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The Problem with Pen Island

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The Problem with Pen Island	comment	Some names and titles are stored in a way that is not case-sensitive, but doesn't allow spaces to separate words. So how do you tell one word apart from the next? If you're not careful, you can end up with names that are quite... odd. Thus, this trope. Differs from Scunthorpe Problem in that the Scunthorpe Problem is about computers making these mistakes before humans can see them; this is about humans making these mistakes because other humans didn't catch them earlier. Compare Mondegreen Gag, which applies to spoken language rather than written language. If what words they're supposed to be are clear, but the way they're supposed to go together isn't (eg. Does "big blue and red dog" mean a big dog that is red and blue, or two characters named "Big Blue" and "Red Dog"?), that's Ambiguous Syntax. If the words and the way they're supposed to go together is clear, but the meaning isn't (eg. Does "bright blue ball" mean a ball that is bright blue, or a ball that is blue and glowing bright?), that's Double Meaning. The trope's title originated from Battle for Dream Island, when Pen was discussing to Eraser, about when he wins Dream Island, heâ€™d rename it â€œPen Islandâ€�, no spaces, all caps. Which would look like â€œPENISLANDâ€�. See this page for the hilarity that could arise from trope names. Also known as scripta continua.
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_10254bd5	comment	In The Thick of It, Nicola publically shows her support for Liam Bentley, but due to some miscommunication on Terri's part, the camera zooms in a little too close on the poster, making it out as "I AM BENT", which is British slang for moral corruption.
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_11292d9c	comment	Crow gets confused in Dreamfall: The Longest Journey: "A real therapist he was... or wait maybe it was 'rapist'..."
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_117dc363	comment	Played with in Condorito, with the character Ungenio, who is all the opposite to "un genio" (a genius).
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_1361afec	comment	In Jago, Susan works for a paranormal research organization called IÎ¨T, pronounced like "Eyesight", but on typewriters or word processors where the psi symbol is unavailable it's rendered as IPSIT, which results in a scene where a character pronounces it "Ip-Sit".
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_15ba0e84	comment	Kirby's Epic Yarn. Go ahead and count how many people first saw this as Kirby's Epic Yam, made possible due to general knowledge that Kirby likes to eat things, and the fact that most sites render text in Arial which makes "r n" look like "m" (technically the same problem as the AOL entry under New Media, above). Unsurprisingly, most of the people who got the title wrong originally misread the title at forums or gaming news sites who use proportional sans-serif fonts like Arial.
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_16c83de8	comment	In Star Fox 64, stages you've already beaten in your current route are represented with two-letter abbreviations on the map screen. Most players' first time through the game will be spent on the Easy path, where the first four stages are Corneria, Meteo, Fortuna, and Sector X. As The Runaway Guys pointed out, this leads to the unfortunate abbreviation COMEFOSXnote Come Fo' Sex.
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_1d87b7a6	comment	This moment from Chapter 16 of A Cure for Love:
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_1f818da5	comment	Channel Awesome is inconsistent with abbreviating or not in URLs (Angry Joe is "aj" but Diamanda Hagan is fully spelled out). One is a deliberate aversion of this trope, as Todd in the Shadows goes by "tis" instead. (And hilariously/appropriately, Brad Jones is "bj".)
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_227e9f8e	comment	Used in the title of the series Ideal which is about, you guessed it, a drug dealer.
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_235f21f2	comment	A book entitled A Steroid Hit the Eart about misprints includes several examples like this. One highlight is a story from the filming of an episode of Z Cars, in which the opening line of the script read "Inspector Lynch is sitting at his desk, his penis in his hand."
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_240af9d	comment	A Drew Gooden video discusses this as an inside joke between Drew and his wife Amanda. They once saw an ad for I, Tonya on Instagram, with the username being itonyamovie. Amanda read this as "it ony a movie," as if the account was downplaying how important the movie was. Drew later says "It ony a movie" to shrug off the bad Christmas movie he's watching.
