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Acquired Error at the Printer
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- 61 feature instances
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Fictional print shops are the most unreliable businesses ever. Any poster, sign, flyer, T-shirt, or other item which contains text they produce for their clients is going to have a mistake on it of some sort. Usually the mistake is extremely minor, like adding or omitting a single letter or punctuation mark, but completely changes the message to be awkward, embarrassing, or even offensive. Before the advent of desktop publishing, traditional printing techniques required text to be laid out by hand on a metal plate. Documents, such as books, can contain thousands of characters, so one can understand how mistakes can slip through unnoticed. There's less excuse for these mistakes in signs, posters, or the like, as these contain significantly less text which makes it much more clear when a mistake is made. In newer works, the mistake is usually blamed on the person who typed or created the document. Typically a Discredited Trope, which is usually parodied or played for laughs. Can result in a Manual Misprint or Tyop on the Cover. Sister Trope of Auto-Incorrect (where the error is introduced by a spellchecker or autocorrect software) and Virtual Assistant Blunder (where a voice-control device misinterprets a command). |
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In Lost In A Good Book, Thursday is stalked by an assassin known as The Windowmaker. When confronted about it, she explains that the printers got it wrong on her calling cards, and it cost too much to redo. | |
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A common gag in Achille Talon is the general ineptitude of the printer, Omar van Catastrofendonk. | |
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BoJack Horseman makes this into a Running Gag with Mr. Peanutbutter. At least once per season, he'll use a print shop for signs and t-shirts, but the printer manages to print both the desired text and the instructions he gave, i.e. " Happy Birthday Diane and use a pretty font." Season 5 has "MR. PEANUTBUTTER'S HOUSEWARMING BASH AND CAN YOU SEND ME A PICTURE OF THE BANNER BEFORE IT GOES OFF TO THE PRINTERS THIS TIME?" His brother, Captain Peanutbutter, apparently uses the same printer (or has the same communication issues as his brother), when he welcomes him home with a banner that says: "WELCOME HOME MR. PEANUTBUTTER OH AND I HAVE A GROUPON" The gag culminates in the series finale, where Mr. Peanutbutter restores the Hollywoo sign to its former glory. Unfortunately, due to yet another miscommunication, the movie district of Los Angeles will forever be known as "Hollywoob"! (He wanted it to be a "D" as in "Birthday Dad".) He angrily states to the printing company that he is going to seriously consider no longer working with them. |
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In Mission Hill, Posey starts up a massage therapy business but keeps getting creeps expecting a Happy-Ending Massage, and even a pimp who accuses her of cutting in on his territory. She has no clue why it's happening until Andy looks at one of the flyers she had printed up and he points out that it says "soothing release" instead of "soothing relief". | |
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The Baby-Sitters Club: Kristy runs for class president and a radio station called BIG JOKE sponsors the printing of T-shirts reading KRISTY IS A WINNER, with the station's name printed on the back of each shirt to acknowledge them as a sponsor. The T-shirt company leaves out the word WINNER and prints T-shirts with KAREN IS A... on the front and ...BIG JOKE on the back. | |
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The Simpsons: When Homer decides to throw a bash at his house, he has invitations printed up. | |
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On Parks and Recreation, Leslie's campaign team give the printer the URL of the graphic to print on her campaign signs, but they print the address itself instead. | |
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Among the many disasters befalling the grand opening of the Smash Club on Full House is that the napkins all read "Smush Club". | |
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The Grand Tour's opening uses this as a Couch Gag; a sign welcoming the presenters will always have the last one's name misspelled. For example, "Richard Hammond, James May, and Germy Clarkson" or "Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and Jams Made." | |
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Happens extremely often at cake shops when they are asked to hand-pipe a message on a cake, as frequently documented by the Cake Wrecks blog. For example. | |
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In Doonesbury, when Joan and Rick were about to be married, they had their wedding invitations printed by a professional printer. Unfortunately, the printer committed two errors: a) Rick's name was printed as "Bick". b) The date of the wedding was omitted. As there was only a short time before the wedding, they had to enclose a correction note along with the invitation. And then the printer committed a third error: On the correction note the word "bridegroom" was printed as "bridegoon". | |
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Corner Gas: The Dog River Howler is often lampshaded as being completely unreliable, printing anything from small spelling errors (spelling 'barley' as 'barely') to out-and-out lies (announcing the town of Moosejaw getting an NBA franchise). When Brent and Lacey order travel mugs with the names of their businesses on them, the text gets cut off, making the mugs say "Corner G and The Rub", which Brent decides is A Good Name For A Hip Hop Band. |
