History Main / PrinceAndPauper

* In the ''WesternAnimation/The7D'' episode "Sir Yipsalot and the Mutt", Yipsalot gets mixed up with a look-alike.

* In the ''ComicBook/TheSimpsons'' comic issue "The Artist Formerly Known as Bart", Bart switches places with a look-a-like rock star named Biff Westwood.

* ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'' does this in "Impopstar" with Cricket and his celebrity lookalike, Zillon Brax. The former pretends to be the latter when he disappears from the public, while the latter hangs out with the Greens to get a taste of regular run-of-the-mill life. The two don't see each other until near the end, when the family arrives to save the former from the latter's LoonyFan.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'' episode "Hank After Dark", Todd switches places with Prince Gustav, the despotic ruler of [[{{Ruritania}} Cordovia]]. None of Todd's friends and acquaintances notice that Gustav is clean-shaven and has a heavy Eastern European accent, but he otherwise looks like Todd. Meanwhile Todd, being the naive dope that he is, is forced to try and manage the politics of a foreign country torn by civil war.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/CountDuckula'' episode, “The Count and the Pauper – I Ain't Gonna Work on Maggot's Farm No More!", Duckula swaps roles with his lookalike Sid Quack and becomes a hard working, underprivileged farm-boy, while Sid becomes a spoilt, rich Aristocrat.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/LittlestPetShop2012'' episode "Lights Camera Mongoose" Sunil feels underappreciated, while another Mongoose who is a famous movie star wants to get away from stardom, so they switch places for the day. Though half-subverted as all of Sunil's friends knew about the switch to begin with, while the movie crew on the other hand plays this straight.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode "Make Play", Candace meets -- and trades places with -- Princess Baldegunde of Drusselstein.

* In the 1987 ''[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' episode "April's Fool", Shredder kidnaps April confusing her for a princess, in order to [[HostageForMcGuffin get a jewel as ransom]]. It's played with in this case; April shows up for a party in a pretty dress not realizing it's a costume party, and because it's a fancy dress, she's the only person there dressed like royalty. Meanwhile, the princess gets pissed off with all the parties since she's forced to dress like a princess as usual, and sneaks out dressed as an ordinary person. The two don't actually see each other until near the end when the princess learned of her "kidnapping" on TV, and April never expresses a desire to be a princess.

* This trope {{deconstructed|Trope}} is the premise of ''Manga/{{Barrage}}'': Prince Barrage finds Astro, a boy from the slums who looks and sounds exactly like him, and forces Astro to take his place as prince while Barrage runs off intending to lead a life of hedonism--but Barrage gets assassinated by a sniper as he's leaving and disappears off the rooftops they're on. This effectively forces Astro to [[EmergencyImpersonation impersonate Barrage to keep the kingdom's political enemies at bay]]. [[spoiler:Those closest to Prince Barrage knew immediately that Astro was an impostor but have agreed to keep the façade as well for the same reasons.]] Then it's subverted: [[spoiler:Astro is the true Prince. His ParentalSubstitute and mentor kidnapped him from the palace and replaced him with a doppelganger made of dark power and raised Astro in the slums to spare him the court's manipulations.]]

