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A Comedy Trope about people being offended by words they don't know; for example, assuming that "logarithm" is a racial slur and not a mathematical function. This is often, but not always, a case of Compliment Backfire. See also Personal Dictionary for another way to take an unfamiliar word, invent a meaning, and assume it's the one everybody uses, and You Keep Using That Word, when a character calls out another on their misuse of words. Pretty much the inverse of Insult Backfire. Contrast Malaproper. Particularly unfortunate choices of words can be Mistaken for Racist. If they're afraid instead of offended, then you get Scary Science Words. When the word confused is a homophone, it's often a Mondegreen Gag. |
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Daisy Miller, when the Annoying Younger Sibling is talking about how he hates Rome: | |
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In the classic Australian comedy The Castle, the main character's lawyer is presenting his case in the High Court and the opposing lawyer tells the judge that the precedent just quoted was merely an example of obiter dictum. The main character, highly offended, yells "Was not!" For non-lawyers: judges decide cases based on the reasoning used in past decisions. If a reasoning was used to decide a case, judges are much more willing to follow it than if the past judge was imagining what-if scenarios and deciding how things would be decided in that situation. Those what-ifs are obiter dicta. Of course, even if you don't know your law, the reactions of the judge and lawyers are enough for watchers to realize this trope is in play. | |
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In the French film The Chorus, one of the teachers in a boarding school for delinquents wants to start a boys' chorus so he tests out each boy's voice. To the most feared delinquent of them all, he says, "You're a very good baritone." The kid tries to kick his ass. | |
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In the "Beauty and the Beast" episode of Brows Held High: Oancitizen says the word "orphic". While it isn't clear if Some Jerk with a Camera thinks it's an insult, it is clear that he doesn't think it's a particularly nice thing to say, especially in front of kids. A guy later punches Oancitizen in the face for saying Cocteau in front of his kids. |
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And over on Angel, after everyone loses their memories: | |
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When Det. Thorne in Hellraiser: Inferno notes to Nenonen that his name is a palindrome, he angrily retorts with "What did you call me?" | |
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In an episode of That '70s Show, Hyde is trying to teach Fez to pick up girls by being cool and aloof. Fez hears it as Hyde calling him a "loof", which is apparently an insult in his native language (whatever the heck it is). | |
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On Psych season four, Juliet calls Shawn "prophetic," who childishly retorts that she's the one who's prophetic. | |
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A recurring sketch from the series Balls of Steel features the "Militant Black Guy", who always takes great offense to what he thinks are racial slurs, but are obviously totally innocent terms in context. For instance, when he enters a bakery and is shocked to hear the cake he asked for is called a black forest gateaux. | |
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In Oliver & Company, after Georgette moans about breaking a nail, Francis mutters "Balderdash!", to which Tito defensively replies "What'd you call my woman, man?!" | |
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Eureka: A Running Gag has Sheriff Carter mistaking terms like "p-brane" as insults to his intelligence. | |
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In Jaroslav Hasek's The Good Soldier Å vejk when Å vejk and Marek are stuck in a prison carriage they are bored and Marek mocks the corporal in charge with Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness. Works as expected. | |
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This is probably how the word "nimrod", originally the name of a great hunter from the Bible (and thus a nickname for a hunter), became to mean "a fool, a klutz." In the Looney Tunes short, "Rabbit Every Monday", Bugs Bunny called Yosemite Sam a "little Nimrod," and the kids watching it thought it was some fancy insult they never heard before. | |
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In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012), after a legitimate insult to Michelangelo, Fishface calls Casey "the obligatory human ally". Casey shoots back that he's not "oblidary". | |
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In the Steam Train series on VVVVVV, Ross misunderstanding something Arin said leads to them inventing the character of Dinkles, a nerd who's also a buff Jerk Jock and a bully. Arin imagines him using this exact trope, leading to this exchange: | |
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In JL8, at Diana's birthday party, Karen gushes over how Clark looks, and Diana responds by agreeing that he looks dapper. Karen takes offence on Clark's behalf until Diana clarifies to her that the word 'dapper' means 'well-dressed'. | |
