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* pulls off some manner of complicated stunt like an old pro
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The character who just amazed the crowd shrugs it off modestly, [[Stock Phrases|saying simply]], "Saw it in a movie once."
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== Anime ==
* ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]'': Kaname says this in the first season when she, Sousuke, and Kurz are trapped by an army of soldiers in a small trench. The movie she remembers? ''[[Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid]]''. [[Bolivian Army Ending|Yeah, not too encouraging]]. They come out alright, though.
* ''[[The World God Only Knows]]'': This is [[Dating Sim]] [[Otaku]] Keima Katsuragi's schtick. Whenever someone asks him how he could make a [[Insane Troll Logic|bizarre leap of logic]] or [[Awesome By Analysis|figure out something in an instant]], he replies, "It often goes like this. [[I Know Mortal Kombat|In games]]."
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* ''The Golden Rendezvous'' by Alistair MacLean. The protagonist disarms the [[Big Bad]], who has a concealed shoulder holster, simply by yanking his jacket down over his shoulders, immobilising his arms. When the [[Big Bad]] calmly asks if the protagonist is a professional like himself, he replies "American movies."
* In ''[[Infinity Beach]]'', Solly gets the idea of blowing the alien Shroud out of ''Hammersmith'''s airlock from a movie (implied to be ''[[Alien (franchise)|Alien]]''). Unlike in ''Alien'', it doesn't work.
* In the [[Hoka]] stories, by [[Poul Anderson]] and [[Gordon R. Dickson]], the
== Live Action TV ==
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* Subverted in ''[[CROSS†CHANNEL]]''. In two different scenes, Taichi insists he can drive cars because he's seen how it works in manga. Naturally, this leads to hilarious results.
* Played straight but justified in ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]''. Trying to interpret the game board's story as a mystery rather than a fantasy story, various characters use knowledge gained from reading mystery novels.
* Chuck Greene from [[Dead Rising]] can learn new combo weapons by, among other things, looking at movie posters. Namely movies by [[Clint Eastwood|Clint]] [[The Rock|Rockfoot]].
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[Least I Could Do]]'' has Rayne bust out a [[Big No]] at goofing a chance with a girl. She calls him on being [[Narm|a bit dramatic]] and he says he
* ''[[Cyanide
* In ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]]'' many of [[Gadgeteer Genius|Molly's]] engineering feats are inspired by pop culture. [http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20111101.html When she activated her] [[Transforming Mecha|transforming]] [[Snowlems|snow]] [[Siege Engines|ballista,]] she managed to include [[Shout-Out|shout outs]] to ''Tom Corbett: Space Cadet, [[Robotech]], [[Battle of the Planets]], [[Sailor Moon]],'' and ''[[Ultraman]].''
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"We're not delivering a baby, dumbo!"
"...I heard it in a movie once..." }}
** From the same series: Michelangelo and Donatello were tied up back to-back in chairs with a bomb next to them. Mikey revealed that he had seen a scene like this before on TV and, following his direction, the two rocked back and forth to tip over onto the floor. However, when Donatello asked what to do next, Mikey realized that he didn't
* A less modest version happens in ''[[Ben 10: Alien Force|Ben 10 Alien Force]]''. Julie does the [["I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight]] with {{spoiler|her pet, Ship}} and when Ben is surprised she pulled it off, she says, "You're not the only one who's seen 'Brain Stealers from Outer Space'."
* ''"It came to me in a dream. And I forgot it in another dream." - Professor Hubert Farnsworth''
* In an episode of ''[[Freakazoid!]]'', Cosgrove [[No Fourth Wall|tells the audience]] to [[Clap Your Hands If You Believe]] (and throw in some [[Inherently Funny Words|Hugbees]]) to save Freakazoid's life after having seen it work in [[Peter Pan|a movie]] once.
* In the pilot episode of ''[[Storm Hawks]]'', Aerrow briefly breaks the fourth wall when he tells a rightfully worried Radarr that "it's okay, I saw this before in a cartoon" right before jumping off his Skimmer to perform a [[Final Fantasy]]-esque stunt.
* In ''[[Shrek]]'':
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