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[[File:Wrong on so many levels.jpg|frame|link=Visual Pun|[[Comically Missing the Point|I don't think you're ''quite'' grasping the idea here.]]]]
{{quote|''"This is wrong on more levels than I can count. And they're ''both'' really basic levels, too."''|'''Fighter''', ''[[8-
A [[Stock Phrase]] to describe a situation that is, well, wrong in various ways all at once. There is no hard and fast minimum of exactly how many "levels" it needs to be wrong. It just needs to be hard to describe just how wrong the situation is.
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Can be used in both comedy and drama. In comedy, if anyone ever asks for the speaker to elaborate, they'll do an [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]] progression, ending with "... and that pink ball gag is just tacky."
Also doesn't need to be the word "wrong", or "levels", as long as the format sticks. People of a geeky persuasion can also allude to the concept as being "[http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Fractal_wrongness fractally wrong]": no matter the level you look at it, it's always
A specific variant phrase is "[[Sick and Wrong]]", which usually involves something that would require [[Brain Bleach]]. Occasionally paired with [[Head-Tiltingly Kinky]].
[[And That's Terrible]].
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== [[Anime]]
* Used at least twice in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]''. Once by Chamo, in a bath scene with naked, adult form Evangeline sucking blood from the protesting, 10 year-old Negi's arm. Once by Sayo after witnessing Kazumi's reaction to finding out [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|what winding feels like]] to [[Ridiculously Human Robot|Chachamaru]].
* Rein rather memorably utters this exact phrase in the English dub of ''[[
* In ''[[Koe
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* Southpaw expresses this feeling when she and [[She Hulk]] learn that they're under constant surveillance by [[The Watcher]].
* In Peter David's [[Supergirl]] Jason Blood probably summed the situation up best, when the demon [[Etrigan]] broke off a brawl with Supergirl to drop to his knees and ask for her hand in marriage.
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'''Jason Blood''': This is wrong on so many levels, I don't even know where to start. }}
** And then she said yes.
* [[Grant Morrisons Batman|Damian Wayne's]] opinion of schizophrenic mutilation enthusiast Professor Pyg?
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== [[Film]] ==
* ''Teacher's Pet'':
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'''Mr. Jolly:''' Oh, that is just wrong on so many levels. }}
* ''[[
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* ''[[Must Love Dogs]]'', after the heroine realises she answered her own father's personal ad:
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* ''[[
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* ''[[Kiss Kiss Bang Bang]]'':
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* According to Shenzi the hyena of ''[[The Lion King]]'' (more specifically, ''[[Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead|1 1/2]]''), implied [[
* ''[[
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'''Mittens:''' ''(stares at him)'' Now I'm concerned on a number of levels. }}
== [[Live
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Rome]]'', Octavia says this when she and Jocasta see that Atia is having {{spoiler|the slave Duro, who tried to poison Atia on Servillia's orders}} tortured.
* The team's well deserved reaction to the following exchange.
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Zack: [referring to his Halloween's costume] Cow! I'm a cow! See my udder? }}
* In the second episode of [[Dead Like Me]], George is impaled with a clip on a stick, due to being too close to one of her 'customers' dying (being a Reaper, she got better). Later that night, she has a coughing fit...and spits up the clip. We pretty much agree with her when she says 'Oh that's not right, that's not right!'.
* ''[[
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** ''[[
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* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' episode "Paradise Lost":
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'''Colonel Jack O'Neill:''' That is just wrong on so many levels. }}
* ''[[Andromeda]]'' episode "Pride Before the Fall":
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'''Seamus Harper:''' We will always think fondly of you.
'''Beka Valentine:''' This is so humiliating on so many levels. }}
* ''[[The West Wing]]'' pilot: after Sam recounts the day's bad events and, among other things, admits to sleeping with a prostitute and that he's trying to impress his boss's daughter... ''to'' his boss's daughter:
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* ''I Love Money'' episode "Only the Weak Survive":
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* On ''[[
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* ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'', of course:
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* On ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?
* ''[[Scrubs]]'' had Elliot describing something Jordan said as "disturbing in, like, eight different ways." The new Main Character Lucy also recently had so much to do, that she "had to do my dad phone call, while having sex with my boyfriend. So many things wrong with that, not the least of which is that it was the most turned on I've ever been".
