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* Dreamed I did it
Sister trope to both [[Taught
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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 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 Goonies]]'': Mikey suggests a plan to escape from the pursuing villains in based on a ''[[Hardy Boys]]'' story.
{{quote| '''Mikey:''' I saw this on the Hardy Boys once. We lead a trail of jewels into one cave, and then hide out in another, and when the Fratelli's go into that cave, then we can make a run for it.}}
* ''[[The
{{quote| '''Murdock:''' (''While flying a helicopter'') Hold on, guys, I'm gonna try something I saw in a cartoon once!}}
* Hilariously played with in ''[[Tropic Thunder]]'' by one of the protagnoists, an actor, slowly going insane from withdrawal symptoms (due to being a junkie)
{{quote| "I know this is gonna sound crazy, but in this one film I starred in we had to infiltrate the girl's bathroom of a highschool. So we built a catapult out of women's underwear and launched ourselves over the fence!"<br />
(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
{{quote| '''Frank:''' It worked in the movie!<br />
'''Burt:'''Well, it ain't working now, Frank!<br />
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* Parodied in ''[[The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]]''. When Tom shows up to help Huck break Jim out of captivity, Huck's pragmatic plans are always dismissed by Tom, because they 'ain't got enough style' and Tom likes to do things that he got out of books, like trying to dig a tunnel with case knives or giving Jim a bunch of pet snakes and rats.
* ''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 (
* In the [[Hoka]] stories, by [[Poul Anderson]] and [[Gordon R. Dickson]], the Hokas--a race of teddy-bear-like aliens--operate entirely on this principle. They absorb fictive universes (essentially, the race is a sponge for tropes), and ''[[Becoming the Mask|become]]'' [[Becoming the Mask|them]]. Cowboys, spacemen, [[Sherlock Holmes]], ''[[The Jungle Book (
== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' parodies this in a third season episode "Lines in the Sand" when he conducts a differential in the lobby:
{{quote| '''Cuddy:''' Is this your master plan? Disrupt hospital business until I replace your carpet?<br />
'''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..."
* ''[[
{{quote| '''Robber:''' Where'd you learn to drive like ''that''?<br />
'''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]]...
* Garak on [[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]] often uses variations of this phrase to handwave his impressive abilities or intimate knowledge of things like classified military codes. Since almost everyone knows he used to be an actual spy (and a fairly important one at that), none of the main cast believe his explanations for a second.
* Quoth [[Castle]], as he's about to do something stupid while being held hostage at a bank robbery: "don't worry mother, I saw this work on Die Hard."
* Tony in ''[[
* ''[[Blossom]]'': Blossom blinds an intruder (who turns out to actually be her brother) by blowing talcum powder in face. When Six asks her where she learned that trick, Blossom replies "[[MacGyver]]". (Also counts as an [[Actor Allusion]] as as Blossom's actress Mayim Bialik had played a recurring character on ''[[MacGyver]]''.
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== Video Games ==
* Subverted in ''[[
* Played straight but justified in ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro
* 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 [[Saw It in
* ''[[Cyanide and Happiness]]'' got that guy with a cat, and he [http://www.explosm.net/comics/1812/ did read] this [[Garfield|comic]]...
* 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
== Web Original ==
* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series
== Western Animation ==
* In the ''[[
* One episode of ''[[
{{quote| "Quick, boil some water!"<br />
"We're not delivering a baby, dumbo!"<br />
"...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.
* A less modest version happens in ''[[Ben 10: Alien Force
* ''"It came to me in a dream. And I forgot it in another dream." - Professor Hubert Farnsworth''
* In an episode of ''[[
* In the pilot episode of ''[[
* In ''[[Shrek]]'':
{{quote| '''Shrek''': The princess will be up the stairs in the highest room in the tallest tower.<br />
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'''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.
* On ''[[Jimmy Two
* ''[[
* One episode of ''[[The Simpsons (
* In an episode of [[Pinky and The Brain]]:
{{quote| '''Pinky:''' Zounds, your a good driver, Brain.<br />
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