What is "double take"

alt. (context colloquial English) A take, commonly used as a comical reaction to a surprising sight, in which someone casually sees something, briefly stops looking at it, realizes what it is, and snaps attention back to it with an expression of surprise or disbelief. n. (context colloquial English) A take, commonly used as a comical reaction to a surprising sight, in which someone casually sees something, briefly stops looking at it, realizes what it is, and snaps attention back to it with an expression of surprise or disbelief.

n. a delayed reaction indicating surprise

Double Take is a 2001 action comedy film starring Eddie Griffin and Orlando Jones. Double Take was inspired by the 1957 drama Across the Bridge, which was in turn based on a short story by Graham Greene; the supporting cast includes Edward Herrmann, Gary Grubbs, Garcelle Beauvais, and Daniel Roebuck.

Double take may refer to:

• Double-take (comedy), a type of take - an expression of surprise in body language
• Double Take (TV series), an Australian sketch comedy
• Double Take (1998 film), a 1998 thriller
• Double Take (2001 film), a 2001 comedy
• Double Take (2009 film), a 2009 film
• "Double Take" (Code Lyoko), a Code Lyoko episode
• Double Take (Freddie Hubbard and Woody Shaw album), 1985
• Double Take (Petra album), 2000
• Doubletake, a British television comedy
• Double-Take (NSI Product), business continuity software
• Double Take (group), two girls who created "Hot Problems", a song dubbed "The Worst Song Ever"
• Double Take, a BBC Radio 5 Live programme presented by Anita Anand and Sam Walker
• DoubleTake (magazine), a defunct literary magazine

Double Take is the Grammy Award winning, eighteenth studio album of the Christian rock band, Petra. It was released on February 29, 2000.

The album features 10 new acoustic rearrangements of classic Petra songs. It also features two new songs ("Breathe In" and "The Longing"). The song "Breathe In" is sung by guitarist Pete Orta. It was written completely by him.

This is the only album to feature Trent Thomason on keyboards.

Double Take is an album by trumpeters Freddie Hubbard and Woody Shaw recorded in November 1985 and released on the Blue Note label. It features performances by Hubbard, Cecil McBee, Carl Allen, Mulgrew Miller and Kenny Garrett. The album was Hubbard's first for Blue Note since recording The Night of the Cookers (1965) twenty years previously.

Double Take is an Australian sketch comedy series which premiered on the Seven Network on 23 July 2009. The series ended just over two months later on 24 September 2009.

Although it was a show of mixed quality and only passable ratings, it featured a number of sketches (notably, the song "9 to 9" (parodying Dolly Parton's 9 to 5) that became highly popular viral internet items, and led to the appearance of two of the programme's stars, Amanda Bishop and Paul McCarthy, in the highly successful ABC1 sitcom At home with Julia (2011), in turn, co-written and produced by one of the show's co-creators, Rick Kalowski.

Double Take is a 1998 thriller film directed by Mark L. Lester. It follows a writer who believes he helped wrongly convict a man in an assassination, pulling him into a world of espionage and murder.

Double Take is a musical duo consisting of Drew Garrett and Lauren Willey. They are mostly known for their single " Hot Problems". Both girls attended San Luis Obispo High School.

Double Take is a 2009 essay film, directed by Johan Grimonprez and written by Tom McCarthy. The plot is set during the Cold War and combines both documentary and fictional elements. The protagonist is a fictionalised version of Alfred Hitchcock, who unwittingly gets caught up in a double take. The backdrop of the film charts the rise of the television in the domestic setting and with it, the ensuing commodification of fear during the cold war.

Double Take is a Belgian-Dutch-German co-production and premiered in Europe at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival and in the U.S. at the 2010 Sundance film Festival.