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When a character fails to recognize a famous person that everyone else knows, played for comic effect. This is a popular gag in Sitcoms; typically, a celebrity or Special Guest visits the cast, whereupon The Ditz or the Butt-Monkey wonders why everyone else is going crazy over this random guy. In a variation, the character may actually have heard of the famous person, but doesn't know what they actually look like. Hilarity Ensues as the famous person tries to explain that yes, they are who they claim to be. For the gag to work, the subject must be someone who the characters and audience should immediately recognize, for whatever reason. This is usually done with a renowned Real Life person, though it's also possible to use a fictional celebrity whose fame has been established in the story. When the celebrity is confused with another celebrity you have a case of Celebrity Resemblance or Wrongfully Attributed. May overlap with Failed a Spot Check, Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure or No Fame, No Wealth, No Service. Also see Your Costume Needs Work. For deliberate attempts to invoke this, see King Incognito and Reclusive Artist. Contrast Clark Kenting, which is when a famous person can avoid recognition remarkably easily. |
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Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar met George Harrison in 1966, but didn't know much about the man, having only vaguely heard that he was part of "a very popular band in the West." In a similar case at conventions, there's also cases where people cosplaying as certain characters will be completely unrecognised by many attendees. Thanks to the popularity of recent superhero films, this can lead to cosplayers dressing in grouped outfits for some of them (the ones who're dressed as characters with movies) to be identified easily, while others in the same group (whose characters don't have films) to be completely invisible to some people. A tumblr post commenting on this notes how a duo dressed as Hawkeye (from the Marvel Cinematic Universe) and Mockingbird (from Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. television series) had to put up with people excited to take pictures with the Hawkeye, but completely ignoring the Mockingbird cosplayer due to the latter's lack of a film appearance. |
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In a similar case at conventions, there's also cases where people cosplaying as certain characters will be completely unrecognised by many attendees. Thanks to the popularity of recent superhero films, this can lead to cosplayers dressing in grouped outfits for some of them (the ones who're dressed as characters with movies) to be identified easily, while others in the same group (whose characters don't have films) to be completely invisible to some people. A tumblr post commenting on this notes how a duo dressed as Hawkeye (from the Marvel Cinematic Universe) and Mockingbird (from Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. television series) had to put up with people excited to take pictures with the Hawkeye, but completely ignoring the Mockingbird cosplayer due to the latter's lack of a film appearance. | |
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John Lennon in A Hard Day's Night is recognized by a fan, yet he convinces her that he doesn't exactly look like him at all, to which she agrees and assumes it's not really him! (This was apparently Truth in Television; David Bowie once recalled being very impressed by this technique when in New York with Lennon and later using it himself.) | |
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Used in-universe in the birthday party scene in Notting Hill, when everyone is trying to suppress their excitement at having film star Anna Scott at the party... until a flustered Martin comes in, plops down, and starts talking to her without recognizing her. His reaction when he finally figures it out is priceless. | |
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In the 1970s quite some people outside the punk scene had troubling telling Johnny Rotten and Sid Vicious apart. While the resemblance is loose, the two did look, dress, and style their hair similarly enough that even modern punk fans can have trouble telling which tousle-haired icon a given vintage photo depicts. The fact that today Johnny Rotten arguably looks more like Sid Vicious than his own past self doesn't help matters any. | |
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Kickin' It Old School: When David Hasselhoff shows up, Justin is starstruck, but Jennifer doesn't know who he is. | |
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Shawn Michaels once attended an NBA game and participated in a skit where he superkicked a team's mascot character. Many people in the audience were confused and wondering who he was. | |
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In A Certain Magical Index, no one recognizes Roberto Katze, the President of the United States of America, much to his annoyance. | |
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In Leif & Thorn, Rowan unknowingly becomes internet friends with the head writer of his favorite TV show. Knowing that Rowan is a fan of the show, said writer is little surprised when they video chat for the first time and Rowan doesn't recognize him. | |
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This is how Queen Elizabeth III and her consort met in the Honor Harrington stories - when she was still the Crown Princess, she wandered into a restricted part of his lab and he yelled at her to get out, not knowing who she was. | |
