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Chain of Corrections
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Bob makes a historical/cultural/pop culture reference and Alice thinks he is referring to something entirely different. Bob corrects Alice but this only leads her to make another incorrect connection, which Bob corrects again. And so on and so on. Just one mistake and this would just be a simple misunderstanding, but string together a chain of these and you have this trope. Due to the nature of this trope with multiple cultural references in quick succession, some of the allusions may fly over the audience's head. This usually doesn't actually hurt the comedic potential though. Compare Sustained Misunderstanding and Escalating Punchline. Examples |
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The Naked Gun 2 1/2 has this discussion when searching for a suspect due to a string of NonIndicative Names: | |
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From Psych: Psych does this a lot. Shawn seems to do it on purpose, like many of his Book Dumb moments, mostly to annoy Gus. |
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This exchange from Wings: Incidentally, that was actually John Denver. Whose real name was Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr. Referenced, oddly enough, in Family Guy. In "Blackout Buggins", the group sees the national anthem being performed on television by a fictional rapper named "Ice Tray", leading to the following conversation. |
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This one from Cheers: | |
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Community has a chain of offensive statements that probably qualifies: Later, in Season 3, following the death of Alex, Britta takes it upon herself to help the group confront their grief despite having no real experience or credentials: |
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In the RWBY season 2 episode "Search and Destroy": | |
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From Arrested Development: | |
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Shirokuma Cafe, at least the anime version, combines Chain of Corrections and Visual Puns into a Once per Episode gag. Polar Bear will misunderstand a word another character says, then rapidly appear in different costumes and scenery that suggest similar-sounding words. The extreme reliance on the Japanese language for these jokes probably means the series will never be dubbed. | |
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From Autobiography of Red:note Line breaks removed, punctuation not added. | |
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From episode "Foiled Again" on The Suite Life of Zack & Cody: | |
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This trope is illustrated beautifully in a Penny Arcade strip entitled "Linguaphiles Unite". According to Gabe on the podcasts, most people blame Tycho for those, even though it's his "favorite joke, ever." From the third series of D&D podcasts: |
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From Frisky Dingo: | |
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From Facing the Giants: | |
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A Phoebe and Her Unicorn strip: | |
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An issue of MAD from 1955 featured a six-page comic called Gopo Gossum, written by Harvey Kurtzman and drawn by Wally Wood, which was a parody of Walt Kelly's Pogo. As this story parodied several aspecs of the Pogo comic, including the tendency the cast had to completely misunderstand everything that was said, it featured the animals deliberately misinterpreting words just for the hell of it, leading to this example: | |
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From Dragon Ball Z Abridged | |
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From The Venture Bros.: | |
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From DM of the Rings: | |
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The Office has been doing this a lot, for example: Aaaaand a somewhat shorter one: |
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All Assorted Animorphs AUs: In "What if all the yeerks suddenly died? (Part 2)", Tom has a hard time explaining all of the aliens to his mom because she keeps confusing Andalite morphing with Yeerk control. | |
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Ziva, from NCIS, absolutely constantly. | |
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From Red vs. Blue: | |
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SCOOB!: When our heroes are stranded on Mystery Island deep underground, Shaggy gives his friends a Rousing Speech to get them to band together help save Scooby from Dick Dastardly. | |
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From The West Wing: | |
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Played with in Darths & Droids with Jim. He's wrong more than he's right though. | |
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Pv P: Skull got a bit confused about various SF programs once. Played with in this strip, where all the corrections are also hilariously wrong. |
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The Thin Blue Line: | |
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A Sunday strip of Pickles did this once. Two of the main characters did this in order to drive a third character to leave the bench they were sitting on. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: In "Sleepy Time", when SpongeBob goes into Sandy's dreams and joins her for some freefalling. | |
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Hamish and Dougal's Hogmanay Frolic, introducing Tim Brooke-Taylor As Himself: | |
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Twitter users attempting to figure out what Rick and Morty is. | |
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On The Golden Girls, Sophia and Rose attempt to figure out who the president is married to: | |
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The Bolt Chronicles: Mittens, Petey, and Petey's circle of friends engage in a hurricane of mistaken terminology fixes in "The Survivor." | |
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A short but funny example from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, after Willow has been called "Old Reliable" in "Doppelgangland": | |
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Hello Cheeky sometimes did this, but with words instead of references. | |
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Referenced, oddly enough, in Family Guy. | |
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The Electric Company (1971) lived for this. They did numerous sketches like this one, where Rita Moreno and Judy Graubert drove each other nuts: And that was just in the first episode... |
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On Fibber McGee and Molly, the character of Mayor LaTrivia was subjected to these practically Once per Episode. They'd usually involve him innocently using some figure of speech, which Fibber or Molly (or both) would either take too literally or otherwise misinterpret, sometimes on purpose. LaTrivia's subsequent attempts to clear things up would only create more confusion, making him increasingly flustered and confused and generally reducing him to sputtering, incoherent rage by the time his visit was over. One not involving Mayor LaTrivia, from "Cleaning the Closet": |
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