* Occurs in episode 15 of ''Anime/BraveBeats'', between Prince Ramin of Estella and Hibiki. Unlike most examples of this trope, Hibiki's parents and friends immediately realize that Ramin isn't Hibiki.
* In the ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' movie ''Anime/DoraemonNobitasTheLegendOfTheSunKing'', Nobita swaps roles with a Mayan prince who looks just like him.
* In the second episode of ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi'', Doremi uses magic to [[FreakyFridayFlip swap bodies]] with her wealthy friend Hazuki.
* In Chapter 136 of ''Manga/{{Nisekoi}}'', Raku and Chitoge meet foreign princess Maruusha Lu Vieh Nonbeeri, who looks just like Chitoge. The princess ran away from her bodyguards because she wanted to see Japan with her own eyes, so Chitoge decides they should switch places so that the princess can freely go look around town with Raku while Chitoge distracts her bodyguards.
* In the ''Anime/SpeedRacer'' episode "The Royal Racer," Spritle switches places with IdenticalStranger Jam, Prince of Saccharin.
* ''Anime/PrincessPrincipal'':
** Deconstructed. At the end of episode 2, it's revealed that several years ago, Ange and Princess Charlotte switched places in their childhood, each imitating the other, but were unable to switch back. Ange, pretending to be the princess, was nearly traumatized by the way she had to push herself extremely hard to fit the PrincessClassic mode, as she would be executed if found out. This may be part of Princess's motivation to be a spy for the Commonwealth.
** The Commonwealth is also [[spoiler:planning "Operation Changeling", in which "Ange" is to replace "Charlotte", making this a ''recursive'' Prince And Pauper situation]].
* Done in the ''Literature/FullMetalPanic'' side story, "Stunt Double Showbiz", wherein an overworked TeenIdol who's regretting his decision to drop out of school for his art stumbles across an inexplicably identical OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent and begs to switch places for a day so he can have something resembling a break. The problem? Said "ordinary" high school boy is Sousuke, so instead of getting to experience the challenges of a regular teenager's life, he gets shredded by all of the traps Sousuke sets around school, disturbs everyone with his completely normal behavior, gets the shit kicked out of him by a revenge-hungry Tsubaki, and finds himself on the receiving end of a JackBauerInterrogationTechnique by a thoroughly unconvinced Kaname. Sousuke himself, meanwhile, has a perfectly grand time unwittingly driving the TeenIdol's manager nuts with his usual military craziness.

* The old UK AnthologyComic ''Nipper'' (1987) had a strip called "Will & Bill", in which a working class kid who looked identical to the then-five-year-old Prince William would exchange places with him.

* In the ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'' story "Which Is Which?", homeless boy Garvey Gull temporarily switches places with a rich boy that looks just like him except for his glasses.
* In the ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' comic, Mafia Jinx and Queen Ashe swap identities for a night during a Freljord museum exhibition, allowing Ashe to take some time off.
* An early ''Creator/BenitoJacovitti'' comic features an evil duke who plots to dethrone and replace the king, only for the king to trade places with a poor farmer. Only a few pages of the story have been preserved.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceAndThePauper'' was a Disney adaption starring WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse and a look-alike as the prince and the pauper.

* ''The Series/LizzieMcGuire Movie'' has Lizzie impersonate an Italian pop singer, because another idol wants to ruin the career of the real one.
* ''[[Film/{{Garfield}} Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties]]'' has this as its main plot, with Garfield being mistaken for an identical cat (named Prince, amusingly enough) who has just inherited his eccentric owner's estate. Played with on Garfield's end: he doesn't have to ''act'' like Prince, he just has to ''look'' like him, and stick around long enough for the paperwork to be signed so that the estate doesn't fall into the hands of [[EvilChancellor Lord Dargis]].
* ''Film/TheLittleRascals'' short "Alfalfa's Double" has a rich kid named Cornelius from another neighborhood who looks just like Alfalfa. When he bumps into Alfalfa they decide to swap roles. HilarityEnsues.
* ''Film/TheGreatDictator'', where Charlie Chaplin plays both a Hitler-esque dictator and a Jewish barber, naturally ends up like this.

* ''Film/SummertimeSwitch'' is another non-identical version of the plot: an orphaned delinquent and a spoiled rich kid are being sent to a juvenile detention center and a luxury summer camp respectively for the summer. However, since they both have the same name (Fred Egan), there is a mix up at the bus terminal and they end up switching places.
* ''Clambake'', in which Music/{{Elvis|Presley}}, heir to an oil fortune, switches places with Will Hutchins, water ski instructor, in order to prove he can win the girl and win the race without Daddy's money.
* This is Plot C of ''Film/{{Frenemies}}''. Savannah, the skater girl who had a crush on Jake in Plot A, meets a British princess named Emma who looks just like her and they switch places. However, they both find it very hard to live with each other's families and things get even more complicated when they have to date each other's boyfriends making each of them jealous. In the end, they forgive each other and switch back.
* ''Film/TheHotChick'' has a bit of BackStory at the beginning explaining the amulet which causes the FreakyFridayFlip of the main story. In it, a princess is using the amulet to trade places with her slave. The princess's motive is to escape her ArrangedMarriage, so we can assume that the plan was for the switch to be permanent.

