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Would I Lie to You?

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Would I Lie to You?	comment	Would I Lie to You? (begun in 2007) is a British Panel Show based around truth and lies. Essentially, over a series of rounds the panellists (two team captains with two guests each) will read out a series of statements about themselves; the opposing team must figure out whether they are true or not. It is currently on its fifteenth series.The host for the first two series was Angus Deayton, in perhaps his biggest hosting job since being sacked from Have I Got News for You; from Series 3 he was replaced by Rob Brydon of Gavin & Stacey fame. The team captains, Lee Mack (from Not Going Out) and David Mitchell (from everything else) have remained consistent through all the run (the exception being one episode in the eighth series where Lee was unable to attend the recording and Greg Davies took his place). The guests will typically be one comedian and one guest from another field per team, with actors and television presenters being the most common for the latter — although singers, sportspeople, and even politicians have appeared.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_109dbb51	type	Pull the Thread
Would I Lie to You? / int_109dbb51	comment	Pull the Thread: The usual tactic employed to destroy a panellist's story. David's team attempted this on Kevin Bridges when he claimed to have accidentally bought a horse, only for it to cause a descent into complete insanity, as Bridges' story grew progressively more complicated and David's team grew progressively more incredulous, then it turned out to be true.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_10d9daca	type	Fangirl
Would I Lie to You? / int_10d9daca	comment	Fangirl: Mel Giedroyc was clearly very happy to be placed on the same team as former Spandau Ballet lead-man Martin Kemp.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_11a74598	type	Became Their Own Antithesis
Would I Lie to You? / int_11a74598	comment	Became Their Own Antithesis: Lee is accused of this during the famous "iPod" argument after claiming to have hired the guest of the week to manage putting songs on his iPod ("You've changed!"). Played for laughs in the 2019 Children in Need special when Kitty, one of the child contestants, claims to have met Lee in a Waitrose cafe when defending her claim. As Waitrose is a fairly middle-class supermarket chain, this naturally got David's attention and prompted a bit of a pushback from Lee:
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Would I Lie to You? / int_11af4e0e	type	Fox-Chicken-Grain Puzzle
Would I Lie to You? / int_11af4e0e	comment	Fox-Chicken-Grain Puzzle: Mentioned by David when Kimberly Wyatt was claiming to have done the splits to hold her car's bonnet open. When Lee started to suggest an alternative solution involving putting things on the ground first and picking them up as required, David asked "Hold on, where are you putting the chicken and the fox?"
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Would I Lie to You? / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Would I Lie to You? / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Of a type; both Charlie Brooker and Richard Osman, both of whom are directors for the show's production company Endemol, have appeared as guest panelists.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_13342c25	type	Abandoned Catchphrase
Would I Lie to You? / int_13342c25	comment	Abandoned Catchphrase: In his first series or so as host, after a panellist had read out an extremely unlikely-sounding statement Rob would remark to the other team "this shouldn't take long". This was dropped, possibly because most of the time it appeared the story under discussion turned out to be true.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_13d7a65e	type	The Artifact
Would I Lie to You? / int_13d7a65e	comment	The Artifact: The television screens set into both teams' desks (denoted by the raised pieces of metal in front of each team captain) that were used to play in the clips for the "celebrity facts" rounds in the early series remained there even though none of those rounds were still being played by Series 5. They were removed out of necessity in Series 14 since that series used a COVID-safe redesigned set with each panellist at their own desk. Rob getting turns in the Quick-Fire Lies round has not appeared since Series 8, but his desk still had the button for revealing whether a fact is true or not for several series.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_13eea985	type	Arbitrary Skepticism
Would I Lie to You? / int_13eea985	comment	Arbitrary Skepticism: Many contestants have picked up on one specific detail of a story as proving that it's false even when the entire story has been completely ridiculous. Like believing that a contestant had put a flat cap on a hippo and a fez on a lizard but declaring it a lie because he hadn't heard of the zoo where it supposedly happened. This is often lampshaded by the panel themselves, such as when David claimed that the 'This is My..." guest was a surfing coach who told him while he was on a stag do that he had never seen such natural surfing talent from a novice. Henning Wehn found disbelief in the fact that someone on a stag do in Newquay would have a curry. Also lampshaded after David O'Doherty's truly absurd tale about being addicted to visiting hypnotherapists to cure him of his compulsion to visit hypnotists, when Bill Turnbull calls him out — on putting an umlaut over an 'E' in the spelling of the supposedly 'German' name "SpÃ«ghnks":
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Would I Lie to You? / int_1434e55c	type	Amazingly Embarrassing Parents
Would I Lie to You? / int_1434e55c	comment	Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Russell Howard's story in Series 3 was that he used to put his underpants on his head to cure his acne. When asked why he stopped doing it, he said that his mother randomly announced what he did to his doctor.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
Would I Lie to You? / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: The series 5 trailers showed several guests revealing whether their facts were true or not.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_151e2f2d	type	The Tyson Zone
Would I Lie to You? / int_151e2f2d	comment	The Tyson Zone: The nature of the show and the sometimes-ludicrous true stories contestants tell mean that opposing teams can become very credulous. This annoys David to no end. The teams occasionally struggled with the Ring Of Truth round because some characters (e.g., Sting) are so eccentric that anything is plausible. Bob Mortimer's stories, regardless if they're truths or lies, tend to be so outlandish that David and his team struggle to make a decision each time he's on.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_157822af	type	Shrine to Self
Would I Lie to You? / int_157822af	comment	Shrine to Self: David Mitchell claimed in Series 5 that he keeps his BAFTA(s) on a bookcase in his "Me room."
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Would I Lie to You? / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
Would I Lie to You? / int_1777688d	comment	Genre Savvy: David Mitchell often tends to bemoan the fact that the truths selected by the producers for the contestants to read are deliberately those which sound as implausible and unlikely as possible, noting that mundane statements like "I came to the studio tonight in a car", while easy to guess the veracity of, are unlikely to have much entertainment value.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
Would I Lie to You? / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: A clever panellist telling the truth may deliberately contradict themselves. Parodied more than once by somebody (usually Lee) making an obvious contradiction and then immediately backtracking to try and make the story make sense.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
Would I Lie to You? / int_18aff462	comment	Lee introduced the 'This Is My' guest in one episode as the woman who gave his dog mouth-to-mouth resuscitation after she ran it over with her car. The story was unlikely enough already, but he first claimed that the dog was a greyhound, then a dalmatian, and then when David's team pointed this out he claimed it was half-greyhound, half-dalmatian. And if that wasn't bad enough, he starts to claim the dog started talking, leading David to reply, "He said 'now I can speak! This lady has blown her soul into me!' And then the dog got in the car and drove off."
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Would I Lie to You? / int_18f2b2b	type	Hypocritical Heartwarming
Would I Lie to You? / int_18f2b2b	comment	Hypocritical Heartwarming: A rare example in the series 5 compilation episode, when Lee, alongside his team, starts booing Rob for making a derogatory comment about David's appearance.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_1d2400e9	type	Green-Eyed Monster
Would I Lie to You? / int_1d2400e9	comment	Green-Eyed Monster: When Lee read out that he'd been invited to Harry and Meghan's wedding but didn't go because of he had to come to that episode's taping, David and Rob genuinely couldn't hide their jealousy at the possiblity. They got even more upset when Lee said it was true and were relieved when he revealed that it was all a great big ruse and that it was actually a lie.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_1da5941e	type	The Quiet One
Would I Lie to You? / int_1da5941e	comment	The Quiet One: As noted under Out of Focus, occasionally a guest will fail to make any claims that make the final edit. As the team captains tend to dominate the questioning, this meant that the affected guest was turned into this via Manipulative Editing. The show has in recent series attempted to avert this after a few guests afflicted by this complained by ensuring that every guest contestant gets at least one claim.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_1e3a9a21	type	Angrish
Would I Lie to You? / int_1e3a9a21	comment	Angrish: Rile a panellist beyond natural caution and you'll hear some of this.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_20952a1	type	Product Displacement
Would I Lie to You? / int_20952a1	comment	Product Displacement: When Tracy-Ann Oberman claimed she'd never drunk a can of fizzy drink in her life, Rob produced several cans for her to try. They were clearly cans of Coca-Cola, Diet Coke and Pepsi, but with all the logos and text completely covered with a sparkly wraparound the same colour as the rest of the can.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_21889507	type	A House Divided
Would I Lie to You? / int_21889507	comment	A House Divided: On occasion panellists from the same team will turn on each other.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_2231e5b7	type	Parodied
Would I Lie to You? / int_2231e5b7	comment	Parodied in the second episode. Trisha's lie in the "Home Truths" round is to say that she's beating Jeremy Kyle at internet Scrabble. Now, this is suspicious because she is The Ditz, thus not someone you'd expect to be good at that particular game. However, comedian Frankie Boyle's actual reasoning is that The Internet Is for Porn.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_235289d	type	Conveyor Belt o' Doom
Would I Lie to You? / int_235289d	comment	Conveyor Belt o' Doom: Ruth Jones claimed the This Is My guest had saved her lost pet tortoise from one of these at a recycling plant, to much mockery from Lee's team. It turned out to be true, to their genuine astonishment.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Would I Lie to You? / int_237404cc	comment	Also Jason Manford, who in Series 1 managed to forget what his lie was a few minutes after reading it out. He was caught out by Leslie Ash, who later went to do the exact same thing only to be caught out by Manford.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Would I Lie to You? / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Typically the host, who will often intervene if things get a bit too silly. If the two guests on a team are beginning to believe something obviously absurd, their team captain may take on this role.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_2482df9c	type	Companion Cube
Would I Lie to You? / int_2482df9c	comment	Companion Cube: David Mitchell claimed that as a child, he played board games against a bucket that he called "Stephen Tatlock". When making his decision as to whether it was true or a lie, Lee started asking his water bottle, which he named "Boris". "Boris Dickey". Also, Miranda Hart's childhood friend made of toast. Barry Cryer considers the H14 bus his friend, and says "Hello, darling!" whenever he sees it.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_251bbe0e	type	Genre Blindness
Would I Lie to You? / int_251bbe0e	comment	Genre Blindness: Lee Mack will occasionally exhibit this (Played for Laughs, naturally) after being given a ridiculous lie to read out by complaining to the programme researchers that it was an idiotic thing to come up with, especially when his team are losing.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_25208c30	type	Go Through Me
Would I Lie to You? / int_25208c30	comment	Go Through Me: When Janet Street-Porter walked threateningly across the stage toward David Mitchell's team having grown annoyed with his manner of questioning, Davina McCall threw an arm out in front of David. Completely averted (in one of the funniest moments of the show) when Lee threatened to hit David with a coconut and both Rich Hall and Trisha Goddard immediately retreated to a safe distance.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_26673a22	type	Pinocchio Nose
Would I Lie to You? / int_26673a22	comment	Pinocchio Nose: Inevitably, viewers have picked up on the "tells" of the team captains and the more frequent guests. Lee's "tell" seems to be that he gets quite shouty and defensive when he's lying, but is calmer when telling the truth.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_26852e3d	type	Persona Non Grata
Would I Lie to You? / int_26852e3d	comment	Persona Non Grata: Getting banned or thrown out of somewhere has formed the basis of a few statements, both truths and lies.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_2719ab04	type	Special Guest
Would I Lie to You? / int_2719ab04	comment	Special Guest: Just occasionally, there will be an unexpectedly very famous guest you wouldn't expect to turn up on a low-budget panel game (who often admit to appearing because they're big fans of the show. Examples include Samantha Morton, John Simm, Olivia Colman, Ray Winstone and Charles Dance).
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Would I Lie to You? / int_27ba9b64	type	What Did I Do Last Night?
Would I Lie to You? / int_27ba9b64	comment	What Did I Do Last Night?: David Mitchell's "Possession" turn in one episode was a lock of Steve Davis' hair which he bought on eBay. Asked why he purchased it, he said he was "a bit drunk" at the time. Ronnie Corbett claimed to have found the This Is My guest bound and gagged in a sand pit on a golf course after some kind of wild night out. In Series 6, Richard Madeley claimed to have woken up on Christmas morning nude in a cupboard under the stairs in his house holding two empty cans of fake snow after having been very drunk the previous night. It was true.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_2828fd9a	type	Promotion to Opening Titles
Would I Lie to You? / int_2828fd9a	comment	Promotion to Opening Titles: Rob Brydon appeared as a panellist in Series 2 before replacing Angus Deayton as host the next series.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_282a22cc	type	Key Confusion
Would I Lie to You? / int_282a22cc	comment	Key Confusion: Once, during "Quick Fire Lies", Lee Mack had a 'Possession' that turned out to be a huge bunch of keys. He claimed he knew what all of these keys were for, except one. Cue David Mitchell asking what all of the other keys opened. Lee started a long story involving a series of increasingly unlikely things he had in his house that needed unlocking. It was a lie.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
Would I Lie to You? / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: A Running Gag throughout the show is that Lee, in keeping with his "stereotypical working-class lout" comedic persona, is a bit of a deadbeat dad who barely has any access to his kids and is frequently in the target-sights of the social services. It should perhaps be noted that the person who tends to make these jokes most frequently is Lee himself (who is, in reality, a married father of three).
