The Amazing World of Gumball: Miss Simian corrects the kids that she is not retiring, and catches Mr. Small in the crowd with a party hat and noisemaker. When she questions him on it, he attempts to lie his way out, claiming he thought it was a fire drill, then once he realizes he's not getting out of this one, simply shoos the kids back inside.
American Dad!: Roger believes he was chosen to be sent to Earth to determine the fate of humanity. Until decades later when Stan discovers a note from his superiors that reveals that Roger's real purpose was to be a crash-test dummy for spaceships and they thought Roger wouldn't survive the impact, Roger immediately falls into a Villainous BSoD, spending several months in his attic full of depression.
Aqua Teen Hunger Force: At least 95% that comes out of Master Shake's mouth fits this trope. A great example happens after Shake buys Frylock a $3099 computer even though Frylock only wanted the one for $199.
Frylock: And remember when I got the bill? Shake: No, I sure don't. [flashback] Frylock: Where the hell is Shake? Meatwad: He says, "I'm moving to Mexico 'til all this bill business chills out." [flashback ends] Shake: I have never said that. I have never even said those words. Meatwad: Oh really? [flashback] Shake: I'm going to Mexico 'til all this bill business chills out. [flashback ends] Shake: You can't prove that I said that. Meatwad: Oh yeah? Well, what do you think of this? [Meatwad puts in tape] Shake: I'm going to Mexico 'til all this bill business chills out. [tape ends] Meatwad: I have hidden cameras everywhere.
In the Arthur episode "The Squirrels", Arthur and Buster see a horror movie about squirrels taking over the world. At first, Arthur doesn't want to admit he's afraid, so when he turns the lights on at night, he tells Buster that the darkness was hurting his eyes and that it happens sometimes to people who wear glasses.
The trailer for Arthur Christmas has an elf blatantly denying everything the viewer sees on screen:
Go away! There's nothing to see. That's not Santa's son. And I am not an elf. There's nothing up here. Or down there. There's no army of 1.6 million elves planning the delivery of 2 billion gifts in one night. That's just a story for kids!
In Avatar: The Last Airbender, Azula demonstrates that she's too sociopathic to be read by Living Lie Detector Toph by announcing "I am a 400-foot tall purple platypus bear with pink horns and silver wings."
Whenever Azula is about to break his sanity, Zuko reminds himself "Azula always lies". The real problem is that sometimes her stories about her evil deeds might actually be true. The final words before their (apparently) final battle to the death go simply: "I'm sorry it has to end this way, brother." — "No, you're not."
Long Feng and the Dai Li force Ba Sing Se to repeat the lie that the war does not exist and keeps it from the Earth King. If they don't, then they are expelled from the city, brainwashed, or worse.
Dai Li: There is no war in Ba Sing Se.
Long Feng is reduced to this when desperate, claiming that the massive war machine sticking out of the city's outer wall is actually a construction project. When someone points out the massive Fire Nation insignia painted on the roof, he tries to pass it off as not wanting to rely on local work. Even the Earth King can tell he's lying.
Aang does this to a point but not like Azula's. He has lied about being the Avatar, lied about knowing Jin Wei and Wei Jin (he turns a conflict into a game), and lied about plenty of other things.
Bruce himself has a few including telling Red Tornado that the android didn't startle him after Red Tornado surprised him by coming from behind and saying his interest in Catwoman is purely for her to do a Heel–Face Turn.
The Spectre lies his ass off when The Phantom Stranger confronts him about a piece of debris killing Joe Chill after Batman refused to kill him for killing Bruce's parents with the implication that the Spectre did it.
Despite claiming otherwise, it's clear the Rogues miss The Flash after he's missing and presumed dead.
Bromwell High: In "No More Teachers", Iqbal pulls out a shotgun to shoot the monkey that's teaching the class. He claims that it's a tranquilizer gun and that it will just put it to sleep despite it clearly being a shotgun and blowing the monkey's head off with it.
Iqbal: And now, I will take him to the zoo. (dead monkey falls over)
Camp Lazlo: Raj resorts to an increasingly improbable series of lies to explain Clam's absence in "Where's Clam?", culminating in him attempting to claim that a traffic cone and a bag of chips is Clam, and then that Clam is invisible and flying.
CatDog: In "CatDogPig", when the duo is going through a Terrible Interviewees Montage to find a third member, the second interviewee claims that he "absolutely, positively, 110% is not a kleptomaniac" as his trench coat is blatantly full of various objects.
Centaurworld: In "Johnny Teatime's Be Best Competition: A Quest for the Sash", "I Don't Know Him" consist of Zulius and Splendib claiming that they don't know each other, although it's clear that they know each other quite well and have a bitter rivalry over the Be Best Competition.
In Season 1 "Squirrel, Interrupted", when Bitsy tells Brendan that Anton, her brother's assistant, was accidentally locked inside the broom closet downstairs and he needs to be free, Brendan opens the door and sees Anton Bound and Gagged, courtesy of Helen.
