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* ''Film/IronMan'': It only comes up once, but Tony {{Lampshades}} it when Rhodey asks how he's supposed to explain Tony's first outing as Iron Man, pointing out that the military uses "training exercise" for anything they can't or don't want to explain. Rhodey protests that it's not true. Cue GilliganCut to the press conference where he announces just that.
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* ''Film/IronMan'': It only comes up once, but Tony {{Lampshades}} it when Rhodey asks how he's supposed to explain Tony's first outing as Iron Man, pointing out that the military uses "training exercise" for anything they can't or don't want to explain. Rhodey protests that it's not true. Cue GilliganCut to the press conference where he announces just that.
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* ''Manga/TheWorldGodOnlyKnows'' is the TropeNamer, where Elsie frequently tries to excuse Keima's weird behavior by saying he's been playing too many video games, and a caption in chapter 83 "christens" it as it is now.
* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'': The Mages HandWave things like people flying, shooting fireballs, or giant demon mecha with "It's CGI." This one actually makes a little sense: The original Japanese phrase means "special effects," which includes CGI, but also fireworks and other stagecraft. But somebody translated it as CGI by accident, and the other translators thought it was funny enough to keep.
* ''Manga/ThePrinceOfTennis'': Ryoma's excuse for being late: "I was helping a pregnant woman to the hospital." Called back later when Oishi is late because he actually was helping a pregnant woman to the hospital.
* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'': The Mages HandWave things like people flying, shooting fireballs, or giant demon mecha with "It's CGI." This one actually makes a little sense: The original Japanese phrase means "special effects," which includes CGI, but also fireworks and other stagecraft. But somebody translated it as CGI by accident, and the other translators thought it was funny enough to keep.
* ''Manga/ThePrinceOfTennis'': Ryoma's excuse for being late: "I was helping a pregnant woman to the hospital." Called back later when Oishi is late because he actually was helping a pregnant woman to the hospital.
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* In ''Manga/FairyTail'', Happy's answer to questions such as "Why are you blue?", "Why can you fly?", or "How come you can talk?" is always "Because I'm a cat!" cheerfully and likely intentionally ignoring the fact that these questions are due to the fact that he ''is'' a cat.
* ''Manga/SchoolRumble'': "... cause this is the Tea club, after all."
* ''Manga/SchoolRumble'': "... cause this is the Tea club, after all."
* In ''Manga/FairyTail'', Happy's answer to questions such as "Why are you blue?", "Why can you fly?", or "How come you can talk?" is always "Because I'm a cat!" cheerfully and likely intentionally ignoring the fact that these questions are due to the fact that he ''is'' a cat.
* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'': The Mages HandWave things like people flying, shooting fireballs, or giant demon mecha with "It's CGI." This one actually makes a little sense: The original Japanese phrase means "special effects," which includes CGI, but also fireworks and other stagecraft. But somebody translated it as CGI by accident, and the other translators thought it was funny enough to keep.
* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'': The Mages HandWave things like people flying, shooting fireballs, or giant demon mecha with "It's CGI." This one actually makes a little sense: The original Japanese phrase means "special effects," which includes CGI, but also fireworks and other stagecraft. But somebody translated it as CGI by accident, and the other translators thought it was funny enough to keep.
* ''Manga/ThePrinceOfTennis'': Ryoma's excuse for being late: "I was helping a pregnant woman to the hospital." Called back later when Oishi is late because he actually was helping a pregnant woman to the hospital.
* ''Manga/SchoolRumble'': "... cause this is the Tea club, after all."
* ''Manga/SchoolRumble'': "... cause this is the Tea club, after all."
* ''Manga/TheWorldGodOnlyKnows'' is the TropeNamer, where Elsie frequently tries to excuse Keima's weird behavior by saying he's been playing too many video games, and a caption in chapter 83 "christens" it as it is now.
* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}:''
** In ''Discworld/InterestingTimes'', Rincewind visits [[ImperialChina the Agatean Empire]], where foreigners are routinely executed. He's advised to tell anyone who gets suspicious that he's from Bes Pelargic, an Agatean town looked down on by everyone else for being a bit weird.
** Likewise, when the Patrician, Nobby and Colon are undercover as Klatchians in ''Discworld/{{Jingo}}'', Sgt Colon is explained as being from Ur, a town proverbial for stupidity. Every time someone gets suspicious about him (he doesn't know what a minaret is, he's unfamiliar with couscous, he's surprised by a flying carpet), the Patrician deftly turns it into an Ur joke, and everyone laughs and relaxes. Colon did it by accident the first time, when after claiming he spoke Klatchian he's called out on it by a couple of locals who ask where he's from, and while trying to think, he says [[RealisticDictionIsUnrealistic "Er..."]]
** In ''Discworld/InterestingTimes'', Rincewind visits [[ImperialChina the Agatean Empire]], where foreigners are routinely executed. He's advised to tell anyone who gets suspicious that he's from Bes Pelargic, an Agatean town looked down on by everyone else for being a bit weird.
