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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That

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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That	comment	There are times when an authority figure has to be flexible but still maintain their authority. In these times, many use the following tactic to make clear that they have noticed an activity by commenting on how they haven't noticed it. This way, they're able to draw attention to the fact that the activity is prohibited while still allowing it to happen. This is not willful ignorance; the authority figure is making it known that they are aware of the situation but for some reason feel that drawing further attention to it might be a problem. This usually carries one of two messages: : "I don't want you to be doing that, but I'll give you one warning." Example: : "I wanna turn a blind eye, but I also wanna warn you not to mention it again because the next person who overhears might not be as sympathetic." Example: Related to Could Say It, But.... See also Fake Static, Suspiciously Specific Denial, Stepping Out for a Quick Cup of Coffee and You Didn't See That. Also compare with Selective Obliviousness, where a character may pretend not to hear or notice something because they simply don't want to or know they can't deal with it.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_13665790	comment	Vimes has been on the other ends of it, too, such as during the events of Thud!, when a fight nearly breaks out between dwarfish and troll members of the Watch over growing racial tensions. To save face for those involved, Corporal Nobbs tells an almost-plausible tale. Specifically That one of the dwarfs almost picked up a troll drink, and everyone got caught up in trying to stop him from drinking it, to avoid injury. Troll drinks tend to be miniature pools of molten chemicals, so "avoiding injury" is what makes it almost plausible... just not the "accidentally picking up a troll's cup" part. Vimes "pretended he believed it, and they pretended to believe he believed it."
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_13f21e09	comment	In Company of Heroes, a cutscene shows a sergeant chugging away on a bottle of French wine. An officer strolls up and says he'll "assume that's grape juice". The sergeant says as the officer walks away "Right sir, grape juice! Well, it was...'bout a year ago."
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_1463a028	comment	In an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, an attempt to find a deceased man's lover at his funeral backfires when a fight breaks out between mourners and protesters, and a number of people leave before they can be interviewed. This leads to the following exchange: In a later episode, a friend of Carisi's who works as a prosecutor in Queens manages to get the Queens DA (who is suffering from a carefully covered-up case of dementia) to sign off on vacating a wrongful conviction by claiming that the paper the DA was signing was a letter of recommendation for the friend's law school application. When he tells Carisi this, Carisi replies, "I didn't hear that and you did not say that — but thank you."
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_17fa5f0a	comment	Another more dramatic example from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, when the trio arrives to Hogwarts, Neville recounts them what's been going on in the school, under the Carrows' rule. He told them that the teachers were supposed to send all misbehaving students straight to the two sadists for detention, but they don't send anyone, because they want to protect the rule-breakers from their Disproportionate Retribution.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_1adee40d	comment	The World Ends with You has a section where Neku and his partner Joshua are fighting a rhino Taboo Noise. When they can't seem to beat it, Joshua suddenly levitates and fires a laser at it, destroying it in one shot, something way more powerful than anything he did before. Unfortunately, they're seen by Kariya, who notes that what he just did shouldn't be possible for a Player — so Joshua's participating in the Reaper's Game while still being alive. He also says that by Reaper rules, he should erase them both right now — but since what they did helped him out, he says he "blinked" and didn't see it. This time. After this cutscene, that attack is permanently unlocked, but the user holds back to stay under the radar, and it's never that powerful in the player's hands.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_1b5eb3b4	comment	In Raising Steam, Angua, investigating a terrorist attack on a clacks site, pretends not to notice evidence that one of the terrorists was killed and mutilated by a conveniently missing goblin worker.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_1cc09117	comment	Bleach: After overhea... sorry, NOT overhearing a conversation between Iba and Ikkaku regarding Ikkaku's secret Bankai, Komamura excuses himself by claiming to suddenly be deaf.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_1f4bace1	comment	Admiral Nechayev says it word for word in Terok Nor: Dawn of the Eagles, when Elias Vaughn explodes at her regarding the supposed peace with Cardassia, which he knows wasn't accepted in good faith by Cardassia. Instead, he insists that they both know it's just a means to give the Cardassians time to regroup.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_22211d68	comment	Bones: Twice when Bones's brother Russ is arrested. Russ turns himself in to Booth, with the understanding that he'll be allowed to see his hospitalized stepdaughter before being processed. When Bones thanks Booth for giving him that time, Booth responds that, officially, he's going to "happen upon" Russ while staking out the daughter's room, so that he and Bones don't get in trouble for it. Later, when Bones is trying to get DA Caroline Julian to give Russ leeway with his sentencing since he turned himself in and isn't a flight risk, Julian says she didn't hear it, prompting Bones to repeat herself louder.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_223c2a48	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: a minor sidequest in Hateno Village introduces you to the Horned Statue, a dealer in money and power who apparently earned Hylia's wrath sometime before the events of the game. He mostly serves as a means to exchange Heart Containers for Stamina Vessels or vice versa* A player with 100% completion will be three short of maxed-out for one or the other, or two short if they've completed the Champions' Ballad DLC, in a roundabout way that makes use of this trope.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_2279866d	comment	In The Guilty, Asger calls Bo and tells him to send a dispatch to Michael's home to look for clues as to where he's taking Iben. Bo asks whether anybody is at home, to which Asger replies that he doesn't know, but that they'll have to break in if nobody is. Bo says he didn't hear what Asger said. Asger repeats himself only to get the same answer before he catches on.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_22989f46	comment	On one episode of L.A. Law, Abby is attacked in her law office by a disgruntled client; she pulls a gun out of her purse and shoots him. In the next episode, the distraught Abby is describing the scene to a police officer. When she says she took the gun from her purse, he firmly corrects her: "Desk drawer. ...You didn't have a highly illegal concealed weapon; you had a lawful gun in your desk for personal defense."
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_22d87fc9	comment	On That '70s Show, the main characters are talking about sex using thinly veiled metaphors, until Mrs. Foreman complains: "You're making it really hard to pretend I don't know what you're talking about".
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_2547d61f	comment	Comes up frequently on White Collar.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: When Marge becomes a police officer, she offers to turn a blind eye to Homer buying beer for teenagers as long as he moves his car away from where he's parked it across three handicapped spaces. He doesn't, instead opting to take her hat and do a mocking impersonation of her, so she arrests him anyway. In "Itchy and Scratchy: The Movie", Homer tries to console Bart after he forbids him from seeing the aforementioned movie.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_27faf621	comment	In a Cyberchase episode involving symmetry, the opening scene featured the core trio bickering over whether it was Matt's poorly planned cutting of the boards or Inez and Jackie's haphazard nailing that had wrecked the fence they were supposed to be fixing. Later Inez comments on the slide symmetry of the fence piece she's holding, capping her spiel by glaring at Matt, whose back is to her, and saying "Unlike some fences we know." Matt's response is a flat "I will pretend I didn't hear that." Made funnier by the fact that his reaction is still more mature than your average 11-year-old boy's would be.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_2a139e05	comment	The Orville: In "A Tale of Two Topas", Topa's father Klyden attacks Commander Grayson while arguing with her over her involvement in Topa discovering that she was born female and was forcibly sex-reassigned as an infant. Grayson puts him in a hammerlock and slams him against the wall, then snarls in his ear:
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_2a8d8e6f	comment	In the Gotham episode "This Ball of Mud and Meanness", Alfred explains to Gordon and Bullock how Bruce insists on tracking down the man who killed his parents, and mentioned that he (i.e. Alfred) intended to kill the man himself to keep Bruce from getting blood on his hands.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_3558eaa2	comment	A retroactive example appears in Community after Frankie, a Bait-and-Switch Tyrant, shows up in Season 6 and begins threatening the main characters' control of the school. In defiance against her banning alcohol on campus, they end up building a speakeasy on the campus. While they think it's Hidden in Plain Sight, however, Frankie reveals that she actually knew about it all along because building a 1920s bar in the middle of a community college isn't really the kind of thing you can hide, but just let them think she didn't because it was easier than putting up with their childish, knee-jerk resistance to everything she was doing.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_3b34143f	comment	Harry Potter: Dumbledore does this in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, although in this case, Harry had already apologized for mouthing off against Rita Skeeter: "I have gone temporarily deaf and haven't any idea what you said." Another more dramatic example from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, when the trio arrives to Hogwarts, Neville recounts them what's been going on in the school, under the Carrows' rule. He told them that the teachers were supposed to send all misbehaving students straight to the two sadists for detention, but they don't send anyone, because they want to protect the rule-breakers from their Disproportionate Retribution.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_3f9dfc77	comment	The Way of Kings (2010): During a heated discussion Sadeas insults Renarin Kholin and calls him "useless". Dalinar Kholin calmly replies that he obviously didn't just hear his friend-turned-rival insult his son because if he had heard it then he would be obliged to make Sadeas pay for it.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_41c079f8	comment	GLOW (2017): When K-DTV exec Tom Grant sexually harasses Ruth and she refuses his advances, he retaliates by putting GLOW on a dead time slot at 2:00 am. When Ruth tells Sam about this, Sam finds Tom's car and shatters the windshield with a tire iron. On his way out, Sam sees Tom's underling Glen Klitnick staring at him.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_444ef61b	comment	Not Always Learning: During a school field trip to Auschwitz, two students decided to take selfies with the watchtower as backdrop. note Considered highly disrespectful; and could have gotten them thrown off the site if they'd done it inside the buildings. The poster took their phone with one hand, and slapped both of them with the other ... in front of a teacher.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_455e3038	comment	In King of the Hill, "No Bobby Left Behind", Principle Moss tries to avoid his school failing the standardize test by putting all under-performing students in the "special needs" class, but after they cause an outcry at an Alamo Land park where they are unsupervised and drop out of (fortunately unharmed) a log flume ride, his supervisor gives him a chewing out for letting it happen. When Moss admits he only put them in the "special needs" class to keep them from taking the test, his supervisor quickly covers his ears and says: "I didn't hear that. You can't prove I heard that."