In Season 1 "Hot Oven", Helen tries to get Shampagne to bite Bitsy by trying to upset him. When Bitsy asks Helen what she's doing, she tell her Augustus is causing the disruption despite doing nothing and Helen is seen doing it.
In Season 1 "Live It Up Tonight", when Bitsy asks Mayor Whitebottom if he already sent someone to dig up dirt on the park's management, Whitebottom replies yes and quickly texts something on his phone. Bitsy asks if he's just doing it now, Whitebottom claims he's checking his horoscope but Helen looks at his phone and reveals he forgot to send someone to dig up dirt.
Clue Club's Dotty, Once per Episode, would come up with a "perfectly good excuse" why she had come to join the gang for the big reveal of whodunit. These excuses ranged from delivering a sweater to her sister (who already wore one as part of her Limited Wardrobe), showing the Sheriff where to go (it was a crime scene he had already been to), wanting to find out what D.D. wanted for his birthday (six months away), and wanting to tell Larry that he was right that her excuse of entering her chocolate fudge in the County Fair would have been too transparent a lie, and she needed to swing by to tell him that in person.
The only time she subverts this is when Larry, Pepper and D.D. are locked in a "walking" house, prompting Larry to signal Dotty at home base in hopes she calls the police. Dotty and the dogs, Woofer and Wimper, trek to the house in a plan to rescue the others. And Dotty does have the foresight to call the police.
Larry: Little one, I adore you!
Code Lyoko. During any XANA attack while the gang is in class, they would ask to go to the infirmary every time. You'd think that after, let's say, the millionth XANA attack and infirmary excuse the teachers would get a little suspicious that they aren't sick.
Somewhat averted in the first season, when they would use a Return to the Past to erase the events of that day; so, the teachers wouldn't remember most incidents (though obviously Jim noticed).
Possibly the excuse was easier to buy due to the fact that the infirmary at this school actually saw a lot more legitimate use than the typical school infirmary did, mostly due to XANA's attacks and complications involving them (which leads to the question of just why parents seemed unconcerned about how safe the place was).
There was at least one later subversion, where the teacher didn't buy it and forced the gang to stay put. Oddly enough, it was one of the less-seen teachers, too.
Jeremie: Ma'am, can I go to the bathroom? Ulrich, and then Odd: Me, too. Mrs. Hertz: Oh, no, you don't. It's always the same with you three. You should have gone before class.
In almost every episode of Danny Phantom, when startled for one reason or another, Danny will yell out, "It's a lie, I'm not a ghost!"
In the Dora the Explorer episode "Benny's Treasure", Swiper follows after Dora, Boots, and Benny disguised as a trash bin. When Boots notices him following them and Dora realizes that he's not a trash bin at all, he's quick to retort "Yes I am! I'm just a trash can!"
Kuzco gets a lot of these. No-one believes the majority of the lies he tries to pull off, but he's usually much too self-centered and over-confident to realize this. However, there are times when he even he realizes that he told a bad lie and proceeds by breaking the fourth wall to inform the audience of this.
Played with hilariously when he tries to get rid of the handsome rock star Dirk Brock in the Musical episode, only to find he can't come up with anything... at first.
Kuzco: Woo-hoo! I did it! I sand-bagged Dirk Brock! Malina: Kuzco, what are you doing!? Kuzco: ...Uhhhhhhhh— [breaks the fourth wall to try and think of something] Think, Kuzco! Think! Thinkety-think-think-think-think... GOT IT! [starts playing the episode again] ...Uhhh. I meant to say I saved Dirk Brock! From a ravenous, rabid sand-bag! Malina: Done? Kuzco: Yep. Malina: HOW COULD YOU!?
In earlier episodes, whenever Timmy would wish for something he would be completely unable to obtain under non-magical circumstances, to avoid revealing Cosmo and Wanda's existence, he claims he purchased it off the Internet. In one episode, while trying to explain to his two friends why he was suddenly rich, he tried both an inheritance claim, and the usual claim, before settling on "I inherited the Internet!"note A later episode showing the same events from the friends' perspective shows that they didn't buy it.
Another version, with singer Chip Skylark: "What? Dude, how'd we get here so fast?" "Um... the power of music?" "Rock on!"
Weirdness is turned Up to Eleven when Vicky wants to get married to Chip Skylark. Where does she find a justice of the peace willing to marry a pop idol to his crazed teenage fan against his will? "On the Internet!"... Which implies that you really can get anything and everything on the Internet.
In one episode, when his parents fear he's shoplifted all the stuff he's wished for (the true shoplifter was Francis), his dad calls him out on the lie:
Dad: Where did you get all these nice things? Timmy: Uhh...Internet? Dad: Andwheredid you get the Internet? Timmy: Uhh...uhh... [shortly afterwards]
Timmy: If you don't believe me, we can use my new lie detector! Dad: Say! Where'd you get the nice lie detector, son? Timmy: Uhh... Internet? Detector: [BUZZ!!]
