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Embarrassing Cover-Up

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Embarrassing Cover-Up	comment	One of the best types of lies are ones which make people want to stop asking questions altogether. A good way to accomplish this is for the lie to be about something You Don't Want to Know. An Embarrassing Cover-Up is great not only because it can cause the person questioning them to lose interest, but also because they are a good, easy-to-explain cover-up for suspicious behavior. Bob might be suspicious if Alice claims she snuck off in the middle of the night without telling anyone to get ice cream. If she claims she did so to replenish her tampon supply or masturbate, on the other hand, there's at least a 9 in 10 chance that Bob will leave it at that. "Women's problems", in fact, are a very common use of the trope. There is even an example of this happening in biblical scripture, making this trope Older Than Feudalism. For men, explosive diarrhea is a much more popular choice. Sometimes an Embarrassing Cover-Up can create friction in a group that's keeping a secret, particularly if someone makes an embarrassing cover up for someone else. For example: Bob and Alice are working on Project X in total secret. One day, Carol catches them together and asks what they're doing. To Bob's horror, Alice proceeds to invent a cover story which is hugely embarrassing to Bob. But Bob has to go along with it or risk making Carol suspicious. Supertrope to Bathroom Search Excuse. This trope overlaps with Infraction Distraction if the cover story is an actual admission of guilt (albeit to a much smaller offense than the one being concealed) in addition to an embarrassing disclosure. Contrast Revealing Cover-Up, in which the lie only attracts more attention. See also Too Much Information and Sure, Let's Go with That. For a more literal "embarrassing cover up," see Hand-or-Object Underwear (or maybe Naked Freak-Out).
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_102a22a7	comment	In Ansem Retort, Aerith falls down and hits a doorknob, which gives her a black eye. Naturally, she blames it on Axel. Who is at first, furious, then quickly covers it up and goes with it. (Also an Even Evil Has Standards moment, since that is the only point Axel isn't outright enthusiastic about an act of violence.) He may be a mass murderer who will kill you sooner than look at you, but dammit he loves his wife.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_11b7db91	comment	In Adventure Time, Jake tries to get Finn out of an accidental engagement to the Slime Princess:
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_133f0a53	comment	In the Kanon Gender Flip fic Canon in G, Kaoru (m!Kaori) tells Yuuko (f!Yuuichi) not to disclose the contents of their conversation about the demons in the school. When pressed by Junri (m!Jun), who's likely to get the wrong idea if she's left with the knowledge that Kaoru's keeping something from her, Yuuko gleefully explains that they were instead discussing Kaoru's "embarrassing rash".
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_16a23355	comment	How to Be a Superhero has an example of a swamp monster attempting to maintain a Secret Identity and trying to explain away the smell by claiming to have had 'an accident' in his pants.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_19b7bfc4	comment	In The Most Incredible Work of Literature in the Entire Cosmos (a parody of Breaking Dawn), three of Frig's friends are standing guard outside her house to make sure an alien leader doesn't find her. When he does show up and asks why they're there, the girls claim they're prostitutes who were hired to go to the house.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_19ea2238	comment	In The Adventures of Shan Shan, Shan Shan embarrasses himself with attempts to explain why he eats alone.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_1b71921c	comment	Misfile: Just before Ash and Aiden's race, Rumsiel claims that Emily has "feminine problems" that can't wait as an excuse for the two of them to secretly avert a potential disaster. Rumisiel explains his presence by pretending to be Ash's boyfriend. When Ash begins a relationship with Missi, she/he tells her that Rumisiel is (also) actually gay and she is just his cover.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_1c63e768	comment	Heathers: After murdering the two Jerk Jocks, and noticing the approach of police officers, the two Villain Protagonists scramble to their car, get naked (an Embarrassing Un-Coverup), and make out.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_1d1c07f6	comment	The Amazing Extraordinary Friends: In "Attack of the Atomic Bombshell", Ben tells his mother that he missed the parent-teacher evening because Roy was suffering from irritable bowel syndrome. They were actually out fighting crime as Captain X and Nitelite.