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You Can't Miss It
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Often characters will give complicated directions and then act as though what they said is simple, often much to the annoyance of those trying to figure out what the character is talking about. This is not limited to travel directions though. Can also be used for other situations like cooking or computer assembly. When the actual phrase "You Can't Miss It" is used, the landmark or destination in question may be either easily missed, perhaps by taking a Wrong Turn at Albuquerque, or truly and tragically unmissable. Especially irritating for those with No Sense of Direction, or a Directionless Driver. Compare It Works Itself. |
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Madagascar: When Marty escapes from the Central Park Zoo and walks through New York, he asks a police horse for directions to Grand Central Terminal. | |
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The Curse of the Blue Figurine: Referenced in the sequel The Drum, the Doll and the Zombie, when a very frustrated Professor Childermass has just gotten a set of directions from a gas station attendant and pre-empts the expected line with "Don't you dare tell me I can't miss it!" | |
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A set of instructions for getting from the Hekawi Indian camp to Fort Courage on F Troop once included (approximately): "Turn left at the big rock that looks like a bear. Then turn right at the big bear that looks like a rock." | |
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The Looney Tunes short "There Auto Be a Law" had a Running Gag of a man in a complicated overpass asking a hamburger stand attendant for directions to the main road. The attendant keeps giving him different directions, ending each time with "you can't miss". At the end of the cartoon, the attendant confesses that he doesn't know how to get out of the overpass, and that he opened the stand to keep from starving to death. The man ends up opening a hotdog stand right beside the attendant. | |
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In Red Sonja, directions to find Queen Gedren's castle include "Straight north from here. You can't miss it. But it's worth a try." | |
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The Wolf and Twitchy in Hoodwinked! are contemplating how to get to Granny Puckett's house when Boingo shows up and offers directions: | |
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Discussed on David Wilcox's Live Songs and Stories album, in the lead-in to the song That's What The Lonely Is For, where it's called "the kiss of death". Described both in its literal sense with directions ("The huge blue poodle, you can't miss it...") and in a metaphorical sense for questions like "How do you know you're in love?" "Oh, you'll know..." | |
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A 1960s Tang commercial, which aired during The Bugs Bunny Show, has Bugs tricking Yosemite Sam into abandoning his Tang by disguising himself as a prospector and giving him fake directions to gold. | |
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From Rocko's Modern Life, Rocko and Heffer ask directions to Flem Rock from a country bumpkin, who proceeds to give rambling directions, then gets sidetracked telling an anecdote about a friend of his: | |
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Married... with Children: Al went to a shop and found it closed. When he asked a passerby where to find her, he gave a complicated set of instructions and Al asked if he could simply go to the other side of the street. The passerby explained he needed a ride. | |
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The Discworld Mapp explains that navigating by asking people where you are never works. Either the person isn't from around here, despite the fact they are walking a dog, or they know where they are in such detail that they can't pass this information on in any useful form: | |
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The Squire's Tales: One of Gerald Morris's books has the heroes ask a random couple for directions. The couple mentions things like "the swamp where Betty's horse almost drowned," and "The tree that was cut down after it was struck by lightning" before they start arguing about whether someone's son broke his arm before or after they painted their barn, and the protagonists leave in disgust. | |
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This is Spın̈al Tap: the guys get lost backstage and ask a janitor for directions to the stage. Following his directions only lead them back to the same janitor. | |
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Parodied in Dave Barry Slept Here, in which the old route from Europe to the East is described: "cross the Alps on foot, then take a sailing ship across the Mediterranean to Egypt, then take a camel across the desert, then take another sailing ship back across the Mediterranean, then change to the IRT Number 6 Local as far as 104th Street, and then ask directions." | |
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The Ant and the Aardvark: "Technology Phooey" has the Aardvark building a computer to help him find an ant. | |
