History Main / HoldingBothSidesOfTheConversation

* In Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses's 2nd year anniversary, WebVideo/{{Kickassia}}, the Molassian president has a conversation with his Foreign Relations officer. They are the same guy in different attire.

** In another episode, Bart gets caught by Marge and Homer allowing Otto to live in the garage. He says that Marge gave him permission, and since he thought she wouldn't remember, he took the liberty of recording the conversation. He plays it back, and it's obviously Bart doing an impression of Marge.
--->'''Marge:''' That's not my voice!\\
'''Homer:''' Oh, everybody says that when they hear themselves on tape.

* ''Film/CaptainPhillips'': In the first attempt by the pirates to board the ship, the titular captain uses the radio and talks to himself to pretend that they're contacting the Coast Guard to scare off the pirates (who have a radio that can hear what he and the supposed Coast Guard are saying).

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-->'''Fielding''': [angrily] I wouldn't joke if I were you! [runs into the witness stand]\\
'''Fielding''': [casually] Wouldn't you, or ''couldn't'' you?

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-->'''Bennett Cerf''': Are you possibly impersonating yourself, Mr. Daly?

--> '''Basil''': (as Terry) I was making another Waldorf salad.
--> '''Basil''': (as himself) Making another Waldorf salad?! What are you making another Waldorf salad for?
--> (Basil takes his hat off and beats the fridge)
--> '''Basil''': (as Terry) Careful, Mr Fawlty! I'm only a little fellow.
--> '''Basil''': (as himself) What do you think Mr and Mrs Hamilton must think?
--> (He suddenly notices that Mr Hamilton has entered the kitchen, and is staring)

-->'''Alison [coat off]''' You didn't care when... when they told you about their life. About their story. You dismissed it.\\

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--->'''Homer''': I'd like to withdraw my life's savings, please.\\
'''Teller''': Uh, sir, this is a joint account. You'll need your wife's signature, too.\\
'''Homer''': Oh, yes, of course. She's, uh, behind that plant. Hello, Marge. [''ducks behind plant''] Hi, Homey. [''as himself''] Sign this, please. [''as Marge''] You're the boss. [''as Lisa''] Daddy, ask the man for some candy. [''as himself''] Now, now, no candy for you. [''as Lisa''] Well, at least get some candy for yourself. [''walks back to the teller''] Heh, heh, heh, kids.\\
'''Teller''': [''sighs''] Here's your candy.\\
'''Homer''': So long, sucker!\\
'''Teller''': Uh, sir? Your life savings?\\
'''Homer''': [''nonchalant''] Ah, yes, I see that it's in bill form. Excellent.

--->'''Marge''': That's not my voice!\\
'''Homer''': Oh, everybody says that when they hear themselves on tape.

-->'''Mrs Demson''': "Is she OK?"\\
'''Martha''': "Are you OK? ''(as Mariella)'' I'm fine. ''(as herself)'' Are you sure? ''(as Mariella)'' I'm sure. ''(as herself)'' Absolutely? ''(as Mariella)'' Absolutely."\\
'''Mrs Demson''': "Why doesn't she come out?"\\
'''Martha''': "I think she's just lost the use of her legs."

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* In the the episode "Ice Spy" of ''Series/Batman1966'', Chief O'Hara calls Bruce Wayne while Commissioner Gordon is on the phone with Batman. The chief gets the idea to put the two phones together so Batman and Bruce Wayne can speak to each other. Creator/AdamWest actually [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgCkmUS1IYI pulls it off.]]

Can involve a PaperThinDisguise, OfCorpseHesAlive, and BadBadActing. When done while on the phone, this is a PhoneyCall. Can overlap with ButHeSoundsHandsome (where Bob is actually pretending to be Alice, and then talks about himself). Not related to TalkingToHimself, surprisingly, which refers to RealLife voice actors playing multiple characters.

* ''Series/{{Benson}}'' While in court, the title character calls himself to the stand while also defending himself. [[SubvertedTrope The judge puts a stop to it pretty quickly.]]

* In the Creator/AdamWest ''Series/Batman1966'' series, Batman and Bruce Wayne [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgCkmUS1IYI have a phone conversation.]]

'''Leonard (as Penny):''' Okay like, sure Leonard, because, like I'm Penny, and I'm doing you a favor just by being with you (*the "conversation" continues in this vein for a while*)\\
'''Sheldon:''' Leonard, stop the car. STOP THE CAR. (*gets out tearfully*) I can't listen to the two of you fight anymore!

** This could be an ActorAllusion, since Creator/TomHanks is ''both'' Woody and Captain Philips.

* Two different sitcoms, ''Series/{{Benson}}'' and ''Series/{{Amen}}'', had the title character defending themselves in court, only to call ''themselves'' to the stand. In the ''Benson'' example, Benson is told to quit the antics rather quickly, but on ''Amen'', Deacon Frye carries on, sitting on the stand, leaping up to accuse himself of something, sitting back down to get upset, jumping up again, etc., until the opposing council is forced to shout "Your honor, he is [[CantBelieveISaidThat badgering the witness]]!"

