History Main / SixIsNine

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Numberblocks}}'' features Nine leaving his room to buy a newspaper. When he comes back, all of his stuff goes missing. Detective One and Nine solve a mystery as to who took the stuff, later revealed to be Six. She only wanted to move in, and the gang rushes up the building, when they get to the 6th floor, they realized that the "6" on the door was upside-down, the room that Nine mistakenly entered earlier.

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Numberblocks}}'' features Nine leaving his room to buy a newspaper. When he comes back, all of his stuff goes missing. Detective One and Nine solve a mystery as to who took the stuff, later revealed to be Six. She only wanted to move in, and the gang rushes up the building, when they get to the 6th floor, they realized that the "6" on the door was upside-down.

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/Numberblocks'' features Nine leaving his room to buy a newspaper. When he comes back, all of the stuff goes missing. Detective One and Nine solve a mystery as to who took the stuff, later revealed to be Six. She only wanted to move in, and the gang rushes up the building, when they get to the 6th floor, they realized that the "6" on the door was upside-down.

Not to be confused with LOL69 (especially since that number is immune to this trope).

* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}} in Britain'': Asterix and friends get the address (number VI in a row of identical suburban huts) of the thief who stole their barrel of magic potion. But when they bust down the door, it turns out to be a perfectly ordinary couple living at number VII (the I fell off).

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* In ''VisualNovel/DaughterForDessert'', the flyers made to promote the diner’s reopening are supposed to say that the diner opens at 6:00 AM. However, when no customers show up for a couple of hours, the staff double-check the flyers, and find that they actually mention an opening time of 9:00 AM. And sure enough, customers start flooding through the door at 9.

** The official answer to "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsWhoShotMrBurns Who Shot Mr. Burns?]]" involves a clue where Burns left when he fell on the town sundial, pointing to W and S which implicates [[spoiler:Waylon Smithers]] - except from his angle, he was pointing to M and S for [[spoiler:Maggie Simpson]], the true culprit. Notably, they actually ''did'' consider this before, since it could still have implicated [[spoiler:Moe Szyslak]] as a RedHerring.

** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS1E2BartTheGenius Bart the Genius]]", after Bart allegedly gets a high score in an IQ test [[spoiler:(he actually cheated off Martin's)]], the school counselor shows homer the results. Homer is surprised to see "912" but the counselor tells him he has it upside down and it's really "216". Homer's briefly disappointed until the counselor tells him that's still a very high IQ.

** .7734 spells "hello"

* In the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode "Bullseye!", Lawrence Fletcher is driving to speak at a conference at 9019 Palindrome Rd. Unfortunately, the paper gets flipped upside down and reads 6106 Palindrome Rd., which leads him to a Pageant of Evil hosted by the city's organization of evil scientists, L.O.V.E.M.U.F.F.I.N..

* In the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode "Bullseye!", Lawrence Fletcher is driving to speak at a conference at 9109 Palindrome Rd. Unfortunately, the paper gets flipped upside down and reads 6106 Palindrome Rd., which leads him to a Pageant of Evil hosted by the city's organization of evil scientists, L.O.V.E.M.U.F.F.I.N..

* In ''DaughterForDessert'', the flyers made to promote the diner’s reopening are supposed to say that the diner opens at 6:00 AM. However, when no customers show up for a couple of hours, the staff double-check the flyers, and find that they actually mention an opening time of 9:00 AM. And sure enough, customers start flooding through the door at 9.

* In the 1990 Italian comedy ''Le Comiche'' ("The Comic Actors") in the 3rd episode the numbers on hotel rooms 6 and 9 keep flipping every time someone as much as touches a door, [[RuleOfFunny completely disregarding common sense]]. Room 9 is occupied by a jealous husband with a beautiful wife, followed by a busful of lovers; room 6 is occupied by [[TheChewToy newlyweds]] accidentally driven to nervous breakdown by protagonists in the 1st episode. And the delivery man keeps confusing the doors (he's new at this job, he's a TravelingSalesman working off the damages inflicted on the hotel earlier that day).

