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So you have a... problem. Maybe you just wrapped dad's car around a tree, maybe you've been snorting coke, maybe you just opened a dimensional rift that endangers the future of humanity, whatever, but nobody knows about it. Still, you can't resist the urge to find out what would happen to someone who, oh say, for instance, might have, for example, hypothetically, possibly, may have, kinda sorta... did something really really really bad. Sometimes your mom/dad/friend/boss/superior officer will catch on right away, sometimes they're going to unwittingly scare you out of telling them what happened until the situation is much, much worse. Either way, hilarity is likely to ensue. That is, unless it's a Trial Balloon Question, in which case there's more likely to be broken hearts and blood. In an interesting twist, when you do in fact have a hypothetical situation, or you actually are asking for advice for a friend, 9 times out of 10, whoever you're asking will assume that you're using this trope. Another twist is to slip into first person before you're done describing the situation, in which case you'll probably backpedal and say you meant your friend, and totally not yourself. Played for laughs, a character will describe the situation in third person and then ask for advice in first person. Played for drama, it may be made obvious that both sides are fully aware of the true nature of the situation but only feel comfortable speaking about it in third person. See Comic Role Play for a similar trope. Also compare to It's for a Book. See also …And That Little Girl Was Me, for a similar deception regarding someone's backstory. The Confidant can usually be told the non-hypothetical version without freaking out. Compare Mistaken Declaration of Love. Compare/contrast with Knows a Guy Who Knows a Guy. And yes, this trope is definitely Truth in Television. It is probably more common in real life than it will ever be in fiction. If you haven't pulled this trick yourself, you'll most certainly have met someone who did. Or, if you actually are referring to a friend, confronted the automatic presumption that you aren't. To experience it instantly, go to a forum with a userbase primarily consisting of teenagers, open some threads about problems of a sexual nature, and it will not take you many minutes to find Real Life examples. |
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Unraveled has this happen in "When Can Mario Retire?", where Brian David Gilbert, after being surprised at how old Mario would have to be, starts plugging in "random numbers" for "hypothetical reasons" It becomes very clear, very quickly, that those "random numbers" are his income level and job situation—and he seems deeply, personally shocked when those "random numbers" say that Brian—er, Mario would have to work for 88 years to save up enough money and retire. | |
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In one episode of Happy Days, Ritchie asks Al for advice for his friend. Al thinks that Ritchie is secretly talking about himself, in spite of the fact that the problem his friend is having is that he's black and having difficulty fitting into their mostly-white neighborhood. | |
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In Shin Megami Tensei IV, after procuring the relics the Monastery wants, you can drop in to chat with Abbot Hugo, who tells you of this... acquaintance... he has, who happens to be a Henpecked Husband. He begs you to discreetly acquire a bottle of wine for "his" problem. Hugo, however, is considerably less than adept at concealing this. | |
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Subverted again in the The Casagrandes episode "The Horror-Scope!", in which Lincoln asks Ronnie Anne for advice about a friend who has a crush on a girl, both of whom are in a long-distance relationship. Since she's just received a prediction about finding love that day, she thinks he's about to confess his feelings for her until he clarifies he was talking about his actual friend Rusty. | |
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On The Penguins of Madagascar, the chimps Mason and Phil get a female named Lulu staying in her habitat. Phil falls in love with her and asks Mason to speak on his behalf. Lulu thinks Mason is speaking of himself when he talks about his "friend", and the rest of the episode is spent trying to get her to fall in love with Phil instead, with disastrous results. | |
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Midori Days has the Class Representative Ayase confess to Seiji this way. After detailing all the ridiculous efforts 'her friend' made to catch 'some guys' attention, Seiji casually remarks that the guy must be an idiot not to notice any of them. She makes it a little more painfully obvious, and then drops the routine entirely at the end. | |
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Inverted in Rhett & Link's The Surrogate Sharers series, in which they confess having done something themselves on another's behalf. | |
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In Harry and the Hendersons, George Henderson tries this when he needs some outsider advice on whether he should continue harbouring Harry (a bigfoot). He mentions "his friend, Jack", and the other guy asks him if the story will involve a beanstalk. | |
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In the OddTube episode "Interview with Olive", Olympia is interviewing Olive over the phone and listing ten questions for her to answer. At the end of the interview, Olympia tells Olive that she has a friend who wants tips on how to be more like her. Olive, being someone who's worked with Olympia before, doesn't buy it for a second. | |
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Inverted in an episode of Blossom. Worried about Six, Blossom confides in a counselor, who of course, laughs and says, "Why is it always "a friend"?", before Blossom reassures him that it is a friend she's concerned about. | |
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Letterbocks in Viz once featured a letter from a reader asking if anybody knew whether or not Rohypnol works on sheep. He hastily added that he had a friend who wanted to know. | |
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In Bloody Jack, Mary (who is pretending to be a boy) tries this on a prostitute she hires, asking about getting her period on behalf of a "friend who's a girl". The prostitute sees right through it but finds the whole thing amusing and doesn't tell anyone. | |
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In Misfile, after waking up in bed with Vashiel, a hangover, and no memories of the previous night, Ash asks her dad (a gynecologist) how one could hypothetically tell if a woman was a virgin. For a "friend" at school who was curious. | |
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In an episode of Good Luck Charlie, Gabe tells Amy that he has a "friend" named No...rman from No...rweigh who likes a girl. However, Amy is fully aware that Gabe is using this trope to disclose about his first crush from school. | |
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Girls5eva: Summer gets her emotionally neglectful husband Kev to spend more time with her by claiming it's what Stevia (their distant and disaffected daughter) wants. | |
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The Listener: Oz is trying to figure out what's going on with Toby, but not wanting to bring Toby's name into it, he tells his supervisor that he has a friend who's been acting strangely, getting distracted on the job, etc. The supervisor at first thinks Oz is talking about himself, but later, when Oz mentions that it's as if his friend can tell what he's thinking, the supervisor jumps to the conclusion that Oz is talking about him. | |
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The Ghost And Molly Mcgee: Lampshaded in "The (After)Life of the Party", Scratch tries to explain his dilemma to Molly by saying he has a friend who wants to go to a cool party but doesn't want to ditch his friend. Molly discovers the truth and gets mad at Scratch, who defends himself by saying "There's never a friend!" | |
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The Cosby Show used this with Denise asking Cliff if he could examine "a friend" for a possible STD. Turns out there really was a friend (who only had a minor urinary tract infection) | |
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In Heart In Hand, Darryl uses a variant to talk about his relationship with Alex, a rival hockey player, to his friend — he doesn't hide that it's his own problems but he frames it as "girl trouble". | |
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Bleak Expectations: When an evilised Harry Biscuit is about to be exorcised, his wife Pippa asks, just as a hypothetical, what might happen if someone was not evil, but just happened to be pretending to be evil in order to stay with her husband. She doesn't like the answer (it would destroy them utterly). | |
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The I-really-am-asking-for-a-friend variant happens twice over the course of To Cherilee with Love. In the first case, Sweetie Bell has a crush on Cherilee. After she asks Dinky Doo for help, Dinky asks her mom for help in turn. Unfortunately, Ditzy Doo doesn't realize that Dinky really is asking on behalf of a friend, and thinks that Dinky's confessing to a crush on her teacher. And while she knows that Cherilee would never encourage such a crush, Trixie has been teaching Dinky magic, and Trixie is known to love people's attention and adoration. So she flies out to confront Trixie. The ensuing argument ends with Dinky convinced that Trixie wasn't encouraging Dinky to have a crush on her, but it also ends with Trixie convinced that Dinky has a crush on her. And that's where round two comes in. Trixie goes to ask Lyra for help, but fails to specify exactly who she's talking about, only mentioning that "a unicorn" has a crush on "her teacher". Naturally, Lyra assumes that Trixie's confessing to a crush on the one who taught her—Princess Luna. To make matters worse, Lyra shares this conclusion with the Princess. Hilarity Ensues. | |
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In CSI: NY Lindsay is concerned about the impact of the lab chemicals on her unborn baby. So she does this with Stella, the lab's unpaid safety officer (one of her tasks). It's a rather silly scene as the entire audience can tell she's pregnant just by looking at her. | |
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Dr. Phlox uses a variation in Star Trek: Enterprise — when T'Pol comes down with Pa'nar Syndrome (the Vulcan equivalent of AIDS), Phlox asks several Vulcan doctors for information about the disease, under the guise of helping a colleague study a similar condition. As he predicts, the doctors are reticent to help, as Pa'nar Syndrome afflicts those who lead a lifestyle considered unacceptable by Vulcan society. He does not, however, predict that the doctors would figure out that T'Pol has the disease. | |
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That '70s Show: Fez asks Kitty, a registered nurse and the entire cast's mom, advice on behalf of his friend Johnny Table about what to do about his and Big Rhonda's first time. Kitty of course gets it and says "Johnny" should be respectful and use a condom. They also used the stock subversion when Donna was trying to get advice from her mother about Jackie's pregnancy only for her mother to repeatedly and insistently assume she was talking about herself. Played with in one episode when Bob and Midge thought Kitty was having an affair with Hyde (she was really teaching him how to dance). Midge went to talk with Kitty and said she had a friend that was a married mother who was thinking about leaving her family because she was in love with a much younger man. Kitty at first thought it was a neighbor but after Midge denied it she assumed it was really Midge going to her for advice. She told her to stick with her husband and not think about the other man, and they both agreed that the friend would do that not realizing that they thought the other was having an affair. |
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This is played with on Suits. Harvey goes to Louis with some documents given to him by "a friend at another law firm" that seem to be showing evidence of embezzlement. Louis falls for this completely and is delighted in digging through another firm's dirty laundry. He does not realize that the documents not only belong to his own firm but that they seem to show that Louis is the one doing the embezzling. He then inverts things by pointing out that the apparent embezzler is just "a shmuck" and is being set up to take the fall for the real thief. He saves himself without even realizing that all along he was talking about himself. | |
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An interesting variation occurs in Wings, wherein the person being addressed assumes that they are the friend in question. | |
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In an episode of Cheers, Frasier does this with Sam regarding Diane saying Sam's name in bed. Since he's a psychiatrist, he claims that it is a patient rather than a friend, and names himself Thor. In another episode, Sam goes to a priest, who sees through this, pointing out that in all his years of hearing the phrase, he's never once met any of the friends in question. |
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Radio Enfer: Jocelyne asks Maria and Camille some advice to meet a man for a 'friend' of hers that the teens apparently never met. Both Maria and Camille could tell right away that she was talking about herself. One season later, she does the same thing by telling Camille and Dominique about a 'friend' of hers who has a problem. Immediately, Dominique bluntly tells her that she has no friends and is obviously talking about herself. |
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The no-really-it's-not-me-it's-this-other-guy version happens repeatedly to Bertie in Jeeves and Wooster. | |
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From The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother: | |
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The Simpsons: In "The Last Temptation of Homer", Homer realizes that he has a crush on his hot co-worker, Mindy. He brings it up at Moe's by mentioning his fictional "friend", Joey-Joe-Joe-Junior Shabadoo. Of course, the real Joey-Joe-Joe is in the bar at the time, and runs out in tears when Moe says that it's "the worst name I ever heard". Then Homer just admits his problem. In another episode Smithers purchases estrogen tablets saying that "They're for a friend... who's trapped in the body of another friend". A variant in "Homer Alone"; whilst Marge is away on vacation, Maggie runs away. Marge calls home, and Homer takes the opportunity to find out what her reaction would be if the dog ran away. Marge is upset. Homer finds this discouraging. In "Secrets of a Successful Marriage", Homer tries to invoke this trope but messes up when he wants to talk about his private life without upsetting Marge. And in "The Boys of Bummer", Reverend Lovejoy asks his advice on a new mattress because "I have a friend. Well, a friend of a friend." Homer loudly replies, "Sex problem, eh?" |
