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--->'''Undercover Brother:''' Well, observe this. Action is what Undercover Brother's all about.

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* The protagonist does this in both the [[Series/HouseOfCards British]] and [[Series/HouseOfCardsRemake American]] versions of ''House of Cards''.

* Joked about with during The Exiled Prince DLC of ''DragonAgeII''

** In ''Go West'', after [[BoundAndGagged binding and gagging]] one of the villain's henchmen, Groucho turns toward the audience and remarks, [[SelfDeprecation "Did you know this is the best]] [[IncrediblyLamePun gag in the picture?"]]

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* ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'' was created by veterans of the American version of ''TheOffice'', and includes the same "talking head" segments that both the British and American versions of that show used. However, unlike both versions of ''The Office'', there's never any reference to a [[{{Mockumentary}} documentary being filmed]] and the crew filming the talking heads never impacts the action. In practice the talking heads function very much like Aside Comments.

-->'''Hawke''': You know, I hate when you do that.

* Eugene O'Neill's ''Strange Interlude'' is famous for its frequent use of often lengthy asides. It inspired numerous parodies, of which Groucho Marx's in ''AnimalCrackers'' is merely the most famous.

* Parodied in {{Moliere}}'s play ''Theatre/TheMiser''; the eponymous character's servant makes several aside comments to the audience, complaining about the guy's greed, but the miser hears this and asks him who he is talking to.

* ''DragonBallZ'' usually keeps its fourth wall unbroken, but late in the series Gohan abruptly looks at the camera and explains why Krillin suddenly has hair.

* Many comic characters in {{Shakespeare}} and other theatrical works of that general era would do this. Often it's even written in the stage directions.

* ''SluggyFreelance''

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* {{Calvin and Hobbes}} make the occasional comment to the audience.

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* Parodied in {{Moliere}}'s play ''Theatre/TheMiser''; the eponymous character's servant makes several aside comments to the audience, complaining about the guy's greed, but the miser hears this and asks him who he is talking to.

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* One of the many popular gags in LooneyTunes. One of the better examples is in "Drip-Along Daffy" where DaffyDuck pulls this when confronting Nasty Canasta:

* Done by Sonic in ''SonicColors'' when he learns his new alien pals are called "wisps".

* The tv version of ''{{Lovejoy}}'' would have Lovejoy do this in a vaguely Shakespearean way, delivering either his internal snark, or a bit of trivia about the antique, as a way of showing how his thought processes worked.

* The tv version of ''{{Lovejoy}}'' would have Lovejoy do this in Shakespearean way, delivering either his internal snark, or a bit of trivia about the antique, as a way of showing how his thought processes worked.

* Parodied in {{Moliere}}'s play ''TheMiser''; the eponymous character's servant makes several aside comments to the audience, complaining about the guy's greed, but the miser hears this and asks him who he is talking to.

** In "A Bird in the Hoof", Fluttershy gives an uncharacteristically cunning look to the audience and says "Always works!" during a RoadRunner ShoutOut scene where she tries to feed a bird a pill by hiding it under some seeds.

* ''ParksAndRecreation'' was created by veterans of the American version of ''TheOffice'', and includes the same "talking head" segments that both the British and American versions of that show used. However, unlike both versions of ''The Office'', there's never any reference to a [[{{Mockumentary}} documentary being filmed]] and the crew filming the talking heads never impacts the action. In practice the talking heads function very much like Aside Comments.

One of the mildest forms of BreakingTheFourthWall; often seen in [[SlidingScaleOfFourthWallHardness works where the Wall is otherwise quite solid]] and it would seem odd for the characters really to acknowledge it. It's not even impossible for an Aside Comment to preserve the Fourth Wall entirely intact if the character is interpreted as talking to themselves (see ThinkingOutLoud) or an imaginary audience. Usually, the interpretation is left open unless there are other kinds of BreakingTheFourthWall going on; it would be odd to say the least to comment on the matter without breaking it, after all.

One of the mildest forms of BreakingTheFourthWall; often seen in [[SlidingScaleOfFourthWallHardness works where the Wall is otherwise quite solid]] and it would seem odd for the characters really to acknowledge it. It's not even impossible for an Aside Comment to preserve the Fourth Wall entirely intact if the character is interpreted as talking to themselves (see ThinkingOutLoud) or an imaginary audience. Usually, the interpretation is left open unless there are other kinds of BreakingTheFourthWall going on; it would be impossible to comment on the matter without breaking it, after all.

** In "Sonic Rainboom", both Rainbow Dash and Rarity say out loud to no-one in particular what they're going to do next at soem point, but only on one occasion does each look at the audience while doing so, demonstrating the vague relationship such comments can have to BreakingTheFourthWall.

Closely related to the AsideGlance, just taking it a step further. Compare and contrast with FourthWallPsych, where the idea of BreakingTheFourthWall by addressing the audience is presented and then disproved.

* ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''