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Most common include:
* A character runs full tilt towards the edge of the screen, the camera follows him, and pans ''beyond'' the film itself into the blank white nothingness of an empty theater screen. The character realizes what has happened, and jumps back onto the film.
* The hero is trapped, there's no possible escape, and just as it looks like he's about to get it, the film breaks. Cue blank white screen. The hero appears and explains that due to technical difficulties, the film cannot be finished, and may produce a pair of scissors and hint that it wasn't exactly an accident.
* A black silhouette of a person scrolls across the bottom of the shot; the characters admonish the theater patron to "sit back down!"
* An apparent hair caught on the film flutters around for a bit before the character on screen stops what he's doing, picks it up, and discards it.
* Occasionally asking [[Is There a Doctor In the House?|"Is there a doctor in the house?"]] in combination with [[Amusing Injuries]].
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** 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 credits—first the people on the right, then the people on the left...
* Groucho Marx talked to the audience a lot (most likely carried over from the brothers' vaudeville days) - in ''[[
* 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.
** Even the novelization of the film has a gag sequence where the "Brain" Gremlin (the one who can talk, voiced by Tony Randall in the film) locks the author of the novelization in another room while he types up his own contribution.
** If you go to [[YouTube]] there's a whole slew of homemade ones that fans cooked up including [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REGCV6z3VkM one] where the title creatures make the mistake of of screwing around with [[Memetic Mutation|The Goddamn Batman]].
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** "The Ducksters", featuring Daffy as a sadistic game show host; he shoots a member of the 'audience' for warning Porky. Also- "Have you got a doctor in the balcony, lady?!"
** In the Porky Pig cartoon "The Case of the Stuttering Pig", the villain was defeated when he got clocked with a flying theater seat courtesy of "the guy in the third row", whom he'd earlier derided as a softy.
** In "Rabbit Every Monday" Yosemite Sam threatens a silhouetted person with his gun and tells him to sit back down, which the person does while yelping a meek "Yes Sir!" He then turns to the audience and declares "That goes for the rest a' ya!"
** The Bugs Bunny cartoon ''Rabbit Punch'' ends with Bugs Bunny about to be [[Chained to a Railway|run over by a train]]. As the train barrels toward Bugs, the film breaks. Bugs walks onto a blank screen and announces, "Ladies and gentlemen, due to circumstances beyond our control, we are unable to finish this picture. And, uh, confidentially," he adds, holding up a pair of scissors, "the film didn't exactly break."
** Similar ending to the Daffy Duck cartoon ''My Favorite Duck'', where the film breaks while Porky Pig is chasing Daffy Duck with a gun. Daffy then appears and offers to finish the cartoon as a narrative and gives a brief and inflated description of him beating Porky with his bare hands leaving him "groveling at my feet!" Only to have Porky sneak up behind him and club him over the head to end the cartoon.
** In the short ''Daffy Duck and Egghead'', after several silhouette interruptions, the annoyed character on screen ''shoots'' the patron who falls dead.
** In ''[[Duck Amuck]]'', the film appears to slip in the projector, resulting in a top-bottom frame reversal. The two Daffy's from each frame then start arguing with each other: "If you wasn't me, I'd [[Have a Gay Old Time|smack you right in the puss!]]"
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** In the [[Bugs Bunny/Characters|Bugs Bunny]] cartoon "High-Diving Hare", Yosemite Sam is pounding on a door shouting "Open the door!" - he then turns to us and says "Ya notice I didn't say 'Richard'!" before resuming pounding. "Open the Door, Richard" was an old vaudeville routine (later a popular song).
* While not actually produced for theaters (it's a TV show, after all), at least three gags in ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'' [[Painting the Medium|invoked it]]. One of these occurrences had Hamton J. Pig joyriding in the [[Batman|Batmobile]], and upon making a big swerve to dodge a building, he briefly flies out of the film strip. Another episode had Hamton threatening an [[Anthropomorphic Personification|anthropomorphic fire]], and the camera pans out to reveal that the scene is being played out on a film strip. The fire proceeds to burn the strip, comically reducing Hamton into a roasted pig. The [[Whole-Plot Reference]] Christmas special had Buster at the edge of a film reel, contemplating suicide ala [[It's a Wonderful Life|George Bailey]]. He later does jump out... in joy, and lands right back in the "film" (this is after he is granted a second chance at life).
** There's also the one with Plucky and Hampton breaking into Warner Bros. Studio through the sewers (Or was it busting out of jail? Either way...) with a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reference. [[Klax|This being the nineties]], everyone in the "audience" is vocal about having seen that one coming.
* During ''[[The Emperor's New Groove|The Emperors New Groove]]'', the film stops and Kuzco appears to point out that the story is about him, not Pacha, even drawing on the film frame with a marker to make his point. Interestingly, this gag is reused on [[The Series]].
** In ''[[Kronks New Groove]],'' Kuzco again interrupts to point out that ''this'' one is about Kronk and not ''him,'' actually bringing out the films' posters.
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** in [[The Movie]], Homer addresses (and insults) the audience.
* At least twice, Foghorn Leghorn stretched out the closing iris that ended the cartoon because he wasn't finished talking. This gradually stopped as his gimmick became playing practical jokes instead of being a [[Motor Mouth]].
** This joke has since been inherited, and used at least twice, by [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|Pinkie Pie]].
* [[Speedy Gonzales]] runs past a cat, and the cat then explodes. Speedy then turns to the audience, apologizes for running too fast for the audience to follow and shows the previous scene again in slow motion. The slow motion shot involves Speedy pulling another mouse out of the cat's mouth, and replacing the mouse with a lit stick of TNT.
* ''[[Who Killed Who]]'' includes one of these gags just as the cop enters the house. After he warns "Nobody move!", a silhouetted audience member gets up and shuffles across the bottom of the screen. The cop sees him and bashes the poor guy with his nightstick, before shouting "That goes for you too, bub!".
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