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* ''[[Ergo Proxy]]'''s intro has little live-action pigeons flying about in it.
* ''[[Macademi Wasshoi]]'' has claymation [[Censor Box|Censor Boxes]].
* ''[[Bludgeoning Angel Dokurochan (Light Novel)Dokuro-chan|Bludgeoning Angel Dokurochan]]'' has the photograph-headed monkey and dog characters.
* ''[[Desert Punk (Mangamanga)|Desert Punk]]'' has a bizarre live-action opening wherein some guy cosplaying as the title character cavorts about a sandy landscape with apparent glee.
* The ''[[Gravitation]]'' television series begins its first episode with a live-action sequence following the main character as he runs somewhere. It lasts for only about ten seconds before switching to the anime version of the scene, and is never used again.
* ''[[Kare Kano]]'' is notable for this. One episode showed everyone as ''puppets''.
* A ''[[School Rumble]]'' episode had Harima turn 3D when he parodied ''[[The Matrix]]''.
* Practically a [[Signature Style]] of [[Studio Shaft]]. ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou Sensei-sensei]]'' has several live-action pictures in the background, and ''[[Bakemonogatari (Light Novel)|Bakemonogatari]]'' has both this as well as [[Conspicuous CGI]]. As does [[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]].
* ''[[Panty and& Stocking Withwith Garterbelt (Anime)|Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt]]'' is done almost entirely in [[Thick Line Animation]], but when the [[Monster of the Week]] blows up, the show cuts to a blatantly obvious live-action model on an equally obvious city set, possibly as a reference to ''[[Super Sentai]]''. Then explodes it (the monster, not the set).
* ''[[Dinosaur War Aizenborg]]'' was a collaboration between [[Tsuburaya Productions]] and [[Sunrise]], utilizing both anime and suitmations/models. Same goes for ''[[Dinosaur Squadron Bornfree]]''.
* The ''[[Venus Wars (Manga)|Venus Wars]]'' animated movie has a few outdoor landscape scenes where the landscape is actual live action landscape with the animated characters driving through it.
 
 
== Films ==
* ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'' is probably the most famous example of this (Hence why the [[Roger Rabbit Effect]] trope is named as such). The entire plot focuses around living cartoons being [[Animated Actors|filmed in the real world instead of being animated]].
* ''[[Cool World]]'' is kind of the poor man's perverted ''Roger Rabbit'', which featured a cartoon character who wanted to become real {{spoiler|and succeeded by having sex with a real person to do it.}}
* ''[[The Pagemaster]]'' is all about a real boy who got seemingly trapped in an animated storybook world where he not only experiences common fantasy elements of childrens' stories, but has GENRES follow him around in the embodiment of living books.
* In ''[[The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy (Filmfilm)|The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy]]'' movie, this happens during the Improbability Drive shift, ending in Claymation.
* ''[[Space Jam (Film)|Space Jam]]'' has the [[Looney Tunes]] line up come to the real world to ask for Michael Jordan's help in a basketball game versus monsters.
* The [[Story Within a Story|third-person narratives]] in the ''[[Kung Fu Panda (Animation)|Kung Fu Panda]]'' universe are hand-drawn in contrast to the CGI used for the rest of the films.
* ''[[Anchors Aweigh (Film)|Anchors Aweigh]]'' has [[Gene Kelly]] dancing alongside Jerry the mouse from ''[[Tom and Jerry (Animation)|Tom and Jerry]]''. They wanted to use [[Mickey Mouse]] but Disney wouldn't go for it.
* ''[[Dangerous When Wet]]'' also has a scene where Esther Williams swims alongside [[Tom and Jerry (Animation)|Tom and Jerry]].
* ''[[Mary Poppins]]'' has the main characters interact with animated characters inside Bert's paintings.
* ''[[PetesPete's Dragon]]'' has the Dragon animated while the rest of the movie is live-action.
* ''[[The Phantom Tollbooth]]'' begins as real-life footage, then switches entirely to an animated movie, only returning to real life all the way at the end.
* Shinya Ohira's anime sequence in ''[[Kill Bill]] Vol. 1'', that details the violent [[Backstory]] of O-Ren Ishii.
