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** 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.
* ''[[Burn Notice]]'': Sam is trying to clear out an office temporarily so Michael can steal some information from one of the office computers. So posing as an office manager, he tries to herd everyone into a meeting room to work on "team work activities". It's not until he promises cake do people start listening to him. They're very grouchy later when they find out he lied.
* [[Chuck]]: In "Chuck vs the Wedding Planner" the team sets up an elaborate con Wedding reception, including a cake made of fondant, icing... and Styrofoam.
* [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]] on ''[[Boy Meets World]]''. When Mr. Feeney has trouble getting Shawn to attend his SAT preparation class, he makes up lie on the spot about there being delicious cake at the class. But later we see Shawn at the class, and he is in fact eating a big piece of cake.
* On ''[[Twilight Zone]]'', a talkative man bets another member of his exclusive club a fortune that he can't remain silent for a full year. He succeeds {{spoiler|by having his vocal cords severed in secret}}, but the man he made the bet with admits that he's flat broke and could never have paid the agreed-upon sum.
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** Also referenced in ''[[Bookworm Adventures]]'': one of the loading screen messages reads "Lying about cake...".
** 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, [[
** ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' has an achievement called "The Cake Is Not a Lie," earned by learning the [[Luck-Based Mission|very hard-to-get]] chocolate cake recipe and baking said cake.
* [[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 [[
* 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!"
* In ''[[Bully (video game)|Bully]]'', Gary prompts you to follow him through the school's [[Absurdly Spacious Sewer|basement]], promising nothing [[Cryptic Conversation|specific]], just having something to ''show you''.
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* 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 [[PvP]] zone of a much lower level to look for "shinies". This triggers the in-game mechanic of turning people too high for a given zone into a [[One-Hit-Point Wonder|chicken]] - and if you actually do make it through alive, the goblin roundly mocks you for believing him. You do get a humorous title for it, though.
* 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.}}
* At the beginning of ''[[Tales of Monkey Island]] Chapter 4'', Guybrush thinks there would be "ice cream cake" when Flotsam's citizens arrive. {{spoiler|Instead, he is summoned to court on civil and criminal charges.}}
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:: So the kids leave.
** Again invoked with the kids trying to start a group for protecting films of America with "Free Hat." ... Which [[Comically Missing the Point|gets misconstrued]] to be a criminal called Hat McLoughley.
* Subverted in the [[MAD]] bit "The Buzz Identity":
{{quote|'''Buzz''': So the cake is a lie?
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* In one episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'', Homer intentionally gained weight until he became at least 300 lbs. heavy. When Marge decided to tell Homer to stop and Lisa went to tell him Marge was calling, she said Marge baked a cake. After Marge's failed attempt to dissuade Homer, he still asked about the cake.
** In another episode, Springfield Police Department started a fake boat giveaway to lure lawbreakers. When it was Homer's turn, he was forced to pay fines and ''still'' had to be told the boat was a lie.
* In ''[[Dave the Barbarian]]'', Fang tricks Dave into entering a Mongrel Hordes Boot Camp, by saying they were going to a hat show.
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* 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]].
* Burrell Smith (who designed the hardware for the original [[Apple Macintosh|Macintosh]]) would often promise to [http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=I%27ll_Be_Your_Best_Friend.txt&sortOrder=Sort%20by%20Date&detail=medium be your best friend] in order to get you to do something. This relationship, however, only lasts a few milliseconds.
* Happens all too often when you're a toddler. Your parent will promise you a reward if you do something or go through something, and once that's over with they take back their word. This even happens to kids, teenagers, and even adults, and it encourages kids to engage in rebellious behavior—and they wonder why there's so many rebellious teenagers around.
** As the description for [[Moving the Goalposts]] points out, this is actually [[Abusive Parents|a subtle form of psychological abuse]] which may result in life-long trust issues since, well, if you can't trust your parents, [[Paranoia Fuel|whom can you trust?]]
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:Edison also refused to raise Tesla's salary from 18 to 25 dollars a week (a rather reasonable request as the original salary was for a line worker while Tesla was now making some of the most advanced creations at Edison's plant). All of this was the main reason why Tesla went to work for Westinghouse, who not only fully acknowledged him, but also paid him a crap-load of money, which Tesla then immediately spent [[Mad Scientist|on various bizarre inventions]]. That said, Tesla indeed was one of the fathers of a modern AC power grid, and won the "War of Currents" for Westinghouse.
* Jodee Berry, a former Hooters waitress in Panama City, Florida, won a contest for most beer sales held by her boss, who announced that the grand prize was a new Toyota. On the day of the presentation, she was blindfolded and led to the restaurant's parking lot to receive her prize...which turned out to be a [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Toy]] [[Star Wars|Yoda]]! She quit immediately and won an undisclosed settlement against Gulf Coast Wings, Hooters parent company, a year later. [http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002/05/09/toy-yoda.htm Part of the settlement included a Toyota car of her choice.]
* Swedish-Finnish journalist, writer and talk-show host Mark Levengood once said this happened to him. His mother told him that if he did not start smoking before his 18th birthday, she would pay for his drivers license. When he turned 18 and asked for his reward, his mother [[Hypocritical Humor|lit another of her cigarettes]] and told him she had never planned to pay his driving lessons. "The important thing was that you did not start smoking, and it did succeed, didn't it?"
* A literal, if subverted, example: Twinkies. [[Squick|Read the ingredients list]]; very little of it sounds even remotely like cake, more like industrial sludge...and yet, like the disgusting ingredients of the infamous [[Portal (series)|Portal]] cake, it all comes together to form...yup. Cake.
* Atheists tend to view religious claims of [[Fluffy Cloud Heaven|an afterlife]] as examples of this trope, with heaven as "the cake" (or more precisely "[http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/282700.html Pie in the Sky]" or "[http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/jam-tomorrow.html Jam Tomorrow]"). There is no evidence that the cake exists, and you can't ask anyone who has finished the test. You only have [[
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