* On ''[[Wings (TV series)|Wings]]'', when Joe learned Roy was ordering a mail-order bride: "This is wrong on so many levels, it's hard to describe without charts."
* ''[[Dollhouse]]'' episode "Omega":
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* From ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', after the true nature of Ted the serial killing robot is revealed:
{{quote|'''Xander''': Now that is creepy on a level I hardly knew existed.}}
* Variation in ''[[Angel]]'':
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'''Wesley:''' On many levels and with great intensity. }}
* [[Castle]] says this after Alexis tells him that her [[Egg Sitting]] partner has 'killed' the egg to get back at her.
* On ''[[Project Runway]]'', judge Michael Kors once told a designer who offered a truly awful "1970s-inspired" outfit: "Those plaid pants would be against every fashion law of nature in ''any'' decade."
* On ''[[The X
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* [[Mitch Benn]]:▼
* [http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/188383 MegaMan and Pompous Robots] has Bass, in one of the hidden easter eggs, telling Dr. Wily one of his creations is "all kinds of wrong".▼
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== [[Radio]] ==
* In the ''[[Big Finish Doctor Who]]'' Lost Stories Audio Drama
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* In the ''[[Star Wars Customizable Card Game]]'' by Decipher, Inc., there's a card showing Luke getting smooched by Leia. The card's name is "This Is Just Wrong." A second kiss in the same vein is "This Is Still Wrong". Conversely, cards involving Leia kissing Han are "This Is More Like It", "This Is Even Better", and "This Is Absolutely Right".▼
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* [http://xkcd.com/299/ This] ''[[
* ''[[Something
* ''[[
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** And [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2004/07/27/episode-445-the-zings-the-thing/ upon meeting Berserker]
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130924075036/http://humon.deviantart.com/art/Kangaroo-Wife-148578041 "That's just wrong on so many levels I can't even count them!!"]
* In ''[[
* ''[[
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'''Nanase''': It's common sense not to. }}
* Tavros of [[
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{{color|#a15000| AT: i DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO SAY ALL THE WAYS i THINK THAT IS CRAZY,}} }}
== [[Web Original]] ==
* [[
**
* In ''[[
* [[Seanbaby]]'s [http://www.seanbaby.com/nes/nes/egm09.htm take] on ''Custer's Revenge'':
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'''Custer's military advisor''': "Yes, general. Several." }}
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T6go6EOuG4 This video warns us]: "Don't watch an anime called [[Boku
▲* [http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/188383 MegaMan and Pompous Robots] has Bass, in one of the hidden easter eggs, telling Dr. Wily one of his creations is "all kinds of wrong".
* [http://notalwaysright.com/masticating-morons/2007 I'm sorry sir, but that will fail on so many different levels].
** [[(The Customer is) Not Always Right|Not Always Right]] also has one called [http://notalwaysright.com/not-always-right-on-so-many-levels/921 Not Always Right on So Many Levels].▼
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100608173215/http://www.a-chau.net/?p=56 Once upon a time there was a very large office building in a very large city. This building had 40 levels...].▼
* From the now-defunct Quote Database: [https://web.archive.org/web/20100327100850/http://www.qdb.us/63382 That is wrong on so many levels, I think I had to fight a boss or two]▼
* The last episode of ''[[Red vs. Blue]] The Blood Gulch Chronicles'' featured this little exchange:▼
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'''Caboose's Mental Image of Sister:''' Yep. I'm Sister... Church's twin brother. I came here in a spaceship, that came from the moon. It crashed next to Blue Base, and now I live with Caboose, and the people from the tail section of the spaceship, live on the other side of the island.
'''Caboose's Mental Image of Sister:''' ''(resignedly)'' Yeah, I know. Tell me about it... }}▼
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Kim Possible]]'': Ron has "[[Sick and Wrong]]!" as a [[Catch Phrase]]. (Others use it too, but mostly him.) Beyond that is "Wrongsick!", and for a example (not from Ron) in the episode "Bad Boy". Ron becomes evil and Drakken becomes nice:
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* Became a [[Running Gag]] in one ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' episode where the line was uttered whenever someone came in dressed as Sam for their own
* ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'', episode "Journey to the Center of Candace" where Phineas and Ferb have shrunk themselves and a submarine to get inside Isabella's chihuahua Pinky. But things didn't quite go exactly as planned....
