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* Used in ''[[The Amanda Show]]'' on ''[[Show Within a Show|Moody's Point]]''; the title character was apparently switched at birth with a child of circus performers, which the doctor [[Rule of Funny|explains casually to the family while eating a snack.]] Of course, [[Cut Short|the other side is never resolved]] [[No Ending|but this was probably intentional.]] |
* Used in ''[[The Amanda Show]]'' on ''[[Show Within a Show|Moody's Point]]''; the title character was apparently switched at birth with a child of circus performers, which the doctor [[Rule of Funny|explains casually to the family while eating a snack.]] Of course, [[Cut Short|the other side is never resolved]] [[No Ending|but this was probably intentional.]] |
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* Subverted in an episode of ''[[Kenan and Kel]]'', in which Kenan Rockmore thinks that he was switched at birth with another baby born at the same time named Kevin Rockmore. At the end, [[The Reveal|the other Rockmores are shown to be Asian-American.]] |
* Subverted in an episode of ''[[Kenan and Kel]]'', in which Kenan Rockmore thinks that he was switched at birth with another baby born at the same time named Kevin Rockmore. At the end, [[The Reveal|the other Rockmores are shown to be Asian-American.]] |
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* This is the central hook to the [[ABC Family]] melodrama ''[[Switched at Birth]]'' ([[Captain Obvious|obviously]]), with a well-to-do Caucasian family finding out after sixteen years that their daughter was switched at birth with the daughter of a single Puerto Rican hairdresser. |
* This is the central hook to the [[ABC Family]] melodrama ''[[Switched at Birth (TV series)|Switched at Birth]]'' ([[Captain Obvious|obviously]]), with a well-to-do Caucasian family finding out after sixteen years that their daughter was switched at birth with the daughter of a single Puerto Rican hairdresser. |
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* In ''[[Young Dracula]]'', Robin has a [[Changeling Fantasy]] that centres around the idea that he and Vlad were swapped at birth. They weren't, but Ingrid fakes a diary to convince everyone that they were. [[Hilarity Ensues]]. |
* In ''[[Young Dracula]]'', Robin has a [[Changeling Fantasy]] that centres around the idea that he and Vlad were swapped at birth. They weren't, but Ingrid fakes a diary to convince everyone that they were. [[Hilarity Ensues]]. |
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== [[Newspaper Comics]] == |
== [[Newspaper Comics]] == |
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* [[Calvin and Hobbes |
* ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'': Calvin's dad has once commented about how he's certain that some nurse switched the basinettes. |
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== [[Theater]] == |
== [[Theater]] == |