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* Parodied in ''[[Top Secret]]'', where the Germans decide not to execute Val Kilmer's character at the last minute. Cut to the firing squad who's getting ready to aim and fire while the phone rings, and an old lady with a walker slowly inches her way towards it.
* Done at the end of the [[Bob Hope]] vehicle ''[[My Favorite Brunette]]'', much to the disgust of the prison guard assigned to throw the switch on the electric chair. ([[Bing Crosby]] in [[One-Scene Wonder|a cameo]].)
* Done in [[Big Damn Heroes]] style in ''The Player''. One movie within the movie is an art film in which the heroine dies in the gas chamber at the end, even though innocent. By the end of the main movie, the director of the art film has become so corrupted by Hollywood that his little art film with a downer ending now has [[Bruce Willis
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