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Cannot Keep a Secret
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A classic sitcom trope, in which a character seems to be physically incapable of keeping a secret for very long, at least without showing extreme discomfort. Usually, by the end of the episode, or even within the same scene, they would spill the beans. Although sufferers of this trope in fiction are mostly women, due to the prevalent stereotype of women as gossips, there are male examples too. Almost always Played for Laughs. Related to Keeping Secrets Sucks and Loose Lips. Compare Cannot Tell a Lie. |
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Rie Miyamoto in Shinrai: Broken Beyond Despair. Taiko manages to get her to reveal a secret about her best friend Runa- that Runa's in love with Hiro- with a You Just Told Me, while Kamen overhears a conversation between Rie and Runa about the prank they have planned at Rie's Halloween party and demands to be let in on the prank. Raiko snarks in an Internal Monologue that "If she had been any more transparent, she would've been a ghost." | |
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In The Smurfs comic book version of "The Astro Smurf", the title character tells one inquisitive Smurf about the spaceship he's intending to build and warns him to keep it a secret. However, that Smurf ends up telling another Smurf, and soon enough the whole village knows about it! | |
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The episode "Lisa Gets An 'A'" has her begged by Principal Skinner, Superintendent Chambers, Gil Gunderson and technically Ralph to keep the fact she cheated in a single test a secret so the school will obtain some very desperately needed additional funding (to make it even more hypocritical she cheated because she wasted the time she could have used to study being obsessed with a Crash Bandicoot Expy and she starts to believe a single bad grade ever will prevent her from going Ivy League). At the climax, it turned out that Skinner knew perfectly well that Lisa wouldn't keep that secret no matter what so he convinced everybody to help put up a fake meeting with the district Comptroller and let Lisa speak out then get her out of the way so they could get the check. | |
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Psych: Woody is very open about his inability to keep a secret. When an autopsy's results implicate Shawn and Gus because they manhandled the corpse, he volunteers to be bound and gagged in the Psych office to prevent himself from blabbing. | |
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Cheers: In "Truce or Consequences", Carla confides in Diane, only for Diane to turn around and blab the secret to Coach less than 24 hours later. (Well shy of the purported 47.) It turns out the secret was a huge lie in the first place. | |
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Radio Enfer: Jocelyne feels the need to tell to both Jean-Lou and Mr. Giroux that Carl was depressed after he filled out a psychological test (he wasn't depressed, he just didn't care about the test). In that same episode, Jean-Lou explains to Vincent that he should be kind to Carl because of his depression, only to remember that Jocelyne told him to keep it a secret. During the episode following the one where they hooked up for the first time, Carl and Maria reveal to Vincent and Camille respectively that they were no longer in love with each other, with the latter two having to promise not to tell anybody about it. Camille accidentally tells it to Vincent, who then ends up telling it to her as well because he was tired of keeping it a secret. |
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The Simpsons: In a Flash Back episode to when Maggie was born, Marge begs her sisters Patty & Selma to not tell until she's ready to inform her husband. Also used in "Stark Raving Dad" when Homer's friend (supposedly Michael Jackson) tells Homer to ask Bart to keep his visit a secret. Also played with in another episode, where Homer overhears Moe proclaim he'll give a free beer to the gossiper "Mr X" (Homer's secret alias). Homer whispers if Moe can keep a secret, he claims no, not even a little one. The Springfield Mob keep a guy named Frankie the Squealer, who will randomly spout private details about his coworkers even as they're beating him up over it. Do not expect Lisa Simpson to keep a secret, not even if making it known would imperil her whole family, as long as she (and only she) can claim to have kept a clean conscience in the end. The episode "Lisa Gets An 'A'" has her begged by Principal Skinner, Superintendent Chambers, Gil Gunderson and technically Ralph to keep the fact she cheated in a single test a secret so the school will obtain some very desperately needed additional funding (to make it even more hypocritical she cheated because she wasted the time she could have used to study being obsessed with a Crash Bandicoot Expy and she starts to believe a single bad grade ever will prevent her from going Ivy League). At the climax, it turned out that Skinner knew perfectly well that Lisa wouldn't keep that secret no matter what so he convinced everybody to help put up a fake meeting with the district Comptroller and let Lisa speak out then get her out of the way so they could get the check. In "Gangsta Rap", Lisa discovers that Bart faked being kidnapped to cover up the fact he ran out of the house to go to a rap concert, a lie that will endanger the livelihoods of many people, from Chief Wiggum down to her own father if it's revealed (even Kirk Van Houten, the man who was wrongly convicted for the crime, is perfectly happy living in prison because his life outside sucks that much). She not only continues her search once this is all explained to her, but the only man willing to help her is Skinner, and he makes perfectly clear that he is only doing this to make Bart suffer. |
