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* [[Music/TheRutles Neil Innes]] on the Music/BonzoDogBand's ''Gorilla'' album opens a track with this:

* [[Music/TheRutles Neil Innes]] on the Music/BonzoDogDooDahBand's ''Gorilla'' album opens a track with this:

* The LP version of ''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' carried the scene where one cast member, whose identity shall not be discolsed because revealing it here would only hold up the story, bruises their upper arm in a tense stand-off with guided nuclear missiles. The run-out groove at the end of the side tells you the bruised crewmember was Arthur Dent.

* 3D-dependent elements in a 3D movie which are lost in 2D

** It mocks viewers for going to the cinema to watch cartoons when they could watch them for free on television at home.

* TheStinger of ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff'' consists of Ferris asking the audience why they're still in the theater, telling them to go home. {{Wrestling/CM Punk}}'s Blu-ray/DVD, "CM Punk: Best in the World", along with ''Film/Deadpool2016''[[note]]Despite the [[NoFourthWall obvious problem]], the dialogue wasn't re-recorded for the Blu-Ray and DVD release.[[/note]] also end this way, presumably as {{Shout Out}}s.

* Film/SpyKids

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* CD pressings ([[TechnologyMarchesOn along with the iTunes / Apple Music, Spotify, and Amazon Music releases]]) of Music/TomPetty's fourth album, ''Full Moon Fever'', contain a hidden track inserted about midway through the album, consisting of Petty giving a brief monologue while his bandmates make animal noises in the background.
--> Hello, CD listeners. We've come to the point in this album where those listening on cassette or records will have to stand up--or sit down--and turn over the record or tape. In fairness to those listeners, we will now take a few seconds before we begin Side Two. ''[{{Beat}}]'' Thank you. Here's Side Two.

* One of the tutorials in ''VideoGame/KirbySuperstar'' describes the joypad as "[[BuffySpeak that thing with the purple buttons]] on it". This line remained in the British release, even though European SNES controllers have the original Japanese multicoloured buttons.

* TheStinger of ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff'' consists of Ferris asking the audience why they're still in the theater, telling them to go home. {{Wrestling/CM Punk}}'s Blu-ray/DVD, "CM Punk: Best in the World", along with ''[[{{Film/Deadpool2016}} Deadpool]]''[[note]]Despite the [[{{NoFourthWall}} obvious problem]], the dialogue wasn't re-recorded for the Blu-Ray and DVD release.[[/note]] also end this way, presumably as {{Shout Out}}s.

* CD pressings ([[{{TechnologyMarchesOn}} along with the iTunes / Apple Music, Spotify, and Amazon Music releases]]) of Music/TomPetty's fourth album, ''Full Moon Fever'', contain a hidden track inserted about midway through the album, consisting of Petty giving a brief monologue while his bandmates make animal noises in the background.

* The last gag in ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'' has the moon suddenly start laughing with the Genie's face, then for Genie to [[BornInTheTheatre push back the film reel]] and announce "Made you look!" The gag was meant to psych out audience members who started leaving early because they thought the movie was over, only to look back when something else starts going on. Nowadays in home viewings the reason for the gag is much less clear.

* CD pressings ([[{{TechnologgyMarchesOn}} along with the iTunes / Apple Music, Spotify, and Amazon Music releases]]) of Music/TomPetty's fourth album, ''Full Moon Fever'', contain a hidden track inserted about midway through the album, consisting of Petty giving a brief monologue while his bandmates make animal noises in the background.

* CD pressings (and the iTunes release) of Music/TomPetty's fourth album, ''Full Moon Fever'', contain a hidden track inserted about midway through the album, consisting of Petty giving a brief monologue while his bandmates make animal noises in the background.

* CD pressings of Music/TomPetty's fourth album, ''Full Moon Fever'', contain a hidden track inserted about midway through the album, consisting of Petty giving a brief monologue while his bandmates make animal noises in the background.

** Invoked by Pratchett himself in ''{{Discworld/Mort}}'', when he tries to use a TwistedEchoCut in prose, then has to [[DontExplainTheJoke explain it]] in a footnote:

** In ''Film/SpyKids3DGameOver'', there are a lot of scenes specifically made in such a way to showcase the 3D effect as forcefully as possible. While this works if you're in a 3D theater, watching this movie in 2D shows very clearly just how forced such moments are.

* TheStinger of ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff'' consists of Ferris asking the audience why they're still in the theater, telling them to go home. {{Wrestling/CM Punk}}'s Blu-ray/DVD, "CM Punk: Best in the World", along with ''[[{{Film/Deadpool2016}} Deadpool]]''[[note]]Despite the [[{{NoFourthWall}} obvious problem]], the dialogue wasn't re-recorded for the Blu-Ray and DVD release.[[/note]] also end this way, presumably as ShoutOuts.

* In ''[[Film/SpyKids Spy Kids 3D]]'', there are a lot of scenes specifically made in such a way to showcase the 3D effect as forcefully as possible. While this works if you're in a 3D theater, watching this movie in 2D shows very clearly just how forced such moments are.

* On at least one occasion, ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' has built a gag around a promo running at the bottom of the screen. The joke stumbles a bit on DVD, or when viewed on TV in a country which doesn't have on-screen promos.

* The last gag in ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'' has the moon suddenly start laughing with the Genie's face, then for Genie to break the fourth wall and announce "Made you look!" The gag was meant to psych out audience members who started leaving early because they thought the movie was over, only to look back when something else starts going on. Nowadays in home viewings the reason for the gag is much less clear.

The makers of a work decide to add a joke specific to the format it will initially be displayed in, usually a movie theatre or broadcast on TV. All meaning to the joke is lost when the work the work is released on Blu-Ray or DVD.

