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* ''WesternAnimation/JourneyThroughTheJungleOfWords'': We often see Groucho Marx {{Expy}} Groucho Barx turning to the audience and speaking to them, usually making a snarky comment.

* ''Series/JandaKembang'': Rais turns to the camera when expressing his happiness in episode 26 after [[spoiler:Neneng admits she loves him too.]]

'''Sonic:''' ''(facing the screen)'' Yeah, I'll just stick with aliens if that's OK with everybody.

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

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Birdman}}'':

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheNewScoobyDooMovies'' episode "The Ghostly Creep from the Deep" with the Harlem Globetrotters, Meadowlark tricks Curly into volunteering being the first watch while everybody else gets some sleep. As Curly marches, he turns to us and says "Sometimes I wish Meadowlark would learn to keep my big mouth shut!"

** Anime episode 346. Riruka Dokugamine says that wearing contact lenses makes her eyes dry out as soon as she puts them in, then turns to face the camera in a close up and says "It's because my eyes are so ginormous." (a reference to the large eyes of anime characters).

* The cover of ''The Spectacular Spider-Man'' #246 has 4 bizarre looking villains called the Legion of Losers. It also has Spider-Man turning to look at the reader and saying "You've gotta be kidding!". See it [[http://superdickery.com/images/stories/stupor/spec2463cq.jpg here]].

** In another instance he deliberately tells a bad joke and then says to the audience, "[[RapidFireComedy Well, ]]''[[RapidFireComedy all]]'' [[RapidFireComedy the jokes can't be good! You gotta expect that sometimes]]. Similarly, after one particularly bad stock joke he says, "That's the first time I've used that joke in 20 years."

* ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'' was created by veterans of the American version of ''Series/{{The Office|US}}'', 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]] (beyond one joke in the first episode where Ron asks how they're funded) and the crew filming the talking heads never impacts the action. In practice the talking heads function very much like Aside Comments.
* The TV version of ''Series/{{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.

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

* WesternAnimation/FrostyTheSnowman when Frosty, Karen and Hocus are on the train. Karen sneezes and Frosty asks is she's cold, prompting him to turn to the audience and remark, "Now, that's a silly question!"

'''DM:''' ''[to us, quietly]'' Good grief , I don't know why I bother.

** "The Cyclopeds". At the end of the episode Cyclo runs into his own Maze of Terror.

** It becomes a RunningGag in ''At the Circus'' since Groucho does it numerous times. One of the best is a scene where he is trying to get something Pauline has stuffed down her shirt, and when he realized she's done so he looks at the camera in fear and says, "There has to be someway to get that money while staying out of the Hays Office!"

** At the very end of the movie, Harley looks into the camera and says via voiceover "Yeah, yeah. I made the kid my apprentice. Call me a softy." Then she says aloud "I dare you."

* ''Film/{{Birds of Prey|2020}}'':

* Another Looney Tunes example: WesternAnimation/YosemiteSam does this when he and Granny, whom [[GoldDigger he is marrying for her money]] (not realizing it's WesternAnimation/BugsBunny in disguise) decide to elope and take along some furniture and household items with them. After collecting several such items, Sam does this:

** It becomes a RunningGag in ''At the Circus'' since Groucho does it numerous times. One of the best is a scene where he is trying to get something Pauline has stuffed down her shirt, and when he realized she's done so he looks at the camera in fear and says, "There has to be someway to get that money [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar while staying out of the Hays Office!]]"

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' made liberal use of aside comments, being a SpiritualSuccessor to the Looney Tunes. In fact, one of the show's {{Running Gag}}s was Yakko Warner [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]] a [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar crude or risque joke]] by quipping to the audience "Goodnight, everybody!", implying that the joke might get them cancelled.

* ''WesternAnimation/JourneyThroughTheJungleOfWords'': We often see one of the main stars, [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Groucho Barx]] turning to the audience and speaking to them, usually making a snarky comment.