History Main / SoCrazyItMustBeTrue

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}:'' When Bender goes to the Fortune-Telling Robot for help with his werecar curse, Fry dismisses her answer as ridiculous. She retorts it's so ridiculous it must be true.

* In ''{{Literature/Snuff}}'', Sam Vimes comes running to his wife Sybil, babbling about the beautiful music being played by the goblin girl Tears-of-the-Mushroom. Sybil at first expresses her disbelief, before- in the same sentence- realizing that if Vimes, who habitually falls asleep from boredom at music recitals and the opera, thinks it's that good, then... "You know what? You've convinced me."

* In the ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'' - Franchise/MarvelUniverse Franchise/SpiderMan MilestoneCelebration {{Crossover}} ''ComicBook/SpiderMen'', Peter Parker-616 tries to explain the AlternateUniverse and other mechanics that are involved in this crossover to ComicBook/NickFury and ComicBook/TheUltimates. Fury' immediately believes Peter's story because [[AppealToAudacity nobody would be crazy enough to make that up]].

* ''Radio/TheUnbelievableTruth'': Used often, with panelists getting buzzed because their answers are so crazy they must be true, like the one about an Indian man marrying a pet. Henning Wehn buzzes in because he figures no-one would get away with saying ''that'' on BBC Radio 4 otherwise. Of course, since the point of the game is to hide lies as truth, oftentimes panelists will get caught out on this principle as well.

* In ''Film/{{Superman}}'', when Lex Luthor, the self-proclaimed Greatest Criminal Mind of Our Time hears early news reports of a flying "Superman" acting as a hero, one of his associates wonders if the stories are real and he declares that they must be -- because "if anyone was going to perpetrate such a fantastic hoax, ''it would've been ME!''"

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* Brought up in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse fic [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/40945617 "Spider-Man: Finding Home"]] when Peter Parker meets Yelena Belova and Kate Bishop after ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'' and tells them about the circumstances that led to his identity being erased from the world's memory. Yelena observes that she has spent the last hour (during which Peter was recovering from injuries in a fire) running online searches for any background information on Peter, and between a magic spell and her skills being lacking she's willing to accept "magic spell" as an explanation for that lack of information.

* Rorschach in ''{{ComicBook/Watchmen}}'' believes Moloch when he tells him how the Comedian while desperate and crying, paid him a visit at night.

Sometimes it's really hard to convince someone of what you're saying. Perhaps you're addicted to CryingWolf so when you do pierce the {{Masquerade}} your credibility is gone. Or maybe {{Muggles}} see anything so weird and out of the ordinary such an affront to their sensibilities they automatically disbelieve you, leaving the likes of [[TheJorEl Jor-El]] and [[CassandraTruth Cassandra]] desperately saying "YouHaveToBelieveMe!"

* The ''Series/StargateSG1''/''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' fic "[[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Series-201 Scattered Hearts]]" basically uses this when Daniel Jackson has to convince General Hammond why he's allowing Dawn Summers to stay with him on such minimal evidence that she is his daughter's adopted sister (Daniel conceived Buffy with another girl in foster care when he was a teenager) when she could be a plant by the NID. As Daniel explains, it's extremely unlikely that anyone would realise that ''he'' was Buffy's father when so many people at the time believed that her father was the foster father of the girl in question, to the extent that it took Daniel years to be sure of the connection even when he knew what to look for. Finally, Daniel points that even if anyone put the facts together to identify him as the father, it would make more sense for an NID operative to pose as Buffy herself after her death rather than send in an operative to pose as Buffy's sister.
* Brought up in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse fic "[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/40945617/ Spider-Man: Finding Home]]" when Peter Parker meets Yelena Belova and Kate Bishop after ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'' and tells them about the circumstances that led to his identity being erased from the world's memory. Yelena observes that she has spent the last hour (during which Peter was recovering from injuries in a fire) running online searches for any background information on Peter, and between a magic spell and her skills being lacking she's willing to accept "magic spell" as an explanation for that lack of information.

* ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'': The satire that revealed such crazy facts as there being no Wyoming and that bowling bawls are shrunk to create raisins were so crazy "It Must Be True." But when Garfield (the show's host) claims the crazy fact that dogs are stupid, the audience -- consisting entirely of dogs -- doesn't think it's so crazy, or funny, and go after the feline.

** In another episode, after Skinner and Krabapple fall in love, rumors spread that they had sex in a broom closet. Skinner silences these stories by confessing in public that he is a virgin. This satisfies the public, and Superintendent Chalmers notes that [[VirginShaming nobody would lie about being a virgin]]. [[spoiler:The ending subverts this however, as Skinner reveals he lied.]]

Compare NoOneElseIsThatDumb and SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay.