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Stories being told, read, or testified are often shown as separate scenes from the rest of the work.
This is because while it's often okay to just see someone telling these, or point the camera at a page (and thus this does not run into [[Show, Don't Tell]]), doing it for too long would just grind the action to a halt (or even be longer than the work trying to tell the story). Thus seeing the story being acted out keeps the story entertaining within the work.
What is being told can vary. Anything from an original [[Show Within a Show|story within the show]], a [[Public Domain]] book, a poem, a or ghost story, a letter, or giving a testimony in court.
While these scenes can involve a separate cast from the main work, they can also involve a [[Universal Adaptor Cast]].
Characters to whom the story is being told, may do some [[Leaning
This can overlap with: [[Dream Sequence]] (if someone falls asleep when a story is told), [[Flash Back]] (when the story being shown is something that happened in the past), [[Framing Device]] (if the story being shown is the main point of the work).
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A [[Super-Trope]] to [[Rashomon Style]].
Compare [[Deep-Immersion Gaming]], [[Imagine Spot]], [[Cutaway Gag]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Pokémon (
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== Film - Live Action ==
* ''[[The Princess Bride (
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* The 1995 film adaptation of ''[[Les Misérables]]'' was set in France during the Nazi occupation, and the main characters, inspired by acts of heroism from the novel, would play out their own lives as if they were the characters. This meant some sequences of the novel would be dramatically played out on screen (with the actors from the Nazi era playing the characters), some scenes where the action in the 1930s paralelled events and actions from the novel, and other ways as well.
== Literature ==
* ''[[The Neverending Story (
== [[Live
* A ''[[Moonlighting]]'' episode did this as a framing device to make an [[Affectionate Parody]] of ''[[The Taming of the Shrew]]''. A kid wanted to watch the show, but he had to read the play for homework instead, and imagined it with the Moonlighting actors playing the roles.
* ''[[The Suite Life On Deck]]'': has the cast doing a wackified retelling of [[Robin Hood]]
* Technically the whole of ''[[
* ''[[Happy Days]]'': Several examples, including one where Richie's great-uncle tells him about his cousin, who was a crusading DA trying to shut down speakeasies in 1920s [[The Windy City|Chicago]]. Richie plays the DA, Mr. C plays the speakeasy owner, Mrs. C plays a Carrie Nation type, Al is the [[Dumb Muscle]] for the local gangster (Fonzie), etc.
== Newspaper Comics ==
* ''[[
== [[Theatre]] ==
* ''[[Man of La Mancha]]'' does this for most of the film, with the characters acting out the tale of Don Quixote in jail and that cutting to seeing them all in the desert/inn/house they were pretending to
== [[Web Original]] ==
* ''[[RWBY]]'' does this several times, most notably Yang's story of looking for her mother when she was very young, the tale of the Four Maidens, and Qrow's story of the creation of Remnant and humanity.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Adventures
* A later season ''[[
* The ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
* The ''[[X-Men (
* ''[[
* This occurred in the ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'' episode ''Badtime Story'' with several characters reading a parody of ''[[Chicken Little]]''.
** Parodied in [http://youtube.com/watch?v=cfeMi7QLOdo this] U.S. Acres Quickie.
* An episode of ''[[
* In "Lyle the Kindly Viking", a ''[[
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