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This guy's in a competition of some sort – let's say he's running for school president. When they start to announce the winner, he automatically assumes that he won; he'll stand up, get this smug look on his face and he might even start giving his acceptance speech. But he didn't win... it was his rival, some random underdog, a write-in vote, or a tie, or a mix and match of those things. The comparable Real Life example is the Award Snub. See also Thwarted Coup de Grâce for when one side has the other dead to rights and has the execution screwed up somehow, and Passed-Over Promotion when someone is denied a promotion they thought they were a shoe-in for. Compare Snub by Omission. In sports, this often overlaps with Down to the Last Play, where the team that everyone thought had lost manages to take the lead after the point where viewers have concluded the game is effectively over and changed the channel. |
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The finale of Clone High involves Principal Scudworth bemoaning at being beaten by actor John Stamos for position of Prom King during their high school days, so he sets out to rig the contest of his own school to have a second chance. When the results are finally about to be announced, John Stamos arrives and the rigged automatic voting machine instantly changes the results to the Full House vet. | |
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Inverted on Royal Pains when Evan runs for city council. After the election results are read and he loses, he goes to the council for something. When he gets there, he's immediately rushed into another room to be sworn in. It turns out the election coverage forgot to count the votes from one district. | |
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In Tekka Dread, a crossover between Vandread, Ranma ½, and Tekkaman Blade, during the hangar fight. In the original Vandread, Rabat easily beat up Hibiki. Here, Rabat assumed he'd beat up Ranma/Slade because he's bigger than him. To his shock and pain, he winds up on the receiving end of a brutal beatdown by Slade. It gets worse for Rabat when he attempts to cheat by pulling a gun on him, but Dita quickly intervenes when she saw what he was going to do and tried to save Slade. She winds up getting injured, which enraged Slade and violently beats the shit out of Rabat for what he did. | |
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While not exactly a contest, there's a point in the DVD version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats where Munkustrap gets ready to laud a particularly worthy cat through song, and Mistoffelees stands up with a flourish... only Munkustrap means Jennyanydots. Mistoffelees shrinks down again like a cat trying to pretend he wasn't after the mouse that got away, and some nearby cats bat at him a bit, grinning. | |
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A clip on America's Funniest Home Videos was taken during a high school ceremony of some sort, perhaps homecoming; one girl was crowned as queen before the announcers realised, oops, the girl next to her had actually won. | |
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A variation occurs in The Naked Gun, when Drebin gets off a plane after a successful mission and assumes that the waiting crowd is there for him, only to be belatedly informed they are there because "Weird Al" Yankovic is also on the plane. | |
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In one of The Baby-Sitters Club books, the members of the eponymous club each coach a regular babysitting charge to appear in a children's beauty contest. The rivalry between the girls is so intense that they can no longer babysit together, but all lose to a heavily made up child beauty queen with several other titles to her name. This also happens in the Little Sister Spin-Off starring Kristy's stepsister, Karen. Her gymnastics teacher is announcing who qualified for a special traveling team, and Karen stands up to greet the teacher and "accept" the invitation right before she reads the last name; one of her classmates grabbed her and yanked her back down before she could embarrass herself further. |
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The Simpsons: Played for laughs in the episode "The Mansion Family", in which Homer is the only person who does not earn a Springfield Pride Award. He gasps in anticipation when it is said the next winner "brings laughter and joy to the children of Springfield", even though he is not known for anything like that. He still stands up and adjusts his tie when it is said the winner has a "red nose" and "baggy pants" and it is not until the winner's name is announced that he realises he has not won. The B-plot of "Lisa's Substitute" has Bart running for class president, and declaring where his victory party will be held at the moment the polls are opened. Unfortunately, everyone's so busy celebrating that they forget to vote, leading to Martin Prince's moment of triumph with a parody of the "Dewey Defeats Truman" headline mentioned above. When Miss Krabbaple has been nominated for a teacher's award, she is saying how this couldn't be possible without the support of just one person. This is in front of a group of people outside the school, and Principal Skinner walks up to the podium to acknowledge this, smiling, but once Bart's name is announced, he keeps walking and grinning to avoid embarrassment. At the beginning of "Deep Space Homer", he's expecting the "Worker of the Week" award because every other worker already received it — but instead, it goes to an inanimate carbon rod. In "Lisa's Rival", Lisa gets into an epic saxophone duel with Allison Taylor during an audition for First Chair in the school band, culminating with them blasting a long note until Lisa faints. This also happens again at the end of the episode with the 2nd grade class's dioramas. Lisa hides Alison's of The Tell-Tale Heart because she's a shoo-in for first prize, but actually lives out the events due to her guilt and eventually reveals it... but Alison loses anyway. Lisa figures she'll get first prize now, but doesn't want to because of what she did... but she doesn't get it anyway. Nope, instead Ralph gets it for a simple diorama made up of old Star Wars figures. |
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In season 3 of Winx Club, Bloom has come to Sky's millenium party, expecting to hear Sky announce her as his girlfriend (as he had promised in the previous episode). Bloom starts to walk up while he's making his speech, but then it ends with him introducing Diaspro instead of her. It turns out that Diaspro has secretly given Sky a potion to make him love her instead. | |
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In the Thomas & Friends special, The Great Race, James is entered in the Best Decorated Engine competition, and as the host is about to announce the winner, James puffs forward, thinking it's him, only to stop when realizing it's really Rajiv of India who won. | |
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Kickin' It: The Wasabi Warriors once entered a dance contest. When the winner of individual category was to be announced, an arrogant cheater was readying himself to accept it. Then one of the warriors was announced the winner. | |
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Reddit has the r/prematurecelebration subreddit, which collects examples of people celebrating prematurely. | |
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There's a variant in the X-Wing Rogue Squadron comics. Two Rebels compete with two Imperial special forces troopers; whoever gets past the monster and grabs the golden sphere wins for their side. An Imperial got killed, a Rebel gave up his lead to save the other Rebel, and the Imperial got the sphere. Then a heat storm whipped up and killed them all. No, actually that was a virtual reality simulation, though they didn't know that going in. After they'd recovered, the Imperials congratulate the Rebels, smug in their victory. The judge says that maybe the Rebels won, since one saved the other, but when the Rebels are incredulous, he says no, the Imperials won, he was just impressed. It ends up moot anyway, since the Imperial trooper's commander stole the prize, a fugitive who knew something useful, and fled, leaving those troopers behind to be sold into slavery. Luckily for them the Rebels were happy to facilitate a Heel–Face Turn. | |
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During the Chunin Exams in Naruto, after their chakras clash and cause an explosion that blows them away, Neji gets back up and walks to an apparently unconscious Naruto. He then manages to say "Sorry, but This Is Reality. You're a failure. This match is over..." right before the real Naruto bursts out from underground and delivers an uppercut to win the match. | |
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On Teacher's Pet, both Leonard and Scott are shocked when the class presidency goes to Ian. | |
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The Community episode "For A Few Paintballs More" does this twice in the space of a minute. After all of the Greendale and City College paintball players are eliminated, it's down to just Britta and two City College players. Britta takes them out and starts celebrating, only to be taken out by two more City College players who had remained hidden. The City College players and Dean Spreck start cheering over their victory when another City College player runs up to join in. The previous two realize they don't know him seconds before he shoots them both. He then removes his mask to reveal he's Pierce. | |
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Both Susan Flannery (from The Bold & The Beautiful and Susan Lucci (from All My Children) were nominated for the Best Actress Daytime Emmy in one ceremony. When the winner was announced, the presenters' voices were garbled and the band began playing All My Children's theme. With numerous people pointing at her, Susan Lucci assumed she was the winner and began to walk on stage. Problem is, it was FLANNERY who had won. Luckily, Lucci was able to back off the stage before appearing on-camera. And even luckier, she had finally won her elusive Emmy several years prior, otherwise the incident would have been much more embarrassing for all involved. | |
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In a Calvin and Hobbes series, Calvin competes in his school's traffic-safety PSA contest. After creating a gory Scare 'Em Straight poster, he spends most of the strips taking his victory for granted, culminating in a daydream about the newspaper articles written and statues built in his honor — rudely interrupted by Susie informing him that she won. | |
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One episode of Pair of Kings featured Lanny stuffing a ballot box with his name so he'd win the King For a Day contest. Lanny was so sure he'd win that, as soon as the winner had been announced, he started giving an order before realizing someone else had been announced as the winner. | |
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Blackbird (Arrow): This is what costs Ra's his duel against Oliver. He disarms Oliver and runs him through, fatally wounding him, but doesn't bother to finish him off. That gives Oliver enough time to power through the pain with a brief Heroic Second Wind and grab Ra's from behind and snap his neck. | |
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A queen of the high school reunion vote is held during an episode of Married... with Children. In it, Al Bundy distracts the entire banquet by getting into a fistfight outside, and comes back several minutes later victorious. The only one left in the room was Peggy... who then broke into the ballot box and removed every vote that wasn't for her. She still acted surprised when she won, while another woman was ready to give her acceptance speech before the winner was declared. | |
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Gundam Build Fighters Try: In the Artistic Gunpla Cup at the end of the series, Minato Sakai is very confident that his entry, an MS Girl based on Fumina, is going to win. Everyone else is too (except Fumina herself, who is alternately wishing to either die of embarrassment or kill Minato), as it honestly is a very well-built model. When Meijin Kawaguchi announces the winner, he announces it's Entry #9, causing Minato to jump up in excitement... only for the Meijin to say "Oops, excuse me", turn the card over, and announce that Entry #6, Yuuma's Lightning Zeta Gundam, is the winner. Turns out building a model based on a real person without their permission is against the rules, and Minato was disqualified. | |
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In This Is a Life?, Daffy Duck thinks the weekly testimonial will be about him when it turns out to be about Bugs. Daffy has a habit of this, owing to his ego. In Show Biz Bugs he brags to the cabbie dropping him off at the theatre that he's the star attraction, only to see that Bugs Bunny has top billing. And finally, much later, during Bugs Bunny's Wild World of Sports (basically an half-hour Clip Show), Daffy has "wised up" and suspects all through the special that Bugs will win the award. Foghorn Leghorn wins the award. |
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On The Muppet Show, Fozzie once was beaten to the title of "Best Comic Bear", by an unknown bear never ever seen before. | |
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In The Spongebob Squarepants Movie, Mr Krabs announces that the new manager of the Krusty Krab 2 has "a name you all know, it starts with an S!". SpongeBob assumes the best, but has to humiliate himself three times over microphone before realising that the new manager is actually Squidward. | |