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The Book of Revelation: Daniel tries to report the crimes he suffered, but can't say it was him. He says it was a male friend of his. | |
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| I Have This Friend / int_27348c42 | featureConfidence |
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I Have This Friend / int_27348c42 | |
| I Have This Friend / int_277975b4 | type |
I Have This Friend | |
| I Have This Friend / int_277975b4 | comment |
In the Miss Marple short story collection The Thirteen Problems, the actress Jane Heiler tells Miss Marple and a number of other guests at a dinner party about a strange thing that had happened to a "friend" of hers. Everyone at the party immediately assumes this trope, figuring that it was something that had happened to Jane herself. They were half-right. Jane was the actress in the story, but it wasn't about something that had happened to her, but something she was going to do. She was planning to commit the crime described, and her story was a Trial Balloon Question to see if Miss Marple could figure it out. | |
| I Have This Friend / int_277975b4 | featureApplicability |
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| I Have This Friend / int_277975b4 | featureConfidence |
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| Miss Marple | hasFeature |
I Have This Friend / int_277975b4 | |
| I Have This Friend / int_27831967 | type |
I Have This Friend | |
| I Have This Friend / int_27831967 | comment |
To quote Parks and Recreation: | |
| I Have This Friend / int_27831967 | featureApplicability |
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| I Have This Friend / int_27831967 | featureConfidence |
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| Parks and Recreation | hasFeature |
I Have This Friend / int_27831967 | |
| I Have This Friend / int_28fe1376 | type |
I Have This Friend | |
| I Have This Friend / int_28fe1376 | comment |
On Fringe, Peter says he's planning on going fishing, but doesn't want to go alone. When Walter asks who he's going with, Peter tells him a story about a man who, as a boy, always wanted to go fishing with his father, who never had time for him. Walter assumes that Peter is going fishing with his friend from the story, and asks if he can come along too. | |
| I Have This Friend / int_28fe1376 | featureApplicability |
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| I Have This Friend / int_28fe1376 | featureConfidence |
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| Fringe | hasFeature |
I Have This Friend / int_28fe1376 | |
| I Have This Friend / int_2a5145ed | type |
I Have This Friend | |
| I Have This Friend / int_2a5145ed | comment |
In Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, one of the side quests involves a man named Armand who tells Lightning of a friend of his who was a journalist whose stories of corruption drove an innocent victim to suicide, as he had been wrong, and in fact the individual in question was not corrupt. Lightning has to visit him over three days and on the final day he admits the truth: he was the journalist who did this. | |
| I Have This Friend / int_2a5145ed | featureApplicability |
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| I Have This Friend / int_2a5145ed | featureConfidence |
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| Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII (Video Game) | hasFeature |
I Have This Friend / int_2a5145ed | |
| I Have This Friend / int_2a8a46ff | type |
I Have This Friend | |
| I Have This Friend / int_2a8a46ff | comment |
From Death Note: The Abridged Series (kpts4tv): | |
| I Have This Friend / int_2a8a46ff | featureApplicability |
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| I Have This Friend / int_2a8a46ff | featureConfidence |
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| Death Note: The Abridged Series (kpts4tv) (Web Video) | hasFeature |
I Have This Friend / int_2a8a46ff | |
| I Have This Friend / int_2d01f8dc | type |
I Have This Friend | |
| I Have This Friend / int_2d01f8dc | comment |
In the Beavis and Butt-Head episode "(Pregnant Pause)", Beavis thinks he's pregnant and tells Butthead he knows this guy who wants to know what it's like to have babies. | |
| I Have This Friend / int_2d01f8dc | featureApplicability |
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| I Have This Friend / int_2d01f8dc | featureConfidence |
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| Beavis and Butt-Head | hasFeature |
I Have This Friend / int_2d01f8dc | |
| I Have This Friend / int_2d944503 | type |
I Have This Friend | |
| I Have This Friend / int_2d944503 | comment |
In Young Justice, Secret lays out the situation involving a (male) friend whose mother is about to be executed for murder to all her friends to get their opinions on whether it would be wrong to break her out of jail. Robin understands right away that she's talking about her own father, and so does (surprisingly) Slobo. | |
| I Have This Friend / int_2d944503 | featureApplicability |
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| I Have This Friend / int_2d944503 | featureConfidence |
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| Young Justice (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
I Have This Friend / int_2d944503 | |
| I Have This Friend / int_2dab4fef | type |
I Have This Friend | |
| I Have This Friend / int_2dab4fef | comment |
A purported example from real life (debunked by Snopes here, hence the reclassification of this entry from "Real Life") is a soldier telling his parents about his crippling injuries as if they happened to "a friend" he wants to bring home with him. When his parents say they can't possibly care for this friend, he commits suicide. Somehow, this is supposed to make the soldier look noble, even though he didn't reveal the whole truth about his condition. While it's still very broken, the idea seems to be that if he'd told them the truth they'd have felt obliged to look after him, so he uses the "friend" story to find out what they really think. Which doesn't work, for the reasons Snopes gives. | |
| I Have This Friend / int_2dab4fef | featureApplicability |
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| I Have This Friend / int_2dab4fef | featureConfidence |
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| Snopes (Website) | hasFeature |
I Have This Friend / int_2dab4fef | |
| I Have This Friend / int_30a5ebfd | type |
I Have This Friend | |
| I Have This Friend / int_30a5ebfd | comment |
Subverted in a Naruto one-shot where Naruto asks Ino's advice for a friend on how to admit you're interested in a girl. Ino naturally assumes Naruto's interested in her and gives him the advice "his friend" needs. She later flips out when she sees him on a date with another woman, only to learn Naruto really did need the advice for a friend, namely Rock Lee. It's then explained that given Naruto having to raise himself, he's not aware of social conventions like this trope. | |
| I Have This Friend / int_30a5ebfd | featureApplicability |
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| I Have This Friend / int_30a5ebfd | featureConfidence |
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| Naruto (Manga) | hasFeature |
I Have This Friend / int_30a5ebfd | |
| I Have This Friend / int_310d6df7 | type |
I Have This Friend | |
| I Have This Friend / int_310d6df7 | comment |
Stand Still, Stay Silent: A certain event causes Tuuri to start experiencing a phenomenon that so far seemed exclusive to the setting's mages. She asks her mage cousin Lalli about it but pretends to be asking on behalf of Reynir, the other mage who has known he has powers at all for only about a month at this point. Her lie includes claiming Reynir has just started experiencing the phenomenon. Reynir was shown to experience that particular thing (or at least something close enough) about a week ago in-story, and his reaction indicated it was nothing new to him. | |
| I Have This Friend / int_310d6df7 | featureApplicability |
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| I Have This Friend / int_310d6df7 | featureConfidence |
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| Stand Still, Stay Silent (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
I Have This Friend / int_310d6df7 | |
| I Have This Friend / int_31ab246a | type |
I Have This Friend | |
| I Have This Friend / int_31ab246a | comment |
In Measure for Measure, Angelo tries this on Isabel, suggesting that someone who might be able to reverse her brother's death sentence if she gave up her virtue to...this someone. | |
| I Have This Friend / int_31ab246a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| I Have This Friend / int_31ab246a | featureConfidence |
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| Measure for Measure (Theatre) | hasFeature |
I Have This Friend / int_31ab246a | |
| I Have This Friend / int_32fb0c3a | type |
I Have This Friend | |
| I Have This Friend / int_32fb0c3a | comment |
In Avenue Q, Rod combines this with the Trial Balloon Question, wondering if it is okay for "his friend" to be gay. | |
| I Have This Friend / int_32fb0c3a | featureApplicability |
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| I Have This Friend / int_32fb0c3a | featureConfidence |
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| Avenue Q (Theatre) | hasFeature |
I Have This Friend / int_32fb0c3a | |
| I Have This Friend / int_3361ad0c | type |
I Have This Friend | |
| I Have This Friend / int_3361ad0c | comment |
In The InBESTigators, Kyle mentions needing a grey blankie with elephants on it to fall asleep, quickly followed by saying that he read about it in a book about a boy that wasn’t him. He later does this when he shares about crying over seeing sports players he admired. | |
| I Have This Friend / int_3361ad0c | featureApplicability |
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| I Have This Friend / int_3361ad0c | featureConfidence |
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| The InBESTigators | hasFeature |
I Have This Friend / int_3361ad0c | |
| I Have This Friend / int_33728d94 | type |
I Have This Friend | |
| I Have This Friend / int_33728d94 | comment |
Used in Steven Brust's Dragaera: Main character Vlad Taltos tells a person in need of "problem-solving", that he is no longer in the business but that he has a "friend" who might be interested in the job. It's implied that such conversations are common when it comes to hiring people for "problem-solving". In Orca, this standard circumlocution backfires on Keira. She's helping Vlad try to untangle the debts of a dead noble; when another Jhereg asks her why, she truthfully starts telling him it's for a friend, and he immediately says he doesn't believe her. Unfortunately for everyone, he did believe her. |
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| I Have This Friend / int_33728d94 | featureApplicability |
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| Dragaera | hasFeature |
I Have This Friend / int_33728d94 | |
| I Have This Friend / int_341a1fd2 | type |
I Have This Friend | |
| I Have This Friend / int_341a1fd2 | comment |
Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated: Scooby tries this when asking for love advice. | |
| I Have This Friend / int_341a1fd2 | featureApplicability |
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| I Have This Friend / int_341a1fd2 | featureConfidence |
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| Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated | hasFeature |
I Have This Friend / int_341a1fd2 | |
| I Have This Friend / int_344809d2 | type |
I Have This Friend | |
| I Have This Friend / int_344809d2 | comment |
Subverted in an episode of Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased). Marty Hopkirk (a ghost) is suffering from unexplained feelings of nausea and fading. Unable to work out what this could be, his still-living partner Jeff Randall goes to the doctor and describes Marty's symptoms as if they were his own. The doctor then says, "These aren't your symptoms, Mr. Randall, are they? They're of a friend." Jeff congratulates him on his deduction, only for the doctor to follow up with "Tell your friend that she's pregnant." | |
| I Have This Friend / int_344809d2 | featureApplicability |
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| I Have This Friend / int_344809d2 | featureConfidence |
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| Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) | hasFeature |
I Have This Friend / int_344809d2 | |
| I Have This Friend / int_3454c67 | type |
I Have This Friend | |
| I Have This Friend / int_3454c67 | comment |
When Twilight Sparkle in The Royal Sketchbook asks Rarity if she's ever had feelings for a mare, Rarity instantly comes to the conclusion that Twilight either is cheating on her wife or that Luna is fine with a threesome. Even when Twilight corrects her, Rarity still thinks that Twilight's just embarrassed. It turns out that Twilight is asking for Luna's sister Celestia. | |
| I Have This Friend / int_3454c67 | featureApplicability |
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| I Have This Friend / int_3454c67 | featureConfidence |
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| The Royal Sketchbook (Blog) | hasFeature |
I Have This Friend / int_3454c67 | |
| I Have This Friend / int_36807c5d | type |
I Have This Friend | |
| I Have This Friend / int_36807c5d | comment |
On Neighbours Stingray talks to his doctor about his friend who was given a "present" by another friend that he doesn't want. It takes Karl only a few seconds to figure out he's a)talking about himself and b) talking about a suspected STD. It doesn't help that Stingray's friend's name keeps changing. It turns out that his problem was just caused by nylon underpants. | |
| I Have This Friend / int_36807c5d | featureApplicability |
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| I Have This Friend / int_36807c5d | featureConfidence |
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| Neighbours | hasFeature |
I Have This Friend / int_36807c5d | |
| I Have This Friend / int_36ec6c0e | type |
I Have This Friend | |
| I Have This Friend / int_36ec6c0e | comment |
Noel from Felicity gives it something of a twist: he's a dormitory RA and talks to the other RAs about his problems as if they're the problems of one of the students in his building, who's been asking him for help. The others aren't fooled for a second, but let him think they are. | |
| I Have This Friend / int_36ec6c0e | featureApplicability |
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| I Have This Friend / int_36ec6c0e | featureConfidence |
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| Felicity | hasFeature |
I Have This Friend / int_36ec6c0e | |
| I Have This Friend / int_3718fc8e | type |
I Have This Friend | |
| I Have This Friend / int_3718fc8e | comment |
In Rumo & His Miraculous Adventures, the protagonist asks The Mentor what his friend Urs is supposed to do after falling in love with a girl. He's a Bad Liar and sometimes says "I" instead of "Urs". | |
