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* Basically every single line from [[Series/{{The West Wing}} Lord John Marbury]] fits this trope. Perhaps summed up best by walking up to the First Lady while exclaiming "Abagail! May I grasp your breasts?" while she's ''standing next to the President.''
* Megan from ''DrakeAndJosh'', who gets away with ''[[KarmaHoudini everything]]'', never receiving anything but rewards for her horribly contemptible behavior. Many viewers no longer/never found this funny and [[CreatorsPet intensely hate her]]. At the end of TheMovie, she and the title characters accidentally catch some counterfeiters, but not before she steals ''tens of thousands of dollars in fake bills'', which we are left seeing as some divine force rewarding her for committing an extremely serious crime.
* ''Series/TheXFiles'' episode "Jose Chung's ''From Outer Space''" used this in the following way. So, you've seen a UFO, and that's semi-believable. And then TheMenInBlack showed up and tried to warn you from telling anyone, and that's stretching believability. Now, the Men In Black knock this over the believability threshold into the area where nobody will believe this by... looking exactly like Jesse Ventura and Alex Trebek.

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* Everything [[Series/{{Psych}} Shawn Spencer]] does. ''Everything''. From naming his "psychic" detective agency {{Psych}} and defrauding the police department, to [[spoiler:haunting Gus's boss's house]] to keep the team together, to [[spoiler:''arming a bomb, in the middle of a police cordon, to find out who designed it'']].
* ''Series/ICarly'': Wade Collins calling everyone a "hobknocker".
* An episode of ''TheDrewCareyShow'' has Mimi making Drew late for work [[spoiler:by getting a cowboy to tie him up. Just as planned, Drew's boss doesn't even consider believing his excuse. To be fair, he initially suspects his British colleague as well; it's only when Mimi imitates the cowboy's "Ma'am" that he finds the real truth.]]
* ''Series/DoctorWho'': The entire premise of the TARDIS cloaking system seems to work on the fact that most people, when presented with a large blue police box incongruously parked in the middle of a major tourist attraction or thoroughfare, will simply ignore it.
** The 10th Doctor explains that this is the perception filter at work. Said filter is designed to draw a person's attention away from an object and trick them into thinking it's not really there.
** And when you land said blue box in the middle of the Oval Office, and then while having a small army of Secret Service agents train their guns on you, what do you do? You sit in the President's chair and start barking orders like you own the place. [[RunningGag And demand a Fez]].
** As of "Let's Kill Hitler", River Song ''owns'' this freaking trope thanks to this immortal line in Nazi Germany, right outside the headquarters of the Third Reich and surrounded by some Nazis:

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* Series/{{Psych}}: Shawn Spencer does this often. From naming his "psychic" detective agency {{Psych}} and defrauding the police department, to [[spoiler:haunting Gus's boss's house]] to keep the team together, to [[spoiler:''arming a bomb, in the middle of a police cordon, to find out who designed it'']].
* An episode of ''TheDrewCareyShow'' has Mimi making Drew late for work [[spoiler:by getting a cowboy to tie him up. Just as planned, Drew's boss doesn't belief his excuse. It's only when Mimi imitates the cowboy's "Ma'am" that he finds the real truth.]]
* ''Series/DoctorWho'': The premise of the TARDIS cloaking system works on the fact that most people, when presented with a large blue police box incongruously parked in the middle of a major tourist attraction or thoroughfare, will simply ignore it. When you land said blue box in the middle of the Oval Office, and then while having a small army of Secret Service agents train their guns on you, what do you do? You sit in the President's chair and start barking orders like you own the place. [[RunningGag And demand a Fez]].
** "Let's Kill Hitler", River Song's immortal line in Nazi Germany, right outside the headquarters of the Third Reich and surrounded by some Nazis:

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* In ''LegendOfTheSeeker'', Cara is forced to impersonate a princess in the episode "Princess." The court she's visiting has a strict rule that any woman addressing the Margrave speak in rhyming couplets. Further, she's in a competition with another woman to win the Margrave's charms; notably, she doesn't ''have'' to win, but her competitiveness starts getting the better of her early on. About half way through, though, she stops trying to win on the Margrave's terms, and plays by her own, starting by composing a whole poem about torturing a slave to death, then following up by shooting a man-eating beast in the face and eating its raw liver while wearing a pink, frilly dress. Naturally, it works.
* In ''Series/BurnNotice'' Michael, Sam, and Fiona get what they want just through the sheer audacity of Plan B, as Plan A usually never pans out.
* Everything that comes out of Sue Sylvester's mouth in ''Series/{{Glee}}'' is based on this. In particular, her "Sue's Corner" news segments, where she advocates positions such as supporting littering and wanting to re-legalize caning.
** The fact that StrawmanHasAPoint is in full effect makes for some of the most surreal dialog ever to grace Public Television. Case in point:

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* In ''LegendOfTheSeeker'', Cara is forced to impersonate a princess in the episode "Princess." The court she's visiting has a strict rule that any woman addressing the Margrave speak in rhyming couplets. Further, she's in a competition with another woman to win the Margrave's charms. About half way through she stops trying to win on the Margrave's terms, and plays by her own, starting by composing a poem about torturing a slave to death, then following up by shooting a man-eating beast in the face and eating its raw liver while wearing a pink, frilly dress. Naturally, it works.
* In ''Series/BurnNotice'' Michael, Sam, and Fiona get what they want through the audacity of Plan B, as Plan A never pans out.
*''Series/{{Glee}}'': Sue Sylvester' and her "Sue's Corner" news segments, where she advocates positions such as supporting littering and wanting to re-legalize caning. The fact that StrawmanHasAPoint is in full effect makes for some of the most surreal dialog ever to grace Public Television. Case in point:

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* ''FawltyTowers'' is quite often like this -- Basil Fawlty, a hotel owner, gets away with a ''lot'' of what he says/does to his guests because he is ''so'' offensive that he either a) cows people into not complaining or b) they don't quite believe what they just heard -- but at one point the Major has a line which is described elsewhere on this wiki as: "So jaw-droppingly offensive, and delivered with such ''panache'' that you can't help but die laughing." Censored for appalling racist slurs:
--->'''Major''': No, [[spoiler:niggers]] are the ''West'' Indians. ''These'' people are the [[spoiler:WOGS]]!
** Though the Major can get away with it, since he's a war-hero, clearly eccentric and according to Basil, often drunk before breakfast.
** The episode "Basil the Rat" uses this trope in the literal sense. The rat they've been trying to hide from the health inspector all episode long gets into a box of biscuits and is offered to the inspector as an after-meal snack. Basil very calmly asks the inspector "would you care for rat?" This actually seems to work, as the inspector doesn't respond, Basil acts as though he'd simply declined a biscuit, and the inspector goes into a DeerInTheHeadlights BSOD. We don't quite know if it worked, because the series ended.

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* [[Series/{{House}} Hi, I'm Dr. House.]]
--->"Hello, sick people and their loved ones! In the interest of saving time and avoiding a lot of boring chitchat later, I'm Doctor Gregory House; you can call me "Greg." I'm one of three doctors staffing this clinic this morning. This ray of sunshine is Doctor Lisa Cuddy. Doctor Cuddy runs this whole hospital, so unfortunately she's much too busy to deal with you. I am a board ...certified diagnostician with a double specialty in infectious disease and nephrology. I am also the only doctor currently employed at this clinic who is forced to be here against his will. But not to worry, because for most of you, this job could be done by a monkey with a bottle of Motrin. Speaking of which, if you're particularly annoying, you may see me reach for this: this is Vicodin. It's mine. You can't have any. And no, I do not have a pain management problem, I have a pain problem. But who knows? Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm too stoned to tell. So, who wants me? And who would rather wait for one of the other two guys?"

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* Series/{{House}} Tried this to get out of clinic duty. 
--->"Hello, sick people and their loved ones! In the interest of saving time and avoiding a lot of boring chitchat later, I'm Doctor Gregory House; you can call me "Greg." I'm one of three doctors staffing this clinic this morning. This ray of sunshine is Doctor Lisa Cuddy. Doctor Cuddy runs this whole hospital, so unfortunately she's much too busy to deal with you. I am a '''board''' ...certified diagnostician with a double specialty in infectious disease and nephrology. I am also the only doctor currently employed at this clinic who is forced to be here against his will. But not to worry, because for most of you, this job could be done by a monkey with a bottle of Motrin. Speaking of which, if you're particularly annoying, you may see me reach for this: this is Vicodin. It's mine. You can't have any. No, I do not have a pain management problem, I have a '''pain''' problem. But who knows? Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm too stoned to tell. So, who wants me? And who would rather wait for one of the other two guys?"

