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* ''Series/{{Andor}}'': Timm sees his girlfriend Bix have a couple of furtive meetings with her ex Cassian, though they really do look just like the illegal business meetings they are, and thinks she's cheating on him so turns Cassian in for the deaths of two Pre-Mor guards.
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* ''Series/MimpiMetropolitan'':
** In episode 17, Melani is ill so Prima drives her to dorm and puts on his jacket to warm her. Bambang, Alan and Pipin don't know Melani is ill and assume Prima is being romantic. Bambang in particular becomes mad at Prima until the situation is cleared up next episode.
** In episode 18, Alan gets paid to pretend to be someone's boyfriend. His romantic rival, Wawan, takes a picture of that and shows it to Pipin. When Alan comes home, he (and Prima, who did the same kind of job) has to explain to everyone about it.
** In episode 19, Prima complains to Mami Bibir about two people from their agency making out minutes before a take, then demonstrating it with Prima as the guy and Mami Bibir as the girl. Cue disgusted neighbors thinking Mami Bibir is making out with her young tenant.
** It's not explicitly stated, but Mami Bibir clearly thinks Alan has impregnated Pipin when they come to her house and Pipin is holding her stomach in pain (it has a cold) in episode 33.
** In episode 59, Alan asks Bambang to show how Melani confess her love to him. Trisno then walks in, sees Bambang holding Alan's face and saying "I love you", and immediately has [[MistakenForGay an understandable thought]].
** In episode 17, Melani is ill so Prima drives her to dorm and puts on his jacket to warm her. Bambang, Alan and Pipin don't know Melani is ill and assume Prima is being romantic. Bambang in particular becomes mad at Prima until the situation is cleared up next episode.
** In episode 18, Alan gets paid to pretend to be someone's boyfriend. His romantic rival, Wawan, takes a picture of that and shows it to Pipin. When Alan comes home, he (and Prima, who did the same kind of job) has to explain to everyone about it.
** In episode 19, Prima complains to Mami Bibir about two people from their agency making out minutes before a take, then demonstrating it with Prima as the guy and Mami Bibir as the girl. Cue disgusted neighbors thinking Mami Bibir is making out with her young tenant.
** It's not explicitly stated, but Mami Bibir clearly thinks Alan has impregnated Pipin when they come to her house and Pipin is holding her stomach in pain (it has a cold) in episode 33.
** In episode 59, Alan asks Bambang to show how Melani confess her love to him. Trisno then walks in, sees Bambang holding Alan's face and saying "I love you", and immediately has [[MistakenForGay an understandable thought]].
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** In a more serious version of this trope, Cory and Topanga are working late on a school project and they happen to fall asleep in the same room. Because of the DoubleStandard, Cory is praised for his alleged prowess while Topanga is ruined. Finally Cory nerves himself to do the right thing and saves Topanga by stepping forward and admitting that it wasn't what it looks like. He was remarkably EasilyForgiven too.
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** In a A more serious version of this trope, trope features in "Wake Up, Little Cory", where Cory and Topanga are working late on a school project and they happen to [[SleepCute fall asleep in the same room.room]]. Because of the DoubleStandard, Cory is praised for his alleged prowess while Topanga is ruined. Finally Cory nerves himself to do the right thing and saves Topanga by stepping forward and admitting that it wasn't what it looks like. He was remarkably EasilyForgiven too.
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* ''Series/LawAndOrderSVU'': In "Control", Benson briefly finds herself under scrutiny from her partner after he walks in on her standing over the perp of the week's bloody corpse, with Benson saying (truthfully) that he was like that when she found him.
** The Season 13 finale cliffhanger, "Rhodium Nights" has Captain Cragen waking up with a dead escort in his bed, her throat slashed and the subsequent Season 14 two-parter("Lost Reputation", "Above Suspicion") centers around him having to [[ClearMyName clear his name]] with evidence against him mounting all the while.
** The Season 13 finale cliffhanger, "Rhodium Nights" has Captain Cragen waking up with a dead escort in his bed, her throat slashed and the subsequent Season 14 two-parter("Lost Reputation", "Above Suspicion") centers around him having to [[ClearMyName clear his name]] with evidence against him mounting all the while.