Another time, he tries to tell Tootie that he's not interested in girls. This was after it was established he had a crush on Trixie Tang, and he flirted with other girls during the series.
In another episode, Timmy's parents are going on a business trip... to a resort that has several features that are clearly labeled as "not business".
Wanda's attempts to deny that she doesn't know Juandissimo are so blatant, Timmy sees right through it.
The theme song is about how TV and movies no longer have values and it makes you think this is going to have those. Instead the theme song opens up to a Black Comedy filled with Toilet Humour.
Played with in the Family Guy episode "Road to Rhode Island":
Brian: Hola! Um... me, me llamo es Brian. Ahh, uh, um... Let's see, uh, nosotros queremos ir con ustedes. Migrant worker: Hey, that was pretty good. Except when you said, "Me llamo es Brian," you don't need the "es", just "me llamo Brian". Brian: Oh! So you speak English! Migrant worker: No, just that first speech and this one explaining it. Brian: You... you're kidding, right? Migrant worker: Que?
In "The Story on Page One", when mind controlled by Stewie, Chris says he wants a buzz saw capable of cutting through the human sternum for Latin class.
Taken to an extreme in "Chitty Chitty Death Bang" after Peter gets banned from the local Suck E. Cheese's. When he tries to explain to Lois why they lost their reservation at Cheesie Charlie's Brian pulls up a chair saying that these stories are "always classic". His excuse: the owners are murderous, cannibalistic Nazis who captured Peter and Chris. Fortunately Peter was able to escape by turning into the Incredible Hulk. When Lois has finally had enough of Peter's lies Brian gives a golf clap while saying that Peter is "The Spalding Gray of crap."
After farting in an elevator during a Cutaway Gag in the same episode, Peter says to the guy next to him, "Uh... it was you."
In "Love, Blactually" Brian tries to get Cleveland to go back to Loretta after his date leaves him for Cleveland. When Peter notes that Brian is just saying that to get his date back, Brian denies it and says that he thinks Loretta is really beautiful. Lois then asks him if he really believes that and Brian says he does while his nose grows as he continues to praise Loretta.
In "Road to Rhode Island", Stewie catches Brian in a drunken stupor at a bar. Brian tries to deny it, claiming he has a speech impediment. He starts vomiting, which he quickly explains as him having a stomach virus. Then he collapses from his seat, upon which he blames on an inner ear infection.
Farnsworth's main catchphrase is "Good news, everyone!", when the news is almost invariably something along the lines of "your next mission is to fly directly into the sun." No-one believes it, though, not even him.
Farnsworth: Good news everyone, I'm being brought up on disciplinary charges! Wait, that isn't good news at all!
And:
Farnsworth: Now, I've often said "good news" when sending you on a mission of extreme danger. So when I say this anomaly is dangerous, you can imagine how dangerous I really think it is. Hermes: Not dangerous at all? Farnsworth: Actually, quite dangerous indeed. Hermes: That is quite dangerous! Farnsworth: Indeed.
And:
Farnsworth: Good news, everyone! I'm afraid I have bad news.
Farnsworth: Good news, everyone! Bender: Uh oh, I don't like the sound of this. Farnsworth: Today, you'll be delivering a package to Trisol... Bender: Here it comes. Farnsworth: A mysterious planet in the darkest depths of the Forbidden Zone. Bender: Thank you, and good night.
In "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back", Hermes has spent the day getting his office in top condition ready for an inspection, only for Bender to be chased in there and savagely beaten by a group of people whom he'd cheated at cards. When Hermes walks in and sees Bender lying in the wrecked office, the robot claims, "It was ghosts! Big ones! [beat] And a tornado!"
In the same episode, Fry thinks he's in trouble for having a disgusting mess in his locker, and claims "This is the other Fry's locker! I'm Phry with a P-H!"
The "Wolverine" short of Hulk Vs. sees Sabretooth and Lady Deathstrike claim Wolverine mauled the Professor after Sabretooth did it so they could kill Wolverine instead of honoring the Professor's wish to keep Wolverine alive. The only remote callout about it is Deadpool and Omega Red exchanging disbelieving glances at each other and Deadpool mocking the lie before all four team-up to kill Wolverine.
In Invader Zim, Zim claims his green skin and lack of ears is due to a skin condition. This is to assist in his Clark Kenting more than anything else. "LIES!" is actually one of Zim's favorite words.
In an early episode of Ivanhoe: The King's Knight, Front-de-Boeuf is ordered by Prince John to tell a worried Lady Rowena that Ivanhoe died from his wounds gained in a tournament.
The Peanuts special It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown! has a rather cruel example: Lucy denies being willing to pull the football in the midst of a football game, but does anyway. And even though LUCY caused the team to lose, the blame is redirected towards Charlie Brown, resulting in her cover being saved by sheer idiocy.
Whenever Heloise does something that Jimmy disapproves of, she puts on Puppy-Dog Eyes and says something along the lines of "I feel bad about it now." Even Jimmy doesn't fall for it.
In another episode, after Lucius claims that he never breaks his word, Samy shows up with a group of orphans, saying they want to know when he was going to give him the food he promised. Lucius quickly says "Tell them you can't find me." Samy then turns to the kids right next to him and repeats the message. They believe him.
Yet another example: after Jimmy finds all of his money gone, Beezy walks in covered in fur robes and jewelry. "Heloise took it."
And yet again, when Jimmy and Beezy are profiting off the pandas' love of Heloise. Beezy reads poorly off a cue card, while Jimmy acts hurt that she'd think that, while his suit is filled to the brim with money.
In Johnny Bravo, a shark puts on a Nixon Mask at an attempt to eat a contest's worth of surfers and tries to make Johnny his first victim, telling him that he is not a shark. This doesn't work.
In Johnny Test, Dukey the talking dog is explained as being "a kid with a rare hair disorder".
In Episode 135, Kaeloo is exercising and she tells Stumpy that she's trying to work on her quadriceps. It's made abundantly clear that she's actually working on her glutes to get a bigger butt.
In one episode, Kaeloo, Stumpy, and Quack Quack are all waitstaff at a restaurant, and they're each determined to be better than the other two. When Olaf comes to their restaurant, Quack Quack goes to his table and takes his order, but Stumpy runs up, kicks Quack Quack into the air and sends him flying, and screams "FIRST!" despite clearly not having gotten there first.
In Episode 138, Kaeloo asks Stumpy to clean his room. He tells her that a wizard just cast a spell on him and now he can't move.
Suburban daredevil Kick Buttowski tries to pull this off twice, despite his reputation of loving the extreme, awesome and death-defying everyday life that he lives... by telling Kendall he loves sappy, romantic movies and then in a later episode tells Gordie that lipstick is his favorite make-up. Those weren't his only occasions. In Jackie's debut episode, he pretended not to be the extreme death challenger he is so she wouldn't want him any longer.
In Lilo & Stitch: The Series, both big-boned aliens Gantu and Jumba (the latter of which has four eyes, and the former has the head of a shark and is also two stories tall) claim to be from Samoa, thus explaining their size. People believed it.
In "I Didn't Do It", Princess brings a tree branch into the house to make a den for her teddy bear Gilbert but the tree sheds leaves. She tries to clean it up with a mop and bucket of water but spills some water. When the adults see the mess, they believe Scruff the dog had trailed leaves in and peed on the floor. Princess doesn't want Scruff to get the blame but she ain't ready to own up either, so she comes up with "Gilbert did it".
In "I Want to Play Football", Princess plays with her ball inside (which is not allowed) and knocks the head off a statue. This leads to this conversation.
Queen: Sweetheart, do you know what happened? Princes: It was, uh, it was a...uh, it wasn't the General's fault! General: Wasn't it? Princess: No, it was a...it was...the wind! Queen: But there isn't any wind in here, Sweetheart. Princess: No, no, no, nuh-not the wind! Um, it...it was a bird! A big bird. With a nasty beak. *does impression of bird pecking* King: "A bird? In here?!" Princess: "It was a monster!! Uh, a big hairy monster! With boggly eyes! And...and...and, uh" Queen: Sweetheart? Princess: It was a monster! *tearfully* It was!!
In "I Can Keep a Secret", the Princess steals a large cake and claims that it's for Gilbert.
In "I Don't Want to Dance", the Princess is hiding from the Maid who wants to take her to dance class in a bush but her tutu is sticking out. When the Maid finds her, it leads to this.
Maid: Princess? Princess: She's not here.
In "I Don't Want to Kiss Great-Auntie", the adults cannot find the Princess and the great-auntie visits and asks where the Princess is. The Queen says "She's in the..." and everyone else comes up with a different place, the most blatant was the Admiral's one.
Zigzagged in "Fool Coverage", where Daffy tries to sell Porky an insurance policy, claiming it will pay Porky a million dollars if he simply gets a black eye (neglecting to let him hear the fine print, which says "only if it occurs as a result of a stampede of wild elephants running through his house between 3:55 and 4 PM on the Fourth of July, during a hailstorm"). However, when Porky finally buys it, those exact conditions happen and give Porky a black eye; Daffy panics, but then tells him that the clause actually said "a stampede of wild elephants and one baby zebra" (even though he just made up the part about the zebra) - and just then, a baby zebra comes trampling through the room.
One cartoon starring Foghorn Leghorn starts with Henry Hawk talking to his father, who tells young Henry a bunch of wild stories about chickens, telling him that they're wild, ferocious beasts who live in caves. Later, when the elder Hawk goes hunting, he turns to the camera and says, "Hated having to tell the boy all a'them falsehoods about chickens, but it keeps him outta trouble." (Unfortunately, it causes Henry to start trouble.)