* The premise of the fourth ''Film/{{Beethoven}}'' movie revolves around Beethoven being mistaken for the dog of a wealthy family, and vice versa (neither family learns about the switch, however).
* In ''Film/{{It Takes Two|1995}}'', a rich girl and an orphan take advantage of being identical strangers to live each other's lives.
* In ''Film/{{Metropolis}}'', Georgy briefly trades places with Freder by switching clothes with him.
* The premise of ''Film/ThePrincessSwitch'', where Creator/VanessaHudgens plays both Stacy, a middleclass American baker, and Margaret, a European duchess about to enter into an ArrangedMarriage. Margaret asks Stacy to swap places with her so she can experience normal life before that happens.

* The trope is named for Mark Twain's novel ''Literature/ThePrinceAndThePauper'', in which StreetUrchin Tom Canty gets mixed up with Prince Edward VI of England. An element that [[UnbuiltTrope rarely get used in other works]] is that both try to come clean and get it reversed. Of course, even at the crowning ceremony, no one takes the pretender seriously that he isn't really the prince until the real one shows up.
%%* Quoted, played straight, subverted, lampshaded, deconstructed, and reconstructed in ''[[Literature/{{Duumvirate}} Billy and Howard]]''. Repeatedly.%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample
* This is the main plot element of Anthony Hope's 1894 novel ''Literature/ThePrisonerOfZenda'' (and the subsequent film)
* Serge Dalens not only uses this trope in ''Le Prince Éric'', but has one of the characters read the final scene of the novel to the scouts who're going to save the titular prince.

* ''Literature/SplitHeirs'': A large part of the plot is a {{parody}}. Three triplets (all identical, except for the fact one is [[HalfIdenticalTwins born female, and two male]]) get inadvertently switched. First when the boys are being sent into hiding, as their sister was supposed to be sent out with them. Their mother is forced to raise her [[RaisedAsTheOppositeGender as a son]]. Once they finally reunite, with none knowing they're siblings, it happens again when Wulfright (one of the sons) becomes foodtaster at the palace for his sister Prince Arbol, with their mother planning to swap them when the succession has taken place because Arbol's secret (along with hers) might come out otherwise. Then they get switched again... and it gets crazier from there.

* Occurs in at least two of Creator/TheBrothersGrimm's fairy tales:
** "The Goose Girl" - where a princess, traveling to another kingdom for an ArrangedMarriage, is forced by her maid to trade places with her, also forcing her to [[IGaveMyWord swear an oath]] not to reveal the truth. The prince suspects she's not just a simple maid and asks her to tell the truth. She says she can't tell him because of her oath. He suggests that there's [[LoopholeAbuse nothing stopping her]] from telling her story to an iron stove and that she couldn't help if if he happened to overhear.
** "Maid Maleen" - where a FallenPrincess is asked by a prince's bride-to-be to take her place for the wedding night. The prince just happens to be the former princess' lover (lost when the princess's father locks her away when she refused to marry someone else).

* In ''Literature/ATaleOfTwoCities'', Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton's lives are braided together throughout their adult lives by their physical resemblance, on which many plot points turn. Darnay is a natural hero type (and he gets the girl they both love). Carton is an eternal failure and a perpetual also-ran, eventually redeeming himself in his own eyes by choosing [[spoiler: to be guillotined in Darnay's place]].

* The premise of the Australian TV show ''Series/{{Minty}}''.
* Happens in the ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'' episode "Warrior... Princess", where Xena (a commoner, despite her nickname) temporarily switches places with an [[IdenticalStranger identical-looking princess]] at the local king's request.
** The trope is taken to a new level in "Warrior... Princess... Tramp..." and in yet another new in "Warrior... Priestess... Tramp..."

