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1->''"Crap, that was a cutaway panel, wasn't it? I bet that was a cutaway to them talking about how they found me!"''
2-->-- ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick''
3
4->"''Don't you realise I can't be killed before page three-hundred-and-twenty?''"
5-->--'''[[Literature/TheSaint Simon Templar]]''', "The Million-Pound Day"
6
7->''This is my show, and I'll do what I like with it. Cue the carollers!''
8-->-- '''Basil Brush''' on his own series, ''Series/TheBasilBrushShow''
9
10->'''Kogoro''': With his super speed, Kogoro can don his helmet faster than the eye can perceive!\
11'''Keroro''': He's talking as if someone else is [[{{Narrator}} narrating]]!\
12'''Giroro''': Yes!! I was almost fooled by that square balloon!!
13-->-- '''''Manga/SgtFrog''''', Encounter 51: Target: The Hinata Household
14
15->'''Pit:''' Am I ever going to get to the top of this tower?\
16'''Viridi:''' I warned you before we got here that it was a long way up.\
17'''Pit:''' Yeah, but this place is so huge, we even had a loading screen back there.\
18'''Viridi:''' Shhh, they're going to hear you! We're not supposed to talk about that!
19-->-- ''VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising'', "Chapter 19: The Lightning Chariot"
20
21->''What are we talking here? Mini-Boss? Final Boss?''
22-->-- '''Pit''', ''VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising'', "Chapter 2: Magnus and the Dark Lord"
23
24->"Well," laughed Melvin's father, "obviously you don't know anything about science, little boy. You can't expect to reverse the effects of a highly complex cellular-moleculizing Combine-O-Tron just by switching the batteries around. That type of thing only happens in obnoxious children's books."\
25"Ahem," said George self-consciously. \
26"Well... why don't you just give it a try, anyway?"
27-->-- ''[[Literature/CaptainUnderpants Captain Underpants and the Big, Bad Battle of the Bionic Booger Boy, Part 1: The Night of the Nasty Nostril Nuggets]]''
28
29->''End of first sequence, and [[FadeOut fade to black]]!''
30-->-- '''Ed''', ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', "An Ed in the Bush"
31
32->''An iris-in would be appropriate, don't you think?'' ([[IrisOut iris-in to black]]) ''Thank you.''
33-->-- '''Edd''', ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', "Here's Mud in Your Ed"
34
35->''[[HeyYou Hey!]] Yeah, you! I'm down here, busting my ass, while you sit on yours, watching me jump around? How is ''that'' fair?!''
36-->-- '''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}''', ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3''
37
38->'''Skippy''': I feel airsick. Urp!\
39'''Slappy''': Dissolve to the next scene, quick!
40-->-- ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''
41
42->''FadeOut already! We got the joke.''
43-->-- '''Slappy''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''
44
45->''Iris out already, please!''
46-->-- '''The Warners''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''
47
48->'''Miner''': What brings you to these parts, sonny?\
49'''Yakko''': The player with the controller in their hands, if I'm not mistaken.
50-->-- ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}: The Great Edgar Hunt'' (Ye Old West soundstage)
51
52->''The truth was a burning green crack through my brain. Weapon statistics hanging in the air, glimpsed out of the corner of my eye. Endless repetition of the act of shooting, time slowing down to show off my moves. The paranoid feel of someone controlling my every step. I was in a computer game. Funny as Hell, it was the most horrible thing I could think of.''
53-->-- ''VideoGame/MaxPayne''
54
55->''What is this mysterious enigma of mystery that has been mentioned about 15 times in the story without really telling us what it is?''
56-->-- '''Mille''', ''Literature/IlivaisX'', Day 11: Darkened Holy Knight
57
58->'''Skippy''': But Aunt Slappy, those were cartoons, and [[ThisIsReality this is real life]]!\
59'''Slappy''': ''([[AsideGlance Addressing the viewer]])'' Don't tell him. He might crack.
60-->-- ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' (which has quite a lot of this trope, if you couldn't already tell)
61
62->'''Ed''': I should have all the feeling back in my feet after this word from our sponsors, Double D.\
63'''Edd''': Cursed broadcast commercialism!
64-->-- ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' (which also has quite a lot of this trope), "If It Smells Like an Ed"
65
66->''Being self-aware sure is hilarious!''
67-->-- '''Alpha 5''', ''WebVideo/TruncatedPowerRangers''
68
69->''*Headset attached to Trucy.*''\
70'''Trucy''': "Attached?" I'm not some kind of robot, Apollo!
71-->-- ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney'', Turnabout Serenade
72
73->''I won! The screen says I won!''