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Seems to happen to Kermit the Frog in a Sesame Street skit. He goes in to pick up a Kermit the Frog t-shirt ... and finds it reading 'Kermit the Gorf'. The printer insists that everything is fine ... especially when Kermit the Gorf shows up. The gag repeats twice as Kermit the Forg and Kermit the Grof both show up to collect their custom T-shirts. | |
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Fictional newspapers are inept too — when Donald Duck got his fifteen minutes of fame by (unwittingly) polesitting the smallest pole in the world, they misprinted his name as "Roland Dunk". | |
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In The Wonder Years episode "It's a Mad, Mad, Madeline World", Winnie gives Kevin a bracelet with his name, "KEVIN ARNOLD", engraved on it, which he accidentally leaves at his classmate Madeline's house while working on a French project. Rather than retrieving it before a date with Winnie, Kevin goes to the jeweller to have a new bracelet engraved - and doesn't discover until he brings it home that, thanks to his sloppy handwriting, the bracelet reads "KEVIN AMOLD" (which his older brother Wayne finds hysterical). | |
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In Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry delivers a death notice for his wife's late aunt to the newspaper. The paper misprints the "a" in "beloved aunt" as a "c", and Larry comes home the next day to a group of furious in-laws who think he deliberately insulted her. | |
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DuckTales (2017): "The Missing Links of Moorshire" ends with them winning a trophy that's engraved "Scroge and Douise". | |
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In Mr. Hook's Big Black Box, the name of the university the main characters used to attend (and are returning to for the reunion) has its name misspelled as "Lanchester Universitay" on the pamphlets for the reunion, in reference to the same misspelling being present on the welcome packs when they first joined. | |
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In Tombstone Rashomon, Wyatt is extremely annoyed that a newspaper article has spelled his surname 'Erp'. | |
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In Red Dwarf, Rimmer's parents were "Seventh Day Advent Hoppists", who hop every Sunday, due to a misprinted Bible wherein 1 Corinthians 13:13 reads "Faith, hop, and charity, and the greatest of these is hop." | |
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Golden Palace: Blanche orders pens for the hotel that read, "This pen is compliments from us to you." The printers leave out the space between "pen" and "is". | |
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Molly of Denali: In "Tooey's Hero," Tooey's banner for Eugene Pike was supposed to say "Welcome Hero," but it got misspelled as "Welcome Herf." | |
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Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel!: The O2 Kits got their nickname "Oz Kits" because they showed up with a different font than what was ordered, where the 2 looked more like a Z. The Dahl employee who ordered them thought this was a grave enough error to throw the whole lot out and order new ones, but since the kits were still perfectly functional, his superiors disagreed and hung up on him. Eventually the name stuck. | |
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One She-Hulk comic has a paparazzo take photos of She-Hulk sunbathing nude. Her attempts to prevent him from selling the photos fall through... but the printer, thinking her green skin is a photography error, "corrects" it to Caucasian tones, so no one realizes they're of her. | |
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In the first episode of Bounty Hamster, Cassie discovers the "Wanted!" Poster she's putting up to find her Disappeared Dad (which is written in an alien language she can't read) describes her father as an intergalactic villain wanted dead or alive, and offers Cassie's hand in marriage as the Standard Hero Reward. Cassie has no money to pay a proper bounty hunter or get the posters done, so she took the first friendly person who offered—unfortunately he's a Cloudcuckoolander called Neil the Liar. Marion and Cassie then have to try and stop all the bounty hunters before they find her dad. | |
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In an episode of The Nanny, Maxwell and C.C.'s company Sheffield-Babcock Productions is putting on a musical. They put an ad in the newspaper, which announces it was produced "by Maxwell Sheffield and C.C. Boobcock". However, it ended up being subverted when C.C. remembers she gave the ad copy to Niles to give to the messenger. | |
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Seinfeld: In "The Bubble Boy", George plays a game of Trivial Pursuit with a young man named Donald. During the game, Donald correctly answers a question note "Who invaded Iberia in the 8th century?", but George, irritated by Donald's taunting and condescension, refuses to give him credit for the answer, justifying it by saying the card says "the Moops" instead of "the Moors". Donald points out that this is a misprint, but George refuses to budge, and the confrontation soon turns physical. | |
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The Simpsons: One collected edition has everyone in Springfield (except Ned Flanders) damned to Hell. Krusty finds a sign welcoming him. Only it reads "Welcome Krusto. | |
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This trope sets off the whole sequence of events in Brazil, in which a dead bug falling into a daisywheel printer causes a warrant to be put out for a Buttle instead of a Tuttle, and the poor fellow ends up getting arrested and dying under interrogation. | |
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Ennui GO!: Renee's roller derby team is called the Screamin' Demons; when she orders team jerseys for them, they're mislabeled "Semen Demons". | |
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When Opus in Bloom County is working for the personal ads, an older male customer comes in to complain that instead of "banking", his ad says he is into "spanking". | |
