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* 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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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': The RunningGag in [[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS4E30TheBus "The Bus"]] has Mr. Brown receive instructions from his phone, but they're auto corrected. When it turns out to be Rob, a.k.a. Dr Wrecker, he complains how autocorrect never works.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': The RunningGag in [[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS4E30TheBus "The Bus"]] has Mr. Brown receive instructions from his phone, but they're auto corrected. When it turns out to be Rob, a.k.a. Dr Wrecker, he complains how autocorrect never works.
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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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* ''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".
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* ''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".
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* Happens in one of Cassie Cage's intros in ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11''.
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'''Cmdr Cage (Cassie Cage):''' Watch the autocorrect, Dad. ;D
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'''Cmdr Cage (Cassie Cage):''' Watch the autocorrect, Dad. ;D
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* ''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.
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* ''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.
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* A 2021 episode of ''Series/PressYourLuck'' asked the contestants what feature would have failed them if they meant to text "You look so good" but instead texted "You look so food." The answer, of course, is autocorrect.
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->''So I scroll back to read what she read, and apparently, my stupid [=iPhone=] has this memory spell-check feature, and it didn't recognize the word "Cinebar". It flipped it and turned it into "Cinnabon". So apparently, at 10 o'clock at night, my girlfriend thought I was having cinnamon rolls with my friend Martin.''
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->''So I scroll back to read what she read, and apparently, my stupid [=iPhone=] has this memory spell-check feature, and it didn't recognize the word "Cinebar". It flipped it and turned it into "Cinnabon". So apparently, at 10 o'clock at night, my girlfriend thought I was having cinnamon rolls with my friend Martin.''
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* Creator/GabrielIglesias once recounted a story where he and his girlfriend got [=iPhones=] and started texting each other, eventually leading to this trope when he got drunk. Knowing he's too drunk to keep a lie straight, he insists on telling the truth, and mentions the name of the locale, "Cinebar". Autocorrect didn't recognize it, and turned it into Cinnabon, a brand of cinnamon rolls.
-->'''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]]!"
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* Creator/GabrielIglesias once recounted a story where he and his girlfriend got [=iPhones=] and started texting each other, eventually leading to this trope when he got drunk. Knowing he's too drunk to keep a lie straight, he insists on telling the truth, and mentions the name of the locale, "Cinebar". Autocorrect didn't recognize it, and turned it into Cinnabon, a brand of cinnamon rolls.
-->'''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]]!"
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* ''Literature/AlexRider'': Deliberately invoked by the NebulousEvilOrganisation Scorpia in ''Scorpia Rising'', who plan to lead [=MI6=] into a trap by sending Alex to investigate a college in Egypt. They arrange for a former member of the organisation's executive board to be found dead in London with various pieces of evidence linking him to the college; one of them is a phone with a text message referring to a vicar. [=MI6=] eventually work out, in conjunction with several of the other clues left for them, that if you type the college's initials (CICAE, Cairo International College of Arts and Education) into an [=iPhone=] it autocorrects to "vicar", leading them to believe the college is the target without being aware they're being set up.
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* [[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 attempting to comfort Lewis over text, only for his autocorrect to misspell "make" as "bake". He then attempts to backspace, but Lewis has already gone to work trying to cook his problems away.
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* [[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 attempting to comfort comforting Lewis over text, only for his autocorrect to misspell "make" as "bake". He then attempts to backspace, backpedal, but Lewis has already gone to work trying to cook his problems away.
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* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': In [[Recap/FamilyGuyS8E18QuagmiresDad "Quagmire's Dad"]], Quagmire introduces Peter and Joe to his father. As he tells a story overflowing with homoeroticism, Joe texts Peter a message saying "How gay is he?", and Peter texts back "So [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar ducking]] gay."
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* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': In [[Recap/FamilyGuyS8E18QuagmiresDad "Quagmire's Dad"]], Quagmire introduces Peter and Joe to his father. As he tells a story overflowing with homoeroticism, Joe texts Peter a message saying "How gay is he?", and Peter texts back "So [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar ducking]] ducking gay."
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* PlayedForDrama in one episode of ''Series/TheGoodWife''. Lockhart & Gardner defends a teen accused of starting the Silk Road black market sales site. Their client uses speech-to-text software because of a disability, and Kalinda realizes he's lying about his innocence when she finds a typo in an email from Silk Road's mystery founder that only makes sense coming from a mistake in speech recognition. The firm is forced to drop him as a client because they now know he perjured himself.