74-->-- '''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Pinkie Pie]]''', ''VideoGame/MyLittlePonyFightingIsMagic''
75
76->''With a wink, [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]] vanished into the crowd, probably off to find some other girl to dance with. The thought made Amy burn, especially considering she was stuck with [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Link]]-''\
77'''Link''': Hey! I can hear the narration, you know!\
78''What the heck is Link talking about?''
79-->-- ''Super FanFic/PaperMarioX'', Chapter 60
80
81->'''[[WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy Ed]]''': I am a sassy cat and so full of sass. If you don't like it, you can kiss my-\
82'''Edd''': Ed, if you finish that sentence, the show'll get cancelled in a second.
83-->-- ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7614248/ The Ed Of The World]]''
84
85->'''Karen''': Who is that girl dancing with Prince Coco?\
86'''Rin''': It's Cinderella, the title character.\
87'''Karen''': I already know that, but I still have to say my lines.
88-->-- ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5'', the Cinderella episode. They're both playing the 'Wicked' Stepsisters, btw.
89
90->'''Swerve:''' Oi—ship's genius—what happens if I press this button?\
91'''Brainstorm:''' Don't press it. Did you press it? Swerve? Tell me you didn't press it.\
92'''Swerve:''' Course I didn't press it... but what if I had pressed it?\
93'''Brainstorm:''' You'd have activated an abstract weapon-- a meta bomb.\
94'''Swerve:''' A ''what'' what?\
95'''Brainstorm:''' A metafictional bomb. It blows a hole in the fourth wall.\
96'''Swerve:''' Me no understand.\
97'''Brainstorm:''' Basically, it makes the enemy think they're characters in someone else's narrative. Robbed of agency, they lose the will to fight. I'm still working on it.\
98'''Swerve:''' [-Guess what? I pressed it. Nothing happened.-]\
99'''Rewind:''' [-I didn't see you press it...-]\
100'''Swerve:''' [-Yeah, it must have happened off-panel.-]\
101'''Rewind:''' [-What does ''that'' mean?-]\
102'''Swerve:''' [-I have no idea.-]
103-->--''ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye''
104
105->'''Professor Ian Duncan:''' Abed, how many fingers am I holding up, and more importantly, are they still made of clay?\
106'''Abed Nadir:''' Three, and I told you, it's not clay. We're silicone bodies with ball-and-socket armatures.
107-->--''Series/{{Community}}''
108
109->'''Manabe:''' "What's wrong, Kotoura? Why the glum face?"\
110'''[[{{Telepathy}} Kotoura]]:''' "There are tons of people on the other side of the TV [[DirtyMindReading thinking dirty thoughts]]."\
111'''Manabe:''' "[[BigWhat What'd you say]]?! [[LovableSexManiac I'm the only one who's allowed to have dirty thoughts about Kotoura]]!"\
112'''[[{{Tsundere}} Kotoura]]:''' "Shut up, [[AllMenArePerverts you pervert]]."
113-->--TheStinger of ''Manga/KotouraSan'', episode 1. The show was aired at OtakuOClock.
114
115->''Buster, it may come as a complete surprise to you to find that this is an animated cartoon, and that in animated cartoons they have scenery, and in all the years I've...''
116-->--'''WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck''' in ''WesternAnimation/DuckAmuck'' (he's cut off because [[NoFourthWall the animator has erased him]])
117
118->'''Gatekeeper''': How long do you think you'll be staying in the city?\
119'''Durkon''': Och, geez, I dunno... At least 'till tha end o' tha current plotline.\
120'''Gatekeeper''': So, like, what? Twenty strips?\
121'''Durkon''': Make it thirty. They always run long.
122-->-- ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', ''[[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0732.html "The Papers Chase"]]''
123
124->''"Static panels, speech bubbles, 72 DPI... I'm inside a webcomic! They will probably mock me like always, better get out of here!"''
125-->--'''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog''', ''Webcomic/NerfNow''
126
127->'''Rocky:''' Bullwinkle, I'm worried.\
128'''Bullwinkle:''' Ratings down in the show again?\
129'''Rocky:''' No.\
130'''Bullwinkle:''' That's odd.\
131'''Rocky:''' I'm worried because there have already been two attempts on your life.\
132'''Bullwinkle:''' Oh, don't worry. We'll get renewed.\
133'''Rocky:''' I'm not talking about ''The Bullwinkle Show''!\
134'''Bullwinkle:''' Well, you'd better. We could use the publicity.
135-->--''[[WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle The Bullwinkle Show]]''
136
137->''"The Big Cheese is up to no good. I have nothing in particular to go on except a hunch and the fact that it's about this time of the show that he usually gets up to no good, so get out there and stop him!"''
