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"The following story is a big fat lie. No names have been changed to protect anybody!"

—The intro of the Woody Woodpecker cartoon "Under The Counter-Spy"

"[P]lease ignore any tiresome scolds who complain that the movie is not really based on fact. Duh."

—Roger Ebert, from a review of Hidalgo

"Hey there, boys and girls! This here's a true story we just made up."

Stinky Wizzleteats, The Ren & Stimpy Show, "Son of Stimpy"

"Tentatively titled The Conjuring, it's the 'true' story of a haunting at a New England farmhouse — though presumably it's 'true' in the contemporary sense of the word, meaning that it didn't happen but it says it did on the poster."

—The A.V. Club on the sequel to Insidious