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* Hinagiku does this while watching Maria in ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler]]''. Not entirely sure if Maria caught on (Maria can be unbelievably dense sometimes), but her response is dead on.
* Often used by Akko in ''[[Girl Friends]]'' when she tries to discuss her love woes with her friends, without giving away they are about [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|her and another girl, Mari]]. The last time she used this is especially hilarious since she placed herself in the boyfriend of the friend role, leading to this exchange:
{{quote|'''[[Lovable Jock|Taguchi]]:''' Ah... her boyfriend is a cheater and he wants to cheat on her so he won't tell her which {{spoiler|university}} he's going to, right?
'''[[Lipstick Lesbian|Akko]]:''' ''(glaring)'' THAT IS NOT IT. THAT IS DEFINITELY NOT IT!! }}
* In ''[[School Rumble]]'', while asking her friends advice on how to tell someone she loves him, she tells them it's for a "friend of a friend".
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* In one episode of [[MASH]], Klinger tries to invoke this trope to describe a potential problem in the unit, very badly, to Colonel Potter (Who starts seeing through the story when Klinger mentions that the other MASH unit the alleged friend is at is in Cleveland). Potter just tells him to spit it out and Klinger admits that he found the newest nurse in the unit passed-out drunk in the mess the night before.
* "[[Will and Grace]]": Karen does this to Grace when she's pretending to be a maid to woo a hot maintenance man (of course, Karen's grip on reality is tenuous at best anyway):
{{quote|'''Karen:''' Listen. I have this friend who lives at The Palace Hotel. And she and her maid Ro--[[Last-Second Word Swap|Mosario]]...switched places so that my friend could pose as a poor, but honest chambermaid to woo a hunky maintenance man. Now my friend's fallen in love with him, and she's afraid that if she tells him the truth, he'll leave her. ''(Grace reaches to steal mints from Karen's chambermaid cart)'' Hey, hands off my friend's cart!
'''Grace:''' So, you're afraid...that a poor janitor might not love you because you're rich?
'''Karen:''' Not ''me'', my ''friend''! }}
* On ''[[Neighbours]]'' Stingray talks to his doctor about his friend who was given a "present" by another friend that he doesn't want. It takes Karl only a few seconds to figure out he's a)talking about himself and b) talking about a suspected STD. It doesn't help that Stingray's friend's name keeps changing. It turns out that his problem was just caused by nylon underpants.
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