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Road-Sign Reversal
- 569 statements
- 109 feature instances
- 89 referencing feature instances
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The racecourse or other path is marked off by arrows. Either a villain or a prankster mucks things up by flipping the sign so the arrows point the other way. Can also include incidents where someone who, with honest intentions, by mistake thinks the sign is wrong and "fixes" it, whereupon Hilarity Ensues. Very often causes a Wrong Turn at Albuquerque. See also: Rules of the Road, and Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat, as this is one of the ways he does it. |
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Dropped link to AlmightyJanitor: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
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Dropped link to HerbieGoesToMonteCarlo: Not an Item - UNKNOWN | |
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Dropped link to MouseTV: Not an Item - UNKNOWN | |
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HerbieGoesToMonteCarlo | |
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MouseTV | |
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| Road-Sign Reversal / int_14fdcd89 | type |
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| Road-Sign Reversal / int_14fdcd89 | comment |
This is one of the pranks De Plaaggeest plays on Bassie & Adriaan. Because of it, the two accidentally set up their tent on a soccer field rather than the camping place they were looking for. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_14fdcd89 | featureApplicability |
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| Bassie & Adriaan | hasFeature |
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| Road-Sign Reversal / int_15788203 | type |
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| Road-Sign Reversal / int_15788203 | comment |
In an episode of the Viva Piñata cartoon, the heroes flip a road sign to get the bad guy off their trail and send him towards a volcano. Of course, as he's driving a really slow forklift, it takes him 50 years to actually reach the volcano. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_15788203 | featureApplicability |
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| Viva Piñata | hasFeature |
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| Road-Sign Reversal / int_1a6b9860 | type |
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| Road-Sign Reversal / int_1a6b9860 | comment |
In The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland, Huxley's henchmen turn the arrow on the sign that leads to Huxley's Castle in the opposite direction to trap Elmo in a cave. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_1a6b9860 | featureApplicability |
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| The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland | hasFeature |
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| Road-Sign Reversal / int_1b386512 | type |
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| Road-Sign Reversal / int_1b386512 | comment |
In the Ranma ½ anime, Ranma, Genma and Happ�sai travel back in time. Happ�sai reverses a sign pointing to Jusenky� so the past selves will go the wrong way. But a bag thrown by past Genma reverses it again. It wouldn't have worked anyway, because the whole thing takes place inside Ranma's dream. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_1b386512 | featureApplicability |
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| Ranma ½ (Manga) | hasFeature |
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| Road-Sign Reversal / int_1d2ae502 | type |
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| Road-Sign Reversal / int_1d2ae502 | comment |
The Amazing Maurice: Ollie the Snake does this in Mr Bunnsy has an Adventure, the children's book that serves as the Framing Device for the film; flipping a sign to send Mr Bunnsy into the Dark Wood. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_1d2ae502 | featureApplicability |
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| Road-Sign Reversal / int_1d2ae502 | featureConfidence |
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| The Amazing Maurice | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_1d2ae502 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_1dac7724 | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_1dac7724 | comment |
Bashin and Striker do this in ep. 11 of Battle Spirits Shonen Toppa Bashin to try and lure My Sunshine to the Battle Spirits Center. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_1dac7724 | featureApplicability |
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| Battle Spirits Shonen Toppa Bashin | hasFeature |
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| Road-Sign Reversal / int_1e2b8b3c | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_1e2b8b3c | comment |
The Little Rascals movie: Porky pushed the race track arrow from right to straight. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_1e2b8b3c | featureApplicability |
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| The Little Rascals | hasFeature |
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| Road-Sign Reversal / int_21c08fc5 | type |
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| Road-Sign Reversal / int_21c08fc5 | comment |
In a MLP-based webcomic Friendship is Dragons the trope is subverted and defied; in its version of the story Rainbow Dash doesn't flip the sign, but tricks Applejack into believing she did. Applejack tries to defy the trope and ends up going the wrong way anyway. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_21c08fc5 | featureApplicability |
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| Friendship is Dragons (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_21c08fc5 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_231c3738 | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_231c3738 | comment |
In The Hazing, one of the items the pledges have to obtain is a detour sign. They steal one from some roadworks. As they drive off, a car drives the road they have just removed the sign form, followed by an off-screen crash. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_231c3738 | featureApplicability |
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| Road-Sign Reversal / int_231c3738 | featureConfidence |
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| The Hazing | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_231c3738 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_26c07af0 | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_26c07af0 | comment |
In Ace of Aces, a Bavarian celebrational cart pulled by oxen inadvertently causes a road sign reversal just as protagonist Jo Cavalier is driving a Jewish family, the Rosenblums, down South, directly leading them to Adolf Hitler's house in Berchtesgaden instead of the Austrian border. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_26c07af0 | featureApplicability |
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| Road-Sign Reversal / int_26c07af0 | featureConfidence |
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| Ace of Aces | hasFeature |
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| Road-Sign Reversal / int_2758bf7 | type |
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| Road-Sign Reversal / int_2758bf7 | comment |
Unwanted Houseguest The Hand of Death does this to send the Houseguest to Litchfield Asylum. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_2758bf7 | featureApplicability |
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| Road-Sign Reversal / int_2758bf7 | featureConfidence |
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| Unwanted Houseguest (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_2758bf7 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_27bcdcc2 | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_27bcdcc2 | comment |
Czechs are shown reversing street signs in an effort to confuse the Soviets in Czechoslovakia 1968. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_27bcdcc2 | featureApplicability |
