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* Arguably originated by [[Jerry Lawler]], Jimmy Hart, and Andy Kaufman, with the long-running Lawler/Kaufman feud. Qualifies as a [[Worked Shoot]] because some of the stunts Andy and Jerry pulled (like getting into a fight on the set of David Letterman's show) managed to convince a lot of people who weren't usually fooled into believing [[Kayfabe]].
** This was revisited during the filming of Kaufman biopic ''Man on the Moon'', with Lawler and [[Jim Carrey]] getting into a fistfight on-set. As the story was told, Carrey had gone into method-actor mode, would only answer to "Andy" on the set, and started picking fights with Lawler in order to get into Kaufman's head. This didn't spill over into the wrestling ring, unlike most worked shoots, but it did get a lot of airtime on [[WWE]] programming.
*** While Carrey was doing publicity for ''[[Man
** Really, most of Kaufman's career consisted of Worked Shoots, like faking a British accent and reading ''The Great Gatsby'' instead of performing his comedy routine because he was "sick of your lowbrow American humor."
*** The [http://andykaufman.jvlnet.com/fridays.htm night he hosted] ''Fridays'' was another such moment.
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* In 1997, [[WWE]]'s [[Shawn Michaels]] engaged in a series of "unscripted" incidents, including an entire tirade against [[The Undertaker]] that was edited out of a later RAW broadcast. Rumors flew left and right that Michaels was trying to get himself fired in order to go to rival WCW and join his friends [[Scott Hall]] and [[Kevin Nash]] in the [[New World Order|nWo]]; in fact, the entire thing was a set-up to the birth of [[D Generation X]].
** This particular incident arose first as a dare by a fellow wrestler (and real life friend of Taker), and then Shawn decided to have some fun. The guy conducting the interview, [[Jim Ross]], was none too happy about it, but Undertaker took it better.
* Also in WWE, [[Matt Hardy]] discovered that his girlfriend [[Lita]] was cheating on him with fellow wrestler [[Edge]], and when he started to talk publicly about it, he was unceremoniously fired. After he slowly built a rabid fanbase using the sympathy from this incident on the internet, he suddenly began appearing on WWE RAW again, jumping over the barricade and attacking Edge, then being carried out by security while screaming things like, "I thought you were my friend, Johnny Ace!" (a reference to WWE executive John "Johnny Ace" Laurinaitis). Soon enough, the truth came out; Matt had been re-hired, and plans were in place for a storyline based on the problems between Matt and Edge (even though this meant [[Retcon|Ret Conning]] a year's worth of storylines in which Lita was [[Kane (
* [[Joey Styles]]'s rant on sports entertainment before "quitting" the commentating job on Raw was a working shoot. This became more obvious as he later became the commentator for the WWE revival for ECW and there was no way in Hell [[Vince McMahon]] would have let him on TV if he legitimately bashed him and his whole company off the cuff on live TV.
* Chaz Warrington was allowed to drop his horrible Beaver Cleavage gimmick via worked shoot. While pretending to cry to his mother because he didn't want to wrestle "some guy named Meat", he abruptly said "I can't do this" and walked off screen. Marianna yelled "Chaz, we're live!" and then the feed cut abruptly to [[Jim Ross]] and [[Jerry Lawler]], who apologized for the "creative differences" and said the match wouldn't take place.
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** This trope was used in the ''Joe Shmoe'' show on [[Spike TV]]. The reality show was completely rigged except for the titular 'Joe' who is made to believe that he is in an over-the-top reality show. Everyone else are actors who try to make him believe that what is happening is real. This fails in season two so they recruit the female 'Joe' who figured it out as part of the team and bring in a new 'Joe'.
* Back in the 50s, it was an open secret among the TV business that game shows were rigged to favor the most desirable contestant. Many suspected it, in the exact same way people today suspect Reality TV is rigged (see above), but it was part [[They Just Didn't Care]] and they didn't want to believe it. Once the secret went public, and advertisers started losing sales because people didn't like dishonesty, they stopped. Now, it's unlawful to rig a game show.
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* ''[[Man vs. Wild]]'' tries hard to make it look like Bear Grylls is really trying to survive in the wild. Of course, Grylls is never in any kind of real danger and many events he encounters during an episode, while certainly possible in that location, are orchestrated.
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* In a particularly strange non-wrestling example, the ''Coldsnap'' expansion for the ''[[Magic:
** Mark Rosewater himself later stated that the announcement actually came off as a bit more believable than intended, and that the joke was always supposed to be blatantly obvious. He attributed this to choosing a columnist not known for writing silly stuff (Randy Buehler) to break the news rather than doing it himself (since everyone knows he writes silly stuff all the time), as well as the basic story being too plausible. Afterwards, he rewrote the announcement [http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/mr214b in his own style].
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