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Correlation/Causation Gag
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A situation where a character doing something minor seemingly causes some major effect, although it's obvious that's actually not the case. If the character is an animal, young, or just plain stupid, they might think that they actually (say) caused a explosion by pointing their finger. Otherwise, they'll simply be shocked and confused. Take, for example: Alice and Bob are playing around in the woods, Flynning with some sticks. But when their sticks clash, they hear a massive explosion! Did the clashing of two seemingly normal sticks sound off such a massive bang? Of course it didn't, but the gag is that it seemed like it did. What actually happened was dynamite detonating about half a mile away to open a mine, or a warship firing its guns in the distance, or something similar; they just heard the explosion at the same time their sticks hit. The name comes from the logical fallacy of Correlation vs. Causation (two things happening in succession or together does not imply that one caused the other). This is where the humor or irony in this trope comes from. Often Played for Laughs (or at least irony). Framed for Heroism is a specific subtrope. It can, however, be Played for Drama, as it can be used to reveal something ominous (like an invasion or gunfire). If a minor act truly does have a catastrophic effect, that is Unwitting Instigator of Doom. Compare Retroactive Wish, where it's assumed something happened because a character wished for it, but it's just a coincidence. Compare and contrast False Cause, where the lack of causation isn't immediately obvious. Examples |
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In the climax of A Bug's Life, during Manny's magic act for the grasshoppers, which is a cover to get the Queen away from Hopper, dark clouds begin forming in the sky. The circus bugs think that Manny's act has improved, but the ants know that the rains are coming. | |
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In one episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Uncle Phil runs for a judge position against a former mentor of his, who is rather nasty in his campaign. When the former mentor wins, Phil insists that they go to his party anyway. At the party, Will derides his uncle's opponent, culminating in a, "If you don't like it, you can drop dead!" He does. Even though the man's doctor confirmed that he had been in poor health and drinking heavily just before his death, Will still feels some guilt over it. | |
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In the Count Duckula episode "The Vampire Strikes Back", the title character and his retainers, Igor and Nanny, are at the top of a tower in Castle Duckula, at the bottom of which vampire hunter Dr. Von Goosewing has placed a large quantity of explosives. Nanny finds a case of her homemade sarsaparilla, which Duckula begs her not to open, as "It's lethal!" Just as Nanny uncorks the bottle, Von Goosewing detonates the explosives, and the tower takes off like a rocket. Unaware of the vampire hunter's presence, Duckula assumes the sarsaparilla launched them into orbit, and tries using the bottles of soft drink later in the episode to make a return journey to Earth. | |
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Ranma ½: When Nodoka finally suspects "Ranko" is the female form of her son Ranma, she misunderstands how the Water-Triggered Change works. After seeing him changed after colliding with a tea kettle full out hot water out of view, Nodoka tries putting the kettle, and then its lid, against an unconscious girl Ranma's head. | |
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Arrow: In "This Is Your Sword", Felicity throws her tablet at a member of the League of Assassins in desperation. She watches amazed as the assassin starts to fall to the ground. However, as he finishes falling, she sees he has an arrow in his back and Malcolm Merlyn is standing behind him with a bow. "Oh. That makes more sense," she says to herself. | |
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In The Road to El Dorado, our heroes have just arrived in the City Of Gold, and are mistaken for gods. After being asked for a show of godly power, they get into an argument. As their fighting builds to a peak, a nearby volcano starts to erupt, only to abruptly stop just as Tulio yells "STOP!" at Miguel. | |
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In the opening sequence of The Goonies, Clark "Mouth" Devereaux is watching a loud police chase on television while his father tries to unblock a sink. Mr. Devereaux tells Mouth to turn off the television, and he does so - just as the police drive past the house in pursuit of the Fratellis, the local gangsters. Mouth assumes the sounds of sirens and gunfire are still coming from the television, and tries Percussive Maintenance to get the noise to stop. As the cars drive away, the sounds fade away too, and Mouth just shrugs it off. | |
