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Acronym Confusion
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Characters get their acronyms confused, often involving mistaking one for another, and/or misremembering an acronym severely enough to intend to refer to one acronym, but actually mention another. Subcategories include acronyms being confused due to sharing an initialism, and acronyms getting mixed up for other reasons. See also Fun with Acronyms, Shoehorned Acronym, Acronym and Abbreviation Overload, and Acronyms Are Easy as Aybeecee. |
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T*A*C*K: The kids use their initials to make the name of their group, but decide to give Will the code name "K" because it turns out no one can pronounce "T*A*C*W". | |
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A variation in The Pandora Directive. When kidnapped by the guys who introduce themselves as the NSA, Tex knows they're not talking about the National Security Agency but by the National Surveillance Agency. Either the Real Life NSA became this after World War III, or it's a completely different agency. The confusion comes on the part of the players. | |
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You would think the acronym for Highschool of the Dead would be "HSotD". Nope, it's "HotD". Poor, poor House of the Dead fans. To add to that, the title of the games usually read "The House of the Dead" which could easily be written as THotD but it's still HotD. | |
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SD is an initialism that may need a bit of context in a conversation about anime and manga — are we talking about School Days? Star Driver? Sleepless Domain? Or perhaps the "Super-Deformed" character art style (or any number of titles based on it, like SD Gundam Force or Kamen Rider SD)? It can also stand for Scooby-Doo or, on this website, Self-Demonstrating. Not to mention that it's the US postal code for South Dakota, or a common abreviation for San Diego. And, in the technology world, the ubiquitous SD memory card originally stood for Secure Digital. | |
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In the Gilmore Girls episode "In the Clamor of the Clangor", Lorelai says that Luke should be working for the CIA because he's so inscrutable. Sookie, thinking Lorelai meant the Culinary Institute of America, says "I have friends there." An understandable mistake since Sookie is a chef and a Cloud Cuckoo Lander. | |
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In the US, the early Dragon Quest games were called Dragon Warrior, leading to the DW# abbreviation. Around the time the switch back to Dragon Quest was made the Digimon World series was also starting up with the DW abbreviation. Fans of both instead insisted Digimon World was DMW, in order to avoid confusion. Additionally, neither should be confused with Arthur's little sister. Not even the acronym for the newer Dragon Quest games (DQ) is safe, as it's also the acronym used by ice cream restaurant Dairy Queen. | |
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If someone has more than one child of the same gender, they will often refer to them as "DS" or "DD" (meaning "dear son" or "dear daughter") followed by a number indicating their birth order (for example, to Homer and Marge Simpson, Lisa and Maggie would be referred to as DD1 and DD2). However, if somebody has nine or more sons, they might get confused with Deep Space Nine, and if they have nine or more daughters, they might get confused with Deep Dish Nine, a fanfic of the aforementioned series. | |
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You like to play BB? Why not, Bloodborne is a critical and commercial success so far. Wait, you were talking about BlazBlue? Or, who knows, maybe Bubble Bobble? | |
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Invader Zim (Oni): In Issue 39, Dib is horrified when he thinks he killed Inquisitous the Observer’s "Son", until he's told that "SON" means Sentient Observation ENvoy. | |
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Cyanide and Happiness: One character excitedly shows off his MENSA acceptance letter, only for the other character to point out that it's actually from NAMBLA. | |
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The Stand Still, Stay Silent webcomic. | |
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Suzaku does this continuously in Code Ment. | |
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STD usually stands for "sexually transmitted disease", though some use it to mean Star Trek: Discovery (though it's usually derogatory). | |
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Inverted in Hinatazaka de Aimashō episodes 47-48, where they compete to decide whether the show's Officially Shortened Title is HinaAi or HinaMasho. | |
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Fans of the NWA probably don't want to see the N.W.A | |
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Kirby has a problem with two games using the same acronym: is KSS Kirby Super Star or Kirby: Squeak Squad? The latter is sometimes referred to as "KSqSq", but not frequently. | |
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TPP: Twitch Plays Pokémon, The Phantom Pain, or the Trans-Pacific Partnership? Searching for "TPP Bill" will get you results for the American approval of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, although you may be looking for Bill as the villain of Twitch Plays Pokémon. | |
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HP — Harry Potter, House of Parlaiment, or H. P. Lovecraft? Or could it be Hewlett-Packard or health points? | |