* ''[[Horton Hears a Who]]!'' shifts from CGI to Dr. Seuss-style cel animation when Horton imagines the people living on the speck, and then to [[Animesque]] (or, more accurately, ''[[Teen Titans (Animationanimation)|Teen Titans]]''-esque) when Horton imagines that he's a heroic ninja.
* ''[[WALL-E]]'' is another variation. {{spoiler|The videos we see of humanity's past are in straight live-action. The future humans of the ''Axiom'', obese and with barely any bone mass due to a completely sedentary lifestyle, are CGI.}}
* A rare ''live-action'' example is "Zilla" (a.k.a. [[In Name Only|"GINO"]]) who was officially put into [[Godzilla]] canon in ''Godzilla: Final Wars'', faithfully rendered in ''full'' CGI unlike the other monsters. The sheer cost of rendering him might explain why it's also one of the shortest battles in the series, though cynical fans loved the idea of [[Take That/Film|Godzilla taking him down within a minute]].
** It's also worth noting that the CGI used in the above scene is of lesser quality than the 1998 film. [[Take That|Take that as you will.]]
* The film version of ''[[James and Thethe Giant Peach]]'' starts out as live action, then switches to stop-motion when James goes inside the peach. It returns to live action in the end, with only the bug characters done in stop-motion. Furthermore, there are hand-drawn effects animation, and a [[Dream Sequence]] done in cut-out animation.
* ''[[Osmosis Jones]]'' features live-action humans with animated inner space cells and viruses, [[Fantastic Voyage]] style.
* ''[[Hedwig and The Angry Inch]]'' has an animated segment for the song "The Origins of Love", and some of the flashback scenes of Hansel growing up.
* ''[[Annie Hall (Film)|Annie Hall]]'' has a brief animated [[Imagine Spot]] with Alvy and the Wicked Queen from ''[[Snow White (Disney film)|Snow White]]'', after he says that he always goes for the wrong woman.
* ''[[Song of the South]]'' has the animated segments for "Brer Rabbit Runs Away", "The Tar Baby", "Brer Rabbit's Laughing place", and the end of the film.
* ''[[Bedknobs and Broomsticks]]'' involves <s>the lead witch character</s>the youngest of the little kids transporting the main characters into a cartoon fantasy world where they were still live-action. The effects in this film won the Oscar that year for Special Visial Effects.
* ''The Happiness of the Katakuris'' is a live-action film that switches to claymation during at least one action sequence.
* ''[[Revolver]]'', from [[Guy Ritchie]] of ''[[Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels]]'' and ''[[Snatch]]'' fame, has [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment|one scene]] in which the events and aftermath of a heist are shown in cartoon form, on a TV, ''during the heist!''
* ''[[Run Lola Run (Film)|Run Lola Run]]'' has a recurring motif(?) of showing the title character's actions in an animated form.
* ''[[UHF (Film)|UHF]]'' features a dream sequence where [[Weird Al]] imagines a CG version of himself playing a psychedelic rock cover version of the theme from ''[[The Beverly Hillbillies]]''.
* In ''[[Nine to Five]]'', [[Lily Tomlin]], [[Jane Fonda]] and [[Dolly Parton]] get stoned and fantasize about killing their boss. All three fit the [[Art Shift]] trope, as the fantasies are filmed in distinctly different styles from the rest of the movie, but Lily Tomlin's features adorable animated wildlife surrounding her in the office kitchen as she poisons his coffee.
* In ''[[Waltz Withwith Bashir]]'', the majority of the film is in two-tone, dreamlike animation until the protagonist remembers encountering a procession of women lamenting their slain husbands and children. At that point, the film switches to real footage of the aftermath of the [[wikipedia:Sabra and Shatila massacre|Sabra and Shatila massacre]], making it all too real for both the protagonist and the audience.
* An unusual example in the French movie ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064146/ The Brain]'' (''Le Cerveau'', 1969). The eponymous Brain (played by David Niven) is exposing to his henchmen his plan for a future train heist... with the projection of a short animated film, [[Marty Stu|starring himself]]. The real heist go much less smoothly that the one shown in animation, of course.
* In the film of the musical for ''[[Reefer Madness (Film)|Reefer Madness]]'', there was an animated sequence where Jimmy sings about how special his brownie is.
