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This trope is where a character states a relationship with someone else through a long and indirect chain of connections. The chain can be simple (I know this guy who knows this guy) to elaborate (My uncle's drinking buddy's doctor works with this guy whose brother's fiancee...). Sometimes, despite this, the person acts as if he or she knows the person really well. Other times, it's reversed; they really do know the person well, and are making up this long string of connections to socially or legally distance themselves from the other party. Usually the elaborate case is used as an hope/promise for a plan, which very rarely delivers. See also Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!, where this is not only true, but makes a character significantly powerful. Compare ...Or So I Heard, where the character is downplaying potentially embarrassing knowledge by claiming to have it secondhand rather than via direct experience. Not to be confused with I Know A Guy, which redirects to Friend in the Black Market. |
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Bruno's secret in Through the crack in the wall travels along the kids like this. Dolores hears Mirabel socializing with Bruno, so she tells Luisa who tells Isabela. Mirabel tells Camilo who tells Antonio. | |
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CSI: NY: Adam and Sheldon are discussing an illegal type of fish they keep finding in a bottles of booze, much like a worm in tequila. Adam says he can find out who's been buying them. Sheldon wants to know how he knows who to call seeing as the fish are illegal. | |
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Subverted in That '70s Show when Eric and Kelso are buying promise rings for Donna and Jackie, and Kelso brings them to an alley. | |
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Used in "This Town" by Kacey Musgraves to point out why it's a bad idea to be an asshole to someone in a small town: | |
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Totally Spies!: When asked how Clover was able to get tickets to an event, she says: | |
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Monsters, Inc.: Boo is supposedly Sully's cousin's sister's daughter. Why he didn't just say first cousin once removed is probably trying to invoke this for "Bring an Obscure Relative to Work Day". | |
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Stand Still, Stay Silent: Such a chain is how Tuuri ended up with the idea that Swedes only have four toes on each foot. She got it from her brother, who got it from a friend, who got from someone who had actually met a Swedish person. | |
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The Martin "Why Can't We Be Friends?" second part begins with Pam and Cole relaying information about Tommy's car accident, with her letting the gang know about the hospital he's in ("Ray-Ray told Corn Pop told Junior who works in emergency with Ken-Ken...") and him telling about the condition of his car ("Big Earl had told that Peaches and Kool-Aid told him..."). | |
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Played with in Driver: San Francisco: One mission involves playing as two undercover cops to defuse a couple of truck bombs on the highway. Once the madman reveals he has around half a dozen more cruising the city, Tanner remarks the trope name. This is referencing Tanner's shifting ability to possess any driver on the road which he uses to locate and defuse the rest of the bombs. | |
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Animaniacs: Yakko explains in song why he is now the king of Anvilania: | |
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From Hot Fuzz: "That's Auntie Jackie's sister's brother's boy". That he doesn't just say 'my cousin' suggests complicated relationships... or just Rule of Funny. | |
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The Order of the Stick: Belkar suggests selling some captured enemies into slavery, adding that he "know[s] a guy who knows a guy" to contact for this. Much later, we meet the guy in question, Buggy Lou. His best supplier on the Northern Continent was pals with Belkar. | |
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A note found in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is from a bandit who claims that he "knows a guy whose cousin knows a guy" that could set them up for life, if they steal more than their take from the bandit leader. By the way, you also find his corpse later. | |
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Doraemon plays with this. Taking advantage of the "Six Degrees Of Separation" theory via one of the usual Imported Alien Phlebotinum, Nobita is able to meet celebrities and other famous people at will. Apparently the device has a few bugs to work out given that amusing things can happen if the names of the people you want to meet are too similar. | |
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In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Odo teases Dr. Bashir a little over the latter being nominated for a very prestigious medical award. In "The Magnificent Ferengi", Quark speaks of doing "business with the nephew of the cousin of the stepsister of a friend of the secretary to the [Balcanar] Consortium's chief accountant." Garak seems to have an inexhastive supply of "Contacts on Cardassia" that he can call upon to assist the plot. This is usually played for humor, but the episode "In the Pale Moon Light" plays this serious as many of these contacts are people who, while vaguely described, make Sisko second guess the need for their service just by the morally high prices that those contacts ask. Inverted as well, as one contact thinks Sisko was nothing but a Dirty Old Man and jokes around about what Sisko wants him to do... that is, until Sisko tells the guy it was Garak who made the meeting possible, which horrifies the contact into better behaving himself. |