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** Early on in the series ''Series/{{House}}'' wants to continue a diagnosis that everybody but he ruled out. He was on the bad side of almost every main character at the time (more so than usual), and each and every one of them violently objected to continuing the diagnosis testing. After Cuddy makes it violently clear to the entire staff to not let House perform tests on the patient, he takes a unauthorized sample anyway and proceeds to just walk over and ask a lab staffer to run those exact tests on that same sample. House saying nothing of the sample's origins, the staff member just assumes that the unmarked sample can't possibly be the patient's (it's early in the series), and performs the tests anyway. House later has the sample reports on a clip board, so it's assumed the staff member just reported back to him afterwards, and is to this day still completely oblivious.
** House uses this trope ''all the time''. For instance, how do you stop a surgery that's going to cause irreparable (probably fatal) damage to the patient? Simple. Spit on the surgeon.
* A Venezuelan [[SoapOpera Telenovela]] author managed to get his newest soap titled "¡Viva la Pepa!" (a phrase which in Spanish can be interpreted as either a reference to lazy characters or a genuine admiration for [[FreudWasRight a certain part of the female anatomy]]) by claiming that the "Pepa" in the title referred to the three main heroines, all with names derived from "Josefa" who all took variants of the unusual diminutive "Pepa" (itself a female variant of the usual shortening "Pepe" for men named José) as nicknames. However, there ''is'' a reason, at least in Venezuela, about ''why'' very few women would take those particular nicknames... [[hottip:* :"Viva la Pepa" is also a reference to the 1812 Spanish Constitution, the first one; the shout was popular among liberals, but later became pejorative.]]
** RCTV, the network for whom the above soap author worked, has a period of using these kind of titles for its ''novelas''. Besides the above mentioned ''Viva la Pepa'', they also had ''¡Que buena se puso Lola!'', a double pun in the most common diminutive of the name "Dolores" (besides the infamous one), and the most used local jargon for "boobs". [[hottip:* :That soap was about a woman whose plastic surgeon boyfriend inflicts her with an UnnecessaryMakeover, including giving her the MostCommonSuperpower, if that helps to explain things.]] After this, the consensus was that they weren't even trying anymore.