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The Goodies: The tie-in book The Goodies File contains a shoddy brochure that The Goodies use to advertise themselves, full of spelling and lay-out errors. It is credited to | |
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In the early 1980s, Marvel submitted a comicbook that guest-starred Daredevil wearing red, which somebody at the printing company helpfully "corrected" to blue. | |
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On Will & Grace, Jack lands a role on a gritty new cop show, The Badge, but the cast party features posters reading The Vadge — probably, as Jack admits, because he ordered them over the phone and said "B as in 'bagina'." | |
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| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_8667f7b0 | comment |
In an episode of Dad's Army, a printer mixes up photos of Corporal Jones (intended for a recruiting poster) and an enemy agent (intended for a "Wanted!" Poster). | |
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1.0 | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_8667f7b0 | featureConfidence |
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Acquired Error at the Printer / int_8667f7b0 | |
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Acquired Error at the Printer | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_8aa7c509 | comment |
In Star vs. the Forces of Evil, invitations to the coronation of Queen Eclipsa came out with "coronation" spelt "cornonation". Tom points out that, considering Mewni's obsession with corn, it's probably more appropriate. | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_8aa7c509 | featureApplicability |
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Acquired Error at the Printer / int_8aa7c509 | |
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Acquired Error at the Printer | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_8c05f749 | comment |
Death in Paradise: In "Written in Murder", D.I. Jack Mooney receives a batch of business cards identifying him as 'D.I. Jack Money'. | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_8c05f749 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_8c05f749 | featureConfidence |
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Acquired Error at the Printer / int_8c05f749 | |
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Acquired Error at the Printer | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_8d814070 | comment |
Showed up at least 2 times in M*A*S*H In one episode Father Mulcahy receives a shipment of new bibles full of typos. This was a direct reference to the "Sinner's Bible" listed in the Real Life section below. Another episode featured a Jeweler's variation of the trope. When Klinger accidentally throws Margaret's engagement ring in the trash, Hawkeye and BJ help him replace it when they find it was a dime-a-dozen cheap ring sold by local merchants to begin with. The ruse is up when the custom inscription on the ring comes back reading "Over Hill. Over Dale. Our love will evernote should have read never fail." |
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| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_8d814070 | featureApplicability |
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Acquired Error at the Printer / int_8d814070 | |
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Acquired Error at the Printer | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_8e0f0c1c | comment |
In Doctor in Distress (1963), the ceremonial stone Sir Lancelot is asked to lay has his name engraved on it. This wouldn't be a problem except for the fact that the master mason accidentally wrote "Sir Lancelot Pratt" rather than "Sir Lancelot Spratt". | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_8e0f0c1c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_8e0f0c1c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Acquired Error at the Printer / int_8e0f0c1c | |
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Acquired Error at the Printer | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_98c961e2 | comment |
In the first episode of Helluva Boss, a billboard down the street from Immediate Murder Professionals' HQ advertises their business, but Blitzo either didn't have enough money to hire a competent billboard service to make the ad or did it himself and screwed it up. It reads like this (and, for bonus points, there's an arrow pointing in the opposite direction of the place it's advertising): | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_98c961e2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_98c961e2 | featureConfidence |
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Acquired Error at the Printer / int_98c961e2 | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_9e876c22 | type |
Acquired Error at the Printer | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_9e876c22 | comment |
The first paperback edition of Good Omens (which ironically refers to Biblical misprints) describes Sable Black's real name (Famine) as "one word, seven letters. Sounds like examine." According to Terry Pratchett: | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_9e876c22 | featureApplicability |
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Acquired Error at the Printer / int_9e876c22 | |
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Acquired Error at the Printer | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_a5549ed0 | comment |
In the New Testament, Jesus once famously declared that "it is easier for a camel to fit through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven". This rather strange mental image led to numerous folk etymologies involving Jerusalem having a specific low gate which required everyone to bow to enter. In fact, it was probably merely a mistake in copying Greek text, substituting "kamelôs" for "kamilos" (rope). Jesus actually compared it to "threading a large rope through a needle", which potentially alters the meaning of the metaphor, since a rope can be trimmed to fit whereas a camel obviously cannot. | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_a5549ed0 | featureApplicability |
