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{{quote|''Look, it's the Goodyear Blimp!''
|'''Bill''' [[Time Travel|in the late
Alice is in a tight situation involving Bob. Maybe Bob wants money from her, or has a gun pointed at her head, or is just plain annoying.
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* A [[Running Gag]] in ''[[Bomberman Jetters]]'' is that any given character at any given point could say "Look, a Komodo dragon!" as a distraction.
* In ''[[Mai-Otome]]'', as Shiho evaluates Arika and Erstin's cooking results, she refuses to even try the "food" they made because of how disgusting it looks. Arika tells her that there's a spiral in the sky before putting a morsel in her mouth while she's distracted. Shiho finds the food disgusting and gets angrier.
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* [[Eddie Izzard]]'s monologue on beekeeping depicts the process of honey-harvesting as walking into a hive and then saying "Look, there's a Ferrari over there!" so you can steal all the honey.▼
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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Top Secret]]'' has a subversion of the second variant: During a train-top battle one of the combatants ends up ducking for a bridge... Only for the east-
* Marty McFly used this against several generations of Tannens throughout the ''[[Back to The Future]]'' trilogy. It only failed once, with Griff in 2015. He did turn and look, but was still able to block Marty's punch.
** For example, in Part II, just as Biff was about to kill Marty, Marty says, "Yo, I bet you're forgetting one thing. WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?" Biff falls for it.
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* In [[Neal Stephenson]]'s ''[[The Baroque Cycle]]'', "Half-Cocked" Jack Shaftoe resorts to this to outwit his enraged and violent sons, in characteristic Vagabond style:
{{quote|"Powers o' Darkness!" Jack exclaimed, focusing his one eye that hadn't swollen shut on a point in the middle distance. "I do believe that elephant is fookin' that camel up the arse -- or is it t'other way round?"}}
* ''[[
* The usual subversion in ''The Silver Pigs'' by Lindsey Davies—notable for the villain mocking Falco for using "that old trick" ''in [[Ancient Rome]]''.
* In ''[[Gentleman Bastard Sequence|The Lies of Locke Lamora]]'', Locke is getting his ass kicked by {{spoiler|the Grey King}}, and tricks him into thinking that Jean (who is a much better fighter than Locke) is right behind him. While he's distracted, Locke steals the dagger from his enemy's belt and stabs him to death.
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== [[Live
* Parodied frequently on ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]''—their version usually boils down to, "Hey, look, a ''big distracting thing!''"
* Would you believe that Maxwell Smart used this ploy in most episodes of ''[[Get Smart]]''?
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== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* ''[[FoxTrot]]'' had Paige invoking this trope on an Ice Cream vendor at the Zoo, claiming that there is an escaped Lion, Tiger, and Bull Elephant in that order. By the time he even turns around, he notices that the Ice Cream Cone he prepared for Paige had far too many swirls (about 16, with some drooping over the cone). He also mentioned that she did something similar the previous summer.
* In the ''[[Pooch Cafe]]'' [http://imgsrv.gocomics.com/dim/?fh=4844b91b2768d15a67258648d49232df comic for March 9, 2011]{{Dead link}}, Chazz uses "Look! Halley's Comet!"
== [[Recorded and Stand Up Comedy]] ==
▲* [[Eddie Izzard]]'s monologue on beekeeping depicts the process of honey-harvesting as walking into a hive and then saying "Look, there's a Ferrari over there!" so you can steal all the honey.
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== [[Theatre]] ==
* In ''[[Sherlock Holmes (theatre)|Sherlock Holmes]]'', Holmes uses this trick to handcuff Moriarty after getting him to place his hands within convenient reach.
== [[Toys]] ==
* Played around with in ''[[Bionicle]]'': Krika tells Tahu, who has him cornered, to look behind him. Tahu asks Krika if he really thinks that Tahu is stupid enough to fall for that. Krika tells Tahu that he's ''counting'' on that, since there actually ''is'' something behind him. Tahu chances the look, {{spoiler|and sure enough, four of Krika's allies are charging straight into the battle.}}
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{{quote|'''Flash''': You're too fast for me... But not for him.
'''AMAZO''': That's the oldest trick-- ''(gets blasted from behind by Green Lantern)'' }}
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{{quote|'''Actress Azula''': You caught me. Wait, what's that? [[Crowning Moment of Funny|I think it's your honor!]]
'''Actor Zuko''': Where?! }}
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* ''[[Invader Zim]]'' just points upward to distract the other aliens in "Abducted." It takes them [[Double Take|more than a few takes]] to realize [[Too Dumb to Live|he's not standing there anymore]].
** In "Gaz, Taster of Pork," Dib tells a pair of pig monster guards "Hey, look! There's something a pig thing would like!" It works, but the guards catch him soon after he gets past them.
* From ''[[Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot (animation)|Big Guy and Rusty
* In ''[[Arthur]]'', Buster, after apologizing for his cocky persona after letting his heroism get to his head, shouts to Francine and Arthur "Look out! A Runaway Piano!" Francine utters "Very funny!" in a disbelieving manner, but the POV shows that Buster was being very serious when he tells them this, as a piano was rolling towards them, causing Buster to tackle them to get them out of the way.
* ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'', "Canderemy": Candace points and shouts "Hey, isn't that the guy from that movie?" to distract Stacy from the fact that Candace and Jeremy have [[Biological Mashup|literally become joined at the hip]].
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'''Time Cop:''' I cannot argue that.}}
== [[Real Life]] ==
* A real life example would be Operation Fortitude from [[World War II]], where the allies fooled the Germans into thinking the real liberation forces landing in Normandy were actually a diversion so that
** Likewise, earlier they'd convinced the Germans that the coming attack on Sicily was a diversion and the real attack would be a two-pronged assault on Sardinia and Greece. [[Winston Churchill]] said anyone but a fool would know the target ''must'' be Sicily, but British intelligence made the Germans believe that was what they ''wanted'' them to think.
* #6 of [[The Thirty-Six Stratagems]] is practically this.
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