* The last gag in ''{{Disney/Aladdin}}'' has the moon suddenly start laughing with the Genie's face, then for Genie to break the fourth wall and announce "Made you look!" The gag was meant to psych out audience members who started leaving early because they thought the movie was over, only to look back when something else starts going on. Nowadays in home viewings the reason for the gag is much less clear.
* The MickeyMouse short ''WesternAnimation/GetAHorse'' had the characters coming through the movie screen and into the theater. When watching it elsewhere, the effect is somewhat less engaging.

* [[Music/TheRutles Neil Innes]] on the BonzoDogDooDahBand's ''Gorilla'' album opens a track with

* The people who physically created vinyl LP's used the format to add written messages in the dead space between the last track and the label; one technician used to sign his LP's with things like ''Another Prime Porky Cut'', just to make his own creative mark on the record-making process.
* CD pressings of [[Music/TomPetty Tom Petty's]] fourth album, ''Full Moon Fever'', contain a hidden track inserted about midway through the album, consisting of Petty giving a brief monologue while his bandmates make animal noises in the background.
--> Hello, CD listeners. We've come to the point in this album where those listening on cassette or records will have to stand up-- or sit down-- and turn over the record or tape. In fairness to those listeners, we will now take a few seconds before we begin Side Two. ''[{{Beat}}]'' Thank you. Here's Side Two.

* When ''Radio/TheJackBennyProgram'' moved to TV they realized that some of their most beloved running gags couldn't be replicated in a visual medium so they had to be abandoned: namely, Jack's underground bunker/safe & the polar bear guarding it, and Jack's very old car.

* Some Website/{{YouTube}} videos are dependent on annotations. The effect doesn't work if you watch the video on a device that doesn't support YouTube annotations (or turn them off).

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' uses IsThereADoctorInTheHouse on more than one occasion, which makes no sense when watching at home.

* TheStinger of ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff'' consists of Ferris asking the audience why they're still in the theater, telling them to go home. {{Wrestling/CM Punk}}'s Blu-ray/DVD, ''CM Punk: Best in the World", along with ''[[{{Film/Deadpool2016}} Deadpool]]''[[note]]Despite the [[{{NoFourthWall}} obvious problem]], the dialogue wasn't re-recorded for the Blu-Ray and DVD release.[[/note]] also end this way, presumably as ShoutOuts.

* TheStinger of ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff'' consists of Ferris asking the audience why they're still in the theater, telling them to go home. {{Wrestling/CM Punk}}'s Blu-ray/DVD, ''CM Punk: Best in the World", along with [[{{Film/Deadpool2016}} Deadpool]][[note]]Despite the [[{{NoFourthWall}} obvious problem]], the dialogue wasn't re-recorded for the Blu-Ray and DVD release.[[/note]] also end this way, presumably as ShoutOuts.

* TheStinger of ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff'' consists of Ferris asking the audience why they're still in the theater, telling them to go home. {{Wrestling/CM Punk}}'s Blu-ray/DVD ''CM Punk: Best in the World", also ends this way, presumably as a ShoutOut.

* Invoked by Creator/TerryPratchett in ''{{Discworld/Mort}}'', when he tries to use a TwistedEchoCut in prose, then has to [[DontExplainTheJoke explain it]] in a footnote:

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* Averted with the VHS release of ''Film/Gremlins2TheNewBatch''. Instead of the Gremlins invading a movie theatre, they break the VHS tape.

* ''Film/TropicThunder'' begins with fake movie trailers. These might possibly make sense on DVD, but it also begins with a fake movie theater candy commercial.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie'' mocks viewers for going to the cinema to watch cartoons when they could watch them for free on television at home.
** As Homer and Bart are playing in the yard, a news banner rolls across the bottom of the screen displaying the message, "Yes, we even advertise during movies now." The implication is that the advertisement is being done live, but the joke is lost on a DVD.

* The last gag in ''{{Disney/Aladdin}}'' has the moon suddenly start laughing with the Genie's face, then for Genie to break the fourth wall and announce "Made you look!" The gag was meant to psych out audience members who started leaving early because they thought the movie was over, only to look back when something else starts going on. Nowadays in home viewings the reason for the gag is much less clear.
* The MickeyMouse short ''WesternAnimation/GetAHorse'' had the characters coming through the movie screen and into the theater. When watching it elsewhere, the effect is somewhat less engaging.

* Averted with the VHS release of ''[[{{Gremlins}} Gremlins II: The New Batch]]''. Instead of the Gremlins invading a movie theatre, they break the VHS tape.
* ''AquaTeenHungerForce'': The movie begins with a parody of theater promos about the refreshment stall and theater etiquette.

* One of the tutorials in ''KirbySuperstar'' describes the joypad as "[[BuffySpeak that thing with the purple buttons]] on it". This line remained in the British release, even though European SNES controllers have the original Japanese multicoloured buttons.

* According to the {{DVD Commentary}} of ''ThePowerpuffGirlsMovie'', when the Professor first creates the girls and stares right up at the screen, this was supposed to make the audience see his face the way the tiny girls did -- huge and staring at them.
* On an episode of ''{{Chowder}}'' they made a joke about the Cartoon Network channel bug in the corner of the screen. On DVD the channel bug just appears and disappears when the joke comes up.
* LooneyTunes uses IsThereADoctorInTheHouse on more than one occasion, which makes no sense when watching at home.

* On at least one occasion, ''Family Guy'' has built a gag around a promo running at the bottom of the screen. The joke stumbles a bit on DVD, or when viewed on TV in a country which doesn't have on-screen promos.

[[ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInTheWorld There are 10 kinds of people in the world]]: those who understand binary and those who don't. In this context 10 is pronounced "one zero" instead of "ten" so it ruins the joke if you say it aloud.