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10	[-[[caption-width-right:350:[[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor "I wish I could switch places with her, for just one day..."]]]]-]
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12	->'''''Body Switch Movie:'''''\
13	''The brain of one character somehow finds itself in the body of another. Requires actors to confront an actor's nightmare, i.e., acting as if they were another actor.''
14	-->-- ''[[Creator/RogerEbert Ebert's Glossary of Movie Terms]]''
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16	The most benign subtrope of BodySnatcher: two or more characters swap bodies (or, equally, swap minds) by some form of magic or AppliedPhlebotinum. Typically, a [[LiteralTransformativeExperience deeper appreciation of the other's life is attained]]. Named for [[Literature/FreakyFriday a novel]] and [[Film/FreakyFriday1976 movie]] about a body swap between a mother and her daughter.
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18	To be really convincing, the actors may have to mimic the body language and speech patterns of the actor they are supposed to have switched with - e.g. an older person using very modern language and slouching. This is doubly complicated if they are trying to imperfectly pretend they are the other person.
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20	When this plot is done in animation, usually the ''voices'' [[VoicesAreMental also switch]] as a narrative cheat to help younger viewers keep track of who's who. [[EyesAreMental More subtly, it's just the eyes.]] More serious/action-oriented cartoons might [[VoicesAreNotMental not do this]], however. The Flip often involves characters of different ages, genders[[note]]If the show is bawdy enough, there might be jokes about the characters [[ManIFeelLikeAWoman getting used to their new anatomy]][[/note]], races, or social classes. Another variation is a protagonist and antagonist switching, which usually involves each trying to undermine the other's organization while simultaneously trying to switch back. Alternatively it may lead to a HeelFaceTurn. If one or both of the characters have [[StockSuperpowersIndex superpowers or other special abilities]], they'll [[HowDoIShotWeb have a lot of trouble figuring out their new powers]]. And if the characters have sufficiently different physiques, expect a lot of StumblingInTheNewForm.
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22	A similar idea, with less learning and more evil, is GrandTheftMe. Compare PersonalitySwap, when the characters' personalities are swapped but their minds stay where they are meant to be, and TransferredTransformation. Contrast with PhysicalAttributeSwap, when two characters exchange specific physical traits like height, weight, or age without switching bodies entirely. MentalTimeTravel might be a temporal variation of this. It will often involve similar tropes to transformation stories (such as GenderBender) as this is essentially two of these in one, with the addition of confusion resulting from the transformations being into other known characters.[[note]]TheMirrorShowsYourTrueSelf is sometimes used to reveal the switch.[[/note]]
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24	Nearly an ObligatoryJoke in a SpeculativeFiction series (as in, bound to happen sooner or later in the series, if it's popular enough).
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26	In the original [[TropeNamer trope-naming]] film, [[SlipstreamGenre the reason of the switch is never explained in-universe]] (in the book, the mother made it happen, although she refuses to explain ''how''). However, the [[WatsonianVersusDoylist Doylist]] reason for any application is often to force the age-old [[AnAesop moral]]: To better understand others, [[LiteralTransformativeExperience you must experience life in their shoes]].
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28	This is such a prominent trope that [[Website/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]] has [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_swap_appearances_in_media an entire list article]] dedicated to covering notable instances of body swapping in media.
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30	!!Example subpages:
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32	[[index]]
33	* FreakyFridayFlip/AnimeAndManga
34	* FreakyFridayFlip/ComicBooks
35	* FreakyFridayFlip/FanWorks
36	* [[FreakyFridayFlip/LiveActionFilms Films – Live-Action]]
37	* FreakyFridayFlip/{{Literature}}
38	* FreakyFridayFlip/LiveActionTV
39	* FreakyFridayFlip/VideoGames
40	* FreakyFridayFlip/{{Webcomics}}
41	* FreakyFridayFlip/WesternAnimation
42	[[/index]]
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44	!!Other examples:
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48	[[folder:Advertising]]
49	* A T-Mobile advert from 2003 shows a woman getting a video message from her husband. The video shows her young daughter activating her science project; a brain switcher, which swaps her older brother's body with the family dog. The dog speaks with the son's voice while the boy lifts his leg to scratch behind his ear. Cue mom {{fainting}}. A very brief scene after this shows the dad playing fetch with the dog in the boy's body.
50	* A series of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnMiWh19n6U Japanese Intel]] commercials focus on several swaps that are interconnected with each other and shows how each of the individuals basically wake up in their new bodies. The first details a swap between a young boy who wakes up as a female ballet dancer, who turns up to her class as a black man, who then wakes up in the body of the aforementioned boy. The second is a straightforward swap between a samurai and a French ballerina.