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in That '70s Show Eric calls out his paternal grandmother for being openly mean and nasty to his mom Kitty. He then flat out says it wouldn't kill her to be nice. She then slumps dead onto his shoulder. | |
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In the episode of Jeeves and Wooster where Bertie goes to stay in Devon, there's a scene where somebody blows a car horn several times to attract his attention, each time just as he's blowing a note in the trombone he's learning to play, with the result that the trombone apparently makes a noise even Bertie can tell trombones shouldn't make. | |
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In The Simpsons, Bart visits a defunct spirograph factory looking for Milhouse. Its sole occupant, the spirograph obsessed Dr. S, tells Bart that there's a direct correlation between the decline of spirographs and the rise of gang activity. | |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003): At the start of the first episode of the "Flash Forward" season, "Future Shellshock", the Turtles are fighting over the TV remote. Michelangelo manages to push a button at the same time the Turtles and Splinter are inexplicably warped into the New York alien metropolis of 2107. Seeing their new surroundings, Raphael gripes, "Nice going, Mikey! You didn't just change the channel- you changed the whole freakin' world!" | |
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Naruto: A trio from the Cloud Village are headed to Konoha. On the way, Karui throws a rock at Omoi, which misses and falls into a valley. Omoi immediately freaks out, imagining the rock somehow causing a massive rock slide which would level Konoha. Upon arrival at Konoha, they see a massive crater, causing a beautiful Oh, Crap! reaction from the two. (The third member of the team is the Only Sane Man who quickly dispels the notion, the crater was caused in the previous, entirely unrelated arc.) | |
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The Adventures of Dr. McNinja has a page where two nerds are LARPing in a real graveyard at night. The one who's RP-ing as a necromancer casts a spell to create his own army of the dead—and then a horde of the recently deceased actually rise from their graves as zombies. The zombies were actually an unexpected side effect of Ben Franklin II's immortality serum, but they don't know any of that. As they flee, the necromancer shouts "Jack Chick was right!" | |
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Evil Under the Sun: Linda does some voodoo magic to kill her stepmother. Later the same day, the stepmother is murdered, and Linda believes it's her fault. | |
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In the World of Warcraft expansion Cataclysm, there's a game going on Goblin starting zone, of a sport similar to soccer but played by woodcutting robots of death with a bomb for a ball. In an early beta, the player character takes part in such a game, but kicks the bombball through the goalposts so hard it flies into a nearby volcano, which is destabilized by the explosion. In the released version, the bombball flies in the general direction of the volcano (possibly entering it), but it's actually Deathwing that causes the volcano to erupt. | |
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In Iron Man 2 as the hacked Hammer drones start attacking the area, one little kid in an Iron Man masknote later confirmed by Word of God to be a young Peter Parker stands up to one with his toy repulsor to fire at the drone. As drone mistakes the kid for Tony and takes aim as well, Tony drops in behind the boy, shoots the Hammer drone, then tells the little boy "Nice work, kid" before taking off. | |
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The Order of the Stick: Invoked when Belkar gets an injunction to prevent Miko from using her "Detect Evil" ability on him, reinforced with a class-action suit alleging that the ability is harmful to the targets: Played straight with a dragon who decided that, since dragons become both larger and Stronger with Age, growing larger should make her stronger, and force-fed herself until she became as wide as she is long. |
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Atomic Puppet: In the first episode, Joey comes down with a cold. While powered up with AP, he has a particularly nasty sneeze which produces a large green cloud...out of which appear a hoard of black creatures, making Joey believe he had created them by accident. It's eventually revealed that they were created by Moogie as part of an Engineered Heroics plan. | |
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The Dark Knight: Two boys are mime-shooting imaginary guns at cars on the street. Suddenly, there's an explosion where they were aiming, making it seem as though they caused it. | |