| I Have This Friend / int_3718fc8e | featureApplicability |
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| I Have This Friend / int_3718fc8e | featureConfidence |
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| Rumo & His Miraculous Adventures | hasFeature |
I Have This Friend / int_3718fc8e | |
| I Have This Friend / int_38c15d51 | type |
I Have This Friend | |
| I Have This Friend / int_38c15d51 | comment |
Often used by Akko in Girl Friends (2006) when she tries to discuss her love woes with her friends, without giving away they are about her and another girl, Mari. The last time she used this is especially hilarious since she placed herself in the boyfriend of the friend role, leading to this exchange: | |
| I Have This Friend / int_38c15d51 | featureApplicability |
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| I Have This Friend / int_38c15d51 | featureConfidence |
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| Girl Friends (2006) (Manga) | hasFeature |
I Have This Friend / int_38c15d51 | |
| I Have This Friend / int_39136df1 | type |
I Have This Friend | |
| I Have This Friend / int_39136df1 | comment |
In School Rumble, while asking her friends for advice on how to tell someone she loves him, she tells them it's for a "friend of a friend". | |
| I Have This Friend / int_39136df1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| I Have This Friend / int_39136df1 | featureConfidence |
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| School Rumble (Manga) | hasFeature |
I Have This Friend / int_39136df1 | |
| I Have This Friend / int_39c30cc | type |
I Have This Friend | |
| I Have This Friend / int_39c30cc | comment |
In the Franklin film Back to School With Franklin, Franklin Turtle uses this, telling his parents that Bear has reservations about Miss Koala as the replacement teacher for Mr. Owl. Really the one who isn't so sure about her because she had made him switch seats away from his best friend for goofing off and also took away a decorated pencil case he had brought to school. | |
| I Have This Friend / int_39c30cc | featureApplicability |
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| I Have This Friend / int_39c30cc | featureConfidence |
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| Franklin | hasFeature |
I Have This Friend / int_39c30cc | |
| I Have This Friend / int_3b0fa3aa | type |
I Have This Friend | |
| I Have This Friend / int_3b0fa3aa | comment |
A variation occurs on the Dream SMP. While visiting Las Nevadas once, Tommy attempts to do this as "Trousers"note he was using an invisibility potion while wearing a pair of netherite leggings — for the record, in Minecraft, "invis pots" don't make the armour a player is wearing invisible, to talk about his trauma and various issues using epithets, e.g. referring to himself as "the protagonist". Quackity sees through it, but plays along and tries to help him anyway. | |
| I Have This Friend / int_3b0fa3aa | featureApplicability |
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| I Have This Friend / int_3b0fa3aa | featureConfidence |
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| Dream SMP (Web Video) | hasFeature |
I Have This Friend / int_3b0fa3aa | |
| I Have This Friend / int_3d0be391 | type |
I Have This Friend | |
| I Have This Friend / int_3d0be391 | comment |
Hardball: In "Too Many Crooks", Ms. Crapper hands Mikey a stack of merchandise to have signed by his father. When Mikey asks if is all for her, she quickly says that some of it is for her friend: Ms. Brapper. After she leaves, Mikey Mikey turns to the camera and says that he is pretty sure that 'Ms. Brapper' is Ms. Crapper. | |
| I Have This Friend / int_3d0be391 | featureApplicability |
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| I Have This Friend / int_3d0be391 | featureConfidence |
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| Hardball | hasFeature |
I Have This Friend / int_3d0be391 | |
| I Have This Friend / int_3db944d2 | type |
I Have This Friend | |
| I Have This Friend / int_3db944d2 | comment |
In the folktale that gave rise to Corpse Bride, the groom-to-be has an extremely specific hypothetical question. | |
| I Have This Friend / int_3db944d2 | featureApplicability |
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| I Have This Friend / int_3db944d2 | featureConfidence |
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| Corpse Bride | hasFeature |
I Have This Friend / int_3db944d2 | |
| I Have This Friend / int_3e374b30 | type |
I Have This Friend | |
| I Have This Friend / int_3e374b30 | comment |
The Dark Knight Rises: In the first half of the movie, whenever Bruce Wayne talks with Selina Kyle, he always refers to his Batman persona as his "powerful friend". When they're dancing at the Masquerade Ball: And later, when Bruce, as Batman, rescues Selina from Bane's men after the rooftop fight: When Bruce tells Selina he needs to locate Bane's underground lair, he uses the "powerful friend" line again: It works up until Selina betrays Bruce to Bane in exchange for Bane sparing her. |
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| I Have This Friend / int_3e374b30 | featureApplicability |
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| I Have This Friend / int_3e374b30 | featureConfidence |
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| The Dark Knight Rises | hasFeature |
I Have This Friend / int_3e374b30 | |
| I Have This Friend / int_3e5de40b | type |
I Have This Friend | |
| I Have This Friend / int_3e5de40b | comment |
One episode of Scrubs did the Tale of Two Cities inversion: While Turk is insisting there's nothing wrong with him, Molly asks him to diagnose one of her patients, listing the same symptoms he's been displaying. Turk instantly realizes the "patient" has diabetes. | |
| I Have This Friend / int_3e5de40b | featureApplicability |
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| I Have This Friend / int_3e5de40b | featureConfidence |
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| Scrubs | hasFeature |
I Have This Friend / int_3e5de40b | |
| I Have This Friend / int_3eacc2fd | type |
I Have This Friend | |
| I Have This Friend / int_3eacc2fd | comment |
On Corner Gas, Hank feels guilty over egging a cable van and getting away with it, and needs guidance. Being Hank, he calls a local access TV show, Peggy's Pets. | |
| I Have This Friend / int_3eacc2fd | featureApplicability |
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| I Have This Friend / int_3eacc2fd | featureConfidence |
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| Corner Gas | hasFeature |
I Have This Friend / int_3eacc2fd | |
| I Have This Friend / int_3f4ad663 | type |
I Have This Friend | |
| I Have This Friend / int_3f4ad663 | comment |
Parker Lewis Can't Lose: Parker Lewis tried to get advice from his parents about how to convince his best friend Mikey to not drop out of high school. They jumped to the predictable conclusion; then again, he should have been smart enough to not open with "I have this friend who's thinking of dropping out of school..." | |
| I Have This Friend / int_3f4ad663 | featureApplicability |
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| I Have This Friend / int_3f4ad663 | featureConfidence |
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| Parker Lewis Can't Lose | hasFeature |
I Have This Friend / int_3f4ad663 | |
| I Have This Friend / int_3f832d61 | type |
I Have This Friend | |
| I Have This Friend / int_3f832d61 | comment |
Vision of Escaflowne Abridged spoofs this with them both knowing what the other is talking about right away, and then playing with this in other forms. | |
| I Have This Friend / int_3f832d61 | featureApplicability |
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| I Have This Friend / int_3f832d61 | featureConfidence |
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| Vision of Escaflowne Abridged (Web Video) | hasFeature |
I Have This Friend / int_3f832d61 | |
| I Have This Friend / int_400469e | type |
I Have This Friend | |
| I Have This Friend / int_400469e | comment |
Calvin and Hobbes: One Christmas story arc has Calvin attempting to reason that Santa's naughty and nice lists might not be black-and-white by setting up an entirely speculative scenario of an imaginary kid who simply had a lot of bad luck and, most of the time, didn't mean to do anything troublesome. Hobbes quickly deduces that this scenario is not as speculative as Calvin tries to make it out as. | |
| I Have This Friend / int_400469e | featureApplicability |
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| I Have This Friend / int_400469e | featureConfidence |
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| Calvin and Hobbes (Comic Strip) | hasFeature |
I Have This Friend / int_400469e | |
| I Have This Friend / int_405294e3 | type |
I Have This Friend | |
| I Have This Friend / int_405294e3 | comment |
The F.B.I.: In "The Divided Man", Roger Mason has been committing crimes and then waking up not remembering what he has done. He goes to see a psychiatrist and claims to want advice to help a friend who is doing 'bad things' and not remembering them. Although the psychiatrist obviously knows Mason is discussing himself, he plays along to keep Mason talking. What Mason does not tell him is that these 'bad things' include blowing up a chemical plant and starting a fire that kills three firefighters. | |
| I Have This Friend / int_405294e3 | featureApplicability |
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| I Have This Friend / int_405294e3 | featureConfidence |
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| The F.B.I. | hasFeature |
I Have This Friend / int_405294e3 | |
| I Have This Friend / int_43576f5 | type |
I Have This Friend | |
| I Have This Friend / int_43576f5 | comment |
Invoked in the Supernatural/Lucifer (2016) crossover Tripping Down the Rabbit Hole when SPN-Gabriel is talking with Linda Martin about his reasons for leaving Heaven; he provides the analogy that Heaven among the archangels was like "Thanksgiving dinner, and your Uncle Larry showed up [..] hopped up on drugs and everyone argued with him about how he was hopped up on drugs" ('Uncle Larry' in this context being Gabriel's version of Lucifer). | |
| I Have This Friend / int_43576f5 | featureApplicability |
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| I Have This Friend / int_43576f5 | featureConfidence |
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| Supernatural | hasFeature |
I Have This Friend / int_43576f5 | |
| I Have This Friend / int_43f52aa9 | type |
I Have This Friend | |
| I Have This Friend / int_43f52aa9 | comment |
In The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion a Dunmer woman remorsely notes she can't go home again but doesn't say why before asking a question. | |
| I Have This Friend / int_43f52aa9 | featureApplicability |
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| I Have This Friend / int_43f52aa9 | featureConfidence |
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| The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Video Game) | hasFeature |
I Have This Friend / int_43f52aa9 | |
| I Have This Friend / int_4432d3ee | type |
I Have This Friend | |
| I Have This Friend / int_4432d3ee | comment |
Fairy Dance Of Death plays with this. Yoshihara says that a friend of hers used to date Prophet. Asuna thinks this trope is in effect. Kirito thinks she might be telling the truth. They might both be right. While Yoshihara isn't Prophet's former girlfriend, the girl who is, Philia, serves as her body double. It's never outright stated if the Yoshihara they talked to was actually Philia in disguise or not, but it is implied. | |
| I Have This Friend / int_4432d3ee | featureApplicability |
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| I Have This Friend / int_4432d3ee | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Fairy Dance Of Death (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
I Have This Friend / int_4432d3ee | |
| I Have This Friend / int_4463c1c1 | type |
I Have This Friend | |
| I Have This Friend / int_4463c1c1 | comment |
The Personal History of David Copperfield: Aunt Betsey sees that Dora is all wrong for David and tries to coax her out of the engagement by talking about her marriage to an incompatible man in her youth. Dora misunderstands and leaves the conversation sure that she and David are right for each other. | |
| I Have This Friend / int_4463c1c1 | featureApplicability |
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| I Have This Friend / int_4463c1c1 | featureConfidence |
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| The Personal History of David Copperfield | hasFeature |
I Have This Friend / int_4463c1c1 | |
| I Have This Friend / int_4536fd85 | type |
I Have This Friend | |
| I Have This Friend / int_4536fd85 | comment |
In Hunting the Unicorn, this is Played for Drama in "The Butterfly" (chapter thirteen). David goes to a counselor, claiming that a friend of his might be in trouble. He literally does have a friend in trouble. It's Blaine, who has no idea that he has a stalker. | |
| I Have This Friend / int_4536fd85 | featureApplicability |
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| I Have This Friend / int_4536fd85 | featureConfidence |
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| Hunting the Unicorn (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
I Have This Friend / int_4536fd85 | |
| I Have This Friend / int_455e3038 | type |
I Have This Friend | |
| I Have This Friend / int_455e3038 | comment |
King of the Hill: Hank discovers he has a condition that basically means he has no butt and has to wear a special prosthetic to keep from injuring himself. After a lawnmower race where he wears the prosthetic, a man walks up to him and asks for some information for a friend who shares his condition. As the man leaves, Hank gets a look at him and declares that he might need to wear one as well. In the episode "Three Men and a Bastard", Dale discovers that Bill's girlfriend's daughter has the same paternal DNA as his son Joseph, meaning they were both fathered by The Casanova John Redcorn (something Dale doesn't know and assumed aliens used Dale's DNA), at around the same time. When his wife Nancy finds out, she angrily confronts Redcorn while Dale is in the room, and they end up having a fight about it where they use Dale's name in place of Redcorn's, with lines such as "Dale would never cheat on you...and even if he did he would use protection!" Dale just stands off to the side, getting increasingly confused. |
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I Have This Friend | |
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In Season 5 of Engrenages, Captain Berthaud plays it completely straight when asking the coroner for advice about the possibility of having an abortion after the legal deadline. | |
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I Have This Friend | |
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Lost to Dust: Ruby tries to get dating advice from her team by saying her friend "Rudy" has a crush on someone. She gets embarrassed when they say they know she's talking about herself and that she has a crush on Charlemagne. | |
