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* ''Series/NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide'': When everyone starts angrily crowding around Ned about the favors he promised to help them with, Ned faints. He wakes up in the Nurse's Office.
-->'''Ned''': What happened?
-->'''Nurse Hunsucker''': You're in the nurse's office and you fainted.
-->'''Ned''': But I faked that.
-->'''Nurse Hunsucker''': Oh, it must of been when we dropped you on your head on the way here.
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* ''Film/NoKidding'':
** Vanilla collapses at the railway station from malnutrition and has to be taken to Chartham Place by ambulance. Of course, she was only faking it.
** When the Robinsons catch her trying to seduce Will, Vanilla fakes another faint to look less guilty.
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* In ''Film/DoctorInTrouble'', Ophelia pretends to faint when fawning over Basil.
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* ''Film/{{Corsage}}'': In one of the opening scenes Elisabeth fakes fainting to get out of a social event.
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* ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe'': When Edith accidentally reduces Agnes's toy unicorn to dust, Agnes [[BreathHoldingBrat holds her breath to make Gru get her another one]]. She then falls backwards on the floor and the frustrated Gru relents. She then opens an eye while smirking a bit, implying that she faked it.

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* ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe'': ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe1'': When Edith accidentally reduces Agnes's toy unicorn to dust, Agnes [[BreathHoldingBrat holds her breath to make Gru get her another one]]. She then falls backwards on the floor and the frustrated Gru relents. She then opens an eye while smirking a bit, implying that she faked it.
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* ''Literature/LaughingGas'': April June pretends to FaintInShock when Reggie describes the boxing match he attended in Chicago.
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* ''Manga/MagicalXMiracle'': {{Discussed}}. The group tell Mel that she should pretend to faint when she's forced to give a speech as Sylthfarn. Instead, she delivers a RousingSpeech, and FaintsInShock when it's over!
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}}'': In a flashback, Pedro play-faints to amuse Alma when she announces her pregnancy.
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* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': Batman pretends to be on the verge of passing out after he and Poison Ivy's kiss so that she'll get too close in her debut episode [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE5PrettyPoison "Pretty Poison."]]

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* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': Batman pretends to be on the verge of passing out after he and Poison Ivy's kiss [[DruggedLipstick kiss]] so that she'll get too close in her debut episode [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE5PrettyPoison "Pretty Poison."]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': Batman pretends to be on the verge of passing out after he and Ivy's kiss so that she'll get too close in "Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE5PrettyPoison"

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* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': Batman pretends to be on the verge of passing out after he and Poison Ivy's kiss so that she'll get too close in "Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE5PrettyPoison"her debut episode [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE5PrettyPoison "Pretty Poison."]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': Batman pretends to be on the verge of passing out after he and Ivy's kiss so that she'll get too close in "Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE5PrettyPoison"

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* ''Series/FraggleRock'': Junior pretends to faint to convince his parents he's bored stiff in [[Recap/FraggleRockS3E17BoredStiff "Bored Stiff"]]. It becomes real when he lands too near the Boredom Juice-drenched flower and gets a whiff.


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* ''Series/FraggleRock'': Junior pretends to faint to convince his parents he's bored stiff in [[Recap/FraggleRockS3E17BoredStiff "Bored Stiff"]]. It becomes real when he lands too near the Boredom Juice-drenched flower and gets a whiff.
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* ''Series/{{Columbo}}'':
** In [[Recap/ColumboS09E06 "Murder in Malibu"]], Wayne seems to keel over from the shock of finding out that the bullet he fired did not kill Theresa as she was already dead. He's faking.
** Nora FaintsInShock when she finds out [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone that she actually killed Jean]] in [[Recap/ColumboS02E05 "Requiem for a Falling Star"]]. Or so we think. It turns out to have been an act.
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* ''Series/FraggleRock'': Junior pretends to faint to convince his parents he's bored stiff in [[Recap/FraggleRockS3E17BoredStiff "Bored Stiff"]]. It becomes real when he lands too near the Boredom Juice-drenched flower and gets a whiff.

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