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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* The normal intent of this trope is inverted in ''[[
** Light also puts the Death Note inside a magazine when he is testing it on a biker who is harassing a woman.
* In ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]'' Ataru is shown hiding a girly mag inside one of his books.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[The Odd Couple]]''- during a rehearsal for "Scrooge", one of the characters (Speed) is hiding porn underneath his script and is sort of not paying attention to the rehearsal. He is suddenly asked to read for the part of Scrooge. But he thinks they want him to read the porn. He balks, saying he would be embarrassed. He's coaxed into reading and begins reciting a passage from the porn, to which a very surprised Felix says, "Charles Dickens never wrote that".
* One sketch of ''[[Not the Nine O
* In the opening titles of ''[[
* Inverted in ''[[Chuck]]''. Since he knows his bedroom's under video surveillance, Chuck studies the Intersect plans he got from Orion behind a ''[[Y:
* An episode of ''[[My Wife and Kids]]'' had Junior locking himself in the bathroom with magazines for hours at a time. Although his parents seem to think he is actually pleasuring himself with cookbooks and ''Field & Stream'', it's implied he is hiding porn magazines in them.
* In an episode of ''[[Clarissa Explains It All]]'', Fergusson pretends to his parents that he's reading a book, but he's actually playing on a [[Game Boy]].
* ''[[The Daily Show]]'' plays with this a lot, although it tends to come off more as a spoof of the fact that TV shows frequently just slap a new dust jacket on whatever books happen to be lying around whenever they need a book for a prop than of a real attempt to conceal the nature of the book in question. "Huh. You know, you so rarely see the hardcover edition of the Bible these days. It's almost like someone has taken a random book and given it a dust jacket that says, 'The Bible.'"
* The earliest opening credits for ''[[Home and Away]]'' had Stephen pulling a fake cover from a book Frank was reading.
* Reversed in ''[[
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
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* On ''[[Family Guy]]'', when Brian has to study for his exam, part of his training montage has Stewie catching him trying to read a steamy magazine while hiding it behind something else.
* An episode of ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' has Tucker hiding his PDA behind "A Farewell to Arms."
* On ''[[
* ''[[South Park]]'' has Stan Marsh, who's on a Food Network Frenzy, hide a cookbook under a Playboy magazine
== [[Web Original]] ==
* One of the ''[[I'm a
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