History Main / RussianReversal

* ''Series/{{Qi}}'': In the N series episode "Nonsense", Sandi Toksvig asks the panelists to provide meaningless statements that sound profound. Alan Davies rattles off a few, pointing out that by making completely reversible you can sound wise while saying absolute nonsense:

* ''Series/{Qi}'': In the N series episode "Nonsense", Sandi Toksvig asks the panelists to provide meaningless statements that sound profound. Alan Davies rattles off a few, pointing out that by making completely reversible you can sound wise while saying absolute nonsense:

* ''Series{Qi}'': In the N series episode "Nonsense", Sandi Toksvig asks the panelists to provide meaningless statements that sound profound. Alan Davies rattles off a few, pointing out that by making completely reversible you can sound wise while saying absolute nonsense:

'''Holly Walsh''': This is definitely the sort of thing we should be smoking weed to. You would be a weed guru with this stuff."\\

'''Phil Jupitus'': There's a geezer with a sticker factory in Kettering now, he's writing all this down. "This is gold!"

* Played with in the ''Film/TheCrow''

* * Chuck Norris doesn't get a COVID shot. COVID gets a Chuck Norris shot.

* On the ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'' episode "Lost, Found and Spellbound," DM and Penfold are in a jungle looking for Prof. Squawkencluck. Penfold finds himself in an elevator within a tall tree.
-->'''Penfold:''' 'Cor, I've heard of a trunk going up in a lift but never a lift going up in a trunk!

[[folder:Film -- Animation watches and animates you!]]

[[folder:Film -- Live-Action watches you!]]

* ''LetsPlay/{{Dream}}:'' ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oySp75huAp8 In the grand finale explanation video]]) [=BadBoyHalo=], when [[spoiler: they set up the End spawn trap, was expecting to get a video clip of the hunters and him destroying Dream... which would've happened if Dream didn't blow up the place with the TNT first. Dream got a video clip [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tylNqtyj0gs in the main video]] of him destroying the team of hunters. In short, instead of the ''hunters'' destroying Dream (and recording it), ''Dream'' destroys the hunters (while recording it.)]]

* In "The Four Tasks of WesternAnimation/DangerMouse", Count Duckula (in his first appearance) puts on an impromptu magic show where instead of pulling rabbits out of hat, he pulls hats out of rabbits.

* Creator/CartoonNetwork: "City E-Scape", an interstitial short by Creator/MoWillems, had WesternAnimation/QuickdrawMcgraw travelling to the city to fight crime. After Quickdraw wears himself to exhaustion catching bad guys, Baba Looey quips "That Quickdraw! He thinks he can wipe out city crime, but crime has wiped ''him'' out!"

-->""Are you the strongest because you're [[TheAce Satoru Gojo]]? Or are you Satoru Gojo because you're the strongest?""

* In ''Anime/JujutsuKaisen'', [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Geto]] uses this in a question to his former best friend:

The political undertone of Smirnoff's original jokes tends to be conspicuously missing from the imitations, leaving the joke as just "it's funny when things are opposite".

[[caption-width-right:252:Русский реверс для чайников!]]

[[caption-width-right:252:Реверс русский для чайников!]]

* ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'' gives us this gem:

* The contrast between the two big [[TheReveal plot twists]] of ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'' and ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'' is a classic example. In ''Arkham City'', [[spoiler: someone else is [[BodyDouble impersonating]] ComicBook/TheJoker]]. In ''Arkham Origins'', [[spoiler: The Joker is [[DeadPersonImpersonation impersonating]] someone else]].