History PlayingWith / HistoricalCharacterConfusion

** Bobby manages to get Lenin mixed up with UsefulNotes/IvanTheTerrible, UsefulNotes/CatherineTheGreat, Creator/SergeiEisenstein, UsefulNotes/BorisYeltsin, UsefulNotes/JosefStalin, UsefulNotes/GrigoriRasputin, and Creator/AndreiTarkovsky -- based solely on them being Russian or major figures in Russian history.

** Bobby gets Lenin mixed up with UsefulNotes/LeonTrotsky, a contemporary and co-national with close enough goals.

** Bobby confuses John Lennon with [[Music/TheMonkees Davy Jones]], due to the Monkees being a parody of the Beatles.

** James tells Bobby that Vladimir Lenin was in The Beatles. So he will fail his history test as revenge.

* '''Defied''': Bobby made a careful study of political and music history just so he wouldn't confuse Lenin and Lennon.

* '''Deconstructed''': Bobby fails a history test because he got Lenin conflated with Lennon.

** Bobby walks in on a conversation that seems to be about John Lennon that mentions the Walrus and makes explicit references to music. [[BaitAndSwitch Turns out it's actually a very bizarre story about this one time Vladimir Lenin formed a band with his pet walrus.]]

** Bobby goes one step further by mixing up ''historical events'' with similar labels. His project on "The Civil War" describes [[UsefulNotes/EnglishCivilWar Oliver Cromwell]] defeating [[UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar Francisco Franco]] at [[UsefulNotes/AmericanCivilWar Gettysburg]]. His description of "the Revolution" involves [[UsefulNotes/RussianRevolution Vladimir Lenin]] teaming up with [[UsefulNotes/MexicanRevolution Pancho Villa]] and [[UsefulNotes/AmericanRevolution George Washington]] to [[UsefulNotes/TexasRevolution take the Alamo]] from [[UsefulNotes/FrenchRevolution Robespierre]].
** Bobby manages to get Lenin mixed up with UsefulNotes/IvanTheTerrible, UsefulNotes/CatherineTheGreat, Creator/SergeiEisenstein, UsefulNotes/BorisYeltsin, Josef Stalin, UsefulNotes/GrigoriRasputin, and Creator/AndreiTarkovsky- based soley on them being Russian or major figures in Russian history.
** Similarly, Bobby keeps mixing up John Lennon with various contemporary British rock stars. At different times he mistakenly conflates Lennon with Music/FreddieMercury, Creator/EltonJohn, Creator/DavidBowie, and Creator/KateBush.
* '''Downplayed''': Bobby gets Lenin mixed up with UsefulNotes/LeonTrotsky, a contemporary and co-national with close enough goals.
** Bobby correctly identifies Lenin's role in the Russian Revolution, but mistakenly claims it happened during World War II instead of World War I.
** Bobby correctly identifies Lenin as a key figure in the Russian revolution and its aftermath, but confuses his part in those events with [[Creator/SergeiEisenstein Sergei Eisenstein]].

** Bobby is a huge Marx Brothers fan so when he heard someone say the name "Marx" his mind went straight to the comedy team rather than Karl Marx.

* '''Double Subverted''': His explanation as to who John Lennon was and why he's a Communist sounds pretty accurate ''at first''. Then things start to take a turn and it begins sounding more like a description of UsefulNotes/JosefStalin than John Lennon.

* '''Zig-Zagged''': Bobby knows the difference between Vladimir Lenin and John Lennon, but he confuses the former with his philosophical inspiration Creator/KarlMarx and the latter with his bandmate Music/PaulMcCartney.

* '''Exploited''': ???

--> '''Bobby:''' Would you believe [[IHaveThisFriend I knew a guy once]] who got UsefulNotes/VladimirLenin mixed up with Music/JohnLennon?

* '''Played for Laughs''': Vladimir Lenin and John Lennon both come BackFromTheDead on the same day in the same population centre and everyone who sees them mistakes them for the other, to their mutual confusion.
** Bobby walks in on a conversation that seems to be about John Lennon that mentions the Walrus and makes explicit references to music. [[BaitAndSwitch Turns out it's actually a very bizarre story about this one time Vladimir Lenin formed a band with his pet walrus]].

** Similarly, Bobby keeps mixing up John Lennon with various contemporary British rock stars. At different times he mistakenly conflates Lennon with Creator/FreddieMercury, Creator/EltonJohn, Creator/DavidBowie, and Creator/KateBush.

** Bobby goes one step further by mixing up ''historical events'' with similar labels. His project on "The Civil War" describes [[UsefulNotes/EnglishCivilWar Oliver Cromwell]] defeating [[UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar Francisco Franco]] at [[UsefulNotes/AmericanCivilWar Gettysburg]]. His description of "the Revolution" involves [[UsefulNotes/RussianRevolution Vladimir Lenin]] teaming up with [[UsefulNotes/MexicanRevolution Poncho Villa]] and [[UsefulNotes/AmericanRevolution George Washington]] to [[UsefulNotes/TexasRevolution take the Alamo]] from [[UsefulNotes/FrenchRevolution Robespierre]].

** Bobby mixes up Lenin with [[Creator/SergeiEisenstein]], correctly identifying him as an influential figure who supported the revolution but mislabelling his actual role in it.