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** This little gem (among many):
-->'''Gene''': Now. Yesterday's shooting. The dealers are all so scared we're more likely to get Helen Keller to talk. The Paki in a coma's about as lively as Liberace's dick when he's looking at a naked woman, all in all this investigation's going at the speed of a spastic in a magnet factory... ''What''?
-->'''[[OnlySaneMan Sam]]''': ... Think you might have missed out the Jews.
* ''TopGear'' had an episode where the trio competed in driving challenges with their German counterparts (the hosts of the German show ''D Motor'') in Belgium. Clarkson said the BBC had told them not bring up [[WorldWarTwo the war]]. During the course of the film, they proceed to make at least a dozen references to said war, including arriving in two-seat Spitfires, having an Axis v. Allies drag races (with Clarkson cracking a joke about the Italian car switching sides mid-race) and having ''633 Squadron'' as background music. ''Twice''.
** The guys also engage in some rather audacious cheating, including in that contest, passing The Stig off as James. It worked because they were ''losing'', so no one really cared. (strictly speaking The Stig is credited as a Presenter of the show)
* ''FatherTed'' has the episode "Kicking Bishop Brennan up the Arse". Due to a bet Father Ted has to do exactly that, and eventually Dougal suggests this plan: Kick him, then pretend ''nothing happened'', because the bishop would never believe he would dare do it. The bishop spends the next several hours in a state of near catatonic shock before realizing what happened and storming out of the Vatican and back to Craggy Island, at which point Ted still manages to convince him that he must have imagined it. Until he sees the giant photograph of Ted doing it that he had drunkenly commissioned.
* In the ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' episode "PK Tech Girl" D'Argo is able to bluff some hostile aliens into backing off long enough to get a forcefield up and running, simply because the aliens refuse to believe a Luxan warrior isn't armed to the teeth. At the end even the alien captain salutes his efforts. "You had nothing, but you used it well."
** You can pretty much say "''Farscape'': Full Stop." Pretty much ''every'' plan the crew comes up with is fueled by equal parts desperation, insanity, and sheer audacity.
*** Yep, Farscape ran on this. Another great example comes when Crichton is being abducted at gunpoint by Scorpius' right hand Lt. Braca. After listening to Scorpius wax poetic by radio about how "unique" Crichton's knowledge is, Crichton proceeds to escape by essentially daring Braca to hurt him: "I don't think so, you know? I don't think Scorpy's gonna give you your badge of commendation if you shoot 'unique.'" Crichton then proceeds to grab Braca's gun hand, ''hold it to his own head, shouting at Braca to pull the trigger'', and generally acting like a madman until Braca drops his guard and Crichton clobbers him.
** Or as D'Argo himself once put it to a flabbergasted - and deeply suspicious - guest alien of the week: "This plan is so bad, it has to be ours!"
* In ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', ''The Janitor'' loses his job. He then appears working again, having dressed up as a doctor and told the replacement janitor that he was fired. He then continues working in the hospital, despite not being employed, under the philosophy of "everything will work out for me", and then when the paychecks are handed out, he asks where his paycheck is, and the woman apologizes to him and goes off to get him one. When he does get it, he says that he was normally paid twice that amount, which evokes another apology.
* ''BrassEye'' is a show that runs almost purely on this trope. In any other show, the interviewers likely would have laughed the production out, but Chris Morris and his team somehow managed to convince several major British celebrities and political members to read off ridiculously absurd facts and lines (simply by paying them an appearance fee), under the guise that it's part of a documentary series. The outrage from the celebrities and the (hypocritical) UK newspapers were just the icing on the cake.
** Speaking of "cake", when you invent a fake narcotic, give it an unlikely name, persuade celebrities to read out factsheets on camera including such facts as it is a made-up drug (meaning it's made from chemicals, not plants), then that is not quite enough. What do you do? Persuade a politician to actually ask a question about this made-up drug in Parliament and be immortalised in legislative history.
** "It works on a part of the brain known as "[[WilliamShatner Shatner's]] Bassoon" ... A boy was knocked over by a car because he thought he had a week to cross the road."
* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' does this in several episodes. Such as the first episode, in which Gibbs ''steals Air Force One'', and then later steals evidence (including the body of the victim!) in order to have his department head the investigation. They didn't think to actually inspect the body when Gibbs handed it over, because no one expected him to lie about who he was handing over.
** The only sensible reception to his hanging up on Director Vance during the Weatherman episode is something along the lines of "This man has balls of cold steel."
** In the season three episode "Jeopardy" the team must rescue Director Shepard who has been kidnapped by a drug dealer demanding the return of his brother, who NCIS is supposed to have in custody. Unfortunately, the brother was inadvertently killed by Ziva earlier on. Their solution? Dress the corpse, slap a pair of sunglasses on him, and tape his hands so he appears to be driving while Tony hides and drives with his hands. And it works.
* A really good example from ''Series/{{Titus}}'' was the episode "Deprogramming Erin," where Titus tries to get Erin to love him again despite that his hot rod shop closed down, and comes up with a plot that involves kidnapping. He sends Dave over to distract her. When Erin asks what he wants, Dave deadpans "I'm here to distract you while Titus sneaks up behind you." Erin starts to laugh, [[GenreSavvy until she notices he's not laughing with her.]] She turns around just in time to see Titus throw a burlap sack over her head.

