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* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'': The Meta listens in and records a conversation between Agent Washington and Command, then uses the clips from Command to call Sarge and send him and the rest of Red Team to distract Washington and the Blues. In a deleted scene, he uses clips from Sarge to troll Washington.

** 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.

* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' deploys this in the barbershop sketch. The shellshocked barber places a tape recording of his voice engaging in chit-chat behind his client while servicing him.

* Played with in ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'': In one episode in season 5, Gina makes a soundboard of Captain Holt to get Rosa into the room, which works because of his dull, monotone voice. Later, in the episode "Show Me Going", Jake uses the Holt soundboard app that Gina also made so that Boyle could fake a phone call to give authorisation for weapons from the armoury. Despite being successful in doing so, he does ruin Holt's friendship with the officer he's fooling. The app actually becomes available for free for Android users.

* 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.

-->'''Don:''' I'm going to - ''permanently'' - cupcake - them.

** 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!"

Compare TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat, OfCorpseHesAlive, ManipulativeEditing and QuoteMine. May be done out-of-universe with a FakeShemp.

* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' deploys this in the barbershop sketch. The shellshocked barber places a tape recording of his voice engaging in chit-chat behind his client iwhile servicing him.

* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' deploys this in the barbershop sketch. The shellshocked barber places a tape recording of his voice engaging in chit-chat while servicing his client.

* ''Series/FBIMostWanted'': In "Hairtrigger", Jess sends Mike Kellerman's wife Lena to speak to him in prison and get him to say certain specific phrases: recording their conversation and splicing Mike's words together to create a message the FBI leave on Molly's voicemail, telling her to change the target of the attack.

* In ''[[Literature/VorkosiganSaga The Vor Game]]'' this is actually attempted with a video call (albeit unsuccessfully). The would-be tricksters attempt to disguise the "seams" with artfully-placed little bursts of video static ("white fuzz on the screen"). The protagonist catches on when he notices an object on the desk of the person supposedly on the other end of the videoconference keeps flipping back and forth from being on the guy's right to being on his left.

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* 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.]]
* 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.

* 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 [[BigBad Phoenix]] to get him out of his house - so Mary can investigate.

* In the Literature/ArtemisFowl book ''The Opal Deception'', Artemis needs an excuse to get out of school for a few days. He uses an 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.

* ''Series/{{Cannon}}'': In "No Pockets in a Shroud", the VillainOfTheWeek is running a scam that involves maintaining the illusion that a hermit millionaire who 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.
* ''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.
* ''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.
* ''Series/FBIMostWanted'': In "Hairtrigger", Jess sends Mike Kellerman's wife Lena to speak to him in prison and get him to say certain specific phrases: recording their conversation and splicing Mike's words together to create a message the FBI leave on Molly's voicemail, telling her to change the target of the attack.

* ''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.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Ripper}}'', Jake Quinlan has to download an audio editing program onto his [[DataPad WAC]] and record Dr. Burton's voice to bypass a voice lock in an animal storage area.

* ''VideoGame/VermillionWatch: In Blood'': One puzzle involves cutting up and reassembling a wax cylinder recording to make it sound like one of the game's villains is ordering her mooks to leave the penthouse.
* Billy from ''[[VideoGame/LastHalfOfDarkness Society Of The Serpent Moon]]'' tricks the Blue Iguana bartender into abandoning his post by splicing together sound-clips of the bar's owner, Bruce, calling him into his office.
* Also done as a puzzle in ''VideoGame/TorinsPassage'', in which Torin has to trick a monster into following a recording of Lysentia's voice.
* ''VideoGame/GabrielKnight II'' requires the player to do this so that Gabriel can be shown wolves in a zoo and obtain wolf hairs to prove the deaths weren't caused by a wolf.

* Parodied and PlayedForLaughs in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/FairlyOddParents''. Vicky presents Timmy's parents with a badly-doctored tape recording of Timmy admitting to cheating on his math test (and by "badly doctored", we mean the words "cheated on my math test" are in a deep voice that obviously isn't Timmy's). When Timmy objects, "I never cheated on my math test!", [[BatmanGambit Vicky records it]] and uses it to splice together a more convincing recording on the spot.

* Parodied and PlayedForLaughs in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/FairlyOddParents''. Vicky presents Timmy's parents with a badly-doctored tape recording of Timmy admitting to cheating on his math test (and by "badly doctored", we mean the words "cheated on my math test" are in a deep voice that obviously isn't Timmy's). When Timmy objects, "I never cheated on my math test!", [[BatmanGambit Vicky records it]] and uses it to splice together a more convincing recording on the spot. [[TooDumbToLive Timmy's parents]] are ''[[FailedASpotCheck right there watching her do this]]'', and yet they ''still'' believe the tape and send Timmy to his room.

* 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.

->'''Sonic''': Shadow? He is--week--that--wind--bag--could--never--beat--me--what a--week--week--week--wind--bag--he is.

* 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.