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Would I Lie to You? / int_2937826d	type	Hurricane of Puns
Would I Lie to You? / int_2937826d	comment	Hurricane of Puns: In season 4:
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Would I Lie to You? / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: See Gratuitous Welsh below.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_29e6dc40	comment	Hypocritical Humour: Lee Mack mocking Jason Manford's Northerness ("Is this the first time you've been out of the North...?"). In Series 4, Martin Clunes appended an odd "Well done" to one of his answers, prompting David Mitchell to mock him for congratulating himself for remembering something. But at the end of the episode, David revealed that he had recalled the name of a women's magazine (Top Sante) out of thin air in an instant of panic, "and frankly, I want a medal!" Rob Brydon introduced Peter Serafinowicz as "a man who's half-English and half-Polish, so is always trying to book himself to tile his own bathroom." Brydon then had to claim in the Quick-Fire Lies round that he once stole Catherine Zeta-Jones' dinner money, and David Mitchell said "You're both Welsh, so presumably you went to the same school." This earned a round of applause from the audience, and Brydon then complained that they were laughing at "thinly-veiled racism". At one point during Katherine Parkinson's explanation of why she (supposedly) listed wombles as a real mammal on a GCSE exam, Lee expresses confusion on why she would've been asked this and/or struggled with it, given how basic the question was. The hypocritical part comes when David makes fun of Lee for being "such an intellectual snob". In the same round, Bill Turnbull tries to challenge Katherine's claim by pointing out that if the question was "name three mammals", she could have named any three mammals without having to resort to wombles... only to get a mental block and be unable to think of a third example of a mammal himself. Lee keeps expressing annoyance at the stereotyping he receives as a working-class Northerner, but he himself was guilty of it when he tried to explain his claim that he threw a sausage roll off the top of Blackpool Tower with "well, I'm Northern..." Invoked by Lee in an outtake where Rob stumbles over several autocue jokes relating to him: In one episode, Lee claims that a misshapen and poorly-produced plastic keyring is the only thing he was able to produce after a year spent in a "plastic works" class. When asking him how he did it, Lorraine Kelly does an exaggerated cutting motion which Lee instantly mocks. Dara O'Briain then instantly points out that if Lee's claim is true, he's hardly in a position to get haughty about someone else's plastic-cutting techniques or abilities. Raised when Lee — faced with trying to prove the claim that he once rode a little girl's bike three miles to a nearby service station when his car ran out of petrol — jokingly tries to do a wheelie to the end of the stage on the bike in question. When the producers warn him (via Rob) that this is not a very good idea, Lee in frustration yells that it's a bit rich for the people who came up with the clearly ridiculous claim that he's been trying to prove to start chiding others for not having very good ideas. In series 12, Lee reacts to the claim that David makes regarding Gaslighting his wife by moving her bookmarks when she irritates him (as outlined above) by gleefully hoping that his marriage breaks down live on television, and expresses the view that the only reason it's a lie is because it's not unpleasant enough of David. Seconds after saying this, when it is suggested that David might not like Lee very much, he gets concerned and indignant. In one of David's "This Is My..." stories, he admits that "it felt great" on being recognised for his TV work by the guest of the week. When Lee and the others immediately started making fun of him for this, he retorted that everyone there was just as needy, egomaniacal and desperate to be recognised and paid attention to as he was, otherwise they wouldn't have been sitting on a panel show in the first place.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_2a090d00	comment	Lee's ridiculous stories in the "This Is My" round, a fact which he has begun to lampshade frequently:
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Would I Lie to You? / int_2b7d29e1	type	Artifact Title
Would I Lie to You? / int_2b7d29e1	comment	Artifact Title: The title of the This Is My round doesn't make as much sense given that the panellists also introduce "Possession" claims with the same words. In the first few series (especially the first) the Quick-Fire Lies round featured less questioning time and more turns, but in later series, it is much more similar to Home Truths, with the only difference being that sometimes the team captains get turns (especially noticeable since the two celebrity trivia rounds have been dropped, meaning the only other round in the show at all is "This Is My..."). Sometimes the final round will only have enough time for one story, but the name remains. In a Series 13 episode, David Mitchell invokes this trope when Clare Balding's "Possession" is a dog she judged at a celebrity lookalike competition, pointing out that it is stretching the format of the show because Clare is not claiming to actually own the dog.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_2cc5703c	type	Potty Emergency
Would I Lie to You? / int_2cc5703c	comment	Potty Emergency: In Series 5, Sarah Millican claimed that, when stuck in a traffic jam for two and a half hours with a full bladder, she relieved herself on the passenger seat (after first moving over from the driver's seat). It was true.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_2d4d16d9	type	I Know You Know I Know
Would I Lie to You? / int_2d4d16d9	comment	I Know You Know I Know: The general attitude seems to be that stories should be judged on their merits, which implies that the person whose turn it is really will be trying to convince the other team that their "fact" is true; however, half the time the story really is true, and since the objective is to fool the other team, presumably the person will be trying to tell it in a way that makes it sound unlikely and badly thought out; on the other hand, it might really just be unlikely and badly thought out... and so on. Trisha Goddard of all people nearly managed to get a ridiculous-sounding true This Is My past Lee's team by giggling her way through it and making no effort to make it sound plausible; they apparently considered her Beneath Suspicion.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_2e0c6c38	type	Eskimos Aren't Real
Would I Lie to You? / int_2e0c6c38	comment	Eskimos Aren't Real: In the 2018 Christmas special, Lily Allen claimed that for her entire life she had believed that reindeer were mythical creatures, until corrected by her young daughter. She was lying.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_2f5790f5	type	I Want You to Meet an Old Friend of Mine
Would I Lie to You? / int_2f5790f5	comment	I Want You to Meet an Old Friend of Mine: Since Rob Brydon took over as host, several members of the Gavin & Stacey cast have appeared on the show (Larry Lamb in series 3, Joanna Page and Ruth Jones in series 4). David Mitchell has had comedy partner Robert Webb and Peep Show co-stars Olivia Colman and Isy Suttie on the show (notably, Colman's second appearance was after her career had gone stratospheric and she was being talked about as an Oscar nominee for The Favourite), and Lee has had Miranda Hart and Katy Wix from Not Going Out. Of Lee's four Taskmaster co-stars, three (Mike Wozniak, Jamali Maddix and Sarah Kendall) appeared in the series of WILTY filmed shortly after it went out.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_2fcf9bbc	type	Gratuitous Foreign Language
Would I Lie to You? / int_2fcf9bbc	comment	Gratuitous Welsh: When Rob Brydon named Joanna Page "liar of the week", he insisted it wasn't favouritism because she was Welsh, and then had a short conversation in Welsh with her. Part of Rob's speech translated to "well done Jo" before descending into gibberish (as Rob doesn't actually speak Welsh), and Page responded with "Last night I went to the youth club with friends" (a phrase commonly used in Welsh textbooks).
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Would I Lie to You? / int_2ffb4a4d	type	The Nondescript
Would I Lie to You? / int_2ffb4a4d	comment	The Nondescript: In the first episode of series 7, David claims truthfully that this is his ambition:
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Would I Lie to You? / int_311bcac6	type	Beard of Sorrow
Would I Lie to You? / int_311bcac6	comment	Beard of Sorrow: Inverted; David Mitchell's persona on the show has become notably more relaxed and easy-going since growing his beard.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_3162b378	type	Face Doodling
Would I Lie to You? / int_3162b378	comment	Face Doodling: Lee claimed in a series 5 episode that after an incident with a permanent marker he had to attend his son's parents' evening with a drawn-on moustache and glasses.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_317629db	type	Embarrassing Nickname
Would I Lie to You? / int_317629db	comment	Embarrassing Nickname: Has come up a few times as one of the panellists' "facts", typically as a nickname they were given at school; Dom Wood claimed his nickname at school was "Earsniffer", and Robert Webb claimed his was "Mr. Custard".
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Would I Lie to You? / int_323fd510	type	Everyone Is a Suspect
Would I Lie to You? / int_323fd510	comment	Everyone Is a Suspect: In a series 7 episode, Mel Giedroyc claims that she once had a snog with somebody else on the show. Rather than directly ask her who it was, the opposing team consider each member of the panel (including themselves) in turn.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_3297cfbb	type	Evolving Credits
Would I Lie to You? / int_3297cfbb	comment	Evolving Credits: In Series 7, the opening credits were updated to replace all the pictures of David Mitchell with new ones to reflect the beard he'd grown for the previous series.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_32da91b8	type	Out of Focus
Would I Lie to You? / int_32da91b8	comment	Out of Focus: Several guests never get to make any claims that actually get aired. This has happened more often in later series, as the edit now seems to be more concerned with the funniest material rather than the amount of airtime between panellists being balanced. This was particularly common around Series 8 & 9, where it happened in more than half the episodes; however, one guest who had all of their turns cut out subsequently complained on the grounds that the recording was effectively a waste of their time, and in later series, the edit seemed to try and ensure that everyone got at least one claim. The series recorded during the COVID-19 pandemic in particular made sure that every guest got something to do at some point, due to the unusually high-risk nature of making the show at all.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_335ac42e	type	Out of Order
Would I Lie to You? / int_335ac42e	comment	He had previously (although in terms of recording, it was later) claimed that as a child, he had set up a detective agency with one "This Is My" guest.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_339b3062	type	Quintessential British Gentleman
Would I Lie to You? / int_339b3062	comment	Quintessential British Gentleman: Of a sort; the show gets a lot of mileage out of any truths or lies that portray David Mitchell as some kind of antiquated British fop.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_33ba37ca	type	Out with a Bang
Would I Lie to You? / int_33ba37ca	comment	Out with a Bang: Discussed
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Would I Lie to You? / int_35b241c0	type	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
Would I Lie to You? / int_35b241c0	comment	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Mark Watson's fake Welsh accent noticeably faltered when he was claiming that he wrote a will after losing a game of Connect 4 when he was six. The story was true, though. Cricket commentator Henry Blofield's, who is known for his extremely posh voice, story that when he is out and about, and doesn't want to be disturbed, he puts on a "common" accent ran into trouble as soon as he was asked to demonstrate said accent. Firstly, he started off with a Cockney burr that made Dick Van Dyke's sound good, then it started to stray around all four corners of the UK, before it eventually landed somewhere in the West Country. Unsurprisingly, Lee's team didn't believe him.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_3684532f	type	Never Heard That One Before
Would I Lie to You? / int_3684532f	comment	Never Heard That One Before: Lee and Rob couldn't resist using former Bucks Fizz singer Cheryl Baker's appearance as a "This is My" celebrity guest to make a series of jokes on their song titles. Cheryl reacted throughout by smiling, rolling her eyes, and shaking her head.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_370aad9	type	Split Personality
Would I Lie to You? / int_370aad9	comment	Split Personality: When Rob Brydon claimed that he used to pretend he was his own agent by using a different voice on the phone, the entire panel started joking that this was a split personality.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_378039e	type	TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers
Would I Lie to You? / int_378039e	comment	The Last Of These Is Not Like The Others: The stories the guests have for the 'This Is My' round can sometimes fall into this.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_38291355	type	Does Not Know His Own Strength
Would I Lie to You? / int_38291355	comment	Does Not Know His Own Strength: David Mitchell implies this about himself at one point.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_382c7a57	type	Now You Tell Me
Would I Lie to You? / int_382c7a57	comment	Now You Tell Me: If a story has descended into chaos and/or gotten David particularly riled, Lee will sometimes chime in with a humorously belated "No, wait, he/I read that wrong, it's actually [completely different statement]." In one case, it actually was: Jason Manford claims that he applied to Mastermind with the specialist subject Columbo, and after this was completely debunked by David (apparently a fan of Columbo), Lee checked the card and pointed out that he was supposed to say Columbia. David put Fern Britton's tea cosy on his head at Lee's request, then hurriedly took it off when Ken Livingstone suggested that if, as she claimed, she took it everywhere with her, then it should be quite dirty. In one episode, David O'Doherty produced a pair of tiny leg warmers he claimed to have made for birds. The opposing team react with naked astonishment when he claims to have made them for swans, given their tiny size and the fact that swans would react aggressively if he even went near them, much less tried to force them to wear leg-warmers. One lengthy and not-very-convincing defence of his claim later, Rob chimed in with:
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Would I Lie to You? / int_38bb862f	type	Don't You Dare Pity Me!
Would I Lie to You? / int_38bb862f	comment	Don't You Dare Pity Me!: After Charlie Brooker claims he couldn't go to collect his girlfriend from the station because he was too scared of a spider in the hallway provokes Nigel Havers to state that he doesn't want it to be true because it would reflect so poorly on Charlie, Charlie's response is this. Understandable, since it's true.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_39b8d3d6	type	Boring, but Practical
Would I Lie to You? / int_39b8d3d6	comment	Boring, but Practical: David Mitchell claimed that the screensaver on his phone was a picture of his "bright beige" living room carpet. He justified it on the grounds that he had a common make and model of phone and he wanted to be able to recognize his own.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_3cb6468e	type	Bad Liar
Would I Lie to You? / int_3cb6468e	comment	Bad Liar: Surprisingly averted for the most part; whilst the opposing team might correctly guess a lie, most of the guests have been able to make up details of a story reasonably well. Russell Howard is probably the guest who best fits this Trope, though, as particularly evidenced by an outtake shown in a compilation episode where after a little while of trying to defend a story he gave up. Also Jason Manford, who in Series 1 managed to forget what his lie was a few minutes after reading it out. He was caught out by Leslie Ash, who later went to do the exact same thing only to be caught out by Manford. In her first appearance, Tara Palmer-Tomkinson said in the This Is My round that she thought Dave Spikey was telling the truth. Spikey was her own teammate. John Bishop's claim that he was thrown out of a cinema for crying too loudly at the film, which utterly fell apart shortly after Lee's team started to interrogate him. Lee Mack often plays this for laughs — it's often painfully (and hilariously) obvious when he's either fibbing or stalling for time, but that doesn't mean that what he's saying isn't true. David O'Doherty, claiming that he was seeing a hypnotist to cure his addiction to hypnosis, clearly knew the story sounded as ridiculous to Lee's team as it did to him, and decided to have fun with it by telling the most outrageously obvious lies he could imagine when pressed for details, to the point that even he could no longer keep a straight face when he claimed his hypnotist was named "Dr. Spanks". Lampshaded on one occasion when Lee, claiming to have devised his own phonetic alphabet based on things he can see out of his window and having repeatedly insisted that he used 'hospital' for 'H' when asked to spell 'hospital' phonetically began spelling it with a different H word:
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Would I Lie to You? / int_3d2c6d30	type	Skewed Priorities
Would I Lie to You? / int_3d2c6d30	comment	Skewed Priorities: When Dave Spikey's lie was that he bunked off school to go to London with a boy called Dick Whittington, he proceeded to add several details to the story, including that the boy in question owned a chip shop. Harry Enfield enquired into the name of the chip shop, prompting this from Lee: "At the moment of shoulder pain — the moment when your shoulder has been bruised, possibly shattered, by the coconut — you think, 'I must keep that for anecdotal reasons'?" In another episode, Lee is claiming that the "This Is My" guest is a milkman who once accidentally left 88 pints of milk on his doorstep. To his disbelief, David's team take issue with the fact that it was full-fat milk.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_3eee0728	type	Captain Obvious
Would I Lie to You? / int_3eee0728	comment	Captain Obvious: Sometimes used by a lying panellist trying to play for time. Also, when Reginald D Hunter is trying to persuade the other team that his middle name is "Delicious": Expertly done by Jack Dee as a questioner in Season 9, during the "This is My..." round:
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Would I Lie to You? / int_3f118d95	type	So Crazy, It Must Be True
Would I Lie to You? / int_3f118d95	comment	So Crazy, It Must Be True: The basis of several "true" votes. David Mitchell nearly gives the trope name word for word when making his judgement on Omid Djalili's story about launching his own range of condiments.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Would I Lie to You? / int_40bb59d0	comment	Invoked. Rob will sometimes criticise the audience for finding something dirty in the innocent line he just said.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_43a46119	type	Surrounded by Idiots
Would I Lie to You? / int_43a46119	comment	Surrounded by Idiots: Several of David Mitchell's rants are provoked by Lee Mack's feigned stupidity.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_443f9d8a	type	Ask a Stupid Question...
Would I Lie to You? / int_443f9d8a	comment	There's also a bonus example in the same lie: David Mitchell asked him if 1955 was a leap year, and Lee said "Of course it isn't, you idiot, that was 1954..." failing to realise that 1954 wasn't a leap year either.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Would I Lie to You? / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Lee and David, in different ways. Lee Mack's claims tend to be incredibly over-the-top, require a ridiculous or embarrassing demonstration or intellectual contortion (such as riding a pink-tassled, child-sized bicycle around the stage, or having to pretend he can tell the circumference of someone's head by looking at them) and/or be something that is literally impossible which he nevertheless has to find some way to defend as if it could be true. David Mitchell's claims on the other hand tend to be more embarrassing in their implication (usually suggesting he was or still is a spoiled, pathetic, socially inept, frightened and agonisingly middle-class social outcast). Jimmy Carr tends to have a rough time of it when he appears on the show, between the embarrassing statements he has to claim as true and the episode he spent verbally fencing with an inexplicably hostile David Baddiel. Rob gets his fair share, especially his story about pretending to be his own agent. He also tends to get it in the neck for his impressions. There's also the Running Gag that behind the scenes he's The Friend Nobody Likes, and that David and Lee expend as much energy as possible trying to keep away from him. Lee also tends to make plenty of cracks about his short height. Jokes about the Second World War (though usually not Nazism directly) tend to pop up a bit more frequently whenever Henning Wehn is a guest on the show.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_48081842	type	The Stinger
Would I Lie to You? / int_48081842	comment	The Stinger: When Raj Bisram was demonstrating a magic trick he used to perform with the "This Is My..." guest, it went wrong and he almost choked the guest to death. After the credits, he was shown performing the trick successfully.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_4a4d6f7c	type	Comedic Sociopathy
Would I Lie to You? / int_4a4d6f7c	comment	Comedic Sociopathy: Giving a panellist (usually Lee) a ridiculous lie and leaving them to convince the other team of its veracity. On occasions it seems like the other team have actually worked it out a long time ago and are only continuing to question the panellist for the sake of this trope.
Would I Lie to You? / int_4a4d6f7c	featureApplicability	1.0
Would I Lie to You? / int_4a4d6f7c	featureConfidence	1.0
Would I Lie to You?	hasFeature	Would I Lie to You? / int_4a4d6f7c
Would I Lie to You? / int_4e7017f1	type	Wig, Dress, Accent
Would I Lie to You? / int_4e7017f1	comment	Wig, Dress, Accent: Davina McCall claimed in her "Possession" turn in Series 2 that she wore a blonde wig and glasses when she wanted to go out unnoticed. David's team concluded correctly that it was a lie since it was not particularly convincing, plus it would be embarrassing if she were discovered.
Would I Lie to You? / int_4e7017f1	featureApplicability	1.0
Would I Lie to You? / int_4e7017f1	featureConfidence	1.0
Would I Lie to You?	hasFeature	Would I Lie to You? / int_4e7017f1
Would I Lie to You? / int_4ec4c5ab	type	Harsher in Hindsight
Would I Lie to You? / int_4ec4c5ab	comment	A less funny example comes from the joke that got the show censured. The scripted joke was about Jimmy Savile, in which Angus joked about the recent death of Jimmy Savile's mother, as well as making comments about Savile himself, such as saying he served "no useful purpose" and describing him as a "dirty old man". This was before the sex abuse charges. Lee Mack responded to the comments with, "I'm sorry but that is well out of order".
