| 1 | Cartoons are [[AnimationAgeGhetto just for kids]]. [[CowboyBebopAtHisComputer No one's going to care if we don't fact-check this]], [[TemptingFate right]]? |
| 2 | |
| 3 | Shows with their own pages: |
| 4 | [[index]] |
| 5 | * ''CowboyBebopAtHisComputer/MagicAdventuresOfMumfie'' |
| 6 | * ''CowboyBebopAtHisComputer/MyLittlePony'' |
| 7 | * ''CowboyBebopAtHisComputer/TheSimpsons'' |
| 8 | * ''CowboyBebopAtHisComputer/SpongeBobSquarePants'' |
| 9 | [[/index]] |
| 10 | ---- |
| 11 | !!Analyses and Reviews |
| 12 | * [[http://www.cracked.com/article_17129_7-badass-cartoon-villains-who-lost-retarded-heroes.html This]] ''Website/{{Cracked}}'' article states that Duke Igthorn from ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGummiBears'' wiped the Gummis out single handedly and reduced their number to the main six. It's firmly established that the rest of the Gummis fled overseas long before the series began, the protagonists hid underground to the point where they're considered myth, and Igthorn didn't discover them until the first episode. The same article makes some erroneous claims about WesternAnimation/MyLittlePony as well, as mentioned on [[CowboyBebopAtHisComputer/MyLittlePony its subpage]]. |
| 13 | * Besides blowing things ''way'' out of proportion in regards to Disney's efforts to revamp Mickey via ''VideoGame/EpicMickey'', this ''[[http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2010/02/01/100201sh_shouts_rudnick New Yorker]]'' article calls [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Porky Pig]] [[AllAnimationIsDisney a Disney character]]. |
| 14 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicKey'': Many online sources, including the show's page on Website/Wikipedia, give the synopsis of "The Demon Drill" as "Nadim must persuade all members of the Tool World to pool their resources and work together before their land begins to literally fall apart." While Nadim ''does'' have to convince the anthropomorphic tools to work together, their world is perfectly fine in terms of structural integrity, and the task the tools need to work together on is the much lower-stakes endeavor of building a boat. |
| 15 | * ''WesternAnimation/RazzberryJazzberryJam'': |
| 16 | ** Despite what various sources (including, somehow, the show’s ''own official website'') say, Herbie wasn’t in “Join The Jam”. He has an EarlyBirdCameo in “Billie’s Biggest Fan”, properly appears in “Super Sounds”, and that’s it. |
| 17 | ** Certain episode-listing sites contain an entry for an episode titled “Do-Re-Teach-Mi”, which does not actually exist. |
| 18 | * ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eop3V1IUryo What is The Goth Rebel Dream Girl?]]'' is an analysis video that discusses cool goth/punk/alternative love interests in fiction. Amongst the several errors are: calling Marceline from ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' "Rosaline", implying that Gogo from ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'' is Hiro's love interest instead of a CoolBigSis, referring to Lucy from ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' as an example (she's eight and is Lincoln's ''sister''), pronouncing the name of Mai from ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' as "My"[[note]]The series pronounces it "May", not the traditional "My"[[/note]], and calling Raven from ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' an example despite the fact she's no one's love interest. The video also starts by mentioning that a Twitter user brought light to the "East Asian Girls With Streaks In Their Hair" cliche, but that image was a repost of an image circulating on Tumblr for years prior. |
| 19 | * Some Dutch websites say that Stephen Hillenburg worked on ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' at one point. |
| 20 | * [[https://www.buzzfeed.com/caseyrackham/pbs-we-will-love-you-forever This article]] on shows that aired on Creator/PBSKids from the 90s to the early 2000s has a few mistakes of this type, to the point where some might think it was written as a StealthParody of childhood memory-baiting Top [x] lists: |
| 21 | ** ''Series/TheBigComfyCouch'' is claimed to be distributed by PBS. It was actually made in Canada by Radical Sheep Productions and distributed to public television stations (including not just PBS, but those not affiliated with them) by Benny Smart and American Public Television. |
| 22 | ** When ''Series/TheNoddyShop'' is brought up, the image is from the ''WesternAnimation/NoddysToylandAdventures'' segments of the show, but the description quotes the theme song to ''Make Way For Noddy'', which is from 2005. As noted in the entry for ''The Noddy Shop'' [[CowboyBebopAtHisComputer/LiveActionTV in the Live Action TV section]], this is a fairly common mistake due to how barely any evidence of the show existed after it ended its' run until TheNewTens. |
| 23 | ** ''Series/BeakmansWorld'' is one of the shows listed. It did not air on PBS; it was broadcast on Creator/{{TLC}} before a ChannelHop to Creator/{{CBS}}. |
| 24 | ** ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' is listed as airing as a stand-alone when it actually aired during this era as part of ''Series/ShiningTimeStation''. |
| 25 | ** The ''Series/LambChopsPlayAlong'' slot calls the ending song "The Song That Never Ends". In the show, it is sung as "The Song That Doesn't End". |
| 26 | ** "A Word From Us Kids" is claimed to be a short that aired in between shows. It actually aired in between episodes of ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}''. PBS never generally aired shorts in between shows that were longer than 30 seconds to a minute at most, though this usually happened on some local stations. For example, WNYE aired ''Series/TheNoddyShop'' songs in between shows, and WLIW aired ''Sheira and Loli's Dittydoodle Works'' songs between shows. |
| 27 | * [[https://web.archive.org/web/20200717082306/https://d2e111jq13me73.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/styles/product_image_aspect_switcher_170w/public/product-images/csm-website/webproduct-cartoonnetwork.jpg?itok=Tj1bTzAS The poster]] for Website/CommonSenseMedia's review of the Creator/CartoonNetwork website, for some reason, features ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' [[note]] which airs on Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} [[/note]] on it. However, the review is now only viewable through the Wayback Machine. |
| 28 | * A brief segment near the end of ''Happy Happy Joy Joy'' (a mostly-accurate 2020 documentary about ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'') discusses the show's impact on subsequent cartoons, with an image montage of various other shows as examples ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqT77bdfEaA visible in the film's trailer]]). The montage includes images of shows that were hardly, if at all, influenced by ''Ren & Stimpy'', as well as obvious fan art of ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' (the latter example being particularly egregious, as not only do any of the main characters aside from Chloe not appear anywhere, it also depicts infamous [[TheScrappy Scrappy]] character Sparky [[FamilyUnfriendlyViolence bleeding to death]]). |
| 29 | * The book ''East Main Street: Asian American Popular Culture'' refers to the clone of Gandhi from ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'' as a "computer nerd." Gandhi is never into computers in the show and isn't much of a nerdy character, instead being ditzy, hyperactive PluckyComicRelief. |
| 30 | * Throughout [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGswVR1QH7Q The Shadow Critic's review]] of ''[[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones A Flintstone Family Christmas]]'', he continually refers to Wilma as "Velma". |
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| 32 | !!Networks and Streaming Services |
| 33 | * New York cable provider Cablevision is a strange case of this when it comes to their programming guides for kids' channels: |
| 34 | ** Sometimes, the images for shows will be mixed up. For instance, several episodes of ''WesternAnimation/WeBareBears'' use a promotional image for ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'', and two reruns of ''WesternAnimation/SofiaTheFirst'' on the Disney Junior channel ("Gizmo Gwen" and "Cool Hand Fluke") showed an image of ''WesternAnimation/LittleEinsteins'', possibly because said show aired before the re-run in question. On a similar note, an airing of the ''Little Einsteins'' episode "He Speaks Music!" showed an image of ''Series/ImaginationMovers'', which the channel doesn't air anymore. |
| 35 | ** In 2018, a weird programming guide error occurred with Creator/CartoonNetwork programming. If Cablevision did not get info for either an episode of a certain show or info of a certain part of the day, a placeholder schedule based off an archived one will be used rather than the normal one that shows a description of the show in general. This notably happens whenever Creator/{{Boomerang}} programming like ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Wabbit}} New Looney Tunes]]'' and ''WesternAnimation/CareBearsUnlockTheMagic'' get a chance to air during the daytime hours. And sometimes this happens to individual episodes, like how "Bro-Pocalypse" re-runs were listed as "Ones And Zeroes" until January of 2019, when the mistake was fixed. It also extends to other networks, but it's rarer on those. A notable instance was when Boomerang listing the 35th episode of ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' as episode 78 the second time the remastered version of said episode aired on the channel.[[note]] At the time, the network only aired episodes 30-61, plus episode 120, on a loop.[[/note]] |
| 36 | ** On PBS and HGTV, Optimum will occasionally list new episodes as "Repeat" instead of "New" in their premiere slots. One example of this was the ''WesternAnimation/PinkaliciousAndPeterrific'' special ''A Pinkaperfect Birthday'' being listed as a repeat in its' first airing on WNET, and the airing of ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}} Arthur: It's Only Rock and Roll]]'' during the 25th anniversary marathon being listed as a new special when it premiered all the way back in 2002. |
| 37 | ** The Starz Encore Kids and Family repeats of episodes 1-5 of ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' lists the contents of 101-105 (from season 6, a season the channel has not aired yet), possibly because the network labels them with their production numbers, which puts the season number before the actual number. The same listings also believe that the quickies are actual episode segments (for instance, Show 48 has the U.S. Acres quickie, "Roosters Fly", listed as the U.S. Acres segment instead of "Read Alert".) [=OnTVTonight=] also does the same thing. |
| 38 | *** On the same topic, when Boomerang premiered the remastered version of "Ship Shape; Barn Of Fear II; Break A Leg", Cablevision listed it as "Binky Goes Bad!; Barn Of Fear; Mini Mall Matters", possibly because both have "Barn Of Fear" in the title. |
| 39 | *** [=OnTVTonight=] listed the August 25, 2019 rerun of ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' episode "The Crying Dame" as a new episode, despite said episode first airing on November 24, 2017. |
| 40 | * When Cartoon Network in the UK started using the 2015 "coming up next" bumpers, they got the ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'' and ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'' bumpers mixed up, despite the two shows looking very different. |
| 41 | * When Cartoon Network returned the old ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' shorts to their schedule in September 2016, the up next bumper for the show had a clip from ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'' despite the fact that it wasn't even airing on the network at the time. |
| 42 | * Netflix is pretty bad about this, especially when it comes to [[AnimationAgeGhetto animated films and programs]] (see also the Anime example). |
| 43 | ** For example: |
| 44 | --->"The WesternAnimation/TeenTitans are a motley crew of five teenagers, each one gifted with a superpower to put to good use. Robin the Boy Wonder is the default leader of the troupe, which roams the planet to protect it from those who aim to harm it and its citizens. But on their days off, they still have to deal with the typical problems that plague teenagers, such as making good grades and forming friendships at school!" |
| 45 | *** Really funny/sad, since unlike in WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo there was ''never a single episode'' that showed the characters outside of their secret identities or at school. [[spoiler:The last episode does show Terra restarting her life by going to school and making friends]], but this was her first appearance in years. |
| 46 | *** ComicBook/{{Robin}} [[BadassNormal is just a well trained human]]. So much for "each one gifted with a superpower". |
| 47 | *** Even the phrase "a superpower" is questionable, since Beast Boy is the only one with a single power: [[ShapeShifting shape shifting]]. Starfire is an [[HumanAliens alien]] with myriad abilities, Raven is a magical [[HalfHumanHybrid half-demon]], and Cyborg is... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a cyborg]] with technology. |
| 48 | ** Here is their description for ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': |
| 49 | --->"Set after the events in ''Episode II: Attack of the Clones'', these animated entries in the ''Star Wars'' sagas follow the adventures of the Jedi knights, including Anakin Skywalker — who draws ever closer to the dark side — and his master, Obi-Wan Kenobi. As the Jedis and Princess Padmé fight to preserve the Republic and defeat the Separatists, they face off with deadly foes such as Count Dooku and General Grievous." |
| 50 | *** First off, Jedi is both plural and singular. There is no such word as "Jedis". |
| 51 | *** Secondly, "Princess Padmé"? Padmé was a Queen in Episode I, but by the time of the Clone Wars she isn't even royalty anymore. She's a Senator. She's frequently referred to as a Senator on the show. |
| 52 | *** Thirdly, Obi-Wan isn't Anakin's Jedi Master anymore, though Anakin ''was'' still Obi-Wan's Padawan in Episode II. |
| 53 | ** Their description of ''WesternAnimation/StreetSharks'' listed Creator/HenryWinkler and Creator/AdamWest in the cast, based on a fake episode guide that was created by an editor on the [=TVTome=] wiki as an experiment to see how ridiculous the description of a show nobody really remembered could become before anyone called him on it. They were far from the only people caught out by the spoof, but you'd think they'd notice the episode titles in their source didn't match the ones they actually had. |
| 54 | ** Their description for ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' refers to Billy and Mandy as siblings, when in fact they are not related. |
| 55 | * When it was announced that Creator/KateMulgrew would return to voice her character Captain Kathryn Janeway (from ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'') for a new animated series, ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekProdigy'', article after article ran with the assumption that this was going to be Janeway's glorious return; that the series would revolve around her, that she would command the hero ship, and any number of phrasings that suggested ''Prodigy'' was ''Captain Janeway: The Series''. The actual character Mulgrew voiced for the series was a training hologram modeled after Janeway, there to train the young, non-Starfleet characters in how to operate a starship. In the pilot, she doesn't even appear until the last few moments. The main characters are the motley crew of young aliens who have acquired a derelict starship. |
| 56 | ** This was somewhat changed when the real Janeway (an Admiral) showed up halfway through the season, acting as a secondary antagonist until she met the young protagonists and understood who they really were. Janeway has now taken them under her wing as trainees and presumably will be a regular character in the second season. She still isn't the show's primary focus, however. |
| 57 | * Italian cartoon-focused channel K2 has issues with its commercial bumpers. In theory they would match the cartoon that airs after the break, airing a short clip of it... but actually they stopped making new ones a long time ago, meaning that the bumpers nowadays show either ''WesternAnimation/OggyAndTheCockroaches'' or ''WesternAnimation/TheDaltons'', almost never matching up with whatever is actually airing.[[note]]It's even worse with anime: they have closing bumpers that air before episodes of ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' or ''Franchise/YuGiOh''... which always show scenes respectively from ''Black & White'' and ''Anime/YuGiOhZexal'', even when both series stopped airing on the channel, it was replaced with content from the later seasons![[/note]] |
