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[[File:anscut01 2948.jpg|link=Archie Sonic|frame|Sometimes [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]].]]

 

When a character asks a question, and the movie cuts, pans, or otherwise shifts to an image of the implied answer. A variant of this will have the character make a significant remark (''e.g.'', "Some people just naturally make fools of themselves"), and the camera cuts to a character doing exactly that sort of thing. A still further variant is to have another character, completely uninvolved with the first conversation, answer the question with a line identifying the answer ("What kind of loser takes a job at [[Burger Fool]]?" "Hey, did your brother tell you he got a new job?").

 

Compare to [[Gilligan Cut]].

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* ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'': Who screamed at the cockroach first? Who suggested that everyone's stuffed animals be brought and put on display? The answer to both questions appears to be Sakaki, though we have only the editing as proof.

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

{{quote|'''Namor''': For the last time, I can't "surrender"! This ''isn't'' an invasion of your surface world! [[Villains Out Shopping|I just wanted a]] ''[[Crowning Moment of Funny|bagel!]]''}}

 

* ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero]]'''s [[In Medias Res|prologue]] includes, among other things, Kyon being attacked by Asakura Ryouko, having possession of a lot of supernatural tools [[Haruhi Suzumiya|his canon counterpart]] doesn't have, and Haruhi not batting much of an eye to Kyon's admission Asakura is an humanoid interface like Yuki. At some point after that, Kyon asks himself, "It started off such a nice day, too. How had it come to this, anyway...?". Cue scene change to the first non-prologue scene.

 

== [[Film]] ==

* At the end of the [[Opening Narration]] for ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'', the narrator asks "Who could love a beast?" We then fade into Belle walking to town.

* "[[Shark Tale|How long must this reef live under siege? Is there no hero among us? Who can stop this shark menace?]]" Cut to Oscar.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

{{quote|'''Princess''': You're a wizard. I think there's something you ought to know.

* ''The Boscombe Valley Mystery'': As [[Sherlock Holmes]] is about to reveal the identity of the murderer, a servant announces his entry.

 

* The ''[[Friends]]'' season 7 finale. Chandler asks Monica, "If you're not pregnant, who is?" Then the camera settles on Rachel.

* The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "The Big Bang" plays with this. After {{spoiler|Rory accidentally shoots Amy,}} he's holding her, wishing for a "ridiculous miracle." Right as he finishes the sentence, in pops the Doctor, [[Crazy Awesome|wearing a fez and holding a mop.]]

'''Jenny:''' [Smirks] }}

* ''[[Lost]]'', "The Other Woman": Goodwin asks Juliet, "What could Ben do?" about their affair. Cut to the plane crashing, and Ben sending Goodwin off to infiltrate the tail section.

** Parodied in a later episode, where Giles asks Buffy how she plans to fight the incorporeal manifestation of evil itself. Buffy responds that she has "the best plan ever". Cut to her googling the word "evil."

* ''[[Dollhouse]]'': "Omega", the finale of Season 1 as originally aired. Ballard asks where Caroline's original imprint is. Cut to a shot of Wendy waking up in a chair with Caroline in her head.

* Used numerous times throughout the seasons of ''[[Top Gear]]''.

** Usually a response to "[[What Could Possibly Go Wrong?]]"?

* ''[[Desperate Housewives]]'' uses this when Katherine taunts Susan, who is working trash detail, by throwing a cup out of her car window. When the supervisor wishes he had seen her license plate, Susan asks, "What could you do with her home address?" Cut to Katherine also picking up trash.

* Done repeatedly to hilarious effect in ''[[Laverne and Shirley]]'' when, in a typical example, someone would ask, "[[Who Would Be Stupid Enough...?|Who could be stupid enough]] to do something like that?", resulting in Lenny and Squiggy's iconic "HEEEEELLLOOOOO!"

 

== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==

* ''[[Bloom County]]'': When Steve Dallas, as lead singer and spokesman of the metal band Deathtöngue, negotiates a deal with CBS Records, he quotes the lyrics of their next song which goes "Let's run over Lionel Ritchie with a tank". Cut to the CBS CEO sitting in front of a huge portrait of Lionel Ritchie.

 

== [[Radio]] ==

{{quote|'''Radio Announcer:''' We have just heard that David Hatch has left Radio Prune to create his own radio station, and it falls upon me to say...three years later.

''(gentle piano music in background)''

'''Ajax:''' No. }}

 

* Hannelore's [http://questionablecontent.net./view.php?comic=1141 dream man] in ''[[Questionable Content]]''.

* Used often in connection [http://www.stationv3.com/d/20091124.html with the Rumormongers] in the webcomic ''[[Station V3]]''.

{{quote|'''June''': Heh, don't you like it when life answers your questions for you?}}

* Even if [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2012-03-30 this page] of [[El Goonish Shive]] is not foreshadowing... Susan spends the first four panels contemplating her not being attracted to anybody in part because she is uncomfortable with men being attracted to her, then wonders just what kind of guy would be her "type"... and then is interrupted by Elliot, who is by far the least pervy (straight) guy that she knows and is comfortable around.

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

* ''I'm A Marvel, I'm A DC'' - In Happy Hour, Joker tells Harly to "Name one (hero) who could possibly stop me." Cut to {{spoiler|Spidey serving drinks at Stan's Place. Considered a crowning moment of funny.}}

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

{{quote|'''Chef:''' "I know it can be hard, parents, but if you leave it up to the schools to teach sex to kids, you don't know who they're learning it from. It could be from someone who doesn't know, ''[pans to Mr. Mackey]'' someone who has a bad opinion of it, ''[pans to Ms. Choksondik]'' or even a complete pervert." ''[pans to Mr. Garrison]''

'''Garrison:''' "What-- [[Medium Awareness|why did you pan to me just now]]? What the hell is that supposed to mean?" }}

 

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