* The very first case of a movie blending live action with CGI is, of course, Disney's ''[[Tron]]''. Note that, given the limitation of computers at the time, a good part of said animation was still hand-drawn or hand-colored.
* The ''[[Kick-Ass (Filmfilm)|Kick-Ass]]'' movie references [[Kick-Ass|its origins]] by integrating some comic book aesthetics. There are occasional caption boxes on the screen saying stuff like "Meanwhile..." and Macready's backstory is told entirely in drawings, which is framed as a character reading a comic-book adaptation of the tale.
* ''[[Harry Potter (Filmfilm)|Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1]]'' has an animated segment for [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ12wQD64y0&feature=BFp&list=FLSAnfFyfcESetvT5hvvWs0g "The Tale of the Three Brothers"], the legendary story of the Deathly Hallows. It's CGI that looks like [[The Muppets]] [[X Meets Y|meets]] ''[[The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello]]'' meets ''[[The Nightmare Before Christmas]]''.
* ''[[The Wall]]'' by [[Pink Floyd]] switch back and forth between live-action and [[Deranged Animation]].
* ''[[Dinosaur]]'', Disney's first non-Pixar CGI-animated film, actually used CGI for mostly characters and props, and live action for the backgrounds (though with some CGI objects added).
* ''[[Ghatothkach]]'' is usually in 2D but some musical numbers in the movie is rendered with CGI.
* ''[[Monty Python and The Holy Grail]]'', just like ''Flying Circus'', has a few segments animated by [[Terry Gilliam (Creator)|Terry Gilliam]]. Sometimes the animated elements interact with the live action, as with God or the Legendary Black Beast of Aaaaarrrrrrggghhh.
* In Jean-Jacques Annaud's ''The Bear'', after the bear cub eats some dubious mushrooms, the ensuing [[Mushroom Samba]] is a [[Dream Sequence]] in stop-motion animation.
* ''[[Happy Feet]]'' is mostly CGI, but near the end, live-action humans are superimposed into the scenes.
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* ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' roughly alternates between animated and live segments. On average, there's probably more continuity between adjacent segments when they're of different media than when they're not.
* ''[[Life On Mars]]'' has a [[Claymation]] sequence where Sam and Gene appear in the '70s children's show ''Camberwick Green''.
* In an episode of ''[[Red Dwarf (TV)|Red Dwarf]]'', the characters were temporarily done in Claymation-style.
* This also happened in an episode of ''[[My Name Is Earl]]'', where Randy accidentally took a hallucinogenic substance and started seeing everybody in claymation style.
* In the ''[[Power Rangers Dino Thunder]]'' episode "Drawn into Danger", the Dino Thunder Rangers were trapped in a comic book, which was actually [[Rotoscoping|rotoscoped]] ''[[Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger]]'' footage.
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** Season 8 episode "Avatar" has the characters inside a virtual reality showing up as video-game CGI on the screens.
** Season 10 episode "200" has a whole segment re-imagining the show with marionettes.
* ''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]]'' also has a Puppet Angel sequence.
* This was also done a lot in episodes of ''[[Big Bad Beetleborgs]]''. Most nobably the some of transformation sequences from the first season and Metalix. Also done whenever Flabber brings one of Art Fortune's drawings to life.
* ''[[Moonlighting]]'' has a claymation sequence.
* The ''[[Farscape (TV)|Farscape]]'' episode "Revenging Angel" not only has several [[Warner Brothers]]-esque full animation sequences, it also mixes animated characters with live action (e.g. the [[Aladdin (Disney film)|Genie-like]] morphing Aeryn).
* ''[[The Nanny]]'' has a whole animated [[Christmas Episode]] in the same style as its usual [[Animated Credits Opening]].
* ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' season 6 episode 3, "Epic Fail", has a 3D-video-games designer as Patient of the Week, and thus features several sequences animated in full CGI. Notably a [[Deep-Immersion Gaming]] moment between Thirteen and Taub, with their in-game avatars seen discussing the diagnostic while blasting monsters. Later, the patient also hallucinates the decors and characters of his game supplanting the hospital and staff, respectively.
