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* ''Series/{{Wishbone}}'': In "Little Big Dog", David's dad gets a vintage sports car, but David accidentally breaks one of its side mirrors and tries to hide this by super-gluing it. However, David's dad finds out that it's broken after trying to adjust it, and thinks about suing the dealership before David finally tells the truth. Although [[YouAreGrounded he gets grounded]], his parents tell him that they're proud of him telling the truth since this shows that they're able to trust him in the future.

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Expanding Rugrats section to include examples from both the 1991 and 2021 series.


* ''WesternAnimation/Rugrats1991'':
** In "[[Recap/RugratsS4E17AngelicaNoseBestThePirateLight Angelica Nose Best]]", Tommy, after listening to an audio tape of ''Pinocchio'', tells Angelica that her nose will grow if she lies. The next day, she blames some of her misdeeds on the babies and pets and a bump on her nose (actually a mosquito bite from the previous night) gets bigger, prompting her to ask the babies to help her learn to tell the truth.
** In "[[Recap/RugratsS6E21BrothersAreMonstersCookingWithSusie Cooking With Susie]]", Susie makes Reptar cereal bars for the babies with her new Cynthia Easy-Cook oven. When the babies try them, they taste terrible, but not wanting to hurt Susie's feelings, they tell her they like them. Susie believes what the babies said to be true and makes more Reptar cereal bars, which the babies try unsuccessfully to hide. Eventually, the babies try to hide Susie's oven, and when Susie catches the babies doing this, they tell her the truth and realize it's what they should have done in the first place. The episode's B-plot likewise has Didi learning the same lesson; initially lying that she thinks Stu's new invention is a good idea, she realizes she can't keep lying that way when it continues to destroy parts of the house.

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* ''WesternAnimation/Rugrats1991'':
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** In the [[WesternAnimation/Rugrats1991 1991 series]] episode "[[Recap/RugratsS4E17AngelicaNoseBestThePirateLight Angelica Nose Best]]", Tommy, after listening to an audio tape of ''Pinocchio'', tells Angelica that her nose will grow if she lies. The next day, she blames some of her misdeeds on the babies and pets and a bump on her nose (actually a mosquito bite from the previous night) gets bigger, prompting her to ask the babies to help her learn to tell the truth.
** In "[[Recap/RugratsS6E21BrothersAreMonstersCookingWithSusie Cooking With Susie]]", another episode from the 1991 series, Susie makes Reptar cereal bars for the babies with her new Cynthia Easy-Cook oven. When the babies try them, they taste terrible, but not wanting to hurt Susie's feelings, they tell her they like them. Susie believes what the babies said to be true and makes more Reptar cereal bars, which the babies try unsuccessfully to hide. Eventually, the babies try to hide Susie's oven, and when Susie catches the babies doing this, they tell her the truth and realize it's what they should have done in the first place. The episode's B-plot likewise has Didi learning the same lesson; initially lying that she thinks Stu's new invention is a good idea, she realizes she can't keep lying that way when it continues to destroy parts of the house.house.
** Played with in the [[WesternAnimation/Rugrats2021 2021 series]] episode "Snake in the Grass"; Angelica tells the babies that he's going to do a safety check on the new bouncy castle. When Kimi comes to visit, she suspects that Angelica fibbed so she can keep the castle to herself, so Angelica decides to tell the truth from now on. As soon as Angelica gets off the slide, she sees something moving in the grass, and Kimi suggests that she tell a grown-up, leading Didi to believe that there is a snake in the backyard and send the babies up to her bedroom to keep them safe. While there was no snake in the backyard, the babies become miserable from having to stay inside. It takes her telling Didi that the snake left the backyard to get the grown-ups to let the babies play outside again.
** In "Guitar Man", another episode from the 2021 series, Angelica takes a wooden figure of a young Lou playing a guitar from his bedroom and accidentally breaks it. The babies suggest that she tell Lou the truth so that he can fix it, but Angelica is reluctant to do so because she doesn't want to get in trouble. She gets the babies to make a make a mess so she can blame it on a monster. When Stu and Didi return from Dil's checkup, they joke about how Dil will someday play guitar since his fingers have grown so long, which gets Angelica to confess that she broke Lou's figure. Lou isn't upset with her since he knows she didn't mean to break it and he broke the figure once but was able to fix it.
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* ''Series/TipiTales'': In "Picking Berries", Great-Grandfather thinks that both Elizabeth and Sam picked the berries for Great-Grandmother's pie together, when in reality it was only Sam, and Elizabeth had broken her promise to help her. Elizabeth does not correct him on this, which makes Sam upset. Later, Elizabeth learns from the Sabe that it's wrong to make empty promises and lie by omission, so she apologizes to Sam and Great-Grandfather.

