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* ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime'' is framed as a tale the Prince is telling. If you die, he says something to the effect of "No, wait, that's not what happened," [[JustifiedExtraLives then the game reverts to the last save point]].
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* ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime'' is framed as a tale the Prince is telling. If you die, he says something to the effect of "No, wait, that's not what happened," [[JustifiedExtraLives then the game reverts to the last save point]]. Considering one of the central gameplay mechanics is [[MentalTimeTravel the ability to rewind time]], which the player ''will'' use to avoid dying in combat or {{death course}}s, it makes sense for the Prince's memory to be a little scrambled.
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* In ''VideoGame/TexMurphy: Overseer'', the game is a prequel framed by Tex telling his date about his first case. Whenever the player 'dies' in the game Tex will quickly mumble something about "no wait, that's not right" and the game will pick up at an earlier point in the game allowing the player to replay the section.
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* In ''VideoGame/TexMurphy: Overseer'', the game is a prequel framed by Tex telling his date about his first case. Whenever the player 'dies' in the game Tex will quickly mumble something about "no wait, that's not right" and [[JustifiedExtraLives the game will pick up at an earlier point in the game allowing the player to replay the section.section]].
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* ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime'' is framed as a tale the Prince is telling. If you die, he says something to the effect of "No, wait, that's not what happened," [[JustifiedExtraLives then the game reverts to the last save point.point]].
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A sure way to veer a story into MindScrew territory is to deliver a WhamEpisode, then say "just kidding, none of that happened". Possibly the undone events were hallucinated by one character, or occurred in an alternate timeline, or the narrator was just pushing your buttons.
A common calling card of the UnreliableNarrator. Can overlap with AllJustADream, but that trope does not fully include this one. Compare DaydreamSurprise and OnceMoreWithClarity. If one of the listeners forces this you could be entering DerailedFairyTale territory.
A common calling card of the UnreliableNarrator. Can overlap with AllJustADream, but that trope does not fully include this one. Compare DaydreamSurprise and OnceMoreWithClarity. If one of the listeners forces this you could be entering DerailedFairyTale territory.
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A sure way to veer a story into MindScrew territory is to deliver a WhamEpisode, have something completely shocking or nonsensical occur, then say "just kidding, none of that happened". Possibly the undone events were hallucinated by one character, or occurred in an alternate timeline, or the narrator was just pushing your buttons.
A common calling card of the UnreliableNarrator. Can overlap with AllJustADream, but that trope does not fully include this one. Compare DaydreamSurprise and OnceMoreWithClarity. If one of the listeners forces this you could be entering DerailedFairyTaleterritory.
territory. Often a variety of FlashbackTwist.
A common calling card of the UnreliableNarrator. Can overlap with AllJustADream, but that trope does not fully include this one. Compare DaydreamSurprise and OnceMoreWithClarity. If one of the listeners forces this you could be entering DerailedFairyTale
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** Later in the same episode Homer tells of an idea he had to make more people come to the bowling ally - shoot a rifle in the air while shouting "Bowling here!"
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* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', stand-in narrator [[spoiler:Doc Scratch]], after telling of [[spoiler:Jack Noir finding and slaying all the trolls in one fell swoop]], explains: "[[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/scratch.php?s=6&p=005736 What sort of story would this be]], with [[spoiler:our Knight and Seer made to stay cadavers]]? Certainly not one the alpha timeline would allow. And not one she'd allow either." This reveals that the events he'd just told the reader were actually [[spoiler:an alternate timeline that Terezi foresaw and averted]].
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* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', stand-in narrator [[spoiler:Doc Scratch]], after telling of [[spoiler:Jack Noir finding and slaying all the trolls in one fell swoop]], explains: "[[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/scratch.php?s=6&p=005736 What sort of story would this be]], with [[spoiler:our Knight and Seer made to stay cadavers]]? Certainly not one the alpha timeline would allow. And not one she'd allow either." This reveals that the events he'd just told the reader were actually [[spoiler:an an alternate timeline that Terezi foresaw and averted]].averted.
