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* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
** ''Literature/InterestingTimes'' does a Reverse on this trope. Rincewind runs into someone from the place he's pretending to be from, and being smart enough to know that his challenger is going to try to trip him up by asking him about a fictional person or location, calls him on it -- only instead the man asked him about a real person whose identity would be very obvious if Rincewind's story was true.
** In ''Literature/{{Jingo}}'', some thieves have taken Angua hostage only to [[MuggingTheMonster be confronted with her wolf shape]]. So they're confessing to ''everything'' Carrot and Reg are suggesting in order to be let out. This happens:
--->'''Carrot:''' We've got them down for everything but the Hide Park Flasher.\\
'''Thief:''' We did that!\\
'''Carrot:''' And that was a woman.
** ''Literature/InterestingTimes'' does a Reverse on this trope. Rincewind runs into someone from the place he's pretending to be from, and being smart enough to know that his challenger is going to try to trip him up by asking him about a fictional person or location, calls him on it -- only instead the man asked him about a real person whose identity would be very obvious if Rincewind's story was true.
** In ''Literature/{{Jingo}}'', some thieves have taken Angua hostage only to [[MuggingTheMonster be confronted with her wolf shape]]. So they're confessing to ''everything'' Carrot and Reg are suggesting in order to be let out. This happens:
--->'''Carrot:''' We've got them down for everything but the Hide Park Flasher.\\
'''Thief:''' We did that!\\
'''Carrot:''' And that was a woman.
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* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
**''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': ''Literature/InterestingTimes'' does a Reverse on this trope. Rincewind runs into someone from the place he's pretending to be from, and being smart enough to know that his challenger is going to try to trip him up by asking him about a fictional person or location, calls him on it -- only instead the man asked him about a real person whose identity would be very obvious if Rincewind's story was true.
** In ''Literature/{{Jingo}}'', some thieves have taken Angua hostage only to [[MuggingTheMonster be confronted with her wolf shape]]. So they're confessing to ''everything'' Carrot and Reg are suggesting in order to be let out. This happens:
--->'''Carrot:''' We've got them down for everything but the Hide Park Flasher.\\
'''Thief:''' We did that!\\
'''Carrot:''' And that was a woman.true.
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** In ''Literature/{{Jingo}}'', some thieves have taken Angua hostage only to [[MuggingTheMonster be confronted with her wolf shape]]. So they're confessing to ''everything'' Carrot and Reg are suggesting in order to be let out. This happens:
--->'''Carrot:''' We've got them down for everything but the Hide Park Flasher.\\
'''Thief:''' We did that!\\
'''Carrot:''' And that was a woman.
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* On ''Series/HomeAndAway'', Xavier poses as a university student in a philosophy course while trying to get with Miranda. When she introduces him to her friend, an actual philosophy student, it takes him all of a few minutes to [[BluffTheImposter trick him]] by claiming that JeromeKern is a philosopher who'd interest him. However, the friend does nothing with this information, as Xavier is quickly exposed when Miranda comes to his high school to give a talk about Uni life.
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* On ''Series/HomeAndAway'', Xavier poses as a university student in a philosophy course while trying to get with Miranda. When she introduces him to her friend, an actual philosophy student, it takes him all of a few minutes to [[BluffTheImposter trick him]] by claiming that JeromeKern Jerome Kern (a Broadway composer) is a philosopher who'd interest him. However, the friend does nothing with this information, as Xavier is quickly exposed when Miranda comes to his high school to give a talk about Uni life.
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* In the ''Series/MurderSheWrote'' episode "Crimson Harvest", when Michelle Scarlotti, Paul Grimaldi's fiancee from Chicago who only met his family after his death, is introduced to Lyle Anderson, he says he had a frat brother who was one of the Chicago Scarlottis. She immediately replies that her family aren't from Chicago originally, so they must be different Scarlottis, and walks away. [[spoiler: Subverted as it not only turns out she ''is'' who she claims to be, but Anderson already knew her and was reminding her of that as a veiled threat.]]
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* In ''Film/LiveFreeOrDieHard'', Bruce Willis uses one of these to expose the fake dispatcher, giving her a code for naked people running around, and then calling her out on it...[[note]]Which wouldn't work in RealLife because nearly every police department (even ones in neighboring jurisdictions) in the US has its own unique coding system. It can make it a nightmare for different departments to work together.[[/note]]
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* In ''Film/LiveFreeOrDieHard'', Bruce Willis [=McClane=] uses one of these to expose the fake dispatcher, giving her a code for naked people running around, and then calling her out on it...[[note]]Which wouldn't work in RealLife because nearly every police department (even ones in neighboring jurisdictions) in the US has its own unique coding system. It can make it a nightmare for different departments to work together.[[/note]]
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* In ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'', because Lt. Aldo and his men don't know enough German to replace the spies originally chosen to attend a Nazi movie premiere, they decide they can use the limited Italian that they know to pass for an Italian film crew accompanying the German actress turned [[TheMole Allied mole]] instead. The actress says that this ''might'' work, since most Germans don't have a good ear for Italian, and thus won't recognize that it's being spoken imperfectly. So the plan becomes for Aldo and company to stay mostly silent, mumble a little bit of Italian when needed, and let the germans ignore them. Naturally the first Nazi they're introduced to is the CunningLinguist Colonel Hans Landa, who greets them in perfect Italian. (Then again, their accents are so comically, ridiculously bad, it's debatable how much actual knowledge of Italian would be needed to figure out that they were imposters.)
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* In ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'', because Lt. Aldo and his men don't know enough German to replace the spies originally chosen infiltrate to attend a Nazi movie premiere, they decide they can use the limited Italian that they know to pass for premiere disguised as an Italian film crew accompanying the German actress turned [[TheMole Allied mole]] instead. The actress says that this ''might'' work, since most Germans don't have a good ear for Italian, and thus won't recognize that it's being spoken imperfectly. So crew, the plan becomes for Aldo and company being to stay mostly silent, mumble a little bit of Italian when needed, and let the germans Germans ignore them.them and hopefully not notice their limited command of the language. Naturally the first Nazi they're introduced to is the CunningLinguist Colonel Hans Landa, who greets them in perfect Italian. (Then again, their accents are so comically, ridiculously bad, it's debatable how much actual knowledge of Italian would be needed to figure out that they were imposters.)
