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* In ''VideoGame/WatchDogs2'', Marcus and [=DedSec=] do this to [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Gene Carcani]] by splicing interview clips from rapper Bobo Dakes as well as getting a piece of exclusive music so he believes it. They string him along, having him donate $50 million dollars to leukemia research as LaserGuidedKarma for raising the price on leukemia drugs. He doesn't realize he's been had until the clips start repeating and then his own stereo system starts blasting "Ode to Joy."
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* In ''Film/UnfriendedDarkWeb'', the Charons take snippets from AJ's web videos and splice them together to create a message saying "I am sick of the corruption. I'm going to my store of firearms and explosives to the mall and have some fun." They then call 911 and play this message.

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* In ''Film/UnfriendedDarkWeb'', the Charons take snippets from AJ's web videos and splice them together to create a message saying "I am sick of the corruption. I'm going to take my store of firearms and explosives to the mall and have some fun." They then call 911 and play this message.
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* In ''Film/UnfriendedDarkWeb'', the Charons take snippets from AJ's web videos and splice the together to create a message saying "I am sick of the corruption. I'm going to my store of firearms and explosives to the mall and have some fun." They then call 911 and play this message.

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* In ''Film/UnfriendedDarkWeb'', the Charons take snippets from AJ's web videos and splice the them together to create a message saying "I am sick of the corruption. I'm going to my store of firearms and explosives to the mall and have some fun." They then call 911 and play this message.
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* In ''Film/UnfriendedDarkWeb'', the Charons take snippets from AJ's web videos and splice the together to create a message saying "I am sick of the corruption. I'm going to my store of firearms and explosives to the mall and have some fun." They then call 911 and play this message.
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* In one ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'' strip, Jason does this to Paige to get her in trouble. Paige is talking the phone and says "Mr Vivona wants us to cut five articles from the newspaper every day this week for social studies, and the only scissors I have are, like, totally dull". Jason records this, then splices it together so Paige says "I cut social studies every day this week. Mr Vivona is totally dull."

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* In one ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'' strip, Jason does this to Paige to get her in trouble. Paige is talking the phone and says "Mr Vivona wants us to cut five articles from the newspaper every day this week for social studies, and the only scissors I have are, like, totally dull". Jason records this, then splices it together [[QuoteMine so Paige says says]] "I cut social studies every day this week. Mr Vivona is totally dull."



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* In ''VideoGame/{{Prominence}}'', getting into the bridge of the ''Laeril'' requires a senior staff member to speak a certain passphrase. Since [[GhostShip the whole crew evacuated some time ago]], you have to download audio buffers from the spaceship's CCTV cameras and splice them together in an audio editor to form the passphrase.
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* In ''Film/{{Videodrome}},'' professor Brian O'Blivion is a pop-culture analyst/ philosopher who believes that television will eventually replace all aspects of everyday life. He frequently appears on talk shows to debate his philosophy, but only if he can telecommute and by having his image broadcast into the studio on a tv next to the other participants. Protagonist Max goes to Professor O'Blivion's base of operations at the "Cathode Ray Mission" in order to interview him personally, but discovers that [[spoiler: Professor O'Blivion was murdered and his daughter, Bianca O'Blivion, has been using an archive of thousands of her father's pre-recorded tapes to fake his continued appearances on television.]]

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* In ''Film/{{Videodrome}},'' professor Brian O'Blivion is a pop-culture analyst/ philosopher who believes that television will eventually replace all aspects of everyday life. He frequently appears on talk shows to debate his philosophy, but only if he can telecommute and by having his image broadcast into the studio on a tv TV next to the other participants. Protagonist Max goes to Professor O'Blivion's base of operations at the "Cathode Ray Mission" in order to interview him personally, but discovers that [[spoiler: Professor O'Blivion was murdered and his daughter, Bianca O'Blivion, has been using an archive of thousands of her father's pre-recorded tapes to fake his continued appearances on television.]]
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Compare TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat, OfCorpseHesAlive, ManipulativeEditing and QuoteMine.