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* Happens at least twice in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', when [[TheNarrator Varric]] lapses too far into the TallTale genre and Cassandra interrupts him to start over again and tell the ''real'' story. The first time is ATasteOfPower, with Hawke and their brother or sister being veritable gods amongst men, complete with RegeneratingHealth, very quick cooldowns, and {{Infinity Minus One Sword}}s. After Cassandra calls Varric on his crap, he tells her the real story. Varric does this again where he storms his brother's mansion late in the game and effortlessly takes out the guards, though there it's because he wants to leave out "the gory details."
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* Happens at least twice in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', when [[TheNarrator Varric]] lapses too far into the TallTale genre and Cassandra interrupts him to start over again and tell the ''real'' story. The first time is ATasteOfPower, with Hawke and their brother or sister sibling being veritable gods amongst men, complete with RegeneratingHealth, very quick cooldowns, {{cooldown}}s, and {{Infinity Minus One Sword}}s. After Cassandra calls Varric on his crap, he tells her the real story. Varric does this again where he storms his brother's mansion late in the game and effortlessly takes out the guards, though there it's because he wants to leave out "the gory details."
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** ''200'' manages to pull the same trick again even after if becomes clear that the episode is a framing story for flights of fancy and ''what if'' scenarios. In what appears to be the 'real' world of the framing story, the Stargate overloads leading to massive damage and the evacuation of the base. And then Cheyenne Mountain explodes. Cut to conference room.
--> Martin: And ''that'' is the end of Act Two!
--> Martin: And ''that'' is the end of Act Two!
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* ''Series/StargateSG1'' episode ''200'' begins with SG1 [=SG1=] ''finally'' meeting the legendary Furlings, only to lead the Goa'uld to their planet which is destroyed as a thermodynamic loop feeds back into the planet's core!
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* ''Series/StargateSG1' ''Series/StargateSG1'' episode ''200'' begins with SG1 ''finally'' meeting the legendary Furlings, only to lead the Goa'uld to their planet which is destroyed as a thermodynamic loop feeds back into the planet's core!
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* ''Series/StargateSG1' episode ''200'' begins with SG1 ''finally'' meeting the legendary Furlings, only to lead the Goa'uld to their planet which is destroyed as a thermodynamic loop feeds back into the planet's core!
--> Carter: Well, that never happened!
--> Carter: Well, that never happened!
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This is an In Universe thing, and Critic show is too adult for the trope Black Comedy Burst (which according to description is kids show doing something dark)
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* ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'' has a RunningGag where he would describe a scene from what he's reviewing and instigating a BlackComedyBurst by showing something unnecessarily dark. He would then remark that it didn't really happened, but it would have been hilarious if it did.
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* ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'' has a RunningGag where he would describe a scene from what he's reviewing and instigating a BlackComedyBurst by showing something unnecessarily dark. He would then remark that it didn't really happened, but it would have been hilarious if it did.
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* Happens at least twice in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', when [[TheNarrator Varric]] lapses too far into the TallTale genre and Cassandra interrupts him to start over again and tell the ''real'' story.
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* ''VideoGame/CallOfJuarezGunslinger'' is full of these. Even the very first ShowdownAtHighNoon turns out to be an example of this.
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this. One great example is when Silas tells of how he found himself surrounded by Apaches. An audience member asks him what happened to the attacking cowboys he spoke of a moment ago, and Silas quickly corrects himself to saying that the cowboys attacked him in ''Apache style''. At the same moment the gunslinging Indians the player is fighting are suddenly replaced by cowboys.
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\"That wasn\'t me\" isn\'t the same as \"That didn\'t actually happen\", and he never even implied that it was him.
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* The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdHWD2ozahI opening scene]] of ''Film/{{Kick-Ass}}''.
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* The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdHWD2ozahI opening scene]] of ''Kick-Ass''.
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'''Bart''': Okay, but I know funny.
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'''Bart''': Okay, but I know funny.
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* ''Literature/{{Redshirts}}'' ends with the narrator declaring that the ship was destroyed killing everyone on board. The very last chapter is the narrator declaring that this was a joke and the characters were all fine.
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A common calling card of the UnreliableNarrator. Can overlap with AllJustADream, but that trope does not fully include this one. Compare DaydreamSurprise. If one of the listeners forces this you could be entering DerailedFairyTale territory.