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* ''TopGear'' The guys engage in audacious cheating, including in that contest, passing The Stig off as James. It worked because they were ''losing'', so no one really cared. (strictly speaking The Stig is credited as a Presenter of the show)
* ''FatherTed'' has the episode "Kicking Bishop Brennan up the Arse". Due to a bet Father Ted has to do exactly that, and eventually Dougal suggests this plan: Kick him, then pretend ''nothing happened'', because the bishop would never believe he would dare do it. The bishop spends the next several hours in a state of near catatonic shock before realizing what happened and storming out of the Vatican and back to Craggy Island, at which point Ted still manages to convince him that he must have imagined it until he sees the giant photograph of Ted doing it that he had drunkenly commissioned.
* In ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' 
** "PK Tech Girl" D'Argo is able to bluff some hostile aliens into backing off long enough to get a forcefield up and running, simply because the aliens refuse to believe a Luxan warrior isn't armed to the teeth. At the end the alien captain salutes his efforts. "You had nothing, but you used it well."
**Another example is when Crichton is being abducted at gunpoint by Scorpius' right hand Lt. Braca. After listening to Scorpius wax poetic by radio about how "unique" Crichton's knowledge is, Crichton proceeds to escape by daring Braca to hurt him: "I don't think so, you know? I don't think Scorpy's gonna give you your badge of commendation if you shoot 'unique.'" Crichton proceeds to grab Braca's gun hand, ''hold it to his own head, and shout at Braca to pull the trigger''. He generally acts like a madman until Braca drops his guard and Crichton clobbers him.
** As D'Argo himself once put it to a flabbergasted - and deeply suspicious - guest alien of the week: "This plan is so bad, it has to be ours!"
* In ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', ''The Janitor'' loses his job. He then appears working again, having dressed up as a doctor and told the replacement janitor that he was fired. He then continues working in the hospital, despite not being employed, under the philosophy of "everything will work out for me", and when the paychecks are handed out, he asks where his paycheck is, and the woman apologizes to him and goes off to get him one. When he does get it, he says that he was normally paid twice that amount, which evokes another apology.
* ''Series/{{NCIS}}''
** The first episode, in which Gibbs ''steals Air Force One'', and then later steals evidence (including the body of the victim!) in order to have his department head the investigation. They didn't think to inspect the body when Gibbs handed it over, because no one expected him to lie about who he was handing over.
** In the season three episode "Jeopardy" TheTeam must rescue Director Shepard who has been kidnapped by a drug dealer demanding the return of his brother, who NCIS is supposed to have in custody. Unfortunately, the brother was inadvertently killed by Ziva earlier on. Their solution? Dress the corpse, slap a pair of sunglasses on him, and tape his hands so he appears to be driving while Tony hides and drives with his hands. 
* The ''Series/{{Titus}}'' episode "Deprogramming Erin,". Titus tries to get Erin to love him again despite that his hot rod shop closed down, and comes up with a plot that involves kidnapping. He sends Dave over to distract her. When Erin asks what he wants, Dave deadpans "I'm here to distract you while Titus sneaks up behind you." Erin starts to laugh, [[GenreSavvy until she notices he's not laughing with her.]] She turns around just in time to see Titus throw a burlap sack over her head.

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** [[TheCaptain Captain]] [[TheKirk Kirk]] wrote the book on this. His [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries "Corbomite Maneuver"]]--getting an enemy to stand down by claiming that ''Enterprise'' is carrying a substance that would reflect any attack on the ship back at the attacker--from the eponymous episode was so effective that he even used it again in ''The Deadly Years''.
*** In ''The Enterprise Incident'', Kirk is assigned to recover a Romulan cloaking device so that Starfleet can study it. How does Kirk go about it? By convincing everyone that he's [[PlausibleDeniability lost his mind]], taking the ''Enterprise'' into the Neutral Zone so that he can get captured by a Romulan ship, steal theirs, and somehow get it and himself back onboard ''Enterprise''. It works. 
** In ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': There is an upcoming social with a boring senior officer who is infamous for his small talk, but nearly everyone in the senior Bridge crew feel obliged to bite their tongue and prepare to endure him. Suddenly, Lt. Worf suddenly outright asks to be excused and Capt. Picard gives him permission. Lt. [=LaForge=], seeing that TheCaptain apparently doesn't mind people asking, immediately requests permission himself, but Picard cuts him off saying that he cannot excuse his entire staff and Worf beat him to it. At that, Worf beams with a smug "You snooze, you lose!" look.
** ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' has several of these most of what Garak says is either this or some sort of euphemism .The straightest example would be the genetically enhanced "Jack Pack" escaping from their space age looney bin and traveling halfway across the galaxy to one of the most secure outposts in the quadrant in the middle of a war, simply by donning Star Fleet uniforms, making one of their own an Admiral and having him answer any and all questions with "That's a stupid question".