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I Have This Friend / int_489c6d22 | |
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I Have This Friend | |
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Xeo tries this on Lady Arete in Gates of Fire. She sees through it immediately but plays along out of respect for Xeo's predicament and his clear embarrassment over the situation. | |
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The Karma of Lies features an interesting variation when Ladybug confides in Luka about the troubles she's been having in her civilian life. While she's honest about what's happening to her, she carefully avoids naming names, since she's trying to protect her Secret Identity... along with Luka's feelings, since his sister is among the classmates giving her trouble. | |
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I Have This Friend | |
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Hinagiku does this while watching Maria in Hayate the Combat Butler. Not entirely sure if Maria caught on (Maria can be unbelievably dense sometimes), but her response is dead on. | |
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I Have This Friend | |
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Clay Walker's "This Woman and This Man". He uses the chorus to try and get through to a lover: | |
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I Have This Friend / int_49e6f8b2 | |
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I Have This Friend | |
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In the Torchwood episode "Something Borrowed", Ianto has to get Gwen a new wedding dress because she's been impregnated with an alien baby. He says the dress is for a friend, but the salesman clearly doesn't believe him. | |
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I Have This Friend | |
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Heartwrenchingly executed in Sleeping with the Enemy after Laura leaves her husband. An older lady strikes up a conversation on the bus; Laura says she was visiting a friend who needed help escaping from her abusive husband to explain her trip. After telling the older woman how her "friend" couldn't get the cops to help and finally risked everything to get away, the old woman whispers "How long did you stay with him?" which Laura knows exactly, to the day. | |
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I Have This Friend | |
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An advice column round on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue | |
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I Have This Friend / int_4c44acb7 | |
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I Have This Friend | |
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In the Undercover Boss parody with Adam Driver appearing as Kylo Ren of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, who is disguised as "Matt," a radar technician, Matt tells a group of stormtroopers that he has a friend who saw Kylo Ren in the shower and that he had an 8-pack and was shredded. Things do not go well when one of them casts aspersions on the veracity of "Matt"'s friend's claim. | |
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I Have This Friend | |
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In Inuyasha, the title character isn't even willing to use the "I have this friend" method — Shippou ends up doing it for him, asking Kaede for relationship advice for "a dog I know," while Inuyasha, present for the whole conversation, denies that it has anything to do with him. Hilarity Ensues, particularly given that Shippou provides visual aids. Visual aids he's so proud of that he later shows them to the whole village, much to Kagome's embarrassment. | |
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I Have This Friend | |
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The Muppet Show: | |
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I Have This Friend / int_4c99197e | |
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I Have This Friend | |
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Candace attempts this in the oneshot Butterfly Nets when asking her sister about her and Angela's relationship, but it doesn't work on Luna because it's too on-the-nose: | |
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I Have This Friend / int_4d1c30d8 | |
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I Have This Friend | |
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The Big Bang Theory: Leonard, who is in a relationship with Penny, gets hit on by Sheldon's assistant. He turns her down, but he remains flattered. Sheldon finds the situation confusing and goes to the girls for advice, using hypothetical "friends" in place of himself and Leonard. Penny quickly figures it out and the girls start discussing Leonard's behavior while Sheldon is still trying to maintain the lie. When he slips up and points out that he only cares about how the situation affects him personally, he figures he may as well drop the pretense and admits it's Leonard. Penny just hits him with a "No, duh." | |
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I Have This Friend | |
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In Leyla: The Black Tulip from the Girls of Many Lands series, the protagonist Laleena learns that foreign men are looking for girls to take to the Ottoman Empire as wives for rich men and they're willing to offer money to their families for their loss. She approaches them and asks what they would pay for a girl similar to her, as she has a friend much like herself who is interested. The men agree to give her the money to pass along to her "friend", understanding that she is actually referring to herself. (The whole thing is actually a cover for the slave trade, but she doesn't recognize that.) | |
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I Have This Friend | |
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Subverted in Robin (1993) #58: Then he has to deny responsibility — "Not guilty. Not even a suspect." |
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I Have This Friend | |
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The Vision of Escaflowne: Both Hitomi and Millerna engage in this conversations with each other that describe their feelings and concerns about Allen. It takes both of them an astonishingly long time to realize just who they are both, in fact, talking about. Millerna, to her credit, catches that Hitomi's basically repeating her earlier discussion, although it takes her a while to catch why that's important. Which the ditzy Catgirl Merle calls them both on. Vision of Escaflowne Abridged spoofs this with them both knowing what the other is talking about right away, and then playing with this in other forms. |
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I Have This Friend | |
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One Chicago: Chicago P.D.. Ruzek approaches a lawyer he knows on behalf of "a friend" who covered up his sister's DUI. The lawyer tells him that his "friend" is looking at five years in prison. It's not clear if the lawyer believes him or knows that he's avoiding naming himself so that she herself can't turn him in, as she would be obligated to do. Chicago Fire. After shift, Casey greets Will Halstead from Chicago Med and asks for advice about a fellow firefighter who sustained a head injury a few years ago with the effects resurfacing. |
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I Have This Friend | |
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Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge has a Playboy advice columnist as a guest on the second episode. Alan Partridge asks for advice for a hypothetical couple who've been married 15-16 years and have a waning love life. He very quickly blurts out things that make it obvious it's about his own life. | |
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I Have This Friend | |
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Irresponsible Captain Tylor. Empress Azalyn uses this trope because she Cannot Spit It Out that she's in love with Tylor (because their planets are at war and she's an empress, a relationship is impossible) only to lose patience when he doesn't get the hint. | |
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I Have This Friend | |
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In one Green Lantern/Green Arrow story, the famous anti-drugs Very Special Episode, Speedy responds to Green Lantern wondering why anyone would use drugs by giving the hypothetical example of a young man whose father figure neglects him to go "[chasing] around the country." Which the heroes have, of course, been doing. Green Arrow is contemptuous of this hypothetical "sob story"... and then walks in on Speedy, his own surrogate son, shooting up. | |
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I Have This Friend | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun: In another episode, Don stole one of Sally's panties while she was doing laundry. He tried using this trope: |
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I Have This Friend | |
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Blue Bloods. In Scorched Earth, Jamie uses this to seek advice on behalf of a "fellow officer and his partner" from his father and grandfather regarding the legitimacy of a fruitful stop-and-frisk his partner executed that, if found unjustified, could jeopardize the case. | |
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I Have This Friend | |
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DuckTales (2017): After challenging a robotic driver to a race, Launchpad tries to do this when asking Gyro for help. He claims to have a friend named "Not Launchpad" who challenged a robot to a race, and "Not Launchpad" isn't worried at all, but "Not Launchpad" has a friend named "Launchpad" who is worried about it. Gyro (who witnessed the challenge in the first place) doesn't care enough to either play along or call him out, and simply delegates the conversation to his intern. | |
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I Have This Friend | |
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Higurashi: When They Cry: When judging an amateurish bento on quality vs. effort, Tomita poses a hypothetical of him receiving a hand-knitted sweater and Okamura receiving a bookstore gift certificate for 10,000 yen. Keiichi notes how specific the scenario is and wonders if it's really just an example. | |
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I Have This Friend / int_58808436 | |
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I Have This Friend | |
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In Fallout: New Vegas, one of the "services" James Garret of the Atomic Wrangler asks you to find is a Sexbot, which he insists is for those disgusting machine fetishists. When you get him one, his reaction is nothing short of the best day of his life, thinking about the the possibilities and how he'll learn about F.I.S.T.O. via trial and error. For the customers of course! | |
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I Have This Friend / int_59da62aa | |
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I Have This Friend | |
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One episode of Sons of Anarchy has Tara going to her boss to ask if she knew a place where a friend could get a discreet abortion and pay cash. The boss responds by giving Tara the name of a clinic, clearing Tara's schedule for the next day, and assuring her that she thought Tara's "friend" was making the right choice. This is both a subversion and a straight example: Tara really was asking for a friend (the stripper girlfriend of one of the Sons), but Tara was also pregnant, and her boss's response was one of the factors in convincing her to make an appointment at the abortion clinic as well. | |
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I Have This Friend | |
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Home Movies uses the twist where every time Brendan tries to introduce his friend to the girl he has a crush on, his friend runs away so the girl thinks he's the one with a crush on her. Later, when Brendan tells his mom about what's going on, she again thinks he's talking about himself rather than his friend. | |
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| I Have This Friend / int_5cad8158 | type |
I Have This Friend | |
| I Have This Friend / int_5cad8158 | comment |
Subverted in Lizzie McGuire where Lizzie actually is talking about a friend, and her mother keeps trying to comfort her as if she is talking about herself. | |
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I Have This Friend | |
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Used to some extent in Spider-Man 2 to his doctor. Who is most certainly not a psychiatrist, or for that matter a psychologist. What's worse, Peter starts out talking about his actual experiences as, "I've had these dreams where I'm Spider-Man". And then says that it was actually his friend's dream. The doctor clearly catches on that the "friend" is really Peter (though he doesn't say anything), but mistakes the reason for why he's doing the routine. Peter is trying to hide the fact that he is Spider-Man; the doctor thinks he's embarrassed about the dreams. | |
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I Have This Friend | |
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Vorkosigan Saga: In Shards of Honor, Aral and Cordelia each talk about painful romantic events that happened to "a friend". (Aral's "friend" fought duels to the death with his wife's lovers, after which she killed herself; Cordelia's gave up a promotion to her lover, who promised her marriage and children but left her afterwards.) It's obvious to both of them that they're talking about themselves. | |
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I Have This Friend | |
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Dr. Blink: Superhero Shrink: At Dr. Blink's book signing, Captain Magnificent asks him to autograph it for his son... who just happens to have the same name he does. | |
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I Have This Friend / int_628b342c | |
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I Have This Friend | |
| I Have This Friend / int_63230cb | comment |
In episode 3 of Dragon Ball Z Abridged, when Krillin has to inform Chi-Chi of Goku's death and Gohan's kidnapping. | |
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I Have This Friend / int_63230cb | |
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I Have This Friend | |
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Sofia the First: When Sofia tells her Mom that one of her friends is being bullied by a fliegel, Miranda assumes the "friend" is Sofia herself. Sofia explains it's one of her troll friends. | |
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I Have This Friend | |
