Funny Pictures of Missing the Point

"I started to walk downwardly the street when I heard a voice maxim: 'Good evening, Mr. Dowd.' I turned, and there was this big white rabbit leaning confronting a lamp-post. Well, I thought nothing of that, considering when you've lived in a town as long as I've lived in this one, you become used to the fact that everybody knows your name."

A grapheme completely misses a really obvious bespeak for comic effect. The point is the sort of affair that whatsoever reasonable or informed person volition spot and understand given a few seconds or enough information. However, the center of this trope is a person who, despite having all the time in the earth and all the data, comes to a conclusion so incorrect it's hard to be even farther from correct. Commonly elicits a response along the lines of "that'south not what's incorrect here". Visual gags are frequently involved.

A Sis Trope to Dramatically Missing the Point.

For the fandom equivalent, come across Misaimed Fandom.

Compare Culling Joke Interpretation, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?, Bad News in a Good Style, Bunko Comment, Cloudcuckoolander, The Ditz, Failed a Spot Cheque, Insane Troll Logic (logic that consists of comically missing the point), I Have Criminal offense to That Terminal 1!, Mistaken for Profound, Need a Hand, or a Handjob?, Not Actually the Ultimate Question, Proportional Commodity Importance, Right for the Wrong Reasons, Sidetracked by the Analogy, and Skewed Priorities.

In-Universe Examples Only. We'll have to spend a lot of coin just to make another subpage for real life. ^Notation The actual reason being that it's too mutual and attracts natter.

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    Advertizing

• In a 2010 T-Mobile commercial, the NBA'southward Dwyane Wade, and then of the Miami Oestrus, finds himself locked in his hotel bath. He then issues a video call for help: "Go me outta hither!" When the video goes viral on the internet, the public misinterprets it as a plea for a merchandise. Wade is somewhen helped out by a maid who tells him he's on the news. He responds with a "huh?" look.
• A commercial for Heineken Lite Beer has Neil Patrick Harris try to drink the canteen of beer during the commercial. They explain to him that he is not allowed to drink the beer during the commercial. He keeps upward trying to come up with ways to get around the restrictions, all of which are comically missing the point that no ane is allowed to drink any sort of alcoholic beverages during American commercials.
• An Israeli commercial for a sale offered to the holders of a local credit card in a hotel concatenation featured a family preparing to motion in permanently to a hotel room. In the commercial Stinger, the begetter is shown nailing a sign to the door. A hotel employee stops and looks in astonishment at what he'south doing, and the father asks, 'Is it kleptomaniacal?'
• A 1985 spot for GMAC financing shows a couple at a car dealer requesting financing for a Pontiac Fiero. This sparks a swarm of miscues as the head of financing (and the Christmas Club, which he covers with a financing sign every bit the couple enters) thinks they are asking about an Italian car. The would-be customers then clarify information technology was a Pontiac, then reference the other brands General Motors produced at the fourth dimension — merely for a second guy to mention that those were "not Italian cars". Later on all this (and the journalist spiel), the first guy at present thinks the couple is ownership a large number of cars and adds that they need to know what they were intending to do with all those cars.
• In the Mercedes commercial "Dazzler Is Nix Without Brains", a woman asks for a burger, fries and a milkshake. When she is informed that she is in a library, all she does is ask the same question quieter. Then again, she's blonde.
• The Chase credit card company runs a series of commercials in which couples relay outrageous travel tales to their friends, e.g., "We became fast friends with Chevy Chase", "our son discovered a dinosaur", etc. The friends are stunned...because the couple was able to employ their frequent flier miles on a whim, over a vacation and to a desirable destination.
• A series of GEICO ads has somebody remarking "That's amazing!" later on seeing something unusual and astonishing happening on screen to which someone else inquires about that same foreign occurrence only to exist told that the person was talking almost how it's amazing how much money they saved switching to GEICO.
• In this commercial for Faygo Sugar-Free Redpop, football legend Alex Karras is seen eating a platter of pizza. An off-screen voice comments that he thought Alex was on a diet. Alex then tells him that he was on a diet, proceeding to shill the Sugar-Costless Redpop. Information technology leads to this chip of dialogue afterwards.

  Off-screen vocalization: Yeah, merely Alex...what nigh the pizza?
  Alex: (looks at pizza, then smiles at the camera) Faygo doesn't make pizza.