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Andy in Parks and Recreation has a minor nervous breakdown when he learns Leslie and Ben are pregnant and he can't tell anyone. When telling them that he's bad at keeping secrets, he accidentally mentions that Kyle's wife is cheating on him and that his neighbor is in witness protection. | |
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The end result of Barbie: A Fairy Secret. Following Barbie and Raquelle's big adventure discovering fairies in disguise lived among them, Raquelle wants to tell everyone else, but Princess Graciella insists they keep the fairies and Gloss Angeles a secret. When Raquelle proves not to be a good secret keeper, Graciella sends her, Barbie and Ken home with their memories of the fairies and Gloss Angeles erased, thinking it was a dream, so the fairy secret can be kept secret once more. | |
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Totally Spies!: Don't tell Alex to keep a secret. Just don't. | |
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The Outpost: Janzo promises Wren he won't tell anyone she's pregnant. It doesn't take him even a a day to have spilled it without trying. | |
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Ruby from Rave Master, who blurts out whatever he is thinking. | |
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Done for a one-off joke in Airplane!. Ted is given orders for his military mission, which he proceeds to explain, in excruciating detail, to Elaine. Then, when she asks when he'll be back, he remarks "I can't tell you that. It's classified." It's not clear if all of the intel was originally classified and Ted is a blabbermouth, or that for some reason, only the return time (which is barely a secret at all) was classified. | |
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In Double Homework, Henry blows the cover the “appreciation party” that the protagonist's friends are planning for him. | |
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Harry Potter: Rubeus Hagrid is described, quite accurately, by several characters as being "less than discreet", despite his best efforts to the contrary. Bertha Jorkins is no better at keeping secrets than Hagrid. As Sirius says it once: "She was a bit dim, but she had an excellent memory for gossip. It used to get her into a lot of trouble; she never knew when to keep her mouth shut." Gregorovitch (the continental European wand maker) started telling people that he had the Elder Wand and was trying to replicate its powers. This rumor got around to young Grindelwald who broke into his shop, disarmed him, and got control of it. |
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In The Wind in the Willows Toad's recklessness includes a tendency to blab any secret he hears, even after promising not to. As a result, his father never told him some important things about Toad Hall. | |
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In Moby-Dick, Tashtego is sworn to secrecy about a story told to him regarding happenings on another ship. Unfortunately, Tash talks in his sleep... | |
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Averted in Scrubs; Carla usually can't keep secrets, but when Eliot loses her job at another hospital, she manages not to tell Turk and J.D. about it. They can tell she knows something ... so she tells them she's keeping the secret that Eliot smokes a pipe. | |
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An episode of Corner Gas revolved around Brent and Lacey competing to see which one of them is a better confidant. | |
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In The Far Country, taciturn gold prospector and cattle driver Jeff informs his partner, Ben, that he didn't tell Ben about the plan to leave Dawson by the river (thus avoiding the bad guys waiting on the overland route) because Ben would spill the beans. Ben promptly starts blabbing to their friends about using the river as an escape route. Later Ben goes off to buy coffee for the trip and blabs some more, with fatal consequences. | |
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Virginia on Raising Hope encourages others to blackmail her with a secret of her own to avoid blabbing theirs. This backfires when her family notices her "gossip face" and she ends up telling them her own secret. | |
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Total Drama: In Island, Lindsay assures Heather that she can keep a secret, right before revealing her sister's most embarrassing secret on international television. In Revenge of the Island, Cameron accidentally tells first Scott (though Scott manipulated him into it), then Zoey about Mike's multiple personalities, though it only does damage the first time as Mike reveals them himself to Zoey soon afterwards. |
