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'''Timmy''': What are ''yoou'' talking about?

'''Jorgen''': I'm talking about the fact you wished up an amusement park in your backyard and didn't invite me! You know how much I love the swan boats!

 

Alice has been acting suspicious. Bob knows she's up to something, watches her, and...[[Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?|comes to the wrong conclusion.]] He confronts Alice with what he thinks he knows, and Alice, to keep him from discovering her real secret, lets Bob think he got it right. May lead to a [[Maintain the Lie]] to keep Bob from catching on.

[[Sub-Trope]] of [[Entertainingly Wrong]].

 

 

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== Advertising ==

* In a series of Twix commercials, a man lies to a woman to get her to come home with him. When they get to his place, it's a mess.

{{quote|'''Man:''' I've been robbed!

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* [[Comic Book Adaptation|In the supplementary manga]] set before ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'''s second season, while Nanoha, [[Those Two Guys|Alisa, and Suzuka]] watched a tape sent by Fate, a girl from another world whom Nanoha [[Defeat Means Friendship|befriended]], [[Muggles|Alisa]] asked Nanoha a question that threatened to crack the [[Masquerade]] wide open.

{{quote|'''Alisa:''' What country is Fate from?

 

== Comic Books ==

* In ''[[The Goon]]'', federal agents have been investigating the ties between the titular character and his boss, the infamous and secretive mobster Labrazzio, in whose name The Goon has been controlling crime in the city. Eventually, the agents discover a tombstone with Labrazzio's name on it, and, recalling the Goon's story about how Labrazzio once hid out at the freakshow where the Goon grew up and took him in when his aunt was killed in a shootout, confront the Goon with their realisation that the Goon must have created the grave as a fake to throw people off of Labrazzio's scent. The Goon being perfectly aware that {{spoiler|he actually beat Labrazzio's brains out with a rock after the mobster mocked his aunt for dying, then stole Labrazzio's "favor diary" and claimed to be Labrazzio's new #1 in order to steal Labrazzio's place without anyone being the wiser}}, invokes this trope while making plans to destroy the tombstone, lest someone smarter figure things out.

* ''[[Spider-Man]]'': How Peter gets out of most situations when a disasters turn up and he simply has to leave the scene only to have Spider-Man show up a few seconds later.

'''Spider-man''': Sssure. Let’s go with that. }}

 

* This is played for laughs in ''[[Oh God, Not Again]]''.

{{quote|''' {{spoiler|Sirius:}}''' Top box. It was part of my reparation. Of course, the rest of it went to buying Harry a Firebolt but...

 

== Film ==

* In ''[[What Women Want]]'', Nick Marshall is at one point confronted by Lola who claims to know the secret why he's so understanding of women: he's gay! In reality, it's because he can read the minds of women. Nick goes along with the story, mostly because Lola's thoughts reveal that a rejection from Nick would support her fears that she was undesirable and ruin her self-esteem.

* In ''[[American Beauty]]'', Ricky Fitz's authoritative (and homophobic) dad sees Ricky through the window giving his neighbor some weed. From his vantage point, it looked like Ricky was giving him oral sex, and looking through some of Ricky's recorded videos of his neighbor working out, he had suspicions that Ricky was gay. When he confronted Ricky about his homosexuality (Ricky is actually straight), Ricky admitted to giving oral sex for money because it was better than his father finding out he was selling drugs. [[Alternate Character Interpretation|Either that]] [[Calling the Old Man Out|or he had just had enough of his dad's crap.]]

** It's actually both. [[All There in the Manual|Leaked drafts of the script]] reveal that Ricky had been looking for an excuse to get kicked out of the house for a while.

** It's actually in the movie itself. The father threatens to kick his son out if he's gay, the son asks if he's serious, which the father confirms, so the son tells him he's gay.

