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A seemingly regular sign that, with letters broken or removed, portrays a different meaning. This can be caused by coincidence (neon tubes burning out, letters falling off), or it can be intentional vandalism. Often used to create or highlight an unintended innuendo, such as "Public Library" becoming "Pubic Library". Also used in many After the End and Future Imperfect scenarios. The seedier kinds of Neon City will be full of this sort of thing. Compare the comedic version Censored for Comedy and Partially-Concealed-Label Gag. Compare Pull the Plug on the Title, when the Title Sequence has a character plug on/off the title, whose font is made of lights. |
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In the Unraveled episode "How to make a perfect E3 press conference (or drinking game)", BDG lampoons the cliche "business gamer outfit" found on all E3 presenters (a blazer, diesel jeans, and gamer t-shirt) by starting off his demonstration with a shirt full of various "gamer" phrases, with "I L♥VE EATING" and "CLASSIC" in the center. When he puts his covering blazer on, it ends up reading "I L♥VE EATING ASS". | |
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A version of this trope occurs in Primordia (2012). It eventually turns out that the odd spelling of the ship's name UNNIIC (pronounced "unique" by the protagonists) is not a result of someone's illiteracy: it was born when the ship's nameplate was damaged, leaving only the top halves of the letters still readable. Originally, the plate read "HORUS". | |
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Arthur Christmas: A "Center for Self Help" sign in Toronto becomes "elf Help". | |
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In Reign of Fire, there is a highway exit sign leading to London, where the male dragon resides. Someone has written "NO EXIT" over top of "London" and an extra '6' above the "66". | |
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1-800-Where-R-U: Played for laughs in book 1. Shortly after Jess gets struck by lightning (and about causes her friend Ruth to have a panic attack), she tries to calm Ruth by making snarky remarks all the way home. One such remark, which actually does help calm Ruth, involves her pointing out a Kroger sign that's been damaged by the hailstorm, disabling the first half: | |
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Bodies (2014): In the postapocalyptic 2050, Longharvest Lane is now referred to as Ongarvane. We see a sign for the street with only these letters remaining. | |
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Hit from Splatoon: Squid Kids Comedy Show has a tendency to cause this when uses ink in an attempt to cover signs for various reasons. He always ends up running out of ink, and the remaining visible letters spell out something silly, such as a sign announcing a sale being left with the letters to spell goof. | |
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Identically to the page image, a HELL brand gas station is the site of the final confrontation in My House. | |
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This trope is the reason why the Hooded One was seeking Phoney in Bone; Earlier, it was mentioned that Phoney had a giant balloon version of himself made for his campaign for mayor of Boneville, but it went out of control. It turns out that it had floated across the desert into the Valley, and a banner attached that the used to read "PHONCIBLE P. BONE WILL GET YOUR VOTE" was missing the last part, now saying, "PHONCIBLE P. BONE WILL GET YOU" | |
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Sluggy Freelance: In the Kesandru storyline, where the house is choked with an unusual number of ghosts, cryptic ghostly graffiti on the wall says "NOTHING DEAD HERE", and it isn't until a character moves the furniture next to it that they realize it was in fact the partially obscured "NOTHING DEAD HERE LEAVES". Another example in the same storyline involves a sign reading 'Brie Meighsaton', (the name of one of the ghosts trapped in the house) being damaged, and Torg puts the M back upside-down. "Brie Weighsaton". Riff says "Not cool!", Torg asks what a ghost is going to do about it, and she scares him into hiding under his bed. Behold the power of cheese. |
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In Madagascar, Alex makes a giant HELP to alert ships, but the top of the P collapses, turning it into an L. | |
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Monsters University have this happening during the first fraternity night party, when Randall (then still a friendly, introverted teenager) goes around offering cupcakes to his frat mates, the cupcakes spelling out "BE MY PAL". Rather unfortunately, it was this very moment where Mike gets dragged into an impromptu chase with Sully and Archie the Scare Pig, knocking over Randall's trayy of cupcakes in the process, four of them landing on Randall's face and spelling out "L-A-M-E". | |
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In The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries episode "Happy Birthday Scooby-Doo", as a phantom tries to knock Scooby and Shaggy off a billboard that reads, "Turn The Dial To ZPop", a bunch of letters fall off, making it vertically spell "RELP". | |
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At the start of the Cyclops battle in Hercules, when the Cyclops swats a Brought Down to Normal Hercules into a giant billboard of himself advertising Air-Herc sandals causing Hercules' portrait to lose a few teeth. | |
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In The Ghost and Molly McGee episode "The Grand Gesture", one of Molly's plans to confess her feelings to her Love Interest Ollie Chen is blow up a series of balloons to form the message "OLLIE WILL YOU BE MY BOYFRIEND". However, Scratch ends up getting in a fight with a woodpecker that leads to some of the balloons being popped, and it ends up instead reading "OLLIE YOU FIEND". | |
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Death Line: The strip club James Manfred visits at the start of the movie has a burnt out letter and reads 'NON S OP STRIPTEASE'. | |
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In the TaleSpin episode, "A Baloo Switcheroo", a mysterious idol causes Baloo and Kit to switch bodies. On the following day, Kit-in-Baloo's-body participates in a flying competition. Near the competition, a billboard for a novel called Look For a Way Out! is being built. When Kit-in-Baloo's-body flies the Sea Duck through the billboard, it ends up saying Look Out!. | |
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The Marsupilami video game for the Sega Genesis begins with the titular animal grabbing the G of the Sega logo with his tail. He then swings on the G until it falls, resulting in the logo saying "SE A". | |
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BoJack Horseman: After BoJack stole the "D" from the Hollywood sign, Hollywood is casually referred to as "Hollywoo" in all instances for the rest of the series... until the series finale when Mr. Peanutbutter inadvertently replaces it with a B... resulting it in being referred to as "Hollywoob". | |
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Shrek the Third: A store called "Bootery" is actually renamed "Hooters" during the villain takeover scene. | |
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In one episode of That '70s Show, Eric, Hyde and Fez vandalize an out-of-business muffler shop, covering the "ler" on every occurrence of "muffler" they see. The next morning Red (who just happened to buy it) was puzzled to see the ads on the walls of the shop changed to "Winterize your muff", "People complaining about loud muff?" etc. The ultimate awkward moment is when Kitty finds out. She doesn't know the sexual meaning behind "muff", thinking they're talking about ear muffs. This leads to some hilarious moments where Kitty talks about the things she did to the teens' muffs as a child. | |
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The building housing JJ's and Emily's therapist in Skins is headed with a sign saying "PSYCHOLOGICAL SUPPORT", which pretty much says everything that needs to be said about how useless they are. | |
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In Ace Ventura Pet Detective, the sign announcing that a city is the "Hometown of Ray Finkle" has been vandalized, with among other things his surname changed to "Stinkle". | |
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In Justice League of America #195, the Signalman escapes from St. Ignatius Loyola Hospital by climbing down the illuminated sign on the outside of the building. As he goes, he breaks specific lights so the sign now reads 'SIGNAL'. | |
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The Simpsons: In "The Cartridge Family", Homer purchases a handgun to protect his family. Marge, however, fears for her safety and the safety of her children from a trigger-happy husband. She takes herself and the kids to the "SLEEP-EAZY MOTEL" complete with neon sign. The moment Marge arrives, part of the neon fails, leaving "SLEEP-EAZY MOTEL" as the surviving moniker. In the season six episode "Bart's Comet", the "Only Bridge Out of Town" is blown up by a missile, leaving the sign reading "BRIDGE OUT". SHOT KICKERS (from the season five episode "Marge on the Lam") The season four episode "Selma's Choice" had "The Buzzing Sign Diner" (all letters function, but it is still part of, and a parody of, the buzzing sign trope) and the sign Dolph, Jimbo, and Kearney pass as they ride out of Duff Gardens on bumper cars reads, "You Are Now Leaving Duff Gardfns" (though it's not known whether this was supposed to be a broken sign or a mistake from the animation staff). "Bart and Lisa vs. The Third Grade" featured a flag, which was originally supposed to read "To Fraternal Love". Bart tampered with it, and as a result it now reads "Learn to Fart!" In "The Springfield Files," an already frightened Homer sees a large billboard that says "DIE." He screams. Then the wind shifts, moving a tree branch and revealing that the word is "DIET." Homer screams louder and flees. In "Apocalypse Cow," Homer, disguised as a cow, is transported to the slaughter house mistaking it as "laughter house" due to his disguise obscuring his vision. "PUB IC LIBRARY." In "War of the Simpsons", Bart rearranges the finger sandwich platter Marge laid out for the party, which is arranged to read "Enjoy our party snacks", so that it now