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When The Daily Show gave out its Employee of the Year award for 1999, Stephen Colbert launched into his acceptance speech the second he was named as a nominee. The award goes to a researcher instead; Colbert throws his notes across the room and storms off. | |
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In Robin Hood (1973), Prince John summons the winner of the golden arrow tournament... and cuts the champion's disguise away to reveal that the champion is none other than Robin Hood. | |
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Inverted in an episode of Just Shoot Me!. Maya gets upset with Jack after she gets him to work for one of the charities she supports, he simply hires workers to do the work, and wins an award. The charity then goes to honor someone else. Convinced it's one of the models, Maya takes to the stage and verbally berates the charity for selling out. It's then revealed that the "someone else" is her. | |
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Inverted on Cougar Town. Andy runs for mayor of Gulfhaven one season, then forgets about it. The following season reveals that he won the election but since he wasn't paying attention, he's been mayor for a month without realizing it. | |
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On November 17, 1968 at Oakland-Alameda County Stadium, the Oakland Raiders hosted the New York Jets. In the fourth quarter, the Jets had regained the lead from a 29-29 tie score with a field goal, resulting in a 32-29 lead with 1:01 minute left. The NBC executives were unsure if the game would finish by 7 p.m. EST, when Heidi was scheduled to begin. Viewers flooded the switchboards with calls, some asking that the game be shown to its conclusion, and others wondering if Heidi would start on time. The numerous phone calls prevented Don "Scotty" Connal and Dick Cline from getting in touch with each other. Just as Charlie Smith was returning the kickoff, the Eastern and Central time zone broadcasts of the game cut away to the opening minutes of Heidi, while Raiders QB Daryle Lamonica threw a 43-yard touchdown pass to Charlie Smith for a 36-32 lead. As the Raiders kicked off to the Jets, Earl Christy fumbled the ball at the Jets' 12-yard line, followed by Preston Ridlehuber recovering the fumble and taking it into the end zone, giving the Oakland Raiders a 43-32 comeback victory. | |
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WWE: As they were announcing the new #1 contender for the WWE Championship, John Cena stood up, assuming he won (justified as he had by far won the fan poll), only for Kurt Angle to say "John... Bradshaw Layfield!" Another time a feud started between Hulk Hogan and Sid Justice because Hogan was named #1 contender for Ric Flair's title, in a press conference where Justice stood up as the announcement was being made. |
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Wizards of Waverly Place: This happens to Justin in the episode "Wizard Of The Year". Chancellor Tootietootie shows up at the Russo home to announce that one of the siblings will be receiving the Wizard Of The Year award. Justin immediately assumes that the award is for him and starts bragging about his delinquent class until Tootietootie reveals that the award is entitled to Alex for saving the world from the Angels of Darkness in "Wizards vs Angels". Justin is outraged by this and insists that he deserves it more, even delivering a heated holographic message at the banquet. | |
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On an episode of Lizzie McGuire, the eponymous character and Claire are in the running for an election. As the results are announced, both of them stand up only for the winner to be the nerdy Tudgeman. | |
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In Election, Tracy Flick assumes for the entire film that she's a lock for class president and stands up triumphantly as the election winner is announced... only for Dumb Jock Paul Metzler to be announced the winner instead, much to her shock and distress. However, this is actually a subversion: Tracy really had won the election and stood up when the winner was announced because she had received confirmation of her win from one of the students who had tallied the votes but her teacher Jim, not wanting her to win, had thrown away some of the votes for her after the votes were tallied so that Paul would be declared the winner instead. When the votes for Tracy that Jim had thrown away are found in the trash, she's recognized as the rightful winner. | |
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An early 2010s story arc in Luann featured most of the primary female cast members entering a school beauty pageant, with resident Alpha Bitch (and former pageant winner, though she was stripped of her title for orchestrating a financial scam) Tiffany so certain that she will win that she berates the emcees into announcing her win, before correcting herself to "the winner". When the winner's name is read, Tiffany is halfway to the stage before she realises the emcees have announced Rosa Aragones (who was introduced into the comic in this arc) as the winner. | |
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Parodied in Azumanga Daioh. Yukari is announcing the highest scoring person in the class and, despite being the second-lowest scoring person in the class with no chance whatsoever, Tomo stands up just before the announcement. Similarly, earlier, when Chiyo is about to be called forward during the grad ceremony to be recognized for having the highest grades in the school, Yomi has to, repeatedly and with her usual growing irritation, tell Tomo "It's not you!" | |
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In the 2007 adaptation of Hairspray, Amber and Tracy are the two most likely to win the title of Miss Teenage Hairspray. As the winner is announced, Amber steps forward with a smile to accept the award, only to find that she lost to Little Inez. To clarify: Originally, Amber did win, until Tracy interrupted the ceremony. But then they keep the lines open during the final song, and Inez gets her chance to shine thanks to Link. Then it's also revealed that Amber's win was actually due to Velma manipulating the voting graph. Amber is amazingly humble about all this. |
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In the episode where Peter helps Joe train for the Special Olympics, after Joe becomes a champion and celebrity he starts acting like it was all him. At an awards ceremony he says he wants to thank Peter...Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary fame. He then thanks Mr. Griffin...comedian Eddie Griffin. Finally, the man to whom he owes everything, the fat guy...actor Dom DeLuise (who remarks "Wow, I didn't even do anything!"). At this point a frustrated Peter stands up and calls Joe out. | |
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Sabrina: The Animated Series: In the Made-for-TV Movie "Sabrina: Friends Forever", the movie's Alpha Bitch assumed she'd win an award but Sabrina won. | |
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Top Gear: In the first Africa special, the presenters (having bought used cars and successfully crossed Botswana) sit down to decide whose car was ultimately the best. Richard Hammond clearly expects his 1963 Opel Kadett ("Oliver") to win, since "he" made the journey unmodified, though the car did develop some problems after an unsuccessful attempt to ford a river. The other two presenters give the award to a Volkswagen Beetle instead, as it followed them as the backup vehicle and had no problems at all. Another episode had a race across Liverpool to the Liver Building between James in a new Peugeot and a pair of traceurs. The trope came into play at the finish line. |
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In Fallout 4, a terminal in the ruins of the Boston Bugle building has an article stating that Boston's baseball teamnote assumed to be the Red Sox, but not named in-game in order to avoid licensing issues was on the verge of winning the World Series for the first time in 159 years, with Game 4 set for Saturday, October 23, 2077, and the article proclaiming that the only thing that could stop Boston from completing the sweep was either "an act of God, or some obscene calamity of man". Guess what happens on October 23, 2077? It's just made worse as in the Fallout timeline, unlike in Real Life, Boston never broke the Curse of the Bambino. | |
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The Victors Project: A chilling version during the reaping for the First Quarter Quell, in which the boy from District 6 (a Self-Made Orphan who is one of the districts youngest and biggest drug lords) walks towards the stage before they call his name, having known that they'd vote for him. This is a rare case, which the person assuming the win does in fact win. | |
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An ancient example: the Book of Esther in the Bible. King Ahasuerus asks his evil advisor Haman, "What should be done for the man the king delights to honor?" Thinking he is the man the king is referring to, Haman suggests an elaborate parade. But the man in question turns out to be Mordecai, the hero of the book and Haman's nemesis. And what's more, Haman himself is put in charge of carrying it out. | |
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Played for laughs on Arthur when George, whose performance we never actually saw, won the school talent show with some kind of pogo-stick act. Lampshaded seasons later when George won again (complete with Stock Footage of the award announcement). Another episode had Michelle Kwan come to present an Athlete of the Year award. Everyone assumed Francine would win, including herself. To their surprise, Jenna won instead. The shock of the announcement took a while to sink in for Francine, who stood up and thanked everyone anyway. |
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Hero: 108: The episode "Turtle Cannon Competition III" begins with an awards show, where First Squad is up for an award for "Best Teamwork", alongside other divisions of Big Green. Their rivals Second Squad are initially announced as the winners, only for one of them to cause Ape-Truly to realise his mistake and announce First Squad as the real winners. | |
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This occurs in CatDog twice in one episode. Cat, the intelligent and well read main character, auditions for a play about Abraham Lincoln, believing himself to be an incredible actor but ends up losing and humiliating himself when Dog, The Ditz, wins the part by a landslide. Cat, thoroughly incensed, sabotages Dog's health in order to win the part and ends up succeeding due to Dog being incapacitated by his illness. Thus, Cat stars as the leading role as Abraham Lincoln and ends up doing an amazing job, earning a standing ovation for his performance. Later at an award ceremony, Cat awaits his award for best actor, knowing that he deserved it because of his skill and finesse and thus, makes his speech before the award is even given out. The award goes to Dog instead, for his amazing performance as Abraham Lincoln's mute steed and it turns out that the standing ovation from before was all for Dog. | |
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A meta example occurs with the Steven Universe episode "Dewey Wins", which centers around Mayor Bill Dewey's reelection campaign. Despite the episode's title, Dewey ends up losing the election to Nanefua. This is likely in reference to the "Dewey Defeats Truman" incident detailed below. | |
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In Gunnerkrigg Court, when the choice for the court medium is announced, Annie's friends make sure to congratulate her on becoming the new court medium and Annie herself affects surprise at the choice. It takes them a while to realize that the name the court announced was not Annie's. | |
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Garfield and Friends, "Caped Avenger": A publisher Jon is trying to impress, seeing Garfield and Odie playing, is inspired with an idea for a comic book that he hires Jon on the spot to write. Garfield immediately starts thinking about royalties and star treatment — and then it turns out that the new comic book is to be about Odie. | |
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When Michael in The Office (US) is hosting his last Dundies, he presents the "Hottest In the Office" award to a guy that year, which according to him is his first time doing it. Ryan immediately gets up to accept it, but then subtly angrily sits down after Danny Cordray (who isn't even there) is announced as the winner. | |
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Daffy has a habit of this, owing to his ego. In Show Biz Bugs he brags to the cabbie dropping him off at the theatre that he's the star attraction, only to see that Bugs Bunny has top billing. | |
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse won the Best Animated Film award, which doesn't seem like too big a deal... until shortly after, where images started circulating from stores where it turned out Disney had pre-emptively printed stickers to promote Ralph Breaks the Internet as the winner of the award, and sold them to stores to use in their shelves—and most stores had no choice but to either throw out the stickers, or to just display them anyways (which some stores did). Whoops. This one was baffling to many given that Spider-Verse was clearly the heavy favorite to win, having already earned several precursor awards like the Golden Globe so Disney thinking Ralph was a sure winner seemed off. | |
