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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. 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 As You Know: 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. 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. 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. 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 Orphaned Punchline is an example of this, as are some Noodle Incidents. This may come in the form of the Kent Brockman News channel finishing up its reports with a ridiculous ending. 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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The Simpsons: Amongst other uses, Bart has a throwaway joke that falls under the second case. 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. |
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Red Dwarf: In the episode "The End", Rimmer is revising for an exam: In "Better Than Life", when Rimmer — newly promoted to Admiral as part of his fantasy — is dining with a group of officers: |
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Played straight in 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. | |
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My Fair Lady devotes a whole musical number to recounting the events of the ball. Also note that while George Bernard Shaw's original non-musical play 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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Inverted in Viva La Vida, 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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In the Watership Alan episode of I'm Alan Partridge: | |
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In Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl: | |
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Futurama: Subverted: Played straight and partially lampshaded in the episode "Raging Bender". In "Law and Oracle", Fry gets pranked by Leela's former coworkers, who laugh at him. Cut back to Planet Express: |
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Maria Strongwell from Rain (2010) ends most of her jokes this way. It's even how she's introduced. | |
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Dilbert does something similar, with the Pointy-Haired Boss saying "and on that I think we're all in agreement", only for Alice to tell him that he only just arrived. | |
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Zits: Used with some of Walt's stories. | |
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The Blackadder II episode "Chains" uses the Noodle Incident version, as the scene cuts in on what appears to be Edmund yelling at the Queen and Melchett: | |
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From My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, "The Ticket Master" brings us the page quote and a meme. | |
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Family Guy 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 'And that's my plan.'" | |
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Field of Dreams: Ray Kinsella recounting his poignant experience with Doc Graham to Terence Mann: | |
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