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** Some animated Disney movies actually begin this way, starting with ''[[The Rescuers (Disney film)|The Rescuers]]''. Others include ''[[The Black Cauldron]]'', ''[[The Great Mouse Detective]]'', ''[[The Little Mermaid]]'', ''The Rescuers Down Under'', ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'', ''[[Pocahontas]]'', ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'', ''[[Hercules (1997 film)||Hercules]]'', ''[[The Emperor's New Groove|The Emperors New Groove]]'', ''[[Atlantis: The Lost Empire|Atlantis the Lost Empire]]'', ''[[Lilo and Stitch]]'', ''[[Chicken Little]]'', ''[[Bolt]]'', ''[[The Princess and the Frog]]'', and ''[[Tangled]]''.
** Pixar examples include the first ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]'' film, ''[[Finding Nemo]]'', ''[[The Incredibles]]'', ''[[Cars]]'', ''[[Ratatouille]]'' ''[[WALL-E]]'', ''[[Up (animation)|Up]]'', and ''Cars 2''.
* Each ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' film runs the main title immediately following the [[Vanity Plate]], but the instalment title follows a prologue. The first one gave a few thousand years' worth of [[Backstory]], the other two were more standard [[Flash Back|flashbacks]]. The director deliberately wanted to emulate a James Bond teaser for the first film, which resulted in an epic battle scene that would be called back to in the climaxes of parts two and three.
* In ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'', the scene where "Pumpkin" and "Honeybunny" have a conversation at a diner goes on for over four minutes before the opening credits come up.
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* ''[[Arthur (animation)|Arthur]]'' always begins with a teaser that's about a minute long, usually with Arthur talking directly to the viewers, followed by a title card.
* ''[[Archer]]'' uses a cold open in every episode, although it usually does involve the episode's plot.
* ''[[Ugly Americans]]'' almost always starts with a cold open that looks like part of a horror film, then turns out to be something fairly mundane (for [[Mundane Fantastic|that universe]]). Usually used to introduce the Department of Integration's [[Monster of the Week|client of the week]]. Case in point, [https://web.archive.org/web/20140301112517/http://www.comedycentral.com/video-clips/a9dcet/ugly-americans-the-demon-chick the pilot.]
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