| 58 | * Italian TV channel Boing haves some issues with Beast Boy's name. Their episode descriptions for both ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' and ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' keep switching around between calling him "Beast Boy" or "BB": the latter is supposedly his name [[DubNameChange in the Italian dub]], albeit they're not sure if the correct spelling should be [[InconsistentSpelling "BB" or "Bibi"]][[note]]The latter is assumed to be the correct one, as the actual dub of ''Go!'' acknowledges it in a few points: his Bizarro World counterpart from "Robin Backwards", called Boy Beast in the original version, is dubbed as "Ibib", while his genderbent counterpart Beast Girl from the episode with the same name is renamed "Biba"[[/note]]. Also, the descriptions for some early episodes of ''Teen Titans'' call him "Fauno Boy" and the one for ''Go!'''s "The Croissant" calls him [[Music/BeastieBoys "Beastie Boy"]]. The same channel also keeps referring to Mad Mod as "Mat Mat". |
| 59 | * According to the American cable company Midco's channel listing of the ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' episode [[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderLakeLaogai "Lake Laogai"]], Jet is voiced by Creator/JasonMarsden. He does sound like him, but is actually voiced by Crawford Wilson. |
| 60 | * Now-closed Greek channel Alter's descriptions of animated shows were mostly hit or miss, but some had a few glaring errors: |
| 61 | ** Their description of ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' [[ViewerSpeciesConfusion called the title character a mouse when he's an aardvark]] (which is, however, an easy mistake due to Arthur [[InformedSpecies not looking much like one]]), says he "lives in a fairytale town with his family" (Elwood City is a run-of-the-mill American town), and uses the female word for "teacher" (ignoring that Mr. Ratburn is, well, a male character) and says "she" is "strict as always, often messes with [Arthur] and gives him many punishments that make him begrudge", despite several episodes making it clear that he's just a SternTeacher and not [[SadistTeacher a sadistic one]]. |
| 62 | ** Their description of ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears'' called Honey Bear a boy instead of a girl, though that might be because babies are often subject to ViewerGenderConfusion. |
| 63 | ** Their description of ''WesternAnimation/CareBears1980s'' only mentioned Professor Coldheart as a villain, despite the channel presumably airing the Nelvana episodes as well. |
| 64 | * [[https://youtu.be/9fxaDx3M8a8?t=72 A promo for Telad's kids shows on the Israeli Channel 2]] used footage from ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' for ''WesternAnimation/QuackPack'', despite the obvious differences in character & art design between the two shows. |
| 65 | * An early version of Creator/{{Freeform}}'s "25 Days of Christmas Song" bumper used for the 2019 holiday season showed a picture of [[WesternAnimation/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer Sam the Snowman]] to go with the lyric: "Frosty, Grinch, Buzz and Woody, and The Santa Clause", seemingly calling Sam WesternAnimation/FrostyTheSnowman despite Frosty and Sam being two completely separate characters. The bumper was used again for the 2020 holiday season, and this time it switched the shot of Sam out for one of the actual Frosty. |
| 66 | * [=Zap2It=] often lists several {{Extra Long Episode}}s of QuarterHourShort programming (usually on Creator/CartoonNetwork) as 15-minute segments when they actually aren't. |
| 67 | * Creator/ParamountPlus has a bad case of listing the wrong dates for the premieres of episodes: |
| 68 | ** The service lists ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Oswald}}'' as having premiered in April 2003. They actually premiered in 2000 and 2001, respectively. |
| 69 | ** The service claims that ''Series/AllegrasWindow'' premiered in February 1999, when the series premiered in 1994. |
| 70 | ** ''Series/GullahGullahIsland'' and ''WesternAnimation/BluesClues'' are both listed with a January 1999 premiere date. They actually premiered in 1994 and 1996, respectively. |
| 71 | ** ''WesternAnimation/CatDog'' is listed with an October 1998 premiere date. While the year is correct, the show actually premiered in April. |
| 72 | ** The final season of ''WesternAnimation/LittleBear'' is listed with a January 2007 premiere date. The last season actually ended in 2001. |
| 73 | ** Early ads for the service showed images of ''WesternAnimation/BluesCluesAndYou'' despite Paramount Plus not getting the show until September 2021. |
| 74 | * Creator/HBOMax: |
| 75 | ** Many of their listings for ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' contain factual errors. Most of these are incorrect release years, but there are a few more severe examples. |
| 76 | *** Their description for the 1969 short "WesternAnimation/RabbitStewAndRabbitsToo" incorrectly calls it a Bugs Bunny short, most likely guessing that based on the title. The short's star is Rapid Rabbit, a CompositeCharacter of Bugs Bunny and the Road Runner, who only appeared in that short as the studio closed down before it could become a series. It also claims that it involves a hunter trying to shoot him down, when the short's villain is Quick Brown Fox, a vulpine {{Expy}} of Wile E. Coyote. |
| 77 | *** While many incorrect years are still pretty close to their actual release dates, there are some that are ''way'' off; for example, the 1950 cartoon ''An Egg Scramble'' is claimed to have been released in 1966. |
| 78 | ** The official HBO Max Family [=YouTube=] channel has a ''WesternAnimation/CraigOfTheCreek'' video called "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwyQ-VLG9rw Jessica Battles the Anti-Sparkle]]". The character who actually battles the Anti-Sparkle is Sparkle Cadet, a completely different character. |
| 79 | ** The HBO Max description for the ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' short ''Pent-House Mouse'' is "A snooty woman hires Tom and Calaboose Cal to rid her apartment of Jerry in The Penthouse Mouse." The problem is that there is no woman living in the penthouse, nor is Tom hired; Tom is ostensibly the homeowner and is in the penthouse before Jerry. Furthermore, Calaboose Cal didn't exist at the time the short was released (this short is from 1963, while ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryKids'' premiered in 1990). |
| 80 | |
| 81 | !!Retailers: |
| 82 | * Amazon sometimes does this with their DVD listings. They will usually list Western-animated works that are aimed at adults (like ''Literature/ThePlagueDogs'') or have a huge PeripheryDemographic (like ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' and ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'') as anime when they are actually aren't. This sometimes happens with works aimed at children, but it's not as frequent: a DVD of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', two ''WesternAnimation/PAWPatrol'' releases [[note]] the ''Pawsome Collection'' gift set and ''Pups Chase A Mystery'' were both labeled as this [[/note]] and the 10th season of ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' were all classified as anime, and were later corrected. Likewise, Amazon sometimes classifies stuff that's not meant for kids as being "Kids and Family", like ''Series/TheGoodPlace'', an uncut ''Anime/OnePiece'' box set and ''Film/TheBananaSplitsMovie''. While the reason why the first show got classified as being family friendly when it isn't is unclear, the last two mix-ups may have been because one of them was an anime aimed at kids in Japan and the other was a horror movie based on [[Series/TheBananaSplits a children's show]]. |
| 83 | * [[https://www.walmart.com/ip/Shimmer-and-Shine-Genie-Leah/757346976 This Walmart listing]] for a Leah doll from ''WesternAnimation/ShimmerAndShine'' lists her as a genie. While she does look like a genie, it's just a disguise she wears when she's in Zahramay Falls because humans are not allowed there. |
| 84 | |
| 85 | !!Studios |
| 86 | * A lot of the non-major Creator/HannaBarbera shows are prone to fact-check failures when being reported on in a rush. While everyone knows there is a lot of FollowTheLeader in many of their shows, some reports practically flanderize the comparisons. As a rule of thumb, there's things to compare in all of them, but not enough to interchange them. |
| 87 | ** That's not the only error in Lenberg's book. In the ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces'' entry, he lists the General as a character. There was no General as a recurring character (as he was on the [[WesternAnimation/DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines spinoff]], albeit heard and not seen), just Private Meekley and Sgt. Blast. Also: ''Help! It's the Hair Bear Bunch!'' reputedly went into syndication after its CBS run under the title "The Yo-Yo Bears" (its working title). The show remained off the air until 1984 when Creator/USANetwork ran it in repeats. |
| 88 | * In 1953, Creator/ChuckJones, Creator/FrizFreleng and Creator/RobertMcKimson were invited to be wined and dined by their studio bosses, the Creator/WarnerBros themselves. The Warners proved hilariously clueless about the output of their own studio, with Harry Warner admitting that he didn't even know where the animation studio was, and that "all I know is that we make WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse." (Mickey, you might be aware, has always been the property of one Creator/WaltDisney.) Chuck Jones wryly assured his bosses that so long as they were making cartoons, [[ExactWords Mickey would remain at the height of his popularity]]. Jack Warner sternly replied, "It would be in the best interest of your careers that you do just that." Years later, the Warner Bros animation studio closed down. Chuck Jones had left a year earlier, and when Friz Freleng called to give him the news, he said "Bad news, Chuck. Looks like Jack finally figured out we don't make Mickey Mouse." [[note]] humorously, the year Jones promised to keep Mickey popular was the year Disney released the final Mickey Mouse cartoon for 30 years.[[/note]] |
| 89 | * [[https://rec.arts.animation.narkive.com/EZ8iJMP0/who-is-the-most-hated-person-in-the-history-of-the-animation-industry This forum post about the most hated figures in animation]] claims that Creator/TerryToons took until ''1942'' to produce cartoons in Technicolor. While the studio ''was'' notoriously slow to adapt to new technology and was the last major American cartoon studio to switch to colour, they actually made the transition in 1938 with the short ''String-Bean Jack''. |
| 90 | * For a while, Website/{{Wikipedia}} claimed that ''WesternAnimation/ScrubMeMamaWithABoogieBeat'' had aired on television internationally, as well as that it aired on Creator/{{Boomerang}} in the United States in 2000. There is no evidence that this cartoon ever aired on television ''anywhere'', in part due to Creator/WalterLantz personally making sure it stayed off television following the controversy it sparked after a 1949 re-release. |
| 91 | * The ''Disney Song Encyclopedia'' features plenty of mistakes. The description for the ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'' theme claims that the show is "about the colorful Kit Cloudkicker, who flies his plane through various adventures in the tropics." The pilot is actually Baloo - Kit is just his navigator. The book also claims that ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' retained its theme song from the original Nickelodeon series, when the Disney seasons use an entirely different theme. |
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| 93 | !!Series |
| 94 | * [=LocateTV=]'s description for ''WesternAnimation/ThreeTwoOnePenguins'' read as follows: "Follow the adventures of Jason and Michelle, a pair of young penguin twins". One has to wonder if they even bothered to watch the show, or even look at promotional art, as anyone familiar with the show can tell you that Jason and Michelle are a pair of ''human'' twins. The eponymous penguins are the four penguins (Zidgel, Midgel, Fidgel, and Kevin) who Jason and Michelle go on adventures with, and not Jason and Michelle themselves. |
| 95 | * ''WesternAnimation/The7D'' was conceived as a Disney Junior show before being retooled into the Disney XD show for general audiences that it is now. Despite this, many news reports and other such things still tend to refer to it as a Disney Junior show aimed at preschoolers. It also aired on Disney junior in several countries, some even having it exclusively airing there. |
| 96 | * It's very common for Creator/NickJr[='s=] listings for ''WesternAnimation/AbbyHatcher'' to mix up episode titles with those from ''WesternAnimation/TeamUmizoomi'' and ''WesternAnimation/BlazeAndTheMonsterMachines''. |
| 97 | * Take a look at [[http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518K-17Z6aL._SL500_AA300_.jpg this box art]] for a re-release of Volume 1 of ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog''. The Robotnik design is the one from ''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM'' instead of ''Adventures'', and the logo is also from ''[=SatAM=]''. |
| 98 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTeddyRuxpin'': |
| 99 | ** The show's IMDB page claims that Creator/AshleighBall voiced the young Grubby in "Octopede Sailors", when it's obvious that it's still Will Ryan voicing him during said flashback. In addition, said actress would have been 3 or 4 when the series was recorded, making it impossible for her to have provided the voice. |
| 100 | ** [[https://www.ebay.com/itm/196082746502?hash=item2da7714486:g:ywMAAOSwWbtks1zZ A Montevideo release of the show]] claims that Leota has a deaf student named Toby, when it's actually a girl named Katie. |
| 101 | * A summer holidays advert ran on Cartoon Network UK in 2012 referred to ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' character Lumpy Space Princess as "Lumpy Space". Presumably this was confusion over the title of the episode "Trouble in Lumpy Space", which the network airs frequently. Less understandable was a promo shortly afterward for new episodes of ''Redakai'', which called one of the main characters "Bloomer". |
| 102 | ** Seemingly caught later that same year when the ad was used for repeats on sibling network CN Too, with Boomer correctly said this time. |
| 103 | * The summary of the ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'' episode "Broadcast Blues" lists the principal's name as Principal Pinkly. His name is actually Principal Willoughby. |
| 104 | * Some online sites like the IMDB and epguides treat the fifth season of ''WesternAnimation/AllHailKingJulien'' (with the subtitle "Exiled") as if it's a seperate series instead of a case of NewSeasonNewName. |
| 105 | * Many TV descriptions for ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' refer to Gumball and Darwin as friends, but Darwin is really Gumball's adopted brother. They live in the same house for a reason. Granted, they largely ''are'' friends as well, so it's not so much inaccurate as it is imprecise. |
| 106 | ** At one point Cartoon Network ran ads referring to ''The Amazing World of Gumball'' as a "brand new show", despite it being several years old at the time. |
| 107 | ** WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter stated that the episode "The Choices" is from Season 6. It's from Season 5; Season 6 hadn't even begun yet when he made that review. |
| 108 | * ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': |
| 109 | ** Time Warner Cable descriptions of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episodes sometimes incorrectly call Francine "[[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Lois]]". |
| 110 | ** On the Sky TV guide, one episode of the series is called "Meter Maid" instead of the actual pun title "Meter Made". |
| 111 | ** The episode "Stan Knows Best" has an incorrect detail on many cable/satellite descriptions. While it correctly states Stan cuts off Hayley's hair for coloring it green, he doesn't use a shaver with a silencer. Perhaps Fox sent an incorrect description when the show initially aired, and it was never corrected. |
| 112 | * ''WesternAnimation/AngelinaBallerina'' has this issue: several sources assume the title character's last name [[HisNameReallyIsBarkeep really is "Ballerina"]], when in reality her real name is "Angelina [[SpeciesSurname Mouseling]]". |
| 113 | * Much of the print material based on ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' (such as the comic books) used the show's name when directly referring to Yakko, Wakko, and Dot, who were always called the Warners and never the Animaniacs in the show. Even some Kids' WB! spots (such as the preview special ''Welcome Home, Animaniacs!'') and movies and other shows made by WB themselves made this mistake, like ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGoToTheMovies''. |
| 114 | ** It was on ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}'', too. The answer was "On the Warner Bros. lot tour you can see the water tower that this cartoon trio calls home." The contestant responded "Who are The Warner Brothers and Warner Sister?" His response was judged incorrect. They gave it back to him after the commercial, with Alex Trebek professing that he hadn't known that; he learns something new every day. |
