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* In an issue of ''[[The Flash|Impulse]]'', Bart has to hide the fact that his cousin Jenni is from the future, so he teaches her English with the help of books like "See Spot Run". When introduced to his friends, Jenni's first attempt at conversing with them is to ask if they've Seen Spot Run.

{{quote| '''Kro-Bar''': My wife sometimes forgets that she is ''not'' [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|a space alien]].<br />

* In ''[[The Human Duplicators]]'', a detective gets duplicated (Surprise!) and the duplicate reports back to the original's superiors to throw them off the case. Despite his random pauses and stiff movement, they don't suspect a thing.

* In the second ''[[Cats and Dogs]]'' film, a cat (masquerading as his owner) over an intercom gives his last name as "Not-A-Cat". The [[ToWhat Dumban To LiveIdiot!|humans]] believe him!

* ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' has a few borderline cases. Ford Prefect and Zaphod Beeblebrox both visit Earth without attracting too much attention, despite the former's badly chosen fake name and Zaphod not even trying to hide he's from space; of course, they're both basically human-looking, with just a few subtle (or not; see below) oddities. Later on, the {{spoiler|the mice}} offer to replace Arthur's brain with a computer, and Zaphod jokingly suggests that it would only need to be able to say "What?", "I don't understand" and "Where's the tea?" and no one would notice any difference.

* In the Mark Clifton short story ''What Have I Done?'', an employment agent meets an alien who asks him to help the alien invaders with their disguises. (The agent has a superhuman ability to read people, and is the only person so far who's seen through the [[Hugh Mann]] act.) He defeats the invasion by helping them to appear as the most perfect, noble humans ever - [[Humans Are Bastardsthe Real Monsters|so that real humans will destroy them out of envy]].

* Reversed and subverted in an episode of ''[[Stargate SG-1]]''. Reversed, in that it's a human, Daniel Jackson in this case, trying to pass for a Goa'uld--heyuld—hey, at least he speaks the language!--and subverted in that the name he gives, "The Great and Powerful Oz," doesn't fool anybody.

** The O'Neill duplicate episode came fairly early in the series, and the team didn't know each other all that well yet; Sam didn't even know about O'Neill's family tragedy. O'Neill's ex-wife just assumed he finally wanted to talk about their relationship and their son's death -- shedeath—she noticed his odd behavior, but assumed it was caused by psychological trauma. Since she was a [[Muggles]], there was no reason for her to suspect that "space alien duplication" was a valid explanation.

** Anya seemed to like the robot better than the regular Buffy, particularly after its greeting of, "Hello, Anya. How is your money?" Anya replies with a happy, "Fine! Thank you!" apparently glad that someone now cares about the money as much as she does.

{{quote| ANYA: Anya Christina Emanuella Jenkins, twenty years old. Born on the fourth of July, and don't think there weren't jokes about that my whole life, mister, 'cause there were. Who's our little patriot? they'd say, when I was younger, [[Captain Obvious|and therefore smaller and shorter than I am now.]]}}

* The Duras Sisters' eponymous track on "Masquerading as Human" describes ''something'' that's doing just that, and finding just how easy it is to do so, even when they do things like order steak with marmalade and have a deadbolt on their closet door.

* Likewise, filker Karen Lindsey and her song "Nobody Knows I'm Really an Alien." The marooned alien cook is having a great time of it on Earth. He lives in a hippie commune (where the residents have had so many drugs they don't notice), goes to sci-fi conventions (where his looks are mistaken for a great costume), and even gets bit parts in Hollywood films (where again, no one seems to notice). It's only when he goes on a talk show to "set the record straight" that the MiB patrol shows up to cart him off.

* In ''[[Mechquest]]'', you'll encounter an alien NPC named ''Hugh Munn''. [[Puppeteer Parasite|Hugh]] did play his role as a human rather well- if not for those tacky implants on his head ''and'' blue skin...

* One of the new classes in ''Super [[Monday Night Combat]]'' is Karl, a reconnaissance cyborg developed to infiltrate the society of the lawless Outlanders. Uniquely for this trope, Karl seems to completely buy into the idea that he is human. In-game, he'll often talk about getting goosebumps, needing a drink, or being due for a haircut. His bio mentions that he has an extreme hatred of robots and that his locker room outbursts are "just a little too perfect."

* ''[[AsheronsAsheron's Call]]'' bad guys the Virindi have a shaky grasp of human psychology, being an otherdimensional [[Hive Mind]] of energy beings - actually, they have a shaky grasp of the material world, period. Their best attempt at making human infiltrators, the Simulacra, finally got the physical part right, but they still address people they meet as "fellow human" and talk with unnatural [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]].

* Warmech of ''[[8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)|Eight Bit Theater]]''. When he pretended to be a human, he wears a fake mustache which he grew on his human lip between acts of defecation. He actually fooled the other warriors with his disguise.

* The Brain Slugs from ''[[Futurama]]'' play it for laughs. The slugs fool no one, but the other characters treat the infected characters like [[Bunny Ears Lawyer|Bunny Ears Lawyers]]s.

{{quote| Oh, I see. Alright, I'll pay 100 geliga stones -- uh, I mean, hu-mon dollars! -- eugh, I mean dollars!}}

** In a Treehouse of Horror episode, where Kang and Kodos attempt to sabotage the 1996 American presidential election by assuming the identities of Bill Clinton and Bob Dole. In one campaign speech, Kang (as Clinton) monotonously intones "I am Clin-Ton! As overlord, all will kneel trembling before me, and obey my brutal commands!" before crossing his arms over his chest and shouting "End communication!" His staffers attribute the behavior to an "over-tight necktie".

{{quote| '''Marge:''' That's slick Willy for you, always with the smooth talk.}}

* ''[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars]]'' had an interesting example in the episode ''Rookies''. Commando droids pretended to be clones, but tended to speak with sort of a stilted rhythm, gesticulated wildly...and ultimately gave themselves away with [[Catch Phrase|"Roger, roger."]]. Hilariously inverted when Captain Rex (in the same episode) re-takes the base by ENDING his sentences with "Roger, roger" and fooling the droids into thinking he's one of them. In addition, he was wearing his own custom armor, which the droids never seen to have noticed.

* In an episode of ''[[The Tick (animation)]]'', Arthur was cloned by their alien neighbor. The clone was greenish and could only say "I Arthur", yet he fooled the Tick ([[The Ditz|not that it's very difficult with him]]). When he found both the original and the clone, he told them to say [[Something Only They Would Say|something only the REAL Arthur would know]]. Arthur delivered a lengthy anecdote about a personal incident they had once, which convinced the Tick... while the clone said "I Arthur", which ALSO convinced the Tick, since he couldn't find any fault in the statement.

** Another Transformers example, this time from ''[[Transformers Animated]]''. The supposed traitor Wasp traveled to Earth to get his revenge on Bumblebee, by swapping places with him. The team aren't suspicious at all when "Bumblebee" starts talking weird and has no idea what happened earlier in the show, despite the fact that they were trying to convince Sentinel that the real traitor was still on Cybertron! At least later in the show, "Wasp" is able to prove that he's the real Bumblebee by telling Bulkhead something that only the two of them know from their days in Autobot Boot Camp. And then Bulkhead convinces the rest of them to go with a test for which is the real Bumblebee: playing against each other on a video game. Justified in that Bumblebee is a video game junkie and quite good at it, and Wasp hasn't had the time to hone his skills at it.

* Zim from [[Invader Zim]] is... not a very convincing human, to say the least. Luckily, Earth is filled with morons/people who don't care who won't listen to [[Only Sane Man|Dib]].