History Main / BavarianFireDrill

** In "Timewreck" he and TimePolice special agent Ray Pantha he's working with get in a scuffle with agents from ''four'' different American intelligence agencies, up until Paperinik starts berating them for barging in the operation he and Pantha were working on and claiming Pantha works for a ''fifth'' higher-ranked agency... At which point the agents, [[GenreSavvy knowing Paperinik's precedents]], demand to see Pantha's ID. Paperinik, expecting them to do so, looks on the ground and picks up a perfect counterfeit that he had the Time Police make and transport right where he could pretend it had been dropped during the scuffle, [[OhCrap leaving the agents horrified when they're convinced they messed with an agency so secret you need a very high security clearance to say their name out loud without being shot on the spot]].

* Attempted -- ultimately unsuccessfully -- in ''Film/GhostbustersII''. When the team wants to investigate the spot in the middle of a busy street where Dana's runaway baby carriage stopped, they simply dress as construction workers, set out traffic cones, and begin digging. When questioned by police as to what they're doing and why, feigned indignation at having their work interrupted and a quip about some jerk of a city official "making us work on a Friday night!" is enough to at least temporarily allay suspicion. Unfortunately for the guys, the police are sufficiently GenreSavvy to follow up with a few inquiries, and when they return, don't buy the act a second time.

-->-- ''Literature/{{Moving Pictures|Discworld}}'' by Creator/TerryPratchett

* Accidentally invoked and taken to its ultimate extreme in Israeli comedy film ''Te'alat Blaumilch'' (translation: ''The Blaumilch Canal''; English title: ''The Big Dig'') in which a lunatic escapes from an asylum and starts digging up a [[spoiler:major road. When it comes to official notice, he is given every assistance possible, despite numerous complaints. HilarityEnsues, especially when they reach the sea]].

* ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'': Chapter 168 features a girl joining in on the Rentarou Family's Rentarou Snapshot Swap Party, speaking with obvious familiarty of each of the girls and their traits. The problem is not a single one of the then-27 girlfriends knows who this new girl is, and they're all left confused and/or distressed when she calls them all by name. It's not until Rentarou himself appears and asks who she is that they realize she ''is'', indeed, a stranger. With so many people in the group and Rentarou's tendency to introduce new girlfriends every so often, they had all thought they had simply failed to {{Remember The New Guy}}. The next chapter formally introduces the new girl as Shiina Usami, who eventually becomes girlfriend 28, and she indeed thought she could just slip in unnoticed.

'''Hakari:''' Never? You were here last chapter, weren't you? Did you forget already?

* Frequently used on ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' by Shaggy and Scooby, with varying degrees of success. As Shaggy explains to a "replacement" he's training in ''WesternAnimation/BeCoolScoobyDoo'', you can only use it briefly to distract the villain to buy escape time. When the "trainee" asks if you can't just use it to get the bad guy to go away or give up, Shag leans on the MonsterOfTheWeek and asks him if he'd buy that, to which the monster shakes his head "no".

* [[This https://notalwaysright.com/that-solution-was-a-touchdown/319822/]] ''Not Always Right'' story features a college student who loved live football but didn't want to sit in the cheap students' seats or pay high prices to sit the alumni's (better) seats. He managed to find himself a place standing right on the sidelines for several games, and achieved this by carrying two cameras with him, making him look like a hired photographer.

* YouTuber Max Fosh [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM3imMiERdU once snuck into]] the [[RefugeInAudacity International Security Convention]] in this manner, printing a fake ID pass reading "[[MeaningfulName Rob Banks]] [[PaperThinDisguise International Baddie]]" based on attendees who had posted images of their passes on Instagram, and strolling through the ticket check and security. He went as far as to ask ''a security guard'' to be his cameraman while he explained the premise of the video.

* ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'':
** Indy attempts to bluff his way into the Nazi-occupied castle by saying he's a Scottish lord interested in viewing the tapestries. He tries ordering the butler away with an irate and impatient attitude, but unfortunately the butler isn't buying it for a second, so Indy just has to knock him out.
** Indy manages to get away with beating up and hurling a suspicious SS officer out of a zeppelin by wearing a ticket taker's outfit and flatly telling all of the passengers, "No ticket" in English, without bothering to mimic a German accent. Everyone immediately pulls out their tickets and frantically wave them at him lest they be the next one.

* ''Film/BoilerRoom'': This is used by the J.T. Marlin stockbrokers, who are operating a "pump-and-dump" scam. They are told to pretend whomever they want to be as long as they carry the bluff. The firm also uses a fancy-sounding name to hide the fact that they're just a bunch of conmen who hang out at seedy places, dress shabbily, and act like rowdy frat boys. One scene involves a trainee claiming to be in the business for 22 years when he's just a young kid out of college, while a senior broker pretends to be the firm's owner to an arrogant client. TruthInTelevision as IRL boiler rooms use similar tactics to rob people high and dry of their money.