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* There was an episode of ''[[Fantasy Island]]'' where the (fictional) famous person had the fantasy of being somewhere where nobody knew who she was. She was sent to the wilds of [Africa/South America], where she fell in love with an explorer who didn't know who she was. [[Subverted]] though in that it turns out he ''did'' know, he just didn't care about her celebrity.
* In ''[[The George Lopez Show]]'', Carmen runs away and becomes one of the rapper Chingy's groupies. George ends up being the only person who doesn't know who that is.
* In the ''[[ICarlyiCarly]]'' episode "iLost My Mind", the main security guard of the mental institution has never heard of the web show iCarly, so he's not impressed when Carly and Freddie try to use the fact they are the stars of it as credentials.
* This is ''inverted'' in one episode of ''[[Hello Cheeky]]'', in which Tim, Barry and Denis all confuse fellow cast member John Junkin for Doris Day. Particularly surreal as John is middle-aged, male, and ''bald''.
 
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* This is a [[Running Gag]] in ''[[Paper Mario: theThe Thousand -Year Door]]''; whenever Mario meets a village elder, they're behind the times and don't recognize him (to the annoyance of their younger relatives).
** Pennington quickly uses his detective skills to deduce that Mario is in fact, Luigi.
* In ''[[Mario and Luigi Bowsers Inside Story|Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story]]'', the heroes can't enter two high-class shops in the Mushroom Mall until they've proved that they're [[No Fame, No Wealth, No Service|the right sort of clientele]]... even though most inhabitants of the Mushroom Kingdom recognize Mario on sight.
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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