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* The Dethklok band members in ''{{Metalocalypse}}'' attempt to be "regular jackoffs", before they realize they liked it better when they were basically gods.

* In ''HeatGuyJ'', Kia does this to find inspiration for his music. Subverted in that Kia was not rich at the time, [[spoiler: at least not since his parents' messy divorce.]]

* The first season of ''Series/{{Newhart}}'' had Leslie, a wealthy heiress and [[IvyLeagueForEveryone Dartmouth]] grad student who took the maid's job to "find out what it's like to be normal". In season 2 she was replaced with her cousin Stephanie, who was a RichBitch to Leslie's SpoiledSweet and took the maid's job because her parents had "cut her off".

* "Sullivan's Travels" a rich movie director pretends to be a bum to suffer enough to make his epic "Oh, Brother Where Art Though" during the Great Depression. He is warned by his butler not to do it as one of his previous employers did it as a lark and hasn't been seen since. When was this? 1919.

* Mentioned in ''[[Literature/{{Discworld}} Witches Abroad]]'': Nanny Ogg says that those princes dressing up as paupers always make sure the peasants don't get too close.
** In ''[[Literature/{{Discworld}} Pyramids]]'', Teppic reflects that peasants have more freedom, before correcting himself with "yeah, freedom to be starve, to be worked to death, to die of a horrible plague..."

* One of the characters in ''Literature/Haunted2005'', known only as "Lady Baglady", her now-deceased husband, and friends of theirs made a habit of playing at being street people to experience something different from their normal lavishly wealthy lives. Then someone starts killing off street people to eliminate possible witnesses to a murder...

Compare KingIncognito, SecretlyWealthy, PrinceAndPaupe, BourgeoisBohemian, and {{Hipster}}. A character doing this may or may not be RichInDollarsPoorInSense.

Compare KingIncognito, SecretlyWealthy, PrinceAndPauper and BourgeoisBohemian. A character doing this may or may not be RichInDollarsPoorInSense.

* The Music/DashboardConfessional song "Matters of Blood and Connection" is a TakeThat directed a wealthy young socialite who does this so that she can have a vacation. Among other things, she uses a fake accent to try and convince the locals she is one of them.

* The ''Music/DashboardConfessional'' song "Matters of Blood and Connection" is a TakeThat directed a wealthy young socialite who does this so that she can have a vacation. Among other things, she uses a fake accent to try and convince the locals she is one of them.

* The first season of ''Series/{{Newhart}}'' had Leslie, a wealthy heiress who took the maid's job to "find out what it's like to be normal". In season 2 she was replaced with her cousin Stephanie, who was a RichBitch to Leslie's SpoiledSweet and took the maid's job because her parents had "cut her off".

->''I want to live like common people\\

-->-- '''Music/{{Pulp}}''', ''"Common People"''

I want to do whatever common people do.

->''I want to live like common people,''
->''I want to do whatever common people do.''

* The first season of ''Series/{{Newhart}}'' had Leslie, a wealthy heiress who took the maid's job to "find out what it's like to be normal". In season 2 she was replaced with her cousin Stephanie, who not only was a RichBitch to Leslie's SpoiledSweet but took the maid's job because her parents had "cut her off".

* Series/FreshMeat has two distinct types of slummers: [[UpperClassTwit Braying toff]] JP, who is posh and proud and living in a slummy student house for fun, and [[SecretlyWealthy Oregon]], a hipster who is embarrassed by her privleged upbringing and living there because she wants to fit in with her cool, working class housemates.

-->-- Pulp, ''"Common People"''

*** Also popular with the richer than average French at the time. As looking like you have money on you was a quick way to get targeted for robbery, or head chopped off.