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MW2: MechWarrior 2 and Modern Warfare 2. It doesn't help that both are Activision games. | |
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Dilbert: | |
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C&H could mean Calvin and Hobbes or Cyanide and Happiness. | |
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The Munchkin's Guide to Power Gaming's list of roleplaying terms defines RPG as "Rocket-Propelled Grenade". | |
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In the Polish comic Kayko & Kokosh, an important official comes to visit the town. The whole book consists of the two knights performing all kinds of whacky hijinks to impress him (all the while hiding the fact, that most people in town have been cursed with sloth) only to find out that... he wasn't quite so important. The acronym was the same... N.I.K. (Which in Poland is Najwyższa Izba Kontroli (Supreme Chamber of Control) but here interpreted as Najwyższa Inspekcja Kaszteli (Highest Inspector of Castles). Turned out to be Niższy Instruktor Konkursów (Junior Instructor of Competitions)). | |
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Dies The Fire. An ex-recon Marine is asked post-coitus about a scar he got during Desert Storm. He says it's from an RPG, causing the puzzled woman to wonder how you get a scar during a Role-Playing Game. | |
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In The Big Bang Theory episode "The Bat Jar Conjecture," Sheldon decides to name the team "Army Ants" due to the insects' strength. He even gets team T-shirts, which have "AA" written on them. Leonard points out how people may mistake the initials may make people think of something else. Sheldon doubts anyone will mistake them for "Anodized Aluminium." There's also Raj, Leonard, Howard, and Leslie's team, "Perpetual Motion Squad" or "PMS" for short. | |
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In Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home: Kirk tries to explain Spock (still not himself post-resurrection) to Gillian. | |
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From the "Zoobotnik" episode of Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog: | |
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MP: When referring to games, this could be Mario Party or Metroid Prime. It could also just refer to a game being multiplayer. If you're talking role-playing games, it could refer to magic points or something similar. In political terms, it can either stand for "member of Parliament" or "military police", among others. Dirty Bertie once had someone claim it stood for "more pudding". | |
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BHM: Black History Month or Bullet Hell Monday. | |
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From the first Ratchet & Clank - Captain Qwark offers to sell the heroes a PDA. | |
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The World Wide Fund for Nature, whose US and Canadian branches still go by the organization's former name of World Wildlife Fund, was worried people would confuse them with the World Wrestling Federation/WWF. After losing a lawsuit over the acronym, the wrestling promotion changed to WWE and had to go through their video catalog and "erase" all WWF logos. Though the erasures proved temporary, as the two outfits later agreed that WWE could use "WWF" in archival footage. | |
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PCB can refer to either "printed circuit board", "polychlorinated biphenyl", Perfect Cherry Blossom, or (for aerospace geeks) Plenum Chamber Burning, or the Portuguese acronym for the Brazilian Communist Party. | |
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On Drawception, CTS can stand for either "continue the song" or "continue the story", which has led to confusion. | |
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Cube Zero. The inmates see the letters C,I,A and naturally think the CIA built the Cube, but it's just a labelling system for the rooms (hence the commas). Later someone sees the label S,O,S and can only comment, "No kidding!" | |
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CP is also a common acronym for cellphone in the Philippines. And it can also mean Christopher "Moot" Poole. | |
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When She-Hulk starts working as a bounty hunter enforcing supervillain court dates, she typically tells people she's with the FBI. Most don't think to ask, and it actually stands for Freeman Bonding Incorporated. | |
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D&D: Dungeons & Dragons or "Drunk and Disorderly". | |
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When you say you play MK, this could mean that you like playing Mortal Kombat. Or Mario Kart. Or that you like to play as Meta Knight in Kirby games and/or Super Smash Bros.. Aside from video games, it could also refer to Magic Kingdom, or American fashion designer Michael Kors (whose products bear an "MK" logo). In Bloons Tower Defense 6, it could refer to Monkey Knowledge | |
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In the U.S., DOJ refers to the Department of Justice. You may want to clarify this when talking about that DOJ around shmup fans, as in shmup circles, DOJ stands for (DoDonPachi) dai ou jou. | |
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PC can mean "police constable", "politically correct" or "personal computer". On Neopets, it can also mean "Pound Chat", "Plot Chat" (two forums on the site), or "prize check". | |
