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** Inverted in the episode "F.U.N." Plankton runs ''into'' the movie screen to escape, tearing the screen apart and stopping the movie right after the female lead tells her lover that [[TemptingFate nothing could ever tear them apart]].
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** Inverted in the episode "F.U.N." Plankton runs ''into'' the movie screen to escape, tearing the screen apart and stopping the movie right after the female lead tells her lover that [[TemptingFate nothing could ever tear them apart]]. Unfortunately for him, he forgets that there's nothing but a wall behind the screen.
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** In the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E4ItchyAndScratchyLand Itchy And Scratchy Land]]", while watching "[[WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}} Pinitchio]]", after Bart and Lisa wonder if they're becoming desensitized to all the violence, a robot Scratchy bursts through the movie screen in front of them and falls down. It's head then pops off its body and lands on the ledge above it, leaking fake blood everywhere. Bart and Lisa's reaction?
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** In the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E4ItchyAndScratchyLand Itchy And Scratchy Land]]", while watching "[[WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}} Pinitchio]]", after Bart and Lisa wonder if they're becoming desensitized to all the violence, a robot Scratchy bursts through the movie screen in front of them and falls down. It's Its head then pops off its body and lands on the ledge above it, leaking fake blood everywhere. Bart and Lisa's reaction?
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** "Bumper to Bumper" features two teenage fish watching a movie called ''Goin' Bananas 3 in 3D''. The movie starts with a fish driving towards the camera, saying "Here I am! I'm comin' at you like your worst nightmare!" [=SpongeBob=] and Mrs. Puff, who are taking a driving test, promptly crash through the TV and the wall of the house. The two fish laugh at off, assuming it's a 3D effect.
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** "Bumper to Bumper" features two teenage fish watching a movie called ''Goin' Bananas 3 in 3D''. The movie starts with a fish driving towards the camera, saying "Here I am! I'm comin' at you like your worst nightmare!" [=SpongeBob=] and Mrs. Puff, who are taking a driving test, promptly crash through the TV and the wall of the house. The two fish laugh at it off, assuming it's a 3D effect.
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* ''Ride/MuppetVision3D'' plays with this trope a multiple times; at one point it is [[Main/InvertedTrope inverted]] when a penguin from the orchestra is sucked into the movie by Muppet Labs’ Vacuu-Muppet, it is inverted again when the Swedish Chef uses a cannon to ''destroy the movie screen'', and later it’s played semi-straight when Kermit uses a fire truck’s ladder to extend into the theater through a hole in the wall where the screen was in order to address the audience, despite the fact he is is still, technically, on the screen. [[Main/MindScrew Yes, it’s just as meta as it sounds.]]
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* ''Ride/MuppetVision3D'' plays with this trope a multiple times; at one point it is [[Main/InvertedTrope inverted]] when a penguin from the orchestra is sucked into the movie by Muppet Labs’ Vacuu-Muppet, it is inverted again when the projectionist, the Swedish Chef Chef, uses a cannon to ''destroy the movie screen'', screen and later it’s part of the theater'', and is played semi-straight at the end when Kermit uses a fire truck’s ladder to extend into the theater through a hole in the wall where the screen was in order to address the audience, despite the fact he is is still, technically, on the screen. [[Main/MindScrew Yes, it’s just as meta as it sounds.]]]]
* ''Ride/MickeysPhilharmagic'' features a similar example, aa it ends with WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck getting blasted out of a tuba, past the audience, and straight through a brick wall.
* ''Ride/MickeysPhilharmagic'' features a similar example, aa it ends with WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck getting blasted out of a tuba, past the audience, and straight through a brick wall.
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* ''Film/FinalDestination4'': The explosion that triggers the mall collapse [[spoiler: in a vision]] goes off in an area behind a movie theater, and goes off in perfect synch with a bomb's detonation in the action flick playing on screen. In this case, the perfect timing of flames simultaneously blasting on ''and out'' of the screen is justified by Death, which engineers such random-seeming mayhem in this franchise, being a {{Troll}}.
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* ''Film/FinalDestination4'': The explosion that triggers the mall collapse [[spoiler: in a vision]] goes off in an area arises behind a movie theater, and goes off in perfect synch with a bomb's detonation in the action flick playing on screen. In this case, the perfect timing of flames simultaneously blasting on ''and out'' of the screen is justified by Death, which engineers such random-seeming mayhem in this franchise, being a {{Troll}}.
