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{{trope}}
{{quote|'''Dialogue coach''': [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Up and ATOM!]]
'''Rainer Wolfcastle''': [[Completely Missing the Point|Up and AT THEM!]]|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}w3ZoHhvQgjU&feature{{=}}related This scene] from ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''}}
The verbal equivalent of [[Exactly What I Aimed At]], this is when a character deliberately says one thing, and is mistaken for having meant to say another thing. Cue another character wrongfully "correcting" them.
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{{examples}}
== Comic Books ==
* In ''[[Batman]]: Legends Of The Dark Knight'' #128 (collected in ''The [[Green Lantern|Ring]], the [[Green Arrow|Arrow]] and the Bat''), the [[Goo-Goo Godlike]] religious leader of a [[Fictional Country]] tells a treacherous general that he will be "safed". The general corrects his pronounciation of "saved", but the boy insists that's what he meant. Five minutes later, the general is hit by a falling safe.
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== Live Action TV ==
* Mr. Rumbold from ''[[Are You Being Served?
{{quote|'''Mr. Lucas:''' You see, it was like this, you see, Sir. Erm, Mr. Humphries kneed the jacket.
'''Mr. Rumbold:''' Ah! You mean, Mr. Humphries '''needed''' the jacket. [[Grammar Nazi|Let's get our tenses right]].
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'''[[Cloudcuckoolander|Black Hat Guy]]:''' No, the third.
'''Interrogator:''' You refuse to quarter troops in your house? }}
* In ''[[The
{{quote|'''Roy:''' I don't care how strong you are, thug.
'''Thog:''' thog's name is thog.
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== Real Life ==
* Real life: Tell someone that an anime was [[Macekre
* Stage critic George Jean Nathan belittled Tallulah Bankhead for her playing in what he called ''[[Queen Of The Nile|Queen of the Nil]]'': "no e, please, Mr. Printer; don't make something out of nothing."
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