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== [[Literature]] ==

* A short story by Brazilian [[Luis Fernando Verissimo]] goes like this:

* ''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.

* ''[[Homestar Runner]]'': The Strong Bad Email "[http://www.homestarrunner.com/kotpoptoon.html senior prom]" starts with an intro for "The King of Town's Very Own Quite Popular Cartoon Show", which is quickly interrupted by an announcement that it's being pre-empted for the SB email, "already in progress".

* On the DVD for ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'' season 3, the intro shows a huge amount of explosions, gun shots, and action sequences (all of which actually happen, but generally as brief, isolated moments). Then it cuts to Grif and Simmons, the former of which is excited by the explosions in the opening, and the latter wondering what the hell a bunch of explosions have to do with a series that mostly consists of people standing around in a canyon and talking.

'''Grif''': "[[Lampshading|Then how do you explain all those kick-ass explosions we just saw?]]" }}