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* ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'': Happens quite often due to the format of the show, but a more recent example has Ted recalling stories of Marshall's co-worker Jenkins, imagining Jenkins as a man, before it is revealed that Jenkins is actually a woman.

* ''[[Ugly Betty]]'':

'''Amanda''': ''[shoving the girl to the floor]'' Out of the way, skank! }}

* ''[[Doctor Who]]'', "The Unicorn and the Wasp": As each of the party guests says what they were doing at the time of the murder, their flashbacks show them doing something different (for example, that's not ''tea'' Lady Eddison is drinking...). A [[Genre Savvy]] viewer can spot the murderer as {{spoiler|the one person whose flashback doesn't show him doing something suspicious.}}

** Earlier in "The Runaway Bride" Donna says it was Lance who asked to marry her, and that he was insistent. That's not exactly what happened...

* Used extensively in ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'', where characters will say what they thought happened and then the deadpan narrator will explain over a clip what ACTUALLY happened.

'''Narrator''': I do. }}

* In a season four [[Due South]] episode, Fraser is remembering hunting with an old mentor, who is trying to convince him not to shoot a wild animal. What with the way Fraser is portrayed in the series, it comes as a real surprise when {{spoiler|he shoots the animal anyway}}.

* In ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' Mr. Krabs recalls the first time Plankton tried to take the Krabby Patty formula, which was just him ''asking'' for it.

* Inverted in ''[[The Simpsons]]'' -- in the episode "Day of the Jackanapes", Krusty is showing clips from his career as part of a retrospective:

'''Krusty:''' Back then, you couldn't say "pants" on TV. I was banned for ten years. }}

* In [[Batman: The Brave And The Bold|Batman the Brave And The Bold]] in the episode, Sidekicks Assemble, Green Arrow mentioned about how well he treated Speedy. Then, in a flashback, it revealed him ordering kid Speedy to get his bow from a bunch of alligators.

* ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]'' has a flashback to Carl's [[Hilariously Abusive Childhood]], with something of a sudden twist at the end...

'''Carl:''' No, I... You know, I remember eatin' carpet. Not so much the lasers and the robots, though. }}

* In an episode of ''[[King of the Hill]]'', Lucky tells the story of how his grandfather found a walnut tree stump in the 1920s. While he says about the grandfather was on a church picnic, the [[Flashback Cut]] shows that he was actually trying to escape from prison (what Lucky calls "going to meet his maker" is also shown to be his execution by electric chair). Unlike most instances of this trope, however, it's implied that Lucky isn't deliberately lying but rather telling the story as he heard it.