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'''Homer''': Wait a minute! There's no Angus McLeod in North Kilttown! [[Refuge in Audacity|Why, you're not from Scotland at all]]! |''[[The Simpsons]]''}}

* In a similar fashion, the framing device for ''[[Y Tu Mama Tambien]]'' is a road trip to the (fictional, as far as the protagonists know) beach of ''Boca de Cielo'' ("Mouth of Heaven"). It's actually just an excuse to try and get the female lead to sleep with one or both of them, but then they actually reach it...

* In ''[[Maverick (film)|Maverick]]'', Bret Maverick wants to expose/embarrass the con woman "Mrs. Bransford".

'''Mrs. Bransford''': I've tried so hard to forget that place. }}

* Done in ''[[Catch Me If You Can]]'', when Frank's new girlfriend's father is trying to prove that he is lying about which school he went to. The father asks about the name of a certain professor's dog, knowing that Frank can't possibly know it -- Frank manages to evade it by saying the dog died.

* In a [[Choose Your Own Adventure]] style book where you time travel back to medieval times to figure out the meaning of the Order of Garter's motto, "Evil to those who think evil of it" (naturally ignoring questions of hygiene, health, height, and...hlanguage), one of your excuses for your oddness is that you come from Navarre. However, one of your rivals has a friend, actually from Navarre, who asks you how the king is doing...

* ''A Field Guide to Evangelicals and Their Habitat'' has tips for avoiding this when pretending to be an evangelical, including a sample conversation:

'''You:''' That's the one. }}

* The [[Discworld]] novel ''[[Discworld/Interesting Times|Interesting Times]]'' does a Reverse on this trope. Rincewind runs into someone from the place he's pretending to be from, and being [[Genre Savvy]] enough to know that his challenger is going to try to trip him up by asking him about a fictional person or location, calls him on it-- only instead the man asked him about a real person whose identity would be very obvious if Rincewind's story was true.

* On ''[[Home and Away]]'', Xavier poses as a university student in a philosophy course while trying to get with Miranda. When she introduces him to her friend, an actual philosophy student, it takes him all of a few minutes to [[Bluff the Imposter|trick him]] by claiming that [[Jerome Kern]] is a philosopher who'd interest him. However, the friend does nothing with this information, as Xavier is quickly exposed when Miranda comes to his high school to give a talk about Uni life.

* In ''[[The Nanny]]'' episode "The Butler, the Husband, the Wife, and Her Mother", Maxwell Sheffield [[It Makes Sense in Context|is posing as Sheffield family butler Niles when some butler inspectors arrive to evaluate Niles' performance]].

'''Maxwell:''' The other one... }}

* In ''[[Sanctuary]]'' during a flashback episode to WWII Watson poses as a Nazi tank driver and when stopped at a checkpoint claims to be from Bavaria when the Major can't place his accent. Guess where the real Nazi was from.

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* Parodied in ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''. The episode featuring Lisa Kudrow as a popular new student from the city. Homer is breaking into Springfield Elementary, and is caught by Groundskeeper Willie.

'''Homer''': Wait a minute! There's no Angus McLeod in North Kilttown! Why, you're not from Scotland at all! }}

** Another ''[[The Simpsons]]'' example:

'''Skinner''': Oh, not in Utica, no; it's strictly an Albany expression. }}

* Stewie on ''[[Family Guy]]'' managed to completely bluff his way through one of these without missing a beat or showing any signs of panic (having stuffed himself into the top of a corpse's suit so as to appear as the head on the body):

'''Stewie''': Yes yes, you too. Oh and if you see Arnie, tell him 'boogity boogity boo.' He'll know what it means. }}

* In the ''[[Pinky and The Brain]]'' episode "My Feldmans, My Friends", the Brain attempts to persuade his neighbour that "Mr The Brain" was his high school nickname by inserting his picture into a high school yearbook. The high school he picks happens to be the one his neighbour attended, so Brain is left trying to convince his neighbour that they were, in fact, classmates.