A scene from Labyrinth 1986
Sarah

What a horrible place this is! It's not fair!

Bottom Red Guard

That's right. It's not fair!

Bottom Red Guard

[All the guards laugh.]

But that's only half of it!

Sarah

This was a dead end a minute ago.

Bottom Blue Guard

No, that's the dead end behind you!

Sarah

[All the guards laugh, and Sarah sees that they are right.]

It keeps changing! What am I supposed to do?

Bottom Red Guard

The only way out of here is to try one of these doors.

Bottom Blue Guard

One of them leads to the castle at the centre of the Labyrinth, and the other one leads to...

Top Blue Guard

B-b-b-BOOM!

Bottom Blue Guard

Certain death!

All Guards

Ooooooooh!

Sarah

Which one is which?

Bottom Red Guard

Er, we can't tell you.

Sarah

Why not?

Bottom Red Guard

[The bottom guards think and mutter to each other.]

We don't know!

Bottom Blue Guard

[looks up at top guards]

But they do.

Sarah

Oh. Then I'll ask them.

Top Red Guard

No. You can't ask us. You can only ask one of us.

Top Blue Guard

It's the rules, and I should warn you that one of us always tells the truth, and one of us always lies. That's the rules too. He always lies.

Top Red Guard

I do not! I tell the truth!

Top Blue Guard

Oooh, what a lie!

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