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* ''WesternAnimation/WelcomeToTonkaTown'': When Hook asks how they'll get over the river with the bridge washed out, the scene immediately cuts to Bobo the boat singing his IAmSong.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' used a bit of a subversion. Robin is approached by Slade about joining him, and asks "Do we have a deal?" There's a shot of Starfire trying to reach Robin with her communicator, ''then'' we see Robin dressing up in his new outfit.
** A straight (and very ''awesome'') example occurs in the fifth season finale. The Brain is making his [[EvilGloating big villain gloat]] to a captured Robin, and at the end he asks, "Who among you can possibly stop me now?" It promptly cuts to Beast Boy. He's defeated the agents the Brain sent to take him out and blowing up his communicator and ship so they can't track him.


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* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' used a bit of a subversion. Robin is approached by Slade about joining him, and asks "Do we have a deal?" There's a shot of Starfire trying to reach Robin with her communicator, ''then'' we see Robin dressing up in his new outfit.
** A straight (and very ''awesome'') example occurs in the fifth season finale. The Brain is making his [[EvilGloating big villain gloat]] to a captured Robin, and at the end he asks, "Who among you can possibly stop me now?" It promptly cuts to Beast Boy. He's defeated the agents the Brain sent to take him out and blowing up his communicator and ship so they can't track him.


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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheToolStreetGang'', after Gripper asks the rest of the gang where Squirt is, the scene immediately cuts to Squirt calling out for help in the sewers.
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* ''WebAnimation/InanimateInsanityInvitational'', in "The Great Bluish Bake Off", Blueberry takes the hot air balloon off to the cooking station, while ditching the other competitors, even his own henchman, Silver Spoon, to claim the victory himself. After this, Silver Spoon gets outraged and tosses his throne at him, but Blueberry catches it with ease, shocking the others, and crushes it back at Silver Spoon. Cabby looks to the screen, and questions how Blueberry got so strong, where it cuts to a flashback of Bluberry doing push-ups while on his exile in Indefinite Island, as upbeat Kevin Macleod music plays.
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'''Past!Lou:''' No more ''[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Blocky and Oxwinkle]]''!

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'''Past!Lou:''' '''Past Lou:''' No more ''[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Blocky and Oxwinkle]]''!

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'''Cameron:''' He'll keep calling me. He'll keep calling me until I come over. He'll make me feel guilty...

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'''Cameron:''' He'll keep calling me. He'll keep calling me until I come over. He'll make me feel guilty... This- This is ridiculous! Okay, I'll go, I'll go, I'll go, I'll go, I'll go... Shit.
* In ''Film/FridayThe13thPartVIJasonLives'', Tommy asks a gravedigger to dig up Jason's grave as he's being arrested by the police, knowing that Jason has been resurrected and someone else was put in his place. [[CassandraTruth The gravedigger, named Martin, and the police don't believe him.]] But the movie does though!
-->'''Tommy:''' ''(while being dragged off by the cops)'' JASON'S NOT IN HIS GRAVE, HAWES IS! DIG IT UP! ''YOU GOTTA DIG IT UP!''
-->'''Martin:''' "Dig him up?" Does he think I'm a farthead?
-->''(cut to a bunch of little kids at Camp Forest Green (actually just a renamed Camp Crystal Lake).)''
-->'''Kids:''' [[BluntYes YEEEEEEEES!]]
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* From ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' after Mark Chang [[RunawayFiance flees from marrying]] [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Princess]] [[AeCrazy Mandie]].

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* From ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' after Mark Chang [[RunawayFiance flees from marrying]] [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Princess]] [[AeCrazy [[AxeCrazy Mandie]].
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* Done regularly in ''[[{{WesternAnimation/Invincible}} Invincible]]'', which features a RunningGag where the titular hero's name is regularly cut off by the opening title sequence.

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* Done regularly in ''[[{{WesternAnimation/Invincible}} Invincible]]'', ''WesternAnimation/Invincible2021'', which features a RunningGag where the titular hero's name is regularly cut off by the opening title sequence.
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* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': In "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E5AVileHungerForYourHammeringHeart A Vile Hunger for Your Hammering Heart]]", after Louis de Pointe du Lac criticizes his vampire daughter Claudia for her foolishness in burying all of her victims in Chalmette because it's three feet below the river line, he asks her, "What happens when the next storm comes out of the gulf?" The scene then cuts to dock workers finding 56 lacerated bodies adrift in the river during a thunderstorm with torrential rain.