| 115 | ** The description TV listings use for Hub airings of episode 26 wrote the words "find a bathroom" as "fins bathroon", and used the term "fire-eating dragon" instead of "fire-breathing dragon". |
| 116 | ** Many websites think that the ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' short "A Meticulous Analysis of History" was shown as one of their segments on ''Animaniacs'' rather than the spin-off series. |
| 117 | ** According to "The Monty Python Encyclopedia" ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' is about "a grumpy mouse and his odd circle of bizarre friends", when in reality it's actually about an EvilGenius mouse and his CloudCuckooLander lackey scheming to take over the world. They also list the episode that Eric Idle guest-starred in as being from 1995 -- it actually aired in 1998. |
| 118 | ** The show itself offers an in-universe example with the segment "The Please Please Please Get A Life Foundation", where fans point out false facts found in the show itself. This segment was actually based on the fan-made Cultural Reference Guide for the show. |
| 119 | ** In the first episode of [[WesternAnimation/Animaniacs2020 the reboot]], one of the things from the past 20 years that was shown to have been missed by the Warners was the ''Toys/{{Tamagotchi}}'' and virtual pet craze. This isn't true-at the time the craze was occuring in 1997, new episodes of ''Animaniacs'' were still airing. |
| 120 | ** In [[https://popgeeks.com/animaniacs-is-back-new-trailer-and-episode-descriptions/ this article]], it states that Nora Rita Norita is replacing Dr. Scratchansniff as the new "pee-sychiatrist". It's actually the Warner Bros. CEO Mr. Plotz she's replacing, not Scratchy. |
| 121 | ** On several fanon wiki listings for episodes of TV shows and internet series that involve a SwearWordPlot, one entry will commonly be a list of shows and specific episodes that use said plot, including the episode "Cutie and the Beast". Unlike the other episodes on said list, this episode isn't about a character learning a swear word, as the swearing scene is just a one-off gag in the episode that isn't bought up again. However, this is downplayed on the wiki page for ''[[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998 The Powerpuff Girls]]'' episode "Curses", which notes that the swearing scene wasn't a major part of the episode. |
| 122 | * The desperation-born sweat from reporters trying to figure out just what the hell ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' is about was enough to smudge the pages. Most of them came up with variations on "show about anthropomorphic food detective superheroes" (a premise which had been abandoned after about three episodes, as [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in many later episodes). Even Magazine/TVGuide's description of the show is, "Food items fight crime", and it doesn't make sense. |
| 123 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': |
| 124 | ** Some people think the show is called ''[[WesternAnimation/HeyArnold Hey Arthur!]]'', and it doesn't help that "Hey!" is shouted during the theme song's chorus. |
| 125 | ** ''Arthur: It's Only Rock 'n' Roll'' has an in-universe example where throughout the special, the Music/BackstreetBoys are constantly referred to by the characters as a rock and roll band, when the actual genre of music they perform is pop. |
| 126 | ** The description for "The Secret Life of Dogs and Babies" on the official PBS Kids website is quite strange: "Arthur and D.W. watch impossibly immature TV shows." The episode is an AnimalTalk story about Pal and Baby Kate trying to get a decorative cake topper to a wedding, and it seems like whoever wrote this summary based it on the ColdOpen of Kate and Pal watching a ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' parody. |
| 127 | ** The [[https://web.archive.org/web/19961225213502if_/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/arthur/tv.html official site]], from 1996 (when the show premiered), has the following description of "Buster's Dino Dilemma": "Buster's wild about dinosaurs, so he's in his element when the class goes for a fossil-hunting field trip. On his own, Buster discovers a very interesting bone... is it the remain of a dinosaur or some leftovers from a local fast-food joint?" The episode's conflict comes from the fact that Buster feels guilty about taking the fossil (which 1. is very real and never suspected to be fake and 2. is a footprint, not a bone) against site rules. Also, Buster didn't find it on his own; Arthur accidentally pulled it out of the water while telling Buster that it's hard to find fossils. |
| 128 | * Some sources claim that ''WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger'' ended its run in 2009, nine years after its premiere. Website/IMDb even lists the series as "2000-present", probably because to date, the last eight episodes have not aired in the US. Production ended in 2003 and some, but not all of the final season aired in 2003-04. The series finale was released straight to DVD in November 2004, effectively ending the series then. For several months (possibly even years), the show's Wikipedia article claimed that the remaining episodes finished airing in November 2009, but this did not happen. Schedule archives confirm that Nickelodeon stopped airing reruns of the series in December 2008, with sister channel Nicktoons following suit one week later. It was finally corrected to state that the show ended in 2006, which isn't technically wrong; one of the remaining episodes aired for the first time in the US during that year, but the others remained unaired until [=NickSplat=] aired them in 2016. |
| 129 | * ''Franchise/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': |
| 130 | ** Once, Creator/ConanOBrien made a reference to how [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender "Avadar" Aang and his bison Appa]] (pronounced like Apple with an ''a'' on the end) had to break out of an iceberg to save the world. [[RuleOfFunny Then he compared it to Sarah Palin breaking out of Alaska]]. |
| 131 | ** It's rare that you have a reviewer who is tasked exclusively with watching a show fail completely. IGN's ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' reviewer Tory Ireland Mell actually did fail that badly. Her [[http://tv.ign.com/articles/892/892248p1.html legendarily bad]], [[http://tv.ign.com/articles/891/891520p1.html unprofessionally written]], [[http://tv.ign.com/articles/889/889548p1.html spoiler filled]], [[http://tv.ign.com/articles/892/892136p1.html completely ignorant review]] of the season 3 episodes was so bad that comments on the reviews lack of skill forced her to watch several episodes before the finale, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20210607160833/https://www.ign.com/articles/2008/07/22/avatar-the-last-airbender-sozins-comet-review the review of which still had all of the same issues]], only more glaringly magnified, as it covered the two-hour finale. This reviewer: |
| 132 | *** Didn't watch the ''first episodes'', otherwise she'd know Katara was the only Waterbender in the Southern Water Tribe. |
| 133 | *** Completely missed the episode covering Bloodbending. |
| 134 | *** Has no idea that the show develops other characters regularly. |
| 135 | *** Has never seen Zuko vulnerable before (so... she has never seen seasons 1, 2, or 3). |
| 136 | ** Another reviewer claimed: "He's supposedly the only one skilled in manipulating all of nature's basic elements. But he isn't. A rival shares his powers". |
| 137 | ** Many newspaper articles on the movie adaptation claimed it was based on the popular "anime". Jesse [=McCartney=] says it was "explosively huge in Asia." It is also not a good sign when the ''director of the film adaptation'' refers to ''Avatar'' as an "anime"... The movie stars the [[AntiVillain "evil"]] Prince ''[[http://www.necn.com/Boston/Arts-Entertainment/2009/02/03/Dev-Patel-to-play-Zucko/1233659470.html Zucko]]'', no less. The news anchor in that same video describes the show's plot as involving "the epic battle between the Fire and Air Nations.", despite [[LastOfHisKind everyone in the Air "nation" (except for Aang) being dead]]. On the anime part, it has been released in parts of Asia but isn't nearly as popular there. |
| 138 | ** Commercials for a toy featuring Aang and Appa repeatedly mispronounced the latter's name. In the show, his name is pronounced "Ah-pa", but in the commercial, it's pronounced like "Apple" with an ''a'' on the end. |
| 139 | ** [[http://www.musogato.com/avatar/icons/ecard-zhao1.jpg The original version]] of Commander Zhao's collectible e-card on Nick.com claimed that Zhao was the one responsible for Zuko's burn scar, rather than his father Fire Lord Ozai. [[http://www.musogato.com/avatar/icons/ecard-zhao.jpg This was later corrected]], but the card still says that "Zhao was too wily for the young Zuko then, but will he come to regret sparing the Prince's life?" In reality, Zuko won the Agni Kai (Firebender duel) and spared ''Zhao''. |
| 140 | ** [[https://www.reddit.com/r/TheLastAirbender/comments/vp7uo/uncle_irohs_character_bio_on_nickcom_wat/ Iroh's character bio on Nick.com]] shows the actor who plays him in "The Ember Island Players". |
| 141 | ** When Zuko's daughter, [[SheIsTheKing Fire Lord]] Izumi, finally got to appear in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', Nick's official Twitter account used a photoshopped image someone on the internet made to illustrate what she looked like when she was younger to promote the episode instead of the actual still of her they'd released previously. |
| 142 | * A DVD bonus feature for ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'' says the terrorist organization HYDRA was founded shortly after World War II, instead of ''during'' the war. This feels especially jarring since the fact ComicBook/CaptainAmerica's first episode showed Allied soldiers fighting HYDRA agents but [[NoSwastikas not Nazis]] became one of the show's biggest controversies, and one of the episodes on the DVD features the Avengers trying to prevent the terrorists' leader from creating an alternate universe in which they won WWII. This very same episode plays in the corner for the duration of the bonus feature. |
| 143 | * Many summaries for the ''WesternAnimation/BabyLooneyTunes'' episode "Did Not! Did Too!" claim that the episode is about Lola challenging Bugs to a winner-take-all competition to see who gets to be the leader of the group. The actual episode contains no such competition, and is just about Bugs and Lola not wanting to talk to each other after a fight, thus leading their friends to work together to resolve the issue. |
| 144 | ** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shPjBAwHdtg this Cartoonito UK promo]] for ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'', the first half of the footage is from ''Baby Looney Tunes'', despite the fact that the two shows are completely different from each other. In addition, it's not uncommon for eBay listings for merchandise from the two shows to have their names confused. |
| 145 | ** For some reason, the Virgin Media listings for ''Baby Looney Tunes'' claim that Creator/MikePollock was a cast member. He wasn't - apart from Creator/JuneForay, the casting was entirely done in Vancouver. |
| 146 | * Creator/TheHub's [[http://www.hubworld.com/batman/shows/the-animated-series Web site]] for ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', lists the story of Dick Grayson for ComicBook/{{Robin}}, except that the Robin displayed on the site's picture is actually Tim Drake, who has a different origin, and who became Robin after Dick left to become ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}. |
| 147 | * Let's take a trip back to the [[TheNineties early-to-mid 1990s]], when MoralGuardians were up in arms about ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead''. Not only did [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hollings South Carolina Senator Ernest Hollings]] infamously refer to them as "Buffcoat and Beaver" (later referenced on the show), the three-part documentary about the series ("Taint of Greatness") revealed some parents thought there was an episode where the boys set a cat on fire. One can only assume one mother caught a glimpse of the episode where they ''paint'' Mr. Anderson's cat and set his ''hedges'' on fire, completely misinterpreted what happened, and told her friends about it. |
| 148 | ** Speaking of ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead'', some reviewers thought WesternAnimation/{{Daria}} was their friend. They were not friends in any sense of the word. |
| 149 | ** Series creator Creator/MikeJudge once told a story of an irate viewer calling and berating him about the show, and mistakenly referring to it as ''Porky's Butthole''. |
| 150 | * In an [[https://youtu.be/xmIsoDGQeZc interview]] with the Brazilian voice actor Charles Emmanuel about his role as Ben Tennyson in ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'', the reporter [[{{animesque}} referred its animation as a Japanese series]]. The network also wrote the actor's name as "[[LastNameBasis Emmanuel Charles]]". |
| 151 | * Disney Junior's promos for ''WesternAnimation/{{Bluey}}'' are prone to making mistakes about Australian elements of the show: |
| 152 | ** In one promo for the "Red, White and ''Bluey''" [[MarathonRunning Independence Day marathon]], the voiceover said "Grab your sunscreen" as a clip of Bluey and Bingo getting colored zinc applied to them played. |
| 153 | ** The [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=bak-LgajOWk Summer ABC Song]] uses "Hot dogs in a bun" for the letter H, when the clip in question shows sausages being prepared. |
| 154 | * For some reason, many sources (including Jeff Lenburg's ''Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons'') claim that the main voice actors in ''WesternAnimation/TheBrothersFlub'' were Creator/NickBakay and Creator/RichardStevenHorvitz. Neither man was involved with the show at all; the lead characters were instead voiced by Jerry Sroka and Creator/ScottMenville. Bakay and Horvitz were instead the lead voice actors of ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers'' -- which has nothing else in common other than being a Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} cartoon whose lead characters are brothers. Furthermore, ''The Brothers Flub'' was [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes almost entirely out of circulation]] for nearly two decades after its cancellation, and the closing credits on the circulating episodes [[UnspecifiedRoleCredit don't specify who voiced whom]]. However, the improper attributions seem to have dispersed over time, and most sources (including [=IMDb=], which originally had the Bakay/Horvitz error) properly credit Sroka and Menville. |
| 155 | * In January 2021, many news outlets reported that PBS Kids had finally cancelled ''WesternAnimation/{{Caillou}}'' after 20 years. This is false; what ''really'' happened is that they took it out of reruns. The series had ended over a decade prior to this, and PBS can't actually cancel the show either way; the show is a Canadian import. |
| 156 | * [[http://www.jaepereira.com/blog/quick-hit-can-you-teach-my-crocodile-manners This blog post]] calls Disney Junior's ''Can You Teach My Alligator Manners?'' "Can You Teach My '''Crocodile''' Manners?", when the species' name is said at least thrice in the theme song. |
| 157 | * For years, there was speculation of two unaired episodes of ''WesternAnimation/ChalkZone'' titled "Darkness Rain/Failure Zone/The Scent of Stupidity/Snap-a-Snap" and "The Art of Sucker Punch/Family Reunion", mainly because of the show's Wikipedia article stating this. These episodes do not exist; executive producer Fred Seibert confirmed that 40 episodes were made (not 42). Further, the complete series was recently released on DVD and did not contain these two supposed "episodes" (with the only material missing from the DVD set being the segment "The Smooch"[[note]]which was omitted because of music licensing issues over the use of the Baha Men's cover of the song "Coconut"[[/note]] and the two ''WesternAnimation/OhYeahCartoons'' shorts "Chalk Dad" and "Chalk Rain"[[note]]the only two shorts of the ''Oh Yeah!'' era to not be repackaged as segments of the series proper[[/note]]). In the case of other Nickelodeon shows that have had episodes unaired in the US such as ''WesternAnimation/CatDog'' and ''WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger'', complete series releases always contain such episodes. |
| 158 | ** On [=iTunes=] and on the complete series DVD, "Chip Of Fools" is referred to as "Snap's Nightmare", thus spoiling the ending of the episode. The episode itself isn't renamed. |
| 159 | * The synopsis of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Clarence}}'' episode "Big Trouble in Little Aberdale" provided to listing services identifies the new kid the title character meets as a boy when she is a girl. |