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_24d953d0	comment	The original Metroid had the cheat code NARPAS SWORD. It doesn't stand for any particular sword, but rather "NAR Password" - the space was due to how the password input worked. There are various theories as to what NAR means, including "North American Release"note the original Japanese Famicom Disk System version had save files rather than a password system and "Not A Real", or being short for Toru Narihiro, the programmer who converted the game from disk to cartridge.
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_24ffd341	comment	In It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Frank Reynolds names his club after his girlfriend Shadynasty (pronounced Shuh-Dynasty). A patron looks at the sign and wonders what "Shady Nasty" is.
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_261c8d3f	comment	On The Simpsons, Lisa finds an old videotape seemingly labeled "Bart sad." It turns out to be a commercial that he starred in as a toddler, at which point she realizes that the title is "Bart's ad," albeit with the apostrophe missing.
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_27286fb2	comment	Prior to the release of Spider-Man: No Way Home, one associated hashtag on Twitter was for the villain Doc Ock. As hashtags lack spaces, it's unfortunately rendered as #docock.
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_2b727723	comment	Reddit subreddit r/keming and this website chronicle failures of kerning, or spacing between letters.
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_2ba48a26	comment	In one episode of Castle, when a murderer writes a message on a wall and the word "psychotherapist" is too long to fit. Castle reads it literally "psycho the rapist".
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_2def97f8	comment	A popular fan-made van paintjob in All Points Bulletin could be read differently whether the side door was open or closed: it said "Ice Cream For Myself And Overachieving Children"
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_30a5ebfd	comment	In Naruto, Darui fights opponents with a weapon that seals the speaker when they state their most commonly used word, or if they go too long without saying anything. Though he figures out not to say the word ("darui" itself in Japanese, translated to "dull" or "drab" in English), his saying the phonemes in order ("and I'll" or "timid rabbit") cause him to get sucked in anyway. His dying apologies for not catching this and failing cause the word "sorry" to become his new most commonly stated word, saving his soul.
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_354dccd1	comment	When PokÃ©mon Masters got its name updated to PokÃ©mon Masters EX, it trended on Twitter. Unfortunately, the hashtag didn't have any spaces or capitalization, making it look like #pokemonmastersex.
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_3736edbb	comment	In Johann Strauss's comic operetta Die Fledermaus, the governor of the local prison asks Frosch (the jailer who was on duty the previous night) if anything unusual happened, to which Frosch replies "Nichts, wÃ¼rdig Herr Direktor." ("Nothing, worthy governor.") The governor, however, hears it as "NichtswÃ¼rdig Herr Direktor" ("Unworthy governor"), and thinks he's being insulted until Frosch clarifies the statement.
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_3c88ab29	comment	In one episode of Raines, the eponymous character claims he read Dr. Kohl's card as "The Rapist" instead of "Therapist".
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_3cc6df3f	comment	In Review, Forrest receives a request via twitter from the user "@bubblebaths" to review "there all is aching." This nonsensical request ultimately drives Forrest to the point of insanity and institutionalization. Ultimately it is revealed that the question was mangled due to a computer error, and in fact the request was from twitter user "@TheRealLisaChing," asking Forrest to review bubble baths.
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_3cd90f30	comment	Played with in Arrested Development with "Tobias FÃ¼nke: Analrapist" (Analyst/Therapist). Tobias insists that it be pronounced "Ah-NAL-rap-pist", but it's hard to read it as anything but what it says on his business card, even when compressed into a single word. In season 4, it's revealed that Tobias's license plate reads "ANUSTART", as he is hoping to get A NU START. He also mistakes a methadone (here spelt "methodone") clinic for a "method one" acting class. On the other hand, after being in prison, he finally realized to some degree how he comes off and instead changes his title to "theralyst".
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_3f4a104b	comment	One Dilbert strip had a woman asking the Pointy-Haired Boss for her email address to be something other than the standard first-initial, last-name format. The boss denied Brenda Utthead's request.
