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* ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6TheSeries'' ends with a replica of the [[WesternAnimation/BigHero6 original movie]]'s ending, with a {{Freeze Frame|Ending}} GroupPictureEnding and Hiro narrating to the audience. Except right after Hiro says "Who are we?", instead of a CloseOnTitle, the image zooms out to show [[GreaterScopeVillain Obake]] staring at the image on a monitor and saying "Big Hero 6..." in a menacing voice.

* Peter David's story "Coven" in ''ComicBook/CaptainMarVell'' (not the one who is [[IAmNotShazam not Shazam]]) subverted this a few times by cutting off Rick Jones or Captain Marvel as they were saying something, then switching to the other to create a humorous non-sequitur.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' is the absolute god king of this for comedic effect. Its spiritual predecessor WesternAnimation/FriskyDingo is certainly no slouch either.

* In Italian ''Madly in Love'' it's more like "2 monologues". The characters of Adriano Celentano and Ornella Muti have a phone conversation (depicted as a split screen) trying to patch up their relationship, start arguing and calling each other names, hang up, but continue calling each other names effectively continuing the dialog. For extra hilarity, he starts smoking and she starts coughing. Then they run out of insults and start voicing ideas until each decides what to do next.

* The season one finale of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has an impressive ''six'' scenes with one dialogue.
-->'''Twilight Sparkle:''' No!\\

* One episode of ''Manga/DetectiveConan'' involves both Shinichi and Heiji solving a case at the same time before they even met each other at all. So, it ends up with Heiji coming into the room to reveal the crime scene, and Shinichi phoning in at the same exact time. Then the two proceed to say the same exact thing about the crime scene, ultimately coming to the same exact conclusion at the same time.

* ''LightNovel/TheTwelveKingdoms'' has this when Youko and Yuka are simultaneously informed on the governmental structure of the 12 kingdoms.

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* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' uses this to great effect as Cadmus has a board meeting to discuss how to deal with their Justice League problem, while the League simultaneously works through their Cadmus problem. The similarity in the meetings serves to demonstrate [[NotSoDifferent how similar the organizations are]].

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** Used again in TheMovie as [[BigBad Mojo Jojo]] rallies his [[RedShirtArmy many]] [[EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys Monkey]] [[TheStarscream Minions]] to TakeOverTheWorld while, at the same time, the three girls wake TheProfessor to see what [[BlatantLies the good]] [[ManipulativeBastard Mojo Jojo]] [[BatmanGambit has helped them to do for the town]].

'''Shrek:''' Happy, now? We came, we saw them. Heh-heh, now lets go before they ''light the torches''!\\

* In the Australian comedy ''Hercules Returns'', the protagonists do a GagDub of an Italian sword-and-sandal movie. The villainous cinema owner discovers what they're doing and goes to the projection booth to stop them. Due to RuleOfFunny, their dialogue keeps matching what's on the screen.

%%* [[http://sabrina-online.com/1999-01.html Strip 77, "Monologue or Dialogue?"]] of ''Webcomic/SabrinaOnline''. Sabrina and R.C. each regret what they've done and resolve to confess.

** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E11Doomed Doomed]]", to highlight the differences between the Scooby gang and The Initiative, Giles explains the ancient lore of [[MonsterOfTheWeek this week's demon]], while the Initiative is briefed on the nature of the same "HST" (Hostile Subterranean) in military jargon.

* Done in ''Manga/DeathNote'', where the scene switches between both of the morally ambiguous main characters claiming "I am justice". Also done in an earlier episode, where two main characters use the same dialogue to say that their respective worlds are rotting.
** The 'justice' example is doubly interesting-- Listen carefully to HOW the two characters each say "I am Justice."-- the word choice says a lot about both of them.

* An early episode of ''Anime/CodeGeass'' does this, having Lelouch and Suzaku each explain their motivations to their eventual partners (C.C. and Euphemia, respectively). The two rivals do this a number of times, sometimes varying it by having the two start out on the same page but going in very different directions. In one case, they achieve Three Scenes One Dialogue, when Zero lures Suzaku into a trap (a sand pit Zero's mecha can't move well in) using himself as bait, while Zero's HotScientist has rigged some technology that will paralyze Suzaku's mecha if it enters the pit.

