History Series / WouldILieToYou

-->'''Michael Ball''': Yeah. It's a lie. Let's not look stupid.* ReleasedToElsewhere: Inverted -- one of Lee Mack's facts was that his parents gave his dog away to relatives in Scunthorpe and told him it had died.

* GlobalIgnorance: When Eamonn Holmes claimed that he had a twin brother who lived in Canada, he immediately tried to support the lie by saying that "Jimmy" worked as an insurance salesman "in that [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CN_Tower CN Tower]] in Montreal."[[note]]The CN Tower is in Toronto, and it's an observation tower, not an office building.[[/note]] No one on David's team recognized the mistake.

--->'''Mark Watson''': We're trying to decide, basically, if the esteemed actor and voiceover artist Bernard Cribbins is a gambler, a liar and a borderline crook, essentially.
--->'''David Mitchell''': It is not illegal to lie to your wife!

--->'''Jack:''' Was it just the voice, or for the next three days did you not eat lettuce and loathe the English as well?
--->'''Armando Iannucci:''' Some of us do eat lettuce.

* ReleasedToElsewhere: Inverted -- one of Lee Mack's facts was that his parents gave his dog away to relatives in Scunthorpe and told him it had died.

* WhatAnIdiot: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in-universe by Lee Mack in the last episode of Series 3. Following his interrogation of Reece Shearsmith's claim that he once worked at a funeral parlour that offered themed funerals (including "Medieval" and "St. Valentine's Day Massacre" themes), he states that he really wants to say that it's true, but he knows that if he does everyone at home will be going "How could that possibly be true?!"
-->'''Lee''': And yet there's a massive voice in my head saying this is true.
-->'''Michael Ball''': I know exactly what you're saying.
-->'''Charlie Brooker''': (''incredulous'') Really?? [[{{Angrish}} I- I'm- just- the-]] "''Saint Valentine's Day Massacre''"?!
-->'''Lee''': I know! I know it sounds ludicrous.
-->[''Rob Brydon puts pressure on them to give an answer'']
-->'''Lee''': We're going with common sense?
-->'''Michael Ball''': Yeah. It's a lie. Let's not look stupid.
** In series 5, Rhod Gilbert's claim that he paid for £15 worth of tapas with a Nissan Micra turned out to be true. David Mitchell's response was to straight-up call him a moron.
** When Sara Pascoe told a story about booking a holiday to Costa Rica thinking it was in Spain and only finding out she was wrong after she got on the flight and saw where Costa Rica is on a map, David was incredulous that someone could be so ignorant about the world's countries.
--->'''David:''' The good news is, a third of their team is an idiot.\\
'''Lee:''' Be advised, two thirds! Don't forget me, David.

* GlobalIgnorance: When Eamonn Holmes claimed that he had a twin brother who lived in Canada, he immediately tried to support the lie by saying that "Jimmy" worked as an insurance salesman "in that [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CN_Tower CN Tower]] in Montreal." No one on David's team recognized the mistake.

--->'''David''': On a big set like Downton Abbey, with so many high-profile stars like Maggie Smith--

* TheInternetIsForPorn: When considering whether or not Trisha Goddard is beating Jeremy Kyle 5-3 at Internet Scrabble, Frankie Boyle reasons that it's a lie because the only person who'd do something like that would have to have "seen all the porn first".

* AluminumChristmasTrees:
** In s5e7 David Mitchell mocks Lee's claim that Ouija boards were once seen as a mundane parlour game, not an occult item. It's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouija absolutely true]], though Lee says it's a trademark of Waddington's and David makes a joke about advertisements for an MB Ouija board. It's actually a trademark of Hasbro.
** In the Series 7 Christmas special, Miles Jupp has a lie that he eats mini multi-pack cereals by pouring the milk straight into the packet. Nobody on the panel, or indeed whoever came up with the lie, appears to be aware that this is how they are ''meant'' to be eaten, having originally been created for use on camping holidays, and that many of them come with instructions on how to use the box as a bowl.