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At one point, there were four known AAs in WWE at the same time: Arn Anderson, American Alpha, Austin Aries, and John Cena's Finishing Move Attitude Adjustment. | |
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Given an extra-confusing twist in one of the "Get Me Hennimore!" sketches in That Mitchell and Webb Look - the hapless Hennimore has to look after two different groups, the Murder In The Dark (MITD) club, and a wine-tasting day for a charity for nervous incontinents (Nervous Incontinents Tasting Day - NITD), while simultaneously having to deal with a printing press that keeps switching Ns for Ms. What a mightnare. | |
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NCR: New California Republic, or the U.S. corporation formerly known as National Cash Register? Fans of the Fallout games working for the company might find their brains a little twisted. And it gets more confusing for Filipinos, as it also stands for National Captial Region, also known as Metro Manila. | |
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In one episode of Pinky and the Brain, when the duo commandeer a submarine, Brain has Pinky alter the acronym signal it gives out so no one will know it has been stolen. Pinky therefore changes the signal to say N.A.R.F. Unfortunately, the Pentagon thinks it stands for Nuclear Attack Readiness Formation and has the sub bombed with depth charges. | |
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These days, "SU" also stands for Steven Universe. | |
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In the Phineas and Ferb episode "Just Our Luck", Candace celebrates that she's finally gotten a PHD - Perfect Hair Day. Her dad likewise has one for Pillow Hurtling Dexterity. | |
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SMB could variously refer to Super Mario Bros., Super Monkey Ball, or Super Meat Boy. Outside video games, it refers to Server Message Block. | |
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A Bit of Fry and Laurie: In a sketch from season 3, a character shows up at an AA meeting and seems to be uncomfortable discussing his alcoholism, only for it to transpire that he thinks it's a meeting for the Automobile Association. The leader seems unfazed by this and offers to send roadside assistance for the man's car... and offers him a drink while he's waiting. | |
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In a sketch on Only an Excuse? 2019 parodying Line of Duty they start off making fun of all the acronyms and how confusing they are, before deciding that's the obvious joke to make, and they're not going to do it. | |
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In The Whole Ten Yards, Lazlo Gogolak often makes mistakes about idioms and terms and hates it when people correct him. For example, he thinks that a DUI and an IUD are the same thing. They're not. Besides, a guy getting an IUD would be a little weird. | |
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Veep: In "The Choice" the characters have difficulty differentiating between the pro-life and pro-choice organisations because of their similar acronyms. | |
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"SPM" can refer to either the third game in the Paper Mario series, Super Paper Mario, or the third game in the LittleBigPlanet series, Sackboy's Prehistoric Moves. In Malaysia, it can also mean the final exam you take in high school (it's the local equivalent of the British GCSE O Level exams) before you move on to college. | |
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The SSSS.GRIDMAN anime, and by extension the Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad series from the same franchise after which it seems to be named. | |
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DMC can stand for either Devil May Cry or Detroit Metal City. Or Detroit Medical Center. Or DeLorean Motor Company — it's on the front of their cars. | |
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During one episode of The Men from the Ministry Lennox-Brown is being interrogated by an FBI agent, and assumes he is from Federal British Industries. | |
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Also related: Defiant Wrestling was previously named WhatCulture Pro Wrestling, with the WCPW initials. | |
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L&S could refer to "lying and standing" (a term used for blood pressure), "launch and steering", "Lawrence and Schiller" (an advertising agency), or Laverne & Shirley (a TV show). | |
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MHX: Mysterious Heroine X from Fate/Grand Order, or Monster Hunter X. Even more confusingly, there's also MHXX, as there's also a Mysterious Heroine XX and a Monster Hunter XX. Averted outside of Japan where those two Monster Hunter games are instead called Monster Hunter Generations and Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate respectively. | |
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DDR: DanceDanceRevolution, Deutsche Demokratische Republik, or "double data rate." | |
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GB: Great Britain, gigabyte, goodbye, or Ghostbusters? | |
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FF: Final Fantasy, Final Fight or Fatal Fury? Or maybe Fatal Frame? Or Fantastic Four? Or front-engine, front-wheel drive vehicles? Or fanfiction? Or (on Neopets) Future Fashions? Or Firefox? Or Foo Fighters? On TV Tropes, it used to stand for the now-deprecated trope Fetish Fuel. | |
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KOR can stand for either Kimagure Orange Road or the ISOnote International Organization for Standardization abbreviation for South Korea (also used by international sports governing bodies such as the IOC and FIFA). | |
