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The Lying Game

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The Lying Game is an ABC Family series based off the novels of the same named by Sara Shepard. It follows the adventures of Emma Becker and Sutton Mercer, two long-lost twins living in different parts of the country. When Sutton decides to go looking for their real parents, Emma is forced to move into her home and take over her life. The Lying Game premiered on August 15, 2011 and was cancelled on July 15, 2013.Has a characters page in need of some love.Not to be confused with Liar Game. Or The Crying Game.
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Creator Cameo
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Creator Cameo: Pieter Schlosser (episode composer) plays the MC of the Black and White Ball in "Black and White and Green All Over."
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The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry
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The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: A very extreme version between Emma and Sutton. Sutton and Laurel are a pretty tame version in comparison.
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Parents as People
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Parents as People: The parents are arguably more screwed up and entangled in lies than the teens.
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Alpha Bitch
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Alpha Bitch: Nisha Randall comes off as this. It's implied that Sutton may have some Alpha Bitch tendencies too.
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Bilingual Bonus
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Bilingual Bonus: In "Sex, Lies, and Hard Knocks", Lexi is conjugating "je mens, etc". It so happens she's conjugating the French verb mentir - "to lie".
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Analogy Backfire
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Analogy Backfire: In "Bad Boys Break Hearts", Laurel says her and Emma are both like Cinderella. Emma points out that in the Cinderella story, "everything went to crap" at midnight.
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Brilliant, but Lazy
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Brilliant, but Lazy: Sutton, who could be just as smart as Emma but just doesn't care. When she does care, though, it's usually for something nefarious.
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Out of Character
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Out of Character: In-Universe. Emma, in her role as Sutton, is often noted to act in ways that contradict Sutton's personality. (Agreeing to give her sister a ride, apologizing to someone she'd angered, etc.)
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Preppy Name
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Preppy Name: All of the wealthier kids (Sutton Mercer, Laurel Mercer, Thayer Rybak etc.) And their parents Theodore "Ted" Mercer, Alec Rybak, Phyllis Chamberlain.
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Becoming the Mask
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Becoming the Mask: Justin Emma started out only pretending to date Ethan, but eventually fell for him, which caused friction with Sutton.
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Separated at Birth
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Separated at Birth: The premise of the entire show.
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Advertised Extra
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Advertised Extra: Nisha is billed as a main character despite only appearing in a few episodes. Compared to Alec who is a recurring character but has been in all but one episode She was demoted in episode 11.
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Polar Opposite Twins
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Polar Opposite Twins: Emma and Sutton
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Wham Line
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Wham Line: "Hi Mom."
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PromotedToParent
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Promoted to Parent: Dan to Ethan due to their Parental Abandonment.
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Beta Couple
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Beta Couple: Laurel and Justin. Dan and Theresa.
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Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling
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Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Sutton and Emma. Laurel's relationship changes depending on which one is playing Sutton.
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Rich Bitch
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Rich Bitch: Nisha. Sutton herself.
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The Reveal
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The Reveal: No not that Rebecca is the twins mother It's the fact that Sutton seems to have known all along and they have some sort of plan put together. Annie is not the twins mother, Rebecca is.
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Big Brother Worship
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Big Brother Worship: Mads, who adores Thayer.
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Casting Gag
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Casting Gag: Charisma Carpenter due to her role in Deadly Sibling Rivalry, a movie about a Twin Switch that came out at the same time as The Lying Game and its Dueling Show Ringer.
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Clark Kenting
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Clark Kenting: Emma is different from Sutton in almost every way except for appearance (Sutton is a slacker, Emma is smart. Sutton is kind of a bitch, Emma is nice. It goes on.) and yet the whole town continues to believe that she is Sutton simply because she says so. Makes sense in that when someone you know is acting differently you don't automatically assume that they must have switched places with a long lost twin.
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Put on a Bus
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Put on a Bus: Char in episode 12.
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Real Life Writes the Plot
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Real Life Writes the Plot: Laurel and Baz's relationship was ended because Allie Gonino and his actor broke up.
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Consummate Liar
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Consummate Liar: Sutton. She apparently inherited this from Rebecca. Alec is also a pretty big offender.
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Sibling Yin-Yang
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Sibling Yin-Yang: Sutton and Emma
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Wham Episode
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Wham Episode: The Series Finale "To Lie For": Jordan killed his brother, Rebecca tries to kill Alec by throwing him through a glass ceiling and Thayer is shown with the murder weapon that killed Teresa.
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Always Identical Twins
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Always Identical Twins: Emma and Sutton.
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Revenge
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Revenge: Sutton is pretty pissed at Emma for "stealing" her lifestyle and is probably planning some kind of revenge, despite the fact that this was neither Emma's desire nor her intent.
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Betty and Veronica
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Betty and Veronica: Ethan between Emma (Betty) and Sutton (Veronica). Emma between Thayer (Betty) and Ethan (Veronica). Laurel between Baz (Betty) and Justin (Veronica).
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Big Bad
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Big Bad: Initially, it seemed like it was Alec Rybak who's behind the major mysteries of the show, but after the airing of the season finale, "Unholy Matrimony", Rebecca is actually the one manipulating the events and Sutton is collaborating with her in carrying them out.
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Foreshadowing
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Foreshadowing: Rebecca says this to Emma!Sutton after Ethan's murder charges are dropped in episode 18.
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Secret-Keeper
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Secret-Keeper: Ethan and Thayer, who know Emma and Sutton's secrets. Later, Emma brings Mads into the secret. Alec and Ted also keep the secret about Emma and Sutton's mother.
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Sibling Triangle
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Sibling Triangle: Sutton and Emma over Ethan.
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Ascended Extra
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Ascended Extra: Thayer (but not Alec) was promoted to main cast in episode 10 and Rebecca was a regular in Season 2.
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Demoted to Extra
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Demoted to Extra: Kirsten Prout (Char) was demoted to recurring status. Sharon Pierre-Louis (Nisha) was also demoted but she had never really been a major character in the first place. Neither appeared at all in the second season.
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In Love with the Mark
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In Love with the Mark: Justin, who was initially just using Laurel as a means to get to Ted, ends up falling in love with her. Derek only began dating Char in order to spy for Alec and ends up genuinely liking her. Alec is less than enthused.
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Alliterative Name
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Alliterative Name: Char Chamberlain and in season 2, Rebecca Rybak.
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Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Justin is gone by Season 2 with no explanation where he went.
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Cassandra Truth
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Cassandra Truth: Emma tries to confess her secret to Dan, but he doesn't buy it.
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Refuge in Audacity
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Refuge in Audacity: How Emma gets away with having a different personality and no knowledge of her twin's past. Everyone knows that something's different, but no one is guessing that it's a Twin Switch.
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The Chessmaster
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The Chessmaster: Sutton was already shown as quite the chessmaster but the season finale revealed that she was collaborating with her mother Rebecca.
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Race Lift
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Race Lift: Of the Type 4 variety. In the books, Nisha (whose last name there is Banerjee) is Indian. In the show, she's African-American, with the last name Randall.
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All Girls Want Bad Boys
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All Girls Want Bad Boys: Subverted. One would think this was the reason Sutton was attracted to Ethan, but he actually turned out to be a fairly decent guy.
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Contrived Coincidence
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Contrived Coincidence: From the books, it turns out that Thayer and Sutton just happened to meet up at the same place at the same time where Sutton's Father was meeting with her birth mother, Becky. Becky and Sutton's Father's meeting had nothing to do with Sutton's death.
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Tangled Family Tree
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Tangled Family Tree: The show has implicitly stated that the twin's parents are Ted and Rebecca. This causes a whole bunch of tangles and relates the twins to almost everyone in the cast. This makes Laurel their biological half-sister, Char their cousin, Phyllis their Aunt, Kristen and Alec their step-parents, and Mads and Thayer their step-siblings. It gets even more tangled when you add in Jordan, Rebecca's stepson.
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One-Steve Limit
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One-Steve Limit: Averted with Annie Hobbs and Annie Sewell. Played Straight in that the latter goes by her middle name, Rebecca.
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Twin Switch
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Twin Switch: The plot of the series is based on one.
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Cool Big Sis
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Cool Big Sis: Sutton failed to be this for Laurel, but Emma makes up for it.
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BigSisterInstinct
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Big Sister Instinct: Laurel with Sutton.
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Lady Drunk
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Lady Drunk: Char's mother, Phyllis.
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Cut Short
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Cut Short: Especially since the show's second and final season was only 10 episodes.
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