reads "Boy, our party sucks." In "Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus", when a sunbeam destroys most of Springfield, among the destruction is the town sign on the hill now saying S-I-N-G-E-D". A heartwarming variation: in "And Maggie Makes Three," the extra expense caused by the birth of Maggie throws Homer's carefully-planned budget into disarray, forcing him to quit his dream job at the bowling alley (it's Homer, he dreams small) and go crawling back to Mr. Burns to get back his hated job at the nuclear power plant. Mr. Burns rubs it in by putting up a sign by Homer's work station reading, "Don't Forget: You're Here Forever." Homer strategically covers it up with pictures of Maggie until the sign appears to read, "Do it for her." In "Bart on the Road", the Sunsphere from the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville has a sign that reads "WO__D F_IR", which Bart reads in confusion. The "R" in "F_IR" then falls off. When Maude Flanders died in "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily", Marge made a tombstone-shaped cake that said, "REST IN PEACE", until Bart took away the A and the C. In "Behind the Laughter", the Simpsons move into MC Hammer's mansion. Homer whacks a "HammerTime" sign on the front gate to make it say "HomerTime". In "Kill the Alligator and Run," the family stays at a hotel called the Royal Fart Inn, during Spring Break. Some college boys rearrange the sign to read, "The Royal Frat Inn." In "Homer's Night Out", Bart rearranges the letters on a sign that says "TODAY'S SPECIAL - COD PLATTER, $4.95" so that the middle part says "COLD PET RAT". At the beginning of "Wandering Juvie", a drunken man stumbles in front of a sign that says "COSTINGTON'S - DOWNTOWN'S LAST GASP OF CLASS", causing the P, C, and L to fall down and resulting in the sign saying "COSTINGTON'S - DOWNTOWN'S LAST GAS OF ASS". When Bart sees the sign, he bursts out laughing. In "Postcards From the Wedge", Bart and Milhouse find and activate an abandoned subway train, which causes an earthquake in Springfield. Outside the town hall is a sign that says "EMERGENCY EARTHQUAKE RESPONSE MEETING". The Earthquake causes a few letters to fall off the sign, resulting in it saying "EMERGENCY QUAKE R MEETING" and attracting a group of Amish people to the town hall. |
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Inspector Gadget 2 features a "Welcome to Riverton" billboard with Mayor Wilson's smiling face on it. At the very beginning, Gadget pulls out one of the front teeth while he's looking around, leaving her with a now gap-toothed smile! Better yet, she's still gap-toothed in subsequent scenes. | |
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The Magic School Bus: When Ralphie finds out where Liz went, due to the torn paper, he initially assumes she went to "Herp Ha". Turns out it was actually "Herp Haven". | |
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One book in the Just William series features the Outlaws attempting to raise money by offering to sell their hair to the local hairdresser, who suffers from classical male alopecia and who likes to pass the time between customers standing in the doorway of his shop beneath the shop sign bearing his name and profession - "Theobald Hairdresser". He finds their offer hilarious and tells the tale to everyone passing his shop. The next morning sees him standing in the doorway as usual, the sun gleaming off his pate, happily ascribing the laughter of the passers-by to their memory of the tale and unaware that it is really because the Outlaws had visited again during the night and painted out the O of his sign. | |
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The entire premise of Aoi House is that the letter "Y" fell off the sign. Its Distaff Counterpart, Uri House, goes by the same vein. | |
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One episode of iCarly involves a lightboard sign (which originally said "PLEASE GO ONLINE TO ICARLY.COM") malfunctioning, leaving just the letters "P E E ON CARL". Officer Carl is not pleased. What makes this funnier is that a few seasons later, Spencer almost got arrested, and the very same, very pissed off officer was the one who bought him in. When Carly tries to thank the officer for not hauling Spencer in, the officer, unwavering, says to her: "Don't think I forgot about "Pee On Carl." | |
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In Beavis and Butt-Head, the duo tear off the letters of a Figure Drawing Class sign to read "U DRAW ASS." When they heard a beautiful woman say that she was going to pose nude for the drawing class, they believe that they have "the Power Supreme" and enroll just to look at her naked. | |
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Grand Theft Auto 2 features churches with neon signs that say JESUS SAVES. The letters flicker to reveal that they're save points (U SAVE). | |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978) has a characteristically surreal take on this during some meandering exposition about the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation. Said corporation erected huge illuminated letters bearing the slogan "Share and Enjoy", the official motto of their complaints department on one of the three entire planets needed to hold said complaints department. However, due to an unfortunate miscalculation the letters proved too heavy for the terrain and sank into the ground. By one of that long string of pretty meaningless coincidences that are a side-effect of creating the Infinite Improbability Drive, or so it was said in the continuity of the novels, the upper halves sticking out of the ground form a coherent sentence in the local language: "Go Stick Your Head In A Pig". This would go on to become the unofficial motto of the corporation's complaints department. | |
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In Bomberman 64: The Second Attack!, there is a popcorn stand in the amusement park level with the word "POPCORN" in large uppercase letters. One bomb takes out the second "P", the "C", and the second "O", spelling "PORN" from the still legible letters. Another bomb turns the stand into an ear of corn. | |
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During Boris' trip to Berlin, he observes a large advertising balloon floating near a car dealership with most of the ad text wrapped around the balloon facing away from him so that the only word he can clearly make out is "DIE" (German for the,). Boris thusly describes the sight as "a big balloon that suggests that you drop dead." | |
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Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated: In "The Creeping Creatures", Scoob is spooked when a sign for "The Drowsy Gator: Pool, Food and Sundries!" suddenly reads "The dog dies!". In the later episode "Theater of Doom", the Phantom Mummy of Friar Serra (the real one) hints that this wasn't just a coincidence, as he told the gang to "Heed the warning of the alligators". | |
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In Christmas Eve on Sesame Street, when Oscar sings "I Hate Christmas", Mr. Hooper hangs up a banner in his store that says "NOEL". Oscar then takes the E and the L from the banner, resulting in it saying "NO". | |
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The Shrek films: Shrek the Third: A store called "Bootery" is actually renamed "Hooters" during the villain takeover scene. In Shrek Forever After, the Curse Escape Clause in Rumplestiltskin's Magically-Binding Contract that's found by origami is "True Love's Kiss", but Donkey does it wrong, so it ends up saying the much less classic message "Try Lou's Bliss". Puss in Boots (2011), there's a bar called the Glitter Box, only the G in the neon sign isn't working. |
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In the Camp Lazlo episode "Beans and Weiners", Chef McMuesli is making his tofu hot dogs for the campers, where the mess hall sign reading "Monday Tofurters" turns to "Monday Torture". | |
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To get people to their party, the main characters of Revenge of the Nerds 2 modify the sign of its location: Hotel Coral Essex. | |
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Inverted in The Dark Tower by Stephen King (the seventh book of the series of the same name); Dandelo (an emotion-eating vampire) must allow a street sign warning of his presence in anagram form to exist—but he can deface the sign to read "Odd's Lane", which means nothing, rather than "Odd Lane". | |
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Mickey Mouse Works: One of the opening Couch Gags has Donald obscuring the title with a stone block and chiseling the letters "STARRING DONALD DUCK". The letters then collapse upon him so that they now read "DARN OLD DUCK". In the short "Lil' Bad Wolf", the Big Bad Wolf lures the Three Little Pigs into a trap by pretending to turn over a new leaf and sets up a storefront with the sign "BIG BAD QUICKMART". When they go inside, the Wolf reveals his ruse and slams the door so that most of the letters fall, leaving the acronym "BBQ". |
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Throughout the United States, you can find large tracts of undeveloped land owned by various agencies of the federal government, most of which are available for "recreational" use. Some of these areas allow recreational shooting and some don't. Those that don't have lots of prominently-posted signs advising visitors. In the same vein as the Wyatt Earp example above, if you find one of these "NO SHOOTING" signs, it is guaranteed to be riddled with bullet holes. | |
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There's an episode of Scrubs in which the sign for SACRED HEART HOSPITAL is amended to SACRED FART. | |
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In Corner Gas, Dog River has a grocery store that once had a sign saying "FOOD MARKET", but some of the letters have fallen off, making it the "FOO MART", which has become an in-universe name for it. They even have a jingle. | |
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Moonraker: The ambulance chase scene culminates into James Bond throwing a mook on a wheeled gurney into the streets, which then wheels all the way down a slope before crashing into a billboard depicting a tourism ad for British Airlines. The mook's head goes into the mouth of an air hostess on the billboard. (Seen here.) | |
