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The Picture Came with the Frame
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A person's family photos are revealed to be those that came with the frame (or wallet, photo album, anything meant to display photos). Something about the life they lead has turned out to be a lie. Perhaps it is a picture of their Girlfriend in Canada or the Stepford Smiler has gone crazy and made up a family for themselves. Of course, people who pose as models for stock photos must have families so it's also an easy trope to logically play with. Can be part of a Personal Effects Reveal. For when the picture that came with a frame turns out to be a valuable work of art, see Priceless Paperweight. A subtrope of The Reveal so Spoiler Warning. |
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The Casagrandes: In "New Roomie", the Casagrande family finds a frame with photos of a woman at Vito's apartment, so they assume she must be his ex-girlfriend. However, it eventually turns out they were just some pictures that came with the frame. | |
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Scary Go Round reverses this trope here: The picture that is assumed to have come with the frame is actually Shelley's sister Erin. She was Put on a Bus to Hell, with the side effect that absolutely nobody remembers her anymore. | |
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A variation in an episode of House: when Cuddy is suffering from depression and cold feet after adopting a baby, Wilson shows up at her house with what he says is an age-progression photo of her daughter he had done, to make her feel better about the potential of the child she's raising. When it doesn't work, he admits it was just the picture that came in the frame. | |
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On Cheers, in episode "2 Good 2 Be 4 Real", the guys create a fake suitor for Carla, including sending a picture. When she realizes this is a photo that came in a wallet, she's even happier to find her admirer is also a model. | |
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In White Collar, one of Neal's cover identities is a well-to-do family man. Just before going to speak to one of his sources, he buys a wallet just so he can show off his "wife and son" on the photo inside. Lampshaded when the source tells him he barely recognizes the little tyke since he's apparently grown so much since the last time Neal came by. | |
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Played for laughs in Napoleon Dynamite, when Napoleon and Pedro discuss getting dates for an upcoming dance. Napoleon lies to Pedro about having a hot girlfriend from out of town, and shows him a picture of her. The picture was a professional photo shoot of a model, which Debbie had given him earlier in a sales pitch. | |
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Played without the reveal in The Switch. Seven-year-old Sebastian asks for picture frames as gifts, and then gets upset when Wally brings him one without a stock photo. Sebastian was conceived via sperm-donor and thus lacks a father. He uses the default pictures to create that branch of his family. Because he's both a child and not trying to trick anyone, it's not played as creepy or pathetic. | |
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Referenced in the John Michael Montgomery song "That's Not Her Picture" ("...it came with the wallet"). Also recorded by Jason Sellers. | |
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Played with in Supernatural. In "What Is And What Should Never Be", Dean is drugged by a dijinn and finds himself in an alternate reality where he is happily married. When he comes back to the real world, his wife turns out to be the model in a beer advertisement in a magazine Dean was reading. | |
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Garfield: "Only Jon would keep the picture of the girl that came with the wallet." | |
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In the Married... with Children episode "Kiss of the Coffee Woman": | |
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The Game (1997): Nicolas finds a missed price tag on a lamp in Christine's apartment, leading him to suspect that the place has just been decorated as a set by CRS. He confirms this by opening the frames of her family pictures and finding that they're cut from magazines. (Given the nature of the plot, it's possible he was supposed to discover this.) | |
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In Ghost in the Shell (1995), a garbage truck driver's wife photo in his wallet is actually a photo of a dog, since he's been ghost-hacked by the Puppet Master and given Fake Memories of a family he never had. | |
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The picture Susanne Modeski has of her "daughter" in the The X-Files episode "Unusual Suspects". She's a top organic chemist who worked for the Advanced Weapons Facility and the evil government people are looking for her. She doesn't have a daughter, but she made her up to gain sympathy of the Lone Gunmen. | |
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Subverted in Monk. Randy Disher claims that he has a girlfriend, and shows the picture of a beautiful woman. Sharona points out that the photo came with the wallet. Randy explains that his girlfriend is a famous "wallet photo model". In the end, it's revealed to the audience that he's been telling the truth, but none of his co-workers believe him for various reasons. | |
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In Eva Luna, the title character has no photographs of her late mother to remember her with, so instead she finds a frame with a photo that resembles her enough to do the trick. | |
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Played with in Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney. The pendant Wright carries is of his daughter, but the pendant and the photo are not his. | |
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An episode of Tiny Toons has Hampton trying to cook a lobster. The lobster begs, "I've got a family," and shows some pictures. Hampton glares and says, "I've got the SAME family. THEY CAME WITH THE WALLET!" | |
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Played with in Malcolm in the Middle, when Lois takes Jamie to have his picture taken. They all come out horrible, and she ends up using the baby on the shop's ad to show to her co-workers. | |
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In one episode of CSI: Miami, an office worker's "son" is a child model; the photo is actually from an advert. The scribbles and such decorating the man's office wall were his own work, to convince the boss he had a family in order to get time off on holidays. | |
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In Dead Like Me George does not use the picture that came with the frame, but cut out a photo of a man and a woman from an advertisement and framed it. She puts the picture of her "parents" on her desk at Happy Time to support her undead identity, Mille. | |
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In an episode of All in the Family, Mike and Archie get into yet another argument when the former suddenly trails off... | |
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Nobody makes a big deal of this in The Room (2003), but the eponymous chamber is full of framed stock photos of spoons. Nobody takes notice in-universe. Special screenings, on the other hand... | |
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An episode of Touched by an Angel has a cold store clerk pushing aside anyone, defending herself on having lost a son, whose picture she keeps showing. She does get close to an orphan but still trying to hold her distance. Getting through to her, Monica pulls out a catalog, revealing the woman's "son" is just from an ad and she's been using this as a defense for her coldness. | |
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A variation in Modern Family when Haley's boss, Nicole, wants to buy up Gloria's pepper recipe. Gloria talks to her about it, showing a big scrapbook of her family and how the recipe is a sign of their legacy. Jay then screws up the pitch to defend this legacy meaning so much to her family. Gloria tears into him outside on how she made the whole thing up to drive up the price. | |
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6teen does this on the Christmas special, to show how lonely Ron the mall cop is. | |
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The Mitchells vs. the Machines: When Rick tries to deny Linda's accusation that he and Katie always ruin any chance at taking a family photo by pointing out that they got at least one good picture, Linda reminds him that this picture came with the frame and the family featured on it is not them. | |
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Person of Interest: In the cliffhanger for the end of Season One, this is used for The Reveal that the supposed Number they're protecting is actually a trap meant to expose Team Machine when they move to protect her. Zoe is looking through the office used by the Number and finds the framed pictures there have been cut from magazines. Unfortunately, this discovery comes too late to warn Finch, who has already been kidnapped. | |
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Chainsawsuit: Her name is Dawn Kensington and she also really does live in Canada. | |
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The Critic episode "Every Doris Has Her Day" has Jay visit his makeup lady Doris's apartment, where he asks her about a stylish-looking man in a framed photo. | |
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Phoebe's grandmother's MO on Friends. She convinced her for years that her father was the model in the photos. And her grandfather was Einstein. | |
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