History PlayingWith / ActingUnnatural

* '''Exploited''': The criminal realizes the presence of Bob and Alice, so he tries to run away before they catch him.

* '''Averted''': Alice and Bob try to act natural, and do so perfectly.

** Alice and Bob act mostly natural, but there is something odd about it.

** Alice and Bob act mostly natural, but there is [[UncannyValley something odd about it]].

** Bob and Alice are so good at it they manage to take it to RefugeInAudacity levels. They walk right into secure areas and take [[{{MacGuffin}} the prototypes]] while not even remotely plausibly dressed all while making casual but vague work-related conversation. Fifteen minutes after they have left the veteran special operative guards do a DoubleTake.

* '''Parodied''': Alice and Bob ''literally'' try to act natural, by walking on all fours and chewing grass, like cows.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Their result of acting natural is filled with 'natural' acts and 'unnatural' acts.

* '''Invoked''': Bob and Alice try to act natural (and fail) in order to make the criminal less careful.

* '''Discussed''': "If this is some kind of comedy movie or something, trying to act natural just makes us look outrageously stupid, right? "
* '''Conversed''': "In these kinds of shows, they ''always'' fail to act natural."

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* '''Parodied''': Alice and Bob ''literally'' try to act natural, by walking on four legs and chewing grass, like cows.

* '''Averted''': Alice and Bob try to act natural, and does so perfectly.

* '''Straight''': Bob and Alice are trying to track down Alice's StalkerWithACrush. They try to act natural, but instead, they [[NotSoInnocentWhistle whistle]] and walk in such an exaggerated way, which makes the stalker suspicious.
* '''Exaggerated''': Bob and Alice try to act natural, but instead they start to talk gibberish, read a newspaper upside-down and fiddle with their hands. The stalker gets suspicious, obviously.

* '''Invoked''': Bob and Alice try to act natural (and fail) in order to make the stalker less careful.
* '''Exploited''': The stalker realizes the presence of Bob and Alice, so he tries to run away.

* '''Downplayed''': Alice and Bob try to act natural, and they do it perfectly, except when Alice mentions whether they have acted right or not.

** They're impersonating people whose "natural" behavior is actually wacky.

* '''Justified''': Bob and Alice are not good actors.

* '''Inverted''': Bob and Alice try to act ''unnatural'', instead they act very natural and normal.

* '''Played For Laughs''': Almost always is.

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