• Yellow is prone to moments like this in the Grand&M'southward advertisements. In ane instance, he, Red, and several people are held up at a convenience store and their captor threatens to eat 1 of his hostages. Yellow automatically assumes he's intending to eat one of the humans. There's also the following exchange, which also doubles as an Player Innuendo because that Yellow is voiced by Police & Guild semi-regular J. K. Simmons.

  Red: Coming up next, the new Macy'due south Thanksgiving Mean solar day Parade balloon of everyone'southward favorite celebrities!
  Yellowish: Oh boy! A Constabulary & Order balloon?!
  Ruby-red: (trounce, annoyed) I was talking almost us.
  Yellow: (beat out) We're gonna be on Law & Order?

• The Aldi depression-budget supermarket concatenation has a series of advertisements where a character will buy another graphic symbol a succulent repast in grooming for telling them some devastating news (e.g. a man telling his wife he is cheating on her), just for the other person to exist more interested in the fact that they were able to buy the entire meal at Aldi.

    Animation

• BoBoiBoy: In "The Haunted House", to explain what a ghost is to Adu Du, Computer shows him a "find the differences between two pictures" examination before jump scaring him with a pic of a ghost. A terrified Adu Du instead thinks that "ghost" refers to the technology used for the jump scare.
• Happy Heroes:
  • In episode 3, the microwave monster defeats Happy Southward. while he'due south in his mecha. Happy S. and Sweet Southward. then mention how dangerous the monster actually is, to which Smart S. replies "I don't believe it! ...look at this, he totally messed upwards my hair!"
  • In episode 13, Large Grand. is watching where the heroes are through a petty robot fly camera. He notices the magic beans they've found and says that he thinks the heroes may have found something good. Little Thou.'s response is "Yeah, I've never seen so much ice cream before!", referring to a bowl of water ice cream located right next to the beans.

    Podcasts

• In episode five of Mystery Show, Starlee asks a friend to approach Jake Gyllenhaal in a eatery, simply some other woman approaches earlier she can. Starlee's concern is that that adult female is going later on the same information and is going to get it first.

    Pro Wrestling

• To show he could do "characters", Scott Hall did an imitation of Scarface (1983). Vince McMahon thought it was an original concept that simply needed some tweaking.
• During his Bear upon Title Wrestling debut, Yoshihiro Tajiri yelled "Shut The Fuck Upward!" at the referee admonishing him for putting then rookie Low Ki in an illegal agree, shocking everyone from the ref, to the commentators to the fans in attendance. Nobody knew Tajiri could speak English!
• Curry Man (non that ane) thinking he had gotten a title shot when he pulled a pink skid out of his "feast or fired" briefcase.
• Santino Marella's complaints of "sexual discrimination" for not being allowed to compete in the "Miss Wrestlemania" battle majestic.
• When Natalya proclaimed Laycool's combined IQ was lower than their non existent waist sizes, they took it every bit a compliment.
• Away from Wrestlicious, Bandita's got a restaurant and it doesn't have any roaches thanks to the rats eating them all.
• CM Punk'due south reason for non joining the walkout on Triple H on Monday Night Raw was that Punk left the company earlier because his contract was up, and was tired of trying to change the company, arguing that the 'hippie barbeque' was a pussy move if the participants actually wanted change.

    Puppet Shows

• The Big Garage had an episode where Scrap wanted to learn how to brand friends, and asked Rusty to pretend to be a stranger so that he tin have someone to exercise with. Rusty then says "Hello, nice place you've got hither!" to which Scrap replies with "Become away, I'yard busy!" Later Rusty tells Scrap that the key to making friends is to sound squeamish and friendly, he tries over again, and Scrap responds with "Go away, I'thou busy!" in a nicer tone.
• The Mr. Tater Head Prove: Several of the show's jokes utilize this. For case, after Mr. Potato Head showed his "masterpiece script" to Queenie, she screamed at the top of her lungs and fell over. As she was on the floor moaning, "the horror...the horror..." Mr. Potato Head asked her, "So...you don't like it?"
• Sesame Street oftentimes uses this trope for comedic issue to teach uncomplicated concepts and moral lessons. 1 well-remembered case was "Cookie Monster at the Library," where Cookie repeatedly asks the librarian for a box of cookies (after giving the title or subject area of a book). Cookie eventually gets it and asks for a book nigh cookies, just then causes the librarian to faint dead away when he asks for a glass of milk to go with information technology.
• This is a stock-in-trade trope of Wilbur, a children's series about a group of anthropomorphic barnyard friends who learn lessons from books. The character in question volition sometimes miss the bespeak of the story in question, often in a comical style that at times could almost authorize equally a Spoof Aesop. This volition force another reading of the story. In the effect that the character doesn't miss the betoken, in that location'll be some other reason for the story being re-read, such as some other grapheme needing to learn the lesson.