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_1d8d8aaf	comment	100 Things to Do Before High School: In "Pilot", Mindy wants to know where Crispo disappeared to during sixth period (he was actually involved in CJ's Zany Scheme and has come back in different clothes as a result). Crispo replies that he was in the bathroom. When Mindy says that he was gone for an hour, he adds "Yeah. It was so bad I had to change clothes". Mindy gets a disgusted look on her face and stops asking questions.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_1dd9862b	comment	In Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School, Nagito formulates a plan to spike everyone's drinks with laxatives in order to postpone the exams for his depressed class. To do this, he tracks down the Ultimate Pharmacist, Seiko Kimura, and tells her he's been constipated all week in the most unnervingly cheerful way possible.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_20098ea4	comment	Coupling: This is Jeff's modus operandi and usually results in Digging Yourself Deeper.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_222c2051	comment	Chuck: Chuck occasionally explains away Sarah's absence by blaming it on a spastic colon.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_22d87fc9	comment	In an episode of That '70s Show, Eric tries to hide the fact that he was reading Donna's journal by claiming to have been going through her underwear drawer and rubbing her underwear against his face.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_22e860f4	comment	In Psych, Shawn loves to make these at Gus' expense. Oftentimes he'll do it even when telling the truth wouldn't get them in trouble. A favorite tactic of Shawn's is to pretend that he and Gus are gay lovers in situations where revealing their real relationship — Heterosexual Life-Partners — would work just as well.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_2350acad	comment	Cheers: In the first episode Sam asks Diane what he should say if any of his regulars ask why she's hanging around the bar, she says he can tell them whatever he wants. The first time someone asks, Sam says she's a hooker.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_24e41891	comment	Early in Dexter, the protagonist almost gets caught up looking court files for killers who got freed on technicalities, but he manages to tab the browser to some porn, then haphazardly tab out to something work-related. Doakes doesn't buy it, though, because "I checked your card, you've never bought any porn".
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_2547d61f	comment	In the White Collar pilot, Peter and Neal need access to a church that is closed for renovations. Neal tells the priest that Peter is on the verge of committing adultery and that a visit to the church where he was married would help Peter save his marriage. They get access.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: Homer does it to himself in "Mr Plow": Subverted when Marge had to cover up Homer missing a day of work due to passing out from drinking by saying he had violent diarrhea. In "Grade School Confidential," Principal Skinner and Bart's teacher Edna Krapabbel have a Secret Relationship which is discovered, causing them to be fired by Superintendent Chalmers. They protest their firing, and upon discovering that the problem was not so much the relationship itself as the rumor that they were having Sex at Work, Skinner publicly announces that he's, in fact, a virgin, causing Chalmers and the rest of the town to back away in embarrassment on the supposition that no one would lie about being a virgin at the age of 44. The ending leaves it ambiguous whether he told the truth or not. Again in "The War of Art," when Marge disapproves of Homer's plan to track down the original seller of a valuable painting that has become a major Apple of Discord in the neighborhood, he does it anyway and brings Lisa with him:
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_266a8da8	comment	Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure: When Kazuki and Mitsuki return to their home dimension, they learn that Mitsuki's father has covered their disappearance by claiming they'd eloped.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_280e7435	comment	Superhero Movie has two characters doing it to themselves, in a parody of a scene from Spider-Man. They both note injuries the other has sustained in battle as their respective alter egos. Starts with the fairly innocuous "I burned [my wrist] on some hot coffee." Escalates with "[My lip is cut because] my crack pipe broke." Continues until the villain excuses himself because, "I shat my pants."
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_2a1dd8e4	comment	In the Life's a Zoo episode "It's Not Easy Being Chi", Ray explains what he is doing on the computer (he's actually selling Chi's belongings online) by claiming to be "downloading some internet porn".
