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Fake Period Excuse
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Having to deal with bleeding and cramps every month can suck. But for all the other days, it can be a handy excuse if one has to sneak out of work, keep folks from searching your stuff, or abandon politeness for whatever reason (since everyone knows all periods cause bad moods). Bringing up one's own period in fiction usually results in men not wanting to hear any more quickly, due to the assumption that All Periods Are PMS. |
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At one point in Horimiya, Ishikawa claims that Miyamura is having his period to explain why he can't go to the baths with everyone else (the real reason is because they'd find out about his tattoos). The other guys don't even question this despite it being a Blatant Lie. Miyamura would later reuse this excuse to get out of having to take part in a mandatory pool class. | |
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The Vicar of Dibley: The parish council mistakenly invites Alice's no-name blues musician cousin Reg Dwight to open the town fair because he shares his birth name with Elton John. Geraldine attempts to use PMS as an excuse to David for why he and not she has to be the one to go out and announce the mixup. David isn't having it and gives her a Blunt "No" as reply. | |
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Be More Chill: Right before "Michael in the Bathroom", Michael is sitting alone in the bathroom after Jeremy betrays him and someone knocks on the door, demanding to use the bathroom. Michael yells back that he is on his period so he doesn't have to leave. Somehow, the other person believes him. | |
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Amanita does this to buy time in Sense8 when the FBI storm her mother's house looking for Nomi. Amanita ducks into the bathroom, grabs a fresh tampon, and covers it with red cough syrup. The FBI agent who forces open the bathroom door is promptly squicked out by her throwing the "bloody" tampon at him. | |
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In The Order of the Stick, both times a woman has mentioned their period, they've been lying to deflect suspicion about something else. Haley claims an obvious bag of ill-gotten loot is actually feminine supplies, and Sabine sneaks off to report the Snarl's existence to her superiors under the pretense that "it's that time of the century". | |
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Red Dwarf: In "Balance of Power", when Rimmer's impersonation of Kristine Kochanski unravels, he tries to explain that he's "having a woman's period". | |
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Hunter. Rick Hunter has been ordered to work with a partner to inhibit his Cowboy Cop tendencies and works out a deal with Dee Dee to pretend they're partners while they're actually working alone. When Da Chief demands to know where his partner is, Hunter comes up with this excuse, saying the department wouldn't want to get involved in a sexual discrimination lawsuit over it. Da Chief is not impressed. | |
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When Catherine of The Great is told to be nice to her terrible husband, she goes and apologizes, explaining that she had a very long period. | |
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The Nanny: "The Gym Teacher" had Maggie faking her period as an excuse to get out of gym class. Fran points out that women don't get their periods once a week. | |
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The Great North: Near the beginning of "My Fart Will Go On Adventure", Wolf quietly signals Judy away from the Tobins to talk to her in private. Judy then claims to the others that she's having "woman issues" as an excuse to leave. | |
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With Pearl and Ruby Glowing: Yue sometimes slit her thighs to make it look like she was "unavailable" because of how rough Hahn was in bed with her. | |
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Taskmaster: Jenny Eclair deploys this in "A Show About Pedantry" so she can escape to the toilet and illicitly Google the subject she has to deliver an impromptu lecture on. She was over 60 at the time. | |
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The first October Daye book has Toby begging off work by implying her period is troubling her to her manager at her mortal job. | |
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Ramy: In the second episode, Ramy's sister Dena tells their sexist uncle Naseem that she's on her period. Uncle Naseem immediately excuses her "attitude" and tells her to go for a walk, an opportunity she immediately seizes to get out of the family dinner. | |
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In The Amazing Spider-Man, Peter Parker crashes into Gwen's room while heavily wounded. To keep her father Officer Stacy from finding him, she calls off all requests to come down for dinner, then starts to apologize for her outburst by blaming it on period cramps. Immediately her dad doesn't want to hear any more. | |
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Bob's Burgers: In "Moody Foodie", Tina mentions that one of her classmates actively tried to get her period to get a do-over on a test. | |
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Yellowjackets: The team's flight crashes and the survivors have spent weeks in the Canadian wilderness. They have been out there for so long that the girls' cycles have synchronized. The only one NOT having her period is Shauna. She even uses deer blood to fake it to hide the possibility of being pregnant. | |
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In Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Queenie smuggles Newt, Tina, and Jacob out of the MACUSA headquarters by claiming she's feeling unwell and taking the rest of the day off. When her supervisor asks what she's carrying in Newt's suitcase, her response is "lady things."note The movie is set in 1926, so even someone as direct as Queenie isn't going to get more detailed when speaking to a male boss, and he's sure not going to want more details. She even invites him to take a closer look, but he declines and sends her on her way. | |
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In ONIMAI: I'm Now Your Sister!, when the drug that turned Mahiro into a girl starts to wear off in the middle of a swimming lesson, she tells the teacher she "started unexpectedly" to get excused from it so she can get away and take another dose. | |
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The Bible: Older Than Feudalism. In the Biblical Book of Genesis, Rachel steals her father's idols just before she and her husband's caravan leave. When her father catches up to Jacob and accuses him of stealing, Jacob lets him search his entire property, saying (not knowing who did it) that anyone who stole the idols will be put to death. Rachel keeps her father from finding them by sitting on top of the saddle where she hid them while claiming she's on her period and thereby making anything she touches unclean. As a result, he never finds them. | |
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In Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, a diner, faced with the appalling prospect of having Mr. Creosote at the next table, uses the excuse of suddenly realizing she's having a really heavy period and consequently not wishing to bleed all over the carpet, as her excuse to get the hell out of the place quickly. Her husband doesn't seem to be on board with this excuse, as he only claims they have a train to catch. | |
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In the Trollhunters episode "Airheads", Claire was able to get out of class to help Tobes with a gravity curse by telling the teacher that she was having "girl problems". | |
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Agent Carter: In the first episode, Peggy overhears her fellow agents planning a secret infiltration of a nightclub hiding stolen weapons. Not invited along due to being a woman, she asks to go home early due to "female matters", and promptly gets the time off to plan her own investigation. | |
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South Park: In "Summer Sucks", the Mayor's aides tell a media crowd that she can't address them in person because she's sick. The journalists don't buy it, so an aide blurts out that she's having her period. The press immediately falls silent. In "Are You There God? It's Me, Jesus", Cartman and Kenny have their first "periods" (an infection causing anal bleeding) and form their own club. Kyle doesn't want to be left out so he pretends he's had his too. |
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A variant in Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.. Nancy pretends to get her first period to try to impress her friends. This backfires when it actually does happen later and Margaret witnesses Nancy panic. | |
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Adolin complains about women doing this in Oathbringer. Apparently one of his ex-girlfriends once managed to supposedly be on her period four different times in the same month. | |
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If you try to take Isabela to the Qunari compound in Dragon Age II, she'll leave your active party - possibly with "female problems" as an excuse. | |
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Indirect example in The Second Try. Misato claims that Asuka is having her period to explain why her Sync Ratio had dropped. | |
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In Life Is Strange: Before the Storm, Chloe uses this excuse on the security guard Skip in order to get into the Boy’s Dormitories. Whether it works or not depends on how well she argues. | |
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