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* The ''Series/{{Friends}}'' season 7 finale. Chandler asks Monica, "If you're not pregnant, who is?" Then the camera settles on Rachel.



* The ''Series/{{Friends}}'' season 7 finale. Chandler asks Monica, "If you're not pregnant, who is?" Then the camera settles on Rachel.
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* A RunningGag on ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' is to have a character express an belief or feeling, and then [[GilliganCut cut to the title of the episode, which spoils that they are wrong]]. Occasionally, this expression is in the form of a rhetorical question, such as in "Frank Sets Sweet Dee on Fire" ("How's anybody gonna get hurt?") or "The Gang Gets Whacked" ("What's the worst that could happen?").

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* In the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode, "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E18Earshot Earshot]]", Buffy is bedridden due to being unable to control her [[FlowersForAlgernonSyndrome temporary]] {{telepathy}}. The only cure is the heart of a certain demon. Giles wonders who will kill the demon, since Buffy herself is out of commission. Cut to Angel beating the crap out of the demon.

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* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':
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In the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode, "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E18Earshot Earshot]]", Buffy is bedridden due to being unable to control her [[FlowersForAlgernonSyndrome temporary]] {{telepathy}}. The only cure is the heart of a certain demon. Giles wonders who will kill the demon, since Buffy herself is out of commission. Cut to Angel beating the crap out of the demon.


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** Parodied again after Buffy's breakup with Riley, and Xander wonders out loud how she's dealing with it. Cut to Buffy at [[HollywoodNuns a cloister]]. Subverted in that she's there to slay a vampire... but then Double Subverted when she starts questioning a rescued nun about the conditions for joining.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlackTheSeries'' episode "The Little Big Man Syndrome", Kay and Jay manage stop the Fmecks' attempt [[EarthShatteringKaboom to blow up Arquilia]] by redirecting the DeathRay. Afterwards, Jay asks:

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* In ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlackTheSeries'' episode "The Little Big Man Syndrome", Kay and Jay manage to stop the Fmecks' attempt [[EarthShatteringKaboom to blow up Arquilia]] by redirecting the DeathRay. Afterwards, Jay asks:


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* ''WesternAnimation/MollyOfDenali'': "[[Recap/MollyOfDenaliS2E2BunnyBabiesEveryMeowAndAgain Every Meow and Again]]" features Molly finding a stray cat. When Molly decides to let the cat ride home in her basket, Tooey wonders what Molly's mom will say. The scene cuts to Layla telling Molly they can't keep the cat.
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* ''Film/UpTheFront'': When Groping needs someone to take care of the goat and ponders who the most expendable man they've got is, the film cuts to Lurk running up to join the parade.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/FlushedAway'', when The Toad's hench-rats fail to capture the protagonists:
-->'''Whitey:''' ''[visibly worried]'' [[AskAStupidQuestion Do you think [Toad] will be annoyed with us?]]\\
''[cut to Toad, take a wild guess at his emotion and reason]''
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* ''Film/{{Clockwise}}'': When Laura tells Brian that she had had a row with her boyfriend, and told him she was driving to Norwich, Brian asks who. Laura merely replies "this bloke"; there is then a cut to Mr Jolly, one of the teachers at the school.
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* ''Film/RoboCop1987'': An incredibly subtle, droll example occurs after corrupt executive Bob Morton secures approval for the [=RoboCop=] program and steps in to the elevator with his co-exec Donald Johnson.
-->'''Johnson:''' So, when do we start?”
-->'''Bob Morton:''' As soon some poor schmuck volunteers.
-->''(Cut to Alex Murphy flipping around his gun)''
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* Done regularly in ''[[{{WesternAnimation/Invincible}} Invincible]]'', which features a RunningGag where the titular hero's name is regularly cut off by the opening title sequence.