51	* From the 2016 UsefulNotes/EuropeanChampionship, Nike's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scWpXEYZEGk "The Switch"]] deals with this happening between Christiano Ronaldo and an English boy.
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54	[[folder:Asian Animation]]
55	* ''Animation/BreadBarbershop'': In keeping with the show's tradition of making different food puns, the production team named an episode "Freaky Fry-day" and had it be about Wilk wishing to be as good at being a barber as Master Bread. He gets his wish - he switches bodies with Master Bread after an accident, at which point everyone starts to appreciate Wilk's more avant-garde hairstyles up to a point, thinking they're Bread's hairstyles.
56	* ''Animation/HappyHeroes'': In Season 4 episode 18, Happy S. and Lady Monster swap bodies after the latter's body-swapping gadget is accidentally triggered during a battle. Naturally, Happy S. in the monster's body is mistaken for the villain by the other Supermen.
57	* In one episode of ''Animation/HelloJadoo'', Jadoo and Minji switch bodies after spinning too quickly on a roundabout whilst wishing that they could have an older brother and younger siblings respectively.
58	* ''Animation/{{Lamput}}'': In "Transfer Gun", the Boss invents a ray gun with this effect. The Boss and Lamput get hit by shots from the gun by accident, and the Boss in Lamput's body initially has trouble getting the docs to believe he's not actually Lamput.
59	* In the ''Animation/MotuPatlu'' episode "Soul Change", Ghasitaram tricks Motu and Patlu into entering a body-swapping machine made by Dr. Jhatka. The two confuse Chaiwala when they go to his samosa stand and he assumes that Patlu is eating samosas while Motu is reading the paper - the exact opposite of what they would normally do.
60	* In the ''Animation/NoonboryAndTheSuper7'' episode "The Great Switcheroo", a magic spell causes Cozybory and Wangury to swap bodies.
61	* One episode of ''Animation/{{Tobot}}'' has Limo mixing up the Mind Cores, resulting in them being placed in the wrong bodies. Specifically, Tobot X's Mind Core is in Tobot D, Tobot Y's is in Tobot R, Tobot Z's is in Tobot X, Tobot D's is in Tobot Y, and Tobot R's is in Tobot Z.
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64	[[folder:Audio Plays]]
65	* The ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' story, "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho156TheCurseOfDavros The Curse of Davros]]" sees the Sixth Doctor switching bodies with Davros.
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68	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
69	* In a scrapped scene in ''WesternAnimation/Cars1'', Lightning is given a choice of participating in a race or doing community service. When he picks the community service, he wakes up the next day and finds that his engine (apparently the car equivalent of a brain) has been put into a steamroller, much to his horror, and Mater's engine has been put in Lightning's body, which he uses to take over Lightning's life. Fortunately, this is AllJustADream, but when he wakes up he fearfully changes his mind and decides to do the race instead.
70	* In ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolfAmazingPleasantGoat'', Wolffy has a body-swapping rug with him when he, Paddi, and Weslie are all transported to the prehistoric age. He and Paddi are on the body-swapping rug when they're transported, causing Wolffy to wind up in Paddi's body and vice versa for part of the movie.
71	* Happens to Donkey and Puss-n-Boots in ''WesternAnimation/ShrekTheThird'' as a side-effect of Merlin's teleporation spell. Merlin returns to help swap them back to their rightful bodies, and while successful, he also ends up [[PhysicalAttributeSwap swapping their tails by accident]].
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74	[[folder:Music]]
75	* In Music/JohnnyCash's song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS7fSL_E4JU "Chicken in Black"]], Johnny's "body's outlived [his] brain", so he is given the brain of a recently killed bank robber. And Johnny's brain winds up in a chicken. HilarityEnsues.
76	* The song "Freaky Friday" by Music/LilDicky and Music/ChrisBrown, as you may guess, is about the two of them swapping bodies for a day. Dicky quickly winds up enamored with his celebrity friends and lifestyle, his RAndB singing voice, his [[BlackIsBiggerInBed bigger penis]], and his newfound NWordPrivileges, while Chris is initially [[CelebrityIsOverrated happy to be away from his scandal-filled personal life]], until [[PapaWolf he realizes that he might never see his daughter again]] and that Dicky is acting like a fool in his body. ("My dick is trending on Twitter? ***!") [[spoiler:At the end, Dicky also hops into the bodies of Music/EdSheeran, Music/DJKhaled, and Kendall Jenner; with the last one, he immediately starts [[ManIFeelLikeAWoman feeling up his new body]].]]
77	* The concept for Music/{{Pentagon}}'s song "Round 2" is about the members waking up to discover that they have swapped bodies with each other.
78	* Music/KateBush's "Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)" has the singer asking God to let her swap bodies with her male lover so that they could both experience what life is like in the other's shoes (as it would help them to truly understand one other, and clear up their misunderstandings).
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81	[[folder:Pinball]]
82	* The MadScientist's experiment in ''Pinball/StrangeScience'' involves doing this with a teenage girl and a chimpanzee.
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85	[[folder:Puppet Shows]]
86	* ''Series/GroundlingMarsh'': It happens to Mud and Maggie in the episode "Tupelo Treat" when the Groundlings use the wrong recipe and accidentally create something that switches their minds when they eat it. For some reason, Mud still needs his glasses in Maggie's body, so not only are [[VoicesAreMental voices mental]], but apparently eyesight is too. Also, Mud is half of a MultipleHeadCase, while Maggie is a GenkiGirl who can't sit still, so things get a little crazy until they switch back.
87	* ''Series/TheMuppetShow:'' One "Pigs in Space!" sketch has Doctor Strangepork testing out his dissolvatron, which makes items disappear and reappear. When tried on people, it switches their minds around, leading to Miss Piggy and Link Hogthrob in each other's bodies, much to Piggy's upset ("DON'T TOUCH YOU!"). Then it gets bizarre, as the device swaps Strangepork's mind with [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Janice]], even though she wasn't in the skit, and then Kermit and the Swedish Chef, causing Kermit to demand the sketch end then and there.
88	* ''Series/SesameStreet'':
89	** In a 1990s episode, Mumford does a magic trick where he switches places with a dog, but things go awry when the dog, in Mumford's body and still holding the wand, runs away and leaves him unable to undo the trick.
90	** In the special ''Film/WhenYouWishUponaPickle'', a mysterious (and [[AnthropomorphicFood sentient) Wish Pickle]], which grants one wish per customer, is delivered to Sesame Street. Elmo's wish to be grown-up and Chris' wish to be younger causes them to do this (represented visually by having the two switch outfits as well).
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93	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
94	* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''
95	** The [[http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/SRD:Mind_Switch Mind Switch]] and [[http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/SRD:True_Mind_Switch True Mind Switch]] spells. While Mind Switch is only semi-permanent, True Mind Switch is completely permanent and can only be undone by another True Mind Switch.
96	** Before this, 2nd edition had the "Switch Personality" telepathic science from ''The Complete Psionic Handbook''. It allows the psionicist to switch mind with another creature, but any prolonged use is dangerous, as both bodies tend to degrade when inhabited by the wrong mind.
97	** ''The Complete Book of Necromancers'' also introduced the "Life Force Exchange" spell, which is permanent and can be used on any two creatures (including or not the caster). It is one of two powerful spells allowing aged necromancers to [[GrandTheftMe abandon their old body for a new, younger and stronger one]].
98	** This is just one condition that the [[ArtifactOfDoom Alchemist's Apparatus]], an evil device found the ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'' setting can create. (It can also split one being into two bodies, [[EvilTwin one good and one evil]], or merge two beings into ''one'' body.) The only way to reverse ''any'' of this device's effects is to use it a second time, and using it ''at all'' is incredibly dangerous. (Not only is it prone to blowing up, it tends to drive the victims insane, requiring Ravenloft Powers checks for the user and Madness Checks for the victims. Unfortunately, even when it does blow up, someone always rebuilds it later.)
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101	[[folder:Web Animation]]
102	* Triggering this trope is just one of many ways to get [[YouAreGrounded grounded]] in Platform/GoAnimate "Grounded" videos. For one example, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkOvcndsTUU this video]] involves WesternAnimation/{{Caillou}} switching bodies with his mother in an attempt to avoid getting grounded. Unfortunately for Caillou, the switch lasts for all of about 20 seconds before he and his mom switch back, after which [[DiggingYourselfDeeper he is given additional grounding time]] for the swap. VoicesAreMental tends to be in effect whenever this occurs.
103	* This occurs between Red and Blue [[spoiler:and Raccoon]] in the ''WebAnimation/DickFigures'' episode "Brain Switch".
104	* ''WebAnimation/DrHavocsDiary'': Episode 24, appropriately called "Freaky Friday". All thanks to one of Havoc's machines, this happens between Ally and Havoc, and then various other characters as well. Oh, and VoicesAreMental is averted.
105	* ''WebAnimation/ImAnton'': An old lady named [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlWhkRNPC9g Claire]] swapped bodies with the young Rolly using a machine invented by Siora. Claire enjoyed youth in Rolly's body while Rolly struggled due to Claire's old age and health problems.