** Likewise, when the Patrician, Nobby and Colon are undercover as Klatchians in ''Discworld/{{Jingo}}'', Sgt Colon is explained as being from Ur, a town proverbial for stupidity. Every time someone gets suspicious about him (he doesn't know what a minaret is, he's unfamiliar with couscous, he's surprised by a flying carpet), the Patrician deftly turns it into an Ur joke, and everyone laughs and relaxes. Colon did it by accident the first time, when after claiming he spoke Klatchian he's called out on it by a couple of locals who ask where he's from, and while trying to think, he says [[RealisticDictionIsUnrealistic "Er..."]]
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* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}:''
** In ''Discworld/InterestingTimes'', Rincewind visits [[ImperialChina the Agatean Empire]], where foreigners are routinely executed. He's advised to tell anyone who gets suspicious that he's from Bes Pelargic, an Agatean town looked down on by everyone else for being a bit weird.
** Likewise, when the Patrician, Nobby and Colon are undercover as Klatchians in ''Discworld/{{Jingo}}'', Sgt Colon is explained as being from Ur, a town proverbial for stupidity. Every time someone gets suspicious about him (he doesn't know what a minaret is, he's unfamiliar with couscous, he's surprised by a flying carpet), the Patrician deftly turns it into an Ur joke, and everyone laughs and relaxes. Colon did it by accident the first time, when after claiming he spoke Klatchian he's called out on it by a couple of locals who ask where he's from, and while trying to think, he says [[RealisticDictionIsUnrealistic "Er..."]]
* In the first book of the ''{{Song of the Lioness}}'' series, Alanna always uses "I fell down" to explain her black eyes, and broken bones, and other conspicuous injuries obviously gotten from fighting. This is Justified in that this is the traditional response for brawling pages.
** In ''Discworld/InterestingTimes'', Rincewind visits [[ImperialChina the Agatean Empire]], where foreigners are routinely executed. He's advised to tell anyone who gets suspicious that he's from Bes Pelargic, an Agatean town looked down on by everyone else for being a bit weird.
** Likewise, when the Patrician, Nobby and Colon are undercover as Klatchians in ''Discworld/{{Jingo}}'', Sgt Colon is explained as being from Ur, a town proverbial for stupidity. Every time someone gets suspicious about him (he doesn't know what a minaret is, he's unfamiliar with couscous, he's surprised by a flying carpet), the Patrician deftly turns it into an Ur joke, and everyone laughs and relaxes. Colon did it by accident the first time, when after claiming he spoke Klatchian he's called out on it by a couple of locals who ask where he's from, and while trying to think, he says [[RealisticDictionIsUnrealistic "Er..."]]
* In the first book of the ''{{Song of the Lioness}}'' series, Alanna always uses "I fell down" to explain her black eyes, and broken bones, and other conspicuous injuries obviously gotten from fighting. This is Justified in that this is the traditional response for brawling pages.
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* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}:''
** In ''Discworld/InterestingTimes'', Rincewind visits [[ImperialChina the Agatean Empire]], where foreigners are routinely executed. He's advised to tell anyone who gets suspicious that he's from Bes Pelargic, an Agatean town looked down on by everyone else for being a bit weird.
** Likewise, when the Patrician, Nobby and Colon are undercover as Klatchians in ''Discworld/{{Jingo}}'', Sgt Colon is explained as being from Ur, a town proverbial for stupidity. Every time someone gets suspicious about him (he doesn't know what a minaret is, he's unfamiliar with couscous, he's surprised by a flying carpet), the Patrician deftly turns it into an Ur joke, and everyone laughs and relaxes. Colon did it by accident the first time, when after claiming he spoke Klatchian he's called out on it by a couple of locals who ask where he's from, and while trying to think, he says [[RealisticDictionIsUnrealistic "Er..."]]
*''Literature/TortallUniverse'': In the first book of the ''{{Song of the Lioness}}'' ''Literature/SongOfTheLioness'' series, Alanna always uses "I fell down" to explain her black eyes, and broken bones, and other conspicuous injuries obviously gotten from fighting. This is Justified in that this is the traditional response for brawling pages.
** In ''Discworld/InterestingTimes'', Rincewind visits [[ImperialChina the Agatean Empire]], where foreigners are routinely executed. He's advised to tell anyone who gets suspicious that he's from Bes Pelargic, an Agatean town looked down on by everyone else for being a bit weird.
** Likewise, when the Patrician, Nobby and Colon are undercover as Klatchians in ''Discworld/{{Jingo}}'', Sgt Colon is explained as being from Ur, a town proverbial for stupidity. Every time someone gets suspicious about him (he doesn't know what a minaret is, he's unfamiliar with couscous, he's surprised by a flying carpet), the Patrician deftly turns it into an Ur joke, and everyone laughs and relaxes. Colon did it by accident the first time, when after claiming he spoke Klatchian he's called out on it by a couple of locals who ask where he's from, and while trying to think, he says [[RealisticDictionIsUnrealistic "Er..."]]
