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* ''Series/{{Hustle}}'': In "The Fall of Railton FC", Ash temporarily CannotTellALie as the result of a head injury. When TheMark asks him if there is anything else he should know, Ash tells him that the entire deal is a con and they are planning to steal his money. He then bursts out laughing, turning it into a SarcasticConfession that TheMark cheerily ignores.

* ''Literature/AliensAteMyHomework:'' In the first book, protagonist Rod has a near-pathological [[WillNotTellALie aversion to lying]]. So when he's standing in class with a sheet of paper chewed full of holes, the only explanation that he can give is "[[TitleDrop Aliens ate my homework]], Miss Maloney." Really, the kid is dealing with this trope through 90% of the book.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'', this exchange occurs when the captain is trying to keep herself together.[[note]]After an [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar implied]] FlorenceNightingaleEffect scene.[[/note]]

* In ''LightNovel/BokuWaTomodachiGaSukunai'', it turns out every time [[spoiler:Kodaka]] was oblivious to his friends' feelings and confessions, he was actually actively dodging it. He really didn't want to be in a romantic relationship with any of them-- he just wanted to have friends is all.

-->''"I am going to murder him! Mother of God, I've dated some really lousy men over the years but this is a goddam record. I give up. I really do. You wanna be my torrid lesbian rebound fling?"''\\
''"Yes!" Maya squeaked, before she could stop herself, then clapped both hands over her mouth in horror.''\\
''This had the effect of shocking Ritsuko out of her steadily increasing hysteria. "Uh... We never had that conversation, okay? And on a totally unrelated note, meet me after your shift finishes and we'll go for a completely platonic drink somewhere, because I could really use some company." She stood up. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go and have a talk with Rei."''

* In ''Film/JackStrong'' the titular uncatchable ReverseMole actually does confess - to someone who's too preoccupied with catching the spy to listen, turns out.

** Belldandy frequently says things without a trace of irony that are taken as a SarcasticConfession. For instance, her first exchange when she talks to Megumi she tells her that she works at the Goddess Help Line, and that she has a contract to stay with Keiichi forever. Megumi shrugs it off, believing she's just speaking metaphorically of living together with Keiichi.

* In ''Manga/{{Itsuwaribito}}'', when Neya Murito confesses her feelings to Utsuho Azako loudly, clearly, with no distractions or anything to cover it up or interrupt it, he outright ignores it. He stays silent, pretends he never heard her and right after makes up an excuse to walk off quickly, completely devastating her.

* ''ComicBook/ThePunisher2099''. Kerry thinks Jake Gallows is the new Punisher, and visits him at home to gather evidence... just as Jake comes out of his underground prison/torture chamber/execution chamber. Gallows, frustrated, eventually sits her down and shouts that he's the Punisher, even describing his methods, equipment, and recent actions. Kerry leaves thinking the Punisher case is driving Gallows nuts.

* Pre-Flashpoint Franchise/{{Superman}}, in his Clark Kent persona, was [[DistressedDude kidnapped by a gangster]] during his honeymoon with Lois (who, reversing the roles, [[ActionGirl went to his rescue]]). As he was [[BroughtDownToNormal depowered]] at the time, he was serverly beaten up and drugged with a TruthSerum. Under the serum's effect, he told them he was Superman (and was ''without his [[ClarkKenting glasses]]''), but the gangster refused to believe and thought the serum wasn't working. Somewhat justified, as Clark, depowered, had several hematomas and was bleeding, something isn't supposed to happen to Superman, whose depowered status wasn't publicly known.

* ''Film/AmericanPsycho'': After a string of grisly murders and running from the cops Patrick Bateman calls his lawyer and confesses to the whole thing. When he later confronts his lawyer, he insists that he wasn't joking, but he is rebuffed, and the lawyer is actually irritated to the point that he tells Bateman the joke isn't funny anymore. This is compounded by the fact that Bateman might not be a serial killer, and may just be delusional and psychotic, but it is ambiguous. Throughout the film, he confesses in absurd ways, and people either don't hear him properly or ignore him, a commentary on the egotistical feelings of all around him.