106	* WebAnimation/InanimateInsanityInvitational: In the aptly two-parter episode "Out of Body Experience", [=MePhone=] accidentally crushed his contestants to death with a falling bridge and had to perform a mass recovery so he wouldn't look bad in front of his harshest critic. However, since he never attempted to revive so many people at once, their minds are accidentally regenerated into the wrong bodies. This causes a five-pair swap between [[BornLucky Clover]] and [[TheSmartGirl Test Tube]], [[HairTriggerTemper Paintbrush]] and [[GeniusLoci The Floor]], [[MellowFellow Candle]] and [[MockMillionaire Silver Spoon]], [[CuteButCacophonic Goo]] and [[ShrinkingViolet Balloon]] and [[JekyllAndHyde Yin and Yang]][[note]]Which is a notable case since they were already SharingABody so their halves were flipped around[[/note]] that wasn't resolved until another incident involving a comically-oversized match burns everyone alive and [=MePhone=] recovers them one at a time.
107	* ''WebAnimation/ManiManiPeople'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xGMP1C23u4 Hinano]] swapped bodies with the introverted protagonist by casting a spell by running with him. At first the protagonist hated being in Hinano's body and Hinano changed the protagonist's body look much to his dismay. With time, they got to know each other and they tried to cast the spell again to reverse it but they were not successful.
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110	[[folder:Web Original]]
111	* The WebVideo/{{Britanick}} video "A Monologue for Three" ends with a four-way body swap between Brian, Nick, Danny Pudi, and . . . well, you'll just have to watch it.
112	* This happens to all the main characters in ''Literature/TheDevilIsAPartTimer'''s Halloween OVA.
113	* In ''WebAnimation/{{Ducktalez}} 3'', Vegeta pulls a Captain Ginyu on Scrooge [=McDuck=]. [[ArtShift Vegeta gets Scrooge's art style and Scrooge gets Vegeta's art style]]. Dewey and Louie immediately wonder why Scrooge looks crappy.
114	* There is a web series made by [[PowerTrio Three friends from Florida]] called ''WebVideo/FreakyForever''. It can be watched [[https://www.youtube.com/user/osnapitzari here.]]
115	* ''Blog/HowToHero'' has a whole entry on [[https://howtohero.tumblr.com/post/169293153974/mind-swaps mind-swaps.]]
116	* In the WebVideo/LoadingReadyRun video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGSNu1kNU_U "Brain Transplants Made Easy"]], Paul does this to everyone just to prove a point. This is taken to the hilarious extremes of [[spoiler:Jer]] getting switched with [[spoiler:Dana (a random stranger)]] and [[spoiler:Bill]] getting switched with [[spoiler:Gib (a puppet).]]
117	* ''Series/{{Noob}}'' has a dungeon that will cause an avatar switch between two players after the first boss gets beaten. Voices don't change despite the fact that it would actually make sense.
118	* ''Podcast/PretendingToBePeople'' features a magical radio capable of swapping minds between two bodies. When we first see it, it's swapped the minds of a grown man and a house cat.
119	* ''Blog/RenegadeRhetoric'', a CharacterBlog for Cy-Kill from ''WesternAnimation/ChallengeOfTheGobots'' that largely consisted of describing the events of episodes from a non-existent second season of the cartoon, had a case of this happen in the post concerning the faux-episode "Brain Swap", where an accident resulted in the leader of the Renegades switching minds with the Guardian Scooter.
120	* ''WebVideo/SuperMarioLogan'':
121	** Used in the episode, "Switching Bodies!". Chef Pee Pee and Bowser Junior both go to bed wishing what it's like to be each other, and then wake up the next morning with their bodies switched. HilarityEnsues, surprisingly. This is soon exploited when Chef Pee Pee-as-Junior tells Junior's friends to take his toys, and Junior-as-Chef Pee Pee angrily gets back at him by telling Bowser to start beating, strangling, insulting and paying him, knowing that Chef Pee Pee will get blamed for saying that.
122	** Used again in the episode, "Life Is Ruff!". Junior and his pet Chain Chomp, Chompy get hit by [[Franchise/ToyStory Woody's]] truck, and somehow end up in each other's bodies. The entire episode is a WholePlotReference to the 2005 Creator/DisneyChannel Original movie of the same name.
123	** Used yet again "1 2 Switch Bodies!", wherein [[LightningCanDoAnything a lightning bolt strikes Junior and Jeffy]] while they are playing ''1-2 Switch'' on the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, [[{{Pun}} switching]] their bodies as a result. Near the end of the video, [[spoiler:the exact same thing happens to Chef Pee Pee and Cody]].