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* In ''Film/{{Paddington 2}}'', Judy uses a tape recorder when they meet Phoenix's agent. She then plays the recordings of her voice on the phone to [[TheBigBad Phoenix]] to get him out of his house - so Mary can investigate.
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* ''Series/{{Shoestring}}'': The villain of "Mocking Bird" splices together snippets of Eddie's radio show to leave a message asking Erica to meet him at Eddie's boat. Eddie hears the message and rushes to the scene; he arrives too late to stop her from being attacked, although she isn't badly injured.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/NormOfTheNorth'', Norm wants to prevent a building company from building houses in the Arctic, his homeland. He spends a good portion of the movie supporting the advertising campaign of that company, his plan being to convince everyone at the right moment that building houses there is not a good thing to do. However, his attempt is intercepted by Mr. Greene, who uses parts of previously recorded lines from the announcer to make it look like Norm endorses the Arctic houses, which is the last piece Mr. Greene needs to legally start building them.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/NormOfTheNorth'', Norm wants to prevent a building company from building houses in the Arctic, his homeland. He spends a good portion of the movie supporting the advertising campaign of that company, his plan being to convince everyone at the right moment that building houses there is not a good thing to do. However, his attempt is intercepted by Mr. Greene, who uses parts of previously recorded lines from the announcer to make it look like Norm endorses the Arctic houses, which is the last piece Mr. Greene needs to legally start building them.
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A person (first party) is communicating with another person (second party) and needs to imitate another person (third party). That third party might simply not be present, be dead, or simply won't play along. However, the first party has a audio recording of the third party, but the text in the recording doesn't suit the conversation. The first party quickly splices the third party's portion of the conversation together from the available text and uses it to trick the second party.

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A person (first party) is communicating with another person (second party) and needs to imitate another person (third party). That third party might simply not be present, be dead, or simply won't play along. However, the first party has a an audio recording of the third party, but the text in the recording doesn't suit the conversation. The first party quickly splices the third party's portion of the conversation together from the available text and uses it to trick the second party.
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* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Homer goes on a tabloid news show in an attempt to clear his name after being accused of sexually harassing a college-aged babysitter after peeling a rare gummy-candy off the seat of her pants. However, the interview is heavily (and poorly) [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEGFaOeUm2A edited]] into a totally inaccurate segment where Homer is portrayed as a total pervert who shamelessly admits to harassing the babysitter.

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* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Homer goes on a tabloid news show in an attempt to clear his name after being accused of sexually harassing a college-aged babysitter after peeling when he peeled a rare gummy-candy off the seat of her pants. However, the interview is heavily (and poorly) [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEGFaOeUm2A edited]] into a totally inaccurate segment where Homer is portrayed as a total pervert who shamelessly admits to harassing the babysitter.
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* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Homer goes on a tabloid news show in an attempt to clear his name after being accused of sexually harassing the babysitter. However, the interview is heavily (and poorly) [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEGFaOeUm2A edited]] into a totally inaccurate segment where Homer is portrayed as a total pervert who shamelessly admits to harassing the babysitter.

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* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Homer goes on a tabloid news show in an attempt to clear his name after being accused of sexually harassing a college-aged babysitter after peeling a rare gummy-candy off the babysitter.seat of her pants. However, the interview is heavily (and poorly) [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEGFaOeUm2A edited]] into a totally inaccurate segment where Homer is portrayed as a total pervert who shamelessly admits to harassing the babysitter.
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* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Homer goes on a tabloid news show in an attempt to clear his name after being accused of sexually harassing the babysitter. However, the interview is heavily (and poorly) [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEGFaOeUm2A edited]] into a totally inaccurate segment where Homer is portrayed as a total pervert who shamelessly admits to harassing the babysitter.
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* In ''VideoGame/{{Ripper}}'', Jake Quinlan has to download an audio editing program onto his [[Data Pad WAC]] and record Dr. Burton's voice to bypass a voice lock in an animal storage area.