    Tabletop Games

• Sentinels of the Multiverse: Guise, following an (every bit expected from Guise) goofy sequence of events, learns that the True Meaning of Christmas is about generosity and the rewards of giving...so he turns to several other characters and generously extends them the opportunity to experience said rewards past giving him stuff.
• Warhammer Fantasy has a Chaos God of, among other things, Disbelief. He has followers. When dealing with Chaos Cultists, do not wait an glut of anything resembling sanity or logic. A god of Disbelief is made weaker through worship.
  • There is a reason he tries to keep any and all material regarding him subconscious from mortal eyes as much as possible.

    Theatre

• This Older Than Steam. In Sheridan's The Critic, Tilburina, anticipating her lover'southward peril in the clash of the English language and Spanish ships, launches into an "I meet..." vision of the coming battle. Whereupon her begetter objects "The Castilian fleet thou canst not see, because... it is not yet in sight!"
• In Christopher Durang's Across Therapy when Bruce makes a reference to horses in the play "Equus" and his blind date (through the personals) Prudence says he should exist a vet, Bruce rebukes her for missing the metaphor and says he could never respect anyone who missed a metaphor.
  • For those non in the know: The play Equus concerns a fellow whose religious/sexual obsession with horses drives him to blind 6 of them by driving a metal spike into their optics.
• Cyrano de Bergerac: In-Universe: Cyrano (a Broken Ace with an enormous olfactory organ) invokes two famous historical romances (Cesar and Cleopatra, Tito and Berenice) and compares himself to the Cesar and Tito to justify why he cannot win the cute Roxane's love. The point is that Cesar and Tito were loved not because they were fair, only they were highly charismatic leaders (like Cyrano himself, as his all-time friend Le Bret lampshades). Given that Cyrano is a Cleaved Ace and certainly this point would be obvious to him, this shows us how talking about dearest he will always deceive himself.

  CYRANO (shaking his head): Look I a Caesar to woo Cleopatra?
  A Tito to aspire to Berenice?
  Le Bret: Your courage and your wit!

• The Farndale Avenue plays, which are supposedly incompetent amateur productions, accept a Once an Episode running gag where, somewhere around the start of the 2d act, the leader of the apprentice dramatic gild will remark to some other graphic symbol that she noticed a meaning number of people leaving during the intermission. She always comes up with an innocent interpretation and never realises that they're existence driven away past the awfulness of the production.
• Harvey: "I started to walk downwardly the street when I heard a vocalisation saying: 'Good evening, Mr. Dowd.' I turned, and in that location was this big white rabbit leaning against a lamp-mail service. Well, I idea nothing of that, because when you've lived in a town as long as I've lived in this 1, y'all get used to the fact that everybody knows your name."
• In the musical and Beginning motion picture of Reefer Madness the main characters sing near how much they are like Romeo and Juliet. They even state that they haven't read the ending, but they're 'certain it turns out existent swell.'
• Anne Boleyn thinks that what people will take away from Six: The Musical is that "Jane can't dance". Whether this is a manifestation of her Information technology's All About Me personality or Obfuscating Stupidity is upwards to the audience.

    Theme Parks

• At Universal Studios:
  • At the first of The Simpsons Ride:

    Sideshow Bob: There'southward nothing you can exercise! You're about to die!
    Homer: You sound similar my doctor!

  • When Mark/Marty is about to use a knife on a volunteer in Universal's Horror Brand-Upwardly Evidence:
• In The LEGO Motion-picture show: 4D — A New Adventure at LEGOLAND, Wyldstyle takes Pismire on the "Wyldstyle's Super-Cycle Mega-Coaster" to have his mind off how lame his ride at Brick World is. When robot henchmen on another car commencement shooting at them, Emmet gets jealous about how exciting Wyldstyle's ride is compared to his.

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