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A character -- either out of impatience or because of a distraction -- stops reading a text before it ends, and always before something critical to the matter at hand. Inevitably, [[Hilarity Ensues]], as they frequently latch onto something early in the text that is either modified or contradicted entirely by the portion of the text they skipped.

 

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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* In ''[[Love Hina|Love Hina Christmas Special: Silent Eve]]'' this is what sets off the whole [[Idiot Plot]].

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* The Joker in ''Joker's Millions'' (which was adapted into an episode of ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'') stops reading the note he got with his [[Unexpected Inheritance]] and doesn't finish the rest revealing that most of the millions he inherited were counterfeit until he has spent the real part of it.

 

== [[Film]] ==

* ''[[The Colbert Report]]'' and ''[[The Daily Show]]'' lampooned journalists for only reading page 1 of the Supreme Court's decision on the Affordable Care act ("Obamacare") and thus thinking incorrectly that the latter is declared unconstitutional. Colbert parodied it by reading comically inadequate amounts from ''[[A Tale of Two Cities]]'' (just "it was the best of times") and ''[[War and Peace]]'' (just "war" from the title).

* ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' had an episode where the protagonist is wary about trusting the aliens that recently arrived, but once an alien book's title is translated as "How To Serve Man"<ref>Which [[Trope Namer|named]] the [[To Serve Man|trope]]</ref> he's convinced enough to get onto their spaceships and take a trip to their home planet. The rest of the book is translated seconds too late to stop him.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* In the episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' "Blood Feud", Homer writes an angry letter to Mr. Burns, which starts out as a fake thank you note. Mr. Burns at first reads the thank you part, and is deeply touched, until he later discovers the following sentences.

{{quote|Dear Mr. Burns... I'm so glad you enjoyed my son's blood and your card was just great. In case you can't tell, I'm being sarcastic. You stink! You are a senile, buck-toothed old mummy with bony girl-arms, and you smell like an elephant's butt.}}

 

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