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It wasn't a lake monster at all, but a disguised submarine.
We don't see '''Not the Nessie''' much today, but a submarine masquerading as Nessie to scare people away is the solution offered in a number of older films that feature that world famous lake monster. Variations include robot Nessies, paper mache monsters, and other counterfeits but the most often encountered version is a submersible ship, with a gargoyle head attached to give that scary sea serpent effect.
In these instances, the writers and producers were sheepish about introducing a ''real'' Loch Ness Monster into the world of the film. A a sub with a monster head riveted onto it is the default answer to the enigma of Loch Ness might seem cheesy. It is a handy way to write off a [[Special Effects Failure]], when it turns out it was ''supposed'' to be fake all along.
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== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* The ''[[Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea]]'' episode "Secret of the Loch". The Seaview not only finds a navigable underwater passage into the Loch, but a Soviet—ah, I mean, [[Hammer and Sickle Removed For Your Protection|Enemy]]—submarine there, pretending to be the monster. And based on what the model work was like, doing a rather bad job of it. Some may feel quite cheated to find out Nessie was a submarine in this one and, on considering how often "Voyage" had
* ''[[Stingray (1985 TV series)|Stingray]]'', a TV series that had actual sea monsters in it, sent Troy Tempest and his crew to Loch Ness, where they found Nessie was a robot, built in the 1940s and put through its paces to again, encourage tourist travel to the loch.
* ''[[The X-Files]]'' episode "Quagmire" has Mulder and Scully investigating reports of a lake monster. In one scene the owner of the local tourist trap is shown faking some monster footprints, whereupon he gets eaten by the ''real'' monster, a large alligator. Of course, this being
* An episode of ''[[The Goodies]]'' follows the basic outline, but the monster is only shown to be fake ''long'' after it's captured, when a zookeeper talks about breeding it with another captured sea monster. A real Nessie also hatches from an egg after the zookeeper tried to kill himself in shame.
* Done on ''[[Sea Hunt]],'' naturally enough, although it was only supposed to be a generic "sea serpent," and not Nessie herself.
* This example takes place in Minnesota rather than Scotland, but on an episode of ''[[Little House on the Prairie]]'' the children of Walnut Grove fabricate an Expy of Nessie to frighten Mrs. Oleson into leaving an old woman's lakeside house alone after the former tried to take it from the latter.
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== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* ''[[Alley Oop]]'' is about a time traveling cave man named Alley Oop. A few years ago{{when}}, Alley's pet dinosaur Dinny tagged along for one adventure, and the pair wound up in medieval Scotland. Suffice it that the Scots have remembered Dinny's visit ever since.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* ''[[Cracked.com]]''{{'}}s Photoplasty [http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_581_17-famous-images-as-seen-from-different-angle/?view=article Famous Images, As Seen From a Different Angle] depicts an elephant swimming and putting its trunk above the water as a snorkel, forming the famous photo of the Loch Ness monster.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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