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Schitt's Creek: Roland tells Johnny he has a friend who needs some work and will be helpful around the motel. By the time they are waiting in Roland's living room for "the friend" Johnny has long since figured out the friend is Roland. | |
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I Have This Friend / int_641203c1 | |
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I Have This Friend | |
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In The Ballad of Twilight Sparkle, Twilight tries this on a librarian at the Manehattan Public Library when asking for advice on romance regarding the Great and Powerful Trixie, or as Twilight puts it "this annoying and adamantly arrogant magical mare that somepony I know may or may not have more-than-friendly feelings for." The librarian sees right through this, much to Twilight's frustration. | |
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I Have This Friend | |
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In the Big Finish Doctor Who audio drama The Eye of Horus, Benny has found herself in Ancient Egypt, confronted with both a) Prince Tutmosis, who wants to know his destiny and b) the Doctor, who she just saw die in the future. At one point she rants to Tutmosis about how distressing it is to know someone is going to die, and want to warn them, but they don't pick up on the hints. He takes it as her subtly telling him what his future holds if he doesn't act against Hatshepsut. And she's so wrapped up in her actual dilemma that she doesn't pick up on it. | |
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I Have This Friend / int_6abf16c2 | |
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I Have This Friend | |
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In an episode of New Tricks, Brian is attempting to time the distance between a suspect's place of work and a murder scene to determine whether the suspect could have killed the victim. Having reached an inconclusive result after running the course, he corners a nearby policeman and hypothetically asks whether he thinks it'd be possible to leave the workplace, beat someone to death, dump their body in a BMW and leave it in the carpark where the body was originally found. Unfortunately for Brian, he looks a bit crazy at the best of times, and the policeman notices that there happens to be a BMW parked nearby... and Jack is thus forced to call the arresting officer and inform him that while he acknowledges that Brian is a bit weird, he probably wasn't actually planning on killing someone in this fashion. | |
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In Overwatch, one of the pre-battle lines between Reinhardt, a warrior in heavy armor, and D.Va, a professional gamer, has the former asking the latter for an autograph totally not because he wants one. | |
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Draco Malfoy doesn't even get to say what his hypothetical brother's question was before Lucius says he'd kill him in a Simply Potterific strip. This is part of an existing arc where Draco sees Hermione at the Yule Ball and falls for her, as referenced by the author underneath the comic (and can be seen here and here). So the question Draco was going to ask would be 'what if his hypothetical brother fell for a muggleborn girl'. That said, the follow-up comic already mentioned could be taken to read either way (of Lucius suspecting Draco of being gay or of being a muggle lover). | |
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In one episode of Dragon Tales, Emmy accidentally breaks Wheezie's trumpet and asks Quetzal about a hypothetical situation in which a mouse with a red ribbon in her hair broke something that belonged to a two-headed turtle. Quetzal isn't fooled for a moment. | |
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In one book in the Skulduggery Pleasant series, Scapegrace, a zombie goes to a funeral parlour to order an embalming for his "brother". | |
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Waiting in the Summer: combines I Have This Friend with Two Scenes, One Dialogue as the camera cuts back and forth between Kaito and Ichika discussing (with Tetsuro and Remon, respectively) the budding romantic feelings between "A" and "B" during the same lunch period. This 'hypothetical' scenario is illustrated in their imaginations by sock puppets who obviously represent Kaito and Ichika. As if this weren't transparent enough already, both Tetsuro and Remon realize that Kanna is "C" independently. | |
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Smallville: Chloe finds out about Clark. Funnily enough, Lois does in fact assume she's talking about herself. In "Velocity", Clark and Lex do the same thing, in which the "friend" is Pete Ross, who's in trouble. |
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In Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, Kaguya and Shirogane seek advice from Kashiwagi and Ishigami, respectively, after an incident that happened while Shirogane was visiting a sick Kaguya. Both of them claim to be asking on behalf of a friend, but neither of the people they speak with is fooled. Ishigami lampshades it by saying that Shirogane is probably asking about himself, while Kashiwagi also realizes that Kaguya's asking about herself but doesn't say anything — until she accidentally switches to "you" and Kaguya doesn't notice. Then about a hundred chapters later, Kaguya (Ice) (a part of Kaguya's personality who displays Brutal Honesty) tells Kashiwagi she won't use the "I have a friend" excuse since Kashiwagi would see through it. At the same time as the above, Shirogane approaches Maki for relationship advice using the friend excuse. However, the pretense quickly falls apart and he openly refers to it being about his own relationship instead. Averted in chapter 193: later when Shirogane seek advice from Maki for Iino's situation. Since he specified the friend is in previous year and Maki knows Shirogane's love life is clearly not what he describes, she figures it's Iino — Shirogane had no interest in hiding her identity but didn't know Maki knew Iino. Variant in chapter 233: Kaguya explains a situation to Shirogane using random names rather than specifying which of their closest common friends — Iino and Ishigami — are involved. |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender: During the commentary track for "The Crossroads of Destiny", during the scene in which Iroh and Aang are searching for Zuko and Katara one of the crew comments that he half expects Aang to ask Iroh "I have this friend who's the Avatar..." | |
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Austenland: While Jane and Nobley watch two other characters kiss in the distance, Jane and he discuss whether the other two are having a short-term fling or starting something more lasting; of course, they are really talking about themselves. Jane reuses one of the exact phrases from this dialogue later in the movie, applied to herself of course. | |
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Chicago Fire. After shift, Casey greets Will Halstead from Chicago Med and asks for advice about a fellow firefighter who sustained a head injury a few years ago with the effects resurfacing. | |
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This pops up in the Sonic the Hedgehog fic Fallen Angel. While talking about romance with Amy, Sarah tries to pass it off as her talking about her old friend "Robyn". Amy doesn't buy it. | |
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This happens in Rocket Power. On one occasion Reggie uses this on Tito, who thinks she's talking about somebody he knows, keeps asking about her, and tells Reggie to give his regards. | |
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Shining Time Station: In "Mr. Conductor's Evil Twin", Kara tells Mr. Conductor that she has a friend who asked someone she shouldn't have to do something for her when she should have done it herself, resulting in that person making a mess of things. Mr. Conductor tells Kara that her friend's situation was similar to Bill and Ben's when they let the Troublesome Trucks take charge of things. After telling her the story, Kara confesses to Mr. Conductor that her friend was her and that she let Mr. Conductor's Evil Twin out of his picture to help her clean up the station, only for him to make a bigger mess. | |
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In Summer Days and Evening Flames, Gilda (a griffin) is confused about her relationship with Captain Iron Bulwark (a pony), so writes to her friend Rainbow Dash for advice. Rainbow is just as inexperienced in romance as her, so goes to Applejack, using the classic device to explain Gilda's situation. It's vague enough that Applejack assumes she is asking her about their relationship. Hilarity Ensues. | |
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Zigzagged in Service with a Smile. Jaune uses it when asking Ruby for advice about how to deal with Cinder. Ruby goes to Oobleck about it, but he naturally doesn't believe that she really is asking for a friend. Then Pyrrha says she "has this friend who has this friend". At one point, Blake tries to do this, but Ruby, fed up with this trope, says "No! No, no, no! No, you don't have a friend who has a problem. You have a problem! [...] I'm sick and tired of all the dancing around. Why can't people just admit they have a problem? I know you have a problem. You know you have a problem. You know that I know that you have a problem. Just. Say. It! Argh!" | |
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In All You Need Is Love, Light calls an informal meeting with L and Naomi Misora to tell them that Kira texted him for advice in the case of say he might have uh, "misplaced" a Death Note... so what should we do about it? | |
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Chicago P.D.. Ruzek approaches a lawyer he knows on behalf of "a friend" who covered up his sister's DUI. The lawyer tells him that his "friend" is looking at five years in prison. It's not clear if the lawyer believes him or knows that he's avoiding naming himself so that she herself can't turn him in, as she would be obligated to do. | |
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Played for comedy in Episode 5 of Manwhores. | |
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In The Little Foxes, Oscar tells Ben that, while Horace might ultimately be unwilling to put up his share of the money, "Leo's got a friend" with bonds worth $88,000 that he'd kindly lend until he needs to look at them again in about five months. Oscar has to discreetly warn Leo about not letting out that these bonds are actually Horace's and will be lifted straight out of his safe-deposit box. | |
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Twelfth Night has Viola, disguised as a boy named Cesario, talking about love with Orsino, with whom she's fallen in love. Orsino claims that women aren't capable of loving very strongly, and Cesario responds by telling Orsino about his..."sister". | |
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Planet Sheen: While he isn't exactly asking for advice, Sheen uses the "friend" excuse when he's trying to explain the concept of a crush to his crush Aseefa. | |
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In My So-Called Life, Angela goes to Mr. Katimski and asks what to do about someone "who's really smart but not doing well in English", and while Mr. Katimski assumes Angela is referring to herself — and shows her the bulletin board to sign up for a tutor — she's actually talking about Jordan. | |
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Forgotten Realms: Priam Agrivar, a recovering alcoholic, tells the halfling Foxy Cardluck a story about "a friend" who struggles with alcoholism. He does this to commiserate with Foxy, having deduced that Foxy is similarly struggling with a past addiction to "cheeeese", and to assure him that if he needs help, his friends will be there for him. | |
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Both Nariyuki and Uruka from We Never Learn often engage in this type of conversation with Fumino, the former when he's worried about Uruka's behaviour and the latter to ask for some relationship advice from her. Thing is, they are both TERRIBLE liars and despite their denial Fumino knows full well they're talking about themselves, but still decides to play along to help them. | |
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The Office: In Season Four, after a particularly ugly night at a club, a clearly wasted Ryan tells Michael that "his friend Troy" might have a drug problem. Michael doesn't get the hint and tells Ryan that he should put a wire on Troy so they can bring down whoever's been selling him the drugs. Angela talks to Pam about her friend "Noelle," whose boyfriend went to corporate to cover for her. Pam seems to see through it, though. |
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A variation by Robert Kardashian in The People v. O. J. Simpson. After the presentation of the DNA evidence, he seriously starts doubting O.J.'s innocence, and when O.J. complains that his friends don't visit him anymore, Kardashian says that it might be because of the DNA: | |
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The One to Make It Stay: Marinette uses this in order to talk to her mother about how Chat Noir has been doggedly pursuing her as Ladybug despite her attempts to discourage him. | |
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Will & Grace: Karen does this to Grace when she's pretending to be a maid to woo a hot maintenance man (of course, Karen's grip on reality is tenuous at best anyway): | |
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In the Frozen fic The Alphabet Story, Elsa starts out in denial of her crush on a woman named Kyra. Kyra's brother Kendar was courting Elsa, however he broke it off. At the same time, he mentions that his sister had fallen for someone "indecent" and asks Elsa if same-gender relationships are illegal in Arendelle. Later on, Elsa contemplates what happened and believes that Kendar was talking about himself, not Kyra. It, however, turns out he was talking about his sister falling for Elsa herself. | |
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On Saved by the Bell, Zack wants to go on a skiing trip but is failing his classes. He tells his father that a friend of his is in a similar dilemma, and his father says that if he were the friend's father, he'd ground the friend for life. Cue Zack going off on some tangentially related daydream regarding the latter... | |
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Subverted on an episode of Once and Again. Grace is asking her aunt Judy about a friend she knows who might be anorexic. Judy, of course, immediately assumes Grace is asking about herself, but it's actually Jessie she's asking about. | |
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In Pride and Prejudice, Mr Darcy asks Elizabeth a lot of innocent and seemingly irrelevant questions when they are not engaged in Snark-to-Snark Combat. Such as whether she considers poetry an acceptable way for a man to express his feelings towards a woman or if she would ever consider living in a place like Kent, which is located more than 50 miles from her family (and incidentally, about the same distance as Pemberley, just in a different direction). Needless to say, Elizabeth did not catch onto why Darcy was asking such questions to her. | |
