History Main / TruthTellingSession

* In Creator/BruceCoville's ''Literature/TheSkullOfTruth'', a truth-telling session happens around a Thanksgiving dinner table because the family is supernaturally compelled to be truthful.

* ''Film/OurMissBrooks'': In the film, Miss Brooks and Mr. Boynton have an argument that rapidly turns into one of these.

-->'''Hannah''': Now you? So we’re untabling our issues then.

-->'''Dave''': You wanna know terrible? That stupid hoola-hoop dance that you do.

-->'''Sheldon''': Excuuuse me, that was not a betrayal. That was an experiment to determine at what concentration food starts tasting...mothy

* Rose, Dorothy and Blanche on ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'' get into one of these after being stranded on a deserted island.

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* Appears in Myth/NorseMythology, in which Loki effortlessly embarrasses every single god in the pantheon.

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* The Act I finale of ''Theatre/TheAddamsFamily'', "Full Disclosure", is one of these gone horribly wrong.
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* In ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'', Antimony and Reynardine end up in one that gets kicked off by Reynardine confronting Annie about her copying answers form Kat's homework and culminates in him letting out an AwfulTruth about Annie's mother that he regrets as soon as he reveals it and leaves Annie utterly distraught.
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-->'''Logan:''' I never...[[ADateWithRosiePalms took matters into my own hands]] in the boys' locker room after watching cheerleading practice.\\
'''Duncan:''' ''*glares, drinks*''

In a romantic or friendship setting the final insult is often met with an ArmorPiercingSlap followed by immediate remorse from the guilty party. Or remorse then the slap.

** It ''breaks'' Carly, she starts to tear up, gives Freddie an extremely well deserved ArmorPiercingSlap, throws him out of her house and the chapter ends with both of them silently crying from the damage of hurting and being hurt by each other.

** Freddie calls her irrational and to 'calm down'. Carly rolls her eyes at Freddie. Freddie chews Carly out for wanting to be the centre of attention. Carly brings up Freddie's cheating. Freddie sarcastically suggests that Carly is jealous he cheated on the girlfriend with Sam. This makes Carly tell Freddie that he is way out of her league. Freddie tells her that only assholes like her. Carly calls Freddie a loser nerd [[MyBelovedSmother mommas boy]] who spends all his time on his computer. ''And'' [[BerserkButton she rolls her eyes at him again.]]

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* Mulan: Mulan, Mushu, and Cri-kee have a very cathartic one after they hit RockBottom. Mulan says that she wanted to prove that she could do something right after failing with the matchmaker, not just to save her father. Mushu says that her ancestors neither sent him nor like him. Cri-kee, while crying, confesses that he's not really lucky. It ends with a hug.

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* ''WesternAnimation/Mulan'', Mulan, Mushu, and Cri-kee have a very cathartic one after they hit RockBottom. Mulan says that she wanted to prove that she could do something right after failing with the matchmaker, not just to save her father. Mushu says that her ancestors neither sent him nor like him. Cri-kee, while crying, confesses that he's not really lucky. It ends with a hug.

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'''Francine:''' You bastard!\\

* Happens once on ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'', but in a rather disappointing turn we don't even get to hear any of them.

'''Hal:''' [[CallBack I burned a hole in your favorite dress!]]\\

-->'''Monica:''' Mom! Dad! Ross smoked pot in college!
-->'''Mr. and Mrs. Geller:''' What?!
-->'''Ross:''' You are such a tattletale! Mom, Dad, you remember that-that time you walked in my room and smelled marijuana?
-->'''Mr. and Mrs. Geller:''' Yes.
-->'''Ross:''' Well I told you it was Chandler who was smoking the pot but it was me. I'm sorry.
-->'''Mrs. Geller:''' It was you?
-->'''Monica:''' And Dad, y'know that mailman that you got fired? He didn't steal your Playboys! Ross did!
-->'''Ross:''' Yeah, well, Hurricane Gloria didn't break the porch swing, Monica did!
-->'''Monica:''' Ross hasn't worked at the museum for a year!
-->'''Ross:''' Monica and Chandler are living together!
-->'''Monica:''' Ross married Rachel in Vegas! And got divorced! Again!
-->'''Phoebe:''' I love Jacques Cousteau!
-->'''Rachel:''' I wasn't supposed to put beef in the trifle!
-->'''Joey:''' I wanna gooooooo!
-->'''Mrs. Geller:''' That's a lot of information to get in in thirty seconds!