One short had the Big Bad Wolf and Little Red Riding Hood in court (it wasn’t entirely clear which one of them was on trial) and the Wolf concocted a story about how Grandma was a fur trader who tried to turn him into a fur coat. How unbelievable was it? All but one of the jurors were wolves, who wanted the wolf to win at the start of the trial. The story was so insulting to the intelligence of the listener that when he was finished, they were ready to side with Red. Seeing that it’s not going well, the wolf says, “If that ain’t the truth, I hope I get run over by a street car!” Guess what happens.
In "There Goes the Neighbourhood", Martha (who's a dog) doesn't want to admit she's made friends with a Cute Kitten and so when Skits (her family's other dog, can't talk) sees her licking him...
Martha: I was just...seeing what he tasted like.
In "Skits Under the Weather", Martha tries to deny that she's scared of thunder despite clearly acting scared. Her excuse is pretty flimsy too.
Martha: I used to be scared of storms too but don't worry. You'll get used to the thunder and the lightning and realise storms aren't scary at all. *thunderclap, she gasps and runs out of the room with Skits following, barking* Skits: *hides under his owners' bed and whines* Woof woof? Martha: *awkwardly* I was just looking for my....um, shoebox. * Skits looks at Martha disbelievingly* Martha: Uh, yeah, that's my favourite shoebox. Oh, I'm not scared" *drags a shoebox out from under the bed but comes back under with it when it thunders again, chuckles awkwardly* "And what better place to spend time with my shoebox than right here? Skits: Woof. Martha: Of course not! Why would I be afraid of a little thunder? Thunder's just a loud noise that happens during a storm. It can't hurt you. * thunderclap, Skits comes out from under the bed* Martha: Where are you going? Skits: Woof...woof woof. Martha: Skits, how can you get away from the thunder? It's everywhere. Skits: Woof woof! Martha: Good luck. Let me know if there's someplace with no thunder. Skits: Woof woof. *leaves* Martha: I'll just stay here, thank you...but not 'cause I'm scared!
Later in that episode:
Helen: He was outside running around in the rain while Martha was hiding under the bed. Martha: Hey, I wasn't hiding! I was just spending time with my shoebox...eh, it's a long story.
Molly of Denali: In "Hus-keys," Tooey tells Molly he barely noticed her edited voiceover adding, "the keys," to her dialogue, but then when Molly looks away, Tooey visibly winces.
Little Miss Whoops from The Mr. Men Show has a Catchphrase which is a blatant lie: "Oh sure, I'm a trained professional." It's obvious she's not a trained professional. The Phrase Catcher is usually Mr. Bump.
Clark once ripped the door handle to his room in half in a bit of Power Incontinence with his Super-Strength. When asked what happened, Clark claims that the screws came loose... while holding the pieces of the door handle. It was this event that tipped his roommate Jimmy off to Clark's true identity as an alien and later Superman.
Clark claims he simply doesn't have the constitution for being in the army when Sam Lane asks if Clark has ever been in the military. Clark, the most prominent Hunk in the show, is claiming to not be fit enough to join the military.
"Party of One": All of Pinkie's friends make excuses for why they can't attend Gummy's after-birthday party. The one lie she believes? Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash's Stereo Fibbing, saying they were house sitting for a bear that was visiting the beach to "collect seashells/play volleyball/play seashells/collect volleyballs," before Rainbow draws a watch on her foreleg and says "gotta go." All of this was made up on the spot.
"Castle Mane-ia": Applejack and Rainbow Dash repeatedly deny being scared right after running away screaming from what they think is the Pony of Shadows.
"The Beak": Phineas and Ferb are forced to keep their identity a secret from Isabella as it could put her in danger. Thus Phineas has to lie to her and leave her behind to protect her. This strains his relationship with Isabella further, thinking he's let her down.
"Sleepwalk Surprise": Candace is forced to lie to Mom to stop her from seeing what the boys are doing when Jeremy takes part in it.
Pinocchio of course has the moment where the puppet lies which in turn causes his nose to grow. His lies grow so outlandish they climax with him stating that he's been chopped into firewood even though he's clearly in one piece. Even if his nose didn't have the telltale sign of growing, it's more than obvious by this point he isn't telling the truth.
Rango: The titular character wows the crowd in the saloon by claiming to have killed the Jenkins Brothers with one bullet. All seven of them. Well, actually, only the first six were hit by the bullet. The last one died of infection.
Razzberry Jazzberry Jam: Krupa produces some in “Phantom Of The Jam”, after Buddy jumpscared him with a Halloween mask:
Krupa: I wasn’t scared, I was… surprised.
ReBoot: In the very first episode, Megabyte employs several methods of persuasion to convince Bob to open him a portal to the Supercomputer for what is a benign visit.
Bob: [raises an eyebrow and jerks his thumb to the side] And these? ''[cut to large army of infected sprites snapping to attention] Megabyte: Oh, just some, ah, colleagues, to make my visit, shall we say, comfortable.
Robotomy: "From Wretchneya with Love": Most of Blastus' relationship with Shoxana is built on his telling her a series of hastily-concocted and transparently false lies, which are often clearly made up in the act of telling them.
