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{{quote|'''Dialogue coach''': [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Up and ATOM!]]<br />
'''Rainer Wolfcastle''': [[Completely Missing the Point|Up and AT THEM!]]|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3ZoHhvQgjU&feature=related This scene] from ''[[The Simpsons (Animationanimation)|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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== Live Action TV ==
* Mr. Rumbold from ''[[Are You Being Served? (TV)|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:
{{quote| '''Mr. Lucas:''' You see, it was like this, you see, Sir. Erm, Mr. Humphries kneed the jacket.<br />
'''Mr. Rumbold:''' Ah! You mean, Mr. Humphries '''needed''' the jacket. [[Grammar Nazi|Let's get our tenses right]].<br />
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== Web Comics ==
* [http://xkcd.com/496/ This] issue of ''[[Xkcd (Webcomic)|Xkcd]]'' comics, when someone "pleads the third."
{{quote| '''Interrogator:''' You mean [[Stock Legal Phrases|the fifth]]?<br />
'''[[Cloudcuckoolander|Black Hat Guy]]:''' No, the third.<br />
'''Interrogator:''' You refuse to quarter troops in your house? }}
* In ''[[The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|Order of the Stick]]'', during Roy's duel with Thog in the arena:
{{quote| '''Roy:''' I don't care how strong you are, thug.<br />
'''Thog:''' thog's name is thog.<br />
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** Another yet:
{{quote| '''Homer:''' Nucular. It's pronounced nucular.}}
* From an episode of ''[[Danger Mouse (Animation)|Danger Mouse]]'':
{{quote| '''Colonel K:''' Danger Mouse! Wales is being devastated by a giant fire-breathing dragon!<br />
'''Penfold:''' No, no, Colonel, it's "whales ''are'' being devastated." }}
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