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** In "Control", Benson briefly finds herself under scrutiny from her partner after he walks in on her standing over the perp of the week's bloody corpse, with Benson saying (truthfully) that he was like that when she found him.
** The Season 13 finale cliffhanger, "Rhodium Nights" has Captain Cragen waking up with a dead escort in his bed, her throat slashed and the subsequent Season 14two-parter("Lost two-parter ("Lost Reputation", "Above Suspicion") centers around him having to [[ClearMyName clear his name]] with evidence against him mounting all the while.
** In "Control", Benson briefly finds herself under scrutiny from her partner after he walks in on her standing over the perp of the week's bloody corpse, with Benson saying (truthfully) that he was like that when she found him.
** The Season 13 finale cliffhanger, "Rhodium Nights" has Captain Cragen waking up with a dead escort in his bed, her throat slashed and the subsequent Season 14
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[[NotWhatItLooksLike Misleading situations]] in live-action TV.
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* ''Series/ControlZ'': Javier caught Natalia and his father making out, with her desperately trying to explain the situation as it was the only way to get the money to pay off her drug dealers. However, Javier refuses to hear about it and breaks up with her.
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* In the live action drama of ''Literature/TheKingsAvatar'', it's played for drama. Wei Chen spotted newly join member Yu Chen privately speaking with the opposing team about a "deal" and comes to the conclusion that Wu Chen is trying to sell out the team, seeing how Wu Chen had a previous history of cheating. This distrust causes [[spoiler: Wei Chen, as substitute captain after Ye Xiu is pulled away for investigation, to not include Wu Chen in the team battle line-up and would result in Team Happy losing.]] It's later revealed that Wu Chen was actually trying to secure silver equipment for the team.
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* In the live action drama of ''Literature/TheKingsAvatar'', it's played for drama. Wei Chen spotted newly join joined member Yu Wu Chen privately speaking with the opposing team about a "deal" and comes to the conclusion that Wu Chen is trying to sell out the team, seeing how Wu Chen had a previous history of cheating. This distrust causes [[spoiler: Wei Chen, as substitute captain after Ye Xiu is pulled away for investigation, to not include Wu Chen in the team battle line-up and would result in Team Happy losing.]] It's later revealed that Wu Chen was actually trying to secure silver equipment for the team.
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* In the live action drama of ''Literature/TheKingsAvatar'', it's played for drama. Wei Chen spotted newly join member Yu Chen privately speaking with the opposing team about a "deal" and comes to the conclusion that Wu Chen is trying to sell out the team, seeing how Wu Chen had a previous history of cheating. This distrust causes [[spoiler: Wei Chen, as substitute captain after Ye Xiu is pulled away for investigation, to not include Wu Chen in the team battle line-up and would result in Team Happy losing.]] It's later revealed that Wu Chen was actually trying to secure silver equipment for the team.
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* ''Series/JandaKembang'': In episode 14, Rais and Neneng hides under a seat to quietly discuss Neneng's plan to pawn her gold. Robert spots them coming up and mistakenly calls them out for doing something dirty.
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* ''Series/GossipGirl2021'': Julien is photographed talking with [[spoiler:one of her dad's victims]], making it seem like she's trying to cover up his crimes since she previously supported his innocence. However, it wasn't actually the case. Despite this, she's canceled by many people.
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* ''Series/AsTheWorldTurns''' Holden walks into a church and sees his ex-wife Lily and her ''other'' ex-husband Damian (the LoveTriangle between them was one of the show's most popular long-running storylines) kneeling at the altar while a priest prays over them. The devastated Holden wrongfully assumes that Lily has chosen Damian over him and that the priest is marrying them, when in fact, Lily has actually chosen ''him''. She and Damian were merely praying to get closure over their own failed relationship.
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* ''Series/TheLWord'': In Season 6 Jenny spots Bette and Kelly, who are apparently having sex from the angle that she sees. This turns out to be a mistake though, and Bette is helping clean Kelly's dress after she spilled wine on it.
