History Main / SayingTooMuch

* It ends up being a crucial plot point in ''Film/LAConfidential'' - [[spoiler:a corrupt cop reveals that he's actually the murderer of a police sergeant by asking his subordinate Exley to investigate a name the sergeant dropped as his last words. Which happens to be a name made up by Exley for his father's unknown murderer; he'd told the story to the sergeant on the previous day.]]

** In incomplete episode "Shada", Chronotis blurts out his real identity (the extremely powerful Time Lord outlaw Salvayin, who is [[MacGuffin being sought by both the Doctor and the villain]]) in a sudden slip of the tongue at the ''worst'' possible time. Since this is a case of the character having his brains splattered across the wall by the IdiotBall (as he'd kept his identity a secret for over 700 years until then), the novelisation alters this to have the companion figure it out and announce it to the Doctor in the hope of warning him, not realising that Salvayin being alive is crucial to the villain's plan, and plays it for excruciating DramaticIrony.

* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode The Unicorn and the Wasp. The Doctor is trying to solve a murder mystery. Accusing everyone in the room about certain facts that could point towards them being the killer. He points to one man who is wheelchair bound. Who in turn cracks under the pressure and admits that he can walk and was only faking being paralyzed afraid that that was the only thing holding his marriage together. The Doctor then admits he wasn't actually going to confront him about anything.

** The ''real'' twist is that [[spoiler: the robot wasn't going to tell the truth anyway, since the First Law (manifested as a desire to protect the professor's reputation) trumped the fact that it would be scrapped if it didn't speak out, as well as the order to be quiet. The only reason for US Robotics' lawyer to call the robot to testify was in order to trick the professor, who distrusted robots and was deliberately ignorant of how they worked, into making that slip.]]

->''I had the right to remain silent...but what I lacked was the ability.''

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* {{Ookami-san}} gives us a moment, as well. After her bout with EasyAmnesia, Ryoko is walking home with Ringo. Ryoko informs Ringo that she doesn't remember anything from the time where she had regressed to her younger self. [[spoiler: When Ringo asks Ryoko if she's hungry, Ryoko tells her she's still full from the parfait she ate. Except she ate that parfait during the time she claims she can't remember. Ringo quickly realizes that Ryoko does indeed remember, and uses that information to blackmail her into wearing [[HairDecorations a cute little ribbon in her hair.]]]]
* In the Alabasta arc of ''OnePiece'', Igaram says aloud that the royal guard currently fighting Sir Crocodile have used a DeadlyUpgrade and will die shortly. Crocodile overhears this, and retreats to a rooftop to watch them die uselessly.
** CP9 agent Fukurou, in spite of having a giant zipper over his mouth, tends to blab intel to the enemy. The mission before the Enies Lobby battle was complicated by his jabbering, and the Straw Hats were able to plan their rescue of Robin thanks to his 'hints.'

