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Badge Gag
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There are many circumstances where a character may need to present a badge or other official credentials. They may be entering secured premises, performing a Flashed-Badge Hijack, or presenting a permit that authorizes them to perform a restricted activity. But if the character is the The Klutz, an Unfortunate Item Swap in the heat of the moment will leave them mistakenly flashing a similar, but irrelevant, object they might also be carrying in their wallet or on their person— such as a gym membership card or personal photo. If the character doesn't actually have the necessary ID, they will present a very crude fake document of laughable quality. For example, an ID drawn in crayon, or a plastic police badge from the toy store. Even if the document isn't blatantly fake, the character is likely to anti-climatically hold it upside down. Other variations include making a funny face in the ID photo, or the card text containing humorous or non-sensical details (usually a Freeze-Frame Bonus). While the token of identification can consist of plastic ID cards, metal badges or shields, or paper-based certificates, the physical medium is not relevant to this trope. This trope applies to how the item appears, or how it is presented. If the inadequate credentials actually pass muster and the bearer is granted entry, then The Guards Must Be Crazy. If the person presents cash as a means of getting their way, see Screw the Rules, I Have Money!. Examples |
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Downplayed in Jingle All the Way. Howard goes to a warehouse to get a Turbo Man action figure for his son for Christmas, but gets into a fight with an army of Mall Santas when he realizes he was sold an imitation product. When the police arrive to arrest the Mall Santas, Howard picks up a toy badge and impersonates an undercover cop to avoid arrest. This manages to fool the police. | |
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When Frank Drebin flashes his badge in The Naked Gun, about twenty credit cards drop out of the wallet he keeps it in. | |
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When Ron is stopped by police for attempting to slaughter a pig in a public park in Parks and Recreation, he claims to have a permit. The permit he produces is actually a piece of paper with the typed words "I can do what I want — Ron."note Even though Ron is head of the Parks Department and therefore does has considerable say over permissible uses of the parks, there are, as explained by the officer, other regulations involved (those of the Health Department, for example) that the Parks Department can't just casually overrule. | |
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In Meet the Robinsons, Wilbur attempts a badge flash, but Lewis takes his "badge" and reveals that it's a coupon for a tanning salon. | |
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In A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Sissy hears about an immigrant family starving their pregnant daughter in the hopes that she and the baby will die in childbirth and thus avoid the shame of her illegitimate pregnancy. Sissy pins a badge to her coat and angrily demands to be let in. The frightened mother lets her in, assuming that she's from immigration, but because she's illiterate, she doesn't realize that the badge actually reads "Chicken Inspector". | |
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In Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Trials and Tribulations, an impersonator once used a cardboard badge in an attempt to pass as Phoenix. This actually works, despite the fact that when we finally meet the impersonator he is literally orange and has the heaviest Brooklyn accent you've ever heard. | |
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On two separate occasions, Dogbert of Dilbert has pulled this. One was bluffing an incompetent security guard to the tune of, "Look fast!! There it is!! Not a pack of matches!!" The second was Dogbert seeing if he could "get away with crimes" by doing them with his ears up, making him look cuter, going out in a car, being pulled over for passing an ambulance on the right, and, we're told: |
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In Freefall the arctic base commander shows Florence his badge over videochat. Unfortunately, the line he was using belongs to Dr. Bowman, a supergenius who doesn't like him very much. | |
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In the Papers, Please crossover video Ponies Please, Pinky Pie follows Jorji's example with a ridiculously bad forgery. | |
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Supernatural The main characters pretend to be the FBI or police very often. Sometimes it happens that someone holds their badge upside down, or the picture shows somebody else. Played for Laughs in an episode where live action role players point out every flaw in their fake badges but just assume that the Winchesters are also role playing. |
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In Maskerade, where Andre tries to show Granny Weatherwax his watch badge to confirm that he's an undercover officer, he winds up dramatically pulling out his Musicians' Guild card instead. | |
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At the start of Hot Fuzz when Constable Nicholas Angel walks in and shows his badge to the audience, CGI is used to make his scowling face be the same one displayed as his ID photo. | |
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In the spoof film, The Silence of the Hams, agent Joe Dee Fostar flashes a waffle to the prison security. | |
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In Turnabout Storm, Phoenix is given a special attorney's badge that is the pinkest, most girly thing possible. And yes, that's the official attorney badge in Equestria. | |
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The X-Files. In "Pusher", the Villain of the Week has Psychic Powers that give him a Compelling Voice. We discover his powers work nonverbally as well when he strolls into FBI headquarters wearing a piece of paper pinned to his chest with BADGE written on it. | |
