History Main / FourthWallPsych

** This is a clear reference to the same line in the unintentional classic {{ReeferMadness}}.
* A variation occurs in the episode "Mom and Pop Art", in which Homer is displeased to see artwork from series creator Matt Groening's ''Life In Hell'' in an art museum, because "He (Groening) can't draw!" Suddenly, the eraser of a giant pencil descends from above and appears to strike him in retaliation, prompting Homer to scream, "Help! I'm being erased!" In the next shot, it is revealed that the giant pencil is merely an art exhibit being relocated.

** This is a clear reference to the same line in the unintentional classic [[Reefer Madness]].

** This is a clear reference to the same line in the unintentional classic [[ReeferMadness]].

** This is a clear reference to the same line in the unintentional classic [[ReferMadness]].

** A variation occurs in the episode "Mom and Pop Art", in which Homer is displeased to see artwork from series creator Matt Groening's ''Life In Hell'' in an art museum, because "He (Groening) can't draw!" Suddenly, the eraser of a giant pencil descends from above and appears to strike him in retaliation, prompting Homer to scream, "Help! I'm being erased!" In the next shot, it is revealed that the giant pencil is merely an art exhibit being relocated.

** Three times in a row on one episode, with JD continually turning and asking, "What do you think?" "But what do you think?" "All that matters is what America thinks." It turns out he's asking 1. His friends 2. His residents 3. His tailor, "Americo".

* MrAndMrsSmith features a scene where Jane is frisking John for weapons on a dance floor. At one point, the scene is framed so that you only see them from the shoulders up, face to face, when [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything Jane lowers her head below the frame]]. John turns to the camera and winks, at which point cuts to show that he's winking at an elderly couple, also dancing.

* In in the final cutscene of Assassin's Creed 2, [[spoiler:Minerva]] begins her monologue talking to Ezio, but turns to stare into the camera a few sentences in. When Ezio expresses his profound confusion, she tells him that she's not talking to him and continues to talk to the camera, despite his protests that there's no one else there. It isn't until the end of the cutscene that she confirms she's addressing [[spoiler:future Desmond and friends]].

** Megan [[InvokedTrop invokes]] {{Fanservice}} by taking her top off, to hold the camera's attention for a rant about [[YouBastard spectator blood sports and consumers of glamorized violence directed at the viewer]].

* Since the only camera in ''Slashers'' is also the only cameraman in the studio, the entire movie blends this with LeaningOnTheFourth wall. Characters speaking to the camera could be addressing the cameraman, the live studio audience or the movie viewer.

* This happens once in ''LegendOfZelda: TwilightPrincess''. While exploring Castle Town, you can run into a guy that appears to be trying to catch the attention of the actual player behind the screen. If you walk down his line of sight in game though, it turns out that he's actually addressing another (very confused) NPC character.

* Because ''The {{Simpsons}}'' tend to embrace ThisIsReality despite being a Farce, they prefer this trope to more overt Fourth Wall gags... except on Halloween Episodes and other specials where they are allowed to resort to LeaningOnTheFourthWall.
** In the ''Simpsons'' episode "Who Shot Mr. Burns?" Dr. Hibbert says that he can't solve this case, and then points at the audience and says, "Can you?" The camera changes angles to show that he's really pointing at Chief Wiggum.
** On ''TheSimpsons'' at the end the episode "Duffless" when Homer decides he would rather take Marge on a romantic bike ride than have a drink at Moe's, the other barflies leave with him causing Moe to exclaim "You'll be back, and you" than he points to the audience and says "And yoooou". Moe is revealed to be talking to Barney who replies, "Of course I'll be back. If you didn't close I'd never leave."
** A variation occurs in the episode "Mom and Pop Art", in which Homer is displeased to see artwork from series creator Matt Groening's ''Life In Hell'' in an art museum, because "He (Groening) can't draw!" Suddenly, the eraser of a giant pencil descends from above and appears to strike him in retaliation, prompting Homer to scream, "Help! I'm being erased!" In the next shot, it is revealed that the giant pencil is merely an art exhibit being relocated.
* ''{{Deadpool}}'' does this once with Arcade, though it's unusual, because that series has NoFourthWall.

* In the final scene of the second series of ''BeastWars'', Megatron rants about how he's changed history so that the villains win. At the end of his speech, he points towards the screen and exclaims "And YOU! You no longer EXIST!" In context, he's pointing to the Maximals who were just in the foreground as the shot zoomed in.
* In the theatrical version of ''RosencrantzAndGuildensternAreDead'', at one point Rosencrantz shouts "Fire!"--in a crowded theater, of course--and then seemingly watches the audience with contempt as they stay in their seats, and mutters "They should burn to death in their shoes." But in context, he's just referring to the other characters in the play.
* In the middle of one episode of ''TheReplacements'', Sheldon essentially summarizes everything that had happened thus far in the episode, after which he looks directly at the fourth wall and says "What do YOOUUU think [will happen]?" Cut to Buzz, who is standing right in front of him.

* In the first episode of the fourth season of ''[[ThirtyRock 30 Rock]]'', Jack turns to the camera and says "Welcome to Season 4." The camera pans away and it's revealed he's introducing people to a new, swanky restaurant named "Season 4."
* In an episode of ''BurnNotice'', Michael Westen described the things he'd discovered over the course of the last half-season while looking right into the camera. Turned out he was talking to TheHandler, who had told him to investigate those things.
* In a season 3 episode of {{WEEDS}}, Shane addresses the fourth wall and says "Yeah, it's just a bug in the system". In the next episode it is revealed that he was speaking to his late father, Judah.
* There is a CalvinAndHobbes strip drawn through the eyes of Hobbes. At the start, Calvin looks at the forth wall and asks "Are you ready?", but was actually talking to Hobbes.
* A commercial for the Visa Check Card had a woman telling the camera about the product, explaining its advantages. She concludes by saying "If you had the Visa Check Card..." Cut to the guy she's actually speaking to. "...I could get out of this line already!"

* In one of the JimmyNeutron/FairlyOddParents [[CrossOver cross-over specials]] this was a RunningGag. Sheen would ask, seemingly no one in particular, "Do you know what this means?! Do you?" He would then lean directly at the camera, asking "Do ''yoooouuu?"'' We then switch angles and zoom out to see that each time, he's asking Libby, who exasperatedly tells him to back off.

Related to AsideGlance. Not to be confused with LeaningOnTheFourthWall, wherein the fact that the characters are in a fictional work is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in the dialogue. See also BehindTheBlack.

There is a CalvinAndHobbes strip drawn through the eyes of Hobbes. At the start, Calvin looks at the forth wall and asks "Are you ready?", but was actually talking to Hobbes.

* In a season 3 episode of {{WEEDS}}, Shane addresses the fourth wall and says "Yeah, it's just a bug in the system". In the next episode it is revealed that he was speaking to his late father, Judah.