History Main / LeaningOnTheFourthWall

* In the ''[[OhMyGoddess Oh My Goddess!]]'' chapter where [[LemonWackyHello Belldandy somehow gets drunk on cola]], Keiichi chases after her and trips over an empty liquor bottle, saying, "Geez, you'd think this was a stupid [[{{Manga}} comic book]] or something!"

* When StephenColbert [[LemonWackyHello accidentally dropped acid]], the ensuing existential crisis could be taken two ways -- either the character worrying about his insecurities and whether he's lying to himself, or the character briefly realising that he ''is'' just a character. This was mostly to clue in new viewers to the AlterEgoActing thing, since the show had just gone global.

** The BigFinishDoctorWho adventure "Legend of the Cybermen" have the Doctor and his companion Jamie and Zoe trapped in The Land of Fiction, where they are constantly being tricked into narriating their actions, have a segment where Jamie finds himself in a sound-studio, taking directions from a man in front of a sound-mixer, reading his dialogue from a script.

* The DoctorWhoBigFinish adventure "Legend of the Cybermen" have the Doctor and his companion Jamie and Zoe trapped in The Land of Fiction, where they are constantly being tricked into narriating their actions, have a segment where Jamie finds himself in a sound-studio, taking directions from a man in front of a sound-mixer, reading his dialogue from a script.

* The English dub of ''SuzumiyaHaruhi'' has a very clever one in episode six: While Kyon is narrating, the begining credits are shown. Just as he asks "Who wrote this scenario, anyway?" the current credit is "Series Composition: Haruhi and her friends".

* In the first episode of True Blood, Sookie makes a comment about expecting Bill to rush in any second, saying her name. She delivers a hilarious imitation of Stephen Moyer-as-Bill's often off-kilter accent by prouncing it "Suh-kee".

** House: [On his penchant for Eureka moments occur at highly convienient times]

** In the same episode, Cyborg mentions that they are in the first episode of the forth season of the program they got trapped in. They were indeed on the first episode of the forth season on their own series.

*** [[HarveyDent Harvey Dent's]] [[DarthWiki/TwoFace alter-ego]] follows suit.

*** [[HarveyDent Harvey Dent's]] [[TwoFace alter-ego]] follows suit.

*** [[HarveyDent Harvey Dent's]] [[TwoFaced alter-ego]] follows suit.

* ''Top Secret!'' leans on the Fourth Wall, then [[BreakingTheFourthWall shatters it]]:

*** [[DarthWiki/Two-Face Two-Face]] follows suit.

*** [[DarthWiki/TwoFace Two-Face]] follows suit.

-->'''Ryuk:''' It was good while it lasted. We eased each other's boredom for quite a while. Well, Light, it's been interesting.

* DonRosa's Scrooge [=McDuck=] comic ''The Black Knight Glorps Again'' features the pictures CarlBarks painted of Scrooge as in-universe artefacts. Scrooge McDuck calls the person who did the paintings "his favourite artist" while [[DonaldDuck Donald]] claims they [[http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i212/Kerrah_photos/FavouriteArtist.jpg" look like scenes out of a kid's comic book".]]

* DonRosa's Scrooge [=McDuck=] comic ''The Black Knight Glorps Again'' features the pictures CarlBarks painted of Scrooge as in-universe artefacts. Scrooge McDuck calls the person who did the paintings "his favourite artist" while DonaldDuck claims they [[[[http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i212/Kerrah_photos/FavouriteArtist.jpg" look like scenes out of a kid's comic book".]]

* DonRosa's Scrooge [=McDuck=] comic ''The Black Knight Glorps Again'' features the pictures CarlBarks painted of Scrooge as in-universe artefacts. [[http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i212/Kerrah_photos/FavouriteArtist.jpg Scrooge calls the person who did the paintings "his favourite artist" while Donald claims they "look like scenes out of a kid's comic book".]]

* FoxTrot does this occasionally, usually to make comments about his own writing/drawing process. One example is a strip that was released around the time that ''Star Wars Episode I'' was released; Jason goes to see the movie, and when he gets home, Paige asks how he liked it:
** Jason: Come on, Paige, what are the odds of a geek like me saying anything negative?
** Paige: I'd say something like the chances of George Lucas letting a cartoonist see the movie early so he could write about it in more than vague, noncommittal terms.
** Jason: ...Well, I wouldn't go THAT far.
** Paige: Okay, so there's a TINY chance that you didn't like it.