Double Take: Difference between revisions

 

Bonus points if you include an [[Eye Take]], [[Spit Take]], [[GASP]], or if the words which prompt the Double Take are, before the take, unthinkingly repeated by the Double-Taker (as in the example above).

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* In an early episode of ''[[Gundam Seed]]'', Lacus is being transferred from the Archangel over to ZAFT. In order to fit into the spacesuit, she had to remove her bulky skirt, which she then stores ''inside'' the suit, making her look pregnant. When she's handed over to the ZAFT soldier (who just so happens to be her [[Arranged Marriage|fiancé]] Athrun), he does a visible Double Take at the sight of her "belly".

* In episode 8 of the first season of ''[[Sekirei]]'', Minato feels at ease after having a private talk with Tsukiumi about her not losing a fight, which he had with Musubi in an earlier episode. He then wonders out loud if they're not the same despite their differences. He opens the door slightly, and sees Musubi standing by the door. He nonchalantly closes it for a few moments, then opens it again, and after she says something to him, he screams, wondering if Musubi just heard what he said comparing the two girls.

 

* 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]]:

* In Disney's ''[[Hercules (1997 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 the film version of ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Lord of the Rings]]: The Two Towers'' Pippin does one of these when he realizes that the tree he is climbing is, in fact, sentient.

* The French soldier in ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]'' does a big double-take when he sees the huge "Trojan rabbit" being wheeled up to the gate.

** A good one in ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067108/ Delusions of Grandeur]'', when Don Saluste guides the king of Spain to the bedroom where they expect to surprise the queen with her lover... only to find her old gouvernante, Doña Juana, in the arms of Blaze the valet. Saluste double-takes, closes the door hastily and starts speaking gibberish out of shock.

* [[The Three Stooges]], fairly constantly.

 

== Literature ==

 

== Live-Action TV ==

* In ''[[Sister, Sister]]'', Tia is being told off for causing the star player of High School to become dangerously close to flunking due to her tutoring skills. Tia denies that she was doing it, and also denies ever tutoring him. However, mid-sentence, she realizes... cue double take, Tamera apparently disappearing when she was present beforehand, and then a cutaway to the outside of the school with Tia's voice screaming "TAMERA!" at the top of her lungs and in a long manner.

 

 

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

{{quote|'''Chip:''' Well, goodbye, Miss Schmeeler.

'''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 ==

'''Kefka:''' ''(waving)'' Yeah, it's been a pleasure! Wait, you're, you, you're you w-w... WHAT!?

''(beat)'' }}

 

== Web Animation ==

** 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]].

{{quote|'''Nod Commando:''' Harvester Number Two! I want the resources back to the base a.s.a.p.! And ''don't take a goddamn shortcut!''}}

 

== Web Original ==

* In ''[[Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog]]'', Captain Hammer gives Penny one when he realizes that the girl he just "saved" is kinda cute.

* One literal trailer for the fourth ''Twilight'' film: "Edward looks shocked, and Bella looks stunned/ ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]], Breaking Dawn''... [[Trilogy Creep|Part 1]]?" It then ''cuts to the person literalising'', who can't quite believe what he just read, then does a [[Curse Cut Short]].

 

== Western Animation ==

{{quote|'''Roscoe:''' ''(flying through the air, hand stuck in out-of-control magic bag)'' Hi, Felix.

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

 

== Real Life ==

 

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[[Category:Character Reaction Index]]

[[Category:Comedy Tropes]]

[[Category:The Take]]