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The best way to show someone's incredible lack of sports knowledge is to have them describe a sporting event by jumbling together terms and people from a bunch of different sports. Many Sitcoms use this, usually setting the man up to be humiliated by a woman, use his incorrect boasting to show that he's a Know-Nothing Know-It-All, or to make clear who the show's "manly men™" are in comparison to other men and to the women. Sometimes it is a companion of the sports fan that, when having to watch a game, attempts to understand the rules and gets it totally wrong. Regardless of the scenario, it is always Played for Laughs. This is especially egregious when the protagonist is supposed to be a sports writer. The trope name doesn't actually come from any particular example; it's just a great example of a person afflicted with this trope. (For those not in on it: Wayne Gretzky is basically the most famous ice hockey player to ever live, and ice hockey uses a puck, not a ball.) This trope is for in-universe sports errors; for errors made by the writers, see Artistic License – Sports. New Rules as the Plot Demands is the version of this trope for games that only exist in the work of fiction. In a game of Calvinball, this sort of error is impossible to make, because nonsensical descriptions of the rules become the new rules. In video games, if this is the theme of an entire level, it's an Athletic Arena Level. Pac Man Fever is this trope with video games standing in for sports. Subtrope of In-Universe Factoid Failure. |
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Done in The Penguins of Madagascar when the penguins try to play hockey against the sewer rats. King Julien is assigned as a cheerleader, and tries to demoralize the rats; | |
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Gate: The JSDF tries to teach the Rose-Order Knights sports, but they mostly don't get it. When they play ping pong, Princess Piña Co Lada hits the ball into her opponent's face. When they play baseball, she thinks the object is to hit everyone around you with the bat. | |
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In the short-lived comedy series The McCarthys, about a sports-obsessed Boston family, the one son who is clueless about sports is asked the name of Miami's NBA franchise; he admits the only thing that comes to mind is the 'Miami Sound Machine'. | |
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On an episode of Gilmore Girls, Lorelai says "Nice save, Gretzky." Wrong position. | |
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Deliberately used in Heart In Hand to Bluff the Impostor in-universe. Talking to a girl at a bar, Darryl suspects she is lying about being a hockey fan, so he mentions "the tipoff after the second half" that "led to the fifth field goal". An ice hockey game starts with a faceoff, is divided into three periods and involves teams attempting to score goals. | |
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Bottom: Culture plays it for laughs with chess. It wasn’t going to go well with Richie insisting on playing a game he admitted he didn’t know how to play… | |
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Deliberately invoked in That '70s Show when Eric says the first time he strapped on a pair of skates was like "the first time Joe Namath laid his hands on a bat". | |
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The Simpsons: In "Scenes From The Class Struggle In Springfield", Homer tried to cheat at golf giving himself higher scores. Lower scores are better in golf, although this was lampshaded by the episode's Guest Star, then-PGA Tour pro Tom Kite. | |
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In an episode of MythBusters testing various baseball myths, one of the "myths" tested is whether or not sliding into a base is faster than running and stopping on it. The Mythbusters do not seem to understand that the point of sliding into a base is not because it's faster, it's to avoid a tag (and on plays at second and third, to avoid overrunning the base). Note that sliding versus running past first base is a speed issue; you should run past unless sliding is the only way to avoid being tagged out. However, the Mythbusters were testing sliding versus running and stopping on a base. This is actually a very good demonstration. Everyone (except some moronic Major Leaguers who STILL slide through first, even without threat of a tag play) knows running through a bag is faster than sliding, but when going to second or third, where overrunning is not usually desired, sliding will be faster, because if you stay up, you have to slow down in order to stop on the bag. Or at least, that's the theory they were testing. They also did an episode on "corked bats", and came to the conclusion that, since a corked bat doesn't hit a ball further, those using them were endangering their career for no reason. Adulterated bats aren't used to simply swing faster and get more power; the lighter weight allows for a faster reaction time and better contact with late-breaking pitches, and doctoring a heavy bat vs. simply using a lighter one gives better reach and a better "sweet spot". They also tested if it was possible to knock the cover off the ball, where they took one swing at the ball and declared that it was impossible without super strength, without taking into consideration that using the same ball over and over again might do the trick. At any rate, knocking the cover off the ball has literally been done in an MLB game. |
