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Snowball Lie

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Snowball Lie	comment	A lie or deception that takes on a life of its own, spiraling out of the control of the ones who started it and often mutating in the process. What distinguishes a Snowball Lie from a "Fawlty Towers" Plot lie is that it attracts other characters to keep it alive and expand it, either by explicitly furthering the deception for their own purposes or by sincerely buying into it and carrying it on in the honest belief that it is real — or to avoid being embarrassed by their "ignorance" or "inexperience". Usually a Snowball Lie will eventually grow to a point where it will collapse, either under the weight of its internal contradictions or after some insightful person Pulls The Thread on it. Sometimes, though, a perfect Snowball Lie will show no signs of ever stopping, and its creators will find themselves forced to kill it — with varying degrees of success, and varying degrees of repercussions to themselves. In particularly ironic situations, the Snowball Lie can become an unstoppable juggernaut that displaces the truth and becomes a new "truth" in its own right. An Invented Individual is a Snowball Lie based around a fictional person. Can lead to an Honesty Aesop. Compare Gossip Evolution and Seamless Spontaneous Lie.
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Snowball Lie / int_1b386512	comment	In Ranma Â½, UkyÅ� finally unseals the Special Sauce she made ten years ago and has been aging since... and is promptly knocked unconscious by it. She doesn't know (but Ranma does, and remembers) that Ranma accidentally spilled it just after she first made it, and replaced it with a foul concoction of everything he could find at the time. Instead of telling the truth, he keeps eating whatever she slathers the "sauce" with, refuses to acknowledge it's bad, and claims to Akane that there's nothing wrong. Then UkyÅ� thinks that he's saying this because, back then, he promised to take care of her for the rest of her life if it tasted good, so this must mean he loves her!
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Snowball Lie / int_1b51bb94	comment	In an episode of The Addams Family, Morticia takes up sculpting, and is terrible at it beyond even her own family's topsy-turvy aesthetics. Feeling sorry for her, Gomez buys her statue anonymously, then sells it to a quarry. This encourages her further, and Gomez ends up buying her terrible art for higher and higher prices until even his extraordinary resources are tapped out.
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Snowball Lie / int_1bdaaf70	comment	In Noob, Master Zen framing Gaea for having done something that greatly hurt the Empire (her own faction) and gave an advantage to the Coalition became this. The event in question caused the foundation of the Guild of Gaea Admirers, who are convinced Gaea is a Double Agent, in the Coalition. While not a Double Agent, Gaea is a Manipulative Bitch and went Sure, Let's Go with That on the story because it gave her nice set of minions. The minions in question end up protecting Gaea from being hurt by the character who framed her in the first place. Master Zen, having figured out what happened, tried to tell the minions that Gaea had lied to them and he was the one who actually committed the act for which they praise her, only to get a Cassandra Truth moment.
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Snowball Lie / int_1cdbedf3	comment	Black Sky: Because of Sirius using Exact Words under Veritaserum, the Wizarding Britain is left under the impression the Potters never had a child, meaning that Dumbledore's declaration of Rose Potter as the Girl-Who-Lived and future Light icon comes to bite him in the buttocks.
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Snowball Lie / int_1d8d8aaf	comment	100 Things to Do Before High School: In "Always Tell the Truth (But Not Always) Thing!". CJ tells a lie about her grandmother in order to get into drama class and play Juliet to her crush's Romeo. This lie spirals completely out of control until they are doing a special production of the play solely for CJ's grandmother.
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Snowball Lie / int_20098ea4	comment	Jeff from Coupling is prone to Digging Yourself Deeper at the best of times, so any hastily-blurted lie or innocent misunderstanding is doomed to turn into this. Then there's when he told a woman he fancied that his apparent fixation on her legs was due to him having a wooden leg. Thus destroying his chances to ever actually sleep with her, despite her being deeply sympathetic and, ultimately, literally handing him the key to her flat.
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Snowball Lie / int_2179055c	comment	Cromartie High School: When Hokuto arrives at Cromartie and finds out his dad doesn't actually run the place, he claims that said dad is in fact the shadow emperor of Japan. So what's Hokuto doing here? Um... his goal is to fight that evil emperor, of course. So he's planning to fight his own father? Um... yes! The lie snowballs at incredible speed, mostly because Kamiyama and Hayashida believe everything they're told.
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Snowball Lie / int_21ec74db	comment	Better Off Ted: Linda sees a commercial about Veridian's goal to become more environmentally friendly, and she asks Ted to put her on the committee working on that project. Ted knows there's no such project, but he moves some money around to let her work on the rooftop garden she wants to make. When Veronica wants to know where the money went, Ted tells her it's for the "Jabberwocky project". One thing leads to another, and suddenly everyone in the company is desperate to get on the Jabberwocky project. This culminates in Ted and Veronica making a big, flashy, presentation that makes Jabberwocky sound like the next big thing without ever mentioning what it actually is. In another episode Ted tells a woman he loves her on their first date, then tries to cover it by saying he loves Utah. This spirals into him saying that he is part Native American and inventing a fictional language for his "tribe".
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Snowball Lie / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: In "Radio Bart", Bart creates a Snowball Lie about a boy named Timmy O'Toole being stuck down a well. When things get out of hand, he tries to kill the Snowball Lie before everyone finds out he was behind it, and gets himself stuck down the well in the attempt. The public is apparently so disgusted with his deceit, they almost decide to leave him down there. Fortunately, Sting (the singer, not the wrestler) was willing to help in the effort to dig Bart out. Because Sting is just that awesome. "Grade School Confidential" revolved around several students discovering Ms. Krabappel and Principal Skinner kissing in a janitor's closet. The rumors about what happened get more and more explicit, until Ralph Wiggum utters the immortal line: Becomes brought up again in "Pranksta Rap", where Bart's fake kidnapping helps Wiggum become Commissioner and Milhouse's dad become popular with all the hottest women of Springfield. In "The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons", Homer and Apu try to make Apu's mother believe he's already married, in an attempt to get out of an arranged marriage. It initially works until she shows up in Springfield to meet Apu's alleged wife, so Homer tries to talk Marge into pretending that she and Apu are happily married. That also appears to work until Apu's mother finds Homer and Marge in bed together and Apu admits the truth, leading to the arranged marriage to take place, after all (though, thankfully, Apu and his arranged wife, Manjula, turn out to be an excellent match). The entire ordeal gets lampshaded:
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Snowball Lie / int_2c4574ce	comment	Trolls: The Beat Goes On! episode Hitting the Sky Note has Poppy try to get Sky Toronto to sing after learning he's never made the time to. When she discovers he's terrible she decides to spare his feelings, which becomes a problem when he wants to participate in the recital planned for the arrival of a creature that'll put on a show for the trolls only if they can all harmonize their singing.
