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Mismeasurement
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A character confuses measurements in some activity, resulting in having too little or too much of something that will become disastrous. Could involve Explosive Stupidity in regards to the amount of gunpowder used or a similar explosive result, or Oven Logic when the result isn't explosive but distasteful or overwhelming. This is Truth in Television and we all have done that. Please, double-check your measurements, whether you're just sewing a jewellery pouch or declogging your sink, or doing anything that requires measuring. Mismeasurements are responsible for quite a lot of human tragedy in Real Life. Not to be confused with Unit Confusion. See also Misplaced a Decimal Point and Similar Item Confusion. |
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An episode of The Cosby Show had Theo ask his older sister if she could tailor a fake designer shirt for him (he had previously claimed he owned one in order to impress a girl). Her measurements are off, resulting in the shirt having mismatched sleeves among other problems. Ultimately averted as the shirt wound up resembling one made by an even more trendy designer. |
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In the Polish Kajko i Kokosz comic books the evil knights would construct a siege tower to get over the town wall but at night the heroes would sneak into the knights' encampment and alter the plans just enough to foil the plan. Since the knights were too stupid to recheck the measurements they would end up with a ramp that was too short or too long and Hilarity Ensued. | |
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The Simpsons: Homer is in the basement trying to invent something. He works out a few equations on the chalkboard, hammers, saws, welds, and finally blows up the basement. Walking over to a chart, he changes a "greater than" sign to a "less than" sign, and goes back to work. (This causes an even bigger explosion, and on the next review he finds and erases the "Dynamite" component from the diagram.) | |
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A Garfield strip had Jon asking Garfield about the right amount of chili powder to add to a dish that he was making. The resulting amount caused the entire dish to go poof (It might have been intentional, as Garfield then tells Jon to pitch it all out and order a pizza). | |
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This was a feature of many of Bergholt Stuttley "Bloody Stupid" Johnson's inventions on the Discworld. For a sample, his Colossus of Ankh-Morpork is currently carried in the Museum Curator's pocket for when tourists ask to see it, and a matching set of salt and pepper shakers he designed is currently in use as a grain silo. | |
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In the Hilary Tamar novel The Sibyl in Her Grave, it's mentioned that Daphne is a poor cook in part because she doesn't consider proportion, taking the attitude that if a small amount of something is good, then surely a large amount is even better. This proves especially disastrous when it's not food she's preparing, but medicine. Both Isabella and Maurice die of camphor poisoning from a cold remedy prepared by Daphne. | |
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In This is Spın̈al Tap, Nigel confuses the symbols for inches and feet while the band is brainstorming ideas for a visual accompaniment to their new song "Stonehenge". As a result, the stone model lowered onto the stage early in the song is 18 inches high. | |
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In Black Butler, maid Maylene misread the instruction label of a detergent due to her poor eyesight, and used 30 cups instead of the required 3, causing a huge, bubbly mess. In her defense, it was in Roman numerals, and if you try to ask a farsighted person to distinguish between XXX and III from point-blank, you'll probably get the same result. | |
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In Dad's Army, Jones inverts the intended proportions for porridge (one mug of oats to one jug of water), resulting in enough porridge to feed a hundred men. | |
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Nailed It!: Quite a few of the hapless bakers on the show seem to take a fairly relaxed attitude toward measurements. | |
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Jonathan Creek: In "Angel Hair", Jonathan is designing an illusion that centers around sawing a ventriloquist dummy in half. As the trick requires extra sets of feet for the dummy, he tells the dummy maker to be sure dummy has twelve feet. The dummy maker ends up delivering a 12 foot tall dummy. | |
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In Home Improvement, Al remarks that Tim's philosophy is "Never measure, cut yourself." | |
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Invoked in Agent Carter: Phantom Pain, as somebody intentionally altered the formula Whitney Frost was working on when they came across the chalkboard in her lab. When Sue Storm looks at the photograph of said board, then consults the recreation Howard made, she realizes something has been changed and sets to work fixing it. | |
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Hey Arnold!: When the town tries to bake the world-record largest pizza puff, Sid accidentally adds an absurdly large amount of baking soda because he reads "tsp" (for "teaspoon") as meaning "ten square pounds", resulting in a massive pizzasplosion. | |
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In a strip from the Boy Scout magazine Boy's Life, Pee Wee and Westy are charged with making cookies for a camping trip using a metric conversion of the recipe. They correctly make the conversion but over-bake the cookies when they get the baking time, the only measurement that wouldn't change, wrong. All is not lost as they pass off the crumbled cookies as granola. | |
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In the Soviet Yeralash short Measure Seven Times a schoolboy takes the proverb "measure 7 times, cut once" too literally and makes a stool 7 times larger.note The general view of the stool appears at 2:28. | |
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