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Upside-Down Blueprints
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Where Just Following Orders gets too extreme. When a construction worker unknowingly is looking at a blueprint the wrong way, instead of figuring out what's wrong with it, he ends up building his project accordingly to the misread plans. It's only after construction is finished that the worker realizes his error, only for it to be too late. Expect yells of You Fool! or the worker experiencing a Dope Slap for his idiocy. Alternatively, the worker might be confused about the plans and mentions his doubts about the project to his boss who, unaware that the plans are upside down, invokes I Don't Pay You to Think and orders him to follow the plans exactly. Subtrope of Bizarrchitecture, which has to be at work in order for the project to be standing after the builder is finished. Also relies a lot on Rule of Funny. See also Had the Silly Thing in Reverse. May result in Achievements in Ignorance. Not to be confused with Construction Zone Calamity, which is another disaster altogether. |
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The Far Side: One cartoon has an angry-looking devil, a "999" on the door, and the painter going "I must have been holding the dang work order upside down!". In a variation, one is captioned "Suddenly, a heated argument took place between the king and the moat contractor", we see the workers diligently digging a moat... inside the castle. |
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Bassie & Adriaan: In one of the shorts, Bassie goes camping for the first time, but when setting up his tent he holds the instructions upside down and sets up his tent accordingly. He doesn't even realize his mistake until Adriaan points it out to him. | |
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TaleSpin had a story about a pyramid that was accidentally built upside down and into the ground to the great embarrassment of the Pharaoh, who put a curse on the foreman to guard the shameful secret as a mummy. They end up correcting the error by lifting the entire thing out of the ground and flipping it over, allowing the mummified foreman to rest in peace. | |
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Darkwing Duck: In the episode "Going Nowhere Fast", after being zapped by a particle accelerator from Negaduck, Darkwing gains Super-Speed and uses this to try and be a better hero. One of the things he does is single handidly build a new skyscraper in a matter of seconds, but since he held the blueprints upside down the whole building ends up being constructed upside down. Darkwing being Darkwing, he fails to realize his error and instead states that the architect should be sued. He breaks it down again later after it's revealed the new super speed comes with Rapid Aging, and he has to run backwards to undo this effect. | |
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Sesame Street: In Episode 836, Big Bird builds a snowman, but has it standing on its head. When Maria sees it, she asks him if he looked at a picture of a snowman in a book when he built it, and he tells her he did. However, he held the book upside down when he did it. When Maria builds the snowman right-side-up, big Bird tells her that he liked the snowman better when it was upside down. | |
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Discworld: Bergholt Stuttley "Bloody Stupid" Johnson is infamous for the negative genius he applied to his creations, to the point where one of his other nicknames is "Look, The Plans Were The Right Way Round When I Drew Them". We don't see what resulted in that particular epithet, but he's built things like salt-and-pepper shakers big enough to be used as family housing, a shower that dispenses acid rain, a mail-sorting machine that breaks the laws of physics by rounding down pi to 3, and a trout lake an inch wide. | |
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The Goes Wrong Show: In the episode "90 Degrees", a miscommunication with the set crew caused the study set to be built sideways, complete with all the furniture. To compensate for this, the camera is placed on its side, though the actors are still visibly struggling to get through the scene without breaking the illusion that gravity is working normally. Later this trope is played more literally when the actors discover that the bedroom set is completely upside down. This forces one of the actors, playing a dying patient, to cling to the sides of the bed for dear life. | |
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Inverted in one episode of Mighty Ducks: The Animated Series, where the Saurians have stolen a missile and loaded it into a launch platform pointing downward. Upon looking at the plans, Siege comments that they did it wrong, the missile supposed to be pointed upward, only for Wraith to flip the plans around, showing that the missile is supposed to go downward, their plan being to use it to create a volcano. | |
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A couple episodes of Phineas and Ferb has Ferb show Phineas their blueprints in this way, only for him to reel back in disgust until his stepbrother puts it rightside up. | |
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At the beginning of Minions, after the newly constructed pyramid crushes the Egyptians flat, Norbert realizes that he had the blueprints upside down, earning himself a Dope Slap. | |
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Goof Troop: In "A Goof Under My Roof", Pete reads a set of boundary plans that seem to show that he owns half the property Goofy's house is on. Taking advantage of it, he knocks down half of Goofy's home and starts acting like an annoying house guest. In the end, Peg shows him he had the blueprints upside down: Goofy actually owned half of Pete's house! In "Nightmare on Goof Street", a couple of con artists pose as house renovators and steal parts of Pete's house. After getting the parts back, Pete and Goofy rush to put the house back together before Pete's family finds out. They succeed, but Pete still gets caught when it's shown that the kitchen is upside down. |
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Invoked by Mr. Lamb in one episode of The Men from the Ministry. After transport people return the plans for a potential flyover wanting instead an underpass, Lamb orders Mildred to send the plans back turned upside down. | |
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Futurama: In "A Big Piece of Garbage", the Planet Express crew is sent to a giant ball of garbage about to fall on New New York to activate a time bomb to destroy it. But once they activate it, they realize to their horror that the timer was installed upside down, and instead of 25 minutes, the bomb was set to explode in 52 seconds. After barely escaping with their lives, Professor Farnsworth wonders how it all went wrong, as he holds the bomb's manual upside down. | |
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Inverted in one episode of Peabody's Improbable History, where Sherman is shocked that it appears for once, Mr. Peabody makes a mistake when he designed the Great Pyramid upside down. However, Peabody reveals that he deliberately designed the pyramid upside down as part of a Batman Gambit, knowing that the Pharaoh's bratty nephew would try to destroy it. Instead, the nephew's attempt to blow up the pyramid results in it landing right-side up. | |
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In Chicken Run, when Ginger shows Mac the blueprints of her new escape plan: | |
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Bugs Bunny Builders: In "Goofballs", the Beaver Brothers play with Lola's tablet, messing up the plans for the log cabin that the Looney Builders were building for them. As a result, the directions get flipped over, and the Looney Builders end up building the log cabin upside down. Invoked in "Batty Kathy"; the Looney Builders intentionally build an upside-down radio station for Kathy Bat, and need to find a way to keep it from falling from the ceiling. |
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Wayside School is a 30-story building (albeit lacking a nineteenth story). It was supposed to be a 1 story building with 30 classrooms in a row, but the builder was holding the plans sideways. He said he was very sorry. | |
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The Happy Tree Friends TV episode "Home Is Where the Hurt Is" has a variation of this trope, where Lumpy messes up with the blueprints and the new house built for Giggles is an amalgam of upside-down rooms, doors leading to nowhere, deadly pits and hazards, and twisted halls that lead to the deaths of the many careless characters wandering within. | |
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