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Snowball Lie / int_2cfe43cb	comment	Adventures in Odyssey: Julie tells Dwayne that she thinks he's funny. He begins playing the role of a comedian, telling a string of really corny jokes. Julie does nothing to stop him and soon Dwayne signs up for the school talent show. In the end Dwayne does a magic act, because his Dad told him offscreen how bad his jokes were.
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Snowball Lie / int_2da220be	comment	In the John Finnemore's Double Acts episode "The Wroxton Box", Alec praises Percy's terrible poems, although this is less out of politeness, and more because he finds them So Bad, It's Good and wants Percy to keep reciting them. When he learns that Percy has performed them at a retirement party, and been invited to perform at Oxford University by two young men, he's forced to come clean before Percy makes a fool of himself in a larger arena. It turns out the folk at the retirement party left Percy under no illusions regarding his poems, and he made up the young men from Oxford to see how far Alec would take this.
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Snowball Lie / int_3549533	comment	In Shall We Dance? (1937), Jeffrey tries to keep Stalker with a Crush Denise from harrassing Peter by telling her that Peter is already secretly married. Skeptical Denise leaks the information in an attempt to Pull the Thread. Peter, meanwhile, is pursuing Linda, leading to rampant speculation that she is his secret wife—which causes problems for Linda's plan to marry Upper-Class Twit Jim. Eventually, the only way out Linda can see is to ask Peter to marry her just so they can then have a public divorce and quell the rumors once and for all.
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Snowball Lie / int_36d1798b	comment	A Goofy Movie: One of these kicks off Max's troubles. He lies to Roxanne that he has to miss their first date because his dad is not just taking him to the Powerline concert in Los Angeles, but that they'll be onstage for the final number. Midway through the trip, Max laments "I'm dead no matter what I do" since regardless of whether he admits he lied or tries to maintain the lie, it will still lead to Roxanne finding out he lied since Max won't be at the concert. It all works out in the end since Goofy helps Max get to the concert and get onstage just as he promised. Even so, once Goofy and Max get back home, Max admits he lied to Roxanne because he wanted her to like him.
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Snowball Lie / int_37cfcb80	comment	Paranoia Agent: The whole plotline was set into motion by a lie told about what happened to Tsukiko's childhood puppy, Maromi. The one who told it was trying to escape being held responsible, and this lie effectively comes to life when other people began using it for the same purpose. As Ikari observes in "The Final Episode":
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Snowball Lie / int_3c4db82d	comment	In Dread Empire's Fall, a cell of 4 terrorists is trying to look like an entire underground army, so they attribute each of their actions to a different fake unit. Soon enough they see in the news about new attacks by these units — copycats have started to make up the units involved. After months of this, they actually do have an army.
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Snowball Lie / int_3e7fbacb	comment	In Weird Dad, Marinette's attempt to hide her Secret Identity by falsely claiming to have a crush on Chat Noir rapidly spirals out of control, thanks to Adrien learning it anyway and incorrectly assuming she'd confessed so that they could get together. Her parents are also horrified by the prospect of her dating a superhero, given how easily that could put her in harm's way.
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Snowball Lie / int_4395e6cf	comment	Velvet: What started as an impulsive lie to make Rita jealous escalated to a full blown engagement between Pedro and Rosa Maria.
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Snowball Lie / int_4617a9f2	comment	Married... with Children had Al forced into this when his initial lie about going ice fishing is disproven by his friends showing up in increasingly outlandish attire to cover their true goal of going to the TV station to protest the cancellation of "Psycho Dad". Jefferson is kitted as a hunter, Griff as a skier, Ike as a camper, Bob Rooney as a Scuba Diver, and Officer Dan as a Native American. And then Peg calmly calls Marcy to let her know the boys have gone off to protest the cancellation.
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Snowball Lie / int_462efd53	comment	Pirates SMP: When Jojo inquires him about his connection to Naya on Day 107, Kuervo starts by denying it, but it escalates to him leaving Jojo at the tavern halfway through the conversation at least twice to come up with more details to his cover story and rehearse it. Jojo remains suspicious of him throughout the conversation, but never directly calls him out on it, and it's ultimately subverted in the finale when he decides to entrust her with the truth.
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Snowball Lie / int_469771d2	comment	The Powerpuff Girls takes this on twice. In "A Very Special Blossom," our red-headed heroine steals a quite pricey set of golf clubs to give the Professor as a Father's Day gift. Not only does she lie about how she got them but she tries to frame Mojo Jojo for the theft. "Lying Around The House" has the girls causing an entity to keep growing each time they tell a lie (doing their chores, eating their dinner, etc.) until it grows to an uncontrollable monster size. They are only able to defeat it by telling the truth, thus causing the monster to shrink until it disappears. The little white lie started not from the girls, but from Professor Utonium lying about being very busy when he's privately watching a game show. After the entity is gone, Mayor visits the PPG to help deal with the same entity that grew into an even bigger monster after giving out his reelection speech. (Similarly done an an earlier comic book story, issue #21's "Big Fish Story.")