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* PlayedForDrama in one episode of ''Series/TheGoodWife''. Lockhart & Gardner defends a teen accused of starting the Silk Road black market sales site. Their client uses speech-to-text software because of a disability, and Kalinda realizes he's lying about his innocence when she finds a typo in an email from Silk Road's mystery founder that only makes sense coming from a mistake in speech recognition. The firm is forced to drop him as a client because they now know he perjured himself.
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* Music/TheGregoryBrothers: The song "Penguin On Me (Autocorrect Love Song)" features two lovers attempting to communicate through text, but are thwarted by their phone's autocorrect feature, which changes all of their messages into random nonsense, none of which resembling anything similar to the original messages.
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* Music/TheGregoryBrothers: The song "Penguin On Me (Autocorrect Love Song)" features two lovers attempting to communicate through text, but are thwarted by their phone's autocorrect feature, which changes all of their messages into random nonsense, none of which resembling anything similar to the original messages.
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* ''Music/TheGregoryBrothers'': The song "Penguin On Me (Autocorrect Love Song)" features two lovers attempting to communicate through text, but are thwarted by their phone's autocorrect feature, which changes all of their messages into random nonsense, none of which resembling anything similar to the original messages.
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* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': In [[Recap/FamilyGuyS8E18QuagmiresDad "Quagmire's Dad", Dad"]], Quagmire introduces Peter and Joe to his father. As he tells a story overflowing with homoeroticism, Joe texts Peter a message saying "How gay is he?", and Peter texts back "So [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar ducking]] gay."
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* ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'': In the episode "I Like You Hi", Mordecai is texting CJ that he likes Yuji, but the autocorrect causes the sent message to be "I like you hi". He tried to cancel the message since he wasn't ready to start a relationship with CJ due to still missing Margaret. Yuji himself complains that the autocorrect always changes his name to "You Hi".
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* ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'': In the episode [[Recap/RegularShowS05E26ILikeYouHi "I Like You Hi", Hi"]], Mordecai is texting CJ that he likes Yuji, but the autocorrect causes the sent message to be "I like you hi". He tried to cancel the message since he wasn't ready to start a relationship with CJ due to still missing Margaret. Yuji himself complains that the autocorrect always changes his name to "You Hi".
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* ''Theatre/MeanGirls'': When Cady sends a text to Aaron about Regina cheating on him, the first half of the message is "regionals is chewing on you". The second half of the message involving a "lion costume" is thought to be this by Aaron, but was actually sent correctly.
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* In ''ComicStrip/{{Frazz}}'', Caulfield's 2015 literature-inspired Halloween costume was inspired by running [[Literature/{{Jabberwocky}} "Jabberwocky"]] through autocorrect.
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did gyrate nimbly in the water\\
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And Mom roots adorably''
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* In ''ComicStrip/{{Frazz}}'', Caulfield's 2015 literature-inspired Halloween costume was inspired by running [[Literature/{{Jabberwocky}} "Jabberwocky"]] through autocorrect.
-->''Two Brillos on his silly toes\\
did gyrate nimbly in the water\\
All mimes bourgeoisie\\
And Mom roots adorably''
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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.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball The Amazing World of Gumball'': The RunningGag in [[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS4E30TheBus "The Bus"]] has Mr. Brown receive instructions from his phone, but they're auto corrected. When it turns out to be Rob, a.k.a. Dr Wrecker, he complains how autocorrect never works.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball The Amazing World of Gumball'': ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': The RunningGag in [[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS4E30TheBus "The Bus"]] has Mr. Brown receive instructions from his phone, but they're auto corrected. When it turns out to be Rob, a.k.a. Dr Wrecker, he complains how autocorrect never works.
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Autocorrect and speech-to-text software are a great help to users of electronic devices, but they're not perfect. They often pick the wrong words, and sometimes the user fails to catch it before hitting "Send". The resulting mistakes can be anything from cringeworthy to hilarious.
Mostly hilarious. In fiction, this trope is almost always [[PlayedForLaughs used for comedic purposes]]. Typically the error is caught quickly and the user sends an embarrassed correction, but [[RuleOfFunny sometimes it's funnier if they don't]] and [[LiteralMinded the recipient takes it literally]].