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Airplane! "and don't call me Shirley!" | |
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In the RWBY episode "Round One", Ruby laments being starving. Weiss goes into Sarcasm Mode about there not being any food around while the group is in the middle of the Vytal Festival grounds with all of their food stalls. Ruby, being Sarcasm-Blind, tries to console Weiss about being absent-minded by admitting she forgets about the fairgrounds too. | |
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At one point in Ultrasonic, Nick refers to the situation in Zootopia as a pandemonium. The polar bear driving him objects to this saying that he has pandas in his family. Nick tells him to pick up a dictionary. | |
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In Chapter 1 of Luminosity, Bella talks about how she wants to take notes on people's names and appearances but doesn't because of an incident in eighth grade when someone she described as "wee" in her notebook retaliated by throwing it into a puddle in the lavatory. | |
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In Harry Potter, when Vernon Dursley is called a Muggle, he gets angry and automatically assumes he's being insulted, even though he doesn't know what that means. Of course, the slur being derived from the English word "mug" — "someone who's easy to fool" might have something to do with it. | |
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In one episode of Time Squad, after arriving in Sweden, a guy approaches Tuddrussel and says "Guten Morgen!"note which is German, not Swedish, but whatever. Tuddrussel automatically assumes he's being insulted and decks the guy. Larry 3000 scolds him and says the guy said, "Good morning." | |
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Animaniacs: Pesto from the "Goodfeathers" cartoons uses something similar to this trope. From their first episode: Also happens with "Rita and Runt". Rita describes Runt's actions as "chivalric". Runt apologizes. |
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Platinum Pirate: Lucas, dazed from being slammed facefirst into the Going Merry, mistakes Chopper for a "cute baby Stantler" before passing out from his injuries. Chopper isn't sure whether to be happy that to be called cute, angry that he was called a baby, or worried that Lucas called him a nonsense word because of a concussion. | |
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Not Always Learning: This woman takes offense to her daughter's teacher referring to the human species as homo sapiens, unaware that "homo" literally means "human" in Latin and is thus the proper word for the genus containing humans, rather than just a slang term for those attracted to the same gender. (Fortunately, her very embarrassed daughter knows better and does her best to correct the misunderstanding.) | |
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On King of the Hill, Peggy asks the wrestling coach to let Connie on the team, and brings up Title IX, which is the American law that bans gender discrimination in sports, among other things. He replies, "Roe v. Wade has nothing to do with this." | |
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The Big Bang Theory: Similar to the variant in Home Improvement: In another episode, after the group has returned from an investigation at the polar circle, Sheldon is having a phone conversation with his (very religious) mother. |
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On The Suite Life of Zack & Cody episode "The First Day of High School", Cody says "kudos" to the school bully, who answers, "What did you just call me?" | |
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In The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey, Sticky's girlfriend dumps him for remarking on her "pulchritude." It means beauty. | |
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When Popeye was trying to find a job in one storyline, but wasn't sure of what field he should try for, Wimpy suggests that he get his aptitude tested. Popeye then slugs him and shouts, "There's nottin' wrong with me aptitude!" Olive later has to explain to Popeye what Wimpy meant. | |
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Satan's Cheerleaders: When Sheriff Bubb orders his followers to drag "the large one" to the altar, Sharon demands to know if he was implying she is fat. She does, however, proudly admit to having the biggest boobs of any of the cheerleaders. | |
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In Littlest Pet Shop (2012), after Blythe trounces Whittany and Brittany Biskit in a debate. | |
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In Family Ties Vacation, William calls Mallory "a complete revelation to me." Mallory says, "Oh. Sorry, I don't mean to be." | |