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Snowball Lie / int_47f508d1	comment	Roger Over and Out: In order to protect Plagg from being exposed to the world, Adrien claims that he stole ChloÃ©'s bracelet as a 'prank'. His father then forces him to pull more pranks to maintain his new "bad boy" image, starting with victimizing Marinette. Gabriel does this primarily so he can exploit the situation as Hawkmoth, effectively making his son prime others for akumatization.
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Snowball Lie / int_4a09e781	comment	Undocumented Features: Cthia is a Vulcan band known for playing enormously pretentious rock on traditional Vulcan instruments while maintaining perfectly blank, emotionless faces. However, the group started as a gag - they're actually a much more relaxed band calling themselves The Illogics, who created Cthia as a way of mocking the Surakites' overly controlled and emotionless behavior. When Cthia unexpectedly rocketed to fame, they found themselves trapped in the roles.
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Snowball Lie / int_4a11097d	comment	Oh Yeah! Cartoons: The short "Lollygaggin" is about a young girl whose habit of lying creates a monster who eats her toys and threatens to do the same to the girl's pet cat as well as the girl herself, growing larger and larger still as Lollygaggin continues fibbing. Only by coming clean and telling the truth to her parents is she able to defeat the creature.
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Snowball Lie / int_4a957617	comment	Sarazanmai: Kazuki pretends to be the idol Sara Azuma via texts with his brother Haruka in order to connect with him, and takes selfies where he crossdresses as her. His friends find out, and it becomes harder and harder to keep the secret from Haruka. When Sara comes to his neighborhood to do a fan visit, Kazuki enlists his friends in an elaborate scheme to maintain the lie that involves kidnapping the real Sara and impersonating her in front of a large crowd. It fails, and his secret is revealed in front of everyone.
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Snowball Lie / int_4d04208	comment	The Andy Griffith Show: The good folks of Mayberry try to get town drunk Otis to stop drinking by giving him a hobby: painting. Everyone praises Otis' work despite its lack of quality for fear that he'll be back to the bottle. The painting makes it all the way to the auction block before Otis realizes everyone hates it. Not discouraged, he paints a second picture, and it's a masterpiece, because he did it while drunk.
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Snowball Lie / int_4e45b093	comment	An episode of The Big Bang Theory did this. A later episode subverts it. Sheldon, hiding from his girl/friend, asks Leonard to lie about where he is, with increasing specifications for the amount of detail needed to make the lie convincing. Leonard circumvents the entire plot with, "Sheldon isn't here", which was all the detail needed. Any time Sheldon is involved in a lie; not because maintaining the lie actually requires this, but because Sheldon becomes neurotic and thinks it does. On one memorable occasion, he even brought in someone to stay in their apartment acting as Leonard's Invented Individual junkie cousin because he thought his original plot — that they were trying to get him into rehab — was implausible.
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Snowball Lie / int_51539a0b	comment	The novelette "Sam Hall" deals with an Invented Individual named after a drinking song that the protagonist, Thornberg, haphazardly inserts into a government database. The lie starts relatively small and quickly spreads, with Sam Hall becoming a boogeyman to the populace and especially the government.
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Snowball Lie / int_5d78cc2b	comment	William & Wiliam's Wil(l)iam, a musical about the Ireland Shakespeare Forgeries, portrays the situation as this. Henry just wanted to get his father's acknowledgement, and put Shakespeare's name on his own writing for that purpose. But when he tried to tell his father that he wrote it, his father wouldn't listen. He has to keep coming up with more supposed Shakespeare, or his father will be crushed.
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Snowball Lie / int_61a399c4	comment	Faking It: One of the main themes throughout the series, though it's mainly one lie the effects of which snowball into a chaotic disaster that hurts everyone who came in contact with it.
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Snowball Lie / int_637c3990	comment	Slacker: In Level 13, Cam lying about how he needs to step down from the Positive Action Group to focus on his schoolwork causes all of his smart friends to fall over themselves helping him with his schoolwork, even if it means cheating.
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Snowball Lie / int_641203c1	comment	Schitt's Creek: Although all the Roses do it now and again, Alexis often lies to spare herself or others embarrassment. She usually means well, but it often escalates into far worse embarrassment. She lies about a â€œclientâ€� at the vets office having lice and about having kept mementos from her relationship with Ted, among many other times.
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Snowball Lie / int_64341267	comment	Herman's Head: Louise (Yeardley Smith, best known as Lisa Simpson) plans to sing at a club, much to the dismay of her co-workers who hear her shrill, nasal speaking voice every day, but none of them can bring themselves to say anything. Finally they race the club to try to stop her, but are too late. As anyone who owned The Simpsons Sing the Blues at the time saw coming, they arrived in mid song to find that she could really, really sing.
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Snowball Lie / int_648dd7fe	comment	Frigid Winds and Burning Hearts: For the past thousand years, Celestia has been rewriting history and establishing lines of nobility by creating false bloodlines. Naturally, with so much time to build up momentum and so many ponies eager to keep the deception going for their own personal benefit, things have gotten rather out of hand. While trying to protect Apple Bloom from the Awful Truth of what her family and friends have gotten caught up in, Luna lies to her... and Twilight overhears, thinking that the princess has been lying to her as well.
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Snowball Lie / int_6ba3c140	comment	The plot of Dear Evan Hansen revolves around the titular character becoming entangled in a web of lies as he convinces everyone that he was best friends with Connor Murphy, who commited suicide near the beginning of the show. Shortly after Connorâ€™s suicide, the Murphys find the note Connor had with him, which was Evanâ€™s letter he wrote to himself for therapy, and assume Evan and Connor were friends. Evan, too nervous to refute, agrees, and soon, he teams up with Jared to create fake emails to â€œproveâ€� that they were friends. As the story progresses, Evan starts The Connor Project, which is devoted to honoring Connorâ€™s memory; forms a close bond with the Murphys; and gets close to his crush, Zoe (who was Connorâ€™s little sister). As Evan falls deeper and deeper into his lie, he feels trapped, and eventually confesses that he was lying all along in the heart-wrenching number "Words Fail".