* ''Series/MurdochMysteries'': In "Murdoch and the Tramp", Murdoch deducts early on that the VictimOfTheWeek resulted from the killer mistaking his hotel room, 419, for room 416 because the 9 had rotated. The real target was the resident of room 416, one Creator/CharlieChaplin.

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* Comes out many times in riddles like in [[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27635/27635-h/27635-h.htm#p58 Riddle 58]] here, as seen in the [[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27635/27635-h/27635-h.htm#s58 solution]].
* Episode 4 of ''WebAnimation/RetardedAnimalBabies'' featured a fake TV screen as a bonus feature, and selecting Channel 666 will lead to a video of Satan eating children from a bowl. Channel 999 is this upside down.
* Creator/VictorBorge, during his Phonetic Punctuation sketch, would pull out a book and read a passage. "It starts on page nine." He would look at the book, realize he's holding it upside-down, turn it around and say, "Page six."
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-->-- '''Moe''' trying to solve a mystery, ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''

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-->'''Priest''': Did you see that, Struthers? Numbers 999 must have slipped loose to make 666.\\
'''Struthers''': Yeah. Just like in a vidcom.\\
'''Priest''': Life's like that sometimes - one bad joke.

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* A Korean animation titled ''Bernard Bear''/''Backkom'' has a sketch where the titular bear delivers pizza to a house numbered "6". Somehow, he got lost and ended up near a HauntedHouse numbered "9", but the "9" had a few screws loose and flipped to a "6". He enters the house, and HilarityEnsues.

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* ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'': In one cartoon, a painter has just painted "999" on Satan's office door in hell. Satan doesn't look happy, and the painter says "I must have been holding the dang work order like ''this''!"(ie: upside down).
* There was a ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine'' strip where Pig is sitting contently, reading a comic book. Suddenly, The Bluebird of Happiness flies onto his window and announces that he has been watching Pig for years, and thinks he deserves some joy in his life. Pig thanks the bird, who replies "No, thank YOU, Joseph C. Skalabonsky!". It was then revealed that he was supposed to go to 608 Bradbury, but he held the directions upside-down and went to 809 Bradbury, which is Pig's house. The bluebird then says "Ohhhhh.", flies away, and Pig sighs.
* In a ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'' comic, Peter's teacher is handing back a test:
-->'''Peter''': ''[yelling for the whole class to hear]'' A 99! I got a 99! I knew it! I'm gonna ''own'' this semester!\\
'''Teacher''': You're holding it upside-down.
* Newspaper cartoon from about 30 years ago:
-->'''Boating lake worker:''' Come in No. 61, come in No. 61.\\
'''Other boating lake worker:''' We don't have a No. 61.\\
'''First boating lake worker:''' Oh dear! Are you in trouble, No. 19?
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-->'''Mitchell:''' I've got it! Number 19.
-->'''Tasha:''' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint That'll cost you 100 bucks]].
-->'''Leon:''' What the dude means is that you were looking for No. 19 Sunnybrook Crescent.
-->'''Tasha:''' One! I was called to No. 1 Sunnybrook Crescent.
-->'''Mitchell:''' Excuse me. ''(goes outside and returns with a shocked expression, holding the 9 in his hand)'' I don't believe it!
-->'''Warren:''' Well, she must have slammed it very hard.
-->'''Mitchell:''' I don't believe that George Lorimer in number 1 would order a prostitute!

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--> '''Leela''': That idiot! It wasn't set for 25 minutes, it was set for 52 seconds!

* In Creator/KimNewman's fantasy/crime novel ''Literature/BeastsInVelvet'', a murder victim tries to write the name of his killer in his own blood, but it's initially mistaken for a number code due to being read upside down. ([[spoiler:"5037" instead of "Leos".]]