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-->'''Edd:''' "My, Ed, what a charmed world ''you'' live in..."

* The RashomonStyle plot of the ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' episode "Once Upon an Ed" goes off the rails pretty quick once Ed --a CloudCuckooLander raised on a diet of cheesy monster movies-- starts telling his part of the story of how they ended up stuck in Jonny's wall. "The Kankers chased us in here" turns into a Kaiju story where the Kanker sisters eat irradiated mashed potatoes and turn into giant, hairy-legged monster versions of themselves. Then they merge their heads into one and start shooting giant, wet kisses at the Eds as an attack, at which point the in-story version of Eddy has to note that things are getting pretty weird.

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' has [[TheDitz Caboose]] who couldn't remember anything correctly to save his life, and [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Donut]] who's probably aware that he's making things up, but we never get any proof.

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** Barney often claims to have done some pretty crazy things. On the one hand, he does lie/exaggerate a lot, on the other hand...he ''is'' Barney so really anything's possimpible...

-->'''Billy''': [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Now bend over and let me ride your humps!]]

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* Solomon "Duke" Todd of ''Literature/ShadowUnit'' is prone to these, though it can be difficult to tell when they're real memoried and when he's just making them up...

[[caption-width-right:350:How Homer Simpson remembers the last town hall meeting.]]

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* At the end of one episode of ''WesternAnimation/HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw'', Harvey has a flashback of a scene at the beginning of the episode, except the scene looks incredibly different, with characters present that weren't there the first time and elements that don't even seem possible such as a scuba diver floating in the middle of the room.

* ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'': Featured in a GuestStrip that uses old panels but changes the dialogue. It turns a scene [[ItMakesSenseInContext cutting between Benjamin Franklin talking to Beeman in Purgatory and some LARPers in a graveyard]] into a scene with [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Benjamin Franklin (who's really King George III) giving a really weird account of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.]] (In which everyone ends up praising King George III.)

* In one episode of ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'', Frank tries to pass off more than one story from John {{Rambo}}'s life as something that happened to him. No indication is given that he doesn't genuinely believe these things happened to him.

Compare NoodleIncident, CutawayGag, BigLippedAlligatorMoment, and ImagineSpot.

* Gir from ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' tends to fall pray to these. Especially when he is asked to remember something important.

* [[CrazyAwesome Izzy]] on ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' may be lapsing into this constantly, but it would be hard to tell--she openly admits that some of her mad stories are just lies, while at least a few others seem to actually be true.

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* ''WebComic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'': Featured in a GuestStrip that uses old panels but changes the dialogue. It turns a scene [[ItMakesSenseInContext cutting between Benjamin Franklin talking to Beeman in Purgatory and some LARPers in a graveyard]] into a scene with [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Benjamin Franklin (who's really King George III) giving a really weird account of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.]] (In which everyone ends up praising King George III.)

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' episode "Hocus-Pocus and Frisby" was about a man who told outrageous lies to his friends about his past. It comes back to bite him when he's abducted by aliens who have no concept of lying. Fortunately, the one thing he's really good at - playing the harmonica - turns out to give them excruciating pain.

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* A common gag on ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'', most of the times that any of the characters remember something, it is bound to be something along these lines. Strong Bad himself admitted that he had a very unphotographic memory... More like a drawing or doodle memory actually.
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* The play ''Theatre/TheTimeOfYourLife" takes place in a San Francisco bar over the course of a single day in 1938. One patron is an odd old man in strange clothing. Throughout the day, he tells a series of unbelievable stories, every one of which starts with him stating the unlikely event, the place, and the year. In the final act, he tries to make a corrupt vice cop stop harassing a dancer/prostitute and is thrown out of the bar. Minutes later, the vice cop is shot offstage. The old man returns to the bar, and someone says the cop has been killed. The old man says,

* The play "The Time of Your Life" takes place in a San Francisco bar over the course of a single day in 1938. One patron is an odd old man in strange clothing. Throughout the day, he tells a series of unbelievable stories, every one of which starts with him stating the unlikely event, the place, and the year. In the final act, he tries to make a corrupt vice cop stop harassing a dancer/prostitute and is thrown out of the bar. Minutes later, the vice cop is shot offstage. The old man returns to the bar, and someone says the cop has been killed. The old man says,

* The first season of ''TwoGuysAGirlAndAPizzaPlace'' had a recurring character of a crazy patron who would tell stories about his life that were all actually plots of popular movies. Then he was PutOnABus.

* Used in the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime: Burgundy recounts her first encounter with Cilan: he thrashed her in a Gym, then he and his Pansage loom over her with their rape faces on, much to the horror of poor little Burgundy and her Oshawott. Arguably subverted, since Cilan acted rather unsettling during their rematch. Doesn't help that he's also a MemeticMolester.

-->'''Arnold:''' Grandpa, you did ''not'' fight UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler. You're making this all up.\\

* ''WesternAnimation/Archer'' has numerous characters with this fault, either remembering odd events, not remembering a particular event (or oddly not remembering one memory out of a chain of similar situations even though remembering any of them at all meant that they should have really known better than to get into their current situation), or remembering stuff that never happened at all.

* In ''Film/AustinPowers: International Man of Mystery'', Dr. Evil describes his father as this.

*** Was that before or after he built a raft out of a couple of live sea turtles and a rope made from his own hair?
*** I think it was around his trip to Singapore.