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Played with in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014). This trope's humor is portrayed, but it is not actually this trope. Drax has a problem with metaphors. He knows exactly what a thesaurus is due to his (or in spite of his) Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness, but finds it mildly insulting when another character calls him a book full of synonyms. What he actually does not comprehend is that the other character is not perfectly serious as he himself is. Rocket is also insulted to be called a raccoon, asking what that is. It's not actually an insult because he literally is a (genetically and cybernetically enhanced) raccoon. |
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, after Yondu escapes an exploding space ship by using his Trick Arrow to control his descent, offers this gem: | |
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The Order of the Stick: In a Cutaway Gag, Belkar is seen grilling steaks to kill a vampire, while yelling "no, YOU'RE a homophone!" at the bemused NPC next to him. | |
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Not Always Right: This story, where a cashier uses the word "oxymoron" and a customer thinks the cashier insulted him. This one recognizes that the word "entrée" refers to her order, not herself, but is still insulted, because she did not order any "entrée"; only sandwiches. |
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In Che: Part One, Camilo Cienfuegos nicknames a Cuban revolutionary "VentrÃlocuo" (ventriloquist), but the revolutionaire mistakes the word for a made-up insult: ventre-culo (culo means "ass"). Che Guevara quickly corrects him. | |
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In Jingo, Angua is asked if she is a hourinote companions of the faithful in Islamic heaven by a delirious Klatchian. Angua (presumably mistaking it for the similarly-sounding English word "whore" - understandable, given that she happened to be naked at the time) responds that she doesn't have to take that kind of language and promptly leaves. | |
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The Pink Panther (2006): Clouseau is doing an interrogation and trips over the phrase "pushing up daisies". The person he's interrogating tries to explain that it's an idiom, only for Clouseau to respond "You, sir, are the idiom!" | |
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In Neverwhere, Mr. Vandemar at one point confuses the word "circumlocution" for something else, and indignantly responds that he hasn't got one. He is quickly corrected by Mr. Croup. (Mr. Croup likes words, while Mr. Vandemar is always hungry. It's kind of a running theme that Croup will say something that Vandemar will misunderstand and be somewhat offended by.) | |
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The Sea Shadow: When Koops calls her a Shadow Siren, Vivian assumes it's an insult and snaps at him. | |
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RealityCheck's Nyxverse: A variant in Alicornundrum. Celestia, speaking of the Crusaders and the "Royal Brats" (youngsters who are part of the visiting ambassadors' retinue) starts talking about how they've exposed and brought a major problem to her attention, "Thanks to their, ahem, proactive measures..." Pipsqueak, not knowing what "proactive" means, suspiciously says that he's looking it up when he gets home. | |
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BlazBlue: Continuum Shift: In the Calamity Trigger Reloaded story, Rachel ends her conversation with Ragna with "Well... tempers fugit, Ragna". Ragna responds with "Hey, what the hell'd you call me?!" | |
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Dragon Ball Z Abridged: When the Z Fighters first meet Vegeta and Nappa, Nappa points out that Piccolo is a Namekian. Krillin takes offense before Piccolo tells him that he is who they are directing the comment toward and how it isn't an insult as he begins to detail what Namekians are before Nappa interrupts by saying Namekians don't have penises. | |
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Kansas City Princess: Dynamite, a blustery gangster, doesn't get it when Junior asks him about his relationship with Rosie. | |
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In Poker Night 2, when Sam laments that he wishes he had a large mandible like Ash and Brock, Ash is briefly offended until Brock tells Ash that Sam's talking about their chins. | |
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In Unseen Academicals, Glenda is offended when Mr. Nutt tries to flatter her by calling her "fecund"note Producing or capable of producing an abundance of offspring or new growth; fertile After hastily looking the word up she's merely embarrassed, and Glenda gently explains to Nutt why that might not be a good word with which to compliment women. Of course, then Nutt asks if he should have complimented her on her great big ti- | |
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In The Powerpuff Girls (1998): | |
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In Jumping the Broom, the maid of honor tells Malcolm (who is blatantly hitting on her) that he wouldn't like her because she's a hermaphrodite. His response is that he doesn't care what religion she is. | |
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Gangs of New York: McGloin calls Amsterdam a "fidlam bens", which the latter is puzzled about. Even though McGloin explains it means someone who is so pathetic he has to steal crap no self-respecting burglar would steal unless desperate, Amsterdam says he can't really be offended by it. He would be offended if McGloin called him a "chiseler" (someone who steals a larger share from his fellow thieves). McGloin doesn't know the term, but says "Sure, Let's Go with That", because he really wants to pick a fight. | |