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_2b82b95f	comment	iCarly: When trying to build a robot security guard for their apartment, Spencer accidentally leaves it stuck in "Armed" mode, meaning it will blast anyone it sees with hot popcorn kernels. While trying to figure out how to disarm it, Mrs. Benson knocks on the door wondering what the noise is. Spencer keeps her in the hall by screaming that he's not wearing pants. She's known him long enough that she buys it.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_2bb4ae0f	comment	Heroes invokes the trope when Claire covers for the super of the week by telling her mom that they were having sex in the closet.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_3095b3a0	comment	In Cyanide and Happiness the comic strip The Bra has the man's wife asks about a bra that isn't hers that she found. He remembers when he used the bra to pretend to be a fly. After a brief pause he claims he is cheating on her.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_32fb0c3a	comment	In Avenue Q, Nicky tells Brian, Gary, and Christmas Eve he thinks Rod is gay. Rod overhears and...
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_34737484	comment	The Latest Buzz: In "The Pet Peeves Issue", Amanda is attempting to hide her pet pony in the office. When the others complain about the smell of horse dung, Amanda claims it is her new perfume.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_3fe6b4fb	comment	In Star By Star, Viqi Shesh tries to get out of an extremely awkward conversation on the Senate floor (she tried to have the Chief of State assassinated, and suspects he knows this) by claiming a "personal need". This avails her absolutely nothing.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_41c887f7	comment	The Truman Show: When set accidents threaten to expose to Truman the truth about his whole life being a reality TV show, the director makes frantic efforts to provide cover-up explanations for the various little out-of-place details. Unfortunately, they soon snowball and become less and less convincing.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_468bebb0	comment	In the Discworld novel Moving Pictures, Victor and Ginger get trapped by a rockslide while Victor is trying to stop Ginger walking in her sleep (and apparently trying to awaken an Eldritch Abomination). The characters who dig them out assume the obvious explanation for them being off in a remote spot together, and Victor agrees that they've got it exactly right; when Ginger objects, he asks her if she'd rather tell them what she was really doing. This is also a turning of the tables on a previous scene; when Victor is waiting by Ginger's bedside to stop her, she reassures him that her landlady will just think they're having sex. (Said landlady later gives him a big grin and a complicated gesture he was sure little old ladies shouldn't know.)
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_47607004	comment	The Closer: In "Off the Hook", Provenza is trying to conceal that he is talking to Brenda on the phone:
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_4797fe95	comment	Hunter: The Parenting: During a police interrogation, Big D is asked why Kitten's house has a torture dungeon in his basement, complete with live camera feed. Since he can't say it's to interrogate captured vampires from a safe distance, Big D feigns disgust and refuses to answer at first. He waits for the cop to insist, and 'reluctantly' admits that it's Marckus's sex dungeon. For good measure, he throws in a bunch of Comic Sutra Noodle Implements in his explanation to ensure the cop wants to stay as far away from any elaboration as possible.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_4ab17360	comment	Inuyasha regularly features Kagome's grandfather inventing embarrassing or improbable explanations for her absence from school while she was cavorting around in the Feudal Era. Most of these were illnesses, getting weirder and weirder (and worse and worse) as the series went on. Kagome lampshades it after the first few times it happens, while her grandfather is telling a friend of hers another embarrassing illness. This was in the earliest episodes. How could it get worse? This included herpes at one point in the dub.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_4b57d678	comment	In a Murphy Brown episode, Murphy helps a fellow employee, Hillary, who she recognizes has a drinking problem. After Hillary realizes she needs help after screwing up an assignment, Murphy suggests using food poisoning as a cover story, as nobody wants to know the details.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_4d5498c7	comment	In Nymph and the Corrupted Miraculous: Marinette manages to temporarily get out of a hostage situation by faking her period. It works especially well since she's captured by Catastrophe, a teenage boy.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_4fd9904a	comment	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: Harry has secret lessons with Snape to learn Occlumency. When Malfoy comes upon a lesson, Snape explains that Harry is in remedial Potions. The Dursleys tell their friends that Harry attends St Brutus' Secure Centre for Incurably Criminal Boys in order to cover up the time he spends at Hogwarts. This is less embarrassing to Harry, however, as he generally cares very little what the Muggle neighbors think of him. (He was still understandably aghast when he first found out about this, though.)
