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{{trope}}
{{quote|''When suddenly a guy behind me in the back seat popped right up and cupped his hands across my eyes
''I guessed, "Is it Uncle Frank or Cousin Louie? Is it Bob or Joe or Walter? Could it be Bill or Jim or Ed or Bernie or Steve?"
''I probably would have kept on guessing but about that time we crashed into the truck.
|"Everything You Know Is Wrong", [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]}}
When there are multiple characters in a certain group (usually members of a family) and one of them must be summoned, it is a fairly common occurrence that whoever is calling them will get distracted and start calling out the wrong names. Or, they might just forget who's called what. First the mother will try Tom, then Dick, and so on and so forth... until finally realizing that the son she wants is the one named Harry.
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See also [[My Name Is Not Durwood]].
{{examples|Examples:}}▼
== [[Film]] ==
* Played with in [[The Movie]] of ''[[The Importance of Being Earnest]]'': Jack calls out for Algy, but Algy is currently pretending to be Ernest. Jack is very miffed that he must call out "Ernest" in order to get a response.
== [[Literature]] ==
* Zinny's parents in ''Chasing Redbird'' by Sharon Creech have this
== [[Live Action Television]] ==
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* In ''[[Black Books]]'', a drunk Bernard tries to guess Manny's name.
** "Well, Gerald... Samantha..."
== [[Music]] ==
* As seen in the page quote, one verse of [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]'s [[They Might Be Giants]] pastiche, "Everything You Know Is Wrong".
== [[Stand Up Comedy]] ==
* [[Bill Cosby|"Sometimes your parents get so mad at you they forget your name]]. 'Come here,
* [[Peter Kay]] mentions this trope in his routine, and in particular about how alarming it was when his mum started going through the names of ''female'' relations before reaching his.
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* There's a bizarre version in ''[[Family Guy]]'', where he seems to have actually forgotten Meg's name. He keeps running through the entire family's names until Brian tells him 'it's your son.' "Meg!"
** Another variation:
{{quote|
'''Peter''': Oh no, Stewie!
'''Brian''': Your ''firstborn'' son.
'''Peter''': Meg!
'''Brian''': ''(deadpan)'' Your wife.
'''Peter''': Chris! }}
* Prince Eric in ''[[
== [[Real Life]] ==
* One of Erma Bombeck's articles centers on the embarrassment of forgetting your children's names, which also plagued her mother. Ironically, her mother named her Erma because it was short and easy to
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