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Mar 20th 2021 at 11:10:47 AM •••

Previous Trope Repair Shop thread: Duplicate Trope, started by Leaper on Apr 22nd 2013 at 8:56:28 PM

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

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Mar 20th 2021 at 10:39:28 AM •••

Previous Trope Repair Shop thread: Unclear Description, started by eroock on Aug 5th 2014 at 1:20:41 AM

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

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Mar 20th 2021 at 8:17:21 AM •••

Previous Trope Repair Shop thread: Misused, started by Berrenta on Sep 22nd 2017 at 2:14:22 AM

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

RobertG Since: May, 2014

May 24th 2014 at 11:14:48 PM •••

How about casting solely for the purpose of using someone's name in the credits to refer to some famous person with the same name, where that person has some thematic relationship to the work? I suspect that was done for the TV movie of "The Lathe of Heaven" when they cast a Jane Roberts in a bit part. Another Jane Roberts was the author of the Seth books, which would have a thematic relationship to "The Lathe of Heaven".

If this is done, this is clearly a type of Casting Gag, but not one fitting the specific description of any subtype, nor actually fitting the description of the general type. That is, it fits in spirit but not in letter without some broadening of the general description.

Wereboar Wereboar Since: Jul, 2011

Wereboar

Jun 17th 2012 at 4:37:55 PM •••

A lot of movie examples are in fact cases of Actor Allusion. I wonder if moving them to the proper page and deleting them from here would be considered a vandalism.

WolfInIvy Since: Jul, 2012

May 28th 2012 at 10:52:58 AM •••

Another example from "Cold Case"...

In an episode called "Willcommen" singer Adam Pascal portrays a shy taxi driver auditioning for a role with a community theatre production of "Cabaret"... Adam Pascal is actually a rather well-known in musical theatre circles actor/singer in the musical "Rent."

Can we say... you look surprisingly like someone famous!

DokEnkephalin Since: Jan, 2001

Jun 25th 2011 at 7:11:14 PM •••

I read the description and though I understood it, then the examples left me doubtful before the article scrolled off the page. What is this about again, and what are these things doing here?

Subjectively, there's a fine line between a Troll and someone who lives just to piss you off.

94.210.249.197 Since: Dec, 1969

Jun 16th 2010 at 11:58:25 PM •••

What!? No real life examples?

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Evdog Since: May, 2011

Jun 25th 2011 at 4:48:07 AM •••

Is there a trope for "casting actor X in the role of character Y, but everybody knows that they are really casting actor X"?

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