History Main / MinorWithFakeID

* Inverted on ''Series/BarRescue''. To prove his point that 18+ events are not worth the problems they cause with underage drinking, Jon has a 23-year old woman borrow her underage friend's ID and have security mark an X on her hand so the bartenders know she's underage, which washes of almost immediately.

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** Several episodes later, Hawk obtains one identifying him as 25 year old "Walter Hawkman" so he can buy booze for the Cobra Kai beach party. He thinks it's flawless, but it really only works because the cashier doesn't care about teens buying alcohol (in part due to Daniel getting his rent jacked up). When he tries using it at a restaurant in the second season opener, it doesn't work and the group has to settle for ordering a bunch of appetizers.

* ''Series/{{Monk}}'': A plot point in "Mr. Monk and the Buried Treasure". Troy Kroger and his friends find the dead body of a bank robber, and a map to where they think the robbery money is buried. Before enlisting Monk's help to track down the money, they even pick the robber's wallet and phone off him, with Troy's friends trying to use the guy's ID to buy beer at a minimart. The ruse doesn't work on the clerk ("There's no way you're 47," he says). Monk realizes what they've done after the police identify the dead robber and he learns the dead man's age.

** In the first season, Miguel gets beaten up by a GangOfBullies (and saved by Johnny) after he inadvertently ruins their plan to buy beer with fake [=IDs=] by mentioning to the shop owner he's friendly with that they go to school with him.
** Several episodes later, Eli obtains one identifying him as 25 year old "Walter Hawkman" so he can buy booze for the Cobra Kai beach party. He thinks it's flawless, but it really only works because the cashier doesn't care about teens buying alcohol. When he tries using it at a restaurant in the second season opener, it doesn't work and the group has to settle for ordering a bunch of appetizers.

* Wresting/{{ECW}}'s Wrestling/MassTransitIncident: The Gangstas (Wrestling/NewJack and Mustafa) [[WhatCouldHaveBeen were supposed to]] face [[Wrestling/TheDudleyBoys D-Von Dudley]] and Axl Rotten, but Axl no-showed. Eric Kulas, a seventeen-year-old kid with zero experience, showed up, lying about his age and about having been "trained" by Killer Kowalski, and offered to take Axl's place. He was billed as Mass Transit, a wrestling bus driver based on Ralph Kramden from ''Series/TheHoneymooners''. According to New Jack's episode of ''Series/DarkSideOfTheRing'', Kulas (who obviously lacked the knowledge of locker room etiquette) tried to lay out some of the match's progress (an action viewed as vastly overstepping his bounds), including suggesting that New Jack blade him. New Jack took offense to the jobber's impudence and [[{{Understatement}} took liberties]] that included slicing open his forehead with a scalpel and generally beating the hell out of him, prompting Kulas' father to yell, "Ring the fucking bell! He's seventeen!"

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* American Greetings has a birthday card whose outer cover states "You're 21 today!"; inside, it goes on "...that makes you what, 27 on that fake ID you've been using?"
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* When Helen from ''Webcomic/PennyAndAggie'' crosses to ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive'' and [[http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp03092010.shtml applies for a job at Nerdrotica]], she has a fake ID that says she's 19. Unfortunately, it also says she's male, and lived at 6969 Hermaphrodite Way, Duckburg. And the moral is "if you're gonna have a bully make your fake I.D., always check it first. I mean, uh, fake I.D.s are bad, kids."

* In ''Film/LittleWoods'', Deb acquires a fake ID in an attempt to get an abortion. [[spoiler:The secretary definitely notices the discrepancies, but allows her to go through with it anyway.]]

If questioned, the imposter may rely on a ConvenientlyUnverifiableCoverStory. If the quality of the forgery is so low that it would never fool anyone, or if the holder makes no attempt to hide the fact that it is fake, see BadgeGag. Can result in a CoverIdentityAnomaly.

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A minor obtains a fake ID, most often a driver's license, to hide the fact they are ReallySeventeenYearsOld in order to buy an age-restricted item, usually alcohol, or to enlist in the military.

Usually the identification is made by a forger, but sometimes it is stolen from an older sibling or an IdenticalStranger, or was issued by the government under false pretenses.

Can result in a CoverIdentityAnomaly. Can also be a PaperThinDisguise, depending on bad the ID looks and the plausibility of the identity. May rely on a ConvenientlyUnverifiableCoverStory.

* ''Film/SuperBad'': Fogell gets a dubious fake ID, a Hawaiian driver's license that just says "[=McLovin=]", to buy booze for a party. Somehow, this fools the clerk at the liquor store, and seemingly fools the two cops responding to the robbery that occurred as Fogell was buying alcohol, who even invite him to ride along with them, but they eventually reveal they knew it was fake all along and just wanted to have some fun and show him not all cops are assholes.

** Several episodes later, Eli obtains one identifying him as 25 year old "Walter Hawkman" so he can buy booze for the Cobra Kai beach party. He thinks it's flawless, but it really only works because the cashier doesn't care about teens buying alcohol.

* ''Webcomic/LatchkeyKingdom'' features the "Hillan License to Adventure and Fish". It shows Willa as being [[CharacterLevel level 5]], but she's scribbled on it so that it says 150 instead so that she can take higher level jobs.

** In [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E20BartOnTheRoad "Bart on the Road"]], during a hastily organized Take Your Kid to Work Day which sees Bart spend the day with his aunt(s) at the DMV, Bart makes a fake driver's license stating he is 25, rents a car and convinces Milhouse, Nelson and Martin to come with him to a World's Fair in Knoxville, TN (which was actually held in 1982).

* ''Film/BetterLuckTomorrow'': The gang all have fake IDs, which they use to buy liquor and go to casinos despite being 16-17. When the ID cards are called out as fake, they bribe the person checking it, which in one case involves giving a police officer in Vegas several hundred dollars.

** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E23MuchApuAboutNothing Much Apu About Nothing]]", Kearney tries to buy cigars and beer with a fake ID and assumed name. Apu recognizes Kearney immediately ([[BadLiar his claims of his "adultivity" didn't help]]), but is impressed by the ID's quality. Apu asks where he got it, to obtain forged citizenship papers to avoid deportation, in exchange for letting Kearney keep the food he was trying to shoplift at the same time. [[NegativeContinuity Oddly]], this was around the time when Kearney started being portrayed as [[HeldBackInSchool well-over drinking age despite being in elementary school]].

* The subject of the song "David Ashley Parker from Powder Springs" by Travis Denning, which is about a young man who acquires a fake ID with that name on it. The song is based on a true story, and the eponymous David Ashley Parker is a real person.

** In one episode, Homer sings a version of "It Was a Very Good Year" by Frank Sinatra, changing the lyrics to "When I was 17, I drank some very good beer, I drank some very good beer I purchased with a fake ID, my name was Brian [=McGee=]..."
** In "Much Apu About Nothing", Kearney tries to buy cigars and beer with a fake ID and assumed name. Apu recognizes Kearney immediately ([[BadLiar his claims of his "adultivity" didn't help]]), but is impressed by the ID's quality. Apu asks where he got it, to obtain forged citizenship papers to avoid deportation, in exchange for letting Kearney keep the food he was trying to shoplift at the same time. [[NegativeContinuity Oddly]], this was around the time when Kearney started being portrayed as [[HeldBackInSchool well-over drinking age despite being in elementary school]].

* The first episode of ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' has an obviously underage kid (who looks about 12) attempting to by a beer using a [[PhonyVeteran military ID]] that says he's 38.