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* An episode of ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' sees him saddled with an outgoing new producer who undermines his psychiatric advice with folksy home wisdom, driving him up the wall. But of course [[PoorCommunicationKills he can't just tell her this]]; she happens to be black and he's [[EverythingIsRacist scared]] he'll be MistakenForRacist. Niles offers to roleplay the conversation with him, and Frasier's impression of a SassyBlackWoman (plus a good measure of UncleTomfoolery) is utterly {{Cringe|Comedy}}-inducing (not to mention more racist than anything he'd have been likely to say to her face).

* ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'': In "Team Tipton" a coach suggests this to the hotel employees as part of a team building exercise.

* In TheFilmOfTheBook ''Film/NeverLetMeGo'', Hailsham students are shown doing a role-playing exercise to teach them to order things in a cafe. Much awkwardness ensues. And apparently the lesson didn't take, since the (now grow up) characters are shown in a later scene being struck dumb when asked for their order by a waitress in a real cafe.

This describes any number of situations where characters play a role, generally to practice for a real life situation. HilarityEnsues.

* In ''Manga/InuYasha'', Kagome's little brother Sota has a crush on a girl in his class. He asks Inu-Yasha to let him practice on him, and Inu-Yasha reluctantly agrees. [[HilarityEnsues Then Kagome walks in.]]

* In ''Literature/{{Havemercy}}'', Thom attempts to instill manners in the Airmen by setting up a roleplaying game in which they have to put themselves in the shoes of people they've wronged. Needless to say, HilarityEnsues.

* ''Series/TheItCrowd'': In "From Hell", Roy attempts to teach Moss how to deal with a group of bullies through role play. Needless to say HilarityEnsues.

* In one episode of ''Series/OrphanBlack'', Allison gets involved in a counselling session with her husband Donnie that requires the two of them to role play as one another to better understand each other. But of course, it isn't actually Allison but Sarah pretending to be her who didn't realise she'd be required to do this. The confusion factor of having to pretend to be Allison pretending to be Donnie (whom she has never met) is bad enough she can't manage to get a single believable line out. (Of course, since nobody knows about the clones it just looks as though Allison is behaving very oddly.)

--> '''Lois''' ''(in the role of Peter):'' " I'm Lois. I brake for yard sales but I don't let Peter buy anything he likes, like that Narraganset beer sign where the hot chick has 2 mugs for jugs. It was 8 freaking dollars and we have a dozen places to put it!''

This is by no means exclusive to romantic situations; role plays take place everywhere, from work to school to friend circles, or sometimes even [[KinkyRolePlay in the bedroom]]. It seems to happen most often when a plot requires a Group Therapy episode.

This is by no means exclusive to romantic situations; role plays take place everywhere, from work to school to friend circles. It seems to happen most often when a plot requires a Group Therapy episode.

* In the ''Series/{{Friends}}'' episode "TheOneWith The Stoned Guy", Ross doesn't know how to talk dirty to his new girlfriend, so he practices with Joey, leading to a HoYay NotWhatItLooksLike moment when Chandler walks in on them.

* Early on in ''MyLoveStory'', Suna has Rinko tell him what she wants to say to Takeo - as Suna planned, she immediately starts passionately declaring her love. Also as Suna planned, Takeo is hiding beneath the bed Riko is sitting on the whole time, and agrees to go out with her as soon as he can actually accept that it really happened.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheReplacements'' has Gordo trying to teach Dick how to treat women so he asks Dick to pretend that him is K.

-->'''Dick''': Oh Sorry K, I was staring at your moustache, [[CompletelyMissingThePoint it would tickle me?]]

* ''[[Series/ThirtyRock 30 Rock]]'' has one of the NBC psychologists having Tracy doing a role-playing exercise to deal with his [[DisappearedDad daddy issues]]. The psychologist has Tracy talk to the chair like it's his dad. Tracy has trouble imagining that the chair is his dad, so [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Jack pretends to be Tracy's dad]]. It goes downhill fast.

* ''WesternAnimation/LifeWithLouie'' does this, when Andy thinks about asking his boss for a pay rise. Ora convinces him to try with Louie. Of course, it turned into a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}:

* In the 2005 film version of ''Film/PrideAndPrejudice'', Mr. Bingley practices proposing to Jane Bennett with Mr. Darcy in the role of Jane. Darcy generally doesn't get farther than answering "Mr. Bingley" before Bingley breaks off and tries another approach.

* ''[[Series/ThirtyRock 30 Rock]]'' has one of the NBC psychologists having Tracy doing a role-playing exercise to deal with his [[DisappearedDad daddy issues]]. The psychologist has Tracy talk to the chair like it's his dad. Tracy has trouble imagining that the chair is his dad, so [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Jack pretends to be Tracy's dad]]. It goes downhill fast.

* ''WesternAnimation/LifeWithLouie'' does this, when Andy thinks about asking his boss for a pay rise. Ora convinces him to try with Louie. Of course, it turned into CrowningMomentOfFunny:

* In one episode of ''Series/OrphanBlack'', Allison gets involved in a counselling session with her husband Donnie that requires the two of them to role play as one another to better understand each other. But of course, it isn't actually Allison but Cosima pretending to be her who didn't realise she'd be required to do this. The confusion factor of having to pretend to be Allison pretending to be Donnie (whom she has never met) is bad enough she can't manage to get a single believable line out. (Of course, since nobody knows about the clones it just looks as though Allison is behaving very oddly.)

** In ''Kuala Lumpur'', Carolyn roleplays as various passengers to raise Arthur's stewarding skills from Very Bad to merely Bad. Arthur gets more and more confused and worked up, culminating in him delegating some tasks to the passengers, and shouting for everyone to SHUT UP! Carolyn says that wasn't even slightly the correct procedure ... but it's probably what she'd have done, so he's passed.

* In the ''Radio/CabinPressure'' episode "Ipswich", Dr. Duncan has Douglas roleplay as a nervous first officer trying to bring up a potential problem with an intimidating captain. As Douglas is a very confident first officer and Martin is not remotely an intimidating captain, snark ensues.