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| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_a5549ed0 | featureConfidence |
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Acquired Error at the Printer / int_a5549ed0 | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_a656a587 | type |
Acquired Error at the Printer | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_a656a587 | comment |
The Truth: The dwarf printer makes a mistake when printing the first edition of the Ankh-Morpork Items and it comes out as Ankh-Morpork tImes. However, deWorde thinks that "times" sounds better and orders the printer to use the new name. There's also "56 People Hurt In Brawl." It was meant to be "5-6" since he wasn't sure how many, but the dash was omitted. And the variations on "The Truth Shall Make Ye Free" such as "shall make ye fret" and "shall make ye fere." The second one is completely plot-relevant, as it's seen by Mr. Pin during a Villainous Breakdown. |
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| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_a656a587 | featureApplicability |
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Acquired Error at the Printer / int_a656a587 | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_ad666b39 | type |
Acquired Error at the Printer | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_ad666b39 | comment |
In Fly by Night, Crabble spends a large period of the show trying to get a replacement sign after Harold ordered one saying "Sandwiches Snadwiches". | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_ad666b39 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_ad666b39 | featureConfidence |
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Acquired Error at the Printer / int_ad666b39 | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_b3f687d1 | type |
Acquired Error at the Printer | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_b3f687d1 | comment |
One FoxTrot strip had Peter and Jason find their father Roger's college diploma in the attic and wonder why he didn't hang it on the wall like usual. The fact that his name is printed as "Orger" presumably has something to do with it. | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_b3f687d1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_b3f687d1 | featureConfidence |
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Acquired Error at the Printer / int_b3f687d1 | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_b61bbe0a | type |
Acquired Error at the Printer | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_b61bbe0a | comment |
On Modern Family, Cam asked for a sign that read "What Next?", but it came out "Whanex?" As he asks himself how it happened, a flashback reveals that he had a candy bar in his mouth when he made the order. | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_b61bbe0a | featureApplicability |
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| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_b61bbe0a | featureConfidence |
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Acquired Error at the Printer / int_b61bbe0a | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_b7eaac30 | type |
Acquired Error at the Printer | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_b7eaac30 | comment |
Back in the Game: The T-shirt shop messed up the would-be Angels Little League team's order so that they're the Angles. | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_b7eaac30 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_b7eaac30 | featureConfidence |
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Acquired Error at the Printer / int_b7eaac30 | |
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Acquired Error at the Printer | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_b96564e6 | comment |
Fawlty Towers: In "Basil the Rat", Basil tries to invoke this trope while trying to cover up why veal is off the menu, in front of the health inspector. He tells a guest that "veal" is a misprint, and it should say, er, "eel". | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_b96564e6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Acquired Error at the Printer / int_b96564e6 | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_bcea3bf4 | type |
Acquired Error at the Printer | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_bcea3bf4 | comment |
How to Be Indie: The Thanksgiving Episode had the printers leave a decimal point out of the price on a poster, advertising a lunch that costs hundreds of dollars. | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_bcea3bf4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_bcea3bf4 | featureConfidence |
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| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_bf0d933 | type |
Acquired Error at the Printer | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_bf0d933 | comment |
In the April Fools Day episode of The Worst Year of My Life, Again, Simon has a badge made reading 'KING OF PRANKS'. However, due to several letters being squashed together, everyone keeps reading it as 'KING OF PRAWNS'. | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_bf0d933 | featureApplicability |
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| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_bf0d933 | featureConfidence |
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Acquired Error at the Printer / int_bf0d933 | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_c4282b71 | type |
Acquired Error at the Printer | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_c4282b71 | comment |
