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Stereo Fibbing
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Two characters are conspiring to deceive a third, but they haven't worked out their story in advance. When questioned, they blurt out answers in unison, which naturally are different answers, requiring further lies to explain how both blurted answers can be true. For added comedy, the characters may then swap answers, each one trying to change his own answer to match his conspirator's, or their excuses may start blending together. Compare Cover Identity Anomaly. Contrast Seamless Spontaneous Lie. |
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In an episode of Zoey 101, Trisha is dating Chase against his will. To get out of it, he puts on an act for her that depicts Zoey as his girlfriend. When questioned about it, they usually agree on everything. Until... | |
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Subverted in the third chapter of Tales of Monkey Island, where Coronado De Cava tries this on Guybrush and Morgan (who are pretending to be a honeymooning couple). Their answers turn out similar enough that he believes them. | |
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The title character of House discovers that the elderly couple he's been giving relationship advice are actually having an affair when he asks them how long they've been married and they give different answers—the lengths, one assumes, of their respective marriages. | |
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Averted on That '70s Show, when Eric and Hyde gave the same answer to Kelso's question in unison through luck, despite not having planned it. They almost blow it anyway by turning to each other with surprised delight when they realize what just happened. | |
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In "A Healthy, Normal American Boy" from the musical Bye Bye Birdie, Albert and Rose simultaneously explain how Conrad Birdie started singing. They don't agree on the biographical details, but they do rhyme, and a very nice Counterpoint Duet ensues. | |
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In Eureka, Carter and Allison do this when they enter a room right after having spent the night together. | |
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Not quite fibbing, but one episode of Full House found Joey and Jesse fighting over a girl, with Danny attempting to defuse the situation by pointing out that they don't even know this girl very well. | |
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In The Secret of Monkey Island, if Guybrush asks the three Men of Low Moral Fibre "What's in the keg?", the one on the keg and the tall one reply: Subverted in the third chapter of Tales of Monkey Island, where Coronado De Cava tries this on Guybrush and Morgan (who are pretending to be a honeymooning couple). Their answers turn out similar enough that he believes them. |
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From Raising Arizona: "What's the baby's name?" "Hi Junior"/"Ed Junior" "...We've just been calling him Junior." | |
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In Meet the Robinsons, Wilbur is trying to hide the fact that he stole his dad's time machine and brought Lewis to the future from modern times. When his mom asks if Lewis is a friend from school, they say "Yes" and "No" at the same time. Wilbur manages to salvage it with "Yes and no. Lewis is a new transfer student." | |
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In Redwall (1986), Sela and Fangburn tell a phony story to Cluny to cover Redtooth's death at the hands of Constance, but didn't work out all the details: | |
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In the Callahan's Crosstime Saloon book Callahan's Con, Jake and Zoey have to make up a lie when a bureaucrat asks where their daughter, Erin, is. Being unable to tell the bureaucrat when she is, let alone where, they come up with clashing stories on the spot, repeatedly. | |
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Done by Linkara and Benzaie when The Nostalgia Critic has Dr. Insano at gunpoint. | |
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Happens at the start of Serendipity. The two romantic leads have just met when they both try to grab a pair of gloves off a display stand in a store at Christmas. While they're trying to decide who should get them another man comes in and picks them up. They tell him to stop, saying that the gloves were a very important gift for someone. | |
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In 8-Bit Theater, Thief and Red Mage start out out of sync on this lie, but pull it together: | |
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Our Miss Brooks: In "Trial By Jury", Miss Brooks, Mr. Boynton, Walter Denton and Bones Snodgrass play possum with multiple fake illnesses. While the other three try to convince Mr. Conklin they've all come down with colds at the same time, Bones invents exotic diseases like "hardening of the arterioles". |
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Subverted in Spaced where the two main characters, in order to rent a flat, pretend to be in a relationship. When first asked how long they've been together, they answer to the day, having memorised it beforehand. However, when asked again two days later, they give the exact same answer. Oops. Even more hilarious when they try to weasel out of the mistake by claiming that one of them goes by when they first had sex, and the other goes by when they first kissed, causing an unusually sharp Brian to ask: |