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Snowball Lie / int_6fd4e61f	comment	Orwell used it again in Animal Farm, where the ruling class of the titular farm were pigs. One, Napoleon, had his followers turn on his rival. He then proceeded to sell blatantly false and ever-expanding stories of his rival's duplicity and treachery in order to secure more and more power for himself and his cronies. His rival? Snowball. Any similarities to real persons in certain socialist revolutions is entirely intentional.
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Snowball Lie / int_71169c78	comment	Chowder's first episode involved the titular character being asked to cook food on his own. Unfortunately, he's distracted at a critical moment and adds poison instead of the proper ingredient. His mentor, Mung Daal, can't bring himself to tell Chowder he made a mistake, so he has to try and buy-or steal-all of the food from the stand Chowder sets up.
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Snowball Lie / int_7119fcd7	comment	A Minor Miscalculation: During "The Aftermath", Nui attempts to reveal to Ryuko and Mako the various secrets that Isshin has been hiding from them, forcing him to add extra layers to his lies.
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Snowball Lie / int_7257afca	comment	In Sword Art Online Abridged: This is how Kirito and Asuna's marriage plays out over Episode 10. To fill an awkward post-coital silence, Kirito blurts out a proposal (while his brain screams at him), and Asuna is so surprised she accepts (while her brain screams at her). Their guild commander finds out about it and sends them off on a "honeymoon" so they won't screw up a key diplomatic meeting, and doesn't notice how they're both freaking out over the idea. Then Yui shows up and is adopted by Asuna in hopes that by upping the ante Kirito will be the one to "blink" first and break off the engagement, but he realizes what she's doing and plays along. And eventually the two of them are hysterically offering to buy an orphanage and adopt all the children in it. The big reveal at the end of Episode 11 is that the entire "death game" scenario is one of these too. Sword Art Online's creator accidentally created a glitch that killed players when their characters died, but was losing his mind due to sleep deprivation after rushing to finish the game, so he decided to "double, triple and quadruple down" under the logic that it would be better to appear evil and competent than lethally incompetent. He locked the players in the game to serve as hostages while he tried to find a better solution, failed, and after two thousand players died in just the first month, was forced to take action as a guild leader to try to get them through the game. But his mental state deteriorated even further when he realized just how stupid the players were, so after two years he's forced to admit that he's lost control over the situation and just wants it all to end.
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Snowball Lie / int_746814ae	comment	Arthur: In the episode "Emily Swallows a Horse", Emily tells a lie because she wants to have a rubber ball D.W. found on the ground, claiming that it's actually hers and she dropped it earlier. D.W. starts asking more questions over the next few days, suspecting something is up, and Emily continues making up more lies to cover it up (the ball was a gift from her nanny, her nanny is sick so she can't see her, the nanny D.W. saw at the grocery store was her secret twin sister etc.), until Emily eventually fesses up after a Guilt-Induced Nightmare. In one episode, Francine—a talented drummer—takes up singing as well, which causes her musical ability to plummet. Her friends just try to encourage her to stick with drumming without mentioning her horrible singing. They assume their plan worked, until they realize she entered the talent show only singing instead of only drumming or drumming and singing together. Turns out, she's actually a decent singer. It's trying to do both at once that throws her off. Arthur and DW pretend to like Grandma Thora's food, which encourages her to contribute to the local bake sale.
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Snowball Lie / int_7a2097bf	comment	In The Paladin by C. J. Cherryh, Master Swordsman Shoka allows some villagers to believe that his student and lover Taizu is a demon; the story quickly spreads and takes on a life of its own.
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Snowball Lie / int_7ab7da61	comment	In one Three's Company episode, Teri doesn't want to have an important man over for dinner, believing that he's sexually interested in her. Jack suggests that she tell him the "little white lie" that she's married. But when that doesn't deter the guy, the "white lie" quickly expands, leading to Jack having to pose as her husband with a broken leg and Janet and Larry pretending to be French people who don't understand a word of English. And then Jack's Girl of the Week shows up and he explains it to the man's wife by claiming that his marriage with Teri is on the rocks.
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Snowball Lie / int_7ba9ab8c	comment	In the Simple Samosa episode "Cultural Programme", Vada intends to play a song on the violin for the upcoming Cultural Programme. However, he's awful at playing the instrument and doesn't realize how awful the music sounds. The rest of Samosa's gang, not wanting to hurt Vada's feelings, try to keep Vada from attending the event, to no avail. In the end, it turns out that the audience actually prefers Vada's awful violin music over the much better-sounding classical music Dhokla "plays" as a diversion from the actual performance.
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Snowball Lie / int_81ff68fd	comment	In Disney's "Brave Little Tailor", Mickey's misadventures start when he brags about killing seven flies with one swipe, but the time the King hears about it, it has become "killing seven giants in one stroke". Played with in that Mickey himself didn't lie, but the way he phrased it ("I killed seven in one blow!") eventually led to everyone assuming he was referring to giants.
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Snowball Lie / int_885e1bec	comment	Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discusses this in the chapter appropriately titled "Contagious Lies".
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Snowball Lie / int_88d897d1	comment	The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a fraudulent anti-Semitic manifesto about a worldwide Jewish conspiracy. It was first used to scapegoat Jews for the monarchists' defeat in the Russo-Japanese war and the Russian Revolution, was infamously used by Adolf Hitler according to some historians as his justification for his campaign of genocide during World War II, and is still believed to be real by many people even today.