124	* When Body Switching Movies Collide is a skit done by the Website/{{Cracked}} staff. It starts off when [[Series/QuantumLeap Sam Beckett]] Leaped into [[Film/FreakyFriday1976 Ellen Cunningham]]'s mind after she switched bodies with Anna. [[Film/Ghost1990 Sam Cunningham]], Ellen's dead husband, shows up, explaining how he will possess Sam and have sex with Ellen one last time. Al argues that Sam Cunningham possessing Sam Beckett to have sex with Ellen would result in Anna's body having sex with Helen, who has Anna's mind at the moment. The Ghost Sam leaves in disgust, saying he plans to have sex with someone else. Al reveals that Anna is a [[Film/SpyKids secret agent]] hired for the [[Series/StargateSG1 Stargate project]] in the [[{{Series/Torchwood}} Torchwood Institute]] in Roswell. [[Franchise/TheMatrix Trinity]], who works for the [[Series/Millennium1996 Millenium Group]], shows up in a [[Series/{{Sliders}} Slider Hole]] and explains that the world is a false reality created by sophisticated computers contained within the mind of [[Film/BeingJohnMalkovich John Horatio Malkovich]]. When Sam Beckett asks Al to Leap him out of this madness, Al can't because [[Creator/DeanStockwell he's ]]actually a [[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 Cylon]]. It turns out it was all Michael Swaim's dream, and the camera zooms out to reveal that sequence was [[Series/StElsewhere imagined by Michael looking at his snowglobe]].
125	** [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/so-youve-swapped-bodies-with-your-mortal-enemy/ "So You've Swapped Bodies With Your Mortal Enemy"]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin which is about a guy finding out he switched bodies with his mortal enemy]].
126	* ''WebAnimation/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers'' pulls this off accordingly, not once, not twice, but ''three times''.
127	** "The Switcheroooveralls". Mario, [=SMG4=] and most of the gang switch their color codes in this blooper. Hilarious antics ensue, including a crazy Indian mistaking [=FM54321=] for [=MCGustavo=], and attempting to chase him as revenge for [[ItMakesSenseInContext stealing his toilet]], Luigi, in X's body, becoming friends with a Toad zombie he calls "Brains", and Toad even becoming a rock, forced to spend his time with Bowser after accidentally getting thrown towards his lair.
128	** The episode "The Swap", where Mario annoys a wizard to the point where he switches his and [=SMG4=]'s bodies as punishment. It doesn't help that [=SMG4=] is applying for a job as a janitor.
129	** "Mineswap" has this. Mario starts to break a scientist guy's machine as Steve mistakes it for chocolate, leading to the two swapping body shapes; Mario becomes a ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' model while Steve is a ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'' color code. [[spoiler:This is defied since in the end, [[{{Cliffhanger}} the machine is destroyed and Mario and Steve are still in their opposite body shapes]].]]
130	* In one episode of ''WebVideo/TheTimeGuys'', Doc Chronos invents a brain-switching device. [[spoiler: [[DefiedTrope Turns out he can only invent time machines]].]]
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133	[[folder:Web Videos]]
134	* Parodied in Creator/JoelHaver's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSND_TvysEU Freaky Friday but the characters learn the lesson as quickly as the audience]]", where two friends deduce that the universe body-swapped them because they were arguing about their inability to walk in each other's shoes, and then they are promptly switched back.
135	* ''WebVideo/{{Oxventure}}'' has this as the plot of their [=D&D=] livestream following an hour-long stay in a sensory deprivation tank run by an incompetent satyr.
136	-->'''Andy:''' ''(upon realizing the swap)'' [[CurseCutShort Motherf-]]
137	* This [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 TF2]] SFM Animation "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaLdfMbV_LU Mann Swap]]", has Scout and Heavy suddenly switch minds after they fighting to a teleporter 1 by 1 and gets [[TeleporterAccident teleported]].
138	* Another SFM Animation "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7zaV2ltmlI Nick & Ellis Comedy Show-episode 8: SWITCH!]]", happens to [[VideoGame/Left4Dead Zoey]], [[VideoGame/Left4Dead2 Rochelle, Ellis and Nick]] after gets hit by a lightning strike which is enough to switch body.
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141	[[folder:Real Life]]
142	* Scientists have found that by syncing a pair of VR goggles on one person's head with a set of cameras on a mannequin or another person's head, the brain is fooled into believing that they are in the body of the mannequin or the other person. Again, no, seriously, this is very similar to [[VideoGame/CallOfDutyInfiniteWarfare Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare]]'s Hacking Device.
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