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Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts: Kipo is this at first (she gets better at it) but it was still cause of this trope that kickstart the plot as it made the Mute realize she a burrow girl and could lead them to a burrow full of humans. | |
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Mr. Peevly gives Bananas the Gorilla a bunch of bananas for being a loyal friend of The Hair Bear Bunch, and that he'd never tell the keepers to where they've escaped ("Panda Pandemonium"). Bananas concurs, "I'd never tell anyone that they've escaped to the carnival!" | |
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The Big Bang Theory: Sheldon can't do impromptu secrets. So he goes way, way overboard constructing elaborate, and usually unnecessary, lies. They fall apart because he's Sheldon. A later episode sees Sheldon and Amy invoke this trope as a social experiment among their friend group (which, for them, is immensely fun). Amy tells Penny that she and Sheldon are sleeping together, and makes her promise not to repeat the information. Penny can't resist sharing the gossip, and Sheldon and Amy have a grand time tracking the rumor's evolution. In The Stinger for the episode, they try again, this time with Amy saying she's pregnant with Sheldon's child ("Mum's the word!"); she gets down a single flight of stairs before Leonard asks her about it, Penny having texted him immediately. |
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Ready Jet Go!: Jet has a hard time keeping his alien identity a secret. Even the Propulsions have a hard time keeping other secrets. In "Earthday Birthday", Carrot and Celery let slip that a surprise party is being planned to Jet, luckily they don't tell him that it is for him (to celebrate the anniversary of when he arrived on Earth) |
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The Order of the Stick: It's a good thing the rest of the Order usually keeps an eye on him because Elan is very bad at keeping secrets. Likewise, Veldrina, the elven representative at the Godsmoot, who immediately tells Roy, the person she believed to be delivering her dumplings, that she's on a secret mission. |
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Jingo: Fred Colon says he's been sworn to secrecy over something, but as the narration notes: "Getting information out of Colon was like getting water out of a flannel" as the man is an inveterate gossip and not good at resisting confrontations. | |
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Persona 5 has Ryuji, a member of the phantom thieves, whose identities are meant to be obscured and unknown. Multiple times, Ryuji almost gives away that the phantom thieves are real and he is one... and actually does, which Makoto manages to record and use to blackmail him. | |
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My Monster Secret: Part of the initial hook is that male lead Asahi Kuromine can't lie or keep a secret to save his life (he doesn't want to be this way, the guy just has No Poker Face whatsoever). The day he decides to confess his feelings to his classmate Youko Shiragami, his three best friends admit that they've known about his crush for ages. But then he finds out Youko is a vampire and will have to leave the school if she's found out, meaning he gets very invested in protecting her secret. Asahi's granddaughter from the future appears. The biggest piece of evidence that they're related? She wasn't supposed to tell anyone she's from the future, and yet blurted it out minutes after she met him. |
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American Dad!: Jeff Fischer, whether it be a surprise Birthday party, a birthday present, a movie's summary/ending or that Roger's an alien. If He were a Doctor, who's supposed to stay true to Doctor-patient confidentiality, his license would be revoked as he would automatically break it. | |
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The Nostalgia Critic is usually good at keeping his promises, but when it comes to secrets he can't seem to help himself. | |
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Krillin in Dragon Ball Z Abridged becomes this whenever he gets nervous, which happens to be a lot. One time he nearly blurted out where he and Gohan came from to Freeza before Gohan stopped him (though Dende revealed it right afterwards). There's also the incident with the Ginyu Force... | |
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Harem of Grrl Power due to having a single mind split between five bodies. If one sees or hears something, the other four know and often react instantly, thus making any efforts to tell the body actually present to keep a secret worthless. Sydney once tried to swear her to secrecy, only to hear the other four Harems in the next room spilling the beans already. | |
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Wiseguy. Vinnie Terranova's superiors aren't happy when they find out Bobby Travis is aware that he's an undercover FBI agent. | |
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Ascendance of a Bookworm: The only secret Myne can be guaranteed to keep is the exact source of her knowledge. Everything else can fall victim to the fact that she has no brain-to-mouth filter when enthusiastic or deep in thought. Unfortunately, carelessly sharing information becomes more and more dangerous as she climbs up the social ladder, resulting in Myne's mentors constantly having to remind her to watch what she's saying and in whose presence she's saying it. | |
