Saying Too Much: Difference between revisions

* Happens many, MANY times in [[Detective Conan]], whenever the culprit is confronted.

* In the [[Ace Attorney]] manga, Turnabout Showtime features an example in which it is not revealed that the person has made a mistake until very late in the trial. Raymond Spume yells at Julie Henson for "biting her nails during the show just like (she is) now!" when pulling the murdered Flip out of his costume. It turns out that Sparklestar's (the mascot Raymond plays) back was turned to Julie while she was biting her nails, meaning that Raymond could not have seen her doing it unless {{spoiler|he was wearing his costume backwards, which would enable him to unzip it and stab Flip, who was also wearing it the same way so that he could perform a backflip the same way he did a front flip}}.

 

== Comic Books ==

'''Maggie Sawyer:''' "''What'' was ''that''?"

'''Renee Montoya:''' "[[Oh Crap|Oh, Hell.]]" }}

 

== Film ==

"Forensic pathologists study the dead. Goths dress like the dead and date closeted gay guys named Ember."

"We won't tell the police." "Oh man, now you sound like Dad." }}

 

== Literature ==

** The ''real'' twist is that {{spoiler|the robot wasn't going to tell the truth anyway, since the First Law (manifested as a desire to protect the professor's reputation) trumped the fact that it would be scrapped if it didn't speak out, as well as the order to be quiet. The only reason for US Robotics' lawyer to call the robot to testify was in order to trick the professor, who distrusted robots and was deliberately ignorant of how they worked, into making that slip.}}

* Poor [[Harry Potter|Hagrid]] is prone to this, especially when he's distraught or talking to the [[Power Trio]]. He lets slip the means to calm [[Fluffy the Terrible]], the name of a warlock who helps immensely with a search he doesn't want them to succeed in, and several other pieces of relevant information over the course of the books. Often [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] by Hagrid himself immediately after 'I shouldn't have said that'.

* In ''[[The Diamond Age]]'', Inspector Chang returns Hackworth's top hat, saying that he got it from a suspect. Hackworth thanks Chang for having "arrested him" despite Chang not having mentioned anyone being arrested, inadvertently admitting that the hat was stolen from him. He had wanted to keep the theft a secret, because the thieves had also stolen from him an illegal copy of the Primer that he had made.

* ''[[America (The Book)]]'' has [[Footnote Fever|a footnote]] listing countries where the U.S. has carried out secret/illegal military operations, ending with "[[Canada, Eh?|Cana-]]... we've said too much."

 

* From [[Angel]] 5.15 "Shells":

{{quote|'''{{spoiler|Knox}}:''' I don't just care about Fred - I practically worship it.

'''Gunn''': "Not "her". You said "'I worship ''it''".

'''{{spoiler|Knox}}''' (smirking): Oops. }}

* 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!}}

{{quote|'''Stephen:''' Oh, my. I have misjudged him. And perhaps said too much.}}

{{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]]'':

* 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 ==

* In ''[[Catherine]]'' {{spoiler|Thomas Mutton}} assumes that {{spoiler|Vincent has figured him out}} and accidentally confesses {{spoiler|his involvement}} when he was never under suspicion in the first place.

 

* 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.

** Another instance had our heroes being tried in juvenile court for egging Tom Anderson's house. Butt-Head tries to discredit Anderson's testimony by claiming that his vision wasn't strong enough to see exactly who threw the rotten eggs, pointing out that it could as easily have been Stewart Stevenson. The prosecutor then asks how Butt-Head could have known the eggs were rotten, unless he was the one that threw them. Oops.

* In ''[[Batman Beyond]]'', this is how Terry McGinnis almost immediately provesthat {{spoiler|Willie Watt}} is responsible for the strange occurences at their high school.

 

== Real Life ==

 

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