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Reverse Telescopic Vision

120 statements
22 feature instances
8 referencing feature instances

Reverse Telescopic Vision	type	FeatureClass
Reverse Telescopic Vision	label	Reverse Telescopic Vision
Reverse Telescopic Vision	page	ReverseTelescopicVision
Reverse Telescopic Vision	comment	When you're looking through a pair of binoculars, or even a telescope, expect a Binocular Shot through the character's perspective. However, when a character who is a Cloudcuckoolander or The Ditz looks through the binoculars, expect to see them looking through the wrong end, which results in a faraway view through that character's perspective. The character will then think that the person or item that they're looking at is far away, until another character turns the binoculars around or until the ditzy character lowers the binoculars or telescope. Generally shows up in Comedy. See also Had the Silly Thing in Reverse.
Reverse Telescopic Vision	fetched	2023-03-31T19:29:41Z
Reverse Telescopic Vision	parsed	2023-03-31T19:29:41Z
Reverse Telescopic Vision	processingComment	Dropped link to CloudCuckooLander: Not an Item - FEATURE
Reverse Telescopic Vision	processingComment	Dropped link to jumpscare: Not an Item - FEATURE
Reverse Telescopic Vision	processingComment	Dropped link to runninggag: Not an Item - FEATURE
Reverse Telescopic Vision	isPartOf	DBTropes
Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_16580340	type	Reverse Telescopic Vision
Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_16580340	comment	In episode 10-B of Jewelpet: Magical Change, the baby Jewelpet Labra looks through a reversed telescope and panics because she thinks the Earth is shrinking. She tells this to her friends and they believe her, leading to wacky hijinx as they try to avoid the end of the world.
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Jewelpet: Magical Change	hasFeature	Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_16580340
Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_261c8d3f	type	Reverse Telescopic Vision
Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_261c8d3f	comment	Happens in at least one episode of The Simpsons:
Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_261c8d3f	featureApplicability	1.0
Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_261c8d3f	featureConfidence	1.0
The Simpsons	hasFeature	Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_261c8d3f
Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_3e3f6aa6	type	Reverse Telescopic Vision
Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_3e3f6aa6	comment	In The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge out of Water, Patrick is holding his binoculars backwards during a WWII-inspired scene.
Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_3e3f6aa6	featureApplicability	1.0
Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_3e3f6aa6	featureConfidence	1.0
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water	hasFeature	Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_3e3f6aa6
Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_41d05409	type	Reverse Telescopic Vision
Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_41d05409	comment	In War for the Planet of the Apes, Bad Ape tries to look through binoculars to spy on the Alpha Omega base, where Caesar and his brethren are being held prisoner. He is worried about how far away it looks until an annoyed Maurice flips them over.
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War for the Planet of the Apes	hasFeature	Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_41d05409
Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_4f410616	type	Reverse Telescopic Vision
Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_4f410616	comment	In the original The Mysterious Benedict Society book, Kate reveals to the other members of the Society that her kaleidoscope is actually a spyglass in disguise. Constance tries it out, but complains to Kate that it's a terrible spyglass, that it makes everything look far away.
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The Mysterious Benedict Society	hasFeature	Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_4f410616
Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_64c61455	type	Reverse Telescopic Vision
Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_64c61455	comment	A related phenomenon is found in the original Miracle on 34th Street. A drunk character is handed a telephone handset, and holds it backwards (i.e. with the mouthpiece at her ear). Her husband tells her she's holding it backwards. She thanks him, then holds it upside down over her OTHER ear. See this in action here.
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Miracle on 34th Street	hasFeature	Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_64c61455
Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_76555b3a	type	Reverse Telescopic Vision
Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_76555b3a	comment	On an episode of Radioactive: The local Cloudcuckoolander has recently acquired a new pair of binoculars, so he's looking through them at every opportunity he has. Eventually, he is looking at someone he knows in close-range! He raises his voice and waves:
Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_76555b3a	featureApplicability	1.0
Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_76555b3a	featureConfidence	1.0
Radio Active	hasFeature	Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_76555b3a
Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_78146d21	type	Reverse Telescopic Vision
Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_78146d21	comment	The "person turns out to be right in front of me" bit was played with Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest: Jack spots Davy Jones from a distance from the correct end of a telescope...yet when he puts the telescope down, Jones is right in front of him, having teleported there in the split-second interim.
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest	hasFeature	Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_78146d21
Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_7efcd096	type	Reverse Telescopic Vision
Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_7efcd096	comment	In the Adventures from the Book of Virtues episode "Loyalty", Socrates takes his turn in looking through Zack's binoculars, but he looks at them through the wrong end.
Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_7efcd096	featureApplicability	1.0
Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_7efcd096	featureConfidence	1.0
Adventures from the Book of Virtues	hasFeature	Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_7efcd096
Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_90a7abc7	type	Reverse Telescopic Vision
Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_90a7abc7	comment	Likewise, at the beginning of the Mr. Bogus episode "Good Sport Bogus", Bogus does this, with a camera lens, before Tommy turns the lens around, to which when Bogus looks through it again, he freaks out upon seeing a close-up of Tommy's eyes.
Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_90a7abc7	featureApplicability	1.0
Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_90a7abc7	featureConfidence	1.0
Mr. Bogus	hasFeature	Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_90a7abc7
Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_917bb2cb	type	Reverse Telescopic Vision
Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_917bb2cb	comment	Elinor Wonders Why: Happens to Elinor in 'Bird Song':
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Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_917bb2cb	featureConfidence	1.0
Elinor Wonders Why	hasFeature	Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_917bb2cb
Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_97abe183	type	Reverse Telescopic Vision
Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_97abe183	comment	In The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius episode "The Junkmen Cometh" Jimmy tells Sheen to keep an eye out with some binoculars for the "Moonie Man" (made up by Brobot who just wanted Jimmy to come to the Moon and play with him) and Sheen sees a dark figure he believes is the Moonie Man. Since he is looking into the binoculars backwards, he appears "tiny and very far away" according to Sheen. Jimmy grabs the binoculars and hands them back to Sheen the correct way and they see that the figure (actually Brobot trying to scare them) is right in their faces.
Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_97abe183	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius	hasFeature	Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_97abe183
Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_aca7b22d	type	Reverse Telescopic Vision
Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_aca7b22d	comment	In The Amazing World of Gumball episode "The Bus", as part of a ham-fisted plan to teach the kids about the dangers of truancy by staging a hijacking, Banana Bob attempts to jump on the school bus and misses because he was looking at it through binoculars that made it look closer than it really was. When he looks through the binoculars again he has them backwards, so he thinks the bus is farther away and ends up getting flattened.
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The Amazing World of Gumball	hasFeature	Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_aca7b22d
Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_ba291a47	type	Reverse Telescopic Vision
Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_ba291a47	comment	Zombieland: Double Tap: When Madison tries looking through binoculars, this happens. She sees Tallahassee and says he looks really small before repeatedly raising and lowering the binoculars while saying "You're tiny, now you're not."
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Zombieland: Double Tap	hasFeature	Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_ba291a47
Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_bc274933	type	Reverse Telescopic Vision
Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_bc274933	comment	Happens in the 3-2-1 Penguins! episode "The Doom Funnel Rescue" to Captain Zidgel, when Fidgel tries warning the rest of the crew about a highly combustible gas tank at the gas station. Zidgel looks through the wrong end of Fidgel's binoculars and thinks that the tank is miles away, until Fidgel turns them around to which Zidgel then starts freaking out about it.
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3-2-1 Penguins!	hasFeature	Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_bc274933
Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_c4282b71	type	Reverse Telescopic Vision
Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_c4282b71	comment	In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfic Sparkle's Law, Pinkie Pie thinks she's a Hardboiled Detective. Her magnifying glass only works one way for some reason (don't ask) and she spends the entire investigation looking through it the wrong way. She even notices that it's making everything looks smaller, but she just thinks someone sabotaged it, and she keeps using it.
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic	hasFeature	Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_c4282b71
Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_d46cc708	type	Reverse Telescopic Vision
Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_d46cc708	comment	The Ed, Edd n Eddy episode "Avast Ye Eds" has Ed look through a telescope to spot the Kanker sisters dressed as pirates. He looks through the wrong end, so Eddy tells him to throw it down to him and he looks to see the Kankers are close to him.
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Ed, Edd n Eddy	hasFeature	Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_d46cc708
Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_db96ded4	type	Reverse Telescopic Vision
Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_db96ded4	comment	The Legend of Korra: In the episode "Skeletons In the Closet", Bolin uses a telescope backwards before quickly correcting himself.
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The Legend of Korra	hasFeature	Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_db96ded4
Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_eb5d7301	type	Reverse Telescopic Vision
Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_eb5d7301	comment	Amphibia: In "Commander Anne", Anne does this while trying to locate the enemy forces, which makes it too late to alert the others when she finds them since they're actually close enough to attack.
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Amphibia	hasFeature	Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_eb5d7301
Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_f00c1bed	type	Reverse Telescopic Vision
Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_f00c1bed	comment	In Turn Signals on a Land Raider, tank commander Kren is looking through binoculars and comments that he can juuuust make out an enemy Titan in the horizon. Turns out that he had the binoculars on backwards (and the titan was from an Epic 40,000 army with reduced-scale models), and the thing's actually less than 20 scale feet away.
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Turn Signals on a Land Raider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_f00c1bed
Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_f5e30a17	type	Reverse Telescopic Vision
Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_f5e30a17	comment	In Stand Still, Stay Silent, the Hopeless with Tech Sigrun once used binoculars the wrong way.
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Stand Still, Stay Silent (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_f5e30a17
Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_f7ed2fd7	type	Reverse Telescopic Vision
Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_f7ed2fd7	comment	The Little Mermaid (1989): Happens to Scuttle:
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Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_f7ed2fd7	featureConfidence	1.0
The Little Mermaid (1989)	hasFeature	Reverse Telescopic Vision / int_f7ed2fd7

The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

Reverse Telescopic Vision	processingCategory2	Comedy Tropes
Reverse Telescopic Vision	processingCategory2	Stupidity Tropes
BoBoiBoy: The Movie (Animation) / int_cbdc24fa	type	Reverse Telescopic Vision
Jewelpet: Magical Change / int_cbdc24fa	type	Reverse Telescopic Vision
The Mysterious Benedict Society / int_cbdc24fa	type	Reverse Telescopic Vision
Elinor Wonders Why / int_cbdc24fa	type	Reverse Telescopic Vision
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run / int_cbdc24fa	type	Reverse Telescopic Vision
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water / int_cbdc24fa	type	Reverse Telescopic Vision

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