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* ''Film/FinalDestination4'': The explosion that triggers the mall collapse [[spoiler: in a vision]] goes off in an area behind a movie theater, and goes off in perfect synch with a bomb's detonation in the action flick playing on screen. In this case, the perfect timing of flames simultaneously blasting on ''and out'' of the screen is justified by Death, which engineers such random-seeming mayhem in this franchise, being a {{Troll}}.
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* In ''VideoGame/LegoBatman'' 2, in one cutscene, the Joker point at a giant TV screen with his face on it, asking "What's he gonna say? What's gonna come out of that mouth of his?" and then, Batman smashes through the screen, [[{{Irony}} at the exact spot where the mouth was]].
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->''"Oh, darling. I knew ''nothing'' would ever tear us apart."''
-->-- '''Female Actress''' moments before the theater screen is ripped by '''Plankton''', ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS1E10CultureShockFUN F.U.N.]]"
->''"Oh, darling. I knew ''nothing'' would ever tear us apart."''
-->-- '''Female Actress''' moments before the theater screen is ripped by '''Plankton''', ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS1E10CultureShockFUN F.U.N.]]"
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* ''Film/{{Twister}}'' has a variant with an F-4 Tornado tearing ''up'' a movie screen during an airing of ''Film/TheShining''. Downplayed in that everyone had already fled the drive-in theater, ''because of'' the Tornado.
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* ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot:'' In the episode "See No Evil", Jenny who is blind from removing her robotic eyes accidentally crashes through a movie screen while a 3-D monster movie was playing. The audience initially think she's part of the movie until the lights come on.
-->'''Kid in theater:''' Hey, she's not a 3-D effect! She's just ''three-dimensional!'' [Cue boos and popcorn throwing from the audience.]
-->'''Kid in theater:''' Hey, she's not a 3-D effect! She's just ''three-dimensional!'' [Cue boos and popcorn throwing from the audience.]
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* ''Ride/MuppetVision3D'' plays with this trope a multiple times; at one point it is [[Main/InvertedTrope inverted]] when a penguin from the orchestra is sucked into the movie by Muppet Labs’ Vacuu-Muppet, it is inverted again when the Swedish Chef uses a cannon to ''destroy the movie screen'', and later it’s played semi-straight when Kermit uses a fire truck’s ladder to extend into the theater through a hole in the wall where the screen was in order to address the audience, despite the fact he is is still, technically, on the screen. [[Main/MindScrew Yes, it’s just as meta as it sounds.]]
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* ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'': During Amy's Hot Shelter level, you eventually reach a dead-end room with a puzzle for you to solve. The monitors on the walls initially display nothing but static, but once you solve the puzzle, they change to display footage of [[SuperPersistentPredator ZERO]] angrily shaking its fists at you. A moment later, the real ZERO crashes through the monitors and starts hunting you down; luckily, you can escape through the hole he just created.
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* ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'': During Amy's Hot Shelter level, you eventually reach a dead-end room with a puzzle for you to solve. The monitors on the walls initially display nothing but static, but once you solve the puzzle, they change to display footage of [[SuperPersistentPredator ZERO]] angrily shaking its fists at you. A moment later, the real ZERO crashes through the monitors and starts hunting you down; luckily, you can escape through the hole he just created.
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** Inverted in the episode "F.U.N." Plankton runs ''into'' the movie screen to escape, tearing the screen apart and stopping the movie right after the female lead tells her lover that [[{{Irony}} nothing could ever tear them apart]].
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An action scene tears through a movie theater while a movie is playing. In the process, the movie screen gets torn, interrupting the action.
The audience may groan in disappointment, but there's bound to be a gullible individual who thinks [[AllPartOfTheShow the action is part of the movie]], particularly when the movie is being shown as a UsefulNotes/ThreeDMovie -- they'll assume the effects are just ''that'' good. Alternatively, they might call the movie's "effects" out as ''obviously'' [[DramaticIrony unrealistic]].
Often, [[ShowWithinAShow whatever's playing on the screen]] will connect to the interrupting action scene in an ironic fashion. For example, the audience is watching a classic monster movie, which gets interrupted by a real monster barging in. On the other hand, it might be so unrelated to the film in question that it's laughable. If the audience is watching a romance film, [[MomentKiller expect the tear to take place right before the main couple is going to kiss]] (likely splitting the screen right in between their faces).