Would I Lie to You? / int_4ec4c5ab	featureApplicability	1.0
Would I Lie to You? / int_4ec4c5ab	featureConfidence	1.0
Would I Lie to You?	hasFeature	Would I Lie to You? / int_4ec4c5ab
Would I Lie to You? / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Would I Lie to You? / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: The early episodes had more questions and spent less time on each one; more recent series have dropped a few rounds (see Retired Panel Show Element below) and included fewer questions in the Quickfire round to spend more time on the questions that do make the edit. The difference between the totally deadpan Angus Deayton and Rob Brydon (who also tends to interact with the panel more) can also be disconcerting. What's much weirder, though, is seeing the Deayton era episode where Brydon was a guest on David's team. The first series had all six panellists read out a statement in the first round; since the second series only the four guests have done so, presumably in an effort to conserve the number of truths for the regulars.
Would I Lie to You? / int_4f4372e9	featureApplicability	1.0
Would I Lie to You? / int_4f4372e9	featureConfidence	1.0
Would I Lie to You?	hasFeature	Would I Lie to You? / int_4f4372e9
Would I Lie to You? / int_4f6d87f7	type	Huge Guy, Tiny Girl
Would I Lie to You? / int_4f6d87f7	comment	Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: David's teammates in a series 5 episode were Greg Davies and Konnie Huq. At one point Lee Mack asks them to stand up for perspective, and Konnie doesn't quite reach Greg's shoulders.
Would I Lie to You? / int_4f6d87f7	featureApplicability	1.0
Would I Lie to You? / int_4f6d87f7	featureConfidence	1.0
Would I Lie to You?	hasFeature	Would I Lie to You? / int_4f6d87f7
Would I Lie to You? / int_5080221	type	Faux Horrific
Would I Lie to You? / int_5080221	comment	Faux Horrific: Everybody's reaction to the "Hoot Owl of Death".
Would I Lie to You? / int_5080221	featureApplicability	1.0
Would I Lie to You? / int_5080221	featureConfidence	1.0
Would I Lie to You?	hasFeature	Would I Lie to You? / int_5080221
Would I Lie to You? / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Would I Lie to You? / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: Following Lee's utterly unbelievable story about receiving a full-body search at Miami Airport for making a joke about Ronald Reagan, David's team began yelling "Lie! Liar!" at him. Vic Reeves ended up shouting "Flog him!" James Acaster claimed that the This Is My Guest, a child called Mick, kept pranking him with cabbages. He retaliated by taking all of his bedroom belongings and replacing them with cabbages. He was telling the truth, and they even showed a picture of Mick's cabbage filled bedroom.
Would I Lie to You? / int_50b05d30	featureApplicability	1.0
Would I Lie to You? / int_50b05d30	featureConfidence	1.0
Would I Lie to You?	hasFeature	Would I Lie to You? / int_50b05d30
Would I Lie to You? / int_53830d	type	The Internet Is for Porn
Would I Lie to You? / int_53830d	comment	The Internet Is for Porn: When considering whether or not Trisha Goddard is beating Jeremy Kyle 5-3 at Internet Scrabble, Frankie Boyle reasons that it's a lie because the only person who'd do something like that would have to have "seen all the porn first".
Would I Lie to You? / int_53830d	featureApplicability	1.0
Would I Lie to You? / int_53830d	featureConfidence	1.0
Would I Lie to You?	hasFeature	Would I Lie to You? / int_53830d
Would I Lie to You? / int_54367e5d	type	Mathematician's Answer
Would I Lie to You? / int_54367e5d	comment	Mathematician's Answer: Often used by contestants. For example:
Would I Lie to You? / int_54367e5d	featureApplicability	1.0
Would I Lie to You? / int_54367e5d	featureConfidence	1.0
Would I Lie to You?	hasFeature	Would I Lie to You? / int_54367e5d
Would I Lie to You? / int_55bf1a48	type	At Least I Admit It
Would I Lie to You? / int_55bf1a48	comment	At Least I Admit It: One of David Mitchell's stories for the "This Is My..." guest of the week involved the guest recognising David from his TV work, which he commented "felt great." When Lee and the others immediately started taking the piss out of him for this, he irritably retorted that everyone present making fun of him was also, to at least some degree, a needy egomaniac who thrives on being recognised and being paid attention to, otherwise they wouldn't have been sitting there in the first place. He was just willing to own up to it.
Would I Lie to You? / int_55bf1a48	featureApplicability	1.0
Would I Lie to You? / int_55bf1a48	featureConfidence	1.0
Would I Lie to You?	hasFeature	Would I Lie to You? / int_55bf1a48
Would I Lie to You? / int_5642c768	type	Horrible Camping Trip
Would I Lie to You? / int_5642c768	comment	Horrible Camping Trip: Lee claimed that he had been camping with one "This Is My" guest when they were Boy Scouts and had woken up to discover that their tent had been stolen.
Would I Lie to You? / int_5642c768	featureApplicability	1.0
Would I Lie to You? / int_5642c768	featureConfidence	1.0
Would I Lie to You?	hasFeature	Would I Lie to You? / int_5642c768
Would I Lie to You? / int_5664dbe4	type	Hesitation Equals Dishonesty
Would I Lie to You? / int_5664dbe4	comment	Hesitation Equals Dishonesty: Sometimes straight, but sometimes the tactic of a clever panellist running a bluff.
Would I Lie to You? / int_5664dbe4	featureApplicability	1.0
Would I Lie to You? / int_5664dbe4	featureConfidence	1.0
Would I Lie to You?	hasFeature	Would I Lie to You? / int_5664dbe4
Would I Lie to You? / int_56de963d	type	Working-Class People Are Morons
Would I Lie to You? / int_56de963d	comment	Working-Class People Are Morons: Averted in that David and Lee are more or less tied in terms of points and wins. Played straight in the endless stream of "dumb Northerner" jokes directed at Lee.
Would I Lie to You? / int_56de963d	featureApplicability	-1.0
Would I Lie to You? / int_56de963d	featureConfidence	1.0
Would I Lie to You?	hasFeature	Would I Lie to You? / int_56de963d
Would I Lie to You? / int_5aa4ec8a	type	Ambiguous Syntax
Would I Lie to You? / int_5aa4ec8a	comment	Towards the end of Kevin Bridges' story about accidentally buying a horse, he claimed the guy he'd bought the horse from turned out to be a "counterfeit horse guy", prompting David to ask if a "counterfeit horse" was "two guys in a costume".
Would I Lie to You? / int_5aa4ec8a	featureApplicability	1.0
Would I Lie to You? / int_5aa4ec8a	featureConfidence	1.0
Would I Lie to You?	hasFeature	Would I Lie to You? / int_5aa4ec8a
Would I Lie to You? / int_5bb17c1e	type	Murderous Thighs
Would I Lie to You? / int_5bb17c1e	comment	Murderous Thighs: Patrick McGuinness recounted a false story about being held in a leg-grip by Andy McNabb after wrestling him for a bet. He then demonstrated the move on set with John Barrowman.
Would I Lie to You? / int_5bb17c1e	featureApplicability	1.0
Would I Lie to You? / int_5bb17c1e	featureConfidence	1.0
Would I Lie to You?	hasFeature	Would I Lie to You? / int_5bb17c1e
Would I Lie to You? / int_5c04772f	type	Conviction by Counterfactual Clue
Would I Lie to You? / int_5c04772f	comment	Conviction by Counterfactual Clue: Dara O'Briain claimed to own a "brindle" racehorse and was immediately shot down by Lee Mack. But it is possible, if exceedingly rare, for a horse to have a brindle pattern through genetic chimerism.
Would I Lie to You? / int_5c04772f	featureApplicability	1.0
Would I Lie to You? / int_5c04772f	featureConfidence	1.0
Would I Lie to You?	hasFeature	Would I Lie to You? / int_5c04772f
Would I Lie to You? / int_5c1ec068	type	Big Red Button
Would I Lie to You? / int_5c1ec068	comment	Big Red Button: One of David's truths in series 6 was that one of these was on a wall in his flat, and that he had never pressed it as he didn't want to find out what it did.
Would I Lie to You? / int_5c1ec068	featureApplicability	1.0
Would I Lie to You? / int_5c1ec068	featureConfidence	1.0
Would I Lie to You?	hasFeature	Would I Lie to You? / int_5c1ec068
Would I Lie to You? / int_5d753b19	type	The Smurfette Principle
Would I Lie to You? / int_5d753b19	comment	The Smurfette Principle: Averted by the twelfth series, which features at least two female panellists on every show.
Would I Lie to You? / int_5d753b19	featureApplicability	-1.0
Would I Lie to You? / int_5d753b19	featureConfidence	1.0
Would I Lie to You?	hasFeature	Would I Lie to You? / int_5d753b19
Would I Lie to You? / int_5f2b0457	type	Nerds Are Virgins
Would I Lie to You? / int_5f2b0457	comment	Nerds Are Virgins
Would I Lie to You? / int_5f2b0457	featureApplicability	1.0
Would I Lie to You? / int_5f2b0457	featureConfidence	1.0
Would I Lie to You?	hasFeature	Would I Lie to You? / int_5f2b0457
Would I Lie to You? / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Would I Lie to You? / int_60eac4ba	comment	Off the Rails: Not as much as some other panel shows, but can still occur. A discussion on Claudia Winkleman's claim that she once put nail polish remover in her goldfish tank to give the fish more energy arrived at the statement "As you'd know if you were an amputee, you can still get an itch in the bit of you that's been cut off!" On some occasions Lee has been given a lie so ridiculous he deliberately derails it rather than try to defend such an embarassing statement as true, such as when he had to claim he had used a set of children's cutlery at every meal for a special diet.
Would I Lie to You? / int_60eac4ba	featureApplicability	1.0
Would I Lie to You? / int_60eac4ba	featureConfidence	1.0
Would I Lie to You?	hasFeature	Would I Lie to You? / int_60eac4ba
Would I Lie to You? / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
Would I Lie to You? / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast: When Kevin Bridges claimed a stable had sold him a horse when he thought it was renting it, David Mitchell joked "We've been trying to get rid of Psycho for years." Inverted when Jack Whitehall was asked to name five wrestlers after he claimed that he was into Professional Wrestling. One of the names he gave was "Shelton Benjamin", which Lee refused to believe was a wrestler's name.
Would I Lie to You? / int_60fa92ac	featureApplicability	1.0
Would I Lie to You? / int_60fa92ac	featureConfidence	1.0
Would I Lie to You?	hasFeature	Would I Lie to You? / int_60fa92ac
Would I Lie to You? / int_614127a5	type	That Liar Lies
Would I Lie to You? / int_614127a5	comment	That Liar Lies: If a story seems patently false and/or the panellist has been particularly unconvincing in selling it, this may result. Made all the funnier by the fact that Michael's story was actually true.
Would I Lie to You? / int_614127a5	featureApplicability	1.0
Would I Lie to You? / int_614127a5	featureConfidence	1.0
Would I Lie to You?	hasFeature	Would I Lie to You? / int_614127a5
Would I Lie to You? / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
Would I Lie to You? / int_617f0563	comment	Heelâ€“Face Turn: Tobias Cruelty, a pro-aparthied Amoral Afrikaner (played by one of Rob Brydon's fantastic impressions), decides to abandon racism after talking to Trevor Noah doing a Nelson Mandela impression.
Would I Lie to You? / int_617f0563	featureApplicability	1.0
Would I Lie to You? / int_617f0563	featureConfidence	1.0
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Would I Lie to You? / int_61c7d589	type	Bigger Is Better in Bed
Would I Lie to You? / int_61c7d589	comment	Bigger Is Better in Bed: "That's just a salad fork!"
Would I Lie to You? / int_61c7d589	featureApplicability	1.0
Would I Lie to You? / int_61c7d589	featureConfidence	1.0
Would I Lie to You?	hasFeature	Would I Lie to You? / int_61c7d589
Would I Lie to You? / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
Would I Lie to You? / int_627264e0	comment	Death Glare: Huw Edwards claimed to use one to shut up correspondents when it's time for them to wrap up. His demonstration is fairly terrifying. It's true.
Would I Lie to You? / int_627264e0	featureApplicability	1.0
Would I Lie to You? / int_627264e0	featureConfidence	1.0
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Would I Lie to You? / int_63b02752	type	Hair-Trigger Temper
Would I Lie to You? / int_63b02752	comment	Hair-Trigger Temper: David Mitchell, of course. Something (usually Lee Mack) will provoke him in the course of a show, be it scared hitchhikers or Mike Read rapping.
Would I Lie to You? / int_63b02752	featureApplicability	1.0
Would I Lie to You? / int_63b02752	featureConfidence	1.0
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Would I Lie to You? / int_643659d4	type	Spit Take
Would I Lie to You? / int_643659d4	comment	Spit Take: One particularly memorable example - after one "Telly Tales" claim that Pam St. Clement was a member of the British Abseiling Association and had abseiled down Mount Rushmore, Angus Deayton's autocue joke made reference to her "mounting the north face of Frank Butcher". Lee's team managed a (completely unrehearsed) synchronised triple spit-take in response .
Would I Lie to You? / int_643659d4	featureApplicability	1.0
Would I Lie to You? / int_643659d4	featureConfidence	1.0
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Would I Lie to You? / int_64b303c0	type	Drunk with Power
Would I Lie to You? / int_64b303c0	comment	Drunk with Power: Played for laughs in the episode where Greg Davies fills in as team captain for Lee and proceeds to overrule both of his teammates with his answer... only to get it wrong.
Would I Lie to You? / int_64b303c0	featureApplicability	1.0
Would I Lie to You? / int_64b303c0	featureConfidence	1.0
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Would I Lie to You? / int_6509bb9f	type	Non-Indicative Name
Would I Lie to You? / int_6509bb9f	comment	Nonindicative Name: The first round is called Home Truths despite the fact that not all of the statements the panellists read out in it are true. Similarly, not everything in the Quick Fire Lies round is a lie; in fact, in the first episode of Series 2, all of the statements in Quick Fire Lies were true.
Would I Lie to You? / int_6509bb9f	featureApplicability	1.0
Would I Lie to You? / int_6509bb9f	featureConfidence	1.0
Would I Lie to You?	hasFeature	Would I Lie to You? / int_6509bb9f
Would I Lie to You? / int_6849cb29	type	Retired Game Show Element
Would I Lie to You? / int_6849cb29	comment	Retired Panel Show Element: The two rounds pertaining to "celebrity facts" rather than stories from the panellists themselves have both been phased out; "Telly Tales" was removed because it was virtually identical to "Ring of Truth", which was itself removed a few series laternote It was generally removed from the final edit in series 4, appearing in only episode 4 and the end-of-series outtakes; the following series, they cut out the middleman and just stopped playing it to focus more on the three rounds involving the panellists' stories. Rob getting turns in the Quickfire Lies round appears to have been dropped in series 8, having been steadily appearing less frequently since their introduction in series 4. The "Individual Liar of the Week" was dropped in Series 10.
Would I Lie to You? / int_6849cb29	featureApplicability	1.0
Would I Lie to You? / int_6849cb29	featureConfidence	1.0
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Would I Lie to You? / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Would I Lie to You? / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Janet Street-Porter. When Sara Pascoe claimed to have accidentally boarded a flight to Costa Rica believing it to be in Spain rather than Central America, she described the place as being full of insects she was unfamiliar with. When she gave tarantulas as an example, David Mitchell pedantically pointed out that they're arachnids, not insects. When Sara got annoyed at this, David retorted that if she was a bit more careful with facts and made more of an effort to get them correct, she could have saved herself a lot of bother to begin with:
Would I Lie to You? / int_6b05b601	featureApplicability	1.0
Would I Lie to You? / int_6b05b601	featureConfidence	1.0
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Would I Lie to You? / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
Would I Lie to You? / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: Joanna Page, on why she recited her times tables every night before bed: "Before I die, I want to learn my times tables!" The team captains and some of the guests can take guessing correctly on stories very seriously, although June Brown once defied the trope when Lee was asking what she thought and replied "I don't see why it's so important!"
