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== Fanfic ==

 

== Films -- Animation ==

* ''[[Family Guy]]'', "Viewer Mail #1". Peter is threatened by a man riding on a bus after Peter is granted his own theme music by a genie. The man asks him to stop the music. Peter tells him he can't, and the man threatens to break every bone in Peter's body. So Peter says "I wish I had no bones" out of fear. The genie, who is driving the bus, hears him and says, "Done," turning Peter into a boneless blob. Bizarrely, Peter is initially happy about this turn of events and laughs at the man.

* A butcher in a ''[[Felix the Cat]]'' animation wishes Felix's bumbling Guardian Angel to "make him the biggest, greasiest sausage ever made". No points for guessing what becomes of him.

** Although well-meaning, [[Bungling Inventor]] Gyro Gearloose has a habit of following instructions a little too close to the letter, then being honestly confused when someone complains about the results ("well, you asked for..."). When told to make a [[Sci Fi]] show set "as real as it could be", he constructed a fully functioning spacecraft. When told to build a guard robot that wouldn't let anyone near Scrooge's money bin, he failed to include the obvious exception of Scrooge himself.

:And don't forget his orders to choose "Some kind of nonsense" as a password for the Gizmoduck armor, and to make sure it's a word nobody uses, which resulted in him looking it up in a thesaurus to find an obscure word for "nonsense". The word he ends up using, sure enough, is part of the [[Catch Phrase]] of Scrooge's new hire, Fenton Crackshell.

** There was also an episode of the TV show in which Scrooge McDuck tells Fenton to make his assets more liquid, which he goes by dumping the money in a lake.

* In the "Rainy Day Robot" [[U.S. Acres|US Acres]] short on an episode of ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'', Roy gets conned into buying a voice-activated weather-making robot, though the salesman ''does'' tell him that the robot will "do the appropriate rain dance, snow dance, ''or whatever''". It works fine during the demonstrations, of course, but then idles whenever Roy specifically demands rain ([[Wild Mass Guessing|perhaps because it only does each type of weather once]]). In his frustration, he then makes the mistake of saying things like "bucket of bolts", "overgrown vacuum cleaner", "horse", "tree", and "safe" (in which is a [[Shout-Out]] to Wile E Coyote [[Talking with Signs|as he holds up a sign that says]] "ouch" and an umbrella), in front of it (or within earshot as he tries to escape), prompting the robot to drop one of said things on top of him. Roy later uses it to thwart Orson's brothers, however, by tricking them into repeating his would-be last words, "27 pianos", so that the robot drops the required amount on them. The episode ends without them getting it to properly rain, though, and one has to wonder how the robot interpreted "trade jobs"...

* The ''[[South Park]]'' episode "Crippled Summer" had Nathan trying to get Mimzy to get Jimmy killed, but he misinterprets every command. For example, Nathan tells Mimzy to kill Jimmy by going underwater where he is and blowing a shark whistle to attract sharks. Mimzy then goes underwater, goes back on land, and ''then'' blows the shark whistle.