This is much more common with scenes taking place in theatrical films, or other areas with soft screens, than when people watch something on television or play a video game, since projector screens are much easier to tear from behind than a glass screen. However, it can still occur when something crashes through a TV, video game console, or other media device.
Subtrope of DisruptingTheTheater. Compare PaddleballShot, for when actual 3D movies make things appear like they're coming out of the screen. Also compare SheetOfGlass.
Note that this is for characters physically tearing through movie screens, not fictional characters or objects from that movie coming out of them. The object must exist in real life ''before'' it crashes through the screen.
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* There was a bumper that played on Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} that showed a train actually bursting through the screen and driving up the aisle of the theater. This is a reference to one of the first films ever recorded (''The Arrival of the Train At Ciotat''), which showed a train coming towards the camera; reportedly, audiences thought the train would burst through the screen and into the theater.
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* ''Anime/DoraemonNobitasChronicleOfTheMoonExploration'': The giant [[HairRaisingHare rabbit kaiju]] made its introduction to the audience by attacking a theatre in Moonbit Town (showing an Indiana Jones-esque ShowWithinAShow) and bursting through the screen halfway through, causing dozens of terrified Moonbits to flee the aisles in panic.
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* In the ''Animation/{{Lamput}}'' episode "Martial Art", Lamput and the docs end up behind the movie theater's screen when the former realizes his popcorn has been destroyed. This angers him so much that he punches the docs through the movie screen during a part of the film where the characters are fighting each other; the docs have objects on them and ripped clothes that make them resemble the characters from the movie, and the audience cheers for them.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/ChickenLittle'', a giant globe rolls through a movie theater, tearing through a screening of ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' as it plays the SignatureScene of Indiana getting chased by the giant boulder.
* ''WesternAnimation/EscapeFromPlanetEarth'': As Gary crash-lands on Earth, a couple at a nearby drive-in theater are watching a film about an alien invasion. The lady complains about the film not being in 3D like her apparent boyfriend says it is. As the film shows an alien ship approaching the camera, Gary's ship flies through the screen and over the couple, and she assumes it to be part of the film.
* In the Creator/VideoBrinquedo film ''Little & Big Monsters,'' the real monster tears through the screen while the scientists are watching a monster movie.
* In ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbTheMovieAcrossThe2ndDimension,'' Candace's parents mistake the robots coming through the screen as part of the (romantic) movie, with Lawrence commenting on how great the 3D is.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Soul}}'': [[spoiler:The corrupted 22 and Joe]] tear through the theater screen during Terry's award ceremony, prompting the Jerry to take Terry's award back.
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* In ''Film/TheATeam'', a movie is being shown in the facility where Murdoch is being held. The screen shows a vehicle driving along a desert road, straight at the camera. As the vehicle fills the entire screen, an actual car crashes through the wall and the screen.
* In the 1993 remake of ''Film/AttackOfThe50FootWoman'', Giant Nancy peeks from behind a drive-in movie screen calling for her husband Harry. The movie showing: the original ''Attack of the 50 ft Woman.''
* Climactic scene near the end of ''Film/BachelorParty'', where [[spoiler:a school bus drives through a movie screen where a 3D sci-fi movie is playing.]]
* ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'': Shosanna Dreyfus enacts her [[PayEvilUntoEvil revenge upon the Nazis]] by hosting a film premiere for them at her theater, and then locking the doors and lighting a fire right behind the screen, which quickly grows to consume the rest of the theater thanks to all of the highly flammable material everywhere. She even takes the time to record a final message that she then splices into the film, timed to play just before the flames burst through the screen:
-> '''Shosanna''': I have a message for Germany: [[PrepareToDie that you are all going to die!]]
* In ''Film/AMuppetFamilyChristmas'', the gang watches an old home movie of the Muppets as babies. At the end, Baby Animal pops out of a present, causing the audience to go "Aww, Animal." Then adult Animal rips through the screen, and the audience responds with "Aw, Animal!" in a more disappointed tone.
* ''Film/TheMuppetMovie'''s main plot is told via a FramingDevice, namely the Muppets watching a dramatization of their origin story in a movie theater. Just as the InUniverse film ends, Sweetums tears through the screen, capping the film and cuing the credits.
