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** Sam leaped into a blind piano player and had to pretend he was blind. The mother of the leapee's girlfriend caught him, though, and thought the character was really pretending; but when he was tested by her later, he ''was'' blind, temporarily, due to a camera flashbulb.
** He also leaped into the body of a legless Vietnam vet. To one "unfortunate" [[Nurse Ratched|sadistic orderly]], Sam looked like he was floating above the ground when he got up and walked.
* Happened in ''[[Diagnosis: Murder]]'', probably more than once, usually discovered by Dick Van Dyke's character.
* The Colonel in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "The Unicorn and The Wasp".
** In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial "The Rescue", Bennett pretends to have been crippled in the spaceship crash, allowing him to murder the other crew members while disguised as the monster Koquillion.
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== Western Animation ==
* An episode of ''[[Fillmore]]'' had an exciting chase sequence when a wheelchair-bound suspect got up and ran unexpectedly. She claimed without much remorse that she never told anyone that she NEEDED the wheelchair, she just preferred it.
* One ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'' episode had Phoebe taking advantage of Helga's niceness when she broke a leg and kept the cast even after it healed.
* One episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' has Bart pretending to be blind so he and Homer can pull off confidence tricks.
** On another one, Bart had gone temporarily deaf as a result of a flu vaccine. When Marge is trying to explain this to principal Skinner, he [[Mistaken for An Impostor|claims that he has heard it before]], and proceeds to pull photos of Bart with several fake disabilities.
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