...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!

Playing Sick

643 statements
125 feature instances
253 referencing feature instances

Playing Sick	type	FeatureClass
Playing Sick	label	Playing Sick
Playing Sick	page	PlayingSick
Playing Sick	comment	Sometimes in a fictional story, a character will pretend to be sick (otherwise known as malingering). Most often, this is to avoid something unpleasant at school or work, such as a test, visit from management, or similar inconvenience. Some just do it to get a day off, and some just want attention. This is often accompanied by completely overblown "symptoms" (common are fake coughing, fake sneezing, and drawn-on rashes), often exaggerated further by the character holding a thermometer up to a light bulb, lamp, flashlight or tea to fake a temperature. In comedy, this almost never works, with the ruse either being readily discovered or backfiring on the character. A backfire might be whatever they were trying to avoid being moved to a day not covered by their ploy; it's also common for the character to end up missing out on something fun. Another risk is that the character may be compelled to take medicine (which is often Foul Medicine) or otherwise submit to medical treatment, as unpleasant and counterproductive as such things may be for someone who is not in fact sick. In some cases, the character starts out as genuinely sick, but they become so pampered by the care they receive that when they recover, they pretend to still be sick just so they still receive the special treatment. When we're talking about sex, normally it's when a married (or otherwise in a long-term relationship) couple doesn't have sex because he's in the mood (and it's almost always a man) but she is not (and it's almost always a woman). Not rarely, this will happen over and over again (because All Men Are Perverts and All Women Are Prudes), and it's also implicit (when not explicit) that she doesn't really love him/isn't attracted to him, or even that she's cheating on him. The woman usually feigns a headache, but any other disease will do. Sometimes, when she's really invested in the excuse, she'll pop up a pill (normally an aspirin, but any other appropriate drug will do) to "treat" her "disease", and will even start foreplay before suddenly dropping off with the headache excuse. For added irony, it is rather common for someone who's playing sick to actually get sick somewhere along the way. This is often depicted as Laser-Guided Karma. Doing this in the military, particularly during wartime can get you hauled before a Court Martial for the offense of Malingering. An even more serious version of this is Self Infliction of Wounds to avoid combat. Depending upon the circumstances, malingering can be construed as Misbehavior Toward the Enemy, which can be a capital offense. See MÃ¼nchausen Syndrome for the more serious, even pathological version. Also see Sick Captive Scam, for instances where a captive plays sick to get the drop on his captor. See also Getting Sick Deliberately, for instances where a character tries to make themselves sick to get out of something. Compare Do Well, But Not Perfect, Fake Faint, Faking Another Person's Illness, Hypochondria, Invented Invalid, Obfuscating Disability, Playing the Victim Card & You Don't Want to Catch This. Contrast Working Through the Cold and Feigning Healthiness. Can be a Grossout Fakeout if they fake some icky disease like a stomach bug, or a Wounded Gazelle Gambit if they're trying to gain sympathy. Will sometimes overlap with Skipping School if the character fakes illness to avoid a day or two of school.
Playing Sick	fetched	2024-03-03T00:01:58Z
Playing Sick	parsed	2024-03-03T00:01:58Z
Playing Sick	processingComment	Dropped link to CatchYourDeathOfCold: Not an Item - FEATURE
Playing Sick	processingComment	Dropped link to ChickenpoxEpisode: Not an Item - FEATURE
Playing Sick	processingComment	Dropped link to CurbStompBattle: Not an Item - FEATURE
Playing Sick	processingComment	Dropped link to ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Not an Item - FEATURE
Playing Sick	processingComment	Dropped link to EyeContact: Not an Item - UNKNOWN
Playing Sick	processingComment	Dropped link to NosyNeighbour: Not an Item - UNKNOWN
Playing Sick	processingComment	Dropped link to OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Not an Item - FEATURE
Playing Sick	processingComment	Dropped link to PointyHairedBoss: Not an Item - FEATURE
Playing Sick	processingComment	Dropped link to WeirdAlYankovic: Not an Item - IGNORE
Playing Sick	processingUnknown	Eye Contact
Playing Sick	processingUnknown	NosyNeighbour
Playing Sick	isPartOf	DBTropes
Playing Sick / int_145e43f2	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_145e43f2	comment	West Meadows Detectives: In The Case of Maker Mischief, Myron and Hajrah can't find Lionel, a suspect in the theft of Jordan and Glitch's robot, because he went home sick. But Glitch tells them she saw Lionel earlier and he was fine. It turns out Lionel stole the plans for the robot because he was mad at Glitch for not helping him build his own robot. He was going to return the plans, but when the robot itself went missing, he knew he couldn't admit to taking the plans without becoming a suspect, so he panicked and pretended to be sick so he could go home early.
Playing Sick / int_145e43f2	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_145e43f2	featureConfidence	1.0
West Meadows Detectives	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_145e43f2
Playing Sick / int_14db3813	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_14db3813	comment	Lucky Jim: Catchpole argues that Margaret's suicide attempt and general demeanor of mental illness are not genuine and are just a ploy for attention. After hearing this Jim decides not to worry about her anymore.
Playing Sick / int_14db3813	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_14db3813	featureConfidence	1.0
Lucky Jim	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_14db3813
Playing Sick / int_17e0915e	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_17e0915e	comment	Manga Soprano: "My sister robbed my parents and my lover": Natsu faked illness so that her parents would spoil her and drive them away from her sister Haru. Moreover, she also did this to steal Narita from her. "A girl fakes her illness trying to win a boy's heart...but what happens when she goes too far" [sic]: Momoko faked anemia to have Narita tend to her because she fell in love with him. However, when Haru interrupts the last time she does this, Narita reveals he already knew she was faking. "Mom Friend Makes Me Pay For Her Restaurant Bill â†’ But When I Said I Canceled My Reservationâ€¦": Sakura faked sickness as part of her plan to punish Kechimi for bullying and taking advantage of Haru. "New employee fakes she's ill...what happens when a psychopath comes to check on her from work": Maho Tanaka pretended to be mentally ill to slack off at work while slandering her superior, Kanade, by claiming she abused her authority. However, Maho escalated her lie until she posted a video threatening to hang herself in social media, over which Casino came to her house with a knife to kill her until she admitted it was all a ruse. Since then, she has worked more diligently, although out of fear Casino will kill her if she doesn't.
Playing Sick / int_17e0915e	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_17e0915e	featureConfidence	1.0
Manga Soprano (Web Animation)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_17e0915e
Playing Sick / int_17fa5f0a	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_17fa5f0a	comment	In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Ron intends to explain why he isn't returning to Hogwarts by claiming to be ill with spattergroit (a highly contagious fungal disease), and has a ghoul impersonate him in bed with the condition. He does this with his family's assistance, since they're really all in danger.
Playing Sick / int_17fa5f0a	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_17fa5f0a	featureConfidence	1.0
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_17fa5f0a
Playing Sick / int_192edecf	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_192edecf	comment	one night, hot springs: In last day of spring, Haru tells Erika that she's fallen sick to avoid having the spa day Erika was planning for her birthday because she was too anxious about the thought of exposing her (biologically male) body around Manami, her childhood friend and longtime crush.
Playing Sick / int_192edecf	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_192edecf	featureConfidence	1.0
one night, hot springs (Visual Novel)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_192edecf
Playing Sick / int_19abbeb9	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_19abbeb9	comment	The Smurfs do this in the comic book story The Reporter Smurf to fool Gargamel into thinking he has contracted a disease from them that turns humans into toads.
Playing Sick / int_19abbeb9	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_19abbeb9	featureConfidence	1.0
The Smurfs (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_19abbeb9
Playing Sick / int_1b2c1d06	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_1b2c1d06	comment	Get Married If You Can: Gustavo Senior pretends to be terminally ill in an attempt to speed up his sonâ€™s presumed wedding.
Playing Sick / int_1b2c1d06	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_1b2c1d06	featureConfidence	1.0
Get Married If You Can	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_1b2c1d06
Playing Sick / int_1b4b43ad	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_1b4b43ad	comment	In the Lamb Chop's Play-Along episode "Too Sick to Go to the Circus," Lamb Chop has a cold, which inspires Charlie Horse and Hush Puppy to pretend to be sick too to get out of school. Shari sees straight through it but pretends to be fooled, gives them Foul Medicine, and then keeps them home from their class's field trip to the circus, even though they're instantly "cured" when they learn about it.
Playing Sick / int_1b4b43ad	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_1b4b43ad	featureConfidence	1.0
Lamb Chop's Play-Along	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_1b4b43ad
Playing Sick / int_2126592a	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_2126592a	comment	In Girls und Panzer, Miho is distracted in class after hearing that her new school is bringing back tankery, and the student council wants her to participate, so the teacher suggests she go to the nurse's office. As she's leaving, her new friends Saori and Hana lie and say that they're not feeling well so they can follow Miho to the nurse's office and check up on her.
