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** In "The Goodies Rule -- OK?", it's revealed that Music/TheBeetles stole their act from the Goodies, with the fourth member of the band played by a shop window dummy. Later a political party of shop window dummies get elected into Parliament.

* In ''Anime/NerimaDaikonBrothers''. Whenever the three main characters need to sing to Nabeshin for his assistance and are missing a member, they always fill them in with a crude looking cardboard cut out with a HiraganaFace.

* In one of his TV specials, George Carlin appeared with a cardboard cutout of his suit-wearing clean-shaven younger self from his early days in comedy. He said, "I used to be this guy. He used to be me."

* ''Series/TheGoodies''

* One Russ Abbot sketch is set in a World War 2 prison camp. The commandant, making an inspection, warns his sidekick that British officers have been known to escape and leave dummies behind -- so they should be vigilant. When they enter the hut, we see Russ surrounded by four obvious cardboard cutouts. HilarityEnsues as he tries to convince the Germans that they are real people.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'',

** "The Great Louse Detective" involves Sideshow Bob trying to figure out who is attempting to kill Homer, so they place a fake Homer (made of a sack and a pillow) outside on the lawn, whereupon 'he' is attacked by Moe, Patty and Selma, Reverend Lovejoy and the real Homer, none of which are the true attempted murderers.

** And when Bart is emancipated, Homer starts playing baseball with a crude dummy of Bart in the backyard. He ends electrocuting both the dummy and himself.

* As a prank, the folks at All Too Flat once created a large cardboard cutout version of the guy on the crosswalk sign, then put it in the middle of the street and see what happened.
** Just for the sake of completeness, here's the [[http://www.alltooflat.com/pranks/crossingman link]].
* When Tom Baker refused to take part in the ''Series/DoctorWho'' special "The Five Doctors", the BBC created some publicity shots of all five Doctors by having the actors playing the other four Doctors pose with a waxwork of Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor.

* The second chapter from ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' shows how Dexter has a thinly-veiled robotic clone on standby, just in case his mom enters his room. Of course, it works just fine. A thinly-veiled robotic clone that is apparently only capable of saying the words "Hello, Mother" over and over. Again, it works just fine.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', the Eds try to help Johnny replace Plank (a piece of wood with a face drawn on it) with other inanimate objects with similar faces. Johnny is ''very disturbed'' by a few of these, particularly when they forget to draw a second eye on Bob the Traffic Cone.
** In another episode, Eddy makes a home movie for his older brother to prove that he's not a little kid anymore, and near the end has a big party with all the kids in the neighborhood replaced with crude cardboard cutouts strapped to the backs of Rolf's stolen chickens.

* In the Music/FleetwoodMac video for the song "Tusk", bassist John [=McVie=] was in Tahiti and unable to come to the filming at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. TO make up for his absence, Mick Fleetwood had a cardboard cutout of [=McVie=] made and carried it around with him, eventually placing it with the rest of the band.

* The traffic cops in ''Film/TeddyBear'' fake a built-up area (which has a speed limit) by putting plywood houses near a road, so they can catch more drivers for speeding.

* The trafic cops in ''Film/TeddyBear'' fake a built-up area (which has a speed limit) by putting plywood houses near a road, so they can catch more drivers for speeding.

* On ''The Dish'', Danielle Fishell has cut-outs of most of the ''[[Literature/{{Twilight}} New Moon]]'' cast.

* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'': Woody uses Buzz's arm to prove to the other toys that Buzz is with him, since he's currently in the middle of a HeroicBSOD caused by his realization that he's a toy and not an actual space ranger to pay any attention to Woody's requests to show himself, and having a detached arm isn't helping matters either. It fails horribly when he accidentally reveals that it’s not attached to Buzz, causing the other toys to think Woody killed and dismembered him on top of (accidentally) pushing him out of the window for taking Woody's place as Andy's new favourite toy.

* In ''Film/HomeAlone'', Kevin uses several tricks, one of them a cardboard cutout of Michael Jordan, to fool the bandits into thinking the house is occupied and having a party.

* King Kutt-Out in ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64''.

* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'': Woody uses Buzz's arm to prove to the other toys that Buzz is with him, since he's currently in the middle of a HeroicBSOD caused by his realization that he's a toy and not an actual space ranger to pay any attention to Woody's requests to show himself, and having a detached arm isn't helping matters either. It fails horribly when he accidentally reveals that it’s not attached to Buzz, causing the other toys to think Woody killed and dismembered him on top of (accidentally) pushing him out of the window for taking Woody's place as Andy's new favourite toy.

* Taking a leaf from Franchise/SherlockHolmes' book (see below), one early ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' story had him using a dummy of Bruce Wayne positioned in a window to fool an assassin.

* In ''Series/TheGoodies'' episode "Bunfight at the O.K. Tea Rooms", Graeme creates a dummy of himself out of a frying pan, a mop and some other odds and ends to fool the others while he sneaks away to register the cream claim. Tim and Bill converse with it for some time before they notice anything is amiss.