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== [[Fan Works]] ==

* Shirou of [[In Flight]], every time someone calls him on anything strange about him. Eventually his flock start completing the sentence for him.

* In ''[[Oh God Not Again]]'', anytime a character asks Harry how he knows seemingly impossible things.

 

 

* In [[Everworld]] the characters often pretend to be traveling minstrels as a cover for the fact that they're from an alternate dimension

* [[Terry Pratchett]] [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] this one in the [[Johnny Maxwell Trilogy]].

* In ''[[Discworld/Interesting Times|Interesting Times]]'', Rincewind visits [[Imperial China|the Agatean Empire]], where foreigners are routinely executed. He's advised to tell anyone who gets suspicious that he's from Bes Pelargic, an Agatean town looked down on by everyone else for being a bit weird.

** Likewise, when the Patrician, Nobby and Colon are undercover as Klatchians in ''[[Discworld/Jingo|Jingo]]'', Sgt Colon is explained as being from Um, a town proverbial for stupidity. Every time someone gets suspicious about him (he doesn't know what a mineret is, he's unfamiliar with couscous, he's surprised by a flying carpet), the Patrician deftly turns it into an Um joke, and everyone laughs and relaxes.

* ''[[Fawlty Towers]]'' - Manuel being from Barcelona. It explains his bad English. It fails to explain anything else.

* ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' has a minor variation: The brothers have fake identities every case (FBI agents, doctors, etc), and stick with that for the entirety of the episode--which makes sense, considering they're stuck in a small town. This has led to truly ridiculous claims, such as managing to get everything for a case by being ''health inspectors''.

'''Sam:''' Don't worry, ma'am. I'm with the health department. }}

* One episode of [[Scrubs]] had Jordan repeatedly justifying her [[Jerkass]] tendancies with "My parents were mean to me". Everyone immediately accepts this as a sufficient explanation. At one point she even says it out loud in response to something she was merely ''thinking''. And of course, it turns out to be a lie anyway.

* ''[[The X-Files]]'': In ''Bad Blood:'' "We were drugged."

* Kelly Kapoor in the American version of [[The Office]] has a melodramatic wild card up her sleeve:

 

 

== [[Visual Novels]] ==

* In ''[[Princess Waltz]]'', Liliana uses "I lived abroad" to explain how [[Super Strength|she was able to jump out of a second-story window with a friend on her back without injury]].

'''Nishimoto:''' That's someone who lived abroad for you. }}

 

* ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]'': A [[Running Gag]] response earlier on happens every time Timmy is asked where he got his wished-for stuff from. Namely the quick response "Internet". See also the page quote.

** One episode subverts this Trope:

'''Mom''': ''"That's it, young man, you know you're not supposed to make your father scream like a girl three times in one day!"'' }}

** In one episode, while trying to explain why he was suddenly rich, he tried both an inheritance claim, and the usual claim, before settling on "I inherited the Internet!"