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How It Should Have Ended portrays Batman as unable to keep his Secret Identity a secret when talking to beautiful women. | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: In "Tears of the Prophets," Jadzia shows that the words "private matter" mean nothing to her when Bashir and Quark ask her and Worf what they were talking about: This is actually a Running Gag through the show. When Sisko learns that someone had found out about something, he asks how they found out and the response is "You told Jadzia." |
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Pam Poovey in Archer has this reputation among her colleagues. Deserved, as can be seen in the following quote. Archer himself is very bad at keeping secrets, which is very unfortunate considering he's a spy. In fact, he often refers to himself as "The World Greatest Secret Agent" to random people, despite the point of remaining secret. At the end of one episode, Lana threatened to reveal Sterling's emotional trigger to Pam because of this trope, in order to keep all of her bounty reward. |
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Arthur: DW is desperate to be told a secret, any secret, which she then tells other people — because what's the point of knowing a secret if you don't tell? She eventually learns An Aesop about keeping secrets. It's also a Running Gag that Arthur's best friend Buster just cannot keep a secret — whenever Arthur tells him a secret, he'll promise to keep it and then promptly loudly inform the person closest to them that he's got a secret to tell them. When Arthur is still standing right there. It's so bad that in "Blabbermouth", no one can rely on Buster to keep a secret. |
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In Mass Effect 3, EDI complains that Liara doesn't seem to trust her, and notes that she's become much more paranoid ever since she became the Shadow Broker. If you've played the Lair of the Shadow Broker DLC, that piece of information is not a surprise, and the conversation continues unabated. But she says it even if you haven't played the DLC. | |
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It's happened to Fran Fine a number of times on The Nanny, like in "One False Mole and You're Dead". And then there's Niles: |
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And then there's Megumi of HappinessCharge Pretty Cure!, who blew her secret identity to a civilian in the third episode of the series, but not before making him extremely suspicious of her. | |
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Elaine from Seinfeld claims to be excellent at keeping secrets by "locking them in the vault." Unfortunately, Jerry — and everyone else — knows that the "key" to the vault is schnapps; one drink and she's blabbing. Kramer does this a lot, too. Even when he vows to keep it a secret! |
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A variation occurs in Knives Out with Marta, the hero of the film. She's so averse to telling lies that the mere thought of dishonesty is enough to make her vomit profusely. This extends to keeping secrets, too, so she's forced to rely on Exact Words and Metaphorically True statements when dealing with the murder investigation (for example, the victim, upon realizing he's dying, gives Marta extremely specific instructions about what to say and do, knowing that if she's keeping a promise to him, she'll be able to hide the truth). | |
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In the Frozen (2013) fanfic Frozen Wight, it turns out keeping secrets is not a concept that Olaf understands very well: When he happens to see Anna make out with Fritz, Anna makes him promise to keep it secret from Kristoff: And he realizes it, too: And lampshades it before being reduced to a pile of slush: |
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Edda in 9 Chickweed Lane is an unrepentant gossip, who gets offended if she finds someone (like Amos) who can keep a secret. | |
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Michael Scott from The Office (US) frequently blurts out people's secrets. On several occasions, it's been due to him showing off what he perceives as a close friendship (evidenced, in his mind, by the fact that they confided in him in the first place) with the person whose secret it is. | |
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Grease: Marty Maraschino has this problem right when it will do the most damage. | |
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Nick in New Girl is wholly uncomfortable with having secrets. When he has one, he starts sweating uncontrollably. At one point, to try to keep a secret, he wears a head-concealing motorcycle helmet just to buy a little more time of no eye-contact. | |
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Grizz and Dot Com (apparently) on 30 Rock. Liz and Tracy tried to invoke this to create a rumor, but it backfired and they got burned by Gossip Evolution. | |
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Leni Loud of The Loud House is a Dumb Blonde, so she's very bad at keeping secrets. She's been shown to spoil surprise parties, TV show endings, and Secret Santas. "No Spoilers" focuses on this very trope; her siblings try to keep her distracted as long as possible while they plan their mom's birthday party so she can't spoil it. | |