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Snowball Lie / int_89fa77a	comment	In Coronation Street, this happened with John Stape. A former teacher, John had an unshakeable desire to teach, but he had a criminal record which prevented him from doing so. He found out that one of his colleagues, Colin Fishwick, was leaving the profession and moving to Canada. John ended up stealing Colin's identity and began to teach again. However, things quickly started spinning out of control. John was discovered by his colleague, Charlotte Hoyle. She agreed to keep his secret and soon began to get off on the lies, deceit, and danger of it, as well as develop a crush on John, who was married to Fiz. Things escalated when Colin returned months later and confronted John before dying from a brain hemorrhage in front of him and Charlotte. In a panic, John buried the body in a nearby construction site and had to further compound the lie when Colin's mother got involved. All this resulted in the accidental death of Colin's mother and the murder of Charlotte, when the latter attacked John with a hammer and threatened to tell Fiz everything after John rebuffed her one too many times. That was on the night of the tram crash in December 2010, so John claimed that she had been killed by the falling tram, and he had to lie further about everything that had happened.
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Snowball Lie / int_8a29b7cd	comment	Not Okay features Danni, an aspiring writer who, to boost her Instagram fame, fakes she's on a trip to Paris. As fate would have it, a terrorist attack occurs at the area Danni claims to be in. When her frantic parents call, Danni tries to tell them the truth, only to trip and cut off the call. Before she can call back, a guy she has a crush on texts if she's okay and before she thinks twice, Danni texts she is. Before long, Dannis is hailed a survivor of the attack and a celebrity and has to keep up the ruse.
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Snowball Lie / int_8ba4613a	comment	Death Note: The entire series is based on Light Yagami's elaborate, psychopathic plots to deceive police and detective forces that he is not a serial killer... until it all blows up in his face, his cover is blown, and he dies.
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Snowball Lie / int_8c12ec97	comment	Talentless Nana: Nana is a Talentless infiltrating an academy of supernatural Talented, so she fakes having telepathic powers. She initially gets away with it by being good at analyzing people and figuring out their though process, but this method has limits, so she tries to cover up her mistakes by claiming that she can only sense strong thoughts or that she has Power Incontinence. Eventually, some students start catching on that she's faking her Talent.
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Snowball Lie / int_8d317e34	comment	Professor Arc begins with Jaune lying about his qualifications in order to get into Beacon, only to wind up being hired as a teacher instead of a student. The consequences of this continue to build up, much to his horror, as he realizes that the truth coming out would wind up hurting a lot of good, innocent people.
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Snowball Lie / int_8d814070	comment	In the MAS*H episode "Bombshells", Hawkeye and Winchester start a lie which soon has the entire army thinking Marilyn Monroe is paying the 4077th a visit. Also, Tuttle. Played with in the Season 5 premiere. Radar gets word that they're bugging out for practice, and despite his cautioning Klinger not to say anything, a dozen embellishments are added and the whole camp believes it. Potter eventually calls a general who's a friend of his, confirms that they're not bugging out, and just as he's trying to dispel the rumor, he gets the official order to bug out. It's not for practice, though — the Chinese are actually coming.
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Snowball Lie / int_8de119d8	comment	From the film Midnight: Eve Peabody (Claudette Colbert), claims the title Baroness to cover the fact that she's an impostor at a swanky party—only intending to hide out there for the night— but it snowballs as soon as Georges finds her out: not only does Eve have to keep up the ruse, but Tibor (Don Ameche) shows up, pretending to be her husband, trying to get Eve to leave by pretending they have a sick daughter, and then having to get a divorce for a marriage that doesn't exist. Oh, and Eve makes everyone believe Tibor is utterly insane.
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Snowball Lie / int_90a3a7f4	comment	On the Halloween episode of Kim Possible, Kim tells a lie about her going trick or treating with Ron, but really, she goes to Monique's party. She was wearing a project on her wrist and it grew every time she lied. In order to undo the damage she did, she has to tell the truth.
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Snowball Lie / int_90b916ba	comment	Batman: The Animated Series, "The Man Who Killed Batman": Harmless Villain Sidney "The Squid" DeBris seems to have killed the Batman. Even when Sid claims it was an Accidental Murder, being a Extreme Doormat, he just let the Mooks treat him as their hero. Mere hours after the explosion, Sid is being described as a mastermind at jail. One day after that, The Don Rupert Thorne, with true information about Sid being a Bumbling Sidekick, believes Sid is a Magnificent Bastard.
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Snowball Lie / int_91953291	comment	I Fell in Love, so I Tried Livestreaming: When Souta crossdresses in an attempt to set a Honey Trap for Yuu, Vina suggests that Sora and Yuu act as a fake couple to ward him off. This backfires because of the dorm's no romance rule and because of Sora's double life as a net idol. Vina then tries to cover this up with another lie by claiming that he confessed to Sora, thus necessitating that she forms a fake relationship with Yuu, but Yuu senses that this lie will get out of hand and properly explains the situation to the whole dorm.
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Snowball Lie / int_92ef018a	comment	In Ferris Bueller's Day Off, the lie starts when Ferris fakes an illness to get out of school. Some of his friends call to check on him and he uses sound recordings to continue the deception. From there, it spreads through the school, mutating into Ferris having a life-threatening condition, followed by numerous get well gifts delivered to his home, a fund raising campaign to pay for life-saving surgery, and having "Save Ferris" painted on the side of a water tower. Ferris's sister Jeannie and Principal Rooney aren't fooled, but the former thwarts the latter's attempt to Pull the Thread after pulling a Heelâ€“Face Turn at the end of the movie.
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Snowball Lie / int_938e19ec	comment	In the Fraggle Rock episode "Boober's Quiet Day", Boober hopes to have a nice quiet day. When his friend Tosh asks him for a favor that would ruin his quiet day, he lies that he is going on a trip. Then he has to actually go on that trip when Mokey asks him to bring something back for her... The lie keeps growing and growing until eventually Boober is forced to pretend to be an Old Gypsy Lady. When the web of lies finally collapses, and the other Fraggles ask Boober why he lied so much, he says "BECAUSE I WANTED TO HAVE A NICE QUIET DAY!" To which Gobo replies... "Why didn't you just ask?"
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Snowball Lie / int_959e88d	comment	In Dragon Quest XI, Prince Faris of Gallopolis has been pretending to be heroic his whole life and it spirals increasingly out-of-control when he first has the hero race for him and then gets the party to defeat the Slayer of the Sands for him. He is finally forced to show real courage when his own stupid gambit to bring the bound up Slayer of the Sands home blows up in his face when it escapes its bonds, and finally the truth comes out.
