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* The framing device of the [[FoundFootageFilms Found Footage Film]] ''Phoenix Forgotten'' is the sister of a woman who disappeared investigating the UFO phenomenon known as the "Phoenix Lights" interviewing several people who last saw her and her friends, but then the sister finds the tape with the recording the group's final moments before [[AlienAbduction they were all abducted by aliens]] and once she presses "play", the film becomes your regular "OMG [[AliensAreBastards aliens]] are [[RealAfterAll really real]], [[CosmicHorrorReveal run-run-run]], [[ApocalypticLog aaaaggggghhhh]]!" fare and doesn't returns to her at all.

* TheStinger from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2'' combines this trope with NarratorAllAlong, [[spoiler: as collecting the Green Stars is required to unlock [[BrutalBonusLevel the game's final and most difficult level, Grandmaster Galaxy]], [[100PercentCompletion especially]] [[NoDamageRun "The Perfect Run."]]]]

* TheStinger from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2'' combines this trope with NarratorAllAlong, [[spoiler: as collecting the Green Stars is required to unlock [[BrutalBonusLevel the game's final and most difficult level, Grandmaster Galaxy]], [[[[100PercentCompletion especially]] [[NoDamageRun "The Perfect Run."]]]]

* TheStinger from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2'' combines this trope with NarratorAllAlong, [[spoiler: as collecting the Green Stars is required to unlock [[BrutalBonusLevel the game's final and most difficult level, Grandmaster Galaxy]], [[100PercentCompletion especially]] [[NoDamageRun "The Perfect Run."]]]]

* TheStinger from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2'' combines this trope with NarratorAllAlong, [[spoiler: as collecting the Green Stars is required to unlock [[BrutalBonusLevel the game's final and most difficult level, Grandmaster Galaxy]], [[100PercentCompletion especially [[NoDamageRun "The Perfect Run."]]]]

* TheStinger from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2'' combines this trope with NarratorAllAlong, [[spoiler: as collecting the Green Stars is required to unlock [[BrutalBonusLevel the game's final and most difficult level, Grandmaster Galaxy]], [[100PercentCompletion especially]][[NoDamageRun "The Perfect Run."]]]]

* TheStinger from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2'' combines this trope with NarratorAllAlong, [[spoiler: as collecting the Green Stars is required to unlock [[BrutalBonusLevel the game's final and most difficult level, Grandmaster Galaxy]], [[100PercentCompletion especially]], [[NoDamageRun "The Perfect Run."]]]]]]

* TheStinger from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2'' combines this trope with NarratorAllAlong, [[spoiler: as collecting the Green Stars is required to unlock [[BrutalBonusLevel the game's final and most difficult level, Grandmaster Galaxy]], [[100PercentCompletion especially]], [[NoDamageRun "The Perfect Run."]]]]

* TheStinger from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2'' combines this trope with NarratorAllAlong, [[spoiler: as collecting the Green Stars is required to unlock [[BrutalBonusLevel the game's final and most difficult level, Grandmaster Galaxy]], [[100PercentCompletion especially]] [[NoDamageRun "The Perfect Run."]]]]

* ''Literature/TheYellowWallpaper'' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is narrated in the first person by the protagonist. To start with there are several references to the fact that she's keeping a journal, such as one section ending with her saying that she has to stop writing now because she has a visitor. About halfway through, as the narrator's sanity is clearly fraying, she forgets she's supposed to be keeping a diary and is clearly narrating events as they happen without stopping to write anything down.

* ''Literature/TheYellowWallpaper'' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is narrated in the first person by the protagonist. To start with there are several references to the fact that she's keeping a journal, such as one section ending with her saying that she has to stop writing now because she has a visitor. These fade out about halfway through, and by the end she's narrating events as they happen. (Events which clearly do not involve her stopping to write anything down.)

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' has the [[http://spongebob.wikia.com/wiki/SpongeBob%27s_Runaway_Roadtrip_(event) SpongeBob's Runaway Roadtrip]] episodes, also known as the vacation miniseries. Each episode begins with the same framing device of a character showing pictures of a vacation they were on, leading to a WholeEpisodeFlashback. However, the framing device for each episode is not revisited at the end, nor are they acknowledged in the other episodes. Averted in the book adaptation which shows all the stories together and ends with an epilogue which closes out the FramingDevice.

* The Japanese sports drama ''Film/GiveItAll'' begins in the present-day (1998, when the movie's released), with an old, rickety shack belonging to a rowing club was about to be torn down. The camera then zooms in on a faded photograph (dated 1977) of the club's ex-members before flashing back to the 70s detailing the club's history, but by the credits the film still remains in the past.

* ''Theatre/TheTamingOfTheShrew''. Christopher Sly, a drunk, is found passed out on the street by a Lord who decides to play an elaborate ruse on Sly, making Sly think he's a Lord who has only been dreaming that he's a drunkard. The Lord's attendants go along with the gag. The majority of ''Shrew'' is a play put on for Sly by a group of players. After a couple of interludes showing Sly's reactions to the play, it's dropped.

* A ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'' episode started with Dora telling the audience about how she first met Backpack, with the episode continuing into her flashback story but never leaving it.

* The ''Literature/BookOfJob'' opens with a framing device in which Satan convinces God to give him power over Job in order to test his loyalty. After Job's children and home are all wiped out, Satan meets with God again to urge him to inflict pain on Job himself. They have no further meetings and the result of their bet is never addressed at the end (though

* ''Theatre/TheTamingOfTheShrew''. Christopher Sly, a drunk, is found passed out on the street by a Lord who decides to play an elaborate ruse on Sly, making Sly think he's a Lord who has only been dreaming that he's a drunkard. The Lord's attendants go along with the gag. The majority of ''Shrew'' is a play put on for Lord!Sly by a group of players. After a couple of interludes showing Sly's reactions to the play, it's dropped.

* The ''Literature/BookOfJob'' opens with a framing device in which Satan convinces God to give him power over Job in order to test his loyalty. This is never referenced again, and Satan isn't mentioned anywhere else in the story.

* ''Theatre/TheGreenPastures'' has a black preacher teaching Sunday school to the children of his congregation. When asked about Heaven, he imagines its like a Sunday fish fry. The rest of the play is a series of Old Testament vignettes set in 1920s Louisiana with an all-black cast. The framing device pops up a couple of more times but is forgotten in the latter part of the play and does not appear at the end.

* ''Webcomic/{{Xkcd}}'': The "1337" storyline begins with a guy getting foiled by a mother when trying to leech off her Wi-Fi and seques into his friend telling him about how the mother is only the second-greatest hacker compared to her daughter, Elaine. By the time we get to the end of Elaine's story, the two guys are never mentioned again.

** The first four ''WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror'' episodes utilize a framing device ([[ArtifactTitle with the first one taking place in an actual treehouse]]), but the third (the Simpsons throwing a Halloween party) and fourth (Bart hosting a Series/NightGallery) episodes end without concluding their own frame stories. The fact that the "Treehouse of Horror" episodes originally used a framing device at all has also been forgotten.

* ''Literature/BookOfJob'' opens with a framing device in which Satan convinces God to give him power over Job in order to test his loyalty. This is never referenced again, and Satan isn't mentioned anywhere else in the story.