*
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* In ''Series/{{Sliders}}'', whenever the team lands on a new world and has to explain why they don't know what's going on, they use the excuse "We're from Canada." We've hardly ever seen it fail. Although one time they had to pretend to be illegal immigrants from Canada the entire episode, who had snuck south into Mexico for work (thanks to the non-existence of America in the middle, and Mexico ending up with California).
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' mostly averted this, our heroes generally coming up with new, individualized (if implausible) excuses each time. On the other hand, Sunnydale's police department (when not suffering from SunnydaleSyndrome) usually covered up monster attacks by explaining that it was "gangs on PCP."
* Used often in ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' during the earlier seasons, when any questions Clark Kent was asked about his interest in the caves or any Native American symbols that were related to his Kryptonian heritage were met with "It's for a term paper" -- to the point where ComicBook/LexLuthor himself actually [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it later. What makes it doubly strange is that he had a perfectly reasonable excuse: His dead girlfriend died to protect the caves, and he is trying to honor her memory by learning as much about them as possible. He uses this excuse all of once, and Lex actually buys it.
* In ''Series/{{Sliders}}'', whenever the team lands on a new world and has to explain why they don't know what's going on, they use the excuse "We're from Canada." We've hardly ever seen it fail. Although one time they had to pretend to be illegal immigrants from Canada the entire episode, who had snuck south into Mexico for work (thanks to the non-existence of America in the middle, and Mexico ending up with California).
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' mostly averted this, our heroes generally coming up with new, individualized (if implausible) excuses each time. On the other hand, Sunnydale's police department (when not suffering from SunnydaleSyndrome) usually covered up monster attacks by explaining that it was "gangs on PCP."
* Used often in ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' during the earlier seasons, when any questions Clark Kent was asked about his interest in the caves or any Native American symbols that were related to his Kryptonian heritage were met with "It's for a term paper" -- to the point where ComicBook/LexLuthor himself actually [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it later. What makes it doubly strange is that he had a perfectly reasonable excuse: His dead girlfriend died to protect the caves, and he is trying to honor her memory by learning as much about them as possible. He uses this excuse all of once, and Lex actually buys it.
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*
-->'''Coulson:''' You can't go in there! There's been a biological weapons release! ''Bad'', flesh-eating stuff. Deal went bad with the Russians.\\
''[beat]''\\
'''Commander:''' Did you say ''biological?''
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' mostly averted this, our heroes generally coming up with new, individualized (if implausible) excuses each time. On the other hand, Sunnydale's police department (when not suffering from SunnydaleSyndrome) usually covered up monster attacks by explaining that it was "gangs on
*
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** In the "Day of the Doctor" special, a conversation reveals that UNIT's go-to excuse for weird happenings is to say that Creator/DerrenBrown [[AWizardDidIt did it]].
* On ''Series/{{Lost}}'', mentioning Canada is always a clue that the speaker is lying. Fugitive Kate tells Ray she's Canadian. Ethan claims to be from Ontario. The Others believe Bonnie and Greta are on assignment in Canada, not jamming signals in the Looking Glass Station. In "The Other 48 Days," Nathan tells Ana-Lucia he's from Canada, which is probably true, but the audience is meant to ''think'' it's a lie because Ethan said the same thing.
* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' - The Film/{{Coneheads}} handwave their weirdness by claiming to be from France.
* On ''Series/{{Lost}}'', mentioning Canada is always a clue that the speaker is lying. Fugitive Kate tells Ray she's Canadian. Ethan claims to be from Ontario. The Others believe Bonnie and Greta are on assignment in Canada, not jamming signals in the Looking Glass Station. In "The Other 48 Days," Nathan tells Ana-Lucia he's from Canada, which is probably true, but the audience is meant to ''think'' it's a lie because Ethan said the same thing.
* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' - The Film/{{Coneheads}} handwave their weirdness by claiming to be from France.
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** In the "Day [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor "The Day of the Doctor" special, Doctor"]], a conversation reveals that UNIT's go-to excuse for weird happenings is to say that Creator/DerrenBrown [[AWizardDidIt did it]].
* On ''Series/{{Lost}}'', mentioning Canada is always a clue that the speaker is lying. Fugitive Kate tells Ray she's Canadian. Ethan claims to be from Ontario. The Others believe Bonnie and Greta are on assignment in Canada, not jamming signals in the Looking Glass Station. In "The Other 48 Days," Nathan tells Ana-Lucia he's from Canada, which is probably true, but the audience is meant to ''think'' it's a lie because Ethan said the same thing.
* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' - The Film/{{Coneheads}} handwave their weirdness by claiming to be from France.it]].
* On ''Series/{{Lost}}'', mentioning Canada is always a clue that the speaker is lying. Fugitive Kate tells Ray she's Canadian. Ethan claims to be from Ontario. The Others believe Bonnie and Greta are on assignment in Canada, not jamming signals in the Looking Glass Station. In "The Other 48 Days," Nathan tells Ana-Lucia he's from Canada, which is probably true, but the audience is meant to ''think'' it's a lie because Ethan said the same thing.
* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' - The Film/{{Coneheads}} handwave their weirdness by claiming to be from France.
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* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' has a minor variation: The brothers have fake identities every case (FBI agents, doctors, etc), and stick with that for the entirety of the episode--which makes sense, considering they're stuck in a small town. This has led to truly ridiculous claims, such as managing to get everything for a case by being ''health inspectors''.
-->'''Naked Woman:''' Wh-what are you and that kid doing in the women's showers?\\
'''Sam:''' Don't worry, ma'am. I'm with the health department.
* One episode of ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' had Jordan repeatedly justifying her {{Jerkass}} tendencies with "My parents were mean to me". Everyone immediately accepts this as a sufficient explanation. At one point she even says it out loud in response to something she was merely ''thinking''. And of course, it turns out to be a lie anyway.
* ''Series/TheXFiles'': In ''Bad Blood:'' "We were drugged."
-->'''Naked Woman:''' Wh-what are you and that kid doing in the women's showers?\\
'''Sam:''' Don't worry, ma'am. I'm with the health department.
* One episode of ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' had Jordan repeatedly justifying her {{Jerkass}} tendencies with "My parents were mean to me". Everyone immediately accepts this as a sufficient explanation. At one point she even says it out loud in response to something she was merely ''thinking''. And of course, it turns out to be a lie anyway.
* ''Series/TheXFiles'': In ''Bad Blood:'' "We were drugged."
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* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' has ''{{Series/Firefly}}'': According to Officer Harkin, "Reavers did it" is a minor variation: The brothers have fake identities every case (FBI agents, doctors, etc), and stick with [[NeverHeardThatOneBefore popular but ineffective criminal defense.]]
* On ''Series/{{Lost}}'', mentioning Canada is always a clue thatfor the entirety of the episode--which makes sense, considering they're stuck in a small town. This has led speaker is lying. Fugitive Kate tells Ray she's Canadian. Ethan claims to truly ridiculous claims, such as managing to get everything for a case by being ''health inspectors''.
-->'''Naked Woman:''' Wh-whatbe from Ontario. The Others believe Bonnie and Greta are you and that kid doing on assignment in Canada, not jamming signals in the women's showers?\\
'''Sam:''' Don't worry, ma'am. I'm withLooking Glass Station. In "The Other 48 Days", Nathan tells Ana-Lucia he's from Canada, which is probably true, but the health department.
* One episode of ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' had Jordan repeatedly justifying her {{Jerkass}} tendencies with "My parents were meanaudience is meant to me". Everyone immediately accepts this as a sufficient explanation. At one point she even says it out loud in response to something she was merely ''thinking''. And of course, it turns out to be ''think'' it's a lie anyway.
* ''Series/TheXFiles'': In ''Bad Blood:'' "We were drugged."because Ethan said the same thing.
* On ''Series/{{Lost}}'', mentioning Canada is always a clue that
-->'''Naked Woman:''' Wh-what
'''Sam:''' Don't worry, ma'am. I'm with
* One episode of ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' had Jordan repeatedly justifying her {{Jerkass}} tendencies with "My parents were mean
* ''Series/TheXFiles'': In ''Bad Blood:'' "We were drugged."
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* On ''Series/StargateSG1'', Jack O'Neill, who was very poor at keeping up with the show's {{Technobabble}}, tended to explain any and all unknown phenomena as simply the work of "magnets".
* ''{{Series/Chuck}}'' tends to explain away everything as the effects of a spastic colon, even if said excuse makes no sense whatsoever.
* ''{{Series/Firefly}}'': According to Officer Harkin, "Reavers did it" is a [[NeverHeardThatOneBefore popular but ineffective criminal defense.]]
* ''{{Series/Chuck}}'' tends to explain away everything as the effects of a spastic colon, even if said excuse makes no sense whatsoever.
* ''{{Series/Firefly}}'': According to Officer Harkin, "Reavers did it" is a [[NeverHeardThatOneBefore popular but ineffective criminal defense.]]
* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' - The Film/{{Coneheads}} handwave their weirdness by claiming to be from France.
* One episode of ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' had Jordan repeatedly justifying her {{Jerkass}} tendencies with "My parents were mean to me". Everyone immediately accepts this as a sufficient explanation. At one point she even says it out loud in response to something she was merely ''thinking''. And of course, it turns out to be a lie anyway.
* In ''Series/{{Sliders}}'', whenever the team lands on a new world and has to explain why they don't know what's going on, they use the excuse "We're from Canada." We've hardly ever seen it fail. Although one time they had to pretend to be illegal immigrants from Canada the entire episode, who had snuck south into Mexico for work (thanks to the non-existence of America in the middle, and Mexico ending up with California).
