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In many scenes, actors do something while we see movies / cartoons playing on television or hear sound from the TV set, which serves as commentary for actors ' actions during scenes.

In the television version of Trading Places, Clarence Beeks drugs a security guard and steals the crop report while Sunset Boulevard is showing ; in Into the Night in Hamid's apartment, the movie Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein is playing while Ed is looking for Diana and later, when Mr. Morris fighting with Mr. Williams.

In Spies Like Us, Emmit Fitzhume ( Chevy Chase ) is watching the musical She's Working Her Way Through College ( from 1952, starring Ronald Reagan ), and later during the press conference, the clips from this movie are showing on TV.

In Innocent Blood in several scenes, Phantom of the Rue Morgue ( from 1954 ) is showing on the television during the morgue scenes ( with Macielli ).