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* In ''[[Ghostwatch]]'', the evil poltergeist "Mr Pipes" can be seen several times at the back of a room, etc., meaning you could either jump or not notice it at all.
* In the ''[[Community (TV)|Community]]'' episode The Psychology of Letting Go, Abed has an ENTIRE SUBPLOT play out entirely in the background of other characters' stories - he meets and bonds with a pregnant girl, gets in a fight with her boyfriend, and delivers the baby. This is then [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in a later Season 2 episode - when Shirley goes into labor, everyone is surprised to learn that Abed has experience with the situation.
* The ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' [[Wham! Episode]] "The Body" is noted for its complete absence of any incidental music. This is used for great effect when Dawn goes into the morgue {{spoiler|to look at her mother's dead body}} and a vampire silently rises in the background.
** Also in "After Life", when Xander is on the phone to Willow and Anya after the {{spoiler|Buffy impostor attacks them}}, and just out of focus, we see {{spoiler|Anya walking back into the room, possessed}}.
** Another example ([[Joss Whedon]] loves this trope) in "Conversations with Dead People" - Dawn is alone in the house, and strange things are happening. As she tries to figure out what's happening, the camera suddenly shifts angle, and we see {{spoiler|her mother's body}} in the background. Cue [[Scare Chord]] as she suddenly realizes what's behind her, and turns to see {{spoiler|[[Nothing Is Scarier|nothing.]]}}
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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.
* In the ''[[
** 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 ''[[Doctor Who
** 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]]}}.
* [[Spin-Off]] series ''[[Torchwood]]'' continues this - in the episode "Captain Jack Harkness", a "[[Doctor Who
* 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.
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* In the [[Kamen Rider Double/Recap/E1 E2 The W Search|first episode of]] ''[[Kamen Rider Double]]'', during Shotaro's phone conversation with Phillip, the Magma Dopant can be seen for a brief few seconds before Shotaro could bat an eye at it.
* ''[[The Nanny]]'' did it once ([[Funny Background Event|combining with the humorous cousin]]): when Fran describes to Mr. Sheffield the reactions of children being disappointed by their parents, C.C. is on the patio acting out these symptoms on Niles. Then [[Lampshade Hanging|commented on]] by Fran "As seen in our audio-video theater production here."
* In the ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' ([[Wham! Episode|Wham]]) episode "Bad News", numbers starting at 50 and counting down can be seen strewn about random locations throughout the entire episode. When the "countdown" finally hits zero, {{spoiler|[[Mood Whiplash|Marshall learns]] [[Tear Jerker|his father's just died]].}}
** In "Drumroll Please", behind Ted first seeing and falling in love with Victoria, you can see Marshall first tasting and falling in love with the best cake of his life; a comparison that comes up later in the episode.
* In the final episode of the second season of ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'', during the confrontation between Weaver and the Connors in her office, one can see {{spoiler|the explosive HK drone that's about to crash into the building}} out the window a few moments before it becomes very relevant.
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