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* Young kids often can't tell the difference between their left and right sides and when someone asks a kid to go to the left and they instead go to the right the exact name of this trope is what the adult has to tell them

* Shows up in a few ''Film/TheThreeStooges'' shorts, with interesting misconceptions. One features Moe trying to tell Curly that "the door goes on the ''right''" wall. While facing him. They both point to their own right. This continues AFTER they trade places. And when Larry comes in, facing the two, and points to HIS right.

** Subverted with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cadets_Drum_and_Bugle_Corps The Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps]] who step off with their right foot.

** Though it was actually just because the hole on the right was full of bugs, and she was hoping either would do.
** A variation takes place in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'', when Indy and his dad are in a plane being attacked by Nazi fighters:
--->'''Indy:''' Eleven o'clock! Dad, eleven o'clock!\\

* ''WesternAnimation/TheDeep'': In "Bloop", Ant is being guided through the inside of a mining machine when this happens:

* Phileas Fogg attempts to aid Passepartout during a fight scene in ''Film/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays2004'' but keeps calling out directions based on the way ''he's'' facing, which is the opposite of where Passepartout needs to hit. After turning to face air a few times Passepartout tells Fogg to [[UnwantedAssistance stop "helping"]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'', "Cap'n Drakken" (the episode where they live in "Ye olde times") there is a part where, in trying to direct a ship, Barkin says "Starboard!" followed shortly by "your other starboard!" [[http://caps.kpfanworld.com/capn_drakken/hd/1201-1300 (about 1/3 of the way down the page)]]

* ''VideoGame/HenryStickminSeries'' has one in one of the final missions. [[TheLancer Ellie Rose]] tells [[AcePilot Charles Calvin]] that she will overload a rocket and escape through the exhaust by the forward left booster rocket. Charles agrees, but ends up on the other side of the rocket because he confused her left with his.

* This gem from a ''WesternAnimation/ToyStoryTreats'' short fits the spirit of the trope as Woody is trying to direct another toy on how to grab the baby doll head on an Erector set toy near the top of a bunch of toys standing on each other to get something: "Grab his leg, no his other leg, no his other other leg!"

* A common problem in the Catalan sport/tradition of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/castell castells]]. The usual motto of castellers is ''força, equilibri, valor i seny'' (strength, balance, courage, and good sense) but a colla (team) once released a tee-shirt with an alternate one: ''L'esquerra... no, l'altra esquerra!'' (the left... no, the other left!)

* LetsPlay/{{Markiplier}} falls victim to this [[https://youtu.be/rjgi9ifImRQ?t=174 in part six]] of his playthrough of ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysVRHelpWanted''. In the first "Parts & Services" stage, you are instructed to remove Bonnie the bunny's left eye. Because the game has him facing Bonnie, Mark takes the eye on ''his'' left, Bonnie's right, and is promptly killed. This happens one more time before he works out that the game means Bonnie's left, and he's able to do it correctly on the third try.

* Used straight in ''Recap/StartOfDarkness'', a prequel book to ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', unsurprisingly by the Monster in the Darkness.

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* In ''Manga/SoulEater'', Black☆Star has difficulty discerning left from right when trying to navigate a series of corridors. It turns out that he doesn't even know which is his left hand. He subsequently forgoes navigation in favor of [[DungeonBypass going through the walls]].

* A similar joke pops up in both the anime and VisualNovel versions of ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}'': In an effort to avoid [[OncePerEpisode his regular collisions with Ayu]] and this trope, Yuuichi tells her to dodge toward the hand she holds her chopsticks in. Turns out Yuuichi is right-handed, while Ayu is left-handed...
* ''Manga/MonsterMusume'': When Miia is shedding and the last bit of the shed is by her crotch, she has to cover Kimihito's eyes to make him not see. When he is down to the last piece, he asked for directions and she told him to go right. She is referring to ''her'' right, which the author points out visually, but he assumed it's ''his'' right so he ended up inserting his finger into her vulva by accident. NeckSnap ensues.
* Also in ''Manga/DragonBall''; Krillin and Chiaotzu are fighting, and Krillin uses SuperSpeed to zip out of sight, leaving Chiaotzu shocked. Tien helpfully yells, "Your left!" from the sidelines, and Chiaotzu uses the hand you hold chopsticks in for reference and looks... just in time to get hit in the face.
* In ''Anime/EurekaSeven'', Dominic Sorel asks the protagonist if [[NoSenseOfDirection South is in the direction of the hand you hold the fork in]]. This is a guy who's supposed to be a [[ModernMajorGeneral high-ranking military officer]].