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| Road-Sign Reversal / int_27bcdcc2 | featureConfidence |
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| Czechoslovakia 1968 | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_27bcdcc2 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_27faf621 | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_27faf621 | comment |
Cyberchase: In "The Creech Who Would Be Crowned", one of the ways Hacker tries to cheat the race in Tikiville is by having Buzz and Delete spin a sign showing the cardinal directions so that the other racers go the wrong way. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_27faf621 | featureApplicability |
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| Road-Sign Reversal / int_27faf621 | featureConfidence |
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| Cyberchase | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_27faf621 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_2a162f17 | type |
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| Road-Sign Reversal / int_2a162f17 | comment |
Occurs in the first episode of 101 Dalmatians: The Series to lure Cruella away from the three main puppies she's chasing after in her car. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_2a162f17 | featureApplicability |
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| 101 Dalmatians: The Series | hasFeature |
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| Road-Sign Reversal / int_2baca2eb | type |
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| Road-Sign Reversal / int_2baca2eb | comment |
The Love Bug: In the first movie of the series, some road sign spoofing sends all the following racers into a mine. Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo. The misdirecting arrow sends our heroes onto a very narrow cliff edge and almost causes them to die via avalanche. |
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| Road-Sign Reversal / int_2baca2eb | featureApplicability |
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| Road-Sign Reversal / int_2baca2eb | featureConfidence |
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| The Love Bug | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_2baca2eb | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_2bd7f9ea | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_2bd7f9ea | comment |
In Hi-de-Hi!, Ted does this in order to stop Clive's relatives from getting to the church to prevent Clive and Gladys' wedding. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_2bd7f9ea | featureApplicability |
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| Hi-de-Hi! | hasFeature |
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| Road-Sign Reversal / int_2cad7105 | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_2cad7105 | comment |
El-Hazard: The Magnificent World: Subverted that while Jinnai sabotages a sign to get the heroes going onto a dangerous path, Mr. Fujisawa knows all along they are taking the tough path, but takes it anyway because he relishes the challenge. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_2cad7105 | featureApplicability |
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| Road-Sign Reversal / int_2cad7105 | featureConfidence |
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| El-Hazard: The Magnificent World | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_2cad7105 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_2d1537ff | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_2d1537ff | comment |
In Home and Away, a guy on the race turns the arrow around and his competitor (who is already going the wrong way) just follows it. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_2d1537ff | featureApplicability |
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| Road-Sign Reversal / int_2d1537ff | featureConfidence |
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| Home and Away | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_2d1537ff | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_2eaf61d6 | type |
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| Road-Sign Reversal / int_2eaf61d6 | comment |
Blaze and the Monster Machines: Crusher pulls off this trick in "Race to Eagle Rock" and "Deep Sea Grand Prix". Blaze falls for it both times, but it's the latter that he actually realizes he went the wrong way. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_2eaf61d6 | featureApplicability |
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| Blaze and the Monster Machines | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_2eaf61d6 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_3281af37 | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_3281af37 | comment |
The 2007 To the Manor Born 25th Anniversary special. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_3281af37 | featureApplicability |
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| Road-Sign Reversal / int_3281af37 | featureConfidence |
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| To the Manor Born | hasFeature |
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| Road-Sign Reversal / int_329f2925 | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_329f2925 | comment |
In the M.I. High episode "The Others", Blane foils the government agents testing the team by swapping the signs pointing to the library and the cafeteria. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_329f2925 | featureApplicability |
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| Road-Sign Reversal / int_329f2925 | featureConfidence |
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| M.I. High | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_329f2925 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_334648d0 | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_334648d0 | comment |
Oye Golu: In "Cycle Race", one of the bullies rotates an arrow sign to lead Adi the wrong way during the bicycle race. Not that he cares, since he goes on to help people instead. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_334648d0 | featureApplicability |
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| Road-Sign Reversal / int_334648d0 | featureConfidence |
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| Oye Golu (Animation) | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_334648d0 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_35d98631 | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_35d98631 | comment |
Taz-Mania: In "Road to Tazmania", a spy does this to send Hugh, Drew and Taz to the Spy Mart. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_35d98631 | featureApplicability |
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| Road-Sign Reversal / int_35d98631 | featureConfidence |
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| Taz-Mania | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_35d98631 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_3b34143f | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_3b34143f | comment |
In the Harry Potter parody of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, when sabotaging Gunderstank. Billy spins the signs when Grim leads a field trip, so the signs are reversed yet upside down. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_3b34143f | featureApplicability |
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| Road-Sign Reversal / int_3b34143f | featureConfidence |
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| Harry Potter | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_3b34143f | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_3eacc2fd | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_3eacc2fd | comment |
Doesn't involve arrows or directional signs, but in an episode of Corner Gas, Oscar changes a sign warning about a pothole in the road to one warning about a speed bump that was built over it by flipping the sign upside down. He tries to do it again when they go back to the pothole at the end of the episode (because it "looks more natural"), but it won't hold in place, so he says they have to build the speed bump again. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_3eacc2fd | featureApplicability |
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| Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_3eacc2fd | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_3f8a321d | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_3f8a321d | comment |
In the Amazing Stories episode "Mummy Daddy", an actor playing the role of the Mummy in a horror film receives a phone call that his wife has gone into labour. On the way to the maternity hospital, he is mistaken for a real Mummy by superstitious villagers. They start shooting at him, and one of the shots spins the road sign for the maternity hospital. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_3f8a321d | featureApplicability |
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| Amazing Stories | hasFeature |
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| Road-Sign Reversal / int_417e5cac | type |
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| Road-Sign Reversal / int_417e5cac | comment |
The 'removing road signs to confuse invading troops' version happens in All Creatures Great And Small. A local tells the soldier who is removing a sign that, if he wants to confuse the Germans, he should leave that particular sign up as it has been pointing the wrong way for years. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_417e5cac | featureApplicability |
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| All Creatures Great and Small (1978) | hasFeature |
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| Road-Sign Reversal / int_419dc4fe | type |
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| Road-Sign Reversal / int_419dc4fe | comment |
In the series finale of Grange Hill, a boy does this with the arrow of a sign saying something like "Year 7s this way". This happens on several other occasions, including one mis-spelled by Mr Sutcliffe as "secetary's office". | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_419dc4fe | featureApplicability |
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| Grange Hill | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_419dc4fe | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_452f8509 | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_452f8509 | comment |
Happens in an episode of Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics. The cheaters mistakenly switch the signs back, resulting in disgust from their teammates (although they DO get a 50 point bonus for "chivalry" because the judges think they did it to help their opponents). | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_452f8509 | featureApplicability |
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| Laff-A-Lympics | hasFeature |
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| Road-Sign Reversal / int_46518682 | type |
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| Road-Sign Reversal / int_46518682 | comment |
Sesame Street: In a live-action insert, Maria tries to teach the viewers the concept of a One Way sign. However, the wind keeps turning the One Way sign the children pass back and forth, leading them back and forth the other way. The children following the sign eventually tie it down with some string so it can't sway back and forth in the wind anymore. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_46518682 | featureApplicability |
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| Sesame Street | hasFeature |
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| Road-Sign Reversal / int_46d48eba | type |
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| Road-Sign Reversal / int_46d48eba | comment |
James Bond does this during the car chase scene in the novel version of On Her Majesty's Secret Service. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_46d48eba | featureApplicability |
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| Road-Sign Reversal / int_46d48eba | featureConfidence |
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| James Bond | hasFeature |
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| Road-Sign Reversal / int_46dacb10 | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_46dacb10 | comment |
Reggie does this to Richie on a ski trail in one Richie Rich comic. The twist is that the wind has already blown the arrows around, so Reggie actually sends Richie down the right trail and himself down the dangerous slope. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_46dacb10 | featureApplicability |
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| Richie Rich (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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| Road-Sign Reversal / int_483a069c | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_483a069c | comment |
Mortadelo y Filemón: Mortadelo does this at the end of "Los mercenarios", to lead a squad of mercenaries to the country that hired them, instead of their intended destination. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_483a069c | featureApplicability |
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| Road-Sign Reversal / int_483a069c | featureConfidence |
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| Mortadelo y Filemón (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_483a069c | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_48cf61a6 | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_48cf61a6 | comment |
Superfriends 1973-74 episode "The Fantastic Frerps". King Plasto diverts a shipment of raw plastic from the real GREPS building to his imitation building by changing a road sign. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_48cf61a6 | featureApplicability |
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| Road-Sign Reversal / int_48cf61a6 | featureConfidence |
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| Superfriends | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_48cf61a6 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_4d30cecb | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_4d30cecb | comment |
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner: Wile E. Coyote tries this a few times with the Road Runner and a detour sign. The gag being that the way the Road Runner goes turns safe, while Wile E.'s way turns out to be the one with the road out... cue whistling sound... | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_4d30cecb | featureApplicability |
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| Road-Sign Reversal / int_4d30cecb | featureConfidence |
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| Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_4d30cecb | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_50b1087a | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_50b1087a | comment |
Done to spring a trap in "Dolan's Cadillac", by Stephen King. Though it's removing a sign so he drives into a construction zone's hole rather than reversing it; the protagonist notes the man he wants to trap wouldn't have fallen for the latter. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_50b1087a | featureApplicability |
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| Road-Sign Reversal / int_50b1087a | featureConfidence |
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| Nightmares & Dreamscapes | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_50b1087a | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_52b67f7 | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_52b67f7 | comment |
In Satan's Cheerleaders, Stevie swaps the signs on the locker room doors resulting in Coach leading the University Dean into the girls locker room instead of the boys. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_52b67f7 | featureApplicability |
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| Road-Sign Reversal / int_52b67f7 | featureConfidence |