** Also done in chapter 48 with Winry and Havoc making the same determined resolution (using the same word balloon).

* [[https://youtu.be/4fi8bu3vBNY?t=53s Done hilariously]] in ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek 2}}'', where the view cuts back and forth between Shrek and Fiona's conversation and the king and queen's.

** In the season seven episode "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E3SameTimeSamePlace Same Time, Same Place]]": for [[AWizardDidIt whatever reason]], Willow and Buffy are unable to see each other throughout most of the episode. In the school basement, Willow has a conversation with Spike. Suffering from a slight case of crazy at the time, Spike carries on what seems to be a disjointed dialogue with Buffy, at times speaking randomly and out of turn. Then we see Buffy and Xander talking to Spike, in the same room, with Spike repeating the exact same responses as before, but making a lot more sense now that we know he was talking to two people at once.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' uses this to great effect as Cadmus has a board meeting to discuss how to deal with their Justice league problem, while the JLA simultaneously works through their Cadmus problem. The similarity in the meetings serves to demonstrate [[NotSoDifferent how similar the organizations are]].

'''Mrs. Puff:''' "...and be adored by thousands of people you don't know."\\

* [[WesternAnimation/VeggieTales Larry-Boy and The Rumor Weed]] does this between Larry-Boy and Alfred, ironically establishing that the radio isn't working and that they won't be able to communicate with one another.

* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' has an awesome example in chapter 314 when [[spoiler:Fate]] and Negi simultaneously declare they're going to protect Negi's friends.

* A variation occurs in some of Creator/AlanMoore's comics, notably ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}'', where the dialogue or narration in one scene carries on through, and seems to comment on, the panels in a second scene which alternates panel by panel with the first and has very little dialogue of its own. For instance, the sequence where Jon is subjected to a hostile TV interview while Dan and Laurie are ambushed in a dark alley.

* The {{deconstructi|onFic}}ve ''Series/{{Glee}}''-fic ''FanFic/HuntingTheUnicorn'' uses three scenes and two dialogues in the twelfth chapter, denoted by '''then, now,''' and '''later.''' The "then" portions are a FlashBack where [[spoiler: Blaine breaks up with [[TheFirstCutIsTheDeepest the first guy he dated]] ''and'' lost his virginity to]], while the "now/later" portions are where Blaine talks about it to his therapist Sarah and Kurt.
* In one story of the ''FanFic/FacingTheFutureSeries'', [[WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom Team Phantom]] is split into two groups and encounter Freakshow's old circus troupe which has also been split up. Following that is the troupe members explaining to the members of Team Phantom what happened to them after the first encounter with Freakshow in the cartoon as the scene keeps going back and forth between the two groups.

Lines of dialogue carry across the two scenes, sometimes to the point of the two scenes answering the other's questions (or even FinishingEachOthersSentences. Bonus points if those sentences are going in completely different directions, a la ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek 2}})''. For example:

* ''Series/Batwoman2019''. A couple of episodes have Luke Fox briefing Kate Kane/Batwoman on the VillainOfTheWeek, intercut with Commander Jacob Kane briefing CROW Security on the same case.

* ''Manga/BusoRenkin'': The beginning of the L.X.E. arc sees the exposition on the BigBad done as two simultaneous conversations: The the main protagonists are informed on the subject by [[TheGoodCaptain Captain Bravo]], while [[TheDragon Dr. Butterfly]] does the some for AntiVillain Papillon.

* The beginning of the L.X.E. arc of ''Manga/BusoRenkin'' involves exposition on the BigBad done as two simultaneous conversations: Captain Bravo talking to Kazuki and Tokiko, and Doktor Butterfly talking to the NotQuiteDead Papillon.

'''King Harold:''' ''[sceptically]'' Really?\\

** In a season 4 episode, to highlight the differences between the Scooby gang and The Initiative, Giles explains the ancient lore of [[MonsterOfTheWeek this week's demon]], while the Initiative is briefed on the nature of the same "HST" (Hostile Subterranean) in military jargon.

* ''Series/BlakesSeven''. In "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS2E6SeekLocateDestroy Seek Locate Destroy]]", [[TheHero Blake]] and [[TheDragon Space Commander Travis]] tell their respective underlings why ItsPersonalWithTheDragon by relating their BackStory in a cross-cut scene.