History PlayingWith / SuspiciouslySpecificDenial

* '''Justified''': Bob is a BadLiar.

* '''Exaggerated''': "I'm not hacking the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nielsen_ratings Nielsen ratings]] to make curling appear more popular than hockey! I'm just ... uh, updating my resume."

** "Calm down! I'm just, uh, doing some stuff. Yeah."

* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob makes a suspiciously specific denial, Alice suspects Bob but Bob says he was just giving a SarcasticConfession. Alice moves on and later finds out that Bob was lying to her, but upon interrogating Bob learns that it was just a coverup for James, who then claims that he was definitely not just messing with Bob.
* '''Averted''': "Just a sec -- I'm not done pranking you yet."

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%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???
%%* '''Played For Drama''': ???

I'm not putting a link to SuspiciouslySpecificDenial on this page -- it's a {{rick roll}}, honest!

** Alice [[SarcasticConfession is telling the truth and only pretending to be dishonest]].
** Alice is being completely earnest, despite [[ThatCameOutWrong how suspicious it sounds]].
** Alice is technically telling the truth about changing Bob's desktop. She was changing the screensaver.

* '''Parodied''': I am most definitely not casting the spell "Hocus Pocus, Nitwit, Blubber, Oddment, Tweak", which is not the Randomosity Spell, which is not the only spell that can occasionally save the world from the Evil Mundanity, which is not trying to TakeOverTheWorld. Also, I am most definitely not trying to take over the world in the Evil Mundanity's place, I have not been considering turning you into a mongoose, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and I do not think that dress makes you look fat.]]

* '''Downplayed''':
** "I'm not browsing the Internet -- I'm just keeping it from going to sleep!"
** Bob is dripping with sarcasm as he says this, and isn't really trying to deny it.

* '''Inverted''': "Calm down! I'm just, uh, doing some stuff. Yeah."

%%* '''Intended Audience Reaction''': ???

* '''Deconstructed''': Bob really wasn't doing what Alice thought he was doing.

* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

* '''Subverted''': "I'm not ... uh, what did you say I was doing?"

* '''Parodied''': I am most definitely not casting the spell "Hocus Pocus, Nitwit, Blubber, Oddment, Tweak", which is not the Randomosity Spell, which is not the only spell that can occasionally save the world from the Evil Mundanity, which is not trying to TakeOverTheWorld. Also, I am most definitely not trying to take over the world in the Evil Mundanity's place, I have not been considering turning you into a mongoose, and I do not think that dress makes you look fat.

%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???

* '''Downplayed''': "I'm not browsing the Internet -- I'm just keeping it from going to sleep!"

* '''Inverted''': "Calm down! I'm just jiggling the mouse so your computer doesn't go to sleep!"

* '''Deconstructed''': Bob really wasn't doing what Alice thought he was doing.
* '''Reconstructed''': ???

%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

* '''Parodied''': ???

'''Basic Trope''': A character denies a hypothesis so detailed that there is no reason to think of it were it not true.

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%%* '''Deconstructed''': ???
%%* '''Reconstructed''': ???

* '''Inverted''': "Calm down! I'm just jiggling the mouse so your computer doesn't got to sleep!"

* '''Invoked''': Bob doesn't want to admit to constructing a computer virus, so he states that he is ''not'' surfing the Internet...which is actually true, but makes Alice ''think'' that's actually what he's trying to hide from her.

* '''Conversed''': ???

* '''Invoked''': ???

* '''Inverted''': ???

* '''Double Subverted''': ???

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