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In one episode of Absolute Power (BBC), Charles has supplied Prentiss McCabe's newest client with an entirely fictional tragic background, including being raised by an abusive single mother in a tower block. (She was actually raised by two loving parents in a bungalow.) | |
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UK soap opera Brookside played this in an infamous storyline where abusive Trevor Jordache is murdered by his wife Mandy and daughter Beth, whom he had terrorised for years. When his younger daughter Rachel comes home unexpectedly and asks where he is, Mandy says "Asleep" and Beth says "Out" in unison. Beth quickly covers by pretending she said "out of it" and that he's sleeping off a drinking binge. | |
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In the Discworld novel Wyrd Sisters, the titular coven of witches leaves a baby (who is secretly the heir to the throne of Lancre, smuggled out of the palace after the king is murdered by his cousin) in the care of a band of travelling actors. When asked the boy's name, Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg provide separate answers, "Tom" and "John", but settle on "Tomjon". | |
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An unusual version happens in one Judge Dee story. Three monks come in claiming a very valuable statue which they prayed before every day was stolen by the local tyrant the judge just deposed. The judge, smelling a rat, has them out in separate areas of the courtroom, given sheets of paper, and orders each one to draw the statue. One draws a Buddha, one a four-armed deity, and one a mother holding her child. | |
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In the Small Wonder episode "Vicki's Adoption", Mrs. Fernwald asks Ted and Joan how Vicki's natural parents died. "A train crash!/A plane crash! A plane crashed on top of a train." | |
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In The Class (2006), Yonk finds out that Nicole and Duncan dated in high school. | |
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In the Lilo & Stitch: The Series episode "Cannonball", David and Nani are at a hotel pool to relax, which is against the rules since neither one is staying there. When the suspicious hotel owner Mr. Jameson comes over and asks their room number, they give two different numbers, and then combine them, essentially admitting the jig is up. | |
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On Supergirl (2015), Cat asks how Kara, Winn, and James know Barry Allen. They all simultaneously say that he's their cousin. The end of the episode reveals that Cat figured out that Barry is the Flash pretty quickly. And yet she has trouble putting two and two together and figure out that Kara is Supergirl. Subverted later, when it's revealed she knew. | |
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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home has a hilarious example. | |
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Carmen Sandiego In "The Fishy Doubloon Caper", Player calls in Ivy and Zack that Carmen needed them, unfortunately notifying her previous classmate, La Chevre. As he walks towards them with a giant fish hook asking if this Carmen was Carmen Sandiego, Ivy and Zack switch between saying San Francisco and San Jose. In "The Himalayan Rescue Caper", Ivy and Zack pose as exterminators in order to delay Player's history exam. When they are asked what the school's infestation consists of, Ivy and Zack switch between saying bees and termites. |
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In Kyle & Yost's New X-Men, Prodigy dies during a mission (he gets better), which his teammates decide to keep secret from his girlfriend. This idea is doomed from the start- she asks each of them what happened to him, and they all mention different minor injuries, if any- but it's really sunk when she asks X-23, who no-one told about the plan. X-23 coldly outlines every gory detail of what Prodigy suffered, which angers Surge even more than if the normal kids had just told her what happened to begin with. | |
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In John Dies at the End Dave and his friends are trying to sneak into a casino disguised as a rock band, but the security guards notice the shotgun hidden under his coat: | |
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American Dad!: In "Chimdale", Roger wins two passes to a spa resort, and he and Francine sneak Hayley inside so they won't be charged for an extra guest. Later, when the three are in a mud bath, the spa detective comes in to join them and they duck Hayley in the mud so he won't see her, at which point she decides she's finally mad enough and blows their cover. | |
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An episode of Porridge, in which the cellmates have to explain a bottle of pills found in their cell. | |
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In the Jackie Chan Adventures episode "The Warrior Incarnate", the Dark Hand busts into Uncle's shop looking for a terracotta statue on loan there. However, the statue was previously broken and is now totally gone from the shop, as Jade hauled the pieces away without anyone's knowledge. In this case, both Jackie and Uncle are being honest yet neither knows the full story, creating an accidental lie by omission: | |