* In ''Film/TheSandlot'', while Benny is getting chased by the huge mastiff (known to him only as The Beast), both of them tear through a movie theater screen, into the audience. Coincidentally, the theater is showing Lon Chaney Jr's transformation into a werewolf from ''The Wolf Man''.
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* Overlapping with VideoFullOfFilmClips, in the video of "Born To Raise Hell", Music/{{Motorhead}}, Music/IceT, and [[Music/UglyKidJoe Whitfield Crane]] tear through the screen at a theater showing ''Film/{{Airheads}}'', which featured the song as its theme.
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* ''Toys/CatsVsPickles'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12QzoRgdxwI One advert]] for the toyline starts with the cats at the theater watching a movie. Suddenly, one of the titular pickles bursts out through the theater screen, which scares the cats.
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* ''WesternAnimation/BigMouth'': In "Am I Gay?," Coach Steve, blinded from pinkeye, tears through the movie screen during a showing of ''Paul Bunyan: NYC'' because he's trying to find a Walgreen's. He also seems to think he's actually in the setting of the movie.
* ''WesternAnimation/CampLakebottom'': In "Cluck of the Were-Chicken", the campers at Camp Sunnysmiles are watching a 3-D movie about a were-chicken when an actual were-chicken tears through the screen. Buttsquat complains about how unrealistic the special effects are.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': In "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E15IDatedARobot I Dated a Robot]]," the army of Lucy Liu robots march and tear through a movie screen playing the in-universe Lucy Liu movie ''Charlie's Angels III''.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' episode "The Jem Jam" during The Misfits song "Gimme a Gimmick", Pizzazz tears through the movie screen while the others are watching highlights from their past exploits.
* ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013'': In the episode "Black and White", Mickey has a fight with the physical manifestation of his fears and cowardice in a movie theater. The fight ends with the two bursting through the screen of a horror movie, scaring everyone in the audience.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' episode "Grave Sights", while the park is playing a zombie film for Movie Night, ''real'' zombies suddenly appear, and the patrons mistake them as being 3D effects from the movie.
* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'': In the episode ''The Gathering Gloom'', Mayor Nettles hosts a movie night at the cemetery to spark some support for her. It goes well... right up until a hideous ghoul tears the screen in half and scares away pretty much everyone.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** In the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E4ItchyAndScratchyLand Itchy And Scratchy Land]]", while watching "[[WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}} Pinitchio]]", after Bart and Lisa wonder if they're becoming desensitized to all the violence, a robot Scratchy bursts through the movie screen in front of them and falls down. It's head then pops off its body and lands on the ledge above it, leaking fake blood everywhere. Bart and Lisa's reaction?
-->'''Bart:''' Wanna get a snow cone?
** Marge tears through the cinema screen to kill Nazis during the ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'' parody segment in the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS22E8TheFightBeforeChristmas The Fight Before Christmas]]".
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
** Inverted in the episode "F.U.N." Plankton runs ''into'' the movie screen to escape, tearing the screen apart and stopping the movie right after the female lead tells her lover that [[{{Irony}} nothing could ever tear them apart]].
** "Bumper to Bumper" features two teenage fish watching a movie called ''Goin' Bananas 3 in 3D''. The movie starts with a fish driving towards the camera, saying "Here I am! I'm comin' at you like your worst nightmare!" [=SpongeBob=] and Mrs. Puff, who are taking a driving test, promptly crash through the TV and the wall of the house. The two fish laugh at off, assuming it's a 3D effect.
* In the short, "Lifestyles of the Rich and Rotten" from the ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' episode, "It's Buster Bunny Time", Montana Max cancels his interview with Buster and Babs, so they decide to tour his mansion without him. Monty then orders Arnold the Pit Bull to find the two rabbits and kick them out for trespassing. At one point in the episode, Buster and Babs watch 3D movies in Monty's private theater, and Arnold tears through the projection screen. Buster and Babs duck as Arnold pounces at them, causing him to land in the popcorn machine and burn his butt. Babs then comments on how life-like the 3D movies are, almost swearing they were real.
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An action scene tears through a movie theater while a movie is playing. In the process, the movie screen gets torn, interrupting the action.
The audience may groan in disappointment, but there's bound to be a gullible individual who thinks [[AllPartOfTheShow the action is part of the movie]], particularly when the movie is being shown as a UsefulNotes/ThreeDMovie -- they'll assume the effects are just ''that'' good. Alternatively, they might call the movie's "effects" out as ''obviously'' [[DramaticIrony unrealistic]].
