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Truth-Telling Session
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })A common form of an Escalating War is when one character lets slip something about another character, and the two start flinging truths back and forth, until a fact comes out that can't be topped. There are a few variations on what is actually being said. In a sitcom it is usually back and forth reveals of embarrassing moments or events. A dramatic version is two characters getting into a verbal altercation and angrily telling each other negative and hurtful personal statements, that even if truthful are still hurtful to hear from someone who is usually a close friend or relative. Occasionally a characters will be telling truths about themselves - generally because they want to show solidarity with someone else whose secret has just come out. This variation inevitably ends with one of them revealing something that, even in this situation, goes miles too far. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Often capped by a stupid or clueless person accidentally saying something that humiliates themselves instead of the other. When someone goes too far in the dramatic version lives can be put on the line and friendships can be split apart in an instant. In a romantic or friendship setting the final insult is often met with a slap followed by immediate remorse from the guilty party. Or remorse then the slap. One thing clearly demonstrated by these exchanges is that any given character has more to be ashamed of than everyone you've ever met in real life combined, even if you're Ozzy Osbourne (as can be seen on The Osbournes). |
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In a Girls episode "Beach House", Hannah, Shoshana, Marnie, and Jessa wind up drunkenly arguing after Marnie's efforts to have a Martha Stewart-approved dinner go south: | |
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The exchange in That '70s Show which ended with the revelation that Laurie was born with a tail. | |
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The iCarly Fan Fic Beneath The Pale Moonlight uses the dramatic variation (although it includes some embarrassing moments) in the 20th chapter. Freddie has kept the secret that he cheated on his girlfriend (who already has issues with Carly) with their other best friend Sam, from Carly and that enrages her. They both get defensive and angry about the secret, the secret keeping and each others attitude. Freddie calls her irrational and to 'calm down'. Carly rolls her eyes at Freddie. Freddie chews Carly out for wanting to be the centre of attention. Carly brings up Freddie's cheating. Freddie sarcastically suggests that Carly is jealous he cheated on the girlfriend with Sam. This makes Carly tell Freddie that he is way out of her league. Freddie tells her that only assholes like her. Carly calls Freddie a loser nerd mommas boy who spends all his time on his computer. And she rolls her eyes at him again. Freddie then gives Carly an epic (but Jerkass) verbal smackdown, bringing up reasons why his girlfriend dislikes Carly, calls her a egotistical bitch, reminds that the time on the computer is spent on the webshow that makes her a minor celebrity without a word of thanks, and she throws herself at hot guys even if they are complete assholes. He continues to negatively compare Carly to Sam. Carly calls him a jerk, brings up an embarrassing obsession with a Princess Leia Expy, weird porn habits and his girlfriend is frigid and won't put out. Freddie graphically tells Carly the only reason guys care about her is so they can 'pop her cherry' and brag about it to their friends. Carly finally gets the upper hand in the verbal fight by calling out Freddie for his jealously, that never in a million years would she sleep with him, and his mother is a psycho 'whore' who sleeps with their crazy doorman. Carly smugly thinks that she'd won. Freddie, utterly furious about being called out for his jealously, the insults against his work for her and the insults to his mother, then tells Carly: It breaks Carly, she starts to tear up, gives Freddie an extremely well deserved slap, throws him out of her house and the chapter ends with both of them silently crying from the damage of hurting and being hurt by each other. |
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Our Miss Brooks: Happens in "Trying to Pick a Fight". | |
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Total Drama: In the Island episode "Camp Castaways," the four stranded contestants decide to confess their sins before they die. We never hear what they confess, but Duncan apparently revealed why he went to juvie. | |
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In Hey Dude! (on Nickelodeon), the four main characters tell each other an embarrassing (but still rather tame) secret about themselves. Naturally, all four of them have spilled the beans before the half hour is up. | |
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On The Big Bang Theory, after Leonard confesses to sleeping with Raj's sister (betraying not only Raj's trust but also Howard's, with whom he'd made a pact that they'd never hit on Raj's sister), the following exchange occurs: | |
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In Before Midnight, (sequel to Before Sunrise and Before Sunset) the bulk of the movie is a huge fight Jesse and Celine, now parents, have after having been together for the last nine years. Previously unsaid things are brought out into the open, mostly in a very confrontational and hurtful way due to how long their resentments and regrets have festered over the years. But it ends promisingly with another go at making their relationship work even with all those voiced flaws. | |
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Gazpacho soup!! | |
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Parodied in the American Dad! episode "Camp Refoogee". While the rest of the family is away, Roger and Francine disguise themselves as a couple to socialize at the country club. On the fly, Francine changes Roger's backstory (calling him an economics professor, instead of a political scientist). Roger responds by inventing a fake weight problem for Francine, and the situation devolves from there. | |
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On Everybody Loves Raymond, the revelation that Marie's dislike of Debra was because she wasn't a virgin when Ray married her ends in everyone finding out that Robert was conceived out of wedlock, and Marie and Frank had lied about his birthday (which happened to be that day). | |
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Subverted in the anime Azumanga Daioh. When the students quiz Nyamo the gym teacher about what sort of student their homeroom teacher Yukari was, Yukari waltzes by humming "love letter" over and over again. This preemptive strike causes Nyamo to grudgingly say that Yukari was a normal student. Later on, when rather inebriated, they indulge in a Truth-Telling Session on the streets. | |
