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* In the movie ''[[Fight Club]]'', the pointing out of a [[wikipedia:Cue mark|Cue mark]] (called, inaccurately, a Cigarette burn). The movie also used a fake subliminal movie frame at the end.
** Not just the end. Tyler Durden appears at least five times in flickers of frames before he's introduced.
* ''[[Scrooged]]'' ends with a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|CMOA]] that [[Invoked Trope|invokes]] this trope, when Frank Cross breaks the [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|fourth wall]] to address the theatrical audience directly, even asking them to sing along to the closing
* Groucho Marx talked to the audience a lot (most likely carried over from the brothers' vaudeville days) - in ''[[Horsefeathers]]'', as Chico starts a piano routine, Groucho looks at us and says "I've gotta stay here but there's no reason you folks shouldn't go to the lobby 'til this blows over!"
* In the theatrical version of ''[[Gremlins]] 2'', there comes a point where there seems to be a problem with the projector and the film breaks, leaving a blank white screen. It turns out to be gremlins in the projection booth, who wickedly decide to replace the film with a [[wikipedia:Naturism|naturism]] film, and an usher calls upon [[Hulk Hogan]] to restore order. Later VHS and DVD releases replace this with a gag appropriate to home video viewing.
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* A trailer for ''[[Pink Panther]] 2'' running in theaters in August 2008 showed Steve Martin as Inspector Clouseau sneaking into a movie theater; after the screen switches to a generic "please turn off cell phones and pagers" display, there is a ripping sound and Clouseau appears to cut a hole in the movie screen and step through. Upon discovering the audience watching him, though, he sheepishly steps back through the hole and ineptly tries to repair it with duct tape. The screen then becomes "rear illuminated" to show the movie logo and to highlight the silhouette of Clouseau tiptoeing behind it... followed by the silhouette of the Pink Panther himself.
* At the end of ''[[The Thief and the Cobbler]]'', the thief removes the film from the projector and absconds with it. Talk about a scene stealer!
* ''[[Kiss Kiss Bang Bang]]'''s [[Lemony Narrator]] will regularly pause, rewind, or write on the film
* The melting film gag is used on ''[[Monsters vs. Aliens]]'' to transition from the [[Deliberately Monochrome|black-and-white]] (and, on the [[3D Movie|3-D version]], flat) version of the [[Dreamworks Animation]] logo and into the film proper.
* At the end of ''[[Despicable Me]]'' some of the minions try to reach into the audience. One flies right into the camera, the film breaks and suddenly he's silhouetted against a blank screen, the implication being that he's flown right into the projection room.
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* In the ''[[Popeye]]'' cartoon ''How Green is My Spinach'', a [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]] Bluto creates a formula that wipes out all the spinach in the world, including Popeye's. As Bluto sweeps the floor with Popeye (literally), the narrator asks, "Can this be the end of our hero? Can't anybody save him? Is there a can of spinach in the house?!" The short abruptly goes from a color cartoon to black & white live-action, showing people watching the cartoon (still in color) in a movie theater. A worried boy pulls out a can of spinach from a grocery bag, yells, "Here, Popeye, catch!", and tosses it to the screen. [[Once an Episode|You can probably guess the rest.]]
* The ''[[Popeye]]'' cartoon ''[[Goonland]]'' climaxes with Popeye and his Pappy fighting dozens of Goons - the violent action ends up snapping the film itself, and the Goons plummet off the screen. As the audience stomps and whistles, a realistic pair of hands mend the film and it resumes with our heroes saved.
* A third Popeye example: In the cartoon ''The Hungry Goat'', Popeye's commanding officer leaves for a day at the movie theater, and warns him not to harm the goat. Later, as Popeye is about to throttle the goat for eating the boat, the goat warns that the admiral could be watching them right
** And more [[Popeye]]. In ''A Date to Skate'', Olive Oyl is careening out of control on a pair of roller skates and Popeye reaches into his shirt for his Spinach can...only to find it missing. After patting himself down for a few seconds and declaring, "Now don't tell me I left it at home!", he finally shouts, "Is there any spinach in the audience?" A shadow of an audience member emerges from the bottom of the screen, lobbing a spinach can toward Popeye who catches it, eats, and goes to rescue Olive.
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' do it at least twice (could be more):
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