Irritation Is the Sincerest Form of Flattery: Difference between revisions

* This trope was played as straight as the arrow in your head in ''[[Lizzie McGuire]]''...right down to the imitator switching to the [[Alpha Bitch]] at the end of the ep.

* One episode of ''[[The Office]]'' starts with Jim dressing and acting exactly like Dwight; however, though in this case, it actually ''is'' explicitly meant to irritate him, and obviously succeeds. Dwight tries to return the favor at the end of the episode, but since Jim doesn't take himself nearly as seriously, that attempt utterly fails.

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* ''[[Castle]]:'' In the episode "Nikki Heat", the actress who is going to play Nikki Heat in the ''Heat Wave'' movie shadows Beckett, for "character research", and becomes more and more like her as the episode progresses, causing great annoyance to Beckett.