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See also [[Bedsheet Ladder]], [[Ninja Log]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Hanaukyo Maid Tai]] La Verite'' episode 9. Taro does this to trick his personal care maids into thinking he's still in his bed.
* Happens in ''[[Baccano!]]'' when Szilard starts eating other alchemists onboard of Advena Avis. He leaves a sleeping dummy on his bed to cover up his doings. It is found when Maiza attempts eat him himself.
* Episode 2 of ''[[Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai!|Maji De Watashi Ni Koi Shinasai]]'' begins with Miyako sneaking into Yamato's futon in the middle of the night hoping to have her way with him, but instead she finds this, much to her chargin.
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* In ''Cigars of the Pharaoh'' [[Tintin]] helps the Maharaja of Gaipajama put a dummy in his bed to take a poisoned dart for him.
* The Invisible Man does this in volume two of ''[[League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]'' in order to {{spoiler|covertly meet with Martian invaders and betray humanity.}}
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* ''[[Escape from Alcatraz]]'' is both a major film example and [[Truth in Television]]. [[The Guards Must Be Crazy]]!
** Also subverted in the same film, when a guard reaches through the bars to rouse the figure in the bed and it turns out to be the ''real'' prisoner, not his plaster dummy-head.
* In ''[[Ferris Bueller's
* Hogarth, in ''[[The Iron Giant]]'', escapes an amoral government agent by doing this.
* In the movie version of ''[[Dr. No]]'', [[James Bond (film)|James Bond]] uses this to trick an assassin into emptying his gun into the bed, leaving him defenseless.
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* Aragorn [[The Lord of the Rings (film)|helps the Hobbits with this in Bree]].
* ''[[Airplane!]] 2: The Sequel''. Ted Stryker leaves one behind when he escapes from the insane asylum.
* Used for comedy in ''[[The Naked Gun|Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult]]'', where the dummies of Rocko and Slasher are so obviously fake that only a bunch of idiots would fall for the trick (which, of course, they do).
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* Used in ''[[The Lord of the Rings|Lord of the Rings]]'' by the Hobbits.
* Done many, many times by the [[Animorphs]]. It helps that (with the exception of Tobias and Ax) their parents actually trusted them.
* In [[
* In one of the ''[[Mercedes Lackey|Doubled Edge]]'' novels, Rhoslyn needs to go Underhill while seeming to stay in the mortal world. She arranges a couple pillows under her blanket ... and then casts an illusion of her sleeping mortal disguise on the pillows.
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** Played straight, since Will ''does'' use sneakers, pillows and a bust of King Tut to stuff his bed. The snoring tape was just the icing on the cake.
* ''[[Dexter]]''. {{spoiler|In this case, it was used to lure the Ice Truck Killer into Dexter's clutches, when said ITK came after Deb.}}
* Subverted in a prime time spy show that aired on FOX around ten years ago{{when}}. (name, anyone?) The spy and his girl-of-the-week were in a hotel room that the bad guys were closing in on. The baddies break in, and see two big lumps on the bed. The leader scoffs at the use of such an old ploy, and shoots up the closet. The baddies leave...and the protagonists throw off the blankets and get up from the bed. They were ''counting'' on the enemy to assume they were just pillows.
* ''[[Mr. Bean]]'' did this once so he was at the front of the line for the big New Year's sale.
* ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]''. Buster, not wanting to disturb his mother with his snoring, puts a bunch of pillows in his bed and covers them with his sheets. He also puts a very loud recording of his snoring in with them. His mother, agitated with the loud snoring, starts beating the fake-Buster with a broomstick, eventually realizing that it's a fake. Riding on her luckiness, she decides to go out to try to find any family member in the car. Halfway to her destination, Buster starts snoring from the back seat.
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* Used in ''[[Supernatural]]'' by Sam and Dean. With blow up dolls.
* In ''[[The Rockford Files]]'', Jim Rockford used a variation of this to escape from jail. First he repeatedly told the officer guarding the jail that he would escape and do it easily. {{spoiler|Next he invoked this trope. After the officer realized that it was only a dummy in the bed, he ran off to look for Jim. At that point, Jim got out from under the bed and walked away.}}
* Used in one of the prime-time soaps (''Falconcrest''?) a decade or two ago{{when}}. A man tried to murder his boss, firing several shots into the lump on the bed. Then the "victim" walked into the room, accompanied by guards, and before the guards dragged the would-be killer away, the boss mocked him by "praising" his shooting: "That cushion's a goner."
* Done in the second season premiere of ''[[Covert Affairs]]'' when Ben and Annie narrowly escape some assassins in a hospital.
* [[Doctor Who|The Doctor]] and Jo pull this off to help The Doctor escape from imprisonment by The Master in ''Frontier in Space''. {{spoiler|The Master is only fooled for a little while, but long enough for The Doctor to royally muck up his plot}}.
* Rex does this to convince the others his mother is in the console in the ''[[Pixelface]]'' episode "Mrs Dynamo's Son".
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* [[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|"A fluffed pillow? Impossible!"]]
** "It's f*** -ing foolproof!"
* A single-panel cartoon claimed that when [[The Grim Reaper]] came for [[Theodore Roosevelt]], "the last thing Death saw before suffering a brutal asskicking" was a pillow with Roosevelt's face drawn on it in the bed. [[Right Behind Me|Looming behind Death's shoulder was the real TR]].... This was no doubt a reference to one of the page quotes on the Theodore Roosevelt article here.
== Webcomics ==
* They do this all the time in ''[[A Modest Destiny]]'', and it isn't even to stand in for sleeping people! [http://www.squidi.net/comic/amd/view.php?ep=2&id=154
* The cast of ''[[8-
** To be fair, neither do corpses.
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