Shoxana: Blastus, you told me this was your house. Who are these people? Blastus: That, honey, is a... good question with an equally good answer, which Thrasher will help me concoct.
Saturday Night Live: The Ambiguously Gay Duo segments of the "Saturday TV Funhouse" segments. It is clear the two main characters (superheroes Ace and Gary) are homosexual partners, particularly with the Ho Yay way they behave and the suggestive items they use (e.g., driving a car shaped like a penis) in fighting crime. The humor comes from their attempts to hide their behavior (none too successfully) and the villains' and others' seemingly obsessive preoccupation with the superheroes' sexual orientation. A common exchange has Ace or Gary — after engaging in obvious homosexual behavior — asking, "What is everybody looking at?" followed by the antagonist(s) answering, "Nothing."
In Season 5 "Episode XCV", Aku tells his scientists that he doesn't care about killing Jack anymore before attending a self-therapy to talk about just that.
Subverted in episode 8 of the same season, when Ashi's clothes get damaged, Jack gets so embarrassed by the former's nudity and decides to give her his gi, claiming that it will protect her from the attacks from the monsters. It was, however, an Accidental Truth, but it was obvious to the viewers that Jack only gave Ashi his gi to protect himself from getting distracted and embarrassed by her nudity.
In Scary Larry, Dracula talks to a reporter about turning a cave into a cultural center. He says he'll humanely relocate the bats while standing in front of city employees with flamethrowers.
Marge: Bart, how could you shock your sister? Bart: My finger slipped. [Bart gets shocked.] Lisa: So did mine!
Principal Skinner constantly uses these against Superintendent Chalmers, which Chalmers somehow always buys. Perhaps the greatest example "22 Short Films About Springfield" (the quote provider in the trope's main page), in which Skinner claims light from his burning kitchen is the "Aurora Borealis":
Chalmers: Aurora Borealis? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, LOCALIZED ENTIRELY WITHIN YOUR KITCHEN?! Skinner: Yes! Chalmers: May I see it? Skinner: No.
And later, as Chalmers is leaving...
Skinner's mother: Seymour! The house is on fire! Skinner: No mother, it's just the Northern Lights.
On the DVD Commentary, the writers acknowledged that this was Superintendent Chalmers' only joke, and they just repeated it over and over again for comedic effect.
Sideshow Bob captures and hypnotizes Bart in "Day of the Jackanapes"; when questioned where he's been his programmed response is "at the Flower Shop." Homer then responds that he was also at the Flower Shop, "getting drunk at the old flower shop."
In "Cape Feare", Sideshow Bob, when questioned about his tattoo, which reads "DIE BART, DIE", claims it says "The Bart, The" in Gratuitous German. Somehow the parole board accepts this grammatically nonsensical explanation.
Then there's Homer frantically instructing his family after stuffing his last-minute tax return with bogus deductions in "The Trouble with Trillions":
Homer: OK...if anyone asks, [Marge requires] twenty four hour nursing care, Lisa's a clergyman, Maggie is seven people, and Bart was wounded in Vietnam!
After Comic Book Guy notes that each customer will receive only one autographed photo of Poochie:
CBG: Kindly make one out to me, and three out to my friend of the same name.
In "Four Great Women and a Manicure"'s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs parody, the dwarves - represented by Moe ("Crabby"), Barney ("Drunky"), Homer ("Hungry"), Burns ("Greedy"), Lenny, Kearney, and Doc("...tor Hibbert") sing a song entitled "Ho Hi," an obvious parody of "Heigh Ho" which includes the lyrics "this song's not like any one you know."
Insurance Agent: Now, before I give you the check, one more question. This place Moe's you left just before the accident. This is a business of some kind? Homer's brain: Don't tell him you were at a bar! But what else is open at night? Homer: It's a pornography store. I was buying pornography. Homer's brain: Heh heh heh. I would'a never thought of that.
In "Lisa's Sax", Homer flashes back to having said to Barney as a kid "Let's Never Drink Again!" Then in the present day he says, holding a beer, "And we never did!" as he proceeds to take a sip.
Done hilariously in "Who Shot Mr. Burns (Part 2)" where Moe took a polygraph test:
Eddie: Did you hold a grudge against Montgomery Burns? Moe: No! (Machine buzzes.) All right, maybe I did. But I didn't shoot him. (Machine dings.) Eddie: Checks out. OK, sir, you're free to go. Moe: Good, 'cause I got a hot date tonight. (Machine buzzes again.)A date. (Buzz) Dinner with friends. (Buzz) Dinner alone. (Buzz) Watching TV alone. (Buzz) All right! I'm going to sit at home and ogle the ladies in the Victoria's Secret catalog. (Buzz) ...Sears catalog. (Ding!) Now would you unhook this already, please? I don't deserve this kind of shabby treatment! (Buzz)
During an Itchy & Scratchy segment in Itchy & Scratchy Land:
Scratchy: Now you be a good Pinnitchyo, and don't-a you lie. Pinnitchyo: I promise I will never hurt you. (Itchy's nose grows suddenly long, spearing Scratchy's eyeball) Scratchy: OUCH-A!
