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Rapid-Fire Name Guessing
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When there are multiple characters in a certain group (usually members of a family) and one of them must be summoned, it is a fairly common occurrence that whoever is calling them will get distracted and start calling out the wrong names. Or, they might just forget who's called what. First, the mother will try Tom, then Dick, and so on and so forth... until finally realizing that the son she wants is the one named Harry. In extreme cases, they may try names that belong to the other sex. Or to distant relatives. Or family pets. This is most definitely Truth in Television. See also Accidental Misnaming. |
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In the video game version of Spider-Man: The Movie, when Spidey first confronts Shocker, he attempts to guess the villain's name, throwing out "Quilt-man," "Padded Pete," "Mr. Triple Ply" and "The Cushion." | |
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In Ted, John guesses the "white trash name" of the cashier Ted met. | |
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In the Harry Potter Filk Song "What Kind of Name is Hermione?" the singers go through more than a dozen names for "that other red-haired boy" in Harry and Hermione's group. Eventually a third voice (possibly Hermione herself) yells "IT'S RON!," prompting them to get back to the actual song. | |
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Light does this in the Death Note fic A Cure for Love. Not for his usual reasons but just because he's stuck in a boring meeting and L is ignoring him to speak with his "assistant" the mysterious "N": | |
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Blood of the Zombies: You earn the trust of the intern, Amy Fletcher, by revealing you knew her name. Problem is, you're attempting to converse with her while she's pointing a gun on your face. The book gives you a chance to guess her name (your only clue being that it starts with an "A"), so you can try calling her "Amelia? Amanda?" until you get it right. | |
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Legend of the Three Caballeros: In "Nazca Racing" Handsy the living Nazca Line drawing travels with the main characters and tries to guess Donald's name, which she continues to do off-screen for five hours. | |
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In the Father Ted Christmas special, Ted gets Mrs Doyle to try and guess the name of their new house guest. She spends several hours guessing before hitting on the right name. The reason? Ted doesn't know who the mysterious but over-friendly guest is, and is too embarrassed to admit it. | |
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Freddy Fox: In "What Was Her Name Again?" Bea the Australian flying fox recalls seeing a "priddy powerful pomeranian" at the last Psycon, who she thinks might have some golden unicorn roots. She attempts to think about what the latter's name is, but fails and ultimately gives up on doing so. | |
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Fairy Tail: When Cana tells Gildarts that she is his daughter, he gets completely shocked, and he falls to the ground, rambling off a list of women he's been with who could potentially be her mother. However, when he comes back to his senses, he can instantly tell who Cana's mother actually is, meaning that he just didn't think clearly out of surprise. | |
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In Black Books, a drunk Bernard tries to guess Manny's name. "Well, Gerald... Samantha..." |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Pinkie Pie does this shortly after Nightmare Moon appears. Pinkie also does this in "A Friend in Deed", trying to guess what Cranky Doodle Donkey's first initial stands for. |
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In Monty Python's Flying Circus, "An Appeal on Behalf of the National Truss" has a Cloudcuckoolander presenter who immediately derails whatever subject she was supposed to introduce by repeatedly getting her own name wrong. Not only do her confused guesses include a wide range of celebrity names, but some of them clearly aren't names at all. | |
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Played with in Being John Malkovich. John Cusack's nerdy puppeteer Craig tries to pick up an attractive woman by guessing her name within three guesses. He then proceeds to mouth the first few sounds in many female names, using the woman's reaction to home in on the right name. He "guesses" tons of names (via eliminating anything that doesn't have the right sounds) before managing to stammer out "Mar....Mah....x....Maxine?!" She reacts by being surprised and dubious, but agrees to meet him in a bar. | |
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There's a bizarre version in Family Guy, where he seems to have actually forgotten Meg's name. He keeps running through the entire family's names until Brian tells him "It's your son." "Meg!" Another variation: |
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Friends: Joey is confused whether he's about to go out with Angela or Andrea. Chandler gives the identifier for each, and Joey remembers that he's going out with Julie. Rachel's sister seems unable to remember Emma's name (thinking that Phoebe's name is Emma), and uses every rhyming variation. |
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The Little Mermaid (1989): Prince Eric tries to guess Ariel's name, with mixed results ("Mildred?" "Rachel?"). Sebastian the crab has to prompt him. | |
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