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Freefall: Florence Ambrose, soaked, chilled, and bleeding, searches for a doctor, and sees a broken sign reading "mad Veterinarian". Fortunately, it turns out "mad" is the last syllable of the vet's name, Winston Thurmad, and he's a very nice person. | |
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In the Dirty Bertie story "Wedding", Bertie eats letters off the wedding cake, so instead of "CONGRATS ON YOUR WONDERFUL DAY", it reads "RATS ON YOUR WO FUL DAY". | |
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Used as a sight gag in Tengai Makyou IV, with a sign reading "King of Lake Tahoe" being reduced to "King Aho" after one of the villains is defeated. | |
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In Planet of the Apes (2001), Leo discovers the ape holy site "Ca Li Ma" is, in fact, derived from a sign that said "CAUTION: LIVE ANIMALS" aboard his long-crashed ship. | |
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Sesame Street: In Christmas Eve on Sesame Street, when Oscar sings "I Hate Christmas", Mr. Hooper hangs up a banner in his store that says "NOEL". Oscar then takes the E and the L from the banner, resulting in it saying "NO". In a Cookie Monster sketch, Cookie makes a sign that says "DON'T" to remind him not to eat the Letter of the Day cookie. Cookie ends up eating half of the sign, which now reads "DO", prompting him to eat the cookie after all. There's an episode where the letter T goes missing, which results in a "trash" sign now reading "rash" and Telly's name being written as "Elly" (which isn't a name, but is close to the girl's name Ellie). |
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Discworld: Guards! Guards!: The City Watch's Canis Latinicus motto "Fabricati Diem, Pvncti Agvnt Celeriter" ("Make the Day, for the Moments Pass Swiftly") was engraved over the Watch House on Treacle Mine Road, but decades of neglect saw it erode to "Fabricati Diem, Pvnc". Sergeant Colon insists it means "Protect and Serve", though a reader could be forgiven for seeing a Shout-Out to Dirty Harry's "Make my day, punk" instead. Going Postal: The letters on the facade of the building spelling out the credo of the Royal Mail read "NEITHER RAIN NOR SNOW NOR GLO M OF NI T CAN STAY THESE MES ENGERS ABO T THEIR DUTY". The missing letters turn out to have found their way onto a shop sign reading HUGOS. |
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In the James Bond novel Moonraker, Bond sees a neon sign from a viewpoint that partially obscures it: SUMMER SHELL IS HERE. | |
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In a Richie Rich story, where Richie and his girlfriend, Gloria are being chased by some delinquent juvenile kidnappers in an amusement park, Richie and Gloria together use a type of pop-gun from one of the sideshows to shoot out most of the letters in the park's huge advertising display, RICHIE-LAND PARK, thus summoning the police. | |
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During the intermission portion of concerts promoting the album Brave Enough, Lindsey Stirling would show a pre-recorded skit about the many things that can go wrong before a live performance, such as malfunctioning lighted signs. Her band declares " BRAVE ENOUGH" to be an improvement over the original title. | |
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In the pilot episode of Mighty Med after Kaz and Oliver are discovered to be normal humans. They're taken to a dimly lit cafeteria where the two notice the sign above the door reads "Now You Die". The head director of the hospital comes in and comments on the faulty sign before hitting the wall to which it now read "Know Your Diet". | |
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The Benny Hill Show loved this trope. One example is a group of priests entering an building with a sign that says "Tea Bar", but once they enter the other letters light up revealing the true name to be "Striptease Cabaret". | |
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Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird has a large sign at the entrance to a shoddy, crooked carnival advertising it as the "Sleaze Bros. Funfair". Just as the camera pans past, the "F" slowly falls off. | |
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In Injustice 2, knocking your opponent enough times into the marquee of the movie theater in the Gotham stage will change it to read "FINISH HIM" (the original fictional movie titles being "The Final Wish 2" and "Hidden Crimes"). | |
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In Urkel Saves Santa: The Movie!, Steve Urkel puts up a string of Christmas lights on his house that say "FELIZ NAVIDAD MERRY CHRISTMAS". Most of the lights short out, resulting in the remaining ones saying "FARTS". | |
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The Night Mayor is set in a virtual reality realm based on Film Noir movies, where it's always two thirty in the morning and every neon sign has a letter that doesn't work. | |
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In Frozen Fever, a banner initially reads "HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ANNA!", but the little Snowlems accidentally take it apart. Olaf puts it back up, but since he can't read, his attempts to rearrange it end up saying things like "DRY BANANA HIPPY HAT!". | |
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The pilot episode of Teen Angel featured a P.A. announcement requesting that the first two letters from a "Class of '98" sign be returned. The recently deceased Marty then proudly shows Steve the two letters, knowing full well he could never be caught due to his being dead. | |
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In The Order of the Stick, Tarquin shows Elan a hillside with dots of fire spelling out his name (which are actually prisoners that tried to escape and ended being burned alive as a result). The three bottom lights of the 'E' go out and Tarquin complains that everyone will think he's got a crazy obsession with custard. | |
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In Captain Marvel, the reason Carol thinks her name is Vers (pronounced "veers") is because her name tag, which initially read "Carol Danvers", broke. | |
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In Deathsmiles IIX, the Ferris wheel at the entrance of the Circus of Fear Bonus Level has a sign that reads "Hello-Land". The "o" doesn't seem to be working, leaving us with the true meaning of the stage. | |
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The sign for the recreation room in Holes actually reads WRECK ROOM. | |
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Criminal (2006): The Undertown bar lost the last letter in its sign sometime in the fifties, and has yet to be fixed in the present day. Everybody calls it the Undertow. | |
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Fallout: New Vegas has the town of Novac. The name comes from the motel that serves as the town's main building, where "NO VAC" are the only remaining letters on the "NO VACANCY" sign outside. The Lucky 38's marquee advertises a "Revol{T}ing Cocktail Lounge." The area around Vegas's Fremont Street is referred to as "Freeside" due to, again, disrepair of the Fremont Street sign. ED-E has a license plate reading "2ED-E59" bolted onto him, the 2 and 59 on which have faded. |
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Looney Tunes Cartoons: "Inn For Trouble" has Porky and Sylvester go to the "CATSKILL MOTEL" with the S shortening out so it reads "CAT_KILL MOTEL"; cue Loud Gulp from Sylvester. | |
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A variation occurs in The Dark Knight: The Joker adds an S in front of the "Laughter is the Best Medicine" sign on his semi-trailer. | |
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The Angry Beavers: In "Tough Love", Bing shows up just as Dagget and Norbert are about to leave for a wrestling match and laments he had a messy break-up with his girlfriend Wanda. Norb gets distracted comisserating with Bing over his own troubled relationship with Treeflower, and an annoyed Dagget decides the only thing to do is track down Wanda and get her and Bing to make up. Unfortunately, a damaged sign that originally read "DON'T WANDER HERE" leads Dagget to the lair of a cranky alligator, whom he becomes convinced is Wanda. | |
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La Haine, which is set in Paris. The pals see a poster saying LE MONDE EST À VOUS (The world is yours). One of them uses a spray can to overwrite the V with an N, leading to LE MONDE EST À NOUS (The world is ours). | |
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Zombie Land Saga Revenge: In "Pure-Hearted Electric Saga", Ai sits down to a boxed lunch Sakura made her, and opens it to find the rice is decorated with nori katakana that spell out the word "kaba" ("hippo"). She's insulted, until she finds more nori stuck to the lid of the box and finds the full message spells "ganbare" ("Go for it!") | |
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In one episode of Eek! The Cat, when Eek's family visits a national park, they encounter a group of angry, hungry-looking bears. Upon seeing a nearby sign that says "Feed the Bears", they figure it's okay to share their picnic lunch with them. Unfortunately, Eek discovers that a corner piece of the sign had been broken off, with it reading "Don't". | |
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Mr. Robot: In the first two seasons, the hacker group fsociety is based out of a disused Coney Island amusement arcade owned by one of the group's founding members, which was originally named "FUN SOCIETY", but the "UN" has long since fallen off the facade. When FBI agent Dom DiPierro finds it, her reaction is "You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!". | |
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In Psych-Out, Jenny receives a postcard from her brother that begins "JESS SAES." She attributes that to his terrible spelling until she learns that he used to live near a "JESUS SAVES" sign, where the U and the V had gone dark. | |
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The {S}Hell gas station in Silent Hill. | |
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In the fourth Sorcery! book, while searching for food in the fortress' larder you can choose to eat from a jar labelled "ANT MEATBALLS"... only to find out shortly after eating, that the sticker on the sign was partially torn and it actually contains "MUTANT MEATBALLS". Cue inescapable Body Horror transformation. | |