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_43d8bcac	comment	Millie the Model: The potential for issues with the word 'FLICK' mentioned aboved is the reason why Millie's photographer boyfriend having is nickname changed from 'Flicker' to 'Clicker' early in the feature's run.
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_440f812c	comment	Cooties: Clint writes his name on the chalkboard as CLINT but puts the L and I too close together, prompting some embarrassment.
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_48c6734c	comment	In Girl, Interrupted, Lisa refers to therapists as "ther-rapists".
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_4a08234b	comment	God of Love: When the magic love darts fail to work on Kelly, a despondent Ray winds up jabbing a bunch of women (and one man!), acquiring a whole harem following him around. Somehow he winds up at a Scrabble tournament. The woman he's playing takes three tiles off her row and shows Ray the remaining four, which spell "DOME". When a confused Ray says "Dome?", the woman hurriedly separates her tiles so they read "DO ME".
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_4c4e08ca	comment	There is a The Benny Hill Show sketch where Benny Hill is a sign painter and he's painting a door for a therapist, and he paints "JOHN SMITH, THE RAPIST" instead of "JOHN SMITH, THERAPIST".
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_50bcf7a6	comment	In Homestuck, Rose's Chumhandle is "tentacleTherapist". While it has not led to an actual confusion, it's most certainly a nod to this.
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_5613760	comment	In Not Going Out, Lee is incensed about a notice he found at the career's section of the library saying "Are you looking for a job, innit?", finding it Totally Radical to an insulting degree. His roommate looks at the letter and explains that it says "Are you looking for a job in IT?".
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_5cf55593	comment	In Election, Reese Witherspoon's character, Tracy Flick, makes cupcakes with her last name (FLICK) written on them in icing. So this fits, because she was FLICK-ing a teacher at the beginning of the film. And the long, lingering, close-up on her PICK FLICK election badge.
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_60999318	comment	In an episode of Golden Palace, Blanche orders personalised pens with the phrase "this pen is compliments from us to you". The vendor omits the space between "pen" and "is".
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_61f1473	comment	Smosh: In one of the "If Apps were real" skit, they use Siri to direct them to a pen store called Pen Island. Instead, Siri takes them to a place called Penisland. In a music video called "PEN15", they feature a club called the People Eliminating Nefariousness club, that usually keeps their member count to 15. That's right, "I <heart> PEN 15"! Though once Ian sees that his shirt also read as "I <heart> PENIS"...
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_65d07453	comment	Covers of the British SF/Fantasy magazine SFX often are examples (perhaps deliberately invoked) of this trope. When a cover subject's photo is placed in front of the magazine's logo, it looks like the magazine's logo might actually be SEX. One letter to the editor informed the magazine that a picture of Chris Evans as Captain America: The First Avenger on the cover and having the 'F' obscured led to that issue being put with the "gay interest" magazines in his local newsagents. Referenced in the title of David Langford's collected SFX work: The SEX Column And Other Misprints.
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_6c1234ed	comment	There's a mod/cheat utility program for Dwarf Fortress called Dwarf Therapist. This is not particularly funny until you notice that the URL for the program; http://code.google.com/p/dwarftherapist/ Embraced, however, in typical dwarven fashion by the game's community, who regularly refer to it as "Dwarf TheRapist".
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_708ae58b	comment	In Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures, this comic caused a bit of comical reaction in the forums when it came out over Amber's choice of sound effect. Apparently, "click" is another word you have to be careful around with some lower-case fonts.
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_77bda8e9	comment	In Witches Abroad, Nanny Ogg misreads a sign that says "Hotel, No vacancies" as "Hotel Nova Cancies".
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_7ab7da61	comment	In one Three's Company, Janet thinks Jack's girlfriend is a prostitute, but she's actually a psychologist. The confusion culminates in Janet reading the woman's business card as "The rapist!"
