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Inflationary Dialogue
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This is a numerical claim that mysteriously shifts over the course of a conversation. Note that there are two different ways this can vary — the number can either increase or decrease, and it can either converge on the correct number (in which case this is a form of Verbal Backspace) or start near-correct and end up somewhere wild. A sure sign of a Bad Liar. Not to be confused with Victor Borge's "Inflationary Language" routine. Compare Escalating Punchline. |
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In Animal Crossing: Wild World, Lyle does this when presenting you with a questionnaire: "I got a few questions here. Ten. Actually, less. I got seven. Three. Ready? Bang!" | |
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In Charlie the Unicorn, "The Grand Finale", the pink and blue unicorns try to talk Charlie into following them to investigate something that starts with a "w", changes names every time it's spoken, and quietly turns from seemingly being one thing to many things. | |
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Achille Talon has l'Esprit d'Eloi, an executioner's ghost who gains two meters in height every time someone talks about him. | |
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Done over several seasons in Coupling. Jane says in the third episode that she and Steve dated for four and a half years. The following episode she tells her psychiatrist it was five years. By episode 16 it's six years, at which point Susan corrects her, saying it was only four years. In the series final, she tells Oliver how she met Steve and that they've "been together ever since," possibly suggesting that she continued counting after they had broken up. | |
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Wings: | |
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In Jeeves and Wooster, Bertie is trying to pose as author Rosie M. Banks for his friend Bingo's family. Bingo's young cousin asks him how many words there are on a page. Clearly having no idea, he comes out with: | |
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The Simpsons: In "The Squirt and The Whale", Comic Book Guy buys a new girdle and wears it under a Captain Kirk shirt. | |
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Looney Tunes: In the Sylvester/Elmer Fudd cartoon Heir Conditioned, Sylvester inherits a fortune. An alley cat sees this in a newspaper and proceeds to relay it around the alley to his pals. It starts as merely a fortune, then the next cat relays it as $1 million, and it becomes $5 million by time it reaches the last cat. | |
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In Wintersmith, Tiffany's little brother Wentworth is so excited about catching a pike that its weight increases every time he mentions it. | |
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A variation in The Fifth Elephant, when Vimes confidently (and accurately) predicts his dealing with five bandits on the road will soon have swollen through rumour to 'thirty men and a dog'. | |
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The very start of Yellow Submarine: | |
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After Wes defeats a dragon in Power Rangers Time Force, the number of heads the dragon had increases with each telling, going from two to three (It only had one to begin with). | |
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Arrested Development: When the Small Name, Big Ego Jerkass GOB Bluth wears an expensive power suit, he can't resist loudly preening over how much it's worth — a number that inflates tenfold over the course of the episode. | |
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Whopper from Pound Puppies (1980s) does this at least Once per Episode, constantly changing details in his stories to something even more outlandish and unbelievable when he feels them to be lacking. | |
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Garfield didn't believe when his grandfather stated "You kids have it good these days. I remember when I had to walk six miles every day just to chase rats." When Garfield said he didn't buy that, his grandfather asked "Would you believe across the street to spook a chicken?" | |
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Discworld: In Men at Arms, a man who gets robbed by an unlicensed thief keeps exaggerating the amount of money stolen. In Lords and Ladies, Casanunda, upon meeting the bandits who robbed him, indignantly claims they stole a horse - he then "remembers" a second horse, and within half a page it's multiplied into four. A variation in The Fifth Elephant, when Vimes confidently (and accurately) predicts his dealing with five bandits on the road will soon have swollen through rumour to 'thirty men and a dog'. In Wintersmith, Tiffany's little brother Wentworth is so excited about catching a pike that its weight increases every time he mentions it. In Feet of Clay, one golem is trying to sell another to a potential buyer, and keeps revising the price downwards, to the purchaser's incredulity. |
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Screen Rant Pitch Meetings: In the pitch meeting for Madame Web (2024), the Producer calls the awkward inclusion of "Chekhov's CPR Class" "threeshadowing" because it's not quite on the level of "foreshadowing". When the CPR scene occurs near the end of the movie, the Producer remarks on the "twoshadowing" from earlier. | |
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Justified in Snow Crash, thanks to some quality sniping. | |
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In Monty Python and the Holy Grail, King Arthur has a bad habit of saying "five" when he means "three". | |
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On 3rd Rock from the Sun, the Solomons got audited by the IRS and became worried that they would be exposed as aliens due to their lack of records from any longer than three years ago. Dick tried to "subtly" make Mary think she had known them longer than that: | |
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A very dark instance of this in John Dies at the End. When Dave is telling Arnie the story of how his friends stopped an invasion of eldritch abominations capable of erasing people from time, he occasionally gets the number of friends wrong ("the five of us walked down the hallway", etc.) When Arnie calls him on this, Dave reveals that there was indeed a fifth friend, but he got erased, and Dave can remember almost nothing about him. | |
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MAD: Used in an article satirizing the Gulf of Mexico oil spill: A letter from BP keeps increasing the number of barrels of oil with every sentence. An earlier issue has a parody of Lethal Weapon 2 in which the amount of money on the line is constantly said by the characters, and is completely different every time. |
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The Hamsterball Show has this exchange in the Get Smart parody "Get Fink": | |
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A Fish Called Wanda features a one-sided, increasingly desperate negotiation between a steamroller-driving Ken and Otto, whose feet are stuck in drying cement. | |
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Arthur: In "Team Trouble", Arthur draws a comic for his history assignment. However, he doesn't include any real ancient history in it. Prunella asks him about it. | |
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A much slower version in The Informant!, where Mark admits to having stolen $1.5 million from the company. Which later becomes $3 million, then $5.5 million, until he's finally convicted for stealing $8 million. At the very end, he's up for parole, and he mentions to one of the agents how bad he feels about stealing that $11.5 million. | |
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On Seinfeld, George does an epic version when trying to figure out what Jerry paid for his new jacket. | |
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Phill Jupitus uses the decreasing version in Never Mind the Buzzcocks, when asked to find the connection between Keith Moon and Bryan Adams: | |
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From George of the Jungle: | |
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A subtle one turns up in Brazil. Every time the car Lowry gets out from the motor pool (that is destroyed by vandals) gets mentioned, the exact details become blurred, starting as a Personal transporter, then Personnel transporter, a Personnel carrier, then finally a whole convoy of personnel carriers that are unaccounted for. | |
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The Flash: In "Legends of Today", Team Flash visits Team Arrow and Cisco has some issues with their computers: | |
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In Henry IV, part 1, Falstaff does this when describing how many men attacked him (after he robs a bunch of other men, whose numbers he's clearly also lying about). In reality there were two (Hal and Poins); by the end of the scene, he's claiming there were eleven. | |
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Liar Liar has: | |
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Powers of Invisibility has this when Adrien chides Plagg for raiding Juleka's fridge without asking: | |
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In Men at Arms, a man who gets robbed by an unlicensed thief keeps exaggerating the amount of money stolen. | |
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In Lords and Ladies, Casanunda, upon meeting the bandits who robbed him, indignantly claims they stole a horse - he then "remembers" a second horse, and within half a page it's multiplied into four. | |
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In The Three Musketeers (1973) Porthos employs Inflationary Dialogue when he ransacks his enemy's purse after his hat gets ruined in a fight: | |
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Maxwell Smart of Get Smart tends to use the decreasing version. For example: | |
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In Feet of Clay, one golem is trying to sell another to a potential buyer, and keeps revising the price downwards, to the purchaser's incredulity. | |