| 160 | * The IMDB summary of ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'' states the title character is still a deli owner; he was on ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''[[note]]He later became a mailman as of season 14[[/note]], but on this show he works as an installer for a cable company. |
| 161 | ** Some summaries (based on early descriptions and concept art released by the creators before the pilot was even made) state that the Brown family's neighbors/friends include three different families: a redneck family, a clan of talking bears, and a TrappedInThePast [[WhatCouldHaveBeen British family]]. Only the first two appear on the show; the last was scrapped and replaced by Holt. |
| 162 | * Brazilian website Legião dos Heróis publiched an [[https://www.legiaodosherois.com.br/2023/knd-a-turma-do-bairro-final-desenho.html article]] talking about the GrandFinale of ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor''... except the episode they are describing is the [[Recap/CodenameKidsNextDoorS2E13OperationEND Season 2 finale]] instead of the actual series finale, [[Recap/CodenameKidsNextDoorOperationINTERVIEWS Operation: I.N.T.E.R.V.I.E.W.S.]]. They most likely made that mistake because of the name of the former, which is Operation: E.N.D.. |
| 163 | * A Nigerian content guide provider once promoted ''WesternAnimation/TheCrumpets'' on Twitter with the picture of a Swiss all-female band bearing that name instead of the cartoon. |
| 164 | * The GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff page on Website/ThisVeryWiki once claimed that ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'' was an American show that was popular amongst the British, when the show was actually created in Britain by Creator/CosgroveHall. |
| 165 | ** One news article reviewing the 2015 reboot claimed Professor Squawkencluck was a parakeet. She's actually a young hen. |
| 166 | * The ''WesternAnimation/DangerRangers'' episode "Chem Gems" uses two in-universe examples in the music video segment for "Don't Touch That!". The song's lyrics treat Creator/{{Socrates}} drinking hemlock as being accidental ("When Socrates drank hemlock, what did he learn? Don't touch that!") He was actually [[FelonyMisdemeanor given it to drink because of the death penalty he got for corrupting the youth and making false gods]]. Immediately following this is a claim that Romeo's death in ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' was also accidental when it was actually [[spoiler:him comitting suicide]]. And to make matters worse, their interpertation of the scene where Romeo takes poison took place at the balcony, when in the actual play, it took place inside a tomb. |
| 167 | * ''WesternAnimation/DanielTigersNeighborhood'': |
| 168 | ** The official Creator/PBSKids description for the episode "Daniel Doesn't Want To Go Potty" reads "Daniel and Mom Tiger are meeting Katerina for lunch, and Daniel learns that it's important to try to go potty before leaving the house". What it describes is completely different than the actual episode, where they meet her at the grocery store to buy ingredients for a veggie pizza. |
| 169 | ** TV listings for the first episode on the website for PBS affiliate Thirteen (also known as WNET) list it as "Daniel's Birthday; Daniel's Picnic; Daniel Visits School; Daniel Visits The Doctor" (the hour-long premiere package, which only aired together a handful of times compared to individual airings of the two), even if only the first two episodes are airing. This mistake has surprisingly not been fixed at any time during the show's 10-year run. |
| 170 | * Translation of a Swedish TV-guide's blurb about ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'': "In the past Danny was a shy child who was hardly noticed. But suddenly one afternoon, when Danny unfortunately burned down his parents' lab, he became a super hero." Besides the name and Danny getting superpowers from [[FreakLabAccident something related to his parent's lab]], none of this is accurate - he wasn't particularly shy, he got more awkward ''after'' getting ghost powers thanks to constant PowerIncontinence, and the lab didn't burn down (there wasn't even any fire at all!). |
| 171 | * ''WesternAnimation/DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines'' was referred to as ''Stop That Pigeon'' (its theme and original working name) so frequently that ''Yogi's Treasure Hunt'' lampshades it. In the episode "Yogi's Heroes", Dick and Muttley capture Snooper and Blabber and torture them by making them watch old ''Dastardly & Muttley'' cartoons. |
| 172 | -->'''Snooper:''' Oh, no, Blab. Not ''Stop That Pigeon'' cartoons! Our brain matter will turn into toothypaste!''' |
| 173 | * When ''WesternAnimation/DiGataDefenders'' was first aired in Italy, many TV guides presented the series as [[TheAnimeOfTheGame "Based on the omonymous videogame"]]. While a ''Di-Gata Defenders'' game exists, it was released ''after'' the cartoon. |
| 174 | * The show description given to ''WesternAnimation/DofusKerubsBazaar'' by Italian TV channel K2 implies that the show is just a straight adaptation of [[VideoGame/{{Dofus}} the original game]] ("The six dragon eggs known as Dofus are vanished. A team of adventurers is searching for them"). Not only, the thumbnail image that they use as a logo for the show in the upper right corner is the artwork of the default male Osamodas character from the game, rather than one of the show's characters. |
| 175 | * ''WesternAnimation/DragonTales'': |
| 176 | ** The CBC's official website gave the name of the episode "Cowboy Max" [[https://web.archive.org/web/20030618050325/http://www.cbc.ca/kids/gsfl/shows/dragontales/index.html as "Cowboy Hat"]]. |
| 177 | ** Amazon [[https://www.amazon.com/Dragon-Tales-Season-1/dp/B0873C1S44 calls]] Emmy "Margarita". |
| 178 | ** Some websites misspell the show's name as ''Dragon Tails''. It was even spelled this way on Ron Rodecker's obituary. |
| 179 | ** An Nickelodeon UK [[https://youtu.be/4UBd9a_dBoY promo]] from 2002 calls Emmy "Ellie", Zak "Zacky", Wheezie "Lizzie" and Ord "Org". |
| 180 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjtPZ7UqXW4 One of the Powerhouse-era bumpers]] for ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' has Eddy saying "I got dibs on all the makeout scenes!", a line that doesn't match up with the show's actual content, which features some mild form of characters hitting on other characters but few full-out makeout scenes-and those which do exist are NOT the kind you want to be part of! |
| 181 | * ''WesternAnimation/EvilConCarne'' has the powerhouse era bumpers from when it was part of ''Grim & Evil''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvhjKglWd_k The bumper's announcer apparently thinks Evil Con Carne is the main character's name]], when his name is actually ''Hector'' Con Carne and Evil Con Carne is the name of the organization he's in charge of. The bumpers were later remade with new dialogue, but sadly [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJmHKRxzHcg the revised version's return bumper ends up making the same mistake]]. |
| 182 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': |
| 183 | ** One of the storybooks, ''Lemonade With a Twist'' (a {{novelization}} of the episode "Nectar of the Odds"), refers to recurring character Doug Dimmadome as Doug Dimmsdale. Granted, the two names are similar, but since the actual episode has a part where he and Timmy keep saying "Doug Dimmadome, the owner of the Dimmsdale Dimmadome", it's a somewhat glaring oversight. |
| 184 | ** Some descriptions of the show simply state the plot of the show to be that "Timmy's parents grant wishes". Actually, his fairy godparents grant the wishes, his real parents are normal humans who hardly care about him. |
| 185 | ** An Italian TV guide once stated that Cosmo and Wanda are Timmy's imaginary friends, something that is never said or hinted in the actual show. |
| 186 | ** Xfinity's summary of the episode "Hard Copy" states that Timmy brings [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader]] to life, actually it's the show's expy, "Dark Laser". Looks like the summary writer fell asleep watching the episode. |
| 187 | ** One Magazine/NickelodeonMagazine article referred to recurring villain the Nega-Chin as the "Anti-Chin". |
| 188 | ** Comcast's summary of the "Knightly Knight" states that the dragon's master wants to cast a spell on Cosmo. Said Dragon does not have a master and no spell wasn't casted on Cosmo. On the same episode, the summary by Fio states that the dragon kidnaps Vicky, who does not appear in the episode. |
| 189 | ** On a UK DVD release called "Microphony!" (which features a few episodes from seasons two and three), the episode description for "Cosmo Con" is actually the episode description for "Mighty Mom and Dyno Dad" (which doesn't appear on the DVD). |
| 190 | * Small potatoes given some of the other examples here, but ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' is sometimes called "'''[[SpellMyNameWithAThe The]]''' Family Guy". Even the Emmys got this wrong, though possibly intentionally. Lampshaded in "Boopa-dee, Bappa-dee": |
| 191 | -->'''Man:''' Now, where you listed employment, some of you wrote "Family Guy", and others wrote "The Family Guy". Which one is it?\ |
| 192 | '''Peter:''' (sighs) It's "Family Guy". |
| 193 | ** Agent Booth called it this on an episode of ''Series/{{Bones}}'', which was a little odd since it was the episode that featured a well-publicized IntercontinuityCrossover appearance by Stewie. Even odder -- Stewie was a manifestation of Booth's subconscious, indicating that Booth must be at least a moderate viewer of the show for it to be on his mind. Yet he still gets the title wrong! |
| 194 | ** Within ''Family Guy'', Peter thinks Series/{{Scrubs}} is a [[IAmNotShazam character's name]]. Also Black Scrubs. |
| 195 | ** Time Warner Cable descriptions of ''Family Guy'' sometimes gives the vague description, "Nihilistic animated antics of the grousing Griffins". |
| 196 | ** Specific episode descriptions from other providers don't get much better, such as Comcast's insistence that Quagmire hates the title character of "Jerome is the New Black" (it's Brian who Quagmire hates), or Dish Network assuming "Lois Kills Stewie" is about Stewie auditioning for ''Series/AmericanIdol'' (this was a thirty-second-long CutawayGag, the actual main plot is Lois trying to do [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin exactly what the episode title says]]). |
| 197 | ** Verizon's description for "Brian Goes Back To College" claimed it was about Brian getting a job at The New Yorker. That was only the LeadIn, and the episode focused on Brian [[ExactlyWhatItSaysontheTin going back to college]]. |
| 198 | ** According to audio commentary, this almost happened with a joke about ''Series/{{JAG}}''. Apparently the writers had never watched the show and assumed Jag was the name of a character. |
| 199 | ** [[http://articles.latimes.com/2009/mar/26/business/fi-cotown-chernin26 This]] ''Los Angeles Times'' article actually refers to Peter Griffin as "Peter Griffith". |
| 200 | ** The original DVD releases of the show's first three seasons were infamous for often featuring episodes descriptions that weren't even close to being accurate to what actually happened in the episode. "Fifteen Minutes of Shame" for example tells about a subplot of Meg taking a job as maid for the Von Trapp family, which doesn't happen at all within the episode. |
| 201 | ** [[http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2014/09/simpsons-family-guy-meta-moments-crossover-episode This article]] highlighting the Meta Humor of "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS13E1TheSimpsonsGuy The Simpsons Guy]]" writes at one point, "The Peter vs. Homer fight references the once-beloved fight between Peter and a guy in a chicken suit." There were actually multiple fights with an actual giant chicken. |
| 202 | ** In early 2022, Website/{{Wikipedia}}'s page on bleep censors claimed that there wasn't any actual profanity underneath the bleeps as Peter falls down the stairs in "The Blind Side". This is false, as the episode is available uncensored on DVD. |
| 203 | ** [[https://www.avclub.com/the-worst-tv-of-2014-1798274682 This article]] on "the worst TV of 2014" claims that Homer and Peter's car wash scene is set to the song "Milkshake" by Music/{{Kelis}}. It's actually set to "Pour Some Sugar on Me" by Music/DefLeppard. However, there ''was'' a cutaway gag earlier in the series where some prisoners force Peter to sing the former song. |
| 204 | * For some reason, people tend to confuse Dumb Donald from ''WesternAnimation/FatAlbertAndTheCosbyKids'' for Mush Mouth, a mistake that was once made in a ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' sketch as well a scene in ''Film/TheBoondockSaints''. |
| 205 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': |
| 206 | ** Some people think the show is a spin-off of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' due to having [[Creator/MattGroening the same creator]] and a similar art style. The shows have crossed over and made winking references to each other a couple of times, but are otherwise separate. |
| 207 | ** On Google, one user left a one-star review in 2020, interpreting a supposedly recently-aired episode where Richard Nixon becomes a cyborg as an anti-Trump AuthorTract (specifically pointing at a bumper sticker saying “Impeach This”). The episode in question was “A Head in the Polls”, which aired a full two decades before the 2020 election and had nothing to do with Trump. The "Impeach This" joke was a reference to Watergate. |
| 208 | ** A [[https://www.wired.com/2007/12/ff-futurama-slideshow/ Wired article]] released during the production of the direct-to-DVD movies misnames Hubert Farnsworth as Hugo. |
| 209 | * ''WesternAnimation/FraidyCat'': |
| 210 | ** Nearly '''all''' of the bootlegged [=DVD=] releases of the show label "Puss ‘n’ Boats" as "This Cat for Hire", which was actually one of the six scrapped episodes that never made the cut. |
| 211 | ** The [=IMDb=] page for "A Semi-Star is Born" incorrectly states that an alternative name for this episode was "Culture Schlock", which are two separate episodes, with "Culture Schlock" being another scrapped episode entirely. |
| 212 | ** Many sources claim the show has 18 episodes; while there were ''plans'' for that many, in actuality only 12 episodes were completed. |
| 213 | ** Elephunt, Fraidy’s first life, is often labeled as Tinker, who is a unknown character, likely from the scrapped episodes. |
| 214 | * In the WebVideo/TVTrash review of ''WesternAnimation/GrandmaGotRunOverByAReindeer'', Rowdy C stated that Phil Roman "created every [[WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends ''Garfield'']] TV show". However,''WesternAnimation/TheGarfieldShow'' (which was already airing on Creator/CartoonNetwork before the review was posted), was not made by Roman. He apologized for this when he reviewed said show with The Comic Strip Critic. |
| 215 | ** Speaking of Garfield, the Canadian [=Zap2It=] listings omit the word "The" from the title of the ''U.S. Acres'' segment "The Impractical Joker", and calls "Fortune Kooky" "Fortune Cookie". [[note]]The correct title, "Fortune Kooky", is supposed to be a misspelling of "fortune cookie".[[/note]] |
| 216 | ** Mark Evanier himself made this mistake twice. He claimed that "Temp Trouble" was about Aloysius Pig joining the cast [[note]] The episode does involve Aloysius, but Mark forgot to mention Aloysius giving out demerits, and Roy Rooster and Wade Duck trying to get rid of him. Mark made it seem like it's all about Aloysius permanently joining them, when he was only in three episodes.[[/note]] and said that the whole ''U.S. Acres'' cast learned Double-Talking in "Double Trouble Talk".[[note]]Only Roy Rooster, Lanolin Sheep and Orson Pig learned to do it in the actual episode.[[/note]] |
| 217 | ** Amazon lists "The Discount of Monte Cristo" as "The Discount of Monty Cristo" and "Kiddie Korner" as "Kiddie Corner". It's well worth noting that the latter mistake is made '''a lot''' on pages about Garfield and Friends, and those pages also sometimes spell "Kiddie" as "Kiddy". |
| 218 | ** The Big Cartoon Database is '''really''' bad about which characters appeared in U.S. Acres. They think that The Weasel, Orson's brothers Mort, Wort, Gort, Wade's cousin Fred Duck and Edward R. Furrow appear in every episode of U.S. Acres. They also think that Aloysius Pig appeared in "Thing In The Box"[[note]] He doesn't appear, however, [[spoiler:Nermal]] makes a cameo[[/note]], and that Imogene Coca played a character on U.S. Acres. [[note]] She played the Fairy Godmother in the Dogmother trilogy of the Garfield segments. [[/note]] The only episode whose cast list they got right was "Temp Trouble". |
| 219 | ** [=IMDb's=] summary of Kiddie Korner states that the cast was doing Shakespeare at the beginning of the episode. They were actually doing ''Literature/DoctorZhivago'', which is by Boris Pasternak, not Shakespeare. Orson even says both the story's name and author when Aloysius appears to ask what they're doing. |
| 220 | ** One ESL worksheet for the episode "Short Story" called Power Pig "Howard Pig". |
| 221 | ** Netflix uses a generic ''Garfield'' cast pic for the title of "Garfield and Friends" which features Garfield, Odie, Nermal... and Arlene, who is not on the show, aside from a a few cameos. |
