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{{quote|''"This is wrong on more levels than I can count. And they're ''both'' really basic levels, too."''|'''Fighter''', ''[[
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.
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 wrong -- resembling a Mandelbrot curve, which has [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandelbrot_set#Image_gallery_of_a_zoom_sequence similar features at every scale].<ref>As a fractal, it can't be ''many'' kinds of wrong, only the same kind of wrong no matter how you view it. Associating this expression with fractals is as redundant as the notion of 'levels' in fractals, by design.</ref>
A specific variant phrase is "[[Sick and Wrong]]", which usually involves something that would require [[Brain Bleach]]. Occasionally paired with [[Head
[[And That's Terrible]].
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== [[Anime]]/[[Manga]] ==
* 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 ''[[Best Student Council (Anime)|Best Student Council]]''.
* In ''[[Koe De Oshigoto]]'' several characters point out to Yayoi that making her underage sister Kanna work as an eroge seiyuu is sick and wrong, to which she responds there is no law against it.
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* ''[[Arrested Development (TV)|Arrested Development]]'', of course:
{{quote| '''Michael''' (played by Jason Bateman, to Nellie, a prostitute he believes to be his sister, played by Justine Bateman, Jason's real sister)! "Marry me!... that's wrong on so many levels."}}
* On ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway? (TV)|Whose Line Is It Anyway]]'', Wayne Brady said this at the end of one game that... [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZxnEoFKGzw well, see for yourself.]
* ''[[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)|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."
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* [http://xkcd.com/299/ This] ''[[Xkcd (Webcomic)|Xkcd]]'' strip.
* ''[[Something Positive]]'': "Oh... Davan, that is so not-good on so many [http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp04232002.shtml not-good levels.]"
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{{quote| '''Fighter:''' That's wrong on more levels than I can count, and ''both'' of them are really basic levels.}}
** And [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2004/07/27/episode-445-the-zings-the-thing/ upon meeting Berserker]
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'''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".
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