Based on a Great Big Lie/Quotes

""The following story is a big fat lie. No names have been changed to protect anybody!""

- The intro of the Woody Woodpecker cartoon "Under The Counter-Spy"

""[P]lease ignore any tiresome scolds who complain that the movie is not really based on fact. Duh.""

- Roger Ebert, from a review of Hidalgo

""Hey there, boys and girls! This here's a true story we just made up." Stinky Wizzleteats, The Ren and Stimpy Show, "Son of Stimpy""

""Tentatively titled The Conjuring, it's the 'true' story of a haunting at a New England farmhouse -- though presumably it's 'true' in the contemporary sense of the word, meaning that it didn't happen but it says it did on the poster.""

- The A.V. Club on the sequel to Insidious