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Big Mouth: In "The ASSes" when the police burst into the gym to arrest Jay for selling Adderall, all the students (who took said Adderall and thus super strung out) confess to various crimes, such as Andrew cheating on his test and Lola using Ukrainian diet pills that made her crave spiders. | |
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In Gunnerkrigg Court, Antimony and Reynardine end up in one that gets kicked off by Reynardine confronting Annie about her copying answers form Kat's homework and culminates in him letting out an Awful Truth about Annie's mother that he regrets as soon as he reveals it and leaves Annie utterly distraught. | |
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30 Rock: Jack is dating a liberal Congresswoman and hides it from his colleagues, as she is an anti-big-business crusader. When he decides to finally announce their relationship in the executive lunch room of GE, he sparks this. His conservative colleagues confess to various "sins" such as donating to NPR, sending their children to public school, and being gay/black, while his liberal girlfriend admits to voting for Ronald Reagan in 1984. Everyone applauds in mutual understanding, then another man stands up and confesses that he murdered his wife. | |
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2010: The Year We Make Contact starts with one. The Russian representative who meets with Dr. Floyd at the start simply declares that he's not in the mood to do the usual dance of half-truths and deceptions expected of them when talking to each other and declares that for the next 60 seconds he will only speak the truth, inviting Floyd to do the same. | |
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Mulan: Mulan, Mushu, and Cri-kee have a very cathartic one after they hit Rock Bottom. Mulan says that she wanted to prove that she could do something right after failing with the matchmaker, not just to save her father. Mushu says that her ancestors neither sent him nor like him. Cri-kee, while crying, confesses that he's not really lucky. It ends with a hug. | |
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From Malcolm in the Middle: | |
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The Act I finale of The Addams Family, "Full Disclosure", is one of these gone horribly wrong. | |
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A weird take on the idea in Mad About You, where the Buchmans wind up shouting their own most embarrassing secrets to a video camera (it's complicated). | |
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It goes the other way around in the final episode of Black Books. Manny accidentally blurts out that Bernard's ex-fiancée, whom he has long believed to be dead, in fact faked her death to get out of their marriage, subsequently becoming a very good friend of Fran's; Fran not only didn't tell Bernard that his ex-fiancée was not dead, but in fact informed seemingly everyone else but him that this was the case. The resulting truth-telling slanging match between Bernard and Fran gradually gets turned to smaller and pettier truths, with Bernard eventually winning by pointing out that Fran went to a party that night with a rather daft haircut. | |
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Rose, Dorothy and Blanche on The Golden Girls get into one of these after being stranded on a deserted island. | |
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Featured prominently in the epic poem, Beowulf. | |
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Veronica Mars makes it clear that you never play I Never with friends, or else it can turn into a Truth-Telling Session with booze. | |
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A major plot point in the season 2 opener of Happy Endings, it comes out that Dave isn't allergic to shellfish, he just didn't want to eat Alex's terrible jambalaya. Jane encourages them to share more truths because they're not a couple anymore and honesty will help their friendship. It doesn't go well, and leads to worse stuff happening throughout the episode for the pair of them. | |
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In the Firefly episode "Shindig", Mal and Inara suddenly end up telling each other what they really think about the choices the other one made. | |
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On How I Met Your Mother, in order to convince Barney to tell a painful story from his past, the rest of the gang tell the most embarrassing stories of their own lives to make it easier for him. Turns out Barney's story isn't humiliating or sad at all (at least from his perspective), he just pretended it was hard for him to talk about so he could get embarrassing stories about everybody else. Also, the episode "Spoiler Alert" has everyone revealing each other's annoying habits, and suddenly they notice them. |
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In an episode of Frasier, Frasier's current girlfriend has a Jewish My Beloved Smother, and at the climax have a massive teary-eyed airing out of dirty laundry in front of him and Martin. When Frasier offers to mediate, the mother turns and smoothly tells him, "Relax! We're nearly finished!" At the end, they hug and reaffirm their mother-daughter love. After they leave, Frasier and Martin attempt to reconcile in the same way but fail badly. Frasier cries, "We shouldn't have tried it! WE'RE NOT JEWISH!" | |
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This is particularly popular in Friends. It happened in a Thanksgiving episode, the "Space Mountain story" episode, and the episode where we found out about Chandler's third nipple, amongst others. One time it found an interesting variation by using a temporary love interest as the secret-hearer, and having all the secrets be things that had happened in previous episodes. In an episode where Rachel and Monica pretended to be each other while dating doctors, they began to reveal ugly secrets about each other in the first person ("In high school, I was a cow"; "I use my breasts to get other people's attention." "We both do that!") In "The One with George Stephanopoulos" the girls start sharing secrets during their Slumber Party. Monica admits that the "vegetarian" pate that Phoebe liked actually had goose in it, which leads to Phoebe revealing that she slept with one of Monica's ex-boyfriends mere hours after they broke up. One of the lengthiest was in "The One Where Ross Got High": |
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Brothers & Sisters: Beside the occasional thanksgiving meals, which are usually more civilized, the Walker family have a great tendency to involve two or more members of the family revealing dozens or more shameful truths about each other. | |
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