Playing Sick / int_2126592a	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_2126592a	featureConfidence	1.0
Girls und Panzer	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_2126592a
Playing Sick / int_2192aeb3	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_2192aeb3	comment	Fire Emblem: Makalov in Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn exemplifies this trope, frequently making excuses and trying to got out of battles and debts by feigning illness. After the game's lord, Ike, overhears him planning this, Makalov is told that the company payed off his debts, that he would be working for free for a while, and not to even think about being sick. In Fire Emblem: Awakening, in a support conversation, Yarne was feigning illnesses to avoid marching. Laurent, who notices, didn't buy it one bit.
Playing Sick / int_2192aeb3	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_2192aeb3	featureConfidence	1.0
Fire Emblem (Franchise)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_2192aeb3
Playing Sick / int_22ab7346	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_22ab7346	comment	In The Worst Thing About My Sister, Marty doesn't want to go to Alicia's birthday party, so she puts her head under her toy whale to fake a fever and draws on her face with red crayon.
Playing Sick / int_22ab7346	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_22ab7346	featureConfidence	1.0
The Worst Thing About My Sister	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_22ab7346
Playing Sick / int_2372fc33	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_2372fc33	comment	At SummerSlam 1993, Bret Hart was slated to face Jerry Lawler, who had been incessantly making jokes about Bret's family. The day of the match, Lawler came to the ring on crutches, claiming to have been in a car accident, and had Doink the Clown take his place. When Bret had Doink locked in the Sharpshooter, Lawler tried to attack him with one of the crutches. Doink was disqualified for the interference, but because it proved Lawler was fine, the ref forced Lawler to face Bret right then and there.
Playing Sick / int_2372fc33	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_2372fc33	featureConfidence	1.0
SummerSlam (Wrestling)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_2372fc33
Playing Sick / int_26cdb9de	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_26cdb9de	comment	Shining Star: In episode 32, Nara gets a ticket to Friday's concert. However, she has to practice with Melody, and as she's depressed over this, the others think she's sick. This gives Nara the idea to fake being sick so she can go to the concert.
Playing Sick / int_26cdb9de	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_26cdb9de	featureConfidence	1.0
Shining Star (Animation)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_26cdb9de
Playing Sick / int_271ca0e1	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_271ca0e1	comment	In You and Your Stupid Mate, Jeffrey and Philip tell the unemployment office they're sick, when they're really attending a protest to stop Jeffrey's favorite Sons and Surf character from being killed off. Rossiter sees through their story and follows them to the protest.
Playing Sick / int_271ca0e1	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_271ca0e1	featureConfidence	1.0
You and Your Stupid Mate	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_271ca0e1
Playing Sick / int_2779b11d	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_2779b11d	comment	In Himouto! Umaru-chan, Umaru fakes a fever (by rubbing the thermometer against her side rapidly to heat it up via friction) so she can stay home from school and play video games. After seeing how hard her brother Taihei worked to take care of her, she felt guilty and confessed to the trick, earning his ire.
Playing Sick / int_2779b11d	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_2779b11d	featureConfidence	1.0
Himouto! Umaru-chan (Manga)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_2779b11d
Playing Sick / int_2b4ed8de	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_2b4ed8de	comment	One episode of Yo-kai Watch has Nate pretending to be sick so he can stay home to play video games. He gets a youkai to help pretend he has a fever. Duchoo gives Nate an in-depth explanation on how to fake being sick. It fails when Nate is unable to heat the thermometer as his mother is watching. Another yokai named Coughkoff comes around and helps Nate fake a cough, which works. However it works a bit too much and he ends up with a fever. Nate ends up too sick to play video games.
Playing Sick / int_2b4ed8de	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_2b4ed8de	featureConfidence	1.0
Yo-kai Watch	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_2b4ed8de
Playing Sick / int_316ce2ea	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_316ce2ea	comment	Roger the Doger in The Beano has tried this dodge on numerous occasions. The usual outcomes are either that he really gets sick (possibly with no-one believing him), or he misses out on something good "because he's sick" (with it varying whether this is genuine on his parents' part, or just them playing the dodge back at him).
Playing Sick / int_316ce2ea	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_316ce2ea	featureConfidence	1.0
The Beano (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_316ce2ea
Playing Sick / int_332b10eb	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_332b10eb	comment	Theresa & Allison: Theresa pretended to be extremely drunk and needing help getting into her apartment, luring a woman there helping her, who she'd then fed on.
Playing Sick / int_332b10eb	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_332b10eb	featureConfidence	1.0
Theresa & Allison	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_332b10eb
Playing Sick / int_353bdeb0	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_353bdeb0	comment	In one of the Founding of the Commonwealth novels, a thranx claims he'd been ill in the bathroom to explain his absence when he sneaked into the human compound. He then deliberately prepares a meal of spoiled vegetables and eats it all, so he can report to the infirmary with a genuine illness and back up his deception.
Playing Sick / int_353bdeb0	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_353bdeb0	featureConfidence	1.0
Humanx Commonwealth	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_353bdeb0
Playing Sick / int_375da5af	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_375da5af	comment	In the movie E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Elliott very convincingly pretends to be sick (even warming the thermometer using a light bulb) so he can be alone with his new alien friend. Taken from Steven Spielberg's own childhood; he sometimes faked being sick to stay home from school. A bonus scene in the 20th Anniversary Edition has him also very convincingly pretending to throw up on the phone to make his mother let him get back to taking care of E.T. after she calls to check on him.
Playing Sick / int_375da5af	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_375da5af	featureConfidence	1.0
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_375da5af
Playing Sick / int_37cfcb80	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_37cfcb80	comment	The series Paranoia Agent is made of this trope. Lil' Slugger is essentially a means of feigning injury in order to shirk personal responsibilities.
Playing Sick / int_37cfcb80	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_37cfcb80	featureConfidence	1.0
Paranoia Agent	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_37cfcb80
Playing Sick / int_385e3aa8	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_385e3aa8	comment	In a story from the Andy Griffiths' Just Series book "Just Crazy", Andy doesn't want to be in a play so he does this. It doesn't work so he tries to actually get sick.
Playing Sick / int_385e3aa8	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_385e3aa8	featureConfidence	1.0
Andy Griffiths' Just Series	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_385e3aa8
Playing Sick / int_3c33a32c	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_3c33a32c	comment	Discussed in The Day of the Jackal; when an assassin disguises himself as an elderly veteran, the Master Forger who forged his documents tells him to swallow some cordite, as it gives whoever does so a grey pallor that makes them look sick. The forger mentioned that this was done in the army as a way of getting out of fatigue duty.
Playing Sick / int_3c33a32c	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_3c33a32c	featureConfidence	1.0
The Day of the Jackal	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_3c33a32c
Playing Sick / int_3c4ddc1e	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_3c4ddc1e	comment	In For Better or for Worse, Michael catches a real virus and misses a few days of school. When Elly tells him that he's recovered enough to go back to school, he starts coughing loudly and groans about being in terrible pain. Cut to Michael walking to school with Lawrence and saying, "I guess I over-acted."
Playing Sick / int_3c4ddc1e	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_3c4ddc1e	featureConfidence	1.0
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_3c4ddc1e
Playing Sick / int_3efdce9	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_3efdce9	comment	In Edgedancer, parents who can no longer take care of their children due to injury give them to The Stump, who accuses them of faking their infirmity for free food and bed. She seems like a jerkass at first, but Lift notices that lots of children walk out of the orphanage seemingly miraculously recovered, and suspects that she gets conned a lot. None of the children were faking. The Stump is a latent Truthwatcher who was healing the children without realizing it.
Playing Sick / int_3efdce9	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_3efdce9	featureConfidence	1.0
Edgedancer	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_3efdce9
Playing Sick / int_3f4a104b	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_3f4a104b	comment	Dilbert: This is done in a strip where Dogbert describes sick days as "Vacation days with sound effects", and depicts Dilbert with a makeshift slingshot made out of kitchen furniture loaded with a chicken calling his boss and saying "Don't be surprised if I cough and you hear my lungs hit the refrigerator". Parodied when Dilbert calls in sick and pretends to have a cough. He then admits that he doesn't have a cold, but he does have a headache, and he doesn't know how to make a headache sound over the phone. Inverted in another strip, where the Alice (who still looks rather sick) comes to work after taking a sick day, and the PHB tells her he was suspicious of her taking it on a Monday. She then turns to him and coughs up what appears to be a lung and a spleen. In the last panel, she tells Dilbert and Wally, "It was a good thing I had some extra organs."