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I Want To Be A Cute Anime Girl: Zack outs his sister to Cheryl while the two are discussing identity, and then when apologizing to his sister over the phone for doing so, he outs Cheryl to her. He's trying his best. | |
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In Fate/Apocrypha, Rider of Black/Astolfo constantly blurts out sensitive information like Servants' True Names and Noble Phantasms, much to the Black Faction's annoyance. This carries over into his appearances in Fate/Grand Order. | |
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In the pilot episode of The Dreamstone, the Dream Maker insists Rufus promise not to tell a soul about the Dreamstone's existence. Within five minutes, he brings Amberley up to the tower to look. | |
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Mystery Science Theater 3000: Mitchell: | |
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Linda Belcher from Bob's Burgers can't keep a secret at all. She once informed a friend of hers their plan to trick their landlord into selling the wharf... behind said landlord's back... and not really whispering at all. When Bob sets a trap to find out who has been ruining all his Thanksgiving turkeys and tells Linda about a second turkey, she told everyone else behind Bob's back, making finding the culprit with the trap All for Nothing. | |
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Odd Squad: According to "O is Not For Old", Otto is terrible at keeping secrets, which is why he doesn't know about Oprah's surprise birthday party until he walks into Precinct 13579's Headquarters and sees party decorations strewn about as Olive lets him into the loop. Ultimately averted in "The Perfect Lunch" when Olympia and Otis go out for lunch together and attempt to keep the secret that they've been solving oddness behind each others' backs to themselves. Both of them end up spilling the secret at the end after they get suspicious of each others' actions — Olympia that was attempting to solve an odd problem of spaghetti growing out of control, and Otis that was attempting to battle a laser chicken on his own. |
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Greg's parents in Meet The Fockers, an extremely liberal and open couple who are too overjoyed that Greg got Pam pregnant before their wedding to keep it under wraps. | |
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One Piece: Played for Laughs with CP9 agent Fukurou, who sucks at keeping any kind of secret, be it personal stuff about colleagues or sensitive government intel. This despite having an actual zipper over his mouth; he just zips his mouth open and blabbers away. | |
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On The Brady Bunch, youngest daughter Cindy was infamous for her love of knowing — and sharing — secrets. One episode had her running around bragging that she knew a secret, just to get her siblings to ask her about it — although that case turned out to be a surprisingly sweet subversion: she found out that Bobby had his first kiss from his crush, but it turns out that the girl in question might have mumps, which embarrasses him immensely. When Cindy sees how upset the situation is making him, she decides to keep the secret and claims that her previous gloating was just an act. | |
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Noob: La Quête Légendaire: At some point, Sparadrap is doing something that is only technically okay as long as he does not share a certain piece of information with his guildmates. When his brother makes a correct guess on the nature of that information, Sparadrap's immediate reaction is to ask him if he saw his computer screen while he was distracted just a little earlier. | |
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'Allo 'Allo!: Lieutenant Grueber had the reputation that he would break the second someone tickled him with a feather, as did Rene himself. Given that they were a Nazi art thief and a French Resistance operative respectively, this was not a good trait to have. | |
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Rudy in Rain is known to be bad at keeping the secret that his sister Maria is a lesbian, among other slips. | |
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Dog with a Blog: Avery suffers a horrible case of this trope. Whenever she is told a secret, she will panic and start hyperventilating before finally blurting it out. | |
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The Bible: "He who gives away secrets is a base fellow; do not take up with a garrulous man." (Proverbs 20:19) | |
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A few characters in Kim's Convenience are pretty terrible at keeping secrets: Pastor Nina repeatedly lets slip that Mrs. Park is seeing her for marriage counselling Mr. Kim's personal record for keeping secrets is... six hours top. |
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Gilroy in Little Dogs on the Prairie is this. The second he's told a secret, he blurts it out for all to hear. | |
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From Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: | |
