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Alternatively, a character will clearly be talking to himself, but we find out that someone just happened to [[Exact Eavesdropping|overhear]]. (Bonus points if it was the intended recipient of a difficult request.) This can follow on the first kind for a [[Double Subversion]] of dialogue.
Visual media typically use a [[Reveal Shot]], often a [[Closeup
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* The movie ''[[Cool Runnings]]'' uses this; Junior appears to be talking to his dad about his career, but it turns out he's just practicing. On the dog. When his dad does turn up, he gets completely thrown.
* In ''[[Batman]]'' (1989), Bruce Wayne mouths "I'm Batman. I'm Batman" with a view to confessing to Vicki Vale, and an almost [[Ironic Echo]] of his first line of the movie, spoken to menace a Gotham thug.
* In ''[[Stardust (
* Much of ''[[The Sixth Sense]]'' turns out to be the "character talks to someone and doesn't realize they can't hear him" variety of this.
* Near the beginning of ''[[Shaun of the Dead]]'', Shaun and Liz have a frank discussion about Shaun's unbearable roommate, who, as it turns out, is cheerfully standing within earshot. They go on to discuss Liz's friends, who are then revealed to be sitting right next to them. ("No offense!").
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* In ''[[Reservation Road]]'' Dwight appears to be telling someone what he had done, but then the camera pans to show that he's recording a message for his son on a video camera.
* After his wife's kidnapping, (which he arranged himself), Jerry Lundegaard in ''[[Fargo]]'' sounds like he's desperately trying to explain to his father-in-law that his wife has been kidnapped, but stumbling over his words. It turns out he was just trying to find the right way to sound worried before he actually picked up the phone.
* In [[The Princess and
* The Disney movie ''[[Oliver and Company]]'' features a scene in which Fagin is confidently describing his ransom plot... to Dodger. When he actually goes to Sikes' office, he barely manages to stammer it out.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Carter's rant about reproductive organs in the ''[[Stargate SG
** Another episode had an interesting twist. Daniel, who is out of phase (read: invisible), is talking to his grandfather, Nick. Nick starts talking back, thinking that Daniel is a hallucination. Daniel continues replying, thinking that his grandpa is just thinking out loud. Eventually, it turns out that Nick can see Daniel. Yes, they managed to have a conversation ''without realizing it''.
* An episode of ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' featured Allison Cameron making a Freudian slip-up in front of a documentary crew by saying "I love House!" When next we see her, she's frantically trying to find some way of qualifying that statement without making matters worse and failing. On first reveal she is talking to a mirror; on second reveal, her current boyfriend is on the bench behind her looking put-upon for being forced to listen to this.
* This happens to Giles in 'Series/'[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'':
{{quote| '''Giles:''' W-w-w-what I'm proposing is, um... and I-I don't mean to appear indecorous, is, is, um, a, a-a-a social engagement, um, a, a, a, a-a date, if you're amenable. (to himself) You idiot!<br />
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** Done again a few seasons later when a certain character we know and kind of love practices confessing his love to Buffy by talking to a mannequin wearing one of her sweaters and a blonde wig. He makes it about four sentences into the imagined conversation before it degenerates into mutual (half-imagined) verbal abuse, and he winds up beating it over the head with a box of chocolates.
** Also done with Xander in the opening of the first season episode, ''Prophecy Girl''. Xander apparently asking Buffy out for a date is actually him talking to Willow, who is then revealed to be acting as a stand-in so Xander can rehearse his proposal to Buffy.
* An entire episode of ''[[
* In season 2 of ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]'', politician-slash-beloved-terrorist Zarek talks in front of a mirror about the upcoming election in typical public speaking style. Then he turns, elaborating that he wants to run against the incumbent on a ticket with... current Vice-President Gaius Baltar.
* Sara Sidle of ''[[CSI]]'' has done this at least twice.
* The start of ''[[Spaced]]'' begins with Tim and Daisy apparently splitting up with each other. However, at the end of the scene, we see that they are in different locations, having completely different conversations. Tim is getting dumped by his girlfriend and Daisy is talking to a homeless man.
* In the third season of ''[[
* Wolf from [[The Tenth Kingdom]] appears to be confessing his love in a very heart-felt mannor, unusual for him. We soon learn that he was reciting a speech from a book, trying to memorize it.
* One episode of ''[[Scrubs]]'' was told largely by Dr Cox in flashback, against a neutral background, with the topic being his poor anger-management in dealing with the interns. From context, the obvioius conclusion was that he was talking to his shrink. But at the end he says "Well, unfortunately the only way I know how to teach is through fear. And I tell you this because I know that this particular shortcoming will invariably affect your life" and the [[Reveal Shot]] shows that he's been talking to his pre-verbal son.
* Dr Kovac on ''[[
* In one episode of ''[[
** [[Word of God]] says he didn't, but he would have. Later events of the episode rendered it unnecessary. {{spoiler|Mainly the bomb. Less so Kosh's real form.}}
* In one episode of ''[[Frasier]]'', Frasier begins talking to someone about his feelings about Niles and Marris's divorce. As he's talking, that person walks away, so Frasier ends up talking to himself. By the end of his now monologue, he asks if the other person understands. That person has only that instant come back and gives an offhand 'Yeah' not having heard a word of Frasier's anguished speech. It happens once with his father in their apartment. He comes back after having gone to get a paper. It happens a second time in the coffee shop where Ros leaves him to talk to some friends, then comes back to his table.
* Lois on ''[[Malcolm in
* An episode of ''[[Due South]]'' had Fraser and Ray get into an argument early one. Later, we see them both talking about their feelings, about how they manage to just frustrate each other, and it gradually becomes clear that they're ''both'' talking to themselves, in their own apartments.
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* ''[[Ace Attorney|Apollo Justice : Ace Attorney]]'' has a very odd example of this, where two characters are shown facing each other and dialogue shows up in the text box. Because of what has gone on earlier in the game, it seems as though the speaker is one person, when it's actually the other. Although if you think about it, the facts don't quite match up, so it's possible to guess the identity of the real speaker.
** In the same game, briefly, {{spoiler|Ema imitates Kristoph Gavin,}} and the appropriate sprite appears for a moment.
* The Meet the Soldier video for ''[[
== Theater ==
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* [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0402.html This strip] of ''[[Order of the Stick]]''. Used again, [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0527.html more recently], and rather heartbreakingly.
** [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0496.html This strip] is a bit of a subversion since Roy is actually talking to the person he means to address, but it still fits since {{spoiler|the person he's talking to is too young mentally to understand what he's saying.}} Also the first major [[Tear Jerker]] in the series. Hoo-boy.
* One of the last [http://queenofwands.net/d/20061125.html comics] of [[
* In ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'', Bun-bun is once shown lying on a couch talking about his thoughts and problems as if to a therapist, even though he's the last person you'd ever expect to do that. It's then revealed that he ''was'' talking to someone, because he needed someone to talk to to clear his thoughts - but that someone is [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny|Kiki]], who immediately forgets everything he said when he shows her some shiny new car keys to play with. Bun-bun has also had his ears plucked to block out Kiki's incessant hyperactive chatter in response to what he's been saying.
* [http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0199.html This] strip of ''[[
== [[Web Original]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Parodied in ''[[
* ''[[
** And then subverted [[Played for Laughs|for laughs]] when he walks up to Aang and company and gives the first bit of the same speech, intonation and all.
* The first episode of ''Clerks: The Animated Series'' used this type of gag; A manhole cover is lifted partially open from the inside, and we hear Dante and Randall speak to one another while two sets of eyes are shown peeking out. Cue Dante and Randall walking past from offscreen.
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