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* Defied in ''VideoGame/FullThrottle''. There is one puzzle toward the end of the game that Ben can die if he takes too long to solve, but since he's the one telling the story, it simply cuts to black as he says, "Let me try that again." and, indeed, the player is sent back to the beginning of said puzzle.

-->'''Reviewer:''' So that's an average day for you, then?
-->'''Andy Samberg:''' No doubt.
-->'''Reviewer:''' You chop your balls off and die.
-->'''Andy Samberg:''' Hell yeah.

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---> '''Security Camera:''' My memory's a little fuzzy, but I think it went exactly like this.

---> '''Peter:''' I awoke several hours later in a daze.

* Parodied in ''Music/TheLonelyIsland'''s "Like a Boss", a song in which a businessman in middle management undergoes a performance review and walks his reviewer through a day in the life of "the boss". It starts out with fairly standard tasks, such as corresponding with upper management, sorting and signing documents, and giving presentations, but gradually escalates into more ridiculous events such as defecating on his coworker's desk, [[SuperWindowJump self-defenestration]], and fellating strangers in the street. By the end of this description of an "average day" for him, he has castrated himself and flown into the sun, burning to death in the process, yet he is still alive to describe these events that supposedly occur on a daily basis for him. The music video lampshades this.

->''"I think I'll try extra hard to remember today's events and conversations, in case I someday want to recall them verbatim."''
-->-- '''Gordon Frohman''', ''Webcomic/{{Concerned}}''

* ''VideoGame/Persona5'' is for the first 3/4ths of the game or so, Joker recounting the details of all the events that led up to that point in the story (roughly 6 months worth of time) to Sae [[spoiler: in a police interrogation room]]. This has led to him being at least memetically performing this trope, as fans speculate that he's really telling her about all the times he went to the various shops, watched movies, [[spoiler: and potentially had sex with Sae's younger sister Makoto]].

* The Gulliver at the beginning of ''Literature/GulliversTravels'' is [[HeroicBSOD rather different]] to the Gulliver at the end, telling the story.

Essentially the opposite of UnreliableNarrator. See also LiteraryAgentHypothesis, AllFirstPersonNarratorsWriteLikeNovelists.

* ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged: When Frieza recounts the day he wiped out the Saiyans, Vegeta [[LampshadeHanging lampshades this]].
--->Vegeta: How did you know about the parts you weren't there for?

* Creator/RonHoward's narration on ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'' is a hallmark of the series. It is always spot-on accurate, insightful and quick to point out the callous lies told by the entire Bluth family on a daily basis.