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In season six of Veep Jonah runs for congress against Judy Sherman, his former second grade teacher. Jonah is abrasive, highly gaffe-prone, and possesses zero ability to connect with voters, while his opponent Judy, the widow of the former congressman, is a widely loved sweet old lady. Jonah looks certain to lose, until he shoots himself in the foot (literally) while filming a campaign commercial, and Judy is caught on camera saying "guns can be dangerous", causing the NRA to buy attack ads against her. On election day, Jonah eeks out a narrow win. | |
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In the Goof Troop episode, "Meanwhile, Back at the Ramp", Pete thinks that he will win an award for being the best father in the class. When it unsurprisingly turns out that Goofy wins instead, Pete's son PJ has to stifle his giggles. | |
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The eponymous Kim Possible had this happen to herself, after Bonnie was implied to have rigged the homecoming Queen vote in her favour, or at least knew about it beforehand. | |
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In the Recess episode 'Principal For A Day." When the faculty draws a sudents name out of a box to be principal for a day Randall stands up thinking he won (because he stuffed the box). The actual winner is TJ. (The principal had the drawing rigged.) | |
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The film was the heavy favorite to win, with Moonlight (2016) a distant second. Nearly all forecasts predicted La La Land would win, and most betting sites placed its odds of winning at over 80%. Vox stated, "If La La Land loses Best Picture, it will be the biggest Oscars upset ever." FiveThirtyEight placed its odd of winning at 82% and noted that with the Best Picture category's rank-choice voting system, "The Oscars are already rigged in favor of movies like La La Land." | |
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In A Very Potter Musical, Snape is about to read aloud the Gryffindor representative for the House Cup Tournament. When he sees the name, a sly smile crosses his face as he remarks how unusual it is that the representative is a significant person against whom he holds a grudge. Neville starts to stand up to accept the position before Snape snaps at him to sit back down. | |
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For a Furcadia contest, creator Graphite made a dream called COLDFusion that turned Furcadia into a game of Atomica, which meant it didn't resemble Furcadia at all. He was absolutely sure he'd win first place—but the judges weren't sure how to rank it. Instead, they created a special category for that dream alone and Graphite was well-rewarded. | |
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In Cars: After the first race at the beginning of the movie: | |
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Odd Squad: In "Blob on the Job", Oren and Olaf end up winning the competition of catching the loose blob in Headquarters by way of stealing Olive and Otto's container and passing it off as theirs. Oprah sends Oren and Olaf to Blobsylvania to count blobs in what is, in their eyes, a reward, but Oprah informs Olive and Otto that it's anything but a reward. She explains that she knew they were the ones who caught the rest of the blob and that Oren and Olaf cheated, only saying that neither one of them wants to go to Blobsylvania. In "Put Me In, Coach", Coach O puts down a point for Oriele and Orielle and declares them the winners of the competition, which leads them to begin cheering and leads Olympia and Otis to begin sulking as the background music swells. The credits then begin to roll, only for Coach O to elaborate by saying that Oriele and Orielle won the first round of the competition and not the competition itself. He then sends both girls to the penalty box for celebrating too early. |
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Inverted on an early episode of Sliders. The group lands in a world where women have the prestigious jobs and positions while men are treated as second class citizens. Professor Arturo decides to run for mayor to make a change to the status quo. The early results claim that he's lost the election, so he opts to slide with the others to the next world. Just as he gets in the portal, it's discovered that the early results were wrong and he won. | |
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On Legacies, the supernatural school is voting on who will be the members of a student council. Vampire MG and witch Lizzie each campaign hard for the role. When the winners are being announced, MG stands right up, brushing his suit and preparing his speech...only to learn that Kaleb (locked up for feeding on humans) has been voted to represent the vampires. Likewise, Lizzie is asking sister Josie how she looks just before it's revealed that Josie (who wasn't even running) has been voted the witch leader. | |
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In the first chapter of morphE Tyler dives in to his fight-to-the-death with Billy and assumes that he has the thing beat. Unfortunately he didn't understand the game was not about killing his opponent but about instigating a near death experience to trigger an awakening as a mage. Amical shoots him in the shoulder to even the fight out and try to keep Billy as a mage. | |
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The final moment of The Oscar has the film's antagonist, Frankie Fane, up for a Best Actor Oscar (and having burned so many bridges that a win may be the only thing that keeps his career from plummeting to rock bottom). He is so confident in his victory that when presenter Merle Oberon reads the name "Frank..." he stands up, only for Oberon to continue (after an unnaturally long pause) with "... Sinatra!" Fane sinks back into his seat in shock. | |
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When Mr. Lamb in The Men from the Ministry is applying for the executive post of the Junior-Assistance-Deputy to the Assistant-Deputy-Junior to the Deputy-Junior-Assistant, he assumes that he has got the job from the get-go because he is fifteen years senior to all other applicants. Upon receiving the letter from Staff Appointments, he doesn't even bother opening it until Lennox-Brown convinces him to at least read what exactly they are saying about his acceptance. Turns out Mr. Haggit from the cantine got the job instead. | |
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Played for laughs in Futurama when Leela wins an intergalactic beauty pageant despite having nothing to do with the pageant only to find that the announcer, Zapp Brannigan, simply yelled her name in surprise while he was trying to open the winning envelope. "What are you people, idiots?" Of course, in another episode, Zapp declared her the winner of a limbo contest she didn't enter, so, y'know... | |
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Om Shanti Om: During the parody Filmfare award ceremony, Abhishek Bachchan gets up from his seat fully expecting to win Best Actor... and then the presentors say Om's name. Oops. | |