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In an episode of Gilligan's Island, the Howells are scandalized by the Professor's Techno Babble. | |
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In After the Thin Man, one clue is that a note was written with hard words spelled correctly and easy words spelled wrong, in a bad imitation of an illiterate person. | |
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In Interesting Times, Cohen the Barbarian reacts violently to a merchant calling him "venerable one" while trying to purchase an apple. | |
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In The Pirates of Penzance, Major-General Stanley asks the pirates "You're not thespians, are you?" Depending on the production, the pirates' reaction to this can be priceless. | |
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Explorers: A school bully is mentioned by the main character to have "elephantiasis on his ego." Gilligan Cut to the bully and his friends beating the crap out of him and the bully mentioning that, since he doesn't understand what 'elephantiasis' means, he's just gonna have to take it was a very rude insult and punish the main character... by nearly breaking his nose and then holding him down so he can drool on him. It's a downplayed example though because in this context, "elephantiasis" definitely is an insult, if not the rudest one. | |
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Oscar: | |
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The Rock Cocks: On page #1004, Suria confides to Elizabeth that her dream was to have sex on stage in the middle of a live concert: | |
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In The Westing Game, Flora is shocked that Westing's will refers to his death as a "dastardly deed." "First murder, now a swear word." | |
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A Drake & Josh episode had Craig telling Drake that Eric is a pacifist. Drake responds with "I thought he was Jewish." | |
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In Wyrd Sisters, the ghost of Verence I calls Granny Weatherwax a "doyenne amongst witches". She's clearly ready to be affronted, though she's cautious enough not to haul off and yell at him until she can determine for sure what it means ("senior/superior"). | |
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An episode of US Acres in Garfield and Friends had the running gag of someone mentioning procrastination and the other person answers by covering his mouth and saying "Watch your language, this is a kids show!" | |
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In The Gondoliers, the characters are trying to resolve a Love Dodecahedron by working out who's legally married to whom. Someone points out that if between two men there are three wives, then each wife gets 2/3 of a husband. Upon which: | |
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A sketch on The Tracey Ullman Show had a girl asking her friend what "satiated" meant, and then phoning her boyfriend to apologize for what she had done after he had said he was satiated following sex. | |
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In an episode of El Chavo del ocho, Professor Jirafales comes at night to give Doña Florinda a serenade with a mariachi, but with Mr. Barriga lurking around pretending to be a ghost, she pulls out a shotgun and fires at the air, scaring them away. After the misunderstanding is cleared, Professor Jirafales says he'll sing "Acapella", and Doña Florinda first assumes he's going to sing for someone named "Capella", before he explains "Acapella" means without music. As as semi-regular gag, Don Ramón would just as often play this trope straight or sometimes invert it (not catching when a word or expression is meant to be an insult), when Professor Jirafales used unusual words. |
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Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Used in book 3, The Titan's Curse. In this case, it is an insult, but it doesn't change the fact that Thalia's not sure what it means. | |
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In one Shadowchasers Series story, Red Feather makes it through a booby trapped hallway and is compared to Indiana Jones. Red Feather, who is disdainful of technology and doesn't watch TV or go on the Internet, doesn't have any idea who that is and assumes she is being insulted. | |
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Harry Is a Dragon, and That's OK: Hermione starts to tell Ron off for saying, "Merlin's lugholes!" until she stops to think about it. | |
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Superman: This happens when, right after announcing his candidacy, Lex Luthor is abducted by a villain called "The Adversary". | |
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Oancitizen says the word "orphic". While it isn't clear if Some Jerk with a Camera thinks it's an insult, it is clear that he doesn't think it's a particularly nice thing to say, especially in front of kids. | |
