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A slightly more credible version may involve some version of the following exchange:

{{quote| "So, we turn left here?"<br />

 

A similar gag: everyone on TV gets confused between port and starboard. (Incidentally, port is ship's "left", easily remembered as they both have four letters. If you still find yourself confused, remember that both right and starboard are the longer words.)

Sometimes appears as confusion between left and "stage left."

 

 

Compare [[The Exit Is That Way]].

== Anime & Manga ==

* In ''[[Soul Eater]]'', Black☆Star has difficulty discerning left from right when trying to navigate a series of corridors. It turns out that he doesn't even know which is his left hand. He subsequently forgoes navigation in favor of going through the walls.

** A similar joke pops up in both the anime and [[Visual Novel]] versions of ''[[Kanon]]'': In an effort to avoid [[Once Per Episode|his regular collisions with Ayu]] and this trope, Yuuichi tells her to dodge toward the hand she holds her chopsticks in. Turns out Yuuichi is right-handed, while Ayu is left-handed...

* In ''[[Eureka Seven]]'', Dominic Sorel asks the protagonist if [[No Sense of Direction|South is in the direction of the hand you hold the fork in]]. This is a guy who's supposed to be a [[Modern Major-General|high-ranking military officer]].

* In a ''[[Darkwing Duck]]'' comic featured in ''Disney Adventures'', a lightning strike makes Megavolt [[MST3K Mantra|perceive everything backwards and even talk backwards (young readers might need a mirror)]]. Anyone he touched would gain the same affliction, as Darkwing discovered after he said, "To the left, Launchpad!" and crashed into Launchpad moving to the right. Ironically, they got it backwards.

* In one strip of ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'', the two eponyms stalk into the house, drenched and glaring at one another, proceed in an angry silence to the bookshelf, and furiously look up an entry in the dictionary, whereupon Hobbes shouts, "See?! Starboard is ''right''! ''Port'' is left!"

{{quote| '''PHB:''' I admire your leathery skin, Alice.<br />

'''Alice:''' I admire your ability to figure out which side is your ''right'' in only two tries. }}

{{quote| '''Redcloak:''' Hey! You in the box! Lean all your weight to the left!<br />

'''MitD:''' You got it! ... OK, when you say, "left", you mean--<br />

 

== Films -- Animation ==

* ''[[Quest for Camelot]]'' uses the line while Garrett (who is blind) is driving a wagon with Kayley shouting directions to him: "Left! Go left! <small>Your other left...</small> No, Garrett, ''right!''" In this case, it's Kayley confusing the directions and then correcting herself rather than Garrett mixing them up, but the effect is more or less the same.

 

 

* ''[[The Matrix]]'': When Neo is fleeing the Agents and taking directions from Tank over the phone.

** Although there's a [[Late to The Punchline|hidden joke]] in this: Tank has just told Neo to turn left. However, when Tank yells "No, your other left!" Neo ''is'' looking to ''his'' left. However, in that shot Neo is facing the audience. Consequently he appears to us to be looking to the right, and when he changes direction, turns to the ''left'' from our perspective. Thus the line is actually directed [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|at least partially at the audience]] and was included in the film as a quick joke of that variety too.

* Used in the ''[[Little Rascals]]'' movie: "Raise your right hand... your ''other'' right hand." Justified by how these are young children, some of which are still unable to read and likely new to the concept of directions.

* Another example of this would be in the beginning of ''[[Pearl Harbor]]'' where Danny and Rafe decide to play chicken with their planes and say the following:

* Shows up in a few ''[[The Three Stooges]]'' shorts, with interesting misconceptions. One features Moe trying to tell Curly that something goes on the 'right' wall. While facing him. They both point to their own right. This continues AFTER they trade places. And when Larry comes in, facing the two, and points to HIS right.

** Then there's when Curly prepares to pound a nail pointed the wrong way on a wall. Moe calls him an imbecile for what he's about to do since the nail's pointing the wrong way..because the nail goes on THAT wall!

