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* A commercial for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0rHoykA80w Heineken Light Beer]] has Creator/NeilPatrickHarris try to drink the bottle of beer during the commercial. They explain to him that he is not allowed to drink the beer during the commercial; he keeps up trying to come up with ways to get around the restrictions, all of which are comically missing the point that no one 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 chain featured a family preparing to move in permanently to a hotel room. In the commercial [[TheStinger Stinger]], the father is shown nailing a sign to the door; a hotel employee stops and looks in astonishment at what he’s doing, and the father asks, ‘Is it crooked?’
* A 1985 spot for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQJNObwOxl4 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 as the couple enters) thinks they are asking about an Italian car. The would-be customers then clarify it was a Pontiac, then reference the other brands General Motors produced at the time -- only for a second guy to mention that those were "not Italian cars". [[RuleOfThree After all this (and the announcer spiel)]], the first guy now thinks the couple is buying 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 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF7Mm5E4MTo Beauty is nothing without brains]] a woman asks for a burger, fries and a shake. When she is informed that she is in a library, all she does is ask the same question quieter. Then again [[DumbBlonde she's blonde anyway.]]
* The Chase credit card company runs a series of commercials in which couples relay outrageous travel tales to their friends; we became fast friends with Chevy Chase, our son discovered a dinosaur, etc. The friends are stunned...because the couple was able to use its frequent flier miles on a whim, over a holiday and to a desirable destination.
* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBY9SwbhXgA 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-Free Redpop. It leads to this bit of dialogue afterwards.
-->'''Off-screen voice:''' Yeah, but Alex... what about the pizza?\\

* The Aldi low-budget supermarket chain in the UK has a series of advertisements where a character will buy another character a delicious meal in preparation for telling them some devastating news (e.g. a man telling his wife he is cheating on her), only for the other person to be more interested in the fact that they were able to buy the entire meal at Aldi.

* In episode five of ''Podcast/MysteryShow'', Starlee asks a friend to approach Jake Gyllenhaal in a restaurant, but another woman approaches before she can. Starlee's concern is that that woman is going to after the same information and is gonna get it first.

* This is a stock-in-trade trope of ''Series/{{Wilbur}}'', a children's series about a group of [[FunnyAnimal anthropomorphic]] barnyard friends who learn lessons from books. The character in question will sometimes miss the point of the story in question, often in a comical manner that at times could almost qualify as a SpoofAesop. This will force another reading of the story. In the event that the character doesn't miss the point, there'll be some other reason for the story being re-read, such as another character needing to learn the lesson.
* ''Series/TheMrPotatoHeadShow'': Several of the show's jokes use this. For instance, after Mr. Potato Head showed his "[[BrownNote 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?"

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** When Mark/Marty is about to use a knife on a volunteer in ''Theatre/UniversalsHorrorMakeUpShow:

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* At Ride/UniversalStudios:
** At the beginning of ''Ride/TheSimpsonsRide'':
-->'''Sideshow Bob''': There's nothing you can do! You're about to die!
-->'''Homer''': You sound like my doctor!
** When Mark/Marty is about to use a knife on a volunteer in ''Theatre/UniversalsHorrorMakeUpShow:
-->'''Alex''': WAIT! [[ThinkOfTheChildren There are kids out there!]]
-->'''Mark/Marty''': ''(beat)'' You want me to cut a kid?
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** In episode 13, Big M is watching where the heroes are through a little robot fly camera. He notices the magic beans they've found and says that he thinks the heroes may have found something good. Little M.'s response is "Yeah, I've never seen so much ice cream before!", referring to a bowl of ice cream located right next to the beans.

** In episode 13, Big M is watching where the heroes are through a little robot fly camera. He notices the magic beans they've found and says that he thinks the heroes may have found something new. Little M.'s response is "Yeah, I've never seen so much ice cream before!", referring to a bowl of ice cream located right next to the beans.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint/WebComics

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* ComicallyMissingThePoint/FanFiction
* ComicallyMissingThePoint/AnimatedFilms
* ComicallyMissingThePoint/LiveActionFilms

* ComicallyMissingThePoint/NewspaperComics

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!!Hahaha. Examples! That's a funny one... wait, are there really examples?

!!Examples

* A 1985 spot for [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQJNObwOxl4 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 as the couple enters) thinks they are asking about an Italian car. The would-be customers then clarify it was a Pontiac; then reference the other brands General Motors produced at the time -- only for a second guy to mention that those were "not Italian cars". [[RuleOfThree After all this (and the announcer spiel)]]; the first guy now thinks the couple is buying a large number of cars and adds that they need to know what they were intending to do with all those cars.

[[quoteright:244:[[Webcomic/ChuckAndBeans http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chuckandbeans_5821.jpg]]]]
[[caption-width-right:244:[-GodwinsLaw trips over RuleOfFunny.-] ]]

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* A commercial for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWY3kkGpDbs&feature=trueview-instream Heineken Light Beer]] has Creator/NeilPatrickHarris try to drink the bottle of beer during the commercial. They explain to him that he is not allowed to drink the beer during the commercial; he keeps up trying to come up with ways to get around the restrictions, all of which are comically missing the point that no one is allowed to drink any sort of alcoholic beverages during American commercials.

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* ''WebVideo/EdgarAllanPoesMurderMysteryDinnerParty'': When Poe's romantic rival Eddy is found dead, head plunged in his plate of soup, EVERYONE gets their turn at completely misconstruing the events of the evening as Poe desperately tries to state that ThisIsReality. Has to be expected for writers.
** H.G. Wells thinks it's a game and sticks his head in the soup too.
** Charlotte Brontë corrects him: [[EntertaininglyWrong they're supposed to wait out turns to stick their head in the soup]].
** George Eliot imagines that this is the beginning of a game... investigating the nature of the soup.
** Louisa May Alcott understands that they should rather investigate the murder... for the murder mystery game. She then proceeds to read her character card, and wait untill this somehow solves the murder mystery.
** Ernest Hemingway thinks everyone has gone mad... the murder mystery game must be solved logically, looking for the motive of the murder.
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