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* ''[[Detroit Metal City]]'' does this trope at least once, with Negishi having to switch between eating cake with Aizawa and being Krauser for a new album release.

 

* Done in the pages of ''[[Suicide Squad]]'' where Captain Boomerang starts using the identity of Mirror Master, forcing him to rapidly change in and out of costumes to hide his second identity from his teammates.

 

=== Film ===

* In the second book of ''[[Dork Diaries]]'', Nikki, the protagonist, is meant to be doing three different things at the same time: hang out with her best friends at the Halloween dance (dressed as a trash bag), be on a date with her crush at the Halloween dance (dressed as Juliet) and be helping out at her little sister's ballet class Halloween party (dressed as a giant rat).

 

* Seen in the ''[[Blackadder]]'' episode "Beer," where Edmund winds up scheduling a dinner with his Ultra-Puritan relatives and a [[Drinking Contest|drinking party]] with Lord Melchett's buddies at the same time, down the hall from each other. At one point he returns to the Puritan dinner table without removing the fake comedy breasts he was wearing at the drinking competition ("you appear to be wearing ''devil's dumplings!''") and has to pass them off as earmuffs. He also has to explain why one of the guests from the drinking contest burst into the room yelling "Great booze up!!!" Then the Queen shows up and things get really crazy.

** In Edmund's defense, ''he'' didn't schedule the drinking party, the Queen did. And you [[Off with His Head|don't say no to Queenie]].

* In the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' episode "Sweet and Elite", Rarity has to constantly switch between going to her friend's birthday party and a rich stallion's garden party. Notably, this sequence is mercifully condensed into a montage that lasts less than a minute.

* In the ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' episode "Run, Candace Run", Candace ends up having to volunteer to read to kids at the library with her mother on the same day she accepted an invitation to Jeremy's family reunion, and uses a pair of [[Super Speed]] boots developed by her brothers to try and be in two places at once.

 

=== Real Life ===

* The Roman general Gaius Marius did this is in his last few weeks with two diplomatic delegations, feigning bouts of dysentery in order to rush from one end of his house to the other. It worked, but didn't help him much; he died quite soon afterwards and was in no real position to oppose a returning Sulla anyway.

* In one of his ''[[Dilbert]]'' books Scott Adams gives the example of a man who had received simultaneous job offers from two firms in the same office building. He accepted both, and negotiated that he would start at 8 am in one firm and 9 am in the other. He'd go into the first firm at 8, log onto his computer and so on, then at 9 he'd claim to have a meeting, go to the other firm, log on there, work for an hour or so, then go back to the first firm... and so. In this manner, he managed to draw two paycheck for several months, until one day there was a fire alarm and he had to figure out which group of workers to stand with...

 

== Blowing it off completely ==