The best fourth wall breaking: barbie’s sister complaining she can’t make fire with plastic sticks

The “we have no fear because paramount signed us for five more years” actually got me

The fourth wall break to rule them all: "No money means..." *cut to voice actors in studio* "NO ANIMATION!"

The Amazing World of Gumball literally had an entire episode about the animation stops working when you got no more money. Also that one episode from Chowder.

My favourite use of breaking the fourth wall is actually from a video game. In paper Mario 2 there's a villain pretending to be a good guy. It's very obvious but no one can tell Then when no ones around he says "I know you know but don't tell anyone."

surprised you didn't mention Dora the Explorer

“Paramount will protect us cause we’re signed for five more years”😂😂that’s the best one. 6:18

One of my favourite fourth wall breaks is Leslie Nielsen walking around the wall prop while the other characters walk through the door. It's so subtle and you need a second to think "Hey, he wasn't supposed to do that."

Mel Brooks didn't break the fourth wall. He straight up didn't have the fourth wall.

If we so rich, why cant we afford no ceiling?

Kid Icarus Uprising had so many good ones. "How much longer until the end? I'm pretty sure I saw a loading screen back there..." "shush you know we're not supposed to talk about that! Theyll HEAR you"

I dont know if this counts as 4th wall break, but my favourite is in the episode "Blink" in dr who. The weeping angels there even dont move if the audience can see them, not only the characters, and I think that makes the episode a lot creepier.

Yo this guy was my computer science TA and I didn't realize until the end of the video and my mind was blown. That was the realest fourth wall break ever.

Damn, if only you had waited another year to make this video... Deadpool man, freaking Deadpool...

ferris buellers day off is probably the best use of fourth wall breaks i’ve seen. to this day every time he does it, it cracks me up

I love how Phoebe Waller-Bridge used that technique in Fleabag. I never felt so close to a character on a TV show before. And then she even tops it with the priest noticing her "interaction" with the viewer while all other characters were not aware of her talking to "someone". Just brillant (after a few moments of pure irritation :D )!

My favorite fourth-wall-break is by Kuzco from The emperor's new groove

Bandersnatch's plot is literally about breaking the fourth wall if you take the right paths

In an alternate dimension: “It’s weird that in another dimension our life isn’t a reality show.” “What did I tell you about breaking the 8th wall?!”

I'm very surprised you didn't mention Monty Python, since they use extensive and very successful 4th wall breaks, especially in Flying Circus and The Holy Grail.

7.5 minutes in and I just realised I'm not watching Every Frame A Painting lol

"A fourth wall break within a fourth wall break that's like sixteen walls

I feel like Fleabag is a current example and it mastered the art of including it very often with a strong intention behind it. The end of season 2 was amazing in that regard.

Is there a 4th wall break where one character asks "are we gonna die?" and the other character says "of course not, have you read the script?".

I love the fact that the "Middle Of The Film" sketch is in the middle of the video, as well.

How to ACTUALLY break the Fourth Wall. Step 1: Look at the camera Step 2: Say some random crap. You have officially broke the Fourth Wall.

The scariest fourth wall break I ever saw was where the whole episode had little frequency interruptions, and at first you think it's to give atmosphere, but at the end the "sand-monster" abruptly interrupts the story and reveals himself to have been recording the events and the tape you are watching is in fact bugged with a sort of virus that melts you down into a sand monster. Really chilling, I felt actually uncomfortable as it happened.

The Robin Hood one and the "Paramount signed us for five more years was quite funny.

I feel like these vids started as a college film course project and evolved to a love and devotion of film and it's nuances. great content. Enjoy your 238780th subscriber. Hoping to see you at one million very soon.

Wow, this video was -wall- ground breaking... *Winks at the camera*

I don't think you're giving the Austin Powers joke enough credit. It's less of a 4th wall break and more of a meta commentary on how people pick apart trivial plot contrivances in movies (particularly time travel stories) rather than just accepting them and focusing on the main point of the movie. I actually think that's one of the more memorable and brilliant jokes in the movie.

4:10 was also the middle of the video. Very creative 👏🏽👏🏽

Emporor's new groove has a few good fourth wall breaks

not surprised you didn't mention The Teletubbies

I feel like Malcom in the middle did a good job at breaking the 4th wall

I cant believe nobody is mentioning Spongebob, there is some genius fourth wall breaks in that show.

I love this, he shows bad fourth wall breaks, then good ones, then finishes with a bad one, it's like an oreo of fourth wall breaks.

