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** "Elsewhere and Elsewhen" repeats a shot of Lilith getting grabbed and pulled into the darkness by a Slitherbeast.

* One episode of ''The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses'' did this with ''the ColdOpen''. After the opening credits, the last ten seconds of the cold open were replayed, though with Komura's reaction to Mie's presence changed from crying out in shock to stammering, "M-M-Mie-san?!"

-->'''TD's Dad:''' ''[at the end of part one]'' Someone stole the secret formula for the soup -- and they say a dog helped them!''\\

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/XMen'' has Bishop firing a gun at the camera and declaring, "Traitors!" just before the commercial. When the show returns, he fires the gun again but this time says, "For the future!".

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' episode "Wing It Like Witches" has [[JerkJock Boscha]] telling Luz to "Think fast!" twice.

It's usually not edited out when released for home video or syndicates that use fewer commercial breaks than the original broadcaster. Unless commercial breaks are punctuated by an EyeCatch, this leads to odd situations where a dramatic line is uttered, fade to black, fade back in, then the dramatic line is uttered again.

** Subverted in the season 6 episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E2LisasRival Lisa's Rival]]". Lisa tires herself up while having a saxophone duel against Allyson, triggering a fade-to-black when fainting. When she wakes up, she's told Allyson won the part, prompting her to scream as another fade out occurs. Except the ad break doesn't come, but rather a phony double take follows showing the exact same scene. When she wakes up, she's told Allyson won the part, except "[[ThatWasNotADream this time it's NOT a dream!]]", prompting her to scream as a ''third'' fade out occurs and the actual break finally begins. The scene that comes after the actual break is not a double take at all.

* Occurs many, many times in ''Franchise/PowerRangers''. Often times, the dialogue will be different after the break when it's supposed to be a replay. It's help by many of these bits using easily-dubbed Sentai footage.

%%* Occurs many, many times in ''Series/PowerRangersMegaforce''.

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** Played straight in "Bridle Gossip" with "What if she's making Apple Bloom soup?".

{{Medium Aware|ness}} characters might be able to sense the slight stitch in time and take advantage of it (much to the confusion of the unAware villains), but it's hardly necessary: the heroes will always recover from the threat in plenty of time. Some [[LampshadeHanging hang a lampshade]] on the repeated line with a yell of "I know we're in trouble, stop saying that!".

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' {{lampshade|Hanging}}s this in the episode "Over the Hill Hero" when Robotnik gloats that Sonic is trapped and "[[TakeOverTheWorld Mobius is mine! All mine!]]" Fade to commercial break. In the next scene, Robotnik says that Sonic is trapped and "Mobius is mine! ''(pause)'' Did I say that already?"

** The season 15 episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS15E19SimpleSimpson Simple Simpson]]" repeats Homer's unmasking. In fact, this trope often goes hand-in-hand with unmasking, especially in WesternAnimation.

* ''WesternAnimation/BlazeAndTheMonsterMachines'' started using these since the show's introduction of [[CommercialBreakCliffhanger Commercial Break Cliffhangers]] in Season 3. Some even begin minutes before it left off. These are absent on all digital releases.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'': In "The Water Flowers of Cerulean City", Misty demands to fight Ash on either side of an ad break.

Sometimes the scenes on both sides of the break are identical, but some shows change the second part by giving the repeated line to another character, or having them rephrase it. To the outside observer, the Ad Break Double Take thus looks like the hero standing calmly waiting to be decapitated while saying "This doesn't look too good." followed by a pause and then "Man, this is baaad!". In extreme cases, an unexpected change in continuity that wasn't present before the break may suddenly work in the heroes' favor, in which case you have a CliffhangerCopout.

* ''Film/ChittyChittyBangBang'' follows up its intermission with a replay of the scene preceding it.

* Any Creator/FoodNetwork reality series, including ''Series/RestaurantImpossible'' and ''Series/MysteryDiners'' which usually seem to imply some kind of takedown or confrontation is about to take place... only for a big letdown in the end when the confrontee agrees with the observation made.

* Happens all the time in ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', esp if the Winchester boys fall through windows or the screen goes white.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'' had a variation of this throughout the classic era. As each individual story was told across several episodes (with two exceptions), each episode within a story except the last one would end in a cliffhanger. The following episode would start by repeating the cliffhanger, revealing the resolution, then continuing on with the story. The cliffhanger was to make the audience want to come back, the repeat was to [[ViewersAreGoldfish remind the audience why they came back]].

* A variant occurs in TV broadcasts of the ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'' two-parter, "Mindy Turns Five".[[note]]PBS doesn't have commercials, so live-action segments with Astronomer Amy Mainzer are used to fill the timeslot on this show[[/note]] At the end of Part One, Mindy says "This is one small step for Mindy, and one giant leap for Stuffy Bear!" and she steps on the camera. At the beginning of Part Two, Mindy says it again and her stepping on the camera is accompanied with puff effects and the other kids cheering.
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%%* The 4Kids dub of ''Anime/YuGiOh'' is notorious for this.

* ''WesternAnimation/BlazeAndTheMonsterMachines'' started using these since the show's introduction of [[CommercialBreakCliffhanger Commercial Break Cliffhangers]] in Season 3. Some even begin minutes before it left off.

%%* ''WesternAnimation/SonicSatAM''

* ''WesternAnimation/BlazeAndTheMonsterMachines'' started using these since the show's introduction of [[CommercialBreakCliffhanger Commercial Break Cliffhangers]]s in Season 3. Some even begin minutes before it left off.

* ''WesternAnimation/BlazeAndTheMonsterMachines'' started using these since the show's introduction of {{CommercialBreakCliffhanger}}s in Season 3. Some even begin minutes before it left off.

It's usually not edited out when released for home video or syndicates that use less commercial breaks than the original broadcaster. Unless commercial breaks are punctuated by an EyeCatch, this leads to odd situations where a dramatic line is uttered, fade to black, fade back in, then the dramatic line is uttered again.

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** Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', "Sweet and Elite": Rarity is surprised by her friends greeting her unexpectedly and faints, as they may catch her in a lie, and we go to commercial. When the show returns, Rarity wakes up, and Pinkie Pie says "Hi again!" Played straight in "Bridle Gossip" with "What if she's making Apple Bloom soup?".

** When Creator/TheHub aired ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls1'', the scene of Twilight screaming was repeated when the show came back from its' first commercial break.