* Used often in ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' during the earlier seasons, when any questions Clark Kent was asked about his interest in the caves or any Native American symbols that were related to his Kryptonian heritage were met with "It's for a term paper" -- to the point where ComicBook/LexLuthor himself actually [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it later. What makes it doubly strange is that he had a perfectly reasonable excuse: His dead girlfriend died to protect the caves, and he is trying to honor her memory by learning as much about them as possible. He uses this excuse all of once, and Lex actually buys it.
* On ''Series/StargateSG1'', Jack O'Neill, who was very poor at keeping up with the show's {{Technobabble}}, tended to explain any and all unknown phenomena as simply the work of "magnets".
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' has a minor variation: The brothers have fake identities every case (FBI agents, doctors, etc), and stick with that for the entirety of the episode--which makes sense, considering they're stuck in a small town. This has led to truly ridiculous claims, such as managing to get everything for a case by being ''health inspectors''.
-->'''Naked Woman:''' Wh-what are you and that kid doing in the women's showers?\\
'''Sam:''' Don't worry, ma'am. I'm with the health department.
* One episode of ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' had Jordan repeatedly justifying her {{Jerkass}} tendencies with "My parents were mean to me". Everyone immediately accepts this as a sufficient explanation. At one point she even says it out loud in response to something she was merely ''thinking''. And of course, it turns out to be a lie anyway.
* In ''Series/{{Sliders}}'', whenever the team lands on a new world and has to explain why they don't know what's going on, they use the excuse "We're from Canada." We've hardly ever seen it fail. Although one time they had to pretend to be illegal immigrants from Canada the entire episode, who had snuck south into Mexico for work (thanks to the non-existence of America in the middle, and Mexico ending up with California).
* Used often in ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' during the earlier seasons, when any questions Clark Kent was asked about his interest in the caves or any Native American symbols that were related to his Kryptonian heritage were met with "It's for a term paper" -- to the point where ComicBook/LexLuthor himself actually [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it later. What makes it doubly strange is that he had a perfectly reasonable excuse: His dead girlfriend died to protect the caves, and he is trying to honor her memory by learning as much about them as possible. He uses this excuse all of once, and Lex actually buys it.
* On ''Series/StargateSG1'', Jack O'Neill, who was very poor at keeping up with the show's {{Technobabble}}, tended to explain any and all unknown phenomena as simply the work of "magnets".
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' has a minor variation: The brothers have fake identities every case (FBI agents, doctors, etc), and stick with that for the entirety of the episode--which makes sense, considering they're stuck in a small town. This has led to truly ridiculous claims, such as managing to get everything for a case by being ''health inspectors''.
-->'''Naked Woman:''' Wh-what are you and that kid doing in the women's showers?\\
'''Sam:''' Don't worry, ma'am. I'm with the health department.
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* ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'': When Coulson needs to hold off the local army for long enough for May to rescue the special forces squad sent in to contain a situation, he briefly mutters to himself over whether to go with nuclear or biological, before settling on biological. "Biological always works."
-->'''Coulson:''' You can't go in there! There's been a biological weapons release! ''Bad'', flesh-eating stuff. Deal went bad with the Russians.\\
''[beat]''\\
'''Commander:''' Did you say ''biological?''
-->'''Coulson:''' You can't go in there! There's been a biological weapons release! ''Bad'', flesh-eating stuff. Deal went bad with the Russians.\\
''[beat]''\\
'''Commander:''' Did you say ''biological?''
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* ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'': When Coulson needs to hold off the local army for long enough for May to rescue the special forces squad sent in to contain a situation, he briefly mutters to himself over whether to go with nuclear or biological, before settling on biological. "Biological always works."
-->'''Coulson:''' You can't go in there! There's been a biological weapons release! ''Bad'', flesh-eating stuff. Deal went bad with the Russians.\\
''[beat]''\\
'''Commander:''' Did you say ''biological?''
''Series/TheXFiles'': In "Bad Blood": "We were drugged."
-->'''Coulson:''' You can't go in there! There's been a biological weapons release! ''Bad'', flesh-eating stuff. Deal went bad with the Russians.\\
''[beat]''\\
'''Commander:''' Did you say ''biological?''
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'': When Krieger is caught doing one of his weird science experiments, he'll claim he's not really there and it's a hologram programmed to take his place. Although this is slightly plausible, given that his wife is a hologram.
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* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'': Dukey the speaking dog is always "a kid with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertrichosis a rare hair disorder]]".
* In the "Knifin' Around" episode of ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhostCoastToCoast'' featuring Thom Yorke from Music/{{Radiohead}}, Space Ghost takes a break from the interview to discretely reveal to his director, Moltar, the fact that he has illegally copied Radiohead [=CDs=]. When Yorke appears to be listening in, Space Ghost covers by saying, "Don't look at me... we're talking about dragons!"
* In the "Knifin' Around" episode of ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhostCoastToCoast'' featuring Thom Yorke from Music/{{Radiohead}}, Space Ghost takes a break from the interview to discretely reveal to his director, Moltar, the fact that he has illegally copied Radiohead [=CDs=]. When Yorke appears to be listening in, Space Ghost covers by saying, "Don't look at me... we're talking about dragons!"