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In Grrl Power, a super-powered collision with a "TREAT YOUR GIRL RIGHT" jewelry advertisement leaves the billboard's message a bit more risqué than the advertiser intended. | |
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Top Gear (UK): In the India Special episode, the trio's attempt to promote "BRITISH I.T. FOR YOUR COMPANY" to Indian companies went pear-shaped when the sign ripped in two between the second 'I' and the 'S' in "BRITISH". On the opposite site, "EAT ENGLISH MUFFINS" also had the "INS" at the end torn off. In an earlier episode they had to put sponsorship decals on their entry in a touring car race, but due to BBC regulations the companies had to be fake. They chose adverts for "PENISTON OILS" and "LARSEN'S BISCUITS", carefully positioning them for maximum juvenile humour when the car doors were open. The Val Thorens episode saw "sponsorships" from French companies such as "Sophartel Industrie" and "Amerdea du Fromage". |
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Sin City's real name◊ is BASIN CITY. | |
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When you head to "Hagan United Pickle Factory" in West of Loathing to apprehend the ghostly Gherkin Boys bandit crew, you find the building's sign has degenerated to "Hagan United Pickle Factory". Damaged or badly painted signs are a running gag in the game, such as the office of the Sherf in Boring Springs. The "Silver Plat er" inverts the trope: the protagonist assumes that it's a restaurant with a damaged sign, but it's a silver plating business with bad kerning. | |
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Fallout 3 has the town of Arefu, whose name originates from a sign saying "careful". | |
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The eponymous town of Fallout 4's Far Harbor DLC is based on the real-world Bar Harbor, and was formerly called that in-universe, but part of the "B" on the sign got erased, causing it to be mistaken for an "F". | |
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Tongue Fu, a series of short stories in the Whole Earth Epiloguenote the edition of the Whole Earth Catalog released after The Last Whole Earth Catalog which start as a parody/update of Kung Fu (1972), stars a young monk who, due to the circumstances of his conceptionnote midway between Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the day before the second of those cities was destroyed by nuclear bombing, has an Overly-Long Tonguenote Yes, the Power Perversion Potential is fully explored — this was Hippie Lit in the 70s. At one point, he uses his tongue to deface the sign over the door of an "AMUSEMENT CENTER", licking away the letters "AMU" and "T" from the first word. | |
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One episode of Gilligan's Island had the castaways trying to signal an SOS message to a manned space capsule due to pass overhead at a particular time, using burning logs. Typically, Gilligan trips over one of the logs, causing it to roll and hit other logs, so that the message becomes SOL, the nickname of one of the astronauts, causing the astronauts to mistake it for a tribute rather than a call for help. | |
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Nazi Zombies has a neon light at a diner that says "OPEN 24 HOURS", but the only fully lit letters spell out "OPEN 4 U". | |
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Tear Along the Dotted Line: In one episode Zero imagines his part-time job about teaching kids as a run-down factory named "Ripetizioni di Calcare" (more or less, "Calcare's Remedial Classes"). The L from the sign falls down, turning it into "Ripetizioni di Cacare" or, roughly, "Shitty Remedial Classes". (In Italian "cacare" means "to take a shit", and "fa cacare" is equivalent to "it sucks"). | |
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In Call of Duty: Black Ops II, when you play in zombies mode the sign above the diner will read NORTH HIGHWAY DINER | |
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The Warrior's Way has Lode, a small Western town with a sign outside that says "WELCOME TO LODE: POPULATION 5000". When the villainous Colonel arrives with his army at the end with the intention of killing everyone in it, one of the Colonel's mooks shoots the sign with a shotgun identifying the population as "0". | |
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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas has a mission that ends with a shot of a billboard, showing a girl drinking a white-colored soda, with the words "A taste of things to come..." Your out-of-control car cuts a hole in it, changing it to "A taste of come..." | |
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Going Postal: The letters on the facade of the building spelling out the credo of the Royal Mail read "NEITHER RAIN NOR SNOW NOR GLO M OF NI T CAN STAY THESE MES ENGERS ABO T THEIR DUTY". The missing letters turn out to have found their way onto a shop sign reading HUGOS. | |
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One episode of Arthur was about D.W. accidentally misplacing her backpack at the swimming pool and later ending up with an identical backpack reading TOMMY TIBBLE. She then starts to think that someone named "Omble" actually stole her backpack. | |
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Max Payne has the building Raglan And Brock with half the letters on its sign unlit, leading to the name "Ragnarock". | |
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After Butch decides to rescue Marcellus Wallace in Pulp Fiction, a neon sign advertising "Killian's Red Beer" can be seen on the wall of the pawn shop. When several sections of the sign blink out, and the 'Z' on Zed's keychain is added, the sign reads "Kill Zed." | |
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A meta-variant for the espionage romance film Allied set in World War 2 — the dynamic title card introducing the name of the film shows the word "Allied" phasing into view from the shadows, but the "A", first "l", and "d" come into the light slower than the rest of the word, leaving "lie". The film itself revolves around a French Resistance fighter being accused of actually being a Nazi German agent. | |
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture has Voyager 6, which is how the antagonist got its name. | |
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Gunnerkrigg Court knows how to label its doors: this one says "Used Instruments", though it's actually "Cursed Instruments", and the story of the haunted mandolin). | |
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The Red Green Show: In the New Years special, Red sets up a lit sign that says "TOAST YOURSELF AT NEW YEARS EVE", but when he leaves it, most of the lights burn out, leaving "YOU FAT ARSE". One episode had Red bring a boat he bought to Dwight Cardiff, asking him to remove the name "THELMA'S TINKERBELL" that the previous owner had put on it. Dwight, being the Lazy Bum he is, tries to remove the letters with his fishing rod without even getting up. As a result, he wasn't able to remove all of them, resulting in the boat bearing the name "THE STINKER". An "Adventures" segment had Walter don an apron that said "I MASH MORE ONIONS", which Narrator!Red says makes no sense. Then Walter falls over the campfire they are using for cooking, burning holes in the apron so that it now reads "IM A MORON", which Narrator!Red considers to be far more accurate. Another "Adventures" segment sees Bill and Mike constructing a children's playground, marked by a "KIDDIE AREA" sign. The two are not very good at building or using power tools. An escalating series of failures humiliates and injures them until they must flee for their lives. The filmstrip resembles WWII footage as they crawl under nailgun fire and escape an out-of-control circular saw. As their deadly playground collapses, the sign falls apart to become "DIE AREA". |
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Death Spa opens with this trope. The neon sign on Michael's health club reads 'STARBODY HEALTH SPA'. Lightning strikes and several of the letters burn out, leaving the sign reading 'D EA TH SPA'. | |
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In A Flintstone Family Christmas, Fred lights a neon rock sign on his house, with the words "MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM THE FLINTSTONES HOUSE TO YOURS!". Afterward, the electric eel the sign is hooked up to sneezes and causes the sign to explode, the remaining letters of which now appear to read "FATSO'S HOUSE". | |
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A variation occurs with the title screen in Bravely Default. After one of the big plot-twisting reveals, parts of the game's subtitle ("Flying Fairy" / "Where the Fairy Flies") on the title screen turn red and disappear. The remaining letters spell out "Lying Airy" and "Airy Lies", respectively. Bravely Second inverts this with its subtitle of End Layer. It'll add an S and a P, appropriately, spelling out "Send Player". | |
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In an episode of The Equalizer Robert McCall does this as part of his Mind Screw tactics. He tells a corrupt politician that he's got 24 hours to resign or else. Later the politician is feeling smug because he's just arranged for a witness against him to be silenced. He steps out of his office and sees a giant electronic billboard is flashing the word RESIGN at him. | |
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In one of the Dear America books, the main character's cousin comes from a town in Texas called Heart's Bend, except that the B is missing from the sign at the railway station, so it says Heart's end. | |
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Inverted with the title card for Anti Hero For Hire. It's the blacked-out letters on the sign that spell out something significant: NoIR. | |
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Fallout: Fallout 3 has the town of Arefu, whose name originates from a sign saying "careful". Fallout: New Vegas has the town of Novac. The name comes from the motel that serves as the town's main building, where "NO VAC" are the only remaining letters on the "NO VACANCY" sign outside. The Lucky 38's marquee advertises a "Revol{T}ing Cocktail Lounge." The area around Vegas's Fremont Street is referred to as "Freeside" due to, again, disrepair of the Fremont Street sign. ED-E has a license plate reading "2ED-E59" bolted onto him, the 2 and 59 on which have faded. The eponymous town of Fallout 4's Far Harbor DLC is based on the real-world Bar Harbor, and was formerly called that in-universe, but part of the "B" on the sign got erased, causing it to be mistaken for an "F". |
