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Often Played for Laughs, this is when something seems small when viewed from the front, but when you turn it to the side, it turns out to actually be very long. The fun thing about this trope is that it can be done with almost any object. A big part of this trope's comedy value comes from the Oh, Crap! reaction that other characters may get from it, if they were hoping that the object really was small. May lead to a Plank Gag. Subtrope of Depth Deception and sister trope to Big Little Man. |
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At one point in Swing, You Sinners!, we see a creature that looks like a circle with a face and legs dancing. Then it turns to the side, and we see that not only is its body long rather than sphere-shaped, but there are two identical creatures behind it. | |
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In one episode of The Simpsons, the Simpsons walk by Apu, who is facing the camera, wearing a baby carrier pouch with one of his babies. But then he turns to the side, revealing that the pouch actually extends outwards to carry all eight of them. | |
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Easily one of the most horrific examples ever put to screen, Hannibal features one of the major characters, Beverly Katz. At the climax of the previous episode, she is seen in combat with the eponymous character. The next episode, it looks like she has been trapped in glass. Then, the camera pans around, and it's revealed he cut her INTO STRIPS, and placed those strips in separate glass cases. Nightmare Fuel indeed. | |
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"Pluto's Judgement Day": In the courtroom nightmare sequence, a plump-looking cat testifies against Pluto, claiming that Pluto chased him right into a steamroller, causing him to get Squashed Flat. The cat turns to the side, revealing that he is actually flat as paper. | |
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Towards the end of the 1964 Woody Woodpecker cartoon "Freeway Fracas", the antagonist, a costruction worker trying to get rid of Woody's tree, ends up getting Squashed Flat by a steamroller. In the following scene, he is shown facing the camera as his boss congratulates him for getting the freeway built. The construction worker then turns and walks away, revealing he is still flattened. | |
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In Toy Story, the toys are watching the kids attending Andy's birthday party, and panic over how large and impressive the gifts are. Slinky Dog points out one kid with what appears to be a small, cube-shaped present. But then the kid turns to the side, revealing that the present is really long. Cue more screaming and wailing from the toys. | |
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One of the cutscenes featuring Parappa The Rapper in the spinoff sequel Um Jammer Lammy has his crush Sunny Funny holding up a dress she would like to wear. PaRappa expresses his pleasure and asks to see it from the side. Predictably, she turns and appears line-thin; PaRappa continues the compliments regardless. | |
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An episode of World's Dumbest... had someone walking out of an electronic store in an oddly stiff fashion, always facing the security cameras. When he got outside, a different angle revealed why; he was carrying a very thin but very large TV under one arm, relying on this effect to avoid detection by the people watching the cameras. (It didn't work.) | |
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The classic Tom and Jerry short Heavenly Puss has the Judgement of the Dead for cats. One unfortunate is Aloysius, who initially looks like just a very rotund cat... until the Heavenly Gatekeeper clarifies that he 'didn't see the steamroller coming,' whereupon Aloysius promptly turns side on, showing that he was Squashed Flat and was presumably a normal feline shape before his unfortunate demise. | |
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Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie: According to Professor Poopypants, the human brain contains a lobe called the "Haha-Guffaw-Chucklomatus", which controls laughter. He builds a ray to destroy this lobe in whoever it zaps so that people will stop laughing at him. When he shoots it at George and Harold, it doesn't work like it did with the other kids. Poopypants is dumbfounded, so he flips around his diagram of George and Harold's brains to find that their Haha-Guffaw-Chucklomatuses take up most of their brains, with the other parts flat on one side. | |
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Family Guy: In "Brian Griffin's House of Payne", Brian meets with two network executives who look normal when facing front, but their profiles reveal they have extremely long noses. In another episode, this is Played for Laughs when Quagmire tries to hit on a beautiful woman who turns out to be morbidly obese from the sides. |
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The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part: When Sweet Mayhem's spaceship approaches the Systar System, at first we only see a lone, ordinary round planet. But then we get a side view, and the system is revealed to be composed of many planets with fantastic shapes, which were previously aligned perfectly. | |
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In Season 8 episode 5 of Happy Heroes, Huo Haha inficts different spells on the Supermen. Smart S. is commented on as looking normal, but then he turns around and reveals himself to have been turned flat. | |
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