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M*A*S*H: In one episode, Klinger tries to invoke this trope to describe a potential problem in the unit, very badly, to Colonel Potter (claiming, just for starters, that the alleged friend is stationed at a MASH unit in Cleveland). Potter just tells him to spit it out and Klinger admits that he found the newest nurse in the unit passed-out drunk in the mess the night before. Inverted in another episode when Father Mulcahy drops in on visiting psychiatrist Sidney Freedman and mentions he's worried about a friend, saying "Things aren't going so well for him and he's feeling a little low." When Sidney asks who the friend is, Mulcahy says it's Sidney... who has, in fact, been stewing over an unsuccessful therapy case. |
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The Loud House: Subverted in "Teacher's Union". Lincoln goes to his sister Lori for advice on how to hook up a friend with a girl. Lori thinks that Lincoln has a crush on a girl, but in reality, he is really trying to pair up two of his teachers. | |
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In I Want to Be a Cute Anime Girl, when Cheryl first 'appears', so to speak, her dad sits down for a talk, and she briefly pretends to be a stranger in order to ask about, well, Charon. Obviously in this case, it's just a veneer so that they feel more comfortable hashing things out. | |
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Subverted in A Tale of Two Cities when Mr. Lorry consults Dr. Manette about the case of a friend’s mental shock. The case is not about Mr. Lorry; it is about Dr. Manette himself, who has experienced a Heroic BSoD and is on the verge of Sanity Slippage that only has been avoided by the use of his Companion Cube. | |
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Recess: In "Gus and Misdemeanors", Gus tells T.J. that he has a friend named "Russ" who stole from Mr. Kelso. T.J. sees right through it, but he plays along and suggests that "Russ" should confess to what he did, or else he will have to deal with the guilt for the rest of his life. When he sees Gus confessing to Mr. Kelso and having an ice cream after promising never to steal again, T.J. says "Good job, Russ." | |
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Stocke from Radiant Historia runs into someone asking for advice in this manner. It's Raynie, asking about love issues. Specifically, her love for him. He instantly finds out what's going on, though the details caught him off guard. | |
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In The Monk, Rosario tells Ambrosio a story of how his sister Matilda fell in love with an unattainable man and died of a broken heart after he rejected her affections. When Ambrosio says that the man was far too cruel to Matilda, it emboldens Rosario to confess that he is actually Matilda and Ambrosio is her object of affections. | |
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Dee of What's Happening!! tells a school counselor about a troubled friend. The counselor, suspecting this trope, phones Dee's mother. Soon Mama is showering her with attention, and older brother Raj is afraid to speak a harsh word to her even though she annoys him into oblivion. With Raj babysitting one evening, Dee milks the situation for all it's worth. She won't stop chattering at him while he's trying to study, scratches up the hardwood floor by roller skating in the living room, and destroys the school project he put so much work into. Raj takes it all with a smile. Eventually Dee brings her actual friend into the counselor's office, and the counselor realizes his error. Another phone call to Mama, and Hilarity Ensues when Dee is the only one who doesn't know the game is up. | |
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Resident Alien: Kate tries to ask Liv in Season 3 about some signs of having been abducted by aliens, talking about it "theoretically". Liv sees through this instantly though, and realizes Kate's worried she's been abducted. | |
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The Stalking Zuko Series, A variation of this trope takes place between Katara and Suki while the Gaang is on Ember Island. Suki assumes that Katara is talking about herself, when in fact Katara is asking about Suki's relationship with Sokka, expressing her concern that the two had unprotected sex. Suki is initially disappointed in her, freaking out when Katara mentions that she's worried her friend might be pregnant. After the war ends, Katara's father Hakoda has a conversation with Zuko in which he brings up Bato and Ming (Hakoda's friend from the Water Tribe and an Original Character from the Fire Nation), as an example of why such couples would not work out, and mentions that in order to help Bato, he would persuade Ming to break up with him. Unusually, the example with Bato and Ming is real, rather than hypothetical, and it's implied that Hakoda doesn't approve of them being a couple, either, even if his main goal was to break up Zuko and Katara. Some time later, Katara confronts Hakoda, and they get into an argument about "Bato" keeping "his" relationship secret from Hakoda, and Hakoda meddling in "Bato's" love life, with Katara fully aware of what she and her father actually mean. |
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The Commuter: Michael's search for Prynne eventually leads to him sitting down with Tony and Jackson and using this to provide an outline of the situation, asking what they'd do partially to test their reactions and partially to see what they'd say. | |
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Parodied and subverted on The Sketch Show, when Lee tells a psychiatrist that his friend is a woman (Pauline) trapped in a man's body — and that that woman has a man (Alan) trapped in her's, who in turn has a woman in his (Jackie, who apparently doesn't get on with Pauline). Ronni asks if he's talking about himself. He denies it, saying that it's his flatmate. Further subverted when she asks him to bring his friend to see her. He then pulls out a Babushka doll and opens it up. | |
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Cinderella and the Four Knights: In episode 10, Ha-won seeks romantic advice from Ja-won and frames it as an ordeal her "mother's friend's son" is going through. | |
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Sisters: A doctor approaches the titular characters on behalf of a patient who is in need of a bone marrow transplant. When asked why they would be a match for this woman, she reveals that the woman is their half-sister (the child their father had with his long-time mistress). She initially refuses to identify her, citing patient confidentiality, but when they continue pressing her, finally admits that she is the woman in question. | |
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Eddie of Family Matters does it when asking his father what one should do if something one just bought turned out to be stolen goods, complete with Suspiciously Specific Denial that it actually happened. | |
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I Have This Friend calls out this trope by name in its title. Twilight asks Celestia for some romantic advice — specifically, about her friend's romantic feelings for another mare. A regal, elegant mare who is well respected in Canterlot society. Twilight's friend doesn't want to cause her any trouble, you see. It doesn't take long for Celestia to cotton on to what's going on, and she encourages Twilight to come clean about her feelings. Inverted at the end; Twilight really was asking for a friend, specifically whether or not Applejack should ask out Rarity. Not that she ever tells Celestia, who is left wondering just what romantic move Twilight is going to make. | |
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My Life Is Murder: Alexa's doctor assumes this is happening in "Feet of Clay" when she asks about cancer treatment. He starts to tell her about the dangers of using the internet for self-diagnosis. When she says it is not for her, he says "Oh, a 'friend'?" in a skeptical tone. However, she is actually asking because it is relevant to the case she is investigating. | |
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Star Trek: The Original Series did the subverted version: | |
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In Chapter 2 of Deltarune, you can meet a monster in the city asking for help on dealing with crushing existential dread, on behalf of a friend who looks and sounds exactly like them. Said friend pops out of a door a moment later, cheerfully identifying themself. | |
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Bridget Christie on The Now Show: "Now I have this close personal friend, who is very similar to me in many ways. We're the same age, we both have size six feet, that sort of thing. But she is absolutely not me. So what happened to this other woman was..." | |
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Similarly to the Wodehouse books, Point of Honour by Madeleine Robins begins when the heroine is hired by a nobleman to find a fan, on behalf of his friend. She assumes that he's invoking the trope; in reality, he's telling the truth. | |
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Out There gives us one in the style of: | |
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In the Peter Rabbit episode "The Tale of the Mystery Plum Thief", Peter tells his mother that he has a friend who is having trouble stealing a plum from Mr McGregor's garden. She replies that his friend shouldn't be doing anything that dangerous. | |
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Superman & Lois: In Season 1 Chrissy Beppo says that "the editor of the Smallville Gazette" would publish anything Lois Lane wrote, then later reveals that she's the editor (and writer, and janitor...). | |
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In Futurama, after Zapp Brannigan's girdle breaks under the pressure of gravity: "Let me ask you a serious question, Leela: Does the company that made your bra make a girdle as well? I ask because a friend of mine..." | |
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No Matter How I Look at It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular!: Yuu falls back on this after asking Mokocchi what a certain sex act entails. | |
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The West Wing demonstrates the inherent limits of this trope when President Bartlet has to deal with a US submarine that the military has lost contact with off the North Korean coast and he has to inform an abrasive curmudgeon from the State Department: | |
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In The Mayor of Casterbridge, Lucetta describes her love problem to Elizabeth-Jane this way, saying she has a friend who feels obligated to marry a man with whom she had a dalliance years earlier but who was not entirely sure his wife was dead at the time, but since receiving word that the man's wife really is dead and they are now free to marry, she has met another man and fallen in love with him. Liz sees through it but doesn't know who the other parties are (respectively her stepfather, Michael Henchard, and the object of her own crush, Donald Farfrae) till later. | |
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Dog with a Blog: In the episode "Stan Stops Talking", Avery uses this trope to ask Bennette for advice about Stan feeling depressed since he knows everyone will leave for their own lives in the future. After a confusing explanation about Avery's unknown friend, Bennette thinks that Avery means herself, and she decides to play along to keep Stan a secret. | |
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In Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, Booster tries this when asking for advice on love in "Plasma Monster". | |
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In Small Steps, the protagonist (nicknamed Armpit) is dragged through a convoluted, barely-illegal get-rich-quick scheme by his friend, X-Ray, which through a lucky turn manages to win him a girlfriend who is also a famous pop singer, Kaira De Leon. However, a man Armpit and X-Ray angered earlier shows up and demands Armpit to sell him a love letter his celebrity girlfriend wrote him, or else he'll reveal Armpit and X-ray's whole operation, potentially landing the two in jail. Later, as he and his girlfriend have coffee together, Armpit reveals the whole situation to her, but he unfortunately phrases the whole thing as this trope, and Kaira dumps him, as she thinks their whole relationship was all about hustling her out of her money. | |
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Inverted on The Guild. Codex, trying to find out why Zaboo and Vork act the way they do, calls up her therapists and pretends that she's the one with their problems. | |
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CHVRCHES' "Asking For A Friend" doesn't even try to hide who the friend is. | |
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Subverted in Cabin Fever. Brunette bombshell Marcy is stuck in a remote cabin where some of her friends have caught a fatal flesh-eating disease and describes it hypothetically as "like being on a plane that's about to crash. And all you'd want to do is grab the person sitting next to you and f--k the s--t out of 'em, because you're about to die, anyway." Immediately cut to a shot of her literally grabbing the incredulous guy sitting next to her, throwing him down on the bed, and riding him like there's no tomorrow. | |
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The Miracle of Morgan's Creek: When Trudy and Emmy discuss with the family lawyer Trudy's problem - she's pregnant and married, but by and to a soldier whose name she doesn't remember - they use this trope. Unusually, the lawyer doesn't see through the ruse. Later, when Trudy and Emmy are discussing her situation while walking down the street, Emmy insists on using this trope. | |
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Bicentennial Man: Little Miss tries asking if Andrew has feelings for him, by telling him about this friend she has who makes her much happier than her fiance does. Andrew, oblivious because she has disguised the question so well, bluntly tells her that she should marry her friend instead of her fiance. The fact that she framed her question like this leaves out that the reason she's hesitant is because he's a robot. | |
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In Questionable Content, when Renee learns Beepatrice tests sex toys her reaction is "Oh, nice! What's the best sex toy for a vagina-haver? I'm asking for a friend, who is me." | |
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In the SuperMarioLogan episode, "The Couch!", Shrek tells Mario about his ogre friend "Hrek" and his not-so-ogre friend "Honkey" to break the news to Mario that he ate expired cheesecake against his wishes and accidentally pooped on the couch. | |
