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== [[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 ==
* In the ''[[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 invokes 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".
== Theater ==
* Played with in ''[[Forbidden Broadway Volume]] 3'', where Carol Channing interrupts an actress impersonating her, asking for help on playing herself.
* In a German cabaret sketch from between the wars, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe returns from the afterlife to come to the aid of a student by taking an oral exam on Goethe in his stead. In this exam he answers questions with things he actually said, such as: "What is Goethe's most important work?" - "The ''Theory of Colours'', of course." Or he replies as Goethe probably would have: "What can you tell me about Goethe's relationship to Frau von Stein?" - "That's nobody's business!" So of course he fails the exam.
== Video Games ==
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