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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'': "[[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/S3 E10 Blink|Blink]] -
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'': "[[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/S3 E10 Blink|Blink]] -
{{quote| '''Larry Nightingale''': Me and the guys are trying to work out the other half. <br />
{{quote|'''Larry Nightingale''': Me and the guys are trying to work out the other half.
'''Sally Sparrow''': When you say "you and the guys", you mean the internet, don't you? <br />
'''Sally Sparrow''': When you say "you and the guys", you mean the internet, don't you?
'''Larry Nightingale''': How'd you know? <br />
'''Larry Nightingale''': How'd you know?
'''Sally Sparrow''': Spooky, isn't it? }}
'''Sally Sparrow''': Spooky, isn't it? }}
** From the [[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/S1 E1 Rose|first episode of the revival]]: "''She''? She's read a website about the Doctor and she's a ''she''?"
** From the [[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/S1 E1 Rose|first episode of the revival]]: "''She''? She's read a website about the Doctor and she's a ''she''?"
** To be fair, this was more likely to be a reference to old Doctor Who fandom (especially the online fandom) being very, very male-dominated. You could go to a convention with 300 people and count the women with the fingers of one hand.
** To be fair, this was more likely to be a reference to old Doctor Who fandom (especially the online fandom) being very, very male-dominated. You could go to a convention with 300 people and count the women with the fingers of one hand.
* ''[[Psych]]'': Poker? I Hardly Know Her! - Shawn and Gus (well, mostly Shawn, but it was Gus' account) track down a guy by chatting him up online while pretending to be a girl, then asking to meet him. When they meet, the guy says that he should have known they weren't really a girl.
* ''[[Psych]]'': Poker? I Hardly Know Her! - Shawn and Gus (well, mostly Shawn, but it was Gus' account) track down a guy by chatting him up online while pretending to be a girl, then asking to meet him. When they meet, the guy says that he should have known they weren't really a girl.
{{quote| "All girls on the internet are guys. Except for you, who are actually two guys..."}}
{{quote|"All girls on the internet are guys. Except for you, who are actually two guys..."}}
* On ''[[NCIS]]'', McGee is very taken with a woman he's met in his online gaming program, the one where he's an elf lord. DiNozzo confides to Ziva that it's really ''him,'' messing with "Probie" and trying to teach him a lesson that women online aren't to be trusted. It's then subverted when McGee, tipped off thanks to Ziva, turns the prank around on Tony by [[Pulling the Thread]] and pretending to be getting a little ''too'' serious about the nonexistent woman, to Tony's great consternation.
* On ''[[NCIS]]'', McGee is very taken with a woman he's met in his online gaming program, the one where he's an elf lord. DiNozzo confides to Ziva that it's really ''him,'' messing with "Probie" and trying to teach him a lesson that women online aren't to be trusted. It's then subverted when McGee, tipped off thanks to Ziva, turns the prank around on Tony by [[Pulling the Thread]] and pretending to be getting a little ''too'' serious about the nonexistent woman, to Tony's great consternation.
* Ted in [[How I Met Your Mother]] was a [[GIRL]] playing [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf4qTxALRKU WOW]. Also inverted, as at one point he met a Girl In Real Life playing a male character.
* Ted in [[How I Met Your Mother]] was a [[GIRL]] playing [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf4qTxALRKU WOW]. Also inverted, as at one point he met a Girl In Real Life playing a male character.
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* In ''[[Dino Squad]]'', Buzz gets hooked to an online dino game. The [[Big Bad]] finds out and, using various technological means, [http://spectrumofmadness.com/?p=214 poses as a teenage girl who plays alongside of Buzz] and getting to know him a bit. Ultimately, Buzz is lured to an abandoned house after the "girl" shouts that a dinosaur monster is attacking.
* In ''[[Dino Squad]]'', Buzz gets hooked to an online dino game. The [[Big Bad]] finds out and, using various technological means, [http://spectrumofmadness.com/?p=214 poses as a teenage girl who plays alongside of Buzz] and getting to know him a bit. Ultimately, Buzz is lured to an abandoned house after the "girl" shouts that a dinosaur monster is attacking.
* In [[Undergrads]], Gimpy (hacker alias G-Prime) catches another hacker hacking his computer. He automatically assumes this to me a male hacker until her name and logo comes up: She-Prime. He's initially freaked out.
* In [[Undergrads]], Gimpy (hacker alias G-Prime) catches another hacker hacking his computer. He automatically assumes this to me a male hacker until her name and logo comes up: She-Prime. He's initially freaked out.
{{quote| '''Gimpy''': Whoever did this is a man of skill! A man of cunning!<br />
{{quote|'''Gimpy''': Whoever did this is a man of skill! A man of cunning!
She Prime logo comes up.<br />
She Prime logo comes up.
'''Gimpy''': A... A ''girl''? A '''girl'''!? }}
'''Gimpy''': A... A ''girl''? A '''girl'''!? }}
* Kyle from ''[[South Park]]'' plays as female fire mage in WOW in "Make Love Not Warcraft".
* Kyle from ''[[South Park]]'' plays as female fire mage in WOW in "Make Love Not Warcraft".
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