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The racecourse or other path is marked off by arrows. Either a villain or a prankster mucks things up by flipping the sign so the arrows point the other way. Can also include incidents where someone who, with honest intentions, by mistake thinks the sign is wrong and "fixes" it, whereupon [[Hilarity Ensues]].
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See also: [[Rules of the Road]], and [[Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat]], as this is one of the ways he does it.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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* In an episode of ''[[The Busy World of Richard Scarry]]'', an inadequately supported sign flips and sends people looking for a stall selling corn into the middle of a cornfield, causing them to become [[Lost in The Maize]].
* ''[[Super Friends]]'' 1973-74 episode "The Fantastic Frerps". This is how King Plasto diverts a shipment of raw plastic from the real GREPS building to his imitation.
* In the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' episode "Fall Weather Friends," Rainbow Dash flips the sign marking the path for the Running of the Leaves, sending Applejack off the track. She hastily flips it back when she hears Twilight Sparkle coming, to keep from being caught.
* In the ''[[Harry Potter (Literature)|Harry Potter]]'' parody of ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy]]'', when sabotaging Gunderstank. Billy spins the signs when Grim leads a field trip, so the signs are reversed yet upside down.
{{quote| '''Dean Toadblatt''': [[Too Dumb to Live|Hey, jerkwad, you’re going the wrong way! The Enchanted Meadow is in that spooky cave, and the deadly Manticore is in that happy meadow! Can’t you read?]]}}
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