'''Basic Trope''': A [[InnocentBystander random visitor]] is mistaken for a Very Important Person who is scheduled to come by.
* '''Straight''': Alice is about to check in to the hotel where the cast works when the manager mistakes her for Beatrice, the guest speaker at the convention being held there.
* '''Exaggerated''': ...and is then mistaken by the concierge for a contractor, mistaken by the chef for a food inspector, mistaken by the bartender for a job applicant, mistaken by a job applicant for the bartender...
* '''Downplayed''': The desk clerk mistakes Alice for the very wealthy jet-setter Beatrice, and tries to sell her on the most expensive room in the hotel.
* '''Justified''':
** Alice is a guest speaker for a convention at another hotel but thinks she's ''at'' the other hotel, so she has no reason to disagree.
** Alice's and Beatrice's information are "close enough for government work" (Beatrice's full name is Alice Beatrice Smith, from Kansas City, Kansas, who very rarely uses "Alice" herself. Alice's full name is also Alice Beatrice Smith, but she's from Kansas City, Missouri).
** Alice and Beatrice are identical strangers and nobody bothered to check their personal documents.
* '''Inverted''': Beatrice, a guest speaker for one day of a convention, is escorted out of the hotel because she doesn't have a room reservation.
* '''Subverted''': Alice is dragged, obviously confused, through the building to the convention hall and onto the stage ... where she jokes about being lost in the renovations to the building since her last visit, then confidently and eloquently delivers her speech.
* '''Double Subverted''': ...during which Beatrice shows up and it is found that Alice ''is'' in the wrong hall.
* '''Parodied''': Alice is mistaken for a President, despite not resembling him in name, hair, face, height, weight, skin tone, ''gender'', or ''[[HumanoidAlien species]]'', but none of the cast listens to her protestations.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Alice is dragged through the building to the convention hall, where it's revealed after a period of time that she's actually in the wrong hall...at least, that's what the directory says, but it was out of date, and she's actually in the right place.
* '''Averted''': "Wait, isn't check-in at the front desk?" "Oh, I apologize -- I thought you were the guest speaker for the convention. Yes, it is."
* '''Enforced''': "I've got good news and bad news: our CelebrityStar is ''in'', but only for five minutes of shooting. I know we advertised it, but I don't think we can make a whole episode out of that." "Oh, ye of little faith, watch and learn..."
* '''Lampshaded''': "You thought ''she'' was ''me?'' What kind of cockamamie operation are you running, anyway?"
* '''Invoked''': Alice pretends to be Beatrice to gain access to the convention.
* '''Exploited''': The owner invited Beatrice to give the speech because the staff's inevitable screwup makes a good excuse to deny them raises.
* '''Defied''': The manager arranged for the guest speakers to have admission badges in advance of the convention. He also orders all personnel to memorize the face and other important information of the guest speaker and personally verifies the knowledge of the members that have the highest chance of meeting him (like those at the check-in counter) and makes sure that details such as what's Beatrice's full name are up to date.
* '''Discussed''': "But ... If you're Beatrice, who's delivering the speech in the auditorium?"
* '''Conversed''': "Wouldn't the employees know what the special guests looked like?"
* '''Deconstructed''': No one listens to Alice's protests that she's not Beatrice. She has to give the speech, which she bombs, thereby damaging Beatrice's reputation, which earns her some legal troubles along the way. As for the hotel personnel that allowed this snafu to run its course from beginning to end, they will be lucky if they can keep their jobs afterwards and ''their'' reputations are surely screwed.
* '''Reconstructed''': Alice was mistaken for Beatrice in the first place because of a stack of books she had been studying that were on the subject of Beatrice's talk, so she knew the material well enough to extemporize.
* '''Played for Drama''':
** This faux pas very quickly leads to the ruin of all of those involved (especially Alice, in spite of the fact that she is most definitely an innocent party).
** Thus is a faux pas that normally would not happen, except that Beatrice is [[HairTriggerTemper the kind of person who would kill someone for asking her some I.D.]] and [[TheDreaded the staff knows it]], so they really didn't wanted to risk it. Now they all have a very ticked off Beatrice to deal with anyway.
* '''Played For Horror''':
** Alice is a SerialKiller and the staff accidentally handed her some nice headquarters to use as she plans a killing spree - which will, of course, have them as victims.
** Beatrice [[DisproportionateRetribution kills everybody who confused her with Alice]].
** Beatrice was there to do a variation of the OldBeggarTest and, through no fault of their own (or Alice's, maybe), the people in the hotel failed it. So she cursed them all. Fifty years later, hotel's personnel (and Alice) haunt the abandoned building, hoping against all hope that anybody who enters the building (and they treat like royalty) is Beatrice returning to see if it's okay to release them from the curse. But they never were, and [[FlyingDutchman they never will be…]]
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