* In the ''[[Fringe]]'' episode "Lysergic Acid Diethylamide", Walter, Peter and William Bell [[Journey to Thethe Center of Thethe Mind|enter Olivia's mind]]. The world switches from live-action to a rotoscoped, cel-shaded cartoon as soon as Walter and Peter reunite with William Bell.
* One episode of ''[[Home Improvement]]'' has a dream sequence done in stop-motion with wooden figures.
* Much of the premise of ''[[Lizzie McguireMcGuire]]'' centered around Lizzie's cartoon self (voiced by [[Hilary Duff]]) [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|commenting offscreen]] on the live-action happenings of Lizzie's life.
* In the ''[[That 70s Show]]'' episode "Afterglow", the scene in the circle is animated in the style of 70's ''[[Scooby Doo]]'' after Fez says that he wishes that he was like Scooby-Doo.
* ''[[Zoboomafoo]]'' is typically a live-action wildlife show, however, the segments where Zoboo describes his adventures in Zobooland are stop-motion animated with clay models, and the "Who Could It Be" segments are in hand-drawn animation.
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** Later clips, starting with "Clint Eastwood", mix traditional animation with many CG elements. In "19-2000", the Gorillaz themselves are in 3D for wide shots, though still 2D for close-ups.
** Likewise, "Rock the House" has several CG-animated characters, including Del the Ghost Rapper and the inflatable gorilla cheerleaders.
** "Feel Good Inc.", "Dare" and "Dirty Harry" add live-action to the mix (with guest stars [[De La Soul (Music)|De La Soul]], Shaun Ryder and Bootie Brown, respectively).
** Later clips have the characters more and more often in 3D, including for "live" performances. The MTV European Music Awards 2005 in Lisbon had the three-dimensional Gorillaz ''on stage'', thanks to an updated version of the old Victorian parlour trick named "[[wikipedia:Peppers Ghost|Pepper's Ghost]]". Repeated for the Grammy Awards 2006 in Los Angeles, this time alongside [[Madonna]] as guest-star.
** In the latest phase, the clip for "Stylo" is almost entirely live-action with just three of the Gorillaz in quasi-realistic 3D {{spoiler|(and [[Bruce Willis (Creator)]] as the antagonist)}}.
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== Puppet Shows ==
* ''[[Sesame Street (TV)|Sesame Street]]'' is mainly a [[Puppet Shows]], but regularly intersected with animated sequences.
* ''[[Les Guignols De L Info]]'' is a French puppet show, but has used some animation on occasion, like with this ''[[South Park]]'' parody, "''[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8432855284922681561# Droite Park]''".
 
 
== Video Games ==
* In ''[[Prototype (Videovideo Gamegame)|Prototype]]'', the Web of Intrigue videos are mainly stylised live-action with a bit of game footage here and there.
* ''[[MirrorsMirror's Edge]]'' makes use of 2D Flash animation in its cutscenes, which also serve as loading screens, just before each level, which tends to come across as a sharp contrast to the actual in-game character designs and first-person cinematics.
* ''[[Max Payne (Video Gameseries)|Max Payne]]'' uses graphic novel panels for between-level cutscenes.
* ''[[Command and Conquer]]'' is famous for sticking with using [[Full Motion Video|live-action cutscenes]] when [[Grandfather Clause|other companies gave up on it years ago]].
* ''[[Brutal Legend]]'''s pre-title screen (and title screen-slash-menu) are live-action starring Jack Black (presumably as himself in this case) showing you the Brutal Legend album. The rest of the game uses a stylized style.
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== Web Comics ==
* [[Homestuck]] is usually a normal comic (at least in terms of art), but often shifts into animated GIFs, Flash animations, and the occasional RPG-like interactive sequence. The latter two have "[S]" before the page name; seeing [S] in an update usually indicates an inbound [[Wham! Episode]].
* If a webcomic occasionally making use of animated gifs can count, then ''[[Gastrophobia (Webcomic)|Gastrophobia]]'' is an example with [http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-08-21 this strip] and the [http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-08-24 following one].
* One episode of ''Mountain Time'' has 2D, black-and-white stick figures turning into [http://mountaincomics.com/2011/10/13/mountain-time-304/ 3D, full-color clay models]. (Their speech is still in 2D text bubbles, but it's Japanese.)