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Rocket Power: The kids find a motorized skateboard and decide to keep it, in secret. When Ray finds out, they say they are just fixing it up for a friend, called... | |
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Blood Brothers has Mickey and Eddie do this when they intend to go and see Nymphomaniac Nights and Swedish Au Pairs at the cinema. It somewhat falls apart when they learn that Mrs. Johnstone has already passed the cinema and seen that it's on, and not the Dr. Zhivago/Magnificent Seven double bill they end up claiming it is. | |
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The Boxcar Children: In The Canoe Trip, two criminals posing as forest rangers simultaneously say different colors when asked what their uniforms look like. They temporarily compensate for the gaffe by claiming that they have different uniforms for different seasons. | |
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A M*A*S*H episode has Col. Potter pressing Hawkeye and BJ for details after his wife writes them (about a surprise mortgage-burning party she wants them to throw for him): | |
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A variant appears in the season five finale of NCIS when Vance asks Tony and Ziva about the events of the episode thus far. Tony lies but Ziva doesn't, creating the usual effect of the trope: They answer the final question, about whose side they are on, in perfect unison. "Gibbs." Awww. |
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In Season 9 of Red vs. Blue, Church and Tucker break the news to Tex about the poor, deceased Andersmith. | |
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Mystery Science Theater 3000: At the ending segment of The Beatniks, Joel reads a letter from a young boy who says his use of the word "dickweed" (heard on the show) got him in trouble, and asks if it's a swear word. He and Servo quickly reply "Yes!No!/No!Yes!" | |
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In the Little Princess episode "I Don't Want to Kiss Great-Aunty", the Maid, King, Chef, Gardener and Admiral lie about where the Princess is when in actual fact they don't know. | |
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: In the prequel, two human villains try to keep people from going down to a wine cellar where they have several bodies of murder victims hidden, and simultaneously say that no one can go there because the cellar is flooded and the roof caved in. Even then, they might have gotten away with it in the panic (there are zombies besieging the place) if not for a suspicious servant calling out the lie. | |
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A favorite with the kids of The Brady Bunch. | |
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The Murder, She Wrote episode "Mr. Penroy's Vacation" has a dead body turning up in the flowerbed of two slightly dotty old ladies who are hilariously bad liars. This comes up a couple of times, for instance when Jessica mentions rumours he proposed to one of them, and one says how surprising it was while the other says they don't know what she's talking about. | |
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In The Ice Pirates, after the Space Herpie ruins the crew's turkey dinner and escapes into a vent: | |
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In 9 to 5, when the leading ladies are pulled over, Violet explains that one of them is sick. | |
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When the New Zealand Police made a recruitment video, they had a guest appearance from Officers Minogue and O'Leary | |
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In Orphan Black, Vic shows up at Allison and Donnie's house while they're in the middle of burying Dr. Leekie's corpse in their garage. | |
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Done in Last of the Summer Wine: | |
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In the original pilot episode of Danger Mouse, "The Mystery of the Lost Chord", Danger Mouse and Penfold are sent to Scotland to investigate the mass bagpipe rustling going on, but are given a cover story as journalists investigating the Loch Ness Monster. When they arrive at their hotel, the innkeeper asks what story they're researching. | |
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Invoked and then subverted in Game of Thrones. Catelyn Stark arranges a secret Prisoner Exchange to send the captured Master Swordsman Jaime Lannister back to his family in exchange for both of her daughters, guarded only by the swordswoman Brienne of Tarth. When Brienne runs across a few Stark soldiers who recognize Jaime and intend to recapture him, she tries to claim he's merely a thief that she's taking to the local authorities. The suspicious leader of the soldiers replies with the following: | |
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In The Addams Family, Gomez, Wednesday, and Lucas all give different answers when Morticia asks what they're talking about, because they don't want to tell her that Wednesday and Lucas are engaged. | |
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In the final episode of Fawlty Towers, Basil tries to justify to two customers why another customer had just been given veal when Basil has just said that the veal is off. He claims that the veal is "veal substitute". | |
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Used in the Danny Phantom episode "Secret Weapons", when Skulker presents a captured Danny to Vlad and Jazz. | |