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** [[TheCaptain Captain Kirk]]
***The [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries "Corbomite Maneuver"]]--getting an enemy to stand down by claiming that ''Enterprise'' is carrying a substance that would reflect any attack on the ship back at the attacker--from the eponymous episode was so effective that he even used it again in ''The Deadly Years''.
*** In ''The Enterprise Incident'', Kirk is assigned to recover a Romulan cloaking device so that Starfleet can study it. How does Kirk go about it? By convincing everyone that he's [[PlausibleDeniability lost his mind]], taking the ''Enterprise'' into the Neutral Zone so that he can get captured by a Romulan ship, steal theirs, and get it and himself back onboard ''Enterprise''.
** In ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': There is an upcoming social with a boring senior officer who is infamous for his small talk, but everyone in the senior Bridge crew feel obliged to bite their tongue and prepare to endure him. Suddenly, Lt. Worf suddenly outright asks to be excused and Capt. Picard gives him permission. Lt. [=LaForge=], seeing that TheCaptain apparently doesn't mind people asking, immediately requests permission himself, but Picard cuts him off saying that he cannot excuse his entire staff and Worf beat him to it. At that, Worf beams with a smug "You snooze, you lose!" look.
** ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' has several of these. The straightest example would be the genetically enhanced "Jack Pack" escaping from their space age looney bin and traveling halfway across the galaxy to one of the most secure outposts in the quadrant in the middle of a war, simply by donning Star Fleet uniforms, making one of their own an Admiral and having him answer any and all questions with "That's a stupid question".

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* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'': the whole Ariel episode but especially Simon's famous DrillSergeantNasty on the incompetent doctor.
** River in "Objects In Space". So, you've got a BountyHunter sneaking onto the ship and threatening your crew. You do the last thing ''anyone'' expects: you use your PsychicPowers to ''[[SpaceshipGirl merge with the ship]]'', read the bounty hunter's mind and screw with his head and completely flip over everyone's perceptions regarding reality. Then, just when he starts to realize that maybe you're feeding him a line of bullshit about the entire thing to screw with him, you let slip a single word that makes him realize that you ''hijacked his ship right out from under him''. The sheer audacity of the repeated mindscrews and flipping the tables on the hijacker is enough to turn him from a confident predator to a nervous wreck, but the real kicker comes afterward, when, despite being in total control, River ''surrenders'', and the desperate bounty hunter is so off-guard that he just takes ''this'' sudden swerve by the crazy psychic ninja-girl at face value, which leads him right into your ambush.
* In the ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' Season 4 episode "Monster Movie," which is a hilarious AffectionateParody of old monster movies, the ShapeShifter does this by turning into various old BMovie monsters, such as {{Dracula}}, Film/TheWolfMan1941, and a cheesy mummy. The murders are such a giant ClicheStorm that no one, not even Sam and Dean, can believe that they happened. Going even further, the shapeshifter wants to take on {{Dracula}}'s identity, picking out a pretty blonde to be his Mina Murray (and calls her that); when Dean comes to the girl's aid, the shapeshifter dubs him "Harker" (Jonathan Harker, Mina's fiance); he even calls Sam "Van Helsing" (like the Professor, not the Hugh Jackman character). He also built a giant dungeon out of wood and cardboard ''in his basement''.

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* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'': 
** ''Ariel'' episode shows Simon's DrillSergeantNasty on the incompetent doctor.
** River in "Objects In Space". So, you've got a BountyHunter sneaking onto the ship and threatening your crew. You do the last thing ''anyone'' expects: you use your PsychicPowers to ''[[SpaceshipGirl merge with the ship]]'', read the bounty hunter's mind and screw with his head and flip over everyone's perceptions regarding reality. Then, just when he starts to realize that maybe you're feeding him a line of bullshit , you let slip a single word that makes him realize that you ''hijacked his ship right out from under him''. The sheer audacity of the repeated mindscrews and flipping the tables on the hijacker is enough to turn him from a confident predator to a nervous wreck, but the real kicker comes afterward, when, despite being in total control, River ''surrenders'', and the desperate bounty hunter is so off-guard that he takes ''this'' sudden swerve by the crazy psychic ninja-girl at face value, which leads him right into an ambush.
* In the ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''
** Season 4 episode "Monster Movie," which is an AffectionateParody of old monster movies, the ShapeShifter does this by turning into various old BMovie monsters, such as {{Dracula}}, Film/TheWolfMan1941, and a cheesy mummy. The murders are such a ClicheStorm that no one, not even Sam and Dean, can believe that they happened. Going even further, the shapeshifter wants to take on {{Dracula}}'s identity by picking out a pretty blonde to be his Mina Murray (and calls her that); when Dean comes to the girl's aid, the shapeshifter dubs him "Harker" (Jonathan Harker, Mina's fiance); he calls Sam "Van Helsing" (like the Professor, not the Hugh Jackman character). He also built a giant dungeon out of wood and cardboard ''in his basement''.

