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Where a pie chart, line graph, or a bar graph has lines or bars shooting completely off the chart itself. Prevalent in cartoons and animation to imply either a severe rise in something or a severe drop in something (such as profits), that is severe enough that it goes through the ceiling or through the floor.
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A sister trope of [[Readings Are Off the Scale]].
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== [[Advertising]] ==
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== [[Film|Films]]s ==
* ''[[An Inconvenient Truth]]'': The CO2 chart goes off the screen and requires an adjacent screen to be turned on to display it.
* ''[[Silent Movie]]'' features one of these showing Big Picture Studio's recent performance.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* [http://xkcd.com/653/ This] ''[[Xkcd (Webcomic)|Xkcdxkcd]]'' comic describing ''[[The Star Wars Holiday Special]]''.
* ''[[Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff]]'': [[Barack Obama|Barack Obana]] [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/sweetbroandhellajeff/?cid=004.jpg weighs in on the] [[Rouge Angles of Satin|econony]].
 
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[[Category:Universal Tropes]]
[[Category:Off Thethe Chart]]