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* In ''[[Human Target]]'', Winston is faced with disarming a remote timer, which will trigger enough C4 to level the building around him. Faced with two wires and no clue, his only hope is Geurerro, a seedy freelance agent he calls over the phone... who doesn't have a clue either.
{{quote|'''Winston''': * hearing something 'plink' in the background* Did you just flip a coin?!
'''Guererro''': ...No. }}
* In ''[[Sliders]]'', whenever the team lands on a new world and has to explain why they don't know what's going on, they use the excuse "We're from Canada." We've hardly ever seen it fail. Although one time they had to pretend to be illegal immigrants from Canada the entire episode, who had snuck south into Mexico for work. (Thanks to the non-existence of America in the middle, and Mexico ending up with California.)
** The British show ''[[Goodnight Sweetheart]]'' uses something very similar. The main character constantly switches between 1941 and the modern day, meaning that he often ends up in the past with technology that shouldn't exist in that time. When anyone asks him about it, he invariably claims the gadget comes 'from America'. Everyone believes this without question, which is probably [[Truth in Television]].
* In the famed [[Harlan Ellison]] penned ''[[Star Trek: The
** [[Digging Yourself Deeper|"But fortunately there happened to be an American missionary living nearby who was a skilled plastic surgeon..."]]
* In an episode of ''[[Star Trek: The
** The second one works because Holodeck characters are literally programmed to accept even the most spurious of [[Hand Wave
* In ''[[Star Trek:
** He makes it clear with his first introduction that he's just "plain, simple Garak," a tailor on ''Deep Space Nine'', and definitely not a spy. It becomes rapidly apparent that ''most'' of what he says is a lie of some sort.
{{quote|'''Bashir''': What I want to know is, out of all the stories you told me, which ones were true and which ones weren't?
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** One episode features the other characters finding wine bottles full of blood in Nick's refrigerator. He claims he uses the blood to thin paint.
* ''[[Dead Like Me]]'' has George using every excuse she can to get out of work for her reaps. Plausible the first few times I am sure but it is a very consistent thing for years. (Trying to see an executive, she claims that it's "about his son, who drugged me, and then videotaped it while homeless people had sex with my unconscious body.")
* Averted in ''[[Firefly (TV series)|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.
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{{quote|"You know, William, that's what one Hubert Humphrey said back in 1968 at the start of the Democratic National Convention. But then hippies put acid in everyone's bourbon, and when an updraft revealed Lady Bird Johnson's tramp stamp, and tattoos above her ovaries, Mayor Richard J. Daley became so incensed with sexual rage that he punched his own wife in the face, and spent the next hour screaming 'sex party' into the microphones of all three major networks."}}
** Kurt claiming to be [[Camp Gay|straight]] for the first few episodes of season one. No one [[Transparent Closet|believed him.]]
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica
* Almost any competitive reality show will have at least someone lying through their teeth if it means getting them an advantage over the other people. Depending on the show, people can [[Karma Houdini|get away with it]] or [[Laser-Guided Karma|suffer for their actions with interest]].
* ''[[Kitchen Nightmares]]'' has this in full spades. Gordon Ramsay visits a restaurant that is in need of serious help and in nearly every episode, the owner, the chef, or just ''anybody'' working in the place will lie to Gordon's face whenever he asks something that is related to their problems, such as if the food is made fresh or is frozen. This is usually the people trying to hide a bigger problem or downplay them.
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* ''[[Psych]]'' uses this trope frequently. The lyrics to the theme song even point out that "I know you know that I'm not telling the truth." The premise of the series is founded on this trope as Shawn is a fake psychic detective. In the pilot, when Shawn is pressed by the police to explain how he solved a crime, Shawn lies, "Okay, okay. Fine, you win. I got the information, because... I’m a psychic."
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