* ''[[This Is Not Fiction (Webcomic)|This Is Not Fiction]]'' uses digitally painted panels for its pages, but the chapter covers are all photographs of hand-drawn paper cut-outs of the characters.
 
 
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** One of the [[Couch Gag|Couch Gags]] in a later season was the normal title sequence filmed in live action, which was originally a commercial made for the syndicated broadcast on the U.K. channel Sky1 (the parts with the car were flipped so they were in line with the way cars and roads are in America).
** Another was Maggie's dream in the 2010 Christmas episode, with the Simpson family and Mr. Burns as muppets, and Katy Perry appearing live-action.
* ''[[Out of the Inkwell]]'' from [[Fleischer Studios]] was one of the first, if not THE first example of medium blending. It involved a live-action artist (Max Fleischer) drawing animated<ref>and [[Rotoscoping|frequently rotoscoped]]</ref> characters as they [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|leak out from an inkwell]] in the silent era of film.
* [[Fleischer Studios]] also invented the "Stereoptic Process" in the 1930s to allow panning across 3-dimensional backgrounds in their cartoons -- they constructed physical models on a rotating table, which was photographed with cels held in front of it one frame at a time. For an example of the effect, watch ''[[Popeye the Sailor]] meets Sindbad[sic] the Sailor''.
* ''[[Chowder]]'' has examples of this in every episode with puppets, traditional stop motion, and stop motion ''with food'' for scene changes.
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* ''[[The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack]]'' has the same production company as ''[[Chowder]]'' and follows its example with a lot of stop-motion segments. There's one in the opening credits, even!
* ''[[Family Guy]]'' has used live-action on numerous episodes like with Conway Twitty; Peter freaking out at the sight of himself in live-action, Alyssa Milano telling her lawyer to sue the show for a "cheap shot", and a live-action man repeating what Brian said to Meg while shouting. Also, at the end of the Y2K episode -- "[[Dallas|What's Family Guy?]]"
** They also took the dancing Jerry scene directly from ''[[Anchors Aweigh (Film)|Anchors Aweigh]]'' and replaced Jerry with Stewie.
** Peter also once met Scrat the squirrel from ''[[Ice Age]]'', rendered in 3D as usual.
** "Road To The Multiverse" featured scenes in a stop-motion universe based on ''[[Robot Chicken]]'', one done in [[Disneyesque|hyper-animated Disney style]], as well as one of a live-action Brian and Stewie.
* ''[[Superjail (Animation)|Superjail]]'' has a dream sequence where Jailbot and The Warden were seen fishing together while animated in 3D CGI. This episode and another ended with The Warden as a hobo in the real world.
* ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force (Animation)|Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]'' has a live-action episode that held open tryouts for a Carl lookalike in a contest. The winner of said contest: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apg3DttFqt0 here.]
* ''[[The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest]]'' has the main characters venturing into "Quest World", a place where their traditionally 2D animated selves became 3D.
* ''[[Code Lyoko (Animation)|Code Lyoko]]'' follows the same formula, from 2D animation in the "real world" to CGI animation in the Cyberspace of Lyoko and the Digital Sea.
* ''[[South Park]]''
** The Emmy-winning ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' episode "Make Love Not Warcraft" has some sequences actually taking place within the game; these were [[Machinima|animated using a modified version of the WoW engine]].
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** This culminates in the third ''Jimmy Timmy Power Hour'', where the [[Big Bad]] of the movie creates "Retrodimmsdaleville", which is depicted as a bizarre mix of both animation styles; that is, the ''FOP'' art style in a papery 2.5D void.
* ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]'': Channel Chasers features scenes made with cel animation (the show is made with Flash), paper cut-outs, anime, cel-shaded stop motion, and puppetry.
* ''[[SpongebobSpongeBob SquarePants]]'' uses live action from time to time as a gag. Basically, anything that takes place in, or comes from, the surface world is live-action, while everything underwater is animated.
** In the episode "Pressure", for instance, all the characters become live-action puppets when they come out of the water and step onto land.