| 222 | ** One such incident involving this trope was described on [[http://www.platypuscomix.net/onlyme/garfpage.html The Garfield and Friends Supapage]]. [[https://www.filmboards.com/board/p/1540037/ One user said that the DVDs would only contain 180 episodes rather than the full 360.]] [[note]] This is because they apparently counted every segment as a separate episode. [[/note]] After mentioning this, Peter says that TV Tome wasn't reliable, as they were rather notable for [[https://animesuperhero.com/forums/threads/digimon-mickey-mouse-o_o.3329581/ once having a listing]] for a ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}''-themed episode of ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse''. [[note]] TV Tome was notoriously easy to edit, so trolls often made up fake episode titles or summaries for any number of series, leading many to believe they were legitimate. Another example of this was ''Series/TheNoddyShop'' [[https://web.archive.org/web/20040503214542/http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageServlet/showid-4227/epid-191748 having a listing for an episode]] called ''The Ringletts'' [[ADayInTheLimelight that focused on minor character Roxanne]]. This changed once the site became TV.com. [[/note]] |
| 223 | ** Boomerang's listings for the remaster were rife with these mistakes: |
| 224 | *** Their description of the ''Screaming with Binky'' segment "Clown Convention" claims that it is about Binky the Clown attending a clown convention. In the actual quickie, Garfield goes to a phone booth and tries to call someone, only to get Binky the Clown on the other line '''telling Garfield that he's currently at a clown convention''', shattering the glass. On TV airings, it lists said quickie in place of "Dessert In The Desert" in the episode listing. |
| 225 | *** "Five-Minute Warning" is called "Five Minutes Warning". |
| 226 | *** A season 7 episode ("The Horror Hostess; Newsworthy Wade") is placed in between two season 2 episodes: "Mystic Manor; Flop Goes The Weasel; The Legend of Long Jon" and "Lemon Aid; Hog Noon; Video Airlines". |
| 227 | ** On Hulu, the show's episodes are out of order (with some being placed in the wrong seasons) and the titles and plot summaries describe the ''quickies'', not the actual episodes. Additionally, the captions have a few errors, such as Lanolin being referred to as "lamb-lamb" in one episode. |
| 228 | ** The show itself has an in-universe example: in "Wanted: Wade", Wade says that the [[MattressTagGag law label he pulled from the bottom of Orson's couch]] was from a pillow instead. This confusion also caused several summaries of the episode to make the same statement. |
| 229 | * The back of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' Season 2 Volume 2 DVD set is rife with errors. It describes the gargoyles' awakening in the modern world, mentioning the names of Goliath, Hudson, Broadway, and Lexington, leaving out Brooklyn and Bronx, who were in the same situation. It describes Demona's evil plan from the series finale as though it were the plot of the entire show. And most egregiously, it says that the gargoyles' protectorate is [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Gotham City]]. |
| 230 | * Netflix describes ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'' as such: "Fighting for freedom, G.I. Joe and his fellow patriots storm their way through this animated series inspired by popular 1960s action figures." Similar to the toyline and comic books of the series' era, the actual Joe makes no appearance in the series. |
| 231 | * ''WesternAnimation/GravedaleHigh'': |
| 232 | ** [[https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0098811/?ref_=tt_mv_desc The show's description on [=IMDb=]]] reads "Schneider is the only human in Gravedale High, and the other students are friendly monsters." This implies that Schneider is also a student at Gravedale, when he's actually a teacher. |
| 233 | * ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': |
| 234 | ** [[http://www.teleman.pl/tv/Wodogrzmoty-Male-2-35-1538074 This]] description from a Polish TV Guide website mistakenly states that the twins' great-uncle is named [[UncleSamWantsYou Sam]] instead of Stan. |
| 235 | ** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSbM3FFroNk&lc=UgwY1Da1z3RCXBkuvjF4AaABAg this video]] from Mabel's Brazilian voice actress Creator/BiancaAlencar, at one point she states that Mabel lives in Gravity Falls, while actually she was just spending her summer there and lives in Piedmont, California, where she returns to with her brother in the SeriesFinale. And the video was made ''after'' the finale aired. |
| 236 | * There had been some reference sources that say that ''[[WesternAnimation/TheHairBearBunch Help!...It's the Hair Bear Bunch!]]'' went into syndication as "The Yo-Yo Bears" after its run on CBS. "The Yo-Yo Bears" was its developmental title. The show itself sat on the shelf until 1984 when the USA Network acquired it for their Cartoon Express show. |
| 237 | * One description for the ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' episode "Quantity Time" says that the episode is about Miriam spending time with her father. The episode is actually about Miriam's daughter Helga spending time with ''her'' father; Miriam's father never showed up in the series. |
| 238 | * Take a look at [[http://www.amazon.com/Mickeys-Magical-Christmas-Snowed-House/dp/B002MCI98Y/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1287948093&sr=1-1 Amazon.com's editorial review]] for the ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' Christmas DVD, provided by Tami Horiuchi. It contains this statement: "Mickey tries to brighten Donald's glum mood by screening one of his favorite Christmas stories, ''WesternAnimation/MickeysChristmasCarol''. When '''Donald sees himself as Scrooge (literally)'''..." Anyone who has actually seen ''Mickey's Christmas Carol'' can immediately tell what's wrong with that sentence (it's Scrooge [=McDuck=] who's playing Scrooge; Donald plays his nephew Fred). |
| 239 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Hurricanes}}'': Garkos Gorgons goalkeeper Genghis Khan is wrongfully described at ''[[http://balls.ie/football/fictional-sporting-rivalries/ this website]]'' as a midfielder. |
| 240 | * On Amazon.com's listing of ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' episodes, three titles are mislabelled: |
| 241 | ** "GIR Goes Crazy and Stuff" became "GIR's Gone Crazy and Stuff". |
| 242 | ** "The Sad, Sad Tale of Chickenfoot" became "The Sad, Sad Story of Chickenfoot". |
| 243 | ** "Battle of the Planets" became "Battle of the Planets [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom of Doom"]]. |
| 244 | *** Not that the last one is a particularly bad name. Or particularly unfitting for the series; at least 10 other episodes (including unreleased ones) have the word "doom" in their titles. |
| 245 | ** AT&T U-verse calls Dib "Dub" in the episode description for "Mysterious Mysteries". |
| 246 | * Another Kids' WB! thing: In an installment of "Crazy Takes" ("bloopers"), a scene from ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' showed Ratso wearing a Hsi Wu mask, but an announcer said, "Ratso, that's not your spot! That's the demon sorceror His Wu's spot!" |
| 247 | ** All of which might've been averted by using hanyu pinyin instead of Wade-Giles (though "Xi Wu" is no easier to pronounce visually, "Xi" is less likely to be mistaken for "his"). |
| 248 | * Cracked [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19496_6-classic-kids-shows-secretly-set-in-nightmarish-universes.html states]] that ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons'' takes place in a post-apocalyptic wasteland because George Jetson jokes that grass is "ancient history". While the movie does show people living above a thick layer of pollution, most episodes of the series (for example, "The Flying Suit" and "Invisibly Yours, George") show the ground below: green grass, blue water, and lots of other plant life. More than likely they misappropriated one line from ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsonsMeetTheFlintstones''. |
| 249 | * The Disney XD Web site for ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'' refers to Lucius as the mayor of Miseryville. This is an understandable mistake, however, as [[MegaCorp Misery Inc.]] runs the town anyway. |
| 250 | * [[http://cloudkicker.50webs.com/RantShack/ND/NDindex.html This reviewer]] of ''WesternAnimation/KickButtowskiSuburbanDaredevil'' constantly calls the title character's mother Denise instead of Honey, even in his review of the episode where her name is revealed. |
| 251 | * ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'': |
| 252 | ** An episode summary for "Oh No! Yono!" refers to Hana as Ron's "step sister". She's actually his adopted sister. |
| 253 | ** The box for ''[[TheMovie A Sitch in Time]]'' describes a plan by "Shego and her evil henchmen". Though she's Kim's EvilCounterpart and nemesis and [[spoiler:conquers the world in the BadFuture, making the villains work for her]], Shego is the sidekick of Kim's ArchEnemy, Dr. Drakken. Also, Drakken is even dismissive towards her in a way he usually isn't in the series. |
| 254 | *** Some sources misspell the title as A '''Stitch''' in Time, apparently unfamiliar with Kim's catchphrase. |
| 255 | * ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': |
| 256 | ** In-universe, when Bobby is interested in reading a fantasy action book in "Full Metal Dust Jacket", Hank takes it away from him, believing it to be a girl's book because the main character on the cover is a woman and the line he read out of context was about dandelions and someone crafting her breast plate. It doesn't help that Bobby has picked out effeminate things in the past. Also the random quotes he would take out of the book seriously did not help his case. |
| 257 | --->'''Bobby:''' And in the book that is called 'Justice of the Unicorns'. |
| 258 | ** An excerpt from an academic journal [[https://twitter.com/JacobOller/status/874687244271058944 quickly became infamous]] on social media for claiming that Hank Hill's occupation in ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' is "unspecified" (Hank's obsession with his job as a propane salesman is his most defining character trait and brought up practically OnceAnEpisode) and that "the setting suggests a blue collar suburb" when the show is explicitly set in the fictitious Texan town of Arlen. |
| 259 | * The Big Cartoon Database listed "Stimey" [''sic''] as one of the characters in Hanna-Barbera's series of ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleRascals''. |
| 260 | * ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': |
| 261 | ** Mick Martin and Marsha Porter's ''Video Movie Guide'' gives incorrect information regarding the direct-to-video special ''Bugs Bunny's Lunar Tunes''. It says that it includes ''The Hasty Hare'', ''Hare-Way to the Stars'', and ''Mad as a Mars Hare'' in addition to clips from ''Duck Dodgers and the 24th and a Half Century'', but the special actually doesn't contain ''Mad as a Mars Hare'', and while it is correct that the special only has clips from ''Duck Dodgers'', it also only has clips from the other cartoons mentioned (in fact the special also has clips from many other cartoons). The book also lists the date as 1977 but the special is actually from 1992, and incorrectly refers to Chuck Jones as the sole director (while he did direct most of the cartoons featured as clips, he didn't direct the linking footage, which was directed by Nancy Beiman). The description actually applies to the rarely-seen ''Bugs Bunny in Space'', which is odd since that special has never been released on video or rebroadcast. |
| 262 | ** Another Looney Tunes mistake in the book comes in the entry on ''Daffy Duck: The Nuttiness Continues'', which states that in ''WesternAnimation/DuckAmuck'', Daffy "gets his just desserts from an animated witch", which does not happen at all in the short. The short finds Daffy getting his just desserts from the unseen animator, who turns out to be [[spoiler:[[ItWasHisSled Bugs Bunny]]]], and there are no witches in the short. It's possible the authors were thinking of "A Haunting We Will Go" with Witch Hazel, which reuses animation and gags from ''Duck Amuck'', though that cartoon is not included in the video. |
| 263 | ** And the books entry on the Chuck Jones volume of ''The Golden Age of Looney Tunes'' mentions that the video includes ''WesternAnimation/PorkyAndDaffy'' (which was directed by Bob Clampett, not Chuck Jones), when it actually means ''My Favorite Duck''. |
| 264 | ** [[https://screenrant.com/looney-tunes-cartoons-character-look-changes-hbo-max/amp/ This article]] documenting the character changes done in ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunesCartoons'' gets its facts right (even some obscure ones like Elmer Fudd’s reddish nose from ''WesternAnimation/AWildHare'' and Bugs’s yellow gloves from ''Elmer’s Pet Rabbit'') for the most part, but there are two errors: |
| 265 | *** The article claims that Bugs Bunny debuted in ''A Super Hare'' (his actual debut was ''A Wild Hare''). Perhaps they confused it with 1943’s ''Super Rabbit''? |
| 266 | *** The article also claims that Sylvester’s changes are brand new; the yellow eyes are based off of his appearance in Kitty Kornered and his redesign is based on the design Creator/RobertMcKimson used for him in his earlier shorts. |
| 267 | ** Jerry Beck goes on record as saying he made a mistake about how the 1966 Road Runner cartoon "Chaser On The Rocks" ended. In the book he co-wrote on the roster of [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Warner Bros. cartoons]], he stated that it ended with the coyote shot out of a cannon and heading towards the horizon, colliding with the sun. When numerous people pointed out that this was wrong, he re-watched the cartoon (which he hated) again. Mr. Beck recants his original ending on his Cartoon Research blog. |
| 268 | ** There's an alternative ending to the first ''WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner'' cartoon that the Latin American press [[WorstNewsJudgementEver was at one point raving about]], claiming that the ending was funded by a Japanese millionaire who was tired of the Coyote always being the ButtMonkey. The frame rate is obviously a drop from the real footage, the animation is a cut-and-paste of the Road Runner and Coyote's poses rearranged and assembled, and there's the gratuitous use of [[OminousLatinChanting O Fortuna]]. But the kicker has to be the Coyote holding up a sign with the name of the new ending's creator on it for absolutely no reason. How the news media did ''not'' pick up on these is inexplicable. |
| 269 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfF_Qgtms_U In this video]] instructing how to pronounce uvular consonants, the uvula is described as the thing that Bugs Bunny was punching in the back of the lion's throat. There are only three cartoons where Bugs has to contend with a lion, and none of them have a scene like this; perhaps he was thinking of the scene from 1948's ''I Taw a Putty Tat'' where it's ''Tweety'' punching ''Sylvester's'' uvula. |
| 270 | ** The iTunes Store has a single of "I Love to Singa" with the audio taken directly from [[WesternAnimation/ILoveToSinga the cartoon of the same name]]. The cover of this single claims that it is from a Disney ''Silly Symphony'', but it is actually from the Warner Bros. ''Merrie Melodies'' series. The cover also claims that Tex Avery voiced Owl Jolson, and because of this, iTunes credits the song to him. In actuality, Tex Avery was the director of the short; Owl Jolson's speaking voice was Tommy Bond, and his singing voice was Jackie Morrow. |
| 271 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'': |
| 272 | ** Some TV listings of the episode "Come Sale Away" call it "Come '''Sail''' Away". |
| 273 | ** Cablevision's listings for the show claim that Fred Willard, voice of Pop-Pop, is a main actor in the show when he only appears in a few of the episodes. This even happened with the descriptions of {{Poorly Disguised Pilot}}s for ''WesternAnimation/TheCasagrandes'', as well as an early listing for the show in question, both of which don't even focus on the Louds. |
| 274 | ** Quizzes and other articles on the Italian Nickelodeon website, when referring to Lucy, often use [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/theloudhouse/images/2/22/S1E15A_Lola_as_Lucy.gif/revision/latest?cb=20170217114341 this gif]], which actually decipts Lola dressed up as Lucy as seen in the episode "Cover Girls" (the difference should be obvious since she doesn't have Lucy's pale grey skin). |
| 275 | ** An article on an Italian magazine misinterpreted the show's title and stated that "Loud" is the first name of the male sibling (who is actually called Lincoln) instead of the family's last name. The Italian title of the show is "A casa dei Loud"[[labelnote:Translation]]At the Louds' house[[/labelnote]], which makes clear that "Loud" is not an individual, but the article insists to call it "A casa di Loud"[[labelnote:Translation]]At Loud's house[[/labelnote]]. |