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A.N.T. Farm: Happens on the episode entitled "ClairvoyANT" to Cameron, Principal Skidmore even sets it up by saying this person has waited patiently through ceremony while everyone else won at least one trophy. But instead, it's Skidmore herself who wins the award. Also happens to Lexi in the episode "EndurANTs". Lexi and Paisely disguise themselves as music and art ANTs in order to enter the ANT-Lympics and win the $50,000. When the announcer says "And the award goes to...", Lexi immediately goes onstage and starts bragging about herself and "thanking" everyone. However, she then finds out that the award is actually for an Australian team and angrily reveals her true age and occupation which sadly outranked Webster High to 2nd place with $49,000. |
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In Winnie the Pooh (2011), after Pooh's friends have fallen into a pit intended for the Backson, Piglet escapes on a red balloon, which knocks some of the letters into the pit, which they use to climb out. Later, when it comes time to give out the awards, Rabbit awards the pot of honey to... the red balloon. Later, Pooh goes to Owl's house, and discovers that Owl had picked up Eeyore's tail and had been using it as a doorbell tassel. Later on, Pooh decides to return Eeyore's tail instead of staying for snacks, and he receives a giant pot of honey as his prize. | |
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In the Tiny Toon Adventures episode, "Hare Raising Night", Buster tricks Babs, Plucky, and Hamton into helping him stop the mutant experiments of Dr. Gene Splicer by telling them they're going to the Emmy Awards, which Plucky continues to believe for the rest of the episode. At the end of the episode, Buster makes up for lying to his friends by taking them to the real Emmy Awards. When the Award Presenter announces the winner for Best Supporting Actor in a Cartoon, Plucky walks towards the stage, thinking he is going to win the Emmy. The Emmy goes to Melvin the Monster, one of Splicer's failed experiments instead. | |
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This also happens again at the end of the episode with the 2nd grade class's dioramas. Lisa hides Alison's of The Tell-Tale Heart because she's a shoo-in for first prize, but actually lives out the events due to her guilt and eventually reveals it... but Alison loses anyway. Lisa figures she'll get first prize now, but doesn't want to because of what she did... but she doesn't get it anyway. Nope, instead Ralph gets it for a simple diorama made up of old Star Wars figures. | |
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In Zoolander, Derek Zoolander has won Male Model of the Year three times in a row. When newcomer rival Hansel (he's so hot right now) is announced as the winner, Derek doesn't notice and assumes he won, going up to the podium and giving an acceptance speech only to be corrected and humiliated in front of the crowd and viewers. | |
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Connor and Joko both assume that they've won the SMPLive Assassin Event until they learn that neither have, as Carson has declared the event a failure. | |
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Another time a feud started between Hulk Hogan and Sid Justice because Hogan was named #1 contender for Ric Flair's title, in a press conference where Justice stood up as the announcement was being made. | |
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La La Land being erroneously declared Best Picture at the 2017 Academy Awards was this on two fronts. The film was the heavy favorite to win, with Moonlight (2016) a distant second. Nearly all forecasts predicted La La Land would win, and most betting sites placed its odds of winning at over 80%. Vox stated, "If La La Land loses Best Picture, it will be the biggest Oscars upset ever." FiveThirtyEight placed its odd of winning at 82% and noted that with the Best Picture category's rank-choice voting system, "The Oscars are already rigged in favor of movies like La La Land." Earlier in the ceremony, Damien Chazelle won the Best Director award for La La Land, which statistically predicts the Best Picture winner 71% of the time. Best Picture presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway announced the winner as La La Land to the surprise of few, and the cast and crew had congregated on the stage and two of the producers had finished their acceptance speeches when it was discovered Beatty and Dunaway had mistakenly been given the envelope for Best Actress, which Emma Stone had won for La La Land, and Moonlight had in fact won Best Picture.note The winner's cards were criticized for being poorly designed, which had the film's name and nominee(s) in large type, while the category was at the bottom of the card in small, barely readable type. The cast and crew of La La Land then had to clear off the stage as the producers of Moonlight accepted the award to a stunned audience. |
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On Tattletales whenever there was a question where Charlie Brill felt he and wife Mitzi McCall would match each other, Charlie would shout "I smell victory!" It was quite comical when they didn't. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In "Crusaders of the Lost Mark", Diamond Tiara's mother had a party for when her daughter won the school election. Diamond didn't win though, in fact only one foal voted for her. Herself. Even her sidekick Silver Spoon voted against her. In "A Horse Shoe-In", Starlight Glimmer holds auditions for the School of Friendship's vice headmare. Trixie automatically assumes that since she and Starlight are friends, she'll be given the job and that the auditions are just a formality. As a result, she doesn't take the auditions seriously and just proves she is unfit for the job. In "Fall Weather Friends" Applejack and Rainbow Dash are so certain that one of them will win the race that they spend all of their energy sabotaging each other and completely disregarding the other racers. This slows them both down so much they end up tied for dead last. |