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A Raisin in the Sun: Beneatha's rich suitor refers to Walter as "Prometheus" to mock him for pretending that he knows more than he really does. He becomes even more offended than he would have been otherwise because he has no idea who Prometheus is. | |
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In Leroy & Stitch, Gantu criticizes the quality of 625's egg salad sandwiches: | |
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In the first episode of Helluva Boss, Stolas calls Blitzo over the phone over the matter of his grimoire. Blitzo demands to know in an aggressive tone what Stolas just called him, forcing Stolas to elaborate that he's referring to the spellbook Blitzo uses to go from Hell to the living world. | |
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Easy to Love: After believing that they have caught their daughter Janet and her boyfriend in a hotel together, Carol and John summon a judge to get Janet immediately married. When the judge says that Janet was caught "in flagrante delicto", Eric says "Nothing of the kind, right here in this city." | |
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The Cow and Chicken episode "Black Sheep of the Family" features the... well, black sheep of the family (a literal black sheep). Everyone would mistake his Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness for insults or swearing. | |
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In the English dub of Case Closed in the fourth episode, Conan mentions that it would be ironic if a piece of paper Amy has found really is a treasure map. George and Mitch promptly scold him for using such language in front of a lady. It does turn out to be a treasure map, in the form of a cryptic series of clues leading to a stash of gold coins stolen by Italian gangsters | |
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Archie Comics: Moose, the typical strong guy with limited intelligence, will confuse words that are unknown to him with words of a completely different meaning. | |
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In The Men from the Ministry, when assessing Mr. Lamb, Ministry's psychiatrist Dr. Schwein states that he has many latent aptitudes and unplunged propensities. Lamb immediately assumes that Schwein is insulting him, and Lennox-Brown has to tell him that Schwein is complementing him. | |
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Jonathan Creek had a streaker who after interrupting the show one day, ended up being hired by Adam as a good form of misdirection. He ended up complaining about his dressing room and abusing the staff. Jonathan fired him and pointed out that a streaker's dressing room was an oxymoron. The streaker replied that Jonathan was the poxy moron.note poxy being slang for worthless | |
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In a Final Fantasy-related example, this video involves asking random passersby what a Chocobo is. At least one person interprets the word as a slur. | |
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Get Smart: During a Hunting the Most Dangerous Game episode, the bad guy calls Max a "Homo sapien."note Making a common mistake. "Sapiens" is already singular despite the trailing s (there are numerous other examples in Latin) Max replied: "Hey, I'm as normal as the next guy." Another example deals with Hymie the Robot, and why he shouldn't date the Chief's niece. Later on, after Max learns that the Chief's niece has fallen for Hymie: |
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In You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, one number has a bunch of the kids getting in an argument in the middle of singing "Home on the Range". Lucy tells Sally that "[Linus] said — he said you were — an enigma!" This shocks the rest of the kids, and Sally spends the rest of the song alternating between being mad and asking "What's an enigma?" | |
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In Feet of Clay, Vimes is told that Nobby is entitled to a coat of arms. He goes back to the Watch House and says "Nobby, you're armigerous!" This is taken by Nobby to mean, while not quite an insult, something for which he might need "a special shampoo." When one barman is informed that Nobby is a Peer, he assumes it is used in the verb sense rather than the "-of the realm" sense. | |
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One Peanuts storyline has Marcie and Peppermint Patty going to summer camp. Marcie mentions that a boy has been calling her names. Peppermint Patty is ready to step up and take care of this kid, but Marcie was already way ahead of her (hitting the boy with her lunch tray, shoving him in poison oak, etc). In the end, it's revealed that the boy actually has a crush on Marcie, and she had been misinterpreting his little pet names as insults. | |
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A variant on Home Improvement: Randy actually does mean to insult Tim, but not in the way he thinks. | |