Playing Sick / int_3f4a104b	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_3f4a104b	featureConfidence	1.0
Dilbert (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_3f4a104b
Playing Sick / int_3f4c0009	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_3f4c0009	comment	In The Family Circus, Billy claims to be too sick for school, only to say he's feeling better when he sees the school bus drive off. Unfortunately for him, his mother seemingly had anticipated this, and already had the car warmed up and ready so he wouldn't be late for school.
Playing Sick / int_3f4c0009	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_3f4c0009	featureConfidence	1.0
The Family Circus (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_3f4c0009
Playing Sick / int_400469e	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_400469e	comment	Calvin and Hobbes: Subverted in a strip. Calvin won't get up because he's too sick. His mother mentions that it's Saturday and he won't miss school, but Calvin's only response is to curl up further in his blankets and mutter "I know". Cue final scene of his frantic mother dashing to the phone to call a doctor. Played straight on other occasions. Once Calvin even got himself sick on purpose (by sticking his head out the window) in order to delay turning in an assignment. Calvin tried to pull this off in one strip, but he made the ailments sound so severe, his mom decided to go call the doctor. Suddenly, Calvin was feeling better.
Playing Sick / int_400469e	featureApplicability	-0.3
Playing Sick / int_400469e	featureConfidence	1.0
Calvin and Hobbes (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_400469e
Playing Sick / int_4037825e	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_4037825e	comment	China's Wei General Sima Yi pulled this trick (along with his sons, too) so that he could plot a coup in secret without anyone being suspicious. This is also written in the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Cao Cao did this as well. Not to say, they both faked to have some kind of neurological disorder in front of people; Sima pretended to have what we call Alzheimer's now, and Cao pretended he had stroke— when he was a teenager. Lu Meng also used a fake illness to put Guan Yu off his guard.
Playing Sick / int_4037825e	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_4037825e	featureConfidence	1.0
Romance of the Three Kingdoms	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_4037825e
Playing Sick / int_413d7fe6	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_413d7fe6	comment	Dirty Bertie: In "Pants!", Bertie loses a bet and has to go to school in his underwear. To get out of it, Bertie pretends he has "Germy Measles" and the spots are invisible, but his mother doesn't buy it and sends him to school anyway. In "Worms!", Bertie considers faking a disease to get out of going to Angela's birthday party, but opts for Faking Amnesia instead. In "Crackers!", Bertie doesn't want his cranky great-aunt Morag to stay, so he tells his mother to say they're sick, but she disapproves. In "Germs!", Bertie tries to pretend he's caught Suzie's chicken pox, but it doesn't work, so he tries to catch it for real.
Playing Sick / int_413d7fe6	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_413d7fe6	featureConfidence	1.0
Dirty Bertie	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_413d7fe6
Playing Sick / int_46518682	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_46518682	comment	In the Sesame Street picture book "Nobody Cares About Me!" Big Bird pretends to be sick because he's jealous that all his friends are paying more attention to Ernie, who has a cold. Unfortunately, he wakes up the next morning to find he's caught Ernie's cold for real.
Playing Sick / int_46518682	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_46518682	featureConfidence	1.0
Sesame Street	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_46518682
Playing Sick / int_4ab17360	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_4ab17360	comment	In Inuyasha, Kagome's absences from school to go time-traveling in Feudal Japan are attributed to increasingly bizarre illnesses that still somehow manage to fool her friends. Maybe she should try for some smarter friends...
Playing Sick / int_4ab17360	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_4ab17360	featureConfidence	1.0
Inuyasha (Manga)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_4ab17360
Playing Sick / int_4ccf8068	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_4ccf8068	comment	Thirteen Days: During the Cuban Missile Crisis, Press Secretary Pierre Salinger, who is Locked Out of the Loop, is told that the next day the president's going to have a cold. He isn't told anything else, except how bad it is is up to him. The reason is that Kennedy needs to get back to Washington so he can deal with the crisis without letting on what's going on.
Playing Sick / int_4ccf8068	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_4ccf8068	featureConfidence	1.0
Thirteen Days	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_4ccf8068
Playing Sick / int_4d62b918	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_4d62b918	comment	A Very Long Rope to the Top of the Sky: An Alluvian student:
Playing Sick / int_4d62b918	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_4d62b918	featureConfidence	1.0
A Very Long Rope to the Top of the Sky (Video Game)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_4d62b918
Playing Sick / int_4fd9904a	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_4fd9904a	comment	In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Fred and George Weasley's "Skiving Snackboxes". Eating one half of the candy will make you graphically ill; upon being excused from your class, you eat the other half, which restores you to perfect health. There are different varieties that make you throw up, faint, have a nosebleed, or come down with a fever and break out in massive, pus-filled boils.
Playing Sick / int_4fd9904a	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_4fd9904a	featureConfidence	1.0
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_4fd9904a
Playing Sick / int_5050b585	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_5050b585	comment	The Child of Love: In chapter 6 Asuka does not want that Rei spends time with Shinji while they walk to the base, so she pretends to faint and fall sick again, hoping that Shinji stays at home with her.
Playing Sick / int_5050b585	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_5050b585	featureConfidence	1.0
The Child of Love (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_5050b585
Playing Sick / int_53fdef82	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_53fdef82	comment	Snow White with the Red Hair: When Lord Rugilia wants to prevent Shirayuki and Ryuu from leaving he has his retainer fake an illness with a large audience of nobles so the two pharmacists will have to stick around to treat him or potentially lose their licenses. It later turns out that the ploy was to prevent Obi, who was acting as Shirayuki's bodyguard at the gathering from leaving before they could discuss a possible poisoning plot without attracting any suspicion from other nobles.
Playing Sick / int_53fdef82	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_53fdef82	featureConfidence	1.0
Snow White with the Red Hair (Manga)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_53fdef82
Playing Sick / int_57e6c245	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_57e6c245	comment	A story arc in PreTeena has Teena Keene, normally an A student, panicked into faking illness to escape a test she hasn't prepared for. Older sister Jeri, a veteran of escaping tests and homework by similar ploys, congratulates her for coming over to the dark side, but Teena's conscience gets the better of her and she shamefacedly confesses and apologises.
Playing Sick / int_57e6c245	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_57e6c245	featureConfidence	1.0
PreTeena (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_57e6c245
Playing Sick / int_58f28be1	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_58f28be1	comment	Paulie Gatto does this in The Godfather, calling in sick one day - which just happened to be the day Don Corleone got shot. Paulie's shown still playing sick a few days later to uphold the ruse, but Sonny knows he was faking and orders Clemenza to kill him.
Playing Sick / int_58f28be1	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_58f28be1	featureConfidence	1.0
The Godfather	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_58f28be1
Playing Sick / int_5ab01893	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_5ab01893	comment	Both Momo and Lulu have done this in Cream Heroes. Momo faked heavy breathing to get out of his daily exercise but tests at the vet showed he was actually in very good condition. While Lulu had put some strain on his legs, his lack of limping at the cat hospital shows he was exaggerating the pain for extra treats and sympathy.
Playing Sick / int_5ab01893	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_5ab01893	featureConfidence	1.0
Cream Heroes (Web Video)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_5ab01893
Playing Sick / int_5b3356f8	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_5b3356f8	comment	In the Turning Red fic The Panda Chronicles, Aaron Z. opens a window to make it seem like Tae Young had caught a cold from leaving the window open overnight in January. The Aarons also make up his face to look tired, mess up his hair, bundle him up in robes and blankets, and have him act weak and pathetic.
Playing Sick / int_5b3356f8	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_5b3356f8	featureConfidence	1.0
Turning Red	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_5b3356f8
Playing Sick / int_5eb346d4	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_5eb346d4	comment	In an episode of the manga of Strawberry Marshmallow, Chika really is sick, and is being cared for by her big sister. Miu pretends to be sick, as well, to gain attention. (Though by the end of the episode, Miu actually gets sick, probably due to prolonged exposure to an airborne illness, and is taken to the doctor.)
Playing Sick / int_5eb346d4	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_5eb346d4	featureConfidence	1.0
Strawberry Marshmallow (Manga)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_5eb346d4
Playing Sick / int_5ed588c	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_5ed588c	comment	Crackerjack: On the phone, Jack tells Dave that he has told his boss he thinks he is developing a migraine as preparation for bunking off in the afternoon. Unfortunately, this happens to be the phone call his boss recorded for his weekly performance review.
Playing Sick / int_5ed588c	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_5ed588c	featureConfidence	1.0
Crackerjack	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_5ed588c
Playing Sick / int_61e4b8a5	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_61e4b8a5	comment	Crabgrass: Miles pretends to be sick in this comic to get out of a history quiz at school, complete with using the lamp next to his bed to warm the thermometer. His mom is about to see through his lie, but goes along with it so she herself has an excuse to stay home with Miles and not having to go to several appointments with her husband.