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In Grim Fandango, two guys can be overheard discussing Double-N Tickets (which are rumoured to be sold by the Big Bad Hector). One of them points out that these tickets can't be just bought, leading to this exchange: | |
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In Starsky & Hutch, Huggy Bear uses this to explain how he got his new Lincoln. | |
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Phineas and Ferb: Candace and Stacy are excited to go to an exclusive day spa where you need to know somebody to get in. Phineas asks who they know, and Stacy rattles off a long line of tenuous acquaintances, after which, Candace cheerfully replies "And I know Stacy." | |
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Dagur learns about Berk's "dragon army" in Dragons, Butterflies, And Who Knows What Else? from "a guy, who knows a guy, who knows a group of guys, who knows a lady" who knew about it. | |
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Conan the Destroyer: When the heroes have to sneak into the palace of Shadizar in the climax, Malak tells of a "cousin's sister's brother" who escaped the dungeon by digging a tunnel out. Fortunately, the tunnel is still there but has been sealed by bars, sparking an irrelevant argument over whether Malak's informant was a cousin's sister's brother or a sister's brother's cousin while Conan parts the bars. | |
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The pilot of A Bit of Fry and Laurie closes with the following snippet: | |
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In Life, the Universe and Everything, Effrafax of Wug got rid of the mountain he was supposed to render invisible with the aid of "his friends, and his friends' friends, and his friends' friends' friends, and his friend's friends' friends' friends, and some rather less good friends of theirs who happened to own a major stellar trucking company". | |
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This is how Six Degrees of Separation works. | |
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This is the only explanation for where the martial artists of Power Rangers Jungle Fury got their hands on high tech morphers. Y'see, the substitute mentor knows a guy who knows a guy who has an uncle who's has a connection ... | |
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Rogue in 8-Bit Theater has "I know a guy" as his catchphrase. One of said guys is even Thief. | |
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How to Rock has Kacey claim to know Big Time Rush this way and insist she can get tickets to see them because of it. At the end of the episode, it turns out that, despite the very tenuous connection between them, they remember her too. | |
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In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Ron, who is currently not on speaking terms with Harry, has Hermione relay the news to him that Hagrid wants to see him. This bit of news had apparently been relayed through several other people before reaching Ron, and Hermione frustratedly tries to list them all out. She gives up when Harry asks her to repeat the list. Later, Ron reveals that he actually heard the news directly from Hagrid and made up the rest of the chain. | |
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From The Emperor's New Groove: | |
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In Exterminatus Now, Eastwood knows a guy who knows a guy that can examine the artifact that a bunch of heavily armed mercenaries tried to steal from them. He forgot exactly which friend he knew this guy through, though...which bites him in the ass since said friend turns out to have been Silas Morth, who is behind the whole operation and is blackmailing the examiner into delivering the artifact to him. | |
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In a Leverage Christmas episode, Nate gifts Eliot with a samurai sword, explained thusly: | |
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Paranormal Prison: In one of the interviews in the prologue, a man says his aunt's stepsister's husband's uncle claims to have seen a mohawked Indian in the solitary confinement building, known to the locals as "Siberia". | |
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In Ninjago, when the Ninja are looking for an apartment (with real estate being hard to find in Ninjago City), Nya tells them she "knows a guy who knows a girl, who knows a guy who knows a girl who's a real estate agent." | |
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Freaky Stories: Every episode started with "This is a true story. It happened to a friend of a friend of mine". (Except for the Musical Episode where, for reasons of rhyme and scansion, it happened "to a friend of a friend of a friend".) | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: In "The Camping Episode", SpongeBob tries to warn Squidward that 'Sea Bears are no laughing matter' by claiming that he knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy (and so on). In the episode "Suds", Patrick tells SpongeBob of the horrors of the doctor's office which he knows because "I know a guy who knows a guy who went to the doctor once". |