* Done hilariously in ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', when Leonard, as part of an angry rant to Sheldon about his relationship troubles with Penny, fakes a conversation, giving her a classic DumbBlonde AlphaBitch voice. This is the result:

* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'': Buzz Lightyear, who originally believed he was the ''real'' Buzz, has [[HeroicBSOD gone temporarily insane after having his worldview shattered when he found out he was just a toy]]. His (toy) arm gets broken off in attempt to fly; later, he throws the dismembered arm at Woody in anger. Woody has to convince the other toys (especially Mr. Potato Head, who's holding a string of Christmas lights that Woody intends to climb back to Andy's house and refuses to let the other toys handle it) that Buzz is okay. He hold's Buzz's arm out from behind a wall, as if Buzz was actually standing just behind the wall, and proceeds to (badly) mimic Buzz's voice while waving the arm around.

* On ''Series/TheXFiles,'' in the episode "Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster," Mulder holds a classic Mulder/Scully argument about something supernatural he's seen...by himself.
-->'''Mulder:''' And not just your everyday, run-of-the-mill monster, but we're talking transformation here. Man into monster and back again. To which I know you're going to say: "But Mulder, that only happens in werewolf myths that were originally concocted to explain away the violent behavior of people who'd been bitten by rabid animals, before the medical discovery of rabies." But is it so outlandish to believe that some legends are based on actual occurrences and not just ignorance? To which I know what you're going to say, Scully, you're going to say: "But Mulder, it defies every known law of science and nature." Exactly, Scully, every known law. What if this creature that we've stumbled upon is here to create a whole new paradigm for our understanding of life itself? Or maybe science was used to create this "unnatural" being. Maybe this is some GMO experiment run amok by some military-agro-big-pharma corporation. Maybe this guy is its chief geneticist, who recklessly experimented on himself and now transforms into a fiend who needs to feast on human flesh. To which I know you're going to say: "But Mulder, that sounds like the paranoid ravings of some lunatic madman." I don't know what this thing is, Scully, and I don't know exactly how it came to be, I just... All I'm saying is, it's a monster.

* An issue of ''ComicBook/Spider-Man'' has the titular hero in such a predicament. When his SpiderSense alerts him that a private investigator is tailing him and is inches away from discovering his identity, he quickly improvises a conversation between Peter Parker and Spider-Man by taking his mask on and off (as it muffles his voice enough to be unrecognizable). He then follows this up by dressing up a dummy in the suit and having it "swing away" for added effect.

* The BritCom ''Sykes'' has an episode where the eponymous Eric pretends to be his own sister to try and fool a criminal uninvited guest (played by Creator/PeterSellers) who claims she once promised to marry him. There are a couple of scenes where Eric has to hold rapid-fire conversations with himself while changing clothes out of sight.

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* In the final segment of ''Knowhutimean? Hey Vern, It's My Family Album'', Ernest P. Worrell recounts the experiences of his ancestor, Davy Worrell, who is chased by Indians into a high-walled fort...that happens to be empty. Realizing that the Indians now have him surrounded, and will kill him if they get through the gate, Davy attempts to scare them off by pretending the camp is fully defended, doing multiple voices and holding several conversations among himself. HilarityEnsues.

* In the Creator/AgathaChristie book ''They Do It With Mirrors'', an accomplice does this to help the murderer establish his alibi: the murderer and the accomplice go into an office, and then the accomplice fakes both sides of an argument, loud enough for those outside to hear, while the murderer slips out a back way and commits the crime.

'''Buzz's severed arm:''' Hi ya, fellas. To infinity and beyond!

* In the ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'' spinoff ''Sonic Universe'', Silver greets the trash pile he uses for [[MindOverMatter psychokinesis]] practice, then greets himself back as the trash pile. [[LampshadeHanging He then sighs and mutters that he really needs to stop talking to himself]].

* ''Magazine/StirringScienceStories'': Due to the early issues of these magazines not having a fanbase yet, Creator/DonaldAWollheim used a number of {{Pen Name}}s for submissions, pretending that they were different from himself as editor. This includes the letter-to-the-editor section, called "The Cosmoscope". For the first issue of ''Cosmic Stories'', he pretended to be Graham Conway from Indiana and responded to the letter as the editor (DAW).

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' episode "Cover Girls," Lincoln is forced to cover for his sisters when their Pop-Pop calls them on video call. He ends up doing this when Pop-Pop asks to talk to PolarOppositeTwins Lana and Lola by not just imitating both of them, but even making his right half look like Lana and the left half as Lola.