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A frequent cause of [[Bad Bad Acting]]. See also [[All Part of the Show]], which is when characters aren't trying to follow their actual role, but the audience thinks they are anyway. When a character stands up to perform (as opposed to being pushed) because it's their best/only option, they are [[Holding the Floor]]. Frequently employed as part of the [[Concert Climax]]. May result in the [[Concert Kiss]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Kagome in ''[[Inuyasha]]''; simultaneously [[Played for Drama]] and [[Played for Laughs]] in that there is a real youkai hiding in the building and Inuyasha is having trouble determining acting from reality. The audience, of course, presumes that it's [[All Part of the Show]].
* The third ''[[One Piece]]'' TV-Special focuses on a theather actor putting on one last show. When some of the cast suddenly quit right before the opening act, naturally the Straw hats ended up on stage causing all kinds of chaos.
* In one episode of ''[[Samurai Champloo]]'', Fuu throws the dice for an important gambling match when the person who was supposed to do it is kidnapped so that one of the participants can supply a substitute who will cheat for them.
* In ''[[
== [[Comic Books]] ==▼
▲== Comic Books ==
* Obelix in ''[[Asterix]] and the Cauldron''.
== [[Film]] ==▼
* The "getting on stage is the only way for them to get close to a [[MacGuffin]]" version occurs in ''[
▲== Film ==
▲* The "getting on stage is the only way for them to get close to a [[MacGuffin]]" version occurs in ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventure_of_Sherlock_Holmes%27_Smarter_Brother The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother]''. Sigerson Holmes and his [[Sidekick]] Sergeant Sacker go onstage as actors during an opera to recover the Redcliff Document. On YouTube [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a17uOf3IR1M here].
* In the early [[Alfred Hitchcock]] film ''[[The Thirty-Nine Steps|The 39 Steps]]'', the main character gets mistakenly called to speak at a political rally and manages, without knowing what candidate or party he is supporting, to get a standing ovation. (This is inspired by a sequence in the original novel, but that plays out differently and doesn't quite fit the trope.)
* In ''[[Jingle All the Way]]'', Howard, running from a cop, is mistaken for a replacement for a Turbo Man actor, and is essentially shoved into the suit. As Turbo Man, his job is to give out a free [[MacGuffin|action figure]] during a parade.
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* In ''[[Lets Get Laid]]'', a shy recently demobbed (discharged) soldier meets an actress, and looks exactly like her leading man. At the end of the film, the actor gets arrested (wrongly) and the ex-soldier gets pushed on-stage on opening night. The resulting chaos is loved by the audience, and he's recruited to replace the original leading man.
== [[Literature]] ==▼
▲== Literature ==
* [[Discworld]]
** In ''[[
** In ''[[
* Happens to the protagonist of ''[[The
▲== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Happened on ''[[Monk]]'' once, when Monk is persuaded to take over the part of an actor whose death he is investigating. He did reasonably well during rehearsal, but missed his cue during the real thing, was pushed onstage, and ended up making a fool of himself. He redeems himself, however, by solving and explaining the murder onstage.
* Technically show-within-a-show-within-a-show: once in the ''[[Square One TV]]'' SwaS "[[Mathnet]]" they solved the crime and approached the perp (who was a Broadway actress) right after the curtain came down - then the curtain went up again for the [[Curtain Call]]. So they do [[The Summation]] in song, to a standing ovation.
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* One ''Amazing Stories'' episode featured a mix-up between a movie actor dressed up as a mummy, and the actual walking mummy whose legend is being filmed. The real mummy winds up roped into playing the part (which isn't difficult, as there are no lines) while the actor nearly gets burned alive as a monster by superstitious locals.
* In the ''[[Quantum Leap]]'' episode "Catch A Falling Star", Sam leaps into an actor about two minutes before the show starts, and is about to be pushed out on stage with no idea what's going on. Fortunately he's the understudy, and the real lead shows up at the last second.
* An entertaining ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' episode forced the Doctor to fake being in command of the starship and bluff the belligerent aliens into going away at the climax.
* [[Psych]] did this on the season-2 episode "Lights, Camera, Homicidio." Shawn was investigating a murder on the set of a [[Telenovela]], and he managed to become the show's breakout star, at least until he solved the crime and quit.
* Done to Willow in an early [["What Do They Fear?" Episode]] of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''; she hallucinates being pushed on stage in the middle of an opera and she can't sing.
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* In a ''[[Peanuts]]'' arc, Lucy volunteers Linus to sing "Jingle Bells" for the PTA assembly.▼
== [[Theatre]] ==
* In ''[[The Producers]]'', the director of the [[Show Within a Show]] has to take a part when the person meant to be playing Hitler breaks his leg.
* ''[[The Actors Nightmare]]'', a short comedy play, is a somewhat surreal instance - not only does the protagonist have to act despite (as far as he can remember) not being an actor at all, he gets contradictory answers about what play is being performed, and it seems to keep changing as he improvises. He ends up in a distressingly realistic execution scene that might (or might not) actually cause his death at the end of the play.
* The gangsters in ''[[Kiss Me Kate]]'' become part of the ''Taming of the Shrew'' production.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[
* ''[[Jade Empire]]'' gives the player the option of acting in a play which is being monitored by the authorities for possibly containing subversive messages. By their choice of lines, the player determines whether or not they find any (or they can just screw up, of course).
* ''[[Neverwinter Nights 2]] Mask of the Betrayer'' has a dream sequence in which you get shoved onto a stage to play the role of Akachi the Betrayer, going along with the whole 'masks and illusions' theme present throughout the campaign
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** And in ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'', when Dagger crashes into the play being performed at the beginning of the game, she ad-libs a very nice exit scene. Justified since the play is the in-universe equivalent of [[Romeo and Juliet]], and Dagger is a classically educated Princess who happens to love that particular play.
* In ''[[Tales of Vesperia]]'', the Acting Guild asks you to take parts in a play. If you accept, you are rewarded at the end with [[And Your Reward Is Clothes|titles that change your party into their costumes from the play]].
* In ''[[Indiana Jones and
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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** They both end up on stage in "Slick Hare" - true to character, Fudd flees in panic, while Bugs happily goes into a dance.
* In the ''[[Kim Possible]]'' episode "Hidden Talents", Ron goes onstage at a talent show to stall for time while Kim escapes from a [[Death Trap]] and returns. (Also, Kim was in the show to begin with because Ron signed her up without asking her.)
▲* In a ''[[Peanuts]]'' arc, Lucy volunteers Linus to sing "Jingle Bells" for the PTA assembly.
== [[Real Life]] ==
* This happened to [
** Which presumably inspired similar events in ''[[The IT Crowd]]'' when Moss, appearing on Dragon's Den under a pseudonym, is mistaken for an MP and taken into an interview about the Iraq war.
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