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[[File:sixteen-candles-400ds0629 2392.jpg|frame|''[[Sixteen Candles]]'' is all about this one. Now move that dress away from the candles! ]]
{{quote|'''Timmy''': Don't worry about forgetting that my birthday was today, Mom and Dad. It's OK.
'''Dad''': What?! Forgot your birthday?
'''Mom''': We'd never forget your birthday, [[My Name Is Not Durwood|Tommy]]!
|''[[The Fairly OddParents]]''}}
A famous desperation plot for Sitcom Writers. A major character is sure everybody's forgotten his or her birthday (or perhaps a similar occasion) and wanders around in an angry funk until surprise! They not only remembered it, they threw a Surprise Party!
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This trope can be a subtrope of [[The Complainer Is Always Wrong]].
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▲== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]'': Keroro does this to Natsumi in one episode, while Fuyuki insists that Natsumi wouldn't enjoy it. Much to his chagrin, he finds his sister not only has a good time at the party, but completely fell for the Forgotten Birthday ploy.
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* A plot of many ''Little Golden Books''.
* There was a ''[[Garfield]]'' kids' book where Garfield ''thought'' everyone forgot his birthday, but what actually happened was that ''Garfield himself'' forgot which day his birthday was on and misremembered it being one day earlier than it really was; the party happened on the correct day.
* In ''[[Harry Potter and
* Subverted in ''Patricia's Secret'' by Ruth Dagget Leinhauser. Patricia thinks her father has forgotten her birthday since he doesn't mention it. {{spoiler|She didn't have a calendar. It was actually the following day.}}
* In one of the ''[[Gossip Girl]]'' books, Eleanor Waldorf unwittingly schedules her wedding for Blair's birthday.
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