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Line 1: {{trope}} {{quote\|''I want to live like common people,''~~<br />~~ ''I want to do whatever common people do.''\|Pulp, ''"Common People"''}} Line 9: {{examples}} == [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] == * In ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou ~~Sensei~~-sensei]]'', Rin poses as an [[Ordinary High School Student\|ordinary public high school student]] despite being wealthy enough to do whatever she wants. ** Let's not forget that her brother Nozomu doesn't have any reason to be a teacher. * The idle rich have never even heard of instant coffee crystals in ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]''. One of them tries it and is delighted. "So this is why commoners drink it all the time!" Line 17: * Bruce does this in ''[[The Dark Knight Saga\|Batman Begins]].'' * In Rodgers and Hammerstein's ''Cinderella'', this is how the prince and Cinderella meet for the first time. {{spoiler\|Most of the conversation gets a [[Meaningful Echo]] at the end.}} * In ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)\|Aladdin]]'', Jasmine tries this, and very quickly learns that she knows nothing about life on the streets. Later, when she sees through Aladdin's "Prince Ali" disguise, Aladdin claims that he's a prince who makes a habit of going about the streets dressed as a commoner. == [[Literature]] == Line 25: == [[Music]] == * [[Pulp (~~Music~~band)\|Pulp]]'s "Common People" (the page quote) describes a student from Greece who does this - and then [[Take That\|skewers her mercilessly for thinking "that poor is cool"]]: {{quote\| ''And still you'll never get it right,''~~<br />~~ '''cause when you're laying in bed at night''~~<br />~~ ''watching roaches climb the wall,''~~<br />~~ ''if you called your dad he could stop it all, yeah.''~~<br />~~ ''You'll never live like common people.''~~<br />~~ ''You'll never do whatever common people do.''~~<br />~~ ''You'll never fail like common people.''~~<br />~~ ''You'll never watch your life slide out of view,''~~<br />~~ ''and dance, and drink, and screw,''~~<br />~~ ''because there's nothing else to do.'' }} == [[Theater]] == * Arthur Shnitzler's "The Little Comedy" (which was the basis for the first act of [[The Musical]] ''Romance / Romance''): Two rich folk pretend to be poor to find love with someone real- they find each other, then have to nobly break it off because they're in love, and they can't get out of their web of lies. Then they later meet each other as themselves at a party. * In ''[[Camelot (~~Theatre~~theatre)\|Camelot]]'', King Arthur meets Guenevere in this way, intending to avoid an [[Arranged Marriage]] to her. It turns out to be a [[Perfectly Arranged Marriage]], but all the same they find themselves singing "What Do The Simple Folk Do?" in the second act. * Miss Dorothy {{spoiler\|and Jimmy}} does this in ''[[Thoroughly Modern Millie]]''. She even has an [["I Want" Song]] about it, titled "How The Other Half Lives."