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'': When Krieger is caught doing one of his weird science experiments, he'll claim he's not really there and it's a hologram programmed to take his place. Although this is slightly plausible, given that his wife is a hologram.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'': ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'': Dukey the speaking dog is always "a kid with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertrichosis a rare hair disorder]]".
* In the "Knifin' Around" episode of ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhostCoastToCoast'' featuring Thom Yorke from Music/{{Radiohead}}, Space Ghost takes a break from the interview to discretely reveal to his director, Moltar, the fact that he has illegally copied Radiohead [=CDs=]. WhenKrieger is caught doing one of his weird science experiments, he'll claim he's not really there and it's a hologram programmed Yorke appears to take his place. Although this is slightly plausible, given that his wife is a hologram.be listening in, Space Ghost covers by saying, "Don't look at me... we're talking about dragons!"
* In the "Knifin' Around" episode of ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhostCoastToCoast'' featuring Thom Yorke from Music/{{Radiohead}}, Space Ghost takes a break from the interview to discretely reveal to his director, Moltar, the fact that he has illegally copied Radiohead [=CDs=]. When
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* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'': The Mages HandWave things like people flying, shooting fireballs, or giant demon mecha with "It's CGI." This one actually makes a little sense: The original Japanese phrase means "special effects," which includes CGI, but also fireworks and other stagecraft. But somebody translated it as CGI by accident, and [[GoodBadTranslation the other translators thought it was funny enough to keep]].
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* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'': The Mages HandWave things like people flying, shooting fireballs, or giant demon mecha with "It's CGI." This one actually makes a little sense: The original Japanese phrase means "special effects," which includes CGI, but also fireworks and other stagecraft. But somebody translated it as CGI by accident, and [[GoodBadTranslation the other translators thought it was funny enough to keep]].keep.
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** There's [[https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/13rjg4/i_think_it_might_be_a_weather_balloon/ a humorous picture]] floating around the internet with various aircraft profiles (some real, some imagined, and some from media) and the "official" USAF explanation for them.
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** There's [[https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/13rjg4/i_think_it_might_be_a_weather_balloon/ a humorous picture]] floating around the internet with various aircraft profiles (some real, some imagined, and some from media) and the "official" USAF explanation for them. (The one that actually looks like a balloon is labeled "Swamp Gas", another notoriously frequent explanation for UFO sightings.)
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** There's [[http://xmb.stuffucanuse.com/xmb/viewthread.php?tid=4839 a humorous picture]] floating around the internet with various aircraft profiles (some real, some imagined, and some from media) and the "official" USAF explanation for them.
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** There's [[http://xmb.stuffucanuse.com/xmb/viewthread.php?tid=4839 [[https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/13rjg4/i_think_it_might_be_a_weather_balloon/ a humorous picture]] floating around the internet with various aircraft profiles (some real, some imagined, and some from media) and the "official" USAF explanation for them.
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* The GM of a WarhammerFantasyRoleplay campaign sardonically noted in his Actual Play reports that his player characters often scapegoat Chaos for their misdeeds. Of course, this works well because Chaos is a feared and versatile threat that can crop up anywhere and can do all sorts of weird stuff.
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* The GM of a WarhammerFantasyRoleplay campaign sardonically noted in his Actual Play reports that his player characters often scapegoat Chaos for their misdeeds. Of course, this works well because Chaos is a feared and versatile threat that can crop up anywhere and can do all sorts of weird stuff.
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* The GM of a WarhammerFantasyRoleplay campaign sardonically noted in his Actual Play reports that his player characters often scapegoat Chaos for their misdeeds. Of course, this works well because Chaos is a feared and versatile threat that can crop up anywhere and can do all sorts of weird stuff.
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* The GM of a WarhammerFantasyRoleplay campaign sardonically noted in his Actual Play reports that his player characters often scapegoat Chaos for their misdeeds. Of course, this works well because Chaos is a feared and versatile threat that can crop up anywhere and can do all sorts of weird stuff.
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** In chapter 34 of ''Manga/TouhouIbarakasenWildAndHornedHermit'' Marisa tries to cheer up Reimu with an exotic meal. When Reimu gets a bit adverse to eating ''pickled narcissius'', Marisa tells her not to worry as she cooked the narcissius for as long as she could in order to get rid of all poison... Then she presents the next meal: Hemlock salad. Complete with telling Reimu not to worry because she cooked out the poisons... ''from a salad.''
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** In chapter 34 of ''Manga/TouhouIbarakasenWildAndHornedHermit'' Marisa tries to cheer up Reimu with an exotic meal. When Reimu gets a bit adverse to eating ''pickled narcissius'', Marisa tells her not to worry as she cooked the narcissius for as long as she could in order to get rid of all poison...poison. Then she presents the next meal: Hemlock salad. Complete with telling Reimu not to worry because she cooked out the poisons... ''from a salad.''salad...'' Either way Reimu looked at that one, it was still a LethalChef credential.