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In the Get Smart episode "A Man Called Smart", Max is looking for someone known only as 'T.B.O.'. While standing at a catering truck, this exchange occurs: | |
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Dead On Arrival is a standard police or medical initialism. Date Of Accident is a common insurance initialism. Given that, on any given automotive or health insurance claim, the first is a possibility, confusion has arisen on more than one occasion. "Dead or Alive" has been used for multiple work titles as well. A videogame series, Dead or Alive (also DOA: Dead or Alive, the movie based on the game), and D.O.A.. | |
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QB: The Queen's Blade franchise, a quarterback, or the slightly-sinister Mentor Mascot from Puella Magi Madoka Magica? | |
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In one strip of the Pleasant Goat Fun Class manhua, Paddi hears the acronym "WTF" and thinks, "Where's the food?" It actually means "World Taekwondo Federation". | |
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An internal example for Left 4 Dead 2: Campaign names are often initialized when referred to, but there are two pairs with the same letters: Dead Center and Dark Carnival, and The Parish and The Passing. | |
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In Grounded for Life, Lily placed some ads to get friends for her grampa Walt. Seeing it in other adverts, she lists as one of the interests of his grandfather t/v, thinking that it means to watch TV, without realizing that it's a reference to transvestism. The replies that Walt get to these ads are surprising, to say the least. | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog has two games that share "SA": Sonic Adventure and Sonic Advance. Adding further confusion, both received numbered sequels; SA2 is usually Sonic Adventure 2, but could also be Sonic Advance 2. However, the confusion ends there and there is only one SA3 (Sonic Advance 3). Outside of Sonic contexts, SA also stands for South Australia, South America, and South Africa, among other things. | |
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From Analyze This: | |
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For some reason, a character from R.O.T.O.R. uses "C.O.D."note "Cash On Delivery" ,"Collect On Delivery", or "Cause Of Death" as a Bond One-Liner, even though it makes no sense in context. One would surmise they had intended "D.O.A."note Dead On Arrival instead. | |
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In The Laundry Files by Charles Stross, the organisations formerly known as MI5 and MI6 have invoked and exploited Acronym Confusion by changing their initialisms to DI5 and DI6 respectively and having their old initalisms reassigned. This way, the government can honestly claim that MI5 is certainly not doing whatever Orwellian thing they're being accused of while forgetting to explain that this is because MI5 is the organisation in charge of rubbish collection. | |
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So you're talking about a multiplayer FPS video game that abbreviates to TF2... Team Fortress 2 and Titanfall 2 both fit the bill. | |
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Mulberry explains that the World Wrestling Federation became World Wrestling Entertainment because the titular heiress found it confusing that both they and the World Wildlife Federation went by, "WWF". This took just minor liberties with real events.note The World Wrestling Federation had an agreement with the World Wildlife Fund, in which the wrestlers were to use the WWF initials only nationally in the USA. However, they broke the agreement when the World Wrestling Federation did international tours under the WWF logo. The World Wildlife Fund / Federation then sued for breach of contract, and won, forcing the wrestling fed to edit out the logo in old footage. | |
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MC could mean "main character", "Master of Ceremonies", "Medical Corps", "Member of Congress", "Maine Coon" (a breed of cat), "media card", "master chief", "Mastercard", "multiple choice", "motor control", "memory card", or "Minecraft". | |
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In This Bites!, when Cross yells about how Kureha might have taught Chopper how to throw knives like the KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti), Luffy wonders what does Kyuka Grill and Barbeque have to do with knife throwing. Justified as the KGB as Cross knows them doesn't exist in the One Piece world. | |
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In the Great Lakes Avengers mini-series, Living Lightning thinks 'GLA' stands for 'Gay-Lesbian Alliance.' | |
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DDP: Diamond Dallas Page or DoDonPachi. | |
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In National Security, Earl (Martin Lawrence) spots a file in Da Chief's office labelled "CIA Heist". Hank (Steve Zahn) assumes Earl is making this up. Later, though, they find that the bad guys have been raiding warehouses for kegs made of a new space-age alloy worth millions. They confront Da Chief with it, who confirms the CIA connection. Hank is incredulous, assuming they're talking about the Central Intelligence Agency. Both Earl and Da Chief look at him like he's an idiot and explain that they mean Crupps International Aerospace. Earl later asks why Hank thought he meant the actual CIA. | |
