Sarcastic Confessions in Western Animation.
- Code Lyoko:Yumi: I've gotta go.
William: Really? Where to?
Yumi: To save the world... - In Danny Phantom, Vlad does this a lot, particularly in The Movie, where he several times admits he's a diabolical supervillain, takes a pause, and then joins in the laughter at that utterly ridiculous idea.
- On an episode of Gargoyles, a robbery attempt goes sour when the cops show up. A woman known to the crooks as "Sally" angrily demands to know who called the police. When no one owns up to it, she shrugs and says "Well, I guess it was me!" It was. "Sally" was actually Detective Elisa Maza in disguise.
- Parodied in the movie of Phineas and Ferb when Doofenshmirtz-2 lies to our dimensions' Doofenshmirtz, only for him to pick up on it...Doofenshmirtz-1: ...were you just being sarcastic?
Doofenshmirtz-2: [sarcastically] No...
Doofenshmirtz-1: I'm pretty sure that's what I sound like when I'm being sarcastic! - Pinky and the Brain: The Brain loves to do this for laughs whenever anyone questions his Paper Thin Disguises. He matter-of-factly tells them he's an escaped lab mouse in a costume out to take over the world, knowing nobody will believe it anyways.
- Inverted (and combined with Crying Wolf) in the Regular Show episode "Grilled Cheese Deluxe". After an episode of competing to see who was the better liar, Benson demands to know what happened to mangle his sandwich so. Rigby excitedly gives a garbled, but truthful, explanation of the rather fantastic events between Benson discovering the theft of his first sandwich, and the current one being placed in his hands; Benson chews him out for lying. Mordecai, worn out and frustrated, drops a much shorter and more plausible lie, and Benson says, "There. Now wasn't it so much easier telling the truth?"
- The Simpsons:
- Homer once went to great lengths with this when he had to tell Marge that a chimp had kidnapped Bart. Comes complete with Lampshade Hanging as Homer goes on to explicitly describe the trope and sarcastically inform Marge that he's making full use of it. When Marge finds out and gets mad that it was hidden from her, Homer complains that he did tell her, in great detail. In that same scene, Lisa asks why he's confessing sarcastically, pointing out that Marge will still be angry when she finds out; Homer responds by giving us this little gem:Homer: Maybe I'm talking like this because I can't stop. Oh help me, Lisa! I have serious mental problems!
- Parodied when Homer dresses up as an airline pilot to drink at the pilots-only bar of the Springfield airport:Pilot: Hey... you're not just impersonating a pilot so you can drink here, are you?
Homer: [dejected] Yeah. That's exactly why I'm here.
Pilot: [laughs] You flyboys, you crack me up!
[Gilligan Cut to Homer being forcefully shoved in the cockpit pilot seat]
Homer: But I keep telling you I'm not a pilot!
Pilot: And I keep telling you, you fly boys crack me up!
- Homer once went to great lengths with this when he had to tell Marge that a chimp had kidnapped Bart. Comes complete with Lampshade Hanging as Homer goes on to explicitly describe the trope and sarcastically inform Marge that he's making full use of it. When Marge finds out and gets mad that it was hidden from her, Homer complains that he did tell her, in great detail. In that same scene, Lisa asks why he's confessing sarcastically, pointing out that Marge will still be angry when she finds out; Homer responds by giving us this little gem:
- Hilariously inverted in the South Park episode "Ladder to Heaven", where God catches Saddam Hussein building a WMD plant in Heaven.God: Saddam, I've been hearing rumors that you're secretly building weapons of mass destruction up here.
Saddam: Weapons of mass destruction? No! This is a chocolate chip factory. See?
God: It looks like a chemical weapons plant.
Saddam: Look, God, if I was gonna secretly build a chemical weapons plant, I wouldn't make it look like a chemical weapons plant, would I? I'd make it look like a chocolate chip factory or something.
God: ...alright, just checking. [leaves]
Saddam: Stupid asshole. - From
Superman: The Animated Series, "The Main Man":Lois: I'm confused, Kent. See, I've lived in Metropolis most of my life and I can't figure out how some yokel from Smallville is suddenly getting every hot story in town.
Clark: Well, Lois, [lowers his glasses and beckons her closer] the truth is, I'm actually Superman in disguise and I only pretend to be a journalist in order to hear about disasters as they happen, and then squeeze you out of the byline.
[pause]
Lois: You're a sick man, Kent. [walks off]
Clark: [with a sly smile] You asked...
