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== Film ==
* In ''[[Sherlock, Jr.]]'', the detective played by [[Buster Keaton]] accepts a poisoned drink, then politely offers it to the would-be murderer's accomplice (who doesn't know about the poison).
* ''[[The Assassination Bureau]]'': Ivan Dragomiloff sees the countess pour poison into his chalice. He spins both chalices on a rotating table and the countess refuses to drink since she does not know where the poison is. Dragomiloff drinks the non-poisoned wine and fakes death. [
* Not so much a switcheroo in ''[[The Emperor's New Groove]]'', as much as Yzma's underling Kronk simply ''forgetting'' which chalice he poisoned. He deals with it by mixing the drinks in all the cups together, then frantically signaling to Yzma not to drink hers.
* ''[[The Princess Bride (film)|The Princess Bride]]'' features a subversion. After going through a long [[I Know You Know I Know]], Vizzini [[Look Over There|distracts]] the Man In Black and switches the goblets, then carefully waits for his opponent to drink first (since presumably the Man In Black would try to weasel out of drinking if he thought he was about to drink from the poisoned cup). Turns out {{spoiler|the Man In Black [[Take a Third Option|poisoned]] ''[[Take a Third Option|both]]'' [[Take a Third Option|chalices]], revealing to Buttercup afterward that [[Acquired Poison Immunity|he had built up a tolerance to the poison used]]}}. Ironically, ''both'' sides of his [[I Know You Know I Know]] were correct -- "I cannot choose the wine in front of you" and "I cannot choose the wine in front of me"—even though he was only using them to fish for a reaction.
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