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On My Brother and Me: Melanie and her Abhorrent Admirer (who also happens to be her brother's best friend) were pretending to be dating in order to cover up that they were planning a surprise birthday party for Alfy. |
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An episode of Spin City has Carter and Stuart trying to convince Paul the apartment for sale across the hall from them has already been taken so he won't buy it. What? Not even a 'and they're very happy together'? |
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LoadingReadyRun "The 720th Degree" | |
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Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash do this in the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "Party of One", while claiming to be house-sitting for a bear named Harry who's vacationing at the beach. Bonus points: the two make different foreleg gestures when they speak, swapping them when they swap lies. When they blend the two lies together, they both make one gesture with one foreleg and the other with the other foreleg. It also leads to a Brick Joke a season later when the ponies hide out in Harry's house to avoid Pinkie Pie's clones. |
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Doctor Who: Distilled to its purest essence in "Vincent and the Doctor": This is a nod at both Vincent and Amy being played by Scottish actors. |
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Dancing Aztecs: The book features a rare version where the characters actually do have time to come up with a cover story in advance, but still fail to do so. They ring a doorbell to distract the house owners so that one of their relatives can rescue her husband (who got caught breaking and entering). One of the women ringing the doorbell says they are from the League of Women Voters and the other says they are raising funds for cystic fibrosis patients. Then, in a panic, they both switch to the story the other woman is telling. The householders fail to grasp what is happening, but are left utterly confused. | |
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In Teen Girl Squad issue 5 on Homestar Runner, Cheerleader and So and So are trying to impress a pair of "olda boys": | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: In "Becoming, Part 2", Buffy and Spike head back to her house to talk, but are waylaid by Joyce pulling up in the driveway. Buffy gives Spike an expressive "don't say anything in front of my mother" eye roll. "What, your mom doesn't know?" Spike asides. Know what? Played with in "Killed By Death". Xander, Willow, and Cordy take an unconscious Buffy into the Hospital Emergency room (oddly, none of these are lies, just not the whole story). |
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Hello, Dolly!: When Irene asks Cornelius and Barnaby what they're doing in her ladies' hat shop, they give simultaneous and conflicting accounts of their desire to buy ladies' hats. When Irene and Dolly are attempting to persuade Vandergelder that Cornelius is secretly from a famous family: |
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Star Trek: Voyager: In "Alter Ego", when Harry falls in love with a holodeck character, he goes to Tuvok to try to learn how to suppress his emotions. Part of Tuvok's teaching involves meeting the character on the holodeck together. She asks them: While the actions fit the trope to a T, it is unclear on whether this counts as "fibbing" though. We are left unsure whether either or both of them are actually lying, or whether they simply have different opinions on the status of their relationship to each other. |
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Beautifully averted in Frasier's fourth-season premiere. Everyone has been telling a bunch of outrageous lies to Daphne's ex-BF Clive (It Makes Sense in Context. well, a little). When he asks the dog's name, everyone looks tensely at one another for a moment, and then in unison they say the dog's actual name, Eddie. Because for the first time that day, it's a fact they didn't have to lie about. | |
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Friends: In the episode "The One with the Rumor", Monica asks Phoebe and Chandler who won the football game neither one of them was really watching. At the same time, Phoebe says "Green Bay" while Chandler says "Detroit". Phoebe then explains that "Detroit technically won, but it was a moral victory for the Green Bay...Mermen." Subverted in another episode: Rachel and Phoebe conspire to leave Joey alone with a girl they want him to date. Joey sees through the ruse and tries to catch them in the lie by asking several follow-up questions. However, Rachel and Phoebe have worked out their story, and answer several successive questions in perfect unison. Of course, this doesn't make it any more convincing, because it looks like they've been rehearsing this. |
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In The Birdcage, while addressing their butler under disguise, Armand and Albert end up calling him "Agador" (his real name) and "Spartacus" (his cover name). The two cover it up by stating that his name is "Agador Spartacus" and that he likes to be referred to by his full name. | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation: In "Time's Arrow: Part I", after Data's head has been found in an abandoned 19th century mine on Earth, Data notices that the rest of the crew seems awkward around him. He says to Riker and Troi: | |
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