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_45854dfc	comment	In the first Starship Troopers movie Rico resigns from the military (which precludes ever being allowed to re-enlist). The same day, his hometown is destroyed in an alien attack, so he begs to be allowed to fight for revenge.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: In Monstrous Regiment, Sergeant Jackrum says to a sentry who has left her post, "I must have bleeding good eyesight because I know for a fact you are on sentry duty over by those trees." In Jingo, Lord Rust doesn't have to pretend he didn't hear Commander Vimes call him an "inbred streak of piss", because Rust is so convinced that anyone beneath his station would never blatantly insult him that he literally DOESN'T hear Vimes. Vimes has been on the other ends of it, too, such as during the events of Thud!, when a fight nearly breaks out between dwarfish and troll members of the Watch over growing racial tensions. To save face for those involved, Corporal Nobbs tells an almost-plausible tale. Specifically That one of the dwarfs almost picked up a troll drink, and everyone got caught up in trying to stop him from drinking it, to avoid injury. Troll drinks tend to be miniature pools of molten chemicals, so "avoiding injury" is what makes it almost plausible... just not the "accidentally picking up a troll's cup" part. Vimes "pretended he believed it, and they pretended to believe he believed it." By Snuff, Sybil has insisted Vimes give up cigars, and Willikins usually helps enforce this rule. However, under specific circumstances: In The Truth Harry King can't sell the Ankh-Morpork Times any paper since he's already agreed to sell his stock to their competitor. He can, however, leave a cart full of paper unguarded and pretend he doesn't notice them stealing it. In Raising Steam, Angua, investigating a terrorist attack on a clacks site, pretends not to notice evidence that one of the terrorists was killed and mutilated by a conveniently missing goblin worker.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_492dc64c	comment	In For Love of Magic, Amelia Bones makes it clear to Harry that she knows he's behind the recent disappearances of exonerated Death Eaters but isn't too interested in actually investigating so long as only Death Eaters disappear.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_4f7dff22	comment	In the Relativity story "Payback", a little girl is kidnapped by mobsters. After she is rescued by the superheroes, the police chief, Aaron Brooks, wants her taken into protective custody (so she can serve as a witness). The superhero, Dark Flame, knows that the mob would have no hesitation in killing a little girl, and being protected by the police wouldn't do any good because too many cops are controlled by the mob. Her solution is to take the girl herself, so she would essentially disappear.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_519d5b9a	comment	In Mega Man Battle Network 3, Lan, expecting to find Mayl and Yai at his door (whom he had snapped at earlier and was ready with an apology), instead meets Chaud and assumes he's there to arrest him for having planted fire chips across the net which caused fires and even sent his father to the hospital - even though he'd been duped by Mr. Match into doing so - To which he cops out during their conversation. Chaud's visit was actually about asking Lan to fetch the Forbidden Program from the Undernet for the Officials, which was followed by the confession, and the trope comes in as a favor to Lan for helping get Chaud's father away from Sunayama at the TV studio.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_53a73ca0	comment	Star Wars: The Clone Wars: In "The Deserter", Captain Rex is badly injured, and is left by his men on a farm to recover. At evening he finds out that the husband of Suu, the woman who took him in, is a deserter clone called Cut Lawquane. After he gets to know Cut and his family, and fights side-by-side with him, Suu asks him whether he's going to turn Cut in for deserting the army. Rex answers that he has no choice in the matter, but then reminds them that "in [his] condition", surely he won't be able remember the meeting.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_58be8dc6	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_58be8dc6	comment	Near the end of Holes, as Stanley and Zero are being driven home from Camp Green Lake, Zero openly admits that he committed the theft Stanley was wrongly arrested for. The driver of the car (Stanley's attorney) turns in her seat and tells him: "I didn't hear that. And I advise you to make sure I don't hear it again."
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_58d80a4a	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_58d80a4a	comment	In Jingo, Lord Rust doesn't have to pretend he didn't hear Commander Vimes call him an "inbred streak of piss", because Rust is so convinced that anyone beneath his station would never blatantly insult him that he literally DOESN'T hear Vimes.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_5908ee91	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_5908ee91	comment	In The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, the Empire's hope was to do this in regards to Talos worship in Skyrim, due to the White-Gold Concordat banning it. However, the Thalmor had other plans, manipulating the "asset" known as Ulfric Stormcloak into blatantly violating the concordat, giving the Thalmor justification to force heavier enforcement by the Empire and direct enforcement by the Thalmor. In the Empire ending for the Civil War, General Tullius does one on Legate Rikke as she says her last goodbye to her old comrade Ulfric's corpse, when she said "Talos guide you".
