Opposite Day - Television Tropes & Idioms

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Opposite day is not the special day when everyone does the opposite of what they would normally do. On opposite day, which everyone agrees happens on a specific day of the year, you always tell the truth and do everything the same as usual.

Do not compare Just The Introduction To The Opposites. Closely related to Not... Not!

Aversions

Not Anime or Manga

Yotsuba never spent a chapter playing the Opposites Game with Dad, Asagi, and Torako. It wasn't titled Yotsuba & the Restaurant and she didn't cap it by calling Asagi "an ugly old hag" without warning...

Not Live-Action TV

There was no Opposite Day episode of Salute Your Shorts where Ugg and Budnick switched positions. Furthermore, Budnick did not go Drunk with Power.
You Can't Do That on Television never had a series of Opposites skits Once an Episode. And they certainly weren't set up by a clever prank on one of the cast members...
The Colbert Report has no relevant segment available online for leisurely viewing. (Luckily, the linked clip is available outside the USA)
The Whitest Kids U Know did not have a sketch on it, and that sketch cannot be found at this URL.

Not Newspaper Comics

Calvin and Hobbes never had a story arc based on this and the logical paradoxes inherent to it.
Calvin: Is there a bee on my back or not?
Hobbes: No.
Calvin: Good, now I- OW!

Not Web Animation

Unforgotten Realms did not have an episode using Opposite day while dealing with a random encounter.

Not Web Original

The comedy group Derrick Comedy have never parodied this.
It is not a minor plot point in the first episode of the webseries Extended Run.
TODAY WAS OPPOSITE DAY.
It doesn't have "day" in it, so obviously there's never been a Silent Night, Deadly Night 2 parody based on it.

Not Western Animation

The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy. Hilarity does not Ensue from The Grim Reaper's unfamiliarity with the concept. A blatant logical paradox does not thwart him at the last second.
SpongeBob SquarePants' first season does not include half an episode titled after this trope. Squidward informs SpongeBob that it is Opposite Day with complete sincerity and without ulterior motive.
This quote was never in Drawn Together:
Wooldorf: "Foxxy does not have a brain tumor. [all sigh with relief] I too would be relieved, were it not opposite day!"
The Simpsons episode, The Wife Aquatic certainly didn't have Homer believing it was opposite day. The captain of the ship that Homer was on didn't tell the crew "It's not opposite day!" in response to Homer's shenanigans and one of the crew members certainly didn't respond with "That must mean it is opposite day!".
This has nothing to do with every word out of Starscream's lying clone, who is not called Ramjet in supplemental materials, from Transformers Animated.
The animated adaptation of Iznogoud did not feature an episode where Iznogoud attempted to take advantage of the Opposite Day to permanently take the Caliph's place.
There was never a WordGirl episode whose plot did not revolve around this trope.

Not Real Life

There was not a Feast of Fools in medieval Europe, in which the commoners could do as they pleased, and the Lord of Misrule outranked the nobility for the day. Monasteries did not celebrate this Feast by choosing a young monk to be abbot for the day, eating and drinking in chapel and replacing services with songs and dancing that bordered on blasphemous. This is because medieval monks were all extremely devout, and none of them had entered the church because it was indoor work with no heavy lifting. An aspect of this did not survive until more recent periods as the "Boy Bishop" ceremony on St Nicholas's Day.
- This was not referenced in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, where Quasimodo was not mistaken for one of the revelers in a horrible mask and then crowned King of Fools due to his ugliness. In the Disney movie this was not depicted with the musical number "Topsy Turvy".

This theme isn't annoying at all, is it?

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