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A character repeats what was just said by the narrator, word-for-word (or very nearly) for [[Rule of Funny|comedic effect]].

 

Similar to [[Ironic Echo Cut]], but with the [[Fourth Wall]] instead of actual cutting. Can involve [[That Makes Me Feel Angry]].

 

* In the dub of episode 15 of ''[[Sgt Frog]]'', when the others imagine Keroro and [[Super-Powered Evil Side|Dark Momoka]] teaming up to [[Take Over the World|conquer the world]], the narrator warns, "But their dark union was not that simple." Cut to Dark Momoka informing the platoon, "Our dark union's not that simple."

** Used again in episode 22:

{{quote|'''Narrator''': Stuffy Mr. Austria is very strict about rules and discipline.

'''Austria''': I am very strict about rules und discipline. }}

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

{{quote|'''[[The Flash]]''': SUPERMAN! Dammit, I can't fly.<ref>The Flash cannot fly--The Editor</ref>}}

 

* Reversed in ''[[Plan 9 from Outer Space]]'', where one of the characters says of the aliens, "I wonder what their next move will be?" and the narrator says "What will their next move be?"

* Something similar happens at the beginning of ''[[Magical Mystery Tour]]'':

'''Ursula:''' Here I am, lost in the wilderness with a jungle man. }}

 

* ''[[Bored of the Rings]]'' does this, then [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] it, near the beginning of the book.

* ''Blessed are the Cheesemakers'':

'''Kansas''': *singing* In the middle of nowhere, feeling lonesome and seasick, my guitar is soggy and I feel so blue... }}

 

{{quote|'''Ida''': 8660 Hawkins Lane, Apt 9. God am I underpaid.}}

:: And the caption for the next scene is<nowiki>:</nowiki>

'''Jackie:''' I want you.

'''Hyde:''' It's obvious. }}

{{quote|'''Penn (narrating)''': Wait a minute! He's sleeping naked with the girls? And the girls are naked too?

'''Biographer''': He's sleeping naked with the girls and the girls are naked too!

'''Penn (narrating)''': Cool! }}

* ''Pushing Daisies'' was fond of this.

 

== Music Video ==

* The music video for the Men At Work song "Down Under" has this... sort of, by always showing the events described in the song as literally as possible. The song talks about a guy who is 6'4" and full of muscles, and shazam, a man fitting this description appears. In [[VH-1]]'s ''I Love the 80s'', this was joked on by Patton Oswalt. "Is this just for deaf people who can't hear the song?"

 

* At the start of Act Two of ''[[Spamalot]]'', the Historian recaps the end of Act One, ending with, "King Arthur and his knights fled for their lives and were instantly scattered and lost in a dark, and [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall|very expensive]], forest." Soon after, King Arthur moans, "This is a total bloody disaster. All my knights have fled, and we're lost in a dark, and very expensive, forest."

* Michael Frayn's ''Afterlife'' inverts the variety with stage directions.

{{quote|'''Reinhardt:''' [...] And here, on the cathedral square in Salzburg, we shall [act out parts in a play] as simply and naturally as children do in their games. No sound effects. Only the cathedral bells. Only the distant sound of traffic in the streets.}}

{{quote|''Sound effects''}}

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

And on the PC, {{spoiler|the achievement's subtitle: [[Up to Eleven|"This is that part"]].}} }}

 

 

* The ''[[Word Girl]]'' episode "Mecha-Mouse" is narrated by the usual [[Interactive Narrator]] and his [[Darker and Grittier]] twin brother. At one point, they muse, "Will [[Word Girl]] be able to stop Dr. Two-Brain's plan to buy his own private island?" "Or will Two-Brains Island become the center of evil and villainy for all eternity?" Later on, as Dr. Two-Brains goes to buy his island, he cackles to himself, "Two-Brains Island will become the center of evil and villainy for all eternity! [[Lampshade Hanging|The narrator told me so]]."

* Happened a lot in the ''[[Lucky Luke]]'' cartoon. Most of the time, it was Luke himself repeating the narration, but now and then, some other character would do it for him...

 

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