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1'''Basic Trope''': Character A and Character B, from wildly different backgrounds, swap roles.
2* '''Straight''': People believe that working-class cafe waitress Wanda is wealthy socialite Wendy and that Wendy is Wanda.
3* '''Exaggerated''': Wendy and Wanda do a perfect job of pretending to be each other, even knowing things they cannot possibly know.
4* '''Downplayed''': Wanda spills coffee on Wendy, and lets Wendy use her uniform apron while her blouse is washed. Wendy is briefly mistaken for a waitress.
5* '''Justified''': Wendy and Wanda are SeparatedAtBirth, clones, one's a doppelganger...
6* '''Inverted''': ???
7* '''Subverted''': Wanda has a large scar that distinguishes herself from Wendy.
8* '''Double Subverted''': Wendy gives herself the same scar.
9* '''Parodied''': Wanda and Wendy look wildly different but no one seems to notice.
10* '''Zig Zagged''': The two switch places constantly as people try to tell them apart.
11* '''Averted''': Wanda and Wendy never consider pretending to be one another.
12* '''Enforced''': "Our plot puts the main character in two places at once, let's give him a twin or something."
13* '''Lampshaded''': "Should I even care which one you are?"
14* '''Invoked''': "Hey Wanda, there is something we can do, Mark Twain wrote this one book..."
15* '''Exploited''': Wendy is getting married in London while Wanda (as Wendy) is attending a stockholder's meeting in Paris.
16* '''Defied''': Wanda and Wendy intentionally distinguish themselves so they can't be misidentified.
17* '''Discussed''': "You just know those two are going to try swapping places."
18* '''Conversed''': "I'd love to see things from your point of view. Why don't we swap?"
19* '''Deconstructed''': Wanda has no idea how to act like Wendy and is identified as an impostor quickly.
20* '''Reconstructed''': So Wendy teaches Wanda how to act like her.
21* '''Played For Drama''': Wendy and Wanda lose each other's jobs and/or completely ruin each other's lives.
22* '''Implied''': In one episode, "Wanda" is unusually incompetent at her job and "Wendy" acts rougher than usual for some reason, and it seems they might have switched places. [[AbortedArc This is not brought up again.]]
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24Quit pretending you're someone you're not and go back to PrinceAndPauper.
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26%% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion:
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29%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???

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