Playing Sick / int_61e4b8a5	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_61e4b8a5	featureConfidence	1.0
Crabgrass (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_61e4b8a5
Playing Sick / int_61fdfa6a	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_61fdfa6a	comment	In Drive a Crooked Road, Steve tells Eddie to fake a toothache at work during the afternoon to give him an excuse not to come to work the next day they plan to pull the Bank Robbery.
Playing Sick / int_61fdfa6a	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_61fdfa6a	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive a Crooked Road	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_61fdfa6a
Playing Sick / int_6211e227	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_6211e227	comment	Kedabory's Elmore Chronicles: In the November 15th installment of "The Voicemails", Brent fakes having a fever by putting his face up to the heater so he can stay home with Steve, who is actually sick.
Playing Sick / int_6211e227	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_6211e227	featureConfidence	1.0
Kedabory's Elmore Chronicles (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_6211e227
Playing Sick / int_62124bf0	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_62124bf0	comment	Upon beating BLUE REVOLVER as Val, it's revealed that the events of the game are All Just a Dream that leaves her so bewildered that she decides to call out of work for the day.
Playing Sick / int_62124bf0	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_62124bf0	featureConfidence	1.0
Blue Revolver (Video Game)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_62124bf0
Playing Sick / int_643dd72	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_643dd72	comment	Two Lumps: During a flashback sequence, kitten-Eben gets sick shortly after he and kitten-Snooch are adopted. note Which actually happened to both of the Real Life cats. Once Snooch finds out that his brother is being given pureed chicken to encourage him to eat, he immediately fakes the same symptoms.
Playing Sick / int_643dd72	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_643dd72	featureConfidence	1.0
Two Lumps (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_643dd72
Playing Sick / int_64daa059	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_64daa059	comment	Zenobia July: When Zen hears that her classmate Elijah is trans and has been Forced Out of the Closet to the whole school, she's so upset by what happened to him, and by the idea that it might happen to her, that she feels like she can't finish the school day. She tells the nurse she has a stomachache and groans in pretend pain until Phil comes to take her home.
Playing Sick / int_64daa059	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_64daa059	featureConfidence	1.0
Zenobia July	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_64daa059
Playing Sick / int_6bef8832	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_6bef8832	comment	Baldur's Gate III: One way to enter the House of Healing is to convince the undead receptionist that a party member is ill, to which they will swoon dramatically. Or if you have Astarion speak to her, there is an option to point out how pale and sickly he looks, to which she will agree with no roll required.
Playing Sick / int_6bef8832	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_6bef8832	featureConfidence	1.0
Baldur's Gate III (Video Game)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_6bef8832
Playing Sick / int_6c1d09b3	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_6c1d09b3	comment	In Fallout 3, claiming to be sick is one of the dialogue options before taking the G.O.A.T. exam. However, your father is the Vault doctor, too and very quickly shuts down the attempt with a light mocking. If you chose this dialogue option, another character comments on you trying the old "I'm sick" routine. Mocked by Liam Neeson, and check one more off the list.
Playing Sick / int_6c1d09b3	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_6c1d09b3	featureConfidence	1.0
Fallout 3 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_6c1d09b3
Playing Sick / int_6cb2d709	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_6cb2d709	comment	From the Harry Potter books: In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Fred and George Weasley's "Skiving Snackboxes". Eating one half of the candy will make you graphically ill; upon being excused from your class, you eat the other half, which restores you to perfect health. There are different varieties that make you throw up, faint, have a nosebleed, or come down with a fever and break out in massive, pus-filled boils. In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Ron intends to explain why he isn't returning to Hogwarts by claiming to be ill with spattergroit (a highly contagious fungal disease), and has a ghoul impersonate him in bed with the condition. He does this with his family's assistance, since they're really all in danger.
Playing Sick / int_6cb2d709	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_6cb2d709	featureConfidence	1.0
Harry Potter (Franchise)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_6cb2d709
Playing Sick / int_6f1bcb62	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_6f1bcb62	comment	Makalov in Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn exemplifies this trope, frequently making excuses and trying to got out of battles and debts by feigning illness. After the game's lord, Ike, overhears him planning this, Makalov is told that the company payed off his debts, that he would be working for free for a while, and not to even think about being sick.
Playing Sick / int_6f1bcb62	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_6f1bcb62	featureConfidence	1.0
Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance (Video Game)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_6f1bcb62
Playing Sick / int_6f76d71a	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_6f76d71a	comment	The Sims can sometimes call in sick to get a day off, with fake coughing and chuckling when they think the person on the other end can't hear them.
Playing Sick / int_6f76d71a	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_6f76d71a	featureConfidence	1.0
The Sims (Video Game)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_6f76d71a
Playing Sick / int_7041cf12	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_7041cf12	comment	Meta example in Kaguya-sama: Love Is War where the author feigned illness as an excuse for why volume 5 lacked any jokes on the inside cover.
Playing Sick / int_7041cf12	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_7041cf12	featureConfidence	1.0
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War (Manga)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_7041cf12
Playing Sick / int_705bb59a	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_705bb59a	comment	Vampire: The Masquerade has "Schere's Disease". It was created to mimic vampire symptoms and to be used as a cover-story, explaining why someone burns in sunlight and needs to drink blood from a medical perspective. The Schere Foundation was simultaneously created to give out false information about the disorder and provide medical credentials for individual vampires who might need them.
Playing Sick / int_705bb59a	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_705bb59a	featureConfidence	1.0
Vampire: The Masquerade (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_705bb59a
Playing Sick / int_73d660e	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_73d660e	comment	Konata of Lucky Star often makes up different excuses to skip school, including playing sick. So much so, that when she actually does get sick, she gets hit with accusations of Crying Wolf.
Playing Sick / int_73d660e	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_73d660e	featureConfidence	1.0
Lucky Star (Manga)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_73d660e
Playing Sick / int_755e2357	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_755e2357	comment	ArthÃ©on from Noob frequently does this for the double benefit of not having to go to class and getting his overprotective mother to leave him alone "so he can rest".
Playing Sick / int_755e2357	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_755e2357	featureConfidence	1.0
Noob (Franchise)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_755e2357
Playing Sick / int_7715fef8	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_7715fef8	comment	MOON â€“ Subaru Solitude Standing has the titular heroine use pneumonia as an excuse to not go on a dance tour of her troupe. She's suspected of faking, as people see her out shopping. She wasn't faking the pneumonia and has a relapse.
Playing Sick / int_7715fef8	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_7715fef8	featureConfidence	1.0
MOON – Subaru Solitude Standing (Manga)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_7715fef8
Playing Sick / int_77c1cdcc	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_77c1cdcc	comment	In the Little Princess book I Feel Sick, the Princess pretends she's sick by painting her face green in order to get out of doing things she doesn't want.
Playing Sick / int_77c1cdcc	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_77c1cdcc	featureConfidence	1.0
Little Princess	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_77c1cdcc
Playing Sick / int_795497fd	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_795497fd	comment	Youth (2017): Xiaoping plays sick to try and get out of performing. When she's given a thermometer, she swaps it for another one to simulate a fever.
Playing Sick / int_795497fd	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_795497fd	featureConfidence	1.0
Youth (2017)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_795497fd
Playing Sick / int_7f488204	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_7f488204	comment	Sunny from Call Me Sunflower fakes a terrible stomachache so she can get out of school and attend an animal rights protest instead.
Playing Sick / int_7f488204	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_7f488204	featureConfidence	1.0
Call Me Sunflower	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_7f488204
Playing Sick / int_819e9a86	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_819e9a86	comment	Eraser. Johnny Casteleone has to pretend to be sick for a plot-related reason, so chews a mouthful of alka seltzer so he'll start frothing at the mouth. Unfortunately he then yanks out the cords on the paramedic's heart monitor, causing it to flatline. Hilarity Ensues.
Playing Sick / int_819e9a86	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_819e9a86	featureConfidence	1.0
Eraser	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_819e9a86
Playing Sick / int_81ab1d73	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_81ab1d73	comment	Lucy's Secret: Discussed — Lucy, having wet the bed in the night, is sleep deprived and thus considers playing sick so she can stay home from school. She decides not to, however, lest she spark paranoia, as often happens when a Loud actually gets sick. Discussed again when Lucy is about to go to a sleepover, and considers pretending she's sick to her stomach, but changes her mind.
