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'''Maverick''': Mobile, Alabama? Hell, I've been there. I'll bet we know the same people. You start.
'''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
* In ''[[There's Something About Mary|Theres Something About Mary]]'', a crude, low-class private detective is trying to impress Mary by pretending to be a suave architect. Cue her architect friend. {{spoiler|Who was also only pretending.}}
* In ''[[Kate and Leopold]]'', Kate's boss is trying to impress her by claiming to either have an impressive manor in England or know someone who does (we don't hear this claim, only the reaction). Leopold immediately points out that such a manor doesn't exist. Kate tries to say that Leopold could be wrong, but Leopold is adamant. He grew up there, and he'd know.
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'''Questioner:''' Oh, you mean Christian Life Center?
'''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
* Used by [[Sherlock Holmes]] in the short story ''The Three Garridebs'', in which he tests his suspicions of a con man posing as American by casually asking after the nonexistent mayor of the con man's claimed Kansas 'hometown'.
* A joke found in an issue of ''Readers' Digest'' (and possibly a real incident) referred to a man who liked to pretend he'd had the same operations that other people had been through so that he could share in their complaints. Eventually carelessness resulted in a pair of women asking him, "Really. When did you have your hysterectomy?"
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** In another episode Phoebe found a lost police badge, which she then starts flashing around to intimidate people. Eventually she tries to pull it on a real cop and tries to bluff her way through his questions, like which precinct she works at. After a while he seems to believe her, then he asks "So where did you find my badge?"
* An episode of ''[[Coupling]]'' ("the man with two legs") has Jeff for various reasons claiming to a woman he fancies that he has only one leg: It's too bad her brother also lost a leg.
* Happens to [[Seinfeld|George Costanza]] all the time; since he's always making up more interesting jobs for
** In one memorable example he tries to pass himself off as a marine biologist, and then he's asked to save a beached whale. {{spoiler|He saves it, but then admits he was lying and is dumped.}}
* In an episode of ''[[Hogan's Heroes]]'', Col. Hogan is trying to convince Col. Klink that he (Klink) is psychic as part of a complex scam (Business As Usual). As part of the convincing, he cites a "famous German scientist" who studies psychic powers, making up the name off the top of his head. Later, Klink has acquired a book about psychic powers by ''the same scientist'', leading Hogan to remark "Maybe ''I'm'' the one who's psychic!".
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* In one episode narrated in ''The Colditz Story'', a pair of British escapees pretending to be Flemish ("As Flamands we could pass off our bad German and our bad French -- a useful nationality!") were in a bar when a genuine Flamand came up. Fortunately, they were able to bluff their way through by bursting into laughter at the man's (presumably) hilarious story, buying him a drink, and quickly departing.
* [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32145277 Man impersonating police officer pulls over a real uncover cop car]. Some people have all the luck.
* Numerous stories on [[(The Customer is) Not Always Right]] have a scammer or angry customer impersonate a lawyer or someone with knowledge of law. Only to have a customer behind them step forward and reveal they are a lawyer as well, then disprove the customer. Which leads to the customer fleeing the store in shame. Another common variant is for the customer to angrily claim to be a friend of the owner, only for it to be revealed that they are actually ''speaking'' to the
** Several examples have had the employee/sane customer ''also'' lying about being the owner/lawyer, but successfully scaring away the troublemaker
* Stanley Johnson, [[Like Father, Like Son|father]] of British politician [[Upper Class Twit|Boris]] [[Cloudcuckoolander|Johnson]], used to be a spy. Supposedly, the first time he tried out his cover
** [[Too Dumb to Live|Runs in the family, then.]] Or...[[Obfuscating Stupidity|does it run in the family, rather, what?]]
*** In complete fairness, constructing the cover story would have been his superiors' responsibility.
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