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** In chapter 34 of ''Manga/TouhouIbarakasenWildAndHornedHermit'' Marisa tries to cheer up Reimu with an exotic meal. When Reimu gets a bit adverse to eating ''pickled narcissius'', Marisa tells her not to worry as she cooked the narcissius for as long as she could in order to get rid of all poison... Then she presents the next meal: Hemlock salad. Complete with telling Reimu not to worry because she cooked out the poisons... ''from a salad.''
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* Kelly Kapoor in the American version of ''TheOffice'' has a melodramatic wild card up her sleeve:
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* Kelly Kapoor in the American version of ''TheOffice'' ''Series/{{The Office|US}}'' has a melodramatic wild card up her sleeve:
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* ''Anime/RanmaOneHalf'': Ranma, ''Ranma'', '''Ranma'''. The poor fella may be a JerkJock at times, but there is absolutely nothing his rivals won't blame him for when their own lives are going to shit in some way, shape or form. Fan fiction takes it UpToEleven, blaming him for such things as, say, taking the WrongTurnAtAlbuquerque and running into a Dalek invasion.
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* ''Anime/RanmaOneHalf'': Ranma, ''Ranma'', '''Ranma'''. The poor fella may be a JerkJock at times, but there is absolutely nothing his rivals won't blame him for when their own lives are going to shit in some way, shape or form. Fan fiction takes it UpToEleven, blaming him for such things as, say, taking the WrongTurnAtAlbuquerque and running into a Dalek invasion.
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* Shirou of ''InFlight'', every time someone calls him on anything strange about him. Eventually his flock start completing the sentence for him.
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* Shirou of ''InFlight'', ''Fanfic/InFlight'', every time someone calls him on anything strange about him. Eventually his flock start completing the sentence for him.
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* In ''OhGodNotAgain'', anytime a character asks Harry how he knows seemingly impossible things.
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* In ''OhGodNotAgain'', ''Fanfic/OhGodNotAgain'', anytime a character asks Harry how he knows seemingly impossible things.
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* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' - The {{Coneheads}} handwave their weirdness by claiming to be from France.
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* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' - The {{Coneheads}} Film/{{Coneheads}} handwave their weirdness by claiming to be from France.
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* Used often in ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' during the earlier seasons, when any questions Clark Kent was asked about his interest in the caves or any Native American symbols that were related to his Kryptonian heritage were met with "It's for a term paper" -- to the point where ComicBook/LexLuthor himself actually [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it later.
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* Used often in ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' during the earlier seasons, when any questions Clark Kent was asked about his interest in the caves or any Native American symbols that were related to his Kryptonian heritage were met with "It's for a term paper" -- to the point where ComicBook/LexLuthor himself actually [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it later. What makes it doubly strange is that he had a perfectly reasonable excuse: His dead girlfriend died to protect the caves, and he is trying to honor her memory by learning as much about them as possible. He uses this excuse all of once, and Lex actually buys it.
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* [[Manga/OnePunchMan King's]] standard excuse for not being somewhere is that he was fighting monsters/raiding monster lairs. [[spoiler:He's telling the truth, in a way - he's a hardcore video gamer, and said monsters/lairs were in an RPG.]]
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* [[Manga/OnePunchMan King's]] ''Manga/OnePunchMan'': King's standard excuse for not being somewhere is that he was fighting monsters/raiding monster lairs. [[spoiler:He's telling the truth, in a way - he's a hardcore video gamer, and said monsters/lairs were in an RPG.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' has a RunningGag where a character will ask Timmy where he got his wished-for stuff from and get the quick response "Internet". See also the page quote.
** In one episode, while trying to explain why he was suddenly rich, he tried both an inheritance claim, and the usual claim, before settling on "I inherited the Internet!".
** In one episode, while trying to explain why he was suddenly rich, he tried both an inheritance claim, and the usual claim, before settling on "I inherited the Internet!".
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' has a RunningGag in the early episodes where a character will ask Timmy where he got his wished-for stuff from and get the quick response "Internet". See also the page quote.
** In one episode, while trying to explain why he was suddenly rich, he tried both an inheritance claim, and the usual claim, before settling on"I "[[BreadEggsBreadedEggs I inherited the Internet!".Internet!]]".
** In one episode, while trying to explain why he was suddenly rich, he tried both an inheritance claim, and the usual claim, before settling on
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** It finally breaks down when Timmy's Dad asks him where he got ''the Internet'' from, at which point Timmy is reduced to stammering.
*** In that particular episode, Timmy's parents were suspicious of him because he recently wished for a bunch of things that were reported stolen on the news. When Timmy tries to prove his innocence later, the usual excuse breaks down again because he hooked himself up to a lie detector and they asked where the lie detector came from. At the end of the episode, when Timmy is proven innocent, the usual excuse works again.
*** In that particular episode, Timmy's parents were suspicious of him because he recently wished for a bunch of things that were reported stolen on the news. When Timmy tries to prove his innocence later, the usual excuse breaks down again because he hooked himself up to a lie detector and they asked where the lie detector came from. At the end of the episode, when Timmy is proven innocent, the usual excuse works again.
