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-->'''Carl:''' We don't know, uh, what you're talking about, Homer.\\

** A heroic accidental example when Vivi says it would be best if the Straw Hat Pirates don't know that the one trying to ruin Alabasta Kingdom is Crocodile.

--> '''Suneo''': Where are you going with all those junk?\\
'''Doraemon''': You're too crafty, I'm not telling you anything. If I told you we're going to revert the junk to brand new using the Time Cloth, you might try to steal it.\\

* In ''Fanfic/ThisBites'', Garp does this twice [[spoiler: on the SBS]], first about Luffy's parentage, and then about [[spoiler: Vivi's Sovereign Will.]]

-->'''Ghastly''': I'm sorry, but I can't be talking about that with you. I can't say, for instance, [lists everything he can't tell them]

-->'''Quico''': Sorry, Don Ramón, but I can't tell you anything. I promised El Chavo that I wouldn't tell anybody that he stuck a gum in a hat.

-->'''Captain''': Your name will also go on ze list! What is it?\\
'''Mainwaring''': Don't tell him, Pike!

-->'''Miss Brooks''': Who is this new girlfriend, Stretch?
-->'''Stretch''': Oh, no you don't!
-->'''Miss Brooks''': No I don't what?
-->'''Stretch''': You don't get Judy's name out of me! ''(audience laughs)'' I promised to keep it a secret.
-->'''Miss Brooks''': Well, that's your privilege. [[BlatantLies If you don't want me to know Judy's name, I'm not going to know Judy's name. That's all there is to that.]] Judy ''what''?
-->'''Stretch''': Gosh, I didn't even want that part of her name to get out. It just slipped. Look, Miss Brooks. You wouldn't want me to break a promise, would you?
-->'''Miss Brooks''': Fervently. Listen, Stretch. Even if you enjoy all this "rumbering", don't your girl's parents object to these late hours every night?
-->'''Stretch''': Oh, I'm sure they don't.
-->'''Miss Brooks''': How can you be so sure?
-->'''Stretch''': Her old man gives me the money to take her out.
-->'''Miss Brooks''': What!
-->'''Stretch''': Sure! He's not like our principal. Mr. Brille's a good sport.
-->'''Miss Brooks''': Stretch, you're telling me you're taking out Judy Brille?
-->'''Stretch''': How did you know?
-->'''Miss Brooks''': [[DeadpanSnarker A little birdbrain told me.]]

'''Kyon''': Wha--!? D-Did you read my mind!? Are you a psychic robot!?\\

-->'''Chief Engineer''': I'm just an old fool, forced against my will into making wild contraptions for a buncha crooks!\\
'''Luke''': Crooks? Contraptions? What sort of... contraptions?\\

'''Chief Engineer''': Under no circumstance can I say that this place is being used to make steam machines, they said.\\

'''Chief Engineer''': No! Don't you get it?! That's exactly what we're NOT doing here!\\
'''Chief Engineer''': I'm also not allowed to say that we're making other devices too!\\

'''Chief Engineer''': Of course not! If I did that, I'd be in some real trouble!\\
'''Chief Engineer''': I'll never tell that pushing the red and blue buttons on the pressing machine operates it, either.\\
'''Chief Engineer''': Nor will I ever hint about what lies through that opening on the assembly line!

--->'''Homer''': So, Mr. X says "Marge, if this doesn't get your motor running, my name isn't Homer J. Simpson!"

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': Pretty does this in one episode where she goes on a TV show and says "I'd never say..." followed by one of her friends' secrets each time. [[spoiler: She's actually doing it on purpose, not because she's stupid.]]

-->'''Gill''': I'm not telling you about the monster dad Frankentyke made because he was ashamed of his real dad.

--->'''Cyberman:''' [[AC:You will identify!]]\\
'''Dalek:''' [[AC:Daleks do not obey orders!]]\\
'''Cyberman:''' [[AC:You... have identified as Daleks.]]

* The ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' short which introduces the Time Cloth has the titular robot cat absent-mindedly pulling this off, during the comic's EarlyInstallmentWeirdness period where Doraemon is nowhere as bright as he is in later chapters.

* The ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' short which introduces the Time Cloth have the titular robot cat absent-mindedly pulling this off, during the comic's EarlyInstallmentWeirdness period where Doraemon is nowhere as bright as he is in later chapters.

%% ** Also happens in ''[[VideoGame/SonicRushSeries Sonic Rush Adventure]]''; apparently, Captain Whisker is ''that'' dumb.

* ''Duolingo'': The French course teaches you the phrase "I'm the one who killed him, [[YouJustToldMe but I'll never confess]]!"

* ''[[VideoGame/Duolingo Duolingo]]'': The French course teaches you the phrase "I'm the one who killed him, [[YouJustToldMe but I'll never confess]]!"

* ''VideoGame/Duolingo'': The French course teaches you the phrase "I'm the one who killed him, [[YouJustToldMe but I'll never confess]]!"

** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'', there are two girls on Windfall Island who embody this trope. They "won't" tell you anything, not even for two Rupees!
** And in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaPhantomHourglass'', a Goron tells you that, since you're an outsider, he shouldn't tell you that the Elder's home is right over there, in this spot on your map! (Of course, the home is a big and obvious cave anyway.)

* A TextbookHumor joke paper on Arxiv (by a reknowned cosmologist), researching the variation of pi over time, concludes with the following crowner: "A number of colleagues were kind enough to commenton the manuscript. For some reason they did not want me to use their names, so I will identify them by their initials:". Followed by their first and middle initials... and unabbreviated last names.

* Comes up on a few occasions in the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' series, most notably from Team Rocket; for example, "A Shipful of Shivers" sees Team Rocket start protesting that they don't know anything about a stolen trophy that ''certainly'' wouldn't be in the bag they're currently holding just after the heroes find them (although, to be fair, this was only James and Meowth; Jessie immediately noted that the two males were being idiots).

** In the {{Prequel}} ''Recap/OnTheOriginOfPCs'', Elan has an exceptionally long and detailed instance: