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* Subverted in the ''[[{{ptitleolsdue4jfzga}} 30 Rock]]'' episode "Reunion." Jack has decided (for some reason) to pretend to be a popular former student at Liz's [[ClassReunion high school reunion]] when someone mistakes him for someone else. Then he meets what appears to be the man's ex-girlfriend from high school. He manages fine in not giving away any details until the woman asks, "Say to me what you said that night." Jack looks her straight in the eye, holds a hand up to her face and says, "No."

* In an episode of ''{{Will and Grace}}'', Will pretends to be a professional tennis player (because being a lawyer at a party kills conversations), and then panics when he finds out there's an actual professional tennis player at the party. [[spoiler: Who is also a fraud.]]

-->'''Stewie''': "First Fidelity Insurance over on Wayne Bossert Street."

* ''TheATeam'' movie has a scene where Face accidentally switched BA and Murdoch's fake passports. BA manages to bluff his way past his customs official but the one Murdoch went up to is also from Zimbabwe and asks him a question in Swahili. It ends up working out for the better as Murdoch turns out to know enough Swahili to answer the question while BA wouldn't have.

* In ''TrueLies'' the main characters wife seems to be having an affair. The main character, being a spy uses his skills to track down the other man and while under surveilance hears the other man claiming to be a spy himself. However the other man claims to have been involved in an incident that the main character was responsible for and he immediately realises the guy is only pretending to be a spy to attract his wife.

*** Even more ironic when you realize that the filmmakers themselves don't know the opera very well: it premiered in 1896, and Leo is from 1876.

* On ''HomeAndAway'', Xavier poses as a university student in a philosophy course while trying to get with Miranda. When she introduces him to her friend, an actual philosophy student, it takes him all of a few minutes to [[BluffTheImposter trick him]] by claiming that JeromeKern is a philosopher who'd interest him.

*** In complete fairness, constructing the cover story would have been his superiors' responsibility. It's their own damned fault for overlooking that.

This situation can be part of a [[SpotTheImposter Spot]] or BluffTheImpostor scene. See also BecauseImJonesy, which is going one step further: an impostor meets the very person he's masquerading as.

--->'''Chalmers''': You call hamburgers steamed hams.
--->'''Skinner''': Yes, it's a regional dialect.
--->'''Chalmers''': Uh-huh. What region?
--->'''Skinner''': Uh, upstate New York.
--->'''Chalmers''': Really. Well, I'm from Utica and I never heard anyone use the phrase, "steamed hams."
--->'''Skinner''': Oh, not in Utica, no; it's strictly an Albany expression.

--->'''Officer''': "Everything alright here?"
--->'''Stewie''': "Oh fine officer, just enjoying the sunset. No law against that, is there?"
--->'''Officer''': "What happened to your shirt?"
--->'''Stewie''': "Oh you know, just a pizza party at the office."
--->'''Officer''': "Oh yeah, where do you work?"
--->'''Stewie''': "First Fidelity Insurance over on Wayne Bossert Street."
--->'''Officer''': "Oh my cousin Arnie works over there."
--->'''Stewie''': "Oh Arnie's your cousin is he?"
--->'''Officer''': "You know him?"
--->'''Stewie''': "Oh somewhat, good middle management type. Just sort of blends in with the furniture, though, never really wowed anyone at the office."
--->'''Officer''': "Yeah, that's always been Arnie's problem. Well, take it easy."
--->'''Stewie''': "Yes yes, you too. Oh and if you see Arnie, tell him 'boogity boogity boo.' He'll know what it means."

* In a similar fashion, the framing device for YTuMamaTambien is a road trip to the (fictional, as far as the protagonists know) beach of ''Boca de Cielo'' ("Mouth of Heaven"). It's actually just an excuse to try and get the female lead to sleep with one or both of them, but then they actually reach it...

* In ''{{Splash}}'' the main character and his brother are pretending to be Swedish scientists who have been sent to examine the mermaid. Unfortunately they run into an actual Swede who proceeds to query them in his native tongue. For his first question they basically respond just by saying "yes" a great number of times. His second question, translated for the viewers, is along the lines of "what are a pair of Swedish scientist doing in the USA". John Candy's character, being an afficionado of pornography responds by saying "Hey baby, I've got a 12 inch penis" which he only pulls off due to having watched a decent amount of Swedish porn. This convinces the guard who just laughs knowingly.

* In an episode of {{Criminal Minds}}, the female FBI agents are out at a bar having a night out drinking. A guy tries to impress one of them by telling them he works for the FBI, but can't talk about his job. They ask him if it's a dangerous job, and generally puff him up with softball questions, before showing him their FBI badges and telling him to buzz off.

* In the musical ''Anything Goes'', the mobster Moonface Martin sneaks onto the cruise ship that the play takes place on in the disguise of a minister. He then runs into a real minister not five minutes later. Being a "clever" man, he tries to deflect suspicion from the minister by claiming to be from somewhere far away, and settles on China. Guess where the real minister practices?
* In the opera ''Die Fledermaus'' by Johann Strauss II, two characters pretend to be French at a ball in Vienna. This results in an exchange of [[GratuitousFrench simple phrases and nonsense]] before the other characters insist they speak German. Later, they share a brief duet with the chorus 'Merci, merci, merci.'

* In ''Kate and Leopold'', Kate's boss is trying to impress her by claiming to either have an impressive manor in England or know someone who does (we don't hear this claim, only the reaction). Leopold immediately points out that such a manor doesn't exist. Kate tries to say that Leopold could be wrong, but Leopold is adamant. He grew up there, and he'd know.

* Parodied in (where else?) ''TheSimpsons''. The episode featuring Lisa Kudrow as a popular new student from the city. Homer is breaking into Springfield Elementary, and is caught by Groundskeeper Willie.

* In Splash the main character and his brother are pretending to be Swedish scientists who have been sent to examine the mermaid. Unfortunately they run into an actual Swede who proceeds to query them in his native tongue. For his first question they basically respond just by saying "yes" a great number of times. His second question, translated for the viewers, is along the lines of "what are a pair of Swedish scientist doing in the USA". John Candy's character, being an afficionado of pornography responds by saying "Hey baby, I've got a 12 inch penis" which he only pulls off due to having watched a decent amount of Swedish porn. This convinces the guard who just laughs knowingly.
* In True Lies the main characters wife seems to be having an affair. The main character, being a spy uses his skills to track down the other man and while under surveilance hears the other man claiming to be a spy himself. However the other man claims to have been involved in an incident that the main character was responsible for and he immediately realises the guy is only pretending to be a spy to attract his wife.

* An episode of ''{{Coupling]]'' ("the man with two legs") has Jeff for various reasons claiming to a woman he fancies that he has only one leg: It's too bad her brother also lost a leg.

* For complicated reasons Monica in ''{{Friends}}'' has claimed her name to be Monana, which she also claims is Dutch. Too bad the person she's trying to deceive has visited the Netherlands, and starts speaking in Dutch. At least Monica can recover from this amazement by specifying Pennsylvania Dutch instead.

* An episode of ''Coupling'' ("the man with two legs") has Jeff for various reasons claiming to a woman he fancies that he has only one leg: It's too bad her brother also lost a leg.

** Leopold further shatters JJ's pretensions by pointing out the errors he made in trying to fake familiarity with "La Boheme."

* The ''VeronicaMars'' episode "The Wrath of Con" sees Veronica and Wallace infiltrating a college party posing as prospective students. Wallace claims to be a math major and finds himself having to come up with plausible-sounding answers to questions like: "The Poincaré conjecture or [[FermatsLastTheorem Fermat's Last Theorem]]: which one do you think better defines the geometry of three-dimensional space?"

* Used and played with in Josepha Sherman's ''The Shattered Oath''. A prince of the Sidhe has been exiled into ~9th century AD Ireland, claiming to be an exiled prince from Cathay (China). Naturally a trader who's been in Cathay comes calling. Played with because, even then, China was a huge country. Ardagh, the prince, cannot answer the trader's questions...but the trader, who does know how big Cathay is (generally at least), also has to admit to not knowing how to answer Ardagh's questions, nor having heard of his family or even dialect (actually the Sidhe tongue).

This situation can be part of a [[SpotTheImposter Spot]] or BluffTheImpostor scene.

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* Numerous stories on notalwaysright.com usually have a scammer or angry customer impersonate a lawyer or someone with knowledge of law. Only to have a customer behind them step forward and reveal they are a lawyer as well, then disprove the customer. Which leads to the customer fleeing the store in shame.

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* Somewhat related is the whole Winchestertonfieldsville scene in ''Mr. Deeds'', in which every lie Winona Ryder's character makes up about her childhood ends up actually existing.
** In a similar fashion, the framing device for YTuMamaTambien is a road trip to the (fictional, as far as the protagonists know) beach of ''Boca de Cielo'' ("Mouth of Heaven"). It's actually just an excuse to try and get the female lead to sleep with one or both of them, but then they actually reach it...