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* In ''[[The Middleman]]'' there is a scene where the focus is on the Middleman speaking to his [[Mission Control]], who is telling him that the [[Monster of the Week]] MUST be captured alive. In the background, the Middleman's sidekick is shown finding, fighting, and ultimately killing the fish. Really more of a [[Funny Background Event]], but plot-relevant.

* In ''[[ER]]'', when Doctor Pratt was seeing off a patient up on the roof, there were two faint lights behind him. Then, when Pratt turned around, we see that the two lights collided. A commercial plane and a private jet had crashed.

** Rose appearing unnoticed on video screens was one of the running themes for series 4 that replaced the [[Arc Words]] of the past three series, with her showing up at some point in nearly every issue.

** Also in Doctor Who, ''The Waters of Mars'': the first person to get infected by the Flood does so in the background of the shot with his back to us, with lots of jerking and writhing, so that we know something is wrong and are yelling for the character in the foreground to get out of there.

** In "The Time Of Angels", you can notice Amy occasionally slipping numbers into her dialog. It's so fast you'll have trouble noticing it, and you might not even pick up that she's counting down. {{spoiler|Eventually the Doctor notices, and realises that it means the Weeping Angels are possessing her [[For the Evulz]]}}.

* In ''[[Fringe]]'' every single episode has an observer in the background of an important scene.

* In the ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' episode ''The Brocha Divide'', you can see one of [[The Virus|the Touched]] in the forest behind Daniel and Teal'c as they tend to the body of a woman. They actually attack a couple of minutes later.