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Not to be confused with [[I'm Not a Doctor But I Play One on TV]].
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== [[Advertising]] ==▼
=== Real Life Examples ===▼
* In a commercial for a credit card company, where they advertise that if you have 25,000 points you can get airline tickets, Alec Baldwin end up sitting in the ''co-pilot'' seat of an airliner, telling the pilot, "Don't worry, I've played a pilot before."▼
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==▼
* Parodied in an episode of ''[[Stargate SG-1]]''. A nervous villager points out that Teal'c is a Jaffa. O'Neill then [[Deadpan Snarker|replies in his typical fashion that]]...▼
{{quote|'''O'Neill''': No. But he plays one on TV.}}▼
* On the Season One finale of ''[[Party Down]]'', Roman harasses [[Star Trek: The Original Series|George Takei]] concerning his take on the Vulcan Mind-Meld - which, of course, was not Sulu's area of expertise.▼
== [[Video Games]] ==▼
* An in-story example occurs in ''[[Zork]]: Grand Inquisitor'' with the actor Antharia Jack, who plays an adventurer on TV and plays a lot of adventure computer games. He does manage to act a bit like an adventurer during the rescue scene in the Grand Inquisitor's prison complex.▼
== Web Original ==▼
* The [[Amazing Super Powers]] webcomic strip depicting a flight stewardess asking if there were any doctors onboard as the pilot had just had a heart attack. A man says "I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV". The air stewardress replies "good enough". The last panel is a cover of a TV magazine mourning the tragic death of the star of the comedy series "Dr Oops".▼
* Parodied in the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]]'''' video "Marik's Evil Council 3"▼
{{quote|'''Marik''': Also joining us is celebrity voice actor [[Dan Green]]!▼
'''[[Dan Green]]''': Hi. I'm Dan Green.▼
'''Bakura''': What the bloody hell is ''he'' doing here? He's not a villain!▼
'''[[Dan Green]]''': No, but I played a villain in one of the Pokemon movies. }}▼
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
* An in-universe example: in ''[[Batman: The Animated Series|Batman the Animated Series]]'', a certain Simon Trent played a [[Batman]]-like superhero named Gray Ghost in an immensely popular TV show which little Bruce was a big fan of. In the episode "Beware of the Gray Ghost", set decades later, Trent is facing poverty partly because he cannot get any roles because [[I Am Not Spock|everyone still thinks of him as the Gray Ghost]]. Then Batman comes along on a case and ropes him in to assist him. Much to his own surprise, Trent make a passable superhero (and more importantly, learns that the Big Badass Batman is primarily inspired by his portrayal of one).▼
** A fairly meta example, when you consider the [[Adam Westing|actor voicing Trent]] is none other than [[Adam West]].▼
* Series one of ''[[Monkey Dust]]'' had a sketch where the comedian David Baddiel would frequently be called on to perform difficult specialist tasks (such as brain surgery or piloting a space shuttle) because as a famous comedian he should be able to adapt to any role, even off-stage.▼
* [[Harlan Ellison]] wrote in the intro for his book ''Strange Wine'' that he talked with Dan Blocker (Hoss from ''[[Bonanza]]'') about this phenomenon. Apparently, Blocker once had a woman come up to him in a supermarket and ask him about how Hoss was. When Blocker replied that he ''wasn't'' Hoss and Hoss was fictional, the woman said, "I know that, all I want to know is if he's alright!"
* Robert Young, who played ''Marcus Welby, M.D.'', often said that people would ask him for medical advice.
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{{quote|''"For several weeks now, we have seen American citizens stranded on some Pacific island. We spend millions in foreign aid. Why not send one U.S. destroyer to rescue those poor people before they starve to death?"''}}
* According to [[Jimmy Stewart]], people asked if ''[[Harvey]]'' was around for many years after that movie. He usually said that Harvey was at home with a cold.
▲== [[Advertising]] ==
▲* In a commercial for a credit card company, where they advertise that if you have 25,000 points you can get airline tickets, Alec Baldwin end up sitting in the ''co-pilot'' seat of an airliner, telling the pilot, "Don't worry, I've played a pilot before."
▲== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
▲* Parodied in an episode of ''[[Stargate SG-1]]''. A nervous villager points out that Teal'c is a Jaffa. O'Neill then [[Deadpan Snarker|replies in his typical fashion that]]...
▲{{quote|'''O'Neill''': No. But he plays one on TV.}}
▲* On the Season One finale of ''[[Party Down]]'', Roman harasses [[Star Trek: The Original Series|George Takei]] concerning his take on the Vulcan Mind-Meld - which, of course, was not Sulu's area of expertise.
▲== [[Video Games]] ==
▲* An in-story example occurs in ''[[Zork]]: Grand Inquisitor'' with the actor Antharia Jack, who plays an adventurer on TV and plays a lot of adventure computer games. He does manage to act a bit like an adventurer during the rescue scene in the Grand Inquisitor's prison complex.
▲== Web Original ==
▲* The [[Amazing Super Powers]] webcomic strip depicting a flight stewardess asking if there were any doctors onboard as the pilot had just had a heart attack. A man says "I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV". The air stewardress replies "good enough". The last panel is a cover of a TV magazine mourning the tragic death of the star of the comedy series "Dr Oops".
▲* Parodied in the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]]'''' video "Marik's Evil Council 3"
▲{{quote|'''Marik''': Also joining us is celebrity voice actor [[Dan Green]]!
▲'''[[Dan Green]]''': Hi. I'm Dan Green.
▲'''Bakura''': What the bloody hell is ''he'' doing here? He's not a villain!
▲'''[[Dan Green]]''': No, but I played a villain in one of the Pokemon movies. }}
▲== [[Western Animation]] ==
▲* An in-universe example: in ''[[Batman: The Animated Series|Batman the Animated Series]]'', a certain Simon Trent played a [[Batman]]-like superhero named Gray Ghost in an immensely popular TV show which little Bruce was a big fan of. In the episode "Beware of the Gray Ghost", set decades later, Trent is facing poverty partly because he cannot get any roles because [[I Am Not Spock|everyone still thinks of him as the Gray Ghost]]. Then Batman comes along on a case and ropes him in to assist him. Much to his own surprise, Trent make a passable superhero (and more importantly, learns that the Big Badass Batman is primarily inspired by his portrayal of one).
▲** A fairly meta example, when you consider the [[Adam Westing|actor voicing Trent]] is none other than [[Adam West]].
▲* Series one of ''[[Monkey Dust]]'' had a sketch where the comedian David Baddiel would frequently be called on to perform difficult specialist tasks (such as brain surgery or piloting a space shuttle) because as a famous comedian he should be able to adapt to any role, even off-stage.
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