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The Tell

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55 feature instances
49 referencing feature instances

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The Tell	comment	Alice knows Bob very well. She can always tell what he's feeling. She'll probably say something like: "You always clean when you're angry." "You're only nice to me when something is wrong." "Whenever you have a bad day at work, your foot shakes." "Your tail always wags when you are excited." The idea is that Alice can tell something about Bob's emotional state because he is performing a significant but unrelated action. Expect Bob to deny it. Writers will often use this to inform the audience what is going on with a character who wouldn't normally share his feelings. See also You Can Always Tell a Liar and Pinocchio Nose for cases where Alice can tell that Bob is lying. See The Magic Poker Equation for poker tells. Supertrope to Heartbreak and Ice Cream ("when you're heartbroken you eat ice cream a lot"), Comfort Food, Post-Stress Overeating, Distressed Woodchopping. Compare Character Tic (for gestures/body movements that are done as a characteristic quirk), Characterizing Sitting Pose (when we can tell something about a character's personality from the way they sit) and Nervous Tics (where a certain habit can reveal that the character is feeling nervous). Contrast Out-of-Character Alert for when they do things they don't usually do (or the opposite of what they usually do) as a sign that something is wrong with the character.
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The Tell / int_17e6cb15	comment	Bojack Horseman: Mr. Peanutbutter (being an anthropomorphic golden retriever) pushes his ears forward when he gets excited. BoJack is able to use this to his advantage when competing on a game show Mr. Peanutbutter is hosting, because he gets excited when reading the correct answers.
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The Tell / int_18c04255	comment	In The City Hunter, Prosecutor Kim Young Ju knows his ex-wife, Sae Hee, is lying about the whereabouts of The City Hunter because she draws a circle on the table with her finger.
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The Tell / int_20098ea4	comment	Coupling:
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The Tell / int_2275c659	comment	House: House can tell when Cuddy's bluffing even when he's not in the same building because he's talking on a phone with Wilson. In the season 2 finale, the guy who shot House knows when House isn't sleeping, because his nostrils flare when he sleeps. Although, most of the episode was All Just a Dream, so make of that what you will.
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The Tell / int_2ea6ae26	comment	Star Trek: Picard. Jean Luc Picard is dreaming that he's playing poker with Data, and says he's recognised Data's tell. As Data is an android, he says that's impossible, but Picard says that Data does have a tell: dilating his left pupil...which is a fake designed to fool the other player. Data's real tell is that he has no tell; his expression is totally neutral when he's bluffing. Data then admits that he's now at a loss as to which tell he should use from now on to bluff Picard.
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The Tell / int_32233a78	comment	In Ozy and Millie, the tail of foxes shows their emotions. This is mentioned many times, including for Ozy and Ms. Mudd.
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The Tell / int_32483a45	comment	In MirrorMask, when Helena's father is trying to calm her about her mother's impending brain surgery, and unconsciously chews his lip, she blurts, "Anyway, you're worried. You only do that when you're worried!"
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The Tell / int_336a5711	comment	Played with in Season 2 of Luther. During an interrogation, Schenk asks a suspect if he plays cards, then Schenk says that he's already spotted a tell that the man has, that the corner of his mouth twitches slightly when he's nervous. Schenk even offers to show the man the camera footage to prove it. After that, Schenk then lists a whole number of things that the police think the suspect did, then claims that the man's mouth is twitching again. The man breaks down and tells Schenk everything. Luther later asks if Schenk was telling the truth, and a very amused Schenk responds that he's been using that same lie on suspects since the 80s, and it's worked every time.
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The Tell / int_37a0379b	comment	In ReLIFE An says that when something upsets Yoake, he can't help but tap his index finger.
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The Tell / int_3eacc2fd	comment	In Corner Gas, Emma cleans whenever she is angry about something. In the same episode, Davis and Karen take advantage of this by bringing her to their dirty kitchens and riling her up.
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The Tell / int_3f4a104b	comment	Dilbert: Whenever Dogbert is successfully cheating someone, his tail wags.