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The Simpsons: In "Homer's Barbershop Quartet", Homer meets George Harrison. At first, he appears to recognize him, but then he cries out, "Where did you get that brownie?!" It's not entirely clear whether Homer failed to recognise Harrison or knew exactly who he was but just thought the brownie was more important. Homer also confused Stephen Hawking with Larry Flynt in "They Saved Lisa's Brain". In "The Regina Monologues", Homer mistook then-British Prime Minister Tony Blair for Mr. Bean. In "30 Seconds Over Tokyo" Homer mistook Emperor Akihito for a sumo wrestler nicknamed The Emperor and threw him into a bin of used Mawashis. In "Stark Raving Dad" Homer apparently never heard of Michael Jackson, something that especially in 1991 during Michael's heyday was outrageously impossible. Even Jackson self says to Homer: "I can't believe you've never heard of me? I'm a very popular entertainer" and names several things that made him famous ("Motown", "Thriller", MTV, "Beat It"), even singing "Billie Jean" while performing his Moonwalk Dance, but none of these rings a bell with Homer. A twist on this is vital to the episode's plot — since Homer doesn't know who Michael Jackson is, he has no problem believing the story of an enormous, white mental patient who claims to be him (and does have the moves and the voice). Everyone else in Springfield knows who Jackson is though, so when Bart is told over the phone that Michael Jackson is coming to his house for dinner, and he spreads the word, Hilarity Ensues. In "The Last Temptation of Homer", Homer's guardian angel appears to him in the guise of Newton, assuming that Homer would recognize him. Homer does not, so he transforms himself to Colonel Klink from Hogan's Heroes. Similarly, "Hungry Hungry Homer" has Homer visited by the ghost of Cesar Chavez, but this time Chavez knew in advance that Homer would not recognize him, so he instead took the form of Cesar Romero. And this trope is not just relegated to Homer. One of the funniest recognition failures goes to Mayor Quimby in "Marge vs. The Monorail" for not recognizing Leonard Nimoy: In "Two Bad Neighbors" none of the Springfieldians have any clue who George H. W. Bush is until Bush specifies himself as "former president George Bush". In "She of Little Faith" Lenny, despite being a Buddhist, has never heard of the Dalai Lama, nor Buddha! Mr. Burns fails to recognize The Ramones in "Rosebud"— he is an old man — and is genuinely shocked by their performance. He then orders to have The Rolling Stones killed. In "Special Edna", Homer mistakes Little Richard for both Prince and Michael Jackson. A truly odd and hilarious example happens in "Deep Space Homer" when after Astronaut Homer and his crew are having trouble in space, mission control brings in James Taylor to calm the men down. An impressed Homer believes that he used to be the president.note He may have confused him with former presidents James K. Polk and Zachary Taylor |
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In Live Free or Die Hard, John McClane fails spectacularly to pass himself off as a member of the nerd culture. Most notably is when he fails to recognize a cutout of Boba Fett and tries to cover it by saying he's only familiar with Star Wars. Though his smirk suggests that he's just screwing with them. | |
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The ending of an episode of Extras has Maggie tell Samuel L. Jackson that she enjoyed his role in The Matrix. A clearly irritated Jackson explains as patiently as he can that she's confusing him with Laurence Fishburne, and then Andy's attempt to bail her out just causes things to go From Bad to Worse, getting them both fired on the spot. | |
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Full House: In "Air Jesse", Jesse has no idea who Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is when the basketball star shows up in person. In "Beach Boy Bingo", The Beach Boys show up in person. Danny's daughters don't know who they are. |
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Similarly, in G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, there are occasionally people who have never heard of G.I. Joe or Cobra. For example, in "My Brother's Keeper", a meddling cop tries to arrest Sgt. Slaughter and his teammates, thinking they're troublemakers. Slaughter explains that they're members of G.I. Joe chasing some Cobra agents, but this info is meaningless to the cop, forcing them to escape. | |
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In the iCarly episode "iLost My Mind", the main security guard of the mental institution has never heard of the web show iCarly, so he's not impressed when Carly and Freddie try to use the fact they are the stars of it as credentials. | |
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In the Parallel Lives biography of Ancient Greek politician Aristides, it tells the story of when the citizens of Athens voted on who to send into exile (a regular occurence). An illiterate man walked up to Aristides himself, "whom he took to be one of the ordinary crowd", and asked him to write 'Aristides' on his ballot. | |
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Fullmetal Alchemist: Al is addressed by Fuhrer King Bradley outside of the library and does not recognize him, to the horror of Lt. Hawkeye. Also, Al finds himself faced with a famous serial killer named Barry the Chopper whose soul is bonded to a suit of armor like his and brags about how terrifying he was... but since Al's from out in the country he hasn't heard of any murderers in Central, much to Barry's displeasure. |
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In Of Thee I Sing, it's a Running Gag that nobody can recognize Throttlebottom as the vice-presidential candidate, or remember his name for more than a few seconds. In the election-night newsreel, one picture of him is labeled "An Unidentified Man". Even after being elected, Throttlebottom only gets into the White House as a tourist. The one time Wintergreen recognizes him, it's as "the fellow that gave me that dill pickle." | |