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* On the sixth-season finale of ''Series/{{Survivor}}'', Jeff took the votes for the winner, went down to the shore and got on a jet ski. Then he's seen riding the jet ski past a freighter on the open ocean, then riding it up to Manhattan, where the reunion was about to be held. There's no WAY anyone actually believed he crossed the ocean on a jet ski, but that was the whole point. It was so audacious the audience couldn't help but love it.
* ''Series/TheATeam'' From driving a garbage truck through the wall of a Mob-boss' club (and dumping the contents on the floor), to turning a forklift into a tank that shoots lumber, to fashioning a hot-air balloon out of a vacuum-cleaner and trash-bags to break out of prison, practically all of the A-Team's plans go like this. As explained in-universe "Hannibal's plans never work like they're supposed to. They just work."
* ''BostonLegal'' Nearly every episode features the audacious antics of [[BunnyEarsLawyer Alan Shore]] and [[WilliamShatner Denny Crane]]. The latter of the two has come very close to having his name taken off the door because of his hi-jinx, despite being a founding partner, while the former wins most of his (usually unconventional) cases by "pulling a rabbit out of a hat" (Denny's "life advice"). As explained in-universe by Mr. Shore, "the conventional ones won't have me".
* Though they never actually sent it, here's the word-for-word text of a letter ''TheYoungOnes'' [[TooManyCooksSpoilTheSoup wrote collectively]], to persuade Neil's bank manager to give him an extension on his overdraft:
--> "Darling fascist bullyboy,
--> Give me some more money, you bastard.
--> May the seed of your loins be fruitful in the belly of your woman,
--> Neil"

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* On the sixth-season finale of ''Series/{{Survivor}}'', Jeff took the votes for the winner, went down to the shore and got on a jet ski. Then he's seen riding the jet ski past a freighter on the open ocean, then riding it up to Manhattan, where the reunion was about to be held. There's no WAY anyone believed he crossed the ocean on a jet ski, but that was the whole point. It was so audacious the audience couldn't help but love it.
* ''Series/TheATeam'' From driving a garbage truck through the wall of a Mob-boss' club (and dumping the contents on the floor), to turning a forklift into a tank that shoots lumber, to fashioning a hot-air balloon out of a vacuum-cleaner and trash-bags to break out of prison, all of the A-Team's plans go like this. As explained in-universe "Hannibal's plans never work like they're supposed to. They just work."
* ''BostonLegal'' Most episode features the audacious antics of [[BunnyEarsLawyer Alan Shore]] and [[WilliamShatner Denny Crane]]. The latter of the two has come very close to having his name taken off the door because of his hi-jinx, despite being a founding partner, while the former wins most of his (usually unconventional) cases by "pulling a rabbit out of a hat" (Denny's "life advice"). As explained in-universe by Mr. Shore, "the conventional ones won't have me".

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* The guys of ''Series/ImpracticalJokers'' get away with most of their antics in this way. Possibly the boldest is when the guys are challenged to cut the Broadway ticket line, attempts being made with pretending to know someone up front doesn't work, trying to insinuate into a group doesn't work, but walking past and saying "I don't do lines" miraculously ''does''.
* ''TheGreatestAmericanHero'' Everyman Ralph Hinkley has a bright, garish super suit that he doesn't know how to operate, so when he tries to fly he often smashes through windows...or walls, and ends up in rooms full of surprised people. To make this seem not strange at all he often does over the top actions to cover it up, like once he comes out spinning and flourishing his cape in front of a crowd and shouts "Ta-Da!" and they all applaud, or another he crashes into a hotel lobby and stands up and starts shouting "Call for Mr.Henderson, paging Mr.Henderson!" as he walks through the crowded lobby and out the front door. 
* MontyPython has a sketch where a certain Mr. Hilter (and his pals Ron Vibbentrop and Beinrich Bimmler) are living in Somerset, Mr. Hilter running as the National-Bocialist candidate in the upcoming elections. And then they ''go through town'' in full costume shouting angrily in faux-German.

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