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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 creating a false identity a character has invented a piece of backstory. Perhaps, when asked about their hometown or high school, they blurt out a fake name, sometimes inventing it [[Line
This situation can be part of a [[Spot the Imposter|Spot]] or [[Bluff the Impostor]] scene. See also [[Because I'm Jonesy]], which is going one step further: an impostor meets the very person he's masquerading as. If it actually works, consider [[Seamless Spontaneous Lie]].
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'''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 ''[[
* 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.
** Leopold further shatters JJ's pretensions by pointing out the errors he made in trying to fake familiarity with ''[[La Boheme|La boheme]]''.
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** Played straight when Newkirk attempts to pass himself off as an expert forger. The head of the forgery operation asks him if he's familiar with a certain forger and certain machine and Newkirk claims to know both intimately. Of course, one's a composer and the other's a piano.
** Another is a test Colonel Hogan uses to see if escapees are actually German spies, asking if they know certain people from the unit they claim to be from. All of these people are fictional.
* Subverted in the ''[[
** The ruse only falls apart when {{spoiler|the ex-girlfriend decides that it's the opportune time for Jack to meet "his" son.}}
* In an episode of ''[[Will and Grace]]'', Will pretends to be a professional tennis player (because being a lawyer at a party kills conversations), and then panics when he finds out there's an actual professional tennis player at the party. {{spoiler|Who is also a fraud due to his real job being an even worse conversation killer: IRS agent.}}
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** Interestingly enough, the real Jack Harkenss turns out to be gay, while the immortal one is of the [[Anything That Moves]] variety. The Jacks end up being attracted to each other, which "our" Jack finds painful, as he knows the real Jack is destined to heroically die the next day.
* Referenced on a first-season episode of ''[[House (TV)|House]]'', following Cameron's {{spoiler|very brief}} resignation. Interviewing candidates for the empty post, House asks one, "Do you really speak four languages, or are you just betting on never being interviewed by someone who does?"
* In ''[[Spellbinder]]'', when Ashka finds her way to our world, she uses the name "Mrs. Harley" ([[Line
* The ''[[Veronica Mars]]'' episode "The Wrath of Con" sees Veronica and Wallace infiltrating a college party posing as prospective students. Wallace claims to be a math major and finds himself having to come up with plausible-sounding answers to questions like: "The Poincar� conjecture or [[Fermats Last Theorem|Fermat's Last Theorem]]: which one do you think better defines the geometry of three-dimensional space?"
* In the ''[[Scrubs]]'' episode "My First Kill", J.D., panicking, finds himself claiming that his patient is from Luxemburg - which is not only untrue, but nothing to do with what he's actually lying about! Dr Cox spent two weeks in Luxemburg. Subverted in that J.D. does answer Dr Cox's questions accurately ("Thank you, third grade book report!"), but Dr Cox still realises he's lying because, well, [[Bad Liar|it's really obvious]].
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