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The verbal equivalent of Exactly What I Aimed At, this is when a character deliberately says one thing, and is mistaken for having meant to say another thing. Cue another character wrongfully "correcting" them. A sub-variety of this is things that are mistaken for misspellings or mispronunciations, but these aren't the only cases. |
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On Cheers Norm's favorite restaurant is the Hungry Heifer, which specializes in cheap food. One time he got Cliff to go with him. | |
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From The Simpsons: | |
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Mr. Rumbold from Are You Being Served? would sometimes get the wrong idea of a word. For example the sales staff had the verb "to knee" meaning "press one's knee in the armhole of a suit to loosen a few threads so as to make it fit the customer better." Thus creating this exchange: | |
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Ron Swanson of Parks and Recreation rephrases himself to his server before he can fall victim to this trope: | |
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From He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2021): | |
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In the novel Freaky Friday, Annabel's friend Boris has problems breathing through his nose, and when he offers to "bake a beetloaf" for dinner, she assumes he means "make a meatloaf". He doesn't. (Also, his name is actually Morris, but that's a case of Annabel failing to correct for his pronunciation.) | |
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In Iron Man 3, after Tony reboots JARVIS, JARVIS reports that "I seem to do quite well for a stretch and then at the end of the sentence I say the wrong cranberry." As a result, when he tells Tony a few minutes later that the Mandarin is in Miami as opposed to somewhere more exotic, Tony has trouble believing him. But no, he actually did mean Miami. | |
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In The AFR Universe story "Boys and Queens", Ryuji and Haru are texting each other. When Haru recounts the time she was punched by their ally Makoto while she was Brainwashed and Crazy, she recalls how painful and terrifying it was and says she would wish that on her worst enemy. | |
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In The Order of the Stick, during Roy's duel with Thog in the arena: | |
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In Jingo, Sergeant Colon, Corporal Nobbs, Leonard of Quirm and Lord Vetinari are flying across Klatch on a flying carpet. Colon is not happy with this: | |
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The Handbook of Heroes: From "Tools", when talking about Mercy, a Named Weapon: | |
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xkcd: "My hobby: Using the more obscure meanings of 'affect' and 'effect' to trip up amateur Grammar Nazis." Black Hat Guy "pleads the third." "I could care less": rather than using the usual meaning of the phrase, even though the words themselves indicate the opposite, the speaker literally means she does care a little bit. |
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In the Dragon Ball Z Abridged movie "Cooler 2: the Return of Cooler's Revenge - The Rekoning", the Z Fighters are confronted by Cooler once again, whom Goku still mistakes for Freeza. | |
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Harry Potter Fanfics: In This Means War several of Harry's friends terrify Pansy to the point where she pees her pants. In Red and Yellow Draco is unable to take no for an answer. Harry Potter and the Quantum Leap: Play to Your Strengths: His Darkest Devotion: The New-Minted Coin of the Soul: In Across the Time Fred, George and Lee discuss the chances of Ludo Bagman being in Hogsmeade during the next visit. Harry Potter and the Rune Stone Path: Trickshot: In Harry Potter and Defeating Dark Lords, Inc. Fred and George show Hermione their plans for an anti-Inferi weapon and she tries to correct their apparent misspelling of "cannonballs". In Letters From No One the Ministry is having a problem with animated doorknobs which need to be kissed in order to settle down. Harry and Ron's has duplicated itself and neither of them is in the mood to kiss either knob. Then the intern comes over with some coffee. In The Art of Being Harry Harry asks some card players in a painting if they're images of real people. Like Tenfold Shields: Harry's Enemies List: Harry Potter's Secret Weapon: |
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Sword Art Online Abridged has an exchange when a roleplaying Leafa introduces herself to a Spriggan she just met. | |
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In Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #128 (collected in The Ring, the Arrow and the Bat), the Goo-Goo-Godlike religious leader of a Fictional Country tells a treacherous general that he will be "safed". The general corrects his pronunciation of "saved", but the boy insists that's what he meant. Five minutes later, the general is hit by a falling safe. | |
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A harsh but funny version on The Office (US): | |
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Dramatic version in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The Deadly Years", when Kirk, whose forced, space-disease-imposed aging had imposed progressive senility, returns to the bridge supposedly all better; then he orders Uhura to send a message in a code Uhura knows to be compromised, a fact of which Uhura has had to remind Kirk earlier in the episode, much to his chagrin. But when she questions him this time, Kirk affirms that he meant what he had said. He then dictates a message that he actually wants the enemy to hear. | |
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From Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo: | |
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Past Sins: At the end, when talking about Spell Nexus, calling him a drama queen instead of a drama king: | |
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In The Fairly OddParents! episode "A Wish Too Far": | |
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From Rocky and Bullwinkle, Boris sounds like he's using his usual Poirot Speak pronunciation when he suggests they beat Bullwinkle with "stragedy," but: | |
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Danger Mouse: From an episode: The villiains got in on that act too: |
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Happens in the first season of Modern Family when Claire was revealed to have insulted Gloria. Gloria, whose native language is Spanish, says Claire can make up for it by jumping in the pool. Claire assumes she means the expression "go jump in a lake", but Gloria meant exactly what she said: she wanted Claire to jump in the pool with her clothes on, embarrassing herself like Gloria had been embarrassed. | |
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Monty Python's Flying Circus: There is a sketch involving a man who cannot pronounce the letter 'C' (his 'C's coming out as 'B's) that includes this exchange: Another Monty Python example is a sketch about a person who sometimes ends his sentences with the wrong fusebox. |
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In Family Guy: When Brian checks out Quagmire’s RV before a trip: In another episode, Peter mentions that he’s looking forward to "phone sax" with Lois. No, he did not mean "phone sex". |
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In Green Acres ("It's Human to Be Humane"), Lisa asks Oliver to play "Scribble, Cabbage, or Monotony", and he assumes it's one of her malapropisms Later, Mr. Drucker tries to sell him those same games, which apparently do exist in Hooterville. | |
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