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Darkwing Duck: When Darkwing Duck appears at Dizzy Studios in "A Star Is Scorned", everyone comments about him not wearing his "sailor suit". | |
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Inverted in Airplane!, in which the little boy seems to be the only one on board who realizes the copilot is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. | |
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In RWBY, Jaune Arc didn't know who Pyrrha Nikos is, even though she's a world-famous athlete who won four fighting tournaments in a row (a world record) and endorses products. She later reveals this was why she fell for him. Since he didn't know who she was, he approached and talked to her like an equal. Everybody else was intimidated and kept their distance. | |
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Marvel Two-in-One: When he enters the Baxter Building to retrieve his cane, Daredevil comes across the janitor, who asks him if he's Captain America. | |
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In Date A Live, Shido annoys his classmates when he doesn't know the singer Miku Izayoi since everyone else is a mega-fan of hers. Tohka didn't know who she was either, but she can be forgiven because she is a newcomer to Earth. | |
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In Arrested Development, Lindsay is trying to meet men. She is enticed by a bearded homeless fellow described as having the rugged, unkempt appearance of a movie star. When she finds out he's just homeless, she leaves. However, it turns out that the homeless man is actually Real Life actor Thomas Jane, doing some Method Acting character research for an upcoming movie by posing as homeless. When Lindsay finds this out, she is enticed again. Jane is confused that she doesn't know who he is, but seems pleased that she thinks he's gross. | |
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In Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Miles decided to finally confess to his mother that he is Spider-Man, only for his mother to react with "Who's Spider-Man?" Subverted upon Miles finding out that he got stuck into another universe where Spider-Man never existed. | |
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Some Power Rangers episodes have people who have never heard of the Power Rangers and are completely unaware of the various alien races and monsters that try to invade Earth frequently. These people must have been living under a rock because each series is established to be in the same continuity, the various Ranger teams are celebrities for constantly saving the day, and the invasions have become such a fact of life that some schools even have courses on the aliens and monsters. | |
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King of the Hill: "The Father, The Son, and J.C.", Bobby mistakes the visiting Jimmy Carter for the Second Coming of Jesus. At the end of the episode, when the others correct this mistake, Bobby has no idea who Jimmy Carter is. In "Hank's Unmentionable Problem", Hank walks in on Peggy watching a programme about constipation by former Surgeon General C. Everett Coop. Hank immediately exclaims "Who the hell is that? Howard Stern?" |
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On an episode of Married... with Children with Gary Coleman, Al hilariously refers to him as Webster, Urkel, and even Rerun. | |
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In the Discworld novels: In Moving Pictures, the wizards have mostly avoided the "clicks", so when Holy Wood stars Victor Marachino and Delores DeSyne are given the red-carpet treatment, they're totally perplexed by the whole thing. Some of the wizards find Victor familiar when they see him in person (because he was a former student at Unseen University as "Victor Tugelbend"), but fail to make the connection because they're unfamiliar with his stage name. Also, one clicks fan refers to the Patrician — the supreme ruler of the city — as "some local bigwig" trying to get reflected fame. The Borogravian main characters in Monstrous Regiment ignore the Living Legend Sam Vimes when they first encounter him, because in a room full of lavishly decorated officers and nobility, he's slouching by the door in plain clothes with a half-cigar. |
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In Hazbin Hotel, Angel Dust has no idea who Alastor the Radio Demon is, which Vaggie is surprised since he's been in Hell almost as long as Alastor. He says he doesn't follow politics. | |
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Former WWE Diva Amy Zidian was incredibly rude to several people, including Vickie Guerrero and Stephanie McMahon. It turned out that she had no idea who the latter two were and assumed they were stupid hired help. Refusing to apologize after they explained who they were led to her being fired. | |
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Occasionally in The Transformers, even though the Transformers are public knowledge and the Autobots were declared national heroes all the way back in episode 3, there is a person who has somehow never heard of them. | |
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The Muppet Show: Sam the Eagle makes a huge fuss over Rudolf Nureyev being that week's guest but when Nureyev arrives Sam fails to recognise him in his street clothes and throws him out of the theatre. | |
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At the end of the Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode "Cry Freedom Fighters!", then-president Barack Obama congratulates the heroes on their victory. Plastic Man has no idea who he is, even with the Presidential Seal behind him which clearly says "PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES". | |