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In one episode of Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation, Venus de Milo is playing bowling and gets a strike. However, since she's new to American sports (and American culture in general), she incorrectly calls it terms like "goal", "hole in one", and "touchdown". | |
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Full House: Rebecca serves as an announcer to a hockey game that Joey participates in one episode. Feeling the need to upstage her, her husband Jesse attempts to join in. Keep in mind that Jesse is not athletic in any shape or form and knows nothing about sports, so naturally he looks like a complete idiot not knowing about the penalty box or even the game clock. This happens in another episode when he tries to play basketball to impress his children. When Kareem Abdul-Jabbar shows up at the court, it takes the NBA legend a few minutes to realize Jesse honestly has no idea who he is. Jabbar gives Jesse a crash course in playing, but when the actual game starts, Jesse still makes mistakes like trying to run with the ball. Kareem, who is the referee, calls him out for traveling and he doesn't know what that means. Jesse is a horrible case of Characterization Marches On. Earlier seasons had him being as athletic and knowing about sports as Danny and Joey; after the fourth season, he has no athletic ability and claims to know nothing about sports at all. |
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In an episode of Squid Girl, Ika plays soccer with some of Takeru's schoolmates. However, she has no idea how to play, and violates a lot of the rules, which the boys on both teams call her out on, such as using her tentacles, which totally aren't her hands, to get the soccer ball into the goal post, even though to the kids it looked like she held the ball in her hands. When she tries just using her feet, she's completely terrible to the point that the both teams collude to help her score at least one goal. | |
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At the beginning of The Big Lebowski, one of the thugs takes out a bowling ball. Confused, he asks, "What the fuck is this?" The Dude snarkily replies, "Obviously, you're not a golfer." | |
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Mio in Nichijou is completely incapable of anything else. A montage shows that every time she ever tries to play an organized sport or just a game with rules, she'll do something completely contrary to the rules of the game. When trying to perform a simple high jump, she keeps jumping under the bar, into the bar, or into her best friend. An earlier episode also shows Robot Girl Nano and the eight-year-old Professor who made her playing baseball while clearly having no idea how the game is played. |
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Looney Tunes: In the Bugs Bunny short My Bunny Lies Over The Sea, the Scotsman MacRory suggests that he and Bugs settle their dispute with a game of golf. Bugs obliges, saying, "Have it your way, mac. But doncha get a little tired runnin' dem eighteen bases?" | |
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During a Grand Theft Auto V stream, Daithi De Nogla mentioned that the reason his character had a baseball bat was that he'd just come from playing a baseball game, and that he was the "swinger for the L.A. Lakers". Cue Corpsing from everyone on the stream. | |
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Invoked in an episode of NCIS: Los Angeles. Kenzi and Deeks have to go undercover at a dog show on short notice when a retired CIA agent is murdered. The agent spent a lot of time and money to acquire a trained show dog and become familiar with how dog shows work. On the other hand, Kenzi and Deeks know almost nothing about dog shows and are told to simply let the dog do all the work. They quickly blow their cover because Doakes is incompetent as a dog handler and Kenzi does not know the proper jargon and makes a major faux pas due to not knowing the proper etiquette when discussing breeding dogs. | |
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Shows up again in a riff for Reptilicus, with a scene showing two policemen playing chess. | |
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This shows up in a riff for Wild Rebels. The protagonist, Rod Tillman (played by Steve Alaimo) arrives at the club by hitch-hiking with a rotund, older gentleman wearing a ballcap. | |
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The Alvin Show: Clyde Crashcup "invents" baseball, starting with a haphazardly designed diamond. He has the ball, and Leonardo (his assistant) has the bat. Clyde's first instruction: "Pitch the bat!" Leonardo does, and knocks Clyde on his back. "Perfect." | |
