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Given a choice between believing her beloved, who has never lied but always been faithful and true, or believing the [[Horrible Judge of Character|scheming bitch]] with a [[Villains Never Lie|history of deceit]] and an obvious agenda, naturally our dumb heroine immediately accepts the worst of the story, and totally rejects her true love [[One Side of the Story|without even asking his side of it]]. When he pathetically asks why she's upset, she only says, "You know what you did!" with a side of [[Death Glare]], thus cementing what should be a [[Discredited Trope]], but, sadly, is not.
At times the woman ''will'' ask the man some transparent question, such as, "Did you spend the night with Dorothy?" Unfortunately, the man doesn't actually get ''why'' she's asking, and in responding with detail-free answers - or answers with the ''wrong'' details ("Why, yes - we got a lot of exercise ''that'' night. Good thing, 'cuz I was getting pretty cold.") - merely confirms the woman's fears. The woman, of course, never asks clarifying questions that would resolve the matter, and the man never picks up on the fact that he ''needs'' to clarify because he [[I Do Not Speak Nonverbal|does not speak nonverbal]] - in fact, sometimes he'll believe that the woman knows exactly what's going on to begin with, hence the lack of necessary detail.
And of course, the woman never wonders why, if he was cheating on her, he'd just casually admit to it like that, being that he hasn't displayed [[Jerkass]] traits before.
A form of [[Genre Blindness]], with a giant, gooey [[Idiot Ball]].
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*** Stottlemeyer explains it himself to Monk in a later episode, the one where Monk gets shot. He's acting like a tremendous [[Jerkass]] to Natalie because he blames her for his injury, and she accepts it because she blames herself, and so due to essentially working round the clock taking care of Monk, wheeling him around in a wheelchair, etc., she is very nearly broken down. Stottlemeyer takes Monk aside, warns him that if he keeps acting like that Natalie will leave, then proceeds to state that he knows this because Monk is acting like Stottlemeyer himself and that that was why his wife left him.
* This happens to [[Dexter]] during his second season. His girlfriend overhears Dexter's Narcotics Anonymous sponsor, who she's already suspicious of, mention on his answering phone that they spent the night together, and walks out on him. It's true...except it just means he fell asleep with his head in her lap after talking about his terrible childhood. She is his counselor, of sorts, after all. It's not actually shown if it was on purpose but considering how Lila turns out it would make complete sense that she did it on purpose knowing Rita would be there.
** However, Dexter has just recently revealed that he is a drug addict and he has been lying to her about things to hide his addiction. So it is not much of a stretch for her to believe that he would cheat on her as well. At least she does not find out that he is lying about being a drug addict and is actually a serial killer.
** When Rita finally confronts Dexter about it, he answers truthfully: he didn't have sex with Lila ''that'' night.
* Thomas Riker uses this to his advantage in the ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Star Trek Deep Space 9]]'' episode "Defiant". Realising that Chief O'Brien would be likely to spot that he wasn't his identical twin Will Riker, he acts snooty around him saying "You know why!" O'Brien defers to Riker's superior rank and leaves him alone - which is exactly what Tom wanted.
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* Said in one episode of ''[[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends]]'' but quickly subverted as the character who said it was joking around.
* An episode of ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'' had Beezy being haunted by a [[Our Ghosts Are Different|ghost]]. When he tries to figure out why, the ghost simply replies "You know what you did."
* In an episode of ''[[Doug]]'', the title character manages to destroy a condemned house [[With This Herring|with a single rock]] to impress [[Oblivious to Love|Patti]]. However, this causes her to hate him for the duration of the episode because {{spoiler|it was ''her'' old house back when her mother was still alive.}} The episode is exacerbated because Patti (and later Bebe, who asks her about it on Doug's request) refuse to pass that information onto Doug.
* Parodied in ''[[Drawn Together]]''. A housemate will make a disparaging remark about Tori Spelling, to which another housemate will ask "why you dissing on Tori?" The response is "she knows what she did" followed by dramatic background music.
* In that cartoon where an attempt to turn The Thing of the [[Fantastic Four]] back into human turned him into a ''teenage'' boy, he attended school and there was one episode where the bullies framed him and, when he asked the teacher why she'd want to talk to him, she said something among the lines of "As if you don't know."
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