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* The ''Series/LivAndMaddie'' episode "New Year's Eve-A-Rooney" has Maddie get angry when she finds out Liv kissed Diggie in her "Froyo YOLO" video. Turns out, Diggie was the robot, and Liv really kissed his ''mask''.
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* The ''Series/LivAndMaddie'' episode "New Year's Eve-A-Rooney" has Maddie get angry when she finds out Liv kissed Diggie in her "Froyo YOLO" video.video, thinking he cheated on her. Turns out, Diggie was the robot, and Liv really kissed his ''mask''.
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* ''Series/TheDevilJudge'':
** Ga-on walks in on Yo-han strangling Sun-ah. Naturally he freaks out, unaware that Sun-ah just threatened Yo-han (not to mention kidnapping and forcibly kissing him earlier).
** Soo-hyun finds Yo-han and Ga-on next to Minister Cha's corpse. She assumes [[MistakenForMurderer one of them killed her]]. Actually Minister Cha committed suicide.
** Ga-on walks in on Yo-han strangling Sun-ah. Naturally he freaks out, unaware that Sun-ah just threatened Yo-han (not to mention kidnapping and forcibly kissing him earlier).
** Soo-hyun finds Yo-han and Ga-on next to Minister Cha's corpse. She assumes [[MistakenForMurderer one of them killed her]]. Actually Minister Cha committed suicide.
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** An inversion happens in "Protect and Serve" where a shell-shocked cop shoots an unarmed college student he pulled over on a traffic violation and swears up and down, up to the climax of the episode, that the young man had reached for a weapon, despite numerous cell/smart/iPhone videos clearly showing otherwise.
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** In "The Radical Truth", Burgess walks up on Ruzek after he has just shot the episode's VillainOfTheWeek and immediately questions what he (Ruzek) just did. After surveillance footage shows that it was indeed a good shoot, Ruzek chews her out for both this and for not backing him to the review team.
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* ''Series/LawAndOrderSVU'': In "Control", Benson briefly finds herself under scrutiny from her partner after he walks in on her standing over the perp of the week's bloody corpse, with Benson saying (truthfully) that he was like that when she found him.
** The Season 13 finale cliffhanger, "Rhodium Nights" has Captain Cragen waking up with a dead escort in his bed, her throat slashed and the subsequent Season 14 two-parter("Lost Reputation", "Above Suspicion") centers around him having to [[ClearMyName clear his name]] with evidence against him mounting all the while.
** The Season 13 finale cliffhanger, "Rhodium Nights" has Captain Cragen waking up with a dead escort in his bed, her throat slashed and the subsequent Season 14 two-parter("Lost Reputation", "Above Suspicion") centers around him having to [[ClearMyName clear his name]] with evidence against him mounting all the while.
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* ''Series/LawAndOrderSVU'': In "Control", Benson briefly finds herself under scrutiny from her partner after he walks in on her standing over the perp of the week's bloody corpse, with Benson saying (truthfully) that he was like that when she found him.
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* ''Series/ChicagoPD'': Several episodes deal with the officers having to shoot or use escalated force against someone in self-defense and it looking as if they killed or brutalized the suspect in cold blood. It doesn't help that nearly as many cases where this allegedly happens turn out to be exactly what it looks like ([[DramaticIrony to the audience]], at least) or that almost all of the latter instances directly involve Sgt. Hank Voight, who has a known reputation as a CowboyCop.
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* ''Series/TheEternalLove'': Lian Cheng learns Xiao Tan has agreed to meet Yi Huai. He assumes she's in league with Yi Huai and passing information to him. Actually she wants to give him a piece of her mind on Tan Er's behalf.
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* ''Series/PrincessSilver'':
** Fu Chou finds Rong Le in the bath with Wu You. It's actually because they were locked in, and Wu You needed a place to hide before Xiao Ren found him, but Fu Chou doesn't know that.
** The servants find Ya Li in bed with Wu You. It was a plot to make Rong Le think Wu You was cheating on her, but everyone jumps to the more obvious conclusion.
** Almost the exact same thing happens to Rong Le, who wakes up in bed with a strange man. It was another of Ya Li's plots, but everyone thinks Rong Le was cheating on Wu You.
