Saying Too Much: Difference between revisions

* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]

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Examples:

== Anime and Manga ==

* In the Alabasta arc of ''[[One Piece]]'', Igaram says aloud that the royal guard currently fighting Sir Crocodile have used a [[Deadly Upgrade]] and will die shortly. Crocodile overhears this, and retreats to a rooftop to watch them die uselessly.

** [[CP 9]] agent Fukurou, in spite of having a giant zipper over his mouth, tends to blab intel to the enemy. The mission before the Enies Lobby battle was complicated by his jabbering, and the Straw Hats were able to plan their rescue of Robin thanks to his 'hints.'

== Film ==

* [[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 ''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.

* 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.}}

** 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.

'''Liz''': I have this whole Tracy-Josh thing under control!<br />

'''Jack''': What are you talking about? }}

{{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.

{{quote| '''Cuddy''': Everything's fine with my kissing House, oh God, you dragged it out of me, you're a genius.}}

* 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!"}}}}

** This happens a lot in the series. Usually it's the [[I Never Said It Was Poison]] variety.

* [[In the 1st Degree]]. If you play the game right, Tobin will end up blurting out information that makes him guilty right there in the courtroom.

'''Dave:''' Oh. Good.<br />

'''Helen:''' On second thought, let's make this about the sentient meme. }}

* 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(29)#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.