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* ''Series/TheMandalorian'': In "Chapter 7: The Reckoning", the Child mistakes a friendly arm-wrestling as a threat toward the Mandalorian and he starts Force-choking Cara Dune. Mando initially doesn't understand what's going on and double-takes when he realizes it's the doing of his adoptive son.

'''Alex:''' ''[holds up Frets, a living guitar]'' Its called "pin the strings on the base"!\\

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In "Home Sweet Pineapple": Spongebob has his house eaten by wild nematodes and tries to spend the night at Patrick's house, only to find it to be miserable, and sneaks into Squidward's house while he's asleep. Squidward, in a half-awake stupor, is ''blissfully'' unaware that his ultimate annoyance has taken residence in his home, fetches him a glass of water, and lets him ''hop in bed with him'', completely out of it -- ''until...''

* ''ComicBook/YoungJustice2019'': The entire team pulls one when Impulse accidentally lets it slip that Conner [[spoiler: has a wife and child on Gemworld]]. This includes Conner himself and Amethyst's ''horse''.

* In one of Creator/DaneCook's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGMolt--w0Q skits]] he tells he did a [[UpToEleven a twelve-take]], when he saw under his dad's robe when the dad was not wearing any underwear.

** When an officer giving Akira his assignment in a forced government contract to clear an UndergroundCity ruin, the officer dismisses Akira due to his age, then upon seeing his combat record that makes him look like a OneManArmy, does this.

--> '''Olympia:''' Baby fight, ''baby fight!''
--> '''Otis:''' We'd better take him with us.

* A running gag on ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' would be for something like this to happen:
-->'''Vegeta:''' What, are you dense? The Ginyu Force could be here any second and then we're...\\
'''Ginyu:''' Hi, Vegeta.\\
'''Vegeta:''' Hi, Ginyu. And then we're...\\
''[pauses and notices exactly who he just said hi to]''\\
'''Vegeta:''' Son of a *** ***ing f***face! Why the f*** does all this ***ing sh** happen to me?

* In ''WebVideo/SwordArtOnlineAbridged'', the reveal that Heathcliff was [[spoiler: Kayaba all along]] goes this way, as Kirito doesn't get it immediately that Heathcliff referenced ''Film/{{Tron}}'', as the only person who referred to it was [[spoiler: Akihiko Kayaba, in the very beginning.]]

!!!'''In General:'''
* One of Harry Enfield's sketch shows featured recurring characters "The Double-Take Brothers", a pair of gormless unobservant idiots who react this way to ''everything''.
!!!'''Series:'''

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'':
** Tucker does this in Season 4, when confronted with Crunchbite for the first time.
** This is also the [[PhraseCatcher standard reaction]] to anything Sister ever says.
--->'''Anyone who ever talks to Sister:''' Yeah! Wait, what?!
* Seen in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGtd0KkOvG4 a satirical animated short (from 6:40 to 7:42)]] of ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer: Tiberian Dawn'' when a [[GreenRocks Tiberium]] [[WorkerUnit Harvester]] from one side [[YouRequireMoreVespeneGas returns to its home base]] by making a calm, friendly drive past its adversary's base without getting shot at. The base's guards [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy get carried away]], [[AlertnessBlink only to realize]] that they've just let an enemy Harvester escape under their noses.
-->'''GDI Base Guard:''' ''[[PrecisionFStrike Fuck!]]'' [[ClusterFBomb Fuck! Fuck!]] '''[[AtomicFBomb Fuck!]]'''
** It's a jibe at the game's ArtificialStupidity -- the program's pathfinding tendencies to lead one's units through the shortest route possible, even if it isn't the safest way around. It's [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by the Commando that ordered the Harvester to come home and the Harvester's seemingly SimpletonVoice.

* In ''Webcomic/SequentialArt'', [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=784 Kat when she realizes that her old arch-enemy is affably hanging out with a roommate.]]

* ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'': Pintsize in [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1421 #1421]]

* In ''Webcomic/YokokasQuest'', Raya [[TheGlomp glomps]] Yfa [[https://yokokasquest.com/comic/chapter-4-page-21/ when she first meets him]], but then realizes Yfa wasn't the brother she was looking for. Cue the double take ([[https://yokokasquest.com/comic/chapter-4-page-23/ and second glomp]]) when she realizes that he's the brother who's been ''missing for two years''.

* In ''WebVideo/DrHorriblesSingAlongBlog'', Captain Hammer gives Penny one when he realizes that the girl he just "saved" is kinda cute.
* One literal trailer for the fourth ''Film/{{Twilight}}'' film: "Edward looks shocked, and Bella looks stunned/ ''Twilight, Breaking Dawn''... [[TrilogyCreep Part 1]]?" It then ''cuts to the person literalising'', who can't quite believe what he just read, then does a CurseCutShort.
* Creator/PatrickStewart demonstrates [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFMrBldVk0s the quadruple take.]] Even he can't perform four takes naturalistically.
* WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows has this reaction during his review of Music/KatyPerry's "Dark Horse", after he hears [[AWildRapperAppears Juicy J's line]] comparing Katy to [[ImAHumanitarian Jeffrey Dahmer]].