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In She Loves Me, Georg talks about "Dear Friend" as a chance acquaintance of his when consoling Amalia after the Cafe Imperiale fiasco. | |
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The Loud House: The Loud House: Subverted in "Teacher's Union". Lincoln goes to his sister Lori for advice on how to hook up a friend with a girl. Lori thinks that Lincoln has a crush on a girl, but in reality, he is really trying to pair up two of his teachers. Lynn tries this in "Hurl, Interrupted", where she asks Clyde for advice on how to deal with her fear of barfing. However, when he points out he doesn't deal with hypotheticals, she admits it's herself who's afraid of barfing, not her friend. Subverted again in the The Casagrandes episode "The Horror-Scope!", in which Lincoln asks Ronnie Anne for advice about a friend who has a crush on a girl, both of whom are in a long-distance relationship. Since she's just received a prediction about finding love that day, she thinks he's about to confess his feelings for her until he clarifies he was talking about his actual friend Rusty. |
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Saturday Night Live: In the Undercover Boss parody with Adam Driver appearing as Kylo Ren of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, who is disguised as "Matt," a radar technician, Matt tells a group of stormtroopers that he has a friend who saw Kylo Ren in the shower and that he had an 8-pack and was shredded. Things do not go well when one of them casts aspersions on the veracity of "Matt"'s friend's claim. Melania Trump (Cecily Strong) employs this trope to ask Michael Cohen (Ben Stiller) if a woman can testify against her husband: |
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The Partridge Family: In "Where Do Mermaids Go?" a cop asks for Shirley's autograph for his son, who he says listens to the Partridge Family all the time. When Shirley asks what the son's name is, the cop says, "Officer Bodie." | |
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In The Intimates, Punchy suspects that one of his classmates is suicidal, but isn't positive just who it is. So when he tries to tell a guidance counselor about it, he vaguely alludes to someone who is "not me, okay?" The counselor naturally assumes Punchy is talking about himself. | |
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Ikemen Sengoku has a variant in Hideyoshi's route where the main character doesn't try to hide from Mitsuhide that she's the one who needs advice but she does try to hide from him that it's Hideyoshi who's the source of her love-related problems. Mitsuhide isn't fooled for a moment. | |
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White Sheep (RWBY): Ruby asks Jaune's sister Lavender for help with a "friend" who likes Jaune and doesn't know what to do. Ruby assumes that Lavender saw through her little ruse, but Lavender has even less experience with social interaction than Jaune, so she takes it at face value. | |
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Lost in Camelot: Merlin attempts to ask Arthur for advice about how he has feelings for Morgana while involved with Bo, but Arthur is naturally unable to give him much useful insight, simply suggesting (when Merlin claims that his 'friend' is just someone he met in a tavern) that Merlin stay out of the tavern in future. | |
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My Babysitter's a Vampire: The little girl from the vampire councils asks Dirk for an autograph and then sheepishly says it's "for a friend". | |
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Robot Chicken: One sketch has Stretch Armstrong in sex ed class. When the teacher opens the floor for questions, he asks if it's normal for a penis to get stretched out and stringy (like the doll). When he sees the look of shock on the teacher's face, he quickly declares that his friend asked him, and he was like, "No way." | |
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The Lion King II: Simba's Pride: After Kovu's banishment, Timon and Pumbaa attempt to "hypothetically" explain to Simba that Kiara ran off alone ... but Simba sees right through it. | |
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Naru from Love Hina tells the rest of the girls about a "friend" who has a chance to do their dream job and wants to know what she should do. All the girls obviously know who she's referring to and tell her to try to keep Keitaro from working at an excavation site. | |
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Parodied in Analyze This, where Paul Vitti attempts to use this to describe his problem to Dr. Ben Sobel, who immediately sees through this. When he calls Paul out, Paul is impressed thinking that it showed that he was a skilled psychologist, and not that he was paper transparent. Also when Paul is transparently using this to explain his problems to his henchman Jelly, Jelly anxiously asks, "This friend- is it me?" |
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An early demo of Hamilton had Alexander use this trope looking for advice from George Washington on whether to come clean about his affair with Maria Reynolds. However, this part was cut out of the musical quite early. The cut song is even titled "I Have This Friend" verbatim. | |
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In Silk (Marvel Comics) issue #1, Cindy mocks a villain called Dragonclaw by saying it sounds like a Pokémon and then asks "Is Pokémon still a thing?... Asking for a friend." | |
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Maria no Danzai: How Yashima talks to Maria about Kowase blackmailing her. Maria is tactful enough to play along while subtly letting Yashima know that she can read between the lines, and retorts by encouraging Yashima to not give in and to come to her if it becomes unbearable, promising to keep her safe at all costs. | |
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In the prologue to the short, "A Pigment of His Imagination" from the Tiny Toon Adventures episode, "Ask Mr. Popular", Hamton nervously tells Buster that he has "a friend" who has trouble making other friends, and asks him for advice on how to make friends. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants episode "The Smoking Peanut'': SpongeBob having thrown a peanut at the oyster at the zoo and making it cry, tries to get some advice from Squidward. | |
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Transformers: Animated: In the episode "Velocity", Bulkhead, Bumblebee, and Sari have become fond of watching Master Disaster's street races on pirated pay-per-view (though Bulkhead didn't know that the races were legal or that they should be paying for those channels). While chasing an AllSpark fragment, several racers from the aforementioned races get into an accident. The Autobots save them, and Bulkhead asks for an autograph for "[his] human friend, Sari." Possibly subverted, as he's one of Sari's caretakers and was probably sincere in his request to get her an autograph. | |
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How to Be Indie: In "How to be Mehta", Indie gets an F in gym. She uses this phrase when she tries to ask her siblings how she should break the news to their parents. They are not fooled for a second. | |
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In Little Lunch, Atticus has a fear of thunderstorms, although he continually denies it. His attempts to tell stories about 'this kid I know who is afraid of thunderstorms' are usually interrupted by Rory going "That's you!". | |
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The Wizard of Id. A woman buys a lurid magazine, claiming "It's not for me, it's for friend". The salesman replies, "Isn't it strange how many customers only have one friend." | |
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Fashion Upgrade (Miraculous Ladybug): Adrien explains the Lila situation to Chloe and Nino this way, telling them that a fellow model he works with advised their friend to "take the high road" in dealing with a liar. He's quite shocked by their amused reactions. | |
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Transplant: Bash talks with the hospital's resident psychiatrist for advice on a patient of his who supposedly has PTSD, but it's actually himself. | |
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In Gracefully Grayson, closeted trans girl Grayson buys girls' T-shirts from a thrift store. She tells the cashier it's for her sister's birthday. | |
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Without a Trace. A suspect in the Victim of the Week's disappearance claims that she was hounding the woman for money to buy medication for her sick mother. The agent questioning her rolls his eyes, shows her his NA sobriety chip (he developed a painkiller addiction after being shot), and tells her, "Quit lying to me. I know a junkie when I see one." | |
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Inverted in Ginger Snaps, where Brigitte tells Sam that she's the one who's turning into a werewolf in order to find out how to treat her sister Ginger's transformation. Sam eventually catches on, however, with it being implied that he knew all along. | |
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Played with in an episode of Friday Night Lights where a student tries to report an attempted rape to his school counselor. She assumes he's the victim and is ashamed, but in this case, it's actually another person. | |
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In Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, Byakuya Togami, in his final Free Time Event, tells of a certain person who could only live by lying to himself and the entire world, which, for him, essentially is admitting to being the Ultimate Imposter, and not the real Byakuya Togami. Hajime suspects that Byakuya is talking about himself, but tells him that it's up to him whether he wants to tell him the entire story. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfics love this trope. In The Ballad of Twilight Sparkle, Twilight tries this on a librarian at the Manehattan Public Library when asking for advice on romance regarding the Great and Powerful Trixie, or as Twilight puts it "this annoying and adamantly arrogant magical mare that somepony I know may or may not have more-than-friendly feelings for." The librarian sees right through this, much to Twilight's frustration. The I-really-am-asking-for-a-friend variant happens twice over the course of To Cherilee with Love. In the first case, Sweetie Bell has a crush on Cherilee. After she asks Dinky Doo for help, Dinky asks her mom for help in turn. Unfortunately, Ditzy Doo doesn't realize that Dinky really is asking on behalf of a friend, and thinks that Dinky's confessing to a crush on her teacher. And while she knows that Cherilee would never encourage such a crush, Trixie has been teaching Dinky magic, and Trixie is known to love people's attention and adoration. So she flies out to confront Trixie. The ensuing argument ends with Dinky convinced that Trixie wasn't encouraging Dinky to have a crush on her, but it also ends with Trixie convinced that Dinky has a crush on her. And that's where round two comes in. Trixie goes to ask Lyra for help, but fails to specify exactly who she's talking about, only mentioning that "a unicorn" has a crush on "her teacher". Naturally, Lyra assumes that Trixie's confessing to a crush on the one who taught her—Princess Luna. To make matters worse, Lyra shares this conclusion with the Princess. Hilarity Ensues. I Have This Friend calls out this trope by name in its title. Twilight asks Celestia for some romantic advice — specifically, about her friend's romantic feelings for another mare. A regal, elegant mare who is well respected in Canterlot society. Twilight's friend doesn't want to cause her any trouble, you see. It doesn't take long for Celestia to cotton on to what's going on, and she encourages Twilight to come clean about her feelings. Inverted at the end; Twilight really was asking for a friend, specifically whether or not Applejack should ask out Rarity. Not that she ever tells Celestia, who is left wondering just what romantic move Twilight is going to make. |
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In an episode of Men Behaving Badly, Tony needs to buy glasses but is embarrassed to tell the optician, so he claims they're for a friend in prison. When she points out that the eye tests she does on him won't be very useful for his friend's eyes, he says that his friend "only wants to see quite well". | |
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In an episode of That's So Raven, Cory asked Raven for his friend who wanted to gain the attraction of a girl. She automatically assumed and not so subtly made some suggestions for his "friend". The audience knew, but she didn't, that a rather scary kid at school was forcing him to help him — he really was asking for a friend. | |
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Played both ways in Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, where Sonia, in love with Astrov, asks him "Tell me, doctor, if I had a friend or a younger sister, and if you knew that she, well—loved you, what would you do?", he says he couldn't love her because he doesn't love anyone; later when Yelena tells him outright that Sonia is in love with him, he assumes she's making use of this trope, and confesses how much he loves Yelena. | |
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Fatal Attraction: Fed up with Alex's crazed behavior, Dan finally goes to the police... on behalf of a "client" who wants an ex to stop harassing him. It's pretty obvious the cops don't believe him. | |
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The Famous Jett Jackson doubled up on this, with both of Jett's boy and girl friends being asked by a boy and a girl, respectively, for advice about their feelings for the other advice seeker. When Jett's friends go to him for help, he, naturally assumes his friends are talking about each other, but keeps up the "charade". | |
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During a discussion of equal marriage on The News Quiz, one panelist said that when conservatives trot out the Slippery Slope Fallacy of "Will a man be able to marry a horse?" she always expects them to add "Asking for a friend." | |
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Dear Zindagi: During her first therapy session, Kaira pretends that she's in Goa to help out a friend struggling with guy problems and her job. Once she starts, all the details come rushing out. Jug immediately clocks that Kaira's friend is made up and these are actually her problems, but humors her for a bit. | |
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In the Sonny with a Chance episode "Sonny With A Chance of Dating", Tawni is jealous of Sonny dating a Mackenzie Falls co-star and claims that her best friend once dated him and ended up wearing polyester pants. Sonny correctly deduces that Tawni is that "friend". | |
