologizes and the MGM lion titles are shown.
* In Disney's ''[[
* The [[Pilot Movie]] for ''[[The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius]]'' starts with several jet pilots taking off from an aircraft carrier in the middle of the ocean.
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