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eroock
Since: Sep, 2012
1st Sep, 2018 07:50:51 PM
Sounds like an unexplored variation of False False Alarm.
Edited by eroock
Synchronicity
MOD
(4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
1st Sep, 2018 07:52:17 PM
Just Testing You, for the phrase itself.
Edited by Synchronicity
In Johnny English, the titular agent messes up and ends up on a hospital-skyscraper instead of the skyscraper of the bad guy. He goes around threatening the staff with a gun, and when he realizes his mistake he says that it was a test of the hospital's emergency response. Is there a trope for that kind of excuse, or that too specific to have one?
Edited by crushingmalo