** Though it was actually just because the hole on the right was full of bugs, and she was hoping either would do.

* In ''[[Master and Commander|Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World]]'', Midshipman Blakeney, who lost an arm in the opening battle sequence, is preparing the men for battle by having them attach neckcloths to their arms to distinguish friend from foe.

'''Chicleta:''' ''Mi'' derecha. }}

* In ''[[The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension]]'', Buckaroo and John Parker are chasing the Red Lectroid battleship in a stolen Thermopod. Banzai is sitting in a rear-facing seat, resulting in some confusion when he tries to give Parker directions.

* A variation in the [[Abbott and Costello]] film ''Pardon My Sarong'': A cop boards the bus that Bud and Lou have stolen, and tells them to back up, to which Bud tells Lou that he should go ahead and do it. Lou replies, "How can I back up ''and'' go ahead?"

** In ''[[Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein]]'', the boys are trying to escape a dungeon. Lou begins to head into a tunnel, and Bud tells him, "Not that way, to the left!" Still in the tunnel Lou looks down at his hands, picks the left one, and runs to his ''immediate'' left...smack into a brick wall.

== 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.

* 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 right -- then the ''other'' right.

* 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.

{{quote| '''The Doctor:''' From Skaro. At least originally. They're the mutated remains of a species called the Kaleds. Left here.<br />

'''Ace:''' When were they left here?<br />

'''Ace:''' Oh, right.<br />

'''The Doctor:''' No, left! }}

* ''[[Knightmare]]'' had this in so many interesting ways.

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciIfcYwI6Ps Simon, sidestep to your left.]

* ''[[Burn Notice]]'': Of all people, Michael and Sam, two highly professional ex-spies, get tripped up by this when Sam's giving instructions to Michael over a radio while monitoring the room through its surveillance cameras.

** [[It Makes Sense in Context]], since Sam is slightly inebriated (he <s>always</s> usually is) and Michael calls him on the mistake before committing to it, but Sam just sounds so sure that he goes with it.

* In ''[[Tremors]]: The Series'', Burt uses a military-jargon variant ("Your ''other'' two-o'-clock") to tell Tyler from which angle Messerschmitt is flying towards them.

 

 

== Radio ==

** And more recently, the same computer said "Make a left turn. Left. Turn left. Left. Left. Left. I mean right."

 

'''CJ:''' Your left, or my left?<br />

'''Ryder:''' Hell, I don't know, just shoot everybody, motherfucker. }}

* Clarence from ''[[Penumbra]] Black Plague'' can say "No, other left ! ''Other left'' !" while {{spoiler|arguably helping Philip sneak past the other Infected in the corridors near the Chemical Storage}}, if Philip doesn't listen to his advice.

 

 

== Web Animation ==

{{quote| '''Strong Sad:''' What do you have behind your back?<br />

'''Strong Bad:''' A single deuce... Deuce.<br />

== Web Comics ==

* Used straight in [http://www.undefined.net/1/0/?strip=658 this] ''[[One Over Zero]]'' strip. Given he had two left hands at the time, it may be credible, depending on the context.

{{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."

== Western Animation ==

* ''[[Rocket Power]]'', "Race Across New Zealand": Twister has confusion between the two sides because of the traffic going on the other side of the road.

{{quote| '''Katara:''' Watch out! Go left! Go left! ''(they crash)'' You call that left?}}

{{quote| "Down Fluffles, down!" ''(everyone falls off Fluffles)'' "No, the other down!" ''(Fluffles falls)''}}

* 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!" [http://caps.kpfanworld.com/capn_drakken/hd/1201-1300 (about 1/3 of the way down the page)]

* Done on a sketch on ''[[Histeria (Animation)|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 right -- and the dragon flipped, causing the response, "Your other right"

* In an episode of [[Johnny Test]] when everyone is fleeing from aliens:

{{quote| '''Susan:''' Go left!<br />