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Parodied on Scrubs, where JD's woefully ignorant view on sports (due to Flanderization) leads to the following mixed metaphor: When Elliot says that she'll be a bigger fraud than Barry Bonds, JD replies, "I love it when he wins at that game he plays." In another episode, JD tosses his friend Turk's basketball down a hospital hallway only to have it popped on the security guard's hook hand. JD apologizes to Turk and comforts him with the line "Relax, they come three to a can." There's one scene which opens with JD and Turk discussing sports and agreeing that with a certain player, New York could really win the title. Then Turk asks, "Which sport are we talking about here?" J.D. thinks it's tennis. This exchange that occurs when Arnold Palmer is brought up: An invoked example of this trope is the time J.D. wore the delightfully ironic T-shirt that had a picture of a football with the caption "Soccer" underneath. There's a scene in "My Cake", where Cox and JD's brother try to cheer JD up by watching a sporting event with him. They wear Detroit Red Wings attire as they watch a college football game...between two professional teams. |
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Our Miss Brooks: Miss Brooks' knowledge of sports ranges from the excellent to the ridiculously inadequate. This is problematic, as the series has several sports episodes, usually involving recurring character Stretch Snodgrass. In "Bronco Dismissed", this trope is averted, as Miss Brooks and Mr. Boynton substitute coach for the football team without any difficulty. Likewise in other episodes such as "Baseball Slide" and "The Big Game". In some episodes, however, Miss Brooks is very much in the dark... In "Game at Clay City", Miss Brooks' football knowledge isn't lacking, but Mr. Boynton admits to being clueless as to most if not all sports. He even asks who's pitching for the football team. In "The Grudge Match", Miss Brooks confuses the baseball term "bullpen" with "pigpen". She also mistakenly calls pitchers "chuckers". She later redeems herself, by serving as the announcer for the titular boxing match. In "Stretch Is In Love Again", Miss Brooks cheers on a dead tired Stretch Snodgrass when he runs the wrong way and scores on Madison. In "Two Way Stretch Snodgrass", when Mr. Conklin calls Stretch one of the most promising high school tailbacks in the country, Miss Brooks look behind Stretch to see if he had a tail. |
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In Calvin and Hobbes, when Calvin is teased into playing baseball at school, he says "Suppose they make me a halfback. Can I tackle the shortstop or not?" When Calvin and Hobbes aren't playing Calvinball, they'll be making a mockery of any actual sport they try, usually baseball but also football, croquet and golf. As the boy himself puts it: "Our favourite games are ones we don't understand!" And sometimes, it's deliberate. |
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In Macdonald Hall Goes Hollywood, an American child star sneaks onto the hockey team of the Canadian boarding school during a game and gets hit in the eye with the puck at the very end. As he sits in the hospital, his manager screams, "It had to be my client to get hit with the ball!" | |
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Would I Lie to You?: David talking about football: | |
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King of the Hill: In one of Bobby's photoshoots in "Husky Bobby", he is dressed as a football player and the photographer shouts at him "go for the fifty-yard line, go for the sixty yard line! This is your Olympic dream come true!" Hank cringes at the photographer's lack of football knowledge. | |
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In the episode "Tests" of Beware the Batman Bruce and Alfred are playing chess and Alfred moves his piece into checkmate, prompting Bruce to simply knock the King over with one of his pieces. Possibly justified: Bruce says they play chess because Alfred keeps him on his toes; he might purposefully be practicing against someone who cheats. | |
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In an episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Captain Holt dismisses his father's attempts to teach him basketball with "As if I cared how to slam-dunk a three-pointer." | |
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In an episode of Lilo & Stitch: The Series has Lilo and friends playing baseball against Mertle's team, and Pleakley embarrasses her with his total lack of knowledge of the game. He believes that three strikes score him a turkey (which is a score in bowling) and he digs up the field in search of "the legendary baseball diamond". | |
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Played with during a 2021 episode of The Week That Wasn’t a weekly comedic show that could be considered an Indian version of The Daily Show. In the episode, Cyrus the host, while discussing an upcoming cricket series between India and Australia, cuts to a guy in Australia screaming “Sachin! Sachin!� When Cyrus berates the guy, stating that (the legendary Indian batsman) Sachin Tendulkar has been retired for seven years, the guy says, “I’m not screaming Sachin! I was actually screaming searching, searching!� “For a team capable of winning a World Cup!� | |
