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'''Frank:''' I'll write you. Every day. Faithfully. [mockingly] I'll write every day, faithfully. Listen to that dribble, that manure. [Turns to Hawkeye] You know anyone who could listen to that...\\

'''Frank:''' [Frank's expression changes to horror and anger] That's... that's... that's...\\

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* In an episode of ''Series/{{Good Luck Charlie}}'', [=PJ=] and Gabe accidentally spill grapejuice on their yellow couch and replace it with a green one that looks identical to the one they used to have hoping their parents would be fooled. Amy at first suspects that something looks different, but claims that it's only because a nearby living room ornament is out of place and moves it. However, she quickly subverts this trope by exclaiming "Lucky for you guys, I always hated that yellow couch!" as she is walking up the stairs. Bob only suspects "the new old couch" because he keeps losing his phone in it.

* ''Series/{{Friends}}'': In "The One That Could Have Been", Joey hires Chandler as his assistant and keeps ordering him around asking for her juice without pulp. Chandler impulsively writes his first Archie collums that "Archie hired James as his assistant/butler and keeps ordering him to bring milshakes that don't have lump in them". When he hesitantly tells Joey these exact words, Joey says that something sounds familiar about the book. Chandler believes that Joey found out that Chandler wrote the book about the way Joey treats him. However, Joey only finds it familiar because he thinks he read a story like this before.

* Often used for the CommercialBreakCliffhanger on ''Series/MissionImpossible''.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS3E11PursuitOfPeace "Pursuit of Peace"]] has a villainous example. General Grievous sent a group of droids designed for infiltration and suicide-bombing to destroy a Corruscant power-plant. The droids were built to look like sweeper-droids in their disguised forms, and were given fake permits to enter the secured zone. After a clone sentry had examined the permit, and had let the droids pass, he stopped them again as they were about to turn around the corner . . . because they almost turned the wrong corner!
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'': [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS3E08AnInsideMan "An Inside Man"]] has an inversion. A [[DressingAsTheEnemy disguised]] Kanan and Ezra are attempting to get out of the Imperial complex while the Imperials are checking everyone's [=IDs=], searching for the infiltrators. An elevator opens and [[spoiler:Agent Kallus]] orders them inside. They get in, assuming their cover is still intact, only for [[spoiler:Kallus]] to reveal he knows who they are -- because he's turned ReverseMole.

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** Hilariously subverted when Barbie goes to the Bookworm wearing Ken's spacesuit to get back Buzz's instruction manual, he notices her [[CoverIdentityAnomaly high heels when she walks away]]... [[CrowningMomentOfFunny then just rolls his eyes and sighs]].

** Done again in another anime filler during Water 7 in which Zoro has helped a mother and her foster kids get out of trouble with a debt collect. Zoro, who's been trying to escape from her, is finally let go and head to re-join with his crew. Until the mother tries to call out to him for something. He starts running, assuming she wants to do something for him. Turns out she was trying to return his shirt that she was drying from him earlier.

-->--''{{Series/MASH}}'', [[Recap/MashS1E22MajorFredCDobbs "Major Fred C. Dobbs"]]

** Happens later when Keith attempts to sneak off with Jou's tournament finalist card while the latter is sleeping in the anime. Jou screams this, only to mumble "That's my pizza!". Turns out he's just sleep talking.

-->--''{{Series/Mash}}'', [[Recap/MashS1E22MajorFredCDobbs "Major Fred C. Dobbs"]]

-->--''{{Series/Mash}}'', Recap/MashS1E22MajorFredCDobbs

Margaret: I'll be devastated without you, you know that.

Frank: I'll write you. Every day. Faithfully.

Frank: [mockingly] I'll write every day, faithfully. Listen to that dribble, that manure. [Turns to Hawkeye] You know anyone who could listen to that...

Margaret: Frank, you're crushing my mums.

[Frank's expression changes to horror and anger]

Frank: That's . . . that's . . . that's . . .

Hawkeye: That's right. Nurse Dribble and Doctor Manure.

-M*A*S*H, S1E22, Major Fred C Dobbs

* In an episode of ''Series/{{Good Luck Charlie}}'', [=PJ=] amd Gabe accidentally spill grapejuice on their yellow couch and replace it with a green one that looks identical to the one they used to have hoping their parents would be fooled. Amy at first suspects that something looks different, but claims that it's only because a nearby living room ornament is out of place and moves it. However, she quickly subverts this trope by exclaiming "Lucky for you guys, I always hated that yellow couch!" as she is walking up the stairs. Bob only suspects "the new old couch" because he keeps losing his phone in it.