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_5755b96a	comment	In one strip of The Order of the Stick, Haley has a huge sack, and claims she didn't find any treasure. When Roy asks what's in the sack, she replies, "Feminine products." Roy decides to leave it there.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_5783585a	comment	G.I. Joe: In the IDW series, Kwinn and Lighthorse are smuggling Snake-Eyes across a border in a coffin inside a hearse. Lighthorse looks nervous and the border guards ask him what is wrong. Lighthorse responds with the phrase that Kwinn taught him the local language. This translates as "I'm a little girl. I'm afraid of ghosts". The border guards laugh and let them through. Lighthorse, who has no idea what he has just said, wonders what they found so funny.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_5a3dae52	comment	Misfits: When Curtis is busy cheating on Samantha and she turns up at the community centre demanding to know where he is, Simon and Nathan cover for him by saying he's been arrested for "exposing himself" to some Boy Scouts. She doesn't seem to believe them, but she leaves anyway, convinced they're nuts and eager to get as far away from them as possible (particularly when Nathan starts casually spraying her with cleaning fluid. Attempted by Rudy in the Nazi timeline. He's caught in Curtis's bar during lockdown and tries to explain his presence by claiming to be Curtis's lover. As this is a Nazi timeline, this doesn't work out very well for them.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_5b848f39	comment	The Army Game: In "The Take-Over Bid", Dooley tells Snudge that the letter he was typing on Snudge's typewriter was a lewd love letter to his girlfriend. Snudge decides that he doesn't want to read that; especially after Dooley has slobbered all over it in a failed attempt to Eat the Evidence.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_5cc1f6b9	comment	Ruthless People: Judge Reinhold's character has kidnapped a woman. Some cops come in to question him, and he excuses himself saying he has a touch of stomach flu. They hear moans and groans from the back room and assume he's having serious diarrhea, but he's really trying to sneak out a back window. Meanwhile, the cops have received a call implicating the husband, so they just leave.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_5ffa1979	comment	From the Scott The Woz episode "Memory Cards", when Scott reenacts a scene of a parent finding their kid's notes of game passwords and asking what the notes are for:
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_6250d2c3	comment	Early in College Roomies from Hell!!!, Blue derails a Three Is Company plot involving her and Dave — without mentioning the kiss That Didn't Happen — by saying that when she was unpacking her panties, instead of just being Distracted by the Sexy, Dave had asked to try them on himself. In her own words, "who would believe a boring lie over an embarrassing lie?"
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_68b5d8bb	comment	In Iron Man: Armored Adventures, Tony often excuses himself from class (so he can become Iron Man) by claiming he needs to use the bathroom. Pepper later takes it upon herself to explain his absence to some crooks by explaining that he spends more time in the bathroom than anyone she knows.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_695bc26c	comment	SPY×FAMILY: When Loid is contacted by his handlers during a family outing to help them foil a terrorist plot, the excuse he uses to get away from his wife and daughter is that he's suffering from digestive issues. While he's normally enough of a Consummate Professional not to be bothered, he is a bit embarrassed when his daughter (who can read his mind and knows what he's really doing) is quite vocal about backing him up so that her mother won't get suspicious:
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_6da4c85c	comment	In American Horror Story: Freak Show, Barbara's forced to stay in a weight loss clinic on the excuse of being sent away to have an illegitimate baby. Although this would be considered hugely shameful for the time period, her well-to-do family believes it's less embarrassing than her morbid obesity.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_7257afca	comment	In Sword Art Online Abridged's second season, Asuna spends so much time breaking out of her cage and terrorizing Sugou's goons that when she's caught by Shoji, one of her recurring victims who happens to look like a tentacle monster, she's able to intimidate him into letting her go by threatening to eat his dog in real life. Unfortunately, another Mook shows up to intervene, and when the newcomer demands to know what Shoji was doing, Shoji stammers that he wasn't letting her go, he was molesting her.