Playing Sick / int_81ab1d73	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_81ab1d73	featureConfidence	1.0
Lucys Secret (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_81ab1d73
Playing Sick / int_839436	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_839436	comment	In Rent-A-Girlfriend, Kazuya is working at his part-time job at the karaoke place when his ex-girlfriend Mami goes into a booth together with Chizuru (the rental girlfriend Kazuya regularly hires). When the two of them leave, Kazuya wants to follow them, so he drinks water and induces vomiting to have an excuse to go home for the day.
Playing Sick / int_839436	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_839436	featureConfidence	1.0
Rent-A-Girlfriend (Manga)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_839436
Playing Sick / int_86772227	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_86772227	comment	Bob in Knights of the Dinner Table habitually claimed to be sick to avoid going to work when it would interfere with his gaming. After getting caught at it once too often, he was fired and thrown out by his angry and disappointed father.
Playing Sick / int_86772227	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_86772227	featureConfidence	1.0
Knights of the Dinner Table (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_86772227
Playing Sick / int_893bf98d	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_893bf98d	comment	A deleted chapter from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory involves this. Willy Wonka shows the tour group a room in which Spotty Powder, which you put over your cereal in the morning like sugar. You then eat the powder and get spots on your face, so that when your mother sees you across the table, she'll think you're ill and send you to bed. Perfect for the day you have exams (as Charlie declares). Deleted characters Miranda Mary Piker (a school-obsessed, snobby girl) and her father (a headmaster) are both appalled by this and try to destroy the machine. They walk into the room where the machine that makes the powder is being made and are last heard laughing their heads off for some unknown reason.
Playing Sick / int_893bf98d	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_893bf98d	featureConfidence	1.0
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_893bf98d
Playing Sick / int_8ad918d7	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_8ad918d7	comment	Tutter on Bear in the Big Blue House feigns being sick once to try to avoid going to Mouse School.
Playing Sick / int_8ad918d7	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_8ad918d7	featureConfidence	1.0
Bear in the Big Blue House	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_8ad918d7
Playing Sick / int_8c6f1ed3	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_8c6f1ed3	comment	In Lily and Dunkin, faking a stomachache is one of Lily's tricks for getting out of Gym Class Hell.
Playing Sick / int_8c6f1ed3	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_8c6f1ed3	featureConfidence	1.0
Lily and Dunkin	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_8c6f1ed3
Playing Sick / int_8d8c2d3	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_8d8c2d3	comment	No One Needed to Know: After hours of mockery from her classmates, Heidi tells the teacher she doesn't feel well. She doesn't get to go home because she doesn't have a fever, but she does get to spend an hour "resting" in the nurse's office. Rather than tell her parents about the bullying, she tells them she's sick and gets the rest of the week off.
Playing Sick / int_8d8c2d3	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_8d8c2d3	featureConfidence	1.0
No One Needed to Know	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_8d8c2d3
Playing Sick / int_8fa51384	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_8fa51384	comment	Mary Musgrove of Persuasion suffers frequent "nervous ailments" that confine her to the couch, until her family members start giving her the level of attention that she's looking for.
Playing Sick / int_8fa51384	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_8fa51384	featureConfidence	1.0
Persuasion	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_8fa51384
Playing Sick / int_92ef018a	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_92ef018a	comment	This is, of course, the entire impetus to the plot of Ferris Bueller's Day Off. He even explains how to do it.
Playing Sick / int_92ef018a	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_92ef018a	featureConfidence	1.0
Ferris Bueller's Day Off	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_92ef018a
Playing Sick / int_9350279e	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_9350279e	comment	Crayon Shin-chan has an Injured Limb Episode where the titular character sprained his ankle and needs to stay at home for at least a week until he recovered. But when Shin's mother, Misae, is out on an errand, Shin realized he had healed, and decided to pretend he's still injured to get a few days off for free.
Playing Sick / int_9350279e	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_9350279e	featureConfidence	1.0
Crayon Shin-chan (Manga)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_9350279e
Playing Sick / int_938e19ec	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_938e19ec	comment	Fraggle Rock: Toward the beginning of "All Work and All Play", Cotterpin is sitting on a bench drawing instead of studying for the ceremony of taking the helmet. When she hears her mother calling to her, she lies across the bench and says that her brain is being squished into her toes from overstudying. Cotterpin's mom sees right through it.
Playing Sick / int_938e19ec	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_938e19ec	featureConfidence	1.0
Fraggle Rock	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_938e19ec
Playing Sick / int_958a5f0f	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_958a5f0f	comment	In Judas Kiss, Detective Grimes fakes having a broken foot to avoid having to investigate Becky Hornbeck's murder. This tells Detective Friedman that Grimes knew that Becky was going to murdered before the fact, as he had enough time to fake his injury.
Playing Sick / int_958a5f0f	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_958a5f0f	featureConfidence	1.0
Judas Kiss	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_958a5f0f
Playing Sick / int_9688ee61	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_9688ee61	comment	The plot of an Ouran High School Host Club episode starts off with Kaoru pretending to be sick so that he could set Hikaru up with Haruhi on a date. Hilarity Ensues with Tamaki getting jealous and the rest of the club trying to help the date go well.
Playing Sick / int_9688ee61	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_9688ee61	featureConfidence	1.0
Ouran High School Host Club (Manga)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_9688ee61
Playing Sick / int_973412c7	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_973412c7	comment	ATTACK on MIKA: The episode My sick and coddled sister said she wanted my boyfriend... has a variant of this. Kasumi did suffer a respiratory ailment earlier on, but after her operation, she faked it to get attention and pit them against her older sister Masumi. Years later, Kasumi is still faking her ailment and found Masumi dating a guy named Ren, whom she sets her sights on. When the couple comes to the sisters' parents' house, Ren calls Kasumi out for faking her sickness, even showing her parents a photo of himself at the slots, and Kasumi is shown smoking. She then rants at Ren unknowingly exposing her own facade to her parents.
Playing Sick / int_973412c7	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_973412c7	featureConfidence	1.0
ATTACK on MIKA (Web Animation)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_973412c7
Playing Sick / int_98a0a468	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_98a0a468	comment	The Black Hole: Captain Holland has ordered that If I Do Not Return, Lt. Pizer is to leave in the Palomino before the Cygnus flies into the black hole. Holland and the others then get pinned down by the Security androids and can't make it to their spacecraft. Pizer runs to help them, but Booth pretends to have broken his leg so he can stay behind and escape in the spacecraft.
Playing Sick / int_98a0a468	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_98a0a468	featureConfidence	1.0
The Black Hole	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_98a0a468
Playing Sick / int_a18a93e6	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_a18a93e6	comment	Dolphin Song: One day the Alpha Bitch Priscilla is especially nasty to Melody and hints that Melody's best friend Kim has ditched her to join Priscilla's Girl Posse. Melody feels emotionally exhausted and struggles to hold back tears. She tells Mrs Jennings she's sick, and Mrs Jennings gives her permission to go home early.
Playing Sick / int_a18a93e6	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_a18a93e6	featureConfidence	1.0
Dolphin Song	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_a18a93e6
Playing Sick / int_a19a1ec9	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_a19a1ec9	comment	No Matter How I Look at It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular! has Tomoko think to herself how she will do this to avoid going on the field trip in her second year, beginning by mentioning how she feels unwell three days before the trip, then have a worsening cough... so she can stay at home and just play games. Needless to say, she doesn't go through with it once the trip starts to loom, but she does try to lie about having a doctor's appointment on the day that students pick their groups, just so she can avoid dealing with that. Her homeroom teacher doesn't question this lie at all, but instead suggests she pick her group now. After much awkwardness and embarrassment, Tomoko finally succeeds in having her group picked for her...only to end up assigned as its leader.
Playing Sick / int_a19a1ec9	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_a19a1ec9	featureConfidence	1.0
No Matter How I Look at It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular! (Manga)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_a19a1ec9
Playing Sick / int_a1a7eeff	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_a1a7eeff	comment	In Wonderwall, Oscar's obsession with Penny causes him to behave in a distracted manner at work, causing his coworker Perkins to ask if he's feeling well. Oscar seizes the opportunity to take the next few weeks off so he can spend all his time spying on Penny.
Playing Sick / int_a1a7eeff	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_a1a7eeff	featureConfidence	1.0
Wonderwall	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_a1a7eeff
Playing Sick / int_a870b316	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_a870b316	comment	Papillon makes this into an art form. Hospitals have less security then the Penal Colony and a hospital stay can buy time to make better arrangements for labor assignments or plan escapes. They find many ways to feign illness; for example planting lice, eating spoiled food, or intentionally causing injuries. If that fails, bribe a doctor.