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* ''Animation/AboutDressySally'': For not telling her mother that she had one of her gloves replaced by Mr. Kadabra, the wizard makes her do work for him. The stars Sally knits for Mr. Kadabra are said to disappear unless she always tells the truth.
* ''Animation/NoonboryAndTheSuper7'': In the episode "[[Recap/NoonboryAndTheSuper7S1E10BigBiggerBiggest Big, Bigger, Biggest]]", Jetybory and Lukybory try to use Hanubi's magic staff to get their ball out of a tree, but this results in them accidentally making the Builderborys [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever grow]]. Jety and Luky try to hide their mistake so they can fix it on their own, but they end up confessing what they did to Noonbory and returning the staff back to Hanubi.
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* ''Animation/NoonboryAndTheSuper7'': In the episode "[[Recap/NoonboryAndTheSuper7S1E10BigBiggerBiggest Big, Bigger, Biggest]]", Jetybory and Lukybory try to use Hanubi's magic staff to get their ball out of a tree, but this results in them accidentally making the Builderborys [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever grow]]. Jety and Luky try to hide their mistake so they can fix it on their own, but they end up confessing what they did to Noonbory and returning the staff back to Hanubi.
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* ''Series/{{Friends}}'': PlayedForLaughs in "The One With Ross's Grant", when Joey gets upset that Chandler didn't share his audition tape with the advertising company.

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* ''Series/{{Friends}}'': PlayedForLaughs in "The One With Ross's Grant", when Joey gets upset that Chandler didn't share his audition tape with the advertising company.company like he said he did.
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* ''Series/{{Friends}}'': PlayedForLaughs in "The One With Ross's Grant", when Joey gets upset that Chandler didn't share his audition tape with the advertising company.
-->'''Joey:''' First, you lied, right? Then, you lied about lying, ok? ''Then'', you lied about lying about lying, ok? [[ConfusingMultipleNegatives So before you lie about lying about lying about lying about... lying...]] (''beat'') Stop lying!
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* ''Fanfic/FateRevelationOnline'': Referenced; when an NPC asks what Kirito was promised a reward, Kirito recognizes it as an "honesty gate," and that lying will either result in a quest failure or ''seeming'' success, and will bite him later. The problem is, he genuinely doesn't remember how much he was promised, and he doesn't think the NPC is smart enough to accept that answer. Instead, he decides to ask for the random book on magic Numerology that he found while waiting. The NPC agrees, opening up a quest chain for Kirito to learn a new and complex brand of magecraft. [[spoiler:It also turns out that this "NPC" is actually Kayaba Akihiko himself, the man who trapped them there in the first place. It's unclear if he always planned to teach Kirito Numerology or if this was just a coincidence that he took advantage of]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheChocolix'': "The Blue Chocolate Lake" has Chocolyne and Chocomark not being allowed to go to the Blue Chocolate Lake since it's too dangerous. This upsets Chocomark so much that Chocolyne comes up with the idea to go to the lake with Sweetcookie and Max anyway, but by lying to their parents that they're going to be visiting Max's house, and to the bus driver that their parents will be there when she mentions children aren't allowed to go by themselves. This leads to [[spoiler:the Chocolix and Max almost melting; the only thing that saves them is that Sweetcookie goes to Chocolyne and Chocomark's house to warn their parents]].

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheChocolix'': "The Blue Chocolate Lake" has Chocolyne and Chocomark not being allowed to go to the Blue Chocolate Lake since it's too dangerous. This upsets Chocomark so much that Chocolyne comes up with the idea to go to the lake with Sweetcookie and Max anyway, but by lying to their parents that they're going to be visiting Max's house, and to the bus driver that their Max's parents will be there when she mentions children aren't allowed to go by themselves. This leads to [[spoiler:the Chocolix and Max almost melting; the only thing that saves them is that Sweetcookie goes to Chocolyne and Chocomark's house to warn their parents]].

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