In "Worst Episode Ever", Homer, Bart and Milhouse try to get into Comic Book Guy's store in a Totem Pole Trench. Homer claims to be Shaquille O'Neal before Comic Book Guy rips their cloak off.
In "Homer Defined", Mr. Burns lies through his teeth to Kent Brockman while the nuclear power plant's imminent meltdown is on the news:
Kent: On the line with us now is plant owner C. Montgomery Burns. Mr. Burns? Burns:(alarm blaring in the background) Hello Kent. Right now, skilled nuclear energy technicians are calmly correcting a minor piffling malfunction. (Cut to said power plant workers screaming & running around in a panic) Burns: But I can assure you and the public that there's absolutely no danger whatsoever. Things couldn't be more ship-shape. Smithers: Sir, where's my radiation suit? Burns:(covering the Smithers name tag on the radiation suit he’s wearing) How the hell should I know?!
Homer: I'd like the phone book for Hokkaido, Japan, please. Librarian: Okay. The phone book for Hokkaido, Japan. Homer: Thank you. May I please use your phone? Librarian: Is it a local call? Homer: ...Yes.
Lisa tries to make friends by not acting like her normal self in "Summer of 4 Ft. 2", and accidentally uses the word crustacean in conversation. When asked if she heard it from a teacher, she says she got it from Baywatch.
It is played straight and subverted, as in there have been times when even if someone is telling the truth someone will treat it like a lie. They mostly happens with Cartman when he lies. Here's an example:
Cartman: [Runs in crying] Maaaam! Maaaam! Liane (Cartman's mom): Eric, what's the matter? Cartman: I du-don't wu-wanna go to school tomorrow. Liane: Sweetey? Shh, tell mommy what happened. Cartman: Ku-kyle has a picture of meee! And he's gonna show everyone during show-and-tell and everyone's going to laugh at meeee! Liane: What is the picture of, Eric? Cartman: The last time when Butters spent the night, I was being really nice to hiiim, and I was gonna take a picture of him for his mom to have! Liane: Oh, that's nice. Cartman: When I took the picture, Butters got really hot so he pulled his pyjama bottoms down, and then I tripped and fell down and my mouth landed right on his penis, and then I thought of something funny so I smiled up at the camera and gave like a thumbsup, and then Kyle took the picture from me and he's going to show everybody and make them think I'm gaaaay! (continues sobbing) Liane: Oh there, there Sweetey, it'll be okay! These things happen.
Season 13 episode "Pinewood Derby". Turns out humans don't deserve to be in the interstellar community because of their tendency to this trope.
The card that comes up before each episode reads "All celebrity voices are impersonated.....poorly.", even though the creators have sometimes gotten celebrities to voice themselves, such as Elton John and Meat Loaf.
In "Christian Rock Hard" the owners of Faith Records want to make sure Faith+1 are in it for God and not just the money.
Cartman: "I resent that, sir! I have never done anything in my life just for the money! If I'm lying, may the Lord strike me down right now. Butters: [slowly moves away] Uhm, oh. [leaves his chair]
In "Trapped in the Closet", Tom Cruise gets upset and locks himself inside a closet, leading to a long line of puns about people asking him to come out of the closet and him denying he's in the closet (where his voice is coming from) — up to and including the line "I'm not in here."
In "Tea At The Treedome", SpongeBob repeatedly tells himself that he doesn’t need water while he’s gasping for liquid. The audience knows that it’s a lie.
"Bombad Jedi": Jar Jar finds a Jedi robe in the closet of Padmé's spaceship and wonders who it belongs to. C-3PO's response is... less than convincing.
"I wouldn't... um… know."
"Gone With a Trace": When one of the droids Trace and Ahsoka assembled for Rafa's job goes on a rampage because Trace forgot to attach its Restraining Bolt, Trace claims to Rafa that the situation is just a "test run" while in hot pursuit of the droid.
"Dangerous Debt": Ahsoka engages in some of this while trying to keep her Force powers a secret:
After telekinetically opening the door to their cell, Ahsoka wakes up Rafa, who immediately wants to know how she did it. Ahsoka claims that there was a freak power outage that deactivated the door and the force field.
Later, Ahsoka uses a Force-powered leap to cross a retracted bridge, and passes it off to the Martez sisters as that she's more athletic than she looks. Rafa is skeptical, but has no time to ponder it because of pursuing guards.
Anakin, making a private holocall to Padmé, has Rex stand guard outside the barracks so no one interrupts. When Obi-Wan asks Rex what exactly Anakin is doing in there, he comes up with a half-assed explanation that Anakin is spot-checking his gear for him... without Rex. After Anakin is done, Obi-Wan shoots after him that he hopes he at least said hello to Padmé for him.
Obi-Wan: You'll have to do better than that, Captain.