Playing Sick / int_a870b316	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_a870b316	featureConfidence	1.0
Papillon	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_a870b316
Playing Sick / int_ad41ee71	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_ad41ee71	comment	In Part 4 of SuperMarioLogan's "Bowser Junior's Summer School" story arc, Junior pretends to be sick so he doesn't have to go to summer school. Karma soon catches up with Junior, as on this particular day, the teacher, Jackie Chu, decides to give out cupcakes and cookies for the class, along with no homework that night. Meanwhile, Junior gets a beating from his father when he's caught playing Minecraft when he should have been in bed.
Playing Sick / int_ad41ee71	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_ad41ee71	featureConfidence	1.0
SuperMarioLogan (Web Video)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_ad41ee71
Playing Sick / int_ae01c9d3	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_ae01c9d3	comment	In By Any Other Name (2013), Holly becomes so exhausted from drama with her new classmates that she tells her parents she's too sick to go to school. She feels so lonely and miserable that day that she messages her old friend Tasha on Facebook, even though she's under strict instructions not to contact anyone from before she went into Witness Protection. One of the criminals has been monitoring Tasha's account. He uses it to send Holly a cartoon that carries a tracking cookie, allowing him to find her family.
Playing Sick / int_ae01c9d3	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_ae01c9d3	featureConfidence	1.0
By Any Other Name (2013)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_ae01c9d3
Playing Sick / int_ae11a901	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_ae11a901	comment	In The Pants Project, closeted trans boy Liv starts attending a middle school where girls are required to wear skirts, which he hates. On his first day of school, he pretends to be sick, but his mom sees right through it.
Playing Sick / int_ae11a901	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_ae11a901	featureConfidence	1.0
The Pants Project	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_ae11a901
Playing Sick / int_af88e831	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_af88e831	comment	In 2nd Samuel chapter 13, King David's son Amnon did this in order to lure his half-sister Tamar into a private encounter where he could sleep with her. When Tamar resisted, Amnon forced himself upon her and raped her, thus forever defiling Tamar and making him a target for his half-brother Absalom, who avenged the rape by killing him in a private party.
Playing Sick / int_af88e831	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_af88e831	featureConfidence	1.0
Books of Samuel	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_af88e831
Playing Sick / int_b06d9f32	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_b06d9f32	comment	What to Say Next: When Kit leaves class to investigate her father's car accident, she tells Mr. Schmidt, "I'm going to the nurse." David follows her a few minutes later by saying, "I need to empty my bowels."
Playing Sick / int_b06d9f32	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_b06d9f32	featureConfidence	1.0
What to Say Next	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_b06d9f32
Playing Sick / int_b20e5f47	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_b20e5f47	comment	In Bored of Education, a short film featuring The Little Rascals, Alfalfa fakes a toothache, complete with a balloon mimicking a swollen jaw, to get out of school. The teacher's on to him, though.
Playing Sick / int_b20e5f47	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_b20e5f47	featureConfidence	1.0
Bored of Education	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_b20e5f47
Playing Sick / int_b3f687d1	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_b3f687d1	comment	Inverted in FoxTrot, Jason attempts to fake being well in order to go to school and at the very least take a math test despite clearly being sick. The teacher doesn't buy it and tells him to go home.
Playing Sick / int_b3f687d1	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_b3f687d1	featureConfidence	1.0
FoxTrot (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_b3f687d1
Playing Sick / int_b6e5c569	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_b6e5c569	comment	Trouble Busters: Lina from "My parents favored my sister over me and she turned out to be a devil" faked illness to get attention from her parents and get her older sister, Helen, in trouble. However, Helen is the only one who sees right through her and can't do anything until she met Alan, who faked getting married to Lina in order to expose her true colors to the guests.
Playing Sick / int_b6e5c569	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_b6e5c569	featureConfidence	1.0
Trouble Busters (Web Animation)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_b6e5c569
Playing Sick / int_b9f6d7e4	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_b9f6d7e4	comment	In Gooby, Gooby starts making a lot of noise when he first arrives at Willy's house and Willy's parents get suspicious, so Willy plays sick by choking and feeling unwell afterwards. Unknowingly helped by Gooby, who ate two boxes of cookies and led the parents into thinking he got sick from eating them.
Playing Sick / int_b9f6d7e4	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_b9f6d7e4	featureConfidence	1.0
Gooby	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_b9f6d7e4
Playing Sick / int_bb3b673c	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_bb3b673c	comment	In Let's Start An Inn On The Dungeon Island, a pirate mutiny ploy begins with one of Captain Cecily's crew faking illness. The captain bends down and offers the "sick" crewmember a piggy-back ride to carry her to where she can receive treatment. Said crewmember uses the opportunity to stab Captain Cecily in the back, launching the mutiny. The ringleader calls off pursuit when Cecily manages to escape into the jungle because Cecily is a Cornered Rattlesnake at that point.
Playing Sick / int_bb3b673c	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_bb3b673c	featureConfidence	1.0
Let's Start An Inn On The Dungeon Island	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_bb3b673c
Playing Sick / int_bb5cd713	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_bb5cd713	comment	Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch had one of these happen in the early episodes, where the main girl's friends ditch her so she could go on a date, and one of them played sick. When suspected after insisting the main character to go, she just said she was just pushing herself.
Playing Sick / int_bb5cd713	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_bb5cd713	featureConfidence	1.0
Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch (Manga)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_bb5cd713
Playing Sick / int_c0c57462	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_c0c57462	comment	In Chrono Trigger, the crew can either sneak out of their cell using the airduct system or use this trope to lure the guard into a trap and knock them out. It Only Works Once; should you be captured after that breakout but before you get your equipment back, the guard will not fall for it again, forcing you to use the ducts.
Playing Sick / int_c0c57462	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_c0c57462	featureConfidence	1.0
Chrono Trigger (Video Game)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_c0c57462
Playing Sick / int_c0d648e7	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_c0d648e7	comment	Boonie Cubs: In episode 25, as part of his attempts to get his mother away from Olivia so that she doesn't learn of his less-than-ideal behavior at Pine Tree Kindergarten, Briar fakes having a stomach ache. This costs him the opportunity to eat one of the pastries they're having.
Playing Sick / int_c0d648e7	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_c0d648e7	featureConfidence	1.0
Boonie Cubs (Animation)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_c0d648e7
Playing Sick / int_c326acd9	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_c326acd9	comment	In episode 18 of Inazuma Eleven Chrono Stone, Kariya pretends to have a stomach ache to allow Kirino to travel to Medieval France in his place, making it rare selfless example.
Playing Sick / int_c326acd9	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_c326acd9	featureConfidence	1.0
Inazuma Eleven (Video Game)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_c326acd9
Playing Sick / int_c43df4d8	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_c43df4d8	comment	One story from the Doctor Who 2007 Storybook has a boy putting his head next to a radiator to fake that he has a fever so that he can get sent to bed early and later sneak out to help the Doctor.
Playing Sick / int_c43df4d8	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_c43df4d8	featureConfidence	1.0
Doctor Who	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_c43df4d8
Playing Sick / int_c46ad044	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_c46ad044	comment	The True Love Loophole: To explain away why she looks like she was crying, Raven tells Apple she has allergies.
Playing Sick / int_c46ad044	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_c46ad044	featureConfidence	1.0
The True Love Loophole (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_c46ad044
Playing Sick / int_c4f964a1	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_c4f964a1	comment	The title character in Billy Madison tries this when not wanting to go to school while in third grade. Billy's maid offers to let him shave her armpits while he's home sick, which forces him to get up and go to school.
Playing Sick / int_c4f964a1	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_c4f964a1	featureConfidence	1.0
Billy Madison	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_c4f964a1
Playing Sick / int_c71fd496	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_c71fd496	comment	In Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant, the 12th film in the Dr. Kildare series, the Patient of the Week is a newlywed woman with a sudden and inexplicable case of total amnesia. Turns out she's faking it to get out of her marriage.
Playing Sick / int_c71fd496	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_c71fd496	featureConfidence	1.0
Dr. Kildare	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_c71fd496
Playing Sick / int_d22a9a66	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_d22a9a66	comment	In Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: Joys of Seasons episode 81, Paddi pretends to be sick so that he can avoid taking a school exam. Slowy tries to help him with a shot, which only serves to cause him pain.
Playing Sick / int_d22a9a66	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_d22a9a66	featureConfidence	1.0
Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf (Animation)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_d22a9a66
Playing Sick / int_d24e067a	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_d24e067a	comment	In one episode of Eureeka's Castle, when Bogge catches the flu, Batley gets jealous of the special care he's receiving and pretends to be sick too.
Playing Sick / int_d24e067a	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_d24e067a	featureConfidence	1.0
Eureeka's Castle	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_d24e067a
Playing Sick / int_d26874b6	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_d26874b6	comment	In Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Greg states that he has faked being sick to get out of going to school before but it never worked because his mom Susan always checked his temperature.