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In Hoshin Engi, a hideously complicated aerial maneuver is called out (and part of it is the Konami Code "up up down down..."), but it pays off in the end because the guy giving the instructions was The Chessmaster. | |
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Parodied by xkcd in this strip. And this one. And this. | |
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Bob and George: Parodied when Dr. Light gives George extremely complex instructions on operating a time machine... with a single button. When he complains: George gets Dr. Light back later with another one-button control. Although to be fair, he was just distracting the doctor with his complicated instructions while someone else did the real work behind the scenes. |
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In Funny Farm, the movers get lost trying to find the main characters' new house. A local gives them directions that only a local would understand, including instructions to turn where landmarks used to be. They arrive a day late and pissed off. | |
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Laurie Anderson's song "Big Science" has a variation where a local gives directions in terms of things that haven't been built yet: | |
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Squidbillies: Early's incomprehensible directions to the pizza guy. "No, I said left at the BIG stump! I know you think that's a big stump, but there's a bigger'un comin' down the road!" | |
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Bert and I...: A common element of directions given to tourists. "Which Way to Millinocket?" starts to describe several routes that involve things like "Just keep the river on your left." "Directions" includes directions like "Two miles before the red schoolhouse, you take a left." |
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One episode of NCIS had Torres and Bishop following a set of these to find a criminal's hideout, only to get captured. The rest of the team then has to track down the person who gave them the directions, so they can get a copy to find them, and try to follow them themselves. In the end, what allows the team to find them was realizing that something Torres said before they lost cell connectivity indicated that they were in a registered historical building, of which there were very few in the area, allowing them to just look up the address. | |
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Fraggle Rock: In the episode "Sprocket's Big Adventure", Doc's dog, Sprocket, digs his way into Fraggle Rock in an effort to prove to Doc that Fraggles are real. When he first lands in Fraggle Rock, various cave creatures give him contradictory directions in the song "This Way". The directions given by a creature with bat-like wings are particularly confusing. | |
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Mr. Tyler from Good Omens gives directions like this, complete with tangents aggravated by his self-righteous tendencies. | |
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From The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra: | |
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The Fairly OddParents!: In "Power Pals", Timmy's friends help him get rid of the Power Pals by sending them fake distress message, under the guise of an alien race under attack, so they can leave Earth in their ship. | |
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In the Danger Mouse episode "Custard", Danger Mouse is searching space for a custard-eating alien that can help thwart Baron Greenback's plot to flood the world with custard, and asks another alien for directions. The alien obligingly gives him complicated directions, complete with seemingly-random pointing and obscure landmarks ("...turn left at the planet with the little pink rocks and the shops that close on Thursdays..."). | |
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One Saturday Night Live sketch from 1992 was a game show called "What's The Best Way?" where New Englanders had to give directions from location to location (Like Quincy, Massachusetts to the the Jordan Marsh department store in Bedford, New Hampshire) and answered questions about the route (Example: Hartford to Sturbridge, how many Dunkin' Donuts along the way? Answer: Fourteen, four of them with drive thrus.) | |
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Subverted on Little Britain: | |
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The phrase is used in From Dusk Till Dawn, when the elder Gecko brother is giving the minister instructions on how to get to the Titty Twister, ending with, "From what I understand, you can't miss it." It ends with a Gilligan Cut to the establishment, which includes a 30 foot neon picture of a naked woman, and bikers riding around in front of it so, yeah, sorta hard to miss. | |
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From The Dish: Later, they realize that this is the correct answer: if the spaceship was on its way to the Moon, with only a few thousand miles to go, it would be within a few degrees of the Moon in the sky. |
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In Beetle Bailey, there have been a few occasions when someone is advised on how to find a particular person's tent (or similar) with the phrase, and indeed they couldn't miss it even among a row of tents because it turned out to look very idiosyncratic in the given person's style. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In "Where the Apple Lies", Applejack gives deliberately vague and complicated directions to Filthy Rich and Spoiled Milk when they're looking for Granny Smith's room in the hospital, ending with "Easy as Granny's apple pie." Naturally, they get lost. | |
