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** The movie ''Summer School'' had such a scene, where one of the students in Remedial English is discovered to have undiagnosed dyslexia.

* "Bunny" Warren from ''[[Porridge]]'' is severely dyslexic, and indeed illiterate. He blames his condition for his incarceration.

'''Warren''': The one saying "Warning, Burglar alarm". }}

* Michael DeLuise's character on ''[[SeaQuest DSV]]'' claims to be dyslexic, and very nearly puts the wrong disarming code into a mine attached to the submarine, before he's ordered to read the number backwards, and realizes that, "the seven goes on the outside".

* A boy on the Brazilian tv show ''Malhação'' hard a hard time reading; One of the characters explained he was "dyslexic" after asking him to make a mark on the right side of a piece of paper and the boy marked the left side.

* ''[[Scrubs]]'' falls right into this trope with a one-time joke, despite its usual precision:

'''Ted''': I have stress-induced dyslexia and you know that Dr... Oslek. }}

* ''[[Degrassi the Next Generation]]:''

** Anya is dyslexic.

* Charlie on ''[[It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia|Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia]]'' is either dyslexic or just illiterate; it's hard to tell. At times, his writing reads like Engrish. For example:

* The ''[[Quantum Leap]]'' episode Jimmy, where Sam leaps into a dock worker with Down Syndrome. Another of the workers has a severe hatred of Jimmy even beyond the usual prejudice of the time, and it turns out to be because he's dyslexic and can't read, and thus feels like the retarded but literate Jimmy is actually smarter than him. It uses the "jumbled up words" explanation, though you can fanwank that Sam was trying to not sound too smart while inhabiting such a person.

* Before the 2006 elections in Israel, Israeli satire programme ''[[wikipedia:Eretz Nehederet|Eretz Nehederet]]'' made a sketch in which the fictional ‘Dyslexia Party’ made an ad for themselves, with a presentor reading statements off a page pretty poorly (‘From now on, we will let anyone screw us over!... Sorry!... We will ''not'' let anyone screw us over!’). They started singing a song about the harsh life of dyslects (‘We want to finish tests before dark... To watch films even without a dub... We hate how the waiter gets andgry when we order Bolognese sapta... Vote for the dyclests!’).

* A cartoon in ''[[Dragon (magazine)|Dragon]]'' magazine had a magic-user reading his newly-acquired magic scroll. It began, "?This is a scroll of learning disability. As you read, yol will smolwy become confused by thr printed wertz??"

* The ''[[Mad Magazine]]'' parody of [[Jewel]]'s poetry book includes a poem about being diasgnosed with dyslexia, which ends:

Why does it say "Also, [[Take That|your cisum skcus]]"? }}

* Jasper Carrott had a comedy routine on the subject (largely the popular misconception version...)

* Eddie Izzard is actually dyslexic. Or "partially dyslexic", as he puts it.

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