In My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In episode "Swarm of the Century", the ponies tasked with creating a banner to welcome Princess Celestia "couldn't fit it all in." In "Slice of Life", the bulk of the episode's tension (beyond the Bugbear's attack) is the result of a printing mistake on Cranky and Matilda's wedding invitations, setting the ceremony one day too early and forcing everypony to rush their preparations. The error was caused by Derpy subcontracting the printing of the invitations to the inexperienced Featherweight for a cheaper product. |
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| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_c4282b71 | featureApplicability |
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Acquired Error at the Printer / int_c4282b71 | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_cac220b8 | type |
Acquired Error at the Printer | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_cac220b8 | comment |
Mr. D: When Mr. D coaches the school's basketball team, their team name is spelled wrong on the jerseys. Mr. D tells the team that the printer made a mistake and will provide a refund, but the assistant coach points out that the invoice states they have already accepted the jerseys and that no refunds will be given. | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_cac220b8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Acquired Error at the Printer / int_cac220b8 | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_cccede8e | type |
Acquired Error at the Printer | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_cccede8e | comment |
In The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, a half-ton of deluxe Bibles are dropped off at a recycling center. One of the workers compares a copy verse-by-verse to another Bible. He has to read all the way to the end, as an extra verse has been appended to the last chapter of Revelations ("And they lived happily ever after."). | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_cccede8e | featureApplicability |
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Acquired Error at the Printer | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_d2c8280a | comment |
A Talmud sort of urban legend says that a Bible copier accidentally replaced an aleph with an ayin, turning "Fear thy Lord" into "Frag thy Lord" (or even worse), resulting in a nonplussed God ripped him an eye (ayin) out, in good ole "An eye for an eye" tradition. | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_d2c8280a | featureApplicability |
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Acquired Error at the Printer | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_ec2c627b | comment |
Sing: The prize money was supposed to be $1000 but Ms. Crawly's Glass Eye slips out of her socket and hits a couple zeroes. | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_ec2c627b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_ec2c627b | featureConfidence |
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Acquired Error at the Printer / int_ec2c627b | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_f2da188a | type |
Acquired Error at the Printer | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_f2da188a | comment |
The Batman: One episode has Alfred inform Bruce that according to the invitations that were sent out, he's hosting "A Farty." | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_f2da188a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_f2da188a | featureConfidence |
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Acquired Error at the Printer / int_f2da188a | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_f3853d17 | type |
Acquired Error at the Printer | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_f3853d17 | comment |
School of Rock: After Summer and Tomika have a falling out in "Don't Know What You Got ('Til It's Gone)", Tomika attempts to patch things up with a grand gesture, including a banner reading 'Tomika and Summer'. Unfortunately, when she unfurls it, it actually reads 'Tomika and Bummer'. | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_f3853d17 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_f655ed11 | type |
Acquired Error at the Printer | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_f655ed11 | comment |
On Frasier, Niles in Season 4 runs into this when he tries to take an ad out in the newspaper as a "Jung specialist, specializing in individuals, couples, and groups, tell me where it hurts." One mistype changing the 'j' to an 'h' in Jung, and the change in meaning causes Niles to Need A Freaking Drink. Funnily enough, the phones still ring off the hook. | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_f655ed11 | featureApplicability |
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Acquired Error at the Printer / int_f655ed11 | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_f6fe1bfc | type |
Acquired Error at the Printer | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_f6fe1bfc | comment |
Sabrina the Teenage Witch gives this trope as the explanation as to why Westbridge High's football team is called the Fighting Scallions in the first episode. They were supposed to be the Fighting Stallions. | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_f6fe1bfc | featureApplicability |
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Acquired Error at the Printer | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_f835d84d | comment |
In Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, Kelly Cooper is launching a kids book called Jump on the Potty. A printing error changes every instance of the word 'jump' to 'dump'. This leads to Dick Van Dyke doing a celebrity reading at the launch where he tells the children to "dump like a dog". | |
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Acquired Error at the Printer | |
| Acquired Error at the Printer / int_fe30da6 | comment |
Subverted in WKRP in Cincinnati. Herb has set up an ad campaign for Soul Suds Shampoo using Venus for a Celebrity Endorsement. To save on the photographer fees Herb took the pictures himself. Then the stand up display comes in and it's not Venus—it's Herb in a "Kiss the Cook" apron. It's Herb's fault, but he blames the printer. | |
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