* In ''The New Guy'', Danielle confronts "Gil" (AKA a post-[[Makeover Montage|makeover]] Dizzy) with "I'm onto you". He thinks that she's talking about his previous identity as his last school's [[Butt Monkey]]. She thinks that he's actually a [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]. He decides to play along with that.

 

== Literature ==

* In one of Robert Asprin's ''[[Myth Adventures|Myth]]'' books, Don Bruce, a Mob boss, comes to see Skeeve, who has been quietly sabotaging Mob operations, and says he knows Skeeve is the reason the Mob hasn't succeeded in moving into the dimension of Deva. He lists the evidence: Skeeve knows the territory, has connections on Deva, etc. His conclusion? They should have hired Skeeve to work for them in the first place. This echoes an earlier scene in which the Devan Merchants' Association hires Skeeve to defend them from the Mob, not knowing he was the one who originally brought the Mob to Deva. To cover up the truth, Skeeve agrees to work for both sides, so he has to maintain a balance between working for the Mob and limiting Mob activity on Deva.

* In ''[[Star Wars/Allegiance|Allegiance]]'', five stormtroopers end up as fugitives from the Empire, but remain Imperials themselves, remembering the oath they made to protect Imperial citizens. When they stop at a spaceport on an out-of-the-way world and the local authorities fine them needlessly and confiscate their speeder bikes, they snoop around and find that the local authorities are very corrupt, confiscating weapons from the citizens, shooting protesters, and basically trying to milk money from anyone and everyone. The local citizens aren't allowed to petition higher authorities and can't do much themselves, since they don't have blasters. So the [[Badass Crew|stormtroopers]] take care of that problem for them. The locals are pleased, and believe the stormtroopers were sent officially.

'''La Rone''': It was amazing sometimes how hindsight enabled people to jump to such incredibly wrong conclusions. "Of course." }}

* In the [[Discworld]] novels, Vimes (and a few other Watchmen) play this line when someone takes a guess at the identity of the Watch's famous werewolf, and usually they guess it's Nobby. (They're wrong.)

* [[Percy Jackson]] guesses that Thalia Grace freaked out while driving the sun-chariot because her mom died in a car crash. Thalia lets it ride because it's better than admitting the daughter of Zeus, god of the Sky, is afraid of heights.

* [[Mistborn|Vin]] pulls this when {{spoiler|Kliss}} assumes she's been trying to drive a certain house into bankruptcy so House Renoux can corner the weapons market...when Vin is really part of a conspiracy to throw the city into civil war and overthrow the Lord Ruler.

 

== Live Action TV ==

* ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'': Olive thinks Chuck faked her own death. In fact, Chuck was really dead and was [[First-Episode Resurrection|resurrected by the pie maker]].

** Also from ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'', when Olive notices that Chuck and Ned never touch each other:

'''Callie''': Wait, that was you? You're the heart in the elevator guy?

'''Alex''': ([[Beat]]) Sure, let's go with that. }}

{{quote|'''Naomi:''' [Motioning between the bottles in her hand] So, what do you want?

'''Emily:''' [Completely mesmerized by her] Anything. Just give me a fucking...Just.. Just give me a...[leans over and kisses her. Naomi shows absolutely no resistance]

'''Emily:''' ...Sure.

[The two starts to make out like crazy.] }}

{{quote|'''Kurt:''' I'm in love with someone. *stares longingly at Finn*

'''Mercedes:''' *sees Rachel stand up* Rachel?!

* ''[[Pair of Kings]]'': After a giant spider is destroyed and the Kings got dirtied by it. When Brady asked asked Boomer if that's the reason Boomer said he needed a change of underwear, Boomer hesitated before answering 'Yes'.

* ''[[Kamen Rider Fourze]]'': Ryusei has a [[Freak-Out]] during a special exam, and his friends think that he only faked it so that he'll have more free time on his hands, thus being available for Zodiarts attacks. Wanting to keep up his stoic image, Ryusei just goes along with their idea...