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* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'': In "[[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS1E10NoSmallParts No Small Parts]]":
** Freeman is ready to take the Cerritos away from Beta III when she learns that there are still crewmembers planetside.
--->'''Freeman:''' I didn't authorize that. Who is it?\\

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** *** Freeman is ready to take the Cerritos ''Cerritos'' away from Beta III when she learns that there are still crewmembers planetside.
--->'''Freeman:''' ---->'''Freeman:''' I didn't authorize that. Who is it?\\



** When Mariner explains her plan to upload a virus to the Pakled ship, Ransom says that whoever can create the virus "must be some kind of morally bankrupt genius". Cue Badgey.

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** *** When Mariner explains her plan to upload a virus to the Pakled ship, Ransom says that whoever can create the virus "must be some kind of morally bankrupt genius". Cue Badgey.Badgey.
** Twice PlayedForDrama at the end of "Trusted Sources", where Captain Freeman [[ReassignedToAntarctica transfers Mariner to]] [[PlaceWorseThanDeath Starbase 80]] for allegedly badmouthing the crew to a visiting reporter, only for it to turn out she was actually ''praising'' them, leading to Freeman getting branded a monster by the media. As the main characters deal with this PR nightmare, Rutherford says "I can't imagine how the Captain's feeling" before cutting to Freeman anxiously trying to contact Starbase 80 to undo her mistake and save face. After learning that she'd [[OffTheTable quit Starfleet in disgust]], a [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone remorseful]] Freeman looks longingly into the vast emptiness of space and muses "Beckett, where are you?". Cut to Mariner riding in the ship of [[AdventurerArchaeologist Petra Aberdeen]], having the time of her life as a civilian.
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''[cut to Po clumsily weaving through the noodle shop customers]''

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''[cut to...Po's [[BigEater stomach]]. But then the camera pulls out to Po reveal our hero clumsily weaving through the noodle shop customers]''

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** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E1PartnersInCrime "Partners in Crime"]]: Subverted. When the Adiposian ship makes its appearance, Donna asks the Doctor what it is, and it cuts to the episode villain Miss Foster saying, "It's my ride home." [[spoiler:Unfortunately for Miss Foster, it's ''not'' her ride home, because the Adiposians think she's [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlived her usefulness]].]]



** In what might be the filthiest joke to ever pass the censors, in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar "A Good Man Goes to War"]] we have [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe the Silurian Vastra]] and her human sidekick/girlfriend Jenny helping the Doctor secure a military base.

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** In what might be the filthiest joke to ever pass the censors, in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar "A Good Man Goes to War"]] we have [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe the Silurian Vastra]] and her human sidekick/girlfriend sidekick/wife Jenny helping the Doctor secure a military base.
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* ''FILM/TheVillage'': Kitty Walker professes her all-enveloping love to Lucius Hunt, asking him if he reciprocates. Cut to Kitty crying her eyes out as her sister comforts her.

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* ''FILM/TheVillage'': ''FILM/TheVillage2004'': Kitty Walker professes her all-enveloping love to Lucius Hunt, asking him if he reciprocates. Cut to Kitty crying her eyes out as her sister comforts her.

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When a character asks a question, and the work cuts, pans, or otherwise shifts to an image of the implied answer. A variant of this will have the character make a significant remark (''e.g.'', "Some people just naturally make fools of themselves"), and the camera cuts to a character doing exactly that sort of thing. A still further variant is to have another character, completely uninvolved with the first conversation, answer the question with a line identifying the answer ("What kind of loser takes a job at BurgerFool?" "Hey, did your brother tell you he got a new job?").

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When a character asks a question, and the work cuts, pans, or otherwise shifts to an image of the implied answer. A variant This comes in a couple of this will have flavors:

* A direct question followed by a cut to
the character make a significant remark answer. (''e.g.'', A character asks "who could have done such a thing?" before the shot cuts to the culprit.)
* A character makes a significant remark (''e.g.
'', "Some people just naturally make fools of themselves"), and then the camera cuts to a another character doing exactly that sort of thing. A still further variant is to have another thing.
* Another
character, completely uninvolved with the first initial conversation, answer answers the question with a line identifying the answer ("What kind of loser takes a job at BurgerFool?" "Hey, did your brother tell you he got a new job?").

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