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* The Granada TV production of ''[[Sherlock Holmes]]'' mostly manages to avoid this trope; Holmes' disguises tend to be fairly convincing. Once in a while they go overboard: in "The Final Problem", Watson boards a train and sits down in his cabin opposite a man with an unrealistically long nose and a frizz of grey hair under an enormous hat, and doesn't realize it's Holmes until Holmes addresses him by name. When you get a good look at him in the moment before he takes off the disguise, you wonder how anyone could look at him and ''not'' think "that's a bloke in a costume".

* Reality TV example: In a season premiere of ''[[Hell's Kitchen|Hells Kitchen]]'', Ramsey wanted to see what the contestants were like before he met them. So he put on a wig, a fake nose, and some shabbier clothes and was on the bus with the real contestants. Nobody caught on.

* ''[[Leverage]]'' features this often when [[Manipulative Bitch|Sophie]] is running her part. Lampshaded and almost subverted in "The Rashomon Job" when a museum head of security notes that a duchess in the main hall bears a striking resemblance to one of the lab girls (both are Sophie's acts, one in a slinky evening gown with her usual accent, and the other in a white lab coat with what sounds like a Jersey accent) and almost seems to make the connection.

** Parker often does this as well but [[No Social Skills|isn't as good with the accent bit]], though she more frequently is seen using wigs than Sophie. She generally also uses [[Beneath Notice]] as well as a part of her infiltrations, occasionally switching to [[Show Some Leg]].

* In [[iCarly]], the main character's brother Spencer tends to do this a lot. In fact, he does it so much that one episode, he insists that he be the one who dresses up as a woman and, when the main characters agree, exclaims

{{quote|"I'll go get my boobs!"}}

 

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