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See also [[Read the Fine Print]], [[Read the Freaking Manual]] and [[Lost in Transmission]].
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== [[Advertising]] ==
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Love Hina|Love Hina Christmas Special: Silent Eve]]'' this is what sets off the whole [[Idiot Plot]].
* In ''[[Ranma ½]]'', Genma Saotome trains the very young Ranma in the ''Nekoken'' technique (by dumping him in a pit full of hungry cats wrapped in fish) after reading a single page in a martial arts manual -- had he just turned the page,
* In ''[[Bakuman｡]]'' both the protagonists stop reading only a few pages into the book Iwase gave Takagi, one because he doesn't like the genre she wrote in, and the other because it was too "deep" for him. Thus they both miss the message she inserted between pages about halfway through the book.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[The Incredible Journey]]'' a housekeeper finds only one page of a two-page note. This leads to confusion about who is going to be taking care of three pets for two weeks. This sets the plot in motion - the pets escape and have adventures [[Too Many Cooks Spoil the Soup|before anyone realizes they're gone]].
* ''Moon Night'' by [[Stanislaw Lem]] had this as a punchline turning [[Idiot Plot|the whole plot]] into [[Black Comedy]] gold.
* ''[[Goosebumps]]'', "How to Kill a Monster", the two main characters are trapped inside their grandparent's house with a monster inside. They find a letter from their grandparents telling them they left and warns them about the monster inside. After killing the monster and escaping from the house and into the swamp at night, they continue reading the letter explaining their grandparents lock them inside for their protection and to prevent them from leaving the house because there are more monsters in the swamp and they come out at night. After they finish reading, the kids have no idea what they are going to do next.
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* In the episode of ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|M*A*S*H]]'' where a "friendly" bomb falls in the middle of the unit, the doctors set out to disarm the bomb by following the instructions given by one of their colleagues. He stops reading at the wrong place ...
* There's the ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' episode "Fear Itself" where Giles reads the information on Gachnar but doesn't read the inscription with its 'actual size' caption. Buffy also fails to let him finish reading later on before she breaks the seal and summons Gachnar on accident.
* ''[[The Colbert Report]]'' and ''[[The Daily Show]]''
* ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' had an episode where the protagonist is wary about trusting the aliens that recently arrived, but once an alien book's title is translated as "How To Serve Man"<ref>
== [[Music]] ==
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