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_5921531b	comment	Happens twice in the same scene in Persona 4. Your cousin Nanako has just been kidnapped after your Detective Uncle Dojima takes you in for questioning. After he receives the news, he takes off leaving you and your friends with his partner Adachi. When the rest of your friends come as well, Adachi says he really shouldn't allow everyone to be in the Interrogation Room, but doesn't do anything to stop it. A little while after, the team finally discovers the identity of the kidnapper and tell Adachi they need to go after him, begging him to let you leave. He then decides to leave the room.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_59593dcd	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_59593dcd	comment	By Snuff, Sybil has insisted Vimes give up cigars, and Willikins usually helps enforce this rule. However, under specific circumstances:
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_5d2be66d	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_5d2be66d	comment	The Barrier: Several of the characters end up searching for Manuela in the Covarrubias house after she turns out to have caught noravirus. Among the handful of people searching for her, there are a couple who intend to help her get to a place where her condition may be treated more humanely than if she's handed over to the system in place to deal with noravirus patients. Rosa finds Manuela hiding in the garage moments before her allies do. When asked about her progress from another room, Rosa claims that the garage is empty, but that she heard noise coming from another part of the house. She then leaves the garage all while giving Manuela's allies a stern look.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_60878253	comment	The Last Days of FOXHOUND: While Sniper Wolf is having a breakdown as a consequence of her massive diazepam addiction and goes to Russia on the advice of her hallucinations to kill a Spetsnaz officer they're conspiring with, Revolver Ocelot rather tactlessly proposes letting the Russians just kill her. Liquid Snake uses this approach in order to give Ocelot a chance to stop digging, which naturally does not work.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_611c72dc	comment	Star Trek Novel 'Verse: In Star Trek: Vanguard, Captain Desai (the station's JAG officer) responds to a mission request by Admiral Nogura with something akin to accusing him of trying to punt her off the station to avoid legal trouble. Nogura replies that, as a favor and for the sake of her Starfleet career, he's going to pretend he didn't hear her insubordinate remark. Admiral Nechayev says it word for word in Terok Nor: Dawn of the Eagles, when Elias Vaughn explodes at her regarding the supposed peace with Cardassia, which he knows wasn't accepted in good faith by Cardassia. Instead, he insists that they both know it's just a means to give the Cardassians time to regroup.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_623f0768	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_623f0768	comment	At the end of Batman: Year One, Gordon realizes that the man who just saved his son must be the same Batman who the Gotham Police have been hunting. Given that he's standing close enough to hand Gordon his son, and Gordon had previously met Bruce Wayne, the implication is clear.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_6505f7f3	comment	Molly of Denali: In "Operation Sleepover," Atsaq instructs Tooey and Molly to clean up the dogs' mess that she's pretending not to see.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_6ab79c14	comment	Bend It Like Beckham: Jess lies to her parents about staying with a cousin so she can sneak off and join her football team on a trip to Germany. When she explains how she got away to her coach he replies that he didn't hear that and lets her on the bus.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_6c39a620	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_6c39a620	comment	Ascendance of a Bookworm: In Part 5 Volume 1, a student from the former Veronica faction tries to use the advancement ceremony to warn his parents of the upcoming purge of the faction's adults, all while only being still alive because the academy-age students are given the chance to swear fealty to Ehrenfest's archducal family to escape Family Extermination. Considering the circumstances, Rozemyne decides to ignore the incident just this once and not have it leave the Ehrenfest dormitory, as it risks affecting the extent to which that student's family will be punished, which could literally mean life or death.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_72262aee	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_72262aee	comment	Avatar: The Last Airbender gives us the following... conversation:
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_75149ccd	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_75149ccd	comment	Played with in the X-Wing Series:
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_760bd4a5	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_760bd4a5	comment	In Star Trek: Vanguard, Captain Desai (the station's JAG officer) responds to a mission request by Admiral Nogura with something akin to accusing him of trying to punt her off the station to avoid legal trouble. Nogura replies that, as a favor and for the sake of her Starfleet career, he's going to pretend he didn't hear her insubordinate remark.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_7668653a	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_7668653a	comment	Mass Effect 2: If you have Grunt in your party when you enter the quarantine zone on Omega, he'll ask if the smell of burning corpses makes anyone else hungry. If you also have Jacob, he'll drop the line. This is Anderson and Hackett's response to Shepard teaming up with Cerberus in the second game. They don't know what you're up to, at all, and haven't spoken to you since you were reported dead, and nobody can prove otherwise. Hackett even specifically denies requests to have agents spy on Shepard to ensure this remains true. This is because both admirals have the highest confidence in Shepard and his/her methods, but they can't be seen publicly associating with someone who does things like consort with known criminals, accept crew and materiel from avowed terrorist organizations, or destroy entire colonies.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_769da46e	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_769da46e	comment	In Monstrous Regiment, Sergeant Jackrum says to a sentry who has left her post, "I must have bleeding good eyesight because I know for a fact you are on sentry duty over by those trees."
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_7787c814	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_7787c814	comment	Pandora AU: When Sonic accidentally lets slip that there's something specific in the basement that he is looking to reach, Manic decides to overlook it.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_80942169	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_80942169	comment	In an episode of Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, a character starts an underground reaction to the school talent contest and one of the other characters asks the woodwork teacher for advice. His reply goes more or less "I, of course, didn't hear you refer to an event that the principal has specifically prohibited."
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_8358166f	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_8358166f	comment	In Are You Being Served?, when Captain Peacock tells Mr. Harmon to get off the shop floor, he is told to "get stuffed". Captain Peacock remarks he didn't hear that in an attempt to wave off his insolence, so Mr. Harman shouts it again.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_86c3beca	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_86c3beca	comment	In Girl Genius, it's more of a "I'll Pretend I Didn't See That" when Violetta, a trained Smoke Knight (spy/assassin/bodyguard) whacks her cousin over the head with a cosh and knocks him out, before he can kidnap her best friend/employer, even though it violates the rules of sanctuary of the monastery they're currently in.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_880cfa15	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_880cfa15	comment	On Hogan's Heroes, Sergeant Schultz frequently says "I see nothing!" because he knows that investigating would just make things worse for him.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_898a1932	comment	Journey to Chaos: Eric says something sacrilegious about the Bladi clan within hearing range of the clan's chief; explicitly, how their target should be "cut him up into cubes to make bladi-flavored ice tea". Because Eric is currently experiencing With Great Power Comes Great Insanity, Basilard says he will ignore it.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_8b1224bd	comment	The officers in McAuslan, a great deal. "It is astonishing just how often an officer's duty seems to consist of looking the other way, or maybe I was just a bad officer."