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The Golden Girls: Blanche's middle name is Elizabeth, and she keeps a journal with her initials on the cover. Her initials spell BED, and the girls mistake it for a logbook of people she's slept with. | |
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In Animal Crossing: New Leaf, a Snooty villager may ask if you believe in UFOs: Unidentified Floor Oranges. | |
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The "Cartman Joins NAMBLA" episode of South Park involves confusion between the North American Man/Boy Love Association and the Nation Association of Marlon Brando Look-Alikes. The latter have a grudge towards the former since they managed to grab the "nambla.com" domain first. | |
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In ARMS, when Mechanica fights Helix, Biff will explain that Helix is a living blob of DNA, but admits he doesn't know what that means. His hypothesis is "Do Not Attack" and warns Mechanica not to fall for it. | |
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HSR can stand for high speed rail networks or Honkai: Star Rail. There's further confusion to be had for players of both that and D4DJ Groovy Mix, as D4DJ has a mechanic known as High Score Rating. | |
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GOW? Gears of War or God of War? Only the two series being Xbox and PlayStation first-party exclusives respectively stops this from being extremely confusing. However, the two fandoms are actually friendly with each other about this and aside from the occasional lighthearted jest, refer to either games by the first word of the title (i.e. God or Gears) instead. The former series relented and has its more recent games by the end of The New '10s called just "Gears" (i.e. Gears 5, Gears Tactics). | |
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When Rin first introduces herself to Aoba in New Game!, she says she's an AD. Aoba first took it as the Assistant Director,note a usage so common in Japan that it is used instead of the full form in credits then Rin clarifies she's the Art Director. | |
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Back before it was shut down, Miiverse would ban anyone who said "PM" for discussing "criminal activity", seemingly in reference to the Super Smash Bros. Brawl mod Project M. This could kick in even if you were discussing the long-running Paper Mario series - which had its fourth and fifth games, Sticker Star and Color Splash, respectively released on Nintendo 3DS and Wii U, the consoles that supported Miiverse - or even just referring to post meridiem, the span of time that begins at noon and goes until midnight. | |
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In the United States, "SC" refers to the state of South Carolina. Within Northern California, it means the city of Santa Cruz...unless you're in the Silicon Valley area, in which case it refers to the city of Santa Clara. Gets even more fun among fans of Kingdom of Loathing, as it can stand for 'Softcore' (to differentiate from hardcore) or 'Seal Clubber', one of the classes. So you can be an SC SC from SC. On Neopets, it can mean "Scuzzy's Comb" or "Scratchcard". In Midnight it was a derogatory abbreviation of "sad cow" (used to insult girls). | |
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In game-related contexts, AC will be mostly associated with Assassin's Creed. Or the term "Armor Class". Nintendo fans, however, may think of Animal Crossing or Astral Chain. Some FROM Software fans may think of Armored Core. Some Namco fans may think of Ace Combat. And Final Fantasy fans may think of Advent Children. It can also stand for "Altador Cup", a major annual event on the online game Neopets. In Japan, "AC" literally stands for "arcade cabinet" and is used to refer to arcade games. Outside the context of gaming, AC can also stand for "alternating current", "air conditioning", and in military usage, "autocannon". | |
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The updated release of Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga carries the subtitle "Bowser's Minions". Referring to it by "SSBM" can potentially cause some confusion for fans of Super Smash Bros. Melee. | |
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When the fifth Super Smash Bros. game was announced as Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, it was quite confusing for those who had previously abbreviated Super Smash Bros. for Wii U as SSBU. | |
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The Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Neutral Zone" features a downplayed and implied example when the crew encounter three people who were cryo-frozen in the late 1990's. Upon being revived and told that they're aboard the USS Enterprise, one of them asks if the ship is American, assuming that "USS" stands for "United States Ship" instead of "United Star Ship". Understandable, as everyone is speaking English, he doesn't yet know about The Federation, and there was an aircraft carrier named USS Enterprise (CVN-65) afloat in his time, and the ship he's now on carries on the Legacy Vessel Naming tradition. | |
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In Cobra Kai, Johnny and Robby take a trip to Mexico. Along the way, Johnny buys them some cheesy T-shirts with a big "FBI" on the front and "Female Body Inspector" on the back. They end up visiting a mixed martial arts arena while wearing the shirts, and the gangsters running the place are understandably wary when they're told that two American federal agents are snooping around. | |
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