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Snowball Lie / int_9a7f85f3	comment	The Sticks and Stones verse revolves around the failure of one of these. After Principal Nedzu informs Aizawa that he won't be allowed to freely expel students anymore, Aizawa attempts to circumvent his boss by getting Izuku Convicted by Public Opinion. This plan hinges on lying about how Tenya got injured during a training exercise, pinning the blame on Izuku rather than Katsuki. Aizawa anticipates that his Malicious Slander will spread swiftly out of control, forcing U.A. to boot Izuku out rather than reveal the truth. Instead, the truth is swiftly revealed, getting him and Tensei into serious trouble, with others repeatedly questioning why he thought it would work in the first place.
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Snowball Lie / int_9f331042	comment	The Wolves in the Woods: Unlike most incarnations, this Lila never actually intended to turn the whole class against Marinette, incorrectly assuming that they were close-knit enough that things would blow over after a little drama. Unfortunately, thanks to her claims about personally knowing various celebrities, many of their classmates believe it'd benefit them to get in good with Lila. So they start bullying and tormenting Marinette in hopes of earning Lila's thanks, expecting her to repay them by using her connections to hook them up with huge rewards. Eventually, it comes out that Alya actually knew that Lila was fibbing the whole time. However, they took advantage of her lies to turn the whole class against Marinette. Why? Because they were jealous of her recent successes and wanted to 'take her down a few pegs'. When this comes out, they claim that they were afraid Marinette would wind up leaving her friends behind, something that only came to pass because of how they spearheaded the bullying campaign against her.
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Snowball Lie / int_a77de360	comment	An episode of Dilbert had the usual team creating a record of a new employee for the purpose of taking the ownership of a cubicle or some such, even making a picture of his face by amalgamating their own. By the end of the episode, everyone except Catbert thought he was real.
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Snowball Lie / int_a9f06cb6	comment	VeggieTales has "Larryboy and the Fib From Outer Space", in which Junior Asparagus tries to tell a lie to get himself out of trouble, but the lie gets crazier when those around him press for details. Reflecting the snowballing is an Anthropomorphic Personification of the lie, the titular Fib, which gets bigger and bigger.
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Snowball Lie / int_b9d45d45	comment	In Easy A, Olive lies to her best friend that she has a date to get out of spending the weekend with the latter's nudist parents. The friend immediately assumes sex was involved, and the conversation is overheard by an uber-Christian girl who makes it her mission to turn everyone in school righteous. Instead of stopping the rumors, Olive chooses to perpetuate them, as it makes her insanely popular in school... at first.
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Snowball Lie / int_b9e3bd3	comment	The Jeffersons: Everyone except Florence told Louise they like her paintings even though they were awful. She got a show, and then George finally confessed that they were just encouraging her. She didn't believe it and sold a painting for $500, proving them wrong - until the purchaser revealed he only wanted it for the frame and threw the painting in the trash.
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Snowball Lie / int_bbc5a52c	comment	The ninth episode of Smile PreCure! had Yayoi attempt to pull an April Fool's prank by saying that she was transferring to a new school. However, she ended up telling this to Miyuki, who promptly panicked and began telling the other girls, with Yayoi being unable to get an word in edgeways, mostly because they kept assuming she was going to talk about them separating.
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Snowball Lie / int_bd252462	comment	In a story from The Book of Pooh called "The Rumor Millstone," Rabbit tried to stop Tigger bouncing his vegetables by telling him that he was growing a squash that could sap his bouncing powers. The lie snowballed until several of the characters in the Hundred Acre Wood, including Rabbit, believe that a scary monster is after them.
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Snowball Lie / int_be9b3374	comment	Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids: Pretty much the entire plot of "Lying" where a pal of the gang's recently returned from Florida starts telling tales about his exploits down there that rapidly spin out of control.
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Snowball Lie / int_c41c2a7e	comment	Bringing Out the Blue explores a world where Zuko joins the Gaang as the Blue Spirit, hiding his true identity from them while increasingly Becoming the Mask.
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Snowball Lie / int_c4282b71	comment	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In "Where The Apple Lies", Applejack regales Apple Bloom with a story from when she was younger, and not the honest pony everyone knows. A series of lies she told started with Applejack trying to back out of a hastily-made deal with Filthy Rich and ended with Granny Smith nearly sawing Big Mac's leg off!
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Snowball Lie / int_c6cb12e3	comment	In the Off Centre episode "Can You Spare A Ski Trip?" Euan wants to take Mike along on a ski trip to Canada but Mike can't afford it and he doesn't want Euan to pay for it. So Euan lies that his company is looking for someone to write press releases for them part time while they look for a replacement full time PR rep so he can "pay" Mike to go with him without the latter knowing. However, Mike later announces that he quit his former job so he can get the "full time position". Euan then further lies that Mike was "fired" which causes Mike to get completely drunk, break up with Liz and assault Euan's boss with a broken bottle. Subverted immediately after the latter when it's revealed Mike figured it out almost right away and decided to act out the rest with the help of Euan's boss and coworkers as a prank.
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Snowball Lie / int_cbcf05a9	comment	An Arc for every season has one of the bonus chapters, "Worst Girl Wins" serve as an exaggerated version of this. Instead of just claiming she and Jaune are dating like she does in the main story, Blake escalates the lie and tells her parents that they are engaged. In an attempt to force Blake to admit to her parents that their relationship is fake, Jaune immediately claims she is pregnant. Blake, being unwilling to break the news, ends up sleeping with Jaune and actually getting pregnant. They keep escalating from there in hopes of forcing the other one to be the one to admit it, eventually getting married, having even more children and entering old age together. Of course, by that point, they've long since realized that they fell in love for real, with their final years consisting of one trying to goad the other into confessing their undying love first. It's Jaune, moments before they both die, which Blake smugly gloats about after they (and their friends) end up reincarnating.