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_8cb3a247	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_8cb3a247	comment	Dumbledore does this in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, although in this case, Harry had already apologized for mouthing off against Rita Skeeter: "I have gone temporarily deaf and haven't any idea what you said."
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_8d814070	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_8d814070	comment	Zig-zagged: The MAS*H episode "Some 38th Parallels" has the docs irked by a Colonel who seems to be unfazed at the death of one of his men. Hawkeye and Klinger have a sack of rubbish (which Hawkeye bought at Frank's auction for the village folk) dropped from a helicopter on the Colonel as he boards his jeep. Potter says pleasingly "I didn't see any of it but I loved every minute of it!" In a later episode, Klinger asks Potter to do this after he comments that he's "not crazy" in response to Winchester suggesting to Potter that Klinger drive him to the airport as a storm is bearing down on them (meaning Klinger would have to make the return trip through said storm). Potter apparently takes it to heart (or else legitimately forgets the remark in all the chaos), as the conversation is never mentioned again.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_8d81bb26	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_8d81bb26	comment	Happens somewhat regularly on both NCIS and NCIS: Los Angeles. Either the team needs something but don't have the time to get approval or approval would tip off the perp or Gibbs/Vance/Hetty require Plausible Deniability. In one episode, a group of sailors are playing poker, with cash visible on the table. As one asks the other, "What do you got?", DiNozzo walks in, declaring, "About five seconds before the Agent Afloat sees you playing for stakes.", prompting them to scramble away.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_8ee65bc	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_8ee65bc	comment	In Space Cadet (Heinlein), when Tex Jarman gets drunk in public, one of the cadet's instructors (who is sitting nearby) calls over Matt Dodson and warns him, "Go back and tell Jarman to quiet down before I have to come over and ask him what his name is."
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_96773bf2	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_96773bf2	comment	In The Number of the Beast, the protagonists ask the Governor of the UK colony on Mars how they can exchange their gold for the local currency. He offhandedly mentions how he is glad to hear they don't have any gold, being it is illegal there for individuals to own gold.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_997387b2	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_997387b2	comment	In Turbo, Whiplash does this twice.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_9a29f3a4	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_9a29f3a4	comment	In Top 10, when Irma Geddon and Joe Pi go to arrest Atoman, she makes a careless remark about how Atoman's long lifespan will mean a prison sentence would just be a slap on the wrist, and that he deserves something a lot worse. (Bear in mind they have damning evidence that he's a pedophile and an accomplice to murder.) Joe laments that he's "accidentally" destroyed his inbuilt audio taping system with his "typical machine clumsiness", so he wouldn't have any evidence if a fellow police officer were to, hypothetically, suggest doing anything illegal. He then tricks Atoman into committing suicide.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_9d788ab1	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_9d788ab1	comment	Common in The Legend of Sun Knight. Since Sun is both the leader of the holy knights and supposed to be viewed as perfect in the eyes of the people, the other holy knights are often obligated to act as though they don't know he practiced illegal magic, conspired against the king, or snuck an undead creature into their ranks.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_9e2f90f4	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: As Luffy and Koby part ways, a Marine officer asks Koby if he's Luffy's crewmate. Koby tries to deny it at first, aware that being associated with pirates would end his dream of becoming a Marine, though he finds the decision painful due to having become friends with Luffy after he rescued Koby from Alvida. But when Luffy decides to bring up Koby being press-ganged into being her cabin boy, Koby punches him in the face to shut him up; Luffy retaliates by beating up Koby until he can't stand, leaving the Marine officer in question to determine that Luffy and Koby aren't affiliated after all, before demanding that he and Zoro leave the town. He later makes it clear that he's aware that Luffy goaded Koby into punching him on purpose, but keeps the whole thing under wraps because he wants to discreetly thank Luffy for getting the local Marines rid of Axe-Hand Morgan. He even salutes Luffy with Koby and the rest of his men as he sails off, before declaring that a Marine saluting a pirate is considered a breach of conduct, and therefore everyone present will be punished by going without food for the next few days. Absolutely no one complains. "I don't hear anything." For context, the Straw Hats learn that Usopp wants to rejoin their crew after previously quitting, and a few of them plan to go find him and patch things up. Zoro, however, insists that Luffy can't simply let Usopp rejoin without the latter first apologizing, since it would be allowing a crew member to disrespect him; if the first thing Usopp says when he returns is an apology, that's fine, but if not, they need to leave without him, to which Luffy agrees. When Usopp does come back while the crew is trying to escape from the Marines, the first several things he says are decidedly not apologies, instead trying to sidestep doing so and claiming that him quitting the crew was a joke with his usual swagger. Each time, Zoro and Luffy pull this when the others point out Usopp's presence by claiming "I can't hear anything", and eventually the rest of the crew follows suit. It's briefly subverted when, after giving him multiple chances, he still hasn't said he's sorry, and they start to escape without him; however, it's then double subverted when Usopp, upon seeing this, breaks down in tears, apologizes for being stubborn, and begs to be allowed to rejoin, at which point Luffy gladly lets him back in anyway.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_9e8e9ba3	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_9e8e9ba3	comment	Gaunt's Ghosts: A common element of Colonel-Commissar Gaunt's leadership, especially when it comes to bootleg liquor. In one noteworthy incident, he drops in on a celebration for the newly-minted Guard recruit Dalin Criid and asks point-blank if anyone brought any sacra. When it turns out they (of course) did, he suggests doling it out to the revelers "before someone sees it".