* Hilarious example from ''Film/GalaxyQuest'' when Brandon, a teenaged "questerian" (parody of a "trekkie") is actually helping a real spaceship land. We get this exchange with him and his mother:

* Ceator/BretEastonEllis' ''Literature/AmericanPsycho'':

* In the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "Killed by Death," Buffy is incapacitated due to a bad flu. She goes patrolling anyway, but collapses. While in the hospital, and under the influence of the meds, she shouts that she needs to kill the vampires. Buffy's mother and the hospital staff naturally assume it's due to her delirious state.

* ''{{Series/Survivors}}'': In episode two, Abby asks Tom what he did before the pandemic, and he says "I robbed things. Killed a few people." She thinks he's joking, and says it's not funny. Later she finds out that's the truth.

* ''Series/{{Leverage}}'': Nate, even while drunk, hoped so. He goes and tells [[spoiler:Ian Blackpool he planned to rob the Two Davids Gallery at the start of the first season's last episode. Blackpool laughs it off. At the end of the episode the gallery is robbed and Blackpool's company is liable for all the payouts. Then Nate revealed he ''recorded'' his own confession and Blackpool's lack of response, thus making Blackpool criminally liable for not contacting the police when Nate told him this and he knows Nate is a thief.]]

* In ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'', Chip tells Toby that the reason they're often not present at work is because they're the Power Rangers, [[SarcasticConfession knowing he won't believe it]]. Toward the end of the season, they decide to come clean for real, and Toby thinks they're still joking until he sees the evidence for himself.

* In ''Theatre/{{Othello}}'', Iago continuously tells Othello that he shouldn't listen to him, and that Desdemona and Cassio are probably honest. Of course, this just convinces Othello even more that Iago is trustworthy.

** 'Fry and the Slurm Factory': In a rare show of cleverness, Fry manages to invoke this by getting Professor Farnsworth to describe their unusual relationship ("I'm not your grandpa, you're my uncle! From the year 2000!") to an outsider, who subsequently writes the Professor off as senile. All this to keep the the government from shutting down his favorite soft drink...

* On ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb,'' the title characters are perfectly willing to tell their mom about their ridiculous antics, even backing up Candace when she tries to bust them for it. Naturally Linda always assumes that they're just playing games, or the evidence that they show her looks innocuous on its own.

'''Ranma:''' I...But I just...!" ''(thinking)'' ''"SHE'S NOT CUTE AT ALL!''

-->'''Captain Amelia:''' Gentlemen...we must--stay together, and...and...
-->'''Dr. Doppler:''' And what? ''What?'' ''(GlassesPull)'' '''We must stay together and ''what''?'''
-->'''Captain Amelia:''' ''(dreamily)'' Doctor, you have...''wonderful'' eyes...
--> ''{{beat}}''
-->'''Dr. Doppler:''' She's lost her MIND!

-->'''Frank:''' "I'm not a doctor, I'm not a lawyer, I'm not an airline pilot. I'm nothing, really, just a kid who's in love with your daughter."

-->'''Dewey:''' "I'm not a teacher!"

-->'''Owen:''' "I'm not a bus driver!"
* In ''Film/MultipleSarcasms'', the main character confesses his love to a long time friend, after his marriage is on the rocks. She thinks he's drunk [[spoiler: until this confession shows up in a play he wrote.]]

-->'''Brandon's Mom''': Where are you going with those fireworks?
-->'''Brandon''': Well, the Protector got super-accelerated coming out of the black hole and just, like, nailed the atmosphere at Mach 15, which you guys know is pretty unstable, obviously, so we're gonna help Laredo guide it on the vox ultra-frequency carrier and use Roman candles for visual confirmation.
-->'''Brandon's Mom:''' Uh, all right– dinner's at seven. ''(Brandon leaves)'' Well, at least he's outside.

* Used in ''Series/{{Lost}}'', episode "He's Our You". Captured by the Dharma Initiative, Sayid is given a TruthSerum drug and interrogated. He says he's from [[spoiler: the future]], and Radzinsky's reaction is to assume the dose was too high and has rendered him cuckoo.