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| Satan's Cheerleaders | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_52b67f7 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_55ef2655 | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_55ef2655 | comment |
On Kenan & Kel, Kel accidentally knocks down the arrow in a restaurant pointing to the bathrooms and puts it back up the wrong way, causing everyone who was looking for the bathroom to end up getting trapped in the restaurant's walk-in freezer instead. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_55ef2655 | featureApplicability |
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| Road-Sign Reversal / int_55ef2655 | featureConfidence |
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| Kenan & Kel | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_55ef2655 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_56afadff | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_56afadff | comment |
Something similar in intention is done by a British villager in the beginning of Disney's Bedknobs and Broomsticks. He's painting out the signposts in order to confuse any possible invading Nazis. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_56afadff | featureApplicability |
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| Road-Sign Reversal / int_56afadff | featureConfidence |
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| Bedknobs and Broomsticks | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_56afadff | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_5b53043e | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_5b53043e | comment |
Mario Party 3: In Woody Woods, Monty Mole pops out of his hole every turn to switch the directions the players move. He also does this whenever a player comes to his army-like hut to pay him five coins, or lands on the nearby Happening Spaces. In the Backtrack duel board, there are five special tiles in the pointers of the path's star-shaped layout. Each of these tiles has an arrow sign close to it. If a player lands on one, then the arrow sign will point at the opposite direction, forcing the player to move backwards in their next turn. |
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| Road-Sign Reversal / int_5b53043e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_5b53043e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mario Party 3 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_5b53043e | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_5e26bcbf | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_5e26bcbf | comment |
The World of David the Gnome: When gnomes have wedding parties, there is always a concern about trolls coming and spoiling everything, so they will put up signs deliberately pointing in the opposite direction to throw them off, while gnomes will know better and go the other way. It doesn't always work. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_5e26bcbf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_5e26bcbf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The World of David the Gnome | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_5e26bcbf | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_5fa33285 | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_5fa33285 | comment |
Labyrinth: Sarah draws arrows on the ground to show which path she's already taken. When she's not looking, goblins flip and turn the tiles with the arrows on them, so she loses her way. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_5fa33285 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_5fa33285 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Labyrinth | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_5fa33285 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_607f6b7 | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_607f6b7 | comment |
Inspector Gadget: In "Monster Lake", Dr. Claw swaps a road sign to send the Gadgetmobile plunging off a cliff. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_607f6b7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_607f6b7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Inspector Gadget | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_607f6b7 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_60d82ba0 | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_60d82ba0 | comment |
One of the Shapoklyak's pranks in Cheburashka. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_60d82ba0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_60d82ba0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Cheburashka | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_60d82ba0 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_63409895 | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_63409895 | comment |
In the Sofia the First episode "Enchanted Science Fair", Amber turns an arrow pointing to the top of the mountain (where a flower all the kids need grows) to keep the others from following, but when Sofia and James come to it, James switches it back, thinking he's doing the same thing. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_63409895 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_63409895 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sofia the First | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_63409895 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_64bf8c91 | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_64bf8c91 | comment |
Milo Murphy's Law: In "A Christmas Peril", Future Cavendish reverses a sign so he and Dakota won't find and argue over the party's last eggroll. Unfortunately, Future Dakota has the same idea. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_64bf8c91 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_64bf8c91 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Milo Murphy's Law | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_64bf8c91 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_6650040c | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_6650040c | comment |
In one episode of the 1960s live-action Dennis the Menace, Dennis sees a corner street sign that had been knocked over by a car and puts it back up, unintentionally reversing it. This results in a swimming pool company bound for a house with a similar address to Mr. Wilson's to dig a large hole in his backyard. Then, at the end of the episode, Dennis, feeling bad about getting Mr. Wilson's yard destroyed, decides to turn the sign back the right way, unaware that it was already corrected and he had reversed it again, causing the swimming pool company's cement crew to go to the wrong house and finish the job. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_6650040c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_6650040c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Dennis the Menace | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_6650040c | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_6ed95443 | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_6ed95443 | comment |
In Quick Change, the three bank robbers must get to Kennedy Airport as soon as possible. They inadvertently exit the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and traverse an unfamiliar Brooklyn neighborhood where the road signs are being replaced by city workers. When they ask which way the original signs were pointing, the workers respond by showing them the arrow spinning freely on the plate, saying they have no idea either. This scene is even funnier if one has ever tried to get back onto the BQE. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_6ed95443 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_6ed95443 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Quick Change | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_6ed95443 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_77f711d6 | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_77f711d6 | comment |