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* In ''VideoGame/{{Ripper}}'', Jake Quinlan has to download an audio editing program onto his [[Data Pad [[DataPad WAC]] and record Dr. Burton's voice to bypass a voice lock in an animal storage area.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'' episode "Eggman: The Video Game Part 1", Eggman, trying to get motion capture for his video game, splices together a recording of Sonic to make it seem like Sonic is insulting Shadow.
->'''Sonic''': Shadow? He is--week--that--wind--bag--could--never--beat--me--what a--week--week--week--wind--bag--he is.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' episode "Money Grandma", Robin, in an attempt to make Cyborg and Beast Boy look bad so he'll be re-elected as Team Leader, splices together "security camera footage" of Cyborg insulting Beast Boy, and vice versa.
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* In ''VideoGame/{{Ripper}}'', Jake Quinlan has to download an audio editing program onto his [[Data Pad WAC]] and record Dr. Burton's voice to bypass a voice lock in an animal storage area.
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* ''Series/{{Cannon}}'': In "No Pockets in a Shroud", the VillainOfTheWeek is running a scam that involves maintaining the illusion that a hermit millionaire who dies a year ago is still alive. When Cannon arrives in town, wanting to speak to the millionaire and not going away until he does so - the villain splices together taped phone conversations he had; creating a tape where the millionaire seemingly insists he won't see anyone and plays it to Cannon over the phone.

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* ''Series/{{Cannon}}'': In "No Pockets in a Shroud", the VillainOfTheWeek is running a scam that involves maintaining the illusion that a hermit millionaire who dies died a year ago is still alive. When Cannon arrives in town, wanting to speak to the millionaire and not going away until he does so - the villain splices together taped phone conversations he had; creating a tape where the millionaire seemingly insists he won't see anyone and plays it to Cannon over the phone.
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* ''Series/BurnNotice'' had an episode resolution where Michael talked on the phone with some bad guy while filming and recording it, then edited the other guy's words to make it look like he was cutting a deal with law enforcement - then he showed the tape to the guy's boss.
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** On the episode ''T The Terrestrial'', Bender accidently abandons Fry on Omicron Persei 8, but doesn't want to let the rest of the cast find out. The only recoding Bender has of Fry is his outgoing voice mail. Luckily for Bender, the outgoing message is lengthy enough and Fry is TheDitz, so no one notices the strange syntax or awkward pauses from Bender repeatedly rewinding and fast-forwarding the tape.

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** On the episode ''T The Terrestrial'', Bender accidently accidentally abandons Fry on Omicron Persei 8, but doesn't want to let the rest of the cast find out. The only recoding recording Bender has of Fry is his outgoing voice mail. Luckily for Bender, the outgoing message is lengthy enough and Fry is TheDitz, so no one notices the strange syntax or awkward pauses from Bender repeatedly rewinding and fast-forwarding the tape.
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* In ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'', one of the events the player can sabotage for Osana involves recording a conversation she has with Musume, and editing the audio to make it seem like she finds Senpai disgusting. In reality, Musume first asked about some other guy she saw her with outside of school, and Osana was talking about him being disgusting. After that, Musume asks what Osana thinks about Senpai, which is what appears first in the edited audio, followed by Osana's impression of the other guy Musume saw her with.
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* ''Series/{{Cannon}}'': In "No Pockets in a Shroud", the VillainOfTheWeek is running a scam that involves maintaining the illusion that a hermit millionaire who dies a year ago is still alive. When Cannon arrives in town, wanting to speak to the millionaire and not going away until he does so - the villain splices together taped phone conversations he had; creating a tape where the millionaire seemingly insists he won't see anyone and plays it to Cannon over the phone.
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* ''Film/TangoAndCash'': The plan of the BigBad to frame the titular CowboyCop duo for the murder of an undercover federal agent and thus disgrace them includes hiring an audio expert to create one of these out of audio samples of them during raids, plant it on the agent's HiddenWire pickup, and have the audio expert (that is the best in the business in L.A.) testify the veracity of the recording.
-->'''Cash''' (While he's [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique interrogating]] the technician): Oh, hey, look! (pulls out various audio tapes) Here's some of my best hits... (pulls out more tapes) ..and Tango's. I suppose you (the technician) could create quite the nice mix-tape with them, right?
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* In ''Film/{{Clifford}}'', Clifford gets Martin arrested in front of Sarah's family after calling in a fake bomb threat in city hall, made out of mixing audios of Martin's scolding of Clifford with his answering machine.
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* In the ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "The Naked Now" Wesley has created a device that can splice together sound bytes that he's recorded from the ships comm system. He uses it to create recordings of Picard "ordering" the Chief and Assistant Chief Engineers away from Main Engineering.

