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*One of [[WallaceAndGromit Gromit's]] favourite tricks. On one occasion, the headline of the newspaper he's hiding behind is "Dog reads newspaper".
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* The 2009 ''Film/SherlockHolmes'' film pulls this with [[spoiler:Moriarty]] in an ''otherwise empty train car,'' though in this case it was more a matter of atmosphere and keeping his face hidden from ''the audience'' more than any of the in universe characters.
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* The 2009 ''Film/SherlockHolmes'' film pulls this with [[spoiler:Moriarty]] in an ''otherwise empty train car,'' though in this case it was more a matter of atmosphere and keeping his face hidden from ''the audience'' more than any of the in universe characters.
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* Done in the ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "A Bird in the Hoof" by Philomena the bird. Twilight Sparkle and Fluttershy, who are chasing her around, actually do check behind the newspaper, but appear fooled by the [[PaperThinDisguise fake mustache]] Philomena wears underneath.
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* Done in the ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "A Bird in the Hoof" by Philomena the bird. Twilight Sparkle and Fluttershy, who are chasing her around, actually do check behind the newspaper, but appear fooled by the [[PaperThinDisguise fake mustache]] Philomena wears underneath.
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* ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. In "Hush" [[CovertPervert Willow]] hides behind an open writing pad to spy on Buffy flirting with Riley.
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* Happens twice in the opening sequence of ''{{Bolt}}'', first with Penny, then with Bolt himself. Bolt is a dog.
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* Happens twice in the opening sequence of ''{{Bolt}}'', ''Disney/{{Bolt}}'', first with Penny, then with Bolt himself. Bolt is a dog.
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Spelling correction. It\'s \"Philomena\", not \"Philemena\".
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* Done in the ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "A Bird in the Hoof" by Philemena the bird. Twilight Sparkle and Fluttershy, who are chasing her around, actually do check behind the newspaper, but appear fooled by the [[PaperThinDisguise fake mustache]] Philemena wears underneath.
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* Done in the ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "A Bird in the Hoof" by Philemena Philomena the bird. Twilight Sparkle and Fluttershy, who are chasing her around, actually do check behind the newspaper, but appear fooled by the [[PaperThinDisguise fake mustache]] Philemena Philomena wears underneath.
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* Thomson and Thompson do this in ''Film/{{Tintin}}''. Not only do they have eye-holes, but both newspapers have brush advertisments at moustache-level.
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* On ''TheSimpsons'', Bart goes to a counselor, where we find Principal Skinner in the waiting room. He doesn't want Bart to see him, so he hides behind a magazine ? namely "Principal's World", with his headshot on the cover.
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* On ''TheSimpsons'', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Bart goes to a counselor, where we find Principal Skinner in the waiting room. He doesn't want Bart to see him, so he hides behind a magazine ? namely "Principal's World", with his headshot on the cover.
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* Happens with restaurant menus between Izma and Kuzco in ''TheEmperorsNewGroove''. Though to be fair, Kuzco (as a llama) was [[DragQueen in drag]] at the time. ItMakesSenseInContext...
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* Happens with restaurant menus between Izma and Kuzco in ''TheEmperorsNewGroove''.''Disney/TheEmperorsNewGroove''. Though to be fair, Kuzco (as a llama) was [[DragQueen in drag]] at the time. ItMakesSenseInContext...
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* ''TheMasterOfDisguise'' has one such example; Pistachio (as a "cow pie" man) somehow hides from Bowman's henchmen in this manner.
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This storyboard revealed that it\'s spelled \"Philemena.\"
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* Done in the ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "A Bird in the Hoof" by Philomena the bird. Twilight Sparkle and Fluttershy, who are chasing her around, actually do check behind the newspaper, but appear fooled by the [[PaperThinDisguise fake mustache]] Philomena wears underneath.
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* Done in the ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "A Bird in the Hoof" by Philomena Philemena the bird. Twilight Sparkle and Fluttershy, who are chasing her around, actually do check behind the newspaper, but appear fooled by the [[PaperThinDisguise fake mustache]] Philomena Philemena wears underneath.
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* MacGyver, ''Thief of Budapest'' has a scene in which [=McGyver=] hacks a stoplight control box standing in the middle of main street. His cover? People on both sides with newspapers spread out wide.
