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Fool's Map

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25 feature instances
9 referencing feature instances

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Fool's Map	comment	A character is out on a Treasure Hunt Episode, when they are given a Treasure Map that supposedly leads the character to the location of the treasure. However, when you find where the X is located and you dig for the treasure, you find nothing but dirt, rusty tin cans and an old tire. Turns out that someone gave you a fake map, either intentionally (because they are a Con Man and you paid for the map) or accidentally, as they didn't realize it was a forgery. Put more simply, a character is given a false map that leads to them Going in Circles or leads them back where they started from, or into the middle of nowhere. Compare Road-Sign Reversal and Script Swap for similar cases. See also: Wild Goose Chase.
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Fool's Map / int_1bd53ae0	comment	In a short Bone story published in Disney Adventures magazine, Thorn reminds Phony that he needs to do his laundry that day. Phony brushes her off, then he finds a treasure map. He convinces his cousin Fone to come along on the treasure hunt. When they finally reach the X, the buried treasure turns out to be Phony's dirty laundry. The story ends with them wondering if Thorn played an elaborate prank on them, or it the universe itself is conspiring to make Phony do his laundry.
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Fool's Map / int_23d2ea71	comment	Near the end of Donkey Kong Country episode "Ape-Nesia", DK, having regained his memory, gives King K. Rool and Captain Scurvy separate maps that supposedly lead to where he's hidden the Crystal Coconut. The two villainous reptiles end up finding a bunch of DK's thrown-away banana peels, and after slipping and falling, start thinking they're monkeys themselves.
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Fool's Map / int_261c8d3f	comment	In The Simpsons episode "A Star Is Burns" whilst Springfield is holding a film festival Bart starts selling fake "Maps to Stars' Homes" to tourists for $5.00 each. The house listed as belonging to Drew Barrymore is actually Moe's house.
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Fool's Map / int_2b02b3c0	comment	In Back at the Barnyard, the crows make a fake map to make Otis and his friends leave so they can get the corn supply.
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Fool's Map / int_334120fc	comment	In 8-Bit Theater, Red Mage gives the Other Warriors a useless map to Rat Tail Island (which suggests it's off-planet) to get rid of them. The Other Warriors later give him an equally useless map to the Wind Orb.
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Fool's Map / int_375e8f14	comment	The Last Hero: It turns out that the Gods of the Discworld have been leaving mysterious maps around for ages, all leading heroes into dangerous deathtraps for their amusement. They over-reach themselves when the latest one, to the abode of the Gods themselves, turns out not to be as deadly as they plan and Cohen the Barbarian turns up on their doorstep with an unpleasant surprise.
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Fool's Map / int_37a6e77b	comment	An episode of Camp Lazlo had the campers give the Jelly Beans a fake map that would leave them going around in circles for a few days so they won't get in the way of Commander Hoohah's inspection of the camp. This comes back to bite them in the ass when they found out Lazlo was the only one who could start a fire, which is required for the inspection.
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Fool's Map / int_3b73f906	comment	The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh episode "Rabbit Marks The Spot", Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, and Gopher are looking for buried treasure, with help from a fake treasure map that Rabbit had created.
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Fool's Map / int_4617a9f2	comment	On Married... with Children, the Bundys and the Darcys are on a horrible road trip and crash in a small Arizona town. An old resident sells them a map to an old gold mine and they head off with Al and Jefferson soon coming to near murder as they obsessively pan and mine for any gold. A batch of rich tourists show up and the guide openly laughs on how that old "prospector" has been trying to sell fake gold maps off for years but "you're the first bunch of idiots to actually fall for it!" The two families just glare as they declare they're going to leave with some gold somehow...and give meaningful looks to all the expensive watches and jewelry the tourists are carrying. Cut to them all relaxing a nice hotel pool as they admire their matching gold watches.
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Fool's Map / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: In Going Postal, Moist von Lipwig, waiting to be hanged, creates an elaborate treasure map that would keep a team of cryptographers engaged for a week, specifically for the jailers to steal from his body (or possibly left in the cell after his would-be escape). It leads to absolutely nothing, because he's that much of a Con Man; he figures anyone who would actually forget where they buried $100,000 doesn't deserve it. The Last Hero: It turns out that the Gods of the Discworld have been leaving mysterious maps around for ages, all leading heroes into dangerous deathtraps for their amusement. They over-reach themselves when the latest one, to the abode of the Gods themselves, turns out not to be as deadly as they plan and Cohen the Barbarian turns up on their doorstep with an unpleasant surprise.
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Fool's Map / int_5400d19	comment	The Raccoons: In the episode "Easy Money!", Bentley accidentally breaks Bert's RC car and looks for a quick way to pay it off. He orders a treasure map from a comic book which tells him there's treasure in the Endless Echo Caverns, so goes off by himself to find it. However, it's later revealed that the treasure maps are a scam, as Cedric tells Bert and Lisa that his father spent three days in the Endless Echo Caverns going in circles following one.
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Fool's Map / int_5755b96a	comment	In The Order of the Stick, after the Order of the Scribble was dissolved and each of its former members was assigned the task of guarding one of the rifts, Girard Draketooth deliberately gave wrong co-ordinates for the desert rift to Soon Kim, the member of the Order who he disliked and distrusted the most. He instead gave co-ordinates for a completely random spot in the desert, then left a magical message (and bomb) at that spot that would activate and mock Soon Kim if he went to those co-ordinates seeking the rift himself. Not only was he being Improperly Paranoid about Soon Kim coming for the rift, but he ended up putting the Order in a spot as they needed to find the gate before Xykonnote who ended up having the real coordinates got to it first.
