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1	->''"And then I said, 'Oatmeal? Are you crazy?'"''
2	-->-- '''Pinkie Pie''', ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E3TheTicketMaster The Ticket Master]]"
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4	In fiction, when a character has to retell some event to other characters, it normally happens that the scenes of the characters meeting up so they can talk are skipped. After all, if you've just watched something earth-shatteringly amazing or terrible happen to the character, you don't want to spend hours watching him driving over to the other side of the city so that he can talk about it.
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6	What normally happens is that the scene will cut and go directly to the scene where the character is giving the story. It's a quick way to go from action to character reaction. And often the cut will have skipped directly to the most important part of the recollection -- after all, the audience already knows what happened. In that way it's the opposite of AsYouKnow: Instead of using unrealistic dialogue to reveal to the audience information that the characters already know, it skips over completely realistic, but boring to the audience, dialogue that results from the audience knowing information that the characters don't.
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8	Occasionally, of course, the audience has ''not'' seen what happened between the cut and the retelling, which allows for unexpected twists of the expected outcome.
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10	A clichéd way to cut into the middle of an anecdote is to arrive when the character is saying, "And then I said...," which makes it immediately clear that he is retelling the recent event.
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12	A more humorous form of this is to cut into the end of an anecdote, but have it so bizarre that the audience is left wondering what on earth the character could have been talking about. The OrphanedPunchline is an example of this, as are some {{Noodle Incident}}s. This may come in the form of the KentBrockmanNews channel finishing up its reports with a ridiculous ending.
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14	Another form of mid-anecdote jump involves not a scene cut, but rather a character jumping into mid-anecdote ''on purpose'', normally if they want to abruptly stop a discussion because they don't want someone nearby to hear it.
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17	!!Examples:
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21	[[folder:Advertising]]
22	* An Australian commercial for IBM starts with a timber yard worker telling his superior, "IBM? Fred, we can't go to IBM for a computer!" Fred replies, "Why not? They're the best, aren't they?" After a brief discussion, we fade through to some IBM reps meeting with the same worker, who is chuckling and regaling them with his and Fred's exchange above, but with their roles [[GladIThoughtOfIt reversed]].
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25	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
26	* ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}'': Used with some of Walt's stories.
27	-->''"...So I said 'If that's a chicken, I'd hate to see an ostrich!"''
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30	[[folder:Fan Works]]
31	* ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'':
32	-->'''Kimo:''' And then I was like: "Attention duelists!", and, oh man, you should've been there!
33	* Inverted in ''Fanfic/VivaLaVida'', where Otto leads off his story to Oprah about arguing with Olive two nights ago with "See, it started with..." The story isn't told in full, but the dialogue then picks back up with him telling Oprah that since then, he's only seen his partner twice.
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36	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
37	* ''Film/WildWildWest'':
38	-->'''Artemus:''' Which is not to say that Rita doesn't possess a beauty worthy of a [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Shakespeare]] sonnet or a [[Creator/SandroBotticelli Botticelli]] painting. The curvature of her buttocks and the swell of that magnificent bosom! So full, so sumptuous...\
39	''[notices that Rita is in the room listening]''\
40	'''Artemus:''' So... what were all those foreign ministers doing at Loveless's party? This is what really puzzles me...\
41	'''Artemus:''' ''[aside to Jim West]'' How long has she been here?\
42	'''Jim:''' Somewhere around Botticelli's buttocks.
43	* In ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl'':
44	-->'''Captain Jack:''' ...And then they made me their chief.
45	* ''Film/FieldOfDreams'': Ray Kinsella recounting his poignant experience with Doc Graham to Terence Mann:
46	-->'''Ray Kinsella:''' And then I figured maybe we're not supposed to take him with us...
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49	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
50	%%* ''Series/{{Friends}}'' liked to do the fake anecdote trick when characters were hiding secrets from each other.
51	* ''Series/RedDwarf'':
52	** In the episode "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonITheEnd The End]]", Rimmer is revising for an exam:
53	--->'''Rimmer:''' What does this mean? What does any of it mean? I've covered my body in complete and utter and total absolute nonsense gibberish! Aaaargh!\
54	''[Lister wakes up, coughing]''\
55	'''Rimmer:''' ...er, plus 20 per cent of the ship's course minus the Pythagoras theorem multiplied by two over the X axis minus one equals the total velocity of ''Red Dwarf'', which means I know everything about astroengineering. Good morning, Lister, for probably the last time.
56	** In "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonIIBetterThanLife Better Than Life]]", when Rimmer -- newly promoted to Admiral as part of his fantasy -- is dining with a group of officers:
57	--->'''Rimmer''': So, I said to Hollister... well, I can't actually remember exactly what I said to him, but it was one of the most enormously cruel and frighteningly witty put downs ever.
58	--->''[brief awkward and slightly confused silence, before the officers remember they're characters in his fantasy and all laugh raucously]''
59	* Played straight in ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' when Kramer recounts the details of his entire adventure that come from racing to get a severed toe to the hospital in time to be reattached to a woman's foot. They had originally filmed a cutaway sequence to incorporate into the anecdotal story, but decided to leave it out because Michael Richards's performance was so good it didn't need it.