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Kaamelott: It's less a recurring trait than another consequence of his general idiocy, but Perceval has some moments, like when Karadoc wonders if Perceval can keep secrets. Perceval argues that he's great at keeping secrets; for example, he never told anyone what Karadoc had confided in him: Lancelot (in exile at the time) confesses his Big Secret (his love for Guenievre) to Bohort, who repeats it to Guenievre... unfortunately, Arthur was invisible at the time (Merlin screwed up a potion, again), hears the whole thing them and storms off. |
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The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald: This is revealed to be the case for Birdie the Early Bird in the final video The Monster O'McDonaldland Loch, where it turns out she blabbed the embarrassing secrets of Grimace and Hamburglar after they told her in confidence. She ultimately has to prove she can keep a secret when she encounters the titular monster and he implores that she keep his existence under wraps. | |
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Saturday Night Live: One recurring series of sketches features Kristen Wiig as Sue, better known as the "Surprise Lady." In each sketch, someone gathers a group of people, including Sue, to announce some exciting news — like someone getting a promotion, a couple revealing that they are pregnant, or a soldier visiting his family for Thanksgiving — and explains that they plan to spring the information as a surprise. Unfortunately, Sue has a borderline fetish for secrets and is often forced to go to extreme lengths, including stuffing a pillow in her mouth or cramming herself inside a vending machine, just to keep her mouth shut. When she comes dangerously close to cracking, she usually ends up violently exiting the scene by leaping out of a window or climbing up a chimney. | |
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Young Sheldon: In "Snoopin' Around and the Wonder Twins of Atheism", Connie tells the bartender to keep their conversation to themselves. He immediately calls George about it. | |
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Miyuki of Smile PreCure! has a very poor time keeping her secret identity... and the secret identities of her teammates. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: Patrick Star is too dumb to keep a secret. In fact, it's thanks to him that Mr. Krabs finds out where their hiding place is. | |
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El Goonish Shive: Catalina has a hard time not yelling any secrets she knows out loud. She did learn to get better at it by keeping her relationship with Rhoda secret at her request, eventually to the point where she's able to keep quiet about having magic without cracking. | |
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Henya the Genius of VShojo had a history of online activity prior to her debuting on the agency, but like with many high-profile Vtubers, she tries to keep it as private as possiblenote Among Vtuber culture, it's widely considered bad manners to dig up information on the "real" person behind their aliases and the characters they present as, even if the information is publicly available and easy to access. Unless the Vtuber in question is open about it, acknowledging their "past life" is generally a no-go. Unfortunately for Henya, she's been known to have an especially hard time keeping it a secret due to several of her signature quirks (including her voice, her laugh, and several involuntary verbal tics), and it's so bad even her friends make the slip-up for her (especially Kson, whom Henya has history with before and after her debut). Very quickly after building herself up in VShojo, Henya admitted to having easily one of the worst-kept secrets in the business, but still requests they be recognized and treated as secrets. | |
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6teen: Given her gossipy nature, if somebody tells Caitlin a secret, it is almost guaranteed that she will spill it. She told her Guy of the Week all of the gang's most embarrassing stories in "Pillow Talk" after promising to keep the stories only among the group, and she reveals Jude's secret girlfriend Melinda to the gang in "Silent Butt Deadly". | |
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In SHAZAM! (2019), the 8-year-old Darla accidentally learns that Billy Batson has superpowers, prompting this discussion as they scramble to hide the fact. Fortunately, aside from some brief nervousness from staying quiet, Darla successfully keeps it to herself until others piece it together on their own. | |
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In the "Green Isn't Your Color" episode of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, one of the recurring jokes is Twilight's extreme difficulty in not telling secrets (particularly because of the irony in that telling said secrets would almost immediately solve the episode's conflict). Pinkie Pie — a Motor Mouth and Cloudcuckoolander extreme — surprisingly averts this trope in a later episode, "The One Where Pinkie Pie Knows." She's tasked with keeping a huge secret—that Princess Cadence and Shining Armor are going to be parents—and spends the entire episode trying (and failing) to avoid situations that might tempt her to blab. Pinkie comes dangerously close to cracking several times, but manages to hold in the news until it is officially revealed (though the pressure breaks her apart in the end). |