Wat Tambor claims that the Techno Union has "corporate neutrality", which prevents the Republic from legally taking action against him or trespassing on Techno Union territory. This despite the fact that he's a Separatist Council member, the Techno Union owns most of the companies that build weapons for the Separatists, and he once led a brutal campaign to subjugate Ryloth in the Separatists' name.
Kanan's attempt to pass Zeb off as a "rare, hairless Wookiee" to some stormtroopers goes poorly, although Zeb almost immediately just punches them out.
Agent Kallus clearly does not believe Ezra's claim that his name is "Jabba the Hutt".
In "Noob Kids On The Block", aliens Memnock and Zenblock decide to sleep in late until the afternoon and panic when an alarm goes off to contact their superiors in the Benevolent alliance. They run into the living room in their pajamas and when they contact their superiors, Memnock states that he and Zenblock were not sleeping late when its obvious that they were due to them still wearing their pajamas and Zenblock showing signs of tiredness.
Memnock and Zenblock do it twice in "Noobsitters". The first incident involved them getting into an argument on whether to get watermelon or honeydew from the grocery store with it resulting in using their battle balls to destroy an entire aisle of groceries including the watermelons. They lie to the news network that they were just bystanders and that the watermelons exploded all by themselves. They later wreck a delivery truck that was annoying the Noob and throw the truck into a tree while stating once again that they were just bystanders who caught something very weird.
Sym-Bionic Titan: Octus has to "go to the bathroom" a lot. With his brother and sister. His girlfriend eventually gives up trying to get him to say exactly what they're doing, but she's not too happy about the situation.
In Teen Titans, Starfire is trying to hide Silkie in her room in "Can I Keep Him?"
Raven: So, you and the curtains got in some sort of argument? Starfire: Yes, today is Glorb Glorb, the Tamaranian festival of berating drapery. STUPID CURTAINS!!! (blasts curtains with eye lasers, leaving a gaping hole in the wall). Raven: Aliens.
Thomas & Friends: In Blue Mountain Mystery, when Thomas keeps spotting Luke (a little green engine) around the quarry, he asks the other characters if they know him. Rheneas, Owen, and Merrick all make excuses to not talk to him, but Sir Handel and Rusty insist that Thomas saw a runaway truck and a mountain goat, respectively.
At the conclusion of "Practical Pig," the fourth of the Disney "The Three Little Pigs" cartoons, the two little brothers get caught by Practical Pig's lie-detector machine, and are spanked by it. Practical Pig tells them, "This hurts me more than it does you." The lie-detector reacts accordingly.
In "Get Well, Soon" on Timothy Goes to School, the Franks (two anthropomorphic twin bulldogs) try to drink water directly out of the faucet at school. When Mrs. Appleberry, the substitute teacher, tells them not to, they tell her that "Mrs. Jenkins lets us do it", only for her to pull out a letter from Mrs. Jenkins— "Dear Frank and Frank, Please listen to Mrs. Appleberry and no drinking from the faucet. Signed, Mrs. Jenkins."
Staci, a contestant on Season 4 is best defined by her tendency to continuously tell lies about her relatives inventing things that they clearly didn't invent such as swimming and log cabins. This greatly annoyed her team and it resulted her in becoming the first person voted off Season 4.
In Transformers: Animated, Starscream's clone squadron is based on parts of his own personality. The liar clone (Ramjet) is apparently incapable of saying a word of truth, to the point that it's Opposite Day for him 365 days a year. He introduces himself by claiming to be the original Starscream, to the original Starscream, and then immediately denies ever claiming he said this was true.
Transformers: Prime has a shout-out to the above Star Wars example: while attempting to infiltrate a Decepticon mining operation, Fowler takes the com unit when Breakdown starts demanding an update from the troops. Fowler stammers before mentioning something about calibrations before totally slipping up and asking "How are you?" Of course, this being Breakdown, he doesn't catch on.
In Ugly Americans clone Mark briefly tries to come up with the explanation that the real Mark is actually his twin brother...who lives in a bag in the closet, before giving up, shooting Grimes, and leaving.
In Uncle Grandpa Pizza Steve is the master of this. He claims to have invented elephants, know the President, have thick, luxurious hair, be the master of video games and that he's an expert in Italian karate. The vast majority of the characters believe him. Even the one exception works out for him just fine.
Frequently happens on Vampirina whenever the Hauntleys encounter a situation that would reveal their Secret Identities (especially to Poppy Peepleson's brother Edgar and her mother Edna), so they must think of a lie to protect their lives and not scare the person.
Dermott Fictel has claimed to be, among other things, a master of Jeet Kun Do, a teacher of ninjutsu, an expert with nunchaku, having hands registered as lethal weapons, and being in gangs that fought over whether to call him "The Wolf" or "Psycho." One of the few times he actually got in a fight, he got beaten by Dean in an absolute Wimp Fight. (He claims to have been sick at the time.)
Lance and Dale Hale (parodies of The Hardy Boys) claim that they definitely didn't murder their father; their prints ended up on the murder weapon because one of them forgot not to touch the evidence despite decades of detective training, and the other instinctively reached out to stop him.
