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Friday, 3 March 2006
Pants on fire

Lee's Television Protagonist Truthfulness Principle: Protagonists* in television shows are, almost without exception, incapable of uttering a falsehood in a convincing manner. When attempting to be untruthful, they will clearly betray their intentions through vocal inflection, altered speech patterns, hesitation, and physical "tells".

Corollary 1: All characters in television shows will be utterly incapable of detecting untruthfulness even when broadcast by vocal inflection, altered speech patterns, hesitation and physical "tells".

* And frequently antagonists, but not to such a universal degree.

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