In Preservation, Mike and Sean insist of going hiking off trail over Wit's objections. Mike paints trail markers (a smiley face) on trees as they go to mark the way back. However, when he and Wit are fleeing the hunters trying to find their way back to the main trail, they find the hunters have painted the same symbol on all of the trees in the surrounding area: meaning they have no way of knowing which way to go. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_77f711d6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_77f711d6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Preservation | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_77f711d6 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_79328e7 | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_79328e7 | comment |
One of Dick Dastardly's favourite dirty tricks in the Wacky Races. Not surprising since, as has been mentioned elsewhere, Wacky Races (ahem) borrowed a lot of Road Runner gags. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_79328e7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_79328e7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Wacky Races | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_79328e7 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_7db6dc25 | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_7db6dc25 | comment |
The Duke employs this in an episode of Gawayn in order to send the questers off in the wrong direction. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_7db6dc25 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_7db6dc25 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Gawayn | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_7db6dc25 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_8125b468 | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_8125b468 | comment |
In "Two-Way Gem Caper" in Batman #164, a crook does this to misdirect the tour bus of the Hootenay Hotshots as part of a needlessly complicated plan to steal a jewel from a museum. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_8125b468 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_8125b468 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_8125b468 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_89ac571e | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_89ac571e | comment |
In Little Red Riding Rabbit, the wolf does this to send Red on the long way to Grandma's house. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_89ac571e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_89ac571e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Little Red Riding Rabbit | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_89ac571e | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_8cd6b86f | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_8cd6b86f | comment |
Battle of the Bulge (1965). During the attack, German infiltrators switch the road signs around, making it appear that the road to Malmedy leads to Ambleve. The U.S. troops going to Ambleve follow the sign and are captured by the Germans, leading to the Malmedy Massacre. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_8cd6b86f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_8cd6b86f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Battle of the Bulge | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_8cd6b86f | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_8dbc88c4 | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_8dbc88c4 | comment |
This is an important plot point in an episode of Mathnet. George Frankly had two invitations to a mystery weekend at The Qualms, a quaint inn in the woods, where he would essentially be roleplaying as Sherlock Holmes. While making their way there, he and partner Pat Tuesday fail to notice that the wind blew the sign in a different direction until later. The butler informs them that they're not at the inn they thought they were, meaning that the kidnappings they thought were part of the roleplay are in fact real. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_8dbc88c4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_8dbc88c4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Square One TV | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_8dbc88c4 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_8dd4a32c | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_8dd4a32c | comment |
A vintage Popeye cartoon had him and Bluto in a car race - Bluto moves the letters around on a sign reading "Route D" to read "Detour", sending Popeye up a long, twisty mountain road. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_8dd4a32c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_8dd4a32c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Popeye | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_8dd4a32c | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_906abcf1 | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_906abcf1 | comment |
Done to trick Hokuto into a trap in episode 9 of Kagaku Sentai Dynaman. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_906abcf1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_906abcf1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kagaku Sentai Dynaman | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_906abcf1 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_91bfac7 | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_91bfac7 | comment |
In the first episode of Camp Lakebottom, Jordan does this to send the bus carrying McGee, Gretchen and Squirt to Camp Lakebottom instead of Camp Sunnysmiles. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_91bfac7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_91bfac7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Camp Lakebottom | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_91bfac7 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_942349dc | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_942349dc | comment |
In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders, ZZ flips a road sign to lead the Joestar Group away from their destination, causing them to get lost. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_942349dc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_942349dc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders (Manga) | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_942349dc | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_99172553 | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_99172553 | comment |
An accidental version happens in The Outlaws IS Coming! when the Stooges sneak into the hotel to sabotage the guns of the outlaws who are staying in Room 9. A group of showgirls are staying across the hall in Room 6. When the showgirls close their door, the loose room number turns upside down: changing from '6' to '9'. As a result, Moe enters the correct room and sets about sabotaging the outlaws' guns, while Larry and Curly Joe sneak into the showgirls' room, and become increasingly baffled by the very feminine items they find in what they believe to be a room full of hardcases. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_99172553 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_99172553 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Outlaws IS Coming! | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_99172553 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_9992c8a8 | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_9992c8a8 | comment |
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher: Dennis does this to temporarily confuse the Greytowers Prep triathlete (who is already cheating). It delays him long enough for Gnasher to disable his bike. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_9992c8a8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_9992c8a8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Dennis the Menace (UK) (Comic Strip) | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_9992c8a8 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_9b7e31d | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_9b7e31d | comment |