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_72952fae	comment	So Awkward: In "Bug Brooch", Lily is delighted when Rob buys her a present for the first time - only it's a horrible bug-shaped brooch! Jas offers to break it accidentally-on-purpose so Lily won't have to wear it, but Rob catches Jas trying to smash it. Not wanting to drop Lily in it, Jas tells Rob she stole the brooch because she's in love with Rob herself and is so jealous of Lily. Hilarity Ensues.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_76580c92	comment	In Ménage à 3, when Yuki needed Gary to take a day off, she called his boss, and told her that Gary needs to have a foreign object removed that he inserted into his butt ("Who'd make that up?"). This eventually got Gary into trouble, when he ended up in a hospital (for completely different reasons) and met his boss there.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_7712c331	comment	Seitokai Yakuindomo: Shino is concerned about her breasts, and then remembers a rumour that they become bigger if you massage them. So she starts to rub her breasts over her shirt, when Takatoshi walks in. It's quite awkward, but then Shino tries to save face. How? By declaring that she's 'just sexually frustrated'. Takatoshi mutters that that isn't a very good excuse.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_7ab7da61	comment	In Three's Company, Jack's only allowed to share an apartment with two women by pretending to be gay.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_7cb04bb5	comment	Inside No. 9: In the episode "A Random Act of Kindness", Zach asks Helen why she is calling the hospital. She doesn't want him to know the truth (that she's awaiting the results of a test for cancer), and lies that it was to do with cervical screening so he won't ask any more questions.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_7d1c83da	comment	Better Call Saul: Daniel is horrible at hiding the fact that he deals drugs. When the police catch onto him, Jimmy has to come up with an excuse to explain how he got so much money, and why he has a secret compartment in his house. What does he come up with? He tells the officers that Daniel makes "Squat Cobbler" videos (a sex fetish involving sitting in pies while wearing a costume and crying) for a rich client. That would be embarrassing enough, but unfortunately for poor Daniel, the policemen ask to see the videos as proof, so he has no choice but to actually make such a video. Near the end of season five, Jimmy transports Lalo's bail money through the desert, gets attacked, sees Mike kill all of his assailants, and has to walk a day and a half back to civilization with barely any water—which forces him to drink his own urine at one point. Jimmy leaves out the gunfight when talking to Kim and pretends having to drink pee was what traumatized him the most.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_7dec4faf	comment	The Bridge Kingdom Archives: Princess Protagonist Lara goes out of the house where she should be sleeping to do some spying. Caught on returning, she claims that she had a bout of diarrhea and the outhouse was occupied by someone whom she gave something to cause said diarrhea. She even muses that embarrassing excuses are the best, since most people would rather lie to avoid embarrassment and not the other way round.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_804bc2d5	comment	In one of the Confessions of Georgia Nicolson books, Georgia believes her mother is having an affair with a builder working on the house, and skips school to spy on them. When they catch her, she pretends to faint and then lies that she stayed home because she was feeling sick - which she sees as this trope, since she's embarrassed to be tucked in bed and fussed over by her mother.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_80db7c52	comment	In Aggretsuko, when Retsuko fantasizes about quitting her Soul-Crushing Desk Job for a more enjoyable one, her coworker Kabae asks Retsuko why she looks so happy. Not wanting her Mean Boss to find out, Retsuko claims she's happy because she was finally able to poop after five days. Not only does this get spread everywhere, it mutates to the point that Haida thought Retsuko gave birth yesterday. On top of all that, her boss still finds out she wants to quit, just for other reasons.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_819b8c9e	comment	Warehouse 13's cover story could count as this, as it makes the locals despise Warehouse agents, because The Powers That Be have told everyone the Warehouse is an Internal Revenue Service storage facility.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_82439e64	comment	The Office (US) Darryl claims to have bought "nasty old-lady porn" after purchasing an e-book reader at a bookstore (potentially awkward when one works at a paper company.) Angela slaps Dwight for being insensitive about her cat's death which he caused and people nearby notice and look concerned, he covers with "It's okay, I'm robbing her." When Dwight refuses to talk to Pam on the phone (despite sitting opposite her), Nate gives the excuse that "Dwight is being questioned by the police in connection to a string of dognappings".
