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10	* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' has a ''literal'' example of refuge in Book 3 when Zuko has joined their team and they're hiding out in the Fire Nation... ''at Zuko's family's summer home''. Even though the rest of the team doesn't like the idea, Zuko points out that it's such a stupid place to try and hide that nobody would ever look for them there, and his family hasn't used it in ages. ''It works''.
11	* ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'': Diane, whose job-of-the-moment is maintaining celebrity Twitter accounts, accidentally tweets that pop star Sextina Aquafina is getting an abortion when she herself is the one doing so. As Sextina is very much ThePrimaDonna, Diane at first thinks she'll be in hot water until Sextina, believing that there is NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity, sees it as an opportunity to assert herself as a pro-choice activist. She does so by releasing a [[CrossesTheLineTwice gleefully violent song and music video]] called "Get Dat Fetus Kill Dat Fetus" where she brandishes a machine gun, and following a televised interview stages her own abortion to be broadcast on live television despite not actually being pregnant. [[spoiler: At the end of the episode, Sextina discovers she is actually pregnant but wants to keep the baby, so Diane and Princess Carolyn decide to have her PutOnABus with the eventual goal of pretending she adopted her biological child.]]
12	* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'';
13	** Don Karnage's entire modus operandi relies on this, where he and his crew put on a pre-choreographed musical number that spells out how he's robbing people. [[AllPartOfTheShow This leaves his victims so confused that they don't so much as say a word of protest]] until after he's already left with their cargo.
14	** Scrooge is FakingTheDead to draw out his ArchEnemy, Flintheart Glomgold. When Glomgold shows up for the funeral for his LastDisrespects, it's in a gaudy sparkling suit, complete with dollar-sign sunglasses. Glomgold even twerks in front of Scrooge's coffin. All while set to "All I Do Is Win" by Music/DJKhaled. The other guests are furious, but are also so shocked by Glomgold's audacity that no one does anything but scowl.
15	** During an invasion from the Moon, after General Lunaris has thwarted all of Scrooge's attempts to stop the invasion as Lunaris spent months studying Scrooge to predict his responses, Lunaris's plan to push Earth out of orbit is defeated by a scheme concocted by Glomgold, as the scheme- involving a giant catapult, sharks in parkas, and Scrooge dressed as Santa Claus- was so ridiculous that Lunaris wasted time wondering what kind of plan the scheme was hiding so that he missed the opportunity to actually react to it.
16	* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', Timmy and a juvenile Catman skip school and are pursued by the authorities. Catman comes up with an idea to hide in Timmy's treehouse, based on the logic that it's so obvious no one would suspect it. [[spoiler:It doesn't work.]]
17	* PlayedForLaughs in a ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' CutawayGag, in which Peter is dressed as a clown while patrolling a jungle with a group of soldiers in camouflage.
18	-->"You're all stupid. See they're going to be looking for army guys."
19	** In "Road To Europe", Brian and Stewie are stranded in the Middle East and want to by a camel but have no local currency. So they perform a surprisingly well choreographed impromptu musical number, as it goes on they start using items from the market as props and the locals join in. It ends with them riding off into the dessert on a camel while everyone cheers, the owner of the camel only realising they didn't pay after they left.
20	* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' has a subversion when Arnold accidentally switches bags with an elderly woman with pink hair and a peg leg. Everyone assumes that he's doing this, but it actually turns out to be true when the woman comes and returns the bag to him.
21	* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'': {{Area 51}} only leaks information that is 100% true so that the public at large [[CassandraGambit doesn't believe that the stuff that goes on there is actually happening]].
22	* In the ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' episode "Tankin' it to the Streets", the otherwise ButtMonkey Bill Dauterive does this while trying to return a tank he stole from his army base while drunk. A few miles short of their goal, they are pulled over by two police officers. Bill, his arm in a cast and wearing nothing but his boxers, emerges from the tank and convinces the two officers that they should forget ever having seen the tank. He gets the female officer of the duo to go on a date with him.
