History Main / StereoFibbing

* Subverted in an episode of ''{{Friends}}'': Rachel and Phoebe conspire to leave Joey alone with a girl they want him to date. Joey sees through the ruse and tries to catch them in the lie by asking several follow-up questions. However, Rachel and Phoebe ''have'' worked out their story, and answer several successive questions in perfect unison.

* Star Trek: The Voyage Home has a hilarious example.

* In "A Healthy, Normal American Boy" from the musical ''Bye, Bye, Birdie'', Albert and Rose simultaneously explain how Conrad Birdie started singing. They don't agree on the biographical details, but they do rhyme, and a very nice CounterpointDuet ensues.

* Subverted in ''JudgeDee'', when three monks come in claiming a very valuable statue which they prayed before every day was stolen by the local tyrant the judge just deposed. The judge, smelling a rat, has them out in separate areas of the courtroom, given sheets of paper, and orders each one to ''draw'' the statue. One draws a Buddha, one a four-armed deity, and one a mother holding her child.

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* In the final episode of ''FawltyTowers'', Basil tries to justify to two customers why another customer had just been given veal when Basil has just said that the veal is off. He claims that the veal is "veal substitute".

-->'''Soldier:''' I've a question for you both, and I want you both to answer it at the same time. I count to three, you both answer. (Points to Jaime) What's his name? One... two... three... (Jaime and Brienne look at each other in dismay... [[BadAss then Brienne kills all three soldiers]])

* {{Theatre/Blood Brothers}} has Mickey and Eddie do this when they intend to go and see ''Nypmhomaniac Nights and Swedish Au Pairs'' at the cinema. It somewhat falls apart when they learn that Mrs. Johnstone has already passed the cinema and seen that it's on, and not the Dr. Zhivago/Magnificent Seven double bill they end up claiming it is.

* Similiar to the Discworld example above, in Season 9 [[Machinima/RedVsBlue Church and Tucker]] break the news to Tex about the [[InventedIndividual poor, deceased]] [[Film/TheMatrix Andersmith]].

'''Jazz:''' *''Overlapping''* No!\\

'''Jazz:''' *''Overlapping''* Yes!\\

* [[http://xkcd.com/143/ This]] ''WebComic/{{xkcd}}'' strip. "Bees!" "Tires." "Bees with tires!" "Whatever."

'''Thief''': From space!

Two characters are conspiring to deceive a third, but they haven't worked out their story in advance. When questioned, they blurt out answers in unison, which naturally are ''different'' answers, requiring further lies to explain how both blurted answers can be true.

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'''John/Sara:''' My Girlfriend/My Boyfriend\\
'''John/Sara:''' Her Boyfriend/His Girlfriend\\
'''Man:''' Mind straightening that out for me?\\
'''Sara:''' He is, at the present time, my boyfriend\\
'''John:''' but in 18 months...\\
'''Sara:''' ..after the operation... he will be\\
'''John:''' ''she'' will be, my girlfriend..... you're not buying this are you?\\
'''Man:''' No, but merry christmas ''(gives them the gloves)''

*in rapid succession*\\
'''Spock:''' No.\\
'''Kirk:''' Yes.\\
'''Spock:''' No.\\
'''Kirk:''' Yes.\\
'''Spock:''' No.\\
'''Kirk:''' Yes.\\
'''Spock:''' ...no.\\
'''Kirk:''' YES. I love Italian. *turns to Spock* And so do you.\\
'''Spock:''' ...yes.

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* In ''The Secret of My Success'', Mr. Prescott walks in on Michael J. Fox and Mrs. Prescott in a compromising position. They claim Fox hit his head. On what? "The ceiling!/The floor!" Which is it? "Both!/Neither!"

* [[http://xkcd.com/143/ This]] ''WebComic/{{xkcd}}'' strip. "Bees!" "Tyres!" "Bee with tyres!" "Whatever."

* In ''[[NineToFive 9 to 5]]'', when the leading ladies are pulled over, Violet explains that one of them is sick.

* Happens at the start of ''{{Serendipity}}''. The two romantic leads have just met when they both try to grab a pair of gloves off a display stand in a store at christmas. While they're trying to decide who should get them another man comes in and picks them up. They tell him to stop, saying that the gloves were a very important gift for someone.

