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* Parodied in ''ShaunOfTheDead'', where Shaun has to explain a plan in this way ''three times'' (with minor alterations) until he gets a version that he and Ed are both happy with. In addition, the footage that we see while he's describing the plans makes them look laughably easy, all finishing with everyone smiling and happy and a shot of Shaun sipping a tea (or beer) and winking smugly at the camera.

* An interesting example occurs in an episode of ''{{Leverage}}'', where a character describes how impossible a painting would be to steal, including all the specific next-to-impossible obstacles they'd have to overcome...while a ''different'' group of thieves are busy overcoming all those obstacles. The team gets in just as the painting has been replaced with a stock ''Dogs Playing Poker''.

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* ''WhiteChristmas'': Phil has come up with a plan to delay the sheriff by lipsynching the song Betty and Judy had just performed. We're not told this in advance, only shown him holding the record. He drags the reluctant Bob away, then we cut to the two of them wearing feathers and carrying fans. Hehe.

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* At the climax of SandyMitchell's {{Warhammer 40000}} novel ''Cain's Last Stand'', CiaphasCain tells them what they can do, tells us that they opposed it, but does not tell the reader until he actually does it: [[spoiler:calls up Varan and proposes a meeting to discuss surrender terms]].)
* In GrahamMcNeill's {{Warhammer 40000}} HorusHeresy novel ''False Gods'', at the end of Horus's temptation by Chaos, while Erebus and Magnus are arguing over him (Magnus desperately trying to save Horus), Horus roars that he has made his decision. End scene. End of Horus's POV. The unfolding of it is revealed through the eyes of other characters. (Not that there was any doubt as this is BackStory to the universe.)

* An interesting example occurs in an episode of ''{{Leverage}}'', where a character describes how impossible a painting would be to steal, including all the specific next-to-impossible obstacles they'd have to overcome...while a ''different'' group of thieves are busy overcoming all those obstacles. The team gets in just as the painting has been replaced with a stock ''Dogs Playing Poker''.

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* ''{{Firefly}}'' employed this for the team's heists.
* An episode of StarTrekDeepSpaceNine does this in an episode involving, of all things, a casino heist. However, they actually end up showing the whole thing again because when they actually go to pull off the heist, not everything goes according to plan.

* In ''MontyPython's LifeOfBrian'', the PFJ's plan to kidnap Pilate's wife is described over the scene of it happening: "Now will be the moment for Habakkuk to get out his prong."

* In ''AzumangaDaioh'''s HiccupHijinks part of episode 2, "Osaka's Day", Tomo says, "Oh wait! I know!" Cut to Tomo explaining that she heard that taking a drink from a cup balanced on chopsticks is an effective cure, while [[CloudCuckoolander Osaka]] is already attempting it.

* In ''ClerksTheAnimatedSeries'', Dante and Randall realize that a predicament closely resembles an episode of ''The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer''. Cut to the bad guy getting arrested, apparently having been seduced by a cross-dressed Randall.

* In ''AzumangaDaioh'''s HiccupHijinks part of episode 2, "Osaka's Day", Tomo says, "Oh wait! I know!" Cut to Tomo explaining that she heard that taking a drink from a cup balanced on chopsticks is an effective cure, while Osaka is already attempting it.

* In ''Clerks: The Animated Series'', Dante and Randall realize that a predicament closely resembles an episode of ''The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer''. Cut to the bad guy getting arrested, apparently having been seduced by a cross-dressed Randall.

* Parodied in ''{{Shaun of the Dead}}'', where Shaun has to explain a plan in this way ''three times'' (with minor alterations) until he gets a version that he and Ed are both happy with. In addition, the footage that we see while he's describing the plans makes them look laughably easy, all finishing with everyone smiling and happy and a shot of Shaun sipping a tea (or beer) and winking smugly at the camera.

* Captain Underpants uses this as a running gag.

* The end of the original ''[[TheItalianJob Italian Job]]''...although we never do get to find out what the brilliant idea was...

* ''Film/TheATeam'' remake movie does this twice: with the mission at the beginning of the movie and part of its finale.

Sort of an aversion of the UnspokenPlanGuarantee: We hear the plan described while it's happening, so as to avoid telling the audience what's going on "in advance" while still telling them.

* An interesting example occurs in an episode of ''{{Leverage}}'', where a character describes how impossible a painting would be to steal, including all the specific next-to-impossible obstacles they'd have to overcome... while a ''different'' group of thieves are busy overcoming all those obstacles. The team gets in just as the painting has been replaced with a stock ''Dogs Playing Poker''.

* The plan Lana comes up with in the ''{{Archer}}'' episode "Jeu Monegasque" is presented this way.

* [[{{Ptitledztlyey0hfvu}} "I have some questions for you and you are not leaving this city until they are answered."]]

* In {{Erfworld}}, [[TheDragon Wanda]] [[http://www.erfworld.com/book-1-archive/?px=%2F041.jpg describes]] the plan to use Jillian to bait a trap for Ansom as we see the setup being carried out.

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* In ''AzumangaDaioh'''s HiccupHijinks part of episode 2, "Osaka's Day", Tomo says, "Oh wait! I know!" Cut to Tomo explaining that she heard that taking a drink from a cup balanced on chopsticks is an effective cure, while Osaka is already attempting it.

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* The A-Team remake movie does this twice: with the mission at the beginning of the movie and part of it's finale.

* ''White Christmas'': Phil has come up with a plan to delay the sheriff by lipsynching the song Betty and Judy had just performed. We're not told this in advance, only shown him holding the record. He drags the reluctant Bob away, then we cut to the two of them wearing feathers and carrying fans. Hehe.

* An interesting example occurs in an episode of Leverage, where a character describes how impossible a painting would be to steal, including all the specific next-to-impossible obstacles they'd have to overcome... while a ''different'' group of thieves are busy overcoming all those obstacles. The team gets in just as the painting has been replaced with a stock ''Dogs Playing Poker''.

* Pulled off fairly well in this http://xodin.comicgenesis.com/d/20030406.html comic of {{Furmentation}}.

* Done in the modern remake of ''Ocean's Eleven'' and its sequels.
* In ''MontyPython's Life of Brian'', the PFJ's plan to kidnap Pilate's wife is described over the scene of it happening: "Now will be the moment for Habakkuk to get out his prong."

* In ''MontyPython's Life of Brian'', the PFJ's plan to kidnap Caesar's wife is described over the scene of it happening: "Now will be the moment for Habakkuk to get out his prong."