 

== Video Games ==

* Ford Cruller of ''[[Psychonauts]]'' was severely psychologically damaged in an important battle years ago, and becomes scatterbrained, to say the least, when taken away from the large levels of Psitanium located underneath the camp where the game takes place. When he leaves the metal, he takes on split personalities who have no trace of Cruller's intelligence and wherewithal. He tells Raz, the protagonist, that this is because he wants to keep his identity a secret, so he 'pretends' not to recognize Raz. Cruller doesn't reveal the real reason until much later in the game.

* In ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]]: Justice For All'', Case 4, this is what happens if Phoenix presents the profile of {{spoiler|"John Doe" to his client. He knowingly plays along with Phoenix's misinformation about Doe's identity - i.e. that he's merely a [[The Butler Did It|butler]]}}.

 

== Webcomics ==

* ''[[Girl Genius]]'', in [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20030903 this] example. Also a meta-[[Sure Why Not]].

{{quote|'''[[Squishy Wizard|Vaarsuvius]]:''' Oh, forget it. It would take longer to make you understand than it would to research the next spell.

'''[[Spoony Bard|Elan]]:''' Wait -- are you saying that you're going to research the spell "Haste" if I don't distract you anymore?

 

== Western Animation ==

* Became a [[Running Gag]] [[Catch Phrase]] on ''[[The Fairly OddParents]]'' to the point where they could parody it:

{{quote|'''Vicky''': Hey, this microphone uses technology to make your voice deep and irresistible.

* In the ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' episode "Chez Platypus," Perry the Platypus attempts to do his usual "[[There Was a Door|break down the door]]" entrance, only to get his foot stuck in the door. Dr. Doofenshmirtz starts to help him out, commenting, "You're really trapped in here...just like I planned!" And then he goes off to describe his latest scheme, leaving Perry with his foot in the door.

* An episode of ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'' had Beezy dressing like Jimmy, telling Heloise "It's lucky you had an extra set of Jimmy clothes." Heloise mummers "Yeah, lucky..." before entering and reveling in her Jimmy-themed [[Stalker Shrine]].

{{quote|'''Homer:''' Krusty! You came to save me!

'''Krusty:''' Yeah...''that's'' what I did. }}

{{quote|'''Burns:''' I take it you found the bathroom?

'''Homer:''' (guiltily) Uh...yeah, that's right! }}

** Alternatively, Celestia was well aware of what was going on and pretended to misunderstand to allow Twilight to save face.

* The ''[[Family Guy]]'' episode "When You Wish Upon A Weinstein": Max Weinstein says he cannot eat Lois's [[Cordon Bleugh Chef|marshmallow and fish casserole]]. Lois assumes because it's not kosher, and after looking at it Weinstein lets her think that.

{{quote|'''Dudley's Mom''': No grown man should be walking around with ketchup on his shirt.

'''Snaptrap''': Yes...that's what it was, ketchup. Lots and lots of ketchup. }}

{{quote|'''Martin Smarty''': Well, ''[[Hello, Nurse!|hello]]''...Being a ''single'' father such as I am, it would be my privilege to assist you, Miss...?

'''Shego''': Whoa! Back off!

{{quote|*As Kim is about to jump out of the Sloth onto the Kepler*

'''Wade''': Wait! Before you go-

'''Ron''': ...I had nothing to do with this!

'''Wade''': Ron...They're Magno-Rings. They'll help you hold on to the side of the Kepler.

 

== Real Life ==

** Alternatively, you could let them think they got it right, and surprise them with just how wrong they were. Sort of like what could happen in a good story.

** Also a good tactic when the DM asks if you did something in preparation. "Did you do X before Y?" "...yeah, sure."

** Though this can backfire; it is especially entertaining when the players start to say "Sure, let's go with that", then get that deer-in-the-headlights look because they just realized the DM might actually be checking to see if they did something that would insta-kill them.

 

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