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_a402c457	comment	Kaspall: "SORRY? WHAT WAS THAT? I APPEAR TO HAVE GONE TEMPORARILY DEAF! GOD, I HOPE NO ONE CONFESSED TO A SERIOUS OFFENCE WHEN I WASN'T LISTENING!"
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_a4420d22	comment	The Venture Bros.: Sgt. Hatred is hysterical because his darling Princess Tinyfeet might be dumping him. He encounters the raspy-voiced supervillainess Dr. Girlfriend, and asks her opinion on the matter.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_a4e01e5b	comment	Happens word-for-word in The Incredible Hulk (1996), when Bruce Banner and Ben Grimm get into a heated debate:
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_a609791a	comment	In the Scooby-Doo story "The Phantom Of Youth" (Marvel, 1978), a millionaire hires Scooby and the gang to help him find the Fountain of Youth. The gang suddenly changes their course when Scooby disappears. When the millionaire tells them to forget Scooby, Fred tells him "I'm going to pretend you didn't say that."
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_a656a587	comment	In The Truth Harry King can't sell the Ankh-Morpork Times any paper since he's already agreed to sell his stock to their competitor. He can, however, leave a cart full of paper unguarded and pretend he doesn't notice them stealing it.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_b0cf0ed6	comment	Danger Mouse: In "The Ultra Secret Secret", in which Baron Greenback wants to team up with DM to stave off an alien attack, Penfold cracks a dumb joke, prompting Greenback to say "Penfold, shush!"
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: Immediately after Robb takes charge of Winterfell, one of his bannermen gets drunk and attacks him. Rather than charge a valuable ally with treason, Robb puts the man down easily and agrees to pretend that it wasn't an attack. The entirety of Westerosâ€™ nobility is doing this with Renly Baratheon and Loras Tyrellâ€™s relationship. Officially, homosexuality is very illegal in Westeros note except in Dorne and two men of their stature engaging in it is a huge crime. Unofficially, the Tyrells are a very powerful family that can very easily change the balance of power in the kingdom, so everybody just looks the other way and pretends they never heard anything, often while making it abundantly clear how they really feel about it. Joffrey makes a massive political faux pas when he publicly brings it up right in front of the Tyrells in his typical cruel and tactless way.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_b5a087d7	comment	In a Robot Chicken segment, Mickey Mouse questions the romance between Goofy and Clarabelle, to which Goofy replies there aren't a lot of dogs around for him to date. When Mickey recommends Pluto, who is licking his private parts, Goofy says this in response.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_b96adef8	comment	Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. The title character and her beau Sully act as spies for the Native Americans, warning them of an impending attack by the troop currently in town. After a battle in which most of the soldiers are killed, their leader asks Dr. Quinn how she came to be at the site. When she confesses that she came to warn the Native Americans, he very pointedly tells her, "No, you must have ridden out to visit a patient." When she affirms her statement, he arrests her for treason.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_c1f5e7f2	comment	Jaco the Galactic Patrolman in Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F'. His job is two things: preventing the Saiyans from reaching Earth and preventing time travel. He failed utterly in both and just writes it off by saying he never saw it. This is equally good since all of the "offenders" are much more powerful than he is.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_c2463c55	comment	Inverted in Final Fantasy X. Devout Yevonite Wakka questions the involvement of Maester Seymour Guado — essentially a high priest of Yevon — in an operation that uses machines forbidden by that religion; Seymour coolly suggests he simply pretend he doesn't see them. When Wakka, shocked, protests that that's not something a Maester should say, Seymour replies, "Then pretend I didn't say it." This is one of many early clues that Seymour is Obviously Evil.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_c34ab4c	comment	This Bites!: When first informed by Smoker, Tashigi, and Hina of their planned coup against the corrupt government, T-Bone starts walking out of the room, loudly talking to himself about meeting Smoker for the first time the next day. On the eve of the Marineford war, Commander in Chief Kong tries to talk Sengoku out of his pending retirement by invoking the memory of Sengoku's dead son. He's promptly knocked out by Sengoku's haki, and when he regains consciousness Sengoku very calmly asks if he was saying something; Kong takes the hint and changes the subject.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_c4282b71	comment	In My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfic Little Deceptions, Master of Disguise Blank Slate has made it all the way to the vault and is pretending to stand guard outside, dressed in guard armor. Everything has gone according to plan, until Princess Celestia shows up, sits down next to him, and calls him by his real name.note He spends the rest of the night guarding the vault before turning himself in the next morning. This is played for laughs in the epilogue, when it is revealed that Princess Celestia had no idea that he was the thief, that she only knew his name because of a Namedar spell she had (because addressing her little ponies by their names always made them feel special and important), and she can't even remember his name without the spell.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_c6f7e804	comment	Blake's 7. In "Killer", Blake teleports down to help a Federation base deal with a deadly virus. When he informs a couple of research technicians that he's the Federation's most wanted political criminal, they reply that they can hardly be expected to remember people's names.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_ca08598f	comment	Maurice Levy of The Wire knows his way around this trope, which makes him such an effective and despicable defense attorney. For example, after a worrying set of arrests, he sits down with the kingpin and his Dragon to, in a nutshell, help them brainstorm a hit list. Once he gets them rolling, he removes himself from the conversation before anything actually illegal is mentioned.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_cc5d21d5	comment	When K climbs on top of the Apollo 11 rocket in Men in Black 3, this exchange takes place among the crew.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_d352a67f	comment	Heavily implied in Identity Crisis (2004) to be the way Superman and Batman (tacitly) handle knowing Batman was mind-wiped by the League. As some of the veteran members put it, Superman hears what he wants to hear (said with Superman in the background of the panel) and Batman's just too good a detective to not work things out.