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'''Alice:''' Yeah! Usually it sounds strained because it's hard to make this kind of dialog sound completely natural.

'''Bob:''' But even if they can't pull it off, it's usually good for a bit of comedy.

 

'''Richard:''' Wouldn't you like to know! Maybe it's Marilyn Monroe! }}

* In ''[[Jeepers Creepers]],'' our heroes have just decided to go back and see if the creepy guy was really hiding a body. The sister comments to her brother, "You know the part in scary movies when somebody does something really stupid, and everybody hates them for it? This is it."

* In a 1980s Finnish comedy film from the ''Uuno Turhapuro'' series, a restaurant waiter has been tricked, by two alcoholics, into drinking a full bottle of vodka. Later, when a lady enters the restaurant, and listens to the waiter singing a song, she glances around, and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xph5D2xExIM declares] with an enlightened face: "I see. This must be a Finnish movie. There is no other explanation for the presence of so many drunk people in one scene."

* the ending of ''[[Blazing Saddles]]'' pretty much consists of this. Governor LePetomane's mob are unable to distinguish between a flat set and the real town, the fight spills across at least two other completely unrelated sound stages and the Sheriff and Waco Kid find themselves out in the street, and go to the cinema to see how it ends... which is where they two of them appear back on screen to Count Basie.....

 

"So are we going to be Wednesdays at 10 every week?"

"No, we're actually going to be Wednesday at 10 for a week, then take a week off, then we'll be Wednesdays at 9." }}

** Stars William Shatner and James Spader often have dialog that alludes to their previous film and television roles. For example, Shatner's character reacts with anxiety when he hears about salmon parasites known as "cling-ons," and Spader remarks to Shatner—while both are dressed as flamingos—that he looks "pretty in pink."

** At one point William Shatner's character say: "I'm Denny Crane! I once owned my own spaceship!"

* Of all games, [[FIFA Soccer]] 2012 does this. Martin Tyler and Alan Smith comment casually on the fact that the players' passing looks like the players are part of a computer game if they're timed right and accurate enough.

* When Milenna is released for a DLC for ''[[Mortal Kombat 11]]'', she finds a subtle way to thank her fans, telling Erron Black, "A million souls cried out for my return." This was a reference to the #WeWantMileena petition on Twitter which had around that many signatures.

 

== Web Comics ==

* Used once in ''[[Recess]]'' when Gretchen wins a NASA contest because of her essay, and thinks she's going to be going on the space shuttle. This comes to T.J.'s attention, whose life-long dream is to go on one of those, so he puts her through "training". One part has her having to swing from a rope attached to the top of the swing set while a group of other kids throw dodgeballs at her, and she starts fooling around before they do, prompting T.J. to say this:

{{quote|'''T.J.:''' Gretchen! You're an astronaut, not a cartoon character!}}

 

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