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Mallrats: Silent Bob tries to use the force to retrieve a fallen VHS. Someone bumps the support it had fallen on, knocking it up into Bob's hand. This later triggers his only line in the movie, where he quotes Yoda. | |
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In the fourth Codex Alera book, Tavi's reveal of his true name is accompanied by the earth shaking and a fiery glow on the horizon. We the readers know that it's because a volcano was erupting in the distance, but pretty much everyone else assumed that Tavi had caused it somehow. | |
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In Avatar: The Last Airbender, Momo is playing with some pebbles. He drops one on a rock, but at the exact moment the pebble hits the rock, a nearby Earthbender chucks a rock at a wall, making it seem as if Momo's pebble caused the bang. Made hilarious when it happens twice. | |
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In Batman: Assault on Arkham, the Joker has a gun to the head of Batman (actually Black Spider wearing Batman's outfit). Just as he's about to pull the trigger, Black Spider's head explodes. | |
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In episode 12 of Carnival Phantasm, Emiya Shirou and Tohno Shiki are caught by the lead girls of their Unwanted Harems trying to pull a Two-Timer Date. Saber and Arcruid vent their fury via their more powerful attacks when the scene cuts to Hisui repairing the Tohna Mansion roof. Just as she hammers a nail, the Fantastic Nuke goes off in the distance, and Hisui looks at her hammer quizzically. | |
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The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad: Brom Bones has a dog howl just as Ichabod is giving a singing lesson, causing him to think he produced the sound himself. Hilariously, he was doing this in order to make him a laughingstock to the women singing with him; instead, they were smitten with the sound, fainting in ecstasy. | |
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In Starfighters Of Adumar, Wes Janson (extravehicular after his fighter is shot down) fires his blaster pistol at an attacking fighter, which then explodes. Wedge Antilles makes a mental note to find out what kind of pistol Janson has, only to see the fighter that actually shot down the fighter fly through the fireball. | |
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In Warcraft, Anduin Lothar, who is locked in a cell, is trying to convince a guard to release him. When the guard refuses, Lothar snaps and hurls a tankard at the guard, who abruptly turns into a sheep. Lothar looks at his hand in confusion, wondering if he actually did that, but then Khadgar walks in. | |
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Used in one episode of Hogan's Heroes as part of a brilliant Faking the Dead. When a field marshal defects and is chased by Major Hochstetter and the Gestapo, the POWs plant a dummy in the marshal's car along with a time bomb. When they make it look like the field marshal is getting away, Hochstetter tries to stop the car by shooting the tires. The time bomb goes off the exact moment Hochstetter fires, making him think he hit the gas tank instead. | |
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Bugs Bunny: In the cartoon "Oily Hare", a Texas oilman lowers dynamite down Bugs' burrow to blast for oil. Bugs sees the "present" and throws a party. The oilman is then confounded when he detonates the dynamite and hears noisemakers instead of explosions. Another cartoon, "Long-Haired Hare", opens with three instances of Bugs playing a musical instrument and interrupting an opera singer, who is practicing in his nearby home. The third instance has Bugs playing a tuba exactly as the singer starts to practice, causing him to clap his hand over his mouth and look briefly shocked. |
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In the Murdoch Mysteries episode "The Witches of East York", all the witches' spells "work" for unrelated reasons they know nothing about, including the death of the Victim of the Week, which happens at exactly the moment he's cursed. | |
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Star vs. the Forces of Evil: In "Demonicism", Star is punching a tree in frustration when Tom insists on going through with getting his (literal) inner demons removed. When the demonicism goes haywire, causing the forest to burst into blue flames, it happens just as one of Star's punches land. | |
