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== [[Film]] ==

* In the 2005 film version of ''[[Bewitched (film)|Bewitched]]'', Michael Caine walks out of a series of stone arches to speak with Nicole Kidman; a moment later, as the camera pulls back, a pair of stagehands come by and pick up the large canvas flat on which the arches are painted.

* In a couple of his movies ("[[The Playhouse]]", ''[[Steamboat Bill Jr.]].'') [[Buster Keaton]] uses an old vaudeville gag in which a comedian performing against a backdrop painted to look like a body of water dives into ~~it -- he~~ actually jumps through a horizontal slit in the canvas.

* In a couple of his movies ("[[The Playhouse]]", ''[[Steamboat Bill Jr.]].'') [[Buster Keaton]] uses an old vaudeville gag in which a comedian performing against a backdrop painted to look like a body of water dives into it—he actually jumps through a horizontal slit in the canvas.

* Parodied and subverted in [[Looney Tunes: Back in Action|Looney Tunes Back in Action]]. Brendan Fraser's character is chasing [[Daffy Duck]] around Warner Bros studios. Daffy runs into a painted backdrop of a hallway, as if it were really there. Fraser follows, but because the picture is painted on canvas, he is able to tear right through instead of the traditional injuring himself. Daffy deems this cheating.

* One of the rare times when it's live action and *not* necessarily a parody of cartoons, the film ''[[The Villain]]'' has this trope. While trying to trap Handsome Stranger and Charmin, the titular villain paints a rock formation with black paint. The heroes' carriage goes right into it, prompting the villain to try it himself, with predictable results.

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* ''[[Farscape]]'', a (relatively) serious live-action show, spends an episode inside the subconscious of the main character John Crichton, which is apparently highly influenced by old [[Looney Tunes]] cartoons. Crichton and an animated version of the angry alien warrior D'Argo engage in a series of Coyote-and-Road Runner–style chases, all of which center on Crichton painting wormholes onto the wall, which act as Artistic Expression tunnels.

* Taken to a truly ''maniac'' extent in ''[[The Goodies]]'' episode "Movies": Characters jump in and out of the cinema screen, then in and out of the cinema screen which is on ''another cinema screen'', then running off screen, appearing in the cinema screen inside the cinema screen, then jumping through all the cinema screens. The amazing thing is that they avoid [[Special Effect Failure]] despite the episode being from 1975, and ''live action television''.

** Done earlier in "Invasion Of The Moon Creatures", when Bill, dressed as a rabbit ([[It Makes Sense in Context]], promise) runs next to a hole and jumps down the rabbit hole to get rid of Graeme, who is chasing him. Graeme attempts to jump in also, but hits the ground. Confused, he touches the hole, and manages to ''pick it up'' ~~-- it~~'s just a piece of round, black paper. Frustrated, he throws the hole away as he stomps off-screen. When the hole lands, Bill crawls out of it again.

** Done earlier in "Invasion Of The Moon Creatures", when Bill, dressed as a rabbit ([[It Makes Sense in Context]], promise) runs next to a hole and jumps down the rabbit hole to get rid of Graeme, who is chasing him. Graeme attempts to jump in also, but hits the ground. Confused, he touches the hole, and manages to ''pick it up''—it's just a piece of round, black paper. Frustrated, he throws the hole away as he stomps off-screen. When the hole lands, Bill crawls out of it again.

* In a sixth-season cast sketch on ''[[Sesame Street]]'', Bob and Luis assemble a billboard picture of a railroad tunnel. No sooner do they assemble the picture properly than a train comes out.

* Subverted in [[Community]], when Abed attempts to convince Troy that he's found a way to cartoon land by adding a cartoon visage of himself at the end of a tunnel painted on a wall and throwing his voice from behind a nearby trash can to make Troy think it's real. Troy comes *this close* to running through the "tunnel," before Abed pops up and stops him. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlCN7sLh6Gk You have to believe!]

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== [[Western Animation]] ==

* A tunnel painted on the side of a cliff face may act as a real tunnel when the [[Looney Tunes|Road Runner]] escapes into it, but for Wile E. Coyote it remains solid rock (as in their first cartoon, "Fast and Furry-ous"). Or it may injure the Coyote when a very real truck or train exits it and runs him over as he stands in front of it. In one cartoon, Wile E. puts a painting of a broken bridge in the middle of the road to get the Road Runner to stop. When the Road Runner just rips through the canvas, Wile E. goes after him, ''enters'' the painting and falls off the cliff therein.

** In an early ''[[Pac-Man~~|Pac-Mania~~]]'' short, Pac-Man does the "painted cave entrance" trick to evade the pursuing Ghost Monsters.

** In an early ''[[Pac-Man]]ia'' short, Pac-Man does the "painted cave entrance" trick to evade the pursuing Ghost Monsters.

* The exact same thing happened in an episode of ''[[Johnny Test]]'' with a lot of [[Shout-Out|Shout Outs]] to old Road Runner cartoons.

* A ''U.S. Acres'' segment on ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'' did the tunnel version of this gag with Booker and the Worm. According to Orson, this gag is required in every chase scene.