Would I Lie to You? / int_6b35bdff	featureApplicability	1.0
Would I Lie to You? / int_6b35bdff	featureConfidence	1.0
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Would I Lie to You? / int_6e0a57d6	type	Like an Old Married Couple
Would I Lie to You? / int_6e0a57d6	comment	The dynamic between Lee and David is often presented in this fashion. While they often seemed more 'vitriolic' in the early seasons, it's gradually settled into being more Like an Old Married Couple between two completely different men who've spent so much time in each other's company they just know way too much about each other. This can also be seen as a function of the show gradually finding its own identity after initially starting out as something of a Have I Got News for You clone, wherein the sharp exchanges and culture clashes between Lee and David reflected the interplay between Paul Merton and Ian Hislop.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_6eef5fc6	type	Temporary Substitute
Would I Lie to You? / int_6eef5fc6	comment	Temporary Substitute: Greg Davies once substituted for Lee. The episode made several jokes about this, with everyone acting as if Davies had gone Mad With Power when he decided to overrule his teammates, and after he made a comment that drew disgust from the audience Rob and David started discussing how Lee would never had said something like that and how they were missing him.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_6eef5fc6	featureConfidence	1.0
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Would I Lie to You? / int_6ef9d3fe	type	Christmas Episode
Would I Lie to You? / int_6ef9d3fe	comment	Christmas Episode: Introduced in the seventh series; some, but not all, of the stories will be Christmas-related, and there will usually be at least one big name guest on the panel. Possessions in the Quick-Fire Lies round will be in boxes wrapped like Christmas presents. Lee and David will usually be wearing some sort of Christmas-themed clothing, like ties or jumpers.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_6ef9d3fe	featureConfidence	1.0
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Would I Lie to You? / int_6f064059	type	The Points Mean Nothing
Would I Lie to You? / int_6f064059	comment	The Points Mean Nothing: It is a comedy show and the editing frequently results in the scores making no sensenote Although as of series 6 the announcement of the final score is re-recorded to reflect what made the edit and not the whole recording. However, this trope does not apply as much as other panel games which view the scores as completely irrelevant, as there is more focus on the "game" part as both teams are actively attempting to trick each other. David, Lee and some of the guests can take winning very seriously. When asked by Greg Davies in a series 5 episode, David stated he did feel a sense of competition about the show.
Would I Lie to You? / int_6f064059	featureApplicability	1.0
Would I Lie to You? / int_6f064059	featureConfidence	1.0
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Would I Lie to You? / int_6f2bab6e	type	Eating Pet Food
Would I Lie to You? / int_6f2bab6e	comment	Eating Pet Food: During a round of "This Is My...", Jason Manford claimed that the woman in question was the owner of his local cafe who had told him off for eating the treats she left out for customers' dogs. It was true.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_6f2bab6e	featureConfidence	1.0
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Would I Lie to You? / int_70376f74	type	I Am One of Those, Too
Would I Lie to You? / int_70376f74	comment	I Am One of Those, Too: Pity the lying panellist trying to sell a story when an expert in that field is on the other team. One of the best examples comes from Series 2, where Jason Manford's lie was that he applied to Mastermind with the specialist subject Columbo. David Mitchell proceeded to more or less give him an impromptu round of Mastermind on said show.
Would I Lie to You? / int_70376f74	featureApplicability	1.0
Would I Lie to You? / int_70376f74	featureConfidence	1.0
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Would I Lie to You? / int_722b3319	type	Camp Gay
Would I Lie to You? / int_722b3319	comment	Camp Gay: Julian Clary was on Lee's team in Series 4. And Louie Spence in series 5.
Would I Lie to You? / int_722b3319	featureApplicability	1.0
Would I Lie to You? / int_722b3319	featureConfidence	1.0
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Would I Lie to You? / int_72757e0d	type	"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer
Would I Lie to You? / int_72757e0d	comment	"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: If the other team are clearly not believing a panelist's lie, the liar may throw this in as a desperate attempt. Bob Mortimer in particular is a predominant user of this. More often than not, his ridiculous statements end up being true.
Would I Lie to You? / int_72757e0d	featureApplicability	1.0
Would I Lie to You? / int_72757e0d	featureConfidence	1.0
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Would I Lie to You? / int_727a65e0	type	Gaslighting
Would I Lie to You? / int_727a65e0	comment	In series 12, Lee reacts to the claim that David makes regarding Gaslighting his wife by moving her bookmarks when she irritates him (as outlined above) by gleefully hoping that his marriage breaks down live on television, and expresses the view that the only reason it's a lie is because it's not unpleasant enough of David. Seconds after saying this, when it is suggested that David might not like Lee very much, he gets concerned and indignant.
Would I Lie to You? / int_727a65e0	featureApplicability	1.0
Would I Lie to You? / int_727a65e0	featureConfidence	1.0
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Would I Lie to You? / int_72852a93	type	Henpecked Husband
Would I Lie to You? / int_72852a93	comment	Henpecked Husband: During the Gaslighting example regarding David moving his wife's bookmarks to get back her when she irritates him, Rob gets quite insistent on the subject of exactly what Victoria does to provoke him. Victoria, sitting next to David at the time, helpfully chimes up with an example with leads to a brief moment of David being nagged on national television though given that the claim turned out to be a lie, one presumes that both Victoria and David were playing it up a bit:
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Would I Lie to You? / int_735b4101	type	Colour-Coded for Your Convenience
Would I Lie to You? / int_735b4101	comment	Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: The graphics indicating whether a fact is/was true or a lie are green for a truth and purple for a lie.
Would I Lie to You? / int_735b4101	featureApplicability	1.0
Would I Lie to You? / int_735b4101	featureConfidence	1.0
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Would I Lie to You? / int_735d5041	type	Rules Spiel
Would I Lie to You? / int_735d5041	comment	Rules Spiel: A rare Panel Show example, but the host explains the rules almost verbatim each week. Introducing Home Truths: "Our panellists each read out a statement from the card in front of them. To make things harder, they've never seen the card before, so they've got no idea what they'll be faced with. It's up to the opposing team to sort the truth from the lies." Introducing the This Is My round: "We bring on a mystery guest who has a close connection to one of our panellists. This week, each of David's/Lee's team will claim it's them that has the genuine connection to the guest, and it's up to Lee's/David's team to spot who's telling the truth."
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Would I Lie to You? / int_73f79f91	type	Released to Elsewhere
Would I Lie to You? / int_73f79f91	comment	Released to Elsewhere: Inverted — one of Lee Mack's facts was that his parents gave his dog away to relatives in Scunthorpe and told him it had died.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_7426107	type	The Cast Showoff
Would I Lie to You? / int_7426107	comment	David Mitchell is often inclined to lampshade when Rob's urge for a demonstration seems rather unnecessary, particularly when the demonstration won't help establish whether the story is true or false, whether it just seems like a gratuitous attempt to enable The Cast Showoff, or when it involves David himself getting out of his chair.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_746bfee8	comment	Vanilla Edition: The series 4 DVD release is just the episodes and nothing else. They attempt to cover this by passing the Clip Show off as a special feature.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_74ba7be	type	Mirthless Laughter
Would I Lie to You? / int_74ba7be	comment	Mirthless Laughter: David erupts into peals of this, after Lee's ludicrous story about how he remembered the names of the Teletubbies turned out to be true (with his team guiding him into guessing lie). On top of this, his team hadn't had a correct answer all night and he was siding with Adil Lee, who on previous occasions had guessed the correct answer only for David to go the other way, so David announced that if it turned out the answer was true it would be like "it's gone beyond tragedy and you just laugh at death". Sure enough:
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Would I Lie to You? / int_758c3034	type	Prison Rape
Would I Lie to You? / int_758c3034	comment	Prison Rape: Part of David Mitchell's five-point plan for surviving in prison was to find someone to protect him, who also wouldn't "bum him".
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Would I Lie to You? / int_75979171	type	The Cuckoolander Was Right
Would I Lie to You? / int_75979171	comment	The Cuckoolander Was Right: Sometimes teams will decide that a clearly ridiculous story is true. In one episode of Series 3, Janet Street-Porter's claim was that she wrote her will on a bit of cardboard when she thought her plane was about to crash. David Mitchell believed it was a lie, but both his teammates thought it was true; he went along with them, expressing utter disbelief as he said "We're saying it's true!" It was true. Subverted minutes later in the same episode, when David's team started to consider that another story (see Defictionalization, below) is "so weird it might be true", but he chose to overrule them and say it's a lie, which it is.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_766c1cc6	type	Who Would Be Stupid Enough?
Would I Lie to You? / int_766c1cc6	comment	Who Would Be Stupid Enough?: Of a type:
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Would I Lie to You? / int_76a5eaf8	type	Spotlight-Stealing Squad
Would I Lie to You? / int_76a5eaf8	comment	Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Rob Brydon as host is far more involved in the action than Angus Deayton was and there have been moments where the focus has gone entirely off either team (and the ostensible fact they are discussing) and landed squarely on him; one of the worst cases was the first episode in series 4, where Martin Clunes' turn was more or less abandoned for the sake of Brydon's impressions.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_76b4b7dd	type	The Comically Serious
Would I Lie to You? / int_76b4b7dd	comment	The Comically Serious: Of the two captains, David is the one more likely to treat the game as a serious debate and proceed with great earnestness and usually annoyance, even when the claim is obviously ludicrous. This is highly entertaining. Nick Hewer as a guest in the fifth series. Claiming that he played ping-pong with Lord Sugar to wind down. Over the boardroom table. Which was his idea. With Karen as umpire. Related completely deadpan. And then a story in which he accidentally e-mailed an image of his infected toenail to everyone in his address book. Still deadpan. To say nothing of his reaction to being forced to wear the infamous cuddle jumper.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_78c895c8	type	Amusing Injuries
Would I Lie to You? / int_78c895c8	comment	Amusing Injuries: Lee insisted that getting hit on the shoulder by a coconut that would have killed him had it fallen an inch to the left was hilarious, and offered to demonstrate on David Mitchell.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_78c9ebbf	type	Gretzky Has the Ball
Would I Lie to You? / int_78c9ebbf	comment	Gretzky Has the Ball: David talking about football: Also Miranda Hart claiming she had had a trial with "QPR Rangers" Womens' Football Club. "QPR" stands for "Queen's Park Rangers", so "QPR Rangers" would be "Queen's Park Rangers Rangers".Given that she was telling the truth, she was likely bluffing about getting the name wrong.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_79a60aec	type	For Want of a Nail
Would I Lie to You? / int_79a60aec	comment	For Want Of A Nail: When Michael Buerk claimed to have stolen an ashtray from 10 Downing Street, Danny Baker joked that Tony Blair's inability to have a smoke was the cause of Britain's involvement in the US-Iraq conflict. David Mitchell, in one of his Hair-Trigger Temper rants, accused Mike Read of having the deaths of British soldiers on his conscience, for once doing a 10-minute rap at a Tory party conference. Link.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_7a0f9ab6	type	The Pete Best
Would I Lie to You? / int_7a0f9ab6	comment	The Pete Best: Angus Deayton once he was replaced by Rob Brydon. This may border on Unperson, as he has not been referred to and the BBC have not repeated any of the Deayton episodes (and even Dave only started airing them recently).
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Would I Lie to You? / int_7a143509	type	Shell-Shocked Veteran
Would I Lie to You? / int_7a143509	comment	Shell-Shocked Veteran: Both team captains like to play this for laughs, acting as though several seasons of the show has completely destroyed their ability to tell truth from fantasy. As depicted in this exchange after listening to David O'Doherty's increasingly absurd claim about making leg-warmers for swans. In particular, David Mitchell tends to react to Bob Mortimer's various improbable-but-not-quite-impossible tall tales in the same way that a veteran bomb defusal officer would react to a German bombing raid.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_7aa858c1	type	Consummate Liar
Would I Lie to You? / int_7aa858c1	comment	Consummate Liar: From Series 3 onwards, a "Liar Of The Week" award is given to the best liar on each episode. Claudia Winkleman often stands out for her sheer commitment to her lies, even lovingly stroking a taxidermied cat to convince the other team that it was a beloved childhood pet despite hating cats in real life.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_7ad0e492	type	Imaginary Friend
Would I Lie to You? / int_7ad0e492	comment	Imaginary Friend: David Mitchell had to claim in one series 4 episode that he used to play board games against a bucket with a face painted on it, named "Stephen Tatlock". Miranda Hart claimed she had made an imaginary friend out of toast and carried him with her in her purse. Robert Webb claimed in series 5 that he had so many imaginary friends he formed an imaginary gang. It was true. Andy Hamilton's story in series 6 was that he used to write and hand in homework for an imaginary classmate.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_7b2118c5	type	Bait-and-Switch Comparison
Would I Lie to You? / int_7b2118c5	comment	Bait-and-Switch Comparison: Commonly appear in the host's autocue jokes.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_7b21ef92	type	Later-Installment Weirdness
Would I Lie to You? / int_7b21ef92	comment	Later-Installment Weirdness: Later series have little to no true stories from the team captains, perhaps indicating that they have finally run out of them.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_7c7ee100	type	Cannot Tell a Lie
Would I Lie to You? / int_7c7ee100	comment	Cannot Tell a Lie: The producers have said that if the story a panellist is telling is true, then they cannot lie during its retelling. (Although they have admitted some guests tend to forget themselves and end up bending or exaggerating the truth.)
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Would I Lie to You? / int_7d4a47d1	type	Let Us Never Speak of This Again
Would I Lie to You? / int_7d4a47d1	comment	Let Us Never Speak of This Again: What David Mitchell speculated was the likely response to Neil Morrissey (the voice of children's TV character Bob the Builder) learning that one of the builders who was working on an extension on his house was also called Bob: "A quick chuckle [followed by]... let us never speak of this."
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Would I Lie to You? / int_7e1184d8	type	Suspect Is Hatless
Would I Lie to You? / int_7e1184d8	comment	Suspect Is Hatless: Sometimes, a team will attempt to guess who the mystery guest in the "This is My..." round is by their appearance. However, this often fails to work, memorably in the episode where Rhod Gilbert claimed the guest — who was in his seventies and had to be given a chair rather than standing — used to be his badminton doubles partner, and it turned out to be true.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_7e345221	type	Snowball Lie
Would I Lie to You? / int_7e345221	comment	Snowball Lie: If the opposing team is doing its work properly, this inevitably results (see Pull the Thread, above). Happened in Real Life to Charlie Brooker, who told his girlfriend he was deaf in one ear ... and then had to maintain the act for six years. Lee and fellow panellist Michael Ball were unsympathetic. Also happened to Andy Hamilton, who played a trick on a new French teacher by making up a pupil the teacher had supposedly left off the register. This led to Andy writing and handing in homework for the fictional classmate. Ardal O'Hanlon, in an attempt to get out of being Santa at his kidâ€™s school Christmas Fair, told the head of the PTA that he was going to be away that weekend. The problem was he wasnâ€™t planning on going anywhere, and ended up having to book a break to Stockholm, and going by himself, so he would be out the country at the time he said he would be.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
Would I Lie to You? / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny
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Would I Lie to You? / int_83445b04	type	Pun
Would I Lie to You? / int_83445b04	comment	Pun: Lots of examples. For starters... "Part of the problem is that the wheels on a post office bike are larger than normal — that's according to a spokesperson." Rob Brydon earned a Collective Groan for that one. In Series 15, former Bucks Fizz singer Cheryl Baker was the "This is My" celebrity guest (entering to a snippet of their 1981 single "Making Your Mind Up"note Which notably led the UK to victory in the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest.), and Lou Sanders claimed that when she had worked in a clothes shop as a teenager, she had to help Cheryl out of a stuck zip by ripping off her skirt (in imitation of a dance move used by Bucks Fizz). Sarah Millican asked if Cheryl asked for Lou's help, and Lou asked if she could use the word "bubbly" to describe her; Lee said, "It's Bucks Fizz, so why not?"
