Play
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- An episode of The Upright Citizens Brigade used a variation of this trope by claiming that they had succeeded in creating a batch of mind-numbingly unbearable commercials, then pressing play and treating the actual commercials as the ones they were referring to.
Source: Commercial Break Cliffhanger - Pink Mohawk: A style of play characterized by treating the game like an action movie instead of a spy thriller.
Source: Fan Nickname / Tabletop Games - It certainly doesn't help that the movie, despite clearly treating their relocation as the Trail of Tears in space, doesn't at all play up the imagery of that event.
Source: Unintentionally Unsympathetic
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Treating and Play. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 13, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/play/treating
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Treating or Play. 2016. Accessed August 13, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/play/treating.
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