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In the prologue of We Happy Few, Arthur reveals that he tried to throw a Welcome Back-party for his colleague Prudence who had "gone on holiday". When Arthur — now off his Joy — enters her office, an old, broken streamer hanging in the office reads "WELCOME BACK". | |
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The title screen of L.A. Noire Downplays the trope in the sense that the title of the game spelled out by neon lights are all lit up, but Stay on the title screen long enough and some the letters start to flicker. The only ones that don't are the "L", "I", and "E", pointing at a key theme of the game being the lies that are told that must be sorted through to get to the truth. | |
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Casper's Scare School in the pilot movie: "SECRET DREAMS OF THE ORANGE ROOSTER". | |
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In Knights of the Dinner Table, 'The Games Pit' was originally called 'The Games Pitstop'. At some point the word 'stop' fell off and Weird Pete couldn't be bothered replacing it. Some of the 'retro' strips (which are set in the past) show the store with its original name. | |
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Girl Genius: Above the entrance door to Castle Heterodyne is a sign reading "Thank you for shopping". Except that, when Wulfenbach troops attack it with a battering ram, it dislodges the "shopping" part which was an add-on, revealing the original sign to be "Thank you for cowering". | |
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Monsters vs. Aliens has a variant on this - Susan, running on the rooftops from the first Gallaxhar robot, goes past a rooftop billboard that presumably advertises accident insurance (the word 'Accident' is very prominent). After slipping off a sloping roof and landing on the street, that billboard is flung past her head and jabbed into a building, with the first few letters 'Accid' still visible. Given the strangely cross-eyed salesman gracing the billboard, this may have been deliberate. | |
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DC Super Hero Girls: In "#SheMightBeGiant", the mall store where a defeated Wonder Woman dangles is named "BIG TIME CLOSET", but Giganta knocks down the C and T, which results in "BIG TIME LOSE". | |
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Star vs. the Forces of Evil: In "St. Olga's Reform School for Wayward Princesses", Star ends up trapped in the laundry room with a brainwashed Flying Princess Pony Head, and breaks down crying after raging at a propaganda poster reading "Embrace a Princess Mentality - Wash Away Your Individuality". Fortunately, the sight of Star in tears causes Pony Head to finally snap out of it, and she proceeds to tear up the poster so it reads "Embrace Your Individuality". | |
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In The Rocketeer, a fiery Neville Sinclair crashes into the tail end of the famous "Hollywoodland" sign, turning it into the rather more famous "Hollywood" sign. | |
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In Green Wing Alan Statham had trouble with people vandalising his badge, it should read "Alan Statham Consultant Radiologist" but on the word Consultant someone blacked out the letters O N S L T A. | |
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Tony Hancock's film The Punch and Judy Man, set in a seedy English seaside resort, has a scene where Hancock's title character is shaving just before performing at an important reception at the town hall. His faulty electric shaver shorts out some of the town's illuminations, causing them to spell out insults. | |
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Two instances in Tony Hawk's Underground 2: the first one is on a church sign in Boston, albeit done intentionally: "What is missing from CH__CH? U R". The second one, in Berlin, is actually an objective: there is a marquee reading "DOWNZEKD!" (which doesn't mean anything, just roll with it), and the player has to perform a grind over this marquee so the correct letters will fall offnote Lip-tricking them will work, too and read "_OWN_E_D!" | |
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Popeye In "The Spinach Roadster", Popeye was taking Olive Oyl for a ride. To discourage Popeye, Bluto rearranges a sign reading 'ROUTE D' to 'DETOUR', sending him up a rocky mountain road. In the TV short "Me Quest for Poopdeck Pappy", Popeye travels to a desert island to find his Pappy and encounters a sign he wrote saying "VISITORS AIN'T WELCOME". Popeye declares "'Ain't' ain't good Englishk" and knocks off part of the sign, which now reads "VISITORS WELCOME". |
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Snatcher: There's a sign in Central Plaza saying GREAT MEALS. (In the original Japanese, this sign read PACHINKOtranslation"penis".) Later, Gillian sees a neon sign for Hospital OLEEN. It's supposed to read 'QUEENS'. |
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In Goof Troop, the Wild West ancestors episode "Gunfight at the Okie-Doke Corral" has all of the townspeople hanging out at the "local salon", getting their hair and nails done. When Goofy's ancestor wipes some dirt off the window sign, they realize it's actually a saloon, and then everyone cheers because they don't have to treat it like a salon anymore. | |
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In an episode of Recess, Spinelli accidentally calls Ms. Grotke "Mama", causing her peers to call her "Mama's Girl". As she tries to run away from the constant teasing, she finds a neon sign reading "MANNY MATT'S GRILL", which flickers so that it now reads "MA MA'S GRLL". | |
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In Up the Front, the sign at Monique's gets splattered with mud leaving only the first two letters visible. Lurk sees the sign and ends up wandering thinking that "MO" meant "Medical Officer". | |
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In the horror story Right Inn, by J. B. Stamper, a traveller with a weak heart has to stop for the night, and the only place nearby is a hotel with a sign saying RIGHT INN, and as soon as he checks in, weird and creepy things start happening... the twist at the end is that it's a theme hotel, but the F has fallen off the front of the sign. | |
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The Texas Department of Transportation distributed a bumper sticker with the slogan, "Don't Wreck Your Life", as part of a campaign promoting safe driving. Old 97's drummer Philip Peeples put the sticker on the band's touring van, but ripped out the word "don't", inspiring their album title Wreck Your Life. | |
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In Shrek Forever After, the Curse Escape Clause in Rumplestiltskin's Magically-Binding Contract that's found by origami is "True Love's Kiss", but Donkey does it wrong, so it ends up saying the much less classic message "Try Lou's Bliss". | |
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In Katana ZERO, the sign in the lobby of Murdower Hotel (the first proper level) has the "OW" burned out, leaving behind only "MURD__ER Hotel". You'll be doing a lot of murdering on your way to your first target. | |
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Parodied in Between the Lions were a flickering sign outside of Sam Spud's office literally says "Flicker Flicker" (or "Flash Flash", depending on the episode.) | |
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Shot and Chaser: The Oldsmobile emblem on the back of Olly's dented cruser has had the last part of the word ripped off, leaving it reading "Old". | |
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Bob's Burgers: In "The Millie-Churian Candidate", Louise abruptly joins the campaign for student president in a desperate attempt to stop Millie Frock from getting voted in. Millie proceeds to mock Louise by tearing the middle two letters out of her name on a "VOTE FOR LOUISE" poster so it reads "VOTE FOR LOSE". | |
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An Archie Comics story (and a Christmas Episode at that) sees Archie and Reggie tasked with setting up Christmas Lights at Riverdale High for their principal, Mr. Weatherbee, which supposedly reads "MR. WEATHERBEE WISHES YOU A SAFE, HAPPY CHRISTMAS". Due to Archie and Reggie's incompetence (as usual) half the lights are burnt out, turning the message into MR. WEATHERBEE _IS_ _A_ _SA_ _P_". note Sap = a foolish, gullible person | |
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Marty Pants: In "Do Not Touch!", Marty makes a poster for the school mural art contest, intended to expose Mr. McPhee as an alien. On the top is a picture of Mr. McPhee in a flying saucer, and below is a picture of people holding hands across the globe. The top half of the poster gets ripped off before anyone sees it. In "Keep Your Paws Off!", when he thinks he's a werewolf, Marty makes a poster intended to warn people away from the full moon festival. At the top it says "Don't Go To The Full Moon Festival! This Saturday at 8:00", with a werewolf (probably Marty) saying "It'll be a wild night!", and below that the words "There's no telling what could happen!". However, before he can photocopy and distribute it, Jerome bites off the "Don't" part, which Marty only noticed AFTER distributing said posters. |
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Les 2 Minutes du Peuple: The titular snack bar in the "Snack-Bar chez Raymond" song has a neon sign that say "Restaurant" but it has missing letters so it now says "Restaurant" (meaning "leftover" in French, as in "tonight we're eating leftovers"). | |
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In Batman Returns, Selina Kyle has a neon sign in her apartment that says "Hello There!". After becoming Catwoman, she smashes the O and the T, giving the sign a very different meaning. | |
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Joker: When he leaves Haha's after being fired, Arthur passes under a sign that reads "DON'T FORGET TO SMILE". He uses a marker to scribble out the middle words so it now reads "DON'T SMILE". | |
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Jersey Boys has a sign that displays FOUR SEASONS, which when the broken lights are fixed, becomes the name of the protagonists' music group. | |