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Would I Lie to You? / int_83cef301	type	Right for the Wrong Reasons
Would I Lie to You? / int_83cef301	comment	Right for the Wrong Reasons: Sometimes the teams follow a bizarre line of logic (or simply guess) on a panellist's story and somehow manage to get the right answer. May border on Insane Troll Logic, particularly if it is the This Is My round and all three stories sound implausible. One example was when David Mitchell claimed to have fainted while watching Kill Bill. Lee's team were convinced that David would faint if he watched it, but said it was a lie because they thought he'd never watch a film like Kill Bill at all. It was a lie, but David angrily explained afterwards that he has seen Kill Bill but had somehow managed to stay conscious throughout. In another example, Eammon Holmes describes a lie involving a friend of his having a cat, and when pressed on exactly what colour the cat was he describes it as "a sort of olive green", presumably meaning a patchy dark olive. Lee latched on to the 'green' part of the sentence and immediately dismissed the entire story due to the notion of having a green cat. The statement was a lie, but cats actually have been known to be olive in colour. Another case had David saying that he used to write horoscopes for a women's magazine for six months. When Lee asks what the magazine was, David replies with "Top SantÃ©". Lee and his teammates immediately express confusion as they've never heard of it, even though Fern Britton and Rob confirm its existence. Later on, after Lee's team correctly guesses that it's a lie, David stops the show briefly to invoke this trope. Also, as Fern points out (being the only woman on the show that night), Lee's team not knowing what "Top SantÃ©" is wouldn't necessarily be a death knell to David's argument since it's not like the magazine would be aimed toward their demographic anyway.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_85557b38	type	Reality Is Unrealistic
Would I Lie to You? / int_85557b38	comment	Reality Is Unrealistic: Lampshaded by David Mitchell in a Series 2 outtake where Lee refuses to believe one of the true facts. "You've got to understand, the very truths they pick are the unlikely ones!" In a series 2 episode, Graeme Garden's false claim is that he has five pigs, named after his favourite newsreaders. Five years later in series 7, Kirsty Young makes the same claim - except with chickens, but apart from one word change the two statements are identical, word-for-word, and this time it's true.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_85bcc5a8	type	Lampshaded Double Entendre
Would I Lie to You? / int_85bcc5a8	comment	Lampshaded Double Entendre: David Mitchell introduced one This Is My guest as a pet shop owner who sold him a hamster that died the very next day. Ken Livingstone asked him what the hamster died of, and Lee interrupts with "I think we all know, David". When Jim Carter claimed he served lunch to the cast of Downton Abbey in character:
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Would I Lie to You? / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Would I Lie to You? / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Meta-version — some claims that turn out to be true are only about half of the story, and the show almost never goes into how they got resolved.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
Would I Lie to You? / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: When Bernard Cribbins claimed to have sold his wife's car to pay his gambling debts, Lee's team got quite distressed and insisted it just couldn't be true.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_870bbf64	type	Show, Don't Tell
Would I Lie to You? / int_870bbf64	comment	Show, Don't Tell: Wherever possible, a panellist will be asked for a demonstration of their claim, including Michael Aspel's shadow-boxing, Lee's juggling skills, and Bob Mortimer's ability to rip an apple in two with his bare hands. The panellists have grown quite clever about it as well: David Mitchell is often inclined to lampshade when Rob's urge for a demonstration seems rather unnecessary, particularly when the demonstration won't help establish whether the story is true or false, whether it just seems like a gratuitous attempt to enable The Cast Showoff, or when it involves David himself getting out of his chair.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
Would I Lie to You? / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: Kevin Bridges, referring to a misunderstanding in Eastern Europe.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_884e513b	type	Medium Awareness
Would I Lie to You? / int_884e513b	comment	Medium Awareness: Several jokes about the host's use of an autocue, such as the joke Angus Deayton read out after David Mitchell's claim that he used to proofread dictionaries for a living: Averted in that it is the only panel game regularly repeated on Dave that has not made endless jokes about that fact.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_89b8822f	type	Go Mad from the Revelation
Would I Lie to You? / int_89b8822f	comment	Go Mad from the Revelation: The fact that Bob Mortimer's outlandish stories are more often true than false has clearly worn on David over the years. David has taken to ranting that he's starting to have trouble telling the difference between reality and fiction on Bob's more-recent appearances.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_89ed9b94	type	Gentleman Snarker
Would I Lie to You? / int_89ed9b94	comment	Gentleman Snarker: Angus Deayton, and several of the guests.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_8abe13b6	type	It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time
Would I Lie to You? / int_8abe13b6	comment	It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time: In series 5, Rhod Gilbert's claim that he paid for Â£15 worth of tapas with a Nissan Micra turned out to be true. David Mitchell's response was to straight-up call him a moron.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_8ca20b69	type	Out-of-Character Moment
Would I Lie to You? / int_8ca20b69	comment	Out-of-Character Moment: False statements are sometimes written in mind that they are the sort of thing the panellist would never remotely think of doing. David Mitchell introduced one 'This Is My' guest as the man who freed him from a roller-coaster ride at Alton Towers when the car got stuck, and Lee Mack and Frankie Boyle proceeded to Lampshade it for all they were worth.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_8cbd311b	type	Good Angel, Bad Angel
Would I Lie to You? / int_8cbd311b	comment	Good Angel, Bad Angel: Stephen Mangan claimed his big toes were named "Leslie" and "Scruple" after his potential future child and the child's accompanying "shoulder angel." His justification was that it was an in-joke with a very religious former girlfriend.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
Would I Lie to You? / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: Panellists can make up a detail of a false story on the spot that seems clever at the time but falls apart under further investigation. In a related example, in Romesh Ranganathan's story of how he once accidentally locked a pupil of his in a cupboard while trying to teach a class the concept of probability, he claims that he deliberately picked a child in the class who was shy, withdrawn and had trouble making friends in an attempt to help him out of his shell a bit, and came up with the idea that the child would play the part of an alien who had stepped out of a 'matter transformer' (the cupboard). David Mitchell immediately points out that this essentially meant he was taking a child who was already likely to be the target of bullies and turning him into a bigger target by giving the bullies ammunition to use when picking on him. Gabby Logan, in a possession-based lie, had to convince David's team that she gave birthday cards to her pets, including a dog named Sydney and a rabbit named Jody. When they ask to look at the cards, she immediately goes into a panic, having made up the names Sydney and Jody without looking at what's actually written inside the cards, and apparently not realizing that the opposing team could inspect the cards more thoroughly. A quick look at the cards shows that the names written on them are Michael and Sherbet.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_8d718b9e	type	Bears Are Bad News
Would I Lie to You? / int_8d718b9e	comment	Bears Are Bad News: Frankie Boyle's claim that as a child he was scared his entire life was a book being read by a bear, and that one day the bear would close the book and his life would end.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_8d718b9e	featureConfidence	1.0
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Would I Lie to You? / int_8e20b0f7	type	Private Detective
Would I Lie to You? / int_8e20b0f7	comment	Private Detective: Apparently one of David's dream jobs, as discussed when he dons his "special" travel dressing gown. He had previously (although in terms of recording, it was later) claimed that as a child, he had set up a detective agency with one "This Is My" guest.
Would I Lie to You? / int_8e20b0f7	featureApplicability	1.0
Would I Lie to You? / int_8e20b0f7	featureConfidence	1.0
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Would I Lie to You? / int_9014df71	type	Saying Sound Effects Out Loud
Would I Lie to You? / int_9014df71	comment	Saying Sound Effects Out Loud: David Mitchell, recounting a story of talking his way out of a fight with a paperboy:
Would I Lie to You? / int_9014df71	featureApplicability	1.0
Would I Lie to You? / int_9014df71	featureConfidence	1.0
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Would I Lie to You? / int_913dc5d2	type	Women Drivers
Would I Lie to You? / int_913dc5d2	comment	Women Drivers: Michael McIntyre blamed the fact that his car could only turn left for a fortnight on his wife having an accident whilst driving it.
Would I Lie to You? / int_913dc5d2	featureApplicability	1.0
Would I Lie to You? / int_913dc5d2	featureConfidence	1.0
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Would I Lie to You? / int_917f5066	type	Stunt Double
Would I Lie to You? / int_917f5066	comment	Stunt Double: One of the "This Is My..." guests in series 6 was Lee Mack's bum double for Not Going Out.
Would I Lie to You? / int_917f5066	featureApplicability	1.0
Would I Lie to You? / int_917f5066	featureConfidence	1.0
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Would I Lie to You? / int_91e8bb36	type	Trivially Obvious
Would I Lie to You? / int_91e8bb36	comment	Trivially Obvious: Subverted by Deborah Meaden (of Dragons' Den) when Rob had to try to pass off four sponges affixed to a pole as a children's toy he was hoping to patent. When it came time to say whether they thought it was true, she announced, "I've seen a lot of inventions. That's — that's not one of them." David was commented that the truths had to be unlikely for the game to work. He said a statement like "I came to the studio in a car" was true but not very challenging. Lee then asked him how come he got a car.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_939a84fa	type	Embarrassing Tattoo
Would I Lie to You? / int_939a84fa	comment	Embarrassing Tattoo: The subject of several supposed truths. Davina McCall's fact in Series 3 was that she was having her tattoo of two chilis covered up as they more closely resemble carrots. It was true. Ben Fogle claimed that the 'This Is My' guest had given him a tattoo when they were both completely drunk. It was true. Denise van Outen claimed she had a tattoo on her back that she had gotten after being told it would disappear after three years. It was true, and, as it's on her lower back, she gave Rob Brydon a private viewing rather than showing it on camera.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_94680696	type	Shaped Like Itself
Would I Lie to You? / int_94680696	comment	Shaped Like Itself: Lee interrogating Jamelia about a party she once went to: In one episode Mel Giedroyc is introduced as "the woman who is to Sue Perkins what Sue Perkins is to Mel Giedroyc".
Would I Lie to You? / int_94680696	featureApplicability	1.0
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Would I Lie to You? / int_950bbfa7	type	Take a Third Option
Would I Lie to You? / int_950bbfa7	comment	Take a Third Option: In the first episode of Series 2, with Krishnan Guru-Murthy voting "No" and Rob Brydon vacillating humorously between "True" and "Lie" (eventually settling on "Lie"), David Mitchell declared "No lie — it's true!" And it was. In the This Is My round, it is common for teams to only consider two stories and eventually settle for one of those, only for it to turn out that the correct choice was the one they didn't consider. In series 1, Claudia Winkleman wanted to take a fourth option in the This Is My round:
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Would I Lie to You? / int_95496a1d	type	The Announcer
Would I Lie to You? / int_95496a1d	comment	The Announcer: The first three series used an announcer to introduce the teams and the host. The two guests on each team would each be introduced with a rhyming or comparative remark. He was dropped in the fourth series, and Rob Brydon now introduces the guests in place of his monologue of lying-related autocue jokes.
Would I Lie to You? / int_95496a1d	featureApplicability	1.0
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Would I Lie to You? / int_9600368d	type	Behind the Black
Would I Lie to You? / int_9600368d	comment	Behind the Black: "Possessions" which are too large to fit into a box (such as the portrait of Lee painted by a monkey, the children's bicycle Lee allegedly had to ride to a petrol station, and Bill Bailey's pet cockatoo) will abruptly appear on the side of the desk with no explanation as to how they got there.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_9637893b	type	Schrödinger's Butterfly
Would I Lie to You? / int_9637893b	comment	SchrÃ¶dinger's Butterfly: Frankie Boyle had to defend the claim that when he was a child he was afraid his life was a book being read by a bear, and that one day the bear would close the book and his life would end. Rob's follow-up autocue joke made reference to the famous philosophical question.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_974d246c	type	Be as Unhelpful as Possible
Would I Lie to You? / int_974d246c	comment	Be as Unhelpful as Possible: All part of the game Lee seems to be a master at this: And he even does it when he's telling the truth: Also when he was trying to prevaricate about telling the opposing team who he consulted about the 'dibber' he claims to have donated to a museum; he first latches on to David's use of 'whom' to claim it was David Tennant so that he can make a "Doctor Whom" joke, and then when David persists he continues the theme by then claiming it was Tom Baker.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_9816a70b	type	Appeal to Audacity
Would I Lie to You? / int_9816a70b	comment	Appeal to Audacity: The idea that a story is so ridiculous it must be true is often considered.
Would I Lie to You? / int_9816a70b	featureApplicability	1.0
Would I Lie to You? / int_9816a70b	featureConfidence	1.0
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Would I Lie to You? / int_98591d23	type	Speech Impediment
Would I Lie to You? / int_98591d23	comment	Speech Impediment: One of Lee's lies was that his parents had to change his name to Lee because he couldn't pronounce his real name properly. Pushed for details, he made up an unlikely-sounding story about having a speech impediment that meant he couldn't pronounce the letter O properly.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_985e118a	type	Odd Couple
Would I Lie to You? / int_985e118a	comment	Odd Couple: David Mitchell and Lee Mack. Many of the autocue jokes play up their ostensible stance on the opposite ends of the class spectrum. Several of the teamings, such as Louie Spence and Bill Turnbull in series 5 or Charles Dance and Gok Wan in series 7. When you put Tyrone "Big Narstie" Lindo and David Mitchell next to each other on the same team, this is the only possible result.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_98a19d7f	type	Money, Dear Boy
Would I Lie to You? / int_98a19d7f	comment	Money, Dear Boy: Invoked for laughs; Professor Brian Cox jokingly claimed that the only reason he was on the show was to pay for the damage he'd claimed to have done to the Large Hadron Collider. Similarly, Richard E. Grant cracked a few jokes of this nature when the subject of his (possible) Shakespearean-themed techno single came up.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_98f5de00	type	Let Me Get This Straight...
Would I Lie to You? / int_98f5de00	comment	Let Me Get This Straight...: Used whenever a panellist has finished a lengthy and implausible sounding story. A standout example from Lee, after Rob has claimed in the Quick Fire Lies round that he throws the first and last biscuit in every package away, which escalated into a description of a complex and utterly implausible biscuit-unpackaging routine. David is likewise good at these, though his best examples tend to be the stories that turned out to be true, such as Kevin Bridges accidentally buying a horse that he thought he was renting:
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Would I Lie to You? / int_99156d7e	type	Head Desk
Would I Lie to You? / int_99156d7e	comment	Head Desk: This is sometimes Lee's reaction when he guesses one of David's more ridiculous facts (and there are quite a few of them) as a lie, only for it to be true.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_99b2613a	type	Oop North
Would I Lie to You? / int_99b2613a	comment	Oop North: Lee, as noted above. His justification for throwing a sausage roll off Blackpool Tower was that he was Northern ("as if a Northerner would throw away anything wrapped in pastry!"), and Rob Brydon reasoned his claim that he moved to Southport (see the example in Pull The Thread, below) had to be untrue because he's "never been out of the North".
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Would I Lie to You? / int_9cc1a329	type	Upper-Class Twit
Would I Lie to You? / int_9cc1a329	comment	Upper-Class Twit: Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, who spoke often about expensive gifts, fancy holidays, and things her father paid for. Many jokes directed at David run on this trope.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_9dadfaee	type	Fetish
Would I Lie to You? / int_9dadfaee	comment	Fetish: Apparently Lee has a thing for Morris dancers.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_9dd2cbc2	type	CloudCuckooLander
Would I Lie to You? / int_9dd2cbc2	comment	Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Several guests have fallen into this category during their turns, sometimes to their advantage. Claudia Winkleman has repeatedly given off this impression during her episodes in order to fool the opposing team: Lee ultimately (and wrongly) decided her claim about owning a childhood cat that was stuffed when it died was true because "she looks like a very lovely but slightly unstable woman", and in a later episode was (wrongly) convinced Claudia compared everyone to animals because "there's one part that makes me think this is true, and that part is Claudia". Tara Palmer-Tomkinson also came across like this. David Mitchell when it's revealed that he didn't have a doorknob on his bedroom door for two years. Vic Reeves seems to be one in real life. Several of his stories thought to be blatant lies have turned out to be true. Perhaps fittingly, Reeve's comedy partner Bob Mortimer also seems to be this whenever he appears, which has also enabled him to pass off improbably true stories as blatant lies. It's nearly impossible to tell when Rhod Gilbert is lying because some of his most ridiculous stories have turned out to be true, such as exhuming a dead hamster to give it a bath.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_9dfb8296	type	This Is Gonna Suck
Would I Lie to You? / int_9dfb8296	comment	This Is Gonna Suck: When David Mitchell started winding up for his Let Me Get This Straight... summation/rant on Kevin Bridges' utterly implausible horse story Lee Mack covered his face with one hand. One 'Ring of Truth' fact was that the Archbishop of Canterbury had endorsed a Cockney version of the Bible. When it was shown to be true and Rob Brydon produced a copy to recite the Lord's Prayer from, David Mitchell remarked, "I'm gonna hate this, aren't I?" In one "This Is My..." round, David's team are forced to choose between three equally implausible alternativesnote Gareth Malone's neighbour who used to distract him from his singing practice by singing the same song back at him in German; the rickshaw driver who Greg Davies invited to spend the night after making him pull Greg all the way from London to Hounslow; a Pointless audience member who distracted Richard Osman with his Annoying Laugh. After much second-guessing, they eventually make a decision but end up cringing behind their desk as if they're expecting to come under artillery fire when waiting for the truth to be revealed.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_9dfd7154	type	Fridge Logic
Would I Lie to You? / int_9dfd7154	comment	Fridge Logic: In-Universe - since the panellists often have to make up stories on the spot, they tend to leave plot holes that are hard to see at the time but become glaringly obvious later (which may play a part in teams working out the truth). One example is David Mitchell's claim that he has a five-point plan for surviving in prison: one point was that he would use his (Cambridge University) degree to his advantage, but he claimed he had come up with the plan when he was 16 or 17, well before he would have started university studies.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_9e0c3153	type	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
Would I Lie to You? / int_9e0c3153	comment	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: The announcer at the beginning of Series 1-3 was sometimes prone to this. Lee, after the panel keeps asking Adil Ray about a university open day in Bradford that he (within his story) made up, eventually takes it upon himself to clear up the story as best he can, stressing as he does so that there was no open day and it was just an excuse Adil made up to his dad so he could go to a club instead. Once he finishes, Rob then asks: David has a moment of this during an argument about baboons, after he asks an apparent Captain Obvious question.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_9f80e1da	type	Sarcasm Mode
Would I Lie to You? / int_9f80e1da	comment	If an unlikely story is met with disbelief, a panellist may declare "What part of that doesn't sound true?" or some variation.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_9f8a12d7	type	Who's on First?
