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{{quote| "[[Title Drop|And then I said,]] [[Noodle Incident|'Oatmeal? Are you crazy?']]"<br />

 

In fiction, when a character has to retell some event to other characters, it normally happens that the scenes of the characters meeting up so they can talk are skipped. After all, if you've just watched something earth-shatteringly amazing or terrible happen to the character, you don't want to spend hours watching him driving over to the other side of the city so that he can talk about it.

 

== [[Anime]] ==

{{quote| '''Kimo''': And then I was like: "[[Catch Phrase|Attention duelists!]]", and, oh man, you should've been there!}}

 

== [[Film]] ==

{{quote| '''Artemus''': Which is not to say that Rita doesn't possess a beauty worthy of a Shakespeare sonnet or a Botticelli painting. The curvature of her buttocks and the swell of that magnificent bosom! So full, so sumptuous...<br />

'''Artemus''' (notices that Rita is in the room listening): So...what were all those foreign ministers doing at Loveless' party? This is what really puzzles me...<br />

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* ''[[Friends]]'' liked to do the fake anecdote trick when characters were hiding secrets from each other.

{{quote| '''Rimmer''': What does this mean? What does any of it mean? I've covered my body in complete and utter and total absolute nonsense gibberish! Aaaargh!<br />

''(Lister wakes up, coughing)''<br />

'''Michael''': And funnily enough, it lands on its wheels, and it starts first time and they just drive away.<br />

'''Alan''': [not realising the trope is in operation] Strangest story I've ever heard. [Gets up] Oh, hello. Lynn. Oh! I see what you were ah, right, yes. Hello, Michael was just telling me an army story about a friend of his who slept with ... a landrover. Lonely nights in the desert. }}

{{quote| '''Edmund Blackadder:''' GET OUT! GET OUT, LIBIDINOUS SWINE, AND TAKE THAT HORSE-SLUT PAINTED STRUMPET WITH YOU! MAY YOU BOTH ROT IN THE FILTH OF YOUR OWN FORNICATION!<br />

'''Queen Elizabeth::''' And what did you say to him?<br />

* Amongst other uses, Bart has a throwaway joke in [[The Simpsons]] that falls under the second case.

{{quote| '''Bart''': So I says to Mabel, I says....}}

 

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