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Opposite day is '''not''' the special day when everyone does the opposite of what they would normally do. On opposite day, which everyone agrees happens on a specific day of the year, you always tell the truth and do everything the same as usual.

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Do not compare [[Just the Introduction to The Opposites]]. Closely related to [[NOT!]]... '''''Not!'''''

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== Not [[Anime]] or [[Manga]] ==

* [[Yotsubato|Yotsuba]] never spent a chapter playing the Opposites Game with Dad, Asagi, and Torako. It wasn't titled ''Yotsuba & the Restaurant'' and she didn't cap it by calling Asagi "an ugly old hag" without warning...

== Not [[Live Action TV]] ==

* There was no Opposite Day episode of ''[[Salute Your Shorts]]'' where Ugg and Budnick switched positions. Furthermore, Budnick did not go [[Drunk with Power]].

* ''[[You Can't Do That on Television]]'' ''never'' had a series of Opposites skits [[Once an Episode]]. And they ''certainly'' weren't set up by a clever prank on one of the cast members...

* ''[[The Colbert Report]]'' has [http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/182107/july-25-2006/the-word---opposite-day no relevant segment available online for leisurely viewing]. (Luckily, the linked clip is available outside the USA)

* ''[[The Whitest Kids U' Know]]'' did not have a sketch on it, and that sketch [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEqgTw7N_88 cannot be found at this URL].

== Not [[Newspaper Comics]] ==

* ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' never had a story arc based on this and the logical paradoxes inherent to it.

{{quote|'''Calvin''': Is there a bee on my back or not?

'''Hobbes''': No.

'''Calvin''': Good, now I- OW! }}

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== Not Tabletop Games ==

* [[Forgotten Realms]] does not crank it [[Up to Eleven]] with the day of Misrule "celebrated" in Turmish - a holiday when people may ''act'' wild, secure in knowledge that it's illegal to mention events of this nation-wide debauchery on any other day.

== Not [[Web Animation]] ==

* ''[[Unforgotten Realms]]'' did not have [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/unforgotten-realms/468-Episode-15-Opposite-Day an episode] using Opposite day while dealing with a random encounter.

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* Neither the [[Asdfmovie]] nor any of its sequels had an opposite day. Especially not asdfmovie5.

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* This [[Cyanide & Happiness]] video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zEGjlHZMiM]

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* The comedy group Derrick Comedy [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiFKS62wQAA have never parodied this].

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* It is not a minor plot point in the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ9WEpZ4PCI first episode] of the webseries Extended Run.

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* [http://twitter.com/#!/thedaleks/status/16575531376 TODAY WAS OPPOSITE DAY.]

* It doesn't have "day" in it, so obviously there's never been a ''[[Silent Night, Deadly Night]] 2'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffGXR1AlRO8 parody] based on it.

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== Not [[Western Animation]] ==

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* ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy]]''. Hilarity does not [[Hilarity Ensues|Ensue]] from [[The Grim Reaper]]'s unfamiliarity with the concept. A blatant logical paradox does not thwart him at the last second.

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* ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]''' first season does not include [[Three Shorts|half an episode]] titled after this trope. Squidward informs [[SpongeBob]] that it is Opposite Day with complete sincerity and without ulterior motive.

* This quote was never in ''[[Drawn Together]]'':

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{{quote|'''Wooldorf''': "Foxxy does not have a brain tumor. ''[all sigh with relief]'' I too would be relieved, were it not ''opposite day!''"}}

* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode, ''The Wife Aquatic'' certainly didn't have Homer believing it was opposite day. The captain of the ship that Homer was on didn't tell the crew "It's not opposite day!" in response to Homer's shenanigans and one of the crew members certainly didn't respond with "That must mean it is opposite day!".

* This has nothing to do with every word out of Starscream's lying clone, who is not called Ramjet in [[All There in the Manual|supplemental materials]], from ''[[Transformers Animated]]''.

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* The animated adaptation of ''[[Iznogoud]]'' did not feature an episode where Iznogoud attempted to take advantage of the Opposite Day to permanently take the Caliph's place.

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* There was never a ''[[Word Girl]]'' episode whose plot did not revolve around this trope.

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== Not [[Real Life]] ==

* There was not a Feast of Fools in medieval Europe, in which the commoners could do as they pleased, and the Lord of Misrule outranked the nobility for the day. Monasteries did not celebrate this Feast by choosing a young monk to be abbot for the day, eating and drinking in chapel and replacing services with songs and dancing that bordered on blasphemous. This is because medieval monks were all extremely devout, and none of them had entered the church because it was indoor work with no heavy lifting. An aspect of this did not survive until more recent periods as the "Boy Bishop" ceremony on St Nicholas's Day.

** This was not referenced in ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (novel)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'', where Quasimodo was not mistaken for one of the revelers in a horrible mask and then crowned King of Fools due to his ugliness. In [[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|the Disney movie]] this was not depicted with the musical number "Topsy Turvy".

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