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* 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]].
** [[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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== [[Film]] ==
* In the movie ''[[Fight Club]]'', the pointing out of a [
** 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 ''[[Horsefeathers]]'', as Chico starts a piano routine, Groucho looks at us and says "I've gotta stay here but there's no reason you folks shouldn't go to the lobby 'til this blows over!"
* 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 [
** 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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