I Was Having Such a Nice Dream
A character finds themselves in an important prophetic dream, receiving vital information from a dead relative in a near-death experience, or just having a terribly good time in their head, when they hear the phone ringing or someone shouting their name and they are defibrillated back to the land of the living, just before the really good bit.
Can result in
Foreign Dub As Basis
Dubbing is hard. You have to translate text, rewrite it to fit cultural sensitivities, make sure it appeals to the audience and avoid changing the context.
Dubbing is even harder when you don't have a translator ready to understand the original language.
Fortunately, there's a common way to get around this: Base your dub on the language of another dub. It gets around the issue of cultural issues if it's from a similar country, and most of the translation work is already done.
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