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_7c0018a0	comment	In Farzar, the character, "Bazarack KillDieDeath", starts up a website and calls it, "www.BazarackKillDieDeath.com" but when he tries to register it, he discovers the domain name is already taken by three old ladies, named Kiki ("KK" as a nickname), Illdi, and Edeath, who made their website a Bazaar (which KK mispells as "Bazar") for arts and crafts, (abbreviated to "AC"), thus giving them ownership of the domain name, "www.BazarACKKIldiEdeath.com".
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_7d8f184d	comment	The box art for the games in the Akiba's Trip series write the name in all caps and with no space between the S and the T, deliberately making it readable as "Akiba Strip". And it actually is a game about taking people's clothes off. (Because they're vampires who disintegrate in sunlight, you see...)
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_7f39a041	comment	A weather girl in Gintama is named Ketsuno Ana — the Japanese phrase "ketsu no ana" means asshole.
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_817acecf	comment	Fables spinoff "Jack of Fables" would sometimes be listed in Previews as "JACKOFFABLES".
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_86814cd2	comment	Final Fantasy IX has a similar and very prevalent example. There is a giant tree which serves as the source of the Mist that covers the world, as well as being a story dungeon. The tree's name is Iifa (pronounced "ee-fa"), which is clearly displayed on-screen as you enter the dungeon. However, the game text uses sans-serif fonts, and the tree is referred to as the Tree of Life many times. As a result, many players misread the name as "Lifa" (as in "life-a" - the font used for normal dialogue makes "Iifa" and "lifa" look identical), and a lot of the walkthroughs on GameFAQs also refer to it by that name.
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_898426f4	comment	One game store had the habit of placing price stickers on the top right corner of game boxes, and then they came across Drill Dozer with expected results◊.
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_8ebb38e4	comment	Doc Rat has IRateCustomers.com.
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_94f0ca53	comment	In Hellspark by Janet Kagan, the eponymous planet was named based on this principle as a statement on the mutability of language. The natives purposefully alternate between pronouncing their planet "Hell spark" and "Hell's park".
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_952797ee	comment	The Trading Card Game, at two points in its history, released cards known as "PokÃ©mon ex," whose names are that of the PokÃ©mon with "ex" or "EX" added to the end. This resulted in cards named "Gyarados ex," "Aurorus EX," and "Ninetales EX."
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_9a0cb5f4	comment	Bob's Burgers has the "Wharf Arts Center", which gets called "War Farts Center" a few times.
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_9f89a5f0	comment	PokÃ©mon: When PokÃ©mon Masters got its name updated to PokÃ©mon Masters EX, it trended on Twitter. Unfortunately, the hashtag didn't have any spaces or capitalization, making it look like #pokemonmastersex. The Trading Card Game, at two points in its history, released cards known as "PokÃ©mon ex," whose names are that of the PokÃ©mon with "ex" or "EX" added to the end. This resulted in cards named "Gyarados ex," "Aurorus EX," and "Ninetales EX."
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_9fa7d06a	comment	Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei: This trope gives us the title of the series, as the characters in Nozomu Itoshiki's name, when written horizontally, smush into the character for "zetsubou" ("despair"). It's no surprise the guy's depressed. Worse, Nozomu's siblings don't fare any better: Enishi Itoshiki's name becomes "zetsuen" ("disinherited") making reference to the fact he was an unseen character for much of the work's run. Mikoto Itoshiki's name becomes "zetsumei" ("Death"). The guy is a doctor and his private clinic struggles thanks to this. Rin Itoshiki's name becomes "zetsurin" ("peerless") but it's commonly used as a sexual slang. She only wants to get married so she can lose the surname.
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_a1a4b035	comment	In Battle for Dream Island, Pen states that if he were to win Dream Island, he would name it "Pen Island, no spaces, all caps!" He probably doesn't realize it, but he's naming it PENISLAND.
