The Telltale Treatment

A practice in video games that involve the player's choices being able to influence the game and the character's fate. The Telltale Treatment is where the characters whose status (dead, alive etc) is influenced by the player's choices but the character in question ends up dying on later on in the story either way. This is named "The Telltale Treatment" as it is most common in Telltale Games' games such as The Walking Dead.

Despite saving Nick from his demise in Season 2 Episode 2 of Telltale's The Walking Dead, Tom was pissed when he found a zombified Nick in Episode 4.

"Fuck man, Nick really got the Telltale Treatment..."

by Khan_Sir June 1, 2017

tell tale

a sign, an indication of something, a clue, an appearance befitting a specific situation or event.

how did she know you were hot for her?
err, that clue was a serious tell tale, I guess

by yuviken May 5, 2010

Tell Tale'd

Verb; To chop up and stick underneath the floorboards of a house or other building.

A reference to Edgar Allen Poe's "Tell Tale Heart," where the protagonist chops a person up and buries them underneath the floorboards.

Buddy: I'm not to sure about Mike, the new guy in accounting. He looks like the kind of guy who Tell Tale'd **at least** five hookers.

by Giovanni Mann November 14, 2017

Tell-Tale Fart

When you are holding a fart in, quite suspensefully until eventually you release it, hoping no one realizes that it has come from you.

Narrator: “Villians! dissemble no more! I admit the deed! here, here! — it is the smell of my tell-tale fart!”

by Anonymous 4734902 November 8, 2021