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_85b79d17	comment	Black Mirror: In the episode "Crocodile", Mia kills her ex-boyfriend when she is away on a business trip. She needs a false alibi, so she rents pay-per-view porn and plays it at full volume while she goes out to dispose of the body.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_86c3beca	comment	In Girl Genius, Mamma Gkika's has a notorious Jägermonster-themed burlesque show. Mamma also provides discreet medical care to people who cannot openly go to the hospital. Gil is brought there after he is injured while helping Agatha against his father's wishes. When told where Gil is, Klaus just raises the priority of finding Gil a girlfriend.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_89b7cf47	comment	In a Rizzoli & Isles episode, Frankie tells Jane that he thinks that Frost's mother is in a secret relationship with her (female) roommate. When Frost suddenly shows up and asks what they are talking about, they say that they are talking about their mother and whether she might be going through menopause.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_89bf8ce	comment	30 Rock Jack invites Liz to a party he wants to be kept secret. After he leaves her office, he tries to cover this by loudly saying "Well Lemon, that was a good chat. (Gestures to his crotch) Good luck with that alopecia problem of yours!" ("I don't have alopecia! I'm very hairy!") Liz and Pete sneak around to find a new cast member, and eventually, to keep this a secret, they claimed to be in an intimate relationship. Of course, this backfires when just as they say this, Pete's wife shows up.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_8ba4613a	comment	Exploited in Death Note, when Light plants porn in his room for the investigation team to find, to make it look as if that's what he's trying to hide. He's not actually embarrassed about it, but his Dad sure finds it awkward. L sees right through it.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_8cef836	comment	The Herder Witch: Being on the run from pursuing star seer assassins, Morie the witch wants to keep a low profile on her journey and hitches rides with passing villagers. When a few of them hear she's a witch, they ask why she doesn't use her magic to fly to her destination. Morie hems and hesitates to explain about the star seers, fearful the news about them could spread, and finally settles for lying: "I can't fly." She's embarrassed to claim such, especially since her apprentice Yanna thinks Morie's telling the truth.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_8d814070	comment	MAS*H: Because a majority of the main characters are doctors/surgeons/nurses, they can come up with a medical excuse on the fly that can either get someone a favor or cover up something else. In the episode where Hawkeye does foot inspections, Frank spends the entire episode trying to avoid his. When Hawkeye and BJ finally catch him, it's revealed that, while drunk, he and Margaret painted their toenails. Hawkeye agrees to cover this up, but he does so by stating that Frank has a rare, disgusting condition that left him with abnormally colored toenails. He can't lie on a military report, after all! They also tend to use this just to help out soldiers who are suffering due to the inconsiderate officers in the Army. In the episode "Tell It To The Marines", the doctors help a Dutch soldier whose mother is about to be deported by getting his story published in American newspapers. There's nothing the soldier's commanding officer can do except tell Hawkeye that the soldier, who's three weeks away from finishing his tour of duty, is about to have "the hardest three weeks of his life." Hawkeye then says that the soldier has come down with a rare "twenty-one day flu" and isn't fit for duty. Double subverted in this episode because everyone knows that the doctors are talking out their butts, but they get away with it because Colonel Potter said that the soldier is sick and he's ranked higher than the Marine.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_8dfbdff2	comment	Law & Order: In the episode "Publish and Perish", a suspect in two murders is an eminent former police chief who's now a candidate for Director of Homeland Security. After being forced to admit to an affair with one of the victims, he withdraws from the running, giving the story publicly that he's been exposed for "forgetting" about payroll taxes for his children's nanny. This is less embarrassing than the truth but does make him look like a fraud.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_934f9373	comment	In Boarding School Juliet, when he was almost caught during a secret rendezvous with Juliet, Romio makes up the excuse that he was "talking to his insect friends". It wasn't as degrading as other examples, but his friends call him pathetic for it afterward.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_94c1352f	comment	In The Amazing Spider-Man, Gwen Stacy gets rid of her dad while Peter is in her bedroom tending to wounds he got fighting the Lizard, by claiming she has "cramps" and further implying they are menstrual in nature. She goes on long enough that you get the impression Captain Stacy has dealt with these sorts of lies from her in the past.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_95521c97	comment	Often in The Spectacular Spider-Man, Peter will use this or I Need to Iron My Dog as a means of slipping away so he can become Spider-Man. In the episode "Reaction", Doctor Octopus is sighted near Coney Island... where Peter is with a group of classmates. To slip away and become Spider-Man without being noticed, he tells his date and friends that all of the Coney Island food made him sick and runs away. Flash accidentally helps by laughing and teasing Peter as he runs.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_9b602c3f	comment	Deltarune: Near the start of Chapter 2, Kris and Susie are about to check out the door that leads to the Dark World to make sure it wasn't just a dream when Noelle walks up. She asks them if they're doing anything, and when Susie struggles to come up with an excuse she asks Kris for help. The only dialogue options you get are "Hanging out in a closet alone" and "Crime".
