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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 Rock|Thirty Rock]]'', Jenna entered a Jenna Maroney impersonation contest. She came in fourth.
* 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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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* In theThe ''[[Star Wars]]'' d20 adventure ''Masquerade'' has the players infiltrate a costume party where a ransom exchange is to take place. The adventure recommends any Jedi [[For Halloween I Am Going as Myself|going as a Jedi]] be subjected to this. The adventure also invokesincludes it with background extras that include "a trio of Ithorians, dressed in shabby Ithorian costumes in order to appear as though they are other than what they appear to be; a Trandoshan in a shabby Ithorian costume, who seems to be trying to look like an Ithorian who is trying to look like an Ithorian".
 
== [[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.
* Fellow ''Harry Potter'' star [[Emma Watson]] still{{when}} frequently receives "You look like Hermione" comments from people who don't believe she could actually ''be'' "Hermione".
 
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