Often, [[ShowWithinAShow whatever's playing on the screen]] will connect to the interrupting action scene in an ironic fashion. For example, the audience is watching a classic monster movie, which gets interrupted by a real monster barging in. On the other hand, it might be so unrelated to the film in question that it's laughable. If the audience is watching a romance film, [[MomentKiller expect the tear to take place right before the main couple is going to kiss]] (likely splitting the screen right in between their faces).
This is much more common with scenes taking place in theatrical films, or other areas with soft screens, than when people watch something on television or play a video game, since projector screens are much easier to tear from behind than a glass screen. However, it can still occur when something crashes through a TV, video game console, or other media device.
Subtrope of DisruptingTheTheater. Compare PaddleballShot, for when actual 3D movies make things appear like they're coming out of the screen. Also compare SheetOfGlass.
Note that this is for characters physically tearing through movie screens, not fictional characters or objects from that movie coming out of them. The object must exist in real life ''before'' it crashes through the screen.
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* There was a bumper that played on Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} that showed a train actually bursting through the screen and driving up the aisle of the theater. This is a reference to one of the first films ever recorded (''The Arrival of the Train At Ciotat''), which showed a train coming towards the camera; reportedly, audiences thought the train would burst through the screen and into the theater.
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* ''Anime/DoraemonNobitasChronicleOfTheMoonExploration'': The giant [[HairRaisingHare rabbit kaiju]] made its introduction to the audience by attacking a theatre in Moonbit Town (showing an Indiana Jones-esque ShowWithinAShow) and bursting through the screen halfway through, causing dozens of terrified Moonbits to flee the aisles in panic.
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* In the ''Animation/{{Lamput}}'' episode "Martial Art", Lamput and the docs end up behind the movie theater's screen when the former realizes his popcorn has been destroyed. This angers him so much that he punches the docs through the movie screen during a part of the film where the characters are fighting each other; the docs have objects on them and ripped clothes that make them resemble the characters from the movie, and the audience cheers for them.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/ChickenLittle'', a giant globe rolls through a movie theater, tearing through a screening of ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' as it plays the SignatureScene of Indiana getting chased by the giant boulder.
* ''WesternAnimation/EscapeFromPlanetEarth'': As Gary crash-lands on Earth, a couple at a nearby drive-in theater are watching a film about an alien invasion. The lady complains about the film not being in 3D like her apparent boyfriend says it is. As the film shows an alien ship approaching the camera, Gary's ship flies through the screen and over the couple, and she assumes it to be part of the film.
* In the Creator/VideoBrinquedo film ''Little & Big Monsters,'' the real monster tears through the screen while the scientists are watching a monster movie.
* In ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbTheMovieAcrossThe2ndDimension,'' Candace's parents mistake the robots coming through the screen as part of the (romantic) movie, with Lawrence commenting on how great the 3D is.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Soul}}'': [[spoiler:The corrupted 22 and Joe]] tear through the theater screen during Terry's award ceremony, prompting the Jerry to take Terry's award back.
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* In ''Film/TheATeam'', a movie is being shown in the facility where Murdoch is being held. The screen shows a vehicle driving along a desert road, straight at the camera. As the vehicle fills the entire screen, an actual car crashes through the wall and the screen.
* In the 1993 remake of ''Film/AttackOfThe50FootWoman'', Giant Nancy peeks from behind a drive-in movie screen calling for her husband Harry. The movie showing: the original ''Attack of the 50 ft Woman.''
* Climactic scene near the end of ''Film/BachelorParty'', where [[spoiler:a school bus drives through a movie screen where a 3D sci-fi movie is playing.]]
* ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'': Shosanna Dreyfus enacts her [[PayEvilUntoEvil revenge upon the Nazis]] by hosting a film premiere for them at her theater, and then locking the doors and lighting a fire right behind the screen, which quickly grows to consume the rest of the theater thanks to all of the highly flammable material everywhere. She even takes the time to record a final message that she then splices into the film, timed to play just before the flames burst through the screen:
-> '''Shosanna''': I have a message for Germany: [[PrepareToDie that you are all going to die!]]
* In ''Film/AMuppetFamilyChristmas'', the gang watches an old home movie of the Muppets as babies. At the end, Baby Animal pops out of a present, causing the audience to go "Aww, Animal." Then adult Animal rips through the screen, and the audience responds with "Aw, Animal!" in a more disappointed tone.