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An episode of The Big Bang Theory revolves around Leonard nervously preparing for a football-watching party with Penny's friends and relatives; they're all rabid Nebraska Cornhusker fans, while he doesn't know the first thing about the game. Sheldon, of all people, gives him a crash course on the sport — he grew up in Texas, and knows everything about the game in spite of the fact that he hates it (and sports in general). While Leonard acquires a functional academic knowledge of the game he knows little about the actual sports fan experience, where the rules and strategy matter less than the right team winning, and gets burned out by halftime. | |
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In Homestuck, Dave's attempt to talk Rose out of her suicide mission devolves into a fantastic series of bungled sports metaphors; they're both aware that neither has any idea what they're talking about. | |
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Also done for humor in Penny Arcade, where Gabe mixes sports lingo in a desperate attempt to pretend he knows what game is going on that weekend. In one strip, the guys are playing a football video game. Gabe criticizes it for not being an accurate simulation of the sport, since there's no ice. |
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Launchpad in DuckTales (2017) attempts to provide commentary on a golf game while having no idea how golf is played. "Double-O-Duck in You Only Crash Twice!" sees him play Baccarat against Dumb Muscle Steelbeak. Neither of them actually knows how to play, so they just shout random phrases from other games while playing random cards. Ironically, Launchpad ends up averting this in "The Rumble for Ragnarok!" as he is a huge wrestling fan. This time, it's Huey who has no idea what he is talking about. He ends up realizing the role swap midway through the episode and has a Heroic BSoD over it. |
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Done seriously in The Order of the Stick with Eugene Greenhilt, who has no idea what's happening in his son's soccer game. His wife points out that he's more than smart enough to understand how the game works, he just doesn't care enough to devote the ten minutes to learning the rules. And the fact that he cares so little about his son's pursuits is not lost on Roy. | |
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After Stormie Lee choked Old School Wrestling Championship's women's title holder Cheerleader Melissa, a fan asked Stormie why she didn't play by the rules. Stormie response "There are no rules in baseball!" was so left field the fans couldn't even come up with a chant. | |
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In the American dub of Digimon Adventure, Tai Kamiya is a soccer player who apparently doesn't play much else. He was rather prone to mixed sporting metaphors, such as "Bases loaded, two outs! And we need a slam dunk!" | |
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In Soul Eater, Maka knows almost nothing about basketball. | |
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In Lori Lovecraft, Horatio the zombie is absolutely obsessed with basketball. His girlfriend Zelda knows nothing about sport, but tries to feign interest to make him happy. Horatio generally finds this more annoying than if she ignored it all together: | |
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In MAD's parody of The White Shadow, the coach goes on a date with a woman who tells him, "Oh, I love basketball! I just love it when the batter kicks a touchdown basket." | |
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The Nostalgia Critic's review of Warriors of Virtue, where he gets so bored with that he cuts away to a Chicago Bears football game. This may be Conviction by Contradiction, but not many sports fans shout "Go! Go! Go!" when their team is on defense (the clip he cuts to clearly shows the Green Bay Packers scoring a touchdown against the Bears). | |
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Played for laughs in Roger Dodger in an exchange between Roger and his nephew. This is even funnier if you remember that Jordan spent the 1994 season and part of the 1995 season playing minor league baseball (not particularly well) with the Birmingham Barons. |
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Fallout 4: One guy you can meet in Diamond City sells scavenged baseball paraphernalia and talks about the sport. Since the game is set centuries After the End, he doesn’t actually know much of anything about it, thinking it was a gladiatorial bloodsport where the players beat each other to death with bats. You can correct him or jokingly claim it was actually even more violent (like saying that the audience would get attacked as well, hence the term "spectator sport"). Either way he decides he liked his version better. | |
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Episode 54 of Awesome Video Games mixes references to game shows at one point. Dad kicks it off when he says that his historical knowledge "has been likened to one Pat Sajak." | |
