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If research not available at the time of the writing proves them right, that's a case of [[Science Marches On]] meeting this trope. If the theory would never have been accepted by researchers working in whatever field (e.g. Professor [[wikipedia:Alexander Abian|Alexander Abian]]'s theory that we should blow up the moon to stop Typhus), it's just the writers fertilizing some [[Epileptic Trees]]. If the writer was just showing off an obscure fact that he or she knows, that's [[Shown Their Work]]. Compare: [[Right for the Wrong Reasons]]. For the same principle applied to tactics, see [[Strategy Schmategy]].
Not to be confused with [[Accidental Aiming Skills]].
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** More generally, he'll type out every book that has ever been written or ''ever will be''. And a whole bunch that are ''almost'' right, except for one letter. And as many that are right except for ''two'' letters. And so on...
== [[Recorded and Stand Up Comedy]] ==
* In his famous [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM ''Pachelbel Rant''], musician-comedian [[Rob Paravonian]] makes some very inaccurate claims about the piece, such as getting the date wrong by more than a century. However, the one thing that he admits that he doesn't know is the composer's first name, but guesses that it's Johann, since "they're all named Johann". Turns out he's dead right about that one.
* [[Stan Freberg]]'s two-part 1960 satire of early rock'n'roll, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhWnebZ2ZlU "The Old Payola Roll Blues"], is an [[Unintentional Period Piece]] that thought it was celebrating the death of a short-lived and unwanted genre. As such, it's filled with over-the-top zingers and [[Take That]]s intended to illustrate how illegitimate and even fraudulent rock'n'roll was. Amusingly, though, two of its gags turned out to be unintentionally prophetic:
** In part one, sleazy rock'n'roll impresario and promoter [[Meaningful Name|Barney Schlock]] demonstrates a [[Laugh Track]]-like "screaming machine" that he guarantees will generate hysterics in teen girls at his new star's performances. Of course, "real" music would never need such a thing. Several decades later, though, it was revealed that at the start of his career, promoters for [[Frank Sinatra]] had routinely hired actresses to attend his live performances and scream in simulated excitement.
** In part two, in the face of Schlock offering "payola" -- bribes to play a record often, and to talk it up -- the DJ at a big band/swing radio station refuses, and adds, "I'll play that jazz the day [[w:Ella Fitzgerald|Ella]] sings the [[w:Fats Domino|Fats Domino]] songbook." Well, Ella never sang Fats Domino... but she ''did'' record numerous [[The Beatles (band)|Beatles]] covers, including "Can't Buy Me Love", "Hey, Jude", "Savoy Truffle" and "Got to Get You Into My Life", among others.
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** ''[[King of the Hill]]'' did it with Hank getting raped by the dolphin at the La Grunta resort.
** It's worth noting that the Dolfury from ''[[Mortasheen]]'' is almost definitely ''not'' a case of this. The setting and monsters are created by a biology enthusiast fascinated with the so-called "dark side" of nature, and who often seems to hold "cutesy critters" like dolphins in open contempt. The chances that he ''didn't'' know that making his dolphin-derived monsters violent sadists who are popularly (and not necessarily incorrectly) regarded as one of the only monsters that are genuinely evil was [[Truth in Television]] to some degree closely approaches zero.
* The ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "The Cyber House Rules" features the line, "This jigsaw of a pacifier factory makes me want to have children with you even more." Originally the line was "This jigsaw of a barn makes me want to have children with you even more." By coincidence, the Swedish word for children is ''barn'', a cognate of the archaic English "bairn" when means "children". "Bairn" is etymologically related to "born".{{context|reason=How is this an example of the trope as written?}}
* ''[[The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron]]'': It's [[Common Knowledge]] that diamond is overall the hardest natural substance on earth; what only a relatively small handful of people know, however, is that for all that durability, diamond is astonishingly brittle. It is, in fact, not only possible, but surprisingly easy to take a hammer and chisel to a large chunk of the stone for the purposes of breaking off smaller fragments suitable for either jewelery or industrial purposes. So when Jimmy baited a T-Rex into slamming headlong into an enormous stone to get a smaller one suitable for his jury-rigged time travel remote, in the episode ''Sorry, Wrong Era''? Not only is that possible, but completely and utterly plausible; the show uses unabashedly wrong and fictional science just because it coasts along on both [[Rule of Cool]] and [[Rule of Funny]], so chances are good that the writers behind the show didn't do their homework this time either.
* ''[[South Park]]'' did an episode with a character called Sexual Harassment Panda that satirized how difficult subjects are often presented to children in a sugar-coated manner. Turns out [https://web.archive.org/web/20160310141956/http://deltadentalnj.com/company/panda.shtml there is a program called P.A.N.D.A.] that deals with a topic like that.
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