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{{quote|''"Having characters repeat stuff we already read in the captions was a joke he got mileage out of for 45 years."''|'''[http://zvbxrpl.blogspot.com/2010/12/jon-dagostino.html Jaime J. Weinman]''' on Frank Doyle of '''''[[Archie Comics]]'''''}}
 
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'''Momoka''': Look at them... and here I am ''stewing in the juices of my own anger''... }}
** This is obviously one of their favorite gags. In episode 3, the narrator talks about "the foulest of funks emanating from the Hinatas' basement". Natsumi complains by saying "Man, that is one foul funk."
* In an early episode of ''[[Baka to Test Toto Shoukanjuu]]'', we see a one of the animals kids put on their cell phone straps lying on the ground, and the narrator gives a quick explanation of what it is and who would have it. [[Idiot Hero|Yoshii]] picks it up and starts saying the same thing, at which point the narrator angrily points out he already said that.
* [[Inverted]] in an early episode of [[DragonballDragon Ball]]:
{{quote| '''Yamcha''': Those fools have not heard the last of Yamcha!<br />
'''Narrator''': It would seem that our heroes haven't seen the last of Yamcha... }}
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== Film ==
* Reversed in ''[[Plan Nine9 Fromfrom Outer Space]]'', where one of the characters says of the aliens, "I wonder what their next move will be?" and the narrator says "What will their next move be?"
* Something similar happens at the beginning of ''[[Magical Mystery Tour (Film)|Magical Mystery Tour]]'':
{{quote| '''Ringo on screen:''' Good afternoon.<br />
'''Ringo, narrating:''' ... said Richard. "Good afternoon," said the bus driver. }}
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'''Barry Wom:''' Very stunned. }}
* Done several times in ''[[Forrest Gump]]''.
* Done in ''[[George of the Jungle (Filmfilm)|George of the Jungle]]'':
{{quote| '''Narrator:''' And they responded with awe.<br />
'''Cast:''' Awwwww...<br />
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* ''Blessed are the Cheesemakers'':
{{quote| She knew that Corrie and Fee made cheese...but Lucy assumed the cheese was made with machines, in big vats, with milk from a factory. "I thought cheese was made with machines, in big vats, with milk from a factory," she said.}}
* In the short story "Rough Hew Them How We Will" in [[PG Wodehouse (Creator)|P. G. Wodehouse]]'s ''The Man Upstairs'', the narrator says, "Bredin [a ''restaurateur''] was a pig. He looked like a pig; he ate like a pig; he grunted like a pig. He had the lavish ''embonpoint'' of a pig. Also a porcine soul. If you had tied a bit of blue ribbon round his neck you could have won prizes with him at a show." Later, when a policeman enters the story: "It was at about five minutes after one that afternoon that Constable Thomas Parsons, patrolling his beat, was aware of a man motioning to him from the doorway of Bredin's Parisian Cafe and Restaurant. The man looked like a pig. He grunted like a pig. He had the lavish ''embonpoint'' of a pig. Constable Parsons suspected that he had a porcine soul. Indeed, the thought flitted across Constable Parsons' mind that, if he were to tie a bit of blue ribbon round his neck, he could win prizes with him at a show.
* Christopher Moore's ''[[A Dirty Job (Literature)|A Dirty Job]]'' has a sort of delayed version: the first line of the chapter "A Fucked-Up Day" is the narrator saying "It was a fucked-up day." The first line of the following chapter is a character saying (of the day described in the previous chapter) "That was a fucked-up day."
* The Prince from ''[[Sleeping Beauty]]'' has this as his shtick in ''There's A Princess In The Palace''. [[Lampshaded]] by a pair of mice who have been commenting on each story.
* Used a couple of times in ''The Scrambled States of America'', narrated by Uncle Sam:
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== Music Video ==
* The music video for the Men At Work song "Down Under" has this... sort of, by always showing the events described in the song as literally as possible. The song talks about a guy who is 6'4" and full of muscles, and shazam, a man fitting this description appears. In [[VH -1]]'s ''I Love the 80s'', this was joked on by Patton Oswalt. "Is this just for deaf people who can't hear the song?"
 
 
== Theatre ==
* At the start of Act Two of ''[[Spamalot]]'', the Historian recaps the end of Act One, ending with, "King Arthur and his knights fled for their lives and were instantly scattered and lost in a dark, and [[Leaning Onon the Fourth Wall|very expensive]], forest." Soon after, King Arthur moans, "This is a total bloody disaster. All my knights have fled, and we're lost in a dark, and very expensive, forest."
 
* Michael Frayn's ''Afterlife'' inverts the variety with stage directions.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Portal 2 (Video Game)|Portal 2]]'', to the point of overlapping with [[Department of Redundancy Department]]:
{{quote| {{spoiler|1='''GLaDOS:''' Well, this is the part where he kills us!}}<br />
{{spoiler|'''Wheatley:''' Hello! This is the part where I kill you!}}<br />
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