Exactly What I Meant to Say: Difference between revisions

== Live Action TV ==

* Mr. Rumbold from ''[[Are You Being Served?|Are You Being Served]]'' would sometimes get the wrong idea of a word. For example the sales staff had the verb "to knee" meaning "press one's knee in the armhole of a suit to loosen a few threads so as to make it fit the customer better." Thus creating this exchange:

'''Mr. Rumbold:''' Ah! You mean, Mr. Humphries '''needed''' the jacket. [[Grammar Nazi|Let's get our tenses right]].<br />

'''Mr. Humphries:''' No, no, you don't understand, Sir. You see, I kneed the jacket.<br />

'''Mr. Rumbold:''' [[Completely Missing the Point|I am aware of how you spell jacket]], Captain Peacock. }}

* There is a ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' sketch invoving a man who cannot pronounce the letter 'C' (his 'C's coming out as 'B's) that includes this exchange:

'''Tourist:''' No, a bat. }}

** Another ''[[Monty Python]]'' example is a sketch about a person who sometimes ends his sentences with the wrong fusebox.

'''Thripshaw:''' Quite. }}

* On ''[[Cheers]]'' Norm's favorite restaurant is the Hungry Heifer, which specializes in cheap food. One time he [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30RrFmWY5X4#t=7m09s got Cliff to go with him.]

Norm: Beef? Don't be ridiculous, Cliffy. That stuff is bef. You see it's a Hungry Heifer trademark for [[Lite Creme|a processed, synthetic, meat-like substance]].<br />

Cliff: Ah, no.<br />

== Web Comics ==

* [http://xkcd.com/496/ This] issue of ''[[Xkcd]]'' comics, when someone "pleads the third."

'''[[Cloudcuckoolander|Black Hat Guy]]:''' No, the third.<br />

'''Interrogator:''' You refuse to quarter troops in your house? }}

* In ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'', during Roy's duel with Thog in the arena:

'''Roy:''' I didn't misspeak. }}

 

== Western Animation ==

* Another Simpsons one:

'''Bart:''' I know what I said. }}

** Another yet:

* From an episode of ''[[Danger Mouse]]'':

'''Penfold:''' No, no, Colonel, it's "whales ''are'' being devastated." }}