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Describe topic here. And I mean in that spot. Ctrl + A, Backspace, THEN describe it. That's just the default message, you're supposed to replace it — are you getting all this? In fiction, one character will dictate something to be written to another. However, something silly might happen, making the first say something not meant to be written, which the second will obliviously write. The inverse of Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud. Compare Hello, [Insert Name Here], Repeat After Me, Literal-Minded, Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic, Virtual Assistant Blunder. |
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Bojack Horseman: A Running Gag throughout the series, whenever someone wants to get something printed, their instructions will inevitably get printed along with it. A small sample: Congrats Diane and Mr. Peanut Butter Peanut Butter is one word don't write one word Happy Birthday Diane and Use a Pretty Font I had a ball at Diane's 35th birthday and underline ball I don't know why this is so hard Welcome home little bro! Oh also, I have a Groupon Mr. Peanutbutter's Housewarming Bash and can you send me a picture of the banner before it goes off to the printers this time? |
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The Simpsons: In "A Star Is Burns", Marge is writing a letter to Jay Sherman, inviting him to be a judge in Springfield's film festival, but gets distracted while writing. In "Lisa's Sax", as Homer dictates a dedication for Lisa's saxophone, he tells the clerk to write "To Lisa, never forget your Daddy loves-", when he drops the sax on his feet and says "D'oh!", which is transcribed as "To Lisa, never forget your Daddy loves D'OH!" In the end of the episode, Lisa gets a new sax with the dedication "To Lisa, may your new saxophone bring you years of D'OH!" |
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In Parks and Recreation, this happens in "The Trial of Leslie Knope" when Leslie reads one of Ethel Beavers's transcriptions. When Leslie runs for city council, she attempts to get campaign signs made, but when she sends the sign maker an image link for the signs, he assumes the URL is a series of characters meant to go on the sign. |
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Cake Wrecks has documented an alarming number of supposedly professionally-decorated cakes with icing spelling out what appear to be either customers' exact words or written instructions: Write "Welcome" on it The #25 in Big Font Happy Birthday Sara Minus H |
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Inverted in Animal Crackers, where the secretary decides not to write down what Capt. Spaulding says on the grounds that it was nonsense. | |
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In Auntie Mame, Mame hires Agnes to transcribe her thoughts for her book. Agnes does it so well she even transcribes people asking Agnes why she's writing so fast. | |
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In Hot Fuzz, Sergeant Angel and Officer Butterman pull over Martin Blower, an actor who was speeding to get to the community theater on time. Angel takes note of Blower's statement and makes clear that he is doing this, even writing down Blower asking twice in exasperation to stop writing. | |
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The Order of the Stick: When Durkon writes a letter home he writes it the same way that his dialogue is written to reflect his accent. When Roy points out that he doesn't have to do this, Durkon responds as though he doesn't even realize he is doing it. | |
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Neopets: One of the periodic "Random Contests" for user-submitted content — #159, to be specific — had the objective of creating a magazine cover. They listed several requirements that submissions must have. One of the requirements was "Magazine Title (DURP!)", meaning that including a title really should be obvious. Many submissions, however, misunderstood and titled their magazine DURP!. Including two of the first-place winners. | |
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Sword Art Online Abridged has this as a Freeze-Frame Bonus in Episode 13, when Kirito is looking at the back of Alfheim Online's box. One half talks about features such as how the game teaches players "valuable life lessons like sharing, table manners, and aerial combat supremacy," while the rest is some disillusioned developer's email complaining about what a "soul-sucking shitshow" the game was to make, and asking his boss to make any corrections to the write-up. | |
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One of the random gadgets in Doraemon, the Microphone Pen, which has a mini-microphone on its base and does the writing for you while you point its tip on paper, the downside being that it takes in literally everything, even background noises (in retrospect, this is among the few gadgets which has a real-life counterpart superior to its fictional equivalent). It appears in a manga issue where Nobita is tasked with writing a letter by his mother Tamako, but had his handwriting criticized and begs Doraemon for help. Doraemon produces the gadget, but things goes hilariously wrong as usual. | |
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In Brazil, a secretary is seen typing everything she hears. As she works for a Torture Technician, that includes screams of pain. | |
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The Onion: The article [NOTE: Do Not Run Until Fucking Queen Is Dead Or People Will Lose Their Shit] Queen Elizabeth Dead at 96". In addition to the headline the body of the article is riddled with editor's notes that have been apparently included verbatim rather than implemented. | |
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Dinosaurs: In "And The Winner Is...", every child is named by the Chief Elder in a ceremony, which is transcribed by a bureaucrat who just blithely writes it down. This is why Baby Sinclair's name is briefly "Aaugh Aaugh I'm Dying You Idiot." Fran mentions that she had a cousin named "Achoo" and a classmate named "Burp Excuse Me Siegelman". | |
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The Nonadventures Of Wonderella: In this comic, Wonderella, as a superheroine who frequently dies, attempts to inform her sidekick about how she'd like her gravestone to look. Unfortunately, Wonderita interprets the instructions as the inscription. | |
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Helluva Boss: In "Murder Family," a billboard advertising I.M.P uses this as the punchline, implied to have been Blitzo sending a mangled text to the signmakers due to a text-to-speech mishap. | |
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Here on TV Tropes, this sort of mistake is where the Describe Topic Here inside joke came from. As "Describe topic here" was the default message for a blank article on the first version of the wiki software, many editors early in the site's life thought it should be included as part of the article as well. | |
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Blazing Saddles: Taggart and Lyle callously leave Bart to die in quicksand. After Bart gets out, he prepares to hit Taggart over the head with a shovel. | |
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Superstore: In "Color Wars", Glenn and Dina are supposed to get a cake for the winning team. They end up arguing in front of the person who is writing the icing, so their entire argument finds its way onto the cake. | |
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Alas Smith and Jones had a sketch where a criminal is cautioned that "anything he may say will be taken down and may be used in a court of law". The criminal then starts saying (deadpan) "What are you doing, officer? Please stop hitting me. Ow. Ow." as the police officer dutifully writes it all down, looking increasingly worried as the monologue goes on. | |
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Monty Python's Flying Circus: In "Biggles Dictates a Letter," Biggles tries to get his secretary to not take his dictation when he is wearing a pair of antlers, but as one might expect, things quickly spiral out of control. | |
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In SHAZAM! Fury of the Gods, Steve, an enchanted pen found in the Rock of Eternity's library, will dictate everything when tasked with writing a letter, whether it was supposed to be included in said letter or not. When the Daughters of Atlas read one such letter, they're utterly baffled at the various directions in which its contents go. | |
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In Captain Underpants and the Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman, Ms. Ribble makes every student in her class write goodbye cards for her retirement by copying the poem she wrote on the chalkboard, which ends with a "Write your own name here" fill-in. Most of the students are shown copying verbatim the "write your own name here" part. | |
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In "A Star Is Burns", Marge is writing a letter to Jay Sherman, inviting him to be a judge in Springfield's film festival, but gets distracted while writing. | |
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Gravity Falls: "Bottomless Pit!" has the characters taking turns telling stories, with appropriate title cards popping up when the characters announce the title for their mini story. When it's Soos' turn, the unnamed narrator does this. | |
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