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When a character is less than scholarly or doesn't know the answer to any of the questions, they will color the dots on the page so that it resembles a 2-bit bitmap picture when viewed. Oftentimes the graphic is a phrase, or a funny or offensive image. Naturally, this will cause them to fail the test [[note]]The graphic generally requires them to fill in more than one dot per answer, or leave some answers blank, eliminating the minor possibility that they might coincidentally happen to fill in a box that corresponds to the right answer[[/note]], or they could end up [[AchievementsInIgnorance passing with flying colors]].

->'''Britta:''' Okay, very mature. Which one of you filled in a butt?\\
'''Troy:''' They're boobs, not a butt. And I don't know.

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* In ''Who's the Man,'' Ed Lover and Dr Dre attempt to deliberately fail the police exam by filling out the bubbles to spell out "abacadaba". [[TheUnreveal It's never made clear]] whether [[SpringtimeForHitler they actually pass the test]] or if someone pulls strings behind-the-scenes to "adjust" their score.

When a character is less than scholarly, or doesn't know the answer to any of the questions, they will color the dots on the page so that it resembles a 2-bit bitmap picture when viewed. Oftentimes the graphic is a phrase, or a funny or offensive image. Naturally, this will cause them to fail the test [[note]]The graphic generally requires them to fill in more than one dot per answer, or leave some answers blank, eliminating the minor possibility that they might coincidentally happen to fill in a box that corresponds to the right answer[[/note]], or they could end up [[AchievementsInIgnorance passing with flying colors]].

* ''Anime/IsekaiQuartet'': Ainz manages to get 100% on a test because he realizes that Pandora's Actor had made the correct answers to the test form a picture of own face on the scantron.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/ActionLeagueNow'' has The Flesh getting kicked out of the league because he failed a first grade equivalency test after coloring the dots in the shape of a cat. The episode ends with him retaking the test and passing, because he colored the dots in the shape of a dog instead.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewSchool'': In "[[GrandFinale Graduation Groove]]", Kuzco isn't ready to become Emperor yet, so he tries to purposefully fail his exam by doing this, so that it looks like his face. It backfires when he ends up passing the exam.

* In the live-action portions of ''[[Creator/OneSaturdayMorningAndABCKids One Saturday Morning'']], the host would sometimes end by telling the viewers "the answers to next week's quiz questions". In one case, she encouraged the viewers to fill in the bubbles so they looked like Manny the Uncanny's face.

* In the live-action portions of ''Creator/OneSaturdayMorning'', the host would sometimes end by telling the viewers "the answers to next week's quiz questions". In one case, she encouraged the viewers to fill in the bubbles so they looked like Manny the Uncanny's face.

* In the live-action portions of ''Creator/OneSaturdayMorning'', the host would sometimes end by telling the viewers "the answer's to next week's quiz questions". In one case, she encouraged the viewers to fill in the bubbles so they looked like Manny the Uncanny's face.

When a character is less than scholarly, or doesn't know the answer to any of the questions, they will color the dots on the page so that it resembles a 2-bit bitmap picture when viewed. Oftentimes the graphic is a phrase, or a funny or offensive image. Naturally, this will cause them to fail the test [[note]]The graphic generally requires them to fill in more than one dot per answer, or leave some answers blank, eliminating the minor possibility that they might coincidentally happen to fill in a box that corresponds to the right answer[[/note]].

* ''[[Creator/Sanrio Gudetama]]'' makes a picture of himself on a scantron in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItAKMyPUG6Q episode 467]].

* [[Anime/IsekaiQuartet]]: Ainz manages to get 100% on a test because he realizes that Pandora's Actor had made the correct answers to the test form a picture of own face on the scantron.

When a character is less than scholarly, or doesn't know the answer to any of the questions, they may simply color all the dots on the page so that it resembles a picture when viewed. Oftentimes the graphic is a phrase, or a funny or offensive image.

* Both played straight and subverted in ''Series/{{Community}}''. Britta has the group do psychology tests, and, true to form, one of them comes back bearing a pair of boobs (see page quote). However, Britta then becomes annoyed with the rest of the group for all drawing a penis on the Scantron sheets. The rest of the groups asks to see them and it turns out Britta was just [[FreudianSlip seeing penises where there weren't any]].
-->'''Britta''': [[MirthlessLaughter Ha ha!]] Gotcha! [[JustTestingYou This was also a test]], and you all [[FreudianSlip penised]]... ''passed''... maybe I need to take one. A ''test'', not a penis.