| 276 | ** [=OnTVTonight=]'s listings for American airings of ''WesternAnimation/TheCasagrandes'' sometimes list the show under its Italian name, ''I Casagrande'', but with English episode titles. |
| 277 | * One article reporting on the death of Kevin Meaney claimed that ''WesternAnimation/MadJackThePirate'' ran from 1988 to 1999. The show actually premiered in 1998. It didn't help that the sentence before it mentioned his role in ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'', which began in 1988. |
| 278 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack'': Sky, a British satellite TV provider, claimed that Flapjack was 'raised in a bubble'. This probably had root in an understandable typo: he was raised ''by'' a whale ''named'' '''Bubbie'''. Someone probably just misread "raised by Bubbie" as "bubble" and went from there. [[MetaphoricallyTrue Then again, Flapjack]] ''[[MetaphoricallyTrue did]]'' [[MetaphoricallyTrue sometimes reside in]] [[MyBelovedSmother Bubbie's mouth...]] so AccidentallyCorrectWriting? |
| 279 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'': |
| 280 | ** A Destructoid article about the cancellation of the video game ''Metalocalypse: Dethgame'' claims that the game was to be about "a Dethklok roadie beating people up in the service of [their] Swedish metal masters". Only one member of Dethklok is Swedish, that being their lead guitarist Skwisgaar Skwigelf. |
| 281 | ** In TV Guide's description of the episode "The Metalocalypse Has Begun", they misspell Crozier's name as Krosier. |
| 282 | ** In Common Sense Media's review of ''Army of the Doomstar'', they mention that one of the plot points is "Doomstar trying to reunite with the other members of Dethklok", implying that not only do they think the Doomstar is a character, but also member of Dethklok, despite it being a literal star. They also claim that Dethklok face a threat from the Metal Masked Assassin, who is not in the movie[[spoiler:, and is actually dead at this point in the story]]. |
| 283 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheMrMenShow'': |
| 284 | ** Channel 5's description for the episode "Physical" states that Little Miss Sunshine and Mr. Tickle do aerobics class together. The former is actually Little Miss Chatterbox. |
| 285 | ** Also, the poster for its iMDB page is [[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1029211/mediaviewer/rm3563194880 completely fan-made]], complete with Microsoft Paint-quality {{Original Character}}s. |
| 286 | ** The official ''Mr. Men Little Miss'' channel has its fair share of blunders, such as confusing episode numbers, messing up episode titles, using screenshots from the wrong episode in certain thumbnails and some of the video descriptions summarize segments that ''don't even exist'', such as their upload of "Cooking" claiming Mr. Stubborn appears in a chili cook-off. |
| 287 | * Creator/RonFunches's standup bit about ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies1984'', describing it as "Franchise/TheMuppets... they fucked and had babies," when in actuality, it's just the Muppet characters themselves [[SpinOffBabies reimagined as babies]]. |
| 288 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Noddy|sToylandAdventures}}'' series: |
| 289 | ** The former website [=LocateTV=] used [[http://www.gstatic.com/tv/thumb/tvbanners/453163/p453163_b_v7_ab.jpg this image]] for airings of ''[[WesternAnimation/NoddysToylandAdventures Make Way For Noddy]]''. It's not an image of the show in question, but one of ''Series/TheNoddyShop''. Some PBS member stations did the same thing when airing promos for the show, running an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXL0mCr5vS4 up next promo]] for ''The Noddy Shop'' that was five or six years old on their airings of ''Make Way For Noddy'' despite it mostly showing the puppet characters and only showing Noddy for two seconds. |
| 290 | ** That wasn't the first time Creator/PBSKids would show a promo for the wrong version of one of their shows as an up next promo. [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w7m2TtI3gS8 Here's the promo some affiliates used]] for the reboot of ''WesternAnimation/BobTheBuilder'', which actually uses footage from the previous installment, ''Ready, Steady, Build!''. |
| 291 | *** Speaking of ''Ready, Steady, Build!'', some cable listings for Creator/UniversalKids airings of this season of the show listed it as reruns of the reboot, complete with an image of it if said provider used them for their shows. |
| 292 | ** History would repeat itself again when cable provider Cablevision would show the wrong image of ''WesternAnimation/CliffordTheBigRedDog'' for airings of the 2019 AnimatedAdaptation. |
| 293 | ** RTP 2's description of the 2009 series of Noddy, ''Noddy In Toyland'', [[http://www.rtp.pt/programa/tv/p1466 is actually the description]] of ''The Noddy Shop'' and uses an image from ''Noddy's Toyland Adventures''. This is somewhat justified, as ''Noddy In Toyland'' was the name that the former series went under in Europe. In addition, the description calls Noah Tomten "Mr. Noddy" and uses the original names of the human characters rather than [[DubNameChange their names from the dub]] (for instance, the character who is known as Tomas in the dub is refered to by his original name, Truman). |
| 294 | ** Cablevision airings of ''Noddy, Toyland Detective'' use a picture that shows the series' French name "Oui-Oui, enquetes au pays de jouets" when no networks on that provider air that particular dub. |
| 295 | ** The CD ''[[Creator/CBeebies [=CBeebies=]: The Album]]'' uses the theme song to ''The Noddy Shop'' rather than the theme song to the series that the channel aired at the time, ''Noddy's Toyland Adventures''. This is because most of the tracks on that CD had already come from an earlier album by the same distributor, ''All Together Now: Children's Favourite TV Themes'', which was released when ''The Noddy Shop'' still aired on British TV. |
| 296 | ** [[https://www.musicmovietreasure.com/2017/06/noddy-and-friends-movie-gift-set.html?m=1 This website article published in 2017]] says that Noddy airs on PBS. While this is true of the DVD being promoted, which is from an incarnation that did air on PBS, the plush doll is from ''Noddy, Toyland Detective'', which airs on Creator/UniversalKids. |
| 297 | ** [[https://www.buzzfeed.com/azraberberovic/abc-kids-shows-from-aussie-childhood This article]] says that Noddy's catchphrase in ''Toyland Adventures'' was "What in tarnation?". This is actually the catchphrase of Noah Tomten, a character from ''The Noddy Shop''. |
| 298 | * ''WesternAnimation/OscarsOrchestra'': |
| 299 | ** Many sources, including the show's [=IMDB=] page, claim that ''Oscar's Orchestra'' is set in the year 2743. This year is contradicted by ''the opening of the very first episode'', which says that it takes place in the year "735 squillion, 22 million, 381 thousand, 604". Further digging reveals that the figure of 2743 appears to originate from the show's quotes.net page, seemingly as a result of someone mishearing the narrator then saying that it's Tuesday in the future as the narrator saying that the show is taking place "735 squillion, 22 million, 381 thousand, 604 ''Tuesdays'' in the future". This is followed up by some ''[[WritersCannotDoMath extremely]]'' [[WritersCannotDoMath bad calculations]] ([[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and the person apparently thinking that the show began in '94 instead of '95]]) that end up producing an output figure of the year 2743. |
| 300 | ** Said quotes.net page also manages to misattribute a random line from Lucius as being Goodtooth's catchphrase. |
| 301 | * While [=Patrick McHale=] still felt honored, he [[https://twitter.com/Patrick_McHale/status/791852575700156416 expressed confusion on Twitter]] on how ''WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall'' was on a list made by Indie Wire for new, independent horror films to watch on Halloween. Disregarding it being only a couple years old (while the rest of the entries were released in 2016), it was produced for a [[Creator/CartoonNetwork major, mainstream TV channel that is part of one of the biggest media companies on the planet]], barely qualifies as being an example of DefangedHorrors, and is a miniseries rather than a film. |
| 302 | * In ''The Complete Guide to Prime Time & Cable Shows'' entry for ''WesternAnimation/OzzyAndDrix'' it lists "Professor Nightmare" as one of the show's [[VillainOfTheWeek Villains Of The Week]]. Professor Nightmare is actually what he calls himself in the superhero-themed dream where Hector battles him; in the credits for "The Dream Factory", he's referred to simply as "the Dark Horror". |
| 303 | * In June 2020, multiple news sources claimed that ''WesternAnimation/PAWPatrol'' was getting canceled [[DistancedFromCurrentEvents in wake of the death of George Floyd because Chase, the show's canine protagonist, is a police dog.]] This is actually a misunderstanding of a controversy involving the show's social media platforms where they went dark in honor of the aforementioned incident and people called them out on it. The worst thing that happened to the show because of the incident was the removal of two ''Ultimate Rescue'' episodes where the dogs get Chase's abilities. |
| 304 | ** The same articles also claim that [[MemeticMutation "All Dogs Go To Heaven Except For Those Class Traitors In The PAW Patrol"]] was a phrase invented in response to said social media post. It wasn't, as it was originally a reply to a Twitter post from February 2020 where a teenage girl claimed her little brother was banned from watching the show because the main character was a police dog. |
| 305 | * In the past, whenever Sirius Satellite Radio's kids' music station played a song from ''WesternAnimation/PBAndJOtter'', it would misspell the show's title as "P B & Jotter". |
| 306 | * ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'': |
| 307 | ** In one of Jeff Lenberg's animation books, he begins talking about the ''Peanuts'' movie ''Snoopy, Come Home'', and says the plot of the film is Snoopy being depressed from there being too many "No Dogs Allowed" signs, and Snoopy decides to '''[[DrivenToSuicide commit suicide]]'''. |
| 308 | ** The original VHS cover of ''It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown'' stated that Charlie Brown was trying to buy a present for [[HeWhoMustNotBeSeen the little red-haired girl]], when in the actual special, it was in fact for a completely different character named Peggy Jean. This was most likely caused by the fact that the special depicted Peggy Jean as a redhead rather than a brunette as she was in the strip. |
| 309 | * Various sources, including Website/TheOtherWiki, seem to believe both seasons of ''WesternAnimation/PetAlien'' aired throughout the first half of 2005. A cursory look at the production dates in the credits deconfirms this, as several Season 1 episodes are dated to 2004 while many of the Season 2 episodes are dated to 2006/2007. |
| 310 | * ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': |
| 311 | ** [[http://www.allmovie.com/work/phineas-and-ferb-lawn-gnome-beach-party-of-terror-465170 This Allmovie.com summary]] of the episode "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Lawn Gnome Beach Party of Terror!]]" calls the stepbrother main characters "twins". The majority of that author's other summaries for the show just glisten with this trope, including misspelling [[MadScientist Doofenshmirtz's]] name, calling the boys' band a BoyBand, and claiming that anyone who sings "Happy Birthday" to Doof will become hypnotized. The hypnotism bit was probably the writer's misinterpretation of "Raging Bully", where it actually ''is'' Doofenshmirtz's birthday and he invents a hypnosis-inator. |
| 312 | ** "Doofenschmirtz" is an incredibly common misspelling, so much so that it actually appears in the official Disney encyclopedia. |
| 313 | ** Creator/DisneyXD in the United Kingdom seemingly can't decide whether Phineas and Ferb are brothers or best friends. |
| 314 | ** [[http://www.metrolyrics.com/simp-lyrics-black-eyed-peas.html This lyrics page]] for the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' song Squirrels in my Pants (S.I.M.P) incorrectly states the Black Eyed Peas did the song, when it was actually 2 Guys n the Parque who did it. |
| 315 | ** Many descriptions of the series, including an old one from Netflix Instant ("Phineas and Ferb stay one step ahead in hiding their crazy inventions from their mom, and making sure their bratty sister has the worst summer ever!"), describe the boys as [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling deliberately annoying]] Candace or purposely hiding what they do from their mom, rather than annoying Candace largely by accident and having their inventions disappear due to odd coincidences before their mom can see them. |
| 316 | ** Netflix refers to Roger Doofenshmirtz as being elected "governor" in their "Hail Doofania!" summary, whereas he is actually elected mayor in that episode. |
| 317 | ** Some descriptions of the episodes "Tri-Stone Area", "Doof Dynasty", "Steampunx", and "Excaliferb" claim the episodes involve time travel when they're just {{Formula Breaking Episode}}s. |
| 318 | ** This Wiki at one point implied that Taketora voiced in Japanese not only Allergic Candace, but also her normal self. Actually, Candace in Japanese dub is voiced by Ryoko Nagata. |
| 319 | * On the character section of ''WesternAnimation/{{Pingu}}'s English'', the abominable snowman Bajoo is referred to as "Monster". |
| 320 | * In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r10pq8pn2OA this video]] promoting the ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls2016'' toys, Professor Utonium is called "Professor Plutonium". |
| 321 | ** The Storymaker Playsets have the Derbytantes among the villains, even though they made a HeelFaceTurn in their very first appearance. |
| 322 | * In an animation encyclopedia's entry on ''WesternAnimation/TheRaccoons'', Cyril Sneer the pink aardvark is called a "pink wolf". (A sidenote oddly then mentions that he "looks like an aardvark".) |
| 323 | * ''WesternAnimation/RainbowBrite'': |
| 324 | ** Thanks to a VHS having her name as "Moonglo", many fans write Moonglow's name that way. |
| 325 | ** The ''WebVideo/BumReviews'' installment covering ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince'' has Chester A. Bum quipping at one point that Murky Dismal stole all the color from Potter's world, and Rainbow Brite and "all her multi-colored friends" should save the day instead of Harry Potter. He then quips that her friends "are, ironically, all white." Two of the Color Kids, Indigo and Shy Violet, are either Indian or African-American and Asian-American respectively. |
| 326 | * Website/IMDb's ''WesternAnimation/RatedAForAwesome'' credits once mistakenly called ''Mr.'' Twitchy "Twitchy Abby" because of a typo in the credits of one episode where the comma between Twitchy and Abby (both voiced by Creator/TabithaStGermain) is missing. |
| 327 | * ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'': |
| 328 | ** One article promoting the August 15-19 bomb in 2016 makes the [[https://www.scetv.org/stories/education/2016/etv-kids-ready-jet-go-week-new-episodes-august-15-19 erroneous statement]] that the kids try to recreate Celery '''[[ParentChildIncest and Jet's]]''' first date, when it should be Celery and Carrot's first date. |
| 329 | ** [[https://shop.pbs.org/ready-jet-go-chasing-the-sun-dvd/product/RJ61803 This DVD description]] says that Mindy is Jet's sister. While Jet often acts as a CoolBigBro towards her, they're not related. |
| 330 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF-pQ1vIY3E This Australian promo]] amuses that Jet isn't an alien, plus uses the term "rocket" rather than "spaceship". |
| 331 | * On a few TV listings for ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'', Miss Finster is described as being the gang's fourth-grade teacher. She's actually only the monitor for recess and lunch (and later becomes their ''fifth''-grade teacher), while Miss Grotke's their fourth-grade teacher. Understandable, considering Miss Grotke doesn't appear often in promotional material. |
| 332 | ** A few summaries for the series say that T.J. is "the brains" of the group. In the show, he's really only this when it comes to his schemes. [[BookDumb Otherwise]]...[[TheDitz not exactly]]. |
| 333 | ** Walmart's online listing for ''WesternAnimation/RecessSchoolsOut'' lists it as ''[[ColonCancer Recess: The Movie: School's Out]]''. |
| 334 | ** A few listings for the show have claimed that it was created by Creator/KlaskyCsupo. While the show's creators, Paul Germain and Joe Ansolabehere, are former K-C employees, K-C did not create ''Recess''. |
| 335 | ** Some websites say that the show originated from Creator/DisneyChannel. ''Recess'' premiered on ABC. |
| 336 | ** Sky's TV listing for "Bonky Fever" stated that Gus didn't want to give up his favorite childhood toy. In the episode itself, it's Mikey, not Gus. |
