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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E8LisaOnIce "Lisa on Ice"]] when Martin Prince praises the school's new "Academic Alert" system, Kearney tells Dolph to take a memo on his Apple Newton (a device known for its autocorrect fails) "Beat up Martin" but it transcribes it into "Eat up Martha." Kearney then chucks the Newton into Martin. This scene was infamous with Apple employees during the development of the iPhone's keypad, with "Eat up Martha" being a nickname for screwing up inputs within the company.

* A priest, a minister and a rabbit walk into a bar. The bartender says to the rabbit, "What'll you have?" The rabbit says, "I have no idea. [[MediumAwareness I'm only in this joke]] because of auto-correct."

* ''Radio/WaitWaitDontTellMe'': The correct answer for a "Bluff the Listener" quiz about prom trends involved the kids at a high school all [[https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1027416715 wearing pastries instead of flowers as a joke]] after somebody's smartphone autocorrected a text about their date's corsage to "croissant".

** In [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS28E19MohoHouse "Moho House"]] when Moe texts Marge.

-->-- '''Creator/GabrielIglesias'''[[labelnote:Context]]Cinebar is [[{{Portmanteau}} a bar decorated with cinema memorabilia]].[[/labelnote]]

[[JustForFun/DescribeTopicHere Describe folic here's.]] [[SelfDemonstratingArticle Oh duck, not again...]]

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* ''Series/TheMuppetsMayhem'': In the episode "Virtual Insanity", Dr Teeth's fondness for {{Perfectly Cromulent Word}}s results in the Mayhem accidentally starting a feud with ''the whole of music'' when his tweet "To our fellow music makers. You're absotively tremendulous. You are all truly talenticious with stupenderous fans" gets sent as "To our fellow music makers. You're absolutely terrible. You are all truly talentless with stupid fans."
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[[JustForFun/DescribeTopicHere Describe folic here's.]] [[SelfDemonstratingArticle Oh, duck, not again...]]

* In arc 37 of ''Literature/HereticalEdge'', while Flick and company are attempting to rescue Avalon from Manakel, Koren interrogates a pixie who might have information about him, then sends Flick a text that ends with "Manakel's decorating". It turns out Koren had learned something significant about Manakel, but she'd made a typo in the message, her autocorrect had assumed she meant a different word than she did, and Manakel had captured her before she could resend the message she meant to send: [[spoiler:"Manakel's security", as in "Manakel is [[DemonicPossession possessing]] the head of security"]].

* [[https://aenor-llelo.tumblr.com/tagged/incorrect+quotes Aenor-Llelo]]: one of the incorrect ''WebAnimation/MysterySkullsAnimated'' quotes [[https://aenor-llelo.tumblr.com/post/180415403116/arthur-not-the-english-major-kingsmen-being features]] Arthur comforting Lewis over text, only for his autocorrect to misspell "make" as "bake". He then attempts to backpedal, but Lewis has already gone to work trying to cook his problems away.

* In arc 37 of ''Literature/HereticalEdge'', while Flick and company are attempting to rescue Avalon from Manakel, Koren interrogates a pixie who might have information about him, then sends Flick a text that ends with "Manakel's decorating". It turns out Koren had learned something significant about Manakel, but she'd made a typo in the message, her autocorrect had assumed she meant a different word than she did, and Manakel had captured her before she could resend the message she meant to send: [[spoiler: "Manakel's security", as in "Manakel is [[DemonicPossession possessing]] the head of security"]].

-->'''Alyssa''': Haven't heard from you in awhile. Everything alright?\\
'''"Jack"''': Everything's fixed.\\
'''"Jack"''': Everything's FUCKED!\\
'''"Jack"''': Fixing autocorrect.

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* In arc 37 of ''Literature/HereticalEdge'', while Flick and company are attempting to rescue Avalon from Manakel, Koren sends Flick a text that says "Manakel's decorating". It turns out Koren had realized something significant about Manakel, but she'd made a typo in the message, her autocorrect had assumed she meant a different word than she did, and Manakel had captured her before she could resend the message she meant to send: [[spoiler: "Manakel's security", as in "Manakel is [[DemonicPossession possessing]] the head of security"]].

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* ''Literature/DanielHawthorneNovels'': PlayedForDrama In "The Word Is Murder" and related to NotQuiteTheRightThing. Diana sends her son Damian a final text that says "I have seen the boy who was lacerated and I'm afraid". When Horowitz and Hawthorne see the description that Diana ran down a boy and left him with severe brain lacerations, they assume she's referring to him. [[spoiler:She isn't. She meant to type "the boy who was [[Theatre/{{Hamlet}} Laertes]]", which identified both the murder and his motive for murder. Her phone autocorrected it to "lacerated".]]

-->'''Gabriel:''' Which normally, would sound like an ugly lie, but considering her boyfriend is known as [[BigEater the "fluffy guy" who loves "chocolate cake"]], it sounds real. I was like, "Oh, my god! Martin, check it out! [[TropesAreNotBad My iPhone lied for me]]!"

* ''Webcomic/DocRat'' has a [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Striped_polecat zorilla]] show up at a vaccination clinic when he was expecting a gorilla instead thanks to this trope.
* Referenced in ''Webcomic/TwinDragons'', where Nate's [[UnspokenPlanGuarantee plan to deal with Larissa]] involves texting some contacts; [[https://www.twindragonscomic.com/comic/short-fuse/ the panel where he types the message]] includes the term "autocorrupt". (Incidentally, Robin admitted that this is based on a conversation in the comments [[https://www.twindragonscomic.com/comic/treat-or-trick/ a couple pages prior]] regarding a real-life example.)

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* A radio ad for the Motel 6 chain features [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Bodett Tom Bodett]] using his smartphone to type up the ad. His phone's auto-correct feature goes UpToEleven by replacing correctly spelled words with other correctly spelled words that sound similar.

---> Can you come alone to Mono House?
---> I mean Mohair House
---> Milhouse
---> Stupid autocorrect

SisterTrope of AcquiredErrorAtThePrinter, where a print shop makes a mistake after the original creator submits the work, and VirtualAssistantBlunder, where a voice recognition input device, e.g. [[Creator/{{Apple}} Siri]] or [[Creator/{{Amazon}} Alexa]], misunderstands a user command or misinterprets something as a command that wasn't, causing unintended operation. Can overlap with RougeAnglesOfSatin if the mistake is spelled similarly to the intended word, as well as GoshDangItToHeck due to many autocorrect programs not recognizing profanity as legitimate words. Compare FunWithAutocensors and FunWithSubtitles. Can lead to PoorCommunicationKills if PlayedForDrama.