* This concept is used in a ''Series/{{Wishbone}}'' episode where he is telling the story.

* This was the premise of a reality show called ''A Walk in Your Shoes''. Two kids from different backgrounds got to take someone else's role for a day. For example, one episode had a girl who lived by the ocean switch with a boy from the Arizona desert. It even went into very serious topics like Muslims, AIDS, and teen parenting.
* In the ''Series/{{Fame}}'' episode "His Majesty Donlon", Chris trades places with Prince Frederic of Vatonia to allow the prince to experience normal life for a while before giving a speech at the UsefulNotes/UnitedNations.

* ''Series/RookieHistorianGooHaeRyung'': They look nothing alike, but upon finding out that Goo Hae-ryung is working as a historian, Prince Dowon switches clothes with his servant Sam-bo and has the eunuch hide behind a screen to pretend to be the prince. Dowon claims to be relaying the "prince"'s words "in his heart" by ordering her to clean up the house and yard to atone for impersonating Maehwa.

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* Played with ''VisualNovel/TheConfinesOfTheCrown'' - from the beginning, there are rumors that Princess Cassidy is an impostor, and there just happens to be a similarly-pink-haired commoner girl in the cast being treated unusually well by the King and Queen. The whole story is... complicated.

* GenderFlipped in ''VisualNovel/ThePrincessSwap'' which tells the story of an exchange student who exchanged places with a princess.

* In the 1987 ''[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' episode "April's Fool", Shredder kidnaps April confusing her for a princess, in order to [[HostageForMcGuffin get a jewel as ransom]]. It's played with in this case; April shows up for a party in a pretty dress not realizing it's a costume party, and because it's a fancy dress, she's the only person there dressed like royalty. Meanwhile, the princess gets pissed off with all the parties since she's forced to dress like a princess as usual, and sneaks out dressed as an ordinary person. The two don't actually see each other until near the end when the princess learned of her "kidnapping" on TV, and April never expresses a desire to be a princess.
* ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'' does this in "Impopstar" with Cricket and his celebrity lookalike, Zillon Brax. The former pretends to be the latter when he disappears from the public, while the latter hangs out with the Greens to get a taste of regular run-of-the-mill life. The two don't see each other until near the end, when the family arrives to save the former from the latter's LoonyFan.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'' episode "Hank After Dark", Todd switches places with Prince Gustav, the despotic ruler of [[{{Ruritania}} Cordovia]]. None of Todd's friends and acquaintances notice that Gustav is clean-shaven and has a heavy Eastern European accent, but he otherwise looks like Todd. Meanwhile Todd, being the naive dope that he is, is forced to try and manage the politics of a foreign country torn by civil war.
* Done in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS20E3DoubleDoubleBoyInTrouble Double, Double, Boy in Trouble]]", with Bart swapping places with a rich kid... whose siblings are trying to kill him.

* The ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' video "Princess and the Popstar - A Story of Trading Places."
* In an episode of Creator/TheHub's ''WesternAnimation/{{Pound Puppies|2010}}'', team member Squirt and high society pooch Mr. Cuddlesworth switch places after meeting at the shelter when the latter chihuahua runs away from his home.

* A ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' episode featured a Princess who looked like Kimber. Kimber nearly was kidnapped and nearly killed by relatives of the princess who wanted to dispose of her. Luckily, [[BigBad Eric Raymond]] was so [[EvenEvilHasStandards horrifed]] when he found out that he warned the other Holograms what was going to happen.

