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** [[Don't Explain the Joke|House being a term for "theater"]].
* The animation suddenly becomes partially inverted (swapping the top 50% of the image with the bottom 50%), jerky, and even shows the rows of pinholes on the sides, imitating a film jam or other problem with the theatrical projection camera. In extreme cases, the jammed film appears to melt and burn from the heat of the projector bulb.
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== [[Anime]] ==
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* At the end of ''[[The Thief and The Cobbler (Animation)|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 itself -- in addition to making commentary on it -- to make certain points.
* The melting film gag is used on ''[[Monsters vs. Aliens]]'' to transition from the [[Deliberately Monochrome|black-and-white]] (and, on the [[
* 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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** "Look, out there in the audience..." "PEOPLE! AAAAAAAAAH!" In that same cartoon, [[Bugs Bunny/Characters|Bugs Bunny]] disposed of Gossamer the big orange monster by [[Karmic Trickster|frightening]] him into running out through the back wall of the theater, and through numerous other walls behind it, leaving behind a tunnel of [[Efficient Displacement]].
** 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 (Animation)|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
** 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
** 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.
* 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.]]
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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 (Animation)|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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