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In Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger, Pink Ranger Amy is a fan of the rugby-themed Shoujo manga Love Be Ball Touchdown (Love Touch for short). Grey Ranger Tessai complains that rugby goals are called tries rather than touchdowns, and The Mentor Torin remarks that the title is an example of this trope, since the manga's heroine makes the same mistake in an early chapter. | |
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In Tomodachi Life, Miis with the soccer ball gift will occasionally make soccer passes...on the beach. Then again, beach soccer is a real thing. | |
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Parodied in sketch show That Mitchell and Webb Look, which features two completely incompetent film writers. The film, nominally about cricket, ends with an amateur team from Yorkshire ("Cricket? In Yorkshire?") making the final of the Ashes against a cheating German team (for those who don't know, The Ashes is a series of five matches between England and Australia. There is no 'final', it's just a best-of-five scenario). Yugoslavia and the West Indies also couldn't compete, and the Ragtag Bunch of Misfits would have to join the England side to play. There's also the assertion that, "There's no such thing as a draw in cricket!" Let alone the lack of uniforms (mismatched casual clothing instead) and female members of the team. Manchester United plays football, and the Dallas Cowboys play American football. Besides, the European Championship is played by national teams only, so Manchester United couldn't compete. The players practice with Swingball toys, and swing the bats like swords or baseball bats. The German bowler windmills overhand, then stops and throws the ball underhanded. The East Germans were famous cheaters, not the West Germans. The umpire is obviously a football ref, and at one point the German bowler throws a football. All the players have cricket bats, even the fielders and bowler. |
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Super Mario World 's "Chargin' Chuck" enemies wore American Football uniforms. While some attacked you with footballs, others would attack with baseballs. Even others resorted to non-sports activities, such as digging up large rocks with shovels, leaping through the air, or splitting into 3 copies of itself. An official Nintendo of America strategy guide called the baseball-throwing Chuck a "Confused Chuck". The large rocks guys might be playing lacrosse. Except for the large rocks part. The game where Chargin' Chuck is finally Promoted to Playable is...Mario Golf: Super Rush. That's right, a golf game, not football. To be fair, Mario has never had an American Football game. In said game, Chargin' Chuck's special shot has him outright grab the golf ball and throw it like a football. |
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In Poker Night at the Inventory, Max's grasp of the rules and terminology of poker is shaky at best. His strategy is erratic, he sometimes believes he's playing Hearts, and will occasionally fold even when he knows he has a good hand. At one point he even asks the player if the little numbers on the cards mean anything. | |
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Parodied, like everything else, on The Colbert Report. After Senator Obama's acceptance speech, Stephen Colbert had former football player Tiki Barber assess the speech. He replied by saying, "As someone who knows a bit about football, I can safely say that Obama hit a home run." | |
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Degrassi: Marco thinks the Washington Redskins are a hockey team. | |
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In Butterfly Soup, a School Club Story about a high school baseball team, Noelle (who was roped into it against her will) is hilariously uninformed when it comes to baseball. She doesn't realize that the runner is out when a baseman catches the ball, thinks the pitcher throws the ball to their own teammate, and at one point refers to a home run as a touchdown. Eventually, Chryssa asks if Noelle can even name a single baseball team; the player can answer the San Jose Sharksnote a hockey team, the San Francisco 49ersnote a football team, or the Oakland A'snote a baseball team. | |
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Retro City Rampage plays with this in one of the first missions. You go into a hat store holding a baseball bat, greet the clerk with "How about that local sports team, eh?" and then buy a hockey mask saying that it will help improve your golf game. Specifically your slam dunk. | |
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The infamous maneuver popularized by Jushin Thunder Liger outside of Japan as "The rolling koppu kick" (Akira Maeda's abisegiri). Koppu is yet another largely non striking martial art. However, if they meant "koppo", it makes a little more sense, as the art's founder has been in Liger's corner, and as one of the Bujinkan martial arts jumping and rolling are important parts of its taijutsu. | |
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In Fortune Street, when Birdo is selected as an opponent on Mario Baseball, she proclaims that it's time to hit the gridiron before wondering if she got it right. | |
