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'''Fozzie:''' Right, frog!|''[[The Muppet Movie]]''}}
Possibly the [[Seen It a Million Times|most frequently used gag]] in the history of film and television. If ever in a comedy somebody tells a character or a group of characters to move/turn left, you can bet the character/one or more of the group will go right instead, prompting the phrase, "Your ''other'' left!". (Or they correctly turn left, at which point the first character realizes they actually meant right and tries to cover with the same phrase.)
If this doesn't happen, it's usually replaced with a confused exchange about "My left or your left?", even if the characters are facing the same way.
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== Live Action TV ==
* One of the guys on ''[[Back To Life]]'' tries to disassemble a NASA helmet to restore it, which involves loosening screws. The guy working the screw driver turns the screws the wrong way.
* ''[[Three's Company]]:'' Jack and Janet go on a date and try to kiss. They try to decide which way to tilt their heads to avoid hitting each other's face with their nose, but must first figure out whether it's Jack's left of Janet's left.
* The pilot episode of ''[[Third Watch]]'': Kim and Bobby, in their ambulance, are stuck behind a motorist. Kim speaks over the tannoy to the motorist, asking him to move to the
* In the ''[[CSI]]'' episode "Alter Boys", Catherine tells a suspect to "Raise your right foot... No, your other right." Although, given the circumstances, he was probably in shock at the time.
* In one of those rare cases of being [[Truth in Television]] and simultaneously a trope being used, every season ''[[Survivor]]'' has at least one challenge that requires the bulk of those competing to be blindfolded and verbally directed by one person. Just as regularly, one tribe ''always'' gets screwed by this trope.
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'''Ace:''' Oh, right.
'''The Doctor:''' No, left! }}
* In an episode of ''[[Friends]]'' from Season 7, Rachel is trying to teach Joey how to sail his boat. She tells him to go to port, which he doesn't understand. She then says, left, very calmly, but he doesn't know right from left anyways, and so he remains on the right side of the boat. She screams "The left!" which he still doesn't respond to, then she just simply yells, "Just sit over there!"
* ''[[Knightmare]]'' had this in so many interesting ways.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciIfcYwI6Ps Simon, sidestep to your left.]
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== Theater ==
* In the Broadway musical ''[[A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum]]'', [[Miles Gloriosus]] says "There's none of the enemy left, right?" and "We not only fought but we won, too!" in each case hopelessly confusing his soldiers marching to "Left, right, left, right!" and "One, two, one, two!".
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* ''[[Guild Wars]] Nightfall'':
{{quote|'''Palawa Joko:''' No, no, no! Mummified flesh on the left! Dried bones on the right! No, your other right, you worthless bits of animated anatomy!}}
* In ''[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]]'', when the player has to shoot incoming cops during a car chase;
{{quote|'''Ryder:''' CJ, to the left!
'''CJ:''' Your left, or my left?
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{{quote|'''Roy:''' --so I'm like, "But you told me we didn't want to turn right!" And Durkon says "No, I told ye we dinnae want ta turn '''wights'''!"}}
* Subverted in [http://www.mezzacotta.net/owls/?comic=28 this] ''[[Mezzacotta]]'' strip. One character even comments: "This isn't vaudeville, after all."
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20111229185737/http://www.bardsworth.com/archive.php?p=499 This] ''Bardsworth'' strip, featuring disastrous dancing lessons.
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{{quote|"Down Fluffles, down!" ''(everyone falls off Fluffles)'' "No, the other down!" ''(Fluffles falls)''}}
* Taken totally straight in ''[[Ben 10]]'', when Gwen is trying to ride on Ben [[Accidental Innuendo|(as Wildmutt)]]'s back when he's been rendered "blind" by a cold.
* In ''[[Kim Possible]]'', "Cap'n Drakken" (the episode where they live in "Ye olde times") there is a part where, in trying to direct a ship, Barkin says "Starboard!" followed shortly by "your other starboard!" [https://web.archive.org/web/20100823143035/http://caps.kpfanworld.com/capn_drakken/hd/1201-1300 (about 1/3 of the way down the page)]
* Taken a step further by ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''; after Rich Texan instructs the family to look to their left, and to their other left, he orders them to look ''Texas left'', which he defines as "your down".
* Done on a sketch on ''[[Histeria!]]'' about (Jerry) Lewis and Clark (Kent) canoeing down a river. Lewis' inability to understand Clark's directions leads to then going down a waterfall.
* Played with in ''[[Megas XLR]]'' when Jamie (in the back seat of the car/cockpit) tells Coop (in the driver's seat) to block an enemy to the left. Coop looks left, though the enemy is actually on his right, and he is attacked anyway. Jamie adds "My left!" to which Coop replies, "We have the same left!"
* Frequently used on ''The New Adventures of [[Winnie the Pooh]]''. Justified as they are animals of very little brain.
* An episode of ''[[Rugrats]]'' had Stu and his dad inside a mechanical dragon and Stu ordered Lou (his dad) to hit a button on his
* Used in the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' episode "The Mysterious Mare-Do-Well" by a construction worker Rainbow Dash was in the middle of saving.
* In an episode of [[Johnny Test]] when everyone is fleeing from aliens:
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== Real Life ==
* In [[Real Life]], every drill instructor ''ever'' has had to use the line, typically when trying to teach people how to march in formation, thus requiring them to start with the left foot. Same with marching bands.
** "Your ''military'' left!"
* [[Defied Trope|Deliberately avoided]] by [[Real Life]] driving instructors, who will often use the word "right" to indicate direction only, using "yes" or "correct" to indicate an affirmative, in order to avoid such confusion.
* When accuracy is critical, expect to hear compass points, headings, or clock numbers because of their unambiguous meanings or basis on absolute directions. The clock code in aviation was designed to correct for this, but hasn't entirely worked: in the heat of an engagement it can take too long to visualize the position. Thus, position is often described in apparently redundant left-right terms as well, as in "Tally 2, 7 o'clock left!"
** Not to mention there's an entire subtrope involving novice fighter pilots being told "Enemy fighter approaching you at six o'clock" and deciding they don't need to worry yet because it's only half past three.
* To try to avert this, anatomy always uses the ''subject's'' right or left, and also uses more specific terms like anterior, ventral, proximal, or superficial to avoid vagueness.
* And theatre attempts to fix the problem the same way, by having an arbitrary viewpoint. "Left" and "right" area always assumed to be from the perspective of the one being directed, and often directors will have to use "stage left" or "stage right" to clarify this.
* In Heraldry, the terms are Dexter (right) and Sinister (Left) They always apply to the shield as if it were being carried, making "Dexter" the viewer's left, and Sinister being the viewer's right.
** In many medieval recreation groups this is mostly averted by the use of "sword-side" and "shield-side" when giving instructions on the tourney or melee fields. It doesn't work so well for anyone left-handed.
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