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So, you're an Idle Rich character suffering from Rich Boredom, and you're facing ennui from your luxurious life of lounging and Conspicuous Consumption in your Big Fancy House and your garage full of Cool Cars. So what do you do? Dress down, borrow a servant's old car and pretend to be poor, so you can mingle with the hoi polloi and explore the dive bars and Red Light District on the Wrong Side of the Tracks. After all, if so many people are doing it, it can't be so hard to dress down! While debauchery may be one motivation, another reason, especially with royalty who are usually sequestered in a guarded castle, or celebrities who live in a gated luxury compound is to see how the regular folks live. A modern-day celebrity may want to just do normal life activities without paparazzi and reporters hounding them with cameras. A President's teenage daughter or a young prince/princess or heiress may need to Ditch the Bodyguards to accomplish this. Even once they've escaped to the regular world, the posh character is a Fish out of Water in the poor neighborhood, so they'll have to try to blend in and not give away their elite status, and try not to get duped by con men. Compare King Incognito, Refreshingly Normal Life-Choice, Secretly Wealthy, Prince and Pauper, Bourgeois Bohemian, and Hipster. Contrast Mock Millionaire, a poor person putting on a show to appear richer. A character doing this may or may not be Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense. Examples |
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In the Kydd series by Julian Stockwin, this is what Renzi is doing as penance for the suicide of a son of a farmer whose land was enclosed by his own family. | |
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The Hard Times frequently makes jokes based around the idea that many/all punks are actually just rich kids pretending to be working class and deliberately living in squalid conditions. Some examples: Panicked Punk Calls Parents to Find Out Status of Trust Fund Crust Punk Hops Train to Parents' Lake House |
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In one episode of The Simpsons, Mr. Burns remarks, "A blue-collar bar! Let's go slumming!" upon seeing Moe's Tavern. | |
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Sullivan's Travels: A rich movie director, famous for comedies, pretends to be a bum to suffer enough to make a film adaptation of the fictional epic drama "Oh, Brother Where Art Thou" from the Great Depression era. He is warned by his butler not to do it as one of his previous employers did it as a lark and hasn't been seen since — back in 1919. | |
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In The Princess and the Frog, while Naveen doesn't actually try to convince anyone he's poor, he does enjoy sneaking away from his duties as prince of Maldonia in order to listen to jazz music, dance with the everyday folk of New Orleans, and buy everyone within earshot drinks. At the end of the movie, he gets along very well living with Tiana in New Orleans, helping run her restaurant. | |
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In her epilogue in Double Homework, Amy eventually decides that when she goes to college, she wants to pay her room and board using only the money earned through her Twitch channel, not her family’s wealth. | |
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Downplayed in the Harry Potter fanfic crawlersout: Fem!Harry has enough money for her and Tom to live off of for the rest of their lives. However, she still gets a job for more monetary support. It's notable because what passes as "very wealthy" in the twenty-first century equates to "stinking rich" in the 1930s, and that is where Tom and Harry spend most of their time. However, instead of living like royalty, they settle happily for a moderately large house in a suburban neighborhood like a normal middle-class family. | |
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Mentioned in Witches Abroad: Nanny Ogg says that those princes dressing up as paupers always make sure the peasants don't get too close. | |
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Miss Dorothy does this and so does Jimmy in Thoroughly Modern Millie. She even has an "I Want" Song about it, titled "How The Other Half Lives." | |
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Discworld: Mentioned in Witches Abroad: Nanny Ogg says that those princes dressing up as paupers always make sure the peasants don't get too close. In Pyramids, Teppic reflects that peasants have more freedom, before correcting himself with "yeah, freedom to be starve, to be worked to death, to die of a horrible plague..." |
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The Dethklok band members in Metalocalypse attempt to be "regular jackoffs", before they realize they liked it better when they were basically gods. | |
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In Cinderella (1997), this is how the prince and Cinderella meet for the first time. Most of the conversation gets a Meaningful Echo at the end. | |
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One of the characters in Haunted (2005), known only as "Lady Baglady", her now-deceased husband, and friends of theirs made a habit of playing at being street people to experience something different from their normal lavishly wealthy lives. Then someone starts killing street people to eliminate possible witnesses to a murder... | |
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In Camelot, King Arthur meets Guenevere in this way, intending to avoid an Arranged Marriage to her. It turns out to be a Perfectly Arranged Marriage but all the same, they find themselves singing "What Do The Simple Folk Do?" in the second act. | |