I saw Mel Brooks live at a post-screening Q&A of Young Frankenstein so I asked him a question about his enjoyment of breaking the fourth wall this is what he said: "When I was young, watching The Three Stooges, I learned how big of a laugh you can make by winking into the camera" This was late 2017 so I can't remember everything he said but that point stuck out the most

Ferris has the best fourth wall break ever in my opinion, the first moment we learn of his attitude, in such an unexpected way as well

My personal favorite 4th wall break isn't even in film, it's in SCP: Containment Breach. In the intro sequences, the two escort guards have a randomly chosen conversation. This one sorta breaks the fourth wall, poking fun at our world. "So, you see any good movies lately?" "I don't really watch movies." "Oh ok. Well, what about video games? You know that reminds me, someone should make a video game based on this place." "Why would anyone do that?" "I don't know, just thought it was kind of a cool idea." "Well, I don't play video games either."

6:18 "Paramount will protect us cause we're signed for five more years" Brilliant

The ending of Psycho always creeps me out... It's so subtle but so chilling.

Fresh Prince with Will saying they don't have a ceiling is the ultimate breaking of the 4th wall

One of my favourite fourth wall breaks that's a little different is a Doctor Who monologue from the series 9 episode Before The Flood, where Peter Capaldi's Doctor gives a monologue about the bootstrap paradox, as it's key to understanding the episode. He gives references to googling the definition, constantly talks right to the audience, then the scene is closed with the opening titles after he plays the guitar, which he then plays the guitar over the normal titles. It's a fantastic scene. A fantastic explaination of a sci-fi concept without sacrificing how entertaining it is, talking directly to the audience without talking down to them either. Love it

Your fourth wall breaking is on par with the one in Austin Powers. :P

'Middle of the Film' comes at the middle of this video! :D XD

ferris bueller’s day off is my favorite movie, the fourth wall breaks are so iconic

I think 4th wall breaks could be really well done when used for horror genres. In Doki Doki Literature Club there’s tons of moments where the characters or narration texts tell you that something appeared in the game files, and checking them will show you some creepy pictures or texts written by the “characters.” There’s also a scene where Monika calls the player by their Steam username rather than the name they chose for the player character, and it’s such a shocking moment that also breaks the 4th wall in a sinister way. Also a very cool use of technology and coding

I love it when characters on The Office look at or talk about the cameras

That last bit caught me off guard. I thought you would be a forever heard but not seen type.

I was very little when I first saw the Neverending Story. When the scene came and the Childlike empress was describing Bastian reading the book and how there are even people watching his journey, boy howdy, I damn nearly wet myself from a combination of fear and excitement. I'll never forget my first 4th wall break.

I love how Brooks use the fourth wall as a tool for the continue of the story and not just wink to the camera.

I wasn't paying attention and, for a little bit, I thought I was watching an episode of "Every Frame a Painting". Awesome video. You just got a new subscriber.

Fourth wall breaks in video games tend to be pretty interesting in some instances: when it's not just for comedic effect, it's possible to actually push up an interesting point. For exemple, The Stanley Parable makes the narrator, as well as the player, actual characters, making the game's point about choice in video games work pretty well.

The 4th wall break that sits strongly in my mind is from Batman Arkham Asylum. The game 'crashes' and restarts, only with Joker and Batman reversed positions. It's a cutscene, but Joker suddenly shoots Batman. It brings up the typical 'you died' screen and has a tip saying "Use the middle stick to dodge". Then when you continue the game, it carries on. It got me good though, I freaked out at the crash and thought my xbox had broke.

A great example in a recent film is The Lighthouse where in the climax scene, the light he stares into, which symbolizes infinite knowledge, wisdom, whatever (something that overwhelms him), is us looking right at him. He laughs hysterically as he's consumed by it and stares maniacally into the camera. Really scary stuff.

'Get the fuck out of my room I'm playing minecraft'

As he mentioned, breaking the fourth wall does NOT make you a comedy genius.

1:49 that dramatic change in camera quality made it look even better

The Monkees, 60s show had a plenty of fourth wall breaks. Some of jokes in Mel Brooks movies are suspiciously alike, for example, the script joke. It’s even more funnier there because characters begin to read it and ask “was it good?”.

what about dora the explorer?

The best fourth wall break I ever encountered was in "The Garfield Show": There's a joke that was like "Oh, we should really rest now. I read there is going to be a dramatic escape on page 9 of the script!" :D

Goodfellas has a really cool 4th wall break towards the end of the movie. Then narrator is talking to us throughout the movie to begin with and then the actor becomes the narrator during the court scene and looks right at us while narrating which I felt was really sublime.

Nah everything about Jay and Silent Bob was gold! 🔥🔥🔥

I love how everyone in the comments is a fourth wall break critic now. It's a KZfaq video not a cinematic masterpiece. The ending was obviously just used to wrap the video up. People need to stop being so stuck up.

what about Malcolm in the Middle?

Best use of 4th wall breaks is I feel in Mr Robot. It litreally creates us a character of the show

Perfect ending to your video. It took by surprise and did exactly what you were talking about inn the video. Bravo!