23	* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Noveltoon\|s}}'' [[https://youtu.be/AQlhkEUHUM4 Chew Chew Baby]], about [[BlackComedy a cannibal in the big city]], runs entirely on this and a decidedly boorish [[UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist primary viewpoint character]].
24	* This is part of the reason the titular boys in ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' are able to get away with most of their [[OnceAnEpisode once-an-episode]] schemes. Any attempt by Candace to bust her brothers is futile because besides the laws of universe working against her to remove any physical evidence, nobody will believe that two kids to be capable of the boys' endeavors.
25	** Phineas takes advantage of this trope to gain adult help with their constructions. They'll usually ask, "aren't you a little too young to be doing [insert whatever the boys are doing]?" Phineas will simply reply, "Yes, yes I am." ''Everyone'' just goes with it.
26	** By the third season seemingly everyone except their mother is fully aware of what's going on, including their father and grandparents. It's just that nobody cares.
27	* ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'' episode "Goodnight and Good Chuck" features a completely unintentional example on behalf of the characters. [[KentBrockmanNews Chuck Charles]]-- having been kicked out of his news anchor job, replaced by a guy named "Pete Peters", and reduced to working at the zoo-- determines the Penguins' secret commando nature through his [[AwesomenessByAnalysis "reporter eye"]], and decides to steal a CD containing all their files to use for a scoop worthy enough to get back his job. After the Penguins try and fail to prevent Chuck from making it to the studio, and after Pete Peters swipes the CD from Chuck to boost his own career, the Penguins' secret exploits and operations are finally exposed to the world… and they just happen to be ''so'' chaotic, absurd and over-the-top that ''literally no one'' thinks they're any more than just amusing cartoon puppets. As a result, Pete Peters is fired for sharing a "fake news story", Chuck Charles gets his job back, and the penguins' secret lives remain as safe as they've ever been.
28	-->'''Skipper:''' Well, how about that? This whole time, the perfect cover story was ''no'' cover story!
29	* Almost OnceAnEpisode, a human tells ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' that they don't look like whatever they're supposed to be disguised as. Brain invariably responds by [[SarcasticConfession saying that they're megalomaniacal escaped lab mice]], which leads to the questioner to either laughing it off or brushing them off as weirdos. In either case the questioner lets them go without another word.
30	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''
31	** Infamously in the episode "22 Short Films About Springfield", when Superintendent Chalmers notices a fire raging in Skinner's kitchen, the latter claims it's actually the Aurora Borealis. Despite some initial disbelief ("At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized ''entirely'' within your kitchen?!"), Skinner is so sure of himself that Chalmers ''completely buys it'', even asking to see it.
32	-->'''Chalmers:''' May I see it?
33	--> '''Skinner:''' ...No.
34	** The FBI is fond of this trope when spying on the citizens of Springfield, adorning their surveillance vans with graphics that say things like "'''F'''lowers '''B'''y '''I'''rene", "Two Guys from Quantico Pizza",[[note]][[DontExplainTheJoke The FBI headquarters are located in Quantico, VA]], just outside of Washington D.C.[[/note]] or simply "ORDINARY VAN".
35	* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
36	** In "Dances With Smurfs", Cartman accuses Wendy of slaughtering a Smurf village for Smurfberries to power the school. Her response? [[spoiler:She goes along with the story, and quits her position as student council president, so Cartman can be put there and the Casey Kasem-sounding kid can get his job as morning announcer. She even set Cartman up to look like he was an undercover spy that worked for her to infiltrate the smurf village.]] And got it made into the movie ''{{Film/Avatar}}''.