* ''WesternAnimation/CatDog''. When Cliff and Lube find out Shriek is a girl, they QUADRUPLE TAKE.

* In ''[[VideoGame/PuyoPuyo Puyo Puyo Tetris]]'', since Sig is running away from Schezo, Klug is reluctant to tell the dark mage where Sig went. Schezo tries assure Klug that it's not a problem... in a weird way that takes the latter a bit to notice.

* ''Film/SevenFacesOfDrLao:'' Ed Cunningham does one when he realizes that Angela has finally started showing some.. [[DefrostingIceQueen interest]] in him.

* ''{{Literature/Animorphs}}'': Rachel does one at the end of the book where [[spoiler:Tobias acquires his human self's DNA so he can be human for two hours at a time]] once he shows up for the school dance.

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* In the very first episode of ''Animation/HappyHeroes'', Doctor H. thinks he's finally gotten away from the junkyard's guard dog, but the dog reappears right in his car seconds later. Doctor H. looks to his right where the dog is sitting, doesn't react and keeps on driving like normal, and then realizes what he just saw and panics.
* ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'' provides the former page image. In the ''Joys of Seasons'' episode "Candy House Fantasy", Wolffy looks at a candy house and says, "Am I dreaming, or is that a candy house I'm looking at?" Then he sighs and walks away from the house. He does a double take and says, "A candy house! I wasn't dreaming about it."
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* ''Film/{{Shazam|2019}}'': While still trying to figure out his new powers, Billy-as-Shazam interrupts a convenience-store robbery and gets shot [[ImmuneToBullets with no effect]]. Freddie suggests returning the robber's gun and getting [[BoomHeadshot shot in the face]] to see if he's really bulletproof, or if it's just the superhero suit. Billy enthusiastically agrees, and then objects as he belatedly realizes the problem with this idea. (Fortunately, it turns out that he's invulnerable all over.)

* ''Franchise/StarWars'': In ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', when Han Solo instructs C-3PO what to say to the Ewoks, and keeps pulling him back for new orders, finishing with "Hurry up, will ya? Haven't got all day!" the droid responds with a double take.

%%* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''. Aang does a big one at the end of episode 12, Book 2, when he reaches the top of the Ba Sing Se wall and sees for the first time the Fire Nation's [[ThisIsADrill Giant Drill]].

* ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'' provides the page image. In the ''Joys of Seasons'' episode "Candy House Fantasy", Wolffy looks at a candy house and says, "Am I dreaming, or is that a candy house I'm looking at?" Then he sighs and walks away from the house. He does a double take and says, "A candy house! I wasn't dreaming about it."

* ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'': In "Long Lost Friend", Gator, Percy's sidekick from ''Tale of the Brave'' comes to visit for the winter to deliver rock salt; he greets Thomas at a junction, who casually greets him back...then he suddenly stops with a halt upon realizing who he had seen, and instantly reverses.

** ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'': After a lengthy argument, Yondu explains to the NotSoDifferent Rocket that they are about to go fight a planet ([[spoiler:the Living Planet, Ego, Peter Quill's father]]). Rocket seems all pumped up at this until... "Fight a ''what''?"

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[[caption-width-right:350:"Fluffy... why did you put a ''leash'' on an ''eggplant''?"]]

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[[quoteright:225:[[Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tryagain_min1.png]]]]

* As the French king of physical comedy, Creator/LouisDeFunes's double takes were nothing short of epic. A good one in ''Film/DelusionsOfGrandeur'', when Don Salluste guides the king of Spain to the bedroom where they expect to surprise the queen with her lover... only to find her old gouvernante, Doña Juana, in the arms of Blaze the valet. Salluste double-takes, closes the door hastily and starts speaking gibberish out of shock.

* ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'': Both Sarah and Stein do an epic one when resident bruiser and thug Mick Rory announces that he loves the musical ''Theatre/FiddlerOnTheRoof''.

* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''. Aang does a big one at the end of episode 12, Book 2, when he reaches the top of the Ba Sing Se wall and sees for the first time the Fire Nation's [[ThisIsADrill Giant Drill]].

* One ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' episode actually shows it during their special episode describing some of the cartoon clichés.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
** Step Four for the patented [=SpongeBob SquarePants=] Bubble-Blowing Technique: Double Take 3 Times.
** A downright ''epic'' one takes place in "Home Sweet Pineapple": Spongebob has his house eaten by wild nematodes and tries to spend the night at Patrick's house, only to find it to be miserable, and sneaks into Squidward's house while he's asleep. Squidward, in a half-awake stupor, is ''blissfully'' unaware that his ultimate annoyance has taken residence in his home, fetches him a glass of water, and lets him ''hop in bed with him'', completely out of it -- ''until...''

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}'' 1973/74 episodes.

* In a somewhat funny example, the US Department of Defense's exercise codeword for Defcon 4 is DOUBLE TAKE. Appropriate as Defcon 4 pretty much means "huh, what?" in terms of readiness.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'': Hilariously played with in "Long Lost Friend". Gator, Percy's sidekick from ''Tale of the Brave'' comes to visit for the winter to deliver rock salt; he greets Thomas at a junction, who casually greets him back...then he suddenly stops with a halt upon realizing who he had seen, and instantly reverses.