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* Played with twice in the ''DoctorWho'' EighthDoctorAdventures novel ''Unnatural History''. In the first instance, Fitz doesn't seem to be attempting to hide, but came across as shady nonetheless:
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* Played with twice in the ''DoctorWho'' ''Series/DoctorWho'' EighthDoctorAdventures novel ''Unnatural History''. In the first instance, Fitz doesn't seem to be attempting to hide, but came across as shady nonetheless:
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* Ed Foley used this to keep one of his agents from seeing his face during handoffs in the TomClancy novel ''The Cardinal of the Kremlin''.
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Even though I saw it like last night, I can guarantee I got some detail wrong.
* In an episode of ''HowIMetYourMother'', Barney spent an entire day spying through one of these in a French restaurant. Subverted in that the woman Robin told him was there wasn't going there; she was just trying to make a point.
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* The buffoonish burglars in Disney's animated ''[[OneHundredAndOneDalmatians 101 Dalmatians]]'' do this.
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* The buffoonish burglars in Disney's animated ''[[OneHundredAndOneDalmatians 101 Dalmatians]]'' ''Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'' do this.
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* Philomena does this in ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. Twilight Sparkle and Fluttershy, who are chasing her around, actually do check behind the newspaper, but appear fooled by the PaperThinDisguise she wears underneath.
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* Done in the ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "A Bird in the Hoof" by Philomena does this in ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. the bird. Twilight Sparkle and Fluttershy, who are chasing her around, actually do check behind the newspaper, but appear fooled by the PaperThinDisguise she [[PaperThinDisguise fake mustache]] Philomena wears underneath.
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* Subverted in an episode of {{Futurama}}. Flexo (a robot who looks exactly like Bender save for a small goatee) disappears along with an expensive atom they were delivering. While looking for him they see "Bender" first wearing a turtleneck sweater, then a scarf, then holding a newspaper to his face that he refuses to put down. They finally get him to put it down, revealing... that he really is Bender and Flexo left hours ago.
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* Subverted in an episode of {{Futurama}}. Flexo (a robot who looks exactly like Bender save for a small goatee) disappears along with an expensive atom they were delivering. While looking for him they see "Bender" first wearing a turtleneck sweater, then a scarf, then holding a newspaper to his face that he refuses to put down. They finally get him to put it down, revealing... that he really is Bender and Flexo left hours ago. ago.
* Philomena does this in ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. Twilight Sparkle and Fluttershy, who are chasing her around, actually do check behind the newspaper, but appear fooled by the PaperThinDisguise she wears underneath.
* Philomena does this in ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. Twilight Sparkle and Fluttershy, who are chasing her around, actually do check behind the newspaper, but appear fooled by the PaperThinDisguise she wears underneath.
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* The 2009 ''Film/SherlockHolmes'' film pulls this with [[spoiler:Moriarty]] in an ''otherwise empty train car''.
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* Steve Martin's version of Clousseau tries this along with his partner in ThePinkPanther - while tailing a suspect. It works the first couple of times, but the next time they try it, Clousseau trips down the stairs to the subway station.
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* Parodied in ''TheBigLebowski'' with the detective DaFino. As The Dude discovers his Volkswagen parked outside his house he walks angry towards it and we can see DaFino reaching for a newspaper and very badly pretend to read it.
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* Parodied in ''TheBigLebowski'' with the detective DaFino. [=DaFino=]. As The Dude discovers his Volkswagen parked outside his house he walks angry towards it and we can see DaFino [=DaFino=] reaching for a newspaper and very badly pretend to read it.
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* A lot of modern police shows employ this for one or two officers when they have a large amount of officers staking out a single target. They can play it straight without accidentally invoking parody if those hiding are [[ExtraExtraReadAllAboutIt extras]] [[IncrediblyLamePun and]] the camera doesn't single them out for long.
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* Played with twice in the ''DoctorWho'' EighthDoctorAdventures novel ''Unnatural History''. In the first instance, he doesn't seem to be attempting to hide, but came across as shady nonetheless:
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* In HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban, Hermione does this with a book (which is upside down) when McGonagall comes in and takes Harry's Firebolt (Hermione having told McGonagall that Harry received it with no card and suspecting it to be from Sirius Black), to hide her face from Ron and Harry (who as soon as McGonagall is gone round on her and start getting after her for tattling)
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* In HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban, Hermione does this with a book (which is upside down) when McGonagall [=McGonagall=] comes in and takes Harry's Firebolt (Hermione having told McGonagall [=McGonagall=] that Harry received it with no card and suspecting it to be from Sirius Black), to hide her face from Ron and Harry (who as soon as McGonagall [=McGonagall=] is gone round on her and start getting after her for tattling)
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* Played with twice in the DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse novel ''Unnatural History''. In the first instance, he doesn't seem to be attempting to hide, but came across as shady nonetheless:
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*** Five minutes later Henry does try to use it on the zeppelin. [[TheDragon Colonel Vogel]] isn't fooled for a second.