** Fu Chou finds Rong Le in the bath with Wu You. It's actually because they were locked in, and Wu You needed a place to hide before Xiao Ren found him, but Fu Chou doesn't know that.
** The servants find Ya Li in bed with Wu You. It was a plot to make Rong Le think Wu You was cheating on her, but everyone jumps to the more obvious conclusion.
** Almost the exact same thing happens to Rong Le, who wakes up in bed with a strange man. It was another of Ya Li's plots, but everyone thinks Rong Le was cheating on Wu You.
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* ''Series/PrincessAgents'':
** Jin Zhu walks in on Yuwen Yue holding Chu Qiao, both of them wearing only their night-clothes. It's actually because they had a fight after (platonically) sharing a bed. Jin Zhu jumps to the more obvious conclusion.
** Yuwen Yue's guards hear crashes coming from his bedroom. It's actually Yuwen Yue and Chu Qiao fighting. The guards assume something completely different is happening.
** Jin Zhu walks in on Yuwen Yue holding Chu Qiao, both of them wearing only their night-clothes. It's actually because they had a fight after (platonically) sharing a bed. Jin Zhu jumps to the more obvious conclusion.
** Yuwen Yue's guards hear crashes coming from his bedroom. It's actually Yuwen Yue and Chu Qiao fighting. The guards assume something completely different is happening.
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* ''Series/GoodbyeMyPrincess'': Xiao Feng is seen leaving Cheng Yin's bedroom with her face red and her clothes a mess. It's actually because they had a fight and she was angry, but everyone jumps to the more obvious conclusion.
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* On ''Series/{{Treme}}'', Davis says this when Annie walks in on him sitting in a room with a shirtless Sophia passed out in front of him the morning after Mardi Gras. [[spoiler: He saved a drunken Sophia from being raped, and took off her shirt because she vomited on it.]] Annie never doubts him for a moment, (it probably helped that Davis was fully clothed).
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* On ''Series/{{Treme}}'', Davis says this when Annie walks in on him sitting in a room with a shirtless Sophia passed out in front of him the morning after Mardi Gras. [[spoiler: He saved a drunken Sophia from being raped, and took off her shirt because she vomited on it.]] Annie never doubts him for a moment, (it moment. (It probably helped that Davis was fully clothed).clothed.)
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** A few episodes later, Max walks into his house to find Luna and his best friend Cord hugging. Although Cord is in fact ''comforting'' Luna over Max's infidelity, thanks to Blair's lies, he thinks he's seeing proof that Luna and Cord are having an affair as well.
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* ''Series/DarkDesire'': Alma and Leonardo believe that Zoe's been kidnapped by her boyfriend. When the police come across a blanket, they think it's evidence for foul play. However, it was actually where they had sex (Zoe's first time, hence the blood) and she's fine.
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* ''Series/DarkDesire'': Alma and Leonardo believe that Zoe's been kidnapped by her boyfriend. When the police come across a blanket, blanket with blood on it, they think it's evidence for foul play. However, it was actually where they had sex (Zoe's (this was also Zoe's first time, hence the blood) and she's fine.
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* The ''Series/LivAndMaddie'' episode "New Year's Eve-A-Rooney" has Maddie get angry when she finds out Liv kissed Diggie in her "Froyo YOLO" video. Turns out, Diggie was the robot, and Liv really kissed his ''mask''.
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* ''Series/DashAndLily'': In the first episode, the heterosexual Dash is caught at the Strand by his ex-girlfriend's good friend Priya holding a book titled ''The Joy of Gay Sex'' (which Lily had him pick up on a dare). Priya gives him a meaningful look and asks if there's anything she should tell his ex.
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* A briefly-used RunningGag in a few early episodes of ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' has Malcolm desperately blurting this out whenever Lois catches the boys doing something that can't possibly be anything ''other'' than what it looks like.
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* This is actually one of the key {{running gag}}s (out of many) in ''Series/AlloAllo''. And a subversion since it is almost always what it looks like [[KavorkaMan Rene]] making out with the waitresses and his wife ''[[TooDumbToLive always]]'' buys his explanation. The trope is played straight when [[CampGay Lt Gruber]] makes advances, though.
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