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1* At the wedding, Bill calls Katherine's attention to "Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Jones, the actual historical family" who inspired the phrase "keeping up with the Joneses". In real life, that saying is based on an early 20th century comic strip, not a real family. What Bill does isn't quite [[HollywoodHistory Hollywood History]], but it must qualify as some trope or other. Does anyone know which?
2** I suppose you could call it ArtisticLicenseHistory.
3** It’s a joke about the fact that their name is Jones and they’re very influential.

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