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_9ce851a3	comment	Malcolm in the Middle: The protagonist has to bring some comfort item to a person that secretly lives in Malcolm mother's workplace. When she questions him about having a pineapple, spare pants and a book with him, he explains that he is going through a very bad belly problem, justifying the need of fresh fruit, a book to read in the bathroom and well, spare pants. Self-inflicted trope. Inverted when Reese finds out Lois' embarrassing secret; she can't ride a bike. When someone walks by, he covers up by pretending that she is doing something illegal.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_9d7ec380	comment	The Good Place: In "Tahani A-Jamil", Tahani knocks on the door while Chidi is lecturing Eleanor on ethics. To buy time so he can hide the blackboard, Eleanor calls out "Just a minute! We're kissing! And groping!"
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_9e7de8d6	comment	In Laughter in Paradise, Dennison visits Simon to ask permission to burgle his flat (It Makes Sense in Context). Simon refuses, because he is hoping to score with Lucille that night. As Lucille arrives, Simon hurries Dennison out. When Lucille asks who he was talking to, Simon says Dennison is an old crook who used to forge petrol coupons during the war and has now fallen on hard times and keeps hitting him up for cash.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama Bender is watching a cooking show on TV and Leela enters the room, so he quickly turns it off. When Leela asks if that was a cooking show he claims it was porn. Subverted because Bender is not the kind who would be embarrassed to be caught watching porn. In the beginning of "The Farnsworth Parabox," Leela tries to turn down Fry's constant requests for a date by telling him she has "sweaty boot rash." However, Amy's disgusted reply implies that this might be true, or at least that Leela's boots really smell.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_a1b9a8bb	comment	Spider-Man: Homecoming: When Ned Leeds needs to be Peter's "guy in the chair", he uses the school's computer lab. When a teacher catches him and asks what he's doing in the lab during the homecoming dance, Ned provides the first reason that comes to mind for a single guy to be on a computer.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_b3f45286	comment	Derry Girls: Michelle makes scones with marijuana in them (since she doesn't know how to make brownies) and brings them to a funeral so her friends can try them. When some of the scones are accidentally handed out to elderly people at the wake, the girls try to flush the remaining scones down the toilet and end up flooding the host's bathroom. So that no one finds out about the drugs, Erin pretends she and her friends were in the bathroom because she was having terrible diarrhoea. The Quinn family is stuck on a train that's broken down. An old acquaintance approaches Mary, Sarah, Gerry, and Joe; but none of them recognises her. Rather than admit they don't know who she is, Joe says he has dementia, and Mary excuses herself by saying she has Irritable Bowel Syndrome and desperately needs the toilet. Then Sarah claims to be having bowel problems as well.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_b4996199	comment	Spider-Man: In The Amazing Spider-Man (J. Michael Straczynski) Vol. 2 #38, this is revealed to have happened accidentally to Spider-Man, which had kept Aunt May from guessing Peter's real secret. She'd had the feeling that he was hiding something, and noticed that he seemed to be a bit awkward around girls, so she thought that he might be gay. May also used this to help Peter get past the TSA agents at the airport by implying that his web-shooters were gynecological equipment. She started explaining how they worked and the agents couldn't pack them back up fast enough.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_b6b24d18	comment	The IT Crowd: Roy grows obsessed with his girlfriend's bizarre story about her parents' deaths, and when she catches him researching the matter on his laptop late at night, he covers by quickly claiming that he was masturbating. In another episode, Roy is at a singles' mixer and assigned to a woman who's had her entire face reconstructed after a serious accident. When she becomes offended by his repeated questions about the surgery, he makes the excuse that his mother wants breast implants and he's looking for a reputable surgeon.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_c43b1816	comment	In Girl Got Game, when Kyo is Recursive Crossdressing, the team captain recognizes her voice. When he mentions Kyo, Chiharu quickly shouts "He's sick with diarrhea!" much to Kyo's chagrin.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_d9c602eb	comment	In the South Park episode "Lice Capades", Clyde is so embarrassed by having lice that when a girl in the doctor's office asks him what he's there for, he says "I have AIDS". In the episode "Tom's Rhinoplasty" Mr. Garrison mentions that he didn't want the school to know he was getting a nose job so he told them he has herpes.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_e1f5ce65	comment	In Our Little Adventure, Emily hides Julie's secret by explaining that she's The Atoner.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_ea4f62db	comment	In the Family Guy episode "Barely Legal", when Meg becomes obsessed with Brian:
