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{{trope}}
{{quote|"Oh, hey. We're rehearsing a - a scene for the upcoming company play called uh, Put That Thing Back Where It Came From Or So Help Me. It's a musical." |''[[Monsters, Inc.]]''}}
Two characters are caught in the middle of doing something they do not want others to know about, like talking openly about the [[Masquerade]], fighting among each other or [[Not What It Looks Like|making out]]. Since the situation is blatantly obvious, the only option is to claim that it was all just an act. Probably for a [[School Play]].
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Bonus points if this gets taken so far that the play actually ends up being written.
A subtrope of [[Blatant Lies]]. Compare [[Hurricane of Excuses]]. Compare [[It's for
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== Film ==
* The ''[[Monsters, Inc.]]'' example gets taken to extremes -- there's another instance played straight in the movie ("She's Out of our Hair"), and the DVD includes a feature showing the staging of the musical, and excerpts from several scenes.
* ''[[Men in Black (
{{quote| '''Agent K:''' Rosenberg mentioned Orion's belt. What did he mean?<br />
'''Frank:''' Beats me.<br />
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{{quote| '''Chandler:''' Hey, you kissed my Mom.<br />
'''Ross:''' We're rehearsing a Greek play. }}
* The inversion also appears in ''[[
* The ''[[MASH]]'' episode "Hey, Doc" did the inversion with Radar and Klinger. IIRC, one was proposing to the other.
* Inverted on ''[[I Love Lucy]]'', too. One episode, Lucy suspected new residents in a neighboring apartment of being Soviet spies, and while snooping around in their apartment, she winds up hiding in the closet when they return and hears them discussing plans about executing an important espionage mission for a communist agenda. Lucy freaks out, calls the police, at the episode's conclusion, it turns out that Lucy's new neighbors are actors who were reciting their lines for a play. In a large part, this was a [[Take That]] from Desi Arnaz, a Cuban, who, with wife Lucy, were both suspected of being communists in [[Real Life]] by... the FBI.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[
** Later Ellen and Nanase are caught kissing by Nanase's "Scary Homophobic Mother", Ellen [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-01-11 claims] "We're rehearsing a play about CPR!" while Nanase decides to come out.
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