| 337 | * Netflix strikes again! The description for the ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' episode "Jinx" says: "In what could be well be the most powerful {{public service announcement}} about the dangers of jinxing, '''Mordecai''' gets jinxed. And it does not go well." It's actually '''Rigby''' who gets jinxed. ('''By''' Mordecai, no less.) |
| 338 | ** Canadian cable TV provider Telus's description for the show when Cartoon Network Canada added it to their On Demand service claims that Pops is Mordecai and Rigby's boss and has lived there his whole life. Benson is their boss. |
| 339 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'': On many websites and discussions revolving around the show's DemographicallyInappropriateHumor, the scene with Ren sawing a log on Stimpy's ass is frequently brought up as the show's most inappropriate joke. Said scene appears in the ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpyAdultPartyCartoon'' episode "Altruists"; there is no way in ''hell'' that Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} censors would have allowed such a scene in the original series. [[https://goat.com.au/entertainment/can-we-all-agree-how-messed-up-ren-and-stimpy-was/ This website, for example, includes the scene while otherwise talking about inappropriate moments from the original series]]. |
| 340 | * The official Adult Swim description for the ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' episode "The Ricks Must Be Crazy" says that Rick forgets to check his oil and needs to fix his car. Rick's oil is never mentioned in the episode; it's his microverse battery that is having trouble. It also said Morty was twelve, when he's actually fourteen. While it's only two years off, the DVDCommentary [[https://youtu.be/ea3JxqTNGtQ?t=1m43s for "Raising Gazorpazorp"]] has a segment where it talks about how S&P believed it and had issues with the episode as a result. |
| 341 | ** Quite a few cable guides at one point described the show's premise as "A father suddenly appears at his adult daughter’s doorstep, 20 years after disappearing". That's... a single detail regarding the first episode, and while technically true, doesn't really explain anything about what the show is about and makes it sound like a Lifetime Original Movie if anything. Interestingly the iTunes listing features the same description but at least adds a sentence explaining that Rick is a [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] MadScientist, which does a better job at describing the series. |
| 342 | * A TV guide summarises the ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' episode "Bye Bye Birdie" as "Heffer sits on Filburt's budgie"... Even though it's a Myna Bird. |
| 343 | * [[https://www.distractify.com/50-inspiring-life-quotes-from-famous-cartoon-characters-1197924388.html This poster]] featuring inspiring quotes from cartoon characters misattributes the line "A baby's gotta do what a baby's gotta do" to Chuckie Finster from ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}''. They got the show right, but it was Tommy Pickles, not Chuckie Finster, who said that line[[note]]though he said it to quote Tommy in "The Big Sneeze" and "Club Fred", as well as in ''WesternAnimation/RugratsInParis''[[/note]]. |
| 344 | ** If you Google search ''Rugrats'' as a whole, you'll notice that Google's description of the show misquotes Angelica's catchphrase as "You ''stupid'' babies!" instead of "You ''dumb'' babies!" (Which is especially glaring as Angelica practically says her catchphrase OncePerEpisode.) |
| 345 | ** An early version of the entry for Website/ThisVeryWiki's trivia section for the show claimed that "Vacation" was never released to DVD, but was then changed to reflect that this really wasn't the case, as the episode has had 3 separate DVD releases. |
| 346 | ** One actually comes from a piece of merchandise based off of the show, in the book "Eat First, Ask Questions Later!" In the section "Tommy in Charge", Chuckie mentions how one of the things Tommy did was get the babies to get "nakie" and how he found it fun. This is presumably referring to the episode "Naked Tommy". In that episode Chuckie actually DIDN'T like the idea of getting naked, and only tried to do it because Tommy peer pressured him into it (and he only got as far as pulling his shirt over his head before Didi stopped him). In this same section, Chuckie refers to Tommy's Mega Hyper Heroes alter ego as Changing Boy, when it was actually Changing Baby. |
| 347 | ** A French magazine from 1999 had an article about the show with one of the pictures shown depicting Angelica holding Cynthia, but it was labeled as "Cynthia Cornichon tenant sa poupée Angélica" (Cynthia Pickles holding her doll Angelica), which means the author got Angelica and Cynthia mixed up. |
| 348 | * IMDB claims that ''WesternAnimation/SagwaTheChineseSiameseCat'' ended in 2004. It actually ended in 2002. |
| 349 | * ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'': |
| 350 | ** Website/TheOtherWiki briefly had the show listed as "She-Ra and the Princess of Power" instead of ''She-Ra and the Princess'''es''' of Power''. |
| 351 | ** [[https://io9.gizmodo.com/she-ra-and-the-princesses-of-powers-team-share-the-impo-1830380824 This article]] released a day before the show premiered said that Creator/NDStevenson [[note]] referred to by his deadname and female pronouns in the article attached, as this was before he came out as transgender[[/note]] worked on ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse''. He has never worked on that series or even at Creator/CartoonNetwork, with all his previous animation credits being at Creator/DisneyTelevisionAnimation. |
| 352 | ** One of the show's tie-in books misspells Glimmer's name as "Glitter" on one page. |
| 353 | ** A [[https://screenrant.com/she-ra-season-5-renewal-release-date-story/ December 7, 2019 article]] at Screenrant referred to Hordak as "Hordak Junior" and Horde Prime as "Hordak Prime". |
| 354 | * The makers of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM_eb-YQsJw this UK promo]] for ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'' seem to be under the impression that [[IAmNotShazam Boom is Sonic's last name]]. |
| 355 | * ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': |
| 356 | ** The South Park Studios synopsis for "City Sushi" claims that "The boys want to help Butters find out what's really happening to him", but the main four boys don't do anything in this episode; this episode focused solely on Butters. This is especially damning because South Park Studios is the ''official website for the show and its creators''. Whoops. |
| 357 | ** Collider.com's review for the Blu-Ray release of ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut'' said that it was Cartman's mom, not Kyle's, that leads a moral crusade against Canada. |
| 358 | ** Many reviews of the movie, including Common Sense Media's review of the sexual content, point to a scene where Creator/WinonaRyder shoots ping-pong balls out of her vagina. The punchline of that scene is that [[BaitAndSwitch she's not actually shooting them from her vagina as the angle suggests, just bouncing them between her legs]]. Interestingly, she ''was'' going to actually shoot them from her vagina at one point, but the scene was {{bowdlerise}}d during production to prevent an NC-17 rating. |
| 359 | *** Common Sense Media's review also once referred to "singing sex organs". They later tried to fix this by removing the last letter "s" from that phrase, without even bothering to add the word "a" at the beginning or change "singing" to "talking". |
| 360 | ** UsefulNotes/RichardDawkins commented on the episodes that featured him, saying that he wishes he had a better voice actor. Every episode of the show begins by saying that "all celebrity voices were impersonated...poorly." That was obviously part of the joke. |
| 361 | ** The very next day after ''[[Recap/SouthParkS18E2GlutenFreeEbola Gluten Free Ebola]]'' aired, ''Spin'' writer Brennan Carley wrote an ill-informed article about the last joke of the episode, claiming that they were making fun of Lorde. They weren't, the real joke was Randy couldn't get Lorde to play for the party due to the whole gluten quarantine, so he dressed up like her to do the show himself. [[RealLifeWritesThePlot In response]], [[Recap/SouthParkS18E3TheCissy Matt and Trey ran with the "Randy is Lorde" joke]] [[TakeThat to make fun of this style of journalism]]. |
| 362 | ** In the early years of the show, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council seemed to have a bit of trouble grasping exactly who the main characters are. The [[https://www.cbsc.ca/decisionsarchive/19-9798/19-9798-0615_PD_E.pdf first time]] they dealt with the show was when someone complained about a clip from "Tom's Rhinoplasty" being aired on the radio, and in the CBSC's document on the decision, it refers to "[[MyFriendsAndZoidberg the boys and Cartman]]". Later, when the mother of a boy named Kenneth complained about [[TheyKilledKennyAgain Kenny's deaths]], [[https://www.cbsc.ca/decisionsarchive/19-9798/19-9798-1214_PD_E.pdf the document]] on the decision not only claimed that Ned was one of the main characters, but also called him a child. |
| 363 | ** Channel Frederator's "107 Butters Stotch Facts You Should Know" was so infamously poorly researched (it was actually entirely written by [=ChatGPT=]), the channel had to delete it a week later due to poor reception. Some of the [[https://twitter.com/emojianaIysis/status/1659028593694101504 biggest mistakes]] include: |
| 364 | *** Butters playing a major role in "Tweek vs. Craig". He was actually a background character with no real relevance to the plot. |
| 365 | *** Butters was voiced by series animator Eric Stough. Creator/MattStone was his voice actor from the start. |
| 366 | *** Butters was voted the ugliest boy in school in "The List". In the actual episode, the lowest-ranked was Kyle. Another fact states that Butters fell in love with Nichole in "Cartman Finds Love"; that was also Kyle. |
| 367 | *** "The Death of Eric Cartman" is called "The Sixth Sense". |
| 368 | *** In the episode "Put It Down", the video says Butters "is shown to be quite adapt while playing the piano"... while showing footage of ''Tweek'' playing it. This fact is also given twice, for some reason. |
| 369 | *** Fact 91 summarizes the plot of "Super Fun Time" as "Butters forms a bond with a girl named Millie, who shares his love of history". Nothing even close to this happens in the episode proper: the actual episode's plot had Butters being paired with Cartman, there was no "shared love of history", and Millie is a minor character who's almost never interacted with Butters; they ''[[https://twitter.com/HypraSeaPea/status/1661116258392379392 edited her into a shot of Butters on his own]]'' and tried to [[ManipulativeEditing pass it off as real]]. |
| 370 | ** A TV advert for the DVD box sets encouraged fans to pick up the adventures of "Stan, Kyle, Cartman, Kenny and Eric." Eric of course ''is'' Cartman, though only his mother calls him that. |
| 371 | ** A [[https://www.partycity.com/adult-inflatable-cartman-costume---nickelodeon-south-park-P889656.html page for a inflatable Cartman costume]] on the Party City website mislabels the show as a Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} property. Despite both being owned by the [[Creator/ParamountGlobal same parent company]], ''South Park'' is ''definitely'' not a Nick show and is targeted towards a considerably older audience. A set of South Park plush dolls sold at Blockbuster stores in Canada in 2009 even has the Nickelodeon logo on the dolls' tags. |
| 372 | * German TV programmes advertise ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' episode "Duel of the Droids" as Count Dooku having a duel with Asajj Ventress and giving her the mission to kill Anakin Skywalker. In reality this is a complete summary of a 3-minute episode from ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars''. Such summaries exist for episodes 1 and 4 to 8. One wonders how they could do a false summary, two correct ones and they a bunch of false ones again. |
| 373 | * ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': |
| 374 | ** The official Italian Creator/CartoonNetwork website and Facebook page often refer to Garnet as "Rodolite", which was apparently going to be her name in the Italian dub... which actually still calls her Garnet. |
| 375 | ** [[http://www.ranker.com/list/adult-themes-in-steven-universe/joedonley This article]], while otherwise good, claims that Steven shattered Bismuth. In the [[Recap/StevenUniverseS3E20Bismuth actual episode]], [[ThouShaltNotKill he refused to shatter her or anyone else]], though he did end up impaling her with a sword... which didn't actually harm her gem at all. The article does draw a distinction between shattering and poofing later on. |
| 376 | ** Some listings for Steven Universe episodes on [=IceTV=] in Australia call Rose Quartz "Rosie Quartz". A listing for the episodes [[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E20SadiesSong "Sadie's Song"]] and [[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E24TooFar "Too Far"]] described the series thus: "When Steven inherits his mother's position as a gemstone-based being, he acquires a set of powers he must now learn how to control. Steven is the half-human, half-gem son of '''Rosie Quartz''', the leader of the Crystal Gems, and now he must learn to live in both worlds". |
| 377 | ** [[https://twitter.com/cartoonnetwork/status/1222611358656745474 Cartoon Network's official Twitter]] referred to the other Gems shapeshifting into Steven in the episode "Steven Tag" as "Fusions", when Steven himself has fused with many of the Gems and they looked completely different. |
| 378 | * Some Web sites claim the ''WesternAnimation/StuntDawgs'' were stunt "dogs". They're actually humans with a pet dog named "Human". |
| 379 | * The studio-supplied synopsis for the ''WesternAnimation/SWATKats'' "Kats Eye News Special Report" ClipShow digital download states that the host is Ann Gora (the show's regular journalist) when instead the host is Tom Kat, a one-off announcer, with Gora being the co-anchor. |
| 380 | * One commercial for the ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'' toy line has Slash working with the Foot Clan. Slash would never work with the Foot Clan, even when he was a villain. (He was [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashed]] to work for Shredder in one episode, but it was very short-lived, and only after Slash had otherwise undergone a HeelFaceTurn.) |
| 381 | * Creator/{{PBS}}' description for the ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' episode, "[[Recap/ThomasAndFriendsS17E16TooManyFireEngines Too Many Fire Engines]]" states that, "Belle thinks he's not needed after inspectors question the need for two fire engines and Flynn beats him to two fires in a row." In the actual episode, it's Flynn who thinks he isn't needed, as Belle beats him to two fires in a row. Also in the description, Belle is referred to as the opposite gender. |
| 382 | * The VUDU description for the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' episode "Serious Business" has the description for "Man Person" instead of the actual description for the episode in question. |
| 383 | ** When Cartoon Network brought back re-runs of the original ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' to the schedule, some TV providers mistakenly classified episodes of the original series as ''Teen Titans Go!'' episodes. Two episodes that had this happen were "Nevermore" and "Final Exam". It also sometimes happened the other way around: a re-run of "The Academy" was labeled as a ''Teen Titans'' episode despite said listing being for the one short itself and not a 30-minute show. This mislabeling also happened a few times during the President's Day 2020 marathon. For instance, [=TitanTV=] (which has no relation to the show) labeled "My Name Is Jose" as being an episode of the original ''Teen Titans''. |
| 384 | ** UK TV listings accidentally misspell the title of the episode "Nean" as "Neon". |
| 385 | ** Some cable providers in North America list "Throne of Bones" and "BBCYFSHIPBDAY!" as [[MultiPartEpisode two-parters]], while other cable providers cannot seem to not remember the correct episode title for ''Tower Power'', with them listing it as either "Power Tower" or "Tower of Power". UK listings tend to run into the former problem a lot, with one example being the episode "Lication". |
| 386 | ** Some TV providers list the ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'' episode "Crossover Nexus", which features the Teen Titans among other Cartoon Network Characters, as a ''Teen Titans Go!'' episode. |
| 387 | ** Another common mistake, which has also appeared several times on Website/ThisVeryWiki, is that some believe that "TTG vs. PPG" is an episode of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls2016'', but it's actually a ''Teen Titans Go!'' episode. Not helping matters is the fact that it's rarely shown, leading some to think that it's an episode of the former. |
| 388 | ** The episode "Hey You, Don't Forget About Me In Your Memory" is sometimes called "Hey You, Don't Neglect Me In Your Memory" by TV providers, not knowing the fact that it was named after the theme song from ''Film/TheBreakfastClub''. In addition, an hour-long block on the UK feed of Cartoon Network called the same episode "Hey You, [[Music/SimpleMinds Don't You Forget About Me]] In Your Memory". |