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The Games: In "Dead Man", Bryan explains to Jasmine how you can get past security just by being in a hurry, flashing any kind of ID, and brusquely stating the name of an agency, which they then put into practice as they barge through a secure area of the airport: | |
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Psychonauts 2: Coach Oleander's height is erroneously listed as 6'2 on his Psychonauts ID card. | |
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Zootopia: As the ZPD are arresting Mayor Lionheart and rescuing the missing mammals from the Cliffside Sanitarium, Nick Wilde is seen wearing aviator glasses and sipping a beverage. He thumbs his "badge" for the officers, despite it being a mere gold sticker on his shirt. This bluff fools no one, but since Nick isn't a suspect, there's no reason to detain him. | |
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Are You Being Served?. Mrs. Slocombe produces a photograph for her passport that unfortunately quite match the Elderly Blue-Haired Lady she is now (she's sticking her head through a hole in a life-sized photo of a buxom bathing beauty). Unfortunately a randy revolutionary gets hold of the photograph and Hilarity Ensues. | |
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In Rush Hour, Jackie Chan's character shows up halfway through a scene to cause a distraction, by flashing the American cop's badge. The American cop is black, and his picture has a big ol' afro. Then Chan drops the badge. In the second film, a female Secret Service agent shows her (valid) badge which is attached to her bra strap) by basically flashing the 2 main characters. Carter tells her to "show me your badge again". |
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In Men at Arms, the City Watch is still so poorly-thought of at this time that showing his entirely genuine badge wouldn't have got Nobby access to the city armory. Waving Sgt Colon's grocery bill around and claiming to be doing an audit, on the other hand... | |
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When Lucy first meets Gru and asks him to come with her in Despicable Me 2, she shows her Anti-Villain Group ID badge upside down. She corrects it immediately upon noticing. | |
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Get Smart. Secret agent Maxwell Smart shows his CONTROL badge to a woman he wants to interview. | |
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In The Blues Brothers when Jake fakes flashing a badge, it's actually an empty, flattened pack of cigarettes. | |
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The Patrick Star Show: In "Now Museum, Now You Don't", Cecil's museum security guard badge has him making an awkward, half-lidded expression while syrup is stuck on his face. Whether this means Cecil spilled syrup on the badge or he was covered in it when he got the photo taken is up to interpretation. | |
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In the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Scavenger Pants," SpongeBob and Patrick show their adoption certificates to Squidward; Patrick is holding his upside down. | |
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Doctor Who: The Doctor and companions frequently use psychic paper to fake whatever documents they need, but it doesn't always work as intended. Such as when Jack Harkness accidentally showed Rose papers that said he was single and worked out. | |
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In Undergrads, Rocko gets into a bar using a fake ID that is just a photo of him stapled to a piece of card with "I am 21 so drinking is yes" written on it. | |
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In one level from Poptropica, you get a fake PDC badge from Bert Shell, a crazed conspiracist. Dr. Lange sees through your badge, but lets you in anyways because she couldn't find any other willing volunteers. The reason she knows your badge is fake? It's written in crayon. | |
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In the 1990s, a series of TV advertisements parodied Inspector Morse, with Mel Smith playing the Inspector. In the accompanying print adverts, he was flashing an ID badge (with the name "E Morose") upside down. | |
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Kamp Koral: In "Pat's A Li'l Sinker", Patrick shows Mrs. Puff an obviously fake swim badge◊ that shows a drawing of him flailing in water. | |
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A recurring gag in The Three Stooges. Whenever the trio need to gain free entry to certain events, they'd pose as reporters by flashing buttons with "PRESS" printed on them... aside from Curley, whose button says "PULL". | |
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In one episode of Burn Notice, Sam Axe stalls for time by putting together a fake badge using a wallet and a cut up beer can. Pointedly Justified in that he says it only has to look good enough to keep the bad-guys at a distance of some 50-100 feet. | |
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Friends: In one episode Phoebe finds a genuine police badge in the couch cushions at Central Perk and starts using it to scold people for minor offenses she doesn't approve of, such as a woman who puts her cigarette out on a nearby tree. This backfires on Phoebe when she tries to scold a man for parking on a curb only to discover he's the cop whose badge she's been flashing around. | |
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Rock and Rule has Omar, Dizzy and Stretch abscond Sheriff Quadhole's vehicle to drive to Nuke York City. When they arrive, the whole place is in lockdown during a black-out, and police have posted checkpoints at major arteries. Omar attempts to bluff their way in, posing as the Ohmtown sheriff bringing two scientists to alleviate the problem. Omar's credentials get examined by the Lantern Jaw of Justice officer, who quickly recognizes a tuna fishing license in his hand and arrests all three imposters on the spot. | |
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Gravity Falls: In "Headhunters", Dipper and Mabel manage to get into a local Bad Guy Bar to interrogate Manly Dan by presenting fake IDs. These consists of pictures of themselves on white card with glitter, googly eyes, and the transparent pseudonyms "Lord Dippingsauce" and "Lady Mabelton". Also, Dipper's ID claims he's forty-five. | |
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