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  1. A 2009 comedy directed by Karey Kirkpatrick that has a father (Eddie Murphy) learning that his daughter's (Yara Shahidi) imagination has become the secret to his success.

  2. A personal theater through which you can view anything you can ever want to see, or listen to anything you can ever want to hear. In the imagination, all things are possible. The tricky part is finding out how to bring those possibilities to the physical world, for others to see.

  3. Can You Imagine That? is the first in a trilogy of Script Fics about Calvin and Hobbes written by garfieldodie, and is his first entry in what would be known as the Calvinverse. While riding on their wagon one day, Calvin and Hobbes spot a man inside a weird contraption.

  4. TV Tropes is where creativity goes to die and it's a terrible resource for anyone following their artistic pursuits. Writers in particular. It's fun to read when you're high though.

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    A very popular trope with commercials, so much so that it could almost be considered an advertising trope as much as it is a comedy trope, with the idea being to either convey how much one's life w...

    Azumanga Daioh uses several imagine spots throughout the course of the series, many of which involve (unsurprisingly) Osaka.
    In Bleach, Chad tries to remember what Ichigo's little sister Karin looks like. We end up with Squick as he sees Ichigo with a black wig, Karin's red hat, and lipstick.
    Similarly, Minami-ke's Hosaka gets really caught up in his fantasies, usually starring Haruka, to the point of acting them out. Everyone else thinks he's weird and a little sick in the head.
    One of the few almost totally lighthearted moments in Sin City happens when Dwight McCarthy imagines the recently deceased Jack Rafferty talking to him as a Deadpan Snarker. Emphasis on the dead part.

    Dungeon Keeper Ami features a hilarious one from Eline, immediately following her capture by Mercury.

    In Up, Carl just found out that Russell snuck aboard his house before liftoff and is passing over some buildings. Cue him trying to lower the kid down onto one with towels, the kid falling off, the...

    The archetype in film must be Walter Mitty.
    In Slumdog Millionaire, when the adult Jamal finds his older brother Salim that pointed a gun at him, raped his Love Interest and disappeared for years with the girl, he runs against Salim and push...
    In Mean Girls, Cady does it in the lunch room by thinking about how her dilemma would be solved in the animal world. In her spot she imagines tackling Regina George and wrestling with her as the ot...
    In Monster-in-Law, Jane Fonda imagines smashing Jennifer Lopez's face into a cake and later Lopez imagines whacking Fonda's with a pan. During both instances they put up a charade of liking each ot...

    Michael, the narrator of The Republic Of Trees is established as a notorious daydreamer in the first chapter. His visions in the book get quite bizarre ( such as Liberty from Delacroix' "Liberty le...

    This is probably the central comedic tool of Scrubs, which uses it to great effect. Usually J.D. does this, to the point where other characters Lampshade it increasingly as the series goes on, ment...

    The music video to "Voices" by Disturbed has the subject imagining doing hostile or even violent things to the people who piss him off, with the voices trying to convince himthat this is a good idea.

    In the musical Allegro, the Greek Chorus interrupts the awkward hoofing of a college dance to introduce a fantastic Dream Ballet which shows how the students feel they are dancing; this eventually...

  5. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 41% based on 120 reviews, with an average rating of 4.8/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Despite a promising turn by newcomer Yara Shahidi, Imagine That is another pedestrian family comedy that squanders Eddie Murphy's comedic talents." [9]

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  7. Tropes are a sort of storytelling shorthand. They’re devices authors use to spark an emotional response, create an immediate association, or add layers to a story without having to explain the heck out of everything. From a writing perspective, literary tropes are your friend… to an extent.

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