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One episode of Spitting Image had Ronald Reagan meeting Mikhail Gorbachev, but failing to recognize him, causing him to wonder what kept Leonid Brezhnev so long? Another sketch has Prince Charles meeting Mark Knopfler and asking him what he does for a living? Knopfler says: "I'm in Dire Straits", to which the crown prince replies: "Oh, I'm so sorry for you, but we'll try to help you out." A sketch featuring a parody of a 1980s drug prevention advert with rock star Pete Townshend also plays with this trope. Townshend meets some teenagers in the park and tells them he understands that they are curious about drugs and that he's been "down that road" too, but that they shouldn't try it. The teenagers, however, haven't got any idea who he is? He tells them: "I'm from The Who." To which they answer: "Who?" He: "Exactly." |
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The Donald Duck cartoon "The Autograph Hound" has Donald traveling to Hollywood trying to get an autograph of various famous movie stars. Eventually Shirley Temple gives him one. When a police officer tries to arrest Donald for trespassing, Shirley shouts "Leave him alone, that's Donald Duck!" Only then does the policeman recognize him and wants an autograph. Even more astounding: everybody in Hollywood, even actors that previously tormented Donald when he bugged them, now all recognize him and also want his signature! | |
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Sonic Boom: In "Planes, Trains, and Dude-mobiles", while on a road trip trying to get to their next performance, Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails get pulled over for speeding twice. Both times, they say they are the band Dude-itude, but the cop says that he doesn't listen to music. Incredibly annoyed, Sonic introduces himself as the famous hero who has saved the island several times, but the cop doesn't know of him and doesn't give them any leniency. | |
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DuckTales (2017): Scrooge McDuck is incapable of recognizing Darkwing Duck despite meeting several times before. | |
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In A Certain Scientific Railgun, Mikoto Misaka is the 3rd most powerful esper in Academy City, as well as the unofficial face of the city, due to being the only level 5 who is not obviously and dangerously insane. Random delinquents on the street still attack her, thinking she's just some cute middle-schooler they can have their way with. Worse is when they recognize her uniform as coming from Tokiwadai. It's a rich girl school, so sure they could get some money from her... but the school only accepts espers of level 3 or above, and the average delinquent is level 0. | |
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Superman: The Animated Series In "Warrior Queen", an old woman witnesses Superman and Maxima's battle, and from her commentary has no idea who Superman is. In the Batman: The Animated Series crossover "World's Finest", Bibbo Bibbowsky had no idea who The Joker is. |
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In Captain America: Civil War, a postman walks into Avengers Tower with a package addressed to Tony Stark, approaches Tony and says: | |
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In American Dad!, Greg and Stan are at a party talking to Nelson Mandela. Stan however thinks he's Morgan Freeman and Mr. Mandela was one of his nicknames. | |
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In Planes: Fire & Rescue, upon first meeting Dusty, Cad Spinner mistakes him for Ripslinger. | |
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Early on in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid, Einhart was seemingly unaware that her new friend Vivio's mothers were both highly decorated military officers famed for their part in taking down the Saint's Cradle four years prior (something the 12-year-old Einhart should be old enough to remember), and a movie about them having come out a year or two after that. Also crosses over into Underestimating Badassery, much to Nove's amusement. | |
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The Powerpuff Girls (1998): In the episode "Burglar Alarmed", a burglar had somehow never heard of the girls despite them being superheroes and tries to rob their house, leading to a Freak Out when he sees a framed photograph of Bubbles shooting lasers out of her eyes and then sees them flying. At the end of the episode, he decides to try to rob the house of famous supervillain Mojo Jojo, again thinking he is ordinary. | |
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The Cinema Snob: Brad enjoys addressing actors and actresses in his films by names of other lookalike celebrities. | |
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Birds of Prey (2020): When Harley Quinn takes Cassandra Cain to her apartment, Cain sees a picture of the Joker and much to Harley's surprise, has no idea who he is. | |
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In Baldur's Gate III, Barbarian Hero Karlach fails to recognize the great wizard Elminster and asks if he's Squishy Wizard Gale's grandpa. Even Lae'zel knew who he was, and she's an alien. | |
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A security guard denied CM Punk, who was WWE Champion at the time, entry into Madison Square Garden on the Dec. 30, 2011 edition of WWE SmackDown as he "didn't buy that he was a wrestler." It took another guard to recognize Punk and get him into the building. | |
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Critical Role: Campaign Two: Sunbreaker Olomon is both a paragon of the Kryn Dynasty throughout his many Reincarnations and a highly recognizable figure in his current life as a huge minotaur. As outsiders, the player characters know none of this, leaving him a bit bemused when they ask him for his name. | |
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In the Citadel DLC of Mass Effect 3, during the charity ball, two Asari socialites mistake Commander Shepard, the most famous military hero in the galaxy, as a refugee from Earth. | |