* ''Film/TheMuppetMovie'''s main plot is told via a FramingDevice, namely the Muppets watching a dramatization of their origin story in a movie theater. Just as the InUniverse film ends, Sweetums tears through the screen, capping the film and cuing the credits.
* In ''Film/TheSandlot'', while Benny is getting chased by the huge mastiff (known to him only as The Beast), both of them tear through a movie theater screen, into the audience. Coincidentally, the theater is showing Lon Chaney Jr's transformation into a werewolf from ''The Wolf Man''.
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* Overlapping with VideoFullOfFilmClips, in the video of "Born To Raise Hell", Music/{{Motorhead}}, Music/IceT, and [[Music/UglyKidJoe Whitfield Crane]] tear through the screen at a theater showing ''Film/{{Airheads}}'', which featured the song as its theme.
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* ''Toys/CatsVsPickles'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12QzoRgdxwI One advert]] for the toyline starts with the cats at the theater watching a movie. Suddenly, one of the titular pickles bursts out through the theater screen, which scares the cats.
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* ''WesternAnimation/BigMouth'': In "Am I Gay?," Coach Steve, blinded from pinkeye, tears through the movie screen during a showing of ''Paul Bunyan: NYC'' because he's trying to find a Walgreen's. He also seems to think he's actually in the setting of the movie.
* ''WesternAnimation/CampLakebottom'': In "Cluck of the Were-Chicken", the campers at Camp Sunnysmiles are watching a 3-D movie about a were-chicken when an actual were-chicken tears through the screen. Buttsquat complains about how unrealistic the special effects are.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': In "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E15IDatedARobot I Dated a Robot]]," the army of Lucy Liu robots march and tear through a movie screen playing the in-universe Lucy Liu movie ''Charlie's Angels III''.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' episode "The Jem Jam" during The Misfits song "Gimme a Gimmick", Pizzazz tears through the movie screen while the others are watching highlights from their past exploits.
* ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013'': In the episode "Black and White", Mickey has a fight with the physical manifestation of his fears and cowardice in a movie theater. The fight ends with the two bursting through the screen of a horror movie, scaring everyone in the audience.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' episode "Grave Sights", while the park is playing a zombie film for Movie Night, ''real'' zombies suddenly appear, and the patrons mistake them as being 3D effects from the movie.
* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'': In the episode ''The Gathering Gloom'', Mayor Nettles hosts a movie night at the cemetery to spark some support for her. It goes well... right up until a hideous ghoul tears the screen in half and scares away pretty much everyone.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** In the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E4ItchyAndScratchyLand Itchy And Scratchy Land]]", while watching "[[WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}} Pinitchio]]", after Bart and Lisa wonder if they're becoming desensitized to all the violence, a robot Scratchy bursts through the movie screen in front of them and falls down. It's head then pops off its body and lands on the ledge above it, leaking fake blood everywhere. Bart and Lisa's reaction?
-->'''Bart:''' Wanna get a snow cone?
** Marge tears through the cinema screen to kill Nazis during the ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'' parody segment in the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS22E8TheFightBeforeChristmas The Fight Before Christmas]]".
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
** Inverted in the episode "F.U.N." Plankton runs ''into'' the movie screen to escape, tearing the screen apart and stopping the movie right after the female lead tells her lover that [[{{Irony}} nothing could ever tear them apart]].
** "Bumper to Bumper" features two teenage fish watching a movie called ''Goin' Bananas 3 in 3D''. The movie starts with a fish driving towards the camera, saying "Here I am! I'm comin' at you like your worst nightmare!" [=SpongeBob=] and Mrs. Puff, who are taking a driving test, promptly crash through the TV and the wall of the house. The two fish laugh at off, assuming it's a 3D effect.
* In the short, "Lifestyles of the Rich and Rotten" from the ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' episode, "It's Buster Bunny Time", Montana Max cancels his interview with Buster and Babs, so they decide to tour his mansion without him. Monty then orders Arnold the Pit Bull to find the two rabbits and kick them out for trespassing. At one point in the episode, Buster and Babs watch 3D movies in Monty's private theater, and Arnold tears through the projection screen. Buster and Babs duck as Arnold pounces at them, causing him to land in the popcorn machine and burn his butt. Babs then comments on how life-like the 3D movies are, almost swearing they were real.
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