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* In the ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "The Naked Now" Wesley has created a device that can splice together sound bytes that he's recorded from the ships comm system. He uses it to create recordings of Picard "ordering" the Chief and Assistant Chief Engineers away from Main Engineering.

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[[redirect:RecordedSplicedCoversation]]A person (first party) is communicating with another person (second party) and needs to imitate another person (third party). That third party might simply not be present, be dead, or simply won't play along. However, the first party has a audio recording of the third party, but the text in the recording doesn't suit the conversation. The first party quickly splices the third party's portion of the conversation together from the available text and uses it to trick the second party.

The source of the recording is commonly a voicemail, either the outgoing message or a message the third party left earlier.

Compare TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat, OfCorpseHesAlive, ManipulativeEditing and QuoteMine.

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* In one ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'' strip, Jason does this to Paige to get her in trouble. Paige is talking the phone and says "Mr Vivona wants us to cut five articles from the newspaper every day this week for social studies, and the only scissors I have are, like, totally dull". Jason records this, then splices it together so Paige says "I cut social studies every day this week. Mr Vivona is totally dull."
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* ''Film/HomeAlone'':
** In the first, Kevin [=McAllister=] uses a VHS of the gangster film ''[[ShowWithinAShow Angels With Filthy Souls]]'' to pull this on a pizza delivery guy--both to hide that he's alone in the house, and to screw with the guy. When the delivery shows up, Kevin plays the movie, pausing or fast-forwarding where appropriate to sound like a conversation with the gangster Johnny... ending with the bit where Johnny pulls out a full-auto rifle and threatens to "pump your guts fulla lead!"
** In ''Home Alone 2: Lost in New York'', Kevin pulls the same trick, this time using the sequel ''Angels With Even Filthier Souls'' to scare away hotel staff who realized he was paying for the room with a stolen credit card.
* In ''Film/{{Sneakers}}'', Playtronics headquarters uses voice keys to unlock doors. The hacker team sets up one Playtronics employee on a blind date with their accomplice, Liz, and she transmits the entire conversation back to the team. They cut and splice the recording into a copy of the voice key, which works to get one of them into Playtronics.
* In ''Film/ThreeNinjas'', one scene has the kids use a recording of their grandfather calling them to buy tickets to Japan, cutting the call after their grandfather starts insulting the airline agent (he was actually talking about the BattleaxeNurse in the room with him).
* In ''Film/{{Videodrome}},'' professor Brian O'Blivion is a pop-culture analyst/ philosopher who believes that television will eventually replace all aspects of everyday life. He frequently appears on talk shows to debate his philosophy, but only if he can telecommute and by having his image broadcast into the studio on a tv next to the other participants. Protagonist Max goes to Professor O'Blivion's base of operations at the "Cathode Ray Mission" in order to interview him personally, but discovers that [[spoiler: Professor O'Blivion was murdered and his daughter, Bianca O'Blivion, has been using an archive of thousands of her father's pre-recorded tapes to fake his continued appearances on television.]]
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* In the Literature/ArtemisFowl book ''The Opal Deception'', Artemis needs an excuse to get out of school for a few days. He uses a audio editor to turn a relatively light-hearted conversation he'd just had with his mother into an angry voice mail for the principal of his school, accusing him of lax standards that have resulted in Artemis getting a nasty case of food poisoning that will require him to come home for a few days to recuperate.
* At one point in ''[[Literature/HonorHarrington Crown of Slaves]]'', the protagonists send a fake message from a Masadan terrorist (dead at the time) by splicing audio recordings of his voice together.