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_d461f757	comment	At least two instances on Battlestar Galactica (2003): When Galactica has the opportunity to release a virus that will wipe out all Cylons, Helo argues that it's effectively genocide, and they should try to make peace with the Cylons instead. Given what the rest of the crew has been through, even making that suggestion doesn't go over well. After they bring up the subject of the Final Five Cylons (a taboo topic in Cylon culture) Cavil orders a number of his fellow Cylons to "take a cleansing walk" and he'll forget what he just heard them say.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_d4fdfff4	comment	ER. After Nurse Chuny lets it slip that Dr. Doug Ross immunized a child without the mother's consent (he was brought in by the child's babysitter), his supervisor Dr. Mark Greene declares, "I didn't hear that." Another bit has Abby blithely admitting that she fraudulently used Carter's info to obtain her brother's medical records. Carter is stunned, but given that he doesn't say anything or turn her in, he's clearly invoking this trope. Yet another has Sam telling her former employer that she shot her ex-husband—who had kidnapped her and their son, raped her, and shot and killed several people along the way, including his accomplices—while he was asleep on the ground, making her actions technically murder instead of self-defense. He looks her in the eye and declares, "I didn't hear that, and that's the last time you're going to say it."
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_d6fa84c7	comment	Silicon Valley: When the Pied Piper guys start talking about less-than-legal tactics, Monica states, "I wasn't in the room for that!" and leaves. In one particularly desperate circumstance, she merely steps out onto the patio and continues contributing to the conversation through the screen door.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_d78241e7	comment	In Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Big Chris demands that JD sign over his pub to settle his son's gambling debt:
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_dd246c83	comment	Madam Secretary: Jay is reporting to Bess on how stoning kills a person. He is so disgusted about an execution that the Iranians are going carry out, he yells that he wished the coup that the protagonists worked to prevent succeeded. Bess is obviously angry by his remarks, but given the nature of the topic, she tells Jay that just this once, she'll let it slide.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_e2700858	comment	Inverted in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015). The CIA spymaster says he knows Boxed Crook Napoleon Solo is making money on the side, "but do not make the calamitous error of mistaking my deliberate short-sightedness, for blindness."
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_e694aadb	comment	Ciaphas Cain, HERO OF THE IMPERIUM, uses this on occasion, such as his total ignorance to rank-inappropriate fraternization as long as it doesn't cause trouble, or his continued confusion as to how his aide Jurgen keeps finding things like meltas, extra carapace armor, the best rooms at the local billet, amasec rations, etc. (A combination of creatively misfiling requisitions and petty theft, mostly.) On the other hand, he finds it more reliable to bring the miscreants in question up on charges, and then find some bureaucratic pretext to drop the punishment. The end result is the same, of course, but he's a much more visible part of the process this way, which suits his purposes.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_eb3f769d	comment	Aubrey-Maturin: Jack Aubrey does this on several occasions, usually when Stephen or Killick is muttering something that it wouldn't do for the Captain to take notice of.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_eef69f10	comment	In one Sherlock Holmes ficlet by KCS, one of the constables, Randall Cummings, brings Lestrade in to look at things when Holmes attacks a prisoner. Despite Cummings pointing out that Holmes could be liable for assault, Lestrade just answers, "Only if one of us books him for it". Given that the prisoner is a killer who tried to stab Watson, neither of them feels particularly inclined to do so.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_f01c0730	comment	In RCN, Daniel Leary's manservant and surrogate father Hogg is given to various "ne'er-do-well" activities, but because of their friendship, Leary explicitly says in narration that he doesn't ask how Hogg has "acquired" what the mission needs, because if Hogg's methods did come to light Leary would probably have to fire his mentor and best friend.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_f236a7c7	comment	The Belisarius Series has a Running Gag with Valentinian; when the latter mumbles something, typically cursing about the situation Belisarius is leading them into, Belisarius (who knows exactly what is being mumbled), asks what was said and someone, typically Anastasius, will cheerfully repeat it out loud... but since it would be insubordinate for Valentinian to say something like that, it might have actually been something else that sounds vaguely similar, even though it admittedly makes no sense.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_f343e79	comment	In Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman, a criminal mook walks in on Batman as he's snooping around. They stare at each other for a long moment, and then the mook (who is sporting a black eye from a previous confrontation with the Dark Knight) just walks away and pretends he didn't see anything.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_f655ed11	comment	Frasier: Niles is prone to using this reaction — either stated or unstated — in response to an unnecessary complication in an already convoluted circumstance or just something he'd rather not see. Frasier himself does this when discussing TV shows with Noel Shempsky:
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_f7c1b2d3	comment	Similarly in Only Fools and Horses: with the family under arrest, Del tries to bribe DI Slater to let them go. The detective replies, "I didn't hear that, Del-Boy!" whereupon Del begins to repeat the offer, more loudly, before Rodney cuts him off.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_fa77d43c	comment	Inverted in Terminator Salvation: when John Connor gets in an argument with General Ashdown over the radio, the general orders John relieved of his position, then signs off. Two of John's men who overheard the argument immediately say that they didn't catch the general's last order, indicating that they'll help with John's plan.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_fc51285f	comment	In The Beast Legion, that's what Fyre thinks when Xeus bluntly says she's hot!