Thunderbirds: In "Move And You're Dead", the bridge Alan and Grandma get stranded on is not officially opened to traffic yet. Alan's rivals temporarily remove the roadsigns in order to lure the two onto the bridge, and return them afterwards to keep other cars from reaching the bridge. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_9b7e31d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_9b7e31d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Thunderbirds | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_9b7e31d | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_9f33fbac | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_9f33fbac | comment |
In Secret Garden, Joo Won and Oska zoom past the "To Coastal Road" sign at high speed, causing it to flip around. This proves pivotal to the plot of the whole rest of the series, as it winds up causing Ra Im to take a wrong turn into the woods, eventually finding the mysterious house. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_9f33fbac | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_9f33fbac | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Secret Garden | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_9f33fbac | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_a06b5949 | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_a06b5949 | comment |
Frontier Circus: In "Winter Quarters", horse thieves move one of Tony's trail markers to send the circus up the wrong trail and strand them on top of a mountain. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_a06b5949 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_a06b5949 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Frontier Circus | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_a06b5949 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_a36f037 | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_a36f037 | comment |
Done by Crime during a car race in episode 15 of J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_a36f037 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_a36f037 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_a36f037 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_a609791a | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_a609791a | comment |
Scooby-Doo: Done to lure the Mystery Machine into a trap in Scooby-Doo! and the Loch Ness Monster. Dracula does this to send Shaggy and Scooby into the tar pits in Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf. |
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| Road-Sign Reversal / int_a609791a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_a609791a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Scooby-Doo (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_a609791a | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_a979f62f | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_a979f62f | comment |
In an episode of Danger Rangers about pedestrian safety, a kid does this during a race in a failed attempt at cheating. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_a979f62f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_a979f62f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Danger Rangers | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_a979f62f | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_a9fd3660 | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_a9fd3660 | comment |
In Magical Play, Zucchini switches a sign with arrows pointing to "Town" and "Desert." However, since the sign was one large board, he does this by flipping it upside down, words and all. The main characters still fall for it. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_a9fd3660 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_a9fd3660 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Magical Play | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_a9fd3660 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_abfcff6a | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_abfcff6a | comment |
Rocky and Bullwinkle: Used by Boris Badenov in one of the openings (see it towards the end of this video). However, instead of rotating the entire arrow he's able to remove the arrowhead from one end and attach it to the other instead. And, during the Upsidaisium arc, Boris and Natasha decide to switch the sign pointing to a 900-foot cliff with the one pointing to the mountain to which they (and the heroes) are going. The catch is that they come up with this plan independently, and cancel each other's efforts out. Boris and Natasha fall down the cliff (non-fatally), while Rocky and Bullwinkle continue on without noticing at all. |
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| Road-Sign Reversal / int_abfcff6a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_abfcff6a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Rocky and Bullwinkle | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_abfcff6a | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_ac0d8dc2 | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_ac0d8dc2 | comment |
Dracula does this to send Shaggy and Scooby into the tar pits in Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_ac0d8dc2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_ac0d8dc2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_ac0d8dc2 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_ace263fa | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_ace263fa | comment |
In the third series of Deltora Quest the main characters are caught out by one of these. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_ace263fa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_ace263fa | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Deltora Quest | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_ace263fa | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_ae0356e0 | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_ae0356e0 | comment |
Subverted in the Courage the Cowardly Dog episode "Cajun Granny Stew", where he does this to try trick a fox (who has kidnapped Muriel) into driving into some rocks. The Fox doesn't buy it, and runs over the sign and Courage (who wisely decided to stand directly behind the sign). Subverted again when the fox immediately falls off a cliff. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_ae0356e0 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_ae0356e0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Courage the Cowardly Dog | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_ae0356e0 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_b0cf0ed6 | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_b0cf0ed6 | comment |
Danger Mouse: In "The Invasion of Colonel K", Baron Greenback switches the signs inside Colonel K's body (It Makes Just As Much Sense In Context) so that DM and Penfold end up travelling to the lungs rather than the brain. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_b0cf0ed6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_b0cf0ed6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Danger Mouse | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_b0cf0ed6 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_b3f687d1 | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_b3f687d1 | comment |
In one FoxTrot sequence, Jason and Marcus strike out into the wilds of suburbia in search of adventure (wearing pith helmets, no less). Along their way they encounter the streets of "Maple" and "Oak;" Maple Street is lined with oak trees and Oak Street is lined with maples. Helpfully, they decide to switch the street signs around to correct the error, but wind up attracting the attention of the police in the process. The boys are unaware that doing so is a misdemeanor. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_b3f687d1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_b3f687d1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| FoxTrot (Comic Strip) | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_b3f687d1 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_b4c31d54 | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_b4c31d54 | comment |
