The director's decision to leave a cardboard cutout in the background of a scene from '80s comedy Three Men and a Baby gave rise to a myth about there being a ghost visible if you looked hard enough. See it there as Ted Danson walks by? Kind of eerie, actually. Pausing this moment became standard procedure when people got bored of looking for that dead munchkin everyone thought was hanging from the light fixture in The Wizard of Oz and wanted to freak out their friends at sleepovers. A cardboard cutout was absolutely the way to do that.