60	* In the Watership Alan episode of ''Series/ImAlanPartridge'':
61	-->'''Michael:''' He puts his hand up her skirt, gets a hold of the old meat and two veg, right? Thinks, hang on, I've paid my money, I'm going to have something, so he flips him over, and he fu---\
62	''[he notices another character has entered]''\
63	'''Michael:''' And funnily enough, it lands on its wheels, and it starts first time and they just drive away.\
64	'''Alan:''' ''[not realizing the trope is in operation]'' Strangest story I've ever heard. ''[gets up]'' Oh, hello. Lynn. Oh! I see what you were ah, right, yes. Hello, Michael was just telling me an army story about a friend of his who slept with... a landrover. Lonely nights in the desert.
65	* The ''Series/{{Blackadder}} II'' episode "[[Recap/BlackadderS2E6Chains Chains]]" uses the NoodleIncident version, as the scene cuts in on what appears to be Edmund yelling at the Queen and Melchett:
66	-->'''Edmund Blackadder:''' GET OUT! GET OUT, LIBIDINOUS SWINE, AND TAKE THAT WHORESLUT PAINTED STRUMPET WITH YOU! MAY YOU BOTH ROT IN THE FILTH OF YOUR OWN FORNICATION!\
67	''[{{beat}}]''\
68	'''Queen Elizabeth:''' ...And what did you say to him?\
69	'''Edmund Blackadder:''' Say, madam? I said nothing. I simply pulled up my tights and jumped out of the privy window.
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73	* One of the {{Running Gag}}s in ''Theatre/OnTheTown'': Flossie strolls across the scene, always chatting to her girlfriend about what she said to her employer, Mr. Gadolphin. Her friend keeps asking her, "So what did he say?" Flossie ignores this question, continuing to talk about what she said to him.
74	* ''Theatre/MyFairLady'' devotes [[https://youtu.be/QS0pNPw958M a whole musical number]] to recounting the events of the ball. Also note that while Creator/GeorgeBernardShaw's original non-musical play ''Theatre/{{Pygmalion}}'' directly depicts the Hungarian diplomat's comments on Eliza, the musical only relays it via Henry Higgins's account in song.
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78	* ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'':
79	-->'''Tucker''': And then I said "Read it? I already ruined it!"\
80	'''Tex''': That's disgusting!\
81	'''Caboose''': I don't get it.
82	* [[http://hrwiki.org/wiki/Interrupted_Conversations Something]] of a RunningGag on ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'', most notably in the form of the "[[ArcWords DNA Evidence]]" arc.
83	** But it turns out, [[DidYouDie I didn't die!]]
84	** So from then on, it was pork and beans.
85	** So ''that'''s when I realized I didn't even ''need'' Lamaze classes!
86	** I dunno. Maybe there ''is'' a goodminton.
87	** -pants back on, Blue Laser.
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91	* [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20091211 This]] scene from ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' has a Jaeger tying to talk about how he got his hat (Jaegers care a lot about their hats) but gets shut down by his companions, who know the story because they were all present.
92	* Maria Strongwell from ''Webcomic/Rain2010'' ends most of her jokes this way. It's even how she's introduced.
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95	[[folder:Western Animation]]
96	* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' has a parody of the mid-anecdote cut: it cuts to Peter in the principal's office, saying: "And that's my plan!", only for the principal to reply "but you didn't tell me anything... you just sat down and said '[[UnspokenPlanGuarantee And that's my plan]].'"
97	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Dilbert}}'' does something similar, with the PointyHairedBoss saying "and on that I think we're all in agreement", only for Alice to tell him that he only just arrived.
98	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'':
99	** Subverted:
100	--->'''Bender:''' And so that's how I defeated Elzar!\
101	'''Leela:''' We ''know''. We were ''there''. And we just finished watching it again on TV!
102	** Played straight ''and'' partially lampshaded in the episode "[[Recap/FuturamaS2E8RagingBender Raging Bender]]".
103	--->'''Bender:''' ''[in a very weak voice]'' See you at the fight!\
104	''[immediately cuts to Planet Express]''\
105	'''Bender:''' And then I said, "See you at the fight!"
106	** In "[[Recap/FuturamaS6E16LawAndOracle Law and Oracle]]", Fry gets pranked by Leela's former coworkers, who laugh at him. Cut back to Planet Express:
107	--->'''Fry:''' And-And then they burst out laughing a ''second'' time!\
108	''[Planet Express crew bursts out laughing]''
109	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
110	** Amongst other uses, Bart has a throwaway joke that falls under the second case.
111	--->'''Bart:''' So I says to Mabel, I says...
112	** In one episode, resident bully Nelson Muntz was describing how to pick and eat huckleberries to his classmates. When he notices Principal Skinner is within earshot, he abruptly switches to "So anyway, I kicked the guy's ass!" as a cover story.
113	* From ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E3TheTicketMaster The Ticket Master]]" brings us the page quote [[MemeticMutation and a meme]].
114	%%* ''WesternAnimation/TheMightyB'': During bat mitzvah.
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