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M*A*S*H: In the episode "The Gun", Radar is blamed for the loss of a colonel's personal revolver (actually stolen by Frank Burns). Radar eventually gets drunk and confronts the colonel with a teddy bear; at the same time Frank tries to return the gun...and shoots himself in the foot. In the season 7 episode "Preventative Medicine", Klinger has been using Hollywood Voodoo in a gambit to force Col. Potter to give him a Section-8 discharge. As part of the scheme, he has a Voodoo Doll made up as Potter, which he threatens to stick pins in if Potter doesn't comply. Near the climax of the episode, this plot and the A-plot collide: Hawkeye has poisoned the drink for a bloodthirsty colonel so that he can simulate appendicitis, perform unnecessary surgery and cause the colonel to be put out of action. Just as Klinger sticks a pin into the Potter doll, the colonel feels the effects of the drug and bellows in pain. When Klinger sees Hawk and BJ dragging the colonel into pre-op, he decides that he somehow voodoo-hexed the wrong colonel and has a My God, What Have I Done? moment. |
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The Lion King (1994): Simba roars, trying to scare off the hyenas attacking him and Nala, but as a small cub he can only manage a small growl-ish thing. The hyenas taunt him about it, goading him to try again, but this time Mufasa roars at the exact same time Simba does. Invoked darkly again in the stampede scene; Simba is practicing his roar (nudged on by Scar), and when he manages a particularly loud one, the wildebeest begin the stampede...which the hyenas had started on a cliff above by attacking them. Scar uses this to his advantage in making Simba think he was responsible for his father getting killed. |
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In Tarzan, our heroes are caged inside Clayton's ship while he and his cronies go to trap the gorillas. Upset about this, Professor Porter slams his fist against a wall, and suddenly the ship tilts, caused by Tantor the elephant climbing aboard to rescue them. | |
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The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius: In "Who's Your Mommy", an energy-sucking alien arrives on Earth at the same time Hugh storms into the utility company to complain about his latest bill. | |
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Malcolm in the Middle: One episode starts with a gag where Reese is poking a doll while Hal is screaming of pain for unrelated reasons. Reese assumes he's harming Hal through voodoo. | |
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Good Omens: The witch-finder Shadwell mistakes Aziraphale for a demon and points an accusing finger at him at the exact moment Aziraphale's mortal body is destroyed from the backlash of scuffing a pentagram. Shadwell spends the rest of the novel believing he has the power to banish demons with his finger. | |
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Inverted in 8-Bit Theater, where Fighter wonders why every city they arrive at seems to get destroyed, which Red Mage chalks up to coincidence. | |
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Rugrats: At the end of "Angelica the Magnificent", Tommy points a toy magic wand at a shed that his father Stu was building throughout the episode. The shed, which Stu put together with increasing carelessness, collapses at the exact moment that Tommy points the wand at it. Tommy immediately throws the wand away, vowing to never pick it up again. | |
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In Santa Clarita Diet, Anne asks for a sign that Sheila has been sent down from God. Sheila and Joel have no idea what to do, but suddenly Eric and Abby's bomb goes off, and Anna begins praising Sheila. | |
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In The Amazing World of Gumball episode "The Treasure", the kids are trying to find some clues about a mystery and had to break their chimney. So they started hitting it and making the house shake. Her mother heard it, but the pounds were synchronized with their father's steps, so she thought it was him causing the shaking, and decided he didn't need to eat the sandwich he was carrying. | |
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Young Sheldon: In "A Mother, a Child, and a Blue Man's Backside", after the tornado passes and both the main Cooper household and Connie's home are mostly unscathed, Narrator!Sheldon remarks that the worst consequence they suffered was Mary believing her praying was integral to their survival. | |
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In Saving Private Ryan, Captain Miller fires his pistol at an approaching tank, which then explodes. He looks at his gun in wonderment before he notices the plane that has just bombed the tank. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: In the episode "Hall Monitor", Patrick is eating ice-cream when SpongeBob calls him. Patrick thinks his ice-cream is the one who spoke and has a freak-out. In another episode, "Valentines Day", Patrick makes a valentine for SpongeBob out of stone when SpongeBob calls him. Patrick thinks SpongeBob is trapped inside the rock and smashes it in an attempt to rescue him. The episode "The Smoking Peanut" starts when Sponge Bob, upset at the giant clam Clamu being asleep during his and Patrick's trip to the Zoo, throws a peanut at her to wake her up. It appears to work... only for Clamu to start rampaging. Sponge Bob spends the entire episode thinking he's responsible for it, though eagled eyed viewers will notice Clamu searching around frantically when she first wakes up. In fact, it was actually the result of Mr Krabs, who exploited Free Day to get his claws on loads of things he probably shouldn't, including Clamu's egg. |