Would I Lie to You? / int_9f8a12d7	comment	Who's on First?: Done in a series 7 story where Griff Rhys Jones claims to have pretended to be deaf to Princess Margaret.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_a036d3df	type	Sarcastic Confession
Would I Lie to You? / int_a036d3df	comment	Sarcastic Confession / Self-Proclaimed Liar: David Baddiel, in one episode of Series 2, said towards the end of his turn (a claim that he wore a neck brace when there was nothing wrong with him just to get an upgrade on a flight) that he was telling a lie. The other team hesitated, trying to decide what level of bluff he was running, before voting "Lie"...which of course it was.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_a0edf122	type	Good with Numbers
Would I Lie to You? / int_a0edf122	comment	Good with Numbers: Lee.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_a0eeac39	type	Odd Name Out
Would I Lie to You? / int_a0eeac39	comment	Odd Name Out: Reginald D. Hunter's (alleged) brothers and sisters: Brenda, Kathy, Oliver, and Scrumptious. The names of Eamonn Holmes' seven cats (see Only Sane Man, below).
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Would I Lie to You? / int_a4ca50be	type	Collective Groan
Would I Lie to You? / int_a4ca50be	comment	"Part of the problem is that the wheels on a post office bike are larger than normal — that's according to a spokesperson." Rob Brydon earned a Collective Groan for that one.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_a60e3252	type	Rule of Funny
Would I Lie to You? / int_a60e3252	comment	Lee was already facing an uphill battle to convince the other team that he had written a Chinese cookbook entitled "Lee Mack's Wok Around The Clock", but — as David noted in his summary — he completely blew what little credibility he had when he inexplicably (other than for Rule of Funny) decided to claim that his collaborator was an English-born chef called Steve Jenkins who didn't speak a word of English because he had been adopted by Chinese parents, raised in China and only spoke Cantonese.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
Would I Lie to You? / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: Three panellists on each team and three parties involved, now that the host (Rob Brydon) is allowed to take a more active role. Endless comedy potential.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
Would I Lie to You? / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: One tactic that can be employed to try and get the opposing team to believe a true statement is false. Lee Mack in particular plays this up, often as much to annoy David as to conceal whether he's telling the truth or a lie.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
Would I Lie to You? / int_a8559a9f	comment	Happened in Real Life to Charlie Brooker, who told his girlfriend he was deaf in one ear ... and then had to maintain the act for six years. Lee and fellow panellist Michael Ball were unsympathetic.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_a861560f	type	The Friend Nobody Likes
Would I Lie to You? / int_a861560f	comment	The Friend Nobody Likes: A bit of a Running Gag is for the team captains (usually Lee) to imply that Rob is this behind the scenes, with the joke often revolving around the three being involved in some kind of social situation where Lee and David try to ditch Rob as quickly as possible, with Rob oblivious to what they're doing.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_aa42306e	type	Totally Radical
Would I Lie to You? / int_aa42306e	comment	Totally Radical: Richard E. Grant's dance version of 'To Be Or Not To Be', and the desperate attempts of Lee's team to get him to sing part of it.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_aa9fcfed	type	Embarrassing Middle Name
Would I Lie to You? / int_aa9fcfed	comment	Embarrassing Middle Name: Invoked by Reginald D. Hunter being given a lie that the D in his name stood for "Delicious". He refused to say what his real middle name was when asked by Rob Brydon. It's Darnell.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_abb9ebaa	type	Dramatic Pause
Would I Lie to You? / int_abb9ebaa	comment	Dramatic Pause: panellists may leave this between the opposing team reaching a decision on their statement and their revealing the truth. Inevitably lampshaded:
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Would I Lie to You? / int_abc55125	type	Character Filibuster
Would I Lie to You? / int_abc55125	comment	Character Filibuster: You'd think it was in David Mitchell's contract that Once an Episode he's allowed an uninterrupted rant. Although since these often form some of the funniest moments of the show, they'd be fools not to...
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Would I Lie to You? / int_abe0f934	type	Dissimile
Would I Lie to You? / int_abe0f934	comment	Dissimile: Towards the end of Henning Wehn's story about being on Interpol's missing persons list, when they were discussing a suitcase full of books the man Henning allegedly travelled to Morocco with picked up from a cafe:
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Would I Lie to You? / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Would I Lie to You? / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: When a panellist is confronted with a lie that is completely indefensible, or when a panellist on the other team spots the hole in the story which reveals it to be false. Wise panellists will try not to let it show. A player trying to run a bluff may fake a facial reaction. This can also be the reaction if the statement on the card is a particularly embarrassing truth.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Would I Lie to You? / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Angus Deayton:
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Would I Lie to You? / int_afe98316	type	Talkative Loon
Would I Lie to You? / int_afe98316	comment	Talkative Loon: Midway through Bob Mortimer's (up to that point) somewhat plausible story in the "This Is My" round - that he and a friend had planted a dictaphone in his classroom to interrupt the lesson with random comments - he started to claim that his old teacher owned a battery-operated robotic "hand lion", leading Lee Mack to accuse him of saying anything that came into his head in any order to make a story. Note that the hand lion didn't really tie into the outcome of the prank story he'd started with. It was true, by the way.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Would I Lie to You? / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Played for maximum humor if a panellist is known for one, as when Lee Mack and Jimmy Carr tried to get Richard Wilson to say "I don't believe it!" in Series 2. Harry Enfield had to claim that he once threw a man in a lake for following him shouting "Only me!" Panellists, mostly Lee Mack, will often declare "I really want this to be true!" when faced with a story they want to be true.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_b36ae36a	type	Collector of the Strange
Would I Lie to You? / int_b36ae36a	comment	When Marcus Brigstocke asked to see Terry Christian's celebrity hair collection.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_b3deb1c6	type	Sexbot
Would I Lie to You? / int_b3deb1c6	comment	Sexbot: When Ronni Ancona claimed that the This Is My guest had built a household robot that speaks with her voice.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_b486877f	type	Squick
Would I Lie to You? / int_b486877f	comment	Squick: In-Universe. In a Series 3 episode, Claudia Winkleman had a taxidermic cat (ostensibly her childhood pet) as her possession in the Quick Fire Lies round. She stroked it lovingly for most of her turn, but as soon as her story was revealed to be a lie she dropped it back into its box and shook her hands in disgust. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's claim that he smeared Marmite on his face for his dog to lick off, which was thankfully a lie. In Series 6, Miles Jupp claimed that, after showering, he brushes water off his arms with his hands before drying off with a towel. Richard Madeley asked if he also brushed water off between his legs with his hands, causing Rob and Lee to make identical disgusted expressions.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_b4eff8a8	type	Epic Fail
Would I Lie to You? / int_b4eff8a8	comment	Epic Fail: Frankie Boyle was already failing to convince David's team that he had written and published a book of love poetry, but when he claimed he had written it all in "aggressive haiku"... Lee introduced the 'This Is My' guest in one episode as the woman who gave his dog mouth-to-mouth resuscitation after she ran it over with her car. The story was unlikely enough already, but he first claimed that the dog was a greyhound, then a dalmatian, and then when David's team pointed this out he claimed it was half-greyhound, half-dalmatian. And if that wasn't bad enough, he starts to claim the dog started talking, leading David to reply, "He said 'now I can speak! This lady has blown her soul into me!' And then the dog got in the car and drove off." In another case of Lee screwing up a story in record time, he claims that he was in the scouts at about the age of 12 with the mystery guest Steve - who, he's forced to admit, couldn't have been born yet. In another "This Is My," he forgot himself and started asking one of his teammates about her story. Vic Reeves had a particularly memorable one in episode 5 of season 1 as well: The aforementioned series 2 outtake where Russell Howard outright gave up on trying to convince David's team his story was true. David O'Doherty's claim in series 5 that he was seeing a hypnotist to cure him of his addiction to hypnotists. Lee's claim in the first episode of series 6 that his ex-girlfriends' initials in order spell out the word "Bermuda". He is visibly smiling with disbelief the moment he finishes reading it out. The moment where he really screws it up is when he refers to "the acronym system", implying that he started picking out these women deliberately to spell out Bermuda. Lee's claim about his personal phonetic alphabet being drawn from things he can see out of his windows at home. He repeatedly insists that he uses 'hospital' to represent the letter 'H', to the point where there's a minor tangent when the two teams have an argument about Lee being unable to remember the name of his nearest hospital. He then offers to spell 'hospital' using his phonetic system... and when he starts, he uses a completely different 'H' word. Lee was already facing an uphill battle to convince the other team that he had written a Chinese cookbook entitled "Lee Mack's Wok Around The Clock", but — as David noted in his summary — he completely blew what little credibility he had when he inexplicably (other than for Rule of Funny) decided to claim that his collaborator was an English-born chef called Steve Jenkins who didn't speak a word of English because he had been adopted by Chinese parents, raised in China and only spoke Cantonese.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_b4fb830c	type	Smarter Than You Look
Would I Lie to You? / int_b4fb830c	comment	Smarter Than You Look: Though Lee is ostensibly David's Book Dumb counterpart, he has a very sharp and agile mind.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_b4fce1ab	type	Obfuscating Insanity
Would I Lie to You? / int_b4fce1ab	comment	Obfuscating Insanity: The Horse Story from series 4, episode 3 -
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Would I Lie to You? / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Would I Lie to You? / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: Usually in the host's autocue jokes. David has some, too: Victoria Coren's fact was that she would frequently call up professional tennis player Tim Henman for help with crossword clues, since "he hasn't let me down yet". In light of Henman's repeated failures to reach the final round of Wimbledon, the panel — David Mitchell especially — were not kind. In Season 12, one of Lee Mack's "Possession" claims is that he owns a lucky dice which is guaranteed to roll a six within three rolls. He is naturally challenged to prove it with a demonstration, which he equally naturally tries to stretch out as long as possible, leading to this exchange:
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Would I Lie to You? / int_b54fe3ce	type	Classically-Trained Extra
Would I Lie to You? / int_b54fe3ce	comment	Classically-Trained Extra: Parodied in the Series 10 Christmas Episode, where the entire panel participates in a re-enactment of David's alleged school nativity, and guest Sir Tom Courtenay (as a shepherd) isn't given any lines.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_b6473148	type	DoNotTryThisAtHome
Would I Lie to You? / int_b6473148	comment	Do Not Try This at Home: Rob Brydon interjected with this during Claudia Winkleman's story about putting nail polish remover in her fish tank to give the goldfish more energy.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_b6cebad3	type	Double Standard
Would I Lie to You? / int_b6cebad3	comment	Double Standard: When Miranda Hart caught a cricket ball (accidentally) thrown at her face, to audience applause, Rufus Hound mocked them for applauding a girl catching a ball.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_b709cf7	type	Ambiguously Absent Parent
Would I Lie to You? / int_b709cf7	comment	Ambiguously Absent Parent: Invoked in an episode where the "This Is My..." guest was a girl who was only about 10 or 11 years old. Lee noted that none of the stories accounted for where her parents were at the time.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_b71f62de	type	Cuckoo Clock Gag
Would I Lie to You? / int_b71f62de	comment	Cuckoo Clock Gag: Used in an episode; Lee Mack had to claim he was pecked in the eye twice while closely inspecting a cuckoo clock at precisely 2pm. (It was a lie.)
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Would I Lie to You? / int_b739f0d2	type	Finger Gun
Would I Lie to You? / int_b739f0d2	comment	Finger Gun: Lee made one of these with his hand and blew on the "barrel" after winning a show.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_b8429842	type	Plot-Sensitive Button
Would I Lie to You? / int_b8429842	comment	Plot-Sensitive Button: The buttons the panellists press to reveal whether a story is true or a lie appear to know which graphic to bring up when pressed. This is because they're actually purely for show and not connected to anything.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_b9d334b2	type	Aerith and Bob
Would I Lie to You? / int_b9d334b2	comment	Aerith and Bob: Bob Mortimer is the living embodiment of this trope. Names he's discussed in his stories include Ron Waffle, John Caramel, Harry Harryman, Steve Bytheway, Stavver, Bagger, Neil Overall (Jerry Dungaree's son), Gary "Cheesy" Cheeseman, Bill Whittlingham, Billy the Pigeon, Mickey the Drink, and a cat named Goodmonson. According to Bob's book, all of these are true except Caramel and Waffle, which were an accidental embellishment with names he'd prepared for a lie (hence David's comment in the episode). Harry Harriman's real first name was Peter, Harry being a nickname, and he misremembered there being an L in Whittingham. The story about Goodmonson was a lie but the cat is real.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_b9fc31d3	type	Victoria's Secret Compartment
Would I Lie to You? / int_b9fc31d3	comment	Victoria's Secret Compartment: In a Quick Fire Lies round, Gabby Logan tried to hide her "Possession" (some greeting cards she'd posted to her pets) in her shirt to keep the other team from having a look at them. She relented only when Rob Brydon made it clear he would have no qualms about going in after them.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_bad20f4e	type	Whammy
Would I Lie to You? / int_bad20f4e	comment	Whammy: A team can be leading for much of the show, only to be given some ridiculous lies in the Quick Fire Lies round. Lee's team was 5-2 ahead in the penultimate episode of Series 3... and then Lee had to claim that he couldn't eat custard creams as they reminded him of the bullies at his old school. The round continued in much the same way and they lost their lead, the game ending in a 5-all draw.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_bb48f8ba	type	Timed Mission
Would I Lie to You? / int_bb48f8ba	comment	Timed Mission: The final round is played against the clock (depending on how long the recording has lasted up to that point - the Quick Fire Lies round for series 4 episode 3 was fairly short because the horse story lasted half an hour).