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_fd8221d2	comment	In Wikipedia it's a written rule. On the user level, offenses are excused for the first couple events without penalty, and those first couple events can happen many times if spaced far apart. On the article level, they have a number of rules and even a pillar saying in almost as many words "If it sounds right, it doesn't have to follow the rules." If we don't like what you're saying though, there are no shortages of rules and clauses it can be attacked with.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_fe83b608	comment	Law & Order: UK. As the father of a murder suspect starts blurting out to Crown Prosecutor George Castle, an old friend of his, that he is the killer that the detectives are looking for, Castle screams at him to "Shut up! I can't hear this!", knowing that the guy is incriminating himself to someone who would be obligated to testify against him.
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_ff2165b	comment	Cold Case. In "Justice", the team has determined that a Serial Rapist was shot and killed by the brother of one of his victims. As two detectives interrogate him, they subtly suggest that his actions were in self-defense (as he was only thirteen at the time). Two other detectives watching the interview ask, "Is she doing what I think?" "I'm not hearing it, are you?", and promptly turn off the monitor and walk away. A similar incident (with the same two detective interestingly) occurs in "A Perfect Day", when one witness indirectly but clearly admits he killed his fiancee's abusive husband who is ultimately revealed as the killer of the primary victim, a little girl. Jeffries suggests there's no need to put that comment on the record, to which Vera replies, "Don't remember what the man said anyhow."
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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_ffc6c28f	comment	Starship Troopers has a strange variation. During basic training, a recruit strikes a drill instructor. The instructor punishes him on a lesser charge, and the recruit demands a hearing anyway, which the instructor and the base commander strongly advise against. He proceeds anyway, and gives a full account of what he did. Once this is on the record, the base commander has no choice but to court-martial him and have him flogged. This is actually a light sentence, as assaulting a superior officer is normally a hanging offense.
I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_ffc6c28f	featureApplicability	1.0
I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_ffc6c28f	featureConfidence	1.0
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_ffc6c28f

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I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That	processingCategory2	Dialogue
I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That	processingCategory2	Ignored Index
Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F' / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
Isekai Quartet / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
Captain Britain and the Mighty Defenders (Comic Book) / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
Infinity, Inc. (Comic Book) / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality / Fan Fic / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
Confrontation (Fanfic) / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
Confrontation (ack1308) (Fanfic) / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
Cybernetic Blue Blur Revised (Fanfic) / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
For Love of Magic (Fanfic) / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
Hope of the Shield Hero (Fanfic) / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
Hope Comes to Brockton Bay (Fanfic) / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
Looping Back to the Beginning (Fanfic) / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
Mr. Fixit (Fanfic) / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
Pirate Heroes (Fanfic) / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
Sparkgate: Agatha and the Grasp of the Serpent God (Fanfic) / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
Superwomen of Eva: Emerald Fury (Fanfic) / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
The Hill of Swords (Fanfic) / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
The M3GAN Files (Fanfic) / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
The War Is Far from Over Now (Fanfic) / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
Unleashing of a Dark Night (Fanfic) / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
Are You Being Served? / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
Bend It Like Beckham / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
Counterfeit Traitor / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
Sink the Bismarck! / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
Starship Troopers / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
Striptease / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015) / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
Belisarius Series / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
Holes / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
I Became the Villain the Hero Is Obsessed With / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
RCN / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
Relativity / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
Snuff / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
Space Cadet (Heinlein) / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
Starship Troopers / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
The Devil's Arithmetic / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
The Machine Gunners / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
The Worm Ouroboros / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
Worldwar / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
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Osomatsu-kun (Manga) / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
Colditz / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
GLOW (2017) / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
Glee / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
Hogan's Heroes / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
Intelligence (2014) / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
Rome / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
Silicon Valley / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
The Barrier / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
The Finder / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
3rd Rock from the Sun / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
W817 / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
What's My Line? / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
Waitress (Theatre) / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth (Video Game) / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
Life Is Strange (Video Game) / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
Mega Man Battle Network 3: White and Blue (Video Game) / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes (Video Game) / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
Fantasia Otome Game Series (Visual Novel) / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
BIBLE	seeAlso	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth (Webcomic) / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
Beavis and Butt-Head / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
Danger Mouse / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
Turbo / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
Facing the Future Series (Fanfic) / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
[PROTOTYPE 2] (Video Game) / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That

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