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In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1984), near the start of the game you pick up a toothbrush, immediately followed by a tree falling down outside your house. The game points out that there is no causal relationship between these events. At the end of the game, it turns out there actually was a causal relationship. | |
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6teen: In "Silent Butt Deadly", Nikki is in the bathroom at Jonesy's house, having a bad case of indigestion. While Jonesy is in his room, he playacts being a sheriff drawing a gun with his remote control. Nikki ends up letting loose a very loud fart the moment Jonesy presses a button on the remote, leading to him inspecting it closely in confusion. | |
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In the opening of one episode of ALF, ALF attempts to get a midnight snack by raiding the fridge for a piece of meat, even in spite of a note telling him not to eat it (with ALF commenting he wouldn't eat the note). Just as he's about to pierce the meat, an earthquake begins, with him thinking he might've angered some gods. | |
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In Space Jam, Stan Podolak takes a photograph of Michael Jordan just as the latter is sucked down a golf hole. After a second, Bill Murray demands to know what kind of camera that is, and that it not be pointed at him. | |
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Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: The Mole Women are in a dark, mysterious tube and are searching for a light switch. Someone accidentally pulls out Cyndee's earring just before the lights come on, prompting Cyndee to declare, "My ear is the light switch!" | |
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At the climax of Godzilla (2014), Ford, with absolutely nothing else he can do, points his sidearm at the female MUTO as she's approaching him, clearly about to kill him. She suddenly stops and Ford looks puzzled for a second until the next shot shows that Big G has appeared out of nowhere and clamped down on the back of her neck. | |
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In The Expendables 2, Barney and Lee are surrounded by hostile combatants and forced to drop their weapons. Suddenly Barney breaks out his Finger Gun and shoots the enemies dead, only it turns out that a friendly sniper synched up with Barney's movements and killed the hostiles. | |
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Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos: Near the beginning, Alphonse sets off a party popper, and at the same time there is an explosion outside causing all the glass in the windows behind him to shatter. He cries out "That wasn't me!" | |
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Another cartoon, "Long-Haired Hare", opens with three instances of Bugs playing a musical instrument and interrupting an opera singer, who is practicing in his nearby home. The third instance has Bugs playing a tuba exactly as the singer starts to practice, causing him to clap his hand over his mouth and look briefly shocked. | |
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In Hey Arnold! episode "On the Lam", Harold, Sid and Stinky wanted to replicate Mr. Simmons' Soda and Vinegar Experiment. They tied up 7 rockets together and added a whole jug of vinegar and a whole box of baking soda (and some tabasco sauce). The rockets went out of control and landed on the old dilapidated Police Dept. At the same time, Ernie dynamites the old police station, causing the boys to believe they blew up the Police Dept and attempt to escape and become hobos. | |
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In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, there's a scene where Indy is trying to break into a secret passage in a library, causing loud thumps to echo through the library — coincidentally in time with the librarian stamping a pile of books. At one point, the librarian stops and looks at the stamp with a puzzled expression. | |
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In Alice, Charlie gets in one last shot from his crossbow, and then the Hearts Casino explodes. He triumphantly whispers, "Bullseye!" before passing out. Cut to the arrow landing uselessly in the middle of a field. | |
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