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{{quote|''"Sawing a lady in half is easy. Sawing a lady in half and then joining her up together again is less easy, but can be done with practice."''|'''Dirk Gently''', ''[[Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency]]''}}
One of the archetypal illusions of [[Stage Magic]], along with the [[Pull a Rabbit Out of My Hat]] trick, [[Saw a Woman In Half|Sawing a Woman In Half]] involves a pretty woman (the magician's
Then, if nothing ''unseemly'' has happened at this point, the magician pushes away the two halves of the table, possibly rotates them around (but carefully not showing the sawn ends to the audience) and moves them together again. And then the woman steps out of the reunited box, all in one piece, to the relief and applause of the audience.
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* Is done to Barney Rubble on ''[[The Flintstones]]'' while he's hypnotized. The magician doing the trick shows Fred (and the audience) how it's done—Barney is in the top half bent in two, and the bottom half has fake legs.
* An episode of ''[[Ruby Gloom]]'' had Skull Boy doing this to Iris. She spends most of the rest of the episode in two halves because Skull Boy gets amnesia and forgets the combination for the lock.
* In an episode of ''[[The Smurfs]]'', King Jerard was holding auditions for a new court magician [[Evil Chancellor| (to replace the one he threw in jail in a previous episode)]]; the applicant shown ("the Amazing Manfred") did this trick during his interview, but wasn't able to put his assistant back together. Naturally, he didn't get the job, and as he was kicked out, his angry — and still cut in two — assistant told him she was quitting.
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