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The Borogravian main characters in Monstrous Regiment ignore the Living Legend Sam Vimes when they first encounter him, because in a room full of lavishly decorated officers and nobility, he's slouching by the door in plain clothes with a half-cigar. | |
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According to Ilene Woods, the voice actress for the eponymous Cinderella, when she took her three-year-old daughter to the premiere, during the screening, her daughter shouted "My mommy's Cinderella!" when she heard Cinderella speak. After which two women sitting behind them said "Isn't that sweet? She thinks her mother is Cinderella." | |
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In Justice League: War, Green Lantern has no idea who Bruce Wayne (a billionaire playboy) is. | |
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The Palaververse: Wedding March: Burro met the Element Bearer of Generosity, one of Equestria's six national heroes, face-to-face and only realized who she was when Celestia reminded him. | |
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Canadian comedian Steve Smith, co-creator and star of The Red Green Show, has said in interviews that he gets mobbed in public when he wears the character's Iconic Outfit of a plaid shirt, suspenders and a fishing hat. However, when he's in public in any other kind of clothes, nobody recognizes him. | |
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Sweet Fuse: At Your Side with Wakasa, who's a singer in a pop group. When first introducing himself to the group, he asks if he really needs to introduce himself, because he's sure everyone knows him already. | |
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The Flintstones episode "The Rock Quarry Story" involves the eponymous actor wanting a break from Hollyrock life and visiting Bedrock, whereupon he bumps into Fred and Barney. Despite being a popular actor in-universe (one of Wilma and Betty's favorites, in fact), Fred and Barney fail to recognize him and mistake him for a lookalike (which Rock helps with by introducing himself using his little-known real name: Gus Gravel). Wilma and Betty, on the other hand, recognize him instantly until they are told by Fred and Barney that Rock is just a lookalike named Gus. Later, Rock is ready to return to Hollyrock and confesses to the Flintstones and the Rubbles who he really is, but by this point, he cannot even convince Wilma and Betty of who he actually is (all four of them think he's either just being funny or that he's just outright crazy). It isn't until Rock is swarmed by loony fans and paparazzi the minute he steps out of the Flintstones' yard that they realize he was telling the truth. | |
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While Mario is treated as an in-universe celebrity in most of his games, there are still people who don't recognize him. In Super Mario RPG, Booster crosses paths with Mario a few times in his tower, but doesn't immediately realize that he's the one Princess Toadstool is begging to help her. In Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, the heroes can't enter two high-class shops in the Mushroom Mall until they've proved that they're the right sort of clientele... even though most inhabitants of the Mushroom Kingdom recognize Mario on sight. And as for the other brother, about half the cast of Mario & Luigi games has difficulty recognizing him or remembering his name, including Bowser. At the end of Mario & Luigi: Dream Team, Bowser finally says Luigi's name. This is a Running Gag in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door; whenever Mario meets a village elder, they're behind the times and don't recognize him (to the annoyance of their younger relatives). Also from TTYD, Pennington quickly uses his detective skills to deduce that Mario is in fact, Luigi. He doesn't realize his mistake until some of the other residents of Poshley Heights pray for Mario's success midway through the final battle, and recognizes his mistake in a post-game conversation. |
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A man wearing a t-shirt featuring Ham Porter from The Sandlot was stopped by two guys, who asked to take a picture with him. The man didn't realize the two guys in question were Patrick Renna (who played Ham) and Tom Guiry (Smalls). | |
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Fate/Requiem: Chitose Manazuru is famous for winning a Holy Grail War and using the wish to shape society to how it is today, and for being one of the town of Akihabara's defenders. Koharu is starstruck to meet her, but Karin gets confused and has no idea who Chitose is. | |
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In Teen Titans (2003), when Cyborg helps rescue Elasti-Girl, she says, "Thanks, whoever you are." and walks away. Annoyed, he complains, "Lady, I've helped save the world, several times!" | |
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In Super Mario RPG, Booster crosses paths with Mario a few times in his tower, but doesn't immediately realize that he's the one Princess Toadstool is begging to help her. | |
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Kim Possible: Playing to his occasional Butt-Monkey status, there's a Running Gag that no matter how many times Kim and Ron defeat Dr. Drakken, Drakken can't remember Ron's name. Finally comes to a head in Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama, when an enraged Ron confronts a defeated Drakken: Drakken's own attempts to make an impressive entrance occasionally fall flat when the people he's intruding upon don't recognize him or, worse, mistake him for Professor Dementor. |
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In the Batman: The Animated Series crossover "World's Finest", Bibbo Bibbowsky had no idea who The Joker is. | |