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Played with in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby: the two lead characters, who have had a blood rivalry all movie, both crash in the final race. They leap out of their cars and attempt to run to the finish line, with the crowd on the edge of their seats. The announcers then point out that their footrace is completely meaningless, as both were disqualified the moment they stepped out of their cars. Doesn't stop them. | |
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'Tis Time for "Torture," Princess: Chapter 50 has the Princess playing basketball against a team headed by the Hell-Lord. One of the announcers of the match, Gilga, explains that basketball only recently began to catch on in Hellholm. The game results in things like dogpiling on the Princess, the Princess forming a square formation around herself to protect the ball, kicking the ball, and repeated failed shots. The only two people with any real knowledge of the game are the referee, Youki, who was in a basketball club in school but spent more time playing around than playing the game, and Ex, a limbless sword who lampshades each and every mistake everyone makes over the chapter. | |
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Outside Xbox: During one Quiplash charity stream, they're given a prompt asking about the easiest way to get on ESPN's highlight reel. Luke leans into this joke by proposing that you could "win a million footballs in a row," which is not the correct terminology for anything in any game known as football, and would moreover require that you "win a football", on average, once every 40 minutes for your entire life. | |
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Mystery Science Theater 3000: The "Turkey Day" version of the episode "Night of the Blood Beast" does this intentionally in its first host segment. Mike and the bots make contradictory references as Gypsy tries to guess which sport they're talking about; when it comes back from commercial, it turns out that it was Australian Rules Football. This shows up in a riff for Wild Rebels. The protagonist, Rod Tillman (played by Steve Alaimo) arrives at the club by hitch-hiking with a rotund, older gentleman wearing a ballcap. In one segment, Mike is at the plate with Servo pitching and Crow as the umpire. Crow seems to know nothing about baseball, as two pitches thrown - one that nearly hits Mike and another that does hit them are called strikes (or rather, "Hiiii-reeeeee-ah!") When Mike rushes the mound to attack Servo, Crow starts shouting, "Order in the court! Order in the court! Order in the court!" Shows up again in a riff for Reptilicus, with a scene showing two policemen playing chess. |
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In Dragon Ball Super, Yamcha, Vados, and Whis are the only members of the main cast who actually know how to play baseball. This leads to a lot of hilarity during a baseball game. | |
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The Goofy cartoon "Hockey Homicide" ends with the announcer doing an extended example of this. The announcer happens to be Doodles Weaver, who did the Spike Jones "William Tell Overture" example listed above. | |
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Jennings: Darbishire about football. | |
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In one issue of Archie Comics, the Riverdale team shows up to a football game, and the rival team is female. One Curb-Stomp Battle later, Archie and Reggie are moping around, depressed, when Betty and Veronica ask to be shown how to "shoot baskets with this horse hide" (a football). Reggie and Archie walk off with the girls in hand, going "When will you learn football is a man's game?!" The girls wink at each other. | |
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Futurama: Done by Zapp Brannigan, only with board and parlor games: In "Fear of a Bot Planet", the rules of blernsball, the futuristic version of baseball, is already confusing to begin with. Fry attempts to keep up, but his description is basically baseball terms with most of the nouns replaced by the word "blern", to which Leela says, "With the exception of the word 'blern', that was complete gibberish." |
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Portal 2 has Wheatley, the local, sentient Idiot Ball: | |
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This happens in a couple of MS Paint Masterpieces strips, in which Mega Man and Ice Man play basketball... with a bat. | |
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Private Eye has the spoof sports columnist Sally Jockstrap. A typical Jockstrap column might say how pleased she is that Michael Owen (a footballer) is playing in the Six Nations (a rugby tournament) and she hopes he scores a six (a cricketing term) against Paraguay (not one of the six nations, but at this point it hardly matters). | |
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Backyard Sports: Peter Wheeler keeps forgetting which sport team you've signed him up for. | |