My favorite 4th wall break was The NeverEnding Story. In it, the book broke the 4th wall when Sebastian was reading the book, and then again telling him that even more kids are following him, just like he was follow Atreyu.

I feel like at the end, instead of going further into the joke, he should've looked at the camera while saying "and thanks for watching." and cut it there

That ending dude. Gold!

My favorite use of the fourth wall is in season 2 of Fleabag where The Priest begins to notice Fleabag's fairly straight-forward comedic fourth wall breaks. I'm still trying to puzzle out what exactly that means in the context of the show. Is it because he loves her that he notices? is it because we, the audience, are a stand-in for God in her life? It's so complicated and unsettling, I adore it!

First of all... this video was published about 6 months before Deadpool was released. So would people quit complaining that Deadpool wasn't mentioned. Secondly... I thought that the Austin Powers 2 example was one the few decent jokes in that movie that wasn't just cut and pasted from the first. It was a clever way of satirising the fact that most time travel plots in mainstream movies aren't logically coherent if you (the audience) think about them carefully. I'm not sure why it was used as an example of laziness.

Good video, but you've actually mixed two separate but closely-related techniques: breaking the fourth wall, and metafiction. Metafiction is when a character (or the work as a whole) explicitly acknowledges that they are a character in a work of fiction. Breaking the fourth wall is when a character directly addresses an audience. They're close, but not the same thing. The Blazing Saddles out-of-the-set gag is metafiction, but doesn't break the fourth wall. On the other hand, Ferris Bueller breaks the fourth wall, but isn't metafictional; Ferris is treating the audience he addresses as a character in his own reality, not acknowledging that he is a fictional character. When Abed tells Jeff "I guess I can lay low for an episode", Community is being metafictional, but not breaking the fourth wall. Tomorrowland opens with Frank (George Clooney's char) breaking the fourth wall, but it's not metafiction because later in the movie we find out that he's actually addressing an in-movie audience and giving them the history of Tomorrowland. A lot of Shakespearean fourth-wall breaks are also metafictional, because the character both addresses the audience and says that they are a character in a play or story. The Simpsons Movie, Meaning of Life, and Road to Morocco gags are also both: the characters talk to the audience with an explicit awareness that they are characters in a film. So the techniques overlap, but aren't the same.

Excellent explanation and some of my favorites! Thanks, Now You See It!

Thanks for mentioning the Fiddler on the Roof movie. It’s one of my favorite, and doesn’t get a lot of mentions these days, despite it being an extremely faithful adaptation, and an all around good film.

If breaking the fourth wall is taking the audience out of the action and reminding them that they're watching a film, would drops of water or blood or particles of dust on the lens of the camera count as breaking the fourth wall? Let's take the Beach scene from Saving Private Ryan, the look and sound of the scene are very brutal and realistic, and occasional drops on the lens make the audience feel as if they are right in the action. But at the same time, surely this would count as breaking the fourth wall as the director is showing the audience that yes, this is filmed through a lens, not real life?

Not to be a dick, but that outro proves that knowing the rules doesn't make you good at them.

I find the best 4th wall breaks are usually when people turn and say what they’re thinking cause it gives you a feeling of like “no shit, that’s what I would say”

Your video are very interesting ! I learn a lot of thing ! And as a French person, you’re voice and accent are very easy to understand and very enjoyable ! It is a good way to practice English while learning about cinema ! Great job

How could you not put Monty Python and the Holy Grail in this video?

That actually caught me off guard. Good job.

the middle of the film pefectily at the middle of the video is beautiful

Jim looking at the camera in the office is my favourite 4th wall break because of its subtlety

You would find Deadpool quite satisfying then... in a comedic sense of course.

So many unmentionables like Malcolm in the Middle, The Office, Moonlighting, Magnum PI (The famous smirk). I also loved the movie George of the Jungle.

the end of this video really wrapped the whole thing together

I appreciate that welcome to the middle of the film.... was in the middle of the video!!!

And then Deadpool came and destroyed the fourth wall with a wrecking ball

You missed out my favourite 4th wall break - Fresh Prince Of Bel Air "If we so rich"

Great finish!

I love you’re videos!

For a guy who knows 4th wall breaks so well, that was a terrible 4th wall break.

ok but every fourth wall break he was going "eh" at had me giggling hysterically

0:20 This look is priceless

Thank you! This was so helpful!

Wolf of Wall Street had great fourth wall breaks

Funny Games is a perfect example of how to break the fourth wall in a horror movie. It gave me chills.

Wayne’s worlds sponsorship scene was my favourite fourth wall break of all time.

My favorite 4th wall break is in Trading Places. Robert Hays' "what a pisser" line in Airplane! is a close second.