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'''Mayor Barkley:''' That was a [[Shakespeare]] in the Park production of ''[[Julius Caesar]]'', you moron! You killed five actors! Good ones!|''[[The Naked Gun]]''}}
The Hero (often a [[Lord Error-Prone]] or [[Comedic Hero]]) hears a cry for help, or sees a crime taking place. Rushing in to save the [[Damsel in Distress]], he knocks the villain to the ground
Equally, a character may overhear actors practicing a script or a TV show being played too loud, think he's stumbled on a conspiracy, and try to [[Big Damn Heroes|save the day]]. Either way, he's going to end up looking [[The Fool|foolish]] and annoying a hell of a lot of people along the way.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* [[Tintin]] does this in ''Cigars of the Pharaoh''. Oddly, the boss of the film company, Roberto Rastopopoulos, turns out to be the [[Big Bad]].
* In the ''[[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]]'' Annual #4, Spidey disrupted a movie starring the Human Torch, believing his rival hero has gone mad, and is attacking [[Innocent Bystander
** In a bit of an inversion, in the ''Ultimate'' series, Doc Ock attacks the Spider-Man movie set, and footage of the real Spidey fighting the real Doc Ock is put into the finished movie.
** Naturally, this happens to Spidey at least once in the cartoons. It parallels a deception by Doctor Doom, leading to an effective [[An Aesop|Aesop]] about things not always being as they immediately appear.
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* In a ''[[Code Red]]'' episode, the young firefighters, having come to an old movie studio for a fire code inspection, see an explosion in the lot and charge in to help. When they arrive to see a burning man flailing about, they don't do anything as the [[Title Sequence]] starts. Afterward, the reason for that inaction is revealed in a reverse shot: the firefighters saw the camera crew and realized to their chagrin that they unnecessarily interrupted a scene because they didn't ask if a crew was filming there.
* An episode of ''[[Sanford and Son]]'' has Fred mistake a rehearsal of Desdemona's death in Othello for a murder. [[Hilarity Ensues]]. (That happened in [[Real Life]] too. See below.)
* ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]''. In "Bride of Chaotica" [[Energy Being|photonic aliens]] enter the holodeck program "The Adventures of Captain Proton!" and mistake it for reality, starting a war with meglomaniac [[Mad Scientist]] Dr Chaotica. Voyager's crew try to tell them it's not real, but as the aliens can only detect lifeforms similar to themselves they believe Voyager is some kind of illusion. In the end the crew have to enter the game and help the aliens defeat Dr
** Considering many of their people had actually died in the war, you can understand their reluctance to believe it's an illusion.
* One ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' skit features a police officer who is also an accomplished actor, who (according to one review he received) utterly ruined one play he co-starred in by spoiling a rape scene "with his unscheduled appearance on stage and loud cry of 'What's all this, then?'"
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* A petty criminal from Baltimore surrendered himself to the cast of ''[[Homicide: Life On the Street]]'' (on a location shoot), believing them to be actual cops called as backup by officers chasing him. This was used as the basis of a scene in the ''Documentary'' episode, with the twist that it was the characters chasing a criminal, who surrenders to the actual Homicide crew.
* A community drama group in Wavertree on Merseyside left their theatre's windows and doors open due to the heat during a performance of ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (theatre)|Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street]]''. The neighbours mistook the screams they heard for a real murder and called the police, as described in [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1038603/Police-called-neighbours-hear-blood-curdling-screams--actors-rehearsing-Sweeney-Todd.html this article].
* One of the winners of the annual ''American Girl'' magazine story contest featured this at the climax of the
* In Finland: the police were filming a staged car theft, but helpful bystanders rushed to stop the thief...three times in a row.
* Often, when testing myths involving explosives, ''[[Myth Busters]]'' will feature a shot where the neighbors have come around to complain because somewhere along the line, the crucial step of warning them about the explosives was notably missed.
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