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After the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare") on June 28, 2012, CNN and Fox News Channel incorrectly reported that the law had been repealed right as the news broke. Apparently they rushed through the court's text and did not realize that the controversial mandate that the court was reviewing had been upheld as a tax. Given the nuance, in this case, it could be honestly misread in the rush to get to air. At the crux of the case was whether Congress could enact legislation that compelled participation in interstate commerce, i.e. force someone to buy something. The ruling said that while Congress could regulate interstate commerce, it could not compel a citizen to participate in it. This is where Fox began reporting on the repeal, as it doomed the government's argument. However, further on, SCOTUS found that the ACA was a Tax without using the T-Word, and under that logic, the bill was a-okay. It should be pointed out that this was not the victory that proponents wanted, because much of the opposition to the bill was centered on it being forced participation and/or a tax. In 2017, after the Republicans gained control of the presidency, Senate, and House, Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell tried unsuccessfully several times to pass an Obamacare repeal bill that appealed to both moderates and conservatives in the party. In July 2017 his party drafted what the media referred to as a "skinny repeal" bill that would repeal key parts of Obamacare and had seemingly secured enough votes to pass it, as only moderate Sens. Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski publicly opposed the bill, and a 50-50 tie would be broken by Vice President Mike Pence who would pass it. During the floor vote, Sen. John McCain unexpectedly voted against the bill, causing it to fail 51-49. |
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Beetlejuice had an episode where Lydia's rival Claire Brewster is running for school president, so Beetlejuice—as his drag alter ego, Betty Juice—enters the race as well. After alienating the students with constant mudslinging (both literal and figurative), they both lose to a virtual unknown. | |
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In an episode of Sushi Pack, the city is about to unvale a statue of one of their superheroes, and the pack all assume that it's going to be of them, only to discover that the statue is of Kato Platypus. | |
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Penguin Musume Heart has a reversal of this: Penguin gives a heartfelt speech about how Etorufu would make a better student council president then her, and then proceeds to accidentally vote for herself instead. | |
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Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle treated its character popularity-poll as an in-universe event. Princess Syalis shows up wearing an "I am number 1" headband and is quite miffed when it turns out that she only got third place. | |
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In The Golden Girls S6:E14 ("Sisters of the Bride"), Rose is so certain that she will be the winner of this year's Volunteer Vanguard Award that she spends most of the banquet practicing her acceptance speech and shouts YES! when she hears her name called. Unfortunately, Sophia, who's making the announcement, is only calling on Rose to bring her some water. It turns out that the winner is Agnes Bradshaw, whom Rose expected to beat since Agnes had recently passed away. Rose proceeds to have a meltdown: | |
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A few clips on World's Dumbest... feature races where the leader assumes that he's going to win, but ends up sabotaging himself and losing. One race-car driver enters the home stretch with a commanding lead. He starts celebrating...and loses control, spins out, crashes into the wall, bounces off, and comes to a stop inches from the finish line. He ends up pushing his car across the line after everyone else has passed him, finishing dead last. A roller derby racer starts celebrating his upcoming win...and fails to notice the guy behind him catching up and passing him just in time to win. Mr. Second Place then becomes a Sore Loser and gets himself disqualified. |
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Nigel Uno suffers this indignity twice in the Codename: Kids Next Door episode "Operation Elections", first when the 4th grade secretary announces the Delightfuls as winners of the presidential election he was running for (he had already prepared a speech which referenced some previous episodes' events, and was walking out to the podium as soon as the secretary said "And now, meet your new president"), and then at the end when he's told (while he's making his speech) that Eggbert Eggelstein won (even though the secretary had told him earlier that Nigel did win: it turns out he only said that so Nigel could break him out of detention). | |
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In All-of-a-Kind Family Uptown, Sarah expects to win the History Prize being given for her graduating class, and her whole family expects it as well given how hard she's studied. Instead, she's crestfallen and humiliated when another girl is called as the winner. | |
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South Park: Inverted when the boys bring in Kyle's cousin, Kyle as a ringer to make sure they lose and thus no longer have to play baseball. Stan figures this when coaching pee wee hockey. Unfortunately he was Wrong Genre Savvy. |
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One episode of The Facts of Life played this twice...with the same election. The previous episode had Edna's Edibles holding an election among the girls and Mrs. Garrett. This is put on the back burner when Natalie's father dies. The results of the election are read and Blair starts to take a victory pose when it's announced that Jo actually won. However, Jo becomes overcome with the attention and turns it down, prompting Blair to state that if the winner cannot perform her duties, the title passes to the first runner up. Mrs. Garrett then reveals that she herself is the first runner up. (Blair asks how she did and is told You Don't Want to Know.) | |
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Ted Baxter did this in at least one of the "Teddy Awards" episodes of The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Mary herself did it once as well, albeit at Rhoda's urging. In a news awards show, Murry was told in advance he'd win for best writing; when the award was presented he rose to accept before the announcement, only for it to be given to someone else. He was the only member of the news team to not win. (a ironic jab to the recent Emmy awards, where Gavin Mc Cloud was the only cast member not provide a statue). Bearing his disappointment in silence, his co-workers asked him after the show to read his acceptance speech, which even included a kind turn to Ted. |
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I've Got You Under My Skin: Alison Schaeffer was so sure of receiving a medical scholarship from her college that she was already halfway out of her seat when it was awarded to another girl; Alison considers it the most humiliating moment of her life. Notably, this is not presented as a sign of Alison being overconfident: it is noted that the dean reacted awkwardly to reading the winner's name, and Betsy Powell's taunt to her implies that she persuaded the dean to change the winner from Alison at short notice; this is a significant reason for Alison's hatred of Betsy. | |