* ''Series/{{Friends}}'': In "The One That Could Have Been", Joey hires Chandler as his assistant and keeps ordering him around asking for her juice without pulp. Chandler impulsively writes his first Archie story about him and Joey, saying that "Archie hired Janes as his assistant/butler and keeps ordering him to bring milshakes that don't have lump in them". When he hesitantly tells Joey these exact words, Joey says that something sounds familiar about the book. Chandler believes that Joey found out that Chandler wrote the book about the way Joey treats him. However, Joey only finds it familiar because he thinks he read a story like this before.

* In ''Series/{{Jonas}}'', Kevin and Nick sneak into detention to rescue Joe so their band could record its final deadline. Mr. Spencer, the teacher monitoring the students at detention, enters the room. Nick and Kevin [[PaperThinDisguise narrowly hide their faces with a vase and a makeshift skeleton respectly]]. Mr. Spencer yells out "AHA!!!" and walks over to Nick worrying Joe that his brothers have been caught and that he would be in even more trouble. Fortunately, Mr. Spencer was actually walking over to straighten up a science fair banner on the wall next to Nick. Later, when the brothers are performing a small concert in the school hallway, Mr. Spencer walks in on them straightens up a bake sale banner and leaves completely ignoring their show.

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* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'': [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS3E08AnInsideMan "An Inside Man"]] has an inversion. A [[DressingAsTheEnemy disguised]] Kanan and Ezra are attempting to get out of the Imperial complex while the Imperials are checking everyone's [=IDs=], searching for the infiltrators. [[spoiler:An elevator opens and Agent Kallus orders them inside. They get in, assuming their cover is still intact, only for Kallus to reveal he knows who they are -- because he's turned ReverseMole.]]

Subtrope of BaitAndSwitchAccusation. If Hey Wait occurs right before the ActBreak, that's a PseudoCrisis. Contrast AndAnotherThing.

* ''Manga/OnePiece:'' Happens to Usopp in the G8 arc, just after he's disguised himself as a marine. The soldier stopping the pirate just scold him for his uniform being in disarray.

* At the beginning of ''VideoGame/{{Fahrenheit}}'', the main character has just killed a man in the bathroom of a diner. If you try to leave through the front door, the cashier calls for you to stop. You can either stop and listen, or bolt out the door anyways; in either case, she was only trying to remind you to pay your bill. Paying your bill or bolting changes the cashier's testimony when the detectives (your other {{Player Character}}s) question her.

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* ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'': Happens in J.G. Quintel's student animation "2 in the AM PM" when a cop visits the gas station while Quintel's and Sam Marin's characters [[spoiler:are hallucinating on LSD]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS3E11PursuitOfPeace "Pursuit of Peace"]] has a villainous example. General Grievous sent a group of droids designed for infiltration and suicide-bombing to destroy a Corruscant power-plant. The droids were built to look like sweeper-droids in their disguised forms, and were given fake permits to enter the secured zone. After a clone sentry had examined the permit, and had let the droids pass, he stopped them again as they were about to turn around the corner...because they almost turned around on the wrong corner!

* In the third ''Film/AustinPowers'':

* ''Film/AViewToAKill''. JamesBond and [[BondGirl Stacey Sutton]] are using a [[MuggedForDisguise stolen truck]] to enter Zorin's mine, when they're pulled up by a security guard. [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight Not because there's a beautiful woman in the cab]] with Bond, but because he's not wearing a hard hat as required.

* ''Film/AViewToAKill''. JamesBond and [[BondGirl Stacey Sutton]] are using a [[MuggedForDisguise stolen truck]] to enter Zorin's mine, when they're pulled up by a security guard. [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight Not because there's a beautiful woman in the cab]] with Bond, but because he's not wearing a hard hat as required.

* ''Film/IronMan1'' features an extended scene that is one big Hey Wait! between Obadiah Stane (the villain) and Pepper Potts (the side kick) after she has downloaded the files involving his conspiracy. Unusually for this trope, though, Stane ''does'' realize what happened... just after Potts gets out of his reach, and starts talking with the guy from S.H.I.E.L.D.