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Fool's Map / int_74365738	comment	In Going Postal, Moist von Lipwig, waiting to be hanged, creates an elaborate treasure map that would keep a team of cryptographers engaged for a week, specifically for the jailers to steal from his body (or possibly left in the cell after his would-be escape). It leads to absolutely nothing, because he's that much of a Con Man; he figures anyone who would actually forget where they buried $100,000 doesn't deserve it.
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Fool's Map / int_76e7de99	comment	Forgotten Realms: The Wyrmworks in Silverymoon is a shop selling various dragon-related items, including maps to dragon lairs. The openly displayed maps are clearly stated to be for decorative purposes only, but real maps are also available if you ask. However,unknown to the owners, many of the "real" maps they acquire are more subtle deceptions that fail to mention traps or similar, because they've secretly been created by the shop assistant, Alrue Crownshield, who the owners think is human but is actually a song dragon in human form. Alrue loves working there, but is not inclined to make things easy for prospective dragon slayers.
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Fool's Map / int_862c7f73	comment	In one episode of The Great Grape Ape, Grape Ape and Beegle Beagle help a pirate follow his map to buried treasure. The "treasure" turns out to be some bottles of cola.
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Fool's Map / int_90a7abc7	comment	This tactic was used in the third act of an episode of Mr. Bogus. After Ratty and Mole have stolen an entire trunk full of food from a party being held by a group of insects, Bogus manages to outsmart the two rodents by switching out the map they were using with another map when Ratty asks Mole on which way to go. After reading from the fake map, the two rodents then turn around, thinking that they've escaped, but become horrified when they realize that the map that Bogus gave them leads them back to where the angry insects are now waiting for them, which leads to Ratty and Mole getting chased away by the mob of insects.
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Fool's Map / int_abc65d15	comment	In an episode of Last of the Summer Wine, Foggy is eager to buy "the only copy" of a pirate's treasure map. His friends are sceptical regarding the non-availability of the original, the suspiciously low and flexible price, and the implausibility of a pirate burying any treasure in inland rural Yorkshire, but he buys it anyway. After a long trip over poor terrain (unnecessary, since there was a perfectly good road Foggy neglected to notice), they arrive at the site to find it swarming with treasure-hunters who'd been sold the same fake map.
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Fool's Map / int_b0fc9724	comment	Saturday Night Live: In a Parody Commercial for Peter Jackson's Hobbit series of films, now in 18 volumes, part three is called Apple Maps: An Unexpected Detour. Frodo's iPhone search for a Quiznos takes him to Mordor.
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Fool's Map / int_b97f910f	comment	Attempted in Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time. Before completing Pirate Seas, you receive a treasure map. The steps say to "stomp plants" and it supposedly leads you to "Treasure! (Not Zombies)".
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Fool's Map / int_bc848d30	comment	Played with in the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Aargh!". Mr. Krabs becomes obsessed with a board game about buried treasure, and the next day he leads SpongeBob and Patrick in a treasure hunt with what Krabs claims is a real treasure map. After going around all day looking for the treasure, SpongeBob and Patrick decide to take a peek at Mr. Krabs map, and discover that it's really their boardgame. Just as Mr. Krabs is about to punish them for mutiny, they find the X that marks the spot, meaning that the game really was based on a real treasure map.
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Fool's Map / int_d46cc708	comment	Ed, Edd n Eddy: In the episode, O-Ed-Eleven, Eddy finds what he believes to be the map to his brother's "Secret stash," though he, Ed and Double D can't decode the map, which is just a curved, dotted line, leading to an X (and three small circles above it. At one point, while Double D displays the map on a projector, Ed actually has a moment of clarity, and places Eddy in front of the screen, where the dotted line leads from the tip of his nose to his X-shaped ear hole, and the three circles match the three freckles on his head. Double D then places a transparent map of the cul-de-sac over Eddy's brother's map to determine the location of his treasure is at the Kanker's trailer; after unearthing a suitcase full of wishbones, Double D comes to the conclusion that the map was a gag all along. Eddy falls for another one in Ed, Edd n Eddy's Boo Haw Haw when he receives a map from his brother that supposedly leads to a town called "Spook-E-Ville" where candy is given out in bucketloads. However, the map merely leads the Eds in a circle back to the Cul-de-Sac. As Edd put it, Eddy's brother 'tricked' rather than 'treated' him.
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Fool's Map / int_d9c602eb	comment	Parodied in South Park episode "Cripple Summer". The antagonist Nathan orders his minion, Mimsy, to switch the maps of the rival scout team with a fake one. Mimsy interprets the repeated order to "Switch the map, switch the map!" as to switch it...and switch it again, leaving their own team with the fake map leading to the territory of a violent tribe of Native Americans.
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Fool's Map / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy: Peter sets up an elaborate Scavenger Hunt for Lois to play on their anniversary just so he can blow her off and go golfing with the guys. The final clue leads her back to where she started.
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Fool's Map / int_eca201fb	comment	In National Treasure, Patrick Gates thinks the search for the eponymous treasure is a waste of time because he thinks, even when he has some of the clues to its location right in front of him, that it was just put out by the revolutionaries to keep the British busy looking for something that doesn't exist. He turns out to be wrong, the treasure is very real.
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Fool's Map / int_fd6b2fd9	comment	Happens in an episode of Salute Your Shorts when Budnick finds directions from a long-dead camp counselor, in dance steps, to where she supposedly hid a fortune. Since the original was hard to read, he types it out and gives copies to the other kids in exchange for their boomboxes. The directions lead them to collect a bunch of junk, but they find something that makes him think they were very close to it, so he and Donkeylips start trying to get the directions back. In this case, the player gets played, as the directions he gets back were fake as well, written by the other kids to lead Budnick to dig a hole in the middle of the softball field that Ug had been meticulously trimming.
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