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{{quote|''"...Find a woman named Elizabeth Lemon. Get her advice, and then do the opposite."''
|'''Jack Donaghy'''
Advice from certain classes of teammates—like [[The Ditz]], or the [[Token Evil Teammate]] afflicted with [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]—can usually be safely ignored. But, if a person (let's call him Bob) is wrong consistently enough, then Bob's teammates will eventually find his advice useful—by reversing it first. If Bob says to turn left at the fork, Alice will turn right. If Bob says, "Gee, Dave sure seems trustworthy to me!", Alice takes this as a sign that Dave is not to be trusted. And if Bob says, "Don't touch that, you fools!", Alice knows that it's critically important that they touch the object in question as soon as possible.
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== Western Animation ==
* In an episode of ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'', Spongebob and Squidward are lost. Spongebob predicts which way to go using his pioneering skills, so Squidward goes the opposite way. The camera then pans over to show that their houses are just over a ridge in the direction Spongebob wanted to go.
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'': Homer Simpson has a card in his wallet that tells him "Always do the opposite of what Bart says
* In an episode of ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'', Garfield is wondering how to attract a girl cat
* On ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]'', there was a tribe of island natives who got their weather predictions from the egg of the Oogle bird. When the bird was no longer available, they substitute it with [[Lord Error-Prone|Captain Wrongway Peachfuzz]] and simply expect the opposite from his predictions.
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* ''[[Kim Possible]]'':
== Real Life ==
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[[Category:Alice and Bob]]
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