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* [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Discworld/Jingo|Jingo]]'' [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] this by having Vetinari going specifically to talk to Leonard da Quirm to do this.

** He uses it a lot; the three people (well, two people and a talking dog) [[Drowning My Sorrows|Drowning Their Sorrows]] in ''[[Discworld/Moving Pictures|Moving Pictures]]'' also do it, and some of Magrat and Verence's awkward conversations come close as well.

* In [[G. K. Chesterton]]'s ''The Return of Don Quixote'', two characters talk about the play. One is discussing his chances to show off in it; the other is discussing its philosophical underpinnings. Neither of them figures out that they are talking past each other.

 

 

== Live Action Television ==

* In one example from ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'', three characters all monologue about issues regarding their manliness, each continuing the next part of his own monologue from the last phrase of the previous person's monologue, all the while never paying attention to each other. Amazingly, they all reach the same solution to their manly dilemma: going to the mall.

** This sort of thing tended to happen rather frequently in this show, although I think the above example is the most extreme...

* Done in ''Coupling'', Season 1 Episode 5. Jeff is trying to chat up a woman who speaks nothing but Hebrew; Jeff knows this (an earlier scene has him stumbling hilariously through flirting with her), but true to fashion tries to make it happen anyway. The scene plays out and then rewinds with the cue, "But now, imagine you're an Israeli" and translates her lines...while muddling up Jeff's (the actor combined several other languages to make up his gibberish).

* ''[[A Bit of Fry and Laurie]]'' has a sketch parodying religious television. It's pretty well summed up by this exchange:

'''[[Hugh Laurie|Glen]]''': Well, I like to put it this way: Arnold is having difficulty concentrating on our discussion of the size of his girlfriend's breasts because he's a little too interested in analysing passages from [[The Bible]]. }}

 

'''Sheena:''' Just once I'd like to see what's going on inside both of their heads. }}

* ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]]: Trials and Tribulations'' features a person who claims to have seen a nun flying over a burning bridge. While the lawyers exclaim how crazy the witness is, the judge focuses on the witness's sketch of the scene, culminating in:

'''Judge:''' High! This person's really flying high! }}

 

 

* The second season finale of [[Justice League Unlimited]] had one between [[Batman Beyond|Terry McGinnis]] and Amanda Waller. Terry is annoyed that he's just found out {{spoiler|he's the biological son of the original Batman and considers this to be Bruce messing with his life}}, while Amanda is more concerned that he's just broken her antique teacup. Interestingly, ''Amanda's'' monologue segues rather nicely into ''Terry's'' flashback at the end of the scene.

{{quote|'''Waller:''' Oh, that's okay. I've only had that cup for seventy years. My mother passed it on to me.

** We immediately cut to a supervillain in Terry's flashback {{spoiler|which turns out to be about him leaving the Justice League, thus "ruining" that "set", for extra analogy}} exclaiming "Ruined! Ruined, I tell ya!" }}

* A sketch by German humorist [[Loriot]], when they have to kill some time before the real interview can start, because of technical difficulties.

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