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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* The protagonist of the children cartoon Jimbo is a talking Jumbo-jet that was manufactured in centimetres instead of inches by mistake.
* In the episode of ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'' where they try to get into the world record book, their attempt at the largest pizza pocket fails when Sid misinterprets "tsp" as "ten square pounds".
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'': Homer is in the basement trying to invent something. He works out a few equations on the chalkboard, hammers, saws, welds, and finally blows up the basement. Walking over to a chart, he changes a "greater than" sign to a "less than" sign, and goes back to work.
** In another episode, Mr. Burns drops a weight on Homer, but it's 1000 grams. That's about 2.2 pounds, which did not have the desired affect. Burns curses the metric system.
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