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_a29af98e	comment	Dark Legacy Comics has an In-Universe example here when Keydar decides to create a new alt character, going with Missturdarse. (It's supposed to be Misstur Darse).
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_a825da3e	comment	Magic: The Gathering: The "Frazzled Editor" creature card from the joke expansion set Unhinged had flavor text that reads "The penis mightyer then the sord." marked up with red-pen markings by the person in the card's illustrationnote it depicts him reaching down out of the illustration's frame and into the text box below in order to write those markings to correct it to "The pen is mightier than the sword."
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_af7aead4	comment	Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: An enforced example had a bunch of one second long videos put on johnoliversecstapes.com. John Oliver once listed off Donald Trump's failed businesses, including travel booking site Go Trump (gotrump.com). He figured it was "a real thorn in the side of anyone hoping GotRump.com featured a single thing worth masturbating to." Whenever John adds a #HashtagForLaughs, he'll often point out when it looks like it's saying something else, e.g. in the episode on guardianships, John used the hashtag "Not All Foxes" (#NOTALLFOXES), noting that it could also be interpreted as "No Tall Foxes".
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_b0fc9724	comment	Played with multiple times on Saturday Night Live's "Celebrity Jeopardy!" sketches: At least once per sketch, Sean Connery (played by Darrell Hammond) misreads a category, usually to make it more sexual. It's strongly implied that he's doing it deliberately just to annoy Alex Trebek (Will Ferrell). Examples include: "An Album Cover", which Connery reads as "Anal Bum Cover"; "The Pen Is Mightier", which becomes "The Penis Mightier" ("Gussy it up however you want, Trebek. What matters is does it work? Will it really mighty my penis, man?"); "S Words", becomes "Swords" (this one counts as Early-Installment Weirdness, as that one stems more from Connery's apparent inexperience with the game, being it was the first sketch); "Catch These Men", which becomes "Catch The Semen"; "Japan-US Relations", which becomes "Jap Anus Relations"; "Who Reads", which becomes "Whore Ads"; "Let It Snow", which becomes "Le Tits, Now"; "Famous Titles", which becomes "Famous Titties"; and of course "Therapists" becoming "The Rapists". Alex Trebek attempts to correct Connery ("That's 'Therapists', not 'The Rapists'."), growing increasingly exasperated each time it happens. Burt Reynolds (Norm Macdonald) got in on the act once, mispronouncing "a petit dÃ©jeuner" as "ape tit". In one sketch, they imply the hell out of Connery's misreading instead because it involved a word you can't say on American broadcast TV. Trebek decides to just pick a clue from the category "Foreign Flicks", but before he can even read the answer, Connery buzzes in and responds with "Ursula Andress". After being asked for clarification, he responds, "Ursula Andress, Catherine Deneuve, and Charo, twice." At which point Trebek emphasizes that it's "FOREIGN FLICKS." note Not "FOREIGN FUCKS", Connery's evident misreading. It seems the L and I were too close together. To further drive the point home, Connery remarks later in the sketch that he had "thought of some more foreign ladies I snogged." In one case, Connery simply opted to tape a piece of paper reading "Things Trebek Sucks" over the real category sign. In a later sketch, Trebek announces that they've checked and double-checked all the categories to ensure there's no possible way for Sean Connery to make a sex pun out of them. Connery makes it happen anyway by crossing out letters with a marker while Trebek is distracted, transforming "I HAVE A CHARDONNAY" into "I HAVE A HARDON".
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_bca94054	comment	In Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov, there was a school with a policy of having students sign their reports by first initial followed by last name. This rule was given an exception in the case of a young Olynthus Dam.
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_c4282b71	comment	In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "Bridle Gossip", Twilight Sparkle misreads a book titled "Super Naturals" as "Supernaturals".
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_c5e69cfa	comment	In Lolita, Villain Protagonist Humbert Humbert comments on this is in respect to "therapist"/"the rapist". He would know.