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Lori has this trait in the Aunt Dimity series; this trope is frequently invoked and only partly Played for Laughs. This trait is one of those that make her suited to the village gossip hive that is Finch. It's also the reason Bill doesn't tell her where he's sending her and the kids to escape the stalker at the opening of Aunt Dimity and the Deep Blue Sea. As it turns out, she's not the one to give that game away; Sir Percy makes an airy remark about taking her over Gretna Green with the stalker hiding in the bushes, so he knows they're going to Scotland and follows them there. | |
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Jimmy Two-Shoes can't keep secrets when he's excited. Even when Beezy can. | |
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7th Heaven: The Camden family? Keeping secrets? HA HA HA—No. | |
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Rose on The Golden Girls was well-known for her inability to keep secrets, because she was both a Bad Liar and a Cloud Cuckoo Lander. The other girls knew about this weakness and were quick to exploit it. In one episode, Blanche is able to get Rose to blab by threatening to tickle her. | |
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In Episode 13 of Season 4 in Minami-ke, Kana utilizes this trope to get people to come watch the cherry blossoms fall off the trees, but no one seems interested. Then she hears various characters spilling other character's secrets, and intentionally blurts out a secret viewing place to individual groups of them. It doesn't seem to work at first, because she's by herself on the big day, but a short while later, practically all of the cast shows up to celebrate and watch the cherry blossoms fall. | |
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On South Park, Eric Cartman is apparently physically unable to keep secrets. It's part of his tremendous ego—he just has to brag about knowing things that other people don't so they'll pay attention to him and think he's cool. Unlike other examples, Cartman is at least somewhat aware of this tendency, as he'll occasionally try to prevent himself from blabbing, but it never works. | |
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After Nick gets turned into a vampire in What We Do in the Shadows, he makes sure to tell almost everyone he meets. This naturally gets another vampire killed by a vampire hunter. | |
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Stand by Me: Charlie and Billy separately blab to their friends about Ray's body just a few hours after solemnly promising each other that they'll never tell anyone what Billy saw. Gordie claims that keeping the secret for even that long was a record for the two. | |
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Dave Made a Maze: Despite Dave repeatedly asking Gordon to not tell anyone that he is lost in the maze, Gordon not only calls all of their other friends but also tells random people on the street. | |
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In Fire Emblem: Three Houses, schoolgirl Flayn is really, really bad at hiding the fact that she's actually the thousand-year-old dragon Saint Cethleann and that her supposed brother is actually her father. She refers to her "brother"'s late wife as having been her mother, she refers to an opera house decades old as having been built after she left that city, she insists she's not descended from Cethleann even though she has a magical crest that Cethleann was not known to have given to anyone outside her bloodline, she refers to other dragons as "uncle" when encountering them... | |
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In Hajime no Ippo, every member of the Kamogawa gym is like this. Every time Ippo tells a fellow member to shut it about something he will do (like a date with Kumi), the whole gym knows the day after. Itagaki is the most notable offender of this though: not only does he tell Mashiba the details of the relationship between Ippo and Kumi, but when the same Mashiba tells him a secret of his own, while Itagaki swears to keep it we see a panel showing how impatient he is of telling everyone at the gym! | |
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Orrick in Undead Friend is terrible at keeping secrets and everyone can tell when he's trying to lie as they are never well thought out or convincing. He caved in to two of his friends only a couple days into his new life and gets in trouble for it later. | |
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Pretty Cure: Miyuki of Smile PreCure! has a very poor time keeping her secret identity... and the secret identities of her teammates. And then there's Megumi of HappinessCharge Pretty Cure!, who blew her secret identity to a civilian in the third episode of the series, but not before making him extremely suspicious of her. |
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New Super-Man: The title character blows his existence, the Justice League of China's existence, and his secret identity by Issue #2. | |
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Haruna Saotome in Negima! Magister Negi Magi will not keep a secret if the truth is more entertaining. Only minutes after threatening to torture her friends for not letting her in on The Masquerade earlier, she proceeds to start telling the next people she sees, which is exactly why they didn't tell her in the first place. She also comes very close to telling Anya about Negi's Pactios. | |
