In the Gift of the Magi, the wife cuts her long hair and sells it to have the money to buy her husband a pocket watch chain. He sells his watch to buy her a hair accessory, leaving both with a useless gift, which was not what they expected for their efforts.

In Star Wars, the audience knows that Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker’s father, but Luke doesn’t learn this until Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back.

Two kids are asked to clean up their room.

Instead they make a mess. When their mom comes in, she says, "Thanks for all your hard work, guys."

Keira was excited to leave school for the weekend to relax when her teacher gave them a homework packet. "Awesome," she said, "this is exactly what I wanted."

In the movie Psycho, a murderer approaches a woman who is taking a shower. She does not hear or see the man, but the camera focuses on him through the shower curtain, creating suspense.

In The Crucible, Elizabeth lies to protect her husband in court, not knowing that her husband has already made a confession in an earlier scene in the play.

The story "Once Upon a Time" tells about a family who wants to protect themselves from the dangers of the outside world. They build a large wall with barbed wire. Their son is curious and tries to climb the wall but gets caught in the barbs and dies.

After falling off of her bike and breaking her leg, Sandra has to wear a large cast. Fed up with people asking her if the accident hurt, she starts telling them, "no, it felt great."

The doctor who was scheduled to give the children flu shots was home sick with the flu

When her students were shouting at the top of their lungs, Mrs. Blackwell told them that they needed to speak up because she couldn't hear them.

In the Harry Potter series, one of the people Harry hated the most was actually trying to protect him all along