The very first trick Macha and Bodhb try to pull on Pidge in The Hounds of the Morrigan. It's much eerier than the usual examples, because, of course, they have magic. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_b4c31d54 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_b4c31d54 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Hounds of the Morrigan | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_b4c31d54 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_b5a087d7 | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_b5a087d7 | comment |
In the Robot Chicken spoof of The Fast and the Furious, Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane does this to trick, "them Duke Boys", possibly as an homage to the actual show, The Dukes of Hazzard. This leads them over a cliff, to Roscoe's horror. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_b5a087d7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_b5a087d7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Robot Chicken | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_b5a087d7 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_b76e2092 | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_b76e2092 | comment |
In "You're My Hero" from Mack & Moxy, the villain Shellfish Sheldon switches a sign with two directions, one that leads to the "town square" and the other to "very deep pit," causing the heroes to end up in the very deep pit, leading to a lesson about calling 911. This is probably the closest Sheldon actually comes to succeeding on the show, as he actually manages to get the "Great Helpee," but the heroes manage to get it back from him before it hatches. Then Sheldon has to call 911 because he ended up in the very deep pit. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_b76e2092 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_b76e2092 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mack & Moxy | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_b76e2092 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_bc758ea9 | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_bc758ea9 | comment |
At the beginning of the Tiny Toon Adventures episode, "High Toon", Beaky Buzzard sits above two signs, one leading to the amusement park, AcmeLand, and the other to No Man's Land, otherwise known as Prairie Junction. Beaky sneezes and switches the signs around, and as a result, Buster and Babs, who are on their way to AcmeLand, go to Prairie Gulch, which at first, they think is the Wild West section of the park. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_bc758ea9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_bc758ea9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tiny Toon Adventures | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_bc758ea9 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_bcef766 | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_bcef766 | comment |
Done in The Legend of Dick and Dom Wacky Racing episode "The Cabbage Ball Run". | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_bcef766 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_bcef766 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Dick and Dom | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_bcef766 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_bd54ba07 | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_bd54ba07 | comment |
The reedited-for-TV version of Blazing Saddles includes a scene that was originally left on the cutting room floor. While Bart and the Waco Kid are being chased by the villains, the duo come to an arrow-sign mounted on a post, smack it so that it starts spinning in circles, and run on. The villains ride up, wait for the sign to finish spinning, and charge off in the indicated direction. | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_bd54ba07 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Road-Sign Reversal / int_bd54ba07 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blazing Saddles | hasFeature |
Road-Sign Reversal / int_bd54ba07 | |
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Road-Sign Reversal | |
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Done to lure the Mystery Machine into a trap in Scooby-Doo! and the Loch Ness Monster. | |
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Road-Sign Reversal / int_c0ebde70 | |
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Road-Sign Reversal | |
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In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "Fall Weather Friends," Rainbow Dash flips the sign marking the path for the Running of the Leaves, sending Applejack off the track. She hastily flips it back when she hears Twilight Sparkle coming, to keep from being caught. | |
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Road-Sign Reversal / int_c4282b71 | |
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Road-Sign Reversal | |
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Doctor Who: The Master does this to delay the Doctor's journey to the town of Devil's End in "The Daemons". | |
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Road-Sign Reversal / int_c43df4d8 | |
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Road-Sign Reversal | |
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Asterix: In Asterix and the Chariot Race, the sign pointing the direction to Parma turns out to be reversed, resulting in Asterix and Obelix + several other racers ending up in Venice. At least Asterix and Obelix realize the mistake in time to turn around. | |
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Road-Sign Reversal / int_c511c682 | |
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Road-Sign Reversal | |
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Wowser: Used twice in the episode "Motor Maze To The Market" by Ratso, in order to lead Wowser and Bob on a high speed chase in an underground railroad shaft. | |
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Road-Sign Reversal / int_c7c27a6d | |
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Road-Sign Reversal | |
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This is one of the dirty tricks the three bullies in Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown pull during the raft race. | |
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Road-Sign Reversal / int_c85fff3f | |
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Road-Sign Reversal | |
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Gang members do this in The Wire. It's not played for laughs at all because it confuses a group of cops and prevents them from coming to the aid of one of their own when she gets shot. | |
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Road-Sign Reversal / int_ca08598f | |
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Road-Sign Reversal | |
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CSI: A variation in "Anatomy of a Lye". A man deliberately alters the trail map his fiancee is using so she will not beat his time on a particular trail run. However, his alteration causes her to be trapped in the mountains during a flash flood and she drowns. | |
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Road-Sign Reversal / int_cac1f772 | |
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Road-Sign Reversal | |
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JAG: A sign marking an entrance into the Free Fire Zone in "Desert Son" has been knocked down, which nearly gets Harm and Meg killed. | |
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Road-Sign Reversal / int_cac20f89 | |
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Road-Sign Reversal | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh!. The Marik-brainwashed Bandit Keith has set up arrows to lure Yugi into a trap. Yami Bakura flips the arrows around so Yugi's friends can't follow. | |
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Road-Sign Reversal / int_cb6abea3 | |
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Road-Sign Reversal | |
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Il Était Une Fois...: In the episode with the 1890s automobile racing, one group is ahead of the pack, and decides to mess everyone behind by adjusting a road sign to Bordeaux. However, the previous scene showed the sign being spun by a breeze, and the cheaters actually correct the sign before going down the wrong road. | |