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I guess we don\'t have a page for these, after all.
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* ''VideoGame/CallOfJuarezGunslinger'' is full of these. Even the very first ShowdownAtHighNoon turns out to be an example of this.
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* The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdHWD2ozahI opening scene]] of ''Kick-Ass''.
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''Kick-Ass''.
* At the very end of ''Film/MeanGirls'', the narrator talks about "knowing how to deal" with anyone who would disturb her newly-found peace. We then see the three "[[GirlPosse Junior Plastics]]" hit by a bus, just as the AlphaBitch was earlier in the film. Then we see the same shot but with the girls hurriedly stepping back from the speeding bus instead, and the narrator says "just kidding!".
* At the very end of ''Film/MeanGirls'', the narrator talks about "knowing how to deal" with anyone who would disturb her newly-found peace. We then see the three "[[GirlPosse Junior Plastics]]" hit by a bus, just as the AlphaBitch was earlier in the film. Then we see the same shot but with the girls hurriedly stepping back from the speeding bus instead, and the narrator says "just kidding!".
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but... she DOES get hit by a bus. The narrator is kidding when she says Regina died from it, but she was hit by a bus and badly injured enough to have a spinal halo for the rest of the film.
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* In ''Film/MeanGirls'', towards the end of the movie, we see the AlphaBitch get abruptly hit by a speeding bus with the narration stating that she died. Then the narrator jokingly informs the audience that she was just kidding and nothing like that happened. We then continue with the story.
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A common calling card of the UnreliableNarrator. Can overlap with AllJustADream, but that trope does not fully include this one. Compare DaydreamSurprise.
'''RevealTrope! Beware of spoilers!'''
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* Verbal Kint in ''Film/TheUsualSuspects'' keeps backpedaling and changing his narrative at Kujan's prompting. The end of the film reveals the whole story was probably made up on the fly, but [[AllThereIsToKnowAboutTheCryingGame you knew that already, right]]?
* In ''Film/GeorgeOfTheJungle'', the narrator tells us that Ursula told the fact that she no longer wants to marry Lyle to her parents, "who took it extremely well." We then see a scene showing exactly that. Then the narrator says, "Just kidding!", and Ursula's mother is shown screaming in a horrified manner.
* In ''Film/MeanGirls'', towards the end of the movie, we see the AlphaBitch get abruptly hit by a speeding bus with the narration stating that she died. Then the narrator jokingly informs the audience that she was just kidding and nothing like that happened. We then continue with the story.
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* At one point in the third ''Literature/CaptainUnderpants'' book, ''[[LongTitle The Invasion of the Incredibly Naughty Cafeteria Ladies from Outer Space (and the Subsequent Assault of the Equally Evil Lunchroom Zombie Nerds)]]'', the author tells about [[spoiler:the three main characters falling to their death from a UFO after an attempted escape]]. The first sentence on the next page? "Just kidding."
* This happens a few times in ''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'', to the point where one narrator makes up an entire chapter and then laughs at the reader for believing it.
* ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' does this frequently to achieve a CatScare:
** In "Why I'm Afraid Of Bees", chapter 19 ends with Gary in bee form being eaten by a dragonfly. The first page of chapter 20 reveals that it was just his imagination.
** In "The Headless Ghost", chapter 1 ends with a huge animal chewing off Duane's head. Chapter 2 starts by stating that the creature didn't really bite of his head, and it was really Stephanie in her costume.
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* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'':
** Future Ted (the Narrator) tells his kids that a stripper he vaguely met once is their mum. They react ("WHAT!?!?!?"), he then says "Just Kidding".
** Future Ted also messes up a story about his 30th birthday. It's near the end of the series and as he messes the story up he keeps correcting himself. He (finally) remembers, says 'Oh, wait, ''this'' is what actually happened' - then remembers it's the ''wrong story'', actually happening ''a year later'' and another at an unrevealed time in the future (but Future Ted's past). Not only does this remind the viewer that, hey, it was twenty years ago - Ted's memory's not perfect - but it also makes them want to keep watching [[spoiler:(what's with the goat? and when will Lily be pregnant?)]] as they've only been shown some random stuff and want to know ''that'' story.
