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A math-related Stock Phrase. The Smart Guy states the result of his calculations, only to be corrected. He promptly says: "Oh yeah, I forgot to carry the one". The phrase's purpose is to show that even though The Smart Guy is only a human, and therefore prone to mistakes, he is able to spot where he made the mistake and explain it in a short Techno Babble-ish sentence. Commonly used in this form: It's also common for the supposed 'incorrect' answer to be one that would be impossible to get from simply forgetting to carry a digit. Also, when someone is calculating, he will always say "...carry the one...", mostly because carrying numbers is the most advanced mathematical concept most writers (and audiences) can remember from way back then. Note, though, that the line works with any single-digit number, so you can hear, for instance, "carry the seven".note The prevalence of "one" is probably due to the fact that, in the simplest case, addition of two numbers, you'll never have a bigger digit than 1 to carry, because 9+9=18. This is also a manifestation of Benford's Law Alternatively, it often gets used because it's a very simple, basic mistake, which adds a bit of humor when the TV Genius screws up. Compare with Misplaced a Decimal Point, the other common arithmetic mistake. |
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The Penguins of Madagascar: When the penguins' vacation to the moon turns out to be a failure (they thought they were on the moon, but were still in New York), Kowalski says while checking his calculations for the rocket, "It seems I forgot to carry the two." | |
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Said by Dr. Frink in The Simpsons, episode "Itchy and Scratchy Land". He was informing his coworkers that the robots will inevitably turn against their human masters, then informs them they have 24 hours before this happens. The robots start revolting immediately, and Frink realizes he did the trope. In the episode "The Trouble with Trillions", there's a jam at the post office on April 15 as everyone tries to file his taxes. Lenny is filling out the forms using Professor Frink's back as his desk. |
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The "It's My First Day" storyline from Dominic Deegan involved Luna correcting a co-worker's magic equation at one point by doing this. | |
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Spoofed in an episode of MythBusters. Grant sketched out a complex but valid mathematical formula on the side of a test vehicle. After Grant finished the calculations and announced the result, this exchange occurred: | |
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Adventures in Odyssey: Bart Rathbone mumbles "Carry the 4..." while calculating how much a neon light sign Kurt wants for his Student Body President campaign would cost. | |
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Every time anyone calculates anything in 8-Bit Theater. Culminating in "carry the infinity". | |
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Likewise, in Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People: Baddest of the Bands, Bubs mutters "carry the G" while calculating how much money Strong Bad made off his Battle of the Bands. | |
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Whateley Universe: Josie Gilman, whose powers are mathematics-based, has this problem at times, with bizarre consequences such as causing hundreds of dead alternate-universe versions of herself to fall out of the sky. | |
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In the Discworld novel Thud!, the Gooseberry organiser-imp tells Vimes that "you don't always carry the tens" when doing the Watch accounts. | |
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In The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon laughs excessively (and uncharacteristically) when remembering a time Leonard did this (in a published paper, no less). Sheldon himself did this once. And showed it to Stephen Hawking. |
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In the first Knights of the Old Republic, you find yourself in a virtual prison with another prisoner. The two of you have a riddle competition in order to see who's mind gets to enter your body. When you defeat him with a trick question that seems at first glance to require math skills, he says this. | |
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Sutwell from Beach Party attempts Awesomeness by Analysis before his first attempt at surfing, doing calculations involving things like water pressure with his finger in the sand. The result is a Failure Montage of him falling off the board before he realizes he forgot to carry the two. | |
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Done in Tony Hawk's Underground 2 at the end of the Australia stage, when your character is about to be booted off the tour. You are only saved because Rodney Mullen spots a mistake in the score tally, and Tony and Bam's teams are actually tied. | |
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In the Fallout: New Vegas DLC Old World Blues, Dr. Mobius taunts Dr. Klein for carrying the two in a random announcement. | |
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In the Red Dwarf episode "Camille", Kryten forgets to carry the three. | |
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The Nostalgia Critic does it in this part of the AVGN/NC feud. | |
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In Old Harry's Game, Einstein is working out a long complicated calculation, before concluding "No! Dammit, forgot to carry the seven! I'm always doing that." | |
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In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The Ascent", when Quark and Odo crash on an uninhabited planet and need to get a signal out to be rescued, this exchange occurs, where Quark (a Ferengi) is doing complex calculations in his head. | |
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In one Bloom County strip, Oliver uses an equation to prove that flightless waterfowl shouldn't exist, but by the end of the strip he realized he forgot to carry the two. Resident penguin Opus, who had been fading out of existence until then, asks Oliver not to do that again. | |
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Used by Booker in U.S. Acres when he's calculating how many worms he's caught. The answer, of course, is "none." | |
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Square One TV's "Oops!" showed clips of engineering disasters that apparently resulted from mathematical mistakes such as this and Misplaced a Decimal Point. | |
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In The Loud House episode "Road Trip: Mountain Hard Pass," during a mountain hike, the Loud’s have an encounter with angry mountain goats where they lose their map. Lisa calculates their odds of survival at 35%, then realizes she forgot to carry the one, and recalculates their odds at 5%. | |
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Used in the Mystery Science Theater 3000 short Cheating. | |
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In the Odd Squad episode "Portalandia", while under attack from a myriad of creatures in the 17th Dimension, Oswald pulls out a notepad and begins writing on it. When Opal asks what he's doing, he explains that he's calculating the amount of time he has before he, her, and Omar become the creatures' lunch, quoting the trope name verbatim. He doesn't get very far before Orla comes and rescues them, taking them back to Tokyo. | |
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This happens in a fifth-season episode of Babylon 5 where a man Lyta is scanning tries to block her out by doing math in his head. Her offhand comment that he forgot to carry the seven distracts him from his distracting long enough for her to get in. | |
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In El Goonish Shive, Mr. Alephnull does it here as part of what he claims is pure gibberish intended to mess with Ellen and Grace's heads but his result is actually very close. | |
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On My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Pinkie Pie carries the two when calculating Rainbow's and Applejack's scores in a "Most Daring Pony" competition. Not that the piece of paper she scribbles on shows anything meaningful... | |
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In Sam & Max: Freelance Police: Chariots of the Dogs, the Mariachi supervisor of the Time Vortex mutters "carry the tres" (Spanish for three) when trying to figure out where an ink ribbon landed after it was lost in space and time. | |
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Growing Up Creepie: In "I was a Teenage Wolf Bug", when an antidote Budge made doesn't work, he comments that he always forgets to carry the two. | |
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Jayne in the first episode of Firefly does this in full sarcasm mode. 'Ten percent of nothin' is ... lemme do the math. Nothin', and nothin', carry the nothin' ... ' | |
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In The Navy Lark, Lt. Phillips often 'carries the one' (among many other factors) when calculating "Left hand down a bit." | |
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