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Doctor Who: "The Unquiet Dead": In "Daleks in Manhattan", when Martha and the Doctor volunteer to do a tunnel clearing project in the sewers for Mr. Diagoras, Diagoras says, "Turn left. Go about a half a mile. Follow tunnel 273. The fall's right ahead of you. You can't miss it." Of course, there is no tunnel collapse — it's a ruse invented to lure more Hooverville residents into a position to be captured and converted into Dalek-Human hybrids. Also happens in the Adventure Game "TARDIS", when the Doctor tries to direct Amy to the Drawing Room. Supposedly, it's "half a mile down the corridor, left, then right, then right again, then the third right, past a weird swirly thing, left, then the other left, through the sun room, past a green door, right, along a wall until it becomes slimey, down a lift to the third floor and straight ahead." |
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Monty Python's Flying Circus: | |
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Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me once reported on plans to build a 45-meter-tall giant moose, complete with built-in restaurant and conference rooms, in a little-frequented corner of northern Sweden. Their conclusion was that it would be mainly useful for giving directions. | |
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In Quest for Glory II, before you can buy a map of the city (which allows you to instantly teleport to any location you've been to before, and navigate the confusing maze of alleyways to anywhere new you need to get), you need to get your money changed to the local currency. The map-seller is happy to give you directions to the money-changer... directions that require note-taking and extreme care to follow correctly. | |
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Pearls Before Swine: Rat gives directions and adds "You can't miss it". After they leave he tells Pig he adds that to make them feel stupid if they do miss it. | |
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In The Final Frontier when asked how to get to Turboshaft 3, Scotty gives Kirk, Spock, and McCoy directions that end with Scotty telling them they can't miss the Turboshaft. | |
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In Top Gear, the cast used a navigation service to plot a route between 2 towns without using the major highway. The route they got was ridiculously long, and including going through Cork in Ireland and going through France. Then they printed up the directions. | |
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The mapmaker gives you directions like this in a delivery mission in The Longest Journey. | |
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Inverted in Dungeon Siege . When Legion Overseer Ibsen Yamas gives the quest to reinforce Fortress Kroth, he says "Just follow your nose through the ice cave and you'll get there soon enough." However, after the ice cave, the player and the party must fight through a crystal cave, a forest full of bandits, a zombie-infested swamp, a steampunk underground Goblin fortress, rid a difficult waterlogged dungeon of enemies, clear some Temple Ruins of floating skeletons and beholders, and finally emerge in a scrubland... only to find your path to Fortress Kroth blocked by the Necromancer Gresh. Once he is dead, his barriers disappear and the fort is open. | |
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In The Hollows novel A Fistful of Charms, Rachel is in a small town and is given directions to the local magic store that includes such useful landmarks as "the church that burned down two years ago". | |
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A variation is done in Dragon Ball Z. During the Buu Arc, Super Buu appears at the Lookout to fight Gotenks. Knowing Goten and Trunks don't stand a chance, Piccolo has them go to the Chamber of Space and Time to train while he stalls for time. When Buu gets impatient and demands to fight now, Piccolo decides to take him to the Chamber, but purposely takes the longest most convoluted route imaginable to buy even more time. | |
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In How I Met Your Mother, Lilly gets annoyed that Barney can't get the twenty or so steps to make some oragami figures. | |
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The Case Of The Mukkinese Battle Horn opens with a thick London fog. But the narrator cheerfully points out that even in the thickest of fogs, there are some landmarks you just can't miss. Like Nelson's column, for example. *sound of car crashing* "You see? There's someone not missing it now!" | |
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The Borrowers: The greedy Ocious P. Potter rudely demands the city hall receptionist for directions to the demolition department and she replies by giving him a lot of complicated instructions, ending with "walk quickly." Later on, Pete Lender politely asks for the same thing and this time she says "Take the elevator to the top and walk straight ahead — you can't miss it." | |
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