This is a very new trope, as this kind of autocorrect error really only became common in the popular consciousness with the post-2000 proliferation of touchscreen smartphones and tablets. It did exist on a smaller scale before that in word processor programs, though. In pre-smartphone times it was sometimes called the "Cupertino Effect" due to an oversight by Creator/{{Apple}}: their spellchecker was inexplicably missing the word "cooperation", but did have the town name [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupertino,_California "Cupertino"]] because Apple is headquartered there, so the common typo "coopertino" got corrected to the name of the town.
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.
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* When promotion for ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' told fans that [[DoNotSpoilThisEnding #ThanosDemandsYourSilence]], Creator/RyanReynolds riffed on it for ''Film/Deadpool2'' with [[HashtagForLaughs #WadeWilsonDemandsYourSisterSorryStupidAutoCorrectSilence]].
* 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.
--> '''Bodett:''' ...Try to follow along as I say that, at Motel 6, you can get still get a clam, comforter roam for the loamiest rice of any national chin. Huh, that last port sounded a brittle bit foamy. Anyway, you can brook by carving 1-800-4-MOTEL-6, online, or with our new mobile applesauce on your smartphone or toilet. Yelp, after all these yarns, you can still get mortar for what you trowel for. Well, that made no sentence at all. Man, I hate this docking thong. I'm Tom Bordeaux for Motel 6, and we'll heave the bright on form you. Oy. Close enough.
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* [[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 attempting to comfort Lewis over text, only for his autocorrect to misspell "make" as "bake". He then attempts to backspace, but Lewis has already gone to work trying to cook his problems away.
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* 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."
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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".]]
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/HollywoodGameNight'': Jane Lynch once returned from commercial with (paraphrased) "Welcome back to ''Hollywood Game Night''; I'm June Launch. Damn you, autocorrect."
* PlayedForDrama in one episode of ''Series/TheGoodWife''. Lockhart & Gardner defends a teen accused of starting the Silk Road black market sales site. Their client uses speech-to-text software because of a disability, and Kalinda realizes he's lying about his innocence when she finds a typo in an email from Silk Road's mystery founder that only makes sense coming from a mistake in speech recognition. The firm is forced to drop him as a client because they now know he perjured himself.
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[[folder:Theatre]]
* ''Theatre/BeMoreChill'': During "The Smartphone Hour," where all the students are texting each other about [[spoiler:Rich setting Jake's house on fire]], Brooke remarks that Rich is "flecked," before clarifying that she meant "fucked" and her autocorrect changed it. The ensemble then sings, "Always be aware of autocorrect!"
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSisterLocation'': The elevator from the start of each night has a glitchy keypad that makes proper inputs impossible, so the system will try to auto-correct to what it thinks you meant to type. On the first night, it will auto-correct your name to "Eggs Benedict" regardless of what you try to enter, and the second night's request for you to hit a number (on a keypad with no numbers) to select a companion voice auto-corrects to "Angsty Teen" when that wasn't even one of the listed options. More amusingly, the keypad lacks the letter "B", but all of the auto-corrects except for the aforementioned Angsty Teen include a B.
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* One ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' strip has Zoe write a tweet advertising her radio station's show as superior to another. The autocorrect [[MistakenForRacist accidentally turns it into a racist rant]] because the (uncapitalized) last names of the hosts, Whelt and Balkmin, are changed to "whites" and "black men".
* Spoofed in [[http://www.goominet.com/unspeakable-vault/vault/252/ this strip]] of ''Webcomic/TheUnspeakableVaultOfDoom''. Apparently, computer-generated pentacles aren't that great an idea.
-->'''Cthulhoo:''' For once, drawings are good, but using "Childhood" unstead ''[sic]]'' of "Cthulhoo" and "Feting" for "Fhtagn" is more than a beginner's mistake.
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* [[https://www.autocorrectfail.org/ Autocorrect Fail]] is an entire website dedicated to collecting funny autocorrect errors. [[https://www.autocorrectfail.org/grandma/ One safe-for-work example:]]
-->'''[[AliceAndBob Alice:]]''' where is granny I thought she was going to be here for thanksgiving?
-->'''[[AliceAndBob Bob:]]''' Grandma is in the grave.
-->'''Alice:''' what grave? what are you saying?
-->'''Bob:''' Oops sorry garage
-->'''Bob:''' Oh autocorrect
* ''WebVideo/DannyGonzalez'': In one video, Danny mocked a post that claimed mistakes made by politicians "become new laws" with a skit about a politician texting his wife about wanting to kiss her, only for it to auto-correct to ''kill''. Thus, it became legally obligated for everyone to kill their wives.