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The Tell / int_400469e	comment	Calvin and Hobbes; In one strip where the two are playing poker, Hobbes' poker face is great buthis tail begins flicking in excitement when he gets his hand, leading to Calvin folding and Hobbes accusing him of cheating.
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The Tell / int_49340431	comment	In Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Terry has a tell in which he flexes his biceps whenever he has a good hand. Captain Holtâ€™s tell is that he starts to use contractions in his sentences.
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The Tell / int_59091c4c	comment	Invoked in Liar Game where Fukunaga tells their opponent that Nao blinks twice when she lies. This was apparently a scheme the two came up together with, to trick their opponent into betting all their money in the last round of the roulette. Nao doesn't actually have a tell.
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The Tell / int_597d9b72	comment	Raging Loop: Near the endgame, Chiemi reveals that Haruaki has a tell: Whenever he starts lying during a conversation he'll start the next sentence with "um..." (he only does it once per conversation, not per lie). Chiemi is only able to recognize it after being stuck in a "Groundhog Day" Loop with Haruaki for hundreds of iterations, and the player might not even have caught onto it at this point. Notably, a number of details about Haruaki himself, including the whenever he says his own name out loud, starts with him going "um...".
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The Tell / int_5df88692	comment	In Rounders, main character Mike notices that Teddy KGB has a tell: if he takes one of his trademark Oreos out of the package and licks the cream, he has a good hand. If he puts it back, he has a bad hand. Mike tells Teddy KGB about the tell early in their faceoff, wanting to win legitimately rather than through manipulation, which enrages Teddy, causing him to through the Oreos away and play much more seriously. Mike still wins through skill.
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The Tell / int_68144464	comment	In House of Games, a sequence involved one man explaining to another what a "tell" is— down to demonstrating it, with a "hidden penny" game.
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The Tell / int_7337d81c	comment	Throughout Maverick, this is how he constantly manages to beat Annabelle at poker. After every game, she demands to know what her tell was and Bret always tells her, little things like tapping her fingers or clicking her teeth. In the final round of the poker tournament, he manages to beat her yet again removing her from the running. She demands to know what it was this time as she recites the entire list of tells that Bret has told her about. Bret's response?
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The Tell / int_762df2bc	comment	Kung Fu Panda. "You eat when you are upset."
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The Tell / int_767bf050	comment	This is a mechanic in Poker Night at the Inventory. Your opponents will sometimes give away whether their hand is good or bad with a specific animation, which range from subtle (Heavy's nostrils will flare when his hand is good) to blatant (Strong Bad bangs his head on the table if his hand is garbage). You can increase the frequency of these tells by buying them drinks.
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The Tell / int_7b6c4921	comment	Ellie Nash from Degrassi cooks when she's angry, according to Marco.
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The Tell / int_7c038c18	comment	Phineas and Ferb provides an interesting one in the Superhero Episode: Phineas doesn't have any problem hiding his and Ferb's Secret Identity from the family, but when lying to Isabella he starts pulling on his ear nervously. It's not remarked upon, but hints that he might have feelings for her even though he's still Oblivious to Love.
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The Tell / int_805e8b39	comment	In Maison Ikkoku, you can tell Kyoko's angry because she becomes VERY enthusiastic while cleaning (more so than usual). That, and her tendency to break broomhandles by squeezing them.
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The Tell / int_8269967b	comment	Stormbringer supplement Demon Magic, adventure "Sorcerer's Isle". From the description of the pirate Janar Ra:
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The Tell / int_84809b33	comment	L.A. Noire: As a benefit of the game's advanced facial animation technology, during interrogations, a suspect may have a telling reaction as they wait your response to their testimony and you must gauge the correct response based on that. Some more telling than others. Also subverted in that a tell is not a sign of lying, and a lack of tell is not a sign of telling the truth: as early as the second case, you will have people looking nervous not because they're lying, but because they're hiding the truth, which is not the same thing. The witness in the case isn't telling you everything because she wants to sell the story to the newspapers to get her fifteen minutes of fame, but she's not lying.
