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{{quote|'''House:''' At the end of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf," the wolf really does come. And he eats the sheep... and the boy... and his parents.
'''Chase:''' The wolf doesn't eat the parents!
'''House:''' [[Darker and Edgier|It does when I tell it.]]
|''[[House (TV series)|House]]''}}
[[Stock Aesops|You know the story]]. A little shepherd boy cries wolf to get people to come running, because he's bored out of his skull (or whatever). They fall for it. He does it again. They fall for it again. Then, an actual wolf comes along, and the little boy screams his little lungs out (crying "[[You Have to Believe Me]]!") but this time nobody comes, since they think he's just playing that stupid prank again. [[Why Didn't You Just Say So?]] may then ensue. [[Grimmification|Grimmer]] versions will end with the wolf [[Karmic Death|eating the boy]]. Or the sheep. Or [[Kill'Em All|everyone.]]
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▲== Anime & Manga ==
* Usopp's introductory arc in ''[[One Piece]]'' is modeled on the Boy Who Cried Wolf (or Pirates, in his case), and his name is a portmanteau of "Uso" (lie) and "Aesop". By the point we meet him, he's done it every day ''for ten years''. By then, the village sets their watches by it ("Usopp's coming, time to go to work.").
* Minor instance with ''[[Lucky Star]]'', where Konata can't convince her teacher she's too sick to attend class after she spent the past two days giving other (dumber) excuses.
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* Happened in a Disney comic featuring Scrooge McDuck staging "tests" to see how his employees (among which, [[Donald Duck]]) reacted. Hilarity Ensued when a real thug attacked Scrooge, but he [[Broken Aesop|failed to learn anything]], [[Never My Fault|refused to admit he was ever at fault]], and [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop|ends up chasing Donald out of town trying to clobber him]].
* A ''[[Tale Spin]]'' comic had Baloo be late for work due to running into a ghost plane flown by skeletons. Rebecca naturally thinks he's lying until he flies her up there to see it for herself. After the plot is resolved (it was a [[Scooby-Doo Hoax]] created by Shere Khan to hide his secret [[Airborne Aircraft Carrier]]. Really.) Rebecca vows to [[Tempting Fate|never doubt Baloo again]]. The comic ends with Baloo loafing around Louie's [[Aesop Amnesia|while calling Rebecca to tell her he was caught in a hurricane and may be stuck the whole night]].
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** There's also a flashback in a later chapter that shows Jack tried to steal the Naughty or Nice list from Santa Claus back in the fifties.
** The Jack of Fables series has more flashbacks with Jack pulling off even more outrageous schemes for cash.
* The
* Parodied in a ''[[Far Side]]'' cartoon.▼
▲* The swedish comicbook ''Kunskapens Korridorer'' had a scene where the school was having a standard fire drill... when an actual fire broke out. The principal (who earlier had complained how no one takes the fire drills seriously) is amazed how serious everyone is about the drill... while he's idly pottering around the school halls instead of evacuating, because he still thinks it's just a drill. The whole event culminates with him going out on an upper-floor balcony while everyone waves and shouts at him, and prepares to make a speech... and only then realizes ''the room behind him is on fire.'' The fireman who rescues him even asks him why he didn't evacuate like a smart person should.
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== Newspaper Comics ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120504021517/http://garfield.nfshost.com/1986/03/30/ This] ''[[Garfield]]'' strip.
▲* Parodied in a ''[[Far Side]]'' cartoon.
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** [https://web.archive.org/web/20130329061932/http://oglaf.com/justso/1/ Another safe page on this theme.]
* ''[[Cyanide & Happiness]]'' [http://www.explosm.net/comics/1919/ shows] how the pandas suffer because of this.
* In chapter 32 of ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'', Annie's attempts to reconcile with Kat [[Relationship-Salvaging Disaster|by inventing dangerous situations for them to "solve"]] become so exaggerated that Kat assumes a huge, clearly real kraken to be another of her antics.
* Hilariously done by ''[[The Onion]]'' in [https://www.theonion.com/alex-jones-struggling-to-convince-skeptical-police-afte-1835659969 this article], where police refuse to believe Alex Jones' claims of witnessing his neighbor murder his wife. For those unfamiliar with Jones, he is notorious for making claims of a second Civil War, [[Alien Invasion|aliens impersonating Heads of State]], and other [[Conspiracy Theorist|absurd predictions.]]▼
== Web Original ==
* ''False Alarm'' by Glenn Jones. [https://www.behance.net/gallery/797848/Glennz-Tees-Designs-2010-11]
{{quote|In case of false alarm, repair glass}}
▲* Hilariously done by ''[[The Onion]]'' in [https://www.theonion.com/alex-jones-struggling-to-convince-skeptical-police-afte-1835659969 this article], where police refuse to believe [[Alex Jones]]' claims of witnessing his neighbor murder his wife. For those unfamiliar with Jones, he is notorious for making claims of a second Civil War, [[Alien Invasion|aliens impersonating Heads of State]], and other [[Conspiracy Theorist|absurd predictions.]]
== Western Animation ==
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== Real Life ==
* Supposedly King You of Zhou [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_You_of_Zhou] did this.
* Does anyone even bat an eyelash anymore when a car alarm goes off?
** Some car thieves actually count on this, setting off a car alarm until the person gets frustrated and shuts it off entirely. Robbery ensues.
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* Forcefully averted in [[Real Life]] by many high security areas (prisons, army bases, top secret labs and so forth) when all alarms are always answered, even when it seems to be just another [[It's Probably Nothing|false alarm]] as its always a possibility that the ''false alarms'' may be engineered by intruders hoping to exploit the Crying Wolf syndrome in the hopes of breaking in without too much resistance.
** A violinist travelling to Chicago made a joke about having a [[Senseless Violins|machine gun in his case]]. Airport security did NOT have a sense of humour, but deliberately so. He missed the flight.
* A tragic example was the death of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redd_Foxx Redd Foxx], a comedian best known for his role on ''[[Sanford and Son]]''. Redd's well-known "signature joke" involved him faking a heart attack whenever something surprising or unexpected happened. In 1995, during a rehearsal for a show called ''The Royal Family''. He had a heart attack for real; fellow cast members thought he was just making another joke, and didn't receive medical attention until it was too late.
* In [[World War I]], both sides spread propaganda about the enemy, which included a genocide perpetrated by the Germans. While there were indeed occasional war crimes against the civilian population (what with the western front being most of the time in Belgium and France), but genocide... less so. This came to light after the war, of course. Now, if you have been paying attention during history lessons, you might remember that Germany did indeed start a program of genocide within the next 20 years. The response to warnings this time was rather... lukewarm. Ouch.
** Anne Frank and her family knew ''from British radio'' that if they were captured things would be bad, yet the soldiers liberating the camps were utterly surprised/horrified.
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