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In a Sonic the Hedgehog children's novel, Sonic the Hedgehog in the Fourth Dimension, an imaginary dragon creature threatens to redo the universe with his allies (the Mythos creatures) and remake it In Their Own Image. In the process, he claims he would erase "you [Sonic] and your ilk". Tails responds indignantly with "I'm a fox, not an ilk!" "Ilk" means "kind"note Or so it is commonly misused. It's actually Scots for "same", so that "Macrimmon of That Ilk" means "Macrimmon of (Clan) Macrimmon, as in things of a similar type, and he was threatening to remove all life forms the universe considers normal, or real. This book was made in 1993, before Tails was established to be a genius. | |
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In Stranger Things, an inversion of the usual trope is found, in which a character is flattered by an insult because they don't know what the insulting word means. Dustin and Lucas are inviting Max to go trick-or-treating with them in a way which is kind of assuming that she automatically wants to go with them. Max witheringly calls them presumptuous. Dustin, clearly not knowing what that means, obliviously thanks her and then, when she's gone, spends a few moments preening over it... until he sees the look on Lucas's face and worriedly begins to realise that it might mean something bad. | |
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In Dodger by Terry Pratchett, Mrs. Mayhew describes Dodger as an astute young man. He apologizes and says his best trousers are in the wash. | |
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Congo. Richard compares his interrogation by Zaire soldiers to being in a Franz Kafka story. The soldier gets right in his face and shouts, "WHO'S KAFKA? TELL ME!" | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: After Squidward finds himself accidentally stuck down a deep well with SpongeBob and Patrick: In "Frozen Face-Off" SpongeBob takes offense to Sandy using the word "simulacrum" to describe Plankton's robotic double that they just destroyed. |
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In Beetle Bailey, Sgt. Snorkel files a complaint that Beetle called him a baboon, when he actually called Sarge a bassoon. Snorkel asks what a bassoon is, and the captain replies that it's a wind instrument. | |
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In the DS translation of Chrono Trigger, after making him generous through his ancestors, one of the Porre Mayor's daughters in 1000 AD says "Everybody says Daddy's magnanimous, but he says he's just big-boned." | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In "The Return of Harmony, Part 1", Sweetie Belle calls Scootaloo a dodo. Scootaloo's response? "Don't call me things I don't know the meaning of!" (Though in this particular case, it actually was clearly intended as an insult.) | |
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Calling Me a Logarithm | |
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Inverted in Dean & Nala + Vinny after Nala proposes they travel from Scotland to Iceland by van: | |
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Calling Me a Logarithm | |
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Comes up in the movie version of Richie Rich when the butler explains to Richie that "crib" is an idiom for "home" in the slang used by Richie's newfound friends. One of the kids misunderstands and asks "Who are you callin' an 'idiom'?" | |
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Calling Me a Logarithm | |
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The Thin Man: A son talking to reporters calls his missing father a "sexagenarian." The reporters protest, "We can't print that kind of language!" The confused son asks why they can't print that his father is in his sixties. In After the Thin Man, one clue is that a note was written with hard words spelled correctly and easy words spelled wrong, in a bad imitation of an illiterate person. |
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Calling Me a Logarithm | |
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In the Eighties episode of The Supersizers Eat, Giles's character offers Sue's character a Pop-Tart, and she assumes he's calling her one. | |
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Calling Me a Logarithm / int_c91f565 | |
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Calling Me a Logarithm | |
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The Wire. Brother Mouzone says to his associate Lamar about finding a guy in a gay bar, "You're the perfect bait. They'll see you as conflicted; your homophobia is so visceral." Lamar replies, "You see that? I ain't even stepped inside the joint yet, and you callin' me a cocksucker." | |
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In the film of A Series of Unfortunate Events, the orphans make pasta puttanesca for Count Olaf and his fellow actors. When Klaus announces that they've made "puttanesca," Olaf responds "What did you call me?" (This was likely intended as a Bilingual Bonus since the name "puttanesca" actually is derived from the Italian word for "prostitute".) | |
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The Looney Tunes Show: In "Bugs & Daffy Get a Job", Dr. Wiseberg tells Daffy he has a deviated septum. Daffy slaps him in the face and declares "There's nothing wrong with my septum! (Beat) What's a septum?" | |