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The Tell / int_86c3beca	comment	In Girl Genius, Baron Klaus Wulfenbach has one that Lucrezia knows (spoilers):
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The Tell / int_8d81bc90	comment	MAS*H: In the sixth season episode "The Merchant of Korea", B.J. and Hawkeye decide to invite Charles to play poker with them so they can pay back the money he lent them. Unfortunately, this backfires at first because Charles (who, to be fair, did warn them ahead of time he was a lucky person) cleans everyone out. Not only that, but he whistles, to everyone's annoyance. When Charles takes a break, B.J., Col. Potter, Hawkeye, Klinger, Margaret and Radar all complain about losing and Charles' whistling The next time we see the game, Charles has lost all of his money.
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The Tell / int_91e45f5	comment	This is a game mechanic in Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney; when a witness is nervous while testifying, they'll perform some sort of habitual action that you have to zoom in on and then call them out on.
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The Tell / int_9abdd277	comment	Discussed in Tin Men. Moe explains to Stanley that a way to tell if a customer will be receptive to a tin man's (aluminum siding salesman) sales pitch or not, is to drop a book of matches on the floor while trying to light a cigarette; if the customer picks it up for him, the tin man will have an easy sell, whereas if the customer waits for the tin man to pick it up himself, he'll have a tough sell.
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The Tell / int_9b904d68	comment	In Necessary Roughness, Dani squints a lot whenever she doesn't like something or someone.
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The Tell / int_9e7ed97a	comment	From Dead Like Me:
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The Tell / int_9f33fbac	comment	In the Korean Drama Secret Garden, Gil Ra Im taps one of her feet, when she's interested in has-been singer Oska. Oska sees this after a "Freaky Friday" Flip from his male relative, and gets seriously squicked out.
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The Tell / int_a32b6a64	comment	In The West Wing episode "Two Cathedrals", Mrs Landingham explains in a flashback that when Bartlett has made up his mind to do something, he sticks his hands in his pockets, looks away, and smiles. If you're paying attention at the end, he does the same thing when asked if he's going to run again.
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The Tell / int_a92c264a	comment	Exterminatus Now: The Patterner is a god (a resentful knockoff of Warhammer 40,000's Tzeentch) who plays games with his fellow gods... namely, poker. His tell consists of his single giant eye twitching, and does not like being informed of this.
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The Tell / int_b3419386	comment	In Aquila one of the protagonists' mothers realises he's upset when he begins sorting his rock collection.
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The Tell / int_b3710362	comment	In Troy, Paris asked his brother Hector if he loved him and if he would protect him against any enemy. Hector immediately points out the last time he said that, Paris was ten years old and had just stolen Priam's horse. Only this time, Paris had stolen Helen from Menelaus.
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The Tell / int_c1315f2d	comment	In Bitter Virgin, Yuzu notices Daisuke is upset by Kazuki's unwelcome affection because he keeps holding his forehead.
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The Tell / int_c22905b5	comment	Red Robin: Tam Fox looks to the side, bites her lower lip and, if she's sitting, nervously clasps her hands when lying. Tim thinks to himself on multiple occasions that she really ought to have some kind of training to help her lie more convincingly.
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The Tell / int_c4282b71	comment	When "discorded", Applejack in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic lies every time she speaks. Every time she does, however, her face crinkles up and her eyes flick back and forth.
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The Tell / int_c4d1c0e8	comment	In the Bloom Into You anthology, Yuu figures out that Touko has the joker in a game of old maid because Touko starts shaking like a phone on vibrate when Yuu accuses her of having it.
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The Tell / int_ccf875f7	comment	Criminal Minds: Garcia first suspects something is up when she sees her boyfriend talking to her best guy friend Morgan (when the two don't normally interact), but she figures out it's something important when he brings her a special red velvet cupcake, which he only does on special occasions (he's planning on proposing).
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The Tell / int_d81d0106	comment	In Kaiji's E-card game, one of the rules is that the players must look at the card they will play so the opponent will be able to deduce their move through body language instead of having to rely on pure luck. Tonegawa can track things like Kaiji's heart rate and body temperature with his watch, so this ensures that Kaiji won't be able to brute-force past that by playing blindly.