'''Spock:''' ...yes.\\

* In ''TheIcePirates'', after the Space Herpie ruins the crew's turkey dinner and escapes into a vent:

* {{Theatre/BloodBrothers}} has Mickey and Eddie do this when they intend to go and see ''Nypmhomaniac Nights and Swedish Au Pairs'' at the cinema. It somewhat falls apart when they learn that Mrs. Johnstone has already passed the cinema and seen that it's on, and not the Dr. Zhivago/Magnificent Seven double bill they end up claiming it is.

* In a commercial for Ace Hardware, where the ad claims that your local Ace Hardware storekeeper is like a friend, the shopkeeper, is serving the customer, not from his store, but from the ample hardware supply located in the kitchen of the shopkeeper's home (including a full selection of wrenches and even a wood mounted full-size p-trap on the island in the middle of the kitchen!) The shopkeeper is interrupted in the middle of the demo by his wife, who walks into the kitchen to get something out of the refrigerator and asks why the other guy is there. Rather than admit that he's there because he dropped his wedding ring in the sink and has to get the tools and knowledge to remove the p-trap to retrieve it, both of them simultaneously lie and give a different reason.

* In a commercial for Ace Hardware, where the ad claims that your local Ace Hardware storekeeper is like a friend, the shopkeeper, who is serving the customer, not from his store, but from the ample hardware supply located in the kitchen of the shopkeeper's home (including a full selection of wrenches and even a wood mounted full-size p-trap on the island in the middle of the kitchen!) The shopkeeper is interrupted in the middle of the demo by his wife, who walks into the kitchen to get something out of the refrigerator and asks why the other guy is there. Rather than admit that he's there because he dropped his wedding ring in the sink and has to get the tools and knowledge to remove the p-trap to retrieve it, both of them simultaneously lie and give a different reason.

* In a commercial for Ace Hardware, where the ad claims that your local Ace Hardware storekeeper is like a friend, the shopkeeper, who is serving the customer, not from his store, but from the ample hardware supply located in the kitchen of the shopkeeper's home, is interrupted by his wife, who is asking why the other guy is there. Rather than admit that he's there because he dropped his wedding ring in the sink and has to get the tools and knowledge to remove the p-trap to retrieve it, both of them simultaneously lie and give a different reason.

* In a commercial for Ace Hardware, where the ad claims that your local Ace Hardware storekeeper is like a friend, the shopkeeper, who is serving the customer, not from his store, but from the ample hardware supply located in the kitchen of the shopkeeper's home, is interrupted by his wife, who is asking why the other guy is there. Rather than admit that he's there because he dropped his wedding ring in the sink and has to remove the p-trap to retrieve it, both of them simultaneously lie and give a different reason.

* In a commercial for Ace Hardware, where the ad claims that your local Ace Hardware store is like a friend, the shopkeeper, who is serving the customer from the kitchen in the shopkeeper's home, is interrupted by his wife, who is asking why the other guy is there. Rather than admit that he's there because he dropped his wedding ring in the sink and has to remove the p-trap to retrieve it, both of them simultaneously lie and give a different reason.

:: They answer the final question, about whose side they are on, in perfect unison. "Gibbs." Awww.

* In ''TheSecretOfMonkeyIsland'', if Guybrush asks the three Men of Low Moral Fibre "What's in the keg?", the one on the keg and the tall one reply:

** Subverted in the third chapter of ''TalesOfMonkeyIsland'', where Coronado De Cava tries this on Guybrush and Morgan (who are pretending to be a honeymooning couple). Their answers turn out similar enough that he believes them.

* Double Subverted on ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', during the "Spontaneous Mass Guy-Lie" incident.
* You mean the "Seamless Collaborative Guy Lie" scene - watch [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ8zGDYtfr4 here]]

* In his book ''They Shoot Canoes, Don't They?'', humorist PatrickMcManus gives a fictionalized account of his youthful encounter with the local game warden:

* You mean the "Seemless Collaborative Guy Lie" scene - watch [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ8zGDYtfr4 here]]