* Done in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/PopeyeAndSon'' with Junior and a prince.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/FishHooks'', Oscar gets mistaken for the Queen of Fish England when he impersonates her [[ItMakesSenseInContext and almost ends up getting married to Mr. Muscles]]. At the end the real Queen of Fish England shows up and we find out that she was at Freshwater High impersonating Oscar... [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext for some reason]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'' episode "Princess Johnny", Johnny is asked by [[TheMenInBlack Men in Black and White]] to impersonate a missing princess to avert a war. The princess (who looks like Johnny with lipstick) is found in an arcade; She ran off to 'be a normal kid'.
* The ''ComicBook/JohanAndPeewit'' episode "The Prince And The Peewit" that aired on ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' cartoon show.
* ''WesternAnimation/WatsPig'' is a justified example. Wat (the pauper) and the king actually are identical twins, but were separated as babies due to a botched kidnapping attempt. Wat fights in his brother's place during the second battle against the invaders, after an ImportantHaircut.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/LittlestPetShop2012'' episode "Lights Camera Mongoose" Sunil feels underappreciated, while another Mongoose who is a famous movie star wants to get away from stardom, so they switch places for the day. Though half-subverted as all of Sunil's friends knew about the switch to begin with, while the movie crew on the other hand plays this straight.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/StormHawks'', Piper meets Princess Perry who likes exactly like her. Since being a princess consists of boring and useless "duties" meant to keep her out of affairs of state (ie, any actual ruling), Perry ''knocks out Piper with a book'' and switches places with her just for a chance to get away from it all.

* Used/spoofed in the ''WesternAnimation/TrippingTheRift'' episode "Nature vs. Nurture".
* ''WesternAnimation/HappilyEverAfterFairyTalesForEveryChild'' retells the original story, but gives the main characters a GenderFlip.
* Creator/GoldenFilms made [[WesternAnimation/ThePrinceAndThePauper1995 their own version]] in 1995. For some reason, it included {{Animate Inanimate Object}}s.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/JosieAndThePussyCats'', Valerie turned out to be a dead ringer for a princess from India, which lead to her acting as a decoy to catch the VillainOfTheWeek.
** Melody was more than once mistaken for somebody of elevated status, including one Outer Space episode where the residents of a planet mistook her for their goddess.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/CountDuckula'' episode, “The Count and the Pauper – I Ain't Gonna Work on Maggot's Farm No More!", Duckula swaps roles with his lookalike Sid Quack and becomes a hard working, underprivileged farm-boy, while Sid becomes a spoilt, rich Aristocrat.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/The7D'' episode "Sir Yipsalot and the Mutt", Yipsalot gets mixed up with a look-alike.
* In the {{Toys/Playmobil}} short [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2G2rQqquN8 Princess for a day]], Princess Betty, who always wanted to do horseback riding (but was forbid to), switches places with Pina, a horse riding instructor. As a variant, Betty and Pina are not lookalike. The latter went unnoticed by wearing a mask all day long, pretending she wants to get used to it until the masked ball that occurs at night.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/DennisTheMenace'' episode, "Double Dennis", Dennis meets his cousin Prentis, who [[UncannyFamilyResemblance looks exactly like him]], save for the fancy clothes he wears. When Dennis shows Prentis the fun things he can do, he decides to swap clothes with Prentis so they can live each other's lives. Unlike [[AllLoveIsUnrequited Dennis]], Prentis returns Margaret's affections, while Dennis treats the house that Aunt Judy and Uncle Bob consider buying like an amusement park.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewArchies'': Archie switches place with a prince for a day and has a terrible time.

* This happens in ''Anime/TurnAGundam'' when the queen of the Moonrace decides to switch places with a lookalike on a whim. This has severe repercussions on both characters and on the war between the Moonrace and Earthrace, ultimately culminating in [[spoiler:the lookalike going to be Queen of the Moonrace in the actual queen's place]]

* The Franchise/{{Barbie}} [[WesternAnimation/{{Barbie}} film series]] is rather fond of this. Their first use of it was ''WesternAnimation/BarbieAsThePrincessAndThePauper'', which had a near identical double pretend to be the princess with the help of a wig. The plot was later reused in ''WesternAnimation/BarbieAsThePrincessAndThePopstar'', ''WesternAnimation/BarbieInRocknRoyals'' (although in that one the two protagonists don't exactly look alike and the swap came about because of an administrative mistake), and ''Barbie Princess Adventure''.

