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A Proscenium Reveal may end a [[Danger Room Cold Open]], a [[Fake Action Prologue]] or the [[Unwinnable Training Simulation]]. In a [[Music Video]], it can indicate that we've been [[On a Soundstage All Along]].
When done accidentally [[In
Not to be confused with [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]], in which the characters acknowledge their fictional status and/or the existence of the audience (i.e., ''you'').
'''Note:''' Proscenium reveals can be [[Mind Screw
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* In the original ''[[Fame]]'', one of the main characters is monologuing about his mother. It looks like an interview, until he flubs a line and we realize it's an audition.
* [[Zig Zagged Trope|Zig-Zagged]] in the climax of ''[[Blazing Saddles]]'', where the action is somehow "real" even though it's shown to be happening on a Hollywood soundstage — and eventually most of the backlot — during the climactic [[Battle Royale With Cheese]].
* The cartoon short starring Roger Rabbit and Baby Herman at the start of ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'' is cut short by a human director calling "Cut!" This is followed by shots establishing that the [[Animated Actors]] are working on a live-action soundstage, thus setting up the concept of humans and toons living in the same world.
* The entrance of Admiral Kirk in ''[[Star Trek II:
* [[Meryl Streep]] flubbing a line during [[The Oner]] that opens ''[[Postcards From The Edge]]''.
* The cry of "That's a wrap!" and the applause after {{spoiler|[[Laura Dern]]'s "death scene"}} in the [[David Lynch]] film ''[[Inland Empire]]''.
* In the Club Silencio sequence of David Lynch's ''[[Mulholland Drive]]'', Rebekah Del Rio
* ''[[
* The ending of ''Murder 101'' is this. It turns the thing from merely being a bad movie into a bad movie ''about'' a bad movie.
* ''[[Ararat]]'' does this fairly often. It lets the audience watch the movie-within-a-movie just long enough to momentarily forget that's what they're watching, until the camera pans to show the director in his chair, or someone walks on the set to correct one of the actors.
* ''[[Moulin Rouge]]'' begins with the
* ''[[Sucker Punch]]'', like ''[[Moulin Rouge]]'', opens in a theater that becomes the movie (only it never returns). And also has a weird example: Baby Doll getting lobotomized... followed by a play in which Sweet Pea in a blonde wig [[Who Writes This Crap?|complains about it]] [[Post Modernism|ending with the heroine ending that way]]. {{spoiler|And Baby Doll is still lobotomized later on the picture.}}
* At the beginning of ''[[Team America: World Police]]'', a [[Stylistic Suck|very crude puppet]] is jerked around in front of a laughably-bad background. This was done by the creators to troll their investors, as the film is itself done with puppets; after a few seconds (long enough that, the story goes, one of the investors yelled, "My God, they fucked us!"), the camera pulls back to reveal that the crude puppet is part of a puppet show on the streets of Paris, being worked by a much better puppet.
* ''[[Scream
== [[Animated Films]] ==
* ''[[
* The instructor critiquing a monster's performance in the training simulation that opens ''[[Monsters, Inc.]].''
* ''[[Gundam 00:
== Literature ==
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* The ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' episode "Hollywood Babylon" opens with two terrified 20-somethings, Wendy and Brody, in the woods. Brody runs away; Wendy calls for her friends, hears a noise, turns toward the camera and screams — unconvincingly, at a tennis ball stuck on top of a movie camera. "Cut!" calls the director. "Wendy" is actually Tara Benchley, the lead actress of ''Hell Hazers 2''.
** Another Supernatural example, the episode "The French Mistake". {{spoiler|This is less a reveal than a transition though, as Sam and Dean themselves have been pulled into 'our' world by Balthazar's power, to <s> escape Virgil</s> lead Virgil on a merry wild goose chase after a key that supposedly opens the door to a room containing all the weapons Balthazar stole}}.
*** Worth noting, the episode's title is a [[Shout
* On more than one occasion in ''[[Quantum Leap]]'', Sam leapt into a strange situation, only to discover that he was an actor in a play/on a soundstage.
* This happens [[Once an Episode]] in ''[[FX the Series|F/X The Series]]''.
* Nikki's first flashback on ''[[Lost]]'' features a proscenium reveal. Nikki is shown pole dancing in a club, then having a confrontation with her boss. The boss shoots her, and the director yells, "Cut!", revealing that Nikki an actress working on a show about strippers who fight crime. The original plan was to have the entire ''episode'' revolve around this [[Show Within a Show]], with the proscenium reveal coming at the end. This plan was scrapped when Nikki and Paulo proved wildly unpopular.
* ''[[
* The ''[[Six Feet Under]]'' episode "In the Game" opens with a young girl home alone when a slasher-killer breaks into her house. The girl screams...then cut to inside a movie theater where we realize it's only from a horror movie that is playing.
* One episode of ''[[Castle]]'' opens with this. A couple is having an affair when the women's husband returns. The man goes to hide in a the closet and a dead body falls out prompting a camera pan to show the shocked cast and crew of the soap opera that is being filmed.
* ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' had an episode, "A World of Difference", in which the Proscenium Reveal came as a surprise to the ''protagonist''
* ''[[Star Trek
== [[Theater]] ==
* In ''[[Kiss Me Kate]]'', just before the overture reaches its final chords, the conductor cuts it off and asks, "Is that all right, Mr. Graham?" Fred enters and says, "Yes, the cut's good, leave it in."
* ''[[Noises Off]]'' opens with a housekeeper walking on stage and nattering into the phone. Then as she's walking off, she says, "I take the sardines... I leave the sardines..." and an off-stage director's voice says, "You take the sardines, and you leave the newspaper." This reveals that what you're actually watching is a rehearsal of a [[Play Within a Play]].
* ''[[City of Angels (musical)|City of Angels]]'' opens in the [[Show Within a Show]], and gets most of the way through the expository scene before revealing Stine at his typewriter pressing the backspace key, causing the action to rewind.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In [[Tiny Toon Adventures]]: Buster Busts Loose, the game is mostly set as a movie with the characters following a script, and after beating the final level, a [[Star Wars]] parody, the characters are seen carrying the props away in the background.
* The [[Book Ends]] of ''[[
* And ''[[Mario
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