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In the Shade/Scalphunter story in Starman 80-Page Giant, the Shade is investigating a black man's disappearance in 1885 Opal when two hired thugs warn him off, and also make insinuations about his interest in the missing man. | |
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Calling Me a Logarithm | |
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In Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey: | |
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Calling Me a Logarithm | |
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The Nameless Mod: has this quote from a Board Guest: "I can't believe the moderators won't do anything! Every time I ask something, people call me a faq!" | |
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Calling Me a Logarithm | |
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Done a few times in Ed, Edd n Eddy, such as Edd's reaction to Eddy's side of the story in "Once Upon an Ed" | |
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In the Barney Miller "Asylum" episode, Stevens reproves Wojo for his unauthorized actions in preventing Jininsky from being kidnapped: | |
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Calling Me a Logarithm | |
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In Soul Music, Albert calls young Susan a "chit of a girl". The Death of Rats anticipates this trope and insists that Quoth explain to her that "chit" only means a small girl. | |
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Calling Me a Logarithm / int_dcb07085 | |
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Calling Me a Logarithm | |
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Princesses of the Pizza Parlor: Princesses on the Lonely Isle: A word mistaken for a general swear, possibly, although, given that it's directed towards enemies, people might mistaken it for an insult: | |
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Calling Me a Logarithm | |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) has one "insult" (actually a description) traded for another. Casey Jones reveals that he's uncomfortable spending the night in the Turtles sewer lair. | |
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Calling Me a Logarithm / int_de386b52 | |
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Calling Me a Logarithm | |
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The Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Bad Eggs". In this case, he may have known what the word meant; he was just genuinely unsure if that was a compliment or insult. | |
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Calling Me a Logarithm | |
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A rather serious, if brief example on Davey and Goliath, a French cobbler says to Davey's little sister Sally, "Dulce, dulce," or "sweet." The children not only take it as an insult but tell their father, which leads to problems when Sally is missing and the father confronts the cobbler over where she is. | |
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Calling Me a Logarithm | |
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In Goblins, Complains-of-Names says that Minmax's name is an oxymoron, to which Minmax replies "Well, you are a moron." | |
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Calling Me a Logarithm | |
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Paperinik New Adventures: In a bonus comic, Angus, needing to create a distraction, walks to the biggest and dumbest-looking guy in a crowded room and has a few words with him. | |
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Calling Me a Logarithm / int_e7a9c06c | |
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From the Family Guy episode "The Thin White Line". An early episode has Meg observe a situation as ironic. Peter responds by telling her that her mother is not an i-ron. In "Dog Gone", PETA causes confusion for Peter: |
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Inverted in The Sing-Off, where Ben Folds joked "Are you calling me a sesquipedalian?" The joke is that he is and knows exactly what that word means, and his use of it is proof. | |
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One of the students in Renaissance Man misunderstands the word "oxymoron" and asserts that he "ain't no ox-moron". | |
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On How I Met Your Mother, when he tries breaking up with Natalie by saying she's "not the one": | |
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Artemis Fowl: The Bumbling Henchman Duo of Chips and Pex is manipulated into burying Mulch alive instead of shooting him. He does this by claiming he insulted them. | |
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NEO: The World Ends with You: Happens as beat drop banter when you have resident Mad Mathematician Minamimoto and high-octane Idiot Hero Beat both as active party members. | |
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A first-season episode of Night Court involved a woman who remarried after her husband was declared dead, only to have him return to her life. Hubby #1 is a career soldier, and #2 is a nerd. #2 criticizes #1 for his use of violence as "typical homo-sapien behavior". #1 responded by saying "I never even hugged my father." | |
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