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_c720f71e	comment	There is a person on YouTube with the account name Micioonthet, who once had to make a video explaining that his name is supposed to be read as "Micio on the T" and not "Micioon Thet".
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_c8599ff4	comment	The Beast of Yucca Flats is largely narrated instead of having dialogue, and the narrator recites in a flat monotone that causes this on more than one occasion. Most infamously, the lines "A man murdered. A woman's purse" comes out as one sentence ("A man murdered a woman's purse").
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_cbae024e	comment	One older Twitter user by the name of Dani G. German decided to use her full name as her handle, writing it in all lowercase letters and with no spaces, as was traditional at an earlier time in the internet's history. However, it didn't seem to register to her at first that this made her handle look like a racial epithet, leading to quite a bit of ribbing online by people baffled at the tone-deafness of it. Eventually, Ms. German caught on to the problem and adjusted her handle to capitalize the D and two G's. Her profile's banner also says "LIBERAL" in giant letters to emphasize the fact that she isn't a white supremacist.
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_cf39ca4f	comment	There is a Pearls Before Swine strip where Pig protests against a department store because he thinks "they have an entire section devoted to men using profanity".
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_cf6ccaa7	comment	Animal Crossing: New Horizons has more than a few players literally call their island Pen to purposely invoke this trope.
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_cf7739d0	comment	In one of the Ramona Quimby books, Ramona tries to get her dad to kick his smoking habit, so she draws a NO SMOKING sign to put on the front window. But she tries to fit both words on one line, runs out of space, and has to put the line break in the middle of "SMOKING". When Dad gets home, he sees the sign and wonders who "Nosmo King" is.
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_d1143996	comment	In the twenty-fifth Eddsworld comic, Edd and Matt walk into a building marked "Therapists." After a beat panel, they walk out, with Edd commenting that "They really should make the space between "e" and "r" bigger..." Yeah, they were raped.
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_d4fe015f	comment	QI presented four of the websites — whorepresents, expertsexchange, powergenitalia, therapistfinder and penisland — and the panellists had to work out what they were really meant to be. Discussed when comic book fan Jonathan Ross spoke about the Comics Code Authority: "Comics were investigated after a certain Doctor Fredric Wertham brought out a book called Seduction of the Innocent in 1954, calling for the introduction of a self-regulating body known as the Comic Code Authority, that had such ridiculous rules as, you could not use the word 'flick' in a comic for fear that the 'L' would run into the 'I' and Spider-Man would be saying, 'Look, he's got a fuck knife!'" The only problem with this statement is that the Code didn't have such a rule - while it certainly didn't condone vulgarity, it didn't regulate word usage to that demanding a degree.
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_d68df17d	comment	What Top Gear did with doors sometimes happens in real life. Here are 30 examples. The leaders of the Pendennis luxury yacht shipyard actually went with their own door joke for charity.
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_d8520b74	comment	Sam & Max: Freelance Police: The game has a relatively innocent example in season two. Sam and Max discover a new garage in their neighborhood called "Pimp Le Car". Max asks "Sam, what's a pimple car?" In the episodes after Max is elected president, a suspiciously out of place ice cream truck becomes parked opposite Lefty's. It reads "Secret Serv Ice Cream". Max doesn't catch on to the double meaning, but Sam does.
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_db3b75ff	comment	The broad, white, all-caps, sans-serif credits font used in Barney Miller was not kind to writer Theodore J. Flicker.
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_dbf18509	comment	Jeopardy! itself once did a session of categories inspired by SNL's "Celebrity Jeopardy" sketches—which included a category for "Therapists".
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_dd2e2c34	comment	In another video, he talks about how the title of Air Buddies could be misinterpreted as Air Bud Dies.
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_e60954ea	comment	Like the "Flicker" example everywhere, Armored Core 4 and for Answer features a part called 09-FLICKER, which is a flashbang in rocket form. Pretty appropriate in both forms, as getting hit removes your ability to lock on to enemies for a certain time, and with mechs typically moving at blinding speeds, as well as the NPC enemies who do equip them are known to be That One Boss, you are seriously boned.