* ''Film/CryFreedom'': When crossing the boarder to Lesotho, a South-African custom officer stops Woods to give him back the bag he forgot during customs check. The bag actually contains his book denouncing Apartheid and the murder of Biko. Woods averts it by stating it only contains a few travel stuff and a bible. The officer give it back to him, saying he indeed felt some papers inside.
* Early in ''Film/LayerCake'', the protagonist is stopped by a police officer under very unfortunate circumstances, this being a rare occasion in which he was carrying around his "business supplies" (tools for making cocaine ready to sell). Luckily for him, the officer just wanted to know if he had seen a prowler sighted in the area.

* Variation in ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': While Stan is away, Steve and his friends go into his study and accidentally flies and crashes a Predator drone. When Stan returns, he calls Steve to the study, noting that the Predator computer shifted while he was gone (and repeatedly, just to build the tension). Then he announces he is wrong and it ''is'' where Steve had left it, and tells him to forget about it. [[spoiler:DoubleSubverted when moments later Stan can't connect and finds it missing from its hangar]].
** Also happens with one of the gold poop subplots.
** [[InspectorJavert Turlington]] might as well be this trope incarnate.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' episode ''Death in Bloom'', as Finn and Jake are sneaking around in the Land of the Dead, a skeleton yells '''Halt!''' He was talking to his friend, Halt.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', Harley Quinn meets Bruce Wayne after she's been set free for having served her sentence at Arkam and covers the top half of his face, saying she recognizes that chin. Bruce thinks that his secret identity has been blown, but it turns out that she was recognizing him as Bruce Wayne- the man who's gala she and the Joker had crashed during a heist.
* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries''; a janitor working at a prison is about to enter a wing where electronic devices aren't allowed. Being an idiot who doesn't want to relinquish his headphone set to the checkpoint guy, he stuffs it in his pocket. The guard at the checkpoint seems to notice this, and stops him; but it's actually because of the janitor's ''watch''. (And as expected, there's a ''reason'' for this rule - Live Wire's cell is in the wing - which the careless janitor soon discovers.)
* A villainous example from an episode of ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars''. Grievous sent a group of droids designed for infiltration and suicide-bombing to destroy a Corruscant power-plant. The droids were built to look like sweeper-droids in their disguised forms, and were given fake permits to enter the secured zone. After a clone sentry had examined the permit, and had let the droids pass, he stopped them again as they were about to turn around the corner...because they almost turned around on the wrong corner!
* In the ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' episode "Infernal Slumber" where Mac spends the whole night trying to keep his friends' voices down when they invite themselves over for a sleepover, he spends the morning trying to distract his mom so she doesn't catch them sneaking out. We hear her call his name, he panics because he thinks she caught them. It just turns out she saw how clean their apartment is (that Wilt did) and thanks him for doing that. After she leaves, the friends break a hole in their roof to take back their photos. This trope happens ''again'' when she opens the door and appears to notice the hole in the roof. [[DoubleSubversion Turns out she just forgot her purse.]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "The Springfield Files", Burns comments that Smithers will be spending the weekend doing "something ''gay'', no doubt''. Smithers [[DefensiveWhat sputters a bit]] until it becomes clear that Burns means [[HaveAGayOldTime "light-hearted, fancy-free"]].

* In the 1984 miniseries of ''Series/{{V}}'', LaResistance is infiltrating a press conference using a forged security pass. Even though the pass has just been checked electronically, one of the Visitors insists on looking at it closely for no apparent reason.

Subtrope of BaitAndSwitchAccusation. If HeyWait occurs right before the ActBreak, that's a PseudoCrisis. Contrast AndAnotherThing.

* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc.''
** Sulley has just snuck a human child into the scare factory, which is currently under thorough inspection for any sign of human children. Suddenly, a group of Child Detection Agents run up to him -- HeyWait, that's the guy! Can we have your autograph?

* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3''

* In ''Series/RobinHood'' Djaq disguises herself as a serving girl and walks past Guy of Gisborne. HeyWait... he just wants to remind her to keep the Sheriff's cup full.

* ''Film/AViewToAKill''. JamesBond and [[BondGirl Stacey Sutton]] are using a stolen truck to enter Zorin's mine, when they're pulled up by a security guard. [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight Not because there's a beautiful woman in the cab]] with Bond, but because he's not wearing a hard hat as required.

* ''Film/AViewToAKill''. Bond has ditched his commandeered fire truck in favour of a pickup, and is stopped as he drives onto the big bad's mine. However, the guard mistakes him for someone else, reminds him it's a hard hat area and waves him through.

Subtrope of BaitAndSwitchAccusation. If HeyWait occurs right before the ActBreak, that's a PseudoCrisis.