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In the below I would have thought 無茶ぶりした時 would have been 無茶ぶりされた時. Am I
missing something?

> でもあんたって、どんな仕事でも途中で放り出したりしないでしょ？ **無茶ぶりした** 時こそ必死になって動くのが、あんたの昔からの長所だからね
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meaning passive-voice
Why 無茶ぶりした and not 無茶ぶりされた
I think what you're seeing here is somewhat akin to expressions like ぼんやりした or
びっくりした. 無茶振りをした時 is just expressing the idea that the individual
**experiences** the _time_ as _unreasonable_. There is no explicit or implicit
notion of _someone_ who is being _unreasonable_ or creating trouble for this
individual. Rather, it's just expressing a subjective perspective on what this
individual has experienced.
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Both sentences are okay, and mean almost the same thing:

  * 無茶ぶりされた時こそ必死になって動く
  * 無茶ぶりした時こそ必死になって動く

In the former, the subject of 無茶ぶりされる is simply the **listener** (あんた). In the
latter, there is an implicit subject switching; the subject of 無茶ぶりする is the
**speaker** (i.e., あんたは **私が** 無茶ぶりした時こそ必死になって動く). You have to infer the
hidden subject from the context.

In general, this is not a rare phenomenon in Japanese. For example, 添付したファイル
and 添付されたファイル usually [both mean "attached
file"](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/21772/5010).
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