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{{trope}}
{{quote|"I must be the only gullible husband who ever overheard snippets of surprise-party planning, and believed his wife was having an affair!"
|'''Homer Simpson''', ''[[The Simpsons]]'', "Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind"}}
An episode based on a misheard conversation, often involving [[Innocent Innuendo]].
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{{examples}}
== Comics ==▼
* Used in an infamous storyline in the ''[[Popeye]]'' comic strip; A woman overhears Olive Oyl talking about getting rid of a baby robot a home shopping channel had mistakenly sent her and assumes she's talking about getting rid of her (unborn) baby and quickly assembles a crew of her cohorts to talk her out of it. Although there was little negative feedback from readers or newspapers, the artist behind this strip was soon fired (The official reason being that the artist had gone too far in trying to include modern elements into such a legacy strip. The "abortion" strip was merely the last straw).▼
== Films -- Live Action ==
* In the 1947 comedy ''Copacabana'', Lionel and Carmen have made up a fake stage persona, [[Everyone Looks Sexier If French|Mlle. Fifi]]. When they decide to dump the persona, an old woman hears them joking about it and misinterprets them as saying that they murdered Fifi (who no-one else knows was just Carmen in a veil with a [[Everything Sounds Sexier in French|French]] [[Gratuitous French Phrases|accent]]). [[Hilarity Ensues]].
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'''Maddy''': [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Four pawns and a bishop]].
'''Jonathan''': Resign. }}
▲== Newspaper Comics ==
▲* Used in an infamous storyline in the ''[[Popeye]]'' comic strip; A woman overhears Olive Oyl talking about getting rid of a baby robot a home shopping channel had mistakenly sent her and assumes she's talking about getting rid of her (unborn) baby and quickly assembles a crew of her cohorts to talk her out of it. Although there was little negative feedback from readers or newspapers, the artist behind this strip was soon fired (The official reason being that the artist had gone too far in trying to include modern elements into such a legacy strip. The "abortion" strip was merely the last straw).
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