| 389 | ** "Justice League's Next Top Talent Idol Star" and its' sequel often tend to be mixed up by TV guides. When the sequel was about to air the alternate ending edition, online TV guide [=TitanTV=] said that the original episode was airing instead. |
| 390 | ** IMDB once claimed that the episode Ricky Jay guest-starred in was "In And Out". His guest role actually happened in "The Date". |
| 391 | ** Google uses the description of "The Spice Game" for their listing of "The Dignity Of Teeth". |
| 392 | ** Many sites claim that "The Night Begins To Shine" was originally written for ''Teen Titans Go''. The song is from a stock music library and actually pre-dates the episode it was first featured in by a decade. |
| 393 | ** [[https://kids-in-mind.com/t/teentitansgotothemovies.htm This parents' guide]] for ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGoToTheMovies'' calls Beast Boy a gnome. |
| 394 | ** The Netflix description for "Caged Tiger; Nose Mouth" was once the one for "Laundry Day; Dude Relax!". |
| 395 | * The Sky TV guide's summary for ''WesternAnimation/ElTigreTheAdventuresOfMannyRivera'' claims that El Tigre is Manny's secret identity. Anyone who actually watched the show would know that it's not a secret. |
| 396 | * When Creator/CartoonNetwork and Creator/{{Netflix}} distributed ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'', ''Pahkitew Island'' was listed as Season 6, despite it being the second half of Season 5. Likewise, ''The Ridonculous Race'' was labeled Season 7, despite it being a spin-off of ''Total Drama''. |
| 397 | ** For ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaRama'', some network providers, such as Spectrum, say that Carter Hayden (Noah) and Peter Oldring (Cody) are involved with the spin-off, even though they were replaced with Cory Doran and Wyatt White, respectively. Also, some episodes used the generic description for ''The Ridonculous Race''. |
| 398 | ** The Netflix episode descriptions for ''Total Drama'' also have some inaccurate information. |
| 399 | *** "Up the Creek" mentions the Killer Bass going into "crisis mode" over a sliver in Geoff's finger. The MinorInjuryOverreaction gag is over a splinter in Geoff's leg, not his finger. |
| 400 | *** The description for "If You Can't Take the Heat..." claims that "Geoff and Beth grow closer." They don't interact in the episode, and aren't even on the same team. They likely confused Beth with Bridgette. |
| 401 | *** The summary for "No Pain, No Game" claims the contestants have to answer Camp Wawanakwa trivia in addition to undergoing the torture challenges. The trivia aspect isn't a part of this challenge at all. |
| 402 | *** The summary for the Celebrity Manhunt special in ''Action'' just lists a summary of ''Action''[='=]s premise, despite the special taking place ''after'' the competition has ended. |
| 403 | * ''What is the Story of Transformers?'', an installment in the ''What is the Story of...'' series (itself a subseries of the ''Who Was...'' books) meant to be an overview of the ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' franchise, has several strange factual errors about the series; to wit, the book's Website/TFWikiDotNet [[https://tfwiki.net/wiki/What_Is_the_Story_of_Transformers%3F article]] has an "Errors" section that is by far the longest section of the article itself. Some of these errors include: |
| 404 | ** A timeline lists the original [[Film/Transformers2007 2007 live action movie]] as the ''only'' significant ''Transformers''-related thing that happened in the year, completely glossing over ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' and the entire [[Franchise/TransformersAlignedUniverse Aligned Continuity]]; the timeline jumps from 2007 to 2016, suggesting that nothing happened within the 9-year period. |
| 405 | ** Some of the illustrations show incorrect details. One depicting [[WesternAnimation/BeastWars Dinobot]] is actually traced from a knockoff of his Masterpiece toy with a differently-painted chest than in the original, and another illustration purportedly depicting artwork from ''Anime/TransformersArmada'' has the Generation 1 versions of Optimus Prime, Megatron, Starscream, Bumblebee, and Jazz rather than the Unicron Trilogy versions of them. The latter two in particular were never in ''Armada'' at any point. At one point, an illustration of Sentinel Prime is shown, but oddly depicts him with his ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon'' body with the beardless LanternJawOfJustice head of his ''Animated'' counterpart, as if they couldn't decide which design to use. |
| 406 | ** Optimus Primal, the OnlySaneMan of ''Beast Wars'' as a whole, is written to have "[juggled] his animal temper with the demands of leadership." |
| 407 | ** The synopsis for ''Film/{{Bumblebee}}'' phrases Creator/PeterCullen's RoleReprise as Optimus Prime as something unheard of since he first voiced the character in 1984. He had already voiced him in the original Film/TransformersFilmSeries. It also describes Bumblebee's landing to Earth as a crash landing that cost him his voice; in the actual film, Bumblebee arrives to Earth just fine, and Blitzwing is the one who nearly totals him shortly after his arrival. |
| 408 | * In 2011, [=ComicsAlliance=] did an infographic that allegedly featured all the Autobots from ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'' listing their alternate modes (original post gone, but a mirror of the pic can be found [[https://tformers.com/transformers-/15032/news.html here]]). The thing features a bunch of errors and weirdness: multiple altmodes are misidentified (Sunstreaker is listed as being a 1994 Lamborghini Countach even though the show is from ''1984'' for example) and multiple characters have the wrong pictures for their robot modes, alternate modes, or ''both'' (The picture for Bumblebee is actually his upgraded form Goldbug, while Goldbug is a fanart of Bumblebee as a newer model of Volkswagen Beetle; Ratchet and Blurr's altmodes are the ones from their ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' namesakes; Grapple and Rollbar are shown with their designs from more modern toys instead of their original G1 designs; Optimus Prime's altmode is the one from the live-action movies; Huffer, Windcharger and Beachcomber's robot modes are fanart redesigns; Wheelie's altmode is a fanart of "Wheelimus Prime"; Chromedome is lineart of a custom toy based on ''Energon'' Downshift and, most baffling, Rodimus Prime is actually a red recolor of stock art for ''Armada'' Optimus Prime). |
| 409 | * A Hungarian TV guide description for the show ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' appears to be asserting that the title Transformers are weapons used by the Autobots and Decepticons, when of course they themselves ''are'' the Transformers. |
| 410 | ** A commercial that aired during the summer on The Hub themselves (now Discovery Family) had a teenager make a rousing speech about not giving up on their summer break. At one point, he says "Did the Transformers give up when they fought the Decepticons?" Considering that Decepticons are Transformers themselves, that's the equivalent of saying "Did the humans give up when the Nazis invaded Europe?". |
| 411 | * Comcast's website describes ''WesternAnimation/TransformersRobotsInDisguise2015'' as "An animated series in which armies of intergalactic robots battle." Most of the show's battles are between a team of four or five Autobots and one Decepticon, with the maximum amount of Decepticons engaged in combat being five. [[note]]It's not known whether Cybertron is in the same galaxy as Earth.[[/note]] |
| 412 | * The Magazine/TVGuide description for qubo's ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' is "Bob and Larry receive letters from kids". That badly describes the first five minutes of some of the episodes; other episodes lack this element entirely, and it's not the focus of the series. |
| 413 | * The Canadian TV provider Bell [=ExpressVu=] used to describe ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'' as, "Two teens live as though it is the 1960s even though they are 21st century teens!" The only good thing about this description is that the awkwardness of the sentence structure distracts you from the head-scratching description. |
| 414 | * According to the blurb on the 2004 DVD release of ''WesternAnimation/{{Visionaries}}'', the series takes place on a post-apocalyptic Earth. It actually takes place on the planet Prysmos, though it does involve an apocalypse in the form of a total technological breakdown at the beginning of the first episode. |
| 415 | * ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces'': |
| 416 | ** The Polish video game magazine ''Secret Service'', issue April 1998. In one article, the author claimed that ''Wacky Races'' is a crossover show where "Hanna-Barbera characters such as Yogi, Huckleberry and The Addams Family" do racing. Either the author didn't see even one episode of the show, or (more likely) he has seen it, but mistook Blubber Bear for Yogi Bear and the Gruesome Twosome for the Addamses. Or maybe he just got it confused with ''Fender Bender 500''. |
| 417 | ** Speaking of ''Wacky Races'', Jerry Beck, a renowned animation historian, claims in his book ''The Creator/HannaBarbera Treasury'' that ''WesternAnimation/ThePerilsOfPenelopePitstop'' "featured the Ant Hill Mob as her chief rival", when they were in fact her protectors on the show. Jeff Lenberg's Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons first said it was about a global race between Penelope and the Hooded Claw before being amended in a later edition. |
| 418 | * Creator/NickJr, in its advertising for ''WesternAnimation/WonderPets'', once referred to Linny as a hamster. Linny is a guinea pig and this error has itself been LampShaded on the program itself. This sort of mistake isn't uncommon for eBay listings of merchandise of this character either -- a couple listings even refer to her as a ''hedgehog''. |
| 419 | * Website/ThisVeryWiki once claimed that Mr. Highpants from ''WesternAnimation/YakkityYak'' was an {{Expy}} of Peppermint Larry from ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack'', despite the fact that ''Yakkity Yak'' was released ''[[OlderThanTheyThink five years]]'' before ''Flapjack''. |
| 420 | * The book based on the ''WesternAnimation/FancyNancy'' episode "Nancy Takes The Case" credits the episode to Laurie Israel when the episode was actually written by Matt Hoverman. |
| 421 | * The Chilean TV magazine ''TV grama'' had a section that mentioned the children's programming highlights of the week in order to advertise a cable company. The descriptions for each featured show were very inaccurate. They stated that ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken'' lived in a stable and sometimes they summarized the premise as "Cow loves his younger brother Chicken, but doesn't understand why he tries to stifle her." They confused ''Series/Goosebumps1995'' with ''Series/AreYouAfraidOfTheDark'', they described ''Series/LegendsOfTheHiddenTemple'' as an actual adventure series rather than a game show, and so on. Also, at the end of the shorter descriptions it always said "check the ''new'' episodes of this ''animated series''", regardless if the statement fits at all. |
| 422 | * It is not uncommon for [[WikiVandal false information added to Wikipedia by little kids years ago]] to stay on foreign versions or related sites for a long time. For example, a page on [=ElDoblaje=] regarding the Castilian Spanish dub of ''WesternAnimation/RainbowBrite'' states it aired on Creator/{{PBS}}, when in reality it was syndicated to commercial stations. |
| 423 | * ''Film/SuperSizeMe'' at one point shows footage from ''WesternAnimation/TheWackyAdventuresOfRonaldMcdonald'' while John Banzhaf states that there is a cartoon on TV that features Ronald [=McDonald=], explicitly saying it airs every day on Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}. The ''Wacky Adventures'' videos were a DirectToVideo series, with most of the tapes distributed through UsefulNotes/McDonalds restaurants (the last of them, "The Monster o'[=McDonaldland=] Loch", is infamously rare due to only being available for purchase on the now-defunct website of production company Creator/KlaskyCsupo) and never airing on television, let alone on a major channel on a regular basis. Furthermore, the only connection the ''Wacky Adventures'' videos have to Nickelodeon is that Klasky-Csupo also created the Nicktoons ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'', ''WesternAnimation/AaahhRealMonsters'', ''WesternAnimation/TheWildThornberrys'', ''WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger'' and ''WesternAnimation/RocketPower'', which is presumably why Banzhaf erroneously assumed ''The Wacky Adventures of Ronald [=McDonald=]'' aired on that channel. |
| 424 | * Wikipedia, [=IMDb=] and other sites often refer to the boy in the TV special of ''WesternAnimation/TheCatInTheHat'' as Conrad, since that's the name of his counterpart in the live-action movie. However, the description on the DVD case reveals that the animated boy's name is actually Dick. |
| 425 | * Info included with the ''Radio/AdventuresInOdyssey Platinum Collection'' album claims that Hal Smith was the original voice of Barney Rubble. He actually never voiced Barney, but he did do various other voices on ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'', such as the neighbor who calls the police in "The Swimming Pool". |
| 426 | * The CBBC description for ''WesternAnimation/TheCrampTwins'' episode "Wolfman Wayne" refer Lucien's friend Tony Parsons as "Troy". |
| 427 | * ''WesternAnimation/WorkItOutWombats'': [=IMDb=] [[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21915168/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_cl_sm lists]] individual voice actors for the crab kids. Actually, they're all voiced by Creator/JulieLemieux. In addition, it says that Deann [=DeGruijter=] voices Kat (the crab kids' mom) but she's actually voiced by Creator/AthenaKarkanis. There are also listings for nonexistent characters like 'Chloe' and 'Casey.' They've even gone as far as to say that the creators of ''WesternAnimation/SmilingFriends'' (Zach Hadel and Michael Cusack) voice characters on the show. |
| 428 | * In a Parents Television Council document called "[[https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/5148083/cartoons-are-no-laughing-matter-parents-television-council Cartoons are no Laughing Matter]]", one of the transcribed clips from the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "I Am Peter, Hear Me Roar" is mislabelled as being from ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' (more specifically, it shows a date when "Meter Made" was aired on Adult Swim). Also, the transcript of a scene from the ''American Dad!'' episode "[[Recap/AmericanDadS2E16TearsofaClooney Tears of a Clooney]]'' has Stan misidentified as Peter (Griffin). Furthermore, the people who made this document thought that Barry said "pussy" in the episode "You Debt Your Life", but the bleeped word is actually "twat". |
| 429 | * [=IMDb=] mentions Canada in a list of countries where ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' is censored. However, it is not censored in Canada; the C8 rating on Canadian airings is simply a mistake that was also formerly made with ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow''. |
| 430 | * Infamous Twitter page [[https://twitter.com/UberFacts [=UberFacts=]]] is no stranger to posting falsehoods, but one of the most egregious examples had to be when they claimed that Danny Antonucci, creator of ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', also created ''Franchise/TheSmurfs''[[note]]presumably they were referring to [[WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981 the 1980s animated series]][[/note]]. Never mind the fact the Smurfs were created by Creator/{{Peyo}} in 1958, the year after Antonucci was born. Antonucci himself only worked as animator on the 1980s ''Smurfs'' cartoon. However the tweet has since been deleted. |
| 431 | * [[https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9tZWRpYS5yc3MuY29tL2hpc3RvcnlvZmFuaW1hdGlvbi9mZWVkLnhtbA/episode/YWQ0ZGIwN2YtYzM2Ny00Yjk2LWJmZGEtNmE1ODBmYzRjOT A description on the podcast episode about El Apóstol]] says it's the first animated film, ''El Apóstol'' is the first animated feature film, the first animated film was made in the late 1880s. |
| 432 | ** People think that ''[[WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Snow White]]'' was the first animated feature film, which was actually the first animated feature film in the United States. |
| 433 | * It's not uncommon for people unfamiliar with ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'' to refer to the titular group as being witches. They are actually {{Magical Girl}}s, and W.I.T.C.H. is an acronym for the members of the group. Lampshaded in one episode where Irma said "We're not witches! It's just our initials!" |
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