138-->--'''Big Al Dente''', ''Anime/SamuraiPizzaCats''
139
140->'''[[PhysicalGod Thor]]:''' I mean, obviously we were scraping the bottom of the idea barrel when we came up with "self-aware [[StickFigureComic stick figure]] fantasy parody."\
141'''Durkon:''' I wanna be offended by tha', but it explains so much.
142-->-- ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick''
143
144->'''Freakazoid:''' Who are you?! What have you done to the others?!\
145'''Mystico:''' There'll be time for questions later.\
146'''Freakazoid:''' No, there ''won't''. The show's over in 10 minutes!
147-->-- ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}''
148
149->'''Pearl:''' Listen up, Marina, because this is SUPER important. Whatever you do, don't eat th
150->'''Marina:''' DON'T EAT WHAT?! Your text box ran out of space!
151-->--''VideoGame/Splatoon2''
152
153->''"If this is a game...are my words being displayed in a text window right now?!"''
154-->-- '''Kazuichi Souda''', ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair''
155
156->'''Narrator:''' Phantomon. A Perfect Level Ghost Digimon whose giant scythe with chains is his trademark. His special attack is...
157->'''Phantomon:''' Soul Chopper!
158-->--''Anime/DigimonAdventure'', episode 35 (original Japanese version)
159
160->''"Damn, that incidental music's scary!"''
161-->--'''Ralph Rhodes''', ''Film/BloodsuckersFromOuterSpace''
162
163->'''James Humphrey''': You guys! I just thought of something too.\
164'''Alferd Packer''': What?\
165'''Humphrey''': Okay, now, you remember when Swan was building that snowman? Well, how the hell did he make that tapping sound with his feet?\
166'''George Noon''': You just now thought of that?\
167'''Humphrey''': Well, it's pretty fucking weird, isn't it?
168-->--''Film/CannibalTheMusical''
169
170->'''Sir Lancelot''': Look, my liege!\
171'''King Arthur''': Camelot!\
172'''Sir Galahad''': Camelot!\
173'''Lancelot''': Camelot!\
174'''Patsy''': It's only a model!
175-->--''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail''
176
177->''It starts off the same for every week\
178And ends with a game on [=PS3=]\
179Pick something right out of the drawer\
180Then hold it up against the floor\
181Spew some junk about no sex\
182Then a vegan comes just to say Gex\
183At the desk, look like a hoarder\
184Surrounded by some big blue border''
185-->--"Closing In", Borderline Forever - '''WebVideo/ScottTheWoz'''
186
187->''You now know so much about the world that you know that everything in this world is decided by dice. And you are good at dice. [[FixingTheGame You have some very special dice that you will use from now on]].''
188-->--Description of the Knowledge (World) Mythic Trick, ''VideoGame/PathfinderWrathOfTheRighteous''
189
190->'''Buford''': [[UsefulNotes/{{Uranus}} Yu-rah-noose]], check!\
191'''Baljeet''': Buford, that is not how it is pronounced.\
192'''Buford''': It is on [[Creator/DisneyChannel this channel.]]
193-->--''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb''
194
195->''"This is going to be a very short movie."''
196-->-- '''Mary''', ''Film/TheMuppets2011''
197
198->''"Oi! Don't swear! This site is family-friendly!"''
199-->-- '''Petpets''' when you swear or [[ScunthorpeProblem accidentally trip the swear filter]], ''Website/{{Neopets}}''
200
201->'''Piggie''': "A reader is ''reading'' us!"
202->'''Gerald''': "How is a reader reading us?"
203->'''Piggie''': "The reader is reading these word bubbles! We are in a book!"
204->'''Gerald''': "We are in a book? THAT IS SO COOL!"
205->'''Both''': "WE ARE IN A BOOK! WE ARE IN A BOOK! WE ARE BEING READ! WE ARE BEING READ!"
206-->-- ''Literature/ElephantAndPiggie'', "Literature/WeAreInABook"
207
208->''"You and I were bound together, especially since cartoons live forever."''
209-->-- '''Offscreen Singer''', ''WebAnimation/ASDFMovie'', "The Muffin Song"
210
211->''"Oh, you'll feel better after the camera cuts away."''
212-->-- '''[[WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse Lincoln Loud]]''', ''Fanfic/PeekingThroughTheFourthWall'', Episode 35
213
214->''"Could you please stop talking in uppercase letters? It really messes up the page."''
215-->-- '''Jack the Narrator''', ''Literature/TheStinkyCheeseMan''

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