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1. The [[Overly Long Gag|excessively elaborate]] secret handshake is noticed by everyone, advertising rather than concealing the secret.
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2. The odd ritual is ''not'' noticed, to the point where [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight|the lack of attention]] becomes absurd in itself.
Note that the
A subtrope of [[Handshake Substitute]].
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* In the [[Magic Kingdom of Landover]] book ''A Princess of Landover'', the two G'home Gnomes have an elaborate secret handshake so that no one else can pretend to be them (leading the titular princess to wonder why anyone would ''want'' [[Butt Monkey|to be them]]).
* In ''[[Discworld/Guards Guards|Guards Guards]]'' the main villain creates a secret society made up from people who would be rejected from any other secret society "the sort to dislocate their fingers with even the simplest secret handshake".
* The Freemason [[Expy
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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** This one was used as a [[Shout-Out]] in ''Babylon5'', as a means of identifying the conspirators behind the assassination of President Santiago.
* ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' Episode 17 had two examples of "Masonic" handshakes.
* On an episode of ''[[Psych]]'', Shawn manages to fake one of
{{quote|'''Shawn''': Hold it, fold it, skim it! Crouching tiger, zookeeper's boy, hairdresser on fire, girlfriend in a coma, slap it on a biscuit.}}
* Series 4 of ''Torchwood'' shows an example of this in a flash back to Captain Jack's life in the 20s, where a trio of men each grasp another's wrist with their hand, forming a triangle between them.
* In ''My Hero'', Ultronians perform a single wave of their elbows directed towards each other as a greeting, joined with the phrase "zneet", or sometimes "zneet znadder zneet".
* In ''[[Kamen Rider Fourze]]'', Gentaro and Yuki had a Secret Handshake back in grade school, which they quickly bring into their Kamen Rider Club.<ref>For the curious, it's a handshake, reverse hand grip, fist tap from top, then bottom, then a fist bump</ref>
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
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** In another episode, another billionaire asks Mr Burns to perform the "billionnaire's secret handshake". Something very acrobatic ensues.
*** The handshake ended with their combined hands forming a $.
* Bender proves he was part of the Robot House Fraternity in ''[[Futurama]]'' with this. His version is described as "close enough"
* In one episode of ''[[Sonic Sat AM]]'', Robotnik replaces Sally with a robot duplicate. It's good enough to pass muster for most of the episode, but when it fails to perform the secret handshake, Sonic realizes something's up.
* On ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'', Lucius does this with a mechanical hand as a means of getting into his vault.
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* Basically any secret society will have a form of greeting for fellow members, or a way of testing to see if a new arrival is one. The Free Masons are the secret society that's best-known and there have been stories about what their
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