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In Episode 7 of Chronicles of the Going Home Club, the going home club members talk about Natsuki's secret birthday party and plans, all while Natsuki is sitting in the club room hearing every little detail of it. She even tries to point out what's so secret about it if she's already expecting it. | |
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LazyTown: Milford tells all of the kids in town Sportacus' surprise party, and almost tells Sportacus. | |
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Amphibia: Sprig Plantar can't keep a secret to save his life. Even if it's potentially humiliating for the person who told it to him in the first place. |
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Girlfriend, Girlfriend: Naoya Mukai practices Brutal Honesty and hates lying and keeping secrets. He constantly says what he is thinking and several times tries to blurt out secrets like the fact that he is dating multiple girls. His girlfriends have to constantly stop him, sometimes resorting to beating him up, and lecture him that if he reveals that, it will ruin them. The only times he is willing to lie and keep secrets is to protect a girlfriend, like when Nagisa looked through Saki's phone and he lied that he did it. | |
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Austin & Ally: Dez is bad at keeping secrets such as when he revealed Austin's Embarrassing Middle Name or when he told Trish's boyfriend Jace that Trish entered the dance contest with Chuck. A kid from the A & A Music Factory can't keep secrets either as he went around panicking and trying to avoid Ally after finding out Austin's plan to surprise her during their performance at the karaoke place. He ends up telling her anyway, however. |
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How I Met Your Mother: Lily Aldrin can't keep a secret for her life. It gets especially bad around the holidays as she'll start blurting out what people are getting each other as gifts. Marshall also can't keep secrets specifically from Lily. Ted can't so much not keep secrets as he doesn't understand why something should be a secret unless specifically told so. For example, when Stella told him she hadn't had sex in five years, he immediately told the rest of the gang, much to her annoyance. |
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Marie from Breaking Bad is a world-class blabbermouth. | |
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Wander over Yonder: | |
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Charmed: In a first season episode, Phoebe learns that their handyman Leo is essentially an Angel. She tells her sisters by the end of the episode but they don't believe that Leo is magical, which is odd considering that they are themselves are witches... To a lesser extent, Paige. In Season 4, Piper told her not to tell Phoebe that they suspect Cole of being a demon. Paige almost immediately does afterwards. |
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The Pieces Lie Where They Fell: Lieutenant Ruby Shell of the Hidden Guards has a recurring problem with letting details slip — she's the one who unwittingly revealed that Page was the Changeling Queen to the rest of the Bearers, and accidentally referred to two of them by their codenames where Vix-Lei could hear it in the second story. | |
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Every time the titular character on Frasier is asked to keep something a secret, you can be sure that by the end of the episode half of Seattle will end up knowing about it - often because he thinks everyone already knows. | |
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Friends: Phoebe has a tendency to reveal Monica's secrets to other people, especially Chandler when he's dating Monica. Several times, this starts the episode's argument between Monica and Chandler. Chandler, several times during the series he has accidentally revealed his friends' secrets. Probably his biggest offence is when he revealed to Rachel that Ross was in love with her. In a final season episode, he reveals to a child that they were adopted and then later reveals to Phoebe's nieces and nephew that Phoebe actually gave birth to them. At one point, Monica learns that Gary is going to ask Phoebe to move in with him, and asks that she doesn't tell Phoebe. Monica manages to hold out for a full 25 seconds before blabbing. When Joey was throwing a party for the cast members of his soap opera on the roof, he didn't tell the others due to them gaining multiple idiocy levels around celebrities (Rachel being the worst of them). After he concedes to allow Rachel to attend the party, she almost immediately heads across the hall, and tells the others "He didn't want me to tell you, so I came over here to tell you guys." |
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The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye: Swerve, by dint of being Swerve, is physically incapable of keeping any secret for more than a few seconds, even his own. Mockingly pointed out by Chromedome in a conversation with Skids. | |
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