* ''WebVideo/{{Smosh}}'': The whole premise of "AUTOCORRECT FAIL" is Anthony trying to text Ian, only for autocorrect to mangle everything that he says into something inappropriate. This results in Ian [[MistakenForGay mistakenly thinking Anthony is trying to hit on him]].
* ''Website/SomethingAwful'': An amusing depiction of the Cupertino Effect, a character called [[http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/jeff-uses-spellcheckar.php "Jeff K!!!!"]] who attempts to spellcheck his aggressively incorrect English.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball The Amazing World of Gumball'': The RunningGag in [[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS4E30TheBus "The Bus"]] has Mr. Brown receive instructions from his phone, but they're auto corrected. When it turns out to be Rob, a.k.a. Dr Wrecker, he complains how autocorrect never works.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck'' short, "[=Computer.don=]", Donald orders a modern computer with voice recognition software. When he says his name, the computer addresses him as "Dewald", due to Donald's status as TheUnintelligible.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': In "Quagmire's Dad", Quagmire introduces Peter and Joe to his father. As he tells a story overflowing with homoeroticism, Joe texts Peter a message saying "How gay is he?", and Peter texts back "So [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar ducking]] gay."
-->'''Peter:''' That's my auto spell correct. But yeah, he's super gay.
* ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'': In the episode "I Like You Hi", Mordecai is texting CJ that he likes Yuji, but the autocorrect causes the sent message to be "I like you hi". He tried to cancel the message since he wasn't ready to start a relationship with CJ due to still missing Margaret. Yuji himself complains that the autocorrect always changes his name to "You Hi".
* 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.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Dam ewe, autocorrect!]]
[[DescribeTopicHere Described topic here's.]] [[SelfDemonstratingArticle Oh, duck, not again...]]
Autocorrect and speech-to-text software are a great help to users of electronic devices, but they're not perfect. They often pick the wrong words, and sometimes the user fails to catch it before hitting "Send". The resulting mistakes can be anything from cringeworthy to hilarious.
Mostly hilarious. In fiction, this trope is almost always [[PlayedForLaughs used for comedic purposes]]. Typically the error is caught quickly and the user sends an embarrassed correction, but [[RuleOfFunny sometimes it's funnier if they don't]] and [[LiteralMinded the recipient takes it literally]].
This is a very new trope, as this kind of autocorrect error really only became common in the popular consciousness with the post-2000 proliferation of touchscreen smartphones and tablets. It did exist on a smaller scale before that in word processor programs, though. In pre-smartphone times it was sometimes called the "Cupertino Effect" due to an oversight by Creator/{{Apple}}: their spellchecker was inexplicably missing the word "cooperation", but did have the town name [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupertino,_California "Cupertino"]] because Apple is headquartered there, so the common typo "coopertino" got corrected to the name of the town.
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.
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[[folder:Advertising]]
* When promotion for ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' told fans that [[DoNotSpoilThisEnding #ThanosDemandsYourSilence]], Creator/RyanReynolds riffed on it for ''Film/Deadpool2'' with [[HashtagForLaughs #WadeWilsonDemandsYourSisterSorryStupidAutoCorrectSilence]].
* 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.
--> '''Bodett:''' ...Try to follow along as I say that, at Motel 6, you can get still get a clam, comforter roam for the loamiest rice of any national chin. Huh, that last port sounded a brittle bit foamy. Anyway, you can brook by carving 1-800-4-MOTEL-6, online, or with our new mobile applesauce on your smartphone or toilet. Yelp, after all these yarns, you can still get mortar for what you trowel for. Well, that made no sentence at all. Man, I hate this docking thong. I'm Tom Bordeaux for Motel 6, and we'll heave the bright on form you. Oy. Close enough.
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* [[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 attempting to comfort Lewis over text, only for his autocorrect to misspell "make" as "bake". He then attempts to backspace, but Lewis has already gone to work trying to cook his problems away.
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[[folder:Jokes]]
* 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."
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''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".]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/HollywoodGameNight'': Jane Lynch once returned from commercial with (paraphrased) "Welcome back to ''Hollywood Game Night''; I'm June Launch. Damn you, autocorrect."
