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Line 8: {{examples}} == [[Film]] == * ''[[The Hard Way]]'': An action movie from 1991 starring [[Michael J. Fox]] and James Woods, in which an action movie star shadows a police detective for research so he will be taken more seriously as an actor. * ''[[Into The Sun]]'', starring Micheal Pare and Anthony Micheal Hall, had a Hollywood actor shadowing a fighter pilot stationed in the Middle East to "get a feel" for being a fighter pilot. The actor gets to learn far more than he planned to when the plane he is riding with the fighter pilot in unexpectedly gets into a dogfight and is shot down, forcing the two to help each other survive and escape. * In ''[[My Favorite Year]]'' there's a movie actor who prepares for his roles by imitating real people. In one scene he's sitting in on a discussion between a Mafia don and some movie exec, and the don is getting irritated by the actor constantly imitating his mannerisms. Line 26: * In ''[[Monk]]'' the titular detective had also an actor following him around. * On ''[[News Radio]]'' [[James Caan]] meets with Bill to research for a role as a newscaster. Bill tries too hard to suck up to him, while Caan becomes increasingly fascinated with Matthew instead. * The ''[[Sledge Hammer!]]'' episode ''Hammer gets Nailed'' had Hammer and Dori being followed not by an actor but by a TV reporter for research. * ''[[Tequila And Bonetti]]'' had one episode with that premise. * ''[[The X -Files]]'' episode "Hollywood A.D." did this with a movie director instead of actors following Mulder and Scully on an investigation. * ''[[~~Forever Knight (TV)\|~~Forever Knight]]'': In "Amateur Night," an actress shadows police detectives Nick and Schanke to research for a movie role. She ends up getting too involved in the case, putting herself and others in danger. In a humorous parallel, Schanke learns more about the movie business and decides he wants to purse an acting career. * ''[[Sue Thomas: FB F.B.Eye ~~(TV)~~\|Sue Thomas FB Eye]]'': In the two-parter "The Actor" and "Planes, Trains & Automobiles," the movie star Adam Kinsey shadows FBI agents as they investigate a possible terrorist threat. He constantly questions their actions, and the one time they agree to his request (cuffing a suspect's hands in front rather than behind her back) it ends badly (she is now able to take poison and kill herself). Reinforces the show's usual [[An Aesop\|Aesop]] about how law enforcement knows best and is doing the right thing, even if their reasoning is not readily apparent to an outsider. * [[CSI]] "I Like To Watch" had a TV crew following the ~~[[CS Is]]~~CSIs. It even made a joke about the actual show, something about "beatiful people solving crimes" being a good idea for a show. == [[Western Animation]] == * ''[[The Simpsons (~~Animation~~animation)\|The Simpsons]]'': In one episode, James Woods researches the job of a Kwik-E-Mart employee as a reference to ''The Hard Way''. Another episode had Mr. Burns hire [[Michael Caine]] to impersonate Homer in order to convince Bart that he (Homer) didn't love him (Bart) any more. Later in the episode Homer [[Brick Joke\|mentions]] that Caine had followed him around trying to get a handle on his character. Line 46: [[Category:Crime and Punishment Tropes]] [[Category:Plots]] [[Category:~~Tag Along Actor~~{{PAGENAME}}]]