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* A variant can occur in ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland2LeChucksRevenge''. The majority of the game uses a HowWeGotHere framing device, with Guybrush explaining everything to Elaine; if the player lets Guybrush [[spoiler:die during the acid pit sequence]], Elaine calls him out on the obvious contradiction, and Guybrush is forced to backtrack and explain how it ''really'' went.
* ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime'' is framed as a tale the Prince is telling. If you die, he says something to the effect of "No, wait, that's not what happened," then the game reverts to the last save point.
* In ''VideoGame/TexMurphy: Overseer'', the game is a prequel framed by Tex telling his date about his first case. Whenever the player 'dies' in the game Tex will quickly mumble something about "no wait, that's not right" and the game will pick up at an earlier point in the game allowing the player to replay the section.
* Happens at least twice in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', when [[TheNarrator Varric]] lapses too far into the TallTale genre and Cassandra interrupts him to start over again and tell the ''real'' story.
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* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', stand-in narrator [[spoiler:Doc Scratch]], after telling of [[spoiler:Jack Noir finding and slaying all the trolls in one fell swoop]], explains: "[[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/scratch.php?s=6&p=005736 What sort of story would this be]], with [[spoiler:our Knight and Seer made to stay cadavers]]? Certainly not one the alpha timeline would allow. And not one she'd allow either." This reveals that the events he'd just told the reader were actually [[spoiler:an alternate timeline that Terezi foresaw and averted]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** After a story about Lisa's brain being used to power a supercomputer, Carl [[LampshadeHanging says]] "that never, uh, happened, did it Homer?" Homer says, "[[BlatantLies Yes]], but now I have to leave on a totally unrelated matter."
** In the second part of "Who Shot Mr. Burns?" Kent Brockman, in universe as news anchor but out of universe as a recap, reports on Mr. Burns being shot.
--->At 3:00 p.m. Friday, local autocrat C. Montgomery Burns was shot following a tense confrontation at town hall. Burns was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead. He was then transferred to a better hospital where doctors upgraded his condition to "alive."
** In another episode Homer is telling a flashback story of when Maggie was born; when Homer finds out that Marge is pregnant his head explodes. We then find out that Bart had been narrating that part.
--->'''Homer''': Oh, you're pregnant! That means we're gonna have to have a baby. All our financial plans are ruined! We're doomed! Doomed, I tells ya!\\
''[He lets out a scream as his head swells like a balloon and then pops. Cut to the present]''\\
'''Marge Simpson''': Bart, let your father tell the story!\\
'''Homer''': Yeah!\\
'''Bart''': Okay, but I know funny.
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--->'''Lisa''': ''[in the present]'' Mom, make Dad tell the story right!\\
'''Marge''': [[SubvertedTrope That's what really happened.]]
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* Verbal Kint in ''Film/TheUsualSuspects'' keeps backpedaling and changing his narrative at Kujan's prompting. The end of the film reveals the whole story was probably made up on the fly, but [[AllThereIsToKnowAboutTheCryingGame you knew that already, right]]?
* In ''Film/GeorgeOfTheJungle'', the narrator tells us that Ursula told the fact that she no longer wants to marry Lyle to her parents, "who took it extremely well." We then see a scene showing exactly that. Then the narrator says, "Just kidding!", and Ursula's mother is shown screaming in a horrified manner.
* In ''Film/MeanGirls'', towards the end of the movie, we see the AlphaBitch get abruptly hit by a speeding bus with the narration stating that she died. Then the narrator jokingly informs the audience that she was just kidding and nothing like that happened. We then continue with the story.
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* At one point in the third ''Literature/CaptainUnderpants'' book, ''[[LongTitle The Invasion of the Incredibly Naughty Cafeteria Ladies from Outer Space (and the Subsequent Assault of the Equally Evil Lunchroom Zombie Nerds)]]'', the author tells about [[spoiler:the three main characters falling to their death from a UFO after an attempted escape]]. The first sentence on the next page? "Just kidding."
* This happens a few times in ''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'', to the point where one narrator makes up an entire chapter and then laughs at the reader for believing it.
* ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' does this frequently to achieve a CatScare:
** In "Why I'm Afraid Of Bees", chapter 19 ends with Gary in bee form being eaten by a dragonfly. The first page of chapter 20 reveals that it was just his imagination.
** In "The Headless Ghost", chapter 1 ends with a huge animal chewing off Duane's head. Chapter 2 starts by stating that the creature didn't really bite of his head, and it was really Stephanie in her costume.
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* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'':
** Future Ted (the Narrator) tells his kids that a stripper he vaguely met once is their mum. They react ("WHAT!?!?!?"), he then says "Just Kidding".
** Future Ted also messes up a story about his 30th birthday. It's near the end of the series and as he messes the story up he keeps correcting himself. He (finally) remembers, says 'Oh, wait, ''this'' is what actually happened' - then remembers it's the ''wrong story'', actually happening ''a year later'' and another at an unrevealed time in the future (but Future Ted's past). Not only does this remind the viewer that, hey, it was twenty years ago - Ted's memory's not perfect - but it also makes them want to keep watching [[spoiler:(what's with the goat? and when will Lily be pregnant?)]] as they've only been shown some random stuff and want to know ''that'' story.
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* A variant can occur in ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland2LeChucksRevenge''. The majority of the game uses a HowWeGotHere framing device, with Guybrush explaining everything to Elaine; if the player lets Guybrush [[spoiler:die during the acid pit sequence]], Elaine calls him out on the obvious contradiction, and Guybrush is forced to backtrack and explain how it ''really'' went.
* ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime'' is framed as a tale the Prince is telling. If you die, he says something to the effect of "No, wait, that's not what happened," then the game reverts to the last save point.
* In ''VideoGame/TexMurphy: Overseer'', the game is a prequel framed by Tex telling his date about his first case. Whenever the player 'dies' in the game Tex will quickly mumble something about "no wait, that's not right" and the game will pick up at an earlier point in the game allowing the player to replay the section.
* Happens at least twice in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', when [[TheNarrator Varric]] lapses too far into the TallTale genre and Cassandra interrupts him to start over again and tell the ''real'' story.
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* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', stand-in narrator [[spoiler:Doc Scratch]], after telling of [[spoiler:Jack Noir finding and slaying all the trolls in one fell swoop]], explains: "[[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/scratch.php?s=6&p=005736 What sort of story would this be]], with [[spoiler:our Knight and Seer made to stay cadavers]]? Certainly not one the alpha timeline would allow. And not one she'd allow either." This reveals that the events he'd just told the reader were actually [[spoiler:an alternate timeline that Terezi foresaw and averted]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** After a story about Lisa's brain being used to power a supercomputer, Carl [[LampshadeHanging says]] "that never, uh, happened, did it Homer?" Homer says, "[[BlatantLies Yes]], but now I have to leave on a totally unrelated matter."
** In the second part of "Who Shot Mr. Burns?" Kent Brockman, in universe as news anchor but out of universe as a recap, reports on Mr. Burns being shot.
--->At 3:00 p.m. Friday, local autocrat C. Montgomery Burns was shot following a tense confrontation at town hall. Burns was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead. He was then transferred to a better hospital where doctors upgraded his condition to "alive."
** In another episode Homer is telling a flashback story of when Maggie was born; when Homer finds out that Marge is pregnant his head explodes. We then find out that Bart had been narrating that part.
--->'''Homer''': Oh, you're pregnant! That means we're gonna have to have a baby. All our financial plans are ruined! We're doomed! Doomed, I tells ya!\\
''[He lets out a scream as his head swells like a balloon and then pops. Cut to the present]''\\
'''Marge Simpson''': Bart, let your father tell the story!\\
'''Homer''': Yeah!\\
'''Bart''': Okay, but I know funny.
:::The flashback continues for a moment with Homer headless; after Marge reminds him that he had a head his head pops back up
:::Later in the same episode Homer tells of an idea he had to make more people come to the bowling ally - shoot a rifle in the air while shouting "Bowling here!"
--->'''Lisa''': ''[in the present]'' Mom, make Dad tell the story right!\\
'''Marge''': [[SubvertedTrope That's what really happened.]]
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