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* Even robots can fall victim to the double-take: see ''[[WALL-E]]''.

* In ''[[Winnie the Pooh|The Tigger Movie]]'', this is Tigger's reaction to Roo asking him to teach the [[Overly Long Name|Whoopty-Dooper-Loopty-Looper-Alley-Ooper Bounce]]:

* Jack Skellington in ''[[The Nightmare Before Christmas]]'' does this when the paper snowflake he was trying to make ends up, against all laws of symmetry, looking like a spider. That's right, ''even the laws of symmetry thinks Jack sucks at Christmas''.

* Done quite a few times in ''[[Pinocchio]]''. Examples:

'''Gepetto:''' Oh it's me... "me!?" }}

* ''The Adventures of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina''

'''Godfrey''' & '''Daniel:''' Tiny girl floating in a sardine can?! }}

* In Disney's ''[[Hercules (Disney film)|Hercules]]'', while Meg and Herc start talking and falling for one another in a garden, Meg backs up into something pointed (which turns out to be a statue of Cupid, the point being his arrow). Cue a subtle, but definite double take from Meg.

* In an episode of ''[[Father Ted]]'', Bishop Brennan is coming to stay and he is terrified of rabbits. Ted comes down in the morning and the lounge is bizarrely full of rabbits. He sits down and starts to read the newspaper for a while, before finally noticing, leaping up and screaming his head off. A similar thing happens when he completely destroys a car donated as a raffle prize by the diocese in the process of trying to tap out a tiny dent. In the [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|appropriately-titled]] episode "Kicking Bishop Brennan Up The Arse" he also doesn't realise that Ted has just kicked him up the arse until he's in Rome at an audience with the Pope, at which point it dawns on him and he goes running out.

* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''. When Vampire!Willow (a second Willow, from an alternate dimension) is spotted by Angel...

'''Xander:''' We're all right there with you. }}

** This wasn't the first time he'd do this. Just turned evil, Angelus sides with the psychotic Drusilia and The Judge, who's meant to be invincible. That was before Buffy has something stolen for her, a rocket launcher. When Angelus sees it he just knows that it's time to get out of there, and we get a second close up [[Double Take]] of [[Oh Crap|fear in case it was missed in the first wide shot]].

* In the ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' episode "Alone", Wilson kidnaps House's guitar to {{spoiler|force him into hiring a new team.}} He leaves a ransom note made of letters cut from a newspaper taped to House's wall. When House sees this, he barges into Wilson's office to reclaim his guitar. Wilson smugly proclaims his innocence, then signals the conversation is over by opening his newspaper... the paper with all the bits cut out, causing House to do a (hilarious) double take.

* ''[[Dollhouse]]'' gives us this:

'''Mag:''' I don't know, it could be all right. The little Asian is kind of cute.<br />

'''Zone:''' She's a tech-head. Mag. ... She's a ''girl'', Mag! }}

** "Time Crash/Last of the Time Lords". A huge ship has just crashed through the TARDIS, knocking the Doctor off his feet. He says, "What?", then takes another look and goes, "What?!", and when he sees the name of the ship {{spoiler|(''SS Titanic'')}}, he has to look at it twice before saying "[[Flat What|What.]]"

** For the [[The Nth Doctor|eleventh Doctor]], during the episode [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31 E12 The Pandorica Opens|"The Pandorica Opens"]] the Doctor {{spoiler|is talking with Rory, who was erased from existence a couple episodes ago, about missing something important. He walks away before coming back with the following:}}

* In the ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' episode "Hammer of the Gods," the brothers are in a creepy (4 star) hotel, and Dean walks around with his EMF detector, trying to pinpoint their [[Monster of the Week]]. As he walks down the hallway, he passes an open door, with an elephant in the room. He takes two more steps, looks up from his EMF detector, takes two steps back, and the elephant is gone, replaced by a fat black man. Dean walks away, extremely nonplussed.

* ''[[Friends]]''

== Theater ==

* In ''[[On the Town]]'', Lucy does a [[Double Take]] between the following lines and exiting the scene:

'''Lucy:''' [[Goodbye, Mr. Chips]]. }}

* Mortimer does a big one in ''[[Arsenic and Old Lace]]'' after [[Dead Man's Chest|discovering there's a dead body in the window-seat]].

== Video Games ==

* In ''[[Dissidia Final Fantasy|Dissidia 012 Duodecim]]'', [[Final Fantasy VI|Kefka]] does a ([[Monster Clown|fittingly]]) hilarious one upon realizing that [[Final Fantasy XII|Vaan]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aomolvvVz8&t=7m30s had taken Terra with him.]

''(beat)'' }}

 

* Tucker does this in ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'' Season 4, when confronted with Crunchbite for the first time.

* Seen in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGtd0KkOvG4 this satirical animated short (from 6:40 to 7:42)] of ''[[Command and Conquer]]: Tiberian Dawn'' when a [[Green Rocks|Tiberium]] [[Worker Unit|Harvester]] from one side [[You Require More Vespene Gas|returns to its home base]] by making a calm, friendly drive past its adversary's base without getting shot at. The base's guards [[The Guards Must Be Crazy|get carried away]], [[Alertness Blink|only to realize]] that [[Crowning Moment of Funny|they've just let an enemy Harvester escape under their noses]].

** It's a jibe at the game's [[Artificial Stupidity]]: the program's pathfinding tendencies to lead one's units through the shortest route possible, even if it isn't the safest way around. It's [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] by the Commando that ordered the Harvester to come home and the Harvester's seemingly [[Simpleton Voice]].

 

 

* Occurs about [[Once Per Episode|once per]] [[Rankin Bass]] [[Christmas Special]].

* ''[[The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat]]'', after Felix is bummed out that everyone has a magic bag like him:

'''Felix:''' Hi, Roscoe. ''(aside)'' Even Roscoe. ''(realizes what just happened)'' }}