* Used straight in ''Recap/StartOfDarkness'', a prequel book to ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', unsurprisingly by the Monster in the Darkness.
-->'''Redcloak:''' Hey! You in the box! Lean all your weight to the left!\\
'''[=MitD=]:''' You got it! ... OK, when you say, "left", you mean--\\
'''Redcloak:''' I mean not this side, you idiot!\\
'''[=MitD=]:''' You got it!

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'', Django says "No, my other left!" when he and Émile attempt to free Rémy from the trunk of [[BigBad Skinner’s]] car by dropping heavy objects on it.

* ''WesternAnimation/QuestForCamelot'' uses the line while Garrett (who is blind) is driving a wagon to the stables as well as avoiding the fire and Ruber's mechanical army at the same time with Kayley shouting directions to him: "Left! Go left! [--Your other left...--] No, Garrett, ''right!''" In this case, it's Kayley confusing the directions and then correcting herself rather than Garrett mixing them up, but the effect is more or less the same.

* In ''WesternAnimation/BrotherBear'', as they're trying to escape Denahi, Kenai is carrying Koda through a geyser field and Koda shouts directions to try and avoid the geysers, "Left, left! No, no, the other left!"

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** A variation in the film ''Pardon My Sarong'': A cop boards the bus that Bud and Lou have stolen, and tells them to back up, to which Bud tells Lou that he should go ahead and do it. Lou replies, "How can I back up ''and'' go ahead?"

* In ''The Long Long Trailer'' (a non-[[Series/ILoveLucy Lucy]] related movie from Creator/LucilleBall and Desi Arnaz) one of the newly wed couple's first fights comes from this.

* "Do I turn left?"/"Right" happens in Creator/BeverlyCleary's book ''[[Literature/RamonaQuimby Ramona and Her Mother]]'', when Beezus is giving her mother directions to get to the hairstylist's.

* There's a hilarious example in the Literature/NewJediOrder books, where Han and Chewie take part in a asteroid run race. The race ship has two sets of controls and they struggle to cooperate, leaving them screaming and bellowing - including the trope - at each other as they narrowly dodge asteroid after asteroid. To everyone watching however, they look like they're using the Force because they're flying so well.
* Played with in ''Amateur in Chancery'' by George O. Smith. A TeleporterAccident has gone wrong, but there's a friendly alien on the receiving end who can send back the subject for emergency medical treatment if they push the left button on the control panel. The problem is how to tell the alien what they mean by 'left'.

* In the Broadway musical ''Theatre/AvenueQ'', Princeton and Kate end up in bed together. Kate instructs Princeton on how to pleasure her by saying "A little to the left." Then she says "No, my left."

* Dean Domino might try to kill you by giving you bad directions (accidentally or otherwise) at the end of the ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' DLC Dead Money. With a high enough intelligence stat, you can actually [[LampshadeHanging call him out]] on whose left he's talking about.

* ''VideoGame/HenryStickminSeries'' has one in one of the final missions. [[TheLancer Ellie Rose]] tells [[AcePilot Charles Calvin]] that she will overload a rocket and escape through the exhaust by the forward left booster rocket. Charles agrees, but ends up on the other side of the rocket because he confused her left with his.

* Subverted in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/owls/?comic=28 this]] ''[[Webcomic/{{mezzacotta}} Lightning Made of Owls]]'' strip. One character even comments: "This isn't vaudeville, after all."
* [[http://www.bardsworth.com/?comic=the-floor-should-be-his-dance-partner This]] ''Webcomic/{{Bardsworth}}'' strip, featuring disastrous dancing lessons.
* In ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'', Forgath attempts to deliberately confuse Minmax (a nearby door only opens when the people nearby are confused) by telling him to look up, and then "your other up". [[TheDitz Minmax]] doesn't get confused at all and simply apologizes and looks ''down''.
-->'''Forgath:''' We're about to die because [[TooDumbToFool he's too dumb to outsmart]]!

-->'''Indy:''' Eleven o'clock, Dad!\\
'''Professor Jones Sr.:''' ''[glancing at his watch]'' What happens at eleven o'clock?

* A variant in ''Webcomic/SkinHorse'': when the team are exploring a mad science city, searching for an AI that alters their perception of writing, they rely on Nick, who is outside the AI's sphere of influence to read the signage through Virginia's cellphone. [[http://skin-horse.com/comic/like-skin-horse/ At one point]] he tells them that a sign saying "perfectly safe corridor" actually reads "radioactive cyanide test corridor". They therefore confidently walk in what they think is the other direction. "Also, the arrow points to the left."

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* PlayedForDrama in ''Series/BlakesSeven'' when Avon is trying to defuse a DoomsdayDevice that will kill everyone on the planet if it detonates.

* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'': In "[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S01E05TheCorpseVanishes S 01 E 05 The Corpse Vanishes]]", Crow is cutting Joel's hair and tells him "Turn to the left. No, your other left".