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The Tell / int_d9db5c77	comment	It is repeatedly mentioned in the Mercy Thompson books that Mercy bakes when she's upset. It is actually pretty consistent, and is remarked upon a few times.
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The Tell / int_da861da1	comment	Veronica Mars: In the first season episode "An Echolls Family Christmas'', Weevil calls out Veronica on the fact whenever she asks someone for a favor, she tilts her head. In the fourth season "Losing Streak", Mattie ends up tilting her head when she asks Owen, a classmate of hers, to help her research something for the main mystery driving the season. Wallace (now a teacher), who happens to overhear and witness this conversation, and was the person Veronica most often asked for favors while they were in school together, shakes his head and chuckles.
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The Tell / int_de32e214	comment	In The Princess Diaries, Mia's nostrils flare whenever she lies, although she's an excellent liar otherwise, and no one had noticed the nostrils thing before Grandmere.
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The Tell / int_df7fa951	comment	In Casino Royale (2006), Bond figures out that Le Chiffre is bluffing when he goes to rub his eye— though Bond loses that particular hand, he explains afterward to Vesper and Mathis that Le Chiffre bet big and only got lucky on the river card, meaning he had a weak hand when he bet big. Le Chiffre later repeats it— but this time, having been tipped off about his tell and that Bond is looking for it, uses it to clean out all of Bond's chips. Bond only gets a buy-back into the game when Felix Leiter steps in. Le Chiffre later ends up doing it for real during a tense moment, realises that Bond has noticed, and throws in his hand with annoyance.
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The Tell / int_e36a8670	comment	My Dream Is Yours: Most agents have been around Oona long enough to know that scaring her will end with a myriad of broken things if she's holding stuff. Thus, when Olympia rushes over to the Lab with Otis and the other Dream-Transfer-itis victims and calls her name, they're quick to lunge for all the gadgets the Lab Director sends flying before they can hit the ground and break. They manage to catch all but one that fires and hits O'Duffy, who shrinks and begins yelling at Oona while he makes his way down the stairs to the bullpen.
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The Tell / int_e650c1d4	comment	Good Poker players can recognize their opponents' tells, while at the same time hiding their own. At the professional level, players will do anything they can to avoid giving off a tell: wearing sunglasses to hide their eyes, sitting in a very specific position that they don't change for the entire game, always looking at their cards and moving their chips the same way. It makes for a very dull watching experience unless you know about the mind games going on: without being able to bluff with their actions, players have to bluff with extremely subtle things, like waiting just a bit longer to bet, or moving just a little bit more than usual.
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The Tell / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy: Exaggerated in the episode "Road To Vegas". After Brian expresses disbelief in Stewie by saying he should have brought Peter, Stewie replies by telling him how Peter would be worse due to having a terrible tell. Cut to Peter playing cards where he gasps and drops a party banner saying "Great Cards!!" while a clown on a bicycle drives by, and treats this like it is normal.
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The Tell / int_eb0c9938	comment	In Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure Diamond Is Unbreakable, one of the enemy Stand users can imprison people inside sheets of paper if he get them to show their fear through a Tell; for example, Josuke's Tell is biting his lower lip. He almost succeeds, but when things turn around and Josuke catches Miyamoto's Tell, he's affected by his own Stand and gets turned into a book.
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The Tell / int_efa49b17	comment	The Mentalist: Jane can tell when Lisbon is lying because she speaks in a high voice. Actually, he can do this to most people, provided he's spent enough time with them. Subverted in another episode. While playing poker in prison with some scary mobsters, one prisoner calls Jane out for using a very obvious tell; reaching to touch his ear and then stopping himself. This turns out to be a decoy tell and he cleans the mobster out completely.
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The Tell / int_f655ed11	comment	In Frasier, Niles' nose bleeds when he's broken his ethical code. Likewise, when Frasier has knowingly broken his ethical code, he starts having attacks of nausea.