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American Gods (2017): Due to the oddities of the Fantasy Kitchen Sink, nigh-omnipotent gods and monsters will casually refer their friends to other nigh-omnipotent gods and monsters. | |
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In Van Helsing, Friar Carl is able to get Dragon's Fire for the titular slayer of evil, which utterly baffles him since he believed it couldn't be acquired anymore. Carl just shrugs and says he knows a guy who knows a guy. | |
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At the climax of Ocean's Eleven, Terry Benedict assumes that Danny Ocean is responsible for the heist that just robbed Terry's casino. For the purpose of getting Benedict to show what kind of person he really is Danny needs to keep him talking for a few minutes, but obviously can't actually admit it. So, when Terry presses him, Danny claims that he met a guy in prison who has information on every job pulled in the western United States, and Danny can use his connections to get him to give up the perpetrators. Terry disbelievingly repeats Danny's claim that he "know[s] a guy" and immediately has him turned over to the police for parole violation. | |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: In Life, the Universe and Everything, Effrafax of Wug got rid of the mountain he was supposed to render invisible with the aid of "his friends, and his friends' friends, and his friends' friends' friends, and his friend's friends' friends' friends, and some rather less good friends of theirs who happened to own a major stellar trucking company". In So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, Arthur mentions the Urban Legend version by saying the story he's about to tell sounds like one of those ones that happened to a friend of a friend of a friend but probably got made up somewhere along the chain, but this one did happen, because it happened to him. (It actually happened to Douglas Adams.) |
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In Ben 10: Omniverse, this is Fistrick's explanation on how he was able to reach another planet, learn about their exploitable resources, and procure several robotic harvesters; | |
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Luis does this multiple times in the Ant-Man films. For added hilarity, he voices everyone when recounting this to the audience. | |
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In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Band Candy", Mr. Trick admits to Mayor Wilkins the evil plan for the episode is outside his area of expertise, but he knows "a beast who knows a guy". | |
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In episode two of Mystery Show, Starlee goes through several people who allegedly have tenuous ties to Britney Spears. In episode four, she knows a guy who knows a cop who's willing to run a license plate for her. |
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The Riftwar Cycle: When Mara of the Acoma captures a band of "grey warriors" poaching on her land, she'd like to recruit them instead of executing them, and they'd like to accept, but since their previous lord and all his house died without releasing them from their oaths of service, they don't think they can. Until Mara's advisor Papaweio pulls some Loophole Abuse, by treating them as relatives, whom law and custom allows to take service with other houses if they aren't heirs. | |
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"Lobachevsky", from Songs by Tom Lehrer, has an exaggeratedly long one of these: | |
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In So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, Arthur mentions the Urban Legend version by saying the story he's about to tell sounds like one of those ones that happened to a friend of a friend of a friend but probably got made up somewhere along the chain, but this one did happen, because it happened to him. (It actually happened to Douglas Adams.) | |
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Spaceballs. Used to spoof the Luke, I Am Your Father trope. | |
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His song "I got it from Agnes" is a series of chains. | |
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In Cledus T. Judd's "The Record Deal", Cledus explains to the listener how he has connections with one of the major record labels in Nashville: | |
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This is how Saul arranges a meeting between Walter White and Gus Fring in Breaking Bad. And it’s quite literal. Saul has no idea who the big New Mexico meth distributor is... but he knows his occasional fixer-for-hire Mike works for him. When the first attempted meeting falls through, Saul has no idea how to try again. | |
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In Burn Notice, Sam's key role is being "the guy who knows a guy". The amount of contacts he has is absurd, even for a former Navy SEAL who's had quite a lot of meetings with other departments of the government in his time. | |
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In Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga at Joke's End, Jojora claims her friend's cousin's ancestor was the person who owned the place. | |
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