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Done in a Saturday Night Live sketch where the Wishmakers Foundation grants a child's desire to be a sports commentator at a professional game (football the first game, basketball the 2nd). The only football term he knows is "That'll move the chains!" and basketball, "Nothing but the bottom of the net!" This eventually gets taken to a hilarious extreme when the other commentators lets him take over to make up for complaining about the supposed disease (the kid said he had O.C.D. when asked, but this really stood for "Overwhelming Corpse Disease", in the first sketch it was A.D.D., which actually stood for "Attentive Death Disorder") and eventually begins shouting various sports terms and maneuvers all in the same sentence ending with "NOTHING BUT THE BOTTOM OF THE NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET!" and then dies onscreen. A 2017 SNL skit features Chance The Rapper as a New York Knicks basketball reporter who’s pressed into service as a substitute reporter for a Rangers hockey game, and finds himself utterly baffled by the latter sport. |
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In Peanuts, Rerun, a new recruit to Charlie Brown's baseball team, is convinced that they're playing in the finals of The Stanley Cup. One strip has Lucy happily declaring, "I love playing hockey ball!" note There is a version of hockey called ball hockey. It looks like ice hockey and is played on a non-ice surface without skates. It uses a ball, not a puck. Not to mention that field hockey also uses a ball. But this is still an example — in the strip's home market of the US, the word "hockey" by itself refers exclusively to ice hockey. Marcie is often prone to this. In another baseball strip, Lucy thinks she should be able to score a field goal since she's standing in a field. A few strips :''' she thinks the opposing team scored forty goals. |
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In addition to the quote at the top, FoxTrot has done this a zillion times. One memorable one has Jason at a basketball game complaining that he has to "watch a bunch of eight-foot geeks kick balls through goalposts for two hours" and asks which one is the quarterback. Also, this. | |
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Spider-Man: The Amazing Spider-Man (Dan Slott) #583 used this as part of Spot the Impostor involving Barack Obama, of all people. It all starts with trouble at the Presidential Inauguration — namely, two Obamas showing up, each claiming to be the real one. Spidey swings in and points out that Obama played basketball in college, leading to a Secret Service agent suggesting a three-point shootout to determine the real president. The fake Obama who is actually the Chameleon in disguise begins sweating and stammers something like "even if we did find a basketball field, where will we find an umpire at this hour?" Sadly, this means that the world's first three-point shootout between a supervillain and a U.S. president has yet to happen. Ironically, two of the three officials for a college basketball game are called umpires (the third, the crew chief, is the only referee), but even rabid fans of the sport often don't know this, unless they have officiated themselves. | |
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The IT Crowd, when the ludicrously nerdy main characters become "real men" by learning stock football phrases off the internet. "Did you see that ludicrous display last night?" "The thing about Arsenal is they always try to walk it in!" |
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The Patrick Star Show: In "Backpay Payback", Patrick throws Squidward and Granny Tentacles into a basketball hoop and yells "touchdown!". In "Bubble Bass Reviews", Bubble Bass says "touchdown!" before throwing a basketball during one of the random clips that play in between his show's segments. |
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From Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: In one episode, John and Sarah are watching a chess game. When Sarah asks him to "explain what she's seeing", John replies that one of the players has just captured the other's queen, causing Sarah to demand "English, please!" Apparently, basic chess rules are far too technical for the average woman Sarah Connor. Also, while the move might have had the bonus of putting the opponent in zugzwang, taking the Queen in itself is most certainly not zugzwang. (For those not fluent in chess jargon or German, zugzwang is when every move is worse than not moving, and you aren't allowed to pass.) |
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Agent Carter: The male agents are poring over some photographs from a nightclub and ask Carter if a man in the background of one of them is legendary baseball player Joe DiMaggio. Carter says she can't tell — she doesn't follow boxing. This ends up settling a wager over whether or not she knows anything about sports (though she may well have just been trolling them). | |
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Doctor Who: In "The Lodger", the Eleventh Doctor's Wonka nature and Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure have been thrust up (so to speak), with lines like: | |