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Dumbing of Age: Joyce tries to explain to Dorothy how "her best friend" has been dating a gay guy to "help" him and hide from her own sexuality, only to learn her best friend is a lesbian. Joyce does this again when she accompanies Ethan to his group meet for people who are questioning their sexuality to be supportive. She asks the group leader for information she can take home to Becky, then immediately realises how this sounds and starts Digging Herself Deeper by insisting that no, really, she does have this friend... |
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In Aladdin, Aladdin credits certain things he's feeling regarding Jasmine and her situation to his monkey, Abu. | |
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ER. When Kerry and Mark suspect that Carter has become addicted to painkillers, Kerry calls the Chief Of Staff and addresses the situation on hypotheticals to find out what protocol to follow. Unusually, this only reveals that a staff member has a drug problem, not the name of the person in question. Another episode had a Closet Gay explain how he tried to come out to his homophobic father using this method. |
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Variation in that it's a fictional character rather than a "friend": in one of the final issues of The Sandman (1989), William Shakespeare is worried that, by making a deal with Morpheus, he's traded away his soul, and talks about damnation and devil's bargains with a priest he knows. The priest wonders why William is asking. He says it's because he's writing The Tempest, and his main character, Prospero, has dabbled in the dark arts, but Will would rather have him not damned by the end of the play. | |
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South Park: In "The Passion of the Jew", after Kyle watches The Passion of the Christ, he feels guilty about being Jewish, and asks the Priest for advice regarding his "Jewish Friend". Randy attempts this in "Two Guys Naked in a Hot Tub", when trying to discuss whether or not watching another guy masturbate would make you gay. This merely drives the other men in wanting to kick this "friend"'s ass, until Randy mentions he lives in Florida. In "Are You There God? It's Me, Jesus", Stan is anxious to get his period because his friends already have. He tells Chef that he has this friend who is upset because everyone already got their period. When Chef asks if he means his sister Shelly or his girlfriend Wendy, Stan says the identity of the person is irrelevant. He then talks to Dr. Mephesto about puberty and asks what happens if someone never went through it. Mephesto wants to know who never went through puberty, so Stan tells him his dad. He explains that's why he's there as his dad is too embarrassed to show up; Dr. Mephesto says he can't blame him. |
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In a sidestory of Pokémon Reset Bloodlines, at one point while talking with Misty and Iris about problematic Pokémon. Ash almost lets slip about his experience with Charizard during his disobedient phase in the previous timeline and how it cost him his first league. He quickly corrects himself and says "a friend's Charizard". | |
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In Crush Crush, when you become Awkward Besties with Bonnibel, she asks you a rather awkward question that makes it clear that she's developing feelings for you: One of Peanut's possible dialogue lines at her Awkward Besties stage fits this trope too: |
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In Calvin & Hobbes: The Series, Andy uses this to explain a crush of his to the rest of the group. Socrates thinks he's talking about him. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Willow uses this to ask Xander's advice about her relationship problems. Xander interrupts with, "Will, I've deciphered your ingenious code" and Willow just drops the pretense. | |
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Chapter 61 of The Quintessential Quintuplets has a two-way example. First, Fuutarou tells Miku that "a guy he knows" just got a Love Confession from a girl who said she didn't want an answer, and he's completely dumbfounded about it. Miku isn't fooled and giggles, but then immediately tells him that "someone she knows" wanted to confess to a boy she liked, but chickened off at the last second. Later chapters strongly hint that he did realize she was talking about herself, and he was that boy she wanted to confess to. | |
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Jagged Edge: Concerned that the client that she's defending for murdering his wife is indeed guilty, his lawyer goes to the presiding judge and discussed the situation in hypotheticals so as to maintain his confidentiality, which he's still entitled to. | |
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The Hogan Family. Concerned that Mark and his girlfriend are sexually active, Sandy asks friend/neighbor Mrs. Poole if she can ask her "a hypothetical question". Mrs. Poole promptly lampshades this trope by replying, "I love it when people ask hypothetical questions because I know they're really talking about themselves." | |
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The Hey Arnold! episode "Harold the Butcher" has Harold shoplifting a ham from Green Meats, ruining it in the process. When he is brought to Rabbi Goldberg to confess to stealing the ham from Mr. Green, Goldberg tells him a story about someone from his childhood who stole a vest from a tailor shop and had to work there for a period of time to learn how much work it takes to produce such a product and run a business. This friend may or may not have been Goldberg himself, but it eventually gives him the idea that Harold works at the butcher shop for an entire week to pay off the ham. | |
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Drop the Dead Donkey: Helen, planning to come out to her parents, asks around the office for a purely hypothetical way to admit a personal secret to a close relative. No one is fooled: | |
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Harukanaru Toki no Naka de: Variation: Inori tries to get Akane's opinion on the relationship between his sister Seri and Ikutidaru the Oni by referring to a hypothetical situation without names or details; predictably, Akane's answer doesn't turn out to be something he hoped for (and she figures out right away that Inori is talking about a particular person). Inverted to hilarious effect in one of the OAV episodes for the series. Inori believes Eisen to have stolen his good luck charm toy made by his late mother. His attempts to assure Eisen that he is okay with this initially take the form of a general statement so as to not address the quirky issue directly: well, people from powerful rich families may sometimes feel... lonely... so it's all right, Inori doesn't mind. Naturally, Eisen didn't take the toy and therefore fails completely to understand what Inori was talking about. |
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Shaggy in Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster — he tells Fred and Daphne he has this friend, "Scruffy", who has a crush on a girl, etc., etc. Of course, he is talking about himself having a crush on Velma. | |
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Doug did this every time something happened and he needed advice, usually from his friend Skeeter. One time is when he assumed Skeeter stole something and Skeeter thought he was asking a math problem (which Doug thought he was playing innocent); another is when he thought the foreign exchange student is in love with Patti and Skeeter tells Doug to just tell the exchange student how he feels about her. In "Doug and the Little Liar", Doug also does this with Mr. Dink for advice about Loretta's lies to Skeeter. Assuming that Doug is talking about him, Mr. Dink immediately bursts into tears and confesses to lying about being captain of his high school football team (he was really the equipment manager). A confused Doug forgives him anyway, and this gave him the idea to confront Loretta to get her to confess as well. |
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In Strong Bad Email #140, "highschool," Strong Bad says that before they were in middle school, the residents of Free Country, USA were parameciums living in a petri dish. When Strongbadiophage catches Homestarmecium purchasing some "rear end cream," the latter explains that he's buying it for his twin brother. He backs this up by dividing in two and repeating "These are for my twin brother" several times until Strongbadiophage is scared off by the sight of a growing crowd of Homestarmecia. | |
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An episode of Hetty Wainthropp Investigates had Geoffrey Shawcross worried about offending the Wainthropps if he moved out to live with his girlfriend. He tries to gauge their reactions indirectly by making up a story about a mate of his, living with his rather conservative aunt and uncle, who wanted advice on how to handle moving out. Richard catches on quickly and tells Geoffrey that the guy's uncle would probably be okay with it, but he should ask the aunt... Continued when he clues in Hetty by asking if Geoffrey had told her about his mate, and when she gave her approval by saying that she thought the guy's aunt wouldn't mind if he moved. | |
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Subverted in an episode of The Adventures of Shirley Holmes: Shirley is offering to a teacher the hypothetical scenario of a friend in a relationship with someone and not knowing much of their past, trying to instill doubts and suspicion in the teacher regarding her own new boyfriend, who Shirley has learnt is a con man trying to steal her money. Instead the teacher assumes Shirley is talking about herself and her best friend Bo, and responds in kind. | |
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Queen of Wands subverted this when Kestrel asked her friend Shannon for advice. The commentary track points out that this happens a fair bit. A similar scenario played out on That '70s Show when Kelso saw Hyde cheat on Jackie and went to Donna for advice. | |
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Subverted in an episode of How I Met Your Mother. When trying to figure out why Robin doesn't like going to malls, one of the theories was that she was married before at a mall. The idea is lent credence by realizing Robin constantly talked about a friend of hers who got married way too young, believing it to be this trope. When Ted confronted her about it she even "admitted" it was true and she was married before. The reality is that she lied about that because she was embarrassed over the real reason she doesn't go to malls, she was a Canadian pop star with one hit "Let's Go To The Mall" and had to sing it in dozens of malls across Canada. It turns out that it was her former best friend and singing partner who got married young which caused them to grow apart and ended their partnership and friendship. | |
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Housepets!: In this strip Fox asks his cousin Bailey about a hypothetical dog with a romance problem, but she in turn cuts straight to the chase and tells him to just go ahead and hook up with the object of his newly discovered affections. | |
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In Breaking Bad, Marie sees through Skyler's "I'm writing this stoner character" and assumes she's talking about Walter Jr., who must be experimenting with marijuana when she's actually speaking about Walter Sr. Marie even lampshades this trope when talking to Hank about their exchange. | |
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In Kingdom of Loathing, in an area that is essentially The Theme Park Version of Mexico, you might run into a pharmacy where the worker informs you that you need a bigger weapon. You take offense at the implication, but... | |
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The Cat Who... Series: Late in book #22 (The Cat Who Robbed a Bank), Celia Robinson O'Dell's assistant Nora comes to Qwill and tells him the story of a person named Betsy, who'd had a child out of wedlock and left him where he would be found and taken in by another family, but eventually he grew up to kill his own father. Qwill easily figures out that "Betsy" is really Nora herself, and her son is John "Boze" Campbell, the murderer of Mr. Delacamp. | |
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In the first half of the movie, whenever Bruce Wayne talks with Selina Kyle, he always refers to his Batman persona as his "powerful friend". When they're dancing at the Masquerade Ball: | |
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Frasier: The title character uses this several times. Niles isn't immune to it either. Played With in one instance when Frasier does this to a woman he's chatting up. He's trying to do it for Niles, who's been having no luck talking to any of the women at a party, but the woman Frasier's talking to assumes it's this, and tells him she'd be delighted to go out with his "friend". |
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In Genshiken, Saki tells a story about a "friend" of hers whose otaku boyfriend might have been watching anime during sex. | |
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Friends: Regarding the Ross, Rachel, and Julie's love triangle. | |
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In Hitman 2 during the Miami level, one of the obtainable disguises is a ridiculous flamingo suit, which 47 can feel free to wear wherever if the player so chooses. If you choose to "blend in" and sit down next to a random bodyguard while wearing it, he'll ask about it as things go in an... interesting direction. | |
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Crossplay Love: Otaku x Punk: Hanae and Shuumei ask their friends Shimazaki and Yuzuru what a girl would give someone to show her gratitude (hypothetically, of course). Both tell their friend "a kiss on the cheek". | |
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In Pretender when Chrom asks how the Shepherds are handling Emmeryn's death, Frederick tells Chrom that morale is at an all-time low, not all Shepherds are handling the events well and should an eye watched out for them. | |
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The Feralnette AU offers a variation when Kagami asks Marinette for some advice regarding a friend of hers. The friend in question is Adrien, whom Kagami feels has been taking her for granted — he's been prioritizing spending time with all of his other friends over her, only willing to hang out when she's literally his only option and nobody else is available. Fearing that Marinette's answer might change if she knows who it is, Kagami avoids mentioning him by name. | |
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Psycho-Pass has the female protagonist doing this in a projected online space but the trope is enforced. People go to this chatroom to ask for advice about the problems of other people and she is warned to phrase the issue as being about a friend. | |
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Used again in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, possibly as a reference to the conversation between Kirk and Spock (though Picard caught on a lot sooner): | |
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