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Homestar Runner gets this during the belated awards ceremony for the best costume in The House That Gave Sucky Treats cartoon. Only this is Homestar we're talking about, so he fully expects that he's about to win even though the award had just been given to Strong Bad and the show is now over. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: "Homecoming": Buffy and Cordelia spend the episode competing for the title of Homecoming Queen. At the Homecoming, it turns out there's a tie. Buffy and Cordelia immediately assume that it's the obvious heartwarming ending — but instead, it's a double Dark Horse Victory. Subverted in the later episode "The Prom," when Buffy's fellow classmates recognize her heroism, though she had expected to be eternally subject to Dude, Where's My Reward? At the same prom Buffy picked up the "class protector" award, Xander fully expected the Class Clown award. To his disgust, it went to a guy in a Tacky Tuxedo and balloon hat. "Anybody can be a prop class clown!" |
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At the end of Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne, Christopher Robin throws a party to reward Pooh for his heroism during a recent flood. Due to the vagueness of his award speech ("This party [...] is a party because of what someone did, and we all know who it was, and it's his party, because of what he did, and I've got a present for him and here it is.") there is some confusion over who the guest of honour is, and Eeyore launches into an acceptance speech before things are straightened out.Something of an oddity, in that Eeyore is not normally the sort to assume that he's the winner; on the contrary, he's so incorrigibly pessimistic that he figures he must be the guest of honour because otherwise he wouldn't have been invited at all. In Winnie the Pooh (2011), after Pooh's friends have fallen into a pit intended for the Backson, Piglet escapes on a red balloon, which knocks some of the letters into the pit, which they use to climb out. Later, when it comes time to give out the awards, Rabbit awards the pot of honey to... the red balloon. Later, Pooh goes to Owl's house, and discovers that Owl had picked up Eeyore's tail and had been using it as a doorbell tassel. Later on, Pooh decides to return Eeyore's tail instead of staying for snacks, and he receives a giant pot of honey as his prize. |
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Family Guy: In the episode where Peter takes over the local production of "The King and I", he initially dismisses Cleveland's wife Loretta from the role of Anna to hand it to local news anchor Diane Simmons. When Diane storms off, Peter says that the role is going to the person who really deserves it, someone tempered by generations of oppression of African-Americans. Loretta starts to thank Peter, only for him to interrupt "Don't be so full of yourself, I'm talking about me". In the episode where Peter helps Joe train for the Special Olympics, after Joe becomes a champion and celebrity he starts acting like it was all him. At an awards ceremony he says he wants to thank Peter...Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary fame. He then thanks Mr. Griffin...comedian Eddie Griffin. Finally, the man to whom he owes everything, the fat guy...actor Dom DeLuise (who remarks "Wow, I didn't even do anything!"). At this point a frustrated Peter stands up and calls Joe out. |
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In Blazing Generations, a sequel to the Sword Art Online fic I Will Not Bow, school bully Madoka enters a singing competition at school, and ends up cheating in the singing competition, bribing and blackmailing most of the school's better singers into not participating, as well as "accidentally" spilling water on Lilly in an attempt to force her to drop out. When Akane swaps dresses with her and drops out of the competition so Lilly can compete, Madoka gloatingly declares that they've basically just handed first place to her... and is subsequently mortified to discover that Lilly won first place, while she got second. | |
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Inverted in Around the World in Eighty Days. Phileas Fogg, Aouda, and Passepartout arrive in London just in time to hear the bells signaling the deadline for finishing the race against time and they're nowhere near the finish line. Phileas resigns himself to his fate, decides to marry Aouda, and sends Passepartout to get a preacher. Passepartout returns with the news that they actually arrived in London the day before the deadline and they can still make the finish. It turns out that when they were adjusting their watches to local time, they ended up erasing an entire day from their journey.note The book was written before the establishment of the International Date Line. | |
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Frasier used this trope at least twice. In one episode, Frasier has been nominated for an award for his radio show. Initially determined to win, he talks to another character who is due to retire later that year, and so will never again have an opportunity to win the award (having never won it before). Frasier realises that if he does win, he'll be racked with guilt for having prevented the other guy from winning, and so starts to hope that the other guy wins it instead. When it is announced that it is a tie, he is suddenly hopeful, thinking that they could share the award, but the tie turns out to actually be between the remaining two nominees, neither of whom have been seen before. In another episode, restaurant critic Gil Chesterton has received his first award nomination in a category with two other nominees. Once again, the verdict is announced as a tie, leading Gil to fume that he will have to share his award... and, as in the earlier episode, the tie turns out to be between the other two nominees. |
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Similarly, in September 2019, some bookshops displayed The Testaments with stickers saying "Winner: The Booker Prize 2019". With a month to go before the actual announcement, the Booker committee had to issue a statement saying it had not already made its decision. As it turned out, the stickers were right. (Well, first ever joint win, with Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo.) | |
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Just One of the Guys: Big Jerk on Campus Greg smiles and straightens his collar before the prom king is announced. Surprisingly, he actually does win. | |
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Table Flip dedicated three episodes to One Night Ultimate Werewolf. In the second, the players kill someone who wasn't a werewolf and discover that the werewolf cards were both in the center pile. The players assume that the entire group wins because there weren't any werewolves. Just before the episode ends, "Him" appears and informs the players that if none of them are werewolves, they only win if nobody dies. Since one of them was killed, they all lose. | |
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