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Road-Sign Reversal / int_cc49cf71 | |
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Road-Sign Reversal | |
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Dragon Ball had an episode where Bulma and Krillin were fleeing from General Blue through an abandoned pirate hideout. They came to an intersection and Krillin drew an arrow on the ground in dust to tell Goku which way they went, but Blue got to it first and changed it to point the opposite direction. | |
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Road-Sign Reversal | |
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Mentioned in The Longest Day entry above, the switching (or removal) of signs did regularly happen in WWII. In fact it was one of neutral Ireland's main defenses. Road signs were arranged so that following them would lead the invaders in a big circle. Still practiced by some locals today, though that's more so that they can troll the tourists who get lost and stop to ask for directions. Also during WWII, in the Battle of the Bulge, the Germans devised Operation Greif, intended to confuse Allied troop movements by doing things like reversing road signs, placing phony minefield warnings, and giving wrong verbal directions to any Allied units they encountered. Similar tactics were used inside Britain, in case of Nazi invasion. Road signs were routinely removed, often confusing domestic military units traveling through the countryside. This was often made worse by the fact that villagers would be very suspicious of any stranger asking for directions while using the "wrong" accent — i.e., one that marked him as from out of town, though this tended to be more a problem for Free Polish and Free French soldiers, whose accents were often mistaken to be German rather than their native countries. |
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Road-Sign Reversal / int_d54a63c9 | |
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Road-Sign Reversal | |
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In the Disney movie Diamonds on Wheels, the crooks attempt to waylay one of the cars competing in a rally by removing the real arrows and laying new ones for the driver to follow. | |
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Road-Sign Reversal | |
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A non-racing version occurs in one episode of Strawberry Shortcake's Berry Bitty Adventures. While trying to deliver a package, Strawberry encounters a sign that tells her the way to go, only for a breeze to flip the markers, knocking off the one she needs. | |
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Road-Sign Reversal / int_dfb24eb9 | |
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Road-Sign Reversal | |
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The New Adventures of Superman: In "The Prankster", Superman switches a pair of signs to cause the Prankster to drive his scooter into a river. | |
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Road-Sign Reversal | |
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In the first episode of Around the World in Eighty Days, Fix does this to prevent Fog and Passepartout from reaching Buckingham Palace. | |
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Road-Sign Reversal | |
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Two Thousand Maniacs! gets its plot going with a fake diversion sign. | |
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Road-Sign Reversal | |
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Robbie Rotten does this in "Little Pink Riding Hood" on LazyTown to trick Stephanie into getting lost in a forest. | |
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Road-Sign Reversal / int_eb59224d | |
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Road-Sign Reversal | |
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In "It's Wrong to Cheat" from Bali, after Bali's friend Tito suggests cheating on a game during Bali's birthday party, Bali has an Imagine Spot in which he's in a boat race and he his friends initially lose to another racer who cheats by doing this, but then ends up losing after an on-camera review of the race shows his cheating. Back at Bali's, Bali tells Tito that he only wants to win if they play fairly. And they do. | |
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Road-Sign Reversal / int_ec2489e8 | |
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Road-Sign Reversal | |
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In Summer Holiday, Stella forces Jerry to edit a French sign so that the London bus is stuck up a mountain. | |
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Road-Sign Reversal | |
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Dotto! Koni-chan had an episode making a full Wacky Races homage, so naturally this gag wouldn't be passed off. Koni's friends plan to do this at an Y-shaped fork to send everyone off-track, but Koni sneezes and turns the arrow around, then Koni's friends (who didn't see it) turn it back to normal. They get back on their car and drive in the opposite way and end up crashing down a cliff. | |
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Road-Sign Reversal / int_ef12f29 | |
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Road-Sign Reversal | |
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Hank Zipzer: In "Open Day", Mr. Joy is attempting to shut down the music department. As part of this, he exiles Mr. Rock and Emily to the music room for the duration of Open Day; ostensibly so they can explain the music curriculum to visiting parents. He then takes down all of the signs pointing to the music room to ensure that no parents find their way there. | |
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Road-Sign Reversal | |
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Transformers: Cybertron: Ransack does this in episode 15, "Detour." | |
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Road-Sign Reversal / int_f5d2ead0 | |
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Road-Sign Reversal | |
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Ethel does it in the The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour episode "Lucy Hunts Uranium." When everyone gets into a madcap race back to town to claim the money for the uranium they've discovered, Ethel moves a detour sign to throw off the Ricardos. | |
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Road-Sign Reversal / int_f9c3d1a | |
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Road-Sign Reversal | |
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Listed as one of the things Stitch is programmed to do in Lilo & Stitch, along with backing up sewers and stealing everyone's left shoe. | |
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Road-Sign Reversal / int_fb1f271c | |
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Road-Sign Reversal | |
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Done by the Red Feathers in Troop Beverly Hills. | |
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Road-Sign Reversal / int_fc06747d | |
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Road-Sign Reversal | |
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Alex Rider: In Stormbreaker, a new sign is posted on the footpath to Port Tallon to send Alex into an ambush. In Skeleton Key, General Sarov rigs a second set of runway lights, which causes a plane to crash into a swamp while attempting to take off. |
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Road-Sign Reversal / int_fe94578f | |
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Road-Sign Reversal | |
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In "Parade Problem" on Ella the Elephant, one of these kicks off the problem described in the title. An unwitting seagull reverses a sign, causing a delivery van with frozen bananas to go the wrong way. | |
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