--->'''Chandler:''' I could tell how much I've been thinking about her; that I haven't stopped thinking about her since the moment we met; that I'm so fantastically, over-the-top, wanna-slit-my-own-throat in love with her, that for every minute of every hour of every day, I can't believe my own damn bad luck that you met her first!
--->'''Joey:''' Yeah, well, that's pretty good. But you might want to tone it down a little.

-->'''Hank''': ''(holding a bag)'' What've you got in there, cinderblocks?\\
'''Walt''': Half a million in cash.\\
''(Hank stares at Walt for a moment, then laughs)''\\
'''Hank''': That's the spirit!

--> '''Woman:''' I work for the state department. Courier. I know "urgent" when I see it.\\
'''Mac''': Alright, the truth. I just hijacked proof of an illegal arms-oil deal. If I can get it out of the country in time I might be able to stop a little war.\\

-->'''Daria:''' As stupid as it sounds, these are actual holiday spirits on the run from the law.\\

* In ''Disney/TreasurePlanet'', this exchange occurs when the captain is trying to keep herself together.[[note]]After an [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar implied]] FlorenceNightingaleEffect scene.[[/note]]

* In ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'', Juliet tells her mother that she wishes to marry Romeo rather than Paris, her father's chosen husband for her, but Lady Capulet assumes she just means that she would rather marry the man who just killed her cousin Tybalt than Paris.

* On one episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}},'' [[LovableAlphaBitch Quinn]] spends an episode convinced that she has to get plastic surgery like her friends or her entire social life will be ruined. After putting up with her antics the entire episode, her sister [[TheSnarkKnight Daria]] finally just tells her (in what seems to be a rather difficult confession) that she's so naturally beautiful that she drives other girls ([[NotSoAboveItAll possibly including Daria herself]]) crazy with envy. Quinn just stares at Daria for a moment and then admonishes her for [[SeriousBusiness not taking things seriously]].

** One episode has a villain demanding a password from Alfred. Alfred simply ignores her and starts reciting "The Lion and the Unicorn", from the ''Wonderland'' books. Even when drugged up on truth serum, he continues reciting the poem. Unlike most cases of this, she does eventually realize that the password is "The Lion and the Unicorn"... it just takes her a while.

* On one episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}},'' [[LovableAlphaBitch Quinn]] spends an episode convinced that she has to get plastic surgery like her friends or her entire social life will be ruined. After putting up with her antics the entire episode, her sister [[TheSnarkKnight Daria]] finally just tells her (in what seems to be a rather difficult confession) that she's so naturally beautiful that she drives other girls (possibly including Daria herself) crazy with envy. Quinn just stares at Daria for a moment and then admonishes her for [[SeriousBusiness not taking things seriously]].

* ''Film/CatchMeIfYouCan''

** 'Fry and the Slurm Factory': Professor Farnsworth says that he's not Fry's grandfather, Fry's ''his'' uncle! From the year 2000! This goes over about as well as one would expect, allowing everything to stay the same.

* ''WesternAnimation/Cars2'': Mater repeatedly tries to tell Finn [=McMissile=] and Holly Shiftwell that he's not a spy and just a plain ordinary tow truck, but they think he's but they think he's joking and just a SarcasticConfession and that his other antics are ObfuscatingStupidity. [[spoiler:Only when the three are trapped inside of Big Bently and Mater yells it out do Finn and Holley realize he's not kidding.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/Cars2'': Mater repeatedly tries to tell Finn [=McMissile=] and Holly Shiftwell that he's not a spy and just a plain ordinary tow truck, but they think he's but they think he's joking and that his other antics are ObfuscatingStupidity. [[spoiler:Only when the three are trapped inside of Big Bently and Mater yells it out, do Finn and Holley realize he's not kidding.]]

** Niles Crane confesses his love for Daphne - more than once - but circumstances contrive for her to completely miss this, or into believing that he's made it up, or is colluding with her to give a misleading impression to outside observers (''Moondance'').

* ''Series/{{Frasier}}'': Niles Crane confesses his love for Daphne - more than once - but circumstances contrive for her to completely miss this, or into believing that he's made it up, or is colluding with her to give a misleading impression to outside observers (''Moondance'').