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== Comics ==
* In ''[[Gotham Central]]'', as a result of having been working long hours and being generally tired and depressed, Renee Montoya accidentally lets slip to Maggie Sawyer, captain of the Major Crimes Unit, that Romy Chandler had her weapon taken by Batman after she tried to shoot him.
{{quote| '''Marcus Driver:''' "What, you figure I should just shoot over to this Tailor's place, get myself a Batman costume? Dress up and try to make Dunning wet himself?"<br />
'''Josie Mac:''' "Yeah, on second thought it's probably not such a good idea, Romy might try to bust a cap in your ass."<br />
'''Renee Montoya:''' "Yeah, well, he'd have to give her weapon back, first."<br />
'''Maggie Sawyer:''' "''What'' was ''that''?"<br />
'''Renee Montoya:''' "[[Oh Crap|Oh, Hell.]]" }}
 
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* It ends up being a crucial plot point in ''[[L.A. Confidential]]'' - {{spoiler|a corrupt cop reveals that he's actually the murderer of a police sergeant by asking his subordinate Exley to investigate a name the sergeant dropped as his last words. Which happens to be a name made up by Exley for his father's unknown murderer; he'd told the story to the sergeant on the previous day.}}
* [[Moulin Rouge]] first has a heavily sarcastic version:
{{quote| '''Nini:''' (to the Duke) I don't like this ending. Why on earth would she go with the penniless writer? Oops! I mean ''sitar player''.}}
** The second one comes as a response to this:
{{quote| '''The Duke:'''' Why shouldn't the courtesan marry the maharajah?<br />
'''Christian:''' ''Because she doesn't love you!'' ...him. She--she doesn't love him. }}
:: The first example is a deliberate leak, while the second is accidental.
* In ''[[Two Days In The Valley]]'', Teri Hatcher has hired killers to murder her husband. One of the police detectives notices that she says, "They killed my husband," implying that there were multiple murderers when the police hadn't established this fact yet. His partner brushes it off as a figure of speech.
* Several instances in ''[[Mystery Team]]''
{{quote| "I wish they'd all disappear like the lost colony of Roanoke. But they'd probably go, 'What's Roanoke?' And I'd go, 'Shut up, Caleb. '"<br />
"Following your dreams is never stupid, unless you dream about water and then you pee the bed last Thursday."<br />
"Forensic pathologists study the dead. Goths dress like the dead and date closeted gay guys named Ember."<br />
"We won't tell the police." "Oh man, now you sound like Dad." }}
 
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== Live Action Television ==
* From [[Angel]] 5.15 "Shells":
{{quote| '''{{spoiler|Knox}}:''' I don't just care about Fred - I practically worship it. <br />
'''Gunn''': You said "it".<br />
'''{{spoiler|Knox}}''': What?<br />
'''Gunn''': "Not "her". You said "'I worship ''it''".<br />
'''{{spoiler|Knox}}''' (smirking): Oops. }}
** In this context, "it" refers to {{spoiler|the goddess Illyria, about to be reborn via the sacrifice of our beloved Fred. Fred is the "her". In this case, Knox believes that only Fred was worthy to be Illyria's host.}}
* Whenever [[Stephen Colbert]] gets carried away in a rant and forgets he's not supposed to be talking about himself. On how ''[[High School Musical]]'' could be made [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism|more realistic]]:
{{quote| '''Stephen:''' If [the main character] went anywhere near the theater department, the football team wouldn't join him in a peppy dance number! They'd string him up on a goalpost by the tights of his home-made Romeo costume, and chuck stale Tater Tots at his head until I wet my pants! - ''his'' pants, ''his'' pants!}}
** Another example, after 'Papa Bear' Bill O'Reilly appeared on his show, Colbert showed a clip of the [[The O'Reilly Factor|O'Reilly Factor]] the next day where Bill says "Colbert ''blew'' me right away." Cue rant from Colbert how this was supposed to remain secret, how heartless O'Reilly was and it wasn't right away, they had dinner first. He goes onto his next segment where he uses the same phrase and realizes what Bill meant.
{{quote| '''Stephen:''' Oh, my. I have misjudged him. And perhaps said too much.}}
** This was common when he was on ''[[The Daily Show]]'', too. Several installments of "Even Stevphen" ended with him and Steve Carell having turned the topical "debate" of the day into a thinly-veiled or not-at-all-veiled discussion of their personal lives.
{{quote| '''Steve:''' ''[on why Elian Gonzalez shouldn't go back to Cuba]'' Well, isn't it obvious, Stephen? A delicate boy like that shouldn't be with his father. I mean, think about it. If he goes there and lives with his father, you know what he's gonna hear. [[When You Coming Home, Dad?|"No, Elian, Daddy can't go camping this summer, things are just too crazy at work,"]] or, [[Billy Elliot Plot|"No son of mine is going to take pottery class,"]] or, [[Why Couldn't You Be Different?|"Why aren't you tougher? You get beat up in school, you fight back! You don't go crying to the principal like a wussy little girl! Suck it up! Suck it up! Suck it up]], [[Freudian Slip|Steve!"]]}}
* ''~[[30 Rock~]]'':
{{quote| '''Jack''': Lemon, we have a problem.<br />
'''Liz''': I have this whole Tracy-Josh thing under control!<br />
'''Jack''': What are you talking about? }}
* In ''[[Red Dwarf]]'', Lister is reading Rimmer's diary to the Cat. Rimmer is outraged by this betrayal of privacy, and Lister tries to mollify him by saying he can read Lister's diary if he wants.
{{quote| '''Rimmer''': Why would I want to read ''your'' diary? It's full of puerile nonsense about Kochanski.<br />
'''Lister''': Ah, so you ''have'' read my diary. }}
* ''[[Law and Order UK]]: Durng the prosecution of an accused rapist/murdere, the key witness is a young woman who saw the man lurking around the building where the crime took place (she may very well have been the intended victim had she not evaded him. The man denies it, angrily accusing the girl of lying and referring to her tattoos before covering his mouth in horror as he realizes his mistake. Although the girl's arms were indeed covered with tattoos, she was wearing a jacket while in court. The only way he could have known about her tattoos was if he had seen her previously.
* Cuddy intentionally says too much to Wilson in an episode of ''[[House (TV series)|House]]''. She and House kiss, after which Wilson tries to trick her into confessing by asking her if everything's alright in a sort of leading tone of voice. She sees through the ruse and has no intention of denying the incident...
{{quote| '''Cuddy''': Everything's fine with my kissing House, oh God, you dragged it out of me, you're a genius.}}
 
 
== Video Games ==
* Near the end of [[Persona 4]], after {{spoiler|guessing out the identity of the killer}}, the Investigation Team go to the hospital to interrogate him. While he initially tries to give off some basic and non-specific answers, the continued grilling from the team (and Detective Dojima) gets him to blurt out:
{{quote| {{spoiler|'''Tohru Adachi'''}}: {{spoiler|"Namatame was the one who threw them in!"}}}}
** The funniest part about this: {{spoiler|[[Irony|He spent most of the game pretending to do this in order to manipulate the investigation team]], [[Hoist by His Own Petard|only to be exposed when he does it for real, thereby exposing that he knew the method by which the people were being killed, and the existence of the TV world]].}}
* In the case "Recipe for Turnabout" in ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]]: Trials and Tribulations'', {{spoiler|the case is won by [[Bluffing the Murderer]], causing the suspect in question to call you on it and revealing information he shouldn't have been aware of.}}
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== Webcomics ==
* The second variation was seen in ''[[Narbonic]]'', when Helen was preparing to tell Dave {{spoiler|that he's a latent mad genius}}.
{{quote| '''Helen:''' There's something I have to discuss with you... Artie made me promise.<br />
'''Dave:''' Uh-oh... is this about the sentient meme that took over the net in Blue Sector and keeps threatening to vaporize us via spy satellite?<br />
'''Helen:''' No, this isn't about the sentient meme! I didn't even know there ''was'' a sentient meme!<br />
'''Dave:''' Oh. Good.<br />
'''Helen:''' On second thought, let's make this about the sentient meme. }}
* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' presents: "[[Mr. Exposition|an ENDLESS BARREL of exposition]]" [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-05-27 spills it].
* When Zii in ''[[Ménage à 3]]'' breaks one of Gary's most prized Transformers and learns that it was a highly rare [[wikipedia:Overlord chr(28)Transformerschr(29Transformers)#Toys|Overlord]], she tries to pin it on a cleaning woman she made up: "Tragic, I know. Poor Overlord... never knew what hit him!" Gary than asks how did she know it was an Overlord.
* In [[Kid Radd]], Captain QB, after meeting with Crystal in a room they think is soundproof to discuss {{spoiler|killing Radd}}, sees Sheena on the way out and asks if she heard any of it. Sheena responds that "like your friend said," the room is soundproof. Thankfully, since QB isn't too bright, he never suspects anything, enabling Sheena to leave without incident and help save Radd.
* Sisko in ''[[D&DS9|D and DS 9]]'' [[Honor Before Reason|informs the DM]] that [[Failed a Spot Check|he (the DM) didn't realize]] he rolled a [[Critical Hit]], unaware that the DM plans to [[Railroading|railroad him into]] [[Dark and Troubled Past|a Dark backstory.]]
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== Real Life ==
* OJ Simpson made this mistake while discussing his polygraph test with a reporter. When asked whether he had ever taken a polygraph test, Simpson replies with an emphatic, "No." He then goes on to explain how he did go to the police station, did get hooked up to the machine, and watched the needles jump whenever his victims were mentioned.
{{quote| '''Reporter:''' It sounds like you took a polygraph.<br />
'''Simpson:''' YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT POLYGRAPHS!' }}
** Simpson then does on to discuss in great detail how he took a polygraph, and why he doesn't believe it "counts" as a "real" polygraph.
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