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Snowball Lie / int_cefd252d	comment	In Scarlet Lady's version of the "Volpina"/"The Collector" arc, Marinette still finds and returns the stolen book safely to Adrien. However, Adrien gives the book to Master Fu, then lies to his father, claiming that it was lost. Marinette knows that something is up, and informs her classmates of what happened... but ChloÃ© refuses to listen, and intends to hunt Lila down and punish her for Adrien's grounding, with the consequences of his lie spiraling out even further from there.
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Snowball Lie / int_d148f51d	comment	The Looney Tunes Show: In "Semper Lie", Bugs doesn't want to the peach festival with Porky, and lies that he's helping Lola move. When Lola gets roped into it, Bugs changes the lie so that it's his non-existent sister Viola who's moving to Albania. Eventually, it snowballs to the point that Bugs gets thrown into an Albanian prison. It's played with in that Bugs is fully aware that the lie is snowballing and makes no attempt to stop it, despite the fact that by the end of it he'd much rather be at the peach festival.
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Snowball Lie / int_d14c3aa1	comment	In Ghostbusters (1984), Walter Peck accuses the Ghostbusters of using hazardous wastes, and later on claims them to be snowball artists. Ironically he himself is a snowball liar even blaming them for the explosion he caused at their headquarters.
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Snowball Lie / int_d2e3e4d5	comment	Princess Celestia Hates Tea: Celestia lied to Luna that she enjoyed the Tea Brewer she gifted her with, in order to spare her feelings. The problem? That was a few thousand years ago, and as an immortal Physical God, Celestia has had millennia to continue drinking all the tea her loving subjects have been giving her, even though she still can't stand the stuff. It's safe to say it causes an avalanche instead of a snowball when she reveals she does not, in fact, enjoy tea.
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Snowball Lie / int_d444e14f	comment	Smart Adversaries AU: Roger Over and Out: In order to protect Plagg from being exposed to the world, Adrien claims that he stole ChloÃ©'s bracelet as a 'prank'. His father then forces him to pull more pranks to maintain his new "bad boy" image, starting with victimizing Marinette. Gabriel does this primarily so he can exploit the situation as Hawkmoth, effectively making his son prime others for akumatization. In Weird Dad, Marinette's attempt to hide her Secret Identity by falsely claiming to have a crush on Chat Noir rapidly spirals out of control, thanks to Adrien learning it anyway and incorrectly assuming she'd confessed so that they could get together. Her parents are also horrified by the prospect of her dating a superhero, given how easily that could put her in harm's way.
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Snowball Lie / int_d4efb984	comment	Downplayed by The Golden Girls, in that Rose starts the lie unknowingly. She invites Dorothy and Blanche on TV after suggesting to her TV producer boss that they do a show about "women who live together". It's not until they get on the show that they realize he thought she meant they were lesbians.
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Snowball Lie / int_d7629946	comment	A convicted child molester on Breakout Kings is revealed to be a victim of this. Only one victim was actually assaulted, and the guilty party was her own father. She was forced into blaming her teacher. The other "victims" were kids caught up in the hysteria.
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Snowball Lie / int_d832b289	comment	Real Mo Tamani Wa Uso Wo Tsuku: Kaoru and Nanami become friends online, and Nanami talks about Kaoru enough that her cousin and later her parents insist on meeting the person who has helped her come out of her shell. Problem is, online Kaoru plays as a girl named Kaori, and so Nanami convinces him to crossdress to meet her cousin and whenever he visits her house. Unfortunately, at one point one of Kaoru's classmates sees "Kaori" and develops a crush on "her". Worse, when he talks about it with Kaoru he notices a lot of similarities between his dream girl and Kaoru himself... before asking if Kaoru has a sister. He does... now.
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Snowball Lie / int_d8ce1c33	comment	This is a regular feature of As Time Goes By, particularly in any episode where Jean is trying to avoid becoming the target of her officious and patronising sister-in-law's pity (or intervene in Judith, Sandy and/or Alistair's love lives...). Lionel invariably protests and tries to avoid participation, but if it's a Penny (sister-in-law) Lies Snowball, he will never quite manage to get free of it.
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Snowball Lie / int_da68dc44	comment	In The Darkness Series, Harry's lies are not always consistent, but he always has another lie for why he lied in the first place.
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Snowball Lie / int_daecb6c9	comment	The entire plot of the Danish movie The Hunt (2012) revolves around this. A preschool teacher inadvertently hurts the feelings of one of the kids, and in a moment of rage the child unwittingly implies to one of his colleagues that he sexually abused her. As the rumor spreads, the child is quick to deny it, but is ironically not believed by the adults. The lie takes on a life of its own, and shit goes down. Even after the lie is proven wrong both in court and by the girl's parents, the preschool teacher is still being harassed years later and can never truly be safe.
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Snowball Lie / int_e002fdf5	comment	Liv and Maddie: When Maddie and Joey fly to L.A. to catch Diggie before he goes to Australia, Liv tries to pretend that Maddie is hiding upstairs, but Parker says that she's in the kitchen, so Liv is forced to go along with that lie.
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Snowball Lie / int_e3b8885	comment	The plot of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is essentially centered around one of Pseudolus the slave's schemes, which gets bigger and more convoluted as the show goes on. First, in order to get Philia (A courtesan) from Marcus Lycus for his master Hero, Pseudolus claims that Philia is a plague carrier, tricking Lycus into fobbing her off onto Pseudolus and Hero. Then, to keep Hero's father Senex from finding out, Pseudolus claims Philia is a maid, and convinces Senex to take a bath in the house of Erronius; to keep Erronius away, Pseudolus pretends to be a soothsayer and has the befuddled old man run around Rome to rid himself of a curse. Then Miles Gloriosus, the conquerer who actually bought Philia, arrives and things just get more outrageous from there.