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80's Dan: In one episode Dolly was dressed up as Sailor Moon for Halloween. To her irritation 80s Dan thought that she was wearing the best Donald Duck costume he ever saw. | |
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Cars: Nobody in Radiator Springs recognizes Lightning McQueen, a famous race car. Luigi and Guido are racing fans, but they only follow the Ferraris in Europe and are unfamiliar with American racing. They also don't know that Doc Hudson was the Fabulous Hudson Hornet, another famous race car. | |
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In Dan Vs. "High School Reunion", nobody at the reunion recognizes Chris. This is despite Chris apparently participating in every activity and club in high school. He was overshadowed by Dan, whose antics during high school actually made Dan something of a celebrity at their school since said antics made high school bearable for everyone. This irritates Chris so much that he ends up activating the revenge scheme Dan had planned for the reunion (Dan already having given up on it after finding out his former classmates actually liked him). | |
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In the final act of Red Notice, Interpol break up a wedding to recover the stolen treasure, arresting all present - including special musical guest Ed Sheeran, who fights back | |
| Recognition Failure / int_9909388f | featureApplicability |
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The Boondocks: Grandpa Freeman doesn't know who Usher is, and thinks everyone is talking about a theater usher, wondering what the big deal is. In another episode involving Martin Luther King Juniornote In this universe the assassination attempt was a failure, but put him into a decades-long coma, Huey and MLKJ try to get past a bouncer to MLKJ's own benefit, only for the bouncer to demand a cash payment. |
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A sketch featuring a parody of a 1980s drug prevention advert with rock star Pete Townshend also plays with this trope. Townshend meets some teenagers in the park and tells them he understands that they are curious about drugs and that he's been "down that road" too, but that they shouldn't try it. The teenagers, however, haven't got any idea who he is? He tells them: "I'm from The Who." To which they answer: "Who?" He: "Exactly." | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! GX: Judai Yuki doesn't know Edo Phoenix, one of the top-ranked pro duelists, and assumes he's a new student. The others don't recognize Edo's face, but they do recognize his name. When Judai still doesn't know who he is, everyone yells at him for being an idiot. | |
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In Batman Returns, the Ice Princess doesn't know who The Penguin is when he walked inside her dressing tent, despite the recent publicity he's had for "rescuing" the Mayor's baby and his mayoral campaign, and falsely believed that he's a "talent scout". When Batman tried to rescue her, she referred to The Penguin as an "ugly birdman with fish breath". | |
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In Apollo 13, the grandma character doesn't recognize Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin when they arrive to give support. After being introduced to them by the name she asks, "Are you boys in the space program too?" Justified, and possibly Truth in Television (since she was a real person), as it's mentioned she's recovering from a stroke. | |
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In Splatoon 2, the player character (Agent 4) has no idea who Marie is, despite Marie and her cousin Callie being celebrities whose popularity has only grown since the first game. Not even Marie doing her iconic "Stay Fresh" pose rings a bell. She decides that Agent 4 is "not very cultured." The official relationship chart explains that this is because Agent 4 doesn't keep up with pop culture. | |
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In The Bible, Jesus was able to do this at times. The most well-known incident is in Luke 24:13-35, when shortly after his resurrection, he met up with two of his own followers and they didn't recognize him. Jesus spent a whole day travelling with them, discussing recent events and lecturing them about religion, but it was only in the evening when they sat down for a meal together that they finally realized who he was. Although the Bible also says that the disciples were "kept from recognizing him" until "their eyes were opened", so there's elements of A Wizard Did It here. | |
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Mimpi Metropolitan: Pipin, being a bumpkin, is really bad at recognizing the name or face of celebrities. She only vaguely remembers Maudy Koesnaedi from Bambang's photo of her and doesn't recognize Yayan Ruhian at all. When talkshow host Alexi moves to the dorm, he expects old tenant Topan would be asking for a photo, but Topan asks who is he instead. For contrast, Juna and Susan in the same episode recognize Alexi in their first meeting and in a single glance, respectively. Alexi, despite being a celebrity himself, has a hard time recognizing Yayan Ruhian upon meeting him and mistakes his role in The Raid (Mad Dog) for Matt Damon. |
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Step by Step: Frank claims he does know something about opera: "I've heard of that Luciano Pepperoni guy!" | |
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The Cardigans singer Nina Persson enjoys singing in karaoke bars occasionally. In a recent interview with Billboard, she told a story about an outing where she sang "We Are the World" at a karaoke bar in New York and got a bunch of smack from one of the other customers for, "Trying to sound like the girl from The Cardigans." Persson found the whole thing very funny. | |