* Happens many, MANY times in DetectiveConan, whenever the culprit is confronted.
* In the AceAttorney manga, Turnabout Showtime features an example in which it is not revealed that the person has made a mistake until very late in the trial. Raymond Spume yells at Julie Henson for "biting her nails during the show just like (she is) now!" when pulling the murdered Flip out of his costume. It turns out that Sparklestar's (the mascot Raymond plays) back was turned to Julie while she was biting her nails, meaning that Raymond could not have seen her doing it unless [[spoiler:he was wearing his costume backwards, which would enable him to unzip it and stab Flip, who was also wearing it the same way so that he could perform a backflip the same way he did a front flip]].
* The main reason why [[FushigiYuugi the Nyan Nyan girls]] get [[ATwinkleInTheSky punched into the stratosphere]] is because none of them can keep their mouths shut and ''always'' end up saying the wrong thing in the worst moment possible.
* KenichiTheMightiestDisciple gives us Rimi, also known as the Yomi-member Atlantis. She tends to blab otherwise confidential things when she first appears, including what she's doing.
* In ''{{Bakuman}}'', Nanamine, who is working with a group of online consultants changed the first chapter even though his editor was fine by it. When Kosugi, his editor, asks about it, he says "You might have been satisfied with it, but everyone else wasn't." Kosugi then realizes what's going on and Nanamine shows him his plan.
* Played with in Manga/DeathNote. L tries to get Light to mention something that only Kira would know, only for Light to know this from the start and carefully avoid saying anything. However his skill at doing this just makes L more certain that Light is Kira.
* In the ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'' "Little Army" manga, after Chihiro sprains her ankle, the group of herself, Miho and Hitomi needs a driver to get home. At this point, they see Emi, who is on her way home, and who starts to leave, offering to call for help. Miho then points out that, based on some of Emi's earlier statements indicating that she knows German tanks are strong and her identifying the tank type moments before, she knows much about driving a tank, and can drive. Emi sheepishly says that she "[[LamphadeHanging said something stupid like that without realizing it]]".
* In the ''[[LightNovel/HaiyoreNyarkoSan Haiyore! Nyaruani]]'' short "Cooking", [[CthulhuMythos Nyarko]] says that the dish of the day is Cooked Whole [[SoundEffectBleep *BLEEP*]], and holds up something that's red, writhing, tentacled, and [[{{Pixellation}} pixelated]]. [[OnlySaneMan Mahiro]] [[FreakOut freaks out]], and Nyarko says this is a really hard ingredient to obtain, thanks to the [[FictionalGenevaConventions Space Washington Treaty]]...and immediately thinks to herself "Crap, I shouldn't have said that."

* It ends up being a crucial plot point in ''LAConfidential'' - [[spoiler:a corrupt cop reveals that he's actually the murderer of a police sergeant by asking his subordinate Exley to investigate a name the sergeant dropped as his last words. Which happens to be a name made up by Exley for his father's unknown murderer; he'd told the story to the sergeant on the previous day.]]
* MoulinRouge first has a heavily sarcastic version:

* Several instances in ''MysteryTeam''

* In KissTheGirls, Kate first starts to suspect that she's alone with the killer when he knows where her colander is without being told. He then proceeds to discuss in detail what kind of information a bad guy could get by going through her trash, before finally dropping pretense altogether to tell her exactly what he discovered when he went through her trash.

** Poor Hagrid is prone to this, especially when he's distraught or talking to the PowerTrio. He lets slip the means to calm FluffyTheTerrible, the name of a warlock who helps immensely with a search he doesn't want them to succeed in, and several other pieces of relevant information over the course of the books. Often [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Hagrid himself immediately after: 'I shouldn't have said that'.

* ''AmericaTheBook'' has [[FootnoteFever a footnote]] listing countries where the U.S. has carried out secret/illegal military operations, ending with "[[CanadaEh Cana-]]... we've said too much."

* In DouglasHulick's first novel, AmongThieves, the main character, Drothe has been tracking down a powerful book that's been rumored about, but which nobody has much information on, for his boss, Kells. Eventually he finds it, but when Kells asks what he's found, he tells his boss that he's not going to give him any information about "that damned journal" until Kells tells him what's going on. Kells realizes he's found the book, as everyone else has just been calling it "the book": nobody else knew it was a journal specifically.

* Whenever Creator/StephenColbert gets carried away in a rant and forgets he's not supposed to be talking about himself. On how ''HighSchoolMusical'' could be made [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism more realistic]]:

** Another example, after 'Papa Bear' Bill O'Reilly appeared on his show, Colbert showed a clip of the [[TheOReillyFactor O'Reilly Factor]] the next day where Bill says "Colbert ''blew'' me right away." Cue rant from Colbert how this was supposed to remain secret, how heartless O'Reilly was and it wasn't right away, they had dinner first. He goes onto his next segment where he uses the same phrase and realizes what Bill meant.

* In the ''Series/{{DoctorWho}}'' episode The Unicorn and the Wasp. The Doctor is trying to solve a murder mystery. Accusing everyone in the room about certain facts that could point towards them being the killer. He points to one man who is wheelchair bound. Who in turn cracks under the pressure and admits that he can walk and was only faking being paralyzed afraid that that was the only thing holding his marriage together. The Doctor then admits he wasn't actually going to confront him about anything.

