Two Sides of the Story
Two or more characters recount the same incident totally differently, and each character's version makes them look good and the others look bad.
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Appearances
- The Dick Van Dyke Show: Season 2, episode 9, "The Night the Roof Fell In" (1962). Tensions are high when Rob and Laura both have bad days and Rob comes home late. They blow up at each other and later recount what happened to their friends, but their stories are completely different.
- The Odd Couple: Season 2, episode 21, "A Night to Dismember" (1972). Oscar and Blanche recall the night they decided to get divorced in two completely different ways. Then Felix tells his version, and they realize it was all his fault.
- Too Close for Comfort: Season 3, episode 15, "The Separation" (1983). Jackie has an argument with Brad because he doesn't want her to work when they're married, so Henry tells her a story about a time before he and Muriel were married when they had a similar argument, then Muriel and Iris each tell her completely different versions of the same story.
- Head of the Class: Season 1, episode 10, "You've Got a Friend" (1987). Arvid and Sarah develop a budding romance and go on one date that immediately breaks them up. When their bickering disrupts the class, Mr. Moore asks them what happened, and they tell two completely different versions of the story.
- NewsRadio: Season 4, episode 7, "Catherine Moves On" (1997). Catherine announces she's leaving WNYX, and the rest of the staff are so preoccupied that none of them knows why, so Mr. James interviews everyone to try to figure it out, and they each tell a completely different version of the story.
- It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Season 6, episodes 7, "Who Got Dee Pregnant?" (2010). Sweet Dee announces that she's pregnant, and that one of the gang knocked her up during the Halloween party, but the whole gang was drunk that night, so they try to figure out what happened by sharing their respective versions of the story, which are all drastically different, so they visit the McPoyles, who drank nothing but milk the whole night (as usual), for an unbiased version.