Playing Sick / int_d26874b6	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_d26874b6	featureConfidence	1.0
Diary of a Wimpy Kid	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_d26874b6
Playing Sick / int_d6f9b009	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_d6f9b009	comment	The Bolt Chronicles: Mittens claims to be ill (saying she has "Tom Jones Tremens" or "Snu") as an excuse to avoid dancing with Rhino in "The Funkmeister."
Playing Sick / int_d6f9b009	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_d6f9b009	featureConfidence	1.0
The Bolt Chronicles (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_d6f9b009
Playing Sick / int_d736423c	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_d736423c	comment	The Rigel Black Chronicles: George offers to get Rigel out of the Triwizard Tournament by painting fake spattergroit pox all over her and having her sent home from school. She replies that she could probably do better with the right potion to mimic the swelling, and reversing healing techniques to give herself pustules. She's not going to do it, though; there's too much at stake.
Playing Sick / int_d736423c	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_d736423c	featureConfidence	1.0
The Rigel Black Chronicles (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_d736423c
Playing Sick / int_d7aab7c1	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_d7aab7c1	comment	In a SuperS episode of Sailor Moon, Luna learns from Diana that Neo-Queen Serenity and King Endymion were known to get "sick" the day of very important functions and get well the next day. Luna comments that while she expected this kind of behavior from Usagi, but Mamoru picking up the habit comes from left field.
Playing Sick / int_d7aab7c1	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_d7aab7c1	featureConfidence	1.0
Sailor Moon	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_d7aab7c1
Playing Sick / int_d9d745ed	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_d9d745ed	comment	In Emerald Green of The Ruby Red Trilogy, Charlotte and Gwen both play sick. Charlotte does it so she can search Gwen's room while Gwen is in school. Gwen pretends she is ill so she can stay home as well and foil Charlotte's plan, however, her mother makes her go to school. It works for Gwen later when she wants to avoid going to the ball in the 18th century.
Playing Sick / int_d9d745ed	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_d9d745ed	featureConfidence	1.0
The Ruby Red Trilogy	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_d9d745ed
Playing Sick / int_dd8ad9a0	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_dd8ad9a0	comment	Boot Camp: When Garrett was eight, he forged a letter from his mom saying he had asthma so he could get out of gym class. He even bought an inhaler to use as a prop. He got away with it for six months, until his teacher mentioned his asthma at a parent-teacher conference.
Playing Sick / int_dd8ad9a0	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_dd8ad9a0	featureConfidence	1.0
BootCamp	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_dd8ad9a0
Playing Sick / int_e1ac592a	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_e1ac592a	comment	In Dragalia Life, #23 has Emile tries to get out of training with Leif by pretending to be sick. Problem is, Leif happens to be a Lethal Chef who gives him medicine made with a blend of 200 animals, plants and fish. The next panel has Emile in bed like death warmed over him, played for laughs.
Playing Sick / int_e1ac592a	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_e1ac592a	featureConfidence	1.0
Dragalia Life (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_e1ac592a
Playing Sick / int_e4a4e2f	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_e4a4e2f	comment	Wimzie's House: In the episode "I Want My Mommy!" Graziella has a day off from work and promises to spend it playing with Wimzie, but then Bo gets sick, so she has to spend her time taking care of him instead. Wimzie pretends to be sick to get attention too. She eventually comes clean when she sees how overwhelmed her mother is taking care of two sick kids, and when Yaya (who sees through her trick) tries to "cure" her with a mustard and broccoli concoction. In the episode "Jonas the Actor," when the kids plan to perform a play for the neighbors, Jonas has Stage Fright, so he pretends to have a broken tonsil and a sore big toe.
Playing Sick / int_e4a4e2f	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_e4a4e2f	featureConfidence	1.0
Wimzie's House	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_e4a4e2f
Playing Sick / int_e4b1e91e	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_e4b1e91e	comment	Henry Stickmin Series : In Fleeing the Complex, Henry can try to do this to escape his cell. It gets him tranquilized and moved to the Quarantine cell, complete with cellmate whose arm just fell off.
Playing Sick / int_e4b1e91e	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_e4b1e91e	featureConfidence	1.0
Henry Stickmin Series (Video Game)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_e4b1e91e
Playing Sick / int_e5ad39ea	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_e5ad39ea	comment	Izabell Carrol from Forestdale goes above and beyond in her attempts to pull this off. She doesn't merely fake an illness, she tries to fake her own death! Even assembling an arraignment of flowers fitting for a funeral on her bed, complete with flower wreath, while posing as a corpse; of course her parents aren't buying it in the slightest.
Playing Sick / int_e5ad39ea	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_e5ad39ea	featureConfidence	1.0
Forestdale (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_e5ad39ea
Playing Sick / int_e8327120	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_e8327120	comment	In Doomsday Clock, Ozymandias pretends he has cancer just so he could gain the trust of Reggie Long (AKA: Rorschach II).
Playing Sick / int_e8327120	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_e8327120	featureConfidence	1.0
Doomsday Clock (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_e8327120
Playing Sick / int_e871a598	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_e871a598	comment	In Miracle Creek, Elizabeth fakes an illness to avoid undergoing a hyperbaric oxygen treatment with her son Henry. One of the oxygen tanks explodes, killing Henry and one other person, and Elizabeth is the prime suspect partly because she had never missed a treatment before.
Playing Sick / int_e871a598	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_e871a598	featureConfidence	1.0
Miracle Creek	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_e871a598
Playing Sick / int_e951212	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_e951212	comment	In Dawn of a New Age: Oldport Blues, Ivy pretends to be sick the day after she gets superpowers, as the event happened in school and she'd rather not go back there. Her mother, a teacher, sees right through it and sends her off anyway.
Playing Sick / int_e951212	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_e951212	featureConfidence	1.0
Dawn of a New Age: Oldport Blues / Role Play	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_e951212
Playing Sick / int_e9e265b6	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_e9e265b6	comment	In Fire Emblem: Awakening, in a support conversation, Yarne was feigning illnesses to avoid marching. Laurent, who notices, didn't buy it one bit.
Playing Sick / int_e9e265b6	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_e9e265b6	featureConfidence	1.0
Fire Emblem Awakening (Video Game)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_e9e265b6
Playing Sick / int_ebcaeb5a	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_ebcaeb5a	comment	Nanny McPhee: In one scene, the Brown children want to stay in bed, so they whiten their faces with chalk, fake fevers by running the thermometer under the hot tap, sneeze on purpose with pepper, and crayon on fake lesions. Nanny McPhee punishes them by feeling them Foul Medicine, claiming they have the measles, and making them stay in bed all day.
Playing Sick / int_ebcaeb5a	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_ebcaeb5a	featureConfidence	1.0
Nanny McPhee	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_ebcaeb5a
Playing Sick / int_ebdd382d	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_ebdd382d	comment	In Fangirls, Edna fakes being sick so she can stay home from school and look after Harry, the kidnapped pop star she is hiding in her bedroom.
Playing Sick / int_ebdd382d	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_ebdd382d	featureConfidence	1.0
Fangirls (Theatre)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_ebdd382d
Playing Sick / int_f01bcee8	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_f01bcee8	comment	Bat: In A Boy Called Bat, Bat's mom brings home a baby skunk that they will care for for the next month, to his delight. Unfortunately, the next day is an Every-Other Friday, when he and his sister go to spend the weekend with their divorced dad, away from the skunk. Bat tells his mom he has a sore throat and achy ears so he can at least spend the day with the skunk, but his mom sees right through it.
Playing Sick / int_f01bcee8	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_f01bcee8	featureConfidence	1.0
Bat	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_f01bcee8
Playing Sick / int_f0f870f	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_f0f870f	comment	In the episode "Jonas the Actor," when the kids plan to perform a play for the neighbors, Jonas has Stage Fright, so he pretends to have a broken tonsil and a sore big toe.
Playing Sick / int_f0f870f	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_f0f870f	featureConfidence	1.0
Stagefright	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_f0f870f
Playing Sick / int_f28f81d	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_f28f81d	comment	A sinister example appears in Bastard where it's the parent who forces the child to play sick. After murdering a woman at the park, Jin's Serial Killer father forces him to stick a heating pad up his shirt so that when they're pulled over for a random search due to the large number of murders in the area at the time, he can get out of it quickly by claiming that his son has a bad fever. As a result, the police officers miss the bloodstain on the trunk of the car.
Playing Sick / int_f28f81d	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_f28f81d	featureConfidence	1.0
Bastard (2014) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_f28f81d
Playing Sick / int_f9cb2c07	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_f9cb2c07	comment	In The Second Try, Asuka plays sick right after returning to the past. Shinji and she are not ready to go to school and face their classmates, so Shinji tells Misato that Asuka shouldn't go to the school because she isnâ€™t feeling well, and he wants to stay home to take care of Asuka. Misato buys it.