* [[http://bash.org/?101194 This bash quote]].

'''Roger:''' Real, real tragedy. Amanda was drunk, of course, and she wasn't watching the pool. We were at Lake Geneva. I was receiving an award for my work in... what was it, dear? Economics?! I wanted to have another child, but her uterus was polluted from all the syphilis.\\

'''Roger:''' Tell them how you killed our baby, Amanda.\\

* In an episode of ''Series/{{Frasier}}'', Frasier's current girlfriend has a Jewish MyBelovedSmother, and at the climax have a massive teary-eyed airing out of dirty laundry in front of him and Martin. When Frasier offers to mediate, the mother turns and smoothly tells him, "Relax! We're nearly finished!" At the end, they hug and reaffirm their mother-daughter love. After they leave, Frasier and Martin fail badly. Frasier cries, "We shouldn't have tried it! WE'RE NOT JEWISH!"

* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode "Camp Refoogee". While the rest of the family is away, Roger and Francine decide to pretend to be a couple and come up with a fake backstory for themselves. Francine (as Amanda) makes a minor slip-up with Roger's (as Jordan) backstory, saying he taught economics instead of political science. Roger proceeds to make a minor alteration to her backstory, saying she had a weight problem. It goes back and forth until it devolves into a full-blown meltdown worthy of Chernobyl.

* In a ''Series/{{Girls}}'' episode "Beach House", Hannah, Shoshana, Marnie and Jessa wind up drunkenky argueing after Marnies efforts to have a Martha Steward approved dinner go south:
-->'''Hannah''' Marnie, I don’t feel like being honest.
-->'''Shoshana''' Why not? Being honest is fun
-->'''Hannah''' What are you talking about Shosh?
-->'''Shoshana''' I’m talking about the fact that you’re a fucking narcissist. Seriously I have never met anyone else who thinks their own life is so fucking fascinating. I wanted to fall asleep in my own vomit all day listening to you talk about how you bruise more easily than other people.
-->'''Hannah''' Are you serious? Okay, well people have been calling me a narcissist since I was 3 so it doesn’t really upset me you have to choose something more creative
-->'''Marnie''' Yeah- it really has no effect on you
-->'''Hannah''' Now you? So we’re untabling our issues then
-->'''Marnie''' I wanted to do this at dinner
-->'''Shoshana''' Oh my God. Can you chill the fuck out about dinner? Seriously, that duck tasted like a used condom and I want to forget about it
-->'''Marnie''' Shosh has gone totally insane
-->'''Jessa''' I dunno, maybe she’s gone sane
-->'''Shoshana''' You guys never listen to me- you treat me like I’m a fucking cab driver. Seriously you have entire conversations in front of me like I am invisible and sometimes I wonder if my social anxiety is holding me back from meeting the people who would actually be right from me instead of a bunch of fucking whiney nothings as friends.
-->'''Hannah''' She is a cruel drunk and she is also not an intellectual.
-->'''Jessa''' Actually she is. I’m gonna stick up for Shosh on this one and say that I have seen her read the newspaper on her phone.
-->'''Hannah''' Then why when I’m around her do I feel like my brain is going to atrophy? I would call you a little unstimulating.
-->'''Shoshana''': Unstimulating? What are we in like a fucking Jane Austen novel? What do I want to be like you? Like mentally ill and miserable?
-->'''Marnie''' Whoa, when did we start with all this name calling guys?
-->'''Hannah''' We didn’t start with namecalling, Shosh started with the namecalling.
-->'''Shoshana''' Um, I did not start with the namecalling, I started with your fucking honesty idea, miss tan legs.
-->'''Hannah to Marnie''' I would never talk to you that way.
-->'''Shoshana''' You are tortured by self doubt and fear and it is not pleasant to be around.

-->'''Logan:''' I never...[[ADateWithRosiePalms took matters into my own hands]] in the boys' locker room after watching cheer-leading practice.\\

'''Lois:''' I was doing my makeup in the rear view mirror, and I ran over your golf clubs!\\

* Happens once on ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaIsland'', but in a rather disappointing turn we don't even get to hear any of them.