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alt title(s): Art Imitates Life
Pimped Out Dresses like this are actually just as common in history as fiction.

Once in a while, a TV show does something that actually happens in Real Life (Don't worry, it never lasts, and they soon slip back into their old habits). Rarely, other shows pick up on this, and you then get a recurring trope that accurately reflects the real world. Listed here, for your convenience, are some examples of those.

The Dark Side of this trope occurs in Ripped From The Headlines.

When it's the exact opposite, you've got a bad case of Reality Is Unrealistic. If people fall for it, it's because TV Never Lies.

The Bastard Spawn of these two tropes gives us Inspired By and Very Loosely Based On A True Story.

The following tropes can loosely divided into two. Some which are truth in television only in a few cases and others which are more prevalent in Real Life.

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