* Near the end of {{Persona 4}}, after [[spoiler:guessing out the identity of the killer]], the Investigation Team go to the hospital to interrogate him. While he initially tries to give off some basic and non-specific answers, the continued grilling from the team (and Detective Dojima) gets him to blurt out:

* In the case "Recipe for Turnabout" in ''PhoenixWrightAceAttorney: Trials and Tribulations'', [[spoiler:the case is won by BluffingTheMurderer, causing the suspect in question to call you on it and revealing information he shouldn't have been aware of.]]

* InThe1stDegree. If you play the game right, Tobin will end up blurting out information that makes him guilty right there in the courtroom.
* In ''{{Catherine}}'' [[spoiler: Thomas Mutton]] assumes that [[spoiler: Vincent has figured him out]] and accidentally confesses [[spoiler: his involvement]] when he was never under suspicion in the first place.
* Occurs in ''SuikodenV'' after the battle between Barows' army, Godwin's army, and the Armes army. [[spoiler:Salum Barows]] feigns ignorance about Armes being there even though he arranged for them to be there. Then, [[spoiler:Euram Barows]] runs in and practically confesses that they were working with them. Then, he goes a bit further by suggesting [[spoiler:using the Dawn Rune which up until then had been thought to be in the hands of the village of Lordlake.]]
* In ''PrinceOfPersiaTheTwoThrones'', the Prince, obsessed with finding and killing the Vizier, hears a woman scream, and heeds the advice of his dark half to keep going. Farah asks him if he heard it and he says that they should continue, because he is "sure she will be all right." Naturally, Farah realized he heard and is [[WhatTheHellHero outraged]], resulting in him going to save the women in the brothel.
* In ''LaNoire'' we get Jean Archer who can't seem to help but give information by mistake in the case appropriately titled "A Slip of the Tongue".

* The second variation was seen in ''{{Narbonic}}'', when Helen was preparing to tell Dave [[spoiler:that he's a latent mad genius]].

* When Zii in ''[[MenageA3 Ménage à 3]]'' breaks one of Gary's most prized Transformers and learns that it was a highly rare [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlord_%28Transformers%29#Toys Overlord]], she tries to pin it on a cleaning woman she made up: "Tragic, I know. Poor Overlord... never knew what hit him!" Gary than asks how did she know it was an Overlord.

* From ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': "I'm sorry, I can't divulge any information about that customer's secret, illegal account. [hangs up phone] Oh, crap, I shouldn't have said he was a customer. Oh, crap! I shouldn't have said it was a secret. Oh, ''crap''! I ''certainly'' shouldn't have said it was illegal! Oh, it's too hot today."

* BeavisAndButthead had this happen a couple of times. On one occasion, they get a HotLibrarian to write a school report for them, and end up getting detention from [[HippieTeacher David Van Driessen]] when they let slip that the librarian wrote the paper.

* The case of [[WoundedGazelleGambit "Balloon Boy" and his family]] being [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6y6HA65wUg&feature=related interviewed on the news.]] "Falcon, why didn't you come when you heard us calling you?" "Because you guys said that, um, we did this for a show." [[OhCrap "...Man."]]
** The next day [[TheWoobie the poor kid]] was brought onto ''The Today Show'' to be further questioned about this, and he got so nervous about getting his parents in trouble that he vomited.

* The Japanese organization PRIDE FC used to sell [=DVDs=] of their fights months after they'd happened with English commentary dubbed in. The commentators would pretend to be watching the fights live. This came apart during an infamous incident in which the play-by-play man forgot what was going on and began telling his partner an amusing anecdote...about the fight they were calling. Written about [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-outstanding-taunts-done-during-mma-fights/ here]] by SeanBaby (#4 in the list).
** A similar incident happened on ''Series/AmericanIdol''. While commenting on one of the performances, Paula Abdul accidentally gave her critique of a song which hasn't been performed yet, revealing that the judges sometimes write their critiques beforehand, based on the contestants' dress rehearsals.

