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* King [[Forgotten Realms|Azoun IV]] on [http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/rl/20061101a his teleporting tour].
* [[Older Than Radio]] example: In ''[[The Masque Of The Red Death]]'' by [[Edgar Allan Poe]], the guests at the [[Masquerade Ball]] are shocked by the tastelessness one fellow displays by dressing as the incarnation of plague. Then {{spoiler|someone rips his mask off and finds there's [[The Blank|nothing underneath . . .]]}}
* [[Terry Pratchett]]'s [[Discworld]]:
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* In ''[[Thursday Next|Something Rotten]]'', [[Refugee From TV Land|Hamlet]] gets into an argument with a group of Shakespeare fans who challenge him to a contest of who can perform the best "To be or not to be" speech. Hamlet loses.
* Maurice Baring (a friend of [[G. K. Chesterton]] and Hilaire Belloc) loved this trope; his anthology ''Orpheus in Mayfair'' features it at least twice. One isn't quite this trope but it's definitely in the ballpark, the eponymous story: a Greek musician is hired to play "authentic Greek music" at a party, his first big break in a while, but then his son gets sick. He's desperate, and then Orpheus appears, and offers to cover for him. Of course, Orpheus' music—which could turn nymphs into trees with its beauty, mind — is too authentically Greek for them, and they don't like it. In another, a woman sells her soul to the devil to have Shakespeare attend one of her parties. He shows up, but, Shakespeare having been almost boringly ''normal'', he just makes small talk with the guests, and nobody even realizes who he is.
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* In ''[[The Hollows|The Outlaw Demon Wails]]'', Rachel inadvertently lines up for a costume contest and is told she was close, but "Rachel Morgan's hair isn't that frizzy." Despite that, she would probably have won had Trent not also been in line, looking like himself.
* In ''[[Bel Air Bambi and the Mall Rats]]'', one of Richard Peck's more obscure YA novels, there is a part near the end where the school delinquent/bully shows up to a casting call, to audition for the role of...you guessed it...the lead female delinquent/bully for an in universe movie based on the books plot; basically, she was auditioning to play herself. She is passed over for being way too-over-the-top for the role!
=== Periodicals ===▼
* Inverted in ''[[MAD]] Magazine'''s "A Mad Look at Batman", where the hero chases a crook into a masquerade party, and then walks out with first prize.▼
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
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* In ''[[The Suite Life of Zack and Cody]]'', London wasn't allowed back into her own party because she didn't have an invitation and tons of other girls had dressed up like her to get in the party.
** When the school performs ''[[High School Musical]]'' Maddie (Ashley Tisdale, who played Sharpay in the film) auditions for the role of Sharpay... and fails. Later on, to cover up the poor singing voice of London, who was cast as Sharpay, Maddie fakes her voice ''[[Singin' in the Rain|Singin in The Rain]]'' style.
** In the episode "The Ghost of Suite 613", Cody pranks his brother Zack by pretending that a tenant who died in Suite 613 was haunting him. However, when re-entering the room, both Cody and Zack see that one of the ghosts which haunted Zack was real.
* An episode of ''[[Taking The Falls]]'' implied that Elvis was still alive, and hiding out at Elvis Impersonator conventions.
* On ''[[30
* In the season 3 summer finale of ''[[Burn Notice]]'', Fiona's brother tells Michael (who is an American undercover as an Irishman) that his American accent is "dodgy".
* In the ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' episode "Hollywood Babylon", the [[Meddling Executive]] character assumes that the [[Deliberately Monochrome]] ghost he runs into on-set is an extra in body paint, and calls makeup because he thinks the noose marks on her neck would look better on camera if they were red.
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== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* One ''[[Beetle Bailey]]'' strip featured Sgt Snorkel getting irate about whichever of his soldiers he thought had dug a sloppy, totally unsatisfactory foxhole. As Sarge stomped away, a shocked-looking fox poked its head up from the hole.
▲== Periodicals ==
▲* Inverted in ''[[MAD]] Magazine'''s "A Mad Look at Batman", where the hero chases a crook into a masquerade party, and then walks out with first prize.
== [[Recorded and Stand Up Comedy]] ==
* In the 1960s, one of [[Woody Allen]]'s comedy routines was about him shooting a moose, which turns out to be unconscious rather than dead, and driving home with it. Realizing it's awake, he takes it to a costume party, claiming it's a couple in a moose suit ... which is precisely who wins the Best Costume award, for which the actual moose comes in second. (And that just sets up the punchline to the routine.)
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
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== [[Theatre]] ==
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* Claudia Christian of ''[[Babylon 5]]'' fame has at conventions often told the story of how she once tried to join an online forum about the show during its height, and was chased off for being an "obvious fake".
* Similarly, [[Evanna Lynch]]—Luna Lovegood in the ''[[Harry Potter (film)|Harry Potter]]'' films—recounts how she joined and posted "hello" messages in just about every online ''Potter'' fan forum she could find after she was cast, only to be ignored at best and mocked as an impostor at worst.
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