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In The Men from the Ministry Britain is in one episode struggling with an energy crisis, and Sir Gregory comes up with an idea to cut fuel consumption by ordering the West End's neon signs to be shown only half the time. Unfortunately General Assistance Department fails to relay his orders properly, instead ordering the advertisement to show half the words. | |
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Toy Story: The tailgate of the Pizza Planet truck reads "YO", with most of the letters scratched out. According to the truck's operating manual, the truck is actually manufactured by Gyoza Motors, and, not, as commonly believed, Toyota (with the letters scratched off for copyright reasons). | |
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In Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie, the main characters come across a restaurant with a neon sign spelling out 'seafoo.' After the characters muse on whether seafoo is like tofu (only saltier), the letter 'd' flickers on. | |
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At the end of A Christmas Story the Parker family is forced to go out for dinner at a Chinese restaurant. A sign outside the restaurant says "Bowling" but with the "W" burned out, which fits the full name of the restaurant: Bo Ling Chinese Chop Suey Palace". | |
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Futurama In "A Pharaoh to Remember" Bender, wanting to be remembered after he is gone, spray paints a self portrait with the caption "Bender lives large and kicks butt" on the side of a building. As soon as he finishes, the building is demolished. The debris left behind reads "Bender licks butt", with the portrait resembling a human's legs and posterior. At one point, the show was cancelled by the Fox Network, then was purchased and brought back by Comedy Central. The first of the TV movies produced for Comedy Central, "Bender's Big Score", opened with an extended Take That! against the executives at the "Box Network" who "cancelled" Planet Express's delivery license. Just to make sure that everyone knew who all that vitriol was actually aimed at, the sign on the side of the Box Network building had a flickering "B" that sometimes appeared as an "F". |
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Remember Dippy: Collette and Mem's mailbox used to say "THE DIPPY'S." Since the recent rainstorm, it says, "T E DIPP." Mean kid Dirk buys a letter O from the hardware store and changes it to "DOPE." He and Johnny get in a war of leaving insulting messages on each other's mailboxes. | |
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Little Audrey: Audrey vandalizes an amusement park's sign on a coloring page, making it say ABUSEMENT PARK. | |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy has a reference to a gigantic sign reading "SHARE AND ENJOY" (the advertising slogan of the ever-profitable Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Complaints Department). Being too heavy, the sign falls into the underground office block underneath, which is a little unfortunate for the occupants. In the local language the exposed top halves of the letters now appear to read "GO STICK YOUR HEAD IN A PIG" and is only lit up for special occasions. | |
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In an issue of Prez, a corrupt senator sponsors a bill that enables massive deregulation of an industry he takes money from, only to find the ill-effects of the deregulation coming home to roost in his own neighborhood. The finishing touch is an illuminated sign reading "Welcome to Hello Farms" — with the last six letters broken. | |
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs had the sign on top of the factory originally say SWALLOW FALLS. Disrepair caused the S in FALLS to fall off. In a blink and you'll miss it moment Flint accidentally knocks the F off rendering it SWALLOW ALL. | |
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Scooby-Doo: In The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries episode "Happy Birthday Scooby-Doo", as a phantom tries to knock Scooby and Shaggy off a billboard that reads, "Turn The Dial To ZPop", a bunch of letters fall off, making it vertically spell "RELP". Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated: In "The Creeping Creatures", Scoob is spooked when a sign for "The Drowsy Gator: Pool, Food and Sundries!" suddenly reads "The dog dies!". In the later episode "Theater of Doom", the Phantom Mummy of Friar Serra (the real one) hints that this wasn't just a coincidence, as he told the gang to "Heed the warning of the alligators". |
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Monster Garage features this in the opening to display the show's title. After a computer animation of a sport-utility vehicle entering the garage and getting hooked up to cables, we pan over to the garage's sign. Until it gets struck by lightning, the sign reads "Simon Stern's Garage." | |
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The Hot L Baltimore: Both In-Universe, in the play's official posters, and during the series' title sequence, this is used as a way to show how run-down the building the characters inhabit is. The 'Hotel Baltimore' neon sign has the 'e' no longer functioning. | |
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In The Fairly OddParents! episode "Hassle in the Castle", Timmy goes inside Cosmo and Wanda's fishbowl castle to look for the Godkid Hall of Fame, where they picture their best godkids. He comes across a door with the sign "HALL OF FAM" above it, and assumes that's the place; after he goes inside, the rest of the letters flicker on to reveal it's actually the Hall of Infamy, where they picture their worst god kids. | |
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In Zapped! (1982) the door to Principal Burnhart's office was regularly vandalised into Burnfart - so regularly that it was mispronounced like that by a teacher once. On the public address system. | |
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In The Amazing World of Gumball episode "The Silence", when Gumball and Darwin's tongues swell up after getting holistic treatment, they go to a Back-Alley Doctor to have the fluid drained. The sign above the entrance reads "Unlicensed Doctor" and the "Un" is burnt out. | |
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Used as a plot point in at least two Deltora books: DANGER! RING OF QUICKSAND DO NOT ENTER DANGE(L)ROUS BRIDGE DO NOT CROSS GAP HERE IF YOU VALUE YOUR LIFE - ATTENTION! NEXT BRIDGE IS LAST CROSSING BEFORE FORESTS OF SILENCE |
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Puss in Boots (2011), there's a bar called the Glitter Box, only the G in the neon sign isn't working. | |
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In The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Piglet for some reason has a wooden sign above his front door that is apparently broken, reading "Trespassers Will" (presumably short for "Trespassers Will Be Prosecuted", or even "Trespassers Will Be Shot"). According to Piglet, Trespassers Will (short for "Trespassers William") is his grandfather. | |
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Happens twice in Back to the Future Part II. First, in 2015, in Hilldale, the development where the future Marty lives, its sign has gotten vandalized from "Hilldale: The Address of Success" to "The Address of Suckers". Later, in 1985-A, the "Welcome to Hill Valley" sign says "Hell Valley" instead. | |
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Final Destination 3: The HIGH DIVE's ride sign is partially broken, so it reads "HIGH DIE" | |
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In the Robot Chicken sketch, "The Wonder Pets! visit the Laughter House", Linny, Tuck, and Ming-Ming attempt to save a baby cow by taking her to the Laughter House, which they believe is a comedy club. They are horrified when that turns out not to be the case and the baby cow is slaughtered. Then the farmer puts an "S" in front of "Laughter", which clears things up for the pets. | |
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In This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall!, there's a sign outside Miss Scrimmage's school that reads, "Miss Scrimmage's Finishing School for Young Ladies". Miss Scrimmage accidentally shoots it, changing the word "Finishing" to "Fishing". | |
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In a Wallace & Gromit comic following the "Die Hard" on an X plot, Gromit takes a brochure from the Hotel Splendido and cuts out some of the letters to make a message saying "H EL P I O" that he sends by Instant Messenger Pigeon. | |
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In Fairy Tail Lucy's parents used to work in a guild named "Love & Lucky". One day, the K on the sign at the guild went missing, spelling "Love & Lucy". They found it amusing and decided to name their daughter after that. | |
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In Fawlty Towers, it's done Once an Episode — the sign saying Fawlty Towers is rearranged to say Flowery Twats, Flay Otters, Fatty Owls, Farty Towels, Watery Fowls and Warty Towels.8 | |
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In The Mask, once Stanley Ipkiss puts on the enchanted mask and gets its power, one of the first things he does is get revenge on Ripley Auto-Finishing, the auto repair shop that ripped him off earlier in the movie - aside from literally shoving carburetors up the asses of the mechanics, he vandalizes their sign to read "RIP OFF". | |
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A Critical Role one-shot utilized the "removed letters = dirty joke" version. The Crass Sailor, a pub, had the "C" and "R" in "Crass" removed for a double-layer joke (the dirty version, as well as "assailer" for the inevitable bar fight). Triple-layer, really: The C and R were removed because it wasn't the normal Critical Role. In a different episode, Matthew Mercer was wearing the T-shirt featured in the Unraveled episode mentioned below, complete with vest. |
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In Danny Phantom episode "Doctor's Disorders", Danny had to infiltrate an old rundown hospital called NORTH MERCY hospital. At one point, the R, T, and H fell off, spelling NO MERCY hospital. | |