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Snowball Lie / int_e694aadb	comment	Commissar Ciaphas Cain claims that his entire career as a HERO OF THE IMPERIUM! is based on one of these. On one early assignment he figured out the world he was stationed on was being attacked by Tyranids, tried to ditch his unit and flee, ran into the swarm's vanguard, and in the process of running away from that, happened to save his adjutant and inadvertently lead the Tyranids into a spot they could be blown apart by the soldiers he'd been willing to abandon. Since that encounter, Cain has been given assignment after assignment where his attempts to find credible excuses to stay out of the worst of the fighting have led him to accidentally save the day and increase his heroic reputation even further. An alternative reading is that Cain has such Heroic Self-Deprecation that he is incapable of giving himself credit for his genuinely heroic deeds, even if he was terrified while committing them.
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Snowball Lie / int_e99083b6	comment	In Ricky Stanicky, best friends Dean, JT and Wes accidentally start a fire with kids and blame it on their non-existent friend Ricky. For the next twenty years, the trio continue to use "Ricky" as the excuse to blow off any family events or work to go on vacations, crafting an elaborate backstory of the guy suffering cancer or family emergencies. When their families finally start catching wise, they have to hire an actor to play "Ricky" to keep up the ruse.
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Snowball Lie / int_ea4f62db	comment	On Family Guy, Meg, working as a diner waitress, tells a lie about Stewie being her crack-addicted child so she could get enough pity tips from customers to buy a Prada bag. All goes well until the Social Services take Stewie away and puts him in a foster home (his addictive behavior to the diner's pancakes didn't help). Meg is then forced to trade her purse to get Stewie back. In an extreme example, Peter's lies in one episode progress from Chris having done his homework, to Chris dying of a sexy sounding illness, to Peter having cured Chris with new-found healing powers. He only admits to the lies when God starts setting plagues on the family.
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Snowball Lie / int_eb6802b4	comment	In Final Fantasy XIII, Vanille cannot bear to tell the truth to Fang about their Focus, fearing the latter's reaction to becoming Ragnarok. Because of this, the two of them end up attacking the Bodhum Fal'Cie in an effort to trigger their memories, which leads to Serah and Dajh becoming l'Cie.
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Snowball Lie / int_ec25a849	comment	To avoid going to the school dance with Connie, Doug says that he has to take care of his fictional sick cousin Melvin. This has an immediate backfire (Connie immediately tells Doug's crush Patty about Melvin), but also turns into a Snowball Lie when the girls show up to help Doug take care of "Melvin", Doug's sister Judy is asked to play the part, and Judy suddenly arbitrarily decides that "Melvin" has a miraculous recovery, ultimately resulting in "Melvin" being Patty's date to the dance. This lasts until a cow at the dance (It Makes Sense in Context) eats Judy's wig.
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Snowball Lie / int_ee2b112a	comment	The Sisterhood of Night: Once Emily makes her accusations, some friends do too, until it blows up into twenty three supposed victims coming forward.
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Snowball Lie / int_f655ed11	comment	Frasier: In the fourth season episode "The Two Mrs. Cranes", Daphne lies to an old boyfriend who wants to get back with her by pretending to be married to Niles. Things spiral from there, so Frasier ends up being divorced from 'Maris', whom Roz takes the role of when she happens to stop by the apartment. And then Daphne decides that the old boyfriend isn't so bad after all, but Niles isn't keen to give up playing the doting husband, and Roz has also taken a shine to him, which means that the two women spend most of the evening making up ever more ludicrously horrible stories about each other to put the boyfriend off, until Roz ends up being an alcoholic anorexic and Daphne is pregnant. And then to really complicate things, Martin gets involved and to really piss everyone off starts spinning yarns about how he used to be an astronaut. And the boyfriend believes every single word they tell him, no matter how ludicrous, and ends up shooting down Roz and Daphne because he believes them to be utterly horrible women who are stupid enough to shamelessly flirt with him in front of their 'husbands'. And then it's capped with the perfect line from Frasier: One other classic moment occurs at the height of this Snowball Lie: when Martin's dog comes into the room and the boyfriend asks what the dog's name is, the characters all look at each other nervously for a few seconds before realizing there's no reason to lie about his name, and say "Eddie" in unison. There's an episode where Martin wants to get out of a date with the mother of a woman that Frasier met when they were at the opera together, and tells the mother that he's gay. She tells her daughter, and the daughter sets Martin up with her gay uncle, also at the opera that night. It takes Martin a long time to realize it, but when he does he goes to great lengths to get out of dating the other man, including introducing Niles as his boyfriend. One of the best moments happens when Niles gets fed up with being forced into the lie and stages a break-up so over-the-top and hilarious that it seems implausible even compared to one of Frasier's typical break-ups.
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Snowball Lie / int_f8eaad5b	comment	Citizen Kane: Susan knows that, while she's not completely untalented, she's nowhere near good enough to carry an opera all on her own. It's only Kane using all his wealth and influence to push her into the spotlight against her wishes.
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Snowball Lie / int_fb83eb7b	comment	The final trilogy in The Sword of Truth series is centered around a spell created to maintain a single lie - that a certain person never existed. The problem is; the number of lies sustaining each other will sooner or later lead to not just these lies crashing, but the entire reality along with them.
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Snowball Lie / int_fdc66d32	comment	Kamen Rider Double has a variant with a plot based around a Dopant that causes people to unquestioningly believe specific lies that makes the judges on a Talent Show believe the lie "Jimmy's music is good". Jimmy's success on the show, combined with praise from his girlfriend (who was lying to him to make him like her), makes him delusional about what people think of his music when everyone actually hates it with a violent passion.
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Snowball Lie / int_febf1ff3	comment	The Pepper Ann episode "Crush + Burn" is all about this trope. Milo asks Pepper Ann to cover him by making up a lie so he can have an excuse to reject Gwen's romantic interest on him. Every time Gwen discovers an inconsistency in the story, Pepper Ann tries to cover it up with more and more lies until it gets out of control and everyone gets tangled up in it.
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