* ''Literature/TalesFromTheWhiteHart'': In "The Defenestration of Ermintrude Inch", sound engineer Osbert Inch makes a bet with his wife Ermintrude about which one of them speaks the most. He devises a device to count how many words his wife spoke in their London flat, versus how many he spoke. The counter is sealed for a week, and when it is unsealed, Osbert is shocked to discover that his word count far exceeds Ermintrude's. It does not take long for him to realize that she had taken a tape he had made using his own voice, made it into a loop and left it running in the flat while he was at work. This discovery results in the eponymous defenestration.
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* ''Series/LoisAndClark'' has an episode called "Don't Tug on Superman's Cape" where this trick is used. The villains use a recording of Superman to fake a phone call from the Man of Steel, using it to lure Lois into a trap.
* In the ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "The Naked Now" Wesley has created a device that can splice together sound bytes that he's recorded from the ships comm system. He uses it to create recordings of Picard "ordering" the Chief and Assistant Chief Engineers away from Main Engineering.
* An episode of ''Series/ThunderInParadise'' had Spencer record an ad for a friend who wants to sell his boat. Turns out he was working for the VillainOfTheWeek, who splice the recording into terrorist demands for money.
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* In ''VideoGame/{{Firewatch}}'', Henry discovers a secret government monitoring facility deep in the woods, and his MissionControl Delilah, in a bout of conspiracy paranoia, demands that he burn it to the ground. Even if the player has Henry talk her out of it, the facility still catches on fire later, and he finds an audio cassette taped to his outpost door the next day, revealing that someone had intercepted their walkie-talkie communication and spliced it to sound like Henry had committed intentional arson on Delilah's orders.
* In ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'', you need to get through a door which requires the code to be spoken by a particular (now dead) person. You can either break the controls to force it open, trick a droid into speaking the phrase for you to record, or hunt for recordings of the late guy's voice and splice them.
* ''VideoGame/WhereInTimeIsCarmenSandiego1997'' uses this as part of a puzzle, in which the player has to use a phonograph to record and play back a factory owner's voice to a guard.
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* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers'', the brothers have a bet over who can go the longest without speaking. They both [[LoopholeAbuse exploit the loophole]] of being able to communicate using recordings.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheChipmunkAdventure'', Alvin calls Dave in Paris and records him, then edits the recording to make a fake call giving the Chipmunks permission to leave home under the pretense that they're joining Dave in Europe.
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** A variation occurs in ''Obsoletely Fabulous''. Bender meets an outdated cartridge robot that carries a bag filled with individual cartridges for responses and conversations.
** On the episode ''T The Terrestrial'', Bender accidently abandons Fry on Omicron Persei 8, but doesn't want to let the rest of the cast find out. The only recoding Bender has of Fry is his outgoing voice mail. Luckily for Bender, the outgoing message is lengthy enough and Fry is TheDitz, so no one notices the strange syntax or awkward pauses from Bender repeatedly rewinding and fast-forwarding the tape.
* In ''WesternAnimation/NormOfTheNorth'', Norm wants to prevent a building company from building houses in the Arctic, his homeland. He spends a good portion of the movie supporting the advertising campaign of that company, his plan being to convince everyone at the right moment that building houses there is not a good thing to do. However, his attempt is intercepted by Mr. Greene, who uses parts of previously recorded lines from the announcer to make it look like Norm endorses the Arctic houses, which is the last piece Mr. Greene needs to legally start building them.
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