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'''Ferb:''' That's creepy on so many levels.
'''Phineas''': Candace is on her date with Jeremy. That means ''we're'' on a date with Jeremy.
'''Ferb''': Again, creepy on so many levels. }}
** Candace has this reaction to her brothers attempting to hatch an egg with a robotic platypus butt in "Perry Lays an Egg":
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* On ''[[The Venture Brothers]],'' this was the Pirate's response to walking in on Sally Impossible while she was naked, with her resulting [[Freak-Out]] resulting in her skin turning invisible and the Pirate getting a good full-body glimpse of her muscles and organs.
** Also recently{{when}} cited by Dr. Mrs. The Monarch with respect to the Monarch's obsession with his new "Butterglider": "...They don't even have a ''name'' for what this is!"
* Once uttered by [[The Grim Reaper|Grim]] in ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
* In the ''[[Time Squad]]'' episode "The Prime Minster Has No Clothes", this is Buck Tudrussel's response to Larry going swimming with a naked Winston Churchill:
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'''Otto:''' [[Brain Bleach|I need to wash my eyes!]] }}
* In an episode of ''[[Brain POP]]'', Chip the chipmunk appeared selling Tim & Moby's tulips. And then, Tim said this.
* In one episode of ''[[Family Guy]]'', Peter makes a long analogy involving Woody Allen with a "Chinaman." Lois gently informs him to "hold that thought, because when we get home I'm going to explain everything that's wrong with it."
== Other ==
▲* [http://notalwaysright.com/masticating-morons/2007 I'm sorry sir, but that will fail on so many different levels].
▲** Not Always Right also has one called [http://notalwaysright.com/not-always-right-on-so-many-levels/921 Not Always Right on So Many Levels].
▲* [http://www.a-chau.net/?p=56 Once upon a time there was a very large office building in a very large city. This building had 40 levels...].
▲* [http://www.qdb.us/63382 That is wrong on so many levels, I think I had to fight a boss or two]
▲* [[Mitch Benn]]:
▲{{quote| Well I guess you must put out a track to<br />
▲Cash in on winning ''[[The X Factor]]''<br />
▲Do you have to murder ''Hallelujah''?<br />
▲It's several different kinds of wrong<br />
▲Stick to Mariah Carey songs<br />
▲And stay the hell away from ''Hallelujah'' }}
▲* The last episode of ''[[Red vs. Blue]] The Blood Gulch Chronicles'' featured this little exchange:
▲{{quote| '''Caboose's Mental Image of Sister{{spoiler|[[Stable Time Loop|/Church]]}}:''' ''(flatly)'' Hey, what's up?<br />
▲'''Church:''' Hey who the fuck are you? Sister?<br />
▲'''Caboose's Mental Image of Sister:''' Yep. I'm Sister... Church's twin brother. I came here in a spaceship, that came from the moon. It crashed next to Blue Base, and now I live with Caboose, and the people from the tail section of the spaceship, live on the other side of the island.<br />
▲'''Church:''' What the fuck? That's like wrong in eight different ways!<br />
▲'''Caboose's Mental Image of Sister:''' ''(resignedly)'' Yeah, I know. Tell me about it... }}
▲* [[The Nostalgia Critic (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Critic]] refers to part of the [[Star Wars Holiday Special]] as "a holocaust of wrong."
* [http://www.theodoregray.com/periodicTable/ Theodore Gray] delights in finding new and interesting uses for the elements, but [http://www.theodoregray.com/periodicTable/Samples/074.61/index.s12.html this] is the thing that gave him a [["No. Just... No" Reaction]].
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w31JxhrGkss I'm uncomfortable with this on so many levels....on this level...and this level....]
▲* In the [[Star Wars Customizable Card Game]] by Decipher, Inc., there's a card showing Luke getting smooched by Leia. The card's name is "This Is Just Wrong." A second kiss in the same vein is "This Is Still Wrong". Conversely, cards involving Leia kissing Han are "This Is More Like It", "This Is Even Better", and "This Is Absolutely Right".
▲* In the [[Big Finish Doctor Who]] Lost Stories Audio Drama "Legend of the Cybermen, a character says "that's just wrong..." after she's heard that the Cybermen have begun to cyberconvert mermaids ([[It Makes Sense in Context]]).
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