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Apparently, Bryan Danielson was often not recognized by security when he showed up at the arena for his wrestling matches. | |
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In Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, one of the main characters recognizes Napoléon Bonaparte, to which the other replies: "Who?" | |
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Young Sheldon: In "Babies, Lies and a Resplendent Cannoli", Sheldon and Dr. Linkletter are upset that no one they've talked to about Asimov knew who he was. Sturgis and Connie at least know who he is, but he has never read his work, while she once tried to after being convinced by Pop-Pop but found it boring. | |
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Justified in L.A. Confidential when Lt. Exley doesn't recognize Lana Turner because the Conspirator has had his prostitutes undergo plastic surgery to look like Hollywood starlets, so he thinks she's just a hooker cut to look like Lana Turner. | |
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David Lee Roth tells stories of coming off of Van Halen's wildly successful first tour and not being able to get into Studio 54. | |
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Little Britain: In one sketch the wheelchair patient is watching a documentary about World War II featuring Adolf Hitler, yet says: "I love Charlie Chaplin." | |
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Borat: When Borat notices an Oliver Hardy impersonator, he thinks he is "dressed up like Hitler". | |
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In an episode of The New Scooby-Doo Movies guest-starring Jonathan Winters as himself, Winters and Mystery INC try to convince Vernon, Maude Frickert's farmhand, to let them stay the night. This exchange happens: | |
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And as for the other brother, about half the cast of Mario & Luigi games has difficulty recognizing him or remembering his name, including Bowser. At the end of Mario & Luigi: Dream Team, Bowser finally says Luigi's name. | |
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Alexi, despite being a celebrity himself, has a hard time recognizing Yayan Ruhian upon meeting him and mistakes his role in The Raid (Mad Dog) for Matt Damon. | |
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Homer Hickam in October Sky is a big fan of Wernher von Braun, reading his books on rocketry, and one of his most prized possessions is an autographed photo of him. When he wins the national science fair with his rocketry exhibit, one of the people to congratulate him is von Braun, but Homer doesn't recognize him. | |
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Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs: Leon's stepmother Zola doesn't recognize Angelica Redgrave and looks down on her, thinking she is a commoner, only to backtrack when she learns her name and realizes the Redgrave family outranks her. Stephanie looks down on everyone and insults Queen Mylene, thinking she is a commoner, then gets scared and retreats when she learns who she was messing with. |
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Doctor Who: Played With regarding Harriet Jones. In her first appearance, she was a member of parliament of a relatively small and unknown constituency, so she'd taken to greeting new people by flashing her ID at them and stating "Harriet Jones, MP, Flydale North". She retains this habit even when she becomes the Prime Minister (and later ex-Prime Minister), leading many sighing people to reply, "Yes, I know who you are". This includes the Daleks. Donna Noble had no idea aliens existed when she first met the Doctor. By this point in the new series, the Earth had been invaded twice. |
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Adam Savage says that he often doesn't get recognized or gets strange looks as people try to remember where they know him from, as he doesn't wear his iconic black v-neck and jeans in his private life. However, he gets recognized immediately if he's ever out and about with Jamie Hyneman (who wears his own iconic outfit all the time) because while Adam might be the guy from Mythbusters, Jamie definitely is that guy. | |
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In Moving Pictures, the wizards have mostly avoided the "clicks", so when Holy Wood stars Victor Marachino and Delores DeSyne are given the red-carpet treatment, they're totally perplexed by the whole thing. Some of the wizards find Victor familiar when they see him in person (because he was a former student at Unseen University as "Victor Tugelbend"), but fail to make the connection because they're unfamiliar with his stage name. Also, one clicks fan refers to the Patrician — the supreme ruler of the city — as "some local bigwig" trying to get reflected fame. | |
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After Silas Young and The Beer City Bruiser were rejected from the Ring of Honor Six Man Tag Team Championship Tournament for not having a third partner, Silas Young bought a smartphone for the sole purpose of finding one. Five days to the deadline, Young found clips of a man who he was willing to team with and showed them to the Bruiser, only to learn he was looking at videos of The Beer City Bruiser. | |
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In an episode of CSI, the main suspect is a popular Hollywood actor. When Grissom comes to see him in his hotel room, the actor assumes that he wants his autograph. This confuses Grissom, who knows nothing about this guy and just wants a DNA sample. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Battle City arc had a few civilians who don't know about Duel Monsters and don't know who Yugi Muto and Seto Kaiba are. The Grand Championship arc has Katsuya Jonouchi get increasingly annoyed that no one recognizes him. | |