** In [[The Movie]], SpongeBob and Patrick are still animated when they venture on land, but only become "real" when they {{spoiler|are dried out under a souvenir maker's heat lamp. Conversely, they and all the other dried-up fish turn back into cartoon characters when the sprinklers go off in the stand.}}
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** In "Frozen Face-Off" the characters are pursued by a stop-motion monster.
** Let us not forget Spongebob and Patrick's escape through the perfume department in "Shanghaied."
* ''[[Jackie Chan Adventures (Animation)|Jackie Chan Adventures]]'' has an intro with a live-action [[Jackie Chan]] getting spliced into the animation. Not to mention each episode ended with Jackie answering questions in the flesh.
* ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' has a very bouncy live-action woman act alongside the show's traditional stop motion. The ''Excitebike'', parts of the ''Pacman/Matrix'', and ''Space Invaders'' parodies were all done in ways that looked close, if not identical to their video game counterparts.
* ''[[Courage the Cowardly Dog]]'' has an episode where Muriel get sucked into a computer, and when Courage goes in to save her, the first segment of the computer world has Courage animated in 3D CGI.
* ''[[Drawn Together]]'' had an inversion of the typical "live-action show enters magical cartoon kingdom" thing, with Wooldor finding a cow in "The Live-Action Forest". The cow then proceeds to wreak havoc all over the cartoon world, eventually getting into a "[[Take Our Word for It|fight]]" with the "Live-Action Squirrel with Big Balls".
* In the ''[[Ka Blam!]]'' episode, "The Best of Both Worlds!", Henry and June want to go into the real world (a.k.a. "The Legendary Third Dimension"), and when they make it there, the show becomes live-action, with Henry and June being played by actual kids (their voice actors did them speaking to avoid viewer confusion).
* An episode of ''[[Harvey Birdman, Attorney Atat Law]]'' has the staff being seen through surveillance footage, which was all live-action footage. Some other episodes also have short live-action sequences, mostly featuring Birdman.
* An ''[[American Dad (Animation)|American Dad]]'' episode has a shift from 2D to 3D after Roger the Alien ate a bird (which sent him on a drug trip).
* The 2003 incarnation of [[Strawberry Shortcake]], for the ''Sweet Dreams'' Movie, shifted the series from 2D animation to 3D CGI.
* Each episode of ''Popetown'' has a live-action introduction featuring some catholic school class before the animated part. Theoretically tied-in with the episode content, but rather pointless.
* The cartoon version of ''[[Paddington (Animation)|Paddington]]'' has the title character animated using a stop motion puppet, the other characters were coloured paper dolls, and the backgrounds were black and white static drawings.
* The [[Pixar Short]] ''Day and Night'' uses hand-drawn animation for the two title characters and CGI for the landscapes visible inside them.
* ''Your Friend the Rat'', from the ''[[Ratatouille]]'' DVD, has CGI for the framing scenes of Rémy and Émile and traditional animation for the rest, with a stop-motion scene and a couple of live-action [[Stock Footage]] shots.
* Robert Mandell was a pioneer of this back in the early and mid 1980's, mixing CGI in with cel animation in both ''Thunderbirds 2086'' and ''[[Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers (Animation)|Galaxy Rangers]]''. The CGI was justified by having it be on computer terminals and as the avatar of A.I. units.
* The Nick Jr.'s show ''[[Bubble Guppies (Animation)|Bubble Guppies]]'' have characters with CGI bodies and Flash animated facial features. It also has some segments with Flash characters and backdrops.
* The HBO Family show "A Little Curious" had many CGI, 2D, and clay animation segments plus live-action shorts and "outside animation" (mixed-media) segments.
* The episode "A Friend in Deed" of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' features a segment of Pinkie's imagination, animated in felt. In the very next (normally animated) scene, she holds up a piece of felt from the animation.
* ''[[Arthur]]'' had some instances of this play into effect. For example, the episode where D.W. manages to trick Arthur into taking her to a science museum had her and The Brain watching a TV educational documentary that had live action sequences on the animated TV screen.
** Something similar happened in ''[[Doug]]'', where Skeeter, while staying at Bebe Bluff's house as part of a [[Trading Spaces]] bet among the friends, watches the TV at her house and notes that she has a lot of channels (at least one of which is distinctly shown in live-action).
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