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** It finally breaks down when Timmy's Dad asks him where he got ''the Internet'' from, at which point Timmy is reduced to stammering.
***stammering. In that this particular episode, case, Timmy's parents were suspicious of him because he recently wished for a bunch of things that were reported stolen on the news. When Timmy tries to prove his innocence later, the usual excuse breaks down again because he hooked himself up to a lie detector and they asked where the lie detector came from. At the end of the episode, when Timmy is proven innocent, the usual excuse works again.
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* ''Manga/Bleach'': The usual explanation anytime one of the main characters shows up at school injured is "I fell down the stairs", which everyone immediately sees through.
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* ''Manga/Bleach'': ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': The usual explanation anytime one of the main characters shows up at school injured is "I fell down the stairs", which everyone immediately sees through.
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* ''SchoolRumble'': "... cause this is the Tea club, after all."
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* ''SchoolRumble'': ''Manga/SchoolRumble'': "... cause this is the Tea club, after all."
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*** In that particular episode, Timmy's parents were suspicious of him because he recently wished for a bunch of things that were reported stolen on the news. When Timmy tries to prove his innocence later, the usual excuse breaks down again because he hooked himself up to a lie detector and they asked where the lie detector came from. At the end of the episode, when Timmy is proven innocent, the usual excuse works again.
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** It finally breaks down when Timmy's Dad asks him where he got ''the Internet'' from, at which point Timmy is reduced to stammering.
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* In ''{{Everworld}}'' the characters often pretend to be traveling minstrels as a cover for the fact that they're from an alternate dimension
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* In ''{{Everworld}}'' ''Literature/{{Everworld}}'' the characters often pretend to be traveling minstrels as a cover for the fact that they're from an alternate dimension
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* ''Manga/ThePrinceOfTennis'': Ryoma's excuse for being late: "I was helping a pregnant woman to the hospital."
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* ''Manga/ThePrinceOfTennis'': Ryoma's excuse for being late: "I was helping a pregnant woman to the hospital."" Called back later when Oishi is late because he actually was helping a pregnant woman to the hospital.
* ''Manga/Bleach'': The usual explanation anytime one of the main characters shows up at school injured is "I fell down the stairs", which everyone immediately sees through.
* ''Manga/Bleach'': The usual explanation anytime one of the main characters shows up at school injured is "I fell down the stairs", which everyone immediately sees through.
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* In a yonkoma omake in ''Manga/TouhouSuzunaanForbiddenScrollery'', [[{{Lilliputians}} Shinmyoumaru Sukuna]] uses the excuse "It's an effect of the Miracle Mallet" to explain away any weird occurance. A believable enough explanation when inanimate objects begin to move of their own accord, not so very believable when there are tiny bite marks in Reimu's food and Shinmyoumaru's mouth is stuffed.
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* [[Manga/OnePunchMan King's]] standard excuse for not being somewhere is that he was fighting monsters/raiding monster lairs. [[spoiler:He's telling the truth, in a way - he's a hardcore video gamer, and said monsters/lairs were in an RPG.]]
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* In one of the omakes for ''Manga/TheDisastrousLifeOfSaikiK'', the author via the titular Saiki tries to HandWave his drawing errors as a result of Saiki's MindControl ability going [[RealityWarper out of hand]], but eventually admitted the truth at the end.
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Contrast LameExcuse, HurricaneOfExcuses, SuspiciouslySpecificDenial.
See also ExcusePlot, and the actual WildCard.
See also ExcusePlot, and the actual WildCard.
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Contrast LameExcuse, HurricaneOfExcuses, SuspiciouslySpecificDenial.
SuspiciouslySpecificDenial. See also ExcusePlot, and the actual WildCard.WildCard.
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* In ''PrincessWaltz'', Liliana uses "I lived abroad" to explain how [[SuperStrength she was able to jump out of a second-story window with a friend on her back without injury]].
-->'''Suzuku:''' Ah, that explains it.
-->'''Nishimoto:''' That's someone who lived abroad for you.
-->'''Suzuku:''' Ah, that explains it.
-->'''Nishimoto:''' That's someone who lived abroad for you.
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* In ''PrincessWaltz'', ''VisualNovel/PrincessWaltz'', Liliana uses "I lived abroad" to explain how [[SuperStrength she was able to jump out of a second-story window with a friend on her back without injury]].
-->'''Suzuku:''' Ah, that explainsit.
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'''Nishimoto:''' That's someone who lived abroad for you.
-->'''Suzuku:''' Ah, that explains
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'''Nishimoto:''' That's someone who lived abroad for you.
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* Creator/TerryPratchett [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this one in the ''Literature/JohnnyMaxwellTrilogy''.
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* Creator/TerryPratchett [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] parodied this one in the ''Literature/JohnnyMaxwellTrilogy''.
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Compare BlatantLies, GlobalIgnorance, BadLiar, ItsForABook. WeirdnessCoupon relates to how people react to the perceived wildcard.
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