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** WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck/Porky Pig short ''[[WesternAnimation/DaffyDoodles Daffy Doodles]]'': Daffy is the "Mustache Fiend", who goes around drawing mustaches on pictures. Porky Pig is a cop who tries to catch him by holding up a picture frame in front of his face and pretending to be a picture.

* WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck/Porky Pig short ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daffy_Doodles Daffy Doodles]]'': Daffy is the "Mustache Fiend", who goes around drawing mustaches on pictures. Porky Pig is a cop who tries to catch him by holding up a picture frame in front of his face and pretending to be a picture.

* In the WesternAnimation/BugsBunny short ''The Hair-Raising Hare'', the orange monster (now known as Gossamer) does the PortraitPaintingPeephole bit, but Bugs catches on and gives him a poke in the eye. Then Bugs stands in for a portrait, which gives the monster a chance to get even... only Bugs beats him to the punch and pokes him again.

* There's an inversion in a couple of Rene Magritte paintings, where the painting within a painting depicts a scene precisely matching what's behind it (right down to the positions of clouds, which shouldn't match because they move). But hey... it's really just ''one painting'', get it?

* An accidental version ([[ItCanThink or is it?]]) in ''Film/JurassicParkIII''. The characters are looking through the ruins of Jurassic Park's MadScientistLaboratory. Amanda Kirby walks along a row of murky tanks holding the remains of failed experiments and even a raptor...which [[OhCrap looks directly at her]] and then jumps out from behind the tank to try and bite her head off.

* Envy stands in front of her own poster at the coffee bar in ''Film/ScottPilgrim''.

-->-- '''Candace,''' ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', "Fireside Girl Jamboree"

-->-- '''Candace,''' ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb''

* In Season 7 episode 38 ''Animation/HappyHeroes'', Sweet S. (a LethalChef) makes food and wants the other Supermen to try it. She looks around and sees a painting of the others in a painting on the wall - turns out those are the actual Supermen, trying to avoid eating the terrible food.

* In a Season 7 episode of ''Animation/HappyHeroes'', Sweet S. (a LethalChef) makes food and wants the other Supermen to try it. She looks around and sees a painting of the others in a painting on the wall - turns out those are the actual Supermen, trying to avoid eating the terrible food.

* In ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'' some of the scenes featuring Rosa Klebb had to be reshot after the set was struck. The solution was to blow up a still frame from the existing footage and film the reshoot with the actress standing in front of her own image.

-->'''Cox''': Bob... I can see you. Oh god's sake, you're three dimensional! [...] Bob, I'm physically touching your arm now. Oh come on, I know you're here.\\

* An accidental version ([[ItCanThink or is it?]]) in ''Film/JurassicParkIII''. The characters are looking through the ruins of Jurassic Park's MadScientistLaboratory. Amanda Kirby walks along a row of murky tanks holding the remains of failed experiments and even a raptor...which then [[OhCrap looks directly at her]] and then jumps out from behind the tank to try and bite her head off.

* ''Film/ProjectMoonbase''. The female US President appears on a VideoPhone which is [[SpecialEffectsFailure clearly just the actress shot through a hole in the wall.]]

* ''Film/JurassicParkIII''. An accidental version ([[ItCanThink or is it?]]) when a raptor stands behind a large glass tube, appearing to be one of the dead test subjects.

* In ''Film/JurassicParkIII'', a raptor stands behind a glass tube to pretend he's one of the dead test subjects.

* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'': In the episode "[[Recap/KimPossibleS4E21Graduation Graduation]]", Ron comments on an ugly portrait in Killigan's castle, only to find out the portrait really is Killigan.

* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'': In the episode "Graduation", Ron comments on an ugly portrait in Killigan's castle, only to find out the portrait really is Killigan.

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-->'''Cox''': Bob... I can see you. Oh god's sake, you're three dimensional! [...] Bob, I'm physically touching your arm now. Oh come on, I know you're here.
-->'''Kelso''': [''acts like he just noticed Cox''] ...Oh hi Perry, what can I do for you?
* In ''Series/GetSmart'', Agent 13, who is hiding in a picture, complains that he cannot look around that much. This is especially goes for leaning out for a look, as he complains "I'm not a pop-out painting!"

* In an episode of ''Series/TheITCrowd'', Moss and Roy do this, not to a hide a person behind a picture frame, but to ''[[RefugeInAudacity hide a fire behind a monitor frame]]''.
-->"Nice screen saver!"
* PlayedForLaughs in ''Series/{{The Suite Life Of Zack And Cody}}''. In the opening to an episode, Zack Cody and Esteban accidentally break a painting while throwing a ball in the hallway. In a ridiculous attempt to hide it, Esteban holds the broken frame together and the three pose as the painting. Mr Moseby walks past them as if he didn't see anything.
-->'''Cody:''' Do you think he noticed?
-->'''Mr Moseby:''' ''(his voice is heard)'' He noticed.
-->'''Cody:''' It wasn't us! We were...[[VisualPun framed!]]

** In the episode "Fireside Girls Jamboree", Candace makes a snarky comment about the portrait of Elisa M. Fireside, but Ms. Fireside gets out and berates her. Candace even gets the opportunity to lampshade the trope.

* Spoofed in the ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' episode "My Jiggly Ball" when Kelso tries to hide as a himself in a mural. He refuses to break cover even when Cox points out he is three-dimensional and then physically grabs him.

When you [[FridgeLogic get right down to it]], this is a trope that really requires only two dimensions in order to work, as anyone with a functioning brain could probably determine the difference between a highly realistic painting, and someone sitting in a room behind the wall because of depth perception.

-->'''Cox''': "Bob... I can see you. Oh god's sake, you're three dimensional! [...] Bob, I'm physically touching your arm now. Oh come on, I know you're here."

* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaWindWaker'', Salvatore has cut out the faces in all of his paintings so he can insert his own into them. He makes no attempt to disguise himself as anything though. It's just part of his eccentric storytelling style.