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In one Peanuts storyline when Snoopy fights the cat next door because Linus says he's attacking Woodstock (it's just a yellow glove), Snoopy's description of the cat starts out at 50 pounds, then increases by 50 pounds every time until it reaches 300, at the same time as the people next door complain that Snoopy attacked their kitten. Linus decides to take responsibility, and returns badly scratched, saying "That's no kitten, it's a thousand pound gully cat!" | |
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Ninjago: In the "Snaketastrophe" episode, "award-winning reporter" Fred Finely adds an award each time he introduces himself. | |
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In Disco Elysium, if you press Andre on him locking the spookers inside of the abandoned church, he'll reassure you that he's "super sure" they're still alive - at least 90%. Or maybe 85%. Yes, they might have been locked in there for a week, but he's at least 80% sure they're still alive... | |
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Pinkie Pie's confession in the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "The Cutie Pox": | |
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Doctor Who: This is practically a Verbal Tic with Ten. "Army of Ghosts": "Blink": "The Unicorn and the Wasp": In "Fugitive of the Judoon", the Thirteenth Doctor rule-fu's a Judoon troop leader into granting a brief reprieve before blasting everything in sight. Turns out it's very brief. |
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Monty Python's Flying Circus: The camel-spotting sketch has: The Spanish Inquisition sketch crosses this with Disorganized Outline Speech: "Our chief weapon is surprise. Fear and surprise — Two! Our two chief weapons are fear, surprise and ruthless efficiency — Three!..." "...and nice red uniforms — oh, bugger." The Kamikaze Scotsmen sketch does the deflationary version with the number of Scotsmen in the regiment, as they keep committing suicide until there's only one left. |
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In keeping with tradition, the Get Smart movie has Maxwell Smart engage in this exchange: | |
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From Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey, while Chance is being treated for injuries and mistakes it for torture: | |
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Mafalda: Manolito hates The Beatles and claims they give him a 40-degree fever.In °F 104 degrees Fahrenheit Mafalda replies that the Beatles are millionaires, doesn't he like millionaires? Manolito says that makes no difference, they still give him a 37-degree fever.note 98.6 °F | |
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In The Descendants, protagonist Matt has tracked down Brian, the man who previously slept with Matt's now comatose wife, and has a confrontation with him about it. At the end of the conversation, Matt says he has one last question for Brian. | |
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: In one verse of "Impossible", Senex claims to be 39 in one line, then 44, then admits to being 50. | |
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Sheppard does this in the Stargate Atlantis episode "Sateda". He, Teyla, and Ronon kill a strike force of 25 Wraith. Sheppard initially claims to have killed six of them, but when he learns that Teyla killed eight he quickly ups his claim to nine. By the end of the episode... | |
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Star Trek: Voyager. Neelix when he first encounters the crew of the starship Voyager. | |
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Three Men in a Boat: Harris complains that he was attacked by swans while J. and George were away. The number of swans increases with each retelling of the story, from two to thirty-two — and then, when J. and George ask him again on the following morning, Harris replies "What swans?" | |
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Friends: Joey misses an audition because Phoebe fails to give him the message. She poses as his agent to get him a new audition and Joey asks her to get him one more. Well, two. Five, but that's all. No, it's six. Also, in "The One That Could Have Been", the number of Chandler's past sexual partners slowly goes down from four to one during the course of the episode. |
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In Only Fools and Horses episode "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Uncle", Uncle Albert arrives at the flat with a black eye and no money. He says he's been mugged by a gang of youths, but the number increases every time he tells the story. It turns out he lost the money playing dominoes, and then got in a punch-up with his opponent Knock-Knock over Marlene's mother. | |
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In the scene in The Hobbit where the dwarves are introduced to Beorn, Gandalf doesn't want to introduce all of them at once, for fear that Beorn won't be willing to provide them with hospitality if he sees all of them right away. As a result, his account of their prior adventures slowly introduces the dwarves two at a time. Beorn notices the inflation as the story goes along, pointing out just when the numbers do not match up, but he is entertained enough to welcome them anyway. | |
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