Playing Sick / int_f9cb2c07	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_f9cb2c07	featureConfidence	1.0
The Second Try / Fan Fic	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_f9cb2c07
Playing Sick / int_fb27829b	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_fb27829b	comment	Fantastic Mr. Fox: When Ash doesn't want to go back to school, he lies to his parents that he has a temperature. They don't believe him.
Playing Sick / int_fb27829b	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_fb27829b	featureConfidence	1.0
Fantastic Mr. Fox	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_fb27829b
Playing Sick / int_fe16b92c	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_fe16b92c	comment	In Season 3 episode 27 of Happy Heroes, Doctor H. actually does get sick and goes to the hospital to have it taken care of. But then he learns that his Celeb Crush, Miss Peach, works as a nurse at that hospital and fakes being sick even after the actual illness has passed - going as far as to pull the old "heat up the thermometer" trick to make it look like he still has a fever - just to be with her.
Playing Sick / int_fe16b92c	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_fe16b92c	featureConfidence	1.0
Happy Heroes (Animation)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_fe16b92c
Playing Sick / int_ffbcddba	type	Playing Sick
Playing Sick / int_ffbcddba	comment	In Pororo the Little Penguin, Eddy does this in "Achoo, I Got a Cold", and Pororo does this in "Is Pororo Sick?".
Playing Sick / int_ffbcddba	featureApplicability	1.0
Playing Sick / int_ffbcddba	featureConfidence	1.0
Pororo the Little Penguin (Animation)	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_ffbcddba

The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

Playing Sick	processingCategory2	Index Syndrome
Playing Sick	processingCategory2	Indexitis
Playing Sick	processingCategory2	Narrative Devices
Playing Sick	processingCategory2	Plots
Playing Sick	processingCategory2	Truth and Lies
Happy Heroes (Animation) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Miniforce: New Heroes Rise (Animation) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf (Animation) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Moomin (1990) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
SSSS.GRIDMAN / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Yo-kai Watch / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Chili (1969) (Comic Book) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Miles Morales: Spider-Man (2018) (Comic Book) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Starman (DC Comics) (Comic Book) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
The Smurfs (Comic Book) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Titeuf (Comic Book) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Crabgrass (Comic Strip) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Knights of the Dinner Table (Comic Strip) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Popeye (Comic Strip) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
PreTeena (Comic Strip) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
The Second Try / Fan Fic / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Avenging Class (Fanfic) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Joyful Pretty Cure (Fanfic) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Life of Pets (Fanfic) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Lucys Secret (Fanfic) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
My Ideal Academia (Fanfic) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
My Little Pony Nine Elements (Fanfic) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Powers of Invisibility (Fanfic) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
The Bolt Chronicles (Fanfic) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
A Clockwork Orange / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Ah Boys to Men / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Animal House / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Ant-Man and the Wasp / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Big Eyes / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Bored of Education / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Café Flesh / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Carry On Camping / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Carry On Doctor / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Carry On England / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Crackerjack / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Dr. Kildare / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Ferris Bueller's Day Off / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
From Justin to Kelly / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
G.I. Joe: Retaliation / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Hit the Ice / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
I.Q. (1994) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
It Happened at the World's Fair / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
MAS*H / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Meyer From Berlin / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Mo' Money / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Monkey Trouble / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Nanny McPhee / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Nothing Sacred / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Overboard (1987) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Papillon (1973) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
The Home Teachers / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
The Intruder / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
The Piano Teacher / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Thirteen Days / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
White Christmas / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Wonderwall / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Youth (2017) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
The Smurfs (Franchise) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Audrey, Wait! / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Boot Camp (2007) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
By Any Other Name (2013) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Clarice Bean / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Daphne's Book / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Dirty Bertie / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Dolphin Song / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Feet of Clay / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Humanx Commonwealth / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Insubmissas Lágrimas de Mulheres / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Just William / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Left Behind / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Lily and Dunkin / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Little Princess / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Malory Towers / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Mother of Learning / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Nineteen Minutes / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
No One Needed to Know / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Persuasion / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Pride and Prejudice / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Rotten Ralph / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
The Day of the Locust / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
TheLittleOldEngine	seeAlso	Playing Sick
The Littles / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
The Pants Project / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
The Talking Parcel / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
The Tombs of Atuan / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
The Westing Game / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Where the Sidewalk Ends / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Zenobia July / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
MyGirlSK	seeAlso	Playing Sick
Clean Freak! Aoyama-kun (Manga) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War (Manga) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Lucky Star (Manga) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Ninja Hattori (Manga) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Osomatsu-kun (Manga) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Rock Lee's Springtime of Youth (Manga) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Strawberry Marshmallow (Manga) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Straight Outta Lynwood (Music) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Ten (Pearl Jam Album) (Music) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Absolute Power (BBC) (Radio) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Despairwonderland 2 (Roleplay) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
A French Village / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Aliens in the Family / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Alma GÃªmea / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Andi Mack / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Anne with an E / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Are You Being Served? / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Bear in the Big Blue House / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Big Time Rush / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Broad City / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Car Share / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Dance Moms / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Dancing on the Edge / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Dark Desire / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Dennis the Menace / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Dickinson / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
El Chavo del ocho / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Emergency! / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Game Shakers / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Get Some In! / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Good Girls / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
H₂O: Just Add Water / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Hail to the Chief / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Hannah Montana / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Hell's Kitchen / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Henry Danger / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Home Improvement / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
House of Anubis / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Jonathan Creek / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Judge Judy / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Kirby Buckets / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Life on Mars (2006) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Lizzie McGuire / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Llan-ar-goll-en / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Mayday / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Midsomer Murders / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Mimpi Metropolitan / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Minder / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Modern Family / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
MonkTropesF-J	seeAlso	Playing Sick
MonkTropesK-R	seeAlso	Playing Sick
My Girl SK	seeAlso	Playing Sick
Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
9-1-1 / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
On My Block / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Orphan Black / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Pagten / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Reba / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Roseanne / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Scream Queens (2015) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Steptoe and Son / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Stjernestøv / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Sydney to the Max / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
The Addams Family / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
The Crowded Room / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
The Golden Girls / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
The Smoke / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
The Sopranos / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Underground / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Underground (WGN) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Unnatural History / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Untold Stories of the E.R. / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
W817 / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Wimzie's House / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Wolf Hall / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
You Can't Do That on Television / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
You're Skitting Me / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Vampire: The Masquerade (Tabletop Game) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals (Theatre) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
The Twelve Months (Theatre) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
AstroPop (Video Game) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Baldur's Gate III (Video Game) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Chrono Trigger (Video Game) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
DragonFable (Video Game) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery (Video Game) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
King of the Castle (Video Game) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Książę i TchÃ³rz (Video Game) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story (Video Game) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Miitopia (Video Game) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
one night, hot springs (Visual Novel) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Photo Kano (Visual Novel) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Shiny Days (Visual Novel) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
AstroLOLogy (Web Animation) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Christmas With Sonic (Web Animation) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
David Mitchell's Soapbox (Web Video) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Echo Chamber (Web Video) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Formula 1 (Web Video) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Kid Time Storytime (Web Video) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
The Angry Grandpa (Web Video) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Bastard (2014) (Webcomic) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Forestdale (Webcomic) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
King's Maker (Webcomic) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
PreTeena	seeAlso	Playing Sick
Two Lumps (Webcomic) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Wapsi Square (Webcomic) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Apple & Onion / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Bad Dog / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Car Go / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Chuggington / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Code Lyoko / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Cow and Chicken / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Dude Duck / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Fancy Nancy / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Fangface / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Fantastic Mr. Fox / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Fish Hooks / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Goof Troop / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Hilltop Hospital / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Holly Hobbie and Friends / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Jelly Jamm / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Little Princess / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Llan-ar-goll-en / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Martha Speaks / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Milo / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Monster Family 2 / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
101 Dalmatians: The Series / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Oscar's Oasis / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Pasila / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Private Snafu / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Recess / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Rolie Polie Olie / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Seven Little Monsters / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Sheriff Callie's Wild West / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Silly Symphonies / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Sofia the First / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
The Alvin Show / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
The Legend of Zelda (1989) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
The Magic Roundabout / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
The Mask / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
The Wise Little Hen / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Tiny Toons Looniversity / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
What's with Andy? / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Zeke's Pad / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Nobody Dies / Fan Fic / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
The Child of Love (Fanfic) / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
The Bible / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
playingsick	sameAs	Playing Sick

Copyright of DBTropes.org wrapper 2009-2013 DFKI Knowledge Management. Imprint. - Thanks to Bakken&Baeck for hosting. Contact.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.