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_f0c816fb	comment	Breaking Bad: In one episode Walter lies about having explosive diarrhea as an excuse for not helping Hank investigate his boss who is distributing methamphetamine. In another case, Skyler tells Hank and Marie that Walter's illicit money came from gambling, rather than admitting he manufactures methamphetamine. After getting kidnapped by Tuco and being held hostage for days, Walt explains his absence by walking out of the desert naked into a convenience store claiming he was in a fugue state, then after his doctors try to keep him in the hospital until they find an explanation for it, he tells his psychiatrist that he came up with the "fugue state" lie to cover up running out on his family but thought better of it.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_f10a65b	comment	In the Legends of Tomorrow episode "Tagumo Attacks!!!", Zari walks in on Rory writing his novel:
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_f3e1f424	comment	This trope abounds in Merlin, where Arthur constantly believes the most embarrassing excuse possible whenever Merlin can't explain something. (Merlin walking around with two dresses=Merlin cross-dressing in one occasion.) The one that actually became a Running Gag was mentioned in Queen Of Hearts, where Gaius says that Merlin is at the tavern. He's missing for two whole days once and Arthur believes he's been in the tavern the whole time. Is it any wonder he's the show's Master of Delusion?
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_f6c05e8e	comment	Friends: Chandler tries to stop Monica entering the apartment while he and Ross are trying to fix the furniture by saying "You can't come in! Ross is naked!". This is just as embarrassing for Chandler as it was for Ross, though. “Dude, what’d you have?” Then there was the arc when Chandler and Monica were seeing each other but didn't want anyone else to know. Except Joey had figured it out and they had sworn him to secrecy. This, of course, meant that he had to cover for their slip-ups, such as when Chandler's underpants were found in Monica's apartment ("Oh, they're mine."). This culminated in Monica and Chandler "outing" Joey as a sex addict to the group, at which point he turns the tables on them by announcing that he had slept with Monica in London and she'd become obsessed with trying to get him back in the sack ever since. Monica's forced to endorse his version, thus keeping the secret, allowing Joey to get a little revenge for the way he'd been taken for granted and - most importantly of all - protecting his reputation as The Casanova. Trying to get out of filming so he can officiate at Monica and Chandler's wedding, Joey almost lucks into one of these. Ultimately subverted in that his director just doesn't care.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_f8956ef3	comment	YuYu Hakusho: In the manga, Yusuke gets embarrassed by Botan's lame explanation to Keiko of what he's doing after school. Instead of saving the world from demons, he's doing some kind of afterschool program for juvenile delinquents. In the video release of the dubbed anime, Botan has him working for a private detective, with the implication of trying to "salvage" Yusuke. He's not any happier about that explanation.
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_fcb6fb21	comment	In Air Force Blues, the main character's assignment to the top-secret PreEmptive Nuclear Intercept Squadron is disguised as "remedial training."
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Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_fd8ca1b3	comment	The New Avengers: In "To Catch a Rat", Purdey and Gambit charge into a church expcting to confront an enemy agent. Instead, the confront two local ladies arranging flowers. Purdey immediately announces that this is wrong and he cannot force her to marry him and storms out. Gambit stands there for a few moments looking embarrassed before hurriedly stuffing some money in the poor box and slinking out after her.
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