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The Betty Boop cartoon Minnie the Moocher has Betty run away from home, leaving a note for her parents that reads, "Dear Ma & Pa, I'm leaving Home because you're not so Sweet to me. I won't ever be Home again. -Betty." After an incident in a cave involving a ghost walrus, Betty runs back home and hides under her bed covers; her note (which remains unread) rips around the top, bottom and sides, so it now vertically reads, "Home Sweet Home". | |
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In Zoolander, a local drinking establishment called "The Mine Shaft" is visited; in reflection of it's less than savory, affluent circumstances, it loses the "f" as we watch. | |
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A promotional image for the TV adaptation of American Gods (2017) features the title as a hotel sign with some of the letters unlit; the illuminated letters form the phrase AM I A GOD. | |
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In the Dutch movie Abeltje, after a heated argument with the manager of a Department store named "Knots" (club), where her son used to work, Abeltje's mother storms out of his office and slams the door so loud it knocks the "N" off the sign, reducing the name to "Kots" (barf). | |
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Some gas stations have FOOD MARTS attached to them. Years of neglect contribute to them being called OOD MARTS. | |
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In Asterix in Britain, the protagonists try to get their stolen barrel of magic potion back from a cart thief. Not only does said thief reside in a street with exactly identical houses, his address being number LVII, but Asterix, Obelix and Teefax accidentally break into number LVIII where the last I has fallen off at some point in the past. | |
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In his review "Better Now vs. Lucid Dreams," Todd in the Shadows remarks that Juice Wrld's name sounds and looks like a mall kiosk with the "O" in the "Juice World" sign broken. | |
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The Crow: City of Angels included a shot of a neon sign reading "Jesus Saves" with only "Save Us" lit up (well, technically that would be "Us Save" unless you're reading from bottom to top). | |
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A major location in Deus Ex was the Hilton Hotel. Half the sign over the door was out. | |
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In one episode of Pushing Daisies, the owner of the candy shop across the street sabotages the sign of Ned's pie shop, called "The Pie Hole", to read "The Pie Ho". Olive and Chuck adopt the nickname when they get revenge: "Don't mess with the Pie Hos!" | |
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Camp Camp: The sign outside of Camp Campbell is missing the "bell", which either fell off or was destroyed some time ago. Not only does this foreshadow how run-down, minimum budget the place is, but also makes a decent Title Drop. In the episode "Into Town", Nikki stops outside a clothing store for women called, "Lil' Country Style", with the sign missing the o, r, and y. |
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Ultraman X The Movie: Here Comes! Our Ultraman!: The Big Damn Movie series finale of Ultraman X has an intense scene in the ending where the Big Bad kaiju, Zaigorg, absorbs the energies of Ultraman and Ultraman Tiga, subsequently using their energies to resurrect the Demaarga army across the world. The Team XIO captain announces that it's going to be hell on Earth; a few seconds later, cue one of the Demaarga in Chicago knocking over a neon sign that says HELLO and causing the O to fizzle out. | |
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In one episode of Bobby's World, Uncle Ted has a boat named The Sea Sprite. | |
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By the end of The Avengers, the STARK marquee on the Stark Tower has been reduced to just the A....for "Avengers". Even better: the STARK was in a stylized, logo-esque font◊, so most of the audience didn't notice until the very last shot that the "A" left over had an elongated left leg all along...exactly like the "A" in the comics'◊ and movies'◊ "Avengers" logo. | |
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In Pugs of the Frozen North, Sika lives with her mother and grandfather in the "POST OFFICE". | |
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My Life as a Teenage Robot: In "Weapons of Mass Distraction", a violent hailstorm destroys a sign for the "Do Over Motel", until the only letters left are "DoOM". | |
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During the boat chase in Tom-Yum-Goong, an impromptu Ramp Jump results in Kham and several of his pursuers' boats getting launched through the air, into a bilboard depicting a musical band playing. Kham's boat went through the band guitarist's crotch, complete with a close-up on the guitarist's face on the signboard. Seen here. | |
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The last scene of Punisher: War Zone has a neon sign proclaiming "JESUS SAVES" noticeably in the background. Frank Castle is telling his informant Detective Soap that he's contemplating retirement. He walks off as Soap gives a speech about why people need The Punisher. As he's speaking, a mugger shows up. When Castle returns, the "Jesus" part blinks out, leaving "SAVES" prominently positioned over his head. | |
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Hercules Returns. The protagonist goes to examine a derelict cinema with the view of restoring it. The billboard reads THE PICTURE PALACE, A WARM NICE CINEMA. He rattles the locked door a bit causing several letters to fall of the sign which now reads A WARM E NEMA. | |
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Towards the end of Jurassic Park, the mud-splattered jeep reads "Jurassic Park". | |
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In one of Mae's dreams in Night in the Woods, there is an illuminated sign reading "DURKILLESBURG". And you have a baseball bat. It's popular among players to reduce the sign to "___KILLE___R_", which the game later reveals is a nickname Mae earned after beating a kid with a baseball bat. | |
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The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature: Some lights at the "Liberty Land" sign go off, making it read "Lie Land". The Mayor decides to keep it that way to save electricity money. | |
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Spider-Man: Sinister Six Trilogy: In one of the novels, Spider-Man notes that one of his recent battles has defaced the Daily Bugle sign, with the last two letters missing, so that it now reads DAILY BUG. Spidey can't wait to see JJJ's reaction... | |
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A variation from Luigi's Mansion: the file select screen has a message reading, "Welcome to your mansion." Wait a while before selecting a file and the message will fade out and come back with the 'y' missing: "Welcome to our mansion." | |
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In Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, the L in the sign that reads "Flight Centre" fails to make it read "Fight Centre". | |
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Blood 2 has a neon sign that says "Hotel HELLO". The last "o" flickers, producing the message "Hotel HELL". | |
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Ed owns Stucky Bowl, and vandals regularly steal the T. In the episode that dealt with it, they weld the T down, so the vandals change the sign to "Stucky Bowel". | |
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In "Barbie as the Island Princess", the heroine washed ashore on an island after a shipwreck, along with a chest assumed to be hers. The broken tag read "Ro" for "Rosella". Either she found it herself, of the animals told her so, as animals can explicitly read in this movie. | |
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In Sonny 2, the pawn shop in the Dystopia also has the "a" darkened to spell "pwn". The game lampshades this when the sign is clicked on: "The 'A' is missing, but the sign still gets the point across". | |
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Police Squad!: In "Rendezvous at Big Gulch (Terror in the Neighborhood)", Detectives Drebin and Nordberg go undercover, posing as small business owners to break up a Protection Racket. The word "LOCKSMITH" is written in big letters across their store's front window. When the mobsters throw a rock through the window to send a message, it takes out the letter "L". The next morning, there's a farmer waiting for the store to open—and he has an ox with him. Drebin has to explain that they're locksmiths, not misspelled "oxsmiths". | |
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In No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle, when Travis and Sylvia have sex the NO MORE HEROES Motel sign falls apart, leaving MORE ERO. | |
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Done offscreen with a submarine PA system in Atlantis: The Lost Empire. In the German dub, someone took the 1 from Room 100's door, effectively leading to the same conclusion. In the Greek dub, someone replaced the "λ" with a "τ" in a sign for the ladder ("σκάλα"), leading to "shit" ("σκατά"). |
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In Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, one episode had a 'Daniel Patrick Moynihan Pubic School. The L fell off the sign.' | |
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In The Midnight Gang, many of the hospital's signs are broken in comical ways: The "Entrance & Exit" sign now reads "N IT". The "Accident & Emergency" sign now says "CIDE R". The "Reception" sign now simply says "P O". The sign for "Surgery" says, "SU ER". The "Radiology" sign reads "RAD LOG". The "Administration" sign now reads "MIN T". The sign for the theatre reads "HEAT". The sign for the children's ward now reads "WAR", which is kind of apropos since it's run by a militant matron. The "Rehabilitation" sign has become "HAB IT ON". The "Physiotherapy" sign now says "H OTHE AP" ("hot heap"). The sign that once read "X-Ray" now just reads "RAY", as though it's a direction to a man named Ray. And finally, the sign that presumably once said, "LIFTS" now says, "IF S". |
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Pac-Man's Japanese name is actually "Puckman" (after "pakupaku", the Japanese onomatopoeia for munching food). The main reason why his name was changed into what it is now in the US (and worldwide, by association) is that Namco was actually afraid that the cabinets would be vandalized in a way so that the "P" is changed into an "F." | |