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The Tell / int_f74b5f80	comment	Babylon 5: Commander Ivanova knows something is up when she sees Garibaldi "eating like a man starved", but she doesn't know him well enough to be sure there's a reason behind it. It turns out it is something Garibaldi does when faced with death (in this case, a ship full of colonists he came across who were killed by Space Pirates.)
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The Tell / int_fa89a1ac	comment	In Frozen II, Anna recognizes that Elsa wears their mother's scarf when she's worried.
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The Tell / int_fd0d816b	comment	Your Heart a Haven of Thorns (Naruto): Sakura notices that Kakashi's fingers tend to twitch whenever he's truly agitated, and suspects that this happens a lot more than he cares to admit... which may be why he tends to keep his hands tucked into his pockets.
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Never Had A Friend Like Me / Fan Fic / int_ea0a3d	type	The Tell
Beyond the Outer Gate Lies... (Fanfic) / int_ea0a3d	type	The Tell
Crimson and Emerald (Fanfic) / int_ea0a3d	type	The Tell
I See What You Do Behind Closed Doors (Miraculous Ladybug) (Fanfic) / int_ea0a3d	type	The Tell
Innocent (MarauderLover7) (Fanfic) / int_ea0a3d	type	The Tell
The Smash Freshmen (Fanfic)	seeAlso	The Tell
Your Heart a Haven of Thorns (Naruto) (Fanfic) / int_ea0a3d	type	The Tell
Casino Royale (2006) / int_ea0a3d	type	The Tell
Finder's Fee / int_ea0a3d	type	The Tell
MirrorMask / int_ea0a3d	type	The Tell
Odd Squad: World Turned Odd / int_ea0a3d	type	The Tell
Real Steel / int_ea0a3d	type	The Tell
Rounders / int_ea0a3d	type	The Tell
Tin Men / int_ea0a3d	type	The Tell
Aquila / int_ea0a3d	type	The Tell
Clue / int_ea0a3d	type	The Tell
Dangerous Fugitives / int_ea0a3d	type	The Tell
Oresuki / int_ea0a3d	type	The Tell
The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_ea0a3d	type	The Tell
Witches Abroad / int_ea0a3d	type	The Tell
Big Windup! (Manga) / int_ea0a3d	type	The Tell
Food Wars! (Manga) / int_ea0a3d	type	The Tell
Tomie (Manga) / int_ea0a3d	type	The Tell
Class Trials Season 4 (Roleplay) / int_ea0a3d	type	The Tell
Coupling / int_ea0a3d	type	The Tell
Dead Like Me / int_ea0a3d	type	The Tell
Degrassi: The Next Generation / int_ea0a3d	type	The Tell
In the Dark / int_ea0a3d	type	The Tell
Maury / int_ea0a3d	type	The Tell
New Girl / int_ea0a3d	type	The Tell
Secret Garden / int_ea0a3d	type	The Tell
Supergirl (2015) / int_ea0a3d	type	The Tell
The City Hunter / int_ea0a3d	type	The Tell
The Mentalist / int_ea0a3d	type	The Tell
The Steve Wilkos Show / int_ea0a3d	type	The Tell
3% / int_ea0a3d	type	The Tell
Stormbringer (Tabletop Game) / int_ea0a3d	type	The Tell
Edna & Harvey: The Breakout (Video Game) / int_ea0a3d	type	The Tell
Pathfinder (Video Game) / int_ea0a3d	type	The Tell
Pathfinder: Kingmaker (Video Game) / int_ea0a3d	type	The Tell
Pathfinder (Video Game) (Video Game) / int_ea0a3d	type	The Tell
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney (Visual Novel) / int_ea0a3d	type	The Tell
The Heist: Monaco (Visual Novel) / int_ea0a3d	type	The Tell
Turnabout Storm (Web Animation) / int_ea0a3d	type	The Tell
Ozy and Millie (Webcomic) / int_ea0a3d	type	The Tell
Binging with Babish (Web Video) / int_ea0a3d	type	The Tell
Frozen II / int_ea0a3d	type	The Tell
Peeps / int_ea0a3d	type	The Tell

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