* PlayedForDrama in one episode of ''Series/TheGoodWife''. Lockhart & Gardner defends a teen accused of starting the Silk Road black market sales site. Their client uses speech-to-text software because of a disability, and Kalinda realizes he's lying about his innocence when she finds a typo in an email from Silk Road's mystery founder that only makes sense coming from a mistake in speech recognition. The firm is forced to drop him as a client because they now know he perjured himself.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Theatre]]
* ''Theatre/BeMoreChill'': During "The Smartphone Hour," where all the students are texting each other about [[spoiler:Rich setting Jake's house on fire]], Brooke remarks that Rich is "flecked," before clarifying that she meant "fucked" and her autocorrect changed it. The ensemble then sings, "Always be aware of autocorrect!"
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSisterLocation'': The elevator from the start of each night has a glitchy keypad that makes proper inputs impossible, so the system will try to auto-correct to what it thinks you meant to type. On the first night, it will auto-correct your name to "Eggs Benedict" regardless of what you try to enter, and the second night's request for you to hit a number (on a keypad with no numbers) to select a companion voice auto-corrects to "Angsty Teen" when that wasn't even one of the listed options. More amusingly, the keypad lacks the letter "B", but all of the auto-corrects except for the aforementioned Angsty Teen include a B.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Webcomics]]
* One ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' strip has Zoe write a tweet advertising her radio station's show as superior to another. The autocorrect [[MistakenForRacist accidentally turns it into a racist rant]] because the (uncapitalized) last names of the hosts, Whelt and Balkmin, are changed to "whites" and "black men".
* Spoofed in [[http://www.goominet.com/unspeakable-vault/vault/252/ this strip]] of ''Webcomic/TheUnspeakableVaultOfDoom''. Apparently, computer-generated pentacles aren't that great an idea.
-->'''Cthulhoo:''' For once, drawings are good, but using "Childhood" unstead ''[sic]]'' of "Cthulhoo" and "Feting" for "Fhtagn" is more than a beginner's mistake.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Web Original]]
* [[https://www.autocorrectfail.org/ Autocorrect Fail]] is an entire website dedicated to collecting funny autocorrect errors. [[https://www.autocorrectfail.org/grandma/ One safe-for-work example:]]
-->'''[[AliceAndBob Alice:]]''' where is granny I thought she was going to be here for thanksgiving?
-->'''[[AliceAndBob Bob:]]''' Grandma is in the grave.
-->'''Alice:''' what grave? what are you saying?
-->'''Bob:''' Oops sorry garage
-->'''Bob:''' Oh autocorrect
* ''WebVideo/DannyGonzalez'': In one video, Danny mocked a post that claimed mistakes made by politicians "become new laws" with a skit about a politician texting his wife about wanting to kiss her, only for it to auto-correct to ''kill''. Thus, it became legally obligated for everyone to kill their wives.
* ''WebVideo/{{Smosh}}'': The whole premise of "AUTOCORRECT FAIL" is Anthony trying to text Ian, only for autocorrect to mangle everything that he says into something inappropriate. This results in Ian [[MistakenForGay mistakenly thinking Anthony is trying to hit on him]].
* ''Website/SomethingAwful'': An amusing depiction of the Cupertino Effect, a character called [[http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/jeff-uses-spellcheckar.php "Jeff K!!!!"]] who attempts to spellcheck his aggressively incorrect English.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball The Amazing World of Gumball'': The RunningGag in [[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS4E30TheBus "The Bus"]] has Mr. Brown receive instructions from his phone, but they're auto corrected. When it turns out to be Rob, a.k.a. Dr Wrecker, he complains how autocorrect never works.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck'' short, "[=Computer.don=]", Donald orders a modern computer with voice recognition software. When he says his name, the computer addresses him as "Dewald", due to Donald's status as TheUnintelligible.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': In "Quagmire's Dad", Quagmire introduces Peter and Joe to his father. As he tells a story overflowing with homoeroticism, Joe texts Peter a message saying "How gay is he?", and Peter texts back "So [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar ducking]] gay."
-->'''Peter:''' That's my auto spell correct. But yeah, he's super gay.
* ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'': In the episode "I Like You Hi", Mordecai is texting CJ that he likes Yuji, but the autocorrect causes the sent message to be "I like you hi". He tried to cancel the message since he wasn't ready to start a relationship with CJ due to still missing Margaret. Yuji himself complains that the autocorrect always changes his name to "You Hi".
* 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.
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