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So, you're a [[Rich Idiot With No Day Job]], but you're getting a little bored with your idle life of lounging and spending. So what do you do? Pretend to be poor, of course! After all, if so many people are doing it, it can't be so hard!
Compare [[King Incognito]], [[Secretly Wealthy]], [[Prince and Pauper]] and [[Bourgeois Bohemian]]. A character doing this may or may not be [[Rich in Dollars, Poor In Sense]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei]]'', Rin poses as an [[Ordinary High School Student|ordinary public high school student]] despite being wealthy enough to do whatever she wants.
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* 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)|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."
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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