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* CrimeFightingWithCash: George is a billionaire CEO who seems to have nothing better to do with his time and money than personally play vigilante. Lampshaded when the DA chews him out for trying to be a "real-life Bruce Wayne." The inherent absurdity of this trope is ultimately a hint that, unlike in Sarah's world where she's just one police officer out of many, this world is designed to cater to her narcissistic sense of guilt.
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* RichIdiotWithNoDayJob: George is a billionaire CEO who seems to have nothing better to do with his time and money than personally play vigilante. Lampshaded when the DA chews him out for trying to be a "real-life Bruce Wayne." The inherent absurdity of this trope is ultimately a hint that, unlike in Sarah's world where she's just one police officer out of many, this world is designed to cater to her narcissistic sense of guilt.
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* AdaptationTitleChange: "Real Life" is based on the short story "Exhibit Piece".
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Your Cheating Heart is an index, not a trope.
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* ThisIsReality: Played for drama. Sarah becomes aware that the world she lives in fits many tropes of 21st-century escapist science fiction, as part of her growing belief her world isn't real. (Ironically, nobody really brings up the same objection for the equally-tropey world George lives in.)
* YourCheatingHeart: George and Paula in the fictional world.
* YourCheatingHeart: George and Paula in the fictional world.
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* ThisIsReality: Played for drama. Sarah becomes aware that the world she lives in fits many tropes of 21st-century escapist science fiction, as part of her growing belief her world isn't real. (Ironically, nobody really brings up the same objection for the equally-tropey world George lives in.)
* YourCheatingHeart: George and Paula in the fictional world.)
* YourCheatingHeart: George and Paula in the fictional world.
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* LipstickLesbian: Both Sarah and Katie, her wife, who both act indistinguishable from straight women, so the reveal of their relationship is surprising.
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* LipstickLesbian: Both Sarah and Katie, her wife, who both act appear completely indistinguishable from straight women, so the reveal of their relationship is surprising.
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The way it's explained in the episode, it's automatic, not something she "chose"
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* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: Creator/PhilipKDick's original story "Exhibit Piece" was explicitly about a FanOfThePast grappling with a MaybeMagicMaybeMundane uncertainty over whether he had really traveled back into the 1950s or just become so obsessed with studying the 1950s he'd lost touch with reality. In "Real Life", this element of the story is completely dropped, leaving us to wonder why Sarah would choose the 21st century in particular as a setting for her "vacation" or where she would've gotten the knowledge from in order to reconstruct it with any degree of accuracy.
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* LotusEaterMachine: The virtual vacation is pretty much this.
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* LotusEaterMachine: The virtual vacation is pretty much this. It's not just a perfect simulation of "another life", but it actually causes the user to start questioning their own reality, especially as details from one seem to bleed over into the other... [[CuckoosNest or do they?]]
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* SchrodingersButterfly: The main character is unsure whether s/he is actually a guilt-ridden lesbian policewoman in the far future imagining that she's a billionaire CEO in the near past who has lost his wife, or the other way around. At the end, s/he decides to stay in the crappier past, but it turns out the other reality was the real one and she's now in a permanent coma.
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* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: PhilipKDick's original story "Exhibit Piece" was explicitly about a FanOfThePast grappling with a MaybeMagicMaybeMundane uncertainty over whether he had really traveled back into the 1950s or just become so obsessed with studying the 1950s he'd lost touch with reality. In "Real Life", this element of the story is completely dropped, leaving us to wonder why Sarah would choose the 21st century in particular as a setting for her "vacation" or where she would've gotten the knowledge from in order to reconstruct it with any degree of accuracy.
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* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: PhilipKDick's Creator/PhilipKDick's original story "Exhibit Piece" was explicitly about a FanOfThePast grappling with a MaybeMagicMaybeMundane uncertainty over whether he had really traveled back into the 1950s or just become so obsessed with studying the 1950s he'd lost touch with reality. In "Real Life", this element of the story is completely dropped, leaving us to wonder why Sarah would choose the 21st century in particular as a setting for her "vacation" or where she would've gotten the knowledge from in order to reconstruct it with any degree of accuracy.
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* GirlOnGirlIsHot: Sarah uses her being a lesbian, married to a hot woman that loves sex, as one of the signs that her reality is a male fantasy.