* The ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' episode "Dawn of a Royal Day!" had Dawn trade places with Princess Salvia - who wanted to participate in a Pokémon contest - who then gave her Togekiss to Dawn to gain experience as she traveled.

* Done in the ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' side story, "Stunt Double Showbiz", wherein an overworked TeenIdol who's regretting his decision to drop out of school for his art stumbles across an inexplicably identical OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent and begs to switch places for a day so he can have something resembling a break. The problem? Said "ordinary" high school boy is Sousuke, so instead of getting to experience the challenges of a regular teenager's life, he gets shredded by all of the traps Sousuke sets around school, disturbs everyone with his completely normal behavior, gets the shit kicked out of him by a revenge-hungry Tsubaki, and finds himself on the receiving end of a JackBauerInterrogationTechnique by a thoroughly unconvinced Kaname. Sousuke himself, meanwhile, has a perfectly grand time unwittingly driving the TeenIdol's manager nuts with his usual military craziness.

* In the ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' movie "Anime/DoraemonNobitasTheLegendOfTheSunKing", Nobita swaps roles with a Mayan prince who looks just like him.

* ''Film/SummertimeSwitch'' is another non-identical version of the plot: an orphaned delinquent and a spoiled rich kid are being sent to a juvenile detention center and a luxury summer camp respectively for the summer. However, since they [[NamesTheSame both have the same name]] (Fred Egan), there is a mix up at the bus terminal and they end up switching places.

* The trope is named for [[Literature/ThePrinceAndThePauper a Mark Twain novel]] in which StreetUrchin Tom Canty gets mixed up with Prince Edward VI of England.
** An element that [[UnbuiltTrope rarely get used in other works]] is that both try to come clean and get it reversed. Of course, even at the crowning ceremony, no one takes the pretender seriously that he isn't really the prince until the real one shows up.
* Quoted, played straight, subverted, lampshaded, deconstructed, and reconstructed in ''[[Literature/{{Duumvirate}} Billy and Howard]]''. Repeatedly.

* Happens in the Literature/MythAdventures novel ''Hit or Myth'', where King Roderick convinces protagonist Skeeve, the court magician, to temporarily take his place using illusion magic. Of course, Skeeve finds out a little too late that the King did it because he was due to be married to the queen of a neighboring kingdom who's rumored to be [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen insanely greedy and bloodthirsty]]. It turns out that [[spoiler:the Queen IS ambitious and clever, but not evil, and catches on to the switch instantly...but when she shows more interest in marrying Skeeve than the King, the conflict becomes finding the King and getting him back to the wedding without the Queen finding out and killing him.]]

* The Franchise/{{Barbie}} [[WesternAnimation/{{Barbie}} film series]] is rather fond of this. Their first use of it was ''WesternAnimation/BarbieInThePrincessAndThePauper'', which had a near identical double pretend to be the princess with the help of a wig. The plot was later reused in ''WesternAnimation/BarbieAsThePrincessAndThePopstar'', ''WesternAnimation/BarbieInRocknRoyals'' (although in that one the two protagonists don't exactly look alike and the swap came about because of an administrative mistake), and ''Barbie Princess Adventure''.

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* ''Literature/SplitHeirs'': A large part of the plot is a {{parody}}. Three triplets (all identical, except for the fact one is [[HalfIdenticalTwins born female, and two male]]) get inadvertently switched. First when the boys are being sent into hiding, as their sister was supposed to be sent out with them. Their mother is forced to raise her [[RaisedAsTheOppositeGender as a son]]. Once they finally reunite, with none knowing they're siblings, it happens again when Wulfright (one of the sons) becomes foodtaster at the palace for his sister Prince Arbol, with their mother planning to swap them when the succession has taken place because Arbol's secret (along with hers) might come out otherwise. Then they get switched again... and [[UpToEleven it gets crazier from there]].

* Used/spoofed in the ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' cartoon "The Prince and the Pinhead", which had a cartoon version of Mark Twain show up near the end to complain about the overuse of this plot.

--> '''Prince:''' Um, why, yes I am. You see, I -

--> '''Prince:''' Am I really that transparent?