-->'''Rob Brydon''': Our next round is called the ring of truth. I'll be offering the teams some bizarre celebrity facts, but are they true? Or are they from Wiki/{{Wikipedia}}.

* IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow: During the "This Is My..." round, Daisy May Cooper claimed that the mystery guest was an ex-boyfriend she used to smuggle into the house when she was a teenager. She said they would lie on her bed and "read Goth poetry".
-->'''David Mitchell:''' That's the first time I've ever heard it described ''that'' way!

--->'''David Mitchell:''' Your grandad was 100 before you were 18?

* {{Corpsing}}:
** David Mitchell found the claim that he could no longer drink orange squash as it sent him "berserk" ''so'' ridiculous that it took him four attempts to read with a straight face.
** This is fairly common amongst the "This Is My..." guests, who are meant to stand in silence for the whole round.

-->'''Lee''': I ''thought'' I was from the North [[UpToEleven until I met you.]]

* WaxingLyrical: Mel Giedroyc's story about licking a piece of cake meant for David Bowie begins "[[Music/TheHumanLeague I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar]]." When it's pointed out that that's not a David Bowie song, she replies "[[UpToEleven That much is true]]."

* NiceHat: Hats are occasionally a "possession" claim in the Quick Fire Lies round. In Series 3, Lee asked David to wear Fern Britton's possession (a tea cozy which resembled the Pope's mitre) on his head, apropos of nothing but the RuleOfFunny.

* AerithAndBob: Bob Mortimer is the living embodiment of this trope. Names he's discussed in his stories include Ron Waffle, John Caramel, Harry Harryman, Steve Bytheway, Stavver, Bagger, Neil Overall (Jerry Dungaree's son), Gary "Cheesy" Cheeseman, Bill Whittlingham, Billy the Pigeon, Mickey the Drink, and a cat named Goodmonson. [[spoiler:Only the cat turns out to be false.]]

* ChristmasEpisode: Introduced in the seventh series; some, but not all, of the stories will be Christmas-related, and there will usually be at least one big name guest on the panel. Possessions in the Quick-Fire Lies round will be in boxes wrapped like Christmas presents.

* RantInducingSlight: David Mitchell, usually at least once an episode, if not more.
** Lee has raged several times against the writers when he got particularly difficult lies to tell.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: The show doesn't have any topical theme and the panellists explaining/making up their stories provides the comedy, so is more welcoming to guests from other fields unlike shows such as ''Series/MockTheWeek'' or ''Series/{{QI}}''. As such, while the show does have a small stable of guests who return frequently (most notably Bob Mortimer, who has appeared once a series since Series 6, but other frequent guests include but aren't limited to Richard Osman, Rhod Gilbert, Claudia Winkleman, Gabby Logan, Greg Davies and Alex Jones), there have been a high percentage of one-off guests from a wide variety of backgrounds over the years.

* CuckooClockGag: Used in an episode; Lee Mack had to claim he was pecked in the eye twice while closely inspecting a cuckoo clock at precisely 2pm. (It was a lie.)

** John Bishop's claim that he was thrown out of a cinema for crying too loudly at the film, which ''utterly'' fell apart shortly after Lee's team started to interrogate him.

* WaxingLyrical: Mel Giedroyc's story about licking a piece of cake meant for David Bowie begins "[[Music/HumanLeague I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar]]." When it's pointed out that that's not a David Bowie song, she replies "[[Music/SpandauBallet That much is true]]."
** This was inevitable when [[Music/SpandauBallet Martin Kemp]] showed up as a guest in Series 10; after he revealed his fact as a truth in the obvious style, they even played a clip of the song. (Interestingly, Mel was a guest on the same episode as Kemp, whose lyric she quoted second in the example discussed above.)

---> '''David:''' ''WHERE'', IN THE BABOON AREA, WAS, ''YOUR, '''CAR?'''''

* PunctuatedForEmphasis: The announcer at the beginning of Series 1-3 was sometimes prone to this.

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