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* In ''GothamCentral'', as a result of having been working long hours and being generally tired and depressed, Renee Montoya accidentally lets slip to Maggie Sawyer, captain of the Major Crimes Unit, that Romy Chandler had her weapon taken by Batman after she tried to shoot him.

* In ''Webcomic/BetweenFailures'', to get Nina off her badgering about starting a relationship with Thomas, Carol tries to change the subject to Nina's ''Literature/HarryPotter'' FanFic. However, Carol forgot that Nina had only sent it ''to'' Thomas - Nina quickly [[http://betweenfailures.com/comics1/1012-math figures out]] that this means that the two already started going out. In a way, this works out, as Nina moves on from trying to get Carol to start dating Thomas to begging for info about their relationship.

* ''Literature/HarryPotter'': Poor Hagrid is prone to this, especially when he's distraught or talking to the PowerTrio. He lets slip the means to calm FluffyTheTerrible, the name of a warlock who helps immensely with a search he doesn't want them to succeed in, and several other pieces of relevant information over the course of the books. Often [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Hagrid himself immediately after: 'I shouldn't have said that'.
** It's also how Harry discovers the imposter in GobletOfFire.

* ''LawAndOrderUK'': During the prosecution of an accused rapist/murderer, the key witness is a young woman who saw the man lurking around the building where the crime took place (she may very well have been the intended victim had she not evaded him). The man denies it, angrily accusing the girl of lying and referring to her tattoos before covering his mouth in horror as he realizes his mistake. Although the girl's arms were indeed covered with tattoos, she was wearing a jacket while in court. The only way he could have known about her tattoos was if he had seen her previously.

* In the ''Series/{{DoctorWho}}'' episode The Unicorn and the Wasp. The Doctor is trying to solve a murder mystery. Accusing everyone in the room about certain facts that could point towards them being the killer. He points to one man who is wheelchair bound. Who in turn cracks under the pressure and admits that he can walk and was only faking being paralyzed afraid that that was the only thing holding his marriage together. The Doctor then says he wasn't actually going to accuse him at all.

* In the ''Series/{{DoctorWho}}'' episode The Unicorn and the Wasp. The Doctor is trying to solve a murder mystery. Accusing everyone in the room about certain facts that could point towards them being the killer. He points to one man who is wheelchair bound. Who in turn cracks and admits he can walk and was faking being paralyzed afraid that was the only thing holding his marriage together. The Doctor then says he wasn't actually going to accuse him at all.

* ''Literature/HarryPotter'': Poor Hagrid is prone to this, especially when he's distraught or talking to the PowerTrio. He lets slip the means to calm FluffyTheTerrible, the name of a warlock who helps immensely with a search he doesn't want them to succeed in, and several other pieces of relevant information over the course of the books. Often [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Hagrid himself immediately after 'I shouldn't have said that'.
** It's also how Harry discovers the imposter in GobletofFire.

* Parodied in the 1967 ''Film/CasinoRoyale1967''. Mata Bond is looking for information on Le Chiffre:

* ''HarryPotter'': Poor Hagrid is prone to this, especially when he's distraught or talking to the PowerTrio. He lets slip the means to calm FluffyTheTerrible, the name of a warlock who helps immensely with a search he doesn't want them to succeed in, and several other pieces of relevant information over the course of the books. Often [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Hagrid himself immediately after 'I shouldn't have said that'.

* A man in Florida vanished shortly after winning millions in the state lottery. The prime suspect was a woman whom he hired to manage his funds but was apparently embezzling them. After the man's body was found, she was again questioned by the police. Afterwards, she called a press conference and tearfully proclaimed her innocence, declaring that she "had been falsely accused of shooting another human being." However, the police had not revealed to anyone exactly how the man was killed.

** A similar incident happened on ''AmericanIdol''. While commenting on one of the performances, Paula Abdul accidentally gave her critique of a song which hasn't been performed yet, revealing that the judges sometimes write their critiques beforehand, based on the contestants' dress rehearsals.

** Happens in Book 4, when the fake Mad Eye asks Harry about Voldemort's return.
--->'''Harry:''' "I don't think I mentioned a graveyard, professor."