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** A beautiful subversion is pulled on the audience, however; in the aerodrome we see someone facing the camera directly with his newspaper ostentatiously held up to cover his entire face. Ah-ha, the audience thinks, this is one of the Jones boys! Then, Indiana appears in the background and begins chatting with someone slumped casually against a pillar behind Mr. Newspaper, who turns out to be Henry Jones Sr,; Mr. Newspaper isn't involved at all.
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** Of course it would have helped if the cover story on the newspaper wasn't a major event that happened several years ago. To be precise, it chronicles the soccer match known as Agony of Doha (so called because it was played in the capital of Qatar), in which Japan drew 2-2 with Iraq and lost their spot in the 1994 [[TheWorldCup FIFA World Cup]] to South Korea (who had beaten North Korea 3-0 that same day) due to a lower goal difference (both finished the qualifiers with the same number of points). Had Japan won the match, they would have knocked the Korean team off the second spot (Saudi Arabia had secured the first) by a one-point difference. The match dates back to October 28, 1993, while ''FMP'' is set five years after.
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** Of course it would have helped if the cover story on the newspaper wasn't a major event that happened several years ago. To be precise, it chronicles the soccer match known as Agony of Doha (so called because it was played in the capital of Qatar), in which Japan drew 2-2 with Iraq and lost their spot in the 1994 [[TheWorldCup FIFA World Cup]] to South Korea (who had beaten North Korea 3-0 that same day) due to a lower goal difference (both finished the qualifiers with the same number of points). Had Japan won the match, they would have knocked the Korean team off the second spot (Saudi Arabia had secured the first) by a one-point difference.difference, but they conceded a goal at the last minute (hence the Agony). The match dates back to October 28, 1993, while ''FMP'' is set five years after.
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* Heroic example: In ''FullmetalPanic'', Sousuke has a habit of watching out for Kaname behind an old newspaper with a hole cut out; like a lot of things he does, it really makes Sousuke look like a pervert.
** Of course it would have helped if the cover story on the newspaper wasn't a major event that happened several years ago.
** Of course it would have helped if the cover story on the newspaper wasn't a major event that happened several years ago.
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* Heroic example: In ''FullmetalPanic'', ''FullMetalPanic'', Sousuke has a habit of watching out for Kaname behind an old newspaper with a hole cut out; like a lot of things he does, it really makes Sousuke look like a pervert.
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** Of course it would have helped if the cover story on the newspaper wasn't a major event that happened several years ago. To be precise, it chronicles the soccer match known as Agony of Doha (so called because it was played in the capital of Qatar), in which Japan drew 2-2 with Iraq and lost their spot in the 1994 [[TheWorldCup FIFA World Cup]] to South Korea (who had beaten North Korea 3-0 that same day) due to a lower goal difference (both finished the qualifiers with the same number of points). Had Japan won the match, they would have knocked the Korean team off the second spot (Saudi Arabia had secured the first) by a one-point difference. The match dates back to October 28, 1993, while ''FMP'' is set five years after.
** Of course it would have helped if the cover story on the newspaper wasn't a major event that happened several years ago. To be precise, it chronicles the soccer match known as Agony of Doha (so called because it was played in the capital of Qatar), in which Japan drew 2-2 with Iraq and lost their spot in the 1994 [[TheWorldCup FIFA World Cup]] to South Korea (who had beaten North Korea 3-0 that same day) due to a lower goal difference (both finished the qualifiers with the same number of points). Had Japan won the match, they would have knocked the Korean team off the second spot (Saudi Arabia had secured the first) by a one-point difference. The match dates back to October 28, 1993, while ''FMP'' is set five years after.
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Compare HighlyVisibleNinja, HighlyConspicuousUniform and, of course, PaperThinDisguise.
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Compare HighlyVisibleNinja, HighlyConspicuousUniform and, [[ChekhovsPun of course, course]], PaperThinDisguise.