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The English dub for the first Project A-Ko has one of these. B-Ko is issuing her first challenge, and at the end acts out the sport she uses for the metaphor by appearing in a baseball cap and miming swinging a bat. Understandably, one would think this would be dubbed as 'World Series' for an American viewer. What do they end up using? 'It'll be our own Super Bowl'. | |
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In Brain Dead 13, Moose, the Frankenstein's Monster-esque jock, talks vaguely sports related gibberish when you're fighting him. | |
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Vaguely Recalling JoJo: The Star Platinum team in Telence's baseball game are dressed like soccer players. The lead Star Platinum even holds a soccer ball. In fact, they do terribly against the Atum team at first. Also, one of the Star Platinum pitchers throws a soccer ball instead of a baseball. | |
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World's Dumbest...: During an episode of "Thrillseekers" in which a snowmobile racer landed his 400-pound vehicle on top of another racer after a jump. One episode features a bar in Wisconsin, where the patrons are watching a pro basketball game. |
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Played for laughs in Top Gear, with Jeremy Clarkson talking at one point about "golf bats". | |
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The South Park episode where Cartman tries to join NASCAR had numerous safety violations that would have ended any race, but because of Rule of Funny, just gets ignored. | |
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Stargate Atlantis has O'Neill using a sports metaphor on Weir at one point, leading to this exchange: | |
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One sign that Ivy from Dawn of a New Age: Oldport Blues is a nerd is her almost complete incomprehension of sports. When it comes up in conversation, she bluffs with what little she learned from her football-obsessed uncle. | |
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In an episode of Family Guy Peter says... | |
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Citizen Dog: Cuddles gatecrashes Mel and Fergus’ bowling night, despite having no idea how to play it, so Fergus convinces Cuddles that bowling requires a goalkeeper stood in front of the pins. | |
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John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme: Evidently played straight in one sketch focusing on a match between "United" and "City", then mercilessly skewered afterward with Carrie Quinlan and Margaret Caborn-Smith as commentators on the sketch pointing out how John has no idea how football works, and has clearly just taken what little he knows from overhearing stuff in the pub. | |
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A first-season episode of Burn Notice opens with Sam quizzing Michael on American Football trivia as a Drinking Game. Michael gets distracted when he spots a Czech assassin he recognizes from his spy days eyeballing him, and answers a question about the Miami Dolphins' all-time passing leader with "Barry Bonds", a baseball player. Mike does subvert this later, when in order to cause a distraction, he goes on a rant about how “Dwyane Wade sucks!� This starts a bar brawl, which he uses as a pretext to attack the assassin. |
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Monta in Eyeshield 21 is being told that his nickname comes from the famous receiver Joe Montana (a quarterback) instead of the protagonist just misreading his real name and finding Monta appropriate since he looks like a monkey. Monta never bothered checking after he joined American Football and still claims this is where his nickname come from. | |
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Friends: Almost literal example in one Thanksgiving Episode when Chandler pretended that he was eager to watch the Thanksgiving game in order to avoid helping Monica with household chores. When challenged to name three players of "his team", he named Gretzky and Agassi... | |
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John Morrison's offense is largely composed of capoeira moves, which Michael Cole insisted were "parkour" moves, even though parkour is a non combat martial art. | |
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Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle: | |
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Dexter's Laboratory: Dexter, being the overly stereotypical nerd he is, is quite naive when it comes to sports. One episode had him distract his dad by constantly asking inane questions in regards to a golf tournament they were watching: When the show was Un-Canceled, the roles were reversed. One episode had Dexter's dad repeatedly mess up a golf tournament because he had a warped understanding of the rules and ignored Dexter trying to correct him. For one thing, he didn't understand what the holes were and thought you had to avoid the ball falling into them. |
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According to The Other Wiki (link), Homestar Runner got its name from a friend of The Brothers Chaps having gotten his sports lingo all mixed up. | |
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