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Life Stinks is a comedy about a billionaire making a bet that he can live as a homeless person for a month. No money, no support, and absolutely no telling anyone who he is. | |
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When average office worker Retsuko hooks up with wealthy entrepreneur Tadano in Aggretsuko, her friend Heida (who still has a crush on her) accuses the boy of doing this. The English dub even name-drops this trope. | |
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Dragon's Teeth: In what the narration calls a "slumming-tour", the very rich Lanny, his even richer wife Irma, and all their spoiled Idle Rich aristocrat friends go to visit that temple of working class New York amusement, Coney Island. They are all shocked by the teeming masses of humanity filling up the beach. Lanny, for all his talk of socialism and the betterment of the workers, is disgusted, thinking that the regular folks visiting the Amusement Park have an "emptiness of mind." | |
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In Daughter for Dessert, Lainie did this to escape her stifling but cosseted family environment. Unfortunately for her, she wound up in a cult, then got rescued by the protagonist, a hot dog vendor without much in the way of dreams or resources, after she lost access to her family fortune. Then, she hid a serious illness from him so he could use the treatment money to start a new business, dying in childbirth as a result. | |
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In Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) fanfic build your wings on the way down, Gabby and Aviv are poor college students who live in a crumbling building. Since Gabby is actually Catherine Armstrong, it's implied that Gabby lives like this willingly after she had a falling out with her family. | |
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The first season of Newhart had Leslie, a wealthy heiress and Dartmouth grad student who took the maid's job to "find out what it's like to be normal". In season 2, she was replaced with her cousin Stephanie, who was a Spoiled Brat to Leslie's nice girl and took the maid's job because her parents had "cut her off". | |
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Fresh Meat has two distinct types of slummers: Braying toff JP, who is posh and proud and living in a slummy student house for fun, and Oregon, a hipster who is embarrassed by her privileged upbringing and living there because she wants to fit in with her cool, working-class housemates. | |
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In Heat Guy J, Kia does this to find inspiration for his music. Subverted in that Kia was not rich at the time, at least not since his parents' messy divorce. | |
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The idle rich members of the Ouran High School Host Club have never even heard of instant coffee crystals. One of them tries it and is delighted. "So this is why commoners drink it all the time!" The "commoner" Haruhi is so fascinating to everyone else because they're all so rich and high society that a normal middle-class lifestyle is like a different world. |
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In Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei, Rin poses as an ordinary public high school student despite being wealthy enough to do whatever she wants. Her brother Nozomu doesn't have any reason to be a teacher. Plus, two of her other brothers, Mikoto and Kei, are a doctor and a surrealist artist, respectively. | |
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In Pyramids, Teppic reflects that peasants have more freedom, before correcting himself with "yeah, freedom to be starve, to be worked to death, to die of a horrible plague..." | |
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Hamilton: Aaron Burr describes this as a common practice in 1770s New York: | |
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Mani Mani People: Aoi was forced to spend time as a homeless for a year after she lost a bet with Moroboshi and the other maids. This seems to be a Running Gag in regards to friendly bets involving Moroboshi, whether it's the loser forced to live as a bum or living homeless. |
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Arthur Shnitzler's "The Little Comedy" (which was the basis for the first act of The Musical Romance / Romance): Two rich folk pretend to be poor to find love with someone real- they find each other, then have to nobly break it off because they're in love, and they can't get out of their web of lies. Then they later meet each other as themselves at a party. | |
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In Aladdin, Jasmine tries this and very quickly learns that she knows nothing about life on the streets. Later, when she sees through Aladdin's "Prince Ali" disguise, Aladdin claims that he's a prince who makes a habit of going about the streets dressed as a commoner. | |
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Token tries this for a little while in South Park, after the other kids start making fun of him for being rich. It doesn't really have the desired effect. | |
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Tsumugi Kotobuki in K-On! is completely fascinated by the lifestyles of normal people, and one of her favorite things to do with her friends is exploring all the things they find mundane. She eventually gets a job working at a fast-food restaurant to see what it's like, and later in the manga, she cuts herself off from the Kotobuki family fortune save for her college tuition due to how much she's found she prefers this lifestyle (that, and maybe to make her own way in the world). | |
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