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== Literature ==
* This is also sometimes known as [
** Explicitly referenced by Terry Pratchett in [[Discworld]]'s ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Hogfather|Hogfather]]''.
* The White Witch in ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia|The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe]]'' promises Edmund more [[Evil Tastes Good|Turkish Delight]] for playing along with her.
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== Live Action Television ==
* [[
* The premise of the US [[The Office|Office]] episode "Scott's Tots" was founded on this.
** It is worth noting that Michael had every intention of sending those kids to college when he made that promise. He was just ridiculously over-optimistic about what his life would be like by the time they would graduate.
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** Averted in the fan prequel ''Portal: Prelude''. {{spoiler|1=At this time, Aperture Science was staffed by real people, and when you complete the test, you really are about to be given cake... But then the scientists put a hold on the party until after they turn GLaDOS on. ''[[Hoist By His Own Petard|Without the Morality Core ready to be installed]].''}} It should be obvious what the player has to do after this...
** Also averted in ''Portal: The Flash Version''. However, based on the context of ''that'' game, [[G La DOS]] likely wasn't even finished (perhaps even ''created'') at that point.
** ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' has an achievement called "The Cake Is Not a Lie," earned by learning the [[Luck
* [[Word of God|Erik Wolpaw]], Portal's writer, had announced that there will be absolutely NO cake anywhere in the sequel, not even in the dialogue, because [[Discredited Meme|he is tired of cake jokes]]. However, with the binary code in the following comic translating to "the cake is a lie," and Doug Rattmann's drawing of the cake in the Portal 2 preview, that turned out to be a lie of its own. He even stated [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/video-games/8359173/Portal-2-developer-interview-Chet-Falisek-and-Erik-Wolpaw.html they couldn't resist putting one joke]--on a door claiming to lead to [[G La DOS]]' emergency shutdown and cake dispensary. [[The Cake Is a Lie|Take a guess as to the door's authenticity]]. Other than that, the [[Arc Words|Arc Word]] has turned into [[It Makes Sense in Context|"potato"]].
* In the ''[[Neverwinter Nights]]'' mod Tales of Arterra, if you complete the obstacle course in Vannik the Red's hideout you find a large chest containing a sheet of paper: "Congratulations! Your reward is knowledge! Word: bamboozled. Synonyms: hoodwinked, befuddled. Definition: to be deceived. Example: The foolish adventurer was bamboozled into thinking there was loot at the end of the obstacle course!"
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* The tutorial in ''[[Mercenaries]] 2'' is basically one of these.
* In the episode ''The Tomb of Sammun-Mak'' of ''[[Sam and Max]]'', the great-grandpas of Sam and Max (Sameth and Maximus) are entrusted by M. Papierwaite to find and [[MacGuffin Delivery Service|deliver]] an artifact called The Devil's Toybox. Having done so, they find out the promised reward is {{spoiler|to have Maximus sacrificed in a [[Summoning Ritual]]}}
* [[Warhammer Online]] has a quest in which a goblin tells you to run through the [[
* In [[The Seventh Guest]], Stauf promises that the guest who {{spoiler|brings Tad to him}} will have their wish granted. This is not quite what happens...
* In ''[[Red Dead Redemption]]'', this happens twice. First, {{spoiler|1=Captain DeSanta promises to give Javier Escuela and Bill Williamson to Marston in exchange for helping him fight the rebels. Instead, he tries to have him executed.}} Later, {{spoiler|Agent Ross reneges on his promise to leave Marston and his family alone after his old gang are dead by sending the US army to kill them.}}
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* [[The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog|The tip is, 'Always buy new shoes in the afternoon, after your feet have expanded'.]]
** An episode of the ''[[Where's Waldo|Where's Waldo?]]'' animated series did the same joke.
* In an episode of ''[[He Man and The Masters of The Universe (Animation)|He Man and The Masters of The Universe]]'', Mech-a-neck is [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?|tired of just having an extendo-neck as a special ability]], and a wizened little man says he can give him better powers if he retrieves a [[MacGuffin]] for him. Once he gets the [[MacGuffin]] he just runs off and uses it to transform back into a handsome and powerful mage, after being turned into an old man by the Sorceress.
* In ''[[The Emperor's New School (Animation)|The Emperors New School]]'', Kuzco, Malina and Kronk go on a quest to capture a Shuaka, which is supposed to give them a pot of gold. The Shuaka tells them that in order to get the pot of gold, they'd have to perform a series of tasks. It turned out there was no gold, and he was just getting them to do his chores for him.
* In ''[[South Park]]: [[The Movie|Bigger Longer and Uncut]]'', Cartman suggests bringing in potential members to [[La Résistance]] by promising punch and pie. When the meeting starts ...
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== Real Life ==
* Jack Thompson promised 10,000 dollars to a charity of [[Take Two Interactive]] chairman Paul Eibeler's choice if anyone would make a certain video game, then failed to deliver when the game wasn't made once, but multiple times even. Read more on the page about him. [[Penny Arcade]] made the donation when he revealed he wouldn't, with the check note saying "Because Jack Thompson wouldn't." Jack Thompson tried to force them to rescind the check, making him try to keep the cake a lie, even if he wasn't the one baking it. That's right, not only did Jack Thompson lie about donating to charity, he ''tried to stop other people from donating to charity to make up for his dumb ass.'' You can read all about that story [
* In a 1996 ad campaign to promote ''Pepsi Stuff'', commercials for the film ''True Lies'' claimed that if anyone collected 7,000,000 points, Pepsi would give that person a Harrier jet (featured in the movie). A man by the name of John Leonard redeemed a check equivalent to the amount of the 7,000,000 points, but Pepsi refused on the grounds that the jet was not really being offered. After a lawsuit was filed, a federal judge sided with Pepsi.
** [http://www.snopes.com/business/market/mars.asp Seems Pepsi could have used a lesson from] [[Burma Shave (Advertising)|Burma Shave]].
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