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* Averted in ''[[Firefly]]''. In the first episode, Jayne, the ship's resident [[Token Evil Teammate|amoral mercenary]], mouths off and is told to leave the room. He claims that "[He] isn't paid to talk pretty", but leaves. Simon asks what Jayne does, and [[The Captain|Capt. Reynolds]] responds: "Public Relations." Given the kind of public the crew is used to dealing with, Jayne [[More Dakka|deals with them]] [[I Call It Vera|pretty well]].
** Especially if the public involves whores.
* In one ''[[Primeval]]'' episode Jenny "explains" a [http://en.wikipedka.org/wiki/Pristichampsus prehistoric crocodile]{{Dead link}} on a rampage in central London as a charity fun-run gone wrong. This is one of her more plausible explanations.
* ''[[Lost]]'''s Benjamin Linus does this almost constantly. If you listen to Ben a lot you realize that he lies just for the hell of it, such as when he tells Jack his mother taught him to read or said he was a Pisces. Even when the truth would be fine, he lies anyway.
* In the ''[[Top Gear]]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkE029a8bys truck driving challenge], Richard Hammond's cargo (a small car) had fallen out of the trailer during the alpine course. Afterwards, when Jeremy Clarkson showed up:
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