Saw It in a Movie Once: Difference between revisions

* In ''[[The Red Green Show]]'' [[The Movie|movie]], ''Duct Tape Forever'', Harold tries to stop the men after him and Red by dumping gasoline on the road to slip up the limo behind them. The reasoning? He saw it in a James Bond movie once. It works...kind of...just not the way you'd expect.

* Subverted in ''[[Dumb and Dumber]]'' when Lloyd (Jim Carrey) tricks a group of tough guys they encountered in a restaurant to pay for a meal for himself and Harry (Jeff Daniels), claiming he saw it in a movie. However, it turns out the plan wasn't as foolproof as they thought.

'''Lloyd Christmas:''' No, in the movie they catch up to him a half a mile down the road and slit his throat. It was a good one. }}

* ''[[The Goonies]]'': Mikey suggests a plan to escape from the pursuing villains in based on a ''[[Hardy Boys]]'' story.

* ''[[The A-Team (film)|The a Team]]'':

* Hilariously played with in ''[[Tropic Thunder]]'' by one of the protagnoists, an actor, slowly going insane from withdrawal symptoms (due to being a junkie)

(Everyone stares at him for a moment before trying to find a more reasonable plan) }}

* In ''[[Return of the Living Dead]]'', the [[Genre Savvy]] characters who have seen ''[[Night of the Living Dead]]'' try to put a zombie down by [[Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain]], with [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|less than satisfactory results]].

'''Freddy:''' You mean the movie ''lied?'' }}

 

 

* ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' parodies this in a third season episode "Lines in the Sand" when he conducts a differential in the lobby:

'''House:''' Devious. Saw it in a [[James Bond]] movie. }}

* Abed, in ''[[Community]]'', occasionally bursts out with this trope.

* ''[[Psych]]'' episode "Romeo and Juliet and Juliet" has Shawn mention "I saw this in a [[Jackie Chan]] movie..."

* ''[[The A-Team]]'' Season 3 episode "Breakout" has a couple of robbers coercing Murdock at gun point to drive [[Cool Car|the van]] to get away. Murdock, normally an [[Ace Pilot]], breaks out some [[Badass Driver]] skills:

'''Murdock (deadpan):''' I saw ''[[Cannonball Run]]'' five times. }}

* ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'': Used very literally with Monica, whose superpower is being able to copy anything she's seen in person or on TV - carve a tomato into a rose, play the piano, kick a robber's ass with a flashy wrestling move, [[Ceiling Cling]]...

* In the ''[[Tale Spin]]'' episode "Citizen Khan", Clementine Clevenger attempts to escape a locked room with a [[Bedsheet Ladder]] while saying "This always works in the movies." Unfortunately, the knots get undone and she falls with her noting, "So much for the movies!" Luckily, she has a soft landing in a horse trough.

* One episode of ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987]]'' has Donatello attempt to save an alien in a crashed vessel thus:

"...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 know--at the time, he'd gone to get popcorn before the scene had finished.

* 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]]'':

'''Shrek''': I read it in a book once. }}

** Justified in that Shrek's world is literally a land of fairy tales, and that the book he mentioned was specifically the tale about the very princess they were trying to rescue. Not only that, but said book was the one he was reading (and used as toilet paper) at the very beginning of the movie.

* One episode of ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' featured Homer trying to stop an animal stampede by yelling "[[Jumanji]]". After it failed, Homer wondered if there was anything from movies worth learning.

* In an episode of [[Pinky and The Brain]]:

'''Brain:''' I've watch a lot of [[Dukes of Hazzard]]. }}