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Would I Lie to You? / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Would I Lie to You? / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: David Mitchell is fond of these. Since the sixth series the show has aired before the 9 PM watershed, meaning that this is now totally averted.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Would I Lie to You? / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: David Mitchell whenever a story fails to make sense. Naturally Lee presses this button as frequently as possible. Lee Mack's is pushed in episode three of series ten when, having been attempting to prove that a pink child's bike is the vehicle he borrowed to collect petrol after his car ran out, he is warned by the producers (via Rob) that his decision to wheelie it "seems like a very bad idea":
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Would I Lie to You? / int_bcd082db	type	DIY Dentistry
Would I Lie to You? / int_bcd082db	comment	DIY Dentistry: In one round, comedian Bob Mortimer claims that he practices a surprisingly advanced version of this trope with the help of a steady supply of dental cement, an Indian musical instrument, a kitchen island, and a gaming chair. Much to everyone's amazement, it turns out to be a literal case of Truth in Television.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_bd4264a3	type	Slasher Smile
Would I Lie to You? / int_bd4264a3	comment	Slasher Smile: David, of all people, pulls one in season 10- to match a cake Lee claimed to have made for him. Rob calls for a split-screen comparison, and we get a lovely side-by-side of arguably equally unnerving grins.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_bdacb848	type	Purely Aesthetic Glasses
Would I Lie to You? / int_bdacb848	comment	In the unseen bits, Sara comments how she owns a pair of Purely Aesthetic Glasses that she wears only when she's playing Scrabble. They make her feel cleverer.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_be6f7ae7	type	Brief Accent Imitation
Would I Lie to You? / int_be6f7ae7	comment	Brief Accent Imitation: Rob Brydon does this quite a bit. Quite often, David Mitchell's the subject. Lee Mack has (poor) imitations of Rob and David which he will use to wind them up. Scottish Kevin Bridges broke out an eerily convincing generic English accent when Terry Wogan complained that he couldn't understand him.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_bedd799b	type	Blunt "Yes"
Would I Lie to You? / int_bedd799b	comment	Blunt "Yes": Or "No", in this case. After Lee's lengthy, quick-paced and detailed description of a recipe supposedly appearing in a cookbook he had written called "Wok Around The Clock", on being asked whether Lee's claim was true David's reply was probably the quickest, bluntest response in the show's history.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_bfdf0edb	type	Screaming at Squick
Would I Lie to You? / int_bfdf0edb	comment	Screaming at Squick: Played for Laughs by Lee when Rhod Gilbert shows his webbed finger.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_c2299d6e	type	Cutting the Knot
Would I Lie to You? / int_c2299d6e	comment	Cutting the Knot: In the opening episode of Series 14, David claims during the first COVID-19 lockdown he grew his hair so long he sometimes tied it up into a man-bun. When deciding whether or not it's true, Lee abandons any pretence and points out that he talked to David over Zoom multiple times and knows full well it's a lie.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_c25c7890	type	Fun with Acronyms
Would I Lie to You? / int_c25c7890	comment	Lee's claim in the first episode of series 6 that his ex-girlfriends' initials in order spell out the word "Bermuda". He is visibly smiling with disbelief the moment he finishes reading it out. The moment where he really screws it up is when he refers to "the acronym system", implying that he started picking out these women deliberately to spell out Bermuda.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_c3245c20	type	I Lied
Would I Lie to You? / int_c3245c20	comment	I Lied: Although there's lots of lying going on in the show, a better example would be Lee breaking one of David's pens after explicitly and repeatedly promising not to.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Would I Lie to You? / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: The very fact that Kelvin Mackenzie was on a show called Would I Lie to You? at all. The fact that Angus Deayton was the original host, given that part of the reason he was sacked from Have I Got News for You because after the first round of tabloid revelations he assured his bosses there was nothing else to come... only for more to follow a few months later.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_c33ba0a8	type	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
Would I Lie to You? / int_c33ba0a8	comment	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Angus Deayton has not been referred to once since he left, although several references have been made to 'true' facts from the series he hosted.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_c428afb9	type	You Can Always Tell a Liar
Would I Lie to You? / int_c428afb9	comment	You Can Always Tell a Liar: More or less the trope the show runs on. The host's opening monologue occasionally contains facts about lying, including the physical or verbal cues given off by someone who is being dishonest. Some panellists have been smart enough to try to block or mask their tells. Jason Manford attempted to do several simultaneously, and Peter Serafinowicz put on a pair of sunglasses before reading his card in Series 4.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_c4d09d24	type	Couch Gag
Would I Lie to You? / int_c4d09d24	comment	Couch Gag: When Angus Deayton was host, he would emerge from behind a screen where he was visible in silhouette engaging in some ridiculous activity, which changed with each episode.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_c4d293c4	type	Let's See YOU Do Better!
Would I Lie to You? / int_c4d293c4	comment	Let's See YOU Do Better!: After having to demonstrate his claim of riding a child's bike to a petrol station after his car ran out by riding the bike around the studio, Lee finally snaps and demands that Rob have a go as well while he gets to sit in Rob's chair "doing the easy bit". Although it backfires a little bit, since Rob actually does manage to complete the circuit much more effectively than Lee did.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_c5638c62	type	Making Love in All the Wrong Places
Would I Lie to You? / int_c5638c62	comment	A season 10 episode has guest Kate Williams claiming she had problems finding the public bathrooms at a Glastornbury festival, which already sounded like a Woodstock-esque affair with the field of tents, and then she says some of them were occupied by people who were 'making new friends'.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_c5f0119c	type	Insane Troll Logic
Would I Lie to You? / int_c5f0119c	comment	Insane Troll Logic: In a series 10 episode, David has to claim that he can no longer drink orange squash because it sends him berserk. It takes him four attempts to even read the statement without corpsing, and the ensuing cross-examination isn't any more convincing. Both of Lee's teammates say it's a lie, but Lee completely arbitrarily decides to say it's true, and provides no better reason than he wants to overrule his teammates.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_c6074d96	type	I Am Spartacus
Would I Lie to You? / int_c6074d96	comment	I Am Spartacus: "I'm posh and a little bit gay!" Mentioned when Mel Giedroyc's statement is that she snogged one of the panelists, Josh Widdicombe very confidently says it's true.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Would I Lie to You? / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: In his appearance, Rhys Thomas spends the episode dressed as the Fifth Doctor. Absolutely no one notices or calls attention to it.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_c83cd6b8	type	The Nicknamer
Would I Lie to You? / int_c83cd6b8	comment	The Nicknamer: Of a sort; all of Bob Mortimer's childhood friends seem to have had nicknames that make it seem like Bob used to live in an issue of The Beano. This doesn't help the other team determine whether his story is true or not.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_c856e477	type	Seamless Spontaneous Lie
Would I Lie to You? / int_c856e477	comment	Seamless Spontaneous Lie: Barry Cryer was able to come up with a long story about his (alleged) career as a romance novelist under a female pseudonym, going as far as to describe the plots and titles of individual books on the fly without hesitating. Although the opposing team did catch him, it led to a double bluff when an equally silly and seamlessly told story later leads them to the wrong conclusion. He was named the week's best liar for it. Stephen Mangan, claiming that he had nicknames for his big toes, invented a backstory about it being an in-joke with a religious girlfriend that was so convincing that all three members of the opposing team voted it true on the basis that he couldn't possibly have made it up on the spot.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_c91408cb	type	Everything Sounds Sexier in French
Would I Lie to You? / int_c91408cb	comment	Everything Sounds Sexier in French: Olivia Colman's true fact was that she pulled a boy by pretending to be French and putting on a fake accent.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_c9588dd8	type	Asians Eat Pets
Would I Lie to You? / int_c9588dd8	comment	Asians Eat Pets: Used for a story, Lee Mack had to claim that in a restaurant in China, he unwittingly ordered and ate dog. (It was a lie.)
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Would I Lie to You? / int_c9597a03	type	Self-Deprecation
Would I Lie to You? / int_c9597a03	comment	Self-Deprecation: Common in the autocue jokes. Robert Webb claimed he had been voted the 88th Sexiest Man in the World by the readers of Blind and Wretched magazine. Kevin Bridges attributes the miscommunication in the infamous horse story thusly:
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Would I Lie to You? / int_cbe32f62	type	Decided by One Vote
Would I Lie to You? / int_cbe32f62	comment	Decided by One Vote: The team captain is put in this situation whenever one panellist votes lie and the other votes true. David Mitchell seems particularly irritated when this happens. In general, David Mitchell seems more willing to defer to his team when making a decision (hence his annoyance when they put him on the spot) while Lee Mack is more willing to overrule his teammates (and on a few occasions, will overrule himself by deciding to make the official answer the opposite of what he has claimed to actually believe) One (fairly rare) exception was when Charlie Brooker blatantly overruled both Lee and teammate Michael Ball (who did change his mind after hearing Charlie's passion on the subject), who both considered the story that three cabinet members were following David Mitchell's Twitter feed, with a rant about how boring David Mitchell is on Twitter. He was right.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_cc6f4612	type	Beyond the Impossible
Would I Lie to You? / int_cc6f4612	comment	Beyond the Impossible: Having spent years making him the Butt-Monkey by forcing him to claim the most ridiculous stories as true, in series 7 the show finally gives Lee a claim that is straight-up scientifically impossible (namely, "I can smell if there is a dead fly in the room").
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Would I Lie to You? / int_cce399	type	This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman
Would I Lie to You? / int_cce399	comment	This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman: Naturalist Steve Backshall just happened to be on the panel when opposing team member Bob Mortimer had to claim he looked after a sick owl for a local nature reserve.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_cd3e8a81	type	Dramatic Curtain Toss
Would I Lie to You? / int_cd3e8a81	comment	Dramatic Curtain Toss: Subverted by Rob's 'possession' turn in series 4; there was a large sheet covering his supposed invention, but when he aimed to whip it off dramatically he failed. It took four attempts and a little wriggling to get the sheet off, to much amusement.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_cdd835ce	type	Dude, Not Funny!
Would I Lie to You? / int_cdd835ce	comment	Dude, Not Funny!: In-Universe, Frankie Boyle (of all people): A less funny example comes from the joke that got the show censured. The scripted joke was about Jimmy Savile, in which Angus joked about the recent death of Jimmy Savile's mother, as well as making comments about Savile himself, such as saying he served "no useful purpose" and describing him as a "dirty old man". This was before the sex abuse charges. Lee Mack responded to the comments with, "I'm sorry but that is well out of order".
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Would I Lie to You? / int_cf666827	type	If I Had a Nickel...
Would I Lie to You? / int_cf666827	comment	If I Had a Nickel...: David Mitchell said this after Josh Widdicombe was forced to wear his possession (a very old pair of boxer shorts he claimed were still in regular use) and described it as "genuinely the lowest moment of my life".
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Would I Lie to You? / int_d1affec1	type	That Came Out Wrong
Would I Lie to You? / int_d1affec1	comment	That Came Out Wrong: Martin Clunes describing how he was fired from a catering job by Alan Sugar after spilling the contents of his tray on a guest: He claimed that Alan was angry, but "she was just wet and dirty as I remember"... Series 4 episode 3 had several of these: "Is your husband known for involving other people?" "Why haven't you just whipped out a knob and affixed it to the entrance?" Invoked. Rob will sometimes criticise the audience for finding something dirty in the innocent line he just said. When discussing whether or not Greg Davies had once used margarine to help him get into a pair of tight faux-leather pants, Alex Jones commented that she believed it because "people do alternative things with groceries at that age"... and then realised what it sounded like when the audience burst into roaring laughter. In another Greg Davies example, he once stated that the "This Is My..." guest was a rickshaw driver who he invited "in for a bit". When the audience started laughing, he berated them with "We're better than that, guys!" like a teacher telling off an unruly classroom. note Considering that he used to be a teacher, it's very convincing. When evaluating whether the guest of the week was a friend of Gaby Roslin's who fell down a manhole, David eventually stated that they'd go for "manhole". Jack Dee then said "Let's call her Gaby." One burst of shocked laughter later, he sheepishly added that if he'd thought it through a bit longer he wouldn't have said it.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_d28d210a	type	Daydream Believer
Would I Lie to You? / int_d28d210a	comment	Daydream Believer: When Bernard Cribbins was a guest: When asked to make a decision on Bob Mortimer's story about burning down his house with some fireworks, Jon Richardson said that he believed Mortimer had seen a movie where such a thing happened and subsequently convinced himself it had happened to him. In a series 8 episode, Lee Mack is claiming that the "This Is My" guest is a French nanny whom he tried to help get rid of a spider. After David's team have dismissed the story and gone for one of his teammates, the guest answers in French (as she herself wanted Lee's story to be true), causing Lee to briefly believe that he really was telling the truth.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_d2c0e2ed	type	Schmuck Bait
Would I Lie to You? / int_d2c0e2ed	comment	Schmuck Bait: David Mitchell's "fact" in the final episode of Series 2 was that as a child, he dressed himself as an 18th-century nobleman. Within minutes, Lee's team was sold on it being absolutely true, but Lee wondered if it was "too obvious" as something David would do...before deciding to say it was true. Subverted, when it did turn out to be true.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_d32b4ca3	type	Pantomime Animal
Would I Lie to You? / int_d32b4ca3	comment	Pantomime Animal: Hugh Dennis claimed that he and the "This Is My" guest had been the two halves of one of these. Wildlife presenter Kate Humble claimed that she and the "This Is My" guest had filmed a herd of giraffes from close quarters by posing as a pantomime giraffe. Towards the end of Kevin Bridges' story about accidentally buying a horse, he claimed the guy he'd bought the horse from turned out to be a "counterfeit horse guy", prompting David to ask if a "counterfeit horse" was "two guys in a costume".
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Would I Lie to You? / int_d34cbda2	type	Implausible Deniability
Would I Lie to You? / int_d34cbda2	comment	Implausible Deniability: At the end of Peter Serafinowicz's turn in series 4, he said he was telling the truth... as he pressed the button that brought the word "LIE" up onto the giant screens behind the panellists. Inverted during a This Is My round where Bradley Walsh went into what was described as a "meltdown" when pressed for details and David's team ended up none the wiser about his story, and they decided it must be him because of the lack of evidence.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
Would I Lie to You? / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: Inverted by Lee Mack in the last episode of Series 3. Following his interrogation of Reece Shearsmith's claim that he once worked at a funeral parlour that offered themed funerals (including "Medieval" and "St. Valentine's Day Massacre" themes), he states that he really wants to say that it's true, but he knows that if he does everyone at home will be going "How could that possibly be true?!"
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Would I Lie to You? / int_d6707631	type	Waxing Lyrical
Would I Lie to You? / int_d6707631	comment	Waxing Lyrical: Mel Giedroyc's story about licking a piece of cake meant for David Bowie begins "I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar." When it's pointed out that that's not a David Bowie song, she replies "That much is true." This was inevitable when Martin Kemp showed up as a guest in Series 10; after he revealed his fact as a truth in the obvious style, they even played a clip of the song. (Interestingly, Mel was a guest on the same episode as Kemp, and the lyric she quoted second in the example discussed above was also in his song.)
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Would I Lie to You? / int_d7fc9fd0	type	Vitriolic Best Buds
Would I Lie to You? / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: The dynamic between Lee and David is often presented in this fashion. While they often seemed more 'vitriolic' in the early seasons, it's gradually settled into being more Like an Old Married Couple between two completely different men who've spent so much time in each other's company they just know way too much about each other. This can also be seen as a function of the show gradually finding its own identity after initially starting out as something of a Have I Got News for You clone, wherein the sharp exchanges and culture clashes between Lee and David reflected the interplay between Paul Merton and Ian Hislop. Lampshaded in one episode when, while trying to debunk Lee's claim of learning to drive in a hearse, Griff Rhys Jones asks where Lee grew up. David supplies the information that it was in Southport. When Lee, surprised, questions how David knew this, David reacts with exasperation:
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Would I Lie to You? / int_d848560f	type	Unusual Euphemism
Would I Lie to You? / int_d848560f	comment	Unusual Euphemism: Omid Djalili introduced the 'This Is My' guest as the woman he pays to massage his dog, then insisted it wasn't a euphemism. A season 10 episode has guest Kate Williams claiming she had problems finding the public bathrooms at a Glastornbury festival, which already sounded like a Woodstock-esque affair with the field of tents, and then she says some of them were occupied by people who were 'making new friends'.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Would I Lie to You? / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Played for Laughs when Lee faked outrage and walked off set after John Barrowman said he was gay.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_da1c8191	type	Writers Cannot Do Math
Would I Lie to You? / int_da1c8191	comment	Writers Cannot Do Math: During Lee's lie that if you give him any date before the year 2000 he can instantly tell you what day of the week it was, he comes up with an utterly-meaningless calculation for working it out. Justified by the Rule of Funny, since he clearly wasn't making much of an effort to make it sound plausible. There's also a bonus example in the same lie: David Mitchell asked him if 1955 was a leap year, and Lee said "Of course it isn't, you idiot, that was 1954..." failing to realise that 1954 wasn't a leap year either. Angus Deayton's autocue joke following Lee's 'Possession' claim about a coconut that nearly killed him: When Sara Pascoe had to claim that she had once accidentally purchased a dollhouse chest of drawers online thinking it was a real one, she revealed she used it to keep spare change in, putting a pound coin in one drawer, a two pound coin in another and a five pound note in one of the bigger drawers. Lee mocked her by asking what she would do if she needed to pay an irregular sum such as three pounds. To his embarrassment, it was immediately pointed out to him that in such a case she could just use the one pound and the two pound coins.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_dcbddebe	type	Pregnant Badass
Would I Lie to You? / int_dcbddebe	comment	Pregnant Badass: One of the claims raised in the eleventh season was that Kimberly Wyatt's ability to do the splits proved essential in helping her fix a car breakdown. She offered to do the splits to demonstrate to the other team that she could do them and demonstrated that she could. This isn't by itself unusual either for the show (which often asks guests to demonstrate proof of unusual or incredible skills they might possess) or for Kimberly herself (a trained dancer and choreographer), but what made it unusual — and impressive — in this case was that Kimberly was quite heavily pregnant at the time.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_dd26fd14	type	Man of a Thousand Voices
Would I Lie to You? / int_dd26fd14	comment	Man of a Thousand Voices: Rob Brydon. When he was a panellist, one of his false facts was that he had worked on a radio station and played the DJ and the newsreader, using a different accent for each one.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_dd2d3bda	type	Global Ignorance
Would I Lie to You? / int_dd2d3bda	comment	Global Ignorance: When Eamonn Holmes claimed that he had a twin brother who lived in Canada, he immediately tried to support the lie by saying that "Jimmy" worked as an insurance salesman "in that CN Tower in Montreal."note The CN Tower is in Toronto, and it's an observation tower, not an office building. No one on David's team recognized the mistake. When Sara Pascoe told a story about booking a holiday to Costa Rica thinking it was in Spain and only finding out she was wrong after she got on the flight and saw where Costa Rica is on a map, David was incredulous that someone could be so ignorant about the world's countries.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_dd45df38	type	Unfortunate Names
Would I Lie to You? / int_dd45df38	comment	Unfortunate Names: Robert Webb claimed his childhood gang of imaginary friends were called the Gy-Bies (pronounced guy-buys). Even he once mispronounced it as "Gayboys".