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_e6318baf	comment	Midsomer Murders: In "Dtrangler's Wood", the way a name written in a diary is spaced causes Barnaby to initially read it as "Draycott" rather than the correct "Dr Aycott".
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_eb1a2ec5	comment	In Stephenson's Quicksilver, King Charles II ennobled Knott Bolstrood when naming him Secretary of State. He was granted the title "Count of Penistone" note rhymes with Pennisten mostly because that would force him to write "penis" whenever he signed his name. (In case you're wondering, the word is supposed to be Pen/Is/Tone.)
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_eb79f449	comment	Used to great effect in the short-lived TV show, Miracles, where a message is repeatedly found scrawled near the site of unexplained events reading "GODISNOWHERE", leading to an in-universe conflict of interpretations.
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_ec24475f	comment	Not really an obscene example, but results from the general pattern of this trope for the film Antz. Look at the title and the movie, and it's easy to think that the title is just a faux hip way of describing the colony of ants that the movie is about, however adding a space makes the second interpretation a bit clear: Ant Z is the main character, and the title is really a Character Title. When the movie first came out, the title was written with the Z off axis, making it a bit more obvious to people who had seen the movie and seen the title again afterwards. Newer box covers for the DVDs keep the spelling Antz, making it seem like a straight case of Xtreme Kool Letterz.
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_ec90faa4	comment	Sometimes the Midnight Screenings will lead to funny pictures with truncated signs, such as Deepwater Horizon, The Disappointments, and Going In Style.
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_ee6c1abc	comment	In the Strong Bad Email episode "web comics", Strong Bad gets a message from one "Gunkiller", presumably meant to be read as "Gun Killer". Since Strong Bad deliberately misnaming anyone who emails him is a Running Gag of the series, he refers to the sender as "Gunk iller" instead, which he later shortens to "Gunky".
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_f18fbbe2	comment	The title of the 2017 comedy film Girls Trip, which also reads as "Girl Strip".
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_f6e5bd7f	comment	The URL to the official website of Repo! The Genetic Opera, as noticed by quite a few people, is rePOOPera.com. Apparently noticeable enough that 'repo-opera' is now a redirect.
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_f8956ef3	comment	A variation appears in YuYu Hakusho. Kuwabara, Hiei, Botan and Kurama are facing Kaito, who can make it so that if anyone, even himself, says a specific word- "Hot" at the moment- their soul will be sucked out of their body. When Botan goes for a drink, Kuwabara asks if they can share it with "each other" and loses his soul even though he didn't specifically say "Hot" (in the manga, he asks for "two shots" of orange juice). Kaito points out that he has no control over how his powers are applied, and simply saying the syllables for "hot" is enough regardless of context. In the Latin American dub of the anime, since Hot translates into caliente, Kuwabara loses his soul when he jokingly asks Botan to look for sunglasses due to how the room's heat makes it look like the Sun was inside ("busca lentes de sol").note Yes, the I is missing, but the dialogue line was the closest the dub team had in mind back then to replicate the scene in Spanish In the Brazilian dub, the forbidden word is "Quente" (Portuguese for "Hot"). When Botan gets the drinks, Kuwabara comments "Quem te viu, quem te vÃª" (a slang used when someone does something they don't do usually). This is notable because he manages to break the rule twice before Kaito's power kicks in.
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_ff7b68ba	comment	On a Halloween episode of Night Court, the gang is led to believe that the ghost of a man who died before his case could be decided is haunting the courtroom. A medium conducts a seance and is apparently possessed by the spirit, and scribbles something on a legal pad while saying, "I want....I want...." On the paper is the word JUST, and below it, ICE. Dan says to the sky, "Just ice? Sure we can't get you a little Margarita mix, Ray?" Harry points out that what the spirit is probably demanding is JUSTICE.
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