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'''Johnny:''' This? ''[begins folding paper]'' Why, I can make a hat or a brooch or a pterodactyl... }}

* Almost done in [[Dogma]] when Bartleby shows Loki the newspaper clipping about the church rededication. Instead of reading the wrong side/article, Loki reads just the headline with a "so?" Which prompts Bartleby to respond, "You have to ''keep'' reading."

* In ''[[Chicken Run]]'', after Ginger shows the other chickens a poster for "Rocky the Flying Rooster":

{{quote|'''Ginger''': This is our way out of here."

'''[[Cloudcuckoolander|Babs]]''': We'll make posters?<br />

'''Ginger''': What's on the poster, Babs, what's on the poster! We'll fly out! }}

* This exchange from ''[[Monty Python and ~~The~~ Holy Grail]]'':

* This exchange from ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]'':

{{quote|'''Herbert's Father''': "One day, lad, all this will be yours." ''(Waves at/out the window.)''

'''Herbert''': "What, the curtains?" }}

== [[Literature]] ==

* A running gag in the first few ''[[Captain Underpants]]'' books was that a kid would notice whatever bizarre events were befalling Captain Underpants, only that when he tried to point them out to his mother, she'd ask him how she was expected to believe that-while reading something that was nearly as strange, such as a tabloid newspaper with the headline "Bigfoot gives birth to 200 pound UFO baby". The fourth book had the pair appear twice-the second time, the kid decided not to tell his mother about the giant robot fighting a giant man in his underwear.

* In ''[[American Gods]]'' Shadow attempts to show Wednesday how much time they've spent "backstage" by showing him a newspaper. Wednesday only sarcastically comments on the first headline he sees.

* In ''[[Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix]]'', Harry notices an article in the paper concerning the arrest and imprisonment of a member of the Order and points it out to his friends. Ron at first only notices an advertisement for robes. Justified, since the article is "barely an inch long'' and the advertisement is nearly full page.

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