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I think this was from a live-action film, but it may have been from a live-action TV series. It's been bugging me all morning.
A character is in someone else's home, and notices smoke rising from a lamp. They go over to the lamp and look down through the top of the lampshade, to see that there is a sales tag attached to it, resting on top of the bulb and smoking from the heat. They reach in to pick the tag off of the light bulb.