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In The Guilt Trip Andy & Joyce are forced to make a stop after bad weather makes the roads bad to see. They come upon "Capital City TOPLESS Restaurant" but the "LE" is burned out and the sign reads "TOP__SS" which Joyce mistakes for "tacos". | |
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Kids Incorporated takes place in a club called The Palace, but the first A on the neon sign is missing, so it's just The Place. | |
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The cover of the 2017 US edition of American Gods, based on the TV logo below, has the title as a mostly burnt-out neon sign reading "AMERICAN GODS". | |
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Grand Theft Auto IV: There is an abandoned 24/7 convenience store in Broker; unlike most 24/7's, the name is spelled out as "Twenty Four Seven", and several letters are missing with one of the remaining letters turned upside down. The resulting sign spells out "twat furs". There is an abandoned Burger Shot in Dukes; the remaining letters on one side of the restaurant spell out "Bug S" and another side spells out "r Sht". The resulting phrase sounds like "bugs are shit". |
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A Homestar Runner cartoon published on April Fools' Day 2014 (after a hiatus of nearly four years) featured a worn-out version of the website's "Welcome" page, with the "come on in" and "watch intro" buttons falling apart and now reading "com_ on in" and "w_tch intro". | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer. A Rewatch Bonus version occurs in "The Harvest". Angel appears to be standing next to a sign saying 'WATCH YOU' — but when he walks away we see the sign actually reads 'WATCH YOUR STEP.' This is a fortuitous bit of foreshadowing for Angel's Face–Heel Turn into Angelus. Note that he wasn't even scripted as a vampire at this point. | |
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In Borrasca, the local urban legend in Drisking about the occasional disappearances that happen around town is that the "skinned men" are responsible and that they live up in the hills. The name "skinned men" actually comes from the partially faded sign DRISKING UNDERGROUND MINE, which turns out to be where the victims are actually taken. | |
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Done deliberately by the protagonist and antagonist in Shoot 'Em Up. During a rooftop gunfight, Smith shoots out a neon "Faulk Truck & Tool" sign to read, "FUK U," while saying, "Fuck you, you fucking fuckers!" The camera pans to show the word "TOOL" next to it, whereupon Hertz shoots out the L to have it read, "FUK U TOO". This gag repeats itself later on during the infiltration in Hammerson's arms factory. There's a sign saying "1026 Days since last accident", until Smith goes in, guns-ablazing, kills a whole bunch of mooks and briefly shoots the sign with a machine-gun, removing 1,2 and 6 from the sign. | |
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In one episode of Green Eggs and Ham, as Guy is walking into Justin's Diner on a rainy night, the -in and -n_r are blacked out so that it reads "Just Die". | |
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In Damsels in Distress, the first time that we see the "SUICIDE PREVENTION CENTER," one word has fallen off the sign. You can probably guess which one. | |
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The famed HOLLYWOOD sign (which used to say "HOLLYWOODLAND" before something happened to it) was a falling-down wreck for many years, until it was restored in 1978. Prior to the restoration, it read "H⋃LLYWO D". The sign has been altered at least twice, once in 1976 and again in 2017, to read "HOLLYWeeD". |
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There is one in Winnie the Pooh with the sign over Piglet's door, reading "Trespassers W", which he claims is short for the name of his grandfather, Trespassers William, or Trespassers Will for short. It's likely that the sign actually read "Trespassers will be shot" or simply "will be prosecuted". | |
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Played for tragedy in Emesis Blue. Cyclops, a relapsing alcoholic, separates from the group and enters a room with a sign that reads BAR. Seconds later, the rest of the sign lights up, revealing it actually reads LABORATORY. Specifically, a Cryogenics Laboratory, which leads Cyclops to quickly freeze to death, due to the alcohol in his body exacerbating the effects of hypothermia. | |
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Last letter on Stabe motel's sign in Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash. | |
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In the Family Guy episode "If I'm Dyin', I'm Lyin'", a Cutaway Gag features Peter writing a letter to ABC to bring Coach back on the air, but thanks to accidentally tipping over a white-out bottle, it reads "If you don't put Coach back on the air, I'll be really upset. The skillful acting of Craig T. Nelson will be missed a lot.", which Peter ends up sending without realizing anything. Some time later, Craig T. Nelson appears at Peter's door with a gun and a request to "Make it quick." | |
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At one point, a Sobeys (Atlantic Canadian grocery store) had both of its "S"es burn out on its sign, reading "OBEY". | |
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George and Harold of Captain Underpants vandalize a sign at least once a book, usually through a combination of rearranging and removing letters. For example, the first book sees them turning a sign outside a florist's shop from "PICK YOUR OWN ROSES" to "PICK OUR NOSES" Also done in their comic books. For instance, a sign appears to say "BURY DEAD STUFF HERE", until a lightning bolt knocks over the tree covering the top part of the sign, and the full thing reads "THIS HILL IS HAUNTED! WHATEVER YOU DO, DON'T BURY DEAD STUFF HERE". Also in "The Adventures of Ook and Gluk; Kung Fu Cavemen from the Future", young Ook and Gluk get chased by caveman King Goppernopper's guards in the future. The guards shoot lasers at the two children. They manage to dodge them and the lasers hit billboards completely changing what it says. For example, in one billboard that says, "Don't eat at home! Tom's Diner is the best! Dog gone good food. Our food is awfully good" one side gets blasted off by the lasers, changing it to, "Don't eat at... Tom's Diner... Dog Food... Our food is awful." This repeats two more times. |
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HOUBA! On the Trail of the Marsupilami: When the earth shakes in the TV studio, the letters for Dan Geraldo's name start to fall, leaving only "DAN GER". | |
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The "Hotel Hell" level in Duke Nukem 3D. | |
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The Famous Five: In Five Go To Demon's Rocks, the Five are staying in a lighthouse. When they find a sign stating that the lighthouse is no longer in use, Tinker objects to this, and tries to alter the sign, until Julian confiscates his pencil. | |
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The Electric Company (2009): In "Dirty Laundry", Manny uses a letter steeling gadget to letters from every sign in the neighborhood. For example, he changes "Lemonade Fountain" to "Lemonade Ountain". In "He Ain't Heavy, He's Just Frozen", Annie scrambles the word "Completed" and removes the "L" to make the only word the Electric Company can find is "Competed", that way Keith can remain immobile for a very long time. Not a very nice thing to do. Is it? |
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Pee-wee's Big Adventure: After Pee-Wee wins the respect of a biker gang, they let him ride a motorcycle. He careens and crashes into a sign reading "Apache Bar" in such a way that it says "Ache Bar". | |
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Katt Loves Dogg: When The Hissletons reach the Eastern Wilderness Reserve, they see the sign is so old that a number of letters have fallen off, causing it to read "Eat Wild Erve". | |
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Dumbo (2019): In this film, Jumbo Junior gets his titular nickname from a damaged sign that originally read "Dear Baby Jumbo". | |
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City of Heroes: The PAWN shop. Appropriately, it's run by retired Freakshow, a villain group who name themselves in l33t. The "destroyed future" map has PARAGON CITY HALL. |
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In the intro to The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part, a shot of the remains of the "BRICKSBURG" sign in the ruins of Apocalypseburg shows the first two letters falling off, so that it reads "ICKSBURG". | |
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In the Doctor Who New Adventures novel Cat's Cradle: Warhead, a street sign for ALLEN ROAD is perpetually vandalized to make it read ALIEN ROAD. (And indeed the owner of the house on Allen Road is an alien, although it's never really explained who kept vandalizing the street sign or how they knew.) | |
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Gravity Falls The second S for the "Mystery Shack" is seen falling off in the intro. It gets knocked off in the show proper in "Headhunters", leaving the sign reading "Mystery Hack" (fitting as all the oddities showcased inside are fake) for the rest of the series until Soos puts it back up after being given ownership of the Mystery Shack in the finale. Parodied in "The Legend of the Gobblewonker" when Soos comes upon the Scuttlebutt Island sign and covers up the "Scuttle" part, so that it reads "Butt Island". In "The Love God", Stan's crappy homemade hot air balloon starts falling apart near the end of the episode, and the sign reading "I HEART KIDS" ends up reading "I _EA_T KIDS". |
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Guards! Guards!: The City Watch's Canis Latinicus motto "Fabricati Diem, Pvncti Agvnt Celeriter" ("Make the Day, for the Moments Pass Swiftly") was engraved over the Watch House on Treacle Mine Road, but decades of neglect saw it erode to "Fabricati Diem, Pvnc". Sergeant Colon insists it means "Protect and Serve", though a reader could be forgiven for seeing a Shout-Out to Dirty Harry's "Make my day, punk" instead. | |
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