37	** "A Ladder to Heaven": Saddam Hussein plots to bomb Heaven with nuclear missiles. In a brilliant stroke of reverse psychology (or, rather, reverse-reverse psychology), he makes his nuclear weapons plant look like a chocolate-chip cookie factory. God, who rightly suspects that Saddam would never attempt anything as harmless as just making chocolate-chip cookies, points out that what Saddam is building looks an awful lot like a weapons plant to him. Saddam's response? "Look, if I were going to build a weapons plant, I wouldn't make it look like a weapons plant. [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments I'd make it look like a chocolate-chip cookie factory, or something.]]" God falls for this boneheaded line, and leaves Saddam alone to continue his project!
38	** "Ginger Kids": When the gang gets fed up of Cartman picking on ginger kids they dye his hair red in his sleep to teach him a lesson. Tricked into believing that he was now a ginger but unwilling to admit that his actions were wrong, Cartman rallies the other ginger kids into a 'red power' movement so that they can round up and kill all the non-gingers. Just before Kyle can be executed he whispers the truth to Cartman, who then manages to persuade the room full of bloodthirsty redheads that his views have flipped 180 from what he had been advocating just seconds earlier, and he ultimately gets the room dancing and singing about tolerance and harmony. [[OnlySaneMan One of the gingers]] makes the connection between Kyle's whisper and Cartman's change of heart, but he's overruled.
39	** "Here Comes the Neighborhood": When Token gets lonely being the only rich kid around, he convinces other rich families to move to South Park. They just happen to all be black. The South Park folks try to get rid of them by, among other things, lighting a lower-case "t" on fire in one of their lawns (for "'''t'''ime to go") forcing them to sit in the ''front'' of the bus, and dressing up in white sheets with pointy heads (because there's nothing rich people fear more than ghosts). Throughout the whole episode, race is never brought up; the persecution is only for being rich. [[spoiler:Until the very end. After they drive the rich people out of town, Mr. Garrison wants to sell their mansions and become millionaires, and the others call him out because then that would make ''them'' rich, and become the very thing they hate. Mr. Garrison replies with, "At least we got rid of all those damn ni--([[CurseCutShort End Credits]])"]]
40	** "Kyle's Mom is a Bitch" is this combined with OverlyLongGag. However, the main gag is the fact that he starts ''really'' going into the insults when [[RightBehindMe Kyle's mom is standing right behind him]]. It's the ''jazz hands'' at the end while Kyle's mom is standing right behind him that really sell the final punch.
41	** "It Hits the Fan" intentionally did this on a level with the Comedy Central executives. After an episode of NYPD Blue said shit on primetime television, Matt and Trey asked if SP could. They were told no, and then asked "but what if we said it like...200 times within a single episode?" The member of the censor board thought that such a thing would be so over the top that no one could take it seriously, and so he let them do it.
42	** "Butterballs": No one suspects that Butter's ''grandma'' is the one bullying him. A school administrator is easily tricked into thinking that Butters lured his grandma into the boys bathroom.
43	* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'':
44	** In [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS2E3ChildrenOfTheForce "Children of the Force"]], BountyHunter Cad Bane kidnaps a Rodian Force-sensitive infant from his mother by disguising himself as a Jedi and claiming he has to take the child from her because ''impostors posing as Jedi'' have been kidnapping other children.
45	** In [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS7E8TogetherAgain "Together Again"]], Trace and Rafa Martez are given a chance to retrieve the [[FantasticDrug spice]] they were contracted to deliver to the Pyke Syndicate, with Ahsoka being held as leverage. Since the spice the sisters were supposed to deliver is likely forever lost in space (and admitting that to the Pykes would likely get them killed), Rafa gets another shipment of spice for the Pykes by stealing it from the Pykes themselves (specifically, one of their other shipping docks).
46	* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'': In "The Main Man", Lois confronts Clark about his enormous success in getting stories. Clark straight up confesses to Lois about his identity as Superman and how he uses it to get leads, even going so far as to [[ClarkKenting lower his glasses]] while doing so. Lois scoffs at him and walks away.
47	-->'''Lois''': You're a sick man, Kent. \
48	'''Clark''': You asked.
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