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The Spoony Experiment: A recurring gag in Spoony's reviews of the Ultima games is his annoyance at characters failing to recognise the Avatar, who in addition to being the Christ-figure of their religion, has entire museums devoted to their deeds that stretch through hundreds of years of their recorded history. | |
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There was an episode of Fantasy Island where the (fictional) famous person had the fantasy of being somewhere where nobody knew who she was. She was sent to the wilds of [Africa/South America], where she fell in love with an explorer who didn't know who she was. Subverted though in that it turns out he did know, he just didn't care about her celebrity. | |
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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: Sharon Tate shows up at a screening of the movie she was in (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) and so asks if she can watch it for free, but the cashier doesn't recognize her at all (the doorman does, however). She takes it in stride, and even allows the cashier to take her picture (next to the poster so people will know who she is). | |
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In an episode of Johnny Bravo guest-starring Luke Perry, the former briefly mistakes the latter for Fidel Castro. | |
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In The George Lopez Show, Carmen runs away and becomes one of the rapper Chingy's groupies. George ends up being the only person who doesn't know who that is. | |
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In Space Jam, when Bill Murray shows up to help out the Looney Tunes, Big Bad Swackhammer remarks "I didn't know Dan Akroyd was gonna be in this picture!" | |
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South Park: In "Fishsticks", Cartman and Jimmy are tied up by Kanye West who plans to kill them in retaliation for creating the "fish dicks" joke, which he takes as a personal attack. Jimmy has no idea who he is and Cartman misidentifies him as "Puff Daddy". | |
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In A Knight's Tale, the writer and poet Geoffrey Chaucer gets annoyed when he introduces himself and the main characters don't recognize his name. In their defense, the main characters are peasants and likely don't know how to read (which is seemingly confirmed when Chaucer writes a letter to Jocelyn on behalf of William), much less own a book. | |
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In Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, the heroes can't enter two high-class shops in the Mushroom Mall until they've proved that they're the right sort of clientele... even though most inhabitants of the Mushroom Kingdom recognize Mario on sight. | |
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A truly odd and hilarious example happens in "Deep Space Homer" when after Astronaut Homer and his crew are having trouble in space, mission control brings in James Taylor to calm the men down. An impressed Homer believes that he used to be the president.note He may have confused him with former presidents James K. Polk and Zachary Taylor | |
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Stargate Atlantis: In "Brain Storm", Bill Nye and Neil deGrasse Tyson play themselves at a meeting of renowned scientists. The latter introduces himself as being "from TV"; Dr. Keller has no idea who he is. Presumably they don't get PBS in the Pegasus Galaxy. | |
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The Professional: In one scene the little girl plays a celebrity impression game with Léon, yet he fails to recognize anyone she impersonates, despite most of them being iconic celebrities like Marilyn Monroe and Charlie Chaplin. The only one he gets is Gene Kelly, since Singin' in the Rain seems to be his favorite film. For her part, Mathilda is unable to identify a pretty decent John Wayne impression from Leon. | |
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Dragon Ball Z: It doesn't take long for the public to completely forget the amazing feats of the heroes. Goku and Tien have both won the World Martial Arts Tournament, which is broadcast on national television, yet no one treats them like celebrities. Also, nobody recognizes Piccolo or Vegeta, even though they've terrorized the world and killed many people on air and should logically be wanted for murder and terrorism. The only one who gets recognition is Mr. Satan, who is a fame-seeking Fake Ultimate Hero (though later a real hero). Videl is famous for being Mr. Satan's daughter and for being a crime fighter. Since Gohan's family lived in the wilderness, they have never heard of her, but there are occasional criminals who have never heard of her and underestimate her as a result. |
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Goes two ways in The Muppets (2011). Celebrities Whoopi Goldberg, Selena Gomez, and Rico Rodriguez approach Kermit the Frog to support the Muppet Telethon. Kermit and Goldberg express vague mutual recognition. Kermit also recognizes Gomez, somewhat oddly, as an earlier scene depicted him as far too out-of-touch to recognize a public figure as young as her; she in turn freely admits that she's never heard of Kermit in her life. Finally, Kermit blanks on Rodriguez's name, and Rodriguez wonders if he is a Ninja Turtle. | |
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In the Dexter's Laboratory crossover with Dynomutt, Dog Wonder, while Dexter is a fan of the Blue Falcon, Dexter's dad mistakes him for the mascot of a football team called The Falcons. When the superhero tries to correct him, Dexter's dad doesn't get it. | |
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In the Gravity Falls episode "Headhunters", Grunkle Stan shows off his collection of wax figures, and mistakes Larry King for "some kind of goblin-man". | |
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