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Would I Lie to You? / int_dd891949	type	Who Writes This Crap?!
Would I Lie to You? / int_dd891949	comment	Who Writes This Crap?!: Lee Mack has had to pretend that so many outlandish lies are true facts about himself that he's often taken to jokingly railing against the program's writers and producers for what they put him through.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_dd9fba61	type	A Rare Sentence
Would I Lie to You? / int_dd9fba61	comment	A Rare Sentence: Pretty much the premise of the show, though having this as a verbatim reaction is somewhat rarer. When Marcus Brigstocke asked to see Terry Christian's celebrity hair collection. In one episode, David Mitchell asked Kate Humble "Where do you go in London to distribute your clippings?". When Lee Mack called him on this, he admitted it was not something he had ever asked before. And Kevin Bridges once accidentally bought a horse - something the other panelists felt compelled to clarify at first. Emma Bunton once claimed that when she first adopted the identity of Baby Spice, she mostly ate only baby food. It was true, by the way. This prompted this question from Shaun Williamson and response from David Mitchell (who were on the same team):
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Would I Lie to You? / int_de763115	type	Hollywood Board Games
Would I Lie to You? / int_de763115	comment	Hollywood Board Games: Parodied in the second episode. Trisha's lie in the "Home Truths" round is to say that she's beating Jeremy Kyle at internet Scrabble. Now, this is suspicious because she is The Ditz, thus not someone you'd expect to be good at that particular game. However, comedian Frankie Boyle's actual reasoning is that The Internet Is for Porn. In the unseen bits, Sara comments how she owns a pair of Purely Aesthetic Glasses that she wears only when she's playing Scrabble. They make her feel cleverer.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_dea5fe1	type	Kubrick Stare
Would I Lie to You? / int_dea5fe1	comment	Kubrick Stare: Rob, disturbingly often.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_e3c20140	type	As Long as It Sounds Foreign
Would I Lie to You? / int_e3c20140	comment	As Long as It Sounds Foreign: Whenever Rob speaks Welsh on the show, it's either very basic phrases or Welsh-sounding gibberish, because he can't actually speak the language.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_e4b69188	type	Very Loosely Based on a True Story
Would I Lie to You? / int_e4b69188	comment	Very Loosely Based on a True Story: Jon Richardson accuses Bob Mortimer of this in one of the "This Is My..." rounds, claiming that after realising that the opposing team were beginning to believe his story he intentionally came up with the absurdly unbelievable detail of a "hand-lion" to throw them off the scent. In general, a few of Mortimer's "truths" have contained wildly implausible details that suggest that he's either employing this trope or that he's had some very strange experiences in his life. In general, whilst the rule is that a panellist is not allowed to directly lie about anything if the story they are telling is true, the producers also admit that a lot of guests have ended up forgetting themselves and heavily exaggerating the details of broadly true stories.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Would I Lie to You? / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Angus Deayton's manner of hosting was very similar to how it was on Have I Got News for You, including his imaginary "prizes", descriptions of the current points, and "I leave you with news that..." The faux-class warfare between David and Lee is also a carbon copy of that between Ian Hislop and Paul Merton on HIGNFY.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_e54245e1	type	G.I.R.L.
Would I Lie to You? / int_e54245e1	comment	G.I.R.L.: Chris Packham claimed that he and the (male) This Is My guest were married in an online world, where his avatar was based on Audrey Hepburn.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
Would I Lie to You? / int_e563bf09	comment	"Boris Dickey".
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Would I Lie to You? / int_e56e3e0f	type	Stripping the Scarecrow
Would I Lie to You? / int_e56e3e0f	comment	Stripping the Scarecrow: Shaun Williamson once claimed that he stole a shirt from a scarecrow on an allotment in order to gain admittance to nightclub. He was lying.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_e5db3cec	type	The Board Game
Would I Lie to You? / int_e5db3cec	comment	The Board Game: First released in 2011.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_e624f0e8	comment	Suspiciously Specific Denial: In the Ring Of Truth round of one Series 2 episode, David Mitchell is uncertain as to what to say in response to the "fact" that Jim Carrey bought his dog a three-bedroom house, and decides to go with his team and say it's true. Trisha Goddard asks him if he'll kill them if it turns out to be a lie, and David replies with "Don't worry, I haven't killed anyone for years." Also the round up of lies including every detail as done by Rob. "It's a lie. Kevin Bridges did not once steal a bag with 34 bundles of bananas... from a Cardiff railway station."
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Would I Lie to You? / int_e6c88e42	comment	Old Shame And also:
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Would I Lie to You? / int_e8e3807	type	Aside Glance
Would I Lie to You? / int_e8e3807	comment	Aside Glance: The host sometimes indicates surprise or disbelief at a panellist's story with a sardonic look at the camera. Angus Deayton was good at these, but Rob Brydon excels.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
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Would I Lie to You? / int_eb0df85e	comment	Ham-to-Ham Combat: Charlie Brooker and David Mitchell in the same room? A rant-off was more or less inevitable. This can also occur between Lee and David, memorably when Lee claimed one 'This Is My' guest was his personal iPod manager.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_ebaaf931	type	Giving Up on Logic
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Would I Lie to You? / int_eeaee38c	comment	Geeky Turn-On: Lampshaded to hell and back during this bit from the series 4 outtakes show:
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Would I Lie to You? / int_f09afb0	comment	Digging Yourself Deeper: Jamelia trying to explain why she thought Jimmy Carr's statement (that he was a ballboy at Wimbledon and Prince Phillip said he was a funny-looking fellow) was true. If you look at Terry Christian in the wide shot, you can see him mime digging.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_f1d3f0c9	comment	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness Lampshaded thus during the same story from Geeky Turn On, above:
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Would I Lie to You? / int_f47bdd2a	type	Violent Glaswegian
Would I Lie to You? / int_f47bdd2a	comment	Violent Glaswegian: Following Christine Bleakley's true story about Adam Rickitt getting her to remove all the red M&Ms from a bowl for him, a discussion between Lee, Rob Brydon and Frankie Boyle about 'rider lists' ensues...
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Would I Lie to You? / int_f511ea9b	comment	The fact that Rob does a lot of adverts is often used as a way of poking at him, particularly from Lee. This particularly tends to crop up if brand names are mentioned; as part of BBC broadcasting guidelines, which prohibit Product Placement, Rob often mentions other competing brands of the same type which can also be purchased, which Lee then uses to imply that Rob either has or is seeking a promotional contract with these brands.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_f5fe65a3	type	Heavy Mithril
Would I Lie to You? / int_f5fe65a3	comment	Heavy Mithril: Stephen Mangan claimed to have been in a band called Aragon with the This Is My guest, and that they had released an album called "The Wizard's Dream". It was true.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_f6b30338	type	Murder Is the Best Solution
Would I Lie to You? / int_f6b30338	comment	Murder Is the Best Solution: During a "Ring of Truth" round where David's team had to work out whether or not Jodie Marsh had genuinely said "People say I'm thick, but what they don't know is that I won nearly Â£6 on a Weakest Link quiz machine", Frankie Boyle suggested, amongst other things, that if Jodie Marsh had to answer a question on such a machine to save his life he would rather she fell drunkenly on the machine, hit the buttons with her face and choose the answer that way. David then had to make a choice:
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Would I Lie to You? / int_f6f2ff1	type	Insult Backfire
Would I Lie to You? / int_f6f2ff1	comment	Insult Backfire: In one episode, Bob Mortimer describes a fire he accidentally started as a child by lighting a firework indoors. As they were apparently made by a brand called Standard, David Mitchell gets a few moments of amusement out of the contrast between the idea of fireworks and the rather dull name they were branded under ("For a Bonfire Night you will forget."). Later, when David expresses astonishment at the revelation that the fire caused by the fireworks was apparently bad enough to destroy the house, it leads to this moment:
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Would I Lie to You? / int_f7155e6e	type	Escalating Punchline
Would I Lie to You? / int_f7155e6e	comment	Escalating Punchline: In series 3 episode 7, when Danny Wallace was claiming he sometimes pretends to be part of the Olympic cycling team:
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Would I Lie to You? / int_f8a82c75	type	I Always Wanted to Say That
Would I Lie to You? / int_f8a82c75	comment	I Always Wanted to Say That: "Can you please let me say to Ronnie Corbett, were they four candles or handles for forks?" In Series 4, Lee gets to deliver the ancient joke about what happens when you fail to pay the person you hire to exorcise your home (it gets repossessed) and looks extremely pleased with himself.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_f9375414	type	FacePalm
Would I Lie to You? / int_f9375414	comment	Face Palm: When things seem to be going badly. Lee does the "pinch the bridge of the nose" variant.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Would I Lie to You? / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: A case can be made for most of the panellists saying "It is in fact..." (or some variation) before revealing whether a statement is true or a lie, even if the other team have already worked it out. Lee acting like a lawyer to buy his teammates time if he believes their story is getting out of hand or if the other team's questioning gets aggressive ("My client would like a minute."). Lee's ridiculous stories in the "This Is My" round, a fact which he has begun to lampshade frequently: One could argue that Lee being given ridiculous stories in general has become a running gag. In later series this has developed into a specific type of ridiculous story where he has to claim he can instantly perform some kind of talent (memorable examples include his ability to tell the circumference of somebody's head, being able to smell if there is a dead fly in the room and having perfect pitch). A panellist (or the entire team) declaring that a particularly embarrassing claim is true before the opposing player has a chance to explain him or herself. The playing up of David Mitchell's poshness and Lee Mack's commonness. If an unlikely story is met with disbelief, a panellist may declare "What part of that doesn't sound true?" or some variation. Rob Brydon referring to Lee as a "rejected Chuckle Brother". Lee acting as though all the stories given in an episode are true (even those that have been shown to be lies) so he can do crossover jokes where something from one story appears in another, basically turning it into The 'Verse. Especially when he does it with all three stories in the "This is My" round. For one "This is My..." round, the person in question, John, is someone who either brings Rachel Riley a cake every day on Countdown, was visited mistakenly by Lee for two hours in the hospital due to an identity mix-up, or is a musician that joined Ricky Tomlinson's band instead of the Beatles. At one point, Rachel is asked to describe some of his past cakes in detail, which she does with some uncertainty. If one of his teammates starts contradicting himself in his story, Lee will act as though he's the guest's solicitor in court and will pretend to desperately try and cover over the contradiction. Whenever Rhod Gilbert shows up, he and David Mitchell will inevitably get into a lengthy argument about some trivial misunderstanding that Rhod has seemingly entered into, with David frustratedly trying to correct Rhod and Rhod stubbornly refusing to accept a word that David says. Similarly, Bob Mortimer has appeared on the show with an utterly outlandish story that turns out to be true so many times as to qualify, to the point that David Mitchell has begun to lampshade it by recalling some of the previous stories. Whenever a story crops up which involves a panellist getting into an embarrassing scrape with a third party, another panellist will often end up jokingly yelling "And they're here tonight!" as if the third party's waiting backstage to surprise the panellist. Rob makes frequent references to his BAFTA nomination, as if it's his most major claim to fame. Also the subject of a mock rivalry between him and David (who actually beat Rob to win the award). Not exactly a gag, but David has a tendency to use being at a stag party as a bit of a stock excuse for why he was doing something that would seem out of character for him (such as going to a bowling alley or a theme park). References to pheasants seem to be used as a general signifier for "overwhelming poshness". Naturally, David tends to be on the receiving end of them, although he got his own back in the Children In Need Special when Kitty, the young girl on Lee's team, claimed to have accidentally spilled coffee on him in a Waitrose cafe (Waitrose being a rather high-end supermarket/cafe chain, not the sort of place a supposedly salt-of-the-earth working class Northerner like Lee would be seen in): The fact that Rob does a lot of adverts is often used as a way of poking at him, particularly from Lee. This particularly tends to crop up if brand names are mentioned; as part of BBC broadcasting guidelines, which prohibit Product Placement, Rob often mentions other competing brands of the same type which can also be purchased, which Lee then uses to imply that Rob either has or is seeking a promotional contract with these brands. There's also Lee tearing into David's marriage whenever he gets the opportunity. This culminated in the most recent season with Lee reading out a statement that sounded like he was having an affair with David's wife.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_fabef10f	type	Don't Explain the Joke
Would I Lie to You? / int_fabef10f	comment	Don't Explain the Joke: Rob is guilty of this at least once an episode, usually when he does an impression and then pauses to tell the audience who it is.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_fb17af62	type	Rhymes on a Dime
Would I Lie to You? / int_fb17af62	comment	Rhymes on a Dime: The writers are increasingly fond of putting David's "This Is My" claims in the form of a rhyming couplet - even the true ones.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
Would I Lie to You? / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: Ed Balls claims that he once handled high-level government budget negotiations over the phone while crawling through a ball pit to save his child, who'd gotten stuck and was crying. Each time the opposing team asked him how the rescue went, Balls kept thinking they were asking about the negotiations, to everyone's amusement.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_fc151e9d	type	Department of Redundancy Department
Would I Lie to You? / int_fc151e9d	comment	Also Miranda Hart claiming she had had a trial with "QPR Rangers" Womens' Football Club. "QPR" stands for "Queen's Park Rangers", so "QPR Rangers" would be "Queen's Park Rangers Rangers".Given that she was telling the truth, she was likely bluffing about getting the name wrong.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_fc4f2f33	type	Handy Helper
Would I Lie to You? / int_fc4f2f33	comment	Handy Helper: In Series 13 Chris McCausland, who is blind, appeared as a guest. When it was his turn to read out a statement, he said the producers had offered him a card written in Braille, only to discover he couldn't read it, so Lee read the card out on his behalf (and also helped him out with some of the more visual elements of the show's format). In subsequent appearances Chris has been on David's team who also helps Chris with reading the card, allowing Chris and Lee the opportunity to spar with their seemingly natural back-and-forth banter.
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Would I Lie to You? / int_fcadd0e3	comment	Impact Silhouette: Referenced when Chris McCausland was describing someone he was trying to help who'd fallen down a hole:
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Would I Lie to You? / int_fea27091	type	Buffy Speak
Would I Lie to You? / int_fea27091	comment	Buffy Speak: The inevitable result of panellists trying to remember (or make up) technical details on the spot, as when Michael McIntyre claimed his car could only turn left because something had happened to "the metal of the car." Naturally Lee Mack pounced on this and proceeded to Lampshade it to death.
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Would I Lie to You?	hasFeature	The Nondescript / int_439e0f17
Would I Lie to You?	hasFeature	The Points Mean Nothing / int_439e0f17
Would I Lie to You?	hasFeature	Thrifty Scot / int_439e0f17
Would I Lie to You?	hasFeature	Vanilla Edition / int_439e0f17
Would I Lie to You?	hasFeature	Very Loosely Based on a True Story / int_439e0f17
Would I Lie to You?	hasFeature	What Is This Thing You Call "Love"? / int_439e0f